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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-01-15

Possibly, in some country places
such a perambulating saleswoman may
be welcome, as she brings supplies
which the woman of the house can
not get to the store to buy; but this
Is only a very remote and rare con-
tfngency in these days of trolley lines
and automobile trucks and delivery
wagons and parcels post service.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-01-15

time; but being one Of these volatile
characters who jump from one idea
or scheme to another quickly and fire.
quently, she did not long harbor any
resentment toward me-
But felt IL in my bones that Lizette
had not been permanently suppressed;
hence / was not surprised when, after
some months, she wrote to impart a
new project.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
SYRUP OFF|GS FOR
A CH|LDS BOWELS
Ut is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Il IrAA EL
Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose mother insisted
on-castor Oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found-
ed. Their tender little "insides'' are
injured by them.
II your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" It's
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that a t%easpoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row,
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle
OF California Syrup of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
REMODELING READY-MADEs.

short when a remade hem would rem
edy the matter is decidedly u o
place.
AS for blouses. which one seldom ha
|remoue1ed In the shops, the work OF
them is rather exacting, but not trul!
difficult. To begin with. the sleeves
especially In these days OF lont
Ely in a taffeta or other silk blouse, th
cuff is hemmed back and can be mad,
shorter or longer there. In a lac
blouse, a band Of insertion can b.
let in the sleeve to lengthen it; tt
shorten either a lace or a silk sleev,
half a dozen or more small tucSs caI
be run at the inside bend OF h ell
bow.
Then the collar must be made Il
fit. This is more difficult han re.
modelling the sleeve, but with q Httlt
ing else suggests itself, band d
black velvet ribbon can be worn Owe
the collar This should be made t
snap shut at the back In the neates
manner. and it will cover quite smart
" a little deficiency ofgthe cellar be
meath it. IA o~pen-necked blouse, o
course. does not present this difficulty
Sometimes q cheap blouse can b
much improved by o few stitches. TIL
lining of net ~ be edged with d lit
tie narrow lace that You may happel
a strip Of flesh-colored chiffon yo,
have on hand. Some beHutifm button
that you rip from an Old flock may b
just the thing to take the place OF tn
| cheap buttons on this new blouse. 1
there Is q bow OF unbecoming colo
Ion the blouse, 1t can be steplaced wit
q DOW of becoming cclor.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06

tween the authorities and the Hotel
keepers association the change should
be made fairly universal within 10
years. Hotels and restaurants in the
better governed cities should be con-
forming within five years.
Typhoid carriers, while not them
selves sick, constantly harbor typhoid
bacilli. Practically it is impossible to
prevent the hands OF a carrier from
becoming soiled by typhoid bacilli.
Therefore typhoid carriers should not
be allowed to work as walters and
cooks. There are trades at which they
can work with reasonable safety to the
community.
The third step in this program will
be to bar persons suffering from vene-
real diseases from works as cooks and
walters. The proprietor of one large
hotel told me moro than four years ago
that he excluded sufferers from vene-
real diseases from the kitchen of his
hotel. The New York procedure goes
this far. So does the Milwaukee pro-
posal. 1t is a good guess that this third
step is not far in the future. So much
of a cure of a yenereal disease as is
necessary to make a cook or waiter
safe from the standpoint of the pa
irons of the hotel or restaurant can be
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
Harrn Done by Hertzian Waves.

Harm Done by Hertzian Waves.
Ever since the extensive commercial
enjoyment OF wireless telegraphy,
there have been many who believe
that the powerful Hertzian waves se-
riously affect organic life. In fact,
some have even suggested that laws
or regulations should be enacted to
protect organic life against wireless
wayes With a view TO determining
the extent and nature Of the radio
waves influence on organic life and
climate. Dr.. g. Abel-Musgrave recent
" asked several questions on the sub
ject to be- answered by a number Of
prominent German scientists. The
summary Of their answers was that
wireless W. have no influence on
organic life. Q do they alter climatic
conditions. although 1t is true that
certain electrical STRESSED are capable
Of.acceleratfng r~ainfalls.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
Joffre Behind the Change?
From the Kansas City Star.

