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Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-06

Many an amateur finds that a watch ed garden is slow to respond, but Keep Off the Grass signs spring up over night.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-06
Decrease in Mortality.

A remarkable decrease in mortality among insured persons is noted by E. M. Corse, the Russian manager of an American insurance company MT.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-06

May is just now demonstrating that 1t is never safe to open up the sum- ner cottages on the strength of a few warm days in April.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-06
OTHER VIEW POINTS

So far this year there have been approximately one thousand wood land fires in Connecticut, according to Warden FilIey, and the damage amounts to around s20o,000. That is a tremendous price to pay for rank carlessness and disregard of com mon sense-Bristol Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-06

Times do change. A California man who is suing for divorce has been granted weekly allowance pending the result Of the suit.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-06
EDITORIAL NOTES,

John Barleyeorn declares with much gusto to Great Britain that his hat is in the ring.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-06

The poor man is often at a dis advantage in legal contests, but not always. A San Francisco contractor owed a workman SIT and refused to pay it. The man got down on his knees to beg for the money, and ex- plained that his family was starving,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-06

Goodbye sore feet, burning feet, swollen feet, smelling feet, tired feet. Goodbye corns, callouses, bunions
 and raw spots. No more shoe tight
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 drawing up your face in agony "TIZ'
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 puff up the feet. Use "TIZ" and wear
 smaller shoes. Use "TIZ" and forget
 your foot misery An! how comforta- ble your feet feel.
 Get a 25 cent box of "TIZ' now at any druggist or department store. Don't suffer, Have good feet, glad
 feet, feet that never swell never hurt, never get tired. A years foot com
 fort guaranteed or money refunded.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-20

have had out at the San Francisco fair.
This show cost more than $300,O0 to
build. II Is being torn down now. but
a good deal Of II. such as the machinery.
moving platform and photographs, can
be saved. perhaps $1co0o worth. This
will be brought to New York on a ship
around by the canal. II the canal gets
opened before next June. when they want
TO open the show.
Gen. Goethals in speaking OF this re-
production said. It's really better than
the original. for your canvas and cement
don't slide.
Fred c. Whitney tells me that he il
making overgrown sums of money out OF
supplying the Russian government with
shells and fuses. Mr.. Whitney says he
knows nothing at all about this business
and cares less. What he does know
about IL comic opera. He has been flirt-
ing with comic opera all his life. ever
since he came from Detroit. where his
father had a music store and the Whit
ney Opear House. Fred once told me
that he knew there was money in comic
opera: knew there was money In II be-
cause he had put it in. Now he is TAX
ing 1t from the Russians. Not for him
self. No. sir. He is giving his bank ac-
count elephantiasis for q special purpose.
That purpose Is to buy the Century
Theater and establish a national thea
ter in II. II they won't let him do that.
suppose he will give the money back.
Life of Frohman Complete.
The life of Charles Frohman. which
Daniel Frohman and Isaac F. Marcosson
have been writing. is now completed. Mr..
Frohman tells me that a great deal of
the material was secured by getting
some OF Charles Frohman's closest
friends together and telling anecdotes. of
which Mr.. Marcosson took notes and
then wrote out.
"A number of people have said to me
that don't seem to be much broken up
over my brothers DEATH said Mr.. Froh-
man. The fact is, ] am proud of his
death. II couldn't have been more fit
ting: much better than though he had
died in hotel. as he came so near doing
few years ago. Had Charles been at
all sordid he would have died a very rich
man, but there was nothing sordid about
him. He loved humor, but he cared
nothing for money
Walter r. Jennings. a San Francisco
horse breeder. who recently came all the
way back from London to America just
to get good beefsteak. says that in the
present darkened London the English
hobbies all wear tail lights like automo-
bilcs. They are little red lanterns fast
ened to the back of their belts They
used to wear white front lights. but they
have been cNtingushcd don't know
the object of these war lights unless II
is TO keep the policemen from being run
down.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-20
Volume of Forbes Articles.

