Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 12, 1916, Page 4

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CIRCULATION AVErRES...cocacesoncesa cesesssee ce0eessssssesssces! 1901, 4412 1905, average....eusseess....5,920§ H H BOLSTERING UP THE TREASURY successive protective policy left tr v of the United States ince of over 163 million dollars. When Mr. Wilson took possession the sury w satisfactorily fat, but since that day the change of policies has made it distressfully lean. With the tremendous amount of business we have done as a nation the treasury made no hopeful advances but continued to reduce its surplus, u taxes had to be increased upon inheritances, and upon trade and upon fncomes until there is a reign of per- sonal taxation never equalled before in the history of the country. The republican way was to make f goods furnish the revenue to fill the treasury but the democratic is to let foreign goods compete in American markets for nothing; and to put extra taxes upcn the people to meet the deficits their mistaken policy te protective I 1ff fills the treasury without distr the people; and democratic policies give our markets free to foreigners, which takes millions > of the pockets of our producers working men. ich method do you prefer? WOMAN'S DEMAND RECOGNIZED. All the political parties have at last cognized the justice of woman's im to citizenship in this republic— im that has been denled her by politi but not by the constittuion of our country. How proud the great men have been e woman her due honor In her Napoleon saic “Let France have I mothers and she will have good Quincy Adams and Abraham save credit to mother for all me or might hope to become. ns: “I think it must somewhere be written the virtues of the mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the vices of their father: Our own Simeon Baldwin recogniz- the justice of the sentiment there should not be taxation without rep- resentation, hence declared ail women owning property in this state should have the right to vote; but had not the courage of his convictions, Woman doing man’s work and doing 3 well all over the earth even to the trenches; and 4,000 in one Dayton, O., factory making ammunition, still de- nied the privileze granted to every loafer and vagabond in this country. ‘Woman, always recognized wherever mercy reigns and never shirking where valor is in demand, still classed with chatte Charles E. Hughes honors himself and country as does every other man who longer refuses to endorse this in- justice. DO YOU BELIEVE IN PREPARED- NESS. There has been a lot of talk about preparedness of late, and there is no reason why we should stop talking ubout it. Preparedness is simply being ready to get the .best out of life there is in to every truth, to be fit for redemp- tion, —— A PACE-SETTER. Daniel Webster was not only a statesman but a pace-setter. The force of his utterances will never be lost. A Canadian politician familiar with ‘Webster's: “I was born an American, I will live an American, I shall die an American,” framed up for his political slogan: “A British subject I was born, a British subject I will die!” This took with the Canadian voters and he was returned to power with his party. This was recognized in Canada as a great patriotic sentiment of the present, but the press now calls it “political bombast! Seeing this comment in the Philadel- phia Ledger recently the Ottawa (Ca- nadian) Citizen quotes and adds: In the early fifties a sentence spoken by Daniel Webster had a wide politi- .cal vogue, and it might be applied now with considerable point: “I was born an American, I live an American, I shall die an American.” ‘We confess that the joke is on us, even after these many years. We thought that sentiment the most ef- fective thing we had ever heard. * * * To find out now that this example of what we fondly imagined a bit of vig- orous Canadianism was in reality but a feeble plagiarism of a piece of cheap Yankee bombast is enough to make us suspicious of even the old ensign itself.” Our good Baptist friends para- phrased this saying by changing “an American” to “a Baptist” and the chil- dren used to sing it. The force of it invites imitation and it has been widely and effectively ap- plied in this country. It has been cherished by the American people for a half century, and one Canadian was capable of recognizing a great and forceful sentiment when he saw it. POLITICAL INJUSTICE. Some parts of the south have never felt the inspiring virtue of freedom vet. The majority rule they believe in is based upon fear and ends in unright- eousness. The Dallas News, leading democratic newspaper of Texas in its July 31 is- ue says that the recent democratic primary in Duval county is a dis- grace