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Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16

A man being asked the other day what he wanted to be, replied: T want to be myself!" I suppose he meant he desired to be patterned after his own convictions; and if so it is worthy ambition; but did you ever think how little of yourself gets honored in a day. In the first place We have inn posed upon us by heredity paternal and maternal qualities and influences for at least two generations. A boy will remind some old codger of his grandfather because of his speech, his looks or his walk just as some girl will remind in the same way an observant matron of her grandmother. In other words, our I-amness Is never wholly our own; but if we feel proud of ouI resemblances to our ancestors it is uI to us to represent the best that wal theirs, not the worst. We are our our selves when we honor what was best in them and is the best in US.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16

Strange that the Panama opening. both hat and canal, should take place at the same time.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16
Historically it has not been easy to see that peaeemakers are blessed. For

Historically it has not been easy to see that peacemakers are blessed. For countless weary ages 1t was the war makers on whom the blessing seemed to rest History is largely a story of conflict. Man is by nature a fighting animal, prone to settle his quarrels by blows. Calling over the great names more men of the fighting than of any other profession. The most splendid mausoleums, from the pyramids of Egypt to the magnificent tomb beside our own Hudson have been erected to warriors.
 A change of mood however, has been coming over the civilized world. There l is slow but steady progress toward ideals of peace. Armed conflict is not to be abolished at once. There will be wars ard rumors of wars. Nations will go on building dreadnoughts and drill | ing armies-but for police duty rather | than for conquest
 The peacemaker is coming into his own. His transcendent service to hu-
 manity is being recognized. Upon Uni- versity Flights in New York city there stands a Hall of Fame to commemor- ate great Americans. Few names oi warriors are found on the panels thus far inscribed. Instead the visitor is reminded of Webster. Franklin, Peter | Cooper, Jonathan Edwards and others Il battahons.
 | It is blessed to be a peacemaker, . creator of harmony, rather than oi
 strife in all the relations of life. Peace makers are more needed than strife makers in the home. on the playground | in the business office. 1t often requires | more heroism to be a peacemaker thar | to be strifemaker. Even the Apostle | Paul recognized the difficulty of many a situation when he said, If 1t be pos | sibIe, as much as lieth in you, live {, peaceably with all men" It is not al- | ways possible so to live no matter how much we may desire 1t. Occasions oi discord are many. People about us | are cantankerous, unreasonable. Dis | agreements and misunderstanding l seem to spring out of the afr
 | That is not alone courage which l. able and willing to fire guns. It il | courage of the finest sort that Is will l ing to bridge ctasms and steadfastly to bring peace and quietness into tn. disorders of life. They are earth'l noblemcn and n6bleWomen wfao gt
 about the delicate and important bus ! mess. By their example they ar, hastening the day when peace sfal prevail on the earth as great moot Of man and as a principle of his ac' ton, when the nations now bristl.ni like armed camps shall beat thei
 swords into plowshares and thei spears into pruning hooks and learl the arts of war no more.
 THE PARSoN
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16

Il like the laugh which has music in 1t, for perhaps you may have noticed the laughter of some people Is only a hollow sound. or an inhuman guffaw. A horse-laugh never becomes a human being. To some degree the way a per son laughs discloses what he is. Many people who have made the world laugh suffered from melancholia most of the time and wrote the funniest stuff when in their saddest moods. This is true of Cervantes, Lamb, Cow per; and Artemus Ward, Josh Billings or Mark Twain were never spoken of as types of angelic cheerfulness. Laugh and the world laughs with you" is true; and yet half the world may not know what 1t is laughing at. for laughing is contagious, and about not afraid of. The laugh we enjoy is the one which dances on the lips, be- cause it comes direct from the heart.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16

