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Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02
ADAPTATIONS OF BRUNO

never are going to take that beast along? Make him get out" Marianne looked at me and I looked steadily at her and then &she gave me one of her adorable smiles She had seemed pale and cross when she came down the steps, but now she dimpi- ed.
 She said Bruno would be heartbroken if she left him behind and he always went when she did-and I kept poking my cold nose over Pointed Toes should CT all the way and I hit his neck when ever could. Mostly I did it when he would bend his head down over Marianne and she would turn away. When I bite it is going to be one of those slow, | drawn-out kind of bites
 Friday--When the telegram came it seemed to make the lady who is Mari annes mother terribly excited. Marianne ran out of the room into her own, where 1 she spent frightfully long while dress i ing. She tried on four dresses before she found one to satisfy her. She pow dered her nose three times and ran to the window every few minutes. Alto | gether I got so excited I ran around
 over things and parked and when I did | she hugged me and said that I knew he was coming, too, didn't I.
 The bell rang and I raced after her | to get to the door and everybody seemed ] so glad that I parked and danced, too, and in the excitement when the door 1 shut I was left on the outside I sat there on the top step panting and think l ing about the very tall straight youn., 1 man we had pust let in. He had given me pat and a thump on my head in the way we dogs like and called me q
 good old scout. I liked him so hard that never noticed his ankles Marianne had chung to his arm as they disappeared and l knew she must like him too | Just then Pointed Toes drew up in his car and when he started up the wall, scrething told me that here was my chance. I growled and he stopped Ev- cry time he moved I showed my teeth and then I began to edge toward his ankles That made him dance in a queer way, SC
 I kept growing and walking around hin for a long time. Lots of people stopped
 outside to watch us. After while
 felt 8 spot unguarded and he made 8 dash for his car.
 So. I went around to the side porcf 1 window and parked as 1 do when I want
 to get in. I could see Marianne d. tinctly-and do you know for the first
 time in my life she paid absolutely nc
 attention to my howl She just kept
 looking happily at the tall man EEK.
 change.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02
Weasel Paid His Board.

The farm houses in northe n New Hampshire are usually built with two to three back rooms which are used to keep food and milk in summer, but are 100 cold for winter use.
 One day early in the wiater, Mrs Emerson heard a strange little bark ing sound in her back buttery, as a room of this sort is called. She opened the door quickly and was just in time to see a slim, white animal with beady black eyes flash under the open space beneath the big cupboard.
 Well, I declare she said aloud If weasel hasn't come into the house. must try and get him to stay, so that he will frighten away the rats"
 Tanning a weasel is rather a difficult matter, but Mrs Emerson was patient. out something to eat, and left it on the buttery floor She worked very carefully and quietly and after a time induced him to come out while she was in the room and snatch his piece of bread or doughnut and draw it away under the cupboard. After a time he became comparatively tame for a weasel, and one morning snatched his food from Mrs. Emerson's hand, and finally he would notify her that he was hungry by giving his queer little bark at the buttery door.
 He paid his board by driving the rats away, and, long before the winter was over, their seurryings had ceased in the partitions of the old house.
 As the days commenced to lengthen the weasel's coat began to turn brown showing that spring was on it's way One day in March the weasel failed to ap- pear for his lunch. He did not come the next day or the next, and Mrs. Emerson knew that he had once more gone to
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02
A DESTRUCTIVE STORM