Finance. Business and the Business
of Life" is the title of a volume of
$40 pages in which B. c. Forbes, busi
ness and financial editor of the New
York American, has grouped scores
of articles he has written for that
newspaper about big and little bust
ness and the countrys big and lit
tlemen. Mr.. Forbes describes the col
lection as "a humble contribution to-
ward making finance clearer. busi-
ness more humane. work more inspir-
ing and life more worth while" and a
perusal of his work justifies the belief
that in some measure at least he has
accomplished all of these things. This
is the opinion of such men as Z. H.
Gary. F. A. Vanderlip. Samuel Rea and
Daniel Willard. whose letters of ap-
probation of Mr. Forbes writings are
included in the volume. No business
man, veteran or recruit. and no youth
looking forward to business as
career. can read M. Forbes articles
without profit.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-20

much Of his information and the au-
thorities upon which he based his objec-
tions. He earned every cent Of his salary
because he devoted not his spare time.
but all his time TO his duties as a Con-
gresham. Yet he was q most interesting
and cordial man in private conversation.
always ready to give In private good ac-
count of his researches and investiga-
tions. some Of which must have been as
dry drudgery as is the searching of the
archives of a government by a historian.
I wanted TO speak to Judge Holman
about an incident which was narrated to
me by Henry B. Stanton. four years
earlier than the time when I met Judge
Holman. But the way did not seem to
open for me to speak OF that incident
1t was of one time in Judge Holman's .
career In Congress when instead Of at
tempting to reduce an appropriation he
spoke with courage and earnestness in
favor of an increase. His advocacy Of
this increase was successful because
every member of Congress knew that II
was sincere and represented what Judge
Holman believed TO be justice
Mr.. Stanton told me that he at one
time was retained by contractors who
had been engaged to rAt up public build
ings for the United States at Buffalo
u.
or at least refused to pay in accordance
with the terms OF the contract.
Il was retained to bring suit i'm the
Court OF Claims" said Mr. Stanton. ''and
the litigation was proSracted. The gov
ernment very stubbornly fought for its
side Of the case. At last the Court Of
Claims awarded my clients $3s.0CO-an
amount which the client said represented
considerable loss to them. was ad-
vised to take the case to CongtNss. Judge
Holman made careful investigation and
when he finished he told me that he was
satisfied that the Court OF Claims should
have awarded twice as much as it did.
He promised to advocate a resolution
appropriating $4,000. He did support that
resolution and there never was a better
instance of the value of character and
integrity than was the action Of Con-
gress In supporting Judge Holman. II
he said II was right Congress knew II
was right. and for the first time in the
history Of the government Congress re-
fused to accept a decision OF the Court
OF Claims on the ground that 1t was too
small an award and doubled the sum.
wholly relying upon Judge Holman's
statement that Justice required this to be
done"
Copyright. 1916. By p. J. Edwards An rights re-
se1cdD
Tomorrow DR.. Edwards will tell of "a
Great Lawyers Advice to His Client
The Washington herald., 1915-12-20
Jobs for All Near Los Angeles.

Los Angeles. Dec. 19-It will be a long
road for Weary Willies in Southern Cali
to work.
Seven counties in the lower end OF the
state acted together today in preparing
for the invasion OF Sons of Rest. who
are not behind the millionaires In seek
ing the most genial climate during the
winter months.
Rock piles and similar monuments to
industry have been established at con-
venient intervals for good road work
The Washington herald., 1915-12-20
WHISKY SELLER PUNISHED.
Two Drinks Given Another Man
Costs Texan Two Years.

Fort Worth. Tex. Dec. 1a.-Charles
Pettigrew was defendant in the first case
tried in Tarrant Countk under the law
making it felony to sell liquor in local
option territory. He was convicted and
sentenced to two years. He sold two
drinks to the same man
Pettigrew was indicted in January and
his first trial was on an Indictment that
carried only misdemeanor penalty. He
escaped on a technicality. The next in
1Ctment under the Felony Law also was
hcld defective. but the third one was
sustained
The Washington herald., 1915-12-20
HISTORY BUILDERS.
When the Great Objector" Did Not
Object.
BY DIR. f.. }. EDWARDS.

