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Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23
STORIES OF THE WAR
Marvellous French Courage.

'"The world will probably never be able to realize the wonderful the marvellous courage displayed ir this war by the French soldiers" said MT. Della Tore, a Baltimore inventor who has spent several months in the oel- ligerent countries of Europe.
 How those men have fought and are fighting Those armies of France, in this war, have shown a. bravery which has been unequalled in lieve. 1t will remain unequalled for a long time to come. The spirit of those Frenchmen is wonderful--it. IS
 inspiring. They do not know the
 meaning of fear; they do know
 the truest meaning of courage!"
 By prising France in ths man ner, MT. Della Torre said he did not
 mean to discredit the spirit of the
 English people. 'England' he said
 has but one end in this war. That is
 final, complete victory Nothing else
 matters in England. The English government, the English people and the English armies have resolved to attain this end. Everything else is bein gswept aside. Aerial raids or any other particular attacks which only incidents. Englahd is not whin-
 pering, but is plugging along steadily and surely-to attain her one end" Asked when he believed that end would be atta1ned-When the StruS- gle would come to an end, MT. Della
 Torre said he looks for at least an-
 other year nd half of war. That is, of course.' he added, cir will most probably last that much longer un- less internal dissensions and erup-
 tions in Germany bring 1t to an abrupt ciose."
 Horrible effects and peculisr, re- suits have come from the Zeppelin
 raids on England" said MT. Della | Torre Some people were \blown to pieces" he said. There are many of | the victims who cannot be identified. | On one occasion the hospital at Char ] ing Cross was a veritable shambles. | Victims of the bombs were brought in | in confused masses, and until they wehe gotten inside the hospital wards l it was not known who was alive and | who was dead. The most widespread property damage, however, is done to | the windows. The glass is not blown l init is drawn out by the reflex &C.,
 ton of the explosion. The streets Tn the vicinity of a bomb explosion are | literally covered with glass;.
 Who won the North Sea Battle" l Mir Della Tore was asked.
 1 There's only one way to look at
 that" he answered. Those German
 ships ran away as fast as they could
 run. They were chased back to cover | very quickly"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23
Back From German Prison.

Vossiche zeitung (Berlin's oldest Lib-
 eral paper). July 3l.
 The Vossicke' has throughout the war specialized in information about prisoners and interned. Telegram from an English bank official, ex- changed from Ruhleben. Quoted in German:-
 To Commandant Graf gvon Schwerin.
 "On my return to London from my imprisonment in Germany I have the honor to send you and your son my most respectful greetings, to the other officers in Ruhleben, whose great personal friendliness during my imprisonment in the camp at Ruhle-- ben has deeply touched my heart. You were all most friendly and sympathe- tic to rue and assure. you that have sincerely valued your attention. My best wishes to all British prison CTS in Ruhleben, to whom you were as considerate and careful as you were to me, under diff1vult circum- stances"
 (This is follew by the address of a branch of a London bank correctly given.9 ef.s- r4'- e.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23
LENDING TO BELGIUM.

This country is in receipt of com
 munication from Germany to the ef- feet that it will not sanction any loans which are made to Belgium. This of course refers to the part which indi- viduals or institutions may take in such proceedings for there Is no thought nor possibility of govern rnent loan. It may also be taken to mean that Germany does not intend to give up such control of Belgium as it has unless it is forced to. and in case
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From the way in which they have beep wiped out of existence there will not be enough left of many of those villages in northern France and Bel gium to hold an old home week cele- bration if the idea is ever suggested.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

It would be interesting to know whether traction fighting machines which are doing so much service for the British on the Somme front bear the words 'Made in America"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

The federal authorities will not do their full duty unless they make such an example of that Chicago black mailing gang that others will De dis couraged from engaging in such prac-
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The appearance of the chain gang each day of the criminal superior court session is an excellent lesson on the wisdom of following the straight and narrow path.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23
EDITORIAL NOTES,

The early arrival of cool weather ought to make the coats of tan disap- pear in good time for the opening of the social season.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

A Constantinop1e newspaper calls the bulk of the American press hostile to Turkey. What has that country done which would tend to make ii otherwise, regardless of the side or which it is fighting?
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

The democrats admit having picked their best state ticket, which only in- dicates that the republicans will have greater cause for elation after Nov ember I.
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Won Falkenhayn's order to conserve the supply of firearms since it was be- ing exhausted faster than they can be produced, has been found. That there is also shortage of men might be indicated by the appearance of Turks on the Riga front.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

Germany announces that it will not recognize any loan to Belgium, which is not surprising, for wasn't it its own promises to Belgium which 1t long ago refused to be governed by?
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

That determined effort of the Ger mans to drive back the allies must have been an extra effort to make up for some of the rainy days.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

The man on the corner. says: When some men meet. an obstacle in their path they appear to be satisfied to lie down in the shadow of it.
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The War A Year Ago Today
September 23, 1915.

