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Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

The forty odd pairs Of cave swallows have left the cement ieioos on the Hubbard place, and we wonder if the young of this season will come back here. A tree swallow bred twice in the sChoOlhouse box, three or four pairs only bred in it's neighborhood, but there were four hundred on our phone wires last week. Where did they all come from? Why do the white bellies congregate at the top of the Penniman hill, and nowhere else here? Why do they perch ill numbers on the upper twigs of the old wild cherry tree at Cherrytree Corner and nowhere else here? Why dces this company join the thousands in the eel-grass at Horton's Point before the entire body moves South? These are only side lights that sometime may help US a bit in solving the mysteries of migration How did the swifts know that the large Hedges house over towards Dudley was unoccupied? On August 31st Mrs. RaWson saw over two hundred come out of the main chimney, and 1t re- minded her of the clouds of swifts that she used to see pour down the 'f1ues of the Broadway schoolhouse and St. Patrick'S church at Norwich A single pair of phoebes have raised young under our barn fer a generation, but no new pairs ever come. Chebecs breed year after year in our Clapp's favorite, but no other chebecs ever in the garden. So with the orioles in tho elm-tR1is years nest, last years nest and a fragment of the years before The wacup in the north ash raises nine or ten noisy squabs yearly, but the in crease is not seen here. So this much seems clear, that the young of many kinds of our every day birds do not return with the parents to the old home site.
 "A Bird lovers have been wondering what became of the birds of Groton Long Point driven away by the large summer colony of featherless bipeds at
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

Regardless of the benefits which are obtained, some nations seem to take delight in dropping bombs on defense less cities and non- -combatant men, women and children.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

The man on the corner says: Even a wise man has to be fooled. once in while in order not to have P. T, Barnun's opinion thrown into the dis card
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There are some people to whom it will make no difference if the Episco- palians rescind the whole of the Ten Commandments.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

The small boy is probably wonder ing what sort of a scare can be ar- ranged next year to delay the opening of school three weeks.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

September, it appears, doesn't be- lieve sin shutting off the warm blast all of a sudden.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

That gold can be extracted from the ocean is fully demonstrated at the seashore every season by the trade in salt water taffy.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

If Greece so decides it will find the frying pan hot and ready to give it the proper reception.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

A Pittsfield Mass, man says he will invent a wire netting bathing suit which will be worn in waters invaded by sharks.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

When that boy comes home tired from his work do not hinder him in his life prospects by your sympathy, but help him by your suggestions con- corning the value of industry and it's future rewards. Do not spoil that girl by teaching her she was not made to slave but to dress in fine clothes and to be admired. Teach youth how to face life and how to work together. girls false notions of work coupled with ineff1ciency have handicapped many a good man, and carried her family to the dependent class. A youths little vices have become the monster which consumed his surplus and kept him poor, and his family in strengthened circumstances and made his children dull and behind in the worlds parade. It is the well-ad- vised and well-guided children who make hustling men and women. A wrong idea of life and its work is a little thing at first, but 1t eventually becomes a load no man can carry with comfort; and that only a few families finally overcome. A good start is more than half the battle.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

sCWritten Specially for The Bulletin.)
 The county fair, which so many thousands have been attending during the present week, was the sixty-sec ond annual exhibition of the Agrieul tural Society. But there was even an older county agricultural association than is the one of which we all know
 As far back as 1913, the first coun ty agricultural society was organized, continuing in operation for five or six ternately, at Norwich and New Lon- don.
 October 3oth, 1922, the fair was held at Norwich, on the Town Green. A book auction was connected with it, and there was an address by MT. Mc- Curdy, of Lyme.
 This association declined, and after a few years became extinct.
 A new County Society was organ ized April 18th, 1854, in the town hall at Norwich. Rev William Gift, of Stonington was chosen president, and pr. D. F. Gulliver was the choice for corresponding and recording secre- tary. This is the fair association which has continued to our day.
 The first fair was held at Norwich, in September, 1855. One of the big at fractions was a balloon ascension, by M. Paulin, famed aeronaut, who re- mained an hour in the air. Then his big balloon fioated away out of sight, coming down at South Kingston, R. I.
 Such hit did M. Paulin and his great gas-bag make, that he was en- gagged to give an ascension at the next years fair. This time he made a rec ord flight for that time, descending in the town of Griswo1d at the end of twenty minutes.
 At the third fair, balloon ascen- sion was again one of the prime at fractions This time the balloon of Allen 6 King rose 10000 feet, and after an hours flight, descended in Canterbury. seventeen miles north of the place where it rose.
 Before the. era of agricultural fairs. the county farms, the amusements of the people of Norwich and vicinity
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09
PIMPLES. COVERED
 BAbY'S HEAD
Became One Scale Which Was Awful to Look At. Burning and Itching
 All the Time. Began on Body.
HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT

sBaby was five days old when I first noticed that her head was covered with red pimples. The ball of her head became one
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09
THE MAN WHO TALKS

