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Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-08

g by IF TAPESTRY BRUs- SELLS RUGS-ful1 tsn-wirs tapestry, which means quality. Some new designs in both floral and Oriental ef9 9e designs. ofusEu by 12 VELVET RUGS in some very attractive pat terms and colorings. We have only three of these rugs left and they should sell for 25 per cent more efe az than we ask for them. tIu.J5 g by 12 woRsTED WILTON RUGS of high quality and new designs in soft color ings. Fine assortment of small designs and Oriental patterns. Sold regularly for S31.5O. Sale Price -..-...... t31.eS g BY 12 WILTON RUGS.
 Here are some discontinued pat terms in Rugs of various grades which we are determined to close out. Reduced about 25 per cent.
 SMALL RUGS AT SPECIAL
 PRICES ALL-WOOL ADMINISTERS in Oriental designs. Size 27 by 54 inches, and worth t2.oo.
 Sale Price ......-....S S1.6e ALL-wooL AXMINSTERS in Oriental designs. Size se by 70 inches and worth 1s-5o,
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Williams news., 1914-06-25
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT.
WORKING ROADS WHEN MOIST
Much More Labor To Required When Highways Are Dry-Use Road Ma
 chine When Soil ls Soft.


 It Is a great mistake to put of work ing roads until August or September: The roads should be worked when the soil is damp, so as to make the soil bake when it dries out If the roads are worked when they are dry, it takes more power to draw the ma chine and, besides. dry earth and dust retain moisture and quickly rut after rains. The use of clods, sods, weeds or vegetable matter in building earth roads should be avoided because they also retain moisture.
 If the working of the roads is de- ferred until the latter part of the sum- mer when the surface is baked dry and hard, they are not only difficult to work, but the work is unsatisfactory when done. Earth which is loose and dry will remain dusty as long as the dry weather lasts, and then turn to mud as the rains begin. By using the road machine in the spring while the soil is soft and damp, the surface is more easily shaped and soon packs down into. dry, hard crust, which is less liable to become dusty in summer and muddy in winter.
 Repairs to roads should be made when needed, and not once a year after crops are laid by. Because of it's simplicity, efficiency and cheap
Williams news., 1914-06-25
Mr. knox's Error.

Ex-Secretary Knox argues at length that the, Hay-Pauncefote treaty does not forbid the exemption of part or a whole of our vessels from the tolls at the canal. We think he is decidedly mistaken. The history of the subject shows that the equal right of Great Britain in commerce across the isth- mus had been recognized in the Clay ton-Bulwer treaty. The later instru- ment released us from all the restric- tions of that treaty except that our vessels passing through the canal should pay the same tolls as those of other nations.
 But we regard this as minor part of the case. We have erected at Pan anna a costly work of which the whole revenue will for many yeLrs be in adequate to pay expenses. To sub tract from it's revenues a large sum each year, to give to an element of our shipping that is absolutely freed from foreign competition is an act that is difficult to describe in courteous terms. The United States should not do such thing if it were expressly authorized by the treaty.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
Fact. Shown By Census FIsures.

Washington.-Of the 32,243,3S2 per. sons of foreign white stock in the United States in 1910, the English and Celtic, including Irish, Scotch and Welsh, had the largest representation. according to the mother tongue bulle- tin issued by the census bureau.
 As reported to the census bureau the total foreign white stock whose mother tongue was English and Celtic numbered 10,037, APO. This number represented 12.3 per cent of the total white population of the United States in 1910, which was S1,731,957.
 The German group numbered s,S17.- 271, or 10.S per cent; Italian, 2,151.- 422. or 2.6 per cent; Polish, 1,707,640. or 2.1 per cent; Yiddish and Hebrew. 1,676, 6,762, or 2.1 Per cent; Swedish, l. 445, 1869. or Is per cent; French, 1,357,- 169, or IT per cent, and Norwegian. 1,009.854, or 1.2 per cent.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
HER MEDITERRANEAN Proved a Wise, Good Friend.

