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Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-27

Mr. Editor; read John W. Ayers letter in Tuesdays s Bulletin and think he described himself just right. could not express my sentiments bet ter myself, and self judgment is said to be righteous judgment I keep cats and if a tax Is necessary to support the government l expect to pay it. A few years ago there was quite hue and cry about taxing bachelors, but I am not sure there was anything said about tags. If at any time it is voted to tag those who pay 6 poll tax will furnish MT. Ayet whom I pre- sume is taxed. with either a tin can or q bag appropriately embroidered, whichever is required. God allowed cats to come into the world before He did MT. Aver. or ne might have asked his comment, but I do not be- lieve Christ taught boys to tie tin cans to cats tails, and I have no use for man who tries 10 teach my boys cruelty to animals. I am not training my boys to play Germans,
 ETA BARBER. PlainfeId, March 26, 1919.
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SOLDIERS CLAIMS.

It is of course the desire of the gov ernment that the bonus of $S0 given to the returning soldiers, sailors and ma rines should be received by them. It is not so large but what they should get every dollar of it and for that purpose less red tape has been attached to the method of securing it than to some of the other details which have to be gone through in dealing with the govern ment.
 When it was first announced that the bonus was ready to distribute to those who had Ieen discharged and left the service tefore the fund was available, it was required that the dis charge certificate should be forwarded with the request fur the money. The chance of losing the certificate didn't appeal to many but they took the chance. Now it has been announced that it is not necessary to forward the original certificate but certified copy of it should he sent with the nearest recruiting officer making the copy That of course is handy to those who are near a recruiting office but not SC convenient to those who are not. Thus it is not surprising if many are still forwarding the original. That pre- vents them making a trip out of town and going to some expense to get the bonus.
 Again the government is calling at tention to the fact that the employ ment of lawyers to aid in getting back pay means a handicap rather than a help. because such is not necessary But to get arrears application must bt made to the director of finance of the war department, to get the bonus T must go to the zone finance officer a Washington and claims fori insurance must be directed to the war risk in surance division, treasury department All of this is plain enough if it is un- derstood, but to the inexperienced i is not surprising that there is con. fusion. There is still a lot of red tape in spite of the efforts to simplify.
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IN THE. DAYS NEWS

Even the war could not stop work on St. PauFs Cathedral in London. The famous church, like the English constitution, represents a growth of centuries and not definite period of Construction"
 This statement is made in bulIe- tin of the National Geographic Soci- ety in conectionl with d London dis patch which notes a request for addi- tional funds to complete repair work on St. Pauls
 "England's esteem for the historic edifice is shown by the continuation of the restoration work throughout the war despite the Interruption to practically all other building" the l bulletin says.
 still fresh in public memory is the notable Service of Conservation, at 1 tended by royalty and distinguished 1 Americans then in London, held in St 1 Paurs April 20, 1917, to commemo- rate the entry of the United States ill to the war.
 "St. Paurs is the largest Protestant church in the world. It's dome is one of the most beautiful. The church embodies architectural ideas of many periods, because 1t Is not the product l of a generation, or even a century True, Sir Christopher Wren is cred ited with the structure as it stands
 today but he embodied many feat
 ures of the famous Old St. Paul's, razed in the great London fire in 1866 l Wren did not wish the restora ton tc
 be after the 'Gothick Rudeness of the Old Design But he was compelled
 to modify his own plans to a consid-
 erable extent. Said he, of the balus. 1 trade over his veto, Ladies think nothing well without an edg- ing
 ITO this famous mathematician Iastrnnnrnsr- and arcl,itact the Lon.
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the "dollar-a-year men, have not received their dollar from the gov ernment in keeping with their con- tract to do war work for one year at that modest figure. The more modest the pay, the slower the gov ernment in meeting its obligation to deliver what it has contracted to deliver. Soldiers who have had un- comfortable experiences with the war risk bureau have experienced this. The dollar a-year men" have only a sentimental interest in the dollar which they have so well earned. The governments debt to them should be met with no uncomfortable need of continued jogging of Uncle Sans memory with reminders that this small amount is due.-Waterbury
 Republican.
 and maintain the art of making ten ! hens lay fifty-one eggs a week, as the 1 leading pen did lately in the Storrs
 contest would find the acquired value of the four and one fourth 1 dozen at sixty or seventy cents a ! dozen a reasonable profit. Or bet i ter, he would find the food value of
 that many eggs something he could not purchase for several times the l money the operation cost him.
 l Meanwhile some boys and girls ir
 Litchfield county are going further 1 than that. They have formed a s1,.
 900 poultry club. That means thai
 they propose to make $50 hens net them S1,000 year. That is not 1 the $500 annual return from g
 limited back yard which the opti-
 mistic advertising promised. It k
 not the eight dollars a year net pel hen which some of the poultry jour | nalists dream of. But it is a reason
 able aim, and the facts prove thai
 it can be achieved. It may be con- sidered the reduction of poultry tc l real money.-Hartford Times.
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STORIES OF THE WAR
How Americans Moved Up to tn
 Rhine.