May every morning seem to say, there's something happy on the way and God sends love to you," comes from an inspired anonymous source; and it has in it the consciousness of something good on it's way. It is bet ter to be hoping for something good than to be fearing something evil may occur. In the days of the Savior the inquiry was, made: Can anything good come out of Nazareth?' And the Lord showed man Truth itself could come from such a little, unpretentious' and perhaps disreputable place. It is not good for man to doubt; it is better for him to trust This song of cheer full expectancy has in it more of power and more of peace than the casual reader can find at a glance. It fits the human heart. it bids it look for ward with faith, not back with re- gret, for something happy is on the way, and God sends love to you.'' It is designed to increase joy and to put joy so firmly upon the pedestal of life that apprehension and distrust cannot get a foothold. The scul who makes this daily song has better hold upon life.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

Private parties were frequent and these were all on a liberal and hospit- able scale. References have been found to trtpe suppers and turtle en- tertainments, where friends and neigh bors were splendidly regaled, nearly two hundred years ago.
 An advertisement of a brown cam let riding hood lost at a turtle enter tainment at MT Matthew LefingwelFs, appears in the Norwich Packet of Au- gust, 1779.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

In days of peace when we read the opinion of Carlyle that civilization is only a covering underneath which the savage nature of man continually burns with an internal fire!" we can not realize the truth of it or regard it
 as being more than a morbid thought but in the light of these days of strife there is no question in our minds as 10 the saneness of the writer or the correctness of his statement. Man in his errors has to reach a point of violence that the truth may be re-
 vealed and better principles triumph The pendulum of life can swing only
 so far toward evil before it has to
 swing back toward the better life. Man as a misleader goes his length
 truth as the revealer illumines life and calls him hack to sanity and wis
 dom, and the ways of peace and thrift
 It was Heinrich Hiene who said:
 'Luther's failings have profited us
 more than the virtues of 9 thousand mem" and it seems as if the vices
 of some races and of past generations
 had profited future generations more
 than they could have helped them
 selves.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09
The War A Year Ago TodaJ
 September g, 1915.

Austrians captured Dubno.
 Russians won another victory southwest of TremhoHla.
 German crown princes army gained in Argonne district. United States asked Austria to recall Ambassador Dunba. Germany" sent note defending the sinking of Arabic.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

During ante Revolutionary times, the halfway houses between Norwich and New acknowledgements Brad ford's, Haughtons-were often the terminus of these excursions. In later days, the Hyde tavern in Franklin was chosen resort. so that rhymes were made and sung in honor of it and it's festivities.
 What pleasure is greatest? My fan
 cy decides
 party select, and a sleigh-ride to
 Hyde's."
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09
Sunday Morning Talk
SERPENTS AND DOVES.

