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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1914-03-24
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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1914-03-24

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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1914-03-24

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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1914-03-24

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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1914-03-24
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Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-01
THE ALL-P0WERFUl
 GERMAN POLICEMAN

-IIE, foreigner in Germany is always
 l struck by the extraordinary au- thoritv and the widely varying duties conferred upon the police of that coun- t,, Tn the United States many of the Functions of the German policeman ~oulo he intrusted only to a court or law What makes the exercise or lhehe iunC- t,ons I'm Germany still more extraordl- nary is that in many cases they are peP government .., ,ot
 The German policeman is expected not o,,I,- to Dreserye order in the streets, put to exercise a far-reaching authority eve eHe in nriyate houses. He will, for exaIlpa5,
 undartake the nightly locking of @ one utraet door ar a sufficiently early hour- Ga aces that one has his chimney
 uIarly cleaned. He inspects, at stau n-
 tarvaIs the stoves and sa =
 naratus and, while engaged III eues .-+i -
 snections is as likely as nos eo sII,'estic III
 gate many other matters ol ooiii economy t..rd +o com nand most heartily one ieatuIt W I. activities that might vel pc r,,,sn I,,, dis this country. In ceftalh VI -,arfo~r1-
 a,l,o. tr;th omen windows are toroiuoen' and if is a common house reSutauoh @ Iti st ia,aa towns of the empire that Ho niaro nav be played after io ciooA i' the evening. . .I. c.a-,,ao poljce-
 III 5Ities appear those of the 1000 iao,or He must keep an eye on tns s-s of food and of mediclnes- II Ia esh .',,,Is,sl sight in 8 German town ,e .,o nea a poIiceYnaD hold up ntikInan n, 1 rsrou and then ana iheIe n.,a. . | aTes should anything wrong sppear l va va .,,It Is nromptIy confscated and th' | ,ir tne is investigated by the higher au | thOrities.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-01

He discovered Elsie unconscious and floating face downward, with her arm locked around the neck of her sister, whose head was a foot below the sur face.
 Unaware, until then, that there were two persons in danger, Compos had to think rapidly to know what to do With his double burden. But there was only sands with both girls. Unconscious, they were as heavy as though they were dead Presently he found his strength leaving and. the surf being little more shallow. was still over his head. this move came near losing the lives of all three.
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 He has said himself that he never knew the manner in which he got back into a swimming position. But he did acccm- plish it, and when, still bearing both bodies, he reached a fve-foot depth, he again let himself down, broke Elsie's h-id about her sisters neck, took the younger girl in his arms and, pushing the other along, cried for help. He was relieved just as he was about to give up and drop his burden in the shadows, not a stones throw away from the shore lie received a gold medal on DeceInper 1ui 1912
 Two young men who could not swim chanced to fall into New York pay one night near North Atlantic dock. Col Joseph Donellen, a soldier of fortune and a veteran of the Spanish-American war of New York city. happened to be cross ing on the ferry from New York tc Brooklyn Fully clothed, he plunged overhoard after them and got a golC medal for remarkable daring. In thu saving of the pair he had to beat then 1 into ofinsensibility. i Both men. as he reached them, seized
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ed way up in the northwestern states There. he remained for the next SIX months, and came back home with S'' in his jeans.
 Sutherland worked in government position in Washington for many years then went out to cast his lot. amid the wilds of West Virginia. He offered ms services to the campaign managers, and they were accepted, but the managers took the precaution to send him out Tn the sparsely settled districts to "cut his teeth.
 Sutherland, in his room in the city worked up a fine speech and memorized it perfectly He would stay up at night for weeks declaiming to an imaginary audience. His first assignment proved to be Stuhbsville, and he did not get, there till late at night with this one speech
 But promptly at he mounted the stage, drank the customary glass of water and started. The subject was the panic or iS93 Tearing up his hair and hammering the table till one leg broke, he poured out a torrent of Niagara-like eloquence. .tGentIemen and ladies'" he shouted in winding up his mighty effort. You all remember the time of terror that reigned | then-how the engines in your factories were stiliedy the wheels of your industries rusted and how along your broad streets
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son, and, after an unusually strenuous
 day, was fast asleep. It was after mid night and the little suburb along the river was dark and still.
 But the sensitive ear of man whose
 waking hours are spent in catching the first clang of fire bells is not hard 10 reach. So. as cry for help suddenly rang out of the shadows of the Hudson,
 Mccormick heard and leaped from his bed like the big, gray horses of his hre station used to jump into their harness
 when the gong would sound.
 He ran to the edge of the river. Fino- ing a log lying just few feet away, ne pushed it into the water Holding To one end of it, he swan to the place the shouts
 were coming from. It sounded as thousn there were several voices. and as ne approached, about 200 yards from shore | he found two men and two women cling ! ing to an overturned canoe They were | almost exhausted and could swim so Ht- | tie that they had been afraid 10 put ou' ! McCormick. with supreme effort. right | ed their boat. Placing them aiohssiue, .i . he then put an arm over one end or t%ne me ] log and while pushing the canoe MItii | the four young people clinging 10 u, ihal I | aged to maintain his hold on the loG anu anu | reach the shore One of the young men | Then hurried away and returned with a | motor boat, in which he took his com panions home. Mccormick was a"aru ed a silver medal February 70 iSlS-
 These are only few or the notaDIS i instances that occasioned the glNihs oI
 medals for heroism in saving life rom rom
 the dangers of the sea, duElhB 'is s the ! Se.S IIear Tn the single event or the
 wrecked oil steamer. Rosecrans, on the Pacific coast, January ', 1913' there wers re sixteen gold mdals awarded 9issmnnint- ,ne,, .ne Mfe-saying stations, and in the
 airacL nf inc Margaret, on the Atlantic
 coast. near stonehar5or. N .,,e J:. DeGgn,i soId
 Der %, 1912. there were .ha Tstb- ,,.dais rendered members or the Ialh- ans and Avalon crews
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being in twenty ty-doIlar notes-and gave
 1t to a lad of five playing on the floor.
 NO. sir" exclaimed the father, we
 ain't going to low you to pay nothing
 for bite to eat. But If you is anxious
 to help in the community, you might
 contribute to the church we are build
 ing"
 And. as there was nothing else to do, the senator had to cough up a nice, crisp twenty for the meeting house in
 the pines. Expense account-$21 for a , lunch of bread, preserves and cold po- tatoes.
 The senator tells good joke on Little Elk, an Indian preacher, who
 was taking temporarily the place of 8
 minister who was away on account of illness. The marshal of the county met Little Elk and asked him to whom { the salary was given. The Indian re- l piled that it went to the sick preacher | and that he got only the collections oi ] the meetings at which he presided. What was your collection last Sun- ] day, Little EIk?' asked the marshal Eighty five cents in all,' replied the | Indian.
 1 Well, I think that is darned pool pay,' returned the marshal. | Yes" replied Little Elk, but Is alarmed poor preach!"
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THE GOLD MEDAE- .szGRBWss=.
HE S1LvERNEpAI

