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Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01
hearty thankfulness.

hearty thankfulness.
 Perhaps it Is the fault of the race, to spend the closing night of the Old Year too much in watch night medita- tion on the appointments, failures and follies which have been recorded since the last January first, rather than in counting the real blessings and upliftings during that same period-
 Meditation is good. of course. The oiogians all tell us that the first and requisite step toward reform is the realization of ones shortcomings. It was only after the Prodigal Son had spent a time in meditation, taking thought with himself, we are told, that the benign resolution came to him, T will arise, and go unto my father!' There is no such salutary discipline as retiring to our spiritual closet, to take first-of- January inventory, looking backward, that we may be warned by past lapses to avoid similar ones dur ing the bright New Year which stretches So invitingly ahead.
 With Patrick Henry. we may say: "Experience is the lamp by which my feet are guidedln And in the time of retrospect, the rays from Experiences lamp may and must shine on many pit falls, chasms, deadly ruts and furrows. crooked paths, swamps of folly as well dr5 SfOuSHS Ol QeSpOnQ, III WHICH, II We have not fallen, or dallied, or fingered at least we have escaped many and multiple dangers; and for this last reason we have cause for being thank ful, while we start ahead into the un- certainty of the New Year, a trif1e scared, maybe, a bit sobered by the backward vision. yet strengthened by the conviction that what we have en- dured, and suffered and escaped, and resisted, must make us wiser, more wary, gifted with more of fortitude, as we go courageously onward to face the unknown future as represented by the rosy and laughing and lusty little infant year.
 The newcomer, for all this, is nc stranger to us. Scientists have com
 puted all about him, designated his
 seasons, months. weeks, days, hours; set down in cold print which all who
 moons and stars and tides and planets; eveh made guess at what kind oi weather and crops and political and religious and social events he vii bring us.
 They have set down in the almanacs
 interesting things about the days he will have to work-and we with him and those playdays which we designate as his holidays.
 Even the very young child can look ahead to the most important changes which he will bring; after the chilling 1, days of frost and snow and ice an6 sleet, the joys of coasting and skating | and sleighbells' jingling, the tardy anG then the swift advent of spring; the
 sudden coming of summers heat anC flowers and languor and pleasures Then the almost unexpected slipping | in of autumn, to color the world II 1 the gayest of hues, all too quickly
 winter again. and the expectancy of ( new heir, another New Year.
 There are the visions of seedtirne ans harvest. There is the surety of sorrow
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

IL ig a significant fact in connectio1. with the growth of Eagtern Ccrnecti- cut that this sssue of The Bulletin in setting forth the advancement Of this part of the atate contains the nrst double page advertisement that has ever appeared in tiiis city. It indi- cates that the advertisers are keeping up with the times, that Tie Bulletin has ti1n facilities with which Co ac- cofnnaodate them and that they know tte importance of rea0fins Eac rsrd- Ing pubgtct
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01
The War a Year Ago Today
Dad. 1, 1s15.

 Russian invaded Hungary, split ting Austrain army by their oper- atlone In Carpathians.
 Russians in East Prussia driven acroes border into Polish province of SuWaiki.
 Turks invaded Russia but failed to snvelcp Russian forces.
 British hattleship Formidable tcrPdoed and sunk in the English channel, 600 ioot.
 German aeropIanss honbarded Dunkirk again.
 Rockefeller Foundation bought e,10Qoo0 hushels of Whenk in chi- Turks captured fortified Rua-. sian town of Ardahan.
 Arrest of four German reserv- iate on liner in New York harbor reeultsd in exposure Of big ffaudu- Iefft passport plot.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

Even though President Wilson has named republican as ambassador to Mexico, 1t is the qualifications of the man rather than his politics which should count In dlling such offices.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

Strange how it is possible to go from one year to another by simply shifting calendars.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

After getting the expression of two town meetings there can be little doubt as to how Norwich feeis about the idea of establishing medical super vision in the schools.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

There would be something sad about the passing of the old year if there were not brighter hopes held out by the new.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

A lot of people will get much sat- isfaction out of the fact that 1916 did not open on a Friday.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

The man on the corner says: It is the fellow who keeps his good reso- lutions to himself who forestalls any adverse criticism later.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