What the clements can do when they get started and work in unison is we'll illustrated by the havoc that was wrought by the storm of Tuesday after neon through Connecticut Southeastern Connecticut appeared to escape much of the fury of the storm but the losses that were sustained through the central and northeastern part of the state were the largest of the season. The combination of wind hall and lightning bolts work ed perfectly for destructive effect and many have seen life taken, crops badly damaged and other property destroyed almost in tvinkling. Whether the es- timates as 10 the loss sustained approach anywhere near accuracy it is evident that it was a decidedly bad storm for Connecticut and 1t is just as likely that early estimates will have to be raised as it is they will need paring if any where near approximate figures for the total damage is ever obtained.
 While electrical storms with heavy rainfall always mean damage or expense of some kind this came at time when 1t proved unusually destructive for the tobacco plants. In the morning the to- bAIGu hrluo ot tIRt oldte were III eSpeC- tally fine condition. The crop promised 10 be large and the harvest would prob ably hsve been nearly over in the next fortnight As the result of the storm heavy losses have been sustained on that and other crops and it is question whether insurance will come anywhere near replacing :he loss
 But it was not storm sent especially 10 discourage tobacco growing in Con neeticut for, 1t worked impartially in the area where 1t spent its force. Other crops. especially corn, show the effects while overhead communication lines ana buildings suffered extensively. It is one of the cases however. where there i' nothing else 10 do but grin and bear it No way has been discovered to modify or Euide the clements and there seem, to be no prospect of it. Human effor In that direction would simply makt matters much worse. Connecticut ha. reason to bs thankful however, that i escapes the much more destructiv' storms experienced too often in othel sections of the country.
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the breaking away difficult. Neverthe- less it is not reasonable to suppose that when other sections of the country are experiencing handicaps as the result of such conditions that they are not going to pay serious attention to meritorious propositions for overcoming them.
 The St. Lawrence river development plan makes a strong appeal to a large section of the country. Thus far there have not been raised objections which are sufficient to overcome the good points in the opinion of those who are going to be benefited It means the raising and spending of a large sum of money, but with no other prospect of an equivalent relief it is natural that ap- proval and help should be given the idea.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

Sunday night-this is always a dis tracting day-a regular forest of shiny black shoes tramping around our living room floor and Marianne far too busy to pay the usual attention to me. wonder if human being ever stop to req llze that we dogs judge them from their feet up instead of from their head down?
 I particularly dislike one pair of shoes that comes here. They are extremely pointed, for one thing, and the shiny silk ankles above them attract me hor- ribly. Some day fear I shall have to bite them-not a for fun bite like the kind I give Marianne on her arm, but a real nip Because the points kicked me once and I didn't deserve H. I was just nosing around the big chair to find Marianne's hand and edged back of the shoes.
 When yelped he begged pardon in 4 terribly concerned voice and got away with it, too. I glared and growled deep in my throat all evening and he told her I was too dangerous a beast for her to have about. He says airdales must have been absent-mindedly creat- ed, because all curves were left out of them. I never miss my curves The only when I put it under her hand is when
 
 every day.
 Tuesday-'fYeu should be ashamed of yourself !" is what the lady, who is Mari annes mother, said when Marianne threw the bunch of roses on the floor after opening the box. I did not like them. either, because they prieked my nose when I sniffed them. The lady who is her mother also said he had so much money it would sink a ship and Mari- anne said she wished it would and that he was on the ship-and her mother left the room and Marianne cried hard and got out those letters again. They seemed to make her uite cheerful
 Pointed Toes came in the evening and Marianne thanked him for the lovely roses and I grinned some more because I knew where they were-in the fireplace in her room. I find I can make him horribly nervous just by lying down in front of him with my nose on my paws and staring at him without winking. He makes me think of a chop that has not been cooked quite enough When I de bite his ankle I shall attack from the back where it hurts worse
 Wednesday-I was out in front this afternoon when Pointed Toes drove up in one of his cars, and though I didn't do a single thing but stand and look at him he switched at me with his cane When he went inside I hopped into the car be- ! cause nearly every one who takes Mari anne for a ride takes me, too. But when they came out he said in surprise, You
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l took about l2 bottles of your vege. table Compound and found it a wen. derful remedy. I commenced to pick up at once and my suffering was re. lieved. have told others about your medicine and know of some who have taken it. I am glad to help others all l can."-Mrs. R. E. DEM1Ne, 437 W. Lafayette Ave, Syracuse, N. Y.
 While Change of Life is most critical period of a woman's exist ence, the annoying symptoms which accompany it may be controlled, and normal health restored by the timely use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
 Moreover, this reliable remedy con. tains' no narcotics or harmful drugs and owes it's efficiency to the mediei- nal extractives of the native roots and herbs which it contains.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02
Nothing to Hide.

Now that Captain Amundsen has sail. ed across the top of the world, the o'e sphere must feel little abashed to real ize it hasnn't anything left to hide frcn it's inhabitants.-Kansas City Star
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

No wthe democrats are being coun- tered by claim that they are laying as- sessments on federal employees against the law to get their funds. Probably news to Candidate Cox.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

If everyone could make a small sum jump into a large one as quickly as Governor Cox can no one would be com blaming about the high cost of living.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

Tennessee doesn't seem to be able to stay out of the limelight regarding the question of woman suffrage.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

Half the seasons pleasure is lost if your garden isn't producing much better results than your neighbours
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Brazil, if reports are true, wants i'm migrants, but while it is seeking them we seem to be getting them
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02
PAINTING AND
 DIZZY SPELLS
The Cause of such Symp- toms and Remedy Told
 in This Letter.
Syracuse, N. Y-"When I com. menced the Change of Life ,,as

poorly, h a d no appetite a and had fainting spells. I
 suffered for two or t hre e years before I D egan taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound
 and Liver Pills
 which I saw ad- Vertised in the p a p CTS and in your little books.
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Those Tennessee legislators returning from Alabama failed to get as much mo- tice as when they crossed the boundary.
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Even those who are complaining of the hot weather would kick if they had chance to drift across the Arctic ice rack with Amundsen.
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Even if the democrats did set out to raise $10,000,000 campaign fund that wouldn't make it possible to place Cox in the White house.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

Someone says profiteering must be de- fined It would suit the country better to have it stopped and punished.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

The man on the corner says: Think of anyone going on hunger strike witt the succotash season right at hand.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

This will certainly be no winted t buy your coal by the bag or hodful.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

Those seeking proof have of course been greatly impressed by the manner in which Governor Cox avoided it.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

Explaining the game of politics will mean about the same experience as giv- ing instructions on the game of base ball.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

There is some of the radical labor ele- ment about whose support Governor Cox cannot feel very proud.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02
Wary Old Birds.

Mir. Byran and MT. La Toilette know when to balk. Wary old political birds, we'll say.-Cincinnati Enquirer
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

Saying the right thing at the right time is equivalent to keeping your mouth shut when you having nothing to say.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-02

The conversational prize fighter meets his match in the matrimonial ring
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seek his living in the great out-of-doors. Our Dumb Animals.
Evening star., 1920-05-21

dulkina In expensive entersainmeats:
Yet undoubtedly the wave Of Injury
buying that has prevailed In this eeun-
try for several years has had an effect
upon the prices of the real necessities,
The whole scale has been raised.
High wages have caused prize boosts
in many. if not in all, lines. But high
wages have been ssised upon az an
excuse for price boosting In eommedi-
ties required Of the people far beyond
the poin. of right. II shoemaker
who mnaes with his machine Atty pairs
Of s,.ces 4 day gets q day more
money tho wage element OF increase
in a p;.i. Of shoes is only cents.
But when that wage increase item gets
to the consumer it becomes q good
many times cents.
Pr.ee cutting to be Of any value at
all to the people must be continuous
and must extend to all lines, not mere
ly the luxurics, but the necessities.
1t must be an honest reduction to the
point Of il fair profit. a 20 per cent
reduction may sound very fine, but
may still leave large fat margin of
earning for the dealer.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
A Real Sugar Boycott.

Here is an anti-high price boycott
that really may be worth while. The
National Preservers and Fruit Prod
ucts Association, representing s. per
cent Of the jam, jelly and preserves
production of the country, has voted
unanimously to refuse to buy sugar
until the present high prices are cut
in half. The members say that they
are willing to 60 even to the point Of
closing their factories rather than meet
the extortionate prices of today. The
president Of the association says: "The
preservers are not willing to tie up
their money in manufacturing an arti-
Gle whose cost is an inflated bubble
as the result of sugar speculation
The members in this association need
$50 100000 pounds for the canning sea-
son that has just started. If they do
not get sugar they will not make the
preserves, and the fruit which they
normally consume will be left on the
hands Of the growers. And the sugar
will be left on the hands of the factors
that are now using a condition of com
parative shortage as an excuse for the
most outrageous extortion ever prac-
ticed upon the American people.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
Candidates at the Conventions.

