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Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE GER.
 MAN LIES.

The committee on public informa tion have issued a pamphlet mailing Io1 German lies.
 These lies involve the manhood and honor of our soldiers, the devotion and honesty of our women. the integ- rity and dependability of our banks and the value of our institutions.
 It is not likely that these 10I lies begin to cover the falsehoods that are being conhdentialIy whispered to friends to weaken faith in the hfneri can cause in all parts of the country; and their only worth is 10 show the nature of the propaganda used to weaken a free people.
 There are doubtless ten thuesafi6 whispered lies drifting about the country; and the two most contennp. tible are concerning the honor afll honesty of Red Cross women, and the corrupt character of American sol. diers.
 These two noble classes of our citi. zens find their defense in their oper upright lives and their brave and pa. triotic spirit.
 The testimony concerning the clean. liness. honesty. loyalty, courage ant resolution of the workers and Aghteri for humanity are annihilating to thes, Hun falsehoods.
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the pier. It is internally hot, and the average man does not know just how hot gasoline can get before it begins to misbehaye; but the line never wavers
 Roll 'em along boys! Keep 'em going. Everybody has got to die soruetime'
 Little by little things become auieter. The fires die down. The Archies stop. Here and there working party still continues it's labors in the ruins. Someone is missing. and they want to get him out of 8 cellar. Now the toe sin sounds again, this time with slow. stately, measured beats. This is the ,Alls clear signal. No more enemy planes are flying between here and the fighting lines. People come out of their cellars and go home. A few eau tious souls are busiiy cutting sheets 1 of paper and pieces of bedding across I their broken windows to keep out the i dre3ded 'courant d'air. Now and then 1 there is a small group in a doorway
 recounting experiences. "The Boche has dropped more than
 one hundred bombs tonight, many ot ! them of the 500 0-poHnd size. The ner damage is not very great A few houses destroyed, many windows brok' l en, few victims-very few but ali tot many; a few holes blown in th' streets, some trees uprocted in thi parks and some pansy beds oblitera ted"
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DON'T WANT TO PAY THE PRICE.

Germany has made the world suffer, but she shrinks frona the ordeal of a just punishment for her deyiiish cf- lenses.
 For a year Germany has been try ing by triekery and diplomacy to bring about a compromised peace to secure to herself all that she has gained by theft. and to excuse her. self from the punishment for her wiilfuily horrible acts.
 It was calculated from the first by ruthlessness to terrify the world. As suf1ing that she was law unto her. self she essayed to show disrespeet for all law and to scout the estab iished inter traffic rights of the na- tions of the world
 Twenty-twe nations today are at war with Germany because flor four years it has ciutehed with its htood- dripping hands at the throat of all civ ilization.''
 Germany cries for peace to pre- serve her dictatoFy powers, she seeks compromise to shield a viilainous gang of criminals that should be hung IS high as Haman. Germany has offended the world by her crimes. Her leaders must be made to answer as criminals.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06
HoW To sAvE AND HELP.

Uncle Sam is striving to teach the American people thrift. to establish among them the habi- of saving.
 Get the habit! Just remove q can't' from your mind and substitute there for "I will"
 This is the first important step up- on which to found self-denial It is not hardship although it may seem so. for it eventually reveals to you that it is blessing.
 We are going to take six billion worth of Liberty bonds for Uncle Sam in three weeks. starting Sept 18th, and to do this stunt with comfort every American must do his part.
 Begin to censor your wants and to marshal your actual needs. and you will have room to discover where the surplus for bonds is coming from and how you are going to get the saving habit.
 We are all going to subscribe for these bonds. and we are not going to sell them at a discount as too many buyers have already done. Keep ing your bond or parting with it dem onstrates the difference between a welsher of Uncle Sagn and patriot
 You want to be ] holder up oI the flag. not a trailer of ii in the dust.
 When you are putting down the Kaiser with bonds you are backing uI cur brave soldiers with money.
 You are going to bt in iti
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06
HOW THE PEOPLE RESPONDED.

