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Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07
STORIES OF THE WAR
What One Frank" Did.

Tn the luli which has occurred after the great two days battle in which five villages and 5000 prisoners were taken by the allies. the correspondent of The Associated Press had an op- portunity to glean many stories from the participants in the struggle.
 ynese stories were not only of cour- age and heroism but of a humor and paradox possible only in such com plicated and remorseless warfare.
 The most wonderful of all the tales told was perhaps that of one Of the tanks" or new arInored motor cars, which started for Berlin on it's own account. This monstruos land ship, ambling and rumbling along, did not wait on the infantry after the taking of Gueudecourt, but plodded over shell holes and across lots looking for it's prey like some prehistoric lizard.
 In @1urse of time it found a German trenA but as it engaged the occu- pants with it's machine gun 1t ran out of gasline.
 When the Germans found this strange creature, with it's steel hide impenetrable to bullets, stalled, curi- osity and a desire for revenge was a fliip to their courage. They went after it with the avidity of prehistoric man stalking a wounded mammoth whose bulk was fast in one of the al- leys of the cave dwellers. No such game was ever seen on the western front, marked as it has been by all kinds of bizarre fighting.
 According to the accounts given by the British officers with verasiouS sol- emnity, while the tanks machine guns blazed right and left, some of the Germans managed to creep along the trenches under the fore legs" and mind legs" of the crouching beast. Then they swarmed over it, looking for an opening through which to strike at its vitals. They fired their rifles into joints and bombed it all over but to no more avail than bur glars trying to reach the inside of a battleship turret with a jimmy.
 All the willie the tanks machine guns kept busy at the human targets in reach while its crew chosen dare starved or the Germans found the proper can opener to get them out
 Finally the British infantry in the rear, seeing the tank in distress, re- fused to wait on any generals orders that they should remain at the object i've which they had gained. They were out to save that impounded tank and with cheer they rushed the Germans and overwhelmed them.
 When the crew heard the laughing and shouting in English they opened the door and called out: We aNe all right if you will only get us some more juice so that the old girl can have a guzz1e of her proper drink and we car take the road again.
 So the infantry formed a line ir front of the tank, determined to de- fend her to the last man, while a run ner was hurried back for can of gas.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

ed by these children shall not be transported from one state to another? Or why can not congress say that cot ton to be shipped from one state to another shall be produced by men working not more than eight hours a day?
 Power is power, and congress seems to regard itself as entirely unlimited in exercising it's authority over every detail of interstate commerce.
 If congress has acted with wisdom in enacting the child labor law, it has opened up a field of legislative en- deavor almost without limit.
 If it can raise wages for one class of labor, it can for another, and other classes of labor are signifying that they want theirs.
 It seems to the Post as if congress has established precedents within the past month that will compel the peo- pie of the United States to do some serious thinking before long.-Houston Post (DamA
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07
CHANGE FOR VALUABLE HELP


 It is gratifying to learn that the night schools are being recognized for the value that lies in them to the non- English speaking people in this coun- try. That means that they are going to be able to accomplish their purpose much more successfully than they cth- erwise would, and in this connection it Is to be realized that the appeal, which has been made by the federal commissioner of education to the chambers of commerce of the United States to cooperate in the campaign which has been started to make bet ter citizens out of the immigrants through inducing them to take advan- tage of the opportunities which the night schools afford, is one that per mits these organizations to accomplish much for these individuals, and there fore for their respective communities and the nation.
 When it is realized that there were 6,5S8.711 foreign-born whites employed in the various industries and lines of business activity, according to the census of 1910. and that of that num- Der there were 1,462,134 adult males, most of whom were wage earners, who did not speak English, and are there fore handicap to themselves as well as the industries of the country. it can be appreciated that the night school has a great op- portunity. The services of such insti- tutions are simply waiting for the pro per response on the part of these people and whatever encouragement can be given to help them become more valuable to themselves and to their en- ployers is bound to improve their citi- zenship. The federal bureau of edu- cation deserves all the assistance that it can get from these civic organiza- tions.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07
RAISING THE ARMIES

2 Once again is the contrast between
 the ways in which France as well as the other belligerents, and Great Brit ain secure additions to their armies shown by the announcement that the former is about to call out the class
 f young men of 1917 who have per-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07
Congress and It's Precedents,

If congress can go in Geogia and North and South Carolina to forbid child labor" asks the Waco Times Herald, why isn't 1t competent to go into New York, New Jersey and New Hampshire to forbid a ten hour day 2"
 If congress can say that ten hours pay must be paid for eight hours work, why can't it say twelve hours pay must be paid for four hours worls9
 Why can't it say that farmers pro- ducing cotton or grain to be trans ported as interstate commerce can not s&ip products from one state to anoth- tH if they work more than eight hours a day?
 There are 500,00o children in Texas picking cotton at present, working not less than twelve hours 8 day. Why can not congress say the cotton pick
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olene. The gasolene arrived safely and the beast having taken q swallow, ambled back into reserve amidst wild cheering. It left behind 250 dead
 IspusuImoo saI ol SuIpLoooB .sueMIeD
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