Some one discovered in the long ago that every mans task is his life pre- server" and fortunate indeed is he who has become conscious this is true. It is work that stays grief and preserves sanityIt is work that gives a man an idea of his capacity and reveals to
 the world his genius. There is no mis-
 take in defining industry as a balm and a benediction. Those who find joy in work and Its eompensations are the isn't worthy of envy because 1t ia life losing in it's grip. likeness is the be ginning of deterioration. There Is nc standing still in Gods universe--that which falls to grow either withers or rets. Only applied energy is rewards
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Huerta has at last got slogan "On to Puebla-"
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16

Did you ever ask yourself how wide or deep the gulf is which divides san
 ity and insanity. 1t has been said "Ev- cry truth has it's opposite which Is also true. Sanity consists in under standing this; insanity in failing to see it." This does not seem to be as
 good a definition as Locke's, who says:
 'sThe difference between an insane man and a fool is. that a fool from right principles draws a wrong conclusion;
 while the insane person draws just inference from false principles" San ity is a balance of the mind in mat ters of thought, and the balance is so
 often lost it Is not strange some schol- ars aver that half the world is insane half the time. By this measure most
 partisan speakers are often far from sanity. There is no gulf between san ity and insanity-the difference\fs is all most marked by a hair-line. A writer illustrates 1t in this way: Man is not a spirit nor brute he is both. Who ever excludes wholly the one or the other from this idea of man is not so much untrue as he is crazy"
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16
THE MAN WHO TALKS


 I suppose one reason why men seem 10 irreverent is because soctety Is so organized that they feel the need of money more than they do the nead of God. We yield ourselves to our breed ing, and mans ersatest material want from the cradle to the grave is money. All men crave 1t, dream of 1t and toll for 1t, and most rfgormers and public institutions beg for 1t. Atten- ton was long ago called to the fact that me who lacks money, means and content is without friends" Money and Mammon have been made synonymous to check the base influence of money upon the human soul; but those who warn us against the pernicious infiu- ences of money cry loudest for it that they may do good. The world seems deaf and blind to the fact that money cannot meet a single need of the hu- man soul. It is dross when applied to things spiritual; but the world does not appear to be capable of learning to separate it's material and spiritual interests.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16

In this world it does not pay to be too sure of things, or to be too much of doubter. The rock we must found our character upon lies between these two points. Verdant youth is general ly sure and ripe age is usually at least dwelling within the shadow of doubt. The Almighty appears to have made the contrasts of life so that man should recognize and appreciate the value of moderation. Doubt is the check in life which summons fear; but moderation is what lends to life it's charm. Some one has said that it Is within the shadow of doubt truth is to be found It is what we feel that guides us in the path of life; and feel
 | ing proves it's worth by the response
 made to it. Thought is deeper than
 all speech says Cranch; feeling deeper than all thought; souls to souls
 cannot teach what unto them was
 | taught"
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16

wonder what would happen if the women of this city, state or country lent themselves to the small vices and to idleness just as the men do. Chew ing, smoking, loafng, swearing and fighting for short hours? When it comes to an industrial comparison the woman and the horse are most alike for hours, with what fayors there are going to the horse. We shouldn't have any homes to be proud of, or any standard of morality to point with pride to. This isn't an exaggerated statement, 1t is constant truth which is seldom stated What is good for Paul ought to be good for Pauline-but 1t isn't. Why isn't it? Because man is not half as humane as he thinks him self to be. In the day of Aristotle jus tice only meant ito give every man his own" Woman had not then risen to a point to be considered in such a scheme. It is time she was recogniz- ed in equal rights as a matter of mer- cy. if we must deny to her equality in the small vices.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16

Ner~iss. Saturday. May fs. 1st4.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-16

lt is not 50 much worse to have an over -bibulous person around than it is to have a person intoxicated by his self esteem. We very much prefer the presence of person intoxicated with joy, although in some places these do not seem to be anything less than ray ing lunaties. It is on the fields of the diamond and the gridiron you witness both their glee and wrath. The tenn perate man is not half as common as we think; and it is not uncommon to find incorporate men trying to lead in temperance reforms. It is up to us to guard against tntemperance of all sorts and that is what we do not do It is surprising how little it takes to intoxicate people in any way. Some can stand more whiskey than praise, and vice versa; and yet the fellow with an ever even keel is called con- servative of conservativesEa slow coach. To escape censure we must find the happy middle ground.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
HAL DEMANDS
WEATHER BILL
your Special correspondent.

