Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 25, 1917, Page 4

et e 4 eneaAn AR - Slorwich Bulletin and gnuénzi‘ 121 YEARS OLD ubscription price 12c a week; 50c a month: $6.00 a year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter. Telephone Calls Bullg:a Businass Offico 450. Balletin Editorial Rooms 85-3. Bulletin Job Ofice 33-2. Office, Churen- St WilLmantie Telephone 210-2. The Circuiation of The Bulleiin The etrcuiation of any paper in Eastern Comnecticut and from thres to four Bulletin _has the largest times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered o over £,000 of the 4.053 nouses ‘n Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per cenmt. of the people. in Windham it is delivcred w_over 900 bouses, in Putnam and Daniclson to over 1,100, and In all of these places it is considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- aine fowns one hundred and eixty- Sive postoffice districts, and Sixty iura free dellvery routes. The Bulletin is rold In every town spd op all of ke R. F. D. routes ip Esstern Connecticut CIRCULATION average. .. | | 1901, 4,41 H 3 i i H 3 i i $ 1905, average.. August 18, 1917 gessencasseresateosesesasrenssnssansasssens sosensy THE GERMAN CRY FOR PEACE. The whol 34 Zesis but a peace happiness m tions and strengt reme na | -y France ultimatum to that pired Germany now pose failed pel a peace wh pire greater an broader than it = The ente man dem ing aefent opposing prayed for A German peace : 2 German v and los THE MAILED FIST The i1s a £ sition to employ financing the 1M doing all b tsm The Pekin corres London Times po IN CHINA. Kaiser's T of gold forc can to support many had large sums o isposal in China. TI 5f the Boxer indemnity a Interest on the two Ang loans, together with other amounted to about $15,000.0: ty; and China was p z this mone: until ‘recently into the local branche #f the Deutsche-Asiatische Bank. Bermany responded by usinz the mon- ®y to stir up internal strife” China with its changinz fortunes seems to be quite as unceriain in its power to strike a blow against Ger- many as does Russia, but the repub- licans are in charge of affairs now, end Tuah Chi-jui is premier. Germany is striving hard to retain lto & her influence in the heathen world and is willing to pay any price to ac- gomplish her purpose; but she has it 3 been hard hit and seems to be weak- ening in power. Peace declared now would be a mis- fortune, to all the earth. GOVERNMENTAL POWER. At _last the Ameriscan government has beén able to check the: tyranny of greed to protect the people; ang while the politicians refer to its ac- tion as being only temporary the peo- ple should see that such legal force in theif behalf is made permanent. The leading papers of America are calling attention to the fact that a revolution has quietly taken place which 50 vears of agitation could not accomplish; and that the protection of the people from extortionists in trade—from the injustices practiced by industrial and trade combinations— combinations which - rob the email manufacturer and trader of his rights as well as the people of thelr money, should be maintained for all time. There is no reason why flour should | be 318 a barrel, coal $25 a ton, onions 38 and potatoes $6 a bushei, pork 40 and 0 cents a pound, butter 50 cents and eggs 65 cents a dozen. The producers do not realize any- thing like these prices, neither do the nsportation companies; but the manipulators of life's necessaries rake off their millions. Thev should be free to do it no ionger. Government con- trol is protection, not tyranny. WHAT 1S FORESHADOWED. Have you thought these great mili- tary air raids forerun air-line bus! ness upon the declaration of peace. Thirty-two German airplanes fly over to bomb London. They could just as conveniently carry passen- zers, mail or freight, One hundred and cleven English 1 French machives raid German: and it is evident that it will be ples anter when such a fleet carries friendly letters and Christmas pres- The dependable sources of violence wili become dependable sources of business when the war. is' over, and the millions invested in them is not kely to be wasted. Acropianes will not be stored ax to rust out as many of our naval ves sels are, but will be called into the business of peaceful life, and air- lines in the near future will be as correctly charted as sea-lanes, and our ness air-lines wili be true alr lines for business and pleasu Afr traffic is to beci a menace. EDITORIAL NOTES. Have you noticed that the high price of butter has not effected the wages sin? The Grand Army step is destined to knock out the goose-step