September 23, 1915.
 Russians reoccupied Lutsk in Volhynia, capturing 5000 men.
 Russians won battle at Vileika.
 Germans driven back near Pinsk behind Okinski canal.
 Austrian garrison evactuates Monte Coston. Germany in note to United States promised to observe visit and search law. French aeroplanes attacked Ger man positions in Lorraine and the Argonne.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

Two million children between the ages of 10 and 15 are employed for
 wages in the United States. tH
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 long drawn out beauty of which a season like this is caIstble. The warm days yet to come are full oi wonder if the earth still retains some of the features and the atmosphere of summer in it's full maturity, but the limbs of the trees are bare and the world has been stripped for win ter.-Waterbury American.
 In New England the death rate has not been cut down in proportion te No reason can be advanced for thls other than tue .lu4e seige of weath' CT that visited this section last win ter. As a whole, however, the country at large shows great improvement ir taking care of it's inhabitants. Good living and regular habits have also had much to do with making a lower death rate. The pace that kills has been ruled off the track of life and the l United States is a betteS' nation in l which to live.-New Britain Herald. Because of the European wal 1 Bridgeport has added to her nopula- 1 surprising manner and it now appears l that her growth in numbers is good 1 for her banks because the additions are of folk who save money. The City l Savings bank of Bridgeport has said | this week that it's deposits during the year ended September IS increased $1,800,000 in round numbers the amount being three times that of the year before. On the strength of this and less exact figures from other banks the Bridgeport papers figure an tn- crease of $600O 900 in the savings bank deposits for the year. Rridgeport's s sudden increase in population has brought it various problems but it has now evidence that at least. a part of 1 the newcomers are worth while. Gen orally speaking the working man who is saving monty it worth having % in any community.-Hartfor Courant.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23
OTHER VIEW POINTS

People who are victims of various
 "isms" are getting so fussy that the
 pristine beauty of everything will be
 soon rubbed off. The high school music teachers of New York are said
 to be seeking to have music publish
 CTS and public school teachers edit the
 negro dialect of Dixie" as sung in
 the schools, for the benefit of the chill
 dren of foreigners who are learning to
 read and write English. Let the inn
 migrants get their pure English some
 where else, but leave Dixie" in its
 pristine state, with all the charm of
 it's original setting.-Meriden Record.
 French newspapers are to be cut down one half, and that will in some cases mean a pretty serious reduction in space. But the news can be con- densed and so can the advertisements, and if the prices of the latter are not reduced the suffering will not be so poignant! In this country there are some curtailments of size among the big papers, but the shortage has not yet been very severe. In few days the issuing of the Congressional Rec ord will be internitted till next De- tasing up the paper supply of the country considerably. Bridgeport Standard.
 The wet summer brings us into mid- l September with all Nature green and 1 luxuriant. Foliage and grass show none of the effects of time. If frost held off things would show little loss 1 of shape or color for several weeks l yet Light frosts will, little by lit 1 tie, touch the fresh green leaves with l the glories of autumn. Heavy frosts 1 now or soon will spoil everything by too quick ruin, and rob death of the
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

All these interesting condolences Miss Fuller has remembered; and having lived in the very atmosphere
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

To the majority of Norwich resi- dents the Banl1er-Poet is far -off' visionary parsonage, of commanding presence, great wealth, and occupying a high place in the world of letters All these he was, and more; but be- fore he reached manhoods dignity and responsibilities and cares he was quite like every ordinary little boy, only that perhaps even in his boyhood he gave promise of the great man which he was to become. But he had all 8 boys habits and traits and facility for getting into everything" as his staid relatives complained; and when he grew to manhood he remembered all his naughty boy ways, finding amusement in some and a tinge of sorrow in others. For four years Miss Fuller was his secretary in his New York home; and since she, too, had lived at Norwich Town, in fact for a time in the very house where MT. Stednan's boyhood mad been spent, 1t was his joy to recall the days of his youth for her amusement, to reveal the childhood thoughts and Hopes and fears and pranks, which made up the active months and years of his stay under the roof of his uncle, Deacon James Stedman.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

reported as being staunchly pro ally and there is every reason to believe that should the entente allies win the struggle, he and his bride-to-be. the royal Princess Elizabeth of Rumania shall reign from the ancient capital of the Orient.
 EARLE M. WOOD. TaftvilIe, Conn, Sept, g, 1916. What Would MT. Hughes Have Done? MT. Editor: I would like to ask you for a little space in your paper. As I read the newspaper daily I find that the part that is cutting the most important figure is the Adamson bill providing eight hours as a days work. MT. Hughes is hammering, pound ing and Knocking this bill. What I would like to know is what would MT. Hughes do if he were in MT. Wilson's place? Would he let the railroad men go out on strike and tie up the coun- try? It seems to me that MT. Hughes is forgetting that the working mans vote counts.
 Yours truly,
 ROBERT GOLDSTEIN. Norwich, Sept. 21. 1916.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

