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Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-30

Mir. Editor: Hasn't December been about as l predicted? Any one come nearer? l don't hardly think so, and when l predicted Sept. 22 that the winter winds would mostly be from south swerving to southeast and south west, I didn't think it possible for those winds to be so decidedly pre- vsiling winds" as has been the case. Since the equinoctial period in Sep tSmber there has been up to date S3 days of such winds, in December so far 21 days, with wind in southern points. But enough of that. Poor mans December" is behind us and we are about to enter upon one of the widest Januarys ever known. Mild weather the first few days. turning about the 5th to very cold. gales. snow turning to rain, heavy fogs, even thun- der and lightning may be looked for in January, 1916. Twill be a wild month in every sense of the word. The ter rible changes from very warm to se- were cold and as suddenly back again means much sickness unless great care Is taken; more colds, influenza and la grippe in January. 1916. than in any one month in 30 years. The storm periods of January are so running together that the whole month will be sloppy. muddy, windy, at times icy, but l don't see any great hopes of filling ice- houses. The storms from Jan. 12 to 16 are very likely to be heavy snow, bur if it is snow. rain and floods will immediately follow.
 To those kind readers who have time after time written me such nice letters, I say thank you. l would like to predict cold, steady weather for January. but see nothing but a wild, disagreeable, sickly month.
 Keep your feet warm, head cool and always have a convenient supply of quinine. catnip and pennyroyal on hand to break up a sudden cold. De- lays in January, 1916, you will find very, very dangerous.
 Planetary conditions are exactly the same (that is, as nearly exactly as possible) as in January. 1869. and the older readers of The Bulletin cannot
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Jump from Bed
 in Morning and
 Drink Hot Water
Tells why everyone should drink hot water each morning
 before breakfast.

Why is man and woman, half the time, feeling nervous, despondent worried; some days headachy. dull ana unstrung; some days really incapaci- tated by illness.
 If we all would practice inside-ba4b- ing, what a gratifying change would take place. Instead of thousands of half-sick, looking souls with. pasty, muddy complexions we should see crowds of happy. healthy, rosy checked people everywhere. The req son is that the human system does moi rid itself each day of all the waste which it accumulates under our pres- ent mode of living. For every ounce of food and drink taken into the system nearly an ounce of waste material and forms ptomainelike poisons which are absorbed into the blood
 Just as necessary as it is to clean the ashes from the furnace each day. before the fire will burn bright and hot, so we must each morning clear the inside organs of the previous days accumulation of indigestible waste and body toxins. Men and women, whether sick or well, are advised to drink each morning, before breakfast a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it. as a harm less means of washing out of the stomach. liver, kidneys and bowels the indigestible material waste, sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing, sweeten- ing and purifying the entire alimen- tary canal before putting more food into the stomach.
 Millions of people who had their turn at constipation, bilious attacks. acid stomach. nervous days and sleepless nights have become real Cranks about the morning inside-bath. A quarter pound of limestone phosphate will not cost much at the drug store but is sufficient to demonstrate to anyone, its cleansing, sweetening and freshen- ing effect upon the system.
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strangIehOId on Public School System

MT. Editor: One of the characteris- tics of the age is the belief that every evil car be cured by passing laws. An ether Is that the private individual has nc rights. and that everything must be sacrificed for what seems at the mo-
 ment to be the public welfare.
 We carry altruism so far as to
 make, or try to make, the present
 generation as uncomfortable as pOssi-
 ble, and certainly seem to succeed, as
 the following recent clipping from the
 New York Sun will show:
 The statute that authorizes the de-
 pGrtment of health to apply a literacy
 test to young boys desiring to seek em-
 LlCyment after they have been declared proficient by the board of education is
 unreasonable and absurd. according to an opinion rendered by Justice Collins in the children's court yesterday He severely criticised the law after hear iI4g the truancy proceedings brought against John L. Hawkins, Is years old, of 3OI West liSth street.
 The boy passed his school eXamina- ton last June and took his certificate tu the department of health for the
 final test before being granted the ] permission to go to work He was required to write several sentences. A | few of the words were misSpelled and ! the certificate was denied.
 Justice Collins said he thought the | educational qualifications should be | left to the discretion of the board of ! education and that the department of
 health should merely decide whether | the applicant is free from contagious | diseases before the papers are granted
 He reserved decision and paroled young | Hawkins until Jan. 1S.'
 | It seems from the above that in our | sister state of New York the medico political grafter maintains a strangle- ' hold on the public school system the | same as in Connecticut A few court . -H d Wgah7
 to force them to relax their grip and | bring about divorce between the ! educational and health departments in | many states.
 The recent victory of pr. c. Frank | Lydston in forcing the American Med l ical association to reorganize and | conduct their business legally will do l much toward restoring to the people
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Who Furnished the Supplies, the Town
 or the Schools.