It requires all a persons energies and wits these days lodging the mean and merciless grip germs.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

There would be greater welcome for the new year if there was an assur- ance that 1t would bring the end of the terrible strife in Europe.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

Lord ever created. When excited to vengeance bee is the one creature that makes no note of the size of the enemy, and when disappointed in love drops down and dies. It exterminates. the lazy, and when it dies always leaves a surplus, of sweetness as an evidence of it's industry and good will. Pooling with a bee may be per ilous, but being with a fool is weary some and degrading. Of course, a bee was not made to fool with; had he been he would not have been equipped with enough temper to out fit a bull. Men pet elephants and crocodiles and tigers, but there is no such thing as tanning @ bee. Their first state is not worse than than their last, nor their last state worse than their first.
 Imagination has been pictured as the ruler of our dreams, and it cer- tainIy is the originator of half the worlds miseries. It is one of the things man must be master of, or it will master him. We must beware ture may please or irritate us. Habit gives imagination shape and violence or beauty. Shakespeare says: "The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact" It holds up to us a glorious vision, or a pie lure or despair. and we can accept or reject either; it introduces us to hope or despondency as we will; it magni- fies mortal needs, or pictures our spiritual desires; it is debasing or en- nebling as we we may will. Imagina- tion is a faculty not a quality and should be ruled by the mind. It in- spires us to look up with hope, faith and joy. Imagination can intensity disease or blast hope. It must be sub ject to reason or it has power to destroy. It can stray wherever light leads. or conjure up all the imps of darkness.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

To each and every one The Bull letin wishes a happy and prosperous New Year.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Passing from the old to the new wasn't so much of a stride after all.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

lt was Mrs. sprisgins who said: T would rather fool with a bee than be with fool" It is fair to assume that she did not enjoy anything ab- normal or monotonous. but she could find pleasure with something normal and lively. A bee is one of the fine- est parcels of compressed energy the
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

On the face of it. this is a bit un- grateful to the year which has just expired, forgotten, while Tickle crowds were acclaiming his baby successor.
 Few of us there are who cannot look back over the twelfvemonth, yet fail to recall some merry, if not some happy and fortunate moments.
 It must be a dull, dismal existence, in truth, which has not been frightened by at least a stray gleam of pleasure, exciting happy recollections. if not
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01
THE OLD YEAS vs. THE NEW

(written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 By; this time many threats are hoarse as the result of noisily welcoming the New Year; there has been great and mighty wind caused by the turning over of new leaves, and the new baby, little Nineteen Sixteen. is rapidly set ting down to his place in the worlds household.
 Were it not for the figure, this par ticular New Year would not differ in many essentials from the new years which have preceded him. But for some reason hope is born in every mind with the dying of each December and the birth of each new January; and no matter what slings and arrows of outrageous fortune poor human beings may have encountered during the twelve months just fitted away, they look up cheerful1y and remark: Well the New Year is certain to bring us better fortunei',
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-01

Norwich. Saturday, Jan. 1, 1916.
The midland journal., 1916-08-11
Make Hand erenades Now.

The number of accidents in British
factories during the year 1915 was
2O6 above the average for the last ten
years, according to the annual report
of the inspectors of explosives.
The number Of deaths in manufac-
ture was p and the number of per-
sons injured in factories during the
year was ITO, SO of these cases being
of trifling nature. In view of the
vast increase in the number of per-
sons employed in the manufacture of
explosives, this result may be regard
ed as fairly satisfactory.
Very little work has been done In
ordinary fireworks, nearly all the fac
tories having been engaged in filling
hand grenades or in making signals
for war purposes. This work they
were specially fitted to carry out, and
they have thus been enabled to keep
going at a time when the public pro-
hibition of firework displays would
have compelled them to close down.
The midland journal., 1916-08-11
GERMANS LOSE
BEFORE VERDUN
French Recapture FIeury and
System Of Trenches.
GAIN OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
Success Of the Terrific Drive Gives
the French Footway on Two
Of the Most important
Heights.