MT. Hoover in his annual report gives credit to the American people for exceeding the request of the Food Commission to save wheat by ten mil lion bushels.
 The women were asked to save 75 million bushels of wheat by the use Of substitutes because the wheat crop was so far below the average
 It was no easy task for the people to take bread from their own mouths to feed the people Of the other needy nations, but they met the need patriot ically and at the close of the year had to their credit ten million more bush els of wheat than the Food Adminis- trator asked for.
 This trenching upon the home loaf enabled America to furnish the en- tente nations the material for over six billion loaves of bread; and the sur plus represented material for 750 mil lion loaves more.
 This was a great feat performed by American women. Il lent great power to the allies in addition to the billions in money loaned to carry on the war and the million and a quarter of troops landed in France to find the Hindenhurg line.
 The American people are a grea. people and they have the hammer to strike the final blow in the war for free men and free seas.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06
STORIES OF TIE WAR
A German Air. Raid on Paria.

Writing of German air raid on Paris. one Of the American Red Cross inspectors Gives a thrilling account of how American trcops and Red Cross workers give aid to the city in such desperate moments. He describes an air raid in this fashion:
 Nowhere is there any sound but the echoes of footsteps. Not a street light is to be seen, not g single ray of light-nething but the inkiest and most imDenetra ble darkness. Then all of the noise of the world seems to break loose. Ciang -clang- -clang boonns the tocsin-like gigantic pneumatic riv- eter working on a coliosal bell Whooo-o shrieks the siren, running up and down the scale in an awful vail.
 The streets come to life. Doors open and slam shut The sidewalks are full of ghostly figures hurrying towards the caves where the inhabi- tants have fitted up cots and hunks. They get up now to make sitting place for the new corners. The place fills up Everyone looks apathetic, sleepy ard bored. The children go to
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sleep with their heads on their moth er's shoulders. and a girl in the uni form of a street car conductor swaps war yarns with a poilu in dingy blue. Tn the last raid the front trucks of her car were thrown from the rails by the displacement of air caused by an exploding torpedo. The car and it's inmates were unhurt. The poilu looks a mite increduious and murmurs l can well believe you, Mademioselle.'N "Outside the noise continues for about three or four minutes and then subsidies as a new noise starts-the Archies, or anti-craft guns, which com mence to bark furiously from half a dozen different points. Searchlights rake the sky. The Archies continue i their clamor, but they are not firing at anything, merely keeping up a bar 1 rage fire to prevent the Boche from 1 flying over the city.
 Suddenly there is an earthrocking Whoon. No more doubt as to where the Boches are, Whoom, Whoom l Whoom! One involuntarily ducks and 1 tries turtlewise to cover his head with his shoulders. A hideous noise re- sounds up and down the deserted street-falling walls, and the tinklins and crash of showers of broken glass and roofing tiles.
 Through the glass and litter Of the street an American Red Cross cam oinette come ploughing it's way. Ont of the city fireman stands on the run ming board They stop and the fire man flashes an electric lamp into thu ruins makes q nasty inspection, ant
 then runs up the street and dives into the redligft cave
 " Anybody here from numbers 4s t' hal YNfa
 yell out that there is.
 f' Is everybody here from those mum
 bers? Was there anyone left in eithe
 of those buildings?'
 There is an anxious calling bacl
 and forth and rapid counting o
 noses. All here is the answer!
 'Gcod. Not much left of those twl }.uildings Don't enter the ruins unti hey have been inspected by the en gineering department. Go to tn Sisters of the Poor if you want foot CT place to sleep.''
 "A vail and several curses compete
 but the fireman is gone.
 ',The Archies have stopped and ther are no more whoonls, but people sta l in their cellars. It is only nine o'clocl s and experience has shown that the in t dustrious and nethodical Boches wi $ keep coming back again and agai l until after midnight.
 ] "A half mile away a bright re
 glow gets larger and larger and light [ the sky. A fire has broken out in tn f railroad yards and is making gres v headway. Several cars of oil ar I | burning fercely and spreading to ca1 I l of merchandise. Half a dozen Amer k can soldiers are working feverishl e trying to get the untouched cal : away from the fire.
 |. Two of them have got hold of 2 switch engine and are shunting ol Il whole strings of cars.
 Do you know anything about thes S French engines, Sir? asks the in s promptu engineer. I cant find u 2 damn brake.'
 : '"The fire is eating it's way towart <. q pier on which stands a line of drum 2 of gasoline.
 e Come on, boys! roll them kegs 2. gas outa here yeils the corporal. ar o the line of drums starts trundling dow
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