Mir. Editor: In your issue of Dec
 2Sth your correspondent, MT. Board
 man, complains of my falsely accus-
 ing'' him of asserting that our schools
 are an institution of the state" where
 what he said was that our schools
 are an institution receiving aid from
 the state. After calling attention to
 this awful wrong of mine, he goes on
 himself to quote me as saying "A town
 is not an institution" using the quota
 ton marks. What 1 said, as any one
 can verify. was A town is not an in
 stitutiOn, as the words are used in our statutes but like a county, city or school district, Is a territorial division of the State:" an assertion altogether different from what he represents and one which pleasantly does not refute. i It is manifestly true and important in the discussion. What is that saying about pulling a mote out of a brother s eye when there is a beam in thine own eye2
 His argument is based on his state ment that the schools are an institu- ton receiving aid from the state and l so he reasons if a member of the school board has furnished supplies for the use of "Our schools" he has fur nished them to an institution, within the meaning of the law. And yet the definition of an institution, quoted by | him from the Standard Dictionary, Is | "a corporate body or establishment ! -AAs NAlI SAALN OA . eAAA-ASh AOA pubAAS use" The Standard defines an insti- | tuition as one body; MT. Boardman | thinks it may be more than one, for l 1 assume that the word schools" is in 1 the plural number.
 MT. Boardman says that I seek to | muddle the issue. Some one is mud ! dled surely, but it better be left to the | reader to say who that is. Let us not | forget the wording of the law, section | 1868: Every person who, being a I H. | receiving aid from the state, shall 1 furnish supplies or be interested in | any contract for furnishing supplies | to such institution, unless he be the 1 lowest bidder for such supplies. or for | such contract after open competition | shall be fined $50"
 l Here are three propositions which l do not muddle the issue, either one ot
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which is fatal to his contentious, and neither one of which he can refute:
 First, as to the institution. The statute refers to one institution, not to several, as "our schools" surely are. The criminal must be d trustee or of dcer and furnish supplies to such in sutut!on." The word is not used in the indefinite or abstract sense as when we speak of our laws or our homes as institutions, for this is a criminal statute, and refers to definite organizations. No careful reader of that statute will understand that it means by the word institution the schools collectively
 In the second place, the criminal must be an officer of such institu- tion." Now. a public officer does not serve two masters. If a school com mltteemau is a town officer MT. Boardman is challenged to point out from the statutes what other office he holds. There is no such office as com mittee of the schools" or of any school. and I guess if it isn't in the statute. it isn't so.
 But if a school committeeman is an officer of the town, as I have main- tained, that ends the matter. for Mir Boardman himself says, and there Is no misquotation this time: If we were as wise and careful about town funds we would have such a law en- acted regarding town officials" from which it seems to follow by his own admission that town officials are not now under this law, unless indeed MT Bnardman Is trying to muddle the isSue'
 And in the third place, who pays for the supplies? Are these bills paid by our schools" the institution oi which, as MT. Boardman contends, the committeeman is an officer and to which. as MT. Boardman maintains he has furnished the supplies? l had not learned of that fact. But if the town pays for the supplies. either the butcher, the baker or the candIesticl maker will tell us whether the SUD- plies were furnished to "Our schools or to the town. They do not send theil bills to the man who did not buy the goods. The law as above recited re- fers to the contract for supplies. Who | Is the contractor if not the one who l pays the bills? If the town pays tho | bills, I venture that though the sup. plies have been furnished for the use ot the schools. they have been fur | nished to the town.
 COUNTRY BOY. Norwich Dec % 1QI6
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INDICATES AUsTRrA's POLICY.


 With the increased attention which is being attracted by the submarine activity in the 1M edtterranean, there is some uncertainty as to just which one Of the central powers is respon- sible for it, though it is generally at tributed to Austria. There is no off, cial report as yet to show for cer- tain that it was a subuersibIe of the dual monarchy which fired the torpedo into the Japanese liner without warn ing, but the French ministry of ma rine makes official announcement that 1t was an Austrian pIunger which was responsible for the sending to the bottom of the steamer Vile de la Cio- tat as the result of which eighty lives were lost, and in that case, as with the Yasaka, no attention was paid to the international requirement that warning should be given and no eff fort was made to insure the safety of the non -cOmbatants aboard
 This apparently denotes the policy Of Austria, if it is ultimately found that Austria is responsible for it, in its submarine warfare, and by not af- fordlng any protection to the defense less passengers il repeats the mur- deroI!s act that was committed in the case of the Ancona, over which this country launched such a firm protest 10 the Austrian government, and does 1t before there has been any adjust ment of the demands of this country Such gives pretty conclusive evidence of what it intends to do in the future that it does not propose to be guided by international law or the rights ot humanity, and inasmuch as it has han. pened since the Ancona case it is DOS. sible to gather therefrom the nature of the reply which can be expected from Baron Burian.
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ENCOURAGE NITRATE INDUSTRY.