Correspondence of Tna Associated Press, In it's march across Rhenish Prussia toward the Rhine, the Ameri- gan army of occupation was preceded by two raj '"0ad exploration crews of engineers, whose duty was to make sure that the lines of comnlunicatio tion
 were ready 10 operate. The engineers travelled in specia Strains
 In one instance the specia! train of Colonel Albert E. Pierce of Eauclaire,
 Wis, commenting the Thirty seventh
 engineers, was fired upon by snipers in the initial trip of an American force
 over the r.il line between Trier and Bitburg on the day when inc Ameri-
 cans first stepped across fhe line into Rhenish Prussia None of the shots took effect.
 Company F of the Thirty-seventh engineers did the pioneering between valley. while Company r explored the
 northern route travelling by way of Bitburg.
 Reports had been received that the tracks had been mined. at various places and owing 10 this fact the trains proceeded rather slowly and 1 traveled only by daylight. Each train | had two locomotives and about twenty cars. Loollouts were posted upon the | pilot of the lead locomotive and l stops were made at each bridge and l culVert to ascertain whether any ot | them had been tempered with by the
 withdrawing German soldiers. l Deserted isiindhouses were encoun. tered in sev 9ral town. and even ir
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The man cn the corner says; An open month is not all there is of freedom.
 or course no one is refusipg a job these days just for the sake of escap- ing an income tax next year.
 Fror now on the r1an with the sradc ard the hoe is gong to be able 4o make excellent use of every extra hour.
 We have gotten past the point now the fact that there is a cold snap in the wet
 It is apparently ID to the supreme War council unless the peace confer ence hastens, to deal with ths Hun in Hungary.
 Efforts are being made to arrange other debates but thus far no one has issued challenge to the winner of the Lodge Lowell contest. It begins to look us if tuore wore those in Hungary who were anxious tc dodge the penalty that goes with the losing side in the war From the Way the Hungarians are i acting the impression might be gained | that they were trying to break the si- lence of Colonel House. NOW tHey dTs laiFltl9 dDoCL t MI 1 ing highway to cross the continent Nothing will please the road builder: | more than decision 70 cons.~1c- it. In view of the fact that amendment. are being made to the league of na. tions, word must have gotten to Pari somehow about how this country fel over that proposed covenant
 Germany is doing a lot of complain ing about what it fears the peace con | ference will exact from it, but it reall, should have don" more thinking abou such thing a few years ago
 It would be useless to spend Ehe tim to ask the man who has been losin; sheep what he thinks about the dog that are doing everything possible t discourage wool and mutton produc | tion.
 It IS noble stand which some cab inet members have taken in declarin; that they will keep the governmen alive if they go to jail for it, but i would have been quite as appropriat if they had insisted upon it regardles of the fact that the leaders were il l Europe.
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redistribute themselves throughout the country in the ratio in which the man power was withdrawn for military pur- poses, thus bringing into immediate op- eration the maximum reabsorbing ca pacity of the whole nation"
 Most men are likely to get back home as rapidly as they can. Home ties will be one big attraction and the old jobs will be another. There are others however who are susceptible to the at- fractions of 9 larger city if employ ment can be obtained there. But tc put the men from other cities and states at work at ports of arrival 0, elsewhere hot their home, means that the localities where they belong ar' likely to suffer from the continued ab- sence of that manpower while the boy: in those communities not yet returned are going to find it the harder to ge work when they reach their home com munities. It is. therefore commend able effort which is being made t bring about a redistribution equal t the number that was called away.
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WHILE SHE PACKED

However shall do my packing with these two youngsters around is more than can tell" walled Mrs. Larel to her neighbor, Mrs. Elmer. in a morning confidence over the back fence. Par ticularly," she went on, 'as I have now got to the attic, where 1 expect to spend the whole of this miserable rainy day, and l cant take the chil- dreu up there with me, for it's too cold
 Let me have them for the day" suggested the generous Mrs. Elmer. T shall have to stay at home today, any way, because of Archie's lame knee, and it will not be much harder to care for four children than for two.'F 1 After feeble protest Mrs. Larel con- scented and packed her two little girls over to the Elmers' shortly after l breakfast, and then flew home again
 in order that she might get at the at 1 tic as soon as possible. She was a del- 1 icate little woman, pretty and inordi- 1 nateiy fond of dress and not used to | doing her own work, or even her own | packing. But her maid had left her without warning and her husband had written her to join him in Washing 1 ton and to prepare to spend the win | ter there.
 So, with the aid of some professiona. pdCheGS, S1S l1du ufSpUSSu uL every thing ct ept the things in the attic and today she would finish with tLcm she said, if they didn't finish her.
 T hate all kinds of manual labor, she had confessed to her good neigh
 bor, Mrs. Elmer. mot only because l have a natural distaste for drudgery
 but because I loathe those signs O
 drudgery that always show thelnselve' in the faces of women who do thei own work. You can always tell cn' of these domestic drudges as soon a. you see them, first by the looks O
 their hands, and then by the lines il
 their faces"
 And is that why your f;tce is >s'
 smooth and unlined." demanded Mrs } Elmer because you have ;.lway
 avoided these hated household tasks :? Yes" replied the pretty neighbol
 "and I mean to go on avoiding them d
 long as I have wits to do so.'
 Through this long rainy day, whil . Mrs. Elmer labored to keep peac among four high spirited children, sh thought of Mrs. Larel alone in her at
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HOME BOYS COME FIRST.