"I read about Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and I sent for free sample. It seemed to help 50 used one box of Cuticura Ointment with three cakes of Cuticura Soapwhen he was all healed" Signed Mrs. Adciina Beilofastc, N 87 E. Lincoln St., Marlboro, Mass, Sept. r, 1917
 Use these super-crearny enolhents for everyday toilet purposes and pre- vent these distressing troubles.
 Sample Each Free by Mail. Address pos, card: "Cuticura, Dept. R. Bosten.' Sold everywhere. Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and 5oc.
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We do not sinh for the Santa Cata-
 i;na glass bottom boats and an oc-
 casional red bass in submarine vege-
 tation, for we slowly paddle through
 our own wonderful carpets of pads
 and blossoms and in open spaces in
 the bed lock into the clear depths and
 sec schools of young pickerel spawned
 in April, many schools of perch Of all
 sizes. with hundreds of reaches from
 a dollar size up to fat roe carrying
 friers as large as your hand. Us
 ua'ly old lilies are drawn back under
 water and no Head ones are seen. and
 except one now and then nibble
 from deer or cows I thnUeht there yras
 nothing ta destroy them. But this
 season in this pond many of the hearts
 were torn ont and petals scattered
 over the surface of the water. At
 first I supposed the destruction was
 caused by nuawks, green heron or
 oitterns. later bv muskrats and at
 last concluded that large frogs tore
 the lilies to cat flies in the golden hearts. Padding slowly. we select the
 finest blossoms. with some delicatelY tinted buds and in shaded shadows note some extra large ones which stand several inches out of water after the manner of lotus. One hot, fopEy morning when the water was very warm, an odd southeast blast of wind ruffled the rads sa that thav l turned nearly ever makir- ruddy g1ow far and nrida-unusual but beau l tif1ll beyond words We will close ou1 l tribute 70 the queen Of acquatis 1 flowers, by adding that the r~eateet 1 display IS at Tadpole the larees' snecimers at Noank and the nos Helicately tinted ones in the so-caTet i Crystal Lake pond near Cales Ferry: and they need not blush a
 their poetic alias-Nymphoea cdora ia 1 c. L R.
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The young flicieers in a hole in our barn are our most interesting tenants. Through opera glasses we watch their antics at the mouth of their hole at mealtimes, at playtimes, at scrapping times, but mostly at yelling times, for they yell all the time. We have thought the distressing cry of orioles just out of the nests was the limit for noise and persistent woe, but young Wacups in their holes drown even the
 wailing of our young turkeys when they are hungry or estray. This bunch is due to go abroad today or tomorrow, for the breast marking is bright and the red crown well developed, though the adult golden gleam of the under wings is not quite attained. There are six ether holes on the south side of this barn where f1ickers may have
 bred in the deep mows in former years. Old maple and apple-stubs and tele
 graph poles serve for most of the homes here. but have found golden
 wings breeding in ice houses in LON 2 Society and at East Great Plain and in q barn on the Norman farm in Ledyard We hope to see our own | highholes leave the barn for it is a question whether they will launch out straightaway, or start in the series
 of parabolas typical of this species.
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Our men are doing so well Over There that we feel that we 1nigh- Go a little better.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

When you pray remember you are lifting yourself up. not pulling God down to you
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06
BABY HAD ECZEMA
 FOR ] MONTHS
In Pimples On Face. Cross and Had to Have Hands Tied. Itchy
 and Kept Awake at Night.
HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT
"Aisef my baby was one month old he started to have eezen1e and he had t

