Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-20
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to America, says:
 Washington has a dignity and an old
 world character which seem to be the
 ratural belongings of the capitol. As the procession of the inauguration of the new president passed down the wide streets on it's way to the White House, one felt that the scene was ap propriate to the historic pa geant which has brought America into line with the other great nations of the world In the fight for international progress. On the occasion of my visit to the White House the suffrage women were stationed outside like sentries. bearing flags. I wondered how the president of the United States could be so accessi
 ble without mourning considerable personal inconvenience; but I believe that the peaceful looking attendants and the young men who appeared to be
 intent on the busy plying of the type
 writer were formidable experts in the art of jiu-jitsu. Mir. Wilson has q gracious presence and is gifted with the grand nanner''-tnat of making people feel at ease at once. At sight" the president paid me the compliment of saying that l reminded him of a we'll known English statesman On my lowing with a deprecating self consciousness he remarked that he himself had often been told of his semblance to the late Joseph Cham ber1ain. The likeness is indeed striking although the presidents nose lacks the aspiring tilt which characterized
 that of the distinguished English sta tesman.
 Fan-tan. for which Chinamen have been heavily fined in London this week -is 1t the game in which four num- bered dice, enclosed in, then elected from. a metal frame. are used? The writer, smuggled by a French artist with a Japanese servant into an opium den. saw these tokens-at rest. But a
 greater curiosity than these was the
 gambling table. It is not a table in our sense of the term. but huge square of wood, like a big packing case. An Sin knows his brethren, and with this style of furniture there is no passing
 of cards or dice under the la ble, what
 ever may be up the guiIeless players sleeve.
 Representatives of the press were shown specimens of each kind of the
 explosive machines which have been found in Norway.
 There were round and rectangular bombs. internal machines, fire bombs and bombs made up to look like
 pieces of coal for steamers, and caicu- lated to explode on railway engines or steamers. Altogether 95 large and 12
 small bombs were found.
 There were also found fountain pens with electric batteries attached to some l substance. These pens are evidently intended to set things on fire. Two of them were empty, from which it is concluded that some of them have dread been used here.
 One of the men arrested stated that the bombs were destined especially for American ships leaving Norway There were also found 33 rolls of twist tobac- co. 32 cigarettes, very hard in the mid dle. and 31 pieces of red chalk, all con- taining pulverized carborundurn to be placed in the iubricators of machines by which any kind of machine could be quickly destroyed
 All these things were carefully pack ed in four large and three small trunks (fror Germany. which were found at Witauen.
 The death of Mrs. Katharine Mac duoid the veteran novelist, at the great age of 93, sewers another of the few remaining links with the Victorian 1 ot's, Mrs. Macquojd used to tell how | she once saw the famous writer in a vision. When George Eliot went to 1 live at Chelsea Mrs. Macauoid pro- posed to go and call on her. But be- l fore she could do so a remarkable and | tragic thing happened. One night 1 Mrs. Macquoid awoke suddenly and ] saw the figure of George Eliot stand l ing between the bed and the wall The | apparition was distinct and unmistak- | Macquoid learned of George Eliot's 1 death.
 What connection Is there between mining and food controlling? Both Lord Rhondda and MT Hoover, the their reputation in the mineral world. While Lord Rhondda was busy build ing up the vast coal trade of South
 Wales. MT. Hoover, comparatively