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Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
THE PEACEMAKER

When the contractors foreman came home late, as usual, his wife said, 1 We're late ag'in."
 What have ye for supper?" replied the foreman.
 That's it! All ye think of is what is there to ate?' Do you know it is past o'cIock?" Its tin minutes past"
 Where have ye been?''
 ''Tve been pinched."
 q always knew that villent timper av yours would get ye into trouble. Who were ye fightin' wid now?''
 Cease yer insurrectionary discourse, woman. I was pinched bekase l was actin as a peacemaker
 Glory be! must send for Father Murphy, for if ye were actin as peace maker 'tis not long ye are for this world. What was it all about"'
 Well, this afternoon I noticed Stan ley mopin' around wid a face on him that would stop Q clock.
 Whats ailin' ye" sez l.
 That Mike Kelly sez Stanley. He make me cry he sez.
 "'An' for why?' sez I.
 He said I stole his pipe sez he.
 "Ye big boob sez I. Cease yer weepin' an use Mike for a handker- chief to wipe away yer tears I sez.
 "'Can l 60 that2' sez Stanley.
 :" Go to it. sez I. An thin Stanley makes for Mike"
 'Ihe more shame Tor yOu, Inter jected his wife. "The idy av yer settin' two min fghtin' an one av thim a daycint lishman."
 Mike is an Eytalian. His rale name is GOOseppy kelaniri, or some sich gibberish, so l christens him Mike Kelly, an proud he is av his new name.
 So Stanley wint for Mike an the battle 9y Verdun was on.
 'Naither av thim knows how to use his fists. Twas slap an bite, a little hair pullin', a lot av yellin' an nothein' doin in the hurt line.
 An thin Joe, the cop, meanders in an. not axin' a word about the merits av the fracas, he uses his club on St7nley's bean. That vexcs me, so l acts as a peacemaker an lands a wal Iop on Joe's jaw an he takes the count. Be this time the pathrOl wagon comes along an I gets pinched.
 ." But Con DOnahue, a frind av mine, was the dhriver av the wagon. He makes it aisy for me to make 8 get away.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
Fate oF Rocer Easement,

No traitor to his country ever more richly deserved the gallows than did the unfortunate knight and ex-odiciaI who was hanged in England yesterday. By every technical law his treason was indefensible. He Conspired with his COuntry's enemies, he sought to under mine the loyalty of her soldiers, and falling in that, he strOve to incite in suTTectiOn against a Government from
 which he had accepted service and hOnOrs- Yet in spite of ali that there are many friends of England who will regret that justice was not tempered with mercy in his case and that the voice of reason and expediency was drowned by the angry Clamors for ven geanCe. And this regret has little or nothing to do with the personality of the condemned. He may or may not have had his reason shaken by an ex- aggerated and false patriotism, a. mis- taken GeVotion to an impractica!ble ideal. That is not the point. It is that, while Easement far more richly deserved the infliction of the penalty of the law than did many of the poor wretches sumInariIy condemned in Dublin for their part in the Irish re- 0eiIion, his execution comes at a crit ical time in the relations of Great Britain and Ireland, and it will be hound to increase the difficulties in
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
POLITICAL
Two Tariff Planks.

The Republican and Democratic Ma tionaI platforms join issue squaraly on the question of the tariff, the Repub- Iican platform declaring the Under wood law a complete failure in every respect and the Democratic platform endorsing it unqualifedly. The Re publican tariff plank begins:
 The Underwood tariff act is a, com Dlete failure in every respect. Under it's administra jiOn imports have enor- HOusly increased in spite of the fact that Intercourse with foreign cOun- tries has been largely cut off by reason of war, while the revenues of which we stand in such dire need have been greatly reduced"
 The Democratic plank reads:
 We Teafirm our belief in the doe urine of a tariff for the purpose of providing sufficient revenue for the operation oE the Government econOmi- Cauy administered, and unreservedly endorse the Underwood Tariff Law as eHempifying that doctrine"
 Since the Underwood Tariff Law went into effect the Wilson Admins tration has had to piece out it's rev enues with an income tax, with the so- called war tax, and now it is pushiug another revenue bill that Increases the tax on incomes, taxes, inheri- tance already taxed by States ana adds a tax on munitions. It is going to take a lOc of explaining to con vince the voters of the country that the Underwood tariff cEenplifes the doctrine of Q tariff for the purpose of providing sufficient revenue. ."- YCnkerS Statesman.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
WELL-MARKED CHANGES.