SaS AStiS - So&
Beginning with the failure of the Great
Anglo-French drive against the German
lines in France last September, a chain
of events has led logically up to the re-
moval of Field Marshal Sir John French
from the command of the British eNpedi-
tionary force.
The failure OF the Anglo-French drive
was a British failure solely, critics say.
staff of the British army, as a as, If
not worse, thai anything in the Boer
war. 1T was charged. In fact, it is believed
by many military experts. that If the
bined British and French drive would
have won a large section Of French ter
ritory from the Germans, possibly 1T
would have driven them almost entirely
from France
The failure Of the British staff to CO.
ordinate the movements of the British
troops cost not only thousands of lives,
but lost practically all the territory that
troops.
Just how much of the responsibility
for this terrible failure rests upon Sir
John French probably. will never be
soon as possible after the failure of the
drive, two OF General French's chief lieu
tenants resigned their commands, pefus-
ing to serve under him "for personal rea.
sons"
1t also is significant that an Anglo.
French war council was organized to co.
ordinate the. strategy of the French ant
British armies. and that General Joffrt
was raised to a rank which placed HIN
In supreme command of all the allied
troops in France
following the announcement that the Brit
ish and French governments in the wal
council had agreed completely on a flu
1ure policy, you'd indicate that Genera
the removal Of Sir John French, but hat
picked his successor.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
THE VILLAGE PLAN or FRIENDLINEss.

copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate
In a big city there is a very success
full department store that a gained
unusual success. The store started
when the big city was a small village,
and 1t has grown with the city. But 1t
has never forgotten hat it was once
a small store in a small town-and
therein, think It's owners lies its uc-
cess.
The big store in question still main
tains an air of friendly interest in all
the customers; the customers, there
fore, prefer 1t to the other stores, where
they find no friendly greeting. They
come again mi again, and they are
greeted by members of the company.
who knew their names. and go about
sf0m department to department with
them-not o%btruding on their indie
lpendence, as the floor walkers of the
Paris shops do, but simply making
them feel a friendly welcome.
There Is much to say against the
GOODNESS and frfendliness of the big
cities nowadays. Lots of marriages
come to grief simply because they be-
gin in the cold and unfriendly atmos-
phere of a big city. And it's not the
fault of the big city, usually. but the
fault of h people from the little towns
that the big city seems o n un-
interested in its inhabitants.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06

A sea captain before going down to
dinner put a sailor in charge OF the
helm pointing to the north star n
cautioning him to guide by 1t. In q
| little while the sailor came rushing
down. Captain. captain! GIVE me
another star, / have got away Deyond
the n o pointed out"
Just SO we Ia gotten away beyond
many of the old writer's. Even though
the youth, speaking d~isparagingly OF
Solomon's proverbs was brought up
standing by a grave gentleman .sug-
| costing that he sit down and write a
few proverbs himself, there are plenty
of others who indulge in this thought
less criticism. But wisdom is JuStlfled
of her children still.
Many of the socalled "enormities' OF
Herodotus are being wonderfully
ironed out smooth and clear by the
discoveries of modern archaeologists
just as the mistakes of Moses, heralded
by orators and scientists socalled are
being proved incorrect. The stars in
their courses, the buried records OF
ages, the TRANSACTIONS of old cunieforms
are tcstifyilIg to the truth of the Mosaic
writings. to the marvellous history of
observation-disclosures, to other wonders
which men had delighted to discredit.
When Kepler wrote his Astronomia
Nova, in 1909, he was told that no.
body would believe what he said, that
lcDo0S -Woulu bsldciSluIh I'LL "f"
that anyway. he was hundreds of years
ahead of his time. Kepler replied:
IF God could wait 5000 years for man
to discover these things, surely l a
wait a few hundred years for men TO
understand and appreciate my book"
A man was once dilating to DR..
Johnson about a book and ended by
saying, FEY men, If any, in the world
could write so and So" "Oh, yes" said
Johnson, there are many men. many
women and many children who could
write it,
We smile at the ponderous pomposity
of Johnson'S Rambler and RaSselas
and have small patience with Addi-
sons lingering sweetness long drawn
out. but there are great thoughts
wrapped UT in their multitude of
words.
I was just reading Addison's Vision
of Mira" which, condensed somewhat,
nay not be unpleasant nor Improbable
reading in this advanced day.
The author represents himself as
having picked up some oriental manu-
scripts in grand Cairo, one of which he
translates substantially as follows:
Il assembled the high hills of Bag
dad to give the day to rest, meditation
and prayer. Looking toward the sum
init Of a rock j saw one habited as a
shepherd playing on a pipe or reed. The
sounds were SO exceeding sweet that
my heart seemed to melt in rapture.
II drew near with reverence and he
took my hand, saying, Mira, I have
heard of your ~soliloquies come with
me-
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
THE VISION OF MIRZA
SOMETHING IN rAE OLD WRITER'S. AErge ALL.