Carranza declares that he can pre- serve order in Mexico if the punitive expedition is withdrawn, but he doesn't appear to be able to do so with it there.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

If you haven't been fortunate enough to get ticket to the opening game of the worlds series. there are a lot of people who can sympathize with you
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

We'll there's one thing about 1t now that all the reports seem to be ip, William and Theodore did not monopo- lize the evening by talking about old times
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

Somehow or other our democratic prosperity and the cost of living ap- pear to be going hand in hand, but ac- cording to promises they should have separated long ago.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

This is the season of floods but when they are confined to oratory hu. manity isn't likely to suffer very se- verely from them.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

CWritten Specially for The Bulletin.)
 The town Of Norwich was so ex- tremely patriotic during it's early years that occasionally it's citizens were led to acts which do not read very favorably in these latter days.
 Before the Revolutionary war had actually begun, so ardent were the low CTS of liherty-hey used to refer to 1t in those days with capital L-that they sometimes forgot to be reasonable or even Judicious.
 An episode of early history has to do with the visit of a certain MT. Francis Green, 8 merchant of Boston, who came on a journey into Connecti- cut July 4th, 1774, as he stated, to collect debts and transact some private business. He stopped at a tavern in Windham, intending to rest before continuing his journey to Norwich.
 Now, this gentleman was a Loyalist, hence of course obnoxious to the Sons of Liberty, who affected to believe that he had some sinister designs in this journey. The patriotic papers of that time had referred 70 him as ''one of that insidious crew who fabricated and signed the adulatory address to strengthen the hands of that parricidal
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If the Bremen doesn't hurry up and complete the first part of it's trip 1t will be forgotten where it was going to land.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

The man on the corner says: Too many people seem to think that vio- lating city ordinances is a manly sport
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Greece apparently fears that it needs lots of preparation to make a perfect dive when the time comes to plunge into the war.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

This advertisement was the subject of n1errinent to the people of Nor wich, especially the Sons of Freedom, who republished it in handbills and "hawlled it about town with a running commentary history tells.
 THE DICTAGRAPH
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Cut This ous-It Is Worth Money.

Don't miss this. Cut out this slip, enclose with 5c and mail it to sFoley & Co., Chicago. H., writing your name and address clearly. You will receive in return a trial package containing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, for bronchial coughs. colds and croup;. Foley Kidney Pills, for lame back, weak kidneys. rheuma tism, bladder troubles, and Foley Cathartic Tablets a wholesome and thoroughly cleansing cathartic for constipation. biliousness. headache and sluggish bowels, The Lee & Osgood Co. :
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

vito revelation. There are thousands of people known as believers who are as full of doubt as the proverbial vel low dog is supposed to have been Of feas Many protesting Christians have to admit they do not know they have ever had a prayer answered.; hence. these have not learned something" to be conscious that in response to prayer they have come to believe themselves forgiven of their sins. A great many of them doubt even this. Those in doubt can learn. nothing, for the promise is to those who pray believing.
 When we go to friend for a loan of money it is surprising how often we are turned down; and if we are wise we discover the mistake was ours not the friends. Nobody in the for friendship has no record as producer of dividends. Those who depend upon friendship even for a cue oftenest find that Friendship" is not even a dependable adviser, Friend ship Is one of the indefndable things of life-one of the things we realize the worth of most fully when it has his friends as if there was a possi- bility that they might become his en- emies.' Condolences even in friend ship are tra-habardous. The busi- ness mans creed reads thus: There is no friendship in trade. I may give you what l please: but in trade I must treat you as I treat everyone else" If we expect to keep friends we must have care what we expect of them. To keep a friend we must be able to. forgive much and expect lit tie. The friend who has made the 4I,s, T Al friend in need" the one who does good without thought of reward.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

King Constantine of Greece appears to be giving all the cabinet makers a tryout.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

imagine, don't you, that the man who faces death with a consciousness that he never injured any person in this world has totally overlooked him. self Some one has said: When duty calls deafness becomes epidenic.' Everything must await our conven- fence or comfort. We ask ourselves if it will pay to respond; or else what will our friends think of it. We all daily when we should be prompt we hedge when we should be candid. This is why, where there is a right way and a wrong way. the average man goes wrong. No man can hurt LIS as bad as we can hurt ourselves by crushing our own spirit, by suppress
 ing the best that is in us. Do you not suppose we are injuring others when we fail 10 come up to our mate standard of honesty or honor? We make a poor example of ourselves, to say nothing of the loss of power. which is 8 loss of manhood. Who ever Fear prevents from acting hon estiy he is making a craven of. The world would be a better place to live in if we were all true to ourselves.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

