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Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

rFolonel Bryan has announced that he will work for Wilson, and Taggart is going to support his policies, all of which must cheer the president.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

The man on the corner says: The old fashioned man who used to think twice before he spoke, new has @ son
 who lights a cigarette before he jumps at conclusion.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

Germany has apparently gotten over it's ambition to settle one case before another appeared on the horizon.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

Though Mexico is reporting a scar city of soap, General Pershing is sec ing that it Is thoroughly secured.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

With Villa covering a lot of Mexican territory, it can hardly be said that he does not know where he Is going.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

At this period, the British com n1anders on the West India station received orders to seize, detain and bring to legal adjudication all vessels laden with the products Of French colonies, or engaged in carrying sup plies to said c olonies. During the present world-war, we are frequently shocked and mortified at tales told of outrages to neutral ships; but as We see, war was no less oppressive back n 1700.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

Carranza has apparently considered 1t unwise to insist that Americans set no traps in Mexico.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

The wise ones realize that the first of April calls for an additional amount of preparedness.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01
Sunday Morning Talk
THE CASE OF THE STACKER"

Some of the excuses reported are in genious, to say the least. There was that, for instance, of the man who wrote that ne had weak eyesight and couldn't see his way to enlist; also that he had varicose veins, and no confidence in the Government.
 The stacker is generally an exas- perating individual to deal with. His lack is not of ability, but of disposi- ton. He could help if he would-but he won't.
 Let us think now, not of the Briton who is deaf to his country's call, but of the citizen in your own street who holds back when a good cause needs him. Have you ever tried to interest that sort of chap in some scheme to help the community? If you have, you know what discouraging work 1t is.
 Through cowardice through lazi- ness, through distrust of their own abilities, multitUdes prove recreant in the hour of need. When some propo- sition demanding effort comes along they shift the work and the knocks onto the next fellow. They will not work against the righteous cause, but neither will they work for it.
 In an Old Testament song of victory single vindictive strain rings out: Curse ye Meroz, because they came not to the help of the Lord against the
 
 men of Meroz had aided the enemy. These placid warriors had merely done nothing at all. In the day when their country's life had trembled in the bal No praise could be given the tribesmen of Meroz. The curse of uselessness ! rested upon them. It is a sorry fate for anyone to be | classed as a moral nonentity. Caryle represents his Count Philippus Tard- ' El . | food had gone to support a useless | life. The Count was ''no-count" be- i cause he had rendered no return for what life had given him.
 It is the "sIacker" who presents the hard problem in every campaign for | civic betterment. He wants a we'll ! goverened city, but he will not enlist in the fight to get one. He would like | efficient government, low taxes and | clean streets, but he will not lift a | finger to aid in their attainment. The other fellow can do that. The slack CT" carries no part of the public bur- den. He barely pulls even his own weight.
 There re two kinds of people on earth | today,
 Just two kinds of people, no more ] say,
 Not the saint and the sinner, for 'tis
 
 The good are half bad, and bad arc half good;
 Not the rich and the poor, for tC count a mans wealth You must first know the state of his conscience and health.
 Not the humble and proud, for in life. little span
 Who puts on vain airs is not counted man.
 Not the happy and sad. for the swift. flying years
 Bring each man his laughter and eael man his tears. No! the two kinds of people on eartl
 mean
 Are the people who lift and the peo,
 pie who lean. There are about two filters to everJ , ten leaners. No man is so poor tha he cannot do something to better tha, unjust proportion.
 TIH- -nA DEnAI
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01
War A Year Ago Today
April i, 1915.

French occupied Fey-en Haye. Russians began a lively offensive Central Poland, but were re- pulsed by Austrians near InovVIodz on the Pilioa.
 Germans checked the Russians at Rawka river.
 British took Aus, German West Africa.
 British vessels and airmen have Shelled Zeebrugge and Hoboken.
 German submarines sank a Brit sh and a French steamer. Thirty ives lost.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

The decree referred to, and the coincident activity of French priva- teers, made almost a clean sweep of the shipping then abroad. Congress
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

As was observing two blue jays Tn the crab-apple tree the other day I saw them feeding, I thought, upon the buds, and with less knowledge as to the needs of the tree I might have thought they were enemies instead of friends, and that they deserved kill ing, as many English people think of the bullfnch which is charged with eating the buds of pear and plum trees. It is a fact that most of our fruit trees and vines need disbudding, and if the birds should take one-half the buds from all the trees they would yield larger and better fruit. When I see birds eating the fruit buds I look on with admiring interest. Nature runs to excesses. Why should one plant of chickweed produce a million seeds, or one poppy plant six or seven thousand? Why should a fruit tree or vine bear twice the fruit it can well mature and ripen? No one can tell We only know that it does. Most of the time the bud eaters and the seed eating birds are beneficial rather than injurious in the garden.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01
EDITORIAL NOTES