BY DIR. +. }. EDWARDS.
When General Garfield was inaugurat-
ed as president in March. 1851. Judge Will
liam S. Holman. of Indiana. had already
gained distinction as a member of con-
gress, who with utmost care scrutinized
all items which involved appropriation or
expense so that he might be prepared to
offer objection il he believed the sum
extrava4 4ant and to give good reasons for
his objections He was already known
as the great objector.' and no man had
profounder regard for Judge Holman's
sincerity or value than did President Gar
field.
One evening called upon Judge Hol-
man. who received me in his modest
apartment and unconsciously revealed to
me the sources from which he obtained
The Washington herald., 1915-12-20
PLEADS AGAINST
u. 5. ARMAMENT
Johns Hopkins Man Argues
for Latchstring Instead
of Forti6cations.
CHRISTIAN IDEAL IS BEST
Would Have Teachers Of Civilization
Instead Of Armies Represent
This Country.
CHRISTIAN IDEAL IS BEST

Advice to the United States to let its
latchstring hang outside was given yes
terday by Ebert Russell. Of John Hop
kins University. in an address on I'm
stead of War; at the First Congrega-
tionaI Church. The lecture was delivered
under the auspices OF the Washington
Peace Society. a branch of the American
Peace Society,"
The lecturer spoke of the efficacy OF
justice as a national defense rather than
q defense with battleships and coast for
tifcations. He called attention to the
early colony Of Quakers In Pennsylvania.
saying thaf as long as they were In
control Of Pennsylvania and the Indians
believed In the justice OF their govern
ment. the colonists were safe from
blood thirsty red men.
A particular instance was detailed In
which a party OF Indians on the wsrpsth
came upon a cabin Of Quakers and held
council ar to whether they should destroy
the settlers. The Indians did not know
whether the Quskers still held their
opinions of Justice regarding them. so a
scout was detailed to find whether the
latchstrins on the cabin door was out
side or had been drawn within. If on the
outside. the Quakers were to be spared;
IL not. they were 10 be massacred. The
scout found the latchstring still hanging
out. so the Quakers were permitted to
live.
Panacea for UprisinEs.
III there was a threatened uprising of
Boxers In China and our citizens were
endangered. we should send missiona ries
and teachers there to civilize them and
prevent the uprising. We ought to call
for volunteers to go 10 Mexico as teach
ers Of self-government. rather than send
an army of soldiers there. II We were to
go about il that way. We would have no
use for battlcships and coast defenses-
IF We blum our way by force of arms
where justice will not carry. other ma
tions will arm to meet us. II we forti-
dians also would fortify. and II some
Diary, Who knows what the result would
be? From time immemorial the lives Of
women and children were safe until man
undertook to protect them by force of
arms.
Granted that boxers in China and
Mexicans might endanger our citizens
and that there are some European
countries with imperialistic ideas that
might makes right. the Christian ideal
for this nation is to establish interna-
tional relations not on war but on peace
Give all the world a square deal and
they will give It to us
Following the lecture the audience was
invited to join the Washington Peace
Society. the membership fee of which is
81. Responses to the appeal was gratify-
ing.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-20
This Lady q Mail Carrier.

Neosho Falls. Kan. Dec 1a-This town
now has woman rural mail carrier.
Mrs. Less'e Reynolds has been appointed
substitute to her husband. Logan Fl. Rey-
nolds. and covers her route of twenty
four miles every day In the usual time.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-20
WEB.F0OT APPLE CROP BIG.
One Oregon Orchard Gives Owner
5000 Boxes from 400 Trees.

1900 BOXes from 100 Trees.
Hood River. Ore. Dec 1s-While the
local apple crop in the aggregate and that
of the entire Northwest as well. will be
far dhorter than normally a number of
local tracts have produced phenomenal
yields this season. One Of the bumper
crops has been harvested by n. W. Bone
from a twelve-year-old orchard. He har-
vested more than 5000 boxes. about 400
trees yielding tho greater part Of this
crop
The Washington herald., 1915-12-20
Gregory Funeral Today.

Funeral services for James NJ. Greg
Dry will be held at the Peoples Congre-
gationaI Church this afternoon at 2
o'clock. DIR. Francis J. Grimke will con-
duct the services
The Washington herald., 1915-12-20
HEBREWS HOLD OPEN HOUSE.
Rabbi GrOssman Talks on Destitu-
tion Existing In Europe.