The idea recently advanced in New York to the effect that the New York boys among the men returning from service in Europe should be the first to get New York jobs has apparently been recognized by the war department a. worthy of being carried out throughout the nation. This is recognized by the ap- peal which it has made to the National Chamber of Commerce and by that body 10 the commercial organizations throughout the country to aid in se- curing jobs for the returning soldiers. This applies 10 all the men wherever they come from by seeing that the organizations in the places where the out Of town men belong arc roti- fed. Attention is called to this under taking by the appeal of the national organization when it says, Local jobs for local men should be the slogan used by the employers in order that the returning soldiers may be impe!led to
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The League of Natio ns,

MT. Editor: Among the considera- tions to be entertained in regard to this League of Nations" business, the most important, beyond doubt, are the practical conditions that are to be met, and these we can best foresee by judging from the past. On this conti- nent very seldom if ever outbreaks occur that require the intervention of others. But how is it in Europe? Just to think of the uprisings, outbreaks. wars of robbery and conquest and of every other kind that so frequently take place there is enough. Occur rences of the last year Or two have given us an improved idea Of what it means to carry on war in Europe And now the thought of being obliged to take hand in any or all of these, whether we wanted to or not at the time, without much prospect of a similar return on the part of others, Is well worth considering.
 J. ". Mystic, Conn, March p, 1919.
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tic, and she said to herself that for once the pretty hands would be soiled and the charming face Sobered by the necessity for real work. And she did her best with the children, and amused them as well as she could because of that toiling figure in the neXt-door at tic.
 But it was not altogether an easy task. From the back of the house to the front, and back again, ran the kid dies all day long, and even Archie's lame knee was not enough to keep him clear out of the festivities, which be- came so noisy as the day wore on that Mrs. Elmer's nerves began to feel ra- ther "jumpy."
 Well" she would say to herself when she thought she could not keep l her much longer, poor Mrs: Larel is 1 having a. harder time than 1, for she is l not used to hard work, and packing is I no easy job.''
 1 But when, at o'clock, Mrs. Larel made her appearance at the Timers l door in response to an invitation to l take dinner with her neighbor, her face l was wreathed in smiles and there were
 no traces of the heavy labor of pack 1 ing.
 1 day" declared Mrs. Elmer; it was ar l ideal day to pack in an attic. to the 1 accompaniment of rain pattering Or
 the roof but I do hope you have no worn yourself out.'
 "Oh, no," replied her lively neighbor You see, almost the first trunk that opened contained my grandmother wedding dress that I hadn't seen fo' years, and I was so interested in try ing it on the changing the sleeves { bit that I didn't get much of the pack ing done. It's wonderful how clothe
 will come back in style if only you keel
 them long enough. Why, the skirt o
 this gown was as skimpy as those the.
 are wearing now. and the neck wa
 round. But, of course, the sleeves wer
 too puffy. But you look tired, Mrs
 Elmer. I do hope the children haven
 been too troublesome. ;i And with the lines in her face a lit tie deeper than they had been in tn , morning, and her head a little incline , to achiness, Mrs. Elmer answere , bravely:
 "Oh, no, not at all" "-Exchange.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-27
LEGAL NOTICE
AT \ CnrRT nE pRnRATE I

AT \ COURT OF PROBATE HELD at Bozrah, within and for the District of Bozraha, on the goth day of March.
 Present-WAREHAM W. BENTLEY, Judge.
 Estate of Nathan s. Hunt, late of said Bozrah deceased.
 Henry s. GuIliver, EXecutor and Trustee of the estate of said deceased. exhibited his administration account with said estate for allowance, and filed d written application alleging that the last annuitant of the said essate has recently died. and praying for an order for a final distribution of the residue of said estate. and apph- cation was also made that the Court ascertain the heirs and distributes Of said estate: it is therefore
 Ordered, That the 18th day of April, A. D. 1919, at o'clock in the after noon, at the Probate court Room in said Bozrah. be, and the same is, ap- pointed for a hearing of the same, and that said EXecQtOr is directed to give notice thereof by publishing this order once in some newspaper having a cir culation in said District, at least fifteen days prior to the date of said hearing. and it is further ordered that a copy of this order be mailed to each of the known heirs and distributes of said estate, at least seven days before the late therein set for a hearing, and that lue return be made.
 WAREHAM w. BENTLEY, mar27d Judge.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-27
STOP CATARRH! OPEN
 h0STRlLS AND HEAD Says Cream Applied in Nostrils Relieves Head Colds at Once.