to the state of Texas and to the democratic party. It shows that there Js no such thing as a free election, that the democratic bosses simply counted so many votes for their fa vorite candidates and then turned about and counted just one vote in the entire county for the opposition. The Omaha Bee said recently: “If | Oklahoma had decent and honest elec- ons the democracy would be buried jut of sight and five congressmen and two senators would be elected by the *publicans who are actually in a ma though thousapds are not to vote. And it is by the b ods that the south controls elec- tions and in turn controls the demo- cratic party.” The parts of the country and those tion where southerners predomi- nate are the only ones in which the right to vote is denied to the minority. Political reprobates have been known to count men out who were honestly elected in all parts of the country; and the politicai “gerry mander” born in Massachusetts and perpetuated in many states by both parties is a disgrace and ever will be to a free peopl We may some time become so noble that rotten political methods will not make the bird of freedom lower his head in shame. EDITORIAL NOTES. The provinces lost to Germany com- prise one million square miles of ter- ritory. Even an infected wind will blow business to the doctors; but we must not let it get infected. Those who have returned from their vacations confess Norwich is not the hottest place on the map. The Hon. Mr. Redfield seems to rec- ognize that a lie well stuck to is bet- ter than the truth wavering. It it takes six swats to kill a fly, it takes energy enough to kill a mil- lion to win a baseball pennant! The back-bone of summer is suffer- ing a little chill, but it is an agree- able change from being blistered. On a Friday wrested from the Italian forces it for us, as well as being trained to meet a foe, to direct the government, or to do business. ‘When Henry Clay said: “I would rather be right than be president” he wag thinking of preparedness. ‘When Horace Fletcher conceived the idea that mastication was the way to regeneration, preparedness to avoid the distresses and pains of life prompted him. ‘When Bancroft wrote: “The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another,, preparedness to_do justice inspired him. From whatever angle you may look at preparedness it looks right to a rational mind. Without preparedness we should be open to attack from every disease and every foe. Preparedness is to be ready before- hand' for every exigency—to be trained for every. defence, to be open-minded the Austrians their greatest victory. Lucky day for them. Did you ever witness a farce that did not have a fat man in it? Bill Shakespeare put the fat man to the front, The present democratic congress has all other congresses beaten by five hundred million in the expense ac- count. Amateurs would make professional actors of themselves if they realized that naturalness imitated is the high- est art. A southern political delight: To see a $75,000 post office built in a village of 1,200 inhabitants: pork-barrell ex- travange. November is going to show us whether Wilson’s pull or Hughes' push is going to win the support of the country. A democratic contemporary defends the appointment of a horse doctor on the coast survey because “horse sense is good anywhere. Carranza is fooling around peace so that he will not scare the dove he hopes to cage with a hundred million on the olive branch. If any one tells you that you look like Roosevelt. don't let the fires of pride flare up and consume you! It is better to forget it! President Wilson is “too proud to fight,” and too modest to stump the country for himself; and too slow for the American people! Militia men on the border “wafting and watching” would rather do and dare. It isn’t so bad to be shot as to be eaten up by chigoes. New York is expecting a rise in the price of milk. The farmers demand 4 1-2 cents a quart or no milk. Union methods are-just as good for farmers as any one else. If the net gains of the railroads the past year have been one hundred and ninety million dollars they might re- move some of the $T-men from $15- dollar responsibflities. I'IHEMANWHOTALKST! WHEN GREENEVILLE TOOK THE LEAD How many people who think they have had “a call” in life do you think discover lat last that they _erred. Some people_think they are called to preach that have no more idea of the task than a monkey has of cutting a watermelon. We recall the story of a young man who was called to preach in a vision, for G. P. C. appeared in a scroll which he thought meant: “Go Preach Christ!” Bat an old deacon after listening to one of his sermons, and to the story of his call, told him ho had misinterpreted the message, for the