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Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-27
Auto Repairing and Painting

We repair Autos of an kinds in the proper manner.
 Latest Improved FseiFities make our shop unexeeiIed in New England. We bake the paint da, which rasess it year better. keep. it's gloss longer. and will not crack.
 Why not have yours --risht? it costs no more. Bentley-Clarke Auto Go.
 ss Main st- Westerly. R. |.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-27

Rev. Timothy Dwight. a former presi- dent of Yale university, once had charge. The pulpit has been vacant since the death of Rev. E- H. OImstead d I last January.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
NOT SPOILED BY POSITION
President Of the French Republic
Pleased to Greet Humble Com
panion Of tAs eoyhood.

A pretty little incident that throws
pleasing light upon the character of
the president Of France occurred re-
Gently at banquet given by the
French bar to President Poincare. :.
At the close of the dinner M. Poin-
care called up the waiter who had
watched over his comfort. THANK
you, jacques" he said quietly, and
shook him by the hand. At the same
time the president managed to slip a
bank note into the walters palm.
Il won't have it," cried jacques,
and to the amusement and astonish-
ment of the guests there ensued a
friendly struggle between the waiter
and the president of the republic.
M. Poincare ended the amicable dis
pute by pushing the note into the
mans pocket and good.naturedly slap
ping him on the back. The waiter
could not resist this sincere geniality,
and finally, after another handshake,
retired, wreathed in smiles.
When the president turned back to
the table he noticed the perplexed
looks on the faces Of the guests, who
did not know what to make of the
scene.
"You see," he explained simply, "1
was at school with Jacques at Sam.
pigny."-Youth's Companion.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
RUSSELL SAGE AND THRIFT
Apostle Of Saving Was Financier Who
Died Worth More Than Sixty
Millions.

It has been developed, as the result
Of suit in New York, that the late
Russell Sage left an estate of $685..
100000. 1t was generally supposed that
the financier was very rich man at
the time of his death, but few persons
imagined that his holdings would run
into so many millions of dollars. He
was a unique figure in many ways, and
while he was never very popular, few
persons questioned his personal in.
tegrity. He might fairly be called the
Apostle of Thrift. A man who made
his lunch from an apple or two, and
who spent little or nothing on per.
sonal adornment or pleasure, was
bound, in the nature Of things, to &C.
cumulate money.
Some persons are apt to disdain the
habit of saving and to say that for.
tunes are rarely built in that way.
They seem to imagine that enormous
sums of money are the result of reck.
less speculation and that the poor man
has little or no chance in this feverish
age. 1t has been homorously said that
the great effort consists in getting the
first million and that after that it
comes easily. We cannot all be Rus.
sell Sages, but thrift, accompanied by
industry and brains, is bound to meN.
with success.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
FRENCH COLONY IS PROLIFIC
System Of Land Tenure Has Much to
Do With Gratifying Increase
In Population.

A German writer. DR.. A. Grotjahn,
interested in the increasing shortage
in births in France, has found a pro-
life community at the village of Mar
die, near Dunkirk. says an exchange.
This Is colony founded more than
200 years ago by Louis XIV. with a
system of land tenure which does
not permit private ownership of the
soil. Doctor Grotjahn says:
"The men of Mardic marry, on an
average. at twenty-four years of age.
Immediately after having passed the
obligatory service In the navy. When
a new family has thus been founded
1t receives for exclusive use but not
as private property. a plot of land OF
% acres and section of shore for
net fishing. . The families
may leave to their children the land
handed to them in usufruct, but they
may not divide or mortgage 1t. Tho
result is that Mardic possesses =
prosperous population, free of material
cares. which does not rack it's brain
on behalf of its children's fate, while
the rest Of the peasants and fisher
men Of France are particularly anxi-
GUS in this respect. The births
amounted to 43 per 1000 of the in
habitants. figure which is not sur.
passed by any civilized people"
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
Valuable Aorse

The talk in the lobby Of a Washing
Ton hotel the other evening turned to
horses, and Congressman Thomas w.
Hardwick Of Georgia recalled an in
cident that recently happened in the
south.
Rambling along the road one morn
Ing a colored party named Rastus met
his neighbor, Sambo. Instantly it was
seen that Rastus had large tidings to
lmpart.
Look yeah, sambo," he excitedly
remarked. did yo' know dat some
body done gone steal Deacon Whites
boss las night?"
"Yo' doan mean It. Rastus!" OK.
claimed Sambo. with an expressive
cast Of countenance. did dey find
any clue to dc t'ief dat done de
crime?"
"Yes. dey suah did," answered Ras.
tus. I'm de stable whar dey took de
boss from dey ind a quot bottle full
oh gin"
"A quot bottle full oh gin, eh?" re-
turned sambo. "Good! Den de Dea.
con doan lose nuttin' on dat hoss."
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
MURDER TRIALS IN HOLLAND
In Many Respects Dutch System Of
Jurisprudence Has an Advan-
tage Over Ours.