A young woman out in Ia. found Q wise, good friend in her hother-in-law, jokes notwithstanding. She writes:
 q was greatly troubled with my stomach, complexion was blotchy and yellow. After meals I often suffered sharp pains and would have to lie down. My mother often told me 1t was the coffee I drank at meals. But when I'd quit coffee I'd have severe headache.
 While visiting my mother-in-law remarked that she always made such good coffee, and asked her to tell me how. She laughed and told me it was easy to make good 'coffee' when you use POstum.
 q began to use Postum as soon as got home, and now We have the same good coffee (Postum) every day, and I have no more trouble. Indigestion is thing of the past, and my com plexion ahas cleared up beautifully.
 My grandmother suffered a great deal with her stomach. Her doctor told her to leave of coffee. She then took tea but that was just as bad.
 "She finally was induced to try Post um which she has used for over a year. She travelled during the winter over the greater part of Iowa, visiting, something she had not been able to do for years. She says she owes her present good health to Postum."
 Name given by Postum Co.,, Battle Greek, Mich. Read "The Road to We'll ville," in pkgs. Postum now comes in two forms:
 Regular Postum-must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages.
 Instant Postum-is soluble pow der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water and, with cream and sugar. makes delicious beverage Instantly. soc and 50c tins.
 The cost per cup of both kinds is about the same.
 There's a Reason" for Postum.
 -sold by Grocers.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
MANY BAD ILLINOIS ROADS
Average Time of Two and One-Half Months in Each Year Highways
 Are Unusable.

If you want to know how badly Illinois needs good roads, ask the rural mail carriers. There are nearly three thousand of them in the state. their routes cover 66,628 miles of road. and they are out every working day in the year. When the subject is roads, the rural mail carrier knows what he is talking about
 Evidence collected from 2,724 rural mail carriers shows that most highways of Illinois deserve the mama of trails, rather than of roads.
 In one county, for nearly thirty days in each year, the carriers are unable to make their routes.
 In the whole state, for an average time of two and one-half months in each year, the country roads are un- usable for load of one and one-half tons, says the Chicago Journal. In some counties, country roads are up- usable for such load during more than one-third of the year.
 Such condition is intolerable It levies a toll on every farmer and on everyone who uses farm produce. It raises the cost of living and cuts down the rewards of labor.
 Illinois must be pulled out of the mud The first step in this work is to use conv1cts in preparing material to make roads. instead of mud lanes.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
pr. EIiot on Education.

Dr. Eliot says: "The practise of England and America is literally cen. turies behind the precept of the best thinkers upon education" Is it not humiliating that an American is forced to make such an admission concern ing our most vital American institu- ton?
 What can be done? How can this wasteful school system be speedily remedied so that it fills it's real func. tion and sends out into the world boys and girls developed according to their individual talents as far as those talents permit? It is a big question, but in my next article, I propose to outline rational, practical system of public education which will serve those ends.-Pictorial Review.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
AVOID SPREADING OF DISEASE
Precautions That Should Be Observed by Those Afflicted With
 Tuberculosis.

All persons who are intimately as- sociated with cases of active pulmo- nary tuberculosis cannot be too cau- tious about the proper disposition of tubercular sputum. Such sputum should always be received in cups containing five per cent solution of lysol or carbolic acid, or, in the ab- sence of these, milk of lime. Paper cups, made especially for this purpose. may be used and subsequently, burned. Soiled handkerchfefs and cloths should be immersed for one hour in iysol or carbohc acid Give per cent) and then boiled before they are han dled. The patient should be provided with a set of dishes for his exclusive use, and these should be kept by themselves and boiled thoroughly aft CT each meal Remember that tuber- culosis Is preventable disease, but that it's control can be accomplished only by the strictest observance of sanitary precautions.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
Cheaper Clothes.