Leading me to the top of it's highest
rock, he said, Look eastward and tell
me what thou seest.' To which / re-
Piled, L see a valley with a prodigious
tide of water rolling through it.
That valley is the vale of misery,
and the water is the great tide of
eternity
Why / asked, does the tide rise
out OF a thick mist at one end and is
lost in a thick mist at the other?'
'You see. simply the portion of
eternity, called time, measured by the
sun and reaching from the beginning
of the world to it's contamination. You
see a bridge in the middle of the tide.
That represents human life. 1t con-
sists of 70 arches entire, and several
broken, in all about 100. 1t had 1000
arches at first, but q great lood swept
away the rest. | saw multitudes of
people crossing the bridge and many
dropped through into the water and
disappeared. There were many trap
doors, which, being trod upon, opened,
and the passengers dropped from view
Immediately
"A very few people hobbled along
on the broken arches, but fell through,
one after another, being quite spent.
Many or the people seemed to be chas-
ing b which they no sooner APP
peared to reach than he'll footing
tailed and down they sank
My guide, seeing me muse, said, If
there is anything you do not UNDER
stand, tell me-
II asked, What mean those multi
tudes of birds lowering over?'
They are envy, jealousy, malice,
avarice, love, fear, despair
ALAS said l, Man is made in vain.
Tortured in life and swallowed up in
DEATH
LOOK no more on the bridge said
my guide, but into the thick mist, in
to which the tide bears the generations
which fall into it.
Il looked and saw the valley open
ing into an immense ocean with a rock
of adamant running through it and
separating it into two parts. A black
cloud oyerhanging and obscuring one
part while the other was filled and
covered with beautiful islands, with
trees and fruit, birds and flowers, and
people dressed in brilliant attire. Glad
ness grew upon me-"
These said my guide, are the
mansions of good people after death
Every island is a paradise. Are they
not worth contending for, oh, Mira? p
II looked upon the sight with ir-
repressabIe pleasure. At length I said.
Tell me, I heseach you, the secrets of
the other side of The rock of adament.'
Receiving nc answer I repeated the
question, turning to look at my guide,
but he was gone. and instead of the
bridge and the rolling waters and the
happy islands were the sheep and oxen
nj caInels grazing in the valley OF
Bagdad."
| Z. E. LEWIS.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
TRADE REVIVAL IN
WESTERN CANADA
Not a Myth but an Actually
Shown in the Returns OF Az
ricuIturaI Statistics and
Every Department of
Trade and Com
merCe.