ScYGn moI1In5. NW3b ID pimpies on his face, and they were watefy. He was very cress and had to have his hands tied. The erup- ton was so itchy I had to rub him, and it kept me awake half the night.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

On Sept. 18th MT. McAdoo will cali for twice as many billions as he did before to be raised in seven days less time. Is this because he has enlisted q million women to speed up the subscriptions?
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

What we need is an optfrnist club where people may go to laugh when down hearted. as they go to church to pray.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

Over the hills of Norwich drives the auto-car. and from the highest round top filings greeting to d star!
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

The Kaiser's agents are discover ing that Russia as prize is very much like hornets nest.
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So Germany recognizes our black helpers who are white hearted and brave and true American patriots.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

To better things we are told that we should take the formality out of the church, and put morality into our schools
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

Western political slosh: Every re- publican victory in America means bonfres in Ferlin!" r
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

Since the Kaiser has out Turked the Turk we must low CT our estimate of him to the prope: notch.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

The Sioux Indians are whooping Ter up for Uncle sam instead of against him The old Indian fighters have changed their estimate of these true Americans
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Didn't we all feel like cutting q water melon when we heard from Eismes.
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Suits at law for the alienation Of a partners affections are called heart balm aetion!7
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Hoover is a national guard by him self-he never lets tAe worst hal pen
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

Gen. Ludendorff lost 10000 men winning what he lost and another 100000 losing it. No wonder he says "Twash't worth the shot"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

The destroyer Ward, which was launched at the Mare Island navy yard seventeen and one half days aft ter the laying of the first plate. has now beea commissioned for service. seventy days after the start Of her building. This makes worlds rec
 ord for construction of this corr, and is seventy days against two years, or one tenth the time formerly occu-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

Omaha is losing three autos a day on the average-and few of them ever come back. A good car is worth guarding.
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It might be well to paraphfase the late Jeremiah Halseys definition of an Englishman for the Kaiser thus: An American is an improved German.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

An advanced business man thinks it is as important to dress up the shop windows for Sunday as to dress up the family.
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The tax on theater tickets is to be doubled next year. Those who weep and laugh for a diversion must also lift!
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

It is a, pity that the American Indian. who is doing such splendid service in the American expeditionary forces abroad has had to wait until this day to be appreciated by the gov ernment which has from the first treated him and his people so wretchedly. The history of the coun- try might have been written different Iy had the eaily settlers used better judgment in handling him.
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Many war garden is a wonder not because it is so productive. but be- cause it is what it isl
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Many a patriot" does the talking while the other fellow pays, prays CT fights. Some patriotism is cheap.
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The American soldier puzzles F'fitzie because he comes right out through the barrage instead Of fol. lowing it. He is ever a surprise.
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King George is all right with America. A Kansan who has met him says he is the equal of William Allen White.
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The Kaiser never says die. He keeps too far from the front for old death to get him or his'n:"
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The German hand is the black hand of the agec. and it must be made an end of.
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consoiation for Candidates.

One consolation the 1918 candidates for office may have in advance of election lies in the fact that even if defeated they need not be long out of a job.-Atlanta Constitution.
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The man boosts his town most Eho elevates it by his. acts. instead of words.
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The fall procession of crows to Ma sons Ledses goes over Us, but there are no blower or tipups on the shore, and duslSy duck, teal and sheldrakes rarely drop into the pond to feed. It has been wonderful berry season for the birds We have not bought a berry, but had wild strawberries every day from May 25th to July 10th. Then, there were red raspberries and thim bleberries enough for the table and to can up to date, and blueberries and huckeberries of good size bid fair to
 last us till October. Yesterday we saw a ci1ipmunk in a raspberry bush eating berries. and I saw racoon biting off high blackberries with evi- dent relish Woodchucks, chip and red squirrels every night gnaw the fallen winesap and strawberry apples. Last year every other ear of sweet corn in our garden was destroyed by
 coons pheas lnts, or rats. Meatless days do not phase iIs up here, as we can always have breakfast pan-fiah of our fine perch, bouts, pickere'
 numpkinseeds and phrogs. EverN
 calm evening turtles heads stick ou'
 of water and snapper has been seen twice with a head as big as foot
 ball and showing shell as he dove large as a eartwheel. Blue Mosquito hawks cling to our fish-lines, ana the east side Of the pond. the third week in July, had more and sh6wier butt terfiies than l ever saw before. A faint fringe of pickerel weed in the shadows, but no sagitaria or water l hyacinth.
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pied in the building of such a yes sel. The United States cruiser San Deigo, just destroyed, took seven years for her completion. If she should be replaced in the same pro- portion of time as was required for the building of the Ward, we could have in a little over eight montha a cruiser as effective as the San Diego, and much less vulnerable to tmarines-Hartford Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