letters stood for “ Go Plant Corn!” A story is told of one of those hardy western ponies known as burros who would adopt every new born lamb, goat or sheep on the ranch, drive away the mother, and then kick the stuffing out of anything or anybody who came near it. He did not know horses, wolves and dogs have to win leader- ship by fighting for it. The preachers called to places better paid are often suspected of having heard the call of the money instead of the voice of the Lord. We should not take too much stock in still, small voices where we know we possess a lively imagination. It should be borne in mind many are calied but few are chosen. We better figure to be among the chosen. It is said when a man gets the right kind of religion his enemies and even his horse can find it out without be- ing told. True religion is something which shows itself as plainly as a band of crape on the arm of a light colored coat. The mceting-house gets some men who think they have religion, but the radiant zospel doesn’t shine forth from their countenances or manifest itself in their speech or actions. Re- igion cannot be anything less than whole-heartedness, but lots of hg hearted folks march in the rank: e religion that doesn’t show itself at the counter, but is only manifest in the conference meeting, never will be rec- ognized at the golden gate of the new Jerusalem. Recollection has been de- nominated the life of religion—for- zetfulness wrecks i The man who makes religion his business never has a doubt God bas made it his-blessed- ness. Too many get their thoughts on the wrong side of the fence—they pos- sess religion instead of letting religion possess them. Religion measures right seven days in the week—Sunday meas- ure and conference meeting devotion represent short measure Bear in mind that it is always better to grin than to groan, but you cannot always keep the grin first. This symbol of good nature is a dependable ett arywhere on earth. The people do not i sounds that get on their nerves, and that is something a grin can never do, for it is a surface symbol which be- sets mirth. The grin that doesn't come off makes the gorgon, hence it iswot in good form to grin all of the time. A grin is a smile intensified—; wrinkle more than a smile and les han a laugh. “Laugh and the world laughs with you—weep, and you weep alone, take to the La! ha! tears to shed with others, since we need them all ourselves. There is no Gisconnting the worth of glee—'‘joy are ovr wir and sorrow our Spu they Ard it harder to our joy than our grief. bove and below man are said seriovs. do not smile. a printer’s error that turned < laugh” into a se-laugh. The horse is not guilty. But it is better to than to groan! but we have no is hide All creatures to be Most men do not have to be cau- for they mned not to work k short d: too hard nd long d; fit best together. It is a fact that the men who can best afford to make short da take them long; and those who can least afford short hours insist upon having them. When it comes to selling time or proposes to keep it scarce and high sin kut it is e, and the old-fashioned bank The advantages of labor be mutual instead of ex- cessiv combative. Last year in one of the largest states in the Union, the strike habit cost both sides enough to maintain witheut labor 30,000 persons for two centuries and a half. What a great and unnccessa was; and how it wasted w And doubt- less it cost great sacrifices and some lives. To make thin heap it takes long hours and reasonable wages; to make things dear short hours and high account ought to wages. Today wages are excessively high, but the five dollar note is only buying €0 per cent. as much as it did two years ago, hence five dollars now are doing what §3 did in 1314, There is not a doctor on earth who will endorse the sentiment that “health is wealth.” He cannot see it. He will tell you that health is to be found on the farm and in most open air occupa- tions, but not w th. Health is above money, anyhow. It cannot be bought, and it supports a_first-class stomach which wealth speedily destroys. In the affairs of life health and wealth parade far apart: alth in de jeans and wealth in silks and fine linens. “Health is wecalth,” figuratively speaking, but it cannot be figured out by the multi- plication table. What the multi-mil- lionaire yearns for most is a_ poor man’s appetite, not a harp of gold. The reason wealth is no: health is becavse it strives for the uncommon— it draws to itself the exceptional—it prefers cardomoms to onions. There saying that er to acquire wealth itke a knave than to spend it like a gentleman”; but no such slander be put upon health. We are told it is when the rich are sick that they feel the impotence of wealth.” It doesn’t