When Brfgadier General Crozier, chief of ordnance of the army, urges in his annual report that the govern ment make provision for securing such supplies of nitrogen as it needs in the manufacture of ammunition and high explosives from the air, there can be little question but what he points out a. matter of vital con- cern to this nation.
 Except for a few private plants, the largest of which is that which has just been developed in the south by the Dukes. dependence is placed upon the ChiIian nitrate beds for the nitro gen used in the manufacture of pow der and other explosives. That such a source of supply could be cut off in case of trouble with a foreign pow CT has been plainly shown in the case of Germany which through the activ- ity of the British navy was deprived of its nitrate importations and was forced to resort to the manufacture of nitric acid by electrical processes.
 Such is what General Crozier would have this country do and thereby take advantage of the extensive natural resources it possesses in the way of waterpower which is now going to waste To develop the valuable water privileges and falls about the country for the establishment of hydro cleo tric plants. or to lend such encoura ge- ment to private capital that it would be done would overcome the depen- dence which is now placed upon Chili and it would at the same time mean q utilization of a cheap power to which no attention is now paid. There are countless opportunities almost throughout the different sections of the country where some use should be made of this natural advantage which would operate to the benefit of users of commercial fertilizers as well as the nation
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UNDER HIS CAREFUL EYE

put them in my suitcase. You know. dear, that trunks do get lost once in while, but a mans suitcase is all ways right under his eye. When you come to think of it, these pictures are priceless. We could never replace them. I suppose it's perfectly natural that we should value them more high ly than would people who travel oft ener than we do."
 The day the Randalls arrived home, and the children were gloating over all the presents and souvenirs their parents had brought them, Mrs. Ran dall said: The incest of all are the pictures of our whole trip. You'n see mountains. in the fair, catching tuna fish at Santa Catalina! Why. my darlings, there isn't thing that we've done, scarcely. that we haven't made a picture of it for you"
 The next morning at breakfast Ran dall looked so tired and depressed that his wife watched him anXiously,. She feared that his long rest had not been of much benefit after all.
 'Is there anything wrong, Ned?" she asked.
 ''Yes, there is, and darn it, Lora, I hate to tell you. But you might as well know it first as last, though, l suppose. l have lost those films. They're not in my suitcase"
 Don't be so tragic, Ned. They're in mine"
 Tn yours2"
 Yes, they are! That last day on the train you took your suitcase in to the smoking compartment to show those gentlement your irrigation plans, and you must have lifted out the package of films and forgotten them. Anyway, the porter brought them to me later. while you were out on the observation platform. and I put them with my things, for they really are priceless. you know, and we never could replace them and a woman's s suitcase Is always right under her.
 Say no more! l know who the joke is on all right. Is there anything you particularly wish for Christmas? % Chicago News.
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commissioner declares that many broken homes owe their misfortunes to the methods of the money lenders.
 Learning that their activities were increasing on a large scale in the fire department of that city 1t is to the credit of the commissioner that he has set about the task of overcoming the evil and establishing in its place a substitute which promises such needed relief, and in view of the fact that it is worthy of adoption in the fire department of the metropolis it would appear that it would be ad- visable for the other departments of that city to give serious consideration to the establishment of similar funds.
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cArARRH CANNOT BE CURED

with local applications. as they cannot reach the seat of the disease CEtar-h IS blood or constitutional disease. and in order 70 cure it you must take internal remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces Halls Catarrh Cure ls not q quack medicine It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years and is a regular prescription. IL Is composed of the best JOn-CS known, combined with the best blood purifiers. acting directly on the mucous sur faces. The perfect combination Of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials. free.
 r. J. CHENEY & co. Props. Toledo. O.
 Sold by druggists, price IJc-
 Take Halls Family Pills for consti- rl-ilr-
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REMOVING THE INDIAN TROOPS.