When speaking of amusement circles i. is proper to include circus rings.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06
TIE QUAIL TRAP
First Light Flurries-A Roadside Game Vsion-Skunk and
 and Birds-Funny Flickers Among the Lily Pads.

half is solidly full of indigo allowed to spread uncut. so that an airpIane glimpse would show yellow expanse like the nnbroken fields of goldenrod seen by September motorists between Schenectady and Saratoga Springs.
 One thousand water lilies open every morning just now, and at the north end is a large bed of lilies, many of which are rosy tinted through their outer petals. The schoolgirls Essay on the Pond Lily does not deal in too many superiatiyes, and we ourselves may rhaDsOdize as we add a word to the life history of this water triumph. Its season is longest, it's fragrance the daintiest, of passe blooms the freest, it's culture the simplest. I dug a peck of bulbs from Burnetts Four Corners, tied stones, to the roots, which were thrown into Noank ice pond, and got four lilies the first year forty the third, four or five hundred the fifth, and now thousands are taken every year by Mystic and New London peo- pie. After gathering. many people put the long stalks in water and wondered why the buds do not open. Many times I have taken two hundred from Tadpole, Sandy Hollow. Poquonnoc or Pond Factory. placed them on Yantic cemetery. and every blossom would be wide open four or five days; the secret is to cut the stalks off leaving
 but five inches of stem, as water vii not sinhon through the long stalks in ca aptivity.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06
Pond Factory is the odd local name

Pond Factory is the odd local name of our little lake; because tradition has it that there was once a mill here which was moved bodily to South bridge. leaving the pond beautiful ih its seelusion and surroundings. At the south end is the Potter thirty five acre hillside pasture, from which, witt t'7a waterscape below, the spires of Char
 ton and Dudley in the distance and tn
 farf of Mt Tom foothills, can be had visw which will reward you for little climb. The crest half of the pasture in June was flushed with the very pinRest of mountain laurel. in rows, ih lanes. in groups and fiassed in solid stars by the master landscape garaener@Nat,are. And now the east
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The Quaii Trap folks are taking their summer outing bv the side Of the loveliest of laAelets eleven hundred occupied for six years with no other dwelling in sight, where new points Of view can be taken of local wild life. Because birds love 10 finger near lazy country homes it was feared there would be few birds to welcome us. But there are swifts, seven pairs of swallows two pairs of thrashers and two pairs Of catbirds-bred within stones throw of the house, chewinks guard unfedged young in cur thimble- berry thiCket and two lovely filters Of chickarees in our garret. o, yes, we are near to nature here A black snake
 crawls cut from under one doorstep
 on sunny days, there is a fat water
 adder in the ditch nearby, and our
 picture frames are hung with the per
 feet five foot snake-ski we picked
 Up in the 6ooryard From four holes in view of our window we watch old
 mossback woodchucSs come out every day, stand up and look around, crawl along and eat bit, then stand up again on the lookout for doge. take a mouthful more of clover and hustle back home at the feast alarm. Buteos circle overhead, but they have no; taken one of our forty turkey poultry No jays, nighthawks or cuckoos, but we have seen our first house wren in ten years, though pair Of ovens are 1 this season breeding at the pr. Charles c. Gildersleeve place in East Wood stock
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Conservation of Paper.

Conservation of Paper. 2 Save your coal literature. It will be handy in the furnace next winter to supplement the shortage of fuel. Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
 The true secret of physical beauty is to be born pretty.