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Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25
Sunday Morning Talk
BE PREPARED.

Some time ago few of us, while
passing along a country road, were
confronted by a sign painted in heroic
letters on q cliff Prepare to meet
thy God" was the warning of some
graphic preacher who had placed his
text where even the most ungodly of
autoists could not evade 1t. The legend
was logically displayed near a sharp
turn in the road where reckless driv-
ing would be likely to invite disaster
With it's excellent counsel our chauf-
feur, although no bigot in religious
matters, confessed he could scarcely
quarrel. Even if it did make him
smile, it was also calculated to make
him slow down.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25
ALBERT BOAISDMAN.
March %. 1916.
Tho Reason for Buns and PanhandIers

Tho Reason for Buns and Panhsndlers.
NIr. Editor: 1 wish to make a re-
ply to Mr.. Chapman's letter OF March
23rd in regard to buns and panhand-
lers. 1t does seem bad tor OUT CITY,
the so-called Rose of New England TO
have these men in II, and We should
not be proud to have II thrown in our
face from some one on the outside.
1 thought My God What is the
matter? Why so many? Word came
back, over production. Yes that IS
It. We read of mills shutting down
on account of over production That
is just what we need in Norwich; We
have got an over production why
not shut down for a while?
There is another side to 1t. We have
a city Of churches and religious organ
izations and the saloons goinS night
and day, turning out this kind OF ma
terial. / preached on this subject q
few Sunday ago and at that time l
put a challenge to the ministers OF
Norwich to preach for five Sundays on
the saloon and its heIlish work. / said
they could rid Norwich of this deadly
curse. The saloon is here because the
church allows It 1 tell you IL God were
back of the churches of NORWICH, the
saloon would have to go.
l have had something to do with
these so-called buns for the last three
years, especially every Saturday night
/ How many times this saying OF Jesus
| comes to me that the drulkard and
harlot would get into the kingdom be-
fore some of the professors that go &c
/ make up the churches. We have Just
the kind of men Mr.. Chapman speaks
! of every Saturday night at our mis-
4 sion, 265 Main street We have Slver
them coffee and sandwiches and talked
| to them and told them the only way
| out of such a life. There is hardly I
man of them who has not a tender spo
in his heart behind that bunch OF rags
The most OF them would ike to dt
better, but what chance do they have
They have lost their name. no on
wants them. Your high-toned church
es would hold up their hands in horro
to see them come in. 1 have beel
found fault with and some have lef
the Mission on account Of these mer
But that is just why we opened tn
| Mission. Sometimes there are half
| dozen of them, sometimes eighteen o
twenty. Some never see again, som
I see every Saturday night
I will At this time give out an tnvi
, tation to the ministers OK Norwich {
come and be our guests any Saturda
night during cold weather. The
: might get a Sunday text and perhap
they would be able to call a stock
holders meeting to vote to shut dow
the mill on account OF over production
Yours for the lost,
T. H PEABODY
Pastor OF Gospel Mission
Norwich, March 26. 1916.
; The Country Church vs. The Cit
3 Church.
r Mr.. Editor: Last year a Quarteri
| coincidence of a Methodist church, n
presiding officer, the district superir
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25
TRAGEDIES OF THE SEA

