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Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
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CONCENTRATE
It is Good Habit and Brings Success
 in Sports as We'll as Business

You can give man a gun, you may supply him with unlimited ammunition and targets, and let his bang away till the cows come home-but you'll never make a trap shot of him until you have taught him to concentrate.
 Concentration is rather an important habit to cultivate, Whether you are managing a railroad, or shining shoes,
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Sept. '7.-Clean hitting by both sides featured today's game between Bridgeport and Hart ford, the wOrmer winning 3 to 1. The fact that Lyons and Head were nc. hit with more frequency vas due to the splendid fielding of the teams. Ray Grimes of Hartford again foomed forth as a batter of rare ability by pasting out double and a triple. The score:
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN FRANCE
 TO GET BIG SERIES RETURNS
Detailed Description of Games to Be CabIed to Boys "Somewhere in France"

Chicago, Sept 7-American troops training under Major General Persh- ing in France are to rec i've a detail ries games, President Johnson of the American League said tonight. These stories of probably 1000 words will be cable ddaily at the conclusion of each game. The National Commission will stand the expense.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
Red sox Shut Gut Athletics.

Philadelphia. Sept. 7-Boston's hard hitting sand clever bunting, aided by Fosters excellent pitching, gave the visitors their third straight victory over Philadelphia today, to 0. Score:
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
Second Game
Cincinnati Won Exhibition Game.

cal team was defeated, 5 to 0, by the Cincinnati National league club in an exhibition game rere today Score by innings:
 Cincinnati o3 3o1ooo1 o-5 10 0 Parkers5urg 9 0 0 o O 0 o 0 co 7 1
 Reuther and Cueto: Latterner and King
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Planters Took Two from MurIins.

London closed it's home season here today by taking a double header from the pennant- winning New Haven team The men who have been drafted for the new national army were the guests of Commodore and Mrs. Morton F. Plant at the games. Scores:
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08

Indiana polls has a strong lead in the American association race. Manager
 Hendricks is getting some good pitch ing from Falkenberg, Filigim and Kantelhner.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08

The C,evelands may lose Harris. Morton, Klepfer, Elmer Smith and Evans, as all have been accepted fol the national army and Evans aloOe has claimed exemption.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
SPORTING NOTES.

In spite of numerous arrests, open
 betting on the ball games at the Bos- ton parks still flourIsheS.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08

The Cincinnati Reds viii hold their annual field day at home on Sept. 30 with the Giants as the big card.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
Portland 6. Worcester 3.

l Worce ;ter, Mass, Sept 7-Portland punched hits on Canavan m the sev- tenth and overcame Worcester's lead, winning to L. Score:
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08

GAMES SCHEDULED TODAY.
 National leanue Brooklyr at New York PhtIadelphia Boston. St. Louis Cincinnati.
 Chicago at Pittsburgh. American League. New York at Washington Boston Philadelphia. Detroit st St. Louis -+ -@S<N CIeveland at Chicago. International Leaaue. Buffalo at Toronto Rochester Montreal. Richmond at Newark
 Baltimore at Providence. Eastern League. New London New Haven Hartford at Bridgeport. F' Lawrtnce Springfield.
 Portland at Worcester.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
Portland
Springfield Beat Lawrence.

field defeated Lawrence here this af- ternoon in one of the shortest games of the SeaSOn 2 to 2 Score.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
Pittsburgh Lost d Chicago.

PittsbErgh. Sept. 7.NCnicago won from Pittsburgh in a iistless game here today, 2 to 1. Score:
 Chicago 0 1 O 0 0 0 0 o-2 6 2 Pittsburgh o Q o 0 o o C 0-1 z 2 Carter and Wilson; Steele and Schmidt; umpires, Byron and Puigley; time 1.3f.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08

YESTERDAYS RE8uIf&
 National League. Boston 5. Brooklyn 0. (First gamel Boston 6. Rrooklyn 2--lSecnnd game - Philadelphia f. New York 1. tFirst game-) Philadelphia 1. New York 2. (Second game) Cmcaeo 2, Pittsburgh l. Nc other games scheduled. -s...
 American League- Washington s. New York 0. fFirst gamelI Washington l. New York f. tSecond game-) Boston 5. Philadelphia 0. s- Defroit-s Louis postponed until September g. No other game scheduled
 Eastern League. Portland G. Worcester 5. Bddreport 3, Hartford l. New London 5. New Haven g. (F1rst sameD New London 3. New Haven 0. Second game.1
 International League Newark 6. Richmond 1. tFirst gamel Scwzrk 3. Rchrend O. tSecond game.l . Buffalo 1. Toronto g. (First gameLD -i Buffalo O. Toronto g. Second game.) Rochester g. .-Muntrezf-4-fFfrst gamea + Rochester S. Montreal L (Second game.) Baltimore l, Providence 2.
 Southern Association. Birmingham 1. Mobile .. (First game.) Birmingham II. Mobile 5. (Seccnd game.) Atlanta I. New Orleans g. F Nashville 2. Memphis l. = Chattanooga 1, Little Rock O.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
STOCKS.

