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Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
ANGLERIS DAY.

This is Anglers day because it marks the 324th anniversary of the birth of Izaak Walton the author of The Compleat Angler" which is likely to remain a classic till the end of time.
 Izsak Walton was more than an angler or his name and fame would not have lasted until his day. He was a scholar. a naturalist, a devout churchman and the most skiilful server Of trout in his day, to say noth- ing of his being what we in this day call Q ar-philosopher
 The anglers of Great Britain have long celebrated the anniversary of IZaak Walton's birth: and five years ago, with the cooperation Of the American anglers league of New York, placed a memorial window in Prior SiIkstede's cathedral to his memory which cost s2,00O. The scenes depicted upon this window are: Christ sitting above the waterficod, St Pe- ter with the fish for tribute money St- Anthony preaching to the fishes, Sr- Andrew and lad with loaves and fishes, St. Wilfred teaching the Sussex people to fish. Call of St. Andrew and St. Peter, Izaak Walton and his pupil saying Grace" before their meal by the river side. Call of St John and St. James, Izaak Walton in meditation.
 The anglers clubs of America join ir the celebration today.
 With Solom on, Izaak Walton de- clared: Everything is beautiful in it's season.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
CANNING LESSONS
FRUITS.

Today's lesson is about fruits Ap- ples, pears and auinces may be can ned by two methods. The first re- quires the boiling of the fruit sections in thin syrup of sugar and water. The grated rind of lemon to two quarts of fruit improves flavor Boil the sections in the syrup until tender. fill jars with fruit and add boiling syrup to overfowing. and seal at once. Fill and seal one jar at time and do the work as rapidly as poss;- ble. The second method. the fruit IS washed. peeled, quartered and cor ed and rac<ed as tightly as possible without crushing in jars. the tops set on the jars and then the jars are steamed until the fruit is tender. Aft CT steaming and boiling hot syrup of heavy density and seal at once.
 Sweet Apple and Ouince Preserves: Use any proportion of apples and qu:nces. Prepare and steam sep aratcly until tender. Boil the fruit in heavy syrup until deep red. pack in jars and fill with thick boiling syrup and seat at once.
 The National Enaergency Food Gar den Commission estimates that the war produce Of the country is valued at three hundred and fifty million dol lars as a result of the nation wide campaign conducted in cooperation this paper and it is to conserve as much of this food as possible that canning campaigns are being conduct ad
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
WHAT IS A coWARp7

Just now we have such frequent use for the word coward that we may as well anaIyze it.
 In the first place a man strictly honest cannot be a coward.
 It doesn't take any more courage te die than it does to be honest under some conditions.
 A Philadelphia man who had nc qualifications for soldier went te President Wilson's secretary and said:
 My health is fine. Honest, MT Tumulty, there ain't thing the mat ter with me except I am afraid. tell you I can't fight. I wake up ir the middle of the night and see my self under a pile of dead men, with the cannon plating all around and every bullet coming my way. It isn't that don't want to be a soldier, bu, I just haven't got the goods. that's all"
 Any man who can talk this way private life he is the man who at any moment might risk his life to save life and be heroic.
 He might be more useful to his country than he would be in the trenches, and he might do twice the labor of soldier for his country without shrinking.
 In our rage for blaming and brand ing we do injustice to many useful and willing men.
 The man who can't lie, or who won't lie, can never be a coward.
 The unfit though healthy should be used right
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
STORIES OF THE WAR
IN THE FACE OF DEATH.

A letter written by French cavalry officer as he lay wounded and dying was picked up later by Red Cross worker. This was his story: There are two other men lying near me, and I do not think there is much hope for them either. One is an officer of a Scotch regiment and the other pri- 'vate in the uhlans. They were struck down after me. and when came to myself I found them bending over me rendering first aid. The Brit isher was pouring water down my throat from his flask, while the Ger man was endeaYoriug Sto stanch my wound with an antiseptic prepara tfon served out to them by their medical corps. The Highlander had one of his legs shattered and the German had several pieces of sFrapnel buried in his side. In spite of their own suf- and when l was fully conscious again the German gave us a morphia iniec- tion and took one himself His medical corps had provided him with the in jection and the needle together with printed instructions for it's use. After this infection, feeling wonderfully at ease. we spoke of the lives we had lived before the war. We all spoke English, and we talked of the wo- men we had left at home. I, German and the Rriton had been married only a wear. wondered, and I suppose the others did, why we had fought each other at all l looked at the ft1Sn- lander, who was falling asleep ex- hausted and in spite of his drawn face and mud-stained uniform. he looked the embodiment of freedom. Then I thought of the tri-color of France and all that France had done for liberty. Then I watched the German. who cea ased to speak. He had taken prayer book from his lnapsack and was tryink to read a service for sol- diers wounded in battle"
 The letter closed with mention of the failing light and the constant roar of guns.
 A wounded French officer has told of a pathetic incident near where he was lying at the close of a. battle.
 Among his companions in suffering were two who were near to death One was Q German, a private in the uhlans, the other a private in the Royal Irish Dragons. The Irishman, after painful effort. succeeded In getting from his pocket a rosary of beads with crucifix attached. Then in a low voice he began the invocatiors to the Blessed Virgin: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Jesus. The German lying near stirred with the weak movements of a man weak with pain and loss of blood. in a dazed condition, but able to sense what was going on. and he made in his own Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for US sinners now at the hour of death." The voices of the German and the
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
UNCLE sAM's MEDICAL DEPART
 MENT.