CWritten Specially for The Bulletin)
There are few of the old Norwich
families who have not an interest IN
the names and fates of the seamen OF
early times.
This is evidenced in glancing over
the records Of disasters and tragedies
at the period when going down to the
sea in ships was one of the leading
lines of industry hereabouts.
Reference has been made already TO
the unhappy fate Of a number or Nor
wich-built craft In tribute to the
brave and hardy sailormen who risked
so much in their voyages on almost
unknown seas. 1t Is deemed meet to
continue this chronicle for time.
As long ago as August -, 1888, the
| brig Narcissa arrived at Norwich from
the coast of Africa, ZachaTdah Bill
having been her master. -Four days
| from the African coast, Capt. Bill died
and Capt. Mortimer took COMMAND
returning home by way of Demerara
and st. Eustatia-
During 1889, disasters appear to
have been exceptionally numerous.
The sloop Nancy, Capt. Elias Lord.
lost her whole deck-load of stock dur
ing gale. Capt. Hezekiah Perkins,
in the brig Neptune. bound to Aux
! Cages, lost the mainmast, and thirty
| six horses from his cargo. In the
same gale, the ship Josephus e. Hun
| lInSJOnt IOSI main anu IulZASn uleSI
and nearly fifty head of cattle.
In December, advices were received
that Capt. John Rowland, Of the
schooner Modesty, who had sailed the
last of July, had died at sea, as had
also his mate, Robert Wattles, Thomas
George, a seaman, and Joshua Pico, q
merchant of Norwich, who had gone
out with Capt. Rowland, for his health
During the same season, the entire
crew of the sloop Lively, of Norwich
with the exception of the master
Capt Mortimer, died on the African
coast, from the deadly malaria Il
which that region Is subject.
In January, 1890, the brig Friend
ship, John Pierce, bound to AUX Cages
was wrecked on the Isle des Vaches
and totally lost.
The sloop Negociator, Zebadial
Smith, sailed for Demerara, Dec.
1870, and in lat. 81 degrees, long. "A
was struck by a heavy sea, which
swept the captain, who stood at tn
helm, overheard. The accident oc
CURED at midnight, while a furiou
: gale was raging and nothing, of coust
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

From. the good results which are be-
ing obtained in recognizing the Serv-
ian army it can be appreciated that a
force Of 10000 can be ppt to valuable
use this spring.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

II Maine is again looked to as the
barometer, the significance Of the I'M
instructed delegation and the senti-
rnent for Hughes there cannot be over
looked.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

Even those who are charmed by the
offerings Of March realize, from the
warmth Of Old Sol on his occasional
appearance, that It cannot last much
longer
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

The man on the corner says So
long as we have them there need be
nothing alarming in the claim that it
takes all kinds Of people to make q
world.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

Henry Ford is to have Thomas Edi-
| son for his guest on a Florida fishing
| trip. but the chances are that he didn't
have to offer him a million dollars to
go.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

The general impression gained from
the contradictory stories from Mexico
is that you cannot believe everything
you hear.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25
Military preparedness is urged on u:

Military preparedness is urged on US
frequently enough these days, and to
some form of it at least, millions of
our countrymen have become commit
ted. Even if invasion by a foreign foe
be only a horrid specter for men of the
present generation, no one willingly
thinks of it as a possibility for his
children or his childrens children a
consideration which alone reconciles
some of us to thoroughly distasteful
preparations.
AS a matter of fact. there is a con-
tingency before all of us far more i'm
minent than any attack by foes from
across the sea. 1t is much to be
doubted whether any now on the stage
of active life will ever hear the roar of
hostile guns. God grant that none of
| our descendants may hear it, either!
It is, on the contrary, absolutely GER
/ tain that every one of US some of us
very soon, will meet that ultimate con-
queror of all mankind named death.
From a hopeless fight with 1.-The pale
horse and his rider there is no escape
for rich or poor, for high or low.
| Serious-minded men and women of
a former day spent much time in get
| ting ready to die. This endeavor ex-
| plains the HASTINGS, prayers, vigils
| ETC., with which thousands of the best
people who ever walked our earth
| strove to make their spirits meet fol-
the inheritance of the saints in light
1t was heaven rather than earth that
interested them. Their eyes were or
the future instead of on the present
In contemplation of what was to be IL
the blessed beyond they almost LOS
sight Of the urgent practical concern.
Of the here and now. Their main OBJ
properly to prepare to meet their God
What preparations do we modern!
, make for the corresponding expert
ence? How would you spend tomor
row, my reader, If you could know
that it's hours were to be your last OF
| earth? What would you do If in som
way it were divinely revealed to yo1
|, that at o'clock tomorrow evening yol
would be called to exchange worlds
: Think it over, John Henry, for f1v
consecutive minutes; it will do you n
harm. Is there a good deal that woul
call for change or not much in tn
; general program of your life? When
) similar question was put to certain
3 modern business man, immersed i
l useful activities, he replied: I shout
! spend tomorrow under those condi
. tons exactly as I have already plan
5 ned to spend It." 1t was a fine repl
3 and one revealing a life fitted to NEE
1 the supreme test.
For right-minded people this matte
s of dying is stripped of morbid fea-
i Anyone who is prepared to live is, b
q the same token, prepared to die. II
!. Is like an athlete who does not need
: train laboriously for some big even
|. but who is always eft" The morris
v athlete never breaks training. He
). ready when the call comes. IN;
: fragment OF time that happens to
= the last IN his earthly career he
not ashamed to present as a fair SAN
pie of the whole. The only way to g
I ready for the souls final adventure
& to be ready all the time.
- TEE PARSocy
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

