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Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

CWritten Specially For The Bulletin)
 "A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss" is an old saying. and we apply IL 10 money matters usually, and generally find it true that one who IS constant ly changing his work is seldom pros porous. But what if such one has wealth to begin with in life? rolling stone, if covered with moss at the start, is likely to lose its covering and become bare and undecorated at the end. Isn't 1t so? I suppose it would be possible by friction that 1t would be so polished by friction that it would be ornamented and valuable even at the end of its career. After all it depends upon the quality of the stone itself.
 SiIas Whitcomb was certainly a rolling stone. He was born of wealthy parents, therefore had no need of staying at one kind of work in order to accumulate a fortune. Some of his friends often remarked, "I would not work as he does if I had his money" his belief often expressed, was that 8. man who could find no work to do in the world mieht as well be dead and out of the world
 Patriotism led him to take a lead ing interest in the politics of his own home city and of the country at large. His influence was greatly felt whenever any vital question arose, and men expected him, although some of them claimed that he did 1t for love of displaying the power of money. Was a demand made for a new library or school, or church Mir. Whitcomb was the one to head the list or make up the deficit needed. He not only gave for himself but he had con vincing way of placing the project in such a light that other people, also, were induced to contribute. To him was due the credit of the good roads about his native place. which were the admiration and envy of the surround ing towns We wish Silas Whit comb was a citizen of this town" was a frequent remark, for our men of means are not so ready to help out as he is They prefer to spend their money in other ways" An old teach CT of mine used to say that the more means some men get the meaner they grew, but such was not the case with Silas Whitcomb.
 Travel was his recreation, but. even this was not entirely for amusement Wherever he went, he became known as a liberal minded man, whose hand
 was equally liberal when it's aid was needed. Not all his charities were publicly known, but many a case of
 distress was quietly relieved, and known only to the donor and the re- cipient of his charity. The blind | beggar whose sight was restored, the lame child enabled to walk, made SC | by skilfuI surgery, could have told o1 much which the community at large did not suspect.
 He was acknowledged the world ov- CT as a collector of much value, and | books, china pictures were his delight
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07
WATCH YOUR STEP
Tipping.
BY THE CONDUCTOR

Danny Lynch tells me tn funniest things bout hotels.
 Hes a house man, you know kind O detective. He says they's more ho- tel graft n you can spell out with a dictionary You see, most travellers comin' to a hotel got money.
 "Th' minute he jumps out tn bus a porter grabs his handbag. That means a quarter. If he's a piker it's 10 cents.
 When he registers he follows a kid with buttons carryin' that bag up tn elevator to his room. Tn kid throws the door open an hikes ah' window up an asks what else you want. That's tn high sign for 10 cents You give him his ten. an swell up an ask for ice water. You needn't think tn kids gonna open a window an lug ice water for 10 cents. If he did tn other bell boyd kill him. Every time a letter or telegram comes a new boy comes to get his share of your money.
 If you go to tn washroom they's a man sized boy pounces on you an wears your clothes out with a broom brush Ten cents agin.
 If you drop in tn barber shop one
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

Let me here say that no travelling problem, so that c cannot be located to suit every solution. The other points are correctly located, B being midway between A and D.
 A to B represents the line of the army at the start. and B to D the line when the army camped. B to c shows the advance that the army had made when the front, after starting from E, reached C, where the messenger over took it.
 Now. just for a trial at solution let s take miles for the distance from B to C. We know that the messenger when at A, could not reach the front at B without travelling 2S miles for the front was then that distance ahead of him; and, as he travels , miles more to reach the front at C. he had travelled B miles up to that time and. as he then travelled miles more to go back to B. he had travelled 3S miles, one of the correct answers. But, if one substitutes other mum | bers for ;, he will get as many an swers as he desires It is a moveable feast.
 'FThe pen is mightier than the sword" so if any soldier steps out oi l his place and drops his sword for 2 pen, let him. if you please, MT. Editor 1 fight it out on Boston Commons, if i | seats in The Bulletin for the clergy to sit while they are listening to a dis | cussicn of theological topics. c. H. TALCOTT.
 Norwich, Conn. Feb. 6. 1914.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
That Army Problem.