Those critics of the present tariff who have been so much distressed over it's supposed failure to do any thing to reduce the cost of living might, to their profit, consider the question of woolen clothes. It was these that, according to the protection ists' theory, were to be least affected. We were told, as the New York Eve ming Post reminds us, that the cost of the cloth is such an inappreciable part of the cost of the suitr that the saving on account of the lower tariff was hardly worth considering. The Post reprints the following advertisement of 'an eminently respectable firm of merchants"
 Customers will find saving any, where from two to five dollars on practically all our suits and over coats of imported woolens. This roughly is the difference the tariff made-labor cost is. of course, un- changed"
Williams news., 1914-06-25
PAINFUL BLIsTERs ON BODY

R. B. D. 4811z, Port Orchard. Wash When my baby was about five days old his abdomen became entirely GOV cred with varying sized blisters which were very painful. causing very much distress and sleeplessness. They ap- peared very much like scalds or skin burns apparently itching and burning. The bands irritated the blisters, caus- ing sores.
 & T tried powder and afterwards other remedies but the sores became worse. They lasted about six weeks before I used Cuticura Ointment. After washing the irritated parts well with Cuticura Soap and applying the Cuticura Ointment he received almost instant relief, and the cure was com plete in seven or eight days" (SigneO Mrs. J. G. Kelley, Dec. 1. 1912,
 Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free,with 32-p. Skin Book Address post card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston" ."-Adv.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
FACTS AND FIGURES
First Six Months Under the WiI-
 son Tariff.
Comparisons Between That Period and for the Same Period Last Year Are Hardly Fair, for Ob-
 vlous Reasons.

The Republican press, in reviewing the first six months of the Wilson tar. if, finds four facts: First, an increase in imports of manufactures; second, slowing down of our own factories i; third, a falling of of the exports of do nestle manufacturers; fourth, a de crease in revenues. These are the facts. What are the figures?
 The treasury departments state. ment covering the first six months operation of the tariff law, October l to. April 1, shows that imports of fin tshed manufactures amounted to $228,. 100000, as against $215, ,000, ,000 for the same period last year. This is an in crease of $13,000,000. The same state ment further shows that the value of manufacturers' material amounted to $469 ,000, 900, as against $517 ,000, ,000 for the same period last year. This is a loss of $4S,000,00O. On the other hand, the statement reports the value of manufactures exported to be ,$541, ,000,. 900, as against $5S2, ,O0o,o ,oOO last year, loss of $41, 100000. The receipts from customs were $40 0,000.000. as against $165,OOO, ,0O0.
 The figures support the facts. but not to the degree that one might ex- pect them to; and after all, it is a question whether or not the compari: son is fair one, as both import and export trade for the six months pre- ceding inauguration of the Wilson tar if exhibited returns which indicated that importers and exporters delayed trade in order to take advantage of the new schedules. A comparison be tween the figures of whole year peri ods may, be more satisfactory.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
King Road scraper Tn Action.

ness, the splitlog drag or some similar device is destined to come into more and more general use. With the drag properly built and it's use well under stood, the maintenance of earth and graver roads becomes simple and in- expensive matter. Care should be taken to make the log so light that one man can lift it with ease. The log should be from seven to ten feet long, and from eight to ten inches in diameter. It should be split carefully as near the center as possible and the heaviest and best slab chosen for the front When the soil is moist, but not sticky, the drag does the best work: The road will bake if the drag is used on it when it is wet. If the roadway is full of holes or badly rutted the drag should be used once when the road is soft and slushy.
 Storm water should be disposed of quickly before it has had time to penetrate deeply into the surface of the road. This can be done by giving the road a crown or slope from the center to the sides. For an earth road
 
 should not be less than six inches nor more than twelve inches higher than the outer edges of the shoulder. The narrow road which is high in the mid dle will become rutted almost as quickly as one which is too fiat, for the reason that on narrow road all the traffic is forced to use only narrow strip. Shoulders are often formed on both sides of the road, which prevent storm water from flowing into the side sditches, retaining it in the ruts and softening the roadway. These ruts and shoulders can be entirely eliminated with the road machine or split-log drag.
 The width os the earth road will depend on the traffic. As a.rule, twen- ty-five or thirty feet from ditch to ditch is sufficient if the road is properly crowned Ordinarily the only ditches needed are those made with the road machine, which are wide and shallow.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
BASEBALL NOTES

