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Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-14

Governor Holcomb and General Cole are back from the border. General stuff,'' about how the boys are en- toying life, how healthy and contented they are, but the blunt old Governor blurts out the truth that they want to come home and are waiting till cleo tion day to relieve heir fealings.- Waterbury American
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The Russians are reported to have sunk two U-boats in the Arctic but they will have to do better than that if they expect to pick off an undeqwa- ter boat for every merchantmen that is sunk.
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Now that the kaiser has visited the eastern front and conferred new hon. ors upon two commanders, it may be that he will think it necessary to sail out to Nantucket and decorate the commander of the U-53.
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It is all right to say that what goes up must come down, but there is not much satisfaction in preaching that to the ultimate consumer with prices still going shyward.
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7HHE PASNlN co.

ditions in the coming year. It is a fine thing to feed students at cost, but per haps the ratio between income and outgo can be figured a little closer for the coming year.-Hartford Times.
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Be little chary of what you like to do. This doesn't seem to be the way of peril but 1t is if you do it too much. What we think we like to do is the straight way to many a bad habit; and what seems to be a pleas ure gets to be 8 necessity. Perhaps you have not thought our habits have much more 10 do with what we be- come than our convictions. It has been truly said: Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of mas ters." Every habit Is good that serves us well, none is good which serves us otherwise. What we like to do leads to all sorts of intemperance. We may like to work, but do not work too much on your peril; we may like to loaf, but we do not like the degen- eration sure to result from it; we may like to play, to talk, to sing, to dance, but we must beware of excessAs in either of these directions. Too much water, too much beer, too much drink of any kind is not good for us; neither is too much food, however palatable and sustaining it may be. Used with out discretion any good thing may become destructive
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condition. however, the American government can scarcely, protest, any more than it could have protected against a legitimate blockade of Germany which would have closed German ports to American trade. The American care will be to preserve American neutrality and to make cer- tain that the former German policy of wanton destruction of life is not re- established.-New Haven Union.
 Let the president sound the praises of Virginia and the south and the mid- dle west, which was so eXtensively ade- veloped by New Englanders, and even of Mexico, whose seats Of learning were f1ourishing even before. New Eng lands universities, and New England will not complain and will even re- gross controlled by the southern states deliberately steps in and with the as- sistance and approval of the president insists on readjusting the tariff con- ditionS to force foreign competition against New England industries and to prevent it from reaching southern industries, New England is prompt to sense her position Patiently for two years it awaited its turn to speak, through a p1iod of hard times tenn pered only by the slight benefits de- rived from early war orders. It spoke two years ago when it sent some new congressman and some old ones to Washington. It will speak again next month when 1t will make known it's choice for president, and its decision will not be so favorable as the Wilson papers believe. Baldwin and Olney and Eliot are grand old men, but they are not dependent upon the prosperity of New England for their bread and but ter; hence their indifference to Will sons anti-New England policies Waterbury Republican.
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Why don't some of the states prom ,inent democrats tell Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall and Secretary Newton D. Baker to save their voices and steer clear of Connecticut ?-New Britain Record.
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WHEN NORWICH AIDED BOSTON

then adjourned to the court house and resolved to dispatch an express to Providence. David Nevins volunteered for this service, as he had Frequently amid great excitement he left at 8 P. M.
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With the worlds series out of the way, football has a clear field until snow flies.
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These gloomy forecasters who arc always prophesying harsh seasons are wrong nine times out of ten. From what we know of them we will take the opposite view of every prog nostication they make. The only hope for these prophets of evil is to have Horace Johnson declare that the win ter will be mild. If he says that it will undoubtedly be severe, for Uncle Hor- ace just naturally has to guess wrong. l-Meriden Journal.
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Is there any wonder that the price of milk Is going up when New York cow changes hands for the sum of $6,000?
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While it is reported that Greece has a colorless cabinet, the real concern is whether or not it is spineless.
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The king of Wurtemberg has wished the kaiser a speedy and honorable peace. Who'll second the motion?
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It will only be a few days now be- fore the baseball umpires can return to the classification of human beings.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The man on the corner says: Con science is not cat, to be put out at bedtime.
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YOU'RE BILIOUS! CL-EANLIVER AND BOWELS TONIGHT DON'T STAY HEADACHY, SICK, OR HAVE BAD BREATH AND
 SOUR STOMCH. WAKE UP FEELING FINE! BEST LAXATIVE FOR MEN, WOMEN
 AND CHILDREN.