REMOVING THE INDIAN TROOPS.
 Afterahaving fought valiantly in the campaign which has been waged by the allies in France, Great Britain has transferred it's Indian troops to an other field Of operations, and King George took occasion to congratulate them upon the gallantry of their ser vice and their patriotic sacrifices.
 The significance of this Change is twofold. It is plainly evident that in asmuch as it has been considered ad- visable to send this force, which was brought a long distance at the open ing of the war to hold back the Ger man drive for Paris, to another local ity, Great Britain is now prepared to have their places taken by other train- ed soldiers. The transfer does not mean that the western front is going to be weakened by their departure. but that others are ready to take their places and that they are considered more valuable for operations in an- other theater of the war.
 Secondly, it is open to inference al least, Great Britain in all probability intends to use this seasoned army which has seen such hard service ir Egypt or MesopOtamia, for 1t is evi- oSht LIldL me eHpedltIOn2ry force un- der Gen. Townshend at Kut-eI-Amars Is struggling against overwhelming odds, and in view of the runored at tack on the Suez canal, which is either already well organized or else is g fairy tale, the need of reinforcements in that region is apparent.
 The change therefore is pretty good evidence that the allies view with con- fidence their position in France an6 that they are making preparations against the situation that is developine at the other end of the Mediterranean
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help remembering the great suffering. with influenza, epizOotic and kindred diseases. that year. l distinctly re- member my grandfather raising his head from the pillow when he and the entire family were suffering from in fluenza and saying to me:
 Boy, when you grow older, if any one asks you what year Grant was inaugurated. just tell him the year of the great sneeze."
 THE CLOUD DIGGER. Packer Conn, Dec. %, 1915.
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tLeir medical rights. and 1t is up to the citizen to do his part
 The activities of the League for Medical Freedom, with m6re than 2CG,0O0 members. as we'll as the gen. eTdl awakening all over the country, show that a change is coming. The recent great victory of the hOmeODaths in Iowa Is prophetic of what is to come.
 Though the mills of the gods grind slCwly. they grind exceedingly small. Attend the town meeting tonight at o'clock sharp.
 A. ". DAVIS Norwich. Dec 2e. 1915.
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ANNOUNCEMENT

The office of Miss Farnham, hair and scalp specialist, in Room BOA, Thayer Building, is now open, Miss Farnham having returned this week after a long and severe illness.
 HARPER METHOD
 Telephone 578 Also Manicurina
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HeIu Your Iiver-It Pays.

When your liver gets torpid and your stomach acts queer. .ake Dr. Kings New Life Pills and you will find yourself feeling better. They pur- ify the blood. give you freedom from constipation, biliousness. dizziness and indigestion. You feel fine-just like you want to feel Clear the complexion too. 25c at druggists.
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For the sake of the great stage artist it is to be hoped that the stories about Sarah Bernhardt are no more than the tales of an enthusiastic press agent in anticipation of an American tour.
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The kaiser is declared to be serious ly i'll, but 1t is to be remembered that the crown prince has been sent to "the great beyond" on several oc- casions.
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No one can blame Down East" for not wanting to shoulder the responsi- b1lit1es for gales which originate in Texas. It is bad enough bearing ones own burdens
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Henry Ford is to be commended for the fact that he left money enough with his peace party to get them home after they get tired seeing the sights.
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Even though the Christmas mail was heavy, the postman knows what he can expect when it comes to distribut- ing the first of the year bills.
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With the sinking of two merchant men without warning the submarine question in the Mediterranean goes from bad to worse.
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By ARTHUR BROOKS BAKER

NONNECTICUT is full of banks inspire extreme in the second largest in the state said the subject of these stanza the headhe Norwich which ample scads of yellow brag bluff.
 of Arthur Brewer other things, coins busy accomplished which many Nor wch industries which ample capital to help them play the game politics he shows the aest kind of the reader might date by him proposed the voters won't reject but with exception delighted
 
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 WFIEN but fellows sparks
  check sxty-horsepower
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It is reported that Huerta is sick and from the stories being told about him it wouldn't be surprising if Villa was and thoroughly disgusted also.
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The hens which are participating in a contest to see which can lay the tewest eggs are not making any con- tTIbutions to a lowered cost of living,
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Dr. Cook finds that 1t is a much more difficult task to explore Europe during the war than it was to get into the gumdrop regions of the frozen north.
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If Austria is as undecided about it's answer to the American note as ru- nor has it, there is little surprise that it is going outside for advice.
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The seasons greetings are not likely to be passed around very 1iberaIly among the nations of Europe.
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The War a Year Ago Today
Dec. 30, 1914.

Germans retreated across the Bzura river.
 Russians advanced in South Po- land.
 French submarine torpedoed and damaged Austrian dreadnausht Viribus Unitis.
 German airnen dropped bombs in Dunkirk, killing fifteen persons.
 French aviators made raids in Flanders.
 Antiwar riots took place in Aus tria Hungary.
 Austria abandoned the Serbian campaign.
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From all indications most of the preparations for leap year campaigns are being made in silence.
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Villa is declared to be a fugitive. but that is the least objectionable of many things that have been said of him.
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The man on the corner says: A day off Is the worst thing that can hap pen to some men.
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There are 22.e6O union carpenters in Pennsylvania
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Lucky Is the individual who is able to escape the grip of the grip.
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Norwich. Thursday, Dec. 30, 1915.
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All Kinds of Weather Due.

Norwich, Dec. 29. 1915.