Mike Donlin's pineh-hitting eye is not in proper trim as yet.
 Jacinto del Calvo,. the Cuban play er, is making good on the coast.
 Hans Wagner continues to be the premier drawing card of the National league.
 Griffith says Fritz Maisel will be one of the best third basemen in the big leagues this year.
 The Indianapolis club has sold Prince Gaskill, the former Troy curver, to the Denver club, of the Western league.
 Detroit critics say the Tigers are no better than a year ago. Jennings youngsters are not setting the world on fire.
 When the Chancemen do lose, the other team has to battle hard. No body has found the Nyams easy this season.:
 Charley Herzog has an alderman lnfield at Cincinnati with a Cuban, an Englishman and an Ir1shman in the Dutfeld.
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 Funny thing about Sherwood Ma gee. He is. called slow thinker; still he leads the National league sluggers with the willow. ,}t
 
 Walter BarbaTe. the New Orleans substitute shortstop, who got his chance when Knaupp was injured. Is
Williams news., 1914-06-25
Graves of kearsarae Victims Located.

Graves of kearsarge Victims Located.
 Paris.-The graves of several Amer lean sailors, buried at Cherbourg aft CT the engagement on June 19. 1864, in which the Confederate steamer Alabama was sunk by the United States corvette Kearsarge, were To- cated by Hanson Cleveland Coxe. American deputy consul general at Paris. The tombs, as well as those of several American veterans, buried at Versailles and Saint Germain, were decorated with flowers and flags by . committee of Americans.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
Something Strange Here.

The Republicans have been caught mapping Here they have been aevot- ing their attention to viewing the tar if with alarm, gravely predicting dis aster from the selection of reserve bank cities, criticizing the ''spineless' Mexican policy of the administration and pointing out how much better they could have handled the trust problem, though they never did, and now they have let the Democrats get away with a record wheat crop! What becomes of that wellknown tango team of Democracy and soup kitchens
Williams news., 1914-06-25
Century Aao.

One hundred years ago Dr. Thomas Fanshawe Middleton was consecrated first bishop of Calcutta. The conse- cration took place in London, and soon afterward the new bishop sailed for India. In Calcutta. he laid the foun- dalton for the Bishops college in 1920. and established a. consistory court in that city. While zealously engaged in his duties he was attacked with a fever, of which he died in 1922. For more than a century the efforts to spread the Christian faith in India have continued. Numerically the Christian population in the great east ern empire is still insignificant, amounting to only about one per cent of the population, but it is generally admitted to have an influence out of all proportion to it's numbers.
Williams news., 1914-06-25

hailed as one of the Southern leagues biggest finds.
 Ty Cobb is not stealing many bases this year, but he is scoring runs in almost every game by his daring on the bases.
 Manager Joe Birmingham, of the Cleveland Maps, says dancing is a great aid in getting bail players into condition.
 Billy Earle, the veteran catcher, who made the round-the-world tour with Spalding 25 years ago, is living in re- tirement in Detroit.
 Pitcher Luhrsen, who failed to make good as Senator, has been sold by the Columbus club to the Omaha club, in the Western league.
 A Cleveland boy, Harvey Bluhm, bet, ter known to baseball fame as Red" is the one big noise of the New Or leans club, leaders in the race for the Southern league pennant.
 One of the greatest stomach-reduc- ing exercises ever observed is DOT trayed by a plump batter lodging Walter. Johnson's fast ball when it comes along inside and waist high.
 The veteran, Otto Williams, has been purchased by the Nashville club from the Kansas City club. Williams has been acting as one of the instruc. ltors in Charley Carrs baseball school. N President Chivington, of the Amer ican association, is in earnest in his antip4thy for the Federal league, and hasSissued orders to all owners to bar Federal league players from attend ing games in the American associa- tion.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
Cattle queen, Worth s2,ooo, ,ooo, Dies

Salt Lake City, Utah.-Mrs. Eliza beth Bonemont. known throughout the West as the icattle and sheep queen Of Utah, died at her home here. Mrs. Bonnemort came to Utah from Scot land in 1865, at the age of twenty years, and engaged in the cattle and sheep business with great success. Later she became identified with the real estate business in Salt Lake, which with her cattle ventures, netted her fortune computed at $2,000, 900.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
Beqinnina to See Light.