In spite Of the excellent care our medical guardians take of US thero were never more defectives upon the earth than there are today. There is really no evidence that a physically perfect man exists. When school children are examined over 30 900 in every 100000 show some physical i'm perfection; and if under-nutrition is taken into account. one-half of the whole number show physical or men tai impairment. When men are called to defend the flag of nearly 800 only 179 were recently accepted as depend able for service, Not one in four came up to the standard: and at this rate of the 20 million men representing this nation, not five million can be depended upon to defend the flag. If this had been the condition of Amer jeans in the days of Washington, there could have been no American repub- lie. What is the cause of this? The changes made in our systems of labor and a low wage system which is in sufficient to keep the family up to standard of healthful activity; and our cxcesses and unsanitary condi- tions which claim million victims year and cost the people over five bil-
 lion per annum.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

"The man who does rot love praise" said Henry Ward Beecher. "is snot full man." But praise is not f1attery altho' both seem to bear the same brand. Praise which fits recognized merit Is the kind Beecher was allud- ing to; but the praise backed by selfish motive and constructed upon a web of deceit is only worthy of con- tempt. It is not so easy to tell them apart, if they may be so distinctly de. fined. Praise and preaching are not always exactly what they seem to be. We know there are men who become so fond of praise that they venture to praise themselves, exciting the ad- miration of the few and the disguist of the many. True praise is always voiced nodestly-it doesn't like the blare of trumpets. Ben Franklin posted this maxim for the benefit of his fellowmen: ''Self-praise goes but 8 little ways" and time has revealed that they needed it. It is not safe to love praise too well, Beechers con- fession that he loved praise indicates how intensely he must have suffered under severe criticism.
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tool of despotism, Thomas Hutchin- son." As can be seen, the good folk of that time were pretty hot, consequently in no frame of mind to welcome any stranger the least bit suspicious
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

To know one plant from seed to seed is something which increases the power of perception and places a man in closer communion with nature than he can possibly be without such knowledge. Gardening is not simply digging in the dirt, placing the seed and food to nourish it, keeping up the conditions to make it thrive, and be- ing proud of yourself when it seems to have succeeded. There is no man who can count more failures than the so-calied wizard who plays with plants and tries to do artificially what the insects are doing naturally every day in his presence. A man who knows a plant recognizes it as one of Gods creatures, as he does the dog that follows him or the COW which furnishes his children with milk. The bone of fish was enough to reveal to Agassiz the shape of the variety it represented: the peculiarity of a new flower reveals to the man who knows his garden something of its parent age. This is why the cultivator of seedlings becomes familiar not only with floral types but floral trends; and that Horticulture becomes an inspira- tion as well as pleasure to those who engage in it. The gardener who gardens as if he were a mole gains nothing, but he who gardens as If he knew he was a son of the Creator himself becomes @ creator.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07
THE MAN WHO TALKS

It Is doubtless impossible to make the man or woman who works seven teen hours a day believe that it IS better to wear out than to rust out 1t may be true that work is a depend able cure for all maladies; but it is also true that work in excess is the cause of ten thousand miseries, of which the under worked man knows nothing. What is the need of any or us wearing out or ruSting out, When with care and moderation we may peter out. Work reveals to man not only his powers of endurance, but his skill-his capacity; and standard1Zes his worth as unit among men. We have to get down to business to get up in the world. If everybody was born hustler we should appear like race of lunatics, hence those who move with moderation maintain for us the semblance of sanity. Old moderation does not "rust out or wear out, but has 8 way of dropping out Lots or poetic sentiment have been expressed about work but it takes a genius to find the poetic essence of work. The latest gospel of the world is: Know thy work and do it." and the great est puzzle to find the work that fits.
 Too many well meaning Christians hatter themselves that they are work ing for God, and a great many ex-
 
 work for God, when their thought should be to work with Him. All sorts of insults and prosecutions have been suffered, and every kind of self sacrifice has been made for goods sake. which properly analysed Is for the sufferers sake. The common and commendable human emotions are necessary to us, but not to our Heav- enly Father who knows what was, what is and what is to be. If He is cogniZant Of the end from the begin ming He can neither be surprised nor be disappointed. He is the All in All, the Alpha and the Omega, the Just Judge, who will find every evil doer, and make the punishment fit the of fense. Our for and against are of ourselves alone We can work with the spirit and be holy as it is holy. or we may work against truth and become children of darkness. What ever we choose to do we work for ourselves. and receive what we work for.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