seem as though angel cake ought to become a bar to peace in the family, but it is possible. If a man marries a young woman who nourishes a conceit that she can make Angel cake better than any other live woman on earth. When she is making a di- gestion destroying loaf, a liver clogging lump, and likes to talk about angel cake every day, and serve it at every meal, the hushand is up against some- thing serious. He doesn’t like to be told that he doesn’t know enough to appreciate the best cake ever made on earth, and wituess tears caused by his jack of taste and sense. He doesn't wish to swallow a brick for the sake of being agreeable when it will surely make life disagreeable to him. There i snothing like a good pastry cook in the family if everyone else hankers for her pastry and praises it, but when a cook praises her lown product, one should be on guard. A story is told of a divorced man who had no objec- tion to returning to his wife and fam- ily, but when visions of the angel cake came to him the tremens of despair possessed his soul and he revolted, #houting: “Angel cake! Never!” The complainent is seldom blameless whatever the cause of complaint. I was recently amused by the complaint of an American who had served four vears in the regular army that ‘“he covld not as a civilian get work ex- cept with pick and axe with a lot of aliens.” He dld not like it because he was asked why he did not re-enlist? Tour years of training should have ziven him a pese and an air of civility and promptness which of itself should have been commendatory. ®his young man apparently had not made the most of the discivline in the army, and because of this had failed to make the most of himself.. Men are not sang Ella Wheeler Wilcox. We{ (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) In Norwich, the first school meet- ing under the new act of the Legis- lature granting the proceeds from the sale of Western Reserve lands for schools, was held in October, 1796. IL is an interesting fact that in Chelsea—Norwich Landing— the en- tire number of householders warned to attend this meeting was 1456. The families represented numbered 89, of Leffingwells seven, the largest num- ber of any one name. The schools established on this basis were at first of an elementary character, gathering in but few pupils from those ranks in society that were able to patronize the select schools. The first in Norwich of which any certain record exists, as established on the State Fund foundation, and called distinctively the Free School, was be- gun at Chelsea in June, 1799. Rufus Robbins was preceptor. For many years these district schools, invaluable as they were in the benefits they conferred, were vet far below the highest attainable standard of usefulness, according to Miss Caulkins' History of Norwich. They were entirely dissociated, each district managing its own school by a_committec. After a time, a change of system seemod desirable. The sub- ject was brought up in public meet- ing and was freely discussed. Many of the citizens took a decided stand in favor of a complete change obliged to take to the trench in ectvil life because they have becn soldiers, but if they look like pick-axe and shovel men instead of acceptible gen- eral service men, they are likely to find their place. Men who are de- ficient in knowiedge and proficient in no craftsman’s occupation have no reason to complain if their work is dirty, laborious and poorly paid. This young chap was doubtless a poor looker while on parade, and a worse one in private life. | love to watch the robins In the garden looking for worras and teaching their newly pledged young to provide for themselves. The cat is so well fed she does not harrass them. For awhile there was a female accompanied by two males. The males used to engage one another occasionally in what, at first, T thought was jealous combat, but afterwards T concluded they were friendly wrestling matches—they did not injure one another and seemed to I be prompted by a spirit of play rather than wrath. I concluded this must be a father robin with a bachelor son. There are bachelor birds whenever the males exceed the females, and Shackle- ton tells us that the bachelor penquins camp by themselves adjacent to the mated colony. We turn the soil in the garden up once or twice a week, and the keen eve and keen scent of the robins informs them when the sun is working upon fresh earth. They follow close to the cultivator and are not afraid. They do not become as tame as the chick-a-dee, but they follow close, like doves or chickens. Sunday Morning Talk TAKE TIME TO LIVE. to begin to live— Most people expect mectime. They will live after they ave made their “pile,” or the chil- dren are educatedgor after the house is