Mir. Editor: Your readers may be in- terested in a problem that has been before the readers of a Boston paper about a fortnight and has elicited a very large number of answers, which have been published
 The problem is as follows: A mes senger leaves the rear of an army 2s miles long as it begins its days march , He goes to the front and at once re- turns, reaching the rear when the army camps for the night. How far did he travel, if the army marched zS miles that day?
 The problem seems to have puzzled even Harvard students and has awak- ened so much interest in several states that the editor of the paper in which 1t appeared said in one issue of the paper that it was something for New England to think about.
 But no one who has given his answer | seems to have caught the nature of tho problem yet, for various answers may De correct This may be shown by
 using the following diagram:
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

off him as a drudge. There is noth- ing can make a man more irrational than greed-nothing can make a nor tai feel more depressed than labor half paid for. Why do we expect the man on half rations to be happy, or con- tented, or truthful, or devout. or even to believe he has Heavenly father No humane owner ever throws half rations to a dog, or any other animal; 1; but great corporations have been shown up that never let their em- ployes wax fat-the energy of whole family in employ couldn't create con dition of ordinary comfort. We com plain because the people are so wicked wholly unconscious that meanness of any sort does not promote goodness The man on half rations is soon be- reft of his faith in God and man. What man is waiting for is to be shown the goodness so beautifully pictured in words.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

spirit as well as the letter of the amendment and that is entirely praise worthy
 This makes the second test of the application of the amendment. The senate, the court of last resort, has placed its stamp upon such cases. It has stood faithfully by the federal law and henceforth there should be no question as to the course to be pur- sued in the choice of the members of the upper body of congress. The amendment is as intended and its ob servance Is proper
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

boy dusts your shoes for a dime, an his brother waits till you get your face fixed an you settle with tn barber and then he soaks you on tn back with a whisk to get his 10 cents.
 'If you ask for writing stuff from tn clerk. he jams a bell an you got to pay a boy to cart four sheets O paper an stub pen clear to your room. It costs extra to telephone. The hired girl sweepin your room wants quar- ter.
 Danny says that many a guy tAa1 comes in a cab an starts in tippin has to walk to tn depot carryin' his own grip.
 Some hotels gonna make a barrel O money some day payin' its help real wages. Why don't you gimme a extra nickel when you pay street care fare2 Come ahead, grandpa, I'll wait for you. You're welcome, sir, Pass on up ! tn car, Look where you step!" 
 Ninety thousand persons are enIz 1 pIoyed in Scotland's fishing industry.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
THE CONQUEST OF FEAR.

Among the ancient enemies of the human race we must name fear. Our more remote ancestors lived in the bondage of terror in & world peQpled not only by good. but by evil and ma lignant spirits. One cannot ponder without immense compassion those long. barbarous or semi civilized ages when mortals trembled before the primitive forces of nature-such as light, fire, wind. wave and earthquake. Personffied these forces became often veritable demons to harass the lives of men.
 In our age we have peered into the secrets of nature and recognized the sway of natural law. The old supersti- tions no longer terrify us. The uni verse has been found to be orderly in it's working and not unrT1endly to one who uses it alright.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

How did we ever come to have a
 feeling of ownership in disease? The
 countryman says: My rheumatic
 has come to stay:' and the city man
 is prone to talk of my indigestion"
 or my nervousness when such dis
 dressing things might better be classed
 with the things which belong to the devil It may be possible that the dietists think these expressions of possession are correct since they be- lieve these diseases are the creations of those who have them. If 1 have a clear conception of them, the ancients were not so far from the truth when 1 they charged disease to the devils which possessed man. If it wasn't for 1 my nervousness!'' ] hear some one | saying now, "I could take some com | fort in life" just as another would
 say If 1t wasn't for my baby I should not be robbed of my rest" Some peo- 1 pie get so vain over their infirmities 1 they disgust their physician. The only my" I ever place beside disease is | when. it comes in thought as my | enemy, and that makes me conscious 1 1t needs routing, and its up to me to l do my part in kicking it out of this l physical temple l have been entrusted | with.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07
Slipped By Him. <.