A learned and capable jurist has as
serted that the French method of
legal procedure, which, contrary to
our own, presumes an indicted per.
son guilty until he is proven innocent,
comes nearer dispensing actual JUS
tice than our own system. But in
Holland the courts have, in some re-
spects, better system than that of
the French. The accused in every
case has the benefit of the doubt, and
circumstantial evidence as the only
foundation for a plea of conviction
is In disfavor.
The Dutch do not have juries, and
there is no battle of wits among coun-
sci. All questions, whether by the
prosecution or the attorney for the
accused, are put to the witness
through the Judge after he has
weighed the justice of the interroga.
lion. This feature of their system
has some pronounced advantages over
our own. It eliminates the practice o.
confusing the witness or the accused
by misleading questions. 1t renders
impossible the abominable practice in
our courts known as the "browbeat-
ing" of witnesses. which unfortunately
Is permitted to an extent that causes
the intelligent observers blood to boil
at times because of it's unfairness and
cruelty. 1t makes the solemn busi.
ness of dispensing justice a common
trade instead of heavenly vocation.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
FIND THEIR REWARD SMALL
Shabby Treatment Accorded to Men
Who Have Contributed to Ad.
vancement of ACE.

In what we proudly call an "Age Of
Science" the world still treats scient.
lists like dogs. An appalling array of
recent news notes is at hand to fur
nish the counts of this indictment.
Poor I have lived, poor l die!"
were the last words of Charles Teller,
who, half starved and in agany, died
the other day in a shabby room in
Paris. His experiments of half life.
time made refrigeration systems pos.
sible. One of the many corporations
that he had helped to enrich offered
him in his last hours gift of $4,000.
Teller scornfully rejected it. He &C.
cepted a ribbon from the Legion of
Honor, but spurned aims.
]. H. Fabre, the French poet-ento.
mologist, called "The Insects Homer
at last has attained deserved honors
but he had to live until ninety to
get them.
"a little longer" he quantity OBJ
serves, "and the violins would have
come too late"
Yet France is no more ungrateful
than other lands. The Wright broth.
ers found quicker recognition there
than in America.
That Germany may live in a glass
house. too, might be guessed from
reading the story of Doctor Diesel.
His work may prove epoch-making,
but he died bankrupt and possibly q
suicide.
England rewards Marconi, the
scientist life-saver whose invention
has rescued hundreds at sea, by con,
Meeting his name with a financial scan.
dal. and France has given shabby
treatment to Nine. Curie.-Collier's
Weekly.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
PROGRESS OF SEA ARMAMENT
Launching Of Latest British Battleship
Brings to Mind Memories Of
the Past.

With traditional ceremony and amid
the general acclaim of the spectators
the Queen Elizabeth, first of all the
complete oil fuel battleships, was put
overheard at Portsmouth dockyard,
the great naval station of the British
empire. Supplementing as this does
the recent launching of the light cruis.
er Aurora-the first intended as an oil
burner in her class-the two dates
mark the advent of oil not only as a
fuel, but as the promised protagonists
Of internal combustion engines as the
main producers of speed
Even in these dull and ditch watery
seasons, the pulse must beat faster
with the recollections of the progress
made since the spacious days of Queen
Elizabeth-and the imagination must
respond to the Quickened memories of
the seaworthies Of her great time. Un.
der her blossomed and burgeoned the
deeds of the great sailors that roamed
the unknown seas, singed the beard Of
the king of Spain and in the remote
and mystical countries of that age laid
the foundations of England's world.
around empire.
There were Drake, Howard and
Hawkins. Raleigh and Humphrey Gil.
bert. Grenville, who fought the famous
fight of the Revenge, and forgotten
save to pious sea souls; Willoughby
Davis and the captains of the Muscovy
company, who carried the queens flag
into polar seas. These, and above all
the virgin ruler, are names to conjure
with in ancient maritime history-and
the bridal of yesterdays ship and tide
holds therefore significance that
touches the heart of many sacred ira.
ditions and appeals to every lover of
sailors and the sea.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
Skirts Wear Out Shoes.