Possibly the purpose of the presi-
dents visit to an occulist is for the
purpose Of getting better view of
the many problems before him.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

It is to be hoped that Explorer
Amundsen doesn't have any trouble
on his polar trip satisfying the, demand
among Doctor Cooks friends for gum
drops.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

While General Goetha1s Doesn't say
how long the Panama canal will re-
main open after the middle of April,
it can be realized that It will never
be closed IL he cau prevent Il.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

From the way In which merchant
vessels continue to be sunk there ap-
pears to be less respect for the un-
armed than there is for the armed.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

And still there are some who are
dissatisfied with the manner in which
the weatherman is overcoming the
dust nuisance,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

It begins to look as Il President
Yuan Of the Chinese republic is stand
ing on a constantly moving platform.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

could be done by the crew to save
their unfortunate commander. The
voyage was completed under Nathan
lei Barker.
While the period under eonsldera-
tion was not supposed to be in any
respect the Feminist Age. an incl
dent related by Miss Caulkins Will
surprise most readers; In September.
1892, Capt Isaac b. Durkee-possibly
he gave his name to the thoroughfare
now known as Durkee Lane-sailed
for Eustatia in the sloop Betsey, be-
longing TO Samuel Woodbridge. He
had shipped q portion of his crew at
New London; and his surprise may be
| imagined when, before reaching his
destination. IL was discovered that two
of the sailors from the Old Whaling
Town were females!
One of the most narrowing tragedies
! OF the sea, which caused mourning in
many Norwich families, occurred in
March, 1894, one hundred and twenty
| two years ago this month. The sloop
Harmony, Of Norwich, was met with
at sea, not far from st. Domingo
drifting about, half full of water, with
no one on board, her sails gone and
what rigging remained useless Ap-
parently her whole crew had persisted
just how will not be known until the
sea gives up its deadl
In March of the following year. the
brig Nancy, Capt. John Webb. with g
cargo of rum and sugar from Jamaica
after touching at New London on hel
return voyage, and taking on severa
passengers, sailed on the 18th for New
York. That same night she was cas-
away on Eaton's Island and vessel anC
cargo lost. Tho passengers ESCAPED
with difficulty; among them was Dr
Benjamin Butler, large owner in thu
vessel and cargo, and his sister, Mrs
Denison.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25
EDITORIAL NOTES

Isn't it about time that we got the
details about some new discovery be-
ing made in the West Indies?
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

The ship Speculation, J. S. Billings,
bound to the West Indies, met with
a gale eighteen days out, in which she
preached to, overset, and had all her
stock swept away. But cutting away
came manageable; but having lost her
voyage, she returned into port Nov.
18th.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

lt is queer that the man who talks
loudest usually thinks he has the best
Of the argument. He never seems to
realize that there is a big difference
between sound and sense, or that the
special purpose for which arguments
were designed was to make the worst
side of an issue look best. The truth
never needs an argument, but error
finds in it q refuge. 1t Is no more
natural for a man to argue then 1t is
for a dog to bark. Wild men do not
resort to logic, nor wild dogs to self
betraying sounds. Civilization and
domestication furnish new methods of
expression. There isn't a juryman
who cannot tell you the more argu-
ments he hears in a court case the less
he knows about it. The mastery sift-
ing of evidence is confusing to him.
He understands the statements of the
case in the jury-room better. The
average man doesn't know half as
much about arguing as the stations of
| Elberfield know about figuring. But
| when a fellow thinks it is his forte to
argue the point he has become a
mighty wearisome companion.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

In 1896, also, many heavy losses
were reported, both from hostile ele-
ments and foreign belligerents.
In March, Park Benjamin, in the
brig Nancy, lost forty-five mules ov-
erboard in a gale. Moses Benjamin,
in the schooner Beaver, lost two men
and nineteen horses. On his return
voyage, Capt. Benjamin, having a
cargo valued at $4,000, was carried
into Grenada, where he was obliged to
pay largely to get cleared, and during
the detention, lost his mate and all his
people by putrid fever.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