in north- ern France The I. W. W. leaders defy the gov- ernment get their board free and heir sala President Wilson’s notes are jeered the Kaiser and praised by the rest of the world. Round steak never expected to get o society but it is right there at 40 cents a pound, Tnited States senate must be us of the fact that it alwa a few clowns. The among ops— impressed Americans the bravest of the e Bavarians. We shall all be singing pretty soon ) come, come away, to the place here the potatoes grow!" the artist who sliced ham is now emploved in cut p How among ever expected to see many the things are classed luxuries now that no one there. The citizen whe can drink or let it alone never likes to be so far from a that Thirst will get him. every family in America uses pound of flour less a week that 1 make a surplus of twenty million hels a year. Men who prey upon the people pray d in the same commercial spirit helieve everything comes down mones They to Me vt glaring at Uncle Sam for his hand is in his poc! 250 million Mexico desires for the to borrow, The Man on the Corner savs: The fact that the dress of the ladies is becoming more and more oriental does not alarm him. The successful potato patch is twice a picture—when the vines are in bloom ana when the potatoes are on top of the ground. They say crash of thrones and toppling of nasties nothing is more impressive an the $20 hos. out west that “amid all So long as the Germans sing, “We are the race of the Hammer-God and mean to inherit his world empire!” they should not be coddled. LaFoliette knocked American ships off the ocean, and now he is try- ng to knock the good old U. S. A. off the map! He can’t do i A new school room motto: “Do a L to is worth; ttle Good Each Day at Some Cost Yourself!” The eve of the child of something Impressive. The modern chemists say: No baby without milk; but nothing more babies!” .What a wonder it is the world was not long ago de- populated. The redeemed swamp lands of the south produce 100 bushels of pota- toes and 60 bushels of corn per acre. Such two-crop lands are not to be sneezed at. In Tennessee the courts have de- cided that baseball is not a nuisance, and cannot, be legally enjoined on Sunday. By and by it will be ranked as a divine game! At the very commencement of the war the Kaiser told Ambassador Ger- ard there was no international law. He doubtless would deny there were Ten Commandments since they were not made in Germany. America has no army, no navy to speak of, no national spirit or disci- pline at all. It would be an outrage to make war upon such a defenceless people. This is the official opinion of Germany. Germany is to be shown. B Many persons pra¥ “give us this day our daily bread, who never think what a rational.prayer give us this day our daily work is. Bread represents sus. tenance and work exercise, and they were never meant to be separated one from ‘the other. Exercise promotes the development which makes bread as a sustenance effective. When heaven- iy manna was given the lsraelites the Work of gathering it in baskets was required of them. I am not sure work is not as holy as prayer: but 1 am confident they both work together for good. _There is 10 calling at Nature's back door and asking for cold victuals. Nature has no handouts to encourage idleness. There is no getting some- thing for mothing in Naturc's domain. Man has to work for knowledge and for nutriment. Everything we know anything about has its price. Do not get discouraged! Do not lose your ambition! If you do you will have.to find it again. The doctor cannot_find it for you, he can only help. Do not become too conscious of the trials of life, for everyone has them; but make the mosi of your blessings, and keep them shining in your heart. Lots of people have jaughed over trials that have fretted other people to death. Laughter is always safe medicine. A burden never zets lighter by carryving it—learn to throw vour burdens down. It is a bad habit to magnify little troubles in lite, and a worse one to so live that vou create them: and are so ignorant cause and effect that you do not Know . The greatest study on earth is man—and ¥ou are the man! Know that the mind which crowds you down will just as readily build you up! Mind responds to its master! You shou'd De its master! What do you think of the man they say means well although he rarely does well? He is the debtor who is never disturbed by his obligations, the slob who can never turn out first class work. He doesn’t care to think, for that may cause him to worry. He doesn't see why merchants Kick about such a little thing as a debt, or wives fuss because of the uncertainty of household expenses. He seems to lack all thoughts of opulence and all power o bring the good riings his way the mental scientists sav he has a right to claim, and by the might of mind might make his own. He works like one asleep; and just drifts, through life dike a Kadaver. They sav what he caniot do for himself hypnotists can make him do. What a large class need be hypnotized to promote justics New Enzland merchants have becom: aware throush painful experience. If telepathy will induce them to wake up and pay up it ought to become popu- lar with our business men. It is easier to slide down hill than to climb s up—easier to into the slough of despond than to get out cf jt. There is no achievement t enerzy. Man must work for all he gets; and he must know what he wants to do and do it. Nothing generates energy like belief. To have prayer answered you must pray believing: and to have tasks accomplished yvou must work believ- ing. No engine will work that isn't fired up. No man will succeed who lets the fires of resolution smoulder. We must be first conscious that we are a force to do things: and then we must learn to concentrate mental and physical power in order to accomplish them. There is nothing hapharard in life except that which ends in failure. There is too much moping, too much aimlessness, too much confusion amonz men. Ease accomplishes nothing in life: action is the basis of all progress. Those who dare and do are the wonder-workers among men. Mrs. Reuben . Reeves, an FEnglish woman, save: “No_ woman with six children is able to' look after them properly,” when thousands of women have in the past and will in_ the fu- ture. We have all khown or heard of mothers of ten children who looked after them properly and ed them well in life. I recall one mother of ten who got cn in the world with a blind husband and ten children swim- mingly. Starting with ten chiidren and no home. she found peverty and babies Ler portion in life at the start. She ended the owner of a ranch, four of Children have been graduated by state school of mechanical arts and agriculture, and throe more are booked fer the sagie educstion. Today she writes am proud of my ten splendid boys and girls. all of whom are growing into the better ife.” These English women should see America first before they come to such har and fast opinions The percentage of loafers is too great in every community, and it is on the increase rather than decrease. There are men who cannot be hired to work for love or muney, and the amount of wages offered proves to be no induce- ment to them. It doubtless is true tha: many people are unhappy because they do not have enough to do, and many more are unhappy because they have too much to do: but there is a class whose happiness seems to de- pend chiefly upon making others un- happy. Tell them they “should work as if they were to live forever, and lve as if they wera going to die to- day,” and they will laugh at yo They have no conception of their own worthlessness. Thev do not look as # in idleness there is perpetial despair, although their possessions are chiefly dirt and whiskers. Their uselessness makes them no better than enemies of the race to which they belons. Mr. Balfour speaks of “This sreat unsurpassed moment in the history of the worid.” The present moment is alwavs large with opportunity if man has the ability to meet it; and the present moment seems to be a world- wide, a providential moment, which holds for all races of men more of knowledze and fellowship and free- dom If they have the wisdom to recog- nize and.claim that which belongs to them than was ever presented bafore. The enemies of manhood and humani- ty precipitated the present world strife to crush manhood In their am- bition to gain power. The issue is whether autocracy or democrac: shall control the affairs of the na. tions.” Whether tyrants or men shall remain in power. Seventeen nations stand today for the triumpp of liberal government, and a broader humanity; and they deserve to win because their cause is just “When revolutions extend them- selves among nations, those mnations will form connections and_conven- tions: and when a few are thus con- federated, the progress will be rapid. till_despotism and corrupt government be totally expelled, at least out of two quarters of the world,” wrote Thomas Paine, “Europe and America.” When (he'present world war broke out. the Central Empire of Kurope committed o a four months’ career of conquest, these words had no bearing upon the state of events, but now, at the end of three years, which sees the Central Empirs of Europe, Russia and other