Senator johnson rs q member Of the
Chicago convention-he has been ap-
pointed an alternate delegate-will
find other aspirants for the conven-
tion's prize present, either in the con-
vention hall or in town. Chicago is
Gen. Woods headquarters. Gov. Low.
den is at home there. Senators Lodge,
Knox, Harding and Watson have been
chosen delegates to the meeting. Mr..
Hoover will probably put in an ap-
pearance. Nicholas Murray Butler is
a m member of the New York delegation.
At San Francisco also will be a mus
ter of men mentioned for the prize
that meeting will bestow. Senator
Glass has just been chosen as . dele.
gate. Presumably Senator Simmons
will be as soon as the North Carolina
convention meets. Mr.. McAdoo is not
delegate, but there 10 no reason why
he should not attend as a spectator.
The same may be said Of Champ
Clark. Vice President Marshall Will
help represent Indiana, and Attorney
General Ps'-'er will probably show up.
This is ali to the good. This 10 the
way to play politics. "Hail. hail. the
gangs all here.1A With the aspiran;s
Evening star., 1920-05-21
The Vice Presidents Keynote

Although the whole speech will at
tract the widest attention and pro-
, woke the liveliest discussion. this was
the most striking paragraph in the
deliveranee of Vice President Marshall
at indianapolis yesterday:
"The almost obliterated lines divid
| ing the three branches of government
should be again clearly drawn. Gov
ernment by discretion should cease
| Boards which make rules, try viola
tions thereof and enforce punishment
| should go. They are not democratic
They are benevolent despotisms."
While at war, the country met the
e1igeneies of war, and the government
made some sharp changes in its proc
esses. Both parties in Congress voted
for them. But the country is now at
peace, and return should be made
at once to peace processes. The gov
ernment must begin to function in
the old, successful and we'll approved
way. Constitutional forms are i'm
perative.
Unless this return is made; unless
we get back to government of the
people. by the people, for the people,
| it will be of small consequence whether
we enter the league Of nations with
or without reservations; whether we
have a wet or dry country; whether
or not we have free speech, a free
press and free right of assembly.
This is old fashioned democracy, old
fashioned republicanism. The people
understand it, have tried it and want
more of it. And when the campaign
gets fully under way we shall hear
a good deal about it on the stump, in
the press, and even from the pulpit.
Mr.. Marshall will be at San Fran.
cisco as a delegate, and the conven-
tion, for three reasons, will want to
hear from him. () He is the Vice
President of the United States; (2)
| he is mentioned in connection with the
nomination for President, and (3) he
is the1leading member Of his party
in state important in democratic cal.
culations for November.
We may expect, therefore, q repeti-
ton Of this Indianapolis keynote at
San Francisco and the way it is re-
ceived there will be fair guide to
the conventions sentiments and to
the conduct of the campaign to follow
Evening star., 1920-05-21
Daylight.Saving in New York.

Gov Smith Of New York has vetoed
an act of the legislature repeating the
state daylight-saving law, and thus the
clock change decreed by state statute
remains in effect for the present sea-
son, and, indeed, for all the years to
come unless and until the law is final
ly repealed. At the next election un-
doubtedly this question will be an
issue. The farmers of the state are
definitely and determinedly in oppo-
sition to daylight saving. The senti-
ment in favor of it comes from the
cities. At the polls next November
these contending feelings will be ex-
pressed in a way to affect the fortunes
of legislators. Gov. Smiths action may
have an effect upon his own political
fortunes. for the New York farmers
are mad enough about the daylight
saving system to hold him responsible.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
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charge u Ais sxn MtefsstA everything
viii be the livelier, and the finances
fer safe action increased.
Both parties lhodld de their tsst
and both SO we'll that. neither vii
cause Q bolt. Let us have An cid
fashioned stand.up fight, with the tws
gladiators In keller. The country
Knows both-has been served alter
natsly BY both. Let us not In these
abnormal and tieklish times az sky
larking after some new Organization
advertising d phiitef to charm away
all our woes. We are considerably un
der the weather, but not In despet
ate condition. and will not reach such
condition Unless we call In quackt
and begin to take their prescriptions
Steady Il the word, and straight diet
the thing.
Evening star., 1920-05-21
Taxing One Glass to Pay Another