Uncle Sam is accustomed to doing things on a large scale. He calls for r billion dollars and a million men for the defence of the country, and the medical department calls for 14400O men of whom 24, 900 must be trained physicians and surgeons and this means that one in every four of these professional gentlemen will be re- quired to serve the government. And hundreds of thousands more will be employed as first aid men, rescuers and nurses.
 Many American medical men and nurses are already in France where they have brought credit to their pro- fession by the skillful work they have done.
 Tn this great war epidemics have been held in check and 1t can no longer be said as many perish from disease as are killed in conflict or die from wounds.
 The work of organizing this great medical department is in the hands of Gen. Gorgas who recognizes our great military needs and is capable of meeting them.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
SLIGHT GOVERNMENTAL
 ERROR.

The government has announced that "the only good fly is a dead fly" which is about as true as the older declaration that "the only good In dian is a dead Indian"
 All flies are not filthy and all flies do not spread disease, for the Spanish fly has been prescribed for a geod and useful purpose by the physicians for more than one century.
 The inehnuemon flies and the syr- phid flies are destroyers of many in furious insects, and make way with millions of them every year.
 There are scores of varieties of flies which never feed on offal. or invade the house to run upon pantry pastry to get foundered in the butter dish, or to get drowned in the milk or to worry the baldheaded man, crawl over the sick, or to menace the health of the robust
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

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Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

queous weather we are at present sx- periencing yet. perhaps as to thinss over which trusts governments and even the ever present al-wise. infal- lible and omniscient kaiser has no control, 1t would be the better way 70 conserve our energy and damn things that really ought to be damned. How ever, this weather is really most irri- tating to gardens and haymakers. You can't have gardens when they are like mudholes and as full of water as the Dismal Swamp, nor make hay when you have to wear hip rubber boots TO In rowboat and carry an umbrella to keep from being drowned.-New Prss- ton Co I,itchheId Enduirer
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
HOW A BOOK WAS MADE FAMOUS

Governments are usually afraid of anything likely to stir the people to action, especially when that action is revolutionary.
 During this war a prohibition book in countries which have put a re- straint upon the liquor traffic has been put officially under the ban. and any person caught with it in his posses sion is liable to a fine of s5,OO0 and five years Imprisonment.
 England and Canada are both in dicted for putting the ban upon this book entitled Defeat or Victory" be- cause it deals honestly with the effect Of the liquor business on the war, which if it saves men affects reve- nues.
 An English citizen complaining writes to the press: We are getting on- Hot only our food, but liberty of thought, must go to bolster up drink. Dur man 6Ghinz- traalHs- for thinxs
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