Germany would be as glad to make peace as all the neutral nations would be to see it made, and she is ready to make concessions she would not have entertained a year ago.
 Germany is just as well aware of the failure of her scheme for conquest as is all oE the rest of the world: but she offers concessions in the hope that she may be permitted to check the extreme demands of the entente in a final settlement.
 The German chancellor has inti- mated that Germany does not hope to permanently hold Belgium or north ern France; and Austria recognizes she cannot hold Serbia or be able to save to herself Galicla. Germany does not expect the return of her provinces but she does hope to retain Poland, but Russia declares she shall not.
 Germany has tried to negotiate pri- vately with France and with Russia for a separate peace that she might deal with England. but the pact be- tween the entente nations is f1rmer than ever.
 Peace could be negotiated with Ger many at once; but the entente pro- pose to dictate peace on their own terms and to fight to that end as the only means of securing a lasting peace.
 Germany is resourceful and stubborn and this is the reason the war is like ly to last for a year or two more.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

has turned. It now blows fair for g. Chinese loan, and the State Depart ment is going around. hat in hand, begging for a few millions as a patri- otic act with full Government approv- al. But the old group of bankers has refused to make the loan for sound business reasons. And, unless they are punished by the Comptroller or the Secretary of the Treasury in some way. they will probably continue to refuse, so that there is a new quest on and the Administration, in now applying the epithet patriotic" to what, when it was advised by an cient Repub- licau administra tion, was described as the wicked exploitation of a helpless country confesses once more to a re- versal that is the full measure of it's
 curious ineptitude. - Philadelphia Ledger.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
A CALL TO THE coLoRs

Tho condition of the country which called Roosevelt and -- per cent. of his followers back to the republican fold was alarming because the nation was losing prestige in the eyes of the world ard because Of pCciGst dawdling and a lack of the frmness which has characterized every able and depend- able administration since the days of Washington.
 The principles of this people need bc advocated with force and the standard carried as if no American is ashamed Of f.. It is to keep the colors from being trailed in the dust that Americans are challenged to stand for the better policies and the dignity and honor which the repub- LCans have always sustained.
 The people are called upon to Ire store to this land a government based on sanity and not on cloquence, on stability and not on vacnlation, on protection of American industries and not on free-trade thinlv disguised by a tarift commission fathcred bv free traders. and on the genuine upholdiuE of national honor based on real Amer icanism eZemplidcd in deeds and not on mere prOfessed patriotism con Etructed on everChauging verbiage that spells ridicule iu the eyes of the world that should be the present aim and purpose of every republican"
 With Hughes for a leader the peo- ple in November are going to do it!
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
PROSPERITY.

For a nation there is no such thing as permanent prosperity. Every na- tion has its ups and downs like an in- valid: and this nation is no exception to the rule
 Ever since the war there has been a large demand for special goods and munitions of war and wages in these lines have been higher than ever be- fore, and men who never have earned S3 day before are now making. S5.
 Now the fighting nations have reached a point where they are cutting out foreign contracts and before the end tof September it is said ten thous- and of these prospering men will be put of work. There are signs of a dull period ahead.
 When the foreign nations stop fight Ing there will be a sudden swing of the pendulum to O more natural and conservative condition, money will be tighter, goods will become cheaper, wages will go lower, and lean pros- poets for a time are in our near front
 Those who have saved money in an- hcipation of duller times have an an- nhor to the Uindward-. and those who
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
When the Chicken Conc Hone.

One of the most amazing turnabouts in Administration policies is revealed in the reported refusal of a group of leading New York banking firms to lend the Chinese Government the pal try sum of $5,OOO,O00 To understand this refusal and the part the Gov ernment through the State Depart ment is playing in the proposed loan, 1t must be recalled that at the start of the Wilson Administration there was nothing that the President and his Secretary of State, the late unIament- ed Bryan, took so much pleasure in as in reevrsing the diplomatic policy Of their predecessors, and particularly in trying to create in the public mind the idea that there was something sinister nevery intelligent and earn est effort made by President Taft and MT. Knox to promote American trade and American interests in foreign countries. The weather-vane
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
Stories of the War
German Treatment of Prisoners.