Enjoy life! Remove the liver and bowel poison which is keeping your head dizzy, your tongue coated, breath offensive, and stomach sour. Don't ed and full of cold. Why don't you get a box of Cascarets from the drug store and eat one or two tonight and enjoy the incest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced. You will wake up feeling fit and fine Cascarets never gripe .or sicken like salts, pills and calomel. They act so gently that you hardly realize you have taken a cathar+tic. Mothers should give cross, sick, bilious or few erish children a whole Cascaret any time they act thoroughly and are harm- less,
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Samples Free by Post

July ever since then. The stand then taken and the ideals then held are what true Americans stand for today, notwithstanding these ideals were Anglo Saxon and formed no inconsid-
 erabIe part of that whole. President Wilson's allusion to one of those i1- lustriOus Americans-John Barry-was
 not a stab in the back, but a solar pleXus blow on the hyphen which MT. Cummings seems to feel. All Irish men are not of one strain-thank God and President Wilson may have as much, and as good. Irish blood in him as MT. Cummings has. and he knows the weak point in the hyphen and where to hit it. Witness his note of late to MT. OLeary.
 It takes a whole man to be a. True American, no matter where born, and when such a man renounces his ale glance to that place and to the poten- tate of it. under oath, he does so without reservation, mental or other, and he is not seen afterwards go- flag, unless he means hostility to his adopted country. Any less loyalty than this is unworthy citizen of the U. s. AMERICA. Norwich, Oct. 13. 1916.
 Housewives Aroused Over Poor Gas. MT. Editor: Only a few days ago our city narrowly escaped a rot. A large company of housewives were
 gathered together on a matter of mu- tual interest when the subject of gas was mentioned. The cry (to ar1ns) was sounded and only the fear of mo- toriety prevented them from calling upon our superintendent of gas and giving him such a going over that he would have thought that woman suf-
 frage had been inaugurated. A short time ago he reported larger profits from the works; it was not profit these women wanted, but gas. Today the force of gas is so limited that unless the lights in the tops of their ranges are on full head they go
 out entirely. and when it used to re- quire wiEh good gas only one set of lights in the oven to bake a, Johnny cake, it now requires two and both on full head. Even then double the time is necessary to make said cakes. The city owns the plant and de- mands good gas and plenty of it. If the gas commissioners do not at once see that we get it, the mayor and common council better increase their sa1 1ary, their number or appoint a new set The commissioners are advertis- ing and asking residents to cook with gas, let them see that the people tax payers get some returns for their gas bills.
 J. D. HAVILAND. Norwich Oct. 13. 1916.
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If the submarine activity near our shores is continued it cannot fail to have a bad effect on American com merce. The trade between the United States and the entente nations may be curtailed. Certainly the expense of transportation will advance as the danger becomes greater and the in surance rates increase. Against this
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It is said that an admiralty order will almost certainly be issued for the defensive arming of every ship flying the British flag, each ship to mount as heavy guns as their construction per- mits. Such an order, if issued, would raise two rather important questions. First, will not their status as mer- chantmen, free to enter and leave neutral ports, be compromised by be- coming armed vessels, and, secondly, considering that the chances are against the submarine in dealing with an armed merchantmen, except the former gives up all idea of even at tempting to provide for the safety of human life aboard the vessel attacked. Stamford Advocate.
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Sunday Morning Talk
VISIONS.