The young man or the young woman who think they have more than a fighting chance in this life need take another look. The only de pendable conditions in this world are the self created conditions. The conditions we are born to are ternpor- al Hoist your faith in yourself right upon par with your faith in God, and forge ahead. If your foundation is right you do not want the hat passed for you or facoritism boost ing you to positions you are not qualified to. fill efficiently. What the live young man or woman should want is the chance efficiency opens to them. The idlers, whether rich CT poor, are not the pace makers, or world builders. It takes the thinkers and the workers to make the world a better and better place to live in. The idler just feeds and f1utters and dies and fills a grave. We all must do something to be something.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

It is good to belong to common folks, and not to act as if we are ashamed of our ancestors. Common folks today live better and are bet
 ter than were the kings of 1000 years ago. What's in a name? Would not
 the rose by any other name smell
 just as sweet?" God makes us all
 common people, and we have to make
 ourselves uncommon, not by pretence
 but by achievement. There lis no
 offence in being uncommon, the of
 fence lies in being conceitedly con-
 scious 5f it. All things in nature
 which contribute to our pleasure or sustenance are common. A true poet
 has sung: "NTo common thing is held
 apart from us, or pent with lock and
 key; but in the goodness of his heart
 God made them all for you and me.
 It always seems God loves the best,
 things he has made the commonest." :"
 The common people make the earth productive and keep the uncommon
 people from starving to death.
 If God will forgive those who ven- ture into wickedness because of this hope, such a mean Christian ought
 If there is more despicab1e form of meanness than that which encour- ages a man to be wicked for ten | hours because he has the promise of being forgiven if he asks forgiveness | in the eleventh hour we have never | heard of it. Truth and right are the | foundations of righteousness. and the I spirit of righteousness is moved by | love not by the expectation of @ re-
 ward. Is the spoilt child the only one among us who depends upon sell l fish qualification to hold them fast to truth: Truth is the magnet which | lifts all men up, not the 1odestone ot | expectation or hope. Some people mistake the magnetic power of sell fishness for the redeeming power o1 1 love, because through se1fishness they have become as blind as sticks o1
 stones. Those ivyho do right for rights sake only know the real sweetness and beauty of truth.
 If man only realized that 1t is the multiplication of his wants which in-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

1t is good man who plays the game of life fair, and this type of good men is not as numerous as most Deonle think The reason the nations of the earth are in such strife and turmoil today is because men do not play fair. The game of life will never be played fair so long as less than a hundred men can put millions of men to sIaughtering one another as they are today in Europe. The reason that less than a hundred men in this coun- try control it's finances today is be- cause the game of life has not been played fair: and the reason we have continuous labor wars is because men are not disposed to act justly toward one another. The ,so- called big men in the game of life who shuttle the cards, and always have an ace or two up their sleeves, have a great deal to answer for. The common people can not detect their tricks, but there is One who can. They should get what comfort they can here for they are l not likely to get any comfort else where.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

CWritten Specially for The Bulletin,)
 The few books of permanent value relating to Norwich and it's history will be supplemented today by an other; for it is today that the pub fishers of Miss Margaret Fuller's story of the hoyhood of Edmund Clarence Stedman are to put her book on the market.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

When it comes to booming our own town it is not likely any one of us can beat Old Dan Hanks who used to say: Well, now I Yum I know by gum! I'm right because I bel" This was his testimony about his ''cld hum town" This town is just the best on earth: there ain't one up or down, that's got onc-haf her worth;
 there ain't no other state that's good as our'n, or near; and all the folks that's good and great is settled right round here." "Dier ever travel, Dan," says I. You bet I hain't' said he. T tell yer what, the place I've got Is good enough for me- You see Dan never strayed away from home, Or travelled away from home, or did a thing the board of trade or chamber of commerce in his town could criticise, unless it was that he wore the same hat for 10 years, and the same suit of clothes about as long. He was so economical that he didn't boom trade much. The ideal boomer is the one who doesn't trade else- where, but spreads himself at home.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

Grandfather Dodge grew stony in horror and consternation. The friv olous, possessed-by Satan lad was locked up in the boot closet until Sab bath evening, when he was soundly trounced, although it was his tender hearted mother who sobbed: the child was mindful of his fathers admoni- tionsr and would not grieve her by crying. He did manage, however, during one unusually hard blow to bring up his heel with such true aim as to knock off Grandfather's specs, which were broken past mending!
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