In the same year, the schooner
Chloe, Capt. ]. Lord. and the Crisis,
French; the Lucy. Capt. Gilbert, was
carried into Guadalupe, where YES
sci and cargo were condemned.
| The records of 1898 include: Jan.
| 18th. arrived Fair Lady, Capt. Moses
Benjamin, after a dreary passage of
| er Sachem, Jeremiah Harris, cleared
at the custom-house down the river in
| April, bound to the Mole, but before
reaching her port was stranded on the
North CAUCUS and went to pieces.
Two striking disasters, in which
not the unfortunate vessels, but those
Norwich, are recorded in history.
/ April s, 1885, the Norwich slooT
1 Prosperity, Capt. Park Benjamin, ar
rived at the mouth Of the Thame:
River. % days from Essequibo, bring
ing in the ship Polly, David Baldwin
The Polly was 90 days from Demerara
In March, during furious gale, sh'
lost rudder and sails, and was thrown
on her beam ends, which shifted he
cargo, and stove several hogshead o
rum. She was afterwards driven of
the coast no less than seven times, til
at last she was met and towed in b,
Capt. Benjamin.
In November, 1875, the Norwich shiI
Columbus, Capt. Lathrop, sailed 70
Charlestown. On the passage, she fel
, in with a schooner from Port Dau
phin, bound to Boston, with only on
: living man on board. The others, fiv
in number, had died Of fever a fey
) days after leaving port. Capt. Lath
: rop put two of his own men on boar
! and the vessel arrived safely at Ney
: London, where she discharged valu
THE DICTAGRAPH.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

Very young people get notion that
they have a right to say Just what
they think and no one TROUBLES -hiza.-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

We are not careful how we live; but
the result of careless living is some
thing we do not like to have our at
.tention called to. Many of US go tum-
bling through life as though no re-
sponsibility attached to our conduct,
and without even noting the effect it
has upon our welfare. 1t is easier for
US to forgive a person for lying about
us than it is for us to confess and
correct the mean things we may have
said about him. We get religion and
do not feel the necessity of living it,;
we repeat the golden rule and never
become alive to the beauty and power
of it; we pray doubling, live hating
and die without having known the
power of love divinely declared and
made manifest. We disregard the
| finest attributes of life and glory over
the selfishness which excites the fric-
| ton, strife and brutality which always
has marked human history. We tall
about common honesty as though hon.
esty was a common instead of a rare
virtue. The record of our wrong
doing may be the eternal menace Of
| our souls.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

A librarian defines a book as ga
storage battery of IDEAS" Now this
seems to me to be what most books
are not. The book we enjoy SO that
we resolve to read it again is not COM
mon; and the quotable book is the ex-
ception not the rule. Reading is a de-
lghtfu1 habit apart from its educa-
! tive compensation. We read books
for the requirement of knowledge and
for the entertainment they afford.
Doubtless there is a purpose under
| lying every volume in our libraries,
| but in many books it Is not so clear
! that a reader of average intelligence
can make 1t out. 1t is not uncommon
| to find book which is so free from
ideas, or anything that is humorous or
entertaining that you can perceive no
| excuse for it's existence. The books
we are fond of are the ones which ap-
peal to our ideas Of right, or respond
to our taste for knowledge or diver
sion. The book worthy of being de-
fined as "a storage battery of ideas
| ought to be electrifying. Few books
contain a shock of any kind for the
reader. The> book which does not
leave one vivid impression upon the
mind we regard as not worth the
reading, and there are many of these
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