It was pungent counsel that Jesus of Nazareth gave to the little band of apostles sent forth to subdue the world to Christianity. '2Be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves," he said. The terms are Jess forceful in translation than in the original. The serpent was, in Bible times, the sym bol of almost diabolical craft. The dove was proverbiaI for it's docile char acter. The serpent was the most cum ming of the beasts of the field, and the dove the most simple of the birds of the air. The apostles were to emu late both.
 The Master Of men was telling His fellow workers to be wise and re- sourceful, to be fertile in expedients, to handle the difficult situations that would surely come to them with all possible ingenuity.
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would surely come to them with all possible ingenuity.
 On the other hand, they were to be as guileleSs and harmless S doves. De- ceit and treachery were not to be as much as named among them. They were to be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in Ineekness instruct ing those that oppose themselves" {" They were, thus, to hold in balance op- posing qualities, either of which alone, or in excess might become a vice, but which. in proper poise, might become a perfect instrument by which to do their work
 It is not easy in practical life to combine those virtues that we call positive with those we call negative. The man of force and energy is liable to be likewise the man of rude man. ners. He is wont 10 tranple to his goal rough snOd over the plans and purposes of those who oppose him. The gentle and self -effacine man may, on the other hand, be lacking in initiative and resource. It is a tremendous moral contract to combine the serpent and the dove traits in a single character.
 That it can be done, however, some of the choicest spirits in every age have shown. The teacher of the diff cult doctrine was Himself it's first and perfect eEemplar. The gentle, nonre- sisting Sufferer was also, on appropri- ate occasions the "Lion of the Tribe of Judah" The Vigor of His rebuke was never stained by impatience or cru city, nor was His gentleness ever al- lied to weakness.
 It is well for us to remember that virtue is never a faIoby and nerveless thing. It is cOurag ageous, resolute, ener- getic and persevering. The good man will strive to go through the world as something more than merely a harmless man. He will be both shrewd and untirins. in his efforts to leave the world better than he found it. He will be not only good, but good for something.
 Too often we are content with the dove aspect alone of a righteous character. The evil things we refrain from doing are more emphasized than the good things we do. The element of shrewd foresight and initiative are barred from religious endeavor We allow the children Of this world to be wiser in their genera ton than the children of light.
 For churchnren, especially, of all conmunions the suggestion is obvious Let us find out the best way of doing the finest things. Let us commander methods from any realm that may be made to serve our purpose. Is politics corrupt? There is still a hint for us In the energy with which the candidate seeks to bring the voter to the polls. Is the commercial world sordid and selfish? Why rot initiate the untiring ingenuity with which the merchant forces his goods on pubTcs notice? Is society gay and frivolous? Even so at some points it. may be our capable teacher. The grace, the polish. the courtesy of the drawing room repre- sent admirable gifts wherever exer- cised.
 The victory of light over darkness, of truth over error has been long in coming, but it is on the way. It waits, as it always has, the day of our full consecration, when not only the affec- tions of ,naen's hearts, but the thoughts of their brains and the contents. of their purses shall be dedicated to the iingdcm of righteousness
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

for six weeks before used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment and her body and head were disf1gured with scales. In few days
 nZo baby was well all over.'. (Signedl Mrs. R. E. Bigelow. R. F. D. No. ?. shel- burne Harbor, Vt., July l, 1913.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

No jovial excursions during the year was so common as sleighing parties. The snow season in ancient Norwich was expected to bring with it leisure and merriment. The sleights were broad merriment. The sleighs were broad and roomy, we are told, with perpen- dicular sides and a sharp point, the driver usually standing erect. Plaid Woolen coverlids performed the part later played by buffalo robes.
 The place of entertainment was from five to fifteen miles from home. Sev- eral sleighs were near together on the road, passing eacth other, ex- changing shouts and high hilarious greetings, or perchance bandying snowballs as they passed"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09
Sample Each Free by Mail

With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Ad- dress postcard "Cuticura, Dept. T, Bos. ton.. Sold throughout the world,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09
EARLY AGRICULTURAL FAIRS

were chiefly elections, training days and thanksgivings, during the earlier
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09
A areat Vienna psychologists h;

A great Vienna psychologists has discovered that our night dreams are simply day dreams that we have put out of our minds coming back in dis guised forms. This lifts a great re- sponsibility from indigestible food, es
 pecially grandmother's mince pie, and a crowded condition of the stomach. But there are some things I cannot comprehend about Dr. Freud's philos- ophy If our day-dreams which we put out of our minds come back in ridiculous disguises and as mean
 ngless series of events, it does not ac- count for the losing of our clothes in sleep and being unable to find them when. ladies are approaching. If we could think of offended day dreams as being capable of revenge, we might believe them capable of making us believe in our sleep that we were dead at a time when we seem to be very much alive nr. Freud is doubtless a wonderful thinker, but he individual izes our day dreams and furnishes them with attributes we cannot con- ceive they can possibly possess. And surely this cannot represent the psy- chology of that exceptional dream which now and then comes true.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

Wedding festivities were always i'm portant affairs in and about Norwich. The rejoicings were continued throughout the day and evening and not infrequently were prolonged for two or three days. A newspaper has preserved the record of one such fes- tivity, and while it was not exactly in Norwich, it is probable that. as Miss Caulkins writes, many of the town s participated in the festival"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

] had never thought of night hawks appearing as day hawks until I saw pair in the glare of the noon day sun on Aug. 31st, cutting the air with the swallows over an area of atmosphere north of my garden. It was difficult to believe my own eyes, but the size Of the birds and the truly indicating white spots beneath the wings cleared all doubt from my mind And besides the swallows and this pair of night hawks there was a flock Of starIings in nearby tree and a king bird which kept Shying into space to share the Insects, those fleeter and more gracefully flying birds were hunting This assembly of birds over this area was an nusual one. and it left no doubt in my mind that there was an unusual flight of appetizing in sects to call them there. They were busy for an hour or two, and then flew to other insect infested areas to con- tinue their good work
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