If your nostrils are closged and your head is stuffed and you can't breathe freely because of a cold or catarrh, just get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm at any drug store. Apply a little of this fragrant anti septic cream into your nostrils and let it penetrate through every Sair passage of your head, soothing and healing the inffamed, swollen mucous membrane and you get instant relief
 An! how good it feels. Your nos trils are open, your head is clear, nc more hawking snuffiing, blowing; nc more headache dryness or struggling for breath. Ely's Cream Balm is just what sufferers from head colds and catarrh need It's a delight.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-27

don. fire blew much good. He had commissions to draw plans for re- budding half a hundred churches. From these were modelled many of the American churches of Colonial days. For his masterpiece, St. Paul's, Sir Chritopher is said to have received less than the equivalent of s1,000 a year, an amount which might engage the attention of a modern architect of his standing for an afternoons consultation. The building was paid London.
 Travellers are apt to pass by an inscription on the south porch pedi- ment, 'Resurgam. q shall rise again) as a religious reference to the Resur- rection. When the architect was surveying the ruins he wished to mark the center of the projected dome. He asked a workman to hand him stone. The workman chanced to pick up a chip from an old tomb bearing the inscription, which Sir Christopher adopted
 The motto was appropriate. Some historians believe the cramped Lud- gate Hill site originally was that of a Roman shrine of Diana. A Christian church is known to have been built there in the early seventh century. It was burned two decades after William the Conqueror came to Eng land. From the ruins emerged 'Old St. PauIs.' Fire destroyed that building too. but it was restored on an even more pretentious scale. At the Old St. Paurs' John Wy cIiffe faced the charged of. heresy. Tyndales New Testament was burn ed, Wolsey heard the reading of the Papal condemnation of Luther, and under 'Powle's Cross, now marked by , d memorial heretics were forced to recant and witches to confess
 ''Even before the great fire Old St, Paurs was crumhling, partly from a succession of lightning strokes, and partly from neglect Wine cellars and workshops were to be found be meath it's lengthy corridors. The old building was nearly as long as the Union Station at Washington, D. c. The nave became Paurs Walk a promenade.
 1 Two towers, as well as the dome make the new St. Paul's conspicu- ous. In one tower Great Paul, 8
 17ton bell boon1s out daily at one D
 m. A smaller bell tolls when there l is q death in the royal family.
 "rombs of Wellington and Nelson
 T "1 i'0i "i'" INSS lioluS' anu oL otneI famous men are to be found in St Paups. Over Wren's grave is a plain | tablet bearing a Latin inscription 1 counseling the visitor to look about him if he would find the architects monument
 l Sir Christopher should have be.
 come renowned as a city planner as
 well as a church builder. After tkt | fire he prepared a plan that would have made London city of wide ! street and radiating avenues. Bu 1 Londoners had become reluctant t( relinquish property tenure for years unlike citizens of such newer citie, as Baltimore and Chicago. St Paul! itself has owned farm In Esse,
 since the seventh century"
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

Formerly they used to have strict examinations before admitting pu7 pills to high schools and colleges. Now the fact they didn't learn any thing down below is considered a good reason why they should be sent along to see if the upper schools can teach 'em anything.-Meriden Journal.
 The gardening season is almost here and the indications are that the interest of last year will be fully maiatained. The pleasures and re- creation are factors as we'll as the profits and products. There is fascin- ation in seeing vegetation grow that nothing else can give, and there is health as well as pleasure in contact with the earth. Gardening will not only remain but continue to grow in favor-Bristol Press.
 It is not surprising to hear that
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CARL BYOIR OFFICIAL
 ADVISER OF LITHUANIANS

New York. March 26-Appointment
 of Carl Byoir. an American citizen and
 former member of the committee on
 public information, as official adviser
 of the Lithuanian provisional govern ment and of the Lithuanian national council in the United States, was an nounced by the council tonight.
 AIr. Byoir, who was engaged while in Europe in work for the committee among peoples of the new nid-Euro pean nations, referred in d statement to the battle line maintained by the I.ithuanians on their eastern boun- daries against the Bolshevist forces and to their struggle for recognition here,' saying that after centuries ot oppression by Prussians and Russians 1 they have laid aside all their differ l ences, political and otherwise, as wei as all questions of territory an6
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