The difference between a statesman and a politician is largely a difference in power of vision. The politician has his eye on the next election and cul- tivates the friendship of the ward heelers. The statesman sees into the future and guides his course by the stars"
 A politician, in 1874, gave it as his opinion that all the land in North America worthy of settlement was the strip lying 50 miles deep along the Atlantic seaboard. His countrymen, he dec.2red. were guilty of insane folly in spending a cent for opening up territory westward of this strip a region that must forever be abandon ed to wolves and red men.
 But Henry Clay, standing on the summit of Q peak among the Ale ghanies heard the tramp of coming millions who were to fill all the val leys of the Ohio and the Mississippi One man could see merely the present and the local and the other had an outlook on tomorrow
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Over the door of library in Thebes the ancients mad inscribed: Medicine for the soul.' It was rec ognized more than three thousand years ago that knowledge is not only power, but the salvation of man. It is lack of knowledge which leads man into every kind of error. Man easily fools himself with a conceit that he is original. Mental science and diet ing for health are far from being new. Ben Franklin declared: "The best of all medicines are rest and fasting" /" but he did not claim the thought was original with him. Was 1t not Hosea who declared as coming from the Lord my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.". It is important to know when we are going too fast, or lay ing our course in the wrong direction. The gatherers of wisdom in all ages have preserved in books the fruits of their experience. Library books not only tell us how others have lived, but why others have failed-bool<s contain the chart of life-and knowledge tof them leads us away from the whirl pools and the shoals which have wrecked others.
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"The flower of neekness may grow on the stem of grace;" but there is hard hitting on the way to salvation. It is necessary to know in this world when to be meek and when to be mas terly. There is nothing oftener mis- interpreted than neekness. Weakness as popularly defined is just the opposite or preparedness-it is surrender. In our relation to the Divine we should
 be meek, but not in our relations to injustice Mcel1ness has to take a back seat before meanness. Weakness on the part of those who are menaced is to become willing victims of the aggressive. Weakness is not a virtue in the face of trial, but a mistake a kin to crime. When a conceit of this kind possesses a mans soul he has ceased to play a mans part, he has become q cipher in the face of vio- fence. There is nothing in meekness to conflict with self-preservation or self-defense or the masterly main
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This false alarm had for it's founda- ton a real aggressive act. General Gage had landed body of troops and removed the military stores from Charlestown, together with yS~o field pieces from Cambridge, to Castle Will jam. This exvited a tumult in Boston, the news of which, distorted and in tens1t1ed by rumor, was defive-ota yer bally by nasty messenger to Col. Putnam, at Pomfret
 Putnam condensed the intelligence in dispatch to Capt. Cleveland. at Canterbury, who sent it on by express to Major John Durl1ee, in Norwich. The latter forwarded it to New Lon don, whence it was transmitted to Lyme, Saybrook and East Haddam, the same alarming dispatch passing on with it's various endorsements and arousing the country to arms.
 We have to smile. today, at the primitive and unsatisfactory methods of spreading an alarm, considering modern facilities and equipment. Now adays, a telephone message from one commander to another would carry accurate facts, or the telegraph or even a wireless message would ob- viate any undue excitement and pre- vent the long. tedious and unnecessary marches of the patriots who so hastily seized their arms to hurry in defence of the chief city of Massachusetts Bay Colony
 At a pinch, even we might be able today to commander a Gallaudet bi- plane to speed over hill and dale with the news; or messenger might take an early morning train and carry Q message to or from Boston.
 There is a sort of pathos in the story of the loyalty yet almost helplessness of those sturdy men of Norwich and vicinity, when the word came to up and to arm. It is almost as it would be now, if one were to start on a jour ney drawn by the slow-going but de- pendable oxen of prairie schooner days.
 But the pleasing feature of it all is the unity which then existed between Norwich and all the surrounding places. This was then. as 1t Is now, the centre from which radiated news and help and sympathy; the big town to which the lesser places turned as to a small metropolis. sure of receiv- ing aid and active support in what ever emergency might arise.
 False though this particular alarm proved, nevertheless it had the good eastern portion of the Connecticut Colony to practical preparedness.
 That same September, on the 9th, a convention of delegates from this county and Windham met at Norwich, to consult upon measures for the com mon welfare.
 The result of their proceedings was an earnest recommendation that the towns should supply themselves with a full stock of ammunition and mtIi- tary stores, that all officers and soldiers should be well armed and equipped, that men should be collected and drilled and that skill in the art of war should be cultivated.
 At this meeting, the Hon. Gurdon Saltonstall was chairman and Col. William Williams of Lebanon, prob ably the same who afterwards was a signer of the Declaration of Independ- ence, acted as clerk
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(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 In the early years of this town, Nor Wlch was regarded somewhat as a suburb of Boston, and history relates a number of instances which show the close relationship between the two cities.
 About 1774, when the Hub was suf- fering from privattons resultant from quaTtering the invaders troops, and there was great need among the poor Of the town, Norwich sent a noble donation of 291 sheep. and afterwards a second installment of cash, wheat corn and a flock of 100 sheep.
 This liberaIity was greatly applauded in the public prints. Samuel Adams, in a letter to the Committee, referring to this generosity, wrote:
 The part which the town of Nor wich takes in this struggle for Ameri- can liberty is truly noble."
 Local sympathy for the Bostonians was yet further displayed by the spirit manifested in September of the same year, on the reception of piece of startling intelligence which, happily, proved to be false-of a rupture be- tween the inhabitants of Boston and the royalist troops.
 It was Saturday, September 3rd, at 4 p. M. that an express arrived from Col. Israel Putnam, at Pomfret, that Boston had been attacked the right before and six of the citizens killed.
 This proved to be but a runor but it was believed in Norwich causing the greatest consternation. The citt- zens assembled around Liberty Tree,
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 region that must forever be abandon ed to wolves and red men.
 But Henry Clay, standing on the summit of a peak among the Ale ghanies heard the tramp of coming millions who were to fill all the val leys of the Ohio and the Mississippi. One man could see merely the present and the local and the other had an outlook on tomorrow.
 Anyone who is 10 live with purpose and power must have vision. He smoke of his own door yard. He must he conscious Of reaching out toward an ideal in it that work becomes sor- did and dull, a mere, meaningless scramble for a living. Without a vision the body may live, but the soul surveying modern industry are we re- minded of the Scripture words Where there is no vision, the people perish"
 There is q, fierce chase for material possessions today, but not always a of them when they are acquired. Mans life, we think, does consist, aft CT all, in the mere abundance of the things that he possesses. Thus we live and die in the treadmill.
 Gerald Stanley Lee has drawn a y that is worth pondering. T see the ships on a dozen sides of the world l see them fighting with the sea-" And what do you see on the ships ?'' Figures of men and women, thous- ands of figures of men and women. They are walking fiercely up and down the decks before the sea, because they cannot stand still and look at it, Others are reading in chairs, because they cannot sit still and look at it. And there are some with roofs of boards above their heads to pr6tect you see on the trains?" Miles of faces. They are pushing on the train.'' And what do you see on the streets Of the cities?" Men and women, hurrying." Where ?" God knows
 It is a great thing to know where heartening to have some clearly de- fined idea of what one is working for. A. vision suplies the need and puts purpose and vigor into our daily eff forts. It allows us to sing, reversing the sentiment of a well-l5nown ditty, T do know where I'm going, and I'm on the way"
 vision is far from being merely idle day dreaming. It is a goal that one sets before his mind and which he strives each day to come nearer unto. For CneSelr It Is picture of perfection in character and attain n1ent. For the world, it is that "one far off, divine event toward which the whole creation moves"
 Visions are within the reach of everyone who will open the eyes of his spirit to behold them. Tn the lan- guage of an American editor, Walter A. Dyer: If you are a poet or a preacher, duke or a doctor, or just a plain, every day family man or house wife, you have opportunity enough to glorify the days work by adding unto it vision. Then you will try to do good, instead of merely maintaining a pastorate; you will deliver a message of the world instead of merely acquir- ing poetic laureIs: you will save lives
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tenance of right. The cloak of reli- zion does not fit nambypambyism.
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Judge of Probate, NELSON J. AILING
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Norwich, Oct. 13. 1916.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-17
There Came Mighty Tug Upon the
Cable.