German Treatment of Prisoners.
 The stories told by wounded French officers and soldiers who have been sent from prison camps in Germany Ito the sanctuaries in Switzerland are in many cases revoIting.
 All kinds of cruel means are used to compel prisoners to manufacture am munition to be used against their own countrymen, according to these sto- ries.
 The prisoners at Friederchseldt were forced to stand dressed only in their shirts through a wintry night on the stony bank of the Rhine. At NIeschede prisoners refusing to work in munitiOn factories are deprived of food, un- dressed to the belt and forced at the point of revolver to stand in front of an open TedhOt furnace until they drop unconscious. Russian prisoners are taken to the front and killed if they refuse to fight their allies. At Reuberg 500 Russians who refused to go to the front and dig trenches were divided up into four companies and beaten daily. Twenty of them died and many others became sick.
 In May TOO Russian prisoners who had been forced to dig trenches re- turned to 1IesChede. They were all that remained of 1,800 who went out The others had been bayOnetted or shot for refusing to work.
 On May IS forty prisoners at Alten- grabow who had refused to sign a pa per to the effect that they went to work of their own free will were starved in their barracks for 9 week and two of them were killed by sen tries.
 In several camps, it is charged, mas saCres have taken place. At Munster, German soldiers were ordered for no reason whatever to charge the priS- oners with fixed bayonets and nearly all were killed. French officers threat ened to reveal these things when tEcy get a chance, but the German officers laughed and said that nobody would believe such accusations.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
CHEAPENiNG THE COST oI
 POWER.

The motor world is conscious of the fact cheaper fuel is necessary to main tain and keep attractive the horseless carriages now owned by every tenth family in some sections of New Eng land, and every fifth family in some parts of the west.
 Gasoline in the past five years has quadrupled in price, and is still ris- ing with no definite limit in sights, hence, gasoline must be Te-enforced with something cheaper, if even it somewhat reduces the combustabilfty and lessens the power of the present engines.
 We learn from English exchanges that a new automatic paraffin attach ment for use either with a switch or a zenith carburetter has been invent ed, which reduces the petrol four fifths without seriously impairing the efficiency of the power, the per cent. of paraff1n being 80 to 20 per cent. of petrol
 There will have to be a move made on this side of the Atlantic to meet the crying need for a dependable, cheaper fuel for motor carriages be- fore long.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Thin goes to see Mike Burns. T want ye to git Stanley out sez I.
 'eNothin' doin', sez Mike. Stanley is a republican, sez he.
 God forgive him, he is,' sez I, but I'm a good dimmycrat an wimmen can vote, an I hould the five fay male votes of me fanbly in me hand, I sez.
 Well, Mike got Stanley out, an have ye for supper?"
 An how can ye conthro1 the votes av mesilf an me darters?"
 That's aisy. Be pluggin' ag'in the candydates I wants elected d.''-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
LET'S SAFEGUARD OUR TIMBER.

LET'S SAFEGUARD OUR TIMBER.
 It has been proved abroad and in this land Of ours that it pays to guard forests from the ravages of fire.
 The neighbOring state of Massachu- setts has been testing forest protec- ton for four years and this is the re- suit as presented by the Newbury- port News:
 -Four years ago, the average an nual fire loss through forest fires in the state of Massachusetts was $600- 900. Then the towers were establish ed. During these four years, the ave rage loss has been about SIPS, ,000. This year. the loss thus far has been only &30000, the very low figure being ac- counted for in part by the wet weather
 'AC present there are 26 such tow CTS iu various portions of the state and five more are being erected. The observers on each of these can notify very promptly the nearest fire war den, with the result that such fires are now discovered almost as quickly as a fire in a city or town would be, and are promptly attacked. There are none of the old-time fires which got such a tremendous start before being discovered"
 The present high price of lumber because Of scarcity should prompt this state to employ every means for pre- serving what lumber we have. not forgetting to check the reckless clean ing up of woodlots which might be kept constant source of supply if thE were tntelIigently handled.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

The political situation in Connecticut looks rosy for republicans with a big 'if'' as a part of it. f the wrong nomination is made and that is re- garded as altogether possible, then in stead of helping the national ticket the republican party Of this state will hang it's candidate to Hughes coat tails and look to him to pull us through. As The Courant said the oth- CT day, the one sure nomination is that of the old ticket.-HartfOrd COurant.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
Pronosed Tariff Commission.

AmeTiCa0 sentimcnt is OVerWhelm- ingIy for a tariff commission, but when a Democratic Congress, pledged to the doctrine that any protective tariff is 9 violation of the Constitution of the United States, seeks to provide for one to be named by a President committed to the same doctrine, we have a right to regard the move with suspicion.-St Louis GIobe-D -Denocra
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

It requires no committee or organ ization for a man to sweep the side walk in front of his house, keep the lawn, house and garden neat, to re- move pots, broken bottles and other rubbish from the back yard and ally way, but it all helps to make the town more beautiful. One trouble is that here and there is a man too in different or too indOlent to do these things, and one such man can mar the beauty of a whole block.-MiIford Citizen
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
New York Slow.

London contemplates municipal con- trol Of milk distribution. The plan might work there. Here in New York municipal methods are SC slow that we should ge curds and potcheese when the stuff actually got to the ulti- mate consumer.-BrokIyn Eagle.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
An Issue Made bv the President.