your Special correspondent.
ALLENHuRsT. N. jersey. Aug. l..
II xpects too Sea hon. j. p Tumul-
ty wen He comes downe the Shore
this weak End, an in the names of
All the summer Folke of are Towne
1 are two demand a Bill in the con-
gres of the natiun 2 Regulate the
Wether since president hon. W. VIII
son our regulatin every Thing else
in the Natiun at large He oughte
Buy Hecky too Agree ? a Bill 2 Have
the olde Sol (Sun). goe too Wurke
days every weak. Or else agree too
apeer Befour A special Cummity of
congress an xplain weather He have
any Thing agin the Farmers unyun
or the grand Council of showers
whom our downe rite mad an whom
threatin . goe on sympathy strike
O X alrite unles Old sol reports four
wurke like allie ordinery wurkins
men witch are at 4 p. m. (post merid-
ian) daley in the morning. our
Towne lawyer xpects Have BIZ
drawne rite smarte an | are reeding
uppe on all Rules apertaineing
diplowmatic Relashuns an negoeshe-
ashuns So as Two Bee reedie two
meat hon. ]. inn hot argumint
shoulde He X me aboute Bills con-
stetooshunalitie. l are het up in
prideness over Beaing askt 2 pre-
sente Bill on Behalf of Towne hon.
j. moore Soon again Shortly.
yours Truelly,
HAL.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
VOL. LxxxIII.-NO. 1s4.
WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 5, 1914
ENGLAND NOW IN WAR.
JAMES SMITH. JR.
FOUNDED MARCH 1. 1889.

From the moment that Europe was startled by
the appartion of war the Danube the far-seeng
statesmen of Great Britain began to prepare for the
general war which appeared inevitable to them For
many years all the chanceeres of Europe have looked
to the Near East for the proyocation The Balkan
Wars changed the aspect there Turkey eliminated.
The proyocation was shifted to the Danube and the
hand of Servian youth fired the Hateful shot that
has made Europe vast battle-ground.
Great Britain is now at war with Germany and
has dedicated all her great resources to the coming
struggle The tremendous consequences to the Brit
empire and people of the step thus taken are Iu
realized by British statesmen and they may well de-
pend with hope upon the might of the navy and the
stout hearts of Britains and daughters IN the
most terrible emergency the British empire has been
compelled to face since the battle of Waterloo
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
AUGUST
Bridget Cromwell
cryrighte
AUGUST 5
A-.II
5ridget CroinWe
Copyrighted 1914.
By MARY MARSHALL

Bridget Cromwell. whose name
stands at the head of the list OF ia
nous women born on August ), was
the eldest and best beloved of the
daughters of Oliver Cromwell Bridget
was brought up in a Puritancal
household, and, unlike he.' younger
sisters, did not rebel against the aus
terity of her father.
When she was twenty-one Crom-
we'll gave Bridget in marriage to his
companion in arms, Henry Ireton-
then a widower of thirty-fve. There
seems to have been much difference
Of opinion as to the disposition of
Henry Ireton. BY his political all
yersaries he was styled a "tall black
thief with bushy curled hair a
meagre envious face, sunk halow
eyes, and a complexion between
choler and melancholy" He was also
called g thorough faced dissembler
under the mask of religion"
One thing Is certain-no man could
prevail over Cromwell so much or
order him so far as his son-ir.-law,
Ireton. 1t is said that he was so
careless of himself that he never no.
ticed what he was eating or what
clothes he wore or what horse he
was riding or at what hour he went
to bed, and when he was granted the
equivalent of ten thousand dollars
salary a year from Parliament he re-
buked Parliament for it's eXtrava-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
KEEP OUR NAVY PREPARED.