paid for. At present, the workaday world make 100 heavy demands on them. Now, all they can do is hustle; they will live by and by. The mi e of thousands of us at this point is perfectly natural, but full of pathos, nevertheless. It is &0 easy to confuse the making of a living with the making of a life. It is so easy to imagine that in grubbing and saving and in ringing up a few additional dollars on the cash register, one is ful- filling a human destiny. One is a fool to depreclate thrift, but thrift, like any other good thing, be carried to excess. When it us sordid and selfish and earth- no appreciation of the finer values of life, it is a foremost enemy of well-being. When it teaches that ma: life consists, afier all, in the dance of the things he can get his ‘hands on, it is_as false a philos- ophy as could weli be preached. If, for stance, I were asked to name a conspicuously successful life, I should not name that of the late Mrs. Hetty Green, although she died the richest woman on the planet. To a normal mind it would appear that she #ot amazingly little out of her earthly career, for all her millions, and that she gave back a disgraceful pittance to the society that had made her wealth possible. It is not success to spend the whole span of one’s human years in clutching after dollar bills. Perhaps, however, the lady intended some day to make a dole to charity— after she had gotten rich_enough. We can trust the case of selfish mil- licnaires to a higher court. You and e a sufficient contract to live less foolishly than they. If the physical strain and nervous fret of making a living are leaving us no time or strength for affairs out- side the office or shop, if we have no leisure for helpful companionship with friends, for books, for gardens, for the play of children or the songs of birds, we are making a capital mis- take. e are putting the first things second. We are becoming machines rather than men. The human lamp is consuming wick rather than oil 2nd it threatens, ere long, to smoke unpleasantly. The British business man, before the terrible days of war, at least, had a hint along this line for his Ameri- can cousin. He had an appreciation of the value and the possibility of lelsure. His whole day was not sur- surrendered to the stock ticker. A generous part of summer afternoons was given to his family, to reading. to tea in the garden. An English professional man whose labor gained him a competency was offered a post vielding a larger salary and demand- ing closer conflnement. He declined the offer, giving as his reason, “I should then have no time to live T.et hustling Clarence Percy think it all over before he sneers at that old world attitude. Summer days are good ones in which to begin a reasoned practise of rest and recreation that should find a place in the symphony of every life. See to it that rno day in the year is all grind, even if the grind may mean a Jarger cash balance at nightfall. “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” ‘There should be time each day for the things that refresh and nourish the spirit. Have an eye for the wonders of sunrise and sunset. Read the evangel of the flowers and understand the language of the birds. Dip into a few good books. Cultivate human and divine friendships. Refuse to be utterly brow-beaten by the materlal necessities. It is better for a man, after all, to lay up treasures in heaven than to labor all his life to crowd more funds than he needs into the third national bank. THE PARSON, in khe organization of the schools. Foremost among those advocating new and more desirable system stands a name prominent in every movement for the hetterment of Norwich, ancient or modern—that of Gilman. Willlam C. Gtiman 'was an earnest and con- stant advocate of a more complete and energetic course of instruction and of needed reforms and improved methods throughout tQ= echools. The village of Greeneville took the lead in the march of improvement, when, in 1839, che consolidated her two schools, and established a high school, This was done without opposition and the signal change was made effective largely through the efforts of William H. Coit, of that section of the town. In the other city districts, the pro- ject met with strenuous opposition. There was a conflict of opinions and of plans which was continued or re- newed fcr about twelve years. Finally, the weakness of the school system and the urgent necd of speedy reform had an effect upon even the most obstinate of the opposition. All parties united in favor of reform and prograss and a complete change in system was effected. Adjoining districts were consoli- dated, a system of graded schools in- augurated, and upwards of $50,000 ex- pended in bujldings for their accom- modation. These improvements were made be- tween 1855 and 1858. A high school was left out of the plan, that necessity being splendidly supplied by the Nor- wich Free Academy, which was incor- porated in 1854. The Central School-house—now gen- crally called Broadway school— a huilding of noble dimensions. and wisz adaption to its uses, Miss Caulkins tells us, “stands on the 2ast side of Breadway, in an eligible and airy po- sition. It is built of brick, with free- stone dressings; is three stories high, and well supplied with furnaces and cisterns. This edifice is considered the finest in appearance, position and conveniences of any common school- house in Connecticut.” It was dedicated Sept, 3, 1855, cost $40,000. J. W. Allen, a graduate of Wesleyan University, was its first principal. So important an event was consid- ered the erection and opening of Broadway School that, in 1856, the fol- lowing reference to it appeared in the Report of the Superintendent of Pub- lic Schools of Connecticut: “The erection of this beautiful pub- lic bujlding (Norwich Central School- house), marks the successful termina- tion of one of the most protracted and severe educational struggles ever witnessed in our state.” Referring to the districts in the re- mainder of the town, Miss Caulkins writes: “The other school-houses are also on a liberal scale. That of the Falls District, on Sachem Street, was com- pleted in 1. at a cost of $10.000. The oldcr structures of other districts have all been enlarged or refitted to render them convenient and appropri- ate to the graded system Had the gifted historian of Norwich lived in this generation, it must have astonished and delighted her could she have Seen the handsome, modern school building on Broad Street, and that on TLaurel Hill, among the best types of latter-day school-houses. ‘While the other and older buildings are not s> attractive or so well eauipped as are the two cited, the work which their faithful teachers accom- plish is of the first order of merit, frrespective of surroundings or the appearance of the bulldings. The Broadway School still retains its stately dignity and imposing char- acter, as referred to by Miss Caulkins— and during the years since her time there has never been a trace of that “protracted and severe educatlonal stuggle” which preceded its erection. TLocal history records the names of the worthy and faithful successors of John W. Allen, its first principal; among principals and superintendents such names as Phelps, the two Whitte- mores, Davis, Hine, Tilson, the devoted Bishop, whose best vears were spent in the service of the schools; and, under consolidation, Superintendent E, J. Graham and Principal F. W. New- ton, men who have given or are giv- ing of their minds and hearts and wisdom. to uplift educational work in Norwich and to keep the schools of the town in the forefront, in the state and the nation. There have been recorded school meetings under the old district system, when opposing parties would get “all het up” in the crowded gatherings; when rather questionable pcPitical methods would be employed, caucusses packed and the like, in order to de- feat an opponent, or from some selfish motive, because perhaps, the teacher boarded with the committeeman, or the latter reveled in his chance to swing the balance of power. But that day has gone by, happily, and under consolidation, with the managing of the schools in the hands of a small committee of intelligent and public-spirited men working for the highest Interests of the iown, without fear or favor, there is peace- ful harmony in the conduct of the schools, while the efforts of board of education, superintendent and prin- cipal are furthered and put to practi- cal account by the fidelity, co-opera- tion and intelligent interest of a splendid body of trained teachers. THE DICTAGRAPH. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Mr. Wood’s Reply. AMr. Editor:—Readers of the Bulletin will please take notice that at no time kave I stated that I did not favor the Central Powers. In my last letter T wrete, “This article does not favor the Central Powers as much as it does fair play for them in the periodicals of this country,” and as far as I can see makes known no statement of what my feel- ings are. Sgveral readers jumped ut the first part of the sentence and Gid not take time to read the last half, which, if they do they will fail to find where T made myself the avowed en- emy of the Entente. The Bulletin will please deny for me through its valu- able column that I have made a state- ment in which T said tnat I did not faycr the Triple Alliance. ‘We realize that the American news- rarers take their war news from the Assoclated Press which in turn gets it mostly “via London.” It