For years this nation has been pro ceeding on the theory that all gov ernment had to do was to make peo- pie rich-which, of course, meant ma king some people rich at the expense of others. Now other ideas prevail We are beginning to see that the so- called little people must be safeguard. ed against the rapacity of trusts and tariff beneficiaries.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
UNIONS GAIN es,7ss MEMBERS

Total Paid-Up Membership In 191%
 Was 2y069,177.
 Washington.-Reports showing a gain of 9,756 members of affiliated un- ions for April, 1914, over the month in 1913 were made public by Secretary Morrison, following meeting of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor. The total paid up membership for 1914 was 2,o69. TIT; that of April, 1913, was 1,999.401. Sec retary Morrison's report showed 8 treasury balance on April 30 of $105.- 098.01.
Williams news., 1914-06-25
Will Be Use for Them.

The American importers at Vera Cruz who, immediately on the occupa- tion of the city by our forces, made a polite request that they should be granted certain rebates on the pre- vailing Mexican tariff, ought to come home They will be needed in 1916 to assist in drafting the various na- tional Republican party platforms New York World.
Williams news., 1914-06-25

Can last years diamond luminaries repeat. or will new constellation hold the. public eye during this sea sons pennant race?
 This is the burning question of the hour. Judging from the early season
Williams news., 1914-06-25

Man-Is this good seat? / Ticket seller-Well. sir. it's behind a post. >
 Man-what's the matter? Isn't the show worth seeing?
Williams news., 1914-06-25
: -77- HERE'S PRIZE JoRHoLDER.

For Hundred Years.
 Minneapolis, Minn--His sight and hearing unimpaired and still able to walk without assistance, John Smith, 128 years old, chief of the Chippewa Indian tribe for over 100 years. came here to see the city that has risen from his former hunting grounds be- fore he dies. Government records prove Smith was boy in 179S and he claims his age is 128.
Williams news., 1914-06-25

idol of fans falls by the wayside and one of the great army of debutants steps into the vacant niche Among last years number, however, there is none who is in danger of being dis placed.
 Cobb, the kingpin of them all, is tearing around the paths at the same blinding pace, but his batting is not up to standard yet. Matty will have little difficulty in making the sluggers swing at his slow one and expects to stand them all on their heads in the next worlds series.
 Plank, the wonderful portsider of Connie Mack's White Elephants, was the pitching sensation of last years worlds series and bids fair to repeat this year. Plank has been in the game longer than any other southpaw and will probably be the first of the 1913 list to leave the big show. As for Honus Wagner, he is just a little slower, maybe, on hard-hit ground balls, but the eagle eye and the big mitts are still at the old stand, and it will take a sulphuric smash to pene- trate the Pirates short field while he is playing his position. If Iris Speakers record-breaking salary doesn't go to his head he should shine as brightly as ever in the Red Sox roster, both at bat and in the field. Joe Jackson, the Big Dipper of the Cleveland Maps. has youth in his favor coupled with a desire to beat Ty Cobb.
 There is little doubt of his staying among the leaders.
 Walter Johnson still burns them across the dish with the same old snap and zing.
 Then, too, there are Eddie Collins and Frank Baker of the Athletics i; I Milan and Joe Boehlirg of the Sena- tors, Reb Russell of the White Sox. Archer of the Cubs, Demaree of the l Giants, Daubert of Brooklyn, Evers and Maranville of Boston, and all the other sparkles in the big league dia- mond.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-02-24
HoUGHToN BREvITlES.
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The dance given by the Houghtor
fire department in the Amphidrome
last evening was well attended and
highly enjoyed. Members of the Rip
ley and Hancock departments attend
ed in full dress uniform as did the local
fire fighters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Botsford oi
Gilbert, Mimi, are visiting relatives
here. Mr. Botsford Is assistant gen
eral superintendent of the Pick and
Mather iron mines on the range.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Weir have re-
turned from a visit with relatives in
lower Michigan. While away Mr.. Wei,
consulted n specialist at Ann Arbor
tor an ailment. II was decided that
nothing could be done for him.
John II. Abel Of Ironwood. a prom
inent iron mining man and alumnus o.
the Michigan College of Mines. spent
Sunday visiting friends in Ioughton.
Miss Louise Smith of Houghton is a
visitor i'm LAnse for a few days.
Miss Mario DuMonthicr returned
yesterday from a visit to Chicago