On the desk Of tie leader Of the
House majority, it is stated, more
than 1000 kilograms are lying, al
protesting against the passage of the
soldiers bonus bill. OF these 400 are
from ex-soldiers of the great war.
There is evidence that these protests
arc not the result of an organized
movement. but are spontaneous express
sions of a sentiment that prevails gen
orally and strongly throughout the
country.
Despite this manifestation of public
dlsapproval the House committee on
ways and means yesterday voted
strictly on party lines TO report favor
ably a bill for the bonus based upon
the principle of cash payments to be
funded by specific tax of 10 per cent
on all stock dividends declared subse-
quent to March 15, the date of the Su-
preme Court decision invalidating the
stock dividends tax. BY a break in
party lines this provision was amend
ed to prevent retroactive taxation prior
to the decision of the court.
1t is contended that stock dividend
tax will not bear directly upon the
people and will not add to the cost of
living, but it will be tax on capital
which will not work out in higher
prices. 1t means, however, a tax inn
posed upon one class of people for the
benefit of another class, and as such
it is vicious legislation.
1t is argued against the stock divi-
dends tax as a revenue measure, re-
gardless of the object, that it will not
necessarily yield the required amount.
There is no assurance that stock divi-
dends will be issued. Corporations
may withhold surplus earnings with
out division. If they do so and the
tax is taken in the form of excess
profits assessment the money does not
20 into this bonus fund, but into the
general fund of the Treasury. In
truth, the stock dividend tax, specif
cally imposed for this particular OBJ
ject, may fail to yield enough to pay
the bonus, in which ease the weight
Of the bonus itself falls upon the gen
eral revenues of the government, or
else there will be no money to pay
the bonus.
These considerations are all apart
from the major question of the right
eousness of the bonus system. They
are apart also from the question of the
economic wisdom of paying out 81 ,4OO,-
00o,oeo-the present estimate Of the
bonus cost-in gratuities at a time
when the country needs wage earning
labor on the part of every possible
man.
If the republican majority in the
House is simply going through the
motions of bonus legislation for po-
litical purposes without any expecta-
tion of enactment, and depending upon
assured Senate opposition, it is GER
tainly not making political capital
Evening star., 1920-05-21
Price Cutting.

Price reductions are now the fash
ion throughout the country. Merchants
are announcing cuts covering a wide
range, some of them from 20 to 30
per cent. Here and there merchant
declares mon profit price. These
price reductions are due to two causes.
First they are in accordance with the
regular schedule of stock clearance
Spring sales are customary in all
lines of trade, and to the extent that
these price cuttings are merely sea
scnablc they do not presage any gen
erai lowering of the cost of living
But there is another cause that NAV
promise some measure of permanance
Of relief to the public. That is that
the banks arc calling loans under the
Federal Reserve Boards rule against
luxury loans and unnecessary borrow
ing.
1t has become requisite for the man
ufacturers and the merchants to lioui
date their accumulated stocks, to turn
their goods into cash in order to meet
their bills more promptly. This is de
fation, in practical terms. 1t does not
necessarily mean price cutting below
the profit point. II may not mean a
change of heart on the part of tn ose who
have been taking more than a right
eous profit in wholesale or retail trade
but it is a good sign nevertheless, as il
indicates plainly that the period of
imitation and of extended credit FOR
luxury buying is closing.
Most of the high.eost trouble today
lies in luxury buy ng. OF course, il
matters nothing to the stock Of po-
tatoes, or wheat, or meat, or sugar
whether people are buving furs. or silk
steakingS, or automobiles, or are in
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