The draft is on, and the boards which have to consider the subject oi exemptions have their work cut out must mark their decisiosn in order ic give the subjects of the conscriptioI law a square deal-Ansonia Sentinel.
 The state council of defense is urg- ing each town of the state to erect a war bulletin board. The idea is tC 1 have council of defense posters and other matters. Specifications for the i bulletins are given. They are to be of wood A inches square.-New Britain Record.
 Dorothy Garfield Fisher the autro--
 ess writes that recently in P;t.s where she is doing war work, she had breakfast with an American soldier who had been her instructor in matae-
 matics in her girlhood in Lawrence Kan. He is now General John J. Per shing. American.
 There's too much pessimism about , the draft. It will go all right, taking the single men and leaving those whL are the main support of others. Those will be taken who are in the pink nf physical condition. No army made UT of broken and physically inferior men can struggle successfully against arm les made up of the best physical tim Der nation affords.-Bridgepor Farmer.
 In common with many other news papers, the Courant receives every day appeal on appeal for aid for one or another aid society with a request co print. The Providence Journal the otn- CT day had account of seventy five such relief organizations.
 The Courant has adopted a new method of treating such appeals. It sends to the management a request for a statement as to how many employees this aid society employs and what pay they receive. This will enable the giv- CT to guess what percentage of his contribution will reach those in whose behalf it is made.
 The managers of any one such so- ciety may not be aware how many others are at work. But the thing has become a burden and threatens to appeals fall unopened or unread into the waste baskets. They have grown so numerous as to go overheard as a class. This is not surprising but it is not fair, for there are unquesiona bly, some that deserve all the support they can have. It strikes us that these are most likely to deserve which are most frank and open about their use of che money sent to them.-Hartford Cour ant.
 It is remarkable to what a degree of efficiency the home gArd has at tanned GoVeronr HolcOf4b had an experience the other day in populous town in New Haven country which convinced him that the guard was en- tirely ablt to cope with any emergency that might arise. While he was in the town without the public being given the slightest warning. the signal was sounded for the mobilization of the To- cal company of the home guard Though the men had to come from their work in the factories. and their places of business in counting houses and stores, some coming from quite
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Irishman interrningled thus in address and prayer-the wrapt calculations of the Irishman, the deep guttural of the German They grew weaker and weaker and finally were hushed on earth forever.
 Among the last words of Edith Ca veil, that morning when she went to her death at the comma nd of the Ger man military officer in Belgium. were: Standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough; I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

 cured to her. and she felt that her attempts omy had already made her mistress of the situation
 But in the meantime in the thrifty households, tremendous waste had been going 1t was in the form little there that in themselves apparently nothing, in the aggregate amounted upon weight and thousands thousands of dollars value h other words, the housewife has been bound by her own horizon that she has missed the vision concerted efforts the combined our nation
 Now she must mobilize. A mighty army con waste must be formed. The first most irn- porant product be conserved is wheat, that there may be bread for children and the allied na- tions. Now there many ways in which bread, and therefore wheat, be ccnsarved. The first method that has been discussed-that is the elimination of bread from the Gset-can not be considered because there is other food that has equivalent place i'll the diet. This applies plain white bread whole wheat bread, rye bread, Boston brown bread breads
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

they know not of. But what will hap pen when the fathers of the men of Vinny Ridge begin to go to prison for reading about the dangers their boys face in the Motherland? ?"
 What will they? What could have been done to give greater fame or great effect to this book than this tyrannical procedure.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

war-but it will not be until you and are on opposite sides of a barb wire fence, junger, and every paper in the United States talks pure American. In he meantime Germany wins the war, ain't it?
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

The Waterbury Republican is a very poIie sheet. Every day 1t says to it's patrons: Good morning." The Bulletin always feels like saying How are you?"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

The examining boards are discover ing the true Americans who facing duty realizing they are fit, say: T make no claim to exemption. I am ready and willing to do my duty"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
The Secret Out.

The secret of the sedition of the Mayor of Chicago has been shrewdiy guessed. He will be a candidate for the United States Senate.-Spring 6aId Ranuhlican-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

When the war is over John Bull will not be able to tax Canada 9 nickel to pay the debt where he taxes himself penny, as in the past
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Equality: Every thrifty man ex- poets 8 vacation annually Nc mar ried woman expects a vacation till she dies"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

German commissioned officer has called Uncle Sam's boys untrained 1outs He is likely to find them very ging.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Uncle SaTn's expense account for the first half of this year was nearly 233 million. That's nothing to what it will be in the next six months
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Meriden finds 75 per cent of it's se- lected men fit, and Waterbury so per cent. Let us hope Norwich will not shrink so there will be no khaki suit to fit it.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

The Kaiser planned well against the first American fleet, but he had no reason to be proud of the submarine performance
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
Readers of THE BULLETIN

HE BULLETIN
 By sending this coupon to the National Emergency Food Garden
 Commission,
 2fo Maryland Bldg, Washington,
 Q. C.,
 with a two cent stamp 70 pay post age canning and drying manual free Of charge. All you have to do is fill out the space and enclose the two cent stamp for postage. These are twelve page manuals, fully il- iustrated and are sent out in CO., operation with this paper as a part of the personal service We at all times aim to give our readers. Name Street .................. City ............... State ........
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Nothing that may happen to the navy can be blamed to it's enforced sobriety by command of the Secretary
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

The war during the first year will cost on the average nearly $500 a day for each American family, What oth- CT nation could stand the strain and smile.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

The Russian women who went to the front have no trouble to prove they are equal to brave men and are entitled to brave mems rights.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
A Point Not CIeared Un

Persons who are impatient with Chancellor Michaelis for not speaking mp and saying what he thinks sFou remember that il is possible he hal not yet been told what he thinks. - Kansas City Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

It is patriotic for those who cannot bear the thought of war to keep their mouths closed and their eyes open.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Verdun has eaten mp the pride ot the German army. and is ready to de- your anything the Crown Prince may throw against her.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

New London's idea of Rube. is any one who lives north of MontvilIe
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
A Brilliant iGea,

Making a railroad man civil head of the British Admiralty is a brilliant idea. The poiittciarq have al failed on the job.-Spriniieid Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
One For the Grown Prinee.