This is always a hard day to take things seriously.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

Who would rnistrust that the end and aim of all human beings is happi- ness. The affairs of life do not even indicate it. Competition is not the pursuit of happiness for that is the pursuit of undoing the other fellow if you can. Industry is not the pursuit of happiness, but the pursuit of the means of subsistence and existence. Cooperation comes a little nearer to the door of happiness because it rep resents unity and protection, but it points rather than leads the way. What Is happiness? It may be a con dition of blissful ignorance, or of blessed satisfaction, or of beautiful emotions-a state of elation which Coesn't endure. It is as intoxicating as prosperity and seems to be as fleet ing as the odor of flowers. Those who are perfectly happy one day may be found to be perfectly miserable on the following day. It is something we all want but cannot attain; and 1t is an open question whether too much of il is good for us.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

There isn't such great deal of diff ference in conspiring to make 400 per cent profit and planning to rob a safe when you come right down to brass tacks in rational comparisons. The one is popularly considered smart f1n- anciering and the other bare-faced
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

It must seem queer to wake up in the morning with less than thirty cents in your pockets, and when the sun goes down to know that you are worth a hundred thousand doIlarsi There are a good many lightning changes in the world that man cannot understand. The man who could only earn s1.50 day must have a new mo- ton of the world when because of an accidental discovery he has steady increase of $1,600 a day. It isn't surprising that such men talk about good luck, and seldom say anything about success. There Is never any thing very sudden about success for it follows years of strenuous thought or arduous toll, but good luck seems to toss a fortune right into your lap. And then some one will tell you there is no such thing as good luck and seem to be surprised that people who have been enriched in a day without having displayed any special ability do not believe them. A sudden change of fortune has to be attributed to luck when 1t cannot be traced to genius, work or thoughtful relatives.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

There may be no place like lome, hut a great many people think it is the trial of their lives that they have to stay there. Drudgery does not consti- tute a home and dreaming does not make 1t @ place of pleasure. It must be made more than a feeding and sleeping place, and it takes the skill full cooperation of all concerned to make it the dearest place on earth. Help one another" is a good home motto; but much better as good home practice. The home with too much nagging or bossing and too lit tie self denying and an abundance of selfishness is an irritating and rebel lious place. God Bless Our Home'' is a good unceasing prayer but God cannot bless a home in which the in- mates live more for self than for one another. There is no such thing as drifting with the tide and pulling against the tide at the same time Many people who sing Home, home sweet, sweet home, there is no place like home" do not want any other place like It since to them it daily proves itself to be enough.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01
A little three-year-oId qirI remark

A little three-year-old girl remark ed the other day; I've seen snow enough, mama, I want to see the vio- let's" She could not have expressed better 9 common desire had she been thirty All New Englanders are anxf- ous to see the violets. In the space of eight weeks the heavens have dumped more snow in Southern New England than has been seen here at one time before in forty years. Those who had thought prior to Feb. 2nd. that winter was going to rot in the sky have no thoughts of that kind today. We all want to see the violets-see the will low-withes yellowing up and the cat kins bursting and hear the melody of the song sparrow rising from the shrubbery. We have seen snow enough and ice enough and starving birds enough, and grip enough to part gleefully from it all. The haze on the horizon and the odor of steaming earth and bursting buds will soon as sure us that the violets are coming that they are on their way. We have seen snow enough-we want to see the violets!
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01
THE MAN WHO TALKS

It is not possible for every one to think of death as delightful jour ney when all their tasks are done," but the dreamers who cherish this dream and hold firmly to the thought that better things await them fur ther on'"know something of the Com forter who was to follow the One who demonstrated life was everything and death nothing. Those who say: No one ever came back to tell us," forget the one who came back and who said: T am the life and the resurrection" It is up to you and I to see how we weave this web of life in our minds, whether we weave it to catch the golden thought the Illuminating truth--or to catch the doubts and fears which torment the human soul. If we are spiritual beings it is up to us to be spiritually alive, to cherish the .ove and faith which invite visions of glory and beauty that stir the heart and invite the soul; and which leave mo doubt that all the mighty spaces between us and the stars are filled with faces more beautiful than any artists dreamy
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