The Young Women's Hebrew Associa
tion Juniors gave an entertainment and
their seniors held open house yesterday
afternoon and evening at the clubhouse,
1890 Tenth street northwest.
Rabbi Grossman spoke Of the destitute
conditions existing among the Jews in
Europe due to the war.
Miss Lillian Friedman gave a number
Of recitations and Joseph Friedman
played a violin solo accompanied by
.adlay Man.
IN NO OTHER WAY can you buy,
sell or exchange anything in this COM
munity so inexpensively and with such
uniform success as by patronizing the
Want Columns.-Dan $ayles.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-07-02

tears he could not control. When at last
DR.. Jones gave his permission, BERTHE
took Ernest home in their wagon. Be
fore they went BERTHE mother put her
arms around the boys neck and kissed
him tenderly, for she had grown fond
of him, he had been so patient and so
grateful for all she had done for him.
"Oh Mrs. Gordon, " said he between
his sobs, chow can | show you and
BERTHE what | think of you. Thank you,
oh so much, for all YOU have done for
me, and Mr. Gordon too. This is the
best and kindest friend I've got in the
world, mother, " said Ernest, as he got
out of the wagon at his home, taking
BERTHE, who was helping him, by the
hand "My boy, was her answer, "I'm
beginning to feel as you do, not only
towards BERTHE, but towards his good
father and mother don't think we've
got better friends than they've showed
themselves to he Your father and
are going down to the village to thank
them for their care of you, as soon as
we are able" That afternoon Mr..
Gordon was at the village store, which
was full as usual of people. Suddenly
he felt his arm grasped-he was at the
counter buying some soap-and turning
saw Mr.. Mason who, to his surprise was
stretching out his hand. Il want to
thank you, Mr.. Gordon, said he, rather
loud as if he wanted everybody in the
store to hear, for all you and your
wife and son have done for my boy, and
to say once for all that old sores are
healed and that you and | from now on
are friends, that is, il YOU are willing.
There weren't two happier men in the
town than those two who with hands
interlocked went up the village street
together. The most surprised and
pleased man, perhaps, was the minister
who happened to meet them opposite
the postofiice. He shook hands cor
daily with them both, telling them how
glad he was to see them together. Il m
looking at things a little different since
my boy was taken sick, ~ said Mr.
Mason, for the doctor told me that
he'd have most likely died if it hadn t
been for Gordon 5 BERTHE. 1T certainly
might have been so, said the minis
ter. And how is Ernest?' he asked as
they parted. "Oh. he's all right and he
expects to be to Sunday school next
Sunday, and we Il all come to meetin'
now right along. My woman she's at
the SEWN circle that's meetn at the
Gordons house this afternoon, and
Ernest, he's joined the Kindly Deeds
Society. a mighty good thing I think
it is and it : already done heap OF good
to the town. ~
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-07-02
BOYS AND GIBBS AGRICULT-
URAL AND INDUSTRIAL
EXPOSITION.

The committee are now sending out
handbook and preliminary prize list for
the second Annual Vermont Boys and
Girls Agricultural and Industrial Elk
position. The Windsor County Y. NJ.
c. a. Committee, who initiated and
directed the three State Corn Shows
and the 1914 Boys and Girls EXPOSE
ton, have made every effort to have the
1918 Exposition held in some other part
of the State, if suitable buildings and
grounds could be procured, in order that
it might touch other communities and
arouse the widest possible interest, and
at the invitation Of the Rutland Bust
ness Mems Association and with de-
sire to hold the Exposition at the time
of the annual Convention of the Yer
mont State Teachers Association, it
will be held in the new exhibition build
ings on the Rutland Fair Grounds at
Rutland, Vermont, during the last week
in October, &c. y, q, % 1915.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-07-02

per Sulphate in 10 gallons of water.
Do likewise with five pounds of lime
never use air-slacked lime). Add 80
gallons of water to the Copper Sulphate
solution; then add the Lime solution.
Never mix the Copper Sulphate and
Lime solutions in concentrated form.
Begin to spray from the lst to the 18th
of July and spray three to five times at
intervals of two weeks.
Bordeaux Mixture is fungcde and
not an insecticide. In order to kill the
Colorado Beetle common potato bug)
add three pounds of Arsenate of Lead
in the paste form, or one and one-half
pounds in the powder form, to the so
gallon solution of Bordeaux Mixture;
thus you will kill two birds with one
stone.
THE average increase in the potato
crop for p years is found at the Yer
mont Experiment Station to be sixty
five per cent, due to the use of Bordeaux
Mixture.
Copper Sulphate may be obtained at
any drug store in small quantities. If
several farmers having a comparatively
large crop of potatoes wish to CO.
operate in buying this material in large
amounts, thereby saving money, they
should inform the County Agent.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-07-02
THE GRASSHOPPER PEST.