To what better use could our government now
put some of the vessels of the navy than that Oh
transports to meet urgent needs? Before there was
a shadow of the great in Europe Western
Congressman introduced bill in Congress for the
conversion of warships in time OF peace INTO
merchant ships This rustic idea of the navy was
laughed at but to limited extent 1t may now be
utilized.
AS for the fighting strength of the nations navy
that should now be kept intact and well prepared.
Europe had no warning of the tempest of war which
now blackens its skies. How much wiser is our
government as to what may grow out of the war to
involve this nation? 1t is imperative upon our govern
ment to keep the navy well in hand prepared to act
If the necessity should arise.
The Presidents neutrality proclamation fully
defines the attitude the United States toward the
oombatant powers. 1t makes no reference to the
Monroe Doctrine but that must be enforced. Our
attitude is really one of defense. We won't take
any part in the war will enforce the international
law and give no favors, and we will preserve our
neutrality necessary. by force. Our force is our
navy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05

gance and told the members first to
pay their debts before they thought
0. paying him for his services. At
any rate, ii Is said that when Bridget
was left a widow at the age OF
twenty-seven, though she was cast
into apparent gloom, she was secret
ly relieved from q tyrant.
During Bridget's first mourning Cen
eral Fleetwood, prominent in the par
Humanitarian government, was also in
deep mourning for his wife who died
only two days before General lreton.
1t Is said that the general met Lady
Ireton in a public park a few weeks
after their bereavement and though
he had never met her before he rec
ognized her as the eldest daughter OF
his superior, hurried to her side and.
introducing himself, offered her his
escort The outcome of this little in
cident was that within a year they
were married, and Oliver Cromwell
welcomed a second of his generals
as q son-in-law.
Fleetwood was as pleasant in man
ner as Ireton had been harsh. Though
he was one of the most stalwart sol
diers of his day he was said to have
been of a sweet, healing, peaceable
spirit" This must have been a re-
lief to Bridget after the tall black
thief with the bushy hair" who had
shared the first five years Of her
married life.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05

who wore the Austrian crown and
blazoned the double-headed imperial
eagle on his shield. Austria was the
banner bearer of Germanic civiliza-
ton in Eastern Europe True, there
had been Slavic seats of culture there
before the fall of Constantinople; but
Russia had become barbarized by
the incursion of the Tartars, while
Bulgarian, Servian and, to some ex-
tent, Hungarian civilization had been
stamped out by the Turks AS the
tide of Asiatic conquest receded
Germanic culture began once more to
infiltrate these devastated and pros
trate nations.
And there was little resistance to
the German influence until the re-
cent renascene of Slavic and Magyar
nationalism. All educated Russians
and Magyars spoke German, indeed,
Russian-German and Hungarian Ger
man each became a patois as we'll
recognized as Viennese or Berlinese.
Prague, the capital of Bohemia; Riga,
not far from St Petersburg, and the
western half of the twin cities of
BUDAPEST, were German cities I'M
til less than twenty years ago. Bel
grade, Sofia and Bucharest are small
replicas of Vienna. 1t is against this
eastward pressure Of Germanic Gull
tural influences that the Pan-Slavic
propaganda is directed. The Mag
vars. while Directing to being Ger
manized themselves, are bitterly OPP
posed to the nationalist movement
among the Croats and Serbs: for. il
Slavism should submerge the German
Austrians, Hungary would be sub
merged also. Naturally enough the
sympathies OF all Germans are en-
listed on the side Of their kinsmen
in this conf1ict-because the destruc-
ton of German Austria and her part
| ly Germanized appenages would mean
the substitution of Russifed Sla-
vonia-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
LusIrAN1A,s pERILous TRIP.