It Is quite as difficult to explain what religion is as what life is not because religion itself is so variable, but because human conception is. In nine pages of definitions I noticed it oftener tells what religion is not than what it is. One scholar said religion could outlive no mans morals" Billy Sunday says: Religion does not con- sist of doing special things; but in doing all things in a special way" If a person is religious he must do things religiously not in any old way. Too many people who are extremely pious do things six days in the week so impious that saint and sinner have to be separated on their confession instead of by their conduct. Billy Sunday points out that saints and sim ners should not be acting just alike in the issues of life, that it is up to the Christian to do things in an honest and honorable way. Some people do not believe this; and others think it Is easier to do as they please and then ask to be forgiven,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01
A LEAF FROM NORWICH HISTORY

GWritten Specially for The Bulletin.)
 The state has started a movement recently to have the history of each town taught in the schools under its charge.
 Perhaps no other town in connec- ttcut has had a richer history than has Norwich; and it is a question if '>ne in a thousand of it's residents has even the faintest idea of what its people accomplished during the early years when one of it's important in- dustries was ship-buiIding. The ef- fort of the doughty men of past gen. erations in seeking to establish and maintain trade with foreign countries, the discouragements, failures, sue cesses, disasteIs of their careers, might well be told in an epic which the present generation would be ben e'f1tted by reading, studying. memor- izing. Against the most dishearten- ing kind of odds they ypersevered; and if many of them lost their lives, at least their effort was praiseworthy; they cannot be blamed for inertness, inaction, lack of initiative!
 No better or more informing proof can be cited to show how the Amer can nation was harrassed by the Eng i'sh and French than is a chronicle Cf what our own townSpeOple endured during those times which tried mems souls.
 After the British had obtained pos ~ession of the French islands, in 1794, every American vessel which chanced to be in the harbor was seized. Many of them were condemned and for feited. The property of American merchants on the land was likewise, in various instances, confiscated. A Norwich ship-master, writing home to his family from St. Pierre, under date of March 2, 1794, said:
 I have lost all my property by the surrender of St. Pierre to the Eng Iish. have not only lost my vessel and cargo, but my wearing apparel Eedding, books, quadrant, and all the money I had, to the amount of 1,70O dollars. Our friend and neighbor, Capt. Fred Tracy has shared the same fate.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

In February, 17e7, Capt. Webb, in a voyage to Jeremie, was taken and carried into Petit Guave, where he was detained ninety days, a quarter Of his cargo taken and he lost all his crew, except one man, by illness.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

Capt. Sanger, in the ship Chloe, Was captured, and he an d'hls people were stripped of every article of value, even to the clothing on their persons The captain himself was set ashore at Laguira, barefoot. The vessel was afterwards released; but at a later period was again captured, Ebenezer Cooley, her master. carried in.o Guad- aloupe and the vessel never appeared in Norwich waters afterward.
The Washington herald., 1916-06-21

Cyprus has revived its former native
tobacco industry. producing tobaccos
suitable for cigarettes Of Turkish and
Egyptian types
The Washington herald., 1916-06-21
BUSINESS men TO AID
employees Who ENLIST
Big Utilities Companies Promise Men
Jobs Will Be Held-Trade
Bodies Issue Appeals.

The patriotism Of the business men OF
Washington was shown yesterday when
number Of big concerns, including the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pany and the Washington Steel and
| Ordnance Company. announced that they
would grant leave Of absence 70 their
employees who enlist for service on the
Mexican border.
The action OF these companies was fol-
lowed by a general appeal 70 all business
men OF the city by the heads OF the three
trade bodies-the Chamber Of Commerce
Board Of Trade and Retail Merchants
Association
II Is expected that tn. appeal will cause
many more business houses TO make sim
liar announcements today. Such a CO.
operation on the part Of the business men
would result in a rush OF enustments
the heads Of the militia feel. They point
out that there are hundre OF patriotic
men in the city who cannot afford TO
leave their families If their Jobs are not
to be held for them.
The following are extracts from the sp-
peals OF the heads OF the trade bodies:
P, T. Moran, president of the Chamber
Of Commerce-"Let every business man
Of Washington and every great corpora
ton located in the National Capital full
I'LL the patriotic duty due the Federal
government by encouraging every man
enlisted in the District militia TO respond
promptly 20 the call 10 colors"
Edwin c. BrandenburE, president OF
the Board OF Trade-"The men who are
going forth in their country's interest are
in many cases, at least, the heads Of
families dependenu upon them. Give
these men every manner OF encourage-
nent possible"
R P. Andrews, president Of the Retail
Merchants Association-'Merch Of
Washington cannot better prove their
loyalty to and concern for the welfare
OF their country than by encouraging and
making easy a ready response on the part
of any and every one OF their employees
to the order for service in the District
National Guard"
The Washington herald., 1916-06-21
BUSINESS HIGH
GETS DIPLOMAS
DR.. Clarence J. Owens Ad-
dresses Graduating Class on
National Preparedness.