# is a fascinating picture Which boy, still with a boys laughter and boys heart, enjoying that compan- iorship for which his heart ever hungered. and for which even his mar riage with the sweetheart of his young manhood did not cause him to cease to yearn.
 THE DICTAGRAPH
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23
THE MAN WHO TALKS

When Zacharias was advised:
 Learn to hold thy tongue" it is re- corded that he remained silent for 40 weeks, or eight times as many weeks as there were words of advice. In this Zacharias has had no equal since his day, although the statesman 'who could hold his tongue in ten different languages" must be recognized as a good second We all know folks talk too much. Doubtless you know all least one talker to whom you might say (to quote .,Shakespeare), You cram these words into mine ears against tAs stomach of my sense" Most people who are vofuble are short of ideas. Those people who in- dulge in putting words together for their sound instead of their sense never cease to be wearying. This is a good rule for us all: Speak when you have something to say; when it has been said stop" In old times the Speak when you're spoken to-" Those who learned this in their youth are in no danger of becoming buffers in. Do not yield to the temptation to free your mind" for if you do you will say too much, and perhaps much that isn't so. - at.
 It took a bright woman to discover you cannot break a law, but the law breaks you" The law is the legal thus- far and-no- farther barricade, and you may course along with it in peace and joy, but if you butt against it it will impose upon you perplexity and pain. No one but an artful lawyer can impair law, and this is some
 times done under the pretext of bet tering it. Some laws are so un- worthy of respect that no enc can be found mean enough to enforce them. It makes no difference whether you test this affirmation upon natural law or statutory law the truth of it be- comes just as apparent. It is possi- ble to commit crime within the stat utory law, or in a relation to it which checks its operation; and those who know how to legitimately rob other people are sometimes known as sharpers, and sometimes as sharks; and either name fits chem. Laws are made to break men if they do not re- spect them. If half the law in this country was cancelled, and half of the remainder arnulled, there would be twice as much law as is &C., tually necessary for the protective | of the people and promotion of gov ernment. s.-
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if man only realized that 1t is the multiplication of his wants which in-
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But the story ends happily: fo

But the story ends happily; for after his college years at Yale, his time spent in the office of The Nor wich Courier-now the weekly edition of The Bulletin--his short editorship of the Norwich Tribune which died young, and his later years of success in New York, Fate brought his mother back to him, a widow now. and cured of some of her egoism.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

Norwich, Saturday. Sept. 2s, 1916.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23

The opportunities and the obliga- tions of life persist. no matter how we "feef' about them. Above the heaviest clouds reaches the blue sky.
 ] It is the truth that a rarely beauti-
 full spirit, Maltbie Babcock expressed in familiar lines:
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-23
Delightful days were those he spent

beIf9hITui days were rhoSe ne spent about the old Green, at the brick school-house, in the old Academy, by the brook In Lowthrope Meadows, even in the ancient burying- ground, where he used to tell the boys such ghost stories as set their blood a. curdling. Bye and bye his vain moth CT married again; and her son sat proudly on the counter at Fuller's store and told of his new fathers wondrous wealth, his mothers un- matched beauty and other family af- fairs. Later the step father was ap- pointed United States Minister to Italy; the family sailed away, and once again Edmund was separated from the mother whom he adored.
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and under the same skies as did the
 gifted man whom she aided in his most important literary work, it is logical that she should manifest a rare understanding of his nature and childsoul, as she tells for the edifica- ton and instruction of interested readers the tale of his life's unfolding.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-21
CATHOLIC CLUBS ENTERED
IN AMATEUR RING TOURNEY

SlXty-two entries. representing seventeen
Catholic clubs, have been made In the an
nual amateur boxing tournament held under
the auspices OF the Catholic Young Mems
Archdiocesan Union at the National Ath.
letic Club Preliminary bouts are sChcduled
for tonight. The finals will be decided next
Tuesday night
Shanahan, VIctriN, Haywood Kayoula.
ST. Rlta's, Holy Name, immaculate Con.
ception. ST. Moncas. Corley. Enterprise.
st. GreEory's. Don BoSco, Ascension, Arch
bishop Ryan Club. st. Elizabeth's. st. Johns
and st. Edwards are tho clubs whose colors
will be carried into tho ring. Eleven en-
tries are In the iOs-pound class, ten In the
1l5. twelve in 1876. fifteen In 1876, eight
In 145 and six IN tho 15s-pound class
McGann, winner OF the June tourney in
the 1Os-pound class; p. Apoluce and John
Quincy are the favorites for their division.
Thomas Donovan and Hugh Burns. In tho
49, Mich Kelly, John Toland and Dan
Duffy 1875; Thomas OMnlloy. Roy Daley,
Andy Mcmahon and Dan Guerin. l35
Jimmy Sullivan, Joseph Palitucco, Frank
Lagut and Leo Morris, las. and John Burns
and James Jackson, 1853 are the leading
contenders for the respective titles.