crews of whom even Satan himself
is afraid. We are to sail to the won
derful land of Mexico and fill our
holds with it's treasures. But there
will be storms to overcome, dying COM
rades to minister to and proper
prayers for our success to be said,
therefore we cannot sail without a
priest. Be one of us as our holy adj
visor and your share shall be next to
mine." The priest smiled up at him.
eyes, you will need a priest, and
therefore I will go. But it is not the
gold of these heathens that Wish, but
merely their souls. May / claim them
as my share?' Montbar laughed
loudly.
GAS many as you can get. But how
do you plan to snare such cunning
things?"
Listen and will tell. Upon some
mountain top from whence it may be
seen from affair your men must build
me a great mission. In front of this
mission I will place great magic
lure, so that all seeing it shall be
drawn closer. And once have them
before it shall talk to them OF the
true faith until one by one they snail
embrace it that Christ may receive
them. Thus in my keeping Will be
their souls. Am l not crafty, also:,
Montbar slapped his thigh.
"Wondrous SO, Father, and it IS a
good bargain for both of us-the souls
for you and the gold for me. But what
is to be the magic lure?"
''That, my son, you shall know III
good time. You say you sail IN
fortnight. Upon the morning OF your
departure you must send me 40 OF
your men to convey it to the SHIP
You promise that?"
GAS many as you WISH" Montbar
agreed.
And when the day of sailing came
and 20 straining men hauled aboard
one of the ships a great cross made OF
iron, Montbar walked about it IN much
awe. "By all the saints, Father" ne
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-17
Health of First Importance.