10 not culClVare the concert that II
| Is your duty to combat the opposite
| opinion. The opposite opinion, like
| the king, never dies. The. author of
| the opposite opinion cherishes it as a
| fond mother cherishes her child, and
| will decline to have it crushed. If he
| has made it his he has the same right
| to jealousy guard it as a mother has
to guard her child. Our opinions real
ly constitute us, and we do not easily
submit to changes. 1t is the discov-
cry of facts we didn't know that puts
| the kibosh upon false conclusions. If
get deaf, dumb and blind to the truth
and no amount of argument will stir
US. Seek and We shall find" said an
ancient philosopher, but there was nc
pretence we should all find truth in
the same garb or in the same light
We are accustomed to recognizing the
shadow of a doubt but somehow we
never have become conscious that
truth might cast a shadow or appear
in various colors. Combating the op-
lposite opinion Is time wasted. Give
It time and 1t may combat itself.
One thing which makes man vul-
nerable is his love of flattery. The
average person is as fond OF praise
as a child is of sugar. 1t is the one
thing few can get too much of, and
that most people welcome. 1t is {
: fact no observing person will venture
to deny. that most of US enjoy words
of praise from persons for whom w
have no respect. 1t is often through
| cheap praise that rogues get our con
ffdence and then get our money. 1t i
the instrument with which rogues gul
US and solicitors get us to contribut
to the causes they often misrepresent
Only those who decline to believe any
thing seem to be free from this peri
Praise is out seeking victims ever
day. It schemes when others sleeT
It sucks the blood out of the credu
1ous and bleeds them to death. BE
ware Of honeyed words.
/
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25
THE MAN WHO TALKS

A near-philosopher tells US: IT is
far better to be bent on economy than
to be broke by extravagance." There
are few things more distressing In
this world than extravaganza. 1t Is
the one fault which seems to point
toward Heaven and surely lands it's
victims in hell, or in inextricable, debt,
which Is next door thereto. 1t is
dreadful to be deaf and blind on the
self denying side of life-the side of
Independence, peace and power. The
person in this world who will have
what they want are compelled to have
q good many things they do not want.
You may have noticed the owners OF
motor cars who desire more speed
than is safe may get q broken leg or
a lawsuit, If nothing worse. The man
who gets fashionable and sef-indul-
gent bride often gets call from the
sheriff and may have a bankrupt sale.
You may not believe the path OF life
is straight and narrow but there Is
not a wide path between economy and
extravagance-so there Is a
z, 000-foot precipitous slide on the LETT
hand side Of the trail If you are care
full never to get more than you can
pay for you will often get stung.
Do not cultivate too much preju-
dice against putting on style. Putting
on style is not one OF the worst or
| human faults by any means. There is
1 no use OF kicking against
ments. No doubt the old cave-dweller
had a grudge against the first of his
| tribe who decided to crawl out of the
earth and live on top of it. That was
brave and courageous step; and man
has not gone by leaps and bounds from
his ready made hole in the ground to
the palace. from f1g-leaf to fashion
plate attire, or from roots and herbs
and nuts, squirrel fare, to the bill-of-
fare of the Goth century. These things
which at first seem to be so extra
ordinary, become the common, every
day affairs of later life. The dude
may be the forerunner Of progress. II
is better to push than to knock II
most Of the new affairs of life. A
great many new things do not at frs
excite our admiration, but they wiz
their way. The average man is a slow
follower, but it is shown by the
course of events that he gets there a
last.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

The Country Church vs. The City
Church.
Mr.. Editor: Last year a quarterly
coincidence OF a Methodist church, tht
presiding officer. the district superin-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-25

hharwich, Saturday, March IS, 1916.
The Washington times., 1916-10-09
LAST U-BOAT WARNING OF
u. S. TO GERMANY

Vessels Of ownership vessels Of neutral ownership
bound from neutralpo have been destroyed
with vessels Of begrent ownership in constantly increasing
bers Sometimes the attacked have been warned and
summoned to being fired topedoed sometimes
their been vouchaed security
being allowed to take the ships boats before the ship
the bottom But again warning has ben given
and the lives and been
stroyed wholesale which the Government
United States wanton and without the slightest
color Of justification.
The Government United States has been very patient
has become painfully evident to it that the position which took at
the outset is inevitable, namely the Of subma
rnes for the destruction Of enemys is Of
necessity because the character Of the vessels
the methods Of attack which their employment
wolves utterly incompatible with the principles Of humanity long
established ncontrovere rights Of neutra
munties Of noncombatants.
still the purpose Of the imperial prosecute
relentless inmnte warfare against
the submarines without regard what the
United consider the sacred and ndspuabe
ternsona universally recognized dictates
the Government Of the United States at last forced the
cusion that there is but course it pursue.
merchantmen must be kept ~thin the lao, April 49, 1915: