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Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
WORRY "CONOiMENT OF LIFE"
A Little of 1t Excellent, but 1t Mucs Not Be Enduring CT
 Excessive.

Unless man has a little worry apathy, indifference and the mecl:n- ical physical diSinclinatiOn to do yrur utmost without sunt will be lacking. Without this condiment of life. thlS salt of the human cosmos, "we see 10 what absurd yet tragic physical lengths he is driven by the whip of that still vigorous tyrant. his self instinct to fight" This thrilling force. which one time had been used square " and successfully against the real world enemy, Is now absorbed in trivial and self-debasing skirmishcs with the grotesque bolsheviki of his imagination.
 In other words, if q man has a va riety of anxious explosive outlets via his muscles and intellect, such as driv- ing, tennis, swimming, dancing. compc- tition, golf and the like, these act as safety valves for the multitude of i'm pulses and reactions which habit and custom have compressed out of his external activities.
 Worry is one of these, if not entlur- ing. or excessive. For the average man set in society, in work and in his fam fly circle it takes the place of larger and better outlets for his destroyed initiative.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
JEWS NOT E4GN,.Y CONVERTED
Sern'ca to V':7.c.; They Were Annually F29ccG <o I.j,te0 Failed of It's
 T'U"p&:e.

In John E.vciyu'S diary of January [. 1G!1. thcrr i> notation nf pccu- liar ceremony which seems to have been of annual occurrence at Rome. Ii was Il sermon preached to n com pul@ory congregation of Jews. with n view to their conversion. lIr Evelyn says they are constrained to sit till the hour is done. but if is with so much malice in their countenances, splitting. humming. coughing and mo- tion, that 1t is almost impossible they should hear word from the preacher. A conversion Is very rare"
 The Zionist movement, which has gone on for years and received n new impetus by tho changes made In mid dle Europe as result of the world war, was outlined in n poem written by Robert Browning during his resi- dence in Italy, probably about the mid- dle of the nineteenth century. He calls It "Holy Cross Day."
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
NOW WE MAY TOW BOSWELL
Description of F'o"r-nh>r, "- tten by HimseIf, Rer"@'s Him as
 Very Human.

How pleasant 1t Is to know that Boswell. who we have always thought was merely kind of animated note book, was dro!l. vain. bihulous. warm-hearted creature, a good deal of a Pepys. in fact, says Golfers Weekly. A. Edward Newton's entertaining Amenities of Book Collecting" a vol tune of essays which shows that business man can write better litPra- ture than a hundred professors mu|led into one, makes Boswell very human! How jolly to hear that Boswell wrote press notices about himself! Here is one of his own hlurbs. which we quote from Mir. Newton's book:
 Boswell, the author, is q most ex- cellent man; he is of an ancient fam fly in the west of Scotland upon which he values himself not little. At his nativity there appeared omens of his future greatness. His parts are bright. and his education has been good He has travelled in post chaiscs miles without number. He is fond of seeing much of the world. He eats of every good dish, especially apple pie. He drinks old hook. He has very fine temper. He is somewhat of a humor- ist and little tlncturcd with pride. He has good. manly countenancC, md he owns himself to he amorouS. HC has infinite vivacity. yet is observed @t times to have a melancholy cast. He is rather fat than lean, rather short than tall, rather young than old. His shoes are neatly made, and he never wears spectacles"
 This brings the excellent Boswell very very close to us indeed; hc might almost be a member of the Auth 'rs' league. Especially apple pie. bless his heart.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
CRUSADERS WON AND LOST
In the End Nothing Was Gained by Attempted Conquest of the
 Holy Land.

During the four centuries from the Moslem conquest of Palestine until the 'crusades Christian, Jew and Mos lem lived together in peace. Then along came Peter the Hermit and the Crusaders. The second coming of Christ had been forecast for the year 1000. The passing of that year with out any catastrophe awakened an era of Christian piety that held the world safe through the year 1893, the anni- versary of the crucifiXion.
 Peter the Hermit prevailed upon Pope Urban II to sanction the first crusade. It proved successful ven ture, for Jerusalem was captured July IA, 1909, and Godfrey of BOuillOn elected king of Jerusalem.
 Saladin became master of Egypt and Syria toward the end of the twelfth century, after defeating the Crusaders at the battle of Hattin in 11S7. capturing the most treasured of relics. a piece of the true Cross. This provoked the third crusade. led by Richard Occur de Lion and commence rated in Scott's novel, "The Talis- man." The Crusaders captured Con StantinOplc for the Venetians, but failed of the entire conquest of Pales- tine.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
'OHLY HIS RIGHT"
Washington Upheld Actic1 of Man Who Would
 Not Make Way.

NESPITE President Washington's
 dignity, he was ever democrat- - ic. He was also just. Both qualities are Illustrated by story of him told by Rev. Dr. Alfred Ely, a Massachusetts clergyman, who died in 1SGG. Doctor Ely told the story in a Fourth of July address delivered some years before his death, and 1t was taken down and published in practical ly his exact words. The tale exemplI- tIcH Washington's magnanimity, as we'll as the almost idolatrous reverence felt for him in his own day.
 "When boy" said Doctor Ely, 'T resided in West Springfield, Mass, and worked on farm. In the autumn of the year 17S9 I was engaged with my employer in gathering load of corn stalks from field not far distant from the Connecticut river. My em- ployer had driven the loaded team from the lot and left me, as usual, to put up the bars. While thus occupied ! noticed the approach of four fine horses and large vehicle. There was no driver upon the carriage. but astride the nigh horse of each span was a young mulatto postilIon. There were also two outriders and a foot man. The vehicle, in which was scat ed a gentleman whose striking per sonal appearance impressed me, was called in those days a chariot. I saw the outriders gallop up in advance of the chariot and hold a barley with my employer, who occupied the entire road with his loaded cart. I perceived that my employer yielded none of his right to the road, and that the char tot was detained by the cart until they reached turnout, where the cortege passed by. I soon overlook my em- ployer and inquired who the distin. guished parsonage was who had just passed us, and was informed that ii was George Washington. obtained permission to run on and see if could not catch another glimpse of the great chieftain, whose deeds during the war had so filled my wondering fancy. In this I was not disappointed. found General Washington waiting for the ferry, on the bank of the river, dressed in n snuff-colored surtout, with q long lapcleG vest of the same color and ma, terial, and in small clothes and boots the most majestic and dignified looking man that I ever saw.
 "While I was gazing upon him one of his positions drove up, and, dis
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
DID NOT INVENT TELESCOPE
It's Possibilities in the Study of Astronomy.

The name of the man who first ffan~d and used a telescope for the observation of the heavenly bodies Is Calico Galilei, though little known in that form. It was this scientist, who died January 8, 1642, who. it may be said, first gave stability and force to the theory which places the sun in the center of the planetary system: In April or May, 1909, Calico heard at Venice of q little tubular instrument made by Hans Libbershey of Middle burg, which made distant objects ap pear nearer, and he immediately ap- piled himself to experimentation on the means by which such an instrument could be produced. Procuring couple of spectacle glasses, each plain on one side, but one convex and the second cOncave on the other side, and apply ing his eye to the concave glass, he found that objects were magnified three times, and brought apparently nearer. Soon after having made Cne which could magnify 930 times. Cali leo commenced observations on the sur face of the moon, which he discovered to be irregular, like that of the earth, and on Jupiter, which, in 1910, he as- certained to be attended by four stars, as he called them, which after ward proved to be its satellites.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
To F:cft7 Zee by Ai.3.ane.

An r,,nyd.t. rl lr n' l"d ny Capt. Rc,r.rl A. I"rl,it. r>r' '""'r and ravi- @~i.r of P"a"y'S ship n. ~pvrt. HiH Ic ,.... to tlir roI"r r,i:.un> niXt June iu @u.yr$ thn N'rtH uoir hy ",rplaue. The r.#n v&& c"ncn.N>"l hy Rear Ad- miral p>ary. G'#rnr'rrr ur ;ur pole
 r":3.rt i< Ncwfumd:andrr forty .hr,r.. r4 nf age. r., ,,@,.u r%plora. lions - yrat~ 'go. whining with ",@'ry III lG~ Lane basin in l>97. He ro,r:i.rG,i tl' m'o"nvrlt in it's fa- .:o.,~ u1u o" l,.19, reaching the
 . ..> g. D >@ r2::.'.. i!r l,a> wltA l., C"".. .n ..'y,.3t-2&l ar';tr rNpc. .a.i.: h. >..~I >,aS d.. i> h. ,..'. >"r r@@.,.,,. wi;h ], r.3 *v',~' \ .i ..,H. He I.u .. u.:A jrI &uI ,.3. l.sN.Ino cro>>,G io S,hcr.l 9" th" ice and re- turned Wi,A d r.scuiu.. party.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
Wilson Not the Only One.

One other president than Wilson traced his line to Carlisle, England: |: for Zachary Taylor was fifth in de- scent from James Taylor of Carlisle who emigrated to this country in 1GjS. Considering the fairly uniform British extraction of our presidents, few in deed could have gone to the homes of really near ancestors in the British isles. Andrew Jackson is the only one whose father was born there. the elder Jackson having como from Carrickfer- gus, Ireland, q decade before the Rev Olutinn. Grant is not particularly dis tinguishcd in that his family had hecn American in all it's branches for eight generations: as much could be said of others. Ii seems appropriate that the first president in office to visit the mother country felt SO intimately the ties of blood that originally gave it the name of mother cOuntry.-New York Post.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20

mounting and uncovering his head, said in the most dcfcrential manner and with an expression of injured dig. nifty:
 "'Your excellency, as we were div. ing along, little way back, we over took a man with loaded cart. who oc. cupicd the entire road. l asked him to stop his team that We might pass by. Hc declined. I then told him that President Washington was in the chariot. He again refused, and said that he woulr not stop-that he had as good right to the road as George Washington had
 "'rhe simple reply of Wasnington wus: And go he hadr The position, after a morents look Of wonder and H>r"nishmcnt at the c0ndescension of tnr president of tho United States, quietly put on his hat and mounted his horse"
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
NORFOLK

During the month of January the Norfolk Library had 3,550 visitors, a larger number than that a year ago in January and over 600 more than in December. Fifty-fve new books were added to the shelves, two of which were given by the authors j; 1,755 books of fiction, travel, history, juvenile works, etc.,, were in circu- lation.
 John Byron, who recently applied for four-year enlistment in the navy, was notified to report on Fri d.:y at Newport, R. 1. for duty.
 Sergeant Thomas F. Rowley of Iolobrook River is now doing mill lry police duty in Treves.
 Harold Parker was home from ;anaan over Sunday.
 Mrs. Harriett B. Smith, aged "A, who died at the home of her son, Edward Smith, in Millerton, N. Y., after four years illness of rheu- matism, was we'll known here. She was born in Ancram, N. Y, the daughter of John and Jane (Smith) Belcher, and was married in Lime Rock to Miles Milton Smith, January 1, 1866. She leaves two sons and two daughters.
 The condition of Mrs. Henry C.. Gidman who has been i'll, shows i'm provement.
 At the Christian Endeavor meet ing Sunday evening Fred Collar and Everett Collar were chosen as dele gates to represent the society at the older boys' conference in Winsted.
 The Isabella club met with Miss Irene Stoeckel Tuesday afternoon.
 Arthur Buckman, former teacher in Robbins school, was in town over Sunday. He recently returned from France, where he was connected with the neurological survey section of the aviation corps. He has returned to his former position at the Water bury high school.
 At the valentine dance held in Arcanum hall Friday evening the costume prize was awarded Miss Mary Christinat.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
Chinese Woman Encoffined Alive.

An unusual case of filial ingratitude is reported from Huchow. China. in the Tokyo (Japan) Advertiser. A very aged woman lived with her sons fam fly, who were so poor that they did not have necessary food. To reduce expenses, the son, forgetting his coun- try's traditions regarding filial piety, conceived of diSpOsing of his aged mother. He secured a coffin, placed his mother therein, without protest on her part, nailed on the cover and de- posted the coffin in a vacant lot. Neighbors informed the police, and the coffin was taken to the station house, where 1t was opened. The woman was still breathing. and when removed asked: "Why did you disturb me? l am a burden to my son and do not want to live. Please put me back in the box and let me die" The request was refused. and officials are detain- ing both mother and son in the va men awaiting judicial disposition of the case.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
FAMOUS ROCK OF GIBRALTAR
Great Britain Has So Strongly FortI- fled It That 1t Is Rightly Con-
 si:'crcd lmpregnabIe.

Since the day, more than 200 years ago. when tho flag of Great Britain was flung out over Gibraltar. the strong est fortress in the world. that country has won many trumphs in commerce and has become mistress of the seas.
 The rucl; of Gibraltar Is 400 feet hiCE and acrGsS the narrow bay may be SCcn t''e coast of Africa only nine mileS away. The rock is nearly three miles loU.: and about half mile broad. On fhr caStorn side the c!ifr is so steep that nothing but a monkey can scale il. and there is colony of rr"nl:r.'r living thore. the only an- im0's of their kind living wild in Eurone.
 Th2 cn'y possible approach to the roci: is ny land from tho north. or from th" ~ca on tn" western side. AS viewed from the ocean the Rock of G""a!tar is Impressive, strong ~'oOmv and corhiMnr. But flowers grow about the steep walls. Tho great Victoria batteries. occasionally fired are screened and sheltered hy acacia blossoms. Here are concealed 10O-tnn guns. "in'sjcr. threatening. The north and northwest siG"S arc honcycomhcd hy forf:;""!ioM~. There K a town and harhor on ,hc west. protected hy bat tcricS ""d forts rising from thr base to thu s"..mit of inc ro"%. Modern guns If th, 'n"St rorrtlah!r pattern frown from th' h~.~':'s. Tho town iS irhH"'f"d hy rri.j..h '.l"ny of nhou; @5.t"2 people. ''>...r'. hin.. is under strict military rc.su,nti"u.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
Hasllirytuit
VA THEN dreaming kines. at odds with rslS- w paced ums.

W x THEN dreaming kings. at odds with NwA- w paced tms.
 Would strike that banner down. 4 nebler knight than ever writ or rhyme With flames bright wreath did crown, Through armed hosu bore h ull it Rosted hich Beyond the clouds. light that can not dsl An. hero of our younger rAeel
 Great builder of A temple ncxvi Ruler who sought no lerdly plaesi
 Warrior. who sheathsd the svVocd he dressA Lover of men. who saw Rfar A world unmaned by want or war. Who knew the path. and yet forbore To tread it. uR all should mpors; Who saw the light and led the way Where the gray world might greet the cay. Father and leader. prophet sure. Whose will in vast Nerks shall endure. Fla" shall We praise him on this day of days. Great sen of fame who has no need of praise, h,,'" shall we praise him1 Open wide the dooo Of the far temple whose broad base he lad. Through it's white halls a shadovvy cAvsleads Of heroes moves OCT unreSoundins floors Men whose bravvned arms uprAigsd the columns hsh And reared the towers that vanish in the sky- The strong who. having wrought. can never de.
 Harriet Nonrcs.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
Duty.

It has been asked what is at the prcsent day the Duty of which we have spoken so much? X complete re- ply would require a volume, but may suggest it in q few words. Duty con ssts of that lovc of God and man which renders inc life of the indivld- ual the representation and expression of all that he believes to he the truth. absolute or relative. Duty is progress sive. as thu evolution of truth; it is modified and enlarged with the ages; 1t changes it's manifestations accord ing to tho requirement of times and circumstances. . One period claims the per- of tho sage another requires the sword Of the hero. But h"rr. and everywhere. the Snurc@ or this k Gud ?nd h's lnw-i;s ohiNCt hImaui'v- its guarant"r. tho w'tHal rcsnnHSihil- ity' of mr,t--tt~ r,""@'lrr. thr intellect of tl,r intividu"l n"h thn d"mnndS of thn p"riu3--i'& limits. powor,-NaH- "ini
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
Runor.

The character of that sort of infor- nation that is generally known as news is changing with vertiginOus rap idity. Once news was generally sup posed to be a narration of something that had happened or was possibly go- ing to happen, with, of course, due al- lowances for errors and mistaken judgments. Now, however, news seems to be made up of reporting what somebody alleges might have happened. Rumor, of itself, has a news value. The fact that a rumor ex- isted is sufficient of itself, aside from the truth or falsity of the rumor, it's probability or it's possibility.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
"Eather of tho Short story.n

The father of the short story was Giovanni BoccacciO. an Italian novel; Ist and poet, who died at Certaldo 543 years ago. His "Decameron," col lection of short tales. each complete Tn itself, practically marked the be- ginning of the short story. Boccac- cio was born about 1913, and his words reflect the immoral-Or unmoral- spirit of the times in which he lived, and a majority of his tales are of n character which would now land the author in jail, if he could find pulp fisher t6. offer his works for sale. De- spite their immorality-posslbly be- cause of 1.-the "Decameron" has been translated into nearly every lan- guage and is still widely read. Lit erary critics ranked the work as masterpiece. Balzac and many other modern auttors have found inspira- ton Tn the works of the celebrated Italian. His faults were those of his time-and for the matter of that, of n much later time, for as recently as n century ago stories were told in mixed company which would now scarcely be tolerated by a "stag party"
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
PROPER SOIL FOR SOY BEANS
Crop Does Not Require Much Drainage for Best DeVelopment-Too Much
 Water Harmful.

Rrepared by the United States Depart
 ment of Agriculture)
 The soy bean does not require we'll drained soil for it's best development, although it will not succeed where wa ter stands for any considerable length of time. Swamp and peat soils, after being drained and lim2G, have usually been found to produce this crop very well. Soy beans will thrive on soils that are too acid for the successful cul- ture of red clover.
Connecticut western news., 1919-02-20
Mri;inn Arr-nrcm-rf.:-

A stray hut Friendly eat wandered to th" front door of Enm' where Ifvcd Charles. an only child. The lit- tlp fellow Vas pleased wI'h hiS new visitor and was rndoavorjn% ro wei come him by hriu%'ng h'm irto tha ',.rv". ,,n th" mo:h"" ""n.~,rad oa .ho, ,.,~r". S''o tol6 m" ,'"h that F., C.r' v.'* not al'"w~" 'n rl :..a~... .r.p '- .'- .ri.r ''. .n.'. .. .,n,, Nt. 70; vrS oa lu. ..' ,..c I:I.e~ tn tE' j -.. &. .il. "Sny kitty, you como 2ro"t"' tn t.e hack dGor and I'll meet you 'h ro."
Mansfield mirror., 1919-03-06
TWAS SOME MINSTREL.

A large and appreciatiye auiience
greeted the Liberty Bellies and BeauX
Min trels at the Nugget Theatre last
Thursday night. The following Sey-
mour people taking part in the min
strel: Rev G. w. Holmes and W fa
Harry Benton and wife, r. ] VIII e
and wife, Otho Henderson and wifi 4,
Paul McMahan and wife Mesdames
Ernest Coday, Icy Spence, s X. Nc
Mahan. Everett Cardwell and S. f..
McClLre; Misses Ruth Williams
Jewell White, Ola Wooten, Hazel
Chaffn, Faye Cox and Mabel Holmea
and Edgar Chaffin and Mr.. FaLeer.
Other Seymourites here included
c VOllenweider. Ernest Coday. r.
F. Chaffin, Mel Morton, NJ sses Alico
and Hazel Holmes.
The play was well given and enter
tanning throughout and the sngirg
was OF an unusually high order, th'
talent in this ne beng expected
Mansfield mirror., 1919-03-06

A Wright county institut on which
merits the support OF our people is
the broom factory oper9ted by j. w
Null on his farm in the Jericho
neiehborhood. Mr. Eull operated
this factory in SeymoCr until he
traded his Seymour property Tor the
farm, at which time he moved the
factory. The above is a keness OF
Mr.. ull. who was here Saturday in
the interests of his broom factory
and, by the way, to take home with
him fine Poland-Chir SOW, which
he purchased from Fl NJ. Norcro'5,
who has one Of the best herds of Po-
land Chinns to be founu in the state
Mr.. Null says the Ozark farmers are
losing a Splendid money-making crop
in not raising more broom corn. Con-
derable Is raj ed here, the land here
being well adapted to the crop. hnGi
not nearly enough TO supply the 'ord'
demand Mr.. Null raises part of b:
broom corn brush. whIcn /. !iis'-
class. and buys Oklahoma DIVER:
brush. which Mr.. Null Gays is th'
best to be had, 10 supply his needs
He has bought $3.50 wor b this year.
and has $in,a January made aooGt
Mansfield mirror., 1919-03-06
At the Nugget

At the Nuggrt Theatre | 81
night hv PEGS MS r''ceived tick
et> emitting tn IN t. f &c admis
sion t" Saturday nights Shon :
Mss Ollie Cuance, n 81; Or 7.
Beel"r, SO: Il ymuud Ba er, ~:
Snyder Craig, III, an Sumn"l
Erwin, II Tcnet> for Wedn 5
day nights sho- will be given
aNay Sa urday night. tn nun
Der t. rest "ltn the management
The GnoS of a Rancho" Il spe
ciaI, WAS shown NJ nday night.
Hands Up" the new movie ser
ial, is prov ne popular, large crowu
seeing the second episode at the
Nugget Theatre Saturday night.
Mansfield mirror., 1919-03-06

'E2uaS hc 30 act b!iuS his certifi
"t.u Q Norwood, he has always been
" ready helper in the work of the
Lord, in the chlrch OF his faith n
ms homo town.
His sudden end WIS a shock. not
only TO his immediate family. but t.
The many friends and neighbors and
he Will be sadly missed no. only II
h. home. but n the town and sur
rounding community. Besides his
wife and parents. he is survived BY
one brother. Ralph Calhoun, who /
confined to his bed with a severe at
tack CT influenza and pneumonia
Fnperal services were conducted
at The NJ f church South. n Nor
WOOD at 3 p. m, Sunday, February
16. by Rev. Hermann Hays of Mtn
Grove The local choir sung some
beautiful select ons The pail bear
e's were members of the Masonic
ledge ard number Of the fellow
lodgemen marched in line behind the
hearse to the church. After the fun
cral the remains were shipped to
Eaverly, Kan, for interment.-Mtn
Grove Journal.