nations compelled to concede to the people larger liberties to pledges and in effect, it looks as if this predie- ton of a century and a half ago is de: tinued to become broader and truer than the writer realized. The prayers of | the men in the trenches in all parts of Europe have expressed in thought and (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) During the recent interest in the opening of the Mohegan trall reference was frequedtly made to Miantonomo and incidentally to his monument, which aitracts the attentior of travel- ers along the Greenviile road. In his account of the fown's quarter millennial celebration (1909) Mr. Gil- man writes of this stone: The monumental stone which for 63 years had marked the spot where Un- cas, chief of the Mohegans, captured Miantonomo, chief of the Narragan- setts, was moved in 1904 to a little Cliff '150 feet from its original site. The change came about through the purchase for building purposes of the land on which the monument stood. According to the layout, the stone was on the dividing line betwegn two lots. By prompt action, Miss Marie Perit Gilman and Mrs. Louisa Gilman Lane purchased the two lots and the stone, also the plot, 120 by 160 feet, to which the monument was afterwards re- moved. They then appealed to the Society of Colofiial Wars, and Major Bela Peck Learned and Jonathan Trumbull were appointed a_committee and given funds for the purchase of the land and the removal and preservation cf the stone, which thus became the property of an incorporated society The original inscription was “Mian- tonomo, 1643.” To this was added ‘Erected in 1841. Piaced here by Con- necticut Society of Coionial Wars, 1904 The history of the monument is then sketched by Mr. Gilman. During 1841, vear before the Uncas morument on Sachem street was completcd, “the lat William C. Gilman and his associates,” with the view to the erection of a simple memorial to Miintonomo, invit- ed the venerable Judge Nathaniel Ship- man to o with them to Sachem’s Plain and pont out the spot where he re- membered to have seen in his early boyhood the great pile of rough stones heaped up in remembrance of their great chieftain by the Narragansetts, in their wanderings through the coun try. As they were entering the field. one of the party said to the judge: “Please try to remember a shady place, if you can!” The cid gentleman surveyed the gronnd and advancing straightway to the ~hadow of a convenient tree, planted in the earth his silver-headed cane—*“the ancient eane” cf Lienten- ant Thomas Leffingwell. friend of T'n- cas. and sajd: “As nearlv a= I can re- member, it was not ten feet from this spot!” The company of men and women, boys and girls. and members of thy ‘Cold Water Army’ who assemble® there on the following Fourth of Ju when the monument was first exhibited vords the hope that the outcome might be a_better world for the men who bear the world’s burdens, and it ooks as if this prayer is about to be | Sunday Morning Talk DESTROY YOUR ENEMIES. When Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord, he got rid of an en- emy in the only way the world wa then familiar with. One's optimism Is surely sobered when he realizes that after ail the centuries that have come nd gone since, most of the world i till Tollowing the old-time pian. The preper thing to do with a foe, we judge, is to annihilate him as ex- peditiously as possible. By reason of the hardness of our hearts, tite ancient simple method prevails both in per- sonal and in national affairs Yet few thinking men, even clad in khaki and carrving gu argue that this is_really the method of dealing with the situation or that it will ultimately prevail. It certainly is not the method of the Founder of Christianity and can have no place in the day when His Kingdo shall spread from shore to shore. -Just now, the rule of Jesus as to treatmen of enemies may seem to averas: people as hardly more than a strange exhibit in a moral museum. It may be about as near the usual plane of hu- man conduct as some faint star in the milky way is to our own cozy, little though the only right and workable one, even though it may have to wait centuries more for honest trial Anyone who wishes may try a few laboratoy experiments aiong this line in his own life, experiments that may hint at larger successes by and by for the race of which he is a member. Resuits attained in personal experience may jugtify the hope that sometime, in the course of the rolling ages, the same principles may be adopied on & commercial and national scale. The gist of the Christian method 1s {to destroy that which makes an en- |emy