London.-The French counter-offen-
sive northeast of Verdun reached its
climax in powerful blow which has
resulted in the complete recapture of
F7eury and the whole system of highly
organized defenses from southeast Of
Thiaumont to the Froid Terre Ridge.
After series of almost uninter-
rupted attacks on the four-mile front
from the Meuse to the woods west OF
Damloup, the French concentrated all
their power in a tremendous thrust
on the one-mile 1'hiaumont-F Fleury line
They smashed forward on this front
for a distance of about a quarter of a
mile through the most powerful field
works on the western front. They
tooF $50 prisoners.
The village of Fleury was attacked
from two sides, the northwest and
southeast. In previous attacks the
French had advanced as far as the
ruined railway station, against furi-
Gus resistance. Then, after the big
guns had been given time to clear
a path, the infantry again swept for
ward, this time to complete victory,
All the gains made by the Germans
in their recent attacks have been
swept away. In an attack simultane-
Gus with that on Fleury, the French,
in the Chenois sector, drove the Teu-
tons from the trenches they had seized
in this wooded region, capturing more
prisoners. Berlin previously had adj
mitted the loss of ground recently
taken in Laufee Forest.
In three days the French captured
more than 1.750 unwounded prisoners.
They have also taken large quantity
of military supplies. But from all indi-
cations they have done far more than
that With the descent of the lull on
the Somme the Germans seriously re-
sumed their operations against Yer
dun, They had large forces at their
disposal and all of their powerful ar
tillery But before they could get well
under way the French launched their
counter-offensive. In other words,
they beat them to the punch
The French have regained a foot
ing on two of the most important
heights which look down on Verdun-
Pepper Hill and the Froid Terre, The
crest of the former is a No Mans
Land, being constantly swept by shell
fire. But from the latter the Germans
hold ARTILLERY control of the heart Of
Yerdun. They made much of the cap
ture of Froid Terre, declaringsit it the
most important position on the north
eastern front.
The midland journal., 1916-08-11
For Pleasure and War.

AS an indirect result of the valu.
able service rendered by power boats
during the conflict abroad, some little
attention has been aroused in this
country to the ACCESSIBILITY of organic
ing ''mosquito fleet" for mine patrol
and scouting duties. A plan contem-
plating the registration of all pleasure
craft of this kind, so that they might
be available for service in an event OF
war, has even been proposed. OF late,
however, another step has been taken
in this direction which is particularly
significant and interesting. According
to Popular Mechanics Magazine, sew
eral Fasteners are having "scout
boats built for their private use.
These have been designed by naval
architects, and are not merely suit
able, but in part equipped. for naval
purposes and would be practically
ready for immediate use If necessity
should ever require that they be
turned over to the navy department
The midland journal., 1916-08-11
BEATEN. BACK
FROM SUEZ CANAL
Turks Are Put in Utter Rout by
the British.
5000 ARE MADE PRISONERS
Heavy Guns Are Hauled Across the
Desert BY oxen-ReIays Of PIanks
To Keep Wheels From Sink
ing Into the Sand.

London.-The most recent attempt
of the Turks to reach the Suez Canal
has proved an even greater failure than
the earlier reports indicated Lieuten-
ant-General Sir Archibald James Muir
ray, commander of the British troops
In Egypt, reports that besides taking
more than 5000 prisoners in the battle
with the Turks at Romani his forces
inflicted very heavy losses on them
and had continued the pursuit of the
retreating troops for 18 miles, clearing
the Turks from the Katia Basin
Military writers are unable to
fathom the reason why the Turks ven
tured upon their attack. The only CON
clusion reached is that the Turkish
military authorities were misled as to
the British preparations for the de-
Tense Of the canal and hoped to make
an impression on the rebellious Arabs
who are extending their hold on inn
portant places in Arabia.
Turks Were Brave.
The Turkish advance as far as
AtSAAoh1 Wdo A1AouS III ClO IdC6 u IliG
greatest difficulties, their six-inch guns
being dragged across the desert by
oxen after relays of planks had been
placed to prevent the wheels sinking
into the sand.
The net results Of the battle of
Romani are the destruction of more
than one-fourth of the Turkish eff
fectfves and the pushing of the re,
mainder out into the blazing desert be-
yond the Katia oasis" said Major-Ge
eral F. B. Maurice, director Of military
operations of the imperial general
staff, in explaining the significance of
the latest operations in the Near East.
You will recall" he continued,
that in the previous attack on the
canal we were busily engaged else
where. Consequently we were acting
on the defensive in Egypt in positions
prepared for that purpose behind the
canal
The Turks not only made frontal
attack on our entrenched positions,
but attempted to get around our left
flank. Our artillery, infantry and cav
airy. co-operated not only in repelling,
but in attacking the enemy"
The midland journal., 1916-08-11
EASEMENTS BODY HELD.
British Authorities Refuse To Turn
It Over To Relatives.