The selection of Colonel Gorgas as surgeon general is such an eminentIy fitting one that in view of so many Of Mr. Wilson's other appointments, we can't help suspecting that he couldn't have been thinking when he made it.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

Representative HobsoH from the floor of the house demands action on the cutting off of his salary when absent. The Alabama congressman has already established his reputation as a great blockader.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

The reason the equality of all men
 cannot be established is because of
 the advantages of inequality. So far
 as we are able to discern nature is opposed to dead-levels simply because
 it does everyone good to do a little
 climbing. Americans do not believe in lords of whose parentage the Lord
 only knows, as DeFoe put it, but we
 have just as many if not more class lines than do the imperial govern ments; and doubtless, as many in defensible ones. It has been pointed out that the social life that worships
 money or makes social distinction it's 1 aim, is. in spirit. an attempted aris- | tocracy," and America certainly has such an aristocracy; and perhaps, ii | is something just as good as the royal | brand. These differences in life's so- cial conditions are what creates ambi- | ton and inspires the humblest tC l aspire for greatness; but they do not 1 lead the way to goodness. It is SC much easier to be great than it is tC l be good it is not strange the trend o! 1 humanity is in that direction. The 1 sheep and the goats are destined tC | live part for all eternity.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

With 500 diamond cutters out of work in Belgium it is evident to the Dutch at least that low tariff hasn't brought this country the financial ben eft that was anticipated.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

lnasmuch as many of the specimens forwarded from Africa remain uHboxed 1t Is quite evident that the contribu- tons Cf the Colonel to the Smithsonian Institute from South America are in- tended for ResteFitX.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

Boss Murphy declares he will hold
 the office until he dies. Either the | actuarial report on his life is discour-
 aging or he considers Tammany Hall close corporation.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

It is strange thing that the con- ventions for the fixing of fashions never feel impel1ed to give much con- sideration to the sensible.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

Friday, February 13, and Friday, March 13, are entitled to be known as
 Wilson days. No one else seems to
 claim them.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

It may seem a little out of season to consider the extermination of the mosquito, but there is nothing like be- ing prepared.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

The man on the corner says: No one should remain away from church for fear that he will deprive someone of the benefit of some inspiration.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

It is probably interesting to the howlers against the railroads to note the increasing number which are going on the bankruptcy list
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

It isn't every first selectman who takes the lead in agricultural enter 1 prise, but where there is optimism 1 success usually prevails
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

If Brandeis is made head trustee of the Boston & Maine he will be given | a chance to put into operation what
 he has been preaching.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

The periodical housekeeping seems to be taking place in the presidential offices of the American repub- lies
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

Japan deserves all the satisfaction she can get out of the turning down of the Asiatic exclusion amendment
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

The president seems to have been moved by the fact that the Mexicans appeared to be a nation of armless fighters
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

There arc still some women who think that the women have plenty to do without piIing up a greater lot of unfinished business
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

No one is taking so little interest in the thermometer these days as the grounding.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

One of the causes of disappointment in this world is that we expect too much ef the man on half rations
 many thousands of whom are in the fields of industry. We are not doing. what We can to make a full man of him haoause Me can get more profit
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Huerta's need isn't so much arms as 1t is aims to get them with.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