rather than to make a personal attack on the foe himself. Tt is to obliterate the cause of enmity, thus converting the one who hated us and would do us ill into one who loves "is and seeks to do us good. The beauty of the scheme in this age of conserva- tion should appeal to every one. . A certain Chincse emperor was ad- Vised that a band of rebels was stir- ring up an insurrection against him in a distant province. At the head of a loval garrison he proceeded to the scene of the trouble, promising his at- tendants that he would quickly des- troy those enemies of the crown. The engagement that followed was short and decisive and the rebels submitted, laying down their arms. The imperiai troops, expecting now a dire revenge. with red slaughter in its wake. were amazed when the captives were mnot only pardoned but treated with es- pegjal kindness and favor. “Why have voul not fulfilled your promise?” askad the disappointed Jeader of his chief. “I promised.” replied the emperor, “to destroy my enemies, and 1 have kept my word. These men gre my enemies no longer. for I have changed them in- to_friends.” Is there not a hint for us sane procedure? in such Vast skill is employed in our day in turning to account al sorts of iaste products. Every bit of material rubbish must be made ‘0 yield its contribution to human well being. All sorts of moral rubbisn. likewise, should be made to give w glorious an dtriumphant account of it- self. Teast of all are enmities and hatrefls exempt from this necessity. They must be chanzed from liabilities into assets. Wonderful are the uses of converted enemies! There are few friends so loyal as those -who once hated and op- posed, simply because they misunder- stood us. The Apostle Paul never could have become so convinting a Christian. if he had not first been a persecuting pharisee. Look about you for some enemy you may ‘destroy,’ not with a brickbat or a gun. but by the surer method of overcoming his evil with good. THE PARSON. 'NORWICH BULLETIN; SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1917 s, will | best planet. And vet the suspicion is being forced on millions of minds the world over that the rule of Jesus is; after all, | to the public, duly appreciated the “shady place” while addresses were being made, and_a bucket of cold water from the Sachem's spring was poured over the granite block by Thomas Sterry Hunt, then a Norwich schoolboy, afterwards the eminent geologist of the United States and Canada. A Some time later, Rev. Thomas Lef- fingwell Shipman asked his father how he could venture to say after the lapse of so muny vears that that was the exact spot where, in his childhood, he had seen the heap of stones. “Thomas,” said the judge gravely, “it was no time for me to balk!” It would have been unfortunate, in- deed, writes Mr. Gilman, in summing up the history of the Miantomono mon- ument, had one of the few memorials of the almost extinct tribes been lost to sight and remembrance in the back garden of a private dwelling, or hewn into foundation stones for 2 new build- ing. It may be Moped that. in happier hunting grounds than Narragansett or Mohegan, they smoke the pipe of peac that anclent animosities are forgotten, and that the hatchet is buried forever. Considering the Mason monument, the writer says: Among the interesting events of the celebration of 1559 was the laying of the cornersione of a monumert_in memory of Major John Mason and the Founders of Norwich. in Yantic cemetery, by the Free and ! Accepted Order of Masons. At the conclusion of the ceremonies the com- pany returned to the tent-on Chelsea Parade, where Hon. John A. Rockwell delivered an oration on the life and times of Mason. The_situation of the stone was al- most frem the first regardad as unfor- tunate, for, as intimated in Mr. Rock- weli's ‘address, the expectation had | been that a suitable monument would | mark the spot in the most ancient burying ground, on the road from Norwich Town to Bean Hill, where Major Mason was buried. The stone seems to have been for- gotten; at any rate, it disappeared from Yantic cemetery. Soon after the celebration it was voted that a balance of $337.91 remain ing with the should be applied to a fund for thei monument. No - further action was | taken, however, for 12 years, when. in { 1871, John T. Wait. James M. Meec and Joha L. Devotion were appointed to superintend the erectior of such monument as they might deem app: priate. Under their direction a franite mon- ument was erected at a cost of $650, on the site of the old Post and Gager burying ground, en land of Lyman W. | Lee, which was purchased for this pu pose, and