The following is of yesterdays trans. actions the New York Stock Exchange to 5 D. m {:
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
Bridgeport 3, Hartford i,

(Seven innings by agrcccmnt) Two base hit. DeNcville.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
Braves Won Two Games.

Boston, Sept. 7.-Boston took both games from Brooklyn today, the first 5 to 0. Ragan excelling. Sherrod Smith, and the second to ?, Hughes holding the visitors to five hits. Scores:
 (Ffrst Game.) Brooklyn 0 0 O 0 o o c co 6 3 Boston % ? 3 *-5 g 0 s., Smith end Miller; Ragan and Tragesser; umpires, Klem and Emslie; time 12o
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
COTTON.

New York, Sept. 7.-Cotton futures closed easy. October 2026; Decem- per 2023: January 2020; March 2O35; May 2049
 Spot quiet; middling 2135.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
MON EY.

New York, Sept. 7-CaIl money firm; high 4 1-2: low 1-2; ruIine rate 4; closing bid 3 1-2; offered at 4; last loan f.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
Philadelphia (A)
, Boston (A)

(x) Battcd for Johnson in 9th.
 Score by innings: Bostcn ..........1 70 0 2 o-5 Philadelphia .. .....0 co Two base hits. Hooper, Foster McInnis Bodie. Three base hit, Walker.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08

Iotals 25 24 Ol Totals Y z 21 16 ScVre by Innings:
 Hartford .. .....-O 0 O OO-I Brodeepor - .....O 0 o l 1-3
 Two base hits. Gathers, R. Grimes Carroll. Three base hits, Corcuran, Martin Conuouy. and R. Grimes.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08

Brooklyn .. .......0 O 1-2 1 Boston 9 1
 Two base hits. O'Rourke. Rawlings. Three base hits. z. Wheat. Meyers. Maranvi.le Home Rawlings .
Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
Second Camel
Totals s1 P IT. 2

Totals 31- 24 IT
 tx) Batted for Schulte in 9th. (xx) Batted for Luderus in 9th. Scor by innings: Philadelphia o 0 0 0I
 New York 0 2 0 x-2
 Two base hit Whitted. Three base hits. Ban
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02

ism which was absolutely necessary TO
maintain the stability and immobility
of the truss and the strength of the
bridge. To the theorist nothing on
earth could be more terribly por.
tentouS than such a statement,
if it were true. To the prac-
tical man, who, to do him justice, had
never dealt with such vast structures.
and he was not singular in that be-
cause the bridge was unique on ac.
count OF its siZe-the DETECTION noted
meant little or nothing.
"Good God!" exclaimed Meade,
atiame on the instant with anxious aIt
prehension. The night was warm and
he was dressed in his pajamas and had
been lying on the bed. AS if he had
been shocked into action he sat up, for
getful of his weakness. ''DeflectiOn !"
he fairly shouted at Abbott, who re
garded him with half-amused astonish'
ment, 'a Gambler in C-1O-R? Why
didn't you tell me?"
By this time Meade had got his feet
into his slippers and was standing
erect.
ut isn't enough to make any differ.
ence,'' answered Abbott quickly, per
haps little disdainfully.
''It makes all the difference OF
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02
To Protect Moose.

The secretary of agriculture at
Washington has issued the following
amendment to the regulations for the
protection of game in Alaska, with the
object of protecting moose and noun
tain sheep on the Kenai peninsula and
adjoining region in Alaska, the New
York Herald says:
1.-THE sale of carcasses or parts
thereof of moose and sheep in the re-
gion south of latitude 81 degrees north
and between longitude 141 degrees west
and the western outlet of Lake Clark,
in longitude 155 degrees west, or the
shipment of carcasses or parts thereof
Of said animals for sale from Anchor
age, Seward or other points on the
Kenai peninsula, is hereby prohibited
until October 1, 1918, and no carcasses
or parts thereof of said animals shall
be accepted for shipment to other
points in Alaska unless accompanied
by affidavit of the owner that they
were not purchased and are not in
| tended for SALE"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02
Saccharine.

