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alas too arrogant to profit by the fudi- cious advice of a subordinate officer rushed foCward svord in hand, and branding bis men with cowardice actual ly struck several of his own men for thus initiating the meanness of an ignominious foe
 For some moments the battle ragged with impetuous fury. Five horses had been shot from under Braddock before he received his fatal wound almost ev. cry British officer lay dead upon the field, and when the retreat was com menced Washington was the only living or unwounded mounted person in the army.
 Is it not justifable to ask. in view of this, that the strong arm of the Almighty was that day, and ever after, the invinci- ble shield of that mah of war. Sixty four officers and one-half of the army were either killed or wounded That the procedure of Braddocl was on this occa- sion rash and impolitic no one can doubt, yet it is equally certain that he made himself the voluntary martyr to a cour- age which but a few men possess. When 1 the Pennsylvania railroad was being 1 built through that section, passing mid. 1 way between the main battle gSund and ] the river, sword was 9Xhumed, and even to this day an occasional grape and mus. ket shot is picked up.
 l (Tomorrow: How Poor American Was
 Knighted)
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READ YOUR CHARACTER By Digby Phillips.
 Copyrighted 1891
Brainy Eyebrows


 ''Whaddaya mean brainy eye be brainy?"
 Literally speaking, they can't, even though they grow over a certain DOT tion of the brain, and this really has a good bit to do with their nature and appearance.
 But eyebrows can and do, indicate brains or rather the tendency of their possessor to use the mental equipment with which he or she has been equip ped.
 To come right down to the fine point of it, the less the distance be- tween the eyebrows and the eyes the greater the tendency to thoughtful ness of the calm, deliberate kind.
 But the story you can read in the eyebrows of the person opposite you does not end with this. Different kinds of eyebrows may be close or far away from the eyes.
 If the brows are heavy and coarse it's nine chances to one that you are looking at a person who has what might be termed a rugged type of men tality. a man or woman with a strong will and dominating personality.
 On the other hand, if the eyebrows are fine in texture and outline, though you subject may be just as deter mined and thoughtful, that ruggedness of disposition will be replaced by a cer- tain extra keenness and nicety of men, ta1 process.
 Tomorrow-Vital Ears
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of the Connecticut Federation of Churches earnestly commend to your thought and prayer the conference on limitation of armamerts called by the United States government through Pres idant Harding. The conference will have the opportunity greatly to aid in the realization of the Christian ideals of peace and good will among all na- tions.
 That this end may be obtained, the representatives of the American people should be assured that the people ear nestly desire, and will support their representatives in every endeavor to se- cure, such limitations of armaments as will relieve the peoples of the earth from expenditures ruinous to their eco homie life and involving continued peril of war. In the creation and expression of such sentiment the churches must take a leading part. Let us not fail tc recognize and fulfill our high calling.
 We therefore urgently recommend the offering of prayer in every church that
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The cook was "peeved." The mayon- naise had separated and it took the whole white of the egg, added drop by drop to bring it back 10 it's correct creamy thickness.
 The chocolate souffle had fallen some where en route from the oven through the buffers pantry to the dining room table.
 The kitchen registered 99 degrees at the carving table, it's coolest corner, and cook surveyed her puffed and aching ankles with eyes that blurred.
 Getting absolutely fat-footed in this confounded place." she raved inwardly, as she gavS the luncheon card a vicious thrust back on it's nail and took down the dining menu.
 Fathers and Mothers 18th Annivers- ary" the daughter of the house, a bride of 6 month, had written facetiously over the line Dinner for F at S.30'
 Twenty-Five years-isn't it thrilling p she had smiled at cook, tapping her> tiny teeth with her pencil as she calculated just how many oddly delicious things she could manage to crowd onto one slip of paper, for daughter was practising the menu part of housekeeping just now in mothers house before she went into her own home on her return from abroad.
 Twenty-Five years Thrilling Humph As she chilled and glazed and meringued the dinner for F, back along the years the cooks mind travelled to another seeth- ing summer day-another home not very much more simple after all, but yet her own, where she had waited with mother and laughing bridesmaids by her side fearful but happy for the one man to lead her down to the waiting minister, the rel atives and friends. Over them ali, her thoughts raced bacl I the struggling years, the full years, thc l lean years, the lonely years, the we'll | worn years-her self pity growing strong. l CT and stronger, and through it all tho 1 thermometer mounted and the dinner fol 1 F progressed, until at 5.30 cook dropped | into the chair with a nnaI growl at tht I little ki1chen maid 'Now.~ let them l rave on, kid; we'll be ready" l Fine !'' ventured little Maggie, bright ening visibly at the first nearly pleasan 1 word that had emanated from her tol 1 boss that day.
 | Listen, cook, let's joy ride over witt | John when he takes the laundress hon' will yer?"
 Joy ride-do I look like joy ride? snarled the cook And what are thos pans?"
 Them are the cSA9n pans for the milk My dishes are al. done" proudly, "an it'll only take 15 minutes. will yer? I | cools yer off and makes yer forgit tn
 ole kitchen n everything; come on, wi
 yer?"
 "Oh. I don't know whether you'll driv
 me crazy or keep me from growth
 crazy. Yes, I'll go.'
 "We'il make him drive us home by tn
 crazy folks house. the longest wa
 round" whispered Maggie to Cook, an
Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-19
CRCWAH0E WEEK ENDING OCT. 18th, 1921
 11,583
MEETING THE STRIKE THREAT.