The only victory the Grown Prince has ever won was his recent fight against the people oS Germany.-Syra- cuse Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

No joker ever feels that he is or the trail of a lonesome laugh!
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
Our Annual Waste $2O, 900, 900
By Ida C. Bailey Allen. Editor Housewife Forum, Pictorial Review author Book. lecturer Westhed Domestic Science Schools


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Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
TAKE THE BULLETIN ALONG

Readers of The Bulletin leaving the city for vacation trips can have t follow them daily and thus keep iu touch with home affairs.
 Order through The Bulletin busi- ness office
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

John Barleycorn and Jim Jams are not enjoying the outlook.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Some wise householders are begin ming to discover that starving the gar bage can is great help toward fat tening up the family savings account Union.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Also. when Mir. Hoover gets to going real good, probably there won't be any meringue left on the lemon pie. But that won't hurt the pie a little bit New Canaan Advertiser.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

The American congress seems tt take pride fn being a bad example tc all the world
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Germany deserves the worlds en- mity, but it need not claim the vic tory because it has won it.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Charlotte (N. O is going to have library for the soldier boys who camp in her midst
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

The man on the corner says: "A fool is just as liberal with his folly as reforTner is with his adViceI"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

distance, the company was assembled at the arrnory in the town. each man
 in uniform, fully armed and ready for duty in two hours. In addition to this evidence of preparedness the automo-
 piles in the town were lined up at the armory. their owners and drivers ready to obey any order that might be given. Hartford Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

It has been proven that a U-boat cannot be any meaner than it's first officer is.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Americans are for America every minute! Who are the Americans for?
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

The selective draft scheme made the value Of a wife loom up in the eyes of some young fellows.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Ten cent whiskey has come back again in Waterbury. Strange how tfsc price of whiskey can be brought down while. milk goes up.-Torrington News.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

One year ago we called attention to the very peculiar way which the state of Connecticut uses in collect ing the corporation tax. Ordinary business concerns send a bill when any amount of money is due and that bill shows definitely what is to be paid. Practically every city and town and school district in the state of Connecticut sends a bill for taxes when they are due but the state Of Connecticut sends a notice from the the tax has been levied upon a cor poration and then when the tax is paid a little receipt, torn from a book, is sent to the per-on who pays the tax. It certainly would be much more satisfactory to the ordinary bus mess concern to receive a bill in the regular way and it would make no difference to the corporation whether that bill was sent from the office or the tax conlmisSione or from the of flee of the state tr1~ surer. A nice re- specta bic bill would be a comfort to Connecticut corporations. Bristol Press.
 The New Preston Garden club has voted that the "Darned" weather-Pve printed 'em in fact. so the devil can have no possible excuse on account Of poor and illegfble writing for substi- tuting that much more forceful and emphatic word that. begins and ends with the same letters and although some prominent members of the Hay Makers union have used that latter emphatic word it seems with peculiar appropriateness in regard to the ac-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09
OTHER VIEW POINTS

The draft is on, and the boards which have to consider the subject of exemptions have their work cut out for them. Fairness and impartiality must mark their decisiosn in order 10 give the subjects of the conscription law a square deaI-Ansonia Sentinel.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

The state council of defense is urg- ing each town of the state to erect a war bulletin board. The idea is to have council of defense posters and other matters. Specifications for the
 bulletins are given. They are to be of wood A inches square.-New Britain
 Record
Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-09

Dorothy Garfield Fisher. the author ess writes that recently in P;t;s where she is doing war work she had breakfast with an American soldier who had been her instructor in mathe- matics in her girlhood in Lawrence Kan. He is now General John J. Per hing.-Waterbury American.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-16

Charley SITS. who VIII manage the
Fort Dodge team Of the Central asso-
citation. has made arrangements for Scout
Charley Rprrctt of the Detroit club tn
coach his team for u couple W weeks
this spriug Barrett coached Sug' team
ON. sprluE iu the Three league. with
IN" result that SITS dcycOp,d Walter
Holkc aud Bob NeaOh
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-16
Bowling
Standing ot the Teams.

The Sims bowling team last right went
into second place nv result ~ their win
over SHpl"ton Sims landed two Of the
three games and uusod ont tho former
SECOND place mon The scores