Saccharine is the sweetest substance
in the world. It is $50 times sweeter
than cane sugar, and is extensively
used in jellies and preserves, as well
as in the diet of persons who cannot
stand sugar.
Prof. Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins
university discovered it nearly forty
years ago while working on q series of
experiments in the laboratory.
''Any practical man." Professor Rem
sen wrote, "would unhesitatingly have
condemned the work as being utterly
usless, and I may add that some did
condemn it. There was no hope, no
thought entertained by us that any
thing practical would come of it." But
saccharine was the result and it is now
extensively manufactured.
This incident is one of many an
swers to the plea that all education
and all work should be practical" The
whole foundation of modern civiliza-
ton is laid on scientific work that
often seemed the most impractical in
the world.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02
"Dixie.D -

The song 'Dixie" was written in
1859 by D. D. Emmett, and was first
publicly sung by Bryant's mintrels, in
New York, at Mechanics hall. The in
spring air and the words, which were
In the darky dialect, appealed to the
South, where the song became popular.
1t became the battle song of the con-
federacy. There were two other
''DiNes," the one northern ballad and
the other southern ballad of the Civil
war, by Albert Pike, which first ap-
peared in the Natchez (Miss.) Courier.
The origin of the. phrase ''Dixieland"
is thought to be in the name of q Mr..
Dixie, a slave-holding New York citi-
zen, who moved to the South. His
large number of slaves, the story runs,
bemoaned leaving their old home,
which they called Dixie's Land. The
phrase spread and was appropriated
for the Southern states, which were
substituted for the original Dixieland
The phonetic connection between the
word and Mason and Dixon's line also
has been pointed out. The boundary
line to the negroes was mason and
Dixie's" land.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02
FORGET DATE HAS CHANGED
That So Many Forgot to Write 1917"
Proves That Man Is Creature
of Habit.

'That man is creature of habit"
ness firm, sis amply demonstrated by
the letters we receive. This letter
which I hold in my hand contains an
error generally made at this time of
the year, not because the writer's are
careless but because they have culti-
waited the habit of writing certain
thing mechanically.
During the life of the year now ex-
pired the writer's had grown accus-
toned to putting down the numerals
1915. Doubtless at first it required ef-
fort on their part to bear in mind that
the last figure of the set was and not
5, but after a time the writing Of 6
became a mechanical act rather than
mental act. 1t became second ma
ture for them to write the date cor
rectly.
with the birth of a new year, how
ever, the mechanical writers must ex-
ert mental effort. When they don't
they err. Take this case, for instance.
You see the writer has turned out
what he considers perfect letter. He
probably reread it and sealed it salts
fed that it was correct. But he never
thought to look at the date, at least
the year part of it. The result is that
instead of dating it January, 1917, he
has dated it January, 1916. Just a
mechanical error, that's all.
"a peculiar phase of the matter is
that the error is usually made by per
sons who write their own correspond
ence, especially in long hand. Stenog
raphers who are paid to write the cor
respondence of others on typewriters
have developed the habit of being ac
| curate."
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02
| GIRLS EXCEL IN SPELLING
Boys Take Second Place in Schools
Where Competitive Examinations
Have Been Held.

Complete tabulated returns of the
statewide spelling contests in which
State, Commissioner Finley was So
much interested show that in the TO-
500 schools where 'bees" were held,
the girls showed generally the great
er proficiency in spelling, and that OF
the silver medals awarded to county
champions only 80 per cent go to boys.
The original plan was to give each of
these county winners free trip to the
state fair at Syracuse, but the infantile
paralysis scare interfered.
Why girls are better spoilers than
boys might make good subject for
monograph. 1t is a pretty commonly
accepted theory that a good speller is,
born, not made. Which means, perhaps,
that visual memory is an inherited
| faculty, capable, it may be, of develop
ment, but only within limit fixed by
the. brain of the pupil. Logic helps very
little, almost none at all, till after
study of Greek and Latin and French
has forced attention on the origin of
words. The boy or girl or man or
woman who most rarely mis-spells
word is fortunate rather than admir-
able. The memory visualizes the print
ed form which reading has made fa-
miliar. And this was the secret of
the way our grandmothers and grand
fathers got mastery over the old blue
spelling book. Doubtless the pre-Froe-
bel "Webster" book, like all other
books used for the purpose, helped Wis
ualization by concentrating attention.
We are inclined to believe that the
average school girl reads more than
the average school boy. After school
the boys interests are outside inter
ests. He is fishing or skating or play
ing ball. We would not have him 9th
erwise for all the spelling in the world.
After all, the learning of things is bet
ter than the learning of symbols, and
words are nothing but symbols. They
aid in writing and in speaking. But in
the education that leads up to doing
things one hour in mathematics or
chemistry is worth more than hun
dred hours of spelling.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02
BAD LUCK LASTING
ONE MAN SATISFIED MISFoR.
TUNES DON'T COME SINGLY.
His Nose, ViciousIy Assaulted by a Bee
Early in the Day, Seemed to Re-
main Special Mark for All
Kinds of Attacks.