"The close relation between gar.
ment styles and shoe styles is recog-
nized by every manufacturer and dis.
tributor of footwear" says trade au-
thority. "The slit skirt, for example,
accentuates the demand for neat foot
wear
ITO the extent to which the fash
ionable skirt displays the foot is also
attributable the demand for the light,
turned sole. The tendency to it's
adoption is growing stronger each
season, and the output Of turns as
compared with welts, in nearly every
factory, shows large increase.
"The question has of late been
asked, Why it is that turned shoes do
not seem to wear as long today as
they did in former seasons?' The an
swer is, it Is the narrow skirt that
does it. The well-dressed woman
and this applies to the great majority
Of American women-is obliged to
take twice as many steps as she used
to before the introduction of the pres.
ent STYLE"
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
NOT LIKE THE REAL THING
Critic Of NoveIists Complains That
Writers Do Not Properly Rep
resent Life as 1t ls.

Mrs Durnford was known to disapr
prove of literary people, writes Mrs.
Mary c. E. Wemyss in People Of
Popham," and her proud boast was
that she never read novels. Il can
see life as it is, without its being
made ridiculous by people who know
nothing about it," she would declare.
"You see, Miss Hope, what l object
to in writing is this" said Mrs. Durn.
ford. "You set out to write book,
which heaven forbid! You write about
me! Well, you haven't the least ides
what l am thinking about! You say,
Mrs. Durnford was very much
touched when told her about old Mr..
Tubb's death. Her eyes filled with
tears Well, they didn't. wanted to
sneeze, that was all! See?"
well, that would be called literary
license. am sure you would feel
the death Of Mr.. Tubb dreadfully;
I can imagine any one would" l said.
II just happened to think of the
name. l don't suppose name makes
any difference" she replied. And in
describing love. my dear. You may
have had proposals, Of course. If you
have, you will know that not one
man in fifty kneels. shouldn't have
respected Doctor Durnford's intelli-
gence if he had. Now take proposals
in books! Pages and pages, chapters
sometimes, whereas the real thing
happens like this: Doctor Durnford
met me at the corner of the road, by
the sign post, and he asked me what
I was going to do, and l said l was
going for a walk. And he said, very
naturally, I thought, May l come.
too?' l bowed. Then he said nothing
till we got to Dyer's Pond. and then
he said, May walk with you through
life?' ] said, Yes That was all. He
gave me the ring; it was in his pock-
ct. Diamonds and sapphires, small,
but large enough"
"She went on:
What could be simpler? We had
an oak suite in the dining-room, a ma
hogany suite in the consulting-room,
q satinwood suite in the drawing-room
and ash in the bedroom. We had
good carpets throughout, changing on
the stairs from pile to cord at my bed
room. They are all as good today as
they were then"
l said l thought she had chosen
most wisely. both in husband and fur
n1ture.-Youth's Companion.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
Matter Of Pronunciation.

"And what state did you say you
were from?" asked the Britisher Of q
gentleman to whom he had been intro
duced.
Your breezy westerner is always
glad to boost his own territory, and It
was with considerable pride and EN-,
phasis that he announced: I'm from
Iowa, sir. the finest state in our
Union"
"Bally strange. you know. about you
Americans laughing at your cousins
across the sea for the way we pro.
nounce our words. C-h-o-l-m-o-n.d-e-
Ley. as Chumley, and B-e-a-u-c.h.a,m-p
as Beecham, you know. I've one on
you now, you know, old chap. Only
yesterday l met . gentleman from
your state at luncheon, you know, and
he said he was from your state, the
finest in our Union and all that sort
Of thing, only he pronounced it O-hi-ol
Jove. I think that's one on you Ameri.
aAnA.- don't Won know
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
KNEW HIM AS THEIR FRIEND
Them Grateful for Surgical AZ.
sistance Rendered.