Preparedness from an educational point
I of view was discussed in an address last
night at the Business High School com
Emencement by DR. Clarence ]. Owens,
managing director OF the Southern Com
mercial Congress.
The competitors for the Gait prizes were
announced as Miss Ruth May. F. L. Tuck
er, and Miss Florence Tucker, alternate.
! for the prize in commercial geography;
and Miss Edith L. Elliott, Miss Estelle
L. Milne and Henry NJ. Terry, alternate,
for the prize in commercial history and
sociology.
Roscoe B. Wills. jr., was awarded the
scholarship in the Syracuse University.
| Blanche A Rauchenstein was presented
with a scholarship in the Washington
! College of Law
| The Georgetown University Law School
scholarship was presented to Samuel z.
Mooers. and William Mazo was awarded
the scholarship in the National Cniver-
sity Law School.
Henry P Blair, president Of the Board
OF Education. presided and Ernest L.
Thurston. superintendent of schools, gave
out the diplomas TO the graduates. The
business High School Orchestra rendered
selections
| The graduates were:
| Charles z. Anadale, Arthur D. Bailey,
Kenneth II. Berkeley. Louis II. Biron,
Alice Z. S. Boyd, Allen b. Carpenter,
| Edmund S. Chamberlain. Alvin H. Cross,
Mary P. DeLane, Helen Easton. Helen
| ". Eisenstein, Edith NJ Evans, Florence
| H. Gervais. Helen !. Gibbons, Edward
J. Grass. William f. Griffin, Diler 3.
Croft Gladys Harper, Mary H. Heift,
George r. Menlock, Ada NJ. Hunt Will
| lam H. Johnston, Robert f. Joyce. Rich
mond B. keeCh, Helen B. LaFontaine.
May A. Lange, Lester A. Lawrence,
Richard v Mattingly, William Mazo,
| Robert L. McMa ckin. Ruth z. Melton.
Robert T. Miller. Harry MilloH, Estelle
L. Milne, Samuel E. Mooers. Helen r.
Moore. Alethea J. Morgan, Paul Clifford
Morrison. c. Albert Parker, Esther G.
| Parker. Blanche Raucherstein. Leah z.
Reichard. Ivan Sarnof. Anna Sherr. Vel
ma w Smith. Vernon s. Snow. F. Ro-
mine Taylor Mary z. Thought. Karl G.
Wassmann. Leon A. Weinberg. David H.
Wetzel, Roscoe B. Wills. jr.
The Washington herald., 1916-06-21
FUNSTON READY
FOR MILITIAMEN
Regiments Will Be Scattered
Along Border from Browns
vile to California.
(By the Sun News serviceD.

San Antonio. Tex. June 2.-No time
will be lost in getting TO the border
Militia troops called by President Wilson
on Sunday. Gen. Funston announced
today he had recommended to the War
Department that a considerable" num-
Der be sent TO the Southwest with q con-
centrating and distributing point at San
Antonio. As the troops report in this
department they will be sent by regi-
ments and brfgades-three regiments-to
border points ranging from Brownsville
to California
So rapidly are the troops Of some States
mobilizing that II lie considered probable
few brigades will entrain Thursday for
the journey for Texas.
The troops arriving here for further
orders will be encampeo on the mounted
drill held north OF Fort Sam Houston at
Camp Wilson. II is considered likely
the camp will be far larger than that
Of 1911. when President Taft ordered most
OF the army TO assemble here. As the
men are needed elsewhere they will be
sent on to the border. BY this process
II is probable a large percentage Of the
National Guard force Of the United States
will be in San Antonio for a short time.
San Antonio was named as the chief
concentrating point because OF railway
facilities and the capacity and conven'
ience OF the local army post. The bring
ing of troops here, after the great move
ment is under way and the most dan.
gerous gaps along the border have been
filed. will tend 10 prevent congestion ot
the lines Of railways between here and
the many river points II regiments, bri.
gades and divisions were poured at once
/ into the very front Of the patrol line. the
roads south of here scarcely would have
| room for the cars, 1t is declared
The Mexican bandits who crossed the
Rio Grande last Thursday morning wert
equipped to blow up bridges or to en-
eage in a hand-to-hand fight with bombs
In a report 10 Gen. Funston, Brig. Gen
William a. Mann has just given the in
formation that the Americans captured
from the Mexicans forty-hve pounds ol
dynamite and thirty-two bombs
The Washington herald., 1916-06-21

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