Il just dropped a book on my sore
toe" remarked the professor. '"The
pain caused me to jerk my arm, and
upset bottle of ink over some val
liable papers. This seems to confirm
the theory that misfortunes never come
singly."
''They never are single" said the
low-browed man. They're always
married, and some of them are biga-
mists. I've noticed that if anything
unpleasant happens to me before
breakfast, unpleasant things will keep
on happening all day.
"The other morning I put my head
out of the window to see if there was
any weather on deck, and bee came
along and stung me on the nose. [
said to Aunt Julia, when | had cooled
down enough to talk intelligently, that
my nose would be in trouble all day,
and she said she had no patience with
such a superstition. She reminded
me that lightning never strikes twice
in the same place, and when I tried to
point out that it wasn't lightning, but
a siX-cylinder bumblebee that struck
me, she shooed me out of the house.
'T went to milk the cows, and sat
down by our old roam. She had col
lected about five pounds of mud, mixed
with cobblestones, on the end of her
tail, and I was just getting warmed
up to my milking when she swung
that loaded tail around and soaked me
on the nose. tell you, professor, a
man doesn't know what anguish is un-
til something like that takes the sun
shine out Of his life. If you happen
| to meet that roam COW one of these
days, ask her what said to her.
"After had nursed my nose while
1 went on with the milking, and after
a while had two buckets filled, and
started to the house with them. Old
Doolittle has bunch of nephews visit
ing him and two of them were prac-
ticing pitching in the backyard, which
adjoins ours. One of the boys had
phenomenal speed, but poor control
and the ball came over and spread my
beak all over my face.
81 dropped those buckets and the
milk soaked into the ground. Trifies
like that didn't interest me at the time
l think / was insane for about tel
minutes. Aunt Julia says ran arount
the backyard in circles, like whirlint
dervish, and she never realized unit
that moment what a command Of Ian
guage have.
''The next thing remember wa
soaking my face in a bucket of waite
by the well and Aunt OIlia was beg
ging me to apply f1axseed poultio
she had prepared for the occasion
Whenever anything goes wrong at ou
house Aunt Julia's first impulse is t
apply a poultice.
''Well, haven't the heart to tell yol
all that happened to my nose that day
Everything that wasn't nailed dow
flew up and hit it, and when nigh
came was carrying it in a sling. AM
that's the way misfortunes always ge
In. their work"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02

the work and in the end had to pay for
that very fretting, for he got up too
soon and went out too quickly, and was
promptly forced to bed again as a con-
sequence of his impatience
Now, after a weeks confinement in
his cabin, he felt strong enough to ven
ture out again and to attack his prob
lens. They were personal problems
now, much more intimate than before,
for he was building not only the bridge
but weaving in its web of steel his own
future happiness.
OF course he had been able to get
out on the rough porch of his galvan-
| ized iron shack where he had the
bridge in full view, and the day before
he had even walked unsteadily down to
the river bank, where he had been
equally surprised and delighted at the
progress that had been made. Abbott
was driver after his own heart Real
ly things seemed to have gone on Just
as well without him as if he had been
on the job. He had not been lonely IN
his illness, for all of the chief men con-
nected with the construction had done
their best to beguile the tedium of his
hours by visiting him whenever they
could spare the time.
Abbott had been especially kind in
his somewhat rough-and-ready way.
The big construction superintendent
was fond of Meade, although he un-
dervalued him. He regarded him more
|
and the inevitable antagonism between
| the theorist and the practical man,
when they are not combined in one per-
sonality, was latent in Abbotts heart.
Nightly, he brought to Meade details
of the progress of the work. That eve
ming, just before leaving, he remarked
in the most casual manner in the world,
as if it were a matter of little or no i'm
portance, that C-10-R was a trif1e out
of line
Now C-10-R was the biggest member
of the great right-hand truss on the
north side of the river. 1t consisted
OF four parallel composite webs, each
formed of several plates of steel riv-
eted together. These webs were con-
nected across their upper and lower
edges by diagonal latticing made of
steel angle bars. C-1O-R and its parallel
companion member C-10-L, in the left
hand truss, carried the entire weight
of the cantilever span to the shoe rest
ing on the pier. These members were
sixty feet long and five feet wide. The
webs were over four feet deep and in
size and responsibility the great struts
7 were the most important of the whole
structure.
To say that C-1O-R was out of line
meant that it had buckled, or bent, OF
was springing, and had departed from
that rigid rectangularity and parallel
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02
SUSPENSE OVER AT LAST
But Stammering Physician Gave Pros
pective Father q Few Moments
of Extreme Uneasiness.