is not difficult to see that this news has been “doc- tored” to please the eve of the Eng- lish censors and to impress upon the public of neutral countries things which are not really taking place at all. One cannot blame the American papers for printing what news they can get, but the editorlals of the ne paper advertise which side the writar favors. The Bulletin is no exception to this case. Since the war began the edirorials have leaned dectdedly toward the Entente just as they haye in oth- er and larger papers. This is a free country and one has a right to say what he pleases and write what he pleases as long as he keeps within car- tain limits, but there are some people who do not believe there is room for an argument without getting mighy personal about it and digging Into pri- vate matters that they know nothing ESTATE M. OUR STOCK. prices we are offering. LOOK AT WIN Complete Home Furnishers HOURIGAN Special Reductions | —ON— Refrigerators and Porch Rockers IN ORDER TO CLOSE OUT THE BALANCE OF It will pay you to call and see the DOW DISPLAY ESTATE M. HOURIGAN 62-66 MAIN STREET about, and which are monme of nm:l Lusiness. “There are articles galore on where tlie Kajser will eat his next Christmas dinner, but followers of the war news would be astonished to see anything liks the following paragraphs among the editorials of the Bulletin or any othier American newspaper. Will England immortalize the 100,000 who died on, Gallipoli as she has the 1azht Brigade, who died at Balaklava. simply because one of her brilliant (?) mlitary officers blundered? Careful observers notice that Wnzx- Tand didn’t specify the exact time whon she was going into Helogoland to drive the German navy out like rats out of it about time that the spring arr.ved wlen the Allies were going to launch their great offensive? It seems as if England’s troops ave kept in the Balkans merely for orna- mental purposes. Fngland is generous—she lends her =llies all the qmoney they need and lets them have all the fighting they want. Englang lays it to her humanity he- causc she is not clever enough to du- plicate the German air raids on the British Isles. When Enclish troops were defending Antwerp, they liled to tell about haw the first German shell killed a fourtean vear old boy and the second decap iated a harmless strest swecper. Prob_ ably only non-combatants were lkillad during the hbombardment, for troops beat a “stragetic refreat” after the shells got coming so fast they conld not count them. Tneland has always sent out news concerning her troops. painted the battle of Magersfontein in the Boer war as an important Enz- lish victory while in reality it was a dy English massacre.. EARL M. WOOD. Taftville, Aug. 10, 1916. [The Editor eliminates two pages of paragraphs like the above from IIr. Wood's letter because it had no room for them. Mr. Wood has a perfect right to criticise the press or anyona else; but if he is not better informed about other matters than he is as to the methods of American newspapers, we advise him to cease writing.—The Editor.] £alsa Not Health Bread. Mr. Editor:—A Hebrew baker brings Etread from Norwich and the board of hcalth told him the bread must be wrapped in separate paper. He brings them two, four, three loaves in a ne parer, and goodness knows who hanéled the old newspapers! His wagon is none too clean. Yours for good health. A READER. Fitchville, Aug. 11, 1916. Pat Recommendations. Mr. Editor:—We must at least cradit J. H. Cummings with being “as wise as g serpent” also as “harmless as a dove” though hardly imbued with the it usually attributed to the lat- 2 very judviously refrains from mpting to present any facts or arguments. He says that the residents of small towns always like to get their names in print! How about himself? Since the outbreak of the European war from tirte to time he has been coming out with a fulsome laudation of Germar kaiserism and militarism, and with bitter denunciations of the country from which our best traditions and institutions are derived. As a friend Cummings has been king erough to make a certain suggestion to Mr. Johnson. I will offer a couple to> kim. T ould suggest that he offer his services to William Randolph Hearst a3 an editorial writer. His fanatizism and powers of vituperation ought to appeal strongly to that eminent jousn- ahist. Or, should the Bremen come to New London, he might embark for Germany on that craft and offer h Inperial Prussian Majesty more sub- stantial aid than that of long-distance symrathy. FAIR PLAY. ‘Windham, Aug. 11, 1916. Let’s Have Drinkable Water. Mr. Editor:—There is plenty of wate: and it is a shame that our service pipes are so sadly neglected. The pipes need flushing and our cen- trai square and gutters need wasiiing