Two Farmers clubs have already been
formed in Addison county for the pur-
pose of working in cooperation with the
county agent. One of the clubs is
located in Weybridge and the other in
Bristol. These clubs are now ready to
start organized, constructive work. In
organization there is power and only
when communities are organized can
community work begin.
At present there are two COM
munites in the county which are infested
with armies of grasshoppers, There is
way of Kidding the fields of this pest
but every farmer in the community
must do his part of the work. A little
ambition and perseverance may mean
the difference between crops and no
crops, but it must be community cam
paign if this pest is to be eXterminated.
The county agent is urging the farmers
in these communities to declare war on
the grasshoppers and he is willing to
aid in any way possible. ''Watchful
waiting" is the wrong policy in this
case. This is where organization counts.
Time is saved and efficiency Increased.
The county agent will be in his office
Tuesday instead of Monday of next
week
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-07-02
OBITUARY..
MRS. ELIZABETH b. SCOVEL.


Mrs. Elizabeth B. (Griswold) Scovel,
whose death occurred on Monday, June
q, at her home, was born in Cambridge,
VT, February &c, 1887, the daughter
of Benjamin and Martha (Austin) Girls
void She was the only girl of large
family to live to maturity. In 1867 she
married Henry Scovel, who died in
1914. The union was blessed with three
children, one son, Erwin A., who died
in 1885; two daughters, Mrs. G, H.
Blood and Miss Eta Scovel; and six
grandchildren. Mrs. Scovel had been
an invalid for years. This and the
weight of many years had weakened
her physically, yet her CHEEKY words
and pleasant smile ever revealed her
happy, contented spirit. She was
tenderly cared for by her daughters
through her long invalidism, and
through the last few days of her in
tense suffering everything that love
and skill could suggest was done, till
the brave spirit took its flight to that
home where pain and sadness cannot
enter, where sorrow and signing shall
flee away.
Mrs. Scovel was member Of the
Cornwall Congregational Church. Her
funeral was attended from her late
home on Wednesday, June %, Mr..
Rose officiating. The flowers were nu-
merous and beautiful and spoke of the
purity of the life just ended. The bear
ers were G. H. Blood, H. f. Thomas,
+. j. Whitney, and A. f. Forrest, all
relatives of the deceased. The inter-
ment was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery
beside her husband.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-07-02
MR.. BATTELL.

1T is no secret" says the Rutland
Herald in an article on the late Joseph
Battell of Middlebury, that many of
his neighbors, piquet at times because
of the erratic action of Mr. Battell,
were quick to account for his sayings
and doings by tapping their heads.
Such a reference to the man was an in
suit. His was a temperament which
ordinary individuals could not appre-
ciate. But the Herald is no ordinary
individual and does not have to tap its
head when dealing with any person or
thing in or near Middlebury College.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-07-02
VERMONT NEWS.

The Advance has a new editor in the
person Of Arthur Howard, founder of
the Morning Despatch of Salem, Mass,
and later Mayor of that city. The story
of his life in Salem reads like romance
including much of melodrama His
newspaper grew from a joke in the
community and unable to buy its owner
square meal to circulation of 10, 600.
while to it was added the Salem Even
ing Gazette and the Newburyport Item.
He announced himself candidate for
mayor and was elected head of a city of
10, eco people which he had only re-
Gently entered unknown and pennless.
For showing up leading politician he
was thrown into Jail on a charge of
criminal libel from which he was re-
leased on bail furnished by 500 of the
leading women of Salem and on trial he
was unanimously acquitted. His adj
ministration was remarkable for eff
ficiency and economy as well as for re-
forms accomplished. In the last State
campaign he was candidate for Lieut.. =
Governor of the Prohibition party
and received three times the largest
vote ever given that party. Mr.
Howard was member of the
staff of McCure's Magazine for
nearly two years, of the Boston Post
for one year, and has been frequent
contributor to leading New York and
Boston papers. He is the author OF
several books and has travelled extern
sively in this country and Europe.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-07-02
NOTABLES AT LYNDON.

There was brilliant array of speak
ers at the Commencement of Lyndon
Institute and the Vail School of Agri-
cul ture. Besides Mr.. Theodore N
Vail and Col. George Harvey, toast
master, there We're President John G..
Hibben of Princeton University, Presi-
dent Ernest F. Nichols of Dartmouth
College, President Howard Elliott of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad and President John H.
Finley of the New York University.