him in that death-like vice which, 1t seems, only a drowning person can use Unable to free himself, he dashed under the water with them. This broke their clutch, but as he grasped' the shoulders of one the other grasped him from be- hind and hung about his neck so tena- ciously that he had to submerge them again. The second trial was unsuccess- arm as if he were swimming. and thus Keeping himself above water, that he beat them with his free fist into state of inconsistencies.
 Had not the very next moment brought a man running to the edge of the dock with rope, all three would have been lost. As it was, Donellen, as well as the men he had risked his life for, was unconscious when pulled out with them. He was i'll with typhoid fever for several months afterward as a result of his eX- posture and immersion in the polluted water.
 Across the Pacific, and down amidst the Philippines, there is a lovely lake with the rhythmic name of Lanao. A sail boat in this region is little short of heavenly, for with it more pleasure to the day can be had than with any other entertainment the islands offer.
 
 Company of the 9th United States In. fantry was stationed at Mindanao, P. L. in the habit of using such boat for fire quent excursions in and out of the flow embroidered bayous with which Lake Lanao abounds.
 l One night in January, when they were returning to their station from hsnt Ling trip, a storm blew up. There wa no moon, and the wind kept rising a. ! the heavy seas arose, until the littl, j craft, which had been the scene of s'
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rooms at night. By accident young Pomerene broke the chimney to his He was too tinid to go to the matron and ask for another, so he adopted a plan by which nature could supply him with the needed illumination.
 It happened to be the time of the month when the moon was full and the air very clear so the bashful boy sat out on the roof adjoining his room, studying his Greek for several nights
 At last some one of the faculty discoV- cred the young Spartan and supplied the needed chimney. Demosthenes- speaking to the sea waves was not in it with Pomerene studying Greek by the light or the moon!
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-01