The trade revival in Manitoba, Sass
katchewan and Alberta is an actuality
and not a myth. There is today a
spirit of optimism in the air, Just as
two years ago there prevailed the OPP
posite spirit of pessimism.
A general trade revival has been
felt in every department of business in
the Prairie Provinces. The agricul-
turists are in better shape than they
have ever been before in their lives.
No farmers Of any country are in bet
ter financial condition and in a more
general state of prosperity than are
the farmers of Manitoba, Saskatche-
wan and Alberta. The farmers have
harvested a record crop-a crop which
enriches them to the extent Of some
thing over $500, 00o, 000.
In the cities the prosperity Of the
country has been reflected. Every
where business is on the hustle. The
wholesalers and the retailers and the
implement dealers find business good.
The banks and other collection houses
find collections satisfactory, and fnan-
cial men declare that w~esterners are
paying up their debts. In Winnipeg
the bank clearings have been the larg-
est in history, exceeding some weeks
the figures of Montreal and Toronto.
The grain shipments have been the
biggest In the history of Winnipeg and
in the history of the twin ports, Fort
William and Port Arthur. The mail
order houses have had a big year, the
rush of fall orders exceeding all previ-
GUS years and taxing the capacity of
these establishments, whose most san
guine expectations have been exceeded
by the actual business done.
The tide has turned in western Can.
ada. The people of the West are
forging ahead, forging ahead in actual
production and in creation OF wealth,
giving generously to charitable and
other funds, paying up their back
debts, while going along carefully as
regards any creation Of new debts.
They are economizing but not scrimp-
Ing, acting cautiously but not misery.
The financial heads Of eastern Canada,
of the United States and of Europe are
40 longer criticfzing western Canada:
rather they are unstintedly offering
their praise and their compliments.
The financial press recognizes that
The tiGe has turned in western Canada.
and 1t has been published to the world.
The condition Of western Canada at
The close of 1915 is one of optimistic
prosperity, backed by the same deter
mination Of western people to go on
Increasing their productiveness and
maintaining the records which they
lave already established.
The trade revival Of western Canada
8 the happiest feature In the business
urvey of the whole Dominion for 1915
md in the outlook for 1916.-Adver-
isement.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
CLEAN COOKS AND WATERS.

Probably the next sanitary advance
will be in better sanitary standards
among cooks and walters. The reason
for this statement is the fact that the
National Hotelkeepers' association has
Joined with health departments in
seeking to bring 1t about. They are
reported to have decided that hotels
and restaurants should and their mem
bers will provide ample bathing facil-
tiles for their cooks and walters. Fur
thermore, that every o ok and waiter
should be required to take a daily body
bath. and toilet OF the hands and face
must be attended to scrupulously.
This Is not far enough to 60, but it
represents a beginning n it Is a
step which OF itself has much merit
Some people car so around typhoid
Some lie in cholera infested cities n
do not contract cholera. Some habi-
tually associate with persons in the
contagious stage of venereal disease
without becoming infested.
For these facts there are at least
two reasons. One lis that individuals
vary in susceptibility. The other is
that individuals vary In their standards
OF cleanliness, particularly OF the hands
and face. A very cleanIy maj may
contract finger borne typhoid fever,
but the probability is against 1t.
Thu action by the Hotelkeepers' as
ISOLATION will protect some of their pa
irons from some infectious cooks and
waters. Possibly when the hotelkeep-
ers meet next yea they will take the
next step. That is. they will pass a
resolution in favor OF testing every
cook and waiter by a Vidal test to de-
termine IL he lis capable of spreading
typhoid fever. The test is %inexpen-
sive and easily applied.
The New York city health depart
ment is at present enforcing an exam
ination OF cooks and walters. The Mil
waukee health department has such an
ordinance before its city council. Be-
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06