When one of the tigers in the ZOO.
logical gardens, Dublin, was threat.
ened with gangrene in it's paw, Rev.
Samuel Haughton, M. D., undertook to
perform the dangerous experiment of
operating on the animal.
The mate Of the tiger was first Sc
cured in side den. A net, devised
by Professor Haughton, was thrown
over the tiger, and he was drawn for
ward to the door Of the cage. Four
stout keepers then held the feet of
the struggling animal, while Professor
Haughton cut away the diseased claw.
The suffering beast furiously, but
vainly tried to get at him during the
operation, but the rage of the tigress
looking on through the bars of the
side den was much more terrible to
behold. She roared, and violently
flung herself against the barriers in
her mad desire to go to the rescue Of
her mate.
When the tigress was admitted to
the cage. after the wound of her mate
had been dressed, she turned up the
paw and examined it with touching
solicitude, and then licked her mate,
as cat licks her Kittens, to soothe
him, purring softly the while.
But perhaps the most extraordinary
part of the affair was the sequel. A
week later Professor Haughton was
again at the zoo to see how his pa
tient was getting on. When the ami.
NAL espied him. he began to purr like
a cat, allowed him to examine the
paw, and seemed pleased that he
should do so. Indeed, for years after.
ward the tiger and tigress showed
themselves most friendly and grateful
to Professor Haughton.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
Sanofrold.


president Wilson's sangfroid is up.
falling" said a dlplomat-"as unfailing
as his fund of anecdote.
"Apropos OF the shipping rebate, l
complimented the president on his
sangfroid the other day. He replied,
with his dry smile, that he tried to
initiate the grave digger.
"A grave digger, he explained, had
the habit of visiting the cemetery
every night at about midnight to see
that all was going we'll.
Some boys decided to play trick
on him. They dug trench in dark
spot which the grave digger always
passed over. and one of their number.
clothed in q white sheet, hid behind
= tree.
1.-THE grave digger at midnight duly
appeared and. sure enough, he STUN.
bled and fell into the grave.
"Then the boy in the sheet stepped
forth and said in hollow tones:
"'What are you doing in my
srave?'
"'What are you doing out Of it?' the
grave digger calmly replied"
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
Food.

foo0.
Thomas Mott Osborne, the "volun.
tary millionaire convict" said Of the
food in Auburn prison:
1t is fresh and wholesome. Better
than that Of some cheap restaurants.
Better certainly than the Chat Mort
provides.
"The restaurant of the Chat Mort
10 in the Latin quarter. You get .
rabbit stew for three cents, and .
table d'hote dinner provided for is
cents-vin compris, that is to say,
wine included.
We'll, at the Chat Mort one eve
ning, Wichitan complained:
Waiter, this here billed chicken
10 no good
But the waiter excitedly and volu.
bly, replied:
"'Oh, impossible, monsieur! The
chicken. on the contrary, is very good
indeed. On Monday it was roast veal,
on Tuesday 1t was boiled pork. yester.
day It was cold chicken, and today
It 10 boiled chicken. It will not be
bad till tomorrow, monsieur. and then
We walters will eat IT."
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
RabbIts Know oeooraphv.

Since the Connecticut game law
went into effect there has been much
trouble alsng the state line @over
Rhode Island shooters coming over
to this side. Connecticut game ward.
ems and protectors are scattered oil
along the line looking out for law
violators who plead ignorance Of the
state line whereabouts.
Two Providence men were fined
$S0.44 for each rabbit "holed" for
they hadn't caught any.
Ono Of the men said:
Them gosh hanged rabbits appear
to be we'll posted on southern New
England geography. and coax Us over
the line 20 you darned loafers can gel
. chance to make money BY ropinl
us in."-East Killingly (Conn.) Die
catch to N. Z. Herald.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10