Exuberant health is better than
riches and power to a man. indeed it
often leads to their attainment. In
fact nothing is of greater Importance,
and there are few things regarding
which we know less practically speak
Ing. Quackery, usage and superstition
have made us suspicious Of health
talks and health-giving nostrums. Such
vagueness surrounds the whole subject
that you will hardly find two persons
to agree upon the general rules gov
srning physical health.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-17
Her Idea About Golf,

Many anecdotes are told of some of
the curious ideas held about golf by
people to whom it was new and
strange game before it's modern pop
ularity had set in. One woman who
had evidently had near view of the
game said: ut is played by two men.
One is gentleman and the other Is
a common man. The common man
sticks a ball on a lump of dirt, and
the gentleman knocks it off,"
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-17
Claims to Have Cure for Cancer.

1t is profoundly to be hoped that the
claims of DIR. Charles H. Walker that
cancer yields to treatment from sal
enixum prove true. Salenixum is pow
erful chemical, taken internally, and
in capsules, is said to have relieved
suffering in many cases and in others
has effected an apparent cure. Cancer
has claimed it's victims by the thou
sands annually and advancing science
has hitherto been unable to find rem
edy to check it's ravages.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-17
Slightly Mixed.

There is good anecdote of an Irish
MAN giving the password at the battle
of FOntenoy, at the time the great SAKE
was marshal. "The password is SAKE ;
now, don't forget it," said the colonel.
Sake; faith, won't. Wasn't my IA
Their miller?" "Who goes there?" cried
the sentry, after he had arrived at the
pass. The Irishman looked as conf
dental as possible and whispered in q
sort of howl: Bags, yer honor"