The transatlantic trip by the Cunard liner Lusl-
fania from New York to Liverpool or some British
port at present unknown may be even more dramatic
than that of the Kronprinzessin Ceciie. The Lusi-
tania started with knowledge of the conditions In
Europe and prepared with due precautions There is
no risk to her except from German cruiser and no
doubt the British admiralty has knowledge OF every
German warship the Atlantic near the steamship
lanes
But it is reasonable to believe that these lanes
are already patroed by British cruisers and that the
Lusitania has engagement to meet cruiser some
where on the The useCof the wireless Will put
the ships in communication. In leaving New YORK
also the Lusitania bids adieu. She will not for long
time, and perhaps never, transport the idle rlcn
to and fro across the Atlantic She will now be a
scout or transport of the British navy.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
unsuitable Lifeboat

In the effort to evolve the "unsink-
able boat an English naval engineer
has produced a craft which has sue
cessfully resisted every attempt to
sink it. 1t is built of steel, thirty feet
long, six feet deep and ten feet wide.
The craft is really two boats, one in
side the other, the inner one being
only five feet wide, although nearly
as deep as the outer one. A tight
deck covers the open space between
the two hulls, and this space is di-
vided into a number of water tight
compartments.
Tests in which a majority of the
compartments were filled with water
failed either to sink the boat, capsize
it or render its propeller imperative.
1t is commended by its inventor that a
full size ship could profitably be built
on the same general plan, much of
the space in the compartments being
utilized for cargo, and that such a
vessel could not be sunk by any col
lisioh with rocks, icebergs or other
vessels
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Two Best.SeII ling AutObiographies

The career of General James Grant
Wilson, Notwithstanding his brilliant
service as an officer of the Union
army in Civil War days, was conspic-
uous chiefly for his careful and some-
what exhaustive studies in biography
for more than sixty years. He was a
friend of Fitz-Greene Halleck and re-
garded him at his best unsurpassed as
an American poet. His associations
with William Cullen Bryant were in
innate and made it possible for him
to write of the famous poet and his
friends in a manner which command
ed general interest. He met Thacke-
ray upon both of the novelist's visits
to the United States and wrote en-
tertainingly of Thackeray's expert
ences when upon his reading tours in
this country.
General Wilson had, in fact, pro-
found understanding of what is es-
sential in writing a perfect biog-
raphy. He was not particularly inn
pressed with the value of autobiog-
raphy, feeling assured that when a
man wrote of his own life and times
he did not get the proper perspective.
Some years ago l spent an hour or
two with General Wilson and he told
me some interesting things about
American autobiographies and biog-
raphies.
only two works of an autobio-
graphical character published in the
United States and written by an
American were pecuniarily very sue
cessful," he said. These two were
James G. Blaine's book entitled
Twenty Years In Congress, and Cen
eral Grants personal memoirs. |
think it is safe to say that the sale of
these two works brought considerably
over $1,000,000
But there were especial reasons
for this great financial success which
did not exist when General Sheridan's
memoirs were published or those of
General Sherman. 1t is my impress
sion that the public sale of Sherman's
and of Sheridan's memoirs was not
very large.
Blaine once told me that he was
led to the writing of his book from
the experiences he had in the prepa-
ration of his eulogy of General Gar
field. He then learned that work of
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-05
A Persistent Beggar

On opening the door in response to
a very peremptory ringing Of the bell
a lady found a seedy-looking individ-
ual, whose outstanding characteristics
Immediately proclaimed themselves to
be an antipathy toward soap and
water and an open mind on the tenn
perance question. She was about to
shut the door hurriedly when he
thrust foot over the threshold. At
the same time he pushed forward a
long, grubby envelope containing a
hair comb, which he offered for sale.
When he learned that there was
nothing doing" the bibulous one sug-
gested: YOU'D mebbe like to gle me
the price O. a scone," and to be rid Of
him the somewhat scared lady handed
over a copper. AN yen mo- buy the
comb" he asked as he turned away.
"Oh, weel, nae doot We ken yer ain
business best" Then, as an after
| thought, he added: "An' it's no
much o. comb, onywey Ave tried 1t
maseP. "-Glasgow News.