out. A city that cannot suppress ef- fiuvia in the business center is too slow and negligent to be attractive to buyers or pleasure seekers. A city hydrant was opened the other day on the West Side and the putrid waler which came from it filled the air with such a stench the neighbors wi compelled to close their windows, if the operators of the Norwich wa- ter works cannot improve this, we hope the health officer will see that some- thing is done for the improvement of tha water and health conditions in this direction. Yours for sweetness. Norwich, Aug. 11, 1916. BELA. POLITICAL Republican Convention. The great convention held in Bangor cday was significant of the ear- nestness and _enthusiasm of the Re- pablicans of Maine in thelr preparation for the coming campaign. Every avl- cgate from the great County of Aroos- esare was present; every delegate from Piscataquis was present; and thare were only six of the delegates from Penobscot who were not in attendance. The rivalry for the nomijnation was keer:, but the contest was every way friendly and it was with great enthu- " the | siasm that the motion of Judge Dunn to make the nomination or Ira G. Her- 2y unanimous, was acceded to by ev- delegate in the hall—Portland Ex. press. Too Easy With Promises. Of course President Wilson has a rerfect right to-change his mind as cfien as he pleases, but that is_ quiza different from repudiating distinct promises made to get votes. If the picdges_on which he rode into tha White House have proved worthless because he changed his mind, what faith is to be put in the pledges he is now malking in, his appeal for re-elec- 1. —Omaha : Stories of the War Conan Doyle at Verdun. Everywhere, to right and left, sol- diers’ faces, hard and rough from a year of open air, gazed up at us from their burrows in the ground. Present- Iy an alert, blue-clad figure stcod in the path to greet us. It was the col- onel of the sector. He was iculously like Cyrano de Bergerac as depicted by the late M. Coquelin. The ruddy coloring, the bristling feline full-ended moustache, the solidity of pos the backward tilt of the head, the general suggestion of the bantam cock, were all there facing us as he stood amid the leaves in the sunlight. Gauntlets and a long rapier—nothing else was wanting. Something had amused Cy. |rano. His moustache quivered with | suppressed mirth, and his blue eves were demurely gleaming. Then the Joke came out. He had spotted a Ger- man working party, his guns had con- centrated on it, and afterwards he had seen the stretchers go forward. ‘When we emerged from these hush- ed places of danger Cyrano took us all to his dug-out, which was a tasty lit- tle cottage carved from the s of a hill and faced with logs. He did the honors of the humble cabin with the {air of a seigneur in his chateau. There was little furniture, but from some broken mansion he had extracted iron fire-back, which adorned grate. It was a fine, mediae work, with Venus, in her t costume, in the center of it. It seemed an the last touch in the picture of the gallant, virile Cyrano. I only met him this once, nor shall I ever see him again, vet he stands a_thing complete within my memory. Even new as I write these lines he walks the leafy paths of the Argonne, his fierce eves ever searching for the Boche worker, his red moustache bristling over their annihilation. He seems a figure out of the past of France. That night we dined with ier type of the French general who commands the corps which my friend has one adiv Each of these French generals has a striking individuality of his own which I wish I could fix upon paper. Their only common point is that each seems to be a rare good soldier. The corps general is Athos with a touch of d@’Artagnan. He is well over six feet| high, bluff, jovial, with huge upcurv- ing moustache, and a voice that would rally a regiment—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in London Chronicle. Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, Tndian: iand Texas have laws prohibiting boy. cotting. The War A Year Ago Today August 12, 1915, f Geormans repulsed by Russians near Riga and near Kovno. Siedlce captured by Germans. Austrians repulsed tacks near Zagora. Italians ate skin troubles ““Will Resinol Ointment rea/ly stop this dreadful itching and clear my eczema away 2"’ ‘‘Madam, if you only knew as much about Resinol as doctors do-- how safe it is to use, how promptly it acts—you would not doubt, you would use it af once. Usually it stopsitching immediately and soont removes every bit of eruption.” Resinol Ointment is so nearly fiesh-colored thatit can be used on exvoscd surfaces with- out attracting undue atte: n. Sold by all druggists, For sample free, write to Dept. 37-R, Resinol, Baitimore, Md.