London. British vengeance pur-
sued Roger Easement, former British
knight and consul, who was hanged
in Pentonville Jail for high treason,
even after death, for when Gavin
Duffy. his solicitor during the trial,
made plea that the body be turned
over to relatives, it was refused. Ac-
cording to the custom in the case Of
prisoners hanged for crimes similar to
that of Easement, the body is buried
in quicklime in the prison yard, but
no decision as to this was expected
till after the inquest.
The midland journal., 1916-08-11
WITH
GAS AND FIRE
Battle Grows Desperate on the
Western Front.
BRITISH LINE IS ADVANCED
Despite TWO Fierce counter-Attacks
In Which the Germans Used Fiery
Liquid and Ncxious Gases.
The British Advance.

London. After defeating two strong
German counter attacks, in which fiery
liquid and noxious gases were used as
q screen for the attacking troops, the
British resumed their forward move
ment Striking east of Pozieres. along
the road to Bapaume, Austrian and
territorial troops advanced the British
lines further toward the heights of
Martinpuich crest Of the vast plateau
across which the battle is being fought.
They are now within mile and half
of this their immediate objective.
From Martinpuieh the British artillery
would have control of the wide sweep
to the eastward, which leads down to
Bapaume
Through the vast work of trenches
which criss-cross this gently-relling
terraine, the British fought their way
inch by inch The Germans have or
ganized the ground until for miles it is
labyrinth of bitches and dugouts, and
progress is necessarily slow.
Through earlier attacks north of
Bazentin Lepetit and in the Foreaux
woods, behind the advanced trenches
of the German third line, the British
have succeeded in advancing their
front on tYo-mile sector until the
sharp angle at Foureaux has been CON
siderably widened and is now a gradual
curve which eliminates the peril Of att
tack from three sides to which it pre-
yiously had been exposed
The German counter-attacks in the
Pozieres sector were launched after a
continuous bomBardment which ex-
tended along the greater part Of the
front between the Ancre and the
Somme.
The first attack was largely sue
cessful The flaming liquids forced
the British to evacuate a considerable
portion of trenches; then began the
slow and arduous task of regaining the
lost ground The English troops were
so successful in this that General
Haig notifies the War Office that all
but about 40 yards of the position has
been regained. The second German
attack proved a complete failure. The
British artillery was ready and its curs
tain Of fire broke up the advancing
German ranks.
The battle at Verdun again resolved
itself into duel of artillery. Follow
ing sharp fighting on the front north
east of the city the infantry seized
moment of rest and neither side at
tempted an attack.
In the night fighting the French
claim to have considerably enlarged
their captured positions northwest of
Thiaumont, while the Germans report
further progress in the Chapitre
Woods. More than 800 prisoners have
been taken in the fighting, Berlin an
nounces.
Paris critics declare that the Ger
man stroke at Verdun has been COM
pletely forestalled by the French
counter blow. After four days of
fighting the French have extended
their front somewhere in the key Sec
tor of Thiaumont-F1eury
The midland journal., 1916-08-11
FIVE BANDITS GET $4,000.
Hold Up Paymaster At Detroit, Shoot
Guard And Flee.

Detroit, Mich. = Five automobile
bandits, who held up the paymaster
and armed guard of the Burroughs
Adding Machine Company and made
away with between $4,000 and $4,000
after shooting and slightly injuring
one man, apparently have eluded sew
eral machine loads of policemen sent
in pursuit Eleven machines, f1lled
with officers, were sent securing the
country in every direction after fruit
less northwesterly chase Of sc miles.
The midland journal., 1916-08-11
PAPER OF COTTON STALK.
Royal Material Testing office OF Ger
many Finds Substitute.