Early action was taken by the presi- dent in calling together the public mem bers of the railway labor board for a conference with the interstate com merce commission to meet the threat ened strike of the railroad brother hoods. The strike, if it takes place. win be a strike against the labor board a government agency. and for that req son interest attaches to the call that has been issued to the brotherhood chiefs for a conference with the board this week to hear a proposition aimed at the prevention of the strike.
 Widespread sentiment has been mani fested against such course as the rail- road bodies have planned. There has been hearing on the merits of the re- auction in wages and the board believes that there should be a cut of twelve and half per cent. Tn It cut was authorized and had been put into effect, with certain reduction in rates made according to the railroads. But with the claim of the roads for a further cut WTth the understanding that it would all go toward reduced rates advantage Is to be taken by the brotherhoods of ihe strike vote that was taken upon the authorized reduction. CT a strike against the government board and not Inc roads. yet the roads, and the coun- try in general would be made to suffer Just what the new proposition of the board vii he is not indicated.
 There is a desire that the harmful 7nects of railroad strike should be prevented. It Is not believed that pub Ac sentiment is favorable however. to ;he abandonment of unbiased judgment 10 yield 10 such a threat as has been made The country is demanding lower transportation rates. Those rates which were made high because of railroad wage increases cannot be cut until there is reduction of the operating ex- penses in which wages play a majority role. The public has felt the effect of q ho dup policy so long that it is de- sirous that its interest be given the at- tention that it deserves. A firm stand iu it's behalf is to be expected.
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GRoTNnLFsS SHIT.

While it was a decision that was eagerly awaited in many sections of the country it is not believed that there was any surprise in the finding of the Chicago judee that there was no ground fer the ten million dollar suit that was brought against the Chicago Tribune by Mayor Thompson of that city and in behalf of the city on the ground that the credit of the city had been injured 10 that amount by the criticisms of the newspaper. The decision will probably rsan the abandonment of a similar suit that had been brought against the Chi ,ago News for the same reason.
 We haven't reached the time when hose who are administering the affairs af Q city can expect to conduct munich pal business without regard for the in- .srests of those directly involved and expect to escape the lmelight of pub licity. Just what the situation would l,e if s1yh were the case can be easily Imagined. All kinds of mismanage- uent would be kept so tightly under rover that nothing would ever be heard os it and instead of being an admin i9-ratiOa of public affairs it would soon Ro from lad to worse.
 As the judge who heard the case de ciied such an attitude and such q suit Is out of harmony with the genius. spiri; and object of our institutions. and be- long to the days when monarchs pro- 7uleated avs with the purpose Of car. ryine out their lustful passion for un. disturbed power.
 There is plenty of evidence avail1bl. today as TO what power in the hand: of certain ones will result in. It is bat enough subjected as it Is to the criti cisn Of the press but it would be hopeieSls situation were that protection 10 be denied the people. As for tht harm done 10 the financial credit ot the pity it doesn't appear to have arise1 from the newspaper criticism so mucl as # does from the manner in whicl these in power carried on business. An, Administration of public affairs that '! honest and efficient has nothing to fea from pub icity and criticism. Whel there is a squirming under it there i apparently a reason for 1t.
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ALWAYS IT MIGHT BE WORSE

then-"Will yer?" she called to John when he came out from the tiny grocery, where he had gone for yeast cakes, after leaving the laundress at her door.
 will yer?"
 sAn she can say is Will yer?" shouted Cook, above the cranking of the serv- ants zie-mobile-'Have you timer
 "Yes," said good-natured John, com fortably, T guess so. The boys will start the milking"
 Down the shady country road they chugged along-past long fields of shoots ing corn and poddling peas, the lettuce radishes beets and beats-set out in neat rows-the gardens of the State Infirmary. Just now work for the day was over. In groups under the shade trees the old men waited the call for supper. The boys played a random game of ball. The women, sullen and indifferent, trooped down the walk from the laundry. Cook, growing cooler in the soft haze of the June afternoon, forgetting for the moment to look inward and backward, gazed out thoughtfully at the blue den 1 i'm clad figures; the hopeless, helpless stare on the face of the old men the [ hardened faces of the women; the vacu- ous faces of some, the vicious faces of others of the children. How endlessly the days stretched out 1 before them, Cook thought. Supper and 1 bed. and breakfast-dinner and supper and bed-from one changing of the great | bell to another.
 i Cooks kitchen with its diversity of l daily troubles, began by contrast to take l on roseate hue.
 Don't they never go out, John? Arc 1 the doors all locked on 'em? WhaSs the 1 bars for?" piped Maggie, bouncing from
 side to side trying to look everywhcrc at once.
 l Behind the bars are the very wors l cases" John told her, "the hopeless one: and the violent ones. And that's thu l hospital'
 How much she had to be thankful for Cooks thoughts ran on-her healti and earning capacity, her strength anC iactive mentality Even memory became sweet as enc by one the blank face passe din review.
 Look at all the children? Where dt
 they all come from? Cant they eve get out? Gee, they all look like you d' when you're awful mad, Cook. Are w going cut this gate? Gee, I'm glad we'r going out an we ain't lame nor blin'
 nor sick nor nuthin' ain't you, Cook?
 With every tired nerve relaxed and ev
 cry scowling frown erased, bearing proud ly a new lease of life, breathless, laugh | mig Cock raced with a skipping kitche girl through the woodhouse into tn
 steaming kitchen, Tipped up the linen t
 test the Parker House rolls raising b. the side of the range; pasted the chicken and turned them oyer, and as she tight , ened the belt of her apron anu starte
 to garnish the cooling ham, she sai softly to herself:
 7 'Always-it might be worse i"-Bo vto 1 Post.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Church Membership.


 MT. Editor: The subject of church membership, from whatever point we view it, always presents a theme that IS interesting.
 Why do people join the church? and why do not people join the church? are questions susceptible of variety of an- swers, not only because the reasons are various, but because they are questions upon which it is possible to dilate learnedly without answering either in any lucid manner.
 Reckoned as a fraternal society among other fraternal societies, against which the church today has to compete, what are the superior inducements which the may be influenced to make choice in its favor?
 We may argue that the mysteries, the pass words, grips and signals of other bodies may be in their favor to gain the curious and attract the inquisitive, but does the charm of glitter and mimic dignity exist naturally in all men alike We know not.
 Freemasonry above all the other so- cieties, secret and fraternal, possesses all these in an exalted and respected | form. It also has the Drowess that ob- | tains from long and ancient historic practice: yet so far as we know, there ] is no great multitude kicking at their 1 lodge room doors for admission. Their membership remains through the years honorable and select. They make choice ! of applicants by rigid and exact rule and are alert to admit only those ac- l counted worthy.
 l In these respects they are an exam pc to the church. Much can also be said for their respect for their past tra- l ditional history. We never hear of 3 Masonic lodge being obliterated. Church societies are lame here Somerset and St. James, have existed in our city i beyonF the memory of the present writ 1 CT and yet during his short sojourn ir | Norwich as many as five (5) churches of two denominations have been oblit. erated; working forfeiture to many communicants who today have only tn, bitter memory and no church home whatever. The secret societies, in tht time being. have augmented their mum Der and influence and they keep thei home fires burning" with zeal and re spect.
 1 Perhaps the standard Christ has SC for membership in his body, which i the church, may have something to d. with it's retarded progress. Except man be born again, he cannot see tn kingdom of God'
 When the nominal church imparts it password and gives it grips and sym bols to the candidate unborn again, 0 forsootfI who does not even believe i such birth, it has then itself lost tn key to success and the present of Hir who among two or three gathered i
 his name is in the midst, and have los the fulflment of that stability agains
 which the gates of hell shall not pre : vail.
 MY OPINION. , Norwich Oct r, 1921
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expeditions then agreed upon Braddock resolved to lead the one against Fort Duquesne in perssn.
 A large proportion of the 1900 men were regulars. and the remainder undis- ciplined provincial troops, yet the latter were much better skilled in encountering the Indians, with whom the French were in alliance. than even the flower of the British soldiery
 Passing up the west bank of the Mo- hongahela to a point directly opposite the mouth of a small stream. now known as Turtle creek. Braddock determined to cross the river and pursue the balance of his march toward the fort on the Pittsburgh side. The landing of his forces was undisputed, and having dis posed them in lhe finest military order he was marching within a Is mirL.tes' walk of the new memorable field, little thinking that the termination of his l course was to be stopped by a fatal bull Jet,
 | The formation of the bank of the river at this point, ana extending for half a
 mile back, is very peculiar. On the inn
 mediate margin of the river there is a l level fiat which extends back about 200 1 yards, where it gives way to a second l bottom of about a quarter of mile in ] width, but of much greater elevation and at the northern edge of this a. third elevation rears it's commanding heights 1 that constituted the main theatre of this l important contest.
 Running across this second fiat. about l 9 quarter of a mile apart. are two deep
 ravins leading from the upper margin ] down to the waters edge. These ravines l owing to the fact that the grounds were not subjugated to any agricultural pro- | Ie he hat fo11 hi l until the middle of the past century, are l still preserved in about the same state
 of formation as they were described in an ancient record of them made 150 years ago. Large forest trees and clumps ot underbrush covered the plain between these two natural entrenchments which | together with the latter afforded the
 most complete facilities for an enemy tc 1 ambush imaginable.
 It is not hard to imagine, while look. ing down the ravine, the gory panorama l of that tragic scene in the spring ot
 1T55. It was growing late in the after
 hoon when the van of the English reach
 ed the western edge of the enclosure formed by the two ravines, when sud denly they found themselves tho victim.
 of pertect hailstorm of balls aimed
 with deadly precision of an undiscov
 cred foe, and which at once threw th
 regulars into the utmost confusion. I
 was at this time that Colonel Washing
 ton, the aide of Braddock, though but 2 years of age, saw the importance of die tating to his superior in commands Bu : the advice of Washington was unheede and ruin was the result.
 The provincials seeing the great disad vantage to which they were subjected, b ] attempting openly to fight with hidde foe, flew behind the trunks of trees t employ similar strategem. But Brad dock, too proud to depart from the scier
 tific tactics of war-too brave to fly fo
 his life at the peril of his honor-bu
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Wants Something Done.