From the Chicago Herald

From the Chicago Herald.
The events of recent years in Europe.
and especially of the last is months, have
greatly impaired the confidence of think
ing men in international agreements as
safeguards of right or preventiyes of
wrong. They have seen too many of them
d~isregarded under various pleas of imme-
The United States has not. however,
yielded to the European bad habit of re-
garding a treaty engagement as merely "a
scrap of paper" Because 1t has not the
towns of Hibbing and Chisholm in Mime
sofa are about to be freed from the social
Influences Of the open saloon, whether
they like 1t or not. The treaty engage
ments Of the United States so require.
Away back In 1866 the United States
made an agreement with certain Indian
tribes regarding the lands on which these
one forbidding the sale of liquor on these
lands. When these towns grew up as a
result of iron ore discoveries the treaty
was ~disregarded by their denjzens. But
ignoring the Law did not repea1 1t any
more than similar conduct on the part Of
many mayors Of Chicago repealed q law
Of Illinois,
The question having been raised. the
| supreme court found the treaty of 1855 in
! effect. Last week Federal Judge Morris
at Minneapolis dissolved a restraining or
Illegal questions involved, leaving the In
dian bureau free to enforce the treaty.
The treaty engagements OF the UNIFIED
| States Of America, even though made
| with s.savages,s are not scraps OF paper
| And that's another reason for Americans
| being proud of their country. especially
1 when they look at some other countries
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
swiss Develop Toy Industry.

Swiss Develop Toy Industry.
In Switzerland the toy industry has
recently been developed to a consid-
cradle extent. Various organizations
In different parts of the country have
Joined hands with a view of increasing
lts efficiency and of encouraging and
facilitating the expectation of it's prod
bets. Important orders have already
been filed for France and England.
Some firms alone have produced hum
dreds OF new models in wood and in
pasteboard. and lore are being added
daily. The industry is to be now In
= position to take care of a large for
eign demand and to supply many Of
the needs Of the United States.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06

senator Paul o. Husting of Wis
eonsin will be one of the members of
the senate who will line up on the
side of the president on prepared
ness, it is said. He has plans for
certain other progressive legislation.
Senator Husting was born in Fond
du Lac. Wisconsin, September rs,
1866. He is a lawyer by profession
and was elected to the Wisconsin
state senate in 1906 and 1910.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
What Was the Attraction?

What's become of that young mar
who used to call on you, Ethe1?" asked
one bosom friend of another.
George Macpherson, do you mean?'
answered Ethel coldly.
Eyes, he was always calling at your
aouse, wasn't he?"
81 can't understand Kim" said Ethel.
with a confidential air. He came
around every night for three weeks
yes, and then"
Then he stopped coming. and l
can't decide whether he came to sec
me or simply to hear all our graphic
phone records"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
TAKE SALTS TO FLUSH
KIDNEYS If BACK HURTS
Which Clogs the Kidneys and
irritates the Bladder.

Most folks forget that the kidneys,
like the bowels, get sluggish and clog
ged and need a flushing occasionally.
else we have backache and dull misery
in the kidney region, severe head
aches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver.
acid stomach, sleeplessness and all
sorts OF bladder disorders.
You simply must keep your kidneys
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in the kidney
region, get about four n Of Jad
Salts from any good drug store here.
take a tablespoonful in a glass OF
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from tho
acid Of grapes and lemon Juice, COM
bined with iithia, and is harmless to
flush clogged kidneys and stimulate
them to normal activity. 1t also neu-
tralizes the acids in the urine SO it
no longer irritates, thus ending blad-
| der disorders.
Jad Salts is harmless: inexpensive:
makes a delightful efferEescent iithis-
water drink which everybody should
take now and then to Keep their kid
aeys clean, thus avoiding serious COM
plications.
"a welI-known local druggist says he
sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who be-
Neve IN overcoming kidney trouble
while + is only trouble.-Adv.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06

Not Gray Hairs but Tired Eyes
make us look older than we are. Keer
your Eyes young and you viii look young
After the Movies Murine Your Eyes. Don't
tell your age. Murine Eye Remedy Co.
Chicago, Sends Eye Book on request.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06

For education motion picture shows
and cooking demonstrations where
electricity is not available the Louis
lana state university has equipped an
automobile with a generator.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06

Dverting the Funds.
Jacks father sent him money to
hire a tutor"
.WeN?"
HE hired a chauffeur--sald that
was the kind OF tooter he needed"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06

Experiments are under way in Eng.
land with a new fuel for automobiles
that is made from sugar refinery refuse
and is said to have greater power than
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-06
discharged

What's the new office boys name
Gum"
Fire him"