a,enuer tnrraa MS rate was hanging.
Mr.. Atkinson's memory usually was
good, but it had been impaired on this
occasion by the stretching process.
The first lot" said Mr.. Atkinson.
why, l told 'em to buy-that's sure.
Then this half must sell. All right
for you, you can sell, Henry Couse, Of
Frankfort Plains"
The next day Henry Couse received
plain white envelop with an un.
signed slip inside of it. This is what
it said: Sell Univ. Con. Am. Met.
Con. and do it right away"
Mr.. Couse sold. Everybody knows
now what happened. In the next
three days the battle royal between
the American Iron Concern and "Uca
Nick took place. Everybody remem-
bers the crisis when "Uca Mick"
which had been ITO, disappeared from
sight and reappeared again at Is. It
was a crash among crashes. Henry
Couse contemplated it with discom.
future. "Gee." he said to himself, for
he was not an adept in the mysteries
of Wall street, gee, but I'm blamed
idiot. Here I've been dabbling in U.
c. A. and the whole bottom has fallen
out of the blamed thing. Serves me
right. I'll never do it again."
The next day he received a check
from his brokers for $4,000 on &C
count. That was not all, they said
there was a little more to come. For
h0A
import of sale as distinguished from
purchase. He had sold at high
price. and delivered at a low price;
and the difference belonged to him.
Mr.. Atkinson had stretched his legs
that day to come Rurpose. for, through
his slip of memory. every customer
had sold "Uca Mick" on margin and
every one had won. He does a larger
business than ever. and perhaps it g
just as we'll for folks to lose through
him as in any other way Mr.. Henry
Couse did not go to see Miss Sally
Mannering on the evening that he got
the check. He was too much aston
ished; he had to sit up half the night
and look at the check steadily for
hours
The next morning he went around,
however.
He wanted to strike while the iron
was hot.
Sally" he said, 1--WE bought 81
Hopkins house and came around to
sees If l-could-put-the-
your name."
Miss Sally Mannering thought he
was crazy. But he was rational
enough. For he sat himself at her
side and put his arm around her waist
and fl1,ally he kissed her. And that's
no sign of lunacy. Finally he pulled
a roll of bills from his pocket. SAL
ly," he said, II want you to take these
and keep them for me-for us. I'm
never, never going to speculate any
more. Never. I'm through. Besides"
he added. Il own some real estate and
I'm going to marry you, and that's
lottery enough for any man."
Whereupon Miss Sally boxed his
ears. And Henry Couse-he just
laughed and let her do 1t.
Copyright. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
Ancient Money.

In biblical days silver and gold coins
were struck Of such weight that one of
them represented the value of par
ticular animal. Thus the word kes-
ttah used in Genesis translated
pieces of money" means, literally,
q lamb. The Latin pecunia, from
which comes our word pecuniary,
comes from pecus, a general name for
sheep and the smaller animals. In
early times coins bore figures of a
horse, bull or hog, together with
the names of the animals pictured.
Afterward, as values changed, the fig
ures upon the coins no longer bore
representations of their value in cat
tie, but figures representing a rose,
an eagle, etc.
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10

,lnuow and seemed suouenly Gnu.
\ mysterious, hardly defined sense
of some overwhelming emotion,
xlilarating and yet depressing,
urged through her.
She half rose as the feeling be.
:ame stronger, more tense. She
eemed waiting-waiting for a deci-
live blow to fall. Tom-Thurston-
Japan. All were revolving through
Ter and about her in a raging food
If sensation. The papers dropped
rom her nerveless hands.
Il have been half asleep, incoming
over the fire." she said, nervously.
Using and trying to shake off the
strange influence that possessed her.
L am all unstrung. l will not look
at these papers tonight"
She crossed the room to her desk.
it was Toms desk, and she loved
to use it because of that. She drew
out a drawer in it sharply. 1t was
one she seldom used. A little bun.
die dropped from a recess behind it.
my picture" she said, wondering.
ly, as she bent to take it out. Dear
Tom, he always kept my pictures
and my letters"
Her eyes glowed with tender tears.
IF I loved Thurston twice as much
/ would still bear your name a little
longer, dear. after this" she mur.
INJURED, softly, holding the bundle to
her cheek.
A moment later she stood az II
carved from pulsating wax. She had
seen the face in the picture. 1t was
not her face. Staring boldly back
Into her startled eyes was the laugh
ing face of Helen Grantley. She
opened the letters. All! what they re
vealed.
A surging wave of fierce, uncon
trolled anger swayed through her
1t was the anger which comes to 8
woman when she first learns tina,
she has been deceived where she has
loved and trusted. She crushed ane
bent the smiling lips in the picture
as her clenched hand beat impotent
ly at the empty ain
The flames in the dying fire flashed
up once. twice, as they greedily
wrapped about the food she flung
them. She looked at the calendar
on the desk and made a rapid cal
culation. Then she wrote note.
But not to JAPAN" she thought
bitterly, as she sealed and addressed
it. Never there"
Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
The Irish standard., 1914-01-10
Tried to STAY Good.

She was angry. and her face re-
vealed the fact
What is the matter, dear?" said
her husband. as he entered the kitch
en-.
"You see that?" she replied vehe
mently, as she raised a mixing bowl
In which she had just broken an egg
THAT is the second bad egg l have
found today. believe Jim Fletcher
keeps all the bad ones he gets in his
old store for mel" .
"Well. you shouldn't get angry
about it. Nellie" said her husband
soberly. "You ought to have more
sympathy"
Sympathy" she echoed. What
do you mean? Sympathy for Jim
Fletcher"
mo, for the eggs," he replied.
Think how long they must have
been tryin' to be good."-Lippincott's
Magazine.