There is stammering physician out
In one of our suburbs. A short time
ago, while on case involving new
arrival, his infrmity led to rather
funny misapprehension.
The husband and prospective IA
ther, who, by the way, had set his
heart on q son and heir, was nervous
ly pacing the library when the physi-
clan entered.
"Well, DOCTOR" said the husband,
forcing smile, sis it twins2"
'Tr-tr-tr-" began the doctor.
'Tripletsl Great Caesarw
"Qu-qu-qu-" stammered the doctor.
"Quadruplets Holy smoke!"
"N-n-no," cried the doctor. "Qu-qu-
quit the contrary. Tr-tr-try to take
1t ph-phiIosophically, my friend. It's
just a girl."-Boston Transcript.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02

have an eight pound baby girl. know
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound saved me from an operation
which every woman breads. ~ Mrs.
NELLIE FIsHBACK, 1921 Christy Ave-,
Louisville, KY.
Everyone naturally breads the sur
geon's knife. Sometimes nothing else
will do, but'many times Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has saved
the patient and made an operation I'm.
necessary.
Ifyou have any symptom about when
you would like to know, write to the
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co, Lynn.
Mass. for helpful advice given free.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02
That Broad Expanse.

81 tell you, gentlemen" said the
great explorer to the crowd in the
hotel smoking room, who were listening
breathlessly, you can't imagine what
things are like out in the Arctic re-
gions.'
"Oh, don't know" said one. ''Even
if we haven't seen it, we can imagine
what it feels like"
81 doubt it. It's impossible until
you've seen it; until you've stood
there, a small, Insignificant atom, sur
rounded by vast stretches of white
Eyes, know. I've been like that"
"Really? Where was it, may ask?
"First time 1 appeared in public in a
dress shirt"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-03-02
CHAPTER II-Continued.


In spite of herself the woman looked
at him.
'But now7' she whispered as he hes
itated, and then she turned her head
half fearful of his answer.
"I am almost afraid to say it," he
said, lowering his voice to match her
own.
"A soldier of steel" she said, "and
afraidp
"well, then, all that was the second
now takes the third place"
"And before your father comesf"
But she did not give him time to an
swer. Come" she said, "Iet us go out
on the bridge"
"It's a rough place for you. Those
little slippers you wear"
He looked down, and as If in obedi-
ence to his glance she outthrust her
foot from her gown. 1t was not the
SIN allest foot that ever upbore a wom-
an. Quite the contrary. Which is not
saying It was too large, not at all. 1t
was just right for her height and fig
ure. and Its shape and shoe left moth
ing to be desired
"Never mind the slippers" she said /;
they are stronger than they look.
They'll serve"
"But the distance between here and
the bridge is inches deep in dust"
"Dustl" she exclaimed in dismay.
81 don't mind rough walking, but
dust"
II never thought Of that" admitted
the man. "The fact is have thought
of nothing but you since 1 saw you,
but now Wen have to go back or"
Il shall not go back" she answered
firmly.
He stepped down off the platform,
and before she knew what he would be
at, he lifted her straight up in his
arms. He did not carry her like a
baby, he held her erect, crushed
against his breast, and before she had
time to utter a protest, or even to say
word, he started through the dusty
roadway toward the bridgehead.
It was a strange position. She knew
she ought to protest, but the words
would not come. Whilst she was try
ing to thipk them up, they had crossed
the little desert that intervened be.
tween the portal of the bridge and the
end Of the platform. Then he set her
down gently.
THANK you," she said simply, "thai
was very nice Of you. You are won
derfully strong"
The moon, by this time, had passed
the floor level and the cross-bracine
cast network Of shadows over them
upon track and floor beams and string
ers. The silence Of the half-nght, tht
mystery Of 1t all oppressed them q
little. 1t was with beating hearts thai
they pressed on