And yet fear is by no means dead. We cannot afford to laugh at our brother in the dark ages with his ter TOT of spirits and witches. We our selves are victims of fears that are quite as irrational.
 Make a study of people about you and you are likely to discover that each one has some beSetting fright to con tend with. One may fear the dark, an other the sight of blood. another a harmless mouse, another a trip on train, another a voyage on the water. One fears a crowd, another solitude.
 Nor are weddings the ones mainly affected. Jenny Lind, one of the fla nous singers of the world, said that she could not face an audience without stage fright. Marshall Ney, "bravest of the brave" confessed that he never entered battle without trembling knees and a sinking heart.
 How many thousands cover before the thoght of that king of terrors- death! The prospect of the inevitable day when he must go to his long home is the black cloud in the sky of many a mans happiness. The writer Of the Epistle to the Hebrews counted it as a. blessed service of Jesus that he should deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime sub tect to bondage.
 Delfverence from fear lies, at the start, in the way of resolutely grappllng With IL. on CIOSe eXaInlndllOn pet apprehensions may be seen to have no excuse whatever for being. A comet in the sky once threw whole nations into spasms of terror. But modern as tronomers have taught us that a comet is no more alarming than the appear ance of a new moon need be. Many of our fears evaporate on a closer view. But the main weapon against fear is a religious one. We must hold heartily to the faith that God lives and that this is His universe. It does not belong one quarter to God and three quarters to the devil, as the medieval mind seemed to imagine. It belongs to i God absolutely
 Perfect love casteth out fear" The ] religious man is the man of conf 1 dence and cheer. He who believes that l his times are in Gods hands will trust | and not be afraid. The doctrine of i divine Providence held not as d dogma | of theology, but s fact of e&peri- | ence, win lead one singing across the i years. To the heart of faith alone can the mysterious events of life be l interpreted as the steps in a divine l plan Even that ultimate adventure of | the soul. which is the common lot of | man. will not tefrify one who can say | with the good. gray poet:
 1 T know net where His islands
 Lift their fronded palms in air, 1 only know I cannot drift
 | Beyond His love and eare,' THE RARSoA.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

Do you believe "alI things come to hmi who waits?" Most people do not, and they are inclined to jump on this statement with both feet. I have looked upon the averment for many years without any conviction, but at last I am free to acknowledge 1 have come to the conclusion "all things come to him who waits" provided he knows what he is waiting for. In efficiency has never yet kept up with the procession and is not likely to. There is no special merit in waiting, but there is in knowing. Knowledge doesn't steal in over a mans soul, but has to be packed away solidly in the mind: and this is what gives it power
 It seems to be a divine law that what ever you put energy into you can get use or energy out of. The most that a man gets in life is himself coming back to himself. This is what is meant when we say the more you put into life the more you can get out of life
 It is not waiting that wins, but doing. The ocean tide distributes rotifiers to clams, but the tide of life is not freighted with free wisdom for man.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07
"77'' FOR COLDS, INFLUENZA COUGHS, SORE THEOAT GRIP

The Grip epidemic sweeps countrJs physicians blame freak weather
 Sudden changes from summer tenn perature to arctic blasts have brought widespread illness Grip, Bronchitis, and those ailments of the nose and throat conducive to shilling and coughing has followed.
 Humphreys' "Seventy-seVen" taken early cuts it short promptly.
 If you wait until your bones begin to ache, it may take longer.
 The Dollar Flask, holds more than six twenty five cent Vials-at all drug gists or mailed. Humphreys Homeo. Medicine Co, I5s William Street, New York.-Adver- tisement.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

Ninety thousand persons are enI= ployed in Scotland's fishing industry.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07
Confidence has been defined as the

Confidence has been defined as the step-father of success; and since those who step with confidence sell dom have time to sit down with despair, this seems to be an acceptable affirmation. The reason nothing Suc- ceeds like success is because success invites confidence. Confidence is the father of trust and trust is all that holds governments together. It Is said that in the misty ages of the past when Faith and Hope were welded Confidence was born, hence the line age of Confidence must be recognized as of royal character. To get on ir the world we must have confidence ir ourselves, confidence in God, cont1- dence in man. Perhaps confidence 1; the golden cord which binds together earth and heaven. It seems to be al that can give the spirit of truth a Nv ing chance Yet, it is not wise tC confide in those who do not confide il us. It is only where men stand to-
 gether in confidence great results car l be expected.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