By this tirne horse and cart with very high scaffoldng in it for seat made it's appearance and demonstra- tions of lifting him into this uninviting vehicle being threateningly made, MT Green took the more prudent course entered his own carriage and amid shouts and hissings drove off, a DOT ton of the townspeOple following him with drums beating and horns blow ing till he was fairly outside the town limits.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07

if those who pray do not learn some
 thing it is evident they lack some thing. It is not humility so much as power that Emerson hints at, for the more we come to sense Gods power the better we understand the powers He has given us, The answer to prayer hangs upon condition: what soever you may asls believing will be granted you" To believe requires a consciousness of the presence of the Listener. which creates the devoUtness which inspires the earnestness to in-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-20
Harmony of Effocf

NEW YORK, July 12.-Harmony of
effort was the object OF meeting
here today of Republican Nominee
Hughes. Chairman Wilcox, the nation
al republican campaign committee.
the committee of senators appointed
ito handle the senatorial campaign
and members of the republican con-
gressional committee. It was the first
get-together meeting of all the forces
WHO will have control of the campaign
TO GUST Wilson and the democratic
majority in congress. Hughes ad-
dressed the meeting briefly, urging
that he would not consider republi-
can success complete unless there was
a victory in the presidential, senator
ial and congressional fights. Chair
man Wilcox entertained the commit
tee at luncheon. Hughes said he had
made no further plans for transcon-
tinental trip and indicated date at st.
Panl, heretofore reported to have been
fixed for August 9, was only tentative.
He said he hoped to have a complete
itinerary ready to announce after to-
days conference.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-20
ROWLAND ARRAIGNED;
HEARING POSTPONED
Judge McNamara Sets Bonds Of Man
Accused Of Entering Warehouse
Of Gate City Seed Co.

Arthur Rowland, arrested yesterday
on a charge Of stealing three bushel
sacks OF beans from the warehouse Of
the Gate City Seed company at SIT
Johnson street was arraigned in the
superior court, before Judge Nc
Namara, this morning at 1920, on
an information charging him with
the technical crime of breaking and
entering" He pleaded not guilty, and
his bond was set at $500 by the court
The defendant asked time to consult
with friends and to secure an after
ney before the preliminary hearing.
The court acceded TO the request, and
the date for the hearing has not yet
been set.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-20
ZAP caaes: 4s7 Deaths.

NEW YORK, July 20.-A decided
decrease in the number of new infan,
tile paralysis cases showed in reports
to the health department to-day on
what physicians regarded as the first
real test day of the week in determin-
ing the course Of the epidemic. The
new cases today numbered 119 against
142 yesterday. Thirty-one additional
deaths were reported against thirty
yesterday. With today's deaths and
new cases, the total number Of chill
dren stricken with the disease reach
ed 2,442 and the total fatalities 4S7.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-20
FOOD -
|'FA-NSsE2:

Yesterdays hero: Modest Benny
Kauff-Bcnnie came in from center
on the wing, picked UP muffed
throw and tagged out both Williams
and Mann OF the Cubs, who were In
a snarl at second because Knabe
gtood still on third.
The Pittsburgh worm, turning
Gercely, smote the Dodgers twice IN
the same place, reducing their lead
10 two and onehalf games.
The Athletics lost again.
Magce, the only regular Yankee
outfielder not on crutches, made
great catch OF long fly in the sec
Dnd game.
The Braves singled six times, drew
n base on balls and a wild pitch in
the first inning against st. Louis,
tanning over five runs. They got
i've moro for good measure.
The Giant and Cub sluggers poled
out twenty-four hits. these including
i've two-baggers and two home runs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-20
STAR WITNESS ON
STAND FOR STATE
Louis Dade Gives Testimony in Boot
Logging Cases and Is Then
Punched for Contempt.

Louis Dade. the star witness for
the state in the cases Of D. KiIIian
and Charles Williams, charged with
violation Of the state laws against the
sale Of liquor. was on the stand at
200 o'clock this afternoon in Justice
Of the Peace Whetstone's court The
jist of Dade's testimony was that he
had purchased exhibit No. I In the
case, a half pint of Old Maryland,
from Williams, one Of the defend
ants.
After he left the witness chair, he
was arrested for contempt OF court in
not appearing yesterday al the trial
when subpoenaed, and was taken 70
the police station by Chief OF Police
Hennemann- Witnesses for the de-
Tense were examined next
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-20
Far Reaching Opinion.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-1n a Tar.
reaching opinion based on complaint
of 100000 1--we stock breeders against
every interstate rail carrier in the
United States, 27S-the interstate
commerce commission today ordered
Lower minimum weight regula.
tions; higher liability valuations /;
less than two percent increases for
each fifty percent Of value in excess
of standard value; same rates on
Grated as uncrated animals in less
than carload shipments Of horses
mules, horned animals, hogs, sheep
and goats.
The commission also neld shippers
are not required to furnish attend
ants with shipments.