Herrick was an issue from the hour of his removal in the minds Of Re publicans and Democrats alike who believe our diplomatic service should be above the trifling ambitions of po-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

to the front. New Haven spent over $100,00O for a civic celebration few years ago and raised half of it~by sub scription. Why beg for the soldiers famaIies? Why not dig down ?.-Wat-
 Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

It is not with good grace that the southern senators accept the child labor bill It hurts the industrial in terests which they represent, but they must recognize that the passage of the bill at this time is a good political move for their party.-New Haven Register.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
A Prattlinn Parrot.

w. R. Hearst calls Andrew Jackson an American EagIa" and Woodrow Wilson a "prattIing parrot" Bu. thousands of persons buy parrots for the sole reason that they do praUtIe.- Philadelphia Ledger.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

the path of a permanent settlement of the Irish question. Bitterness will be a new name will be added to the list of Irish martyrs" new,
 blunder to the roll of Irish misnanage- Ledger
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
Defaafad.

Cyclone" Davis, of Texas, and Al faIfa Bilp' Murray, of Oklahoma, have both been defeated for renomination at the Democratic primaries. One term was enough to convince constit- uents that they want a different kind of advertising.-N York World.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

have not will feel the pinch of mea- gre subsistence.
 The republican policy of protection will rescue American industries from indefinite idIeness.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
OTHER VIEW POINTS

There are still thirteen weeks and three days before election, and it takes only nine days to come from Nogales. Won't the anxiety Of those concerned about the soldiers opportunity to vote keep in cold storage for at least two or three weeks longer New Haven Register.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Times have changed. In former presidential years party banners would by this time have been swung to the breeze in the center Of the city. Old methods of fighting in the field have affected old methods of fighting at the pols.-NeW Haven Journal Courier.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Any expedition to punish foe which is a worse punishment to Americans is effective and leaves a false impression. This is the way Wilson is impressing the Mexicans.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

| The way Horace Johnson beats the l Washington weather predictions is by reference to the old Farmers Alma
 nae. Horace knows a good thing when
 he sees it.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Fortunes are always turning out to be smaller than they were thought to be; but there is no room for com plaint
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

The government machinery works to suppress strikes, but it doesn't work to check specuIators even when they have 9 strangIe hold upon the people.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

An Illinois woman saw herself in the tax list for S400. She wrote: Make it S20.000. Mere man would not have murnured over an error of that kind.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

The unparalleled exports of this ad- minfstration was not the result of an economic policy, but the result of an unparalleled war.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Here is New Haven talking of hold ing 8 tag day for the benefit of the families Of soldiers who have gone
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

great dollar fund for Wilson is a democratic campaign scheme. That assures $100,O00 from civil service sources all right.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Those who know say a mule was never broken yet without talking to him. Talk may be cheap, but it is effective.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Expediency gives birth to miscon- Tceptions-the Bremen several times seen is not in American waters.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

America has wheat enough, but it hasn't honor enough nor law enough to keep it cheap for the American people.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

What Vanderbilt said about the American people finely expresses the democratic attitude toward civil ser vice.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

The coming electrica1-heating era is fOreshadOved by the name white coal" already applied to it.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Wherever there is a public service strike the jitneys gather
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Every American soldier killed in Mexico, says Charles E. Hughes, was killed by American bullets.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

The farm loan bill may help a few farmers to get an automobile, and f-
 nally to get into the poorhouse.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

l Toledo ought to be ashamed of it.
 self It is up against an ice famine 1 that paralyzes the ice cream trade.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
President

liticaI favorites. President Wilson. not MT. Hughes, made a campaign is sue of Mr. Herrick-Harrisbu Tel egraph
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

A hot weather inquiry from the De-
 l troit Free Press: Where does the Ci- cada get the rosin to rosin his bow?
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Times have been dull enough for the war department to get 1000 recruits a week for 20 weeks.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Nerdun is the historic point of the war, with the Iaurels all being worn by the French.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Charles E. Hughes is not only out 10 criticise Wilson but to prove his statements.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Dr. Cook is talking of flying to the North pole. He is so fly he will not need a Zeppelin.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

We look upon the watermelon when lit is red. t is a better drink than red lemonade.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

The red sunfOwer gIows so it is never suspected of blushing.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

The new figure outlining fashions for the ladies have no chance to excel what has been.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

Good Advice: If you want more than you have go and get it.''
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11

If you want to practice upon hay ing an aim in life, swat a fly.
The Dickinson press., 1916-07-29

For Fischer School District No. Is,
for the year 1915-19l6.