It is not disputing about religion that is going to make the world bet ter, but the living of it. It was doing that made religion possible, and talk ing has often been the undoing of it. The time is coming when what a man is will be considered more praise worthy than what he professes to be. It is sad to pretend in any direction and to fall short of the pretence. This makes too many misfits in life The world 1s saying to every one who makes q profession of religion-"show
 mel" What does it mean? Simply if you are better in conduct-sweeter in disposition, more circumspect in speech, can more nobly resist tempta-
 ton, with more grace help the un- fortunate and with more patience ex =
 ercise charity because of 1t, You should do so. The difference between the religious person and a man of the world consists of something more than contrast of perfunctory perform ances. The relation should be as light | to darkness, not only of speech. but l of action.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Do you know the people who believe they intuitively know things will laugh at you if you disclose to them that you also have this brand of faith in yourself. There are too many people of this kind and always will be, or the Holy Scriptures woHld not have been used to transmit the admonition: Judge not. lest you be Judged" It never does to take a healthy looking suspicion and let it convince you 1t is the truth. You may be in no danger of doing that, but there are lots of people who do this very thing every day, doing great injustice to those they suspect and no little harm to them selves. Man is prone to complain of having a bad memory, but he seldom becomes conscious of his bad judge ment which makes much more trouble in the world. It was StanislauS who said: Tt is hardly possible to sus- pect another without having in one S other is accused of" We should al ways bear in mind that our suspicious are seldom respectable.
 How is it men cannot argue upon any subject long without becoming personal and often abusive? In vocal or written arguments the peril is the same even among reputably well-bred people. AS one takes a look into the long-ago it seems as if when the art of logic was created honesty fled from debate hence it has come to be said ''nnen's arguments prove nothing but their wishes It has been said of such persons as argue for victory in stead of truth. that they have only one ally-the devil. Special pleaders are to be found every day arguing for price against the inevitable notWith- standing James Russell Lowell warned them a generation ago that instead of arguing against an east wind they d better put on their oVercoats." Where a statement is clearly made the only use of an argument is to obscure the truth: and this is what thousands of men are paid for doing every day This may show men are bad. but it also illustrates that bread and butter 1t not easily obtained. There is noth- ing that wrecks an argument like g had
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

Norwich, Saturday, Feb. 2, 1914.
Newark post., 1914-11-04
Women's College Notes

On Saturday evening, October 81
the faculty and students of the Wo-
mems College entertained the fac
ulty and students Of Delaware Col
lege at Hallowe 'en party in the
assembly and reception rooms of
Residence Hall. Both rooms were
decorated with autumn leaves. Hal
lowe 'en games, such as bobbing
for apples, etc., were played. The
committee from the Women s Col
lege which had charge Of the even
ing comprised Miss Ozella Seville,
chairman, and Misses Elizabeth
Eggert, Margaret Dunn, and Ethel
Grieves. This committee was as
sisted by Messrs. Adams, Brewer,
and Mather of Delaware College.
Newark post., 1914-11-04
Delaware College
Extension Lectures

On Wednesday evening, October
%, Professor E. V. Vaughn Of
Delaware College, gave his lecture
on "Some Curious Facts in Della
ware History, at FELTON,, Della
ware. The lecture was the first of
a series to be given before Avon
Club of that place. This club has
opened it's meetings to the general
public on the evenings Of these
college lectures.
That Delawareans are interested
in the history of their state is
shown by the fact that further re-
quests for this lecture have come
to the Extension Committee from
Newcastle, Wilmington, Odessa,
Seaford, and Dover.
p, Upon INVITATION of the FELTON,
Grange Prof. Vaughn returned to