many Finds Substitute.
Berlin. The Royal Material Testing
Office at Gross-Lichterfelde, suburb
of Berlin. announces the interesting
discovery that paper can be manufac-
tured from cotton stalks.
The discovery is not considered of
much importance for Germany, which
produces no cotton, but is pointed to
as Of vast importance to the United
States, the greatest producer of cot
ton in the world, because of the short
age of paper reported in that country.
The discovery was made, it is stated
by German institution while carry
ing out commission from an
Egyptian firm, given before the war
A shipment of stalks. which had ar
rived from Egypt before the opening
Of hostilities, was used for the expert
ment
The stalks were cut and ground
boiled and b1eached, and the paper
making then proceeded after the usual
methods. The result caused the test
ing office to arrive at the decision that
cotton stalks are good material for
making paper.
The midland journal., 1916-08-11
ASQU|TH
GIVES PEACE TERMS
Says Belgium and Serbia Must
Be Restored.
GERMANY is ORGANIZING
Wants Other Soil Occupied Given Up
Blacklist To Stay And ECO
nomic War To Be
Waged.

London-Greatly modified terms of
peace were suggested by Premier AS
quith in an address before the House
of Commons.
The Premier explained resolutions
adopted at the recent Allied economic
conference in Paris to combat German
commercial and financial penetration
after the war.
One of the most striking features
of the Premier's address was his omis-
sion of all mention of the restoration
of Alsaee-Lorraine as contingent of
peace
Four Peace Terms Stated.
Briefly, the terms set forth by Mr..
Asquith are:
l. Belgium must be restored and in
Identified.
2. Serbia must be restored to nation
hood. the Central Empires to pay for
the damage done.
8. The occupied sections of France
must be returned. Germany must pay
the costs of restoring the devastated
territory.
f. Occupied Russian soil must be
evacuated and indemnity paid.
In his mention of Russia, the Pre-
mier did not refer to Poland
Blacklist Till End OF War.
Premier Asquith declared that the
trade blacklist against which the
United States has protested must re-
main in force until the end of war
This, he declared, is the decision of
the Paris economic conference. The
resolutions adopted by the conference,
he said, were not intended to harm
neutrals.
"We are aware of some uneasiness
in America" said the Premier, "but
this is not justified The Allies took
these measures solely for self-defense
against economic aggression. Every
effort will be made to see that neutrals
do not suffer"
The arms with which the Entente
will fight it's trade war against Ger
many after the ending of armed hos
tilities were set forth at some length
by the Premier, who declared them
necessary for the continued economic
life of the European nations.
Says Germany Is Organizing.
Germany is already organizing her
industries to attack the allied markets
and possibly go into victorious compe-
tition through neutrals.' he said cit
is necessary to prepare to combat this.
The Paris economic conference was
held to convince the enemy that the
Allies are resolved TO wage the war
with complete unity and determine
ton in the economic as well as the
military sphere.
"The war has opened Great Britain's
eyes to the full meaning of the German
system of economic commercial and
financial penetration and the use to
which advantage would be put in war.
1t is the duty of the Allies to take
every step to secure for their own use
the supplies of their own countries and
to prevent German control. An econo-
mic system must be adopted and sufh-
cient time be given to enable arrange
ments to be concluded before peace
to prevent the danger of renewal of
the German penetration"
The midland journal., 1916-08-11
BOLT BURNS HIS BACK.
HurIs Man And Child, Leaves Imprint
OF Tree Stump.

Bloomsbury, Pain blood red there
is burned in the back of Norman
Michael the imprint of tree stump
and hundred roots, and Michael is
suffering from the burns inflicted by a
stroke of lightning. He was seated
on his porch when there was blind
ing fash and his small son, who was
on the fathers lap, was hurled across
the porch. Michael was rendered un-
consious and fell to the floor The
boy jumped UP screaming, Somebody
shot papa"
The midland journal., 1916-08-11
RATTLEsNAKE KILLS FARMER,
Strikes Him Three Times In Hand
Dies on Way To House.

Danville. Va.-Dock Belcher. farm
er of Vashti and Confederate veteran,
wasakilled on Wednesday by a rattle
snake. according to reports received
here. Belcher. saw the snake in the
grass and attacked it with stick
The reptile was more active than the
aged farmer and struck him three
times on the hand.
The farmer killed the snake, how
ever, and started to his house, but fell
and was found unconscious by two
women passing in the road