My machine is a trife out of order" !" politely returned the Secretary, and I am afraid if stop I cannot get 1t going again.
 Then I'll stick with you till you get home, returned the constable, who sized up a fat fine, of which he got half. The Secretary drove on silently, not in- creasing or slackening his speed. He spoke not word. until he had shot across the boundary line of the District of Columbia. Then ne turned upon the constable and began. He used words the man had never heard before.
 Finally the constable realized he was in the District of Columbia and not in Maryland where he had some authority, Dropping to the ground. he fast as he could in the opposite direction.
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when about thirty miles from a town. the car was stalled by getting all four of it's wheels into a rut, thus leaving the body of the machine high and dry on the dirt in the center of the road. MT. Farrar went to a house near. bor- rowed a pick and dug the car out.
 When he took the pick back the farmer asked them to lunch. It con sisted of bread. preserves and potatoes Wishing to donate something to the people, who seemed to be very poor McCumber took out the Nonly dollar bill he had-the rest of his money
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medal October 31, 1912. for rescuing two children from the Missouri river.
 Two little boys and a girl, while enjoy ing their Christmas vacation from school, were playing on the ice near the river bank where the distillery stood. It was about noon, and the sun was shining so warmly that the ice had begun to break up. The children, none of whom was yet twelve years old did not notice this, and there was no one among the little group of cottages perched along the banks to warn them, for the women of the house hold were getting dinner and the whistle for the men to stop work in the distillery would not blow for several minutes.
 There was not a person in sight when the pitiful cries of the little skaters drew Victor from some work in an outlying shed. He grabbed a long-handled broom that lay in the corner and. making his way cautiously to the children, now half submerged in the broken ice, quietly told them to clutch hold of that handle. The ice and water were up to his hips, and he was wedged in between two cakes of ice so closely that if the children did not al once obey him they were lost.
 The youngest, chilled and terrified, was | unable to follow instructions, and sanE before the eyes of his brother and sister at the very moment of their rescue. WheI | he had carried the two into the shed h, | summoned assistance and, sending tn | two children to their mother, went bacl | into the river and helped recover the bod! | of the other child.
 | Perhaps one of the most unique res cues of the year occurred the night O August 4, 1912, on the Hudson river
 John Mccormick of the fire department O
 New York city, and a Spanish war Vet
 eran, was at home in Inwood-on- the -Hud
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swept the workless man, the empty din ner pail hanging on the languid army of labor. as your hungry crowds surged down these handsome avenues.
 Just then he took look at his audience it consisted of seven men, woman asleep with baby in her arms, two dogs fighting in a corner, and the broad ave nue" was only steep, muddy trail down the mountainsidel
 Speeches manufactured in city factories don't always fit
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-01
Poor Preachin'.

Senator Porter J. McCumber ofNorth Dakota is fond of automobiling- Last summer he and his secretary, Mir. Far rar, took a tour through the north ern part of their state where it touches C an a d a and chugged for hours through lone- ly stretches of al most U n i inhabited eoIIntry One day.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-01
Midniuht Oil.

5 e n a { or Atlee Pomerene of Ohio is regarded as a most serious states man. but not an especially bashful one. In this respect he has bravely overcome a youth ful failing which beset him at board l. ing school.
 It seems he was at an academy where lamps were in use for the boys to study in theil
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-01
Did Not Fit.
When Represent

When Represent ative H. Suther- land of West Nir- ginia was a lad Of about fourteen he decided one spring to start out on a tramp like the oys in t h 6
 Alger books. So with two friends he began a hike which comprised m a n y weary miles and a good deal of beat ing his way on trains till he land-
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-01
An Analysis.

=. RosToN broker said the other day A of J. Pierpont Morgan:
 .'ws'd never have had these New Haven troubles if Morgan had lived Morgan was a wonder. Whatever you were-banker investor, pohtcian-ne could turn you inside out.
 Morgan, after a great victory, once said to me- with a grim chuckle:
 !" The, financiers strength ts other peoples wkakness.'
Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-01
A Diplomat.

Former Secretary of the Treasury Mac Veagh is usually silent individual, but he has reserve of conversation which is of the hundred horsepower variety, as a certain constable found out to his great discontinue not long ago. The Secretary was riding in his automobile one Sunday afternoon in Maryland. near the bound ary line of the District of Columbia.
 Cabinet officers are generally regarded as exempt from sucn petty annoyance as would arise from a constable: but this one was out for arrests. and. following the Secretary's machine, hopped on the footboard and told the Secretary he was exceeding the speed limit by about two miles
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many frolics, was tossed about like a cork on the breast of the lake
 The soldiers shouted one man. but in the teeth of such a gale. who might hear, with the shore two miles away? Suddenly, and without the slightest warn ing, a sea mightier than the rest, swept over the toy craft, snapped the slim masts that swayed like saplings in the wind, and laughed as she reared and overturned.
 But the soldiers caught at her and held, and one of them, Harry Hanson. dared diving under her and getting a rifle which he fired repeatedly as a signal of distress. There was no response. The shore was dark as death. Then one or them started for land. Hanson, reInem- bering that this man was a poor swim mer, went after him, to persuade him to wait awhile, but as he turned to obey he could not even regain the boat, and was swallowed up in the swinging Of the white-topped seas.
 Hanson went on toward the shore. II was two miles of terrible fighting. but, thinking only of his companions, who chung to their perilous hold. he won out Then it was not strength but the terrible tension of purpose which took in the saving of life that enabled him to reach camp, across a jungle trail which meas | ured another mile.
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It would have seemed that he had then come to the limit of human endurance, but he actually accompanied his com mander back to the lake, and put out
 with him to the rescue, which occurred about four hours after the capsizing.
 The gold medal rendered him was surely deserved.
 Herman Victor. employed at a distillery | in Omaha, Neb., was given the silver
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Reaching the struggling unfortunate was difficult, for the thick mist lay on the waters as an opaque pail. With the people on deck shouting excitably, and the noise and danger of the swinging prepellers, 1t was several minutes before Miller got to the man, drifting past the bow. Then several more minutes Jagged by, during which the half-dead fellow was held up by the sergeant, before a skin vas dropped and the two men drawn
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C.s Apru 5, lSl4.
 URING- the past fis- cal year there were sixty-two medals of honor awarded by the United States government for ef- forts made toward saving persons in danger of drown ing. This is the largest number of medals ever given for a like purpose