When gunners can shoot woodcock, quail, grouse, pheasants, rabbits, squir- rels, and twenty kinds of hawks and owls, why do the Solons at Bushnell Park allow a months practice on the fast diminishing shore birds, where several races have entirely disappeared and solitary sandpiper will be a rebulze instead of a generic name? Have all the lawmakers got water spaniels which they wish to teach to retrieve the murdered sandpeeps and plovers on Watch Hill, Pleasant View, and Atlantic beaches? This law is of a ment which allows a whole years open season on deer when Maine and Yer mont give only a few short weeks. If this law is not repealed, it will result in a regular barnyard butchery of every buck, doe and lawn in the six counties.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

"The ups and downs of life are what get me- said a man to his com paniop on the trolley car. They get all of us in differing degrees and it is not those who get them most who make the most fuss about it. It is well to bear in mind that the steepest up- hill pull is followed by the swiftest down hill slide. If our ups and downs do not suit us we may as well tackle them and see if we cannot make them less annoying. It does not pay to be- come dismayed, or to let dissatisfac- ton gnaw at our heart-strings and incapacitate us. It doesn't do to worry cur strength away and tumble down. The strife of life is no fiction, and in the walks of peace, even, the victory is to the valiant. It takes effort to get somewhere-we must do something to get something. If we, fail in little things we soon are handicapped by a bad reputation of our own making Do your work faithfully with good cheer and the ups and downs of life will not harrass you.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

On each of these holidays. there would be various athletic events and exercises, some of them rather rough, according to history. In the main they comprised shooting at marks, horse racing, wrestling, running. leap ing, ball playing, and the like
 The annual Thanksgiving Day was always one of great hilarity, although Miss Caulkins tells us tits time-hon- ored essential characteristic was a sermon" An indispensable feature was the barrel-bonfire, as kept up by the boys in the present generation.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

"A Bird lovers have been wondering
 what became of the birds of Groton
 Long Point driven away by the large
 summer colony of featherless bipeds at Hands End. Ii The Point was once I
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

The account reads:-"A great we'd ding dance took place at New London at the house of Nathaniel Shaw, Esq, June 12, 1769, the day after the mar riage of his son, Daniel Shaw and Grace Coit-92 gentlemen and ladies attended. and danced 92 jigs, 52 con- tra dances, 45 minuets. and r horn pipes, and retired at 45 minutes past midnight
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of diversion-but these, too, were never supposed to be prolonged be- yond sunset. And instead of a lady sending out invitations to her guests, the plan was reversed-the guests would send word to the lady-by mes senger. of course, before the day of the handy telephone, or city delivery of maiI-all the neighborhood joining for such ceremony, that they would come and spend the afternoon with her.
 So that spending the afternoon is Norwich has the prestige of centuries
 THE DICTAGRAPH.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

Now that the Russians are perish ing in such numbers along a two- thousand mile line of defense and of fense every day their cry of despair recurs to us: "Nichevo!" which means Death is nothing; it had to be; it is the will of God!" The cry is sincere and robs death for the Russian peas ant of some of it's terror. Gods will they must willingly abide by, and to remind them of this they carry with them the charm and the icon, or holy image, to protect them from evil, and to commend them to the Ruling Power of Light. As they are dying along that great battle-line it seems to be more by the will of man than by the will of God and while it seems to be a great sacrifice devoid of compen- sation there is no doubt the spirit of democracy will be strengthened there by, and that all fsthe peoples of earth may come to an age of greater en- lightenment and increased comfort be- cause of this great strife nurtured in se1fshness and entered upon to satis- fly the ambitions of the few who have falsely been deitfed.
 Do you know the American Fedora tion discovered several years ago that
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

Do you know the American Fedora tion discovered several years ago that
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-09

Tn the middle period of the town's history, between the strict Puritan times and the Revolution, dancing was common diversion of young people. Balls and midnight reveIs were prohibited; but neighborly dances with or without a fiddler-often a part of the company singing for the others to dance-contra- dances, reels or jigs, inprovised on some oak floor in kitchen or hall-ending in a treat Of nuts. apples and cider, these were permissible pastimes for the winter evenings.
 Dancing also at weddings and thanksgfvings was permitted. as noted but rarely with the objectionable accompaniment of late hours.
 An "ordination ball." strange as it may sound, was allowable in some places as a finale to the festivities fol- lowing the ceremonies of settling clergyman-but there is no proof that this enormity was ever perpetrated in staid Norwich
 Up to the period of the Revolution Rt least, the Eorror of late hours was 9 genuine one-doubtless due quite as much to dark and uneven streets and to the fact that this was an early ing community, as to any opinion that being night owl was sinful.