Mr Editor: Is it not about time the city authorities did something about putting the thoroughfare, called Doxol- ogy Lane, in useable condition? Pos sihly the proper ones to look after 1t don't know there is such place. There are hundreds of taxpayers that are be- ing inconvenienced by being deprived of what they are paying their good mon- ey for and getting no benefit from.
 If the public works committee don't know there Is such place please. Mir Editor, just tell them where 1t is in your valued paper and ask them tc go and look it over and fix it.
 A SUFFERING TAX PAYER.
 Norwich. Oct. IS, 1921.
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INCARCERATION TO SOUTH AMERICA

Just at the present time almost op- Posite policies are being followed by South American countries from that Of tAe United States. Where this country has put a restriction for the inlmigra- ton tide South American countries have thrown wide open their doors and are inviting the immigrants to come in and make themselves at home. South Amer ica is doing what this country did for a number of years and until it go. to the point where t was realized that diff ferert tactics must be followed for the good of the country.
 South America is beginning to real ize that it Is great big country and 10 a large extent undevtioped. It is a Tread expanse of fertile land much of which has never been touched. If the people there at the present time wait until they can make use of it through normal development it will be centur- ies before South America will be able 10 make use of its natural facilities. II is through the assistance of the imRi- grsn.t that 1t san make greater prog ress. That there Is plenty of 'sPpCrtu- ntty there cannot be questioned, but il is to be realized that those who go theIo must do so w.th the understand ing that there is hard work ahead South American development has been uzch as to leave the land oDea to set
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tlement long distance from the large centers of population and with none too good facilities for getting to it or of getting products away from it.
 Certain sections are rich in minerals but for the most part South America is lacking in fuel. Such coal as t has is of poor quality which doesn't offer encouragement to industrial ac- tivity. But in the way of agricultural pursuits there seems to be 10 limit to which it can go, and in the furthering of that it is to be anticipated that the inn migrant will find his opportunity. And as South America grows it is to be re- alized that it will furnish a still great CT market for the industrial countries such as this.
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HIGH COST OF COAL.

When they mean reduction in the cost of coal suggestions are likely to be listened to with interest by coal consumers. When the cost can be re- duced and there can be increased meas ure of safety afforded for those in volved in the business of mining there is added reason for close attention.
 J. J. Rutledge, a coal mining engi- neer of the government bureau of mines, declares that the hazard in bituminous coal mining can be greatly lessened by the prohibition of the wasteft,l and dan- gerous practice of blasting coal off the solid and substituting therefore the method of undercutting the coal and blasting it loose by the use of permis- sible explosives instead of back pow der
 This doesn't appear to be theory but a sta temelt based upon actual ac- complishme.t. The introduction of such ably reduVed tHe cost of coal mined through the almost total elimination ot mine fires and explosions, which in the past have resulted in damage to mint workings. loss of output. high insurance rates GAl heavy compensation claims i due to injuries of miners.
 Coal mining is 9 business by itself i but in other industrial activities mucl l profitable attention has been given t measures devised for, accomplishing similar results. There is greater safe
 ty in mining activities today than ther, was before determined steps were takel
 to overcome the dangers that prevailed 1 in the past. The good results obtaine'
 by the adoption of present day method l ought to serve as a guide for employint 1 any and all the methods that are pre-
 santed for overcoming existing condi l tions which are expensive and danger ous. As the consumer looks at it todd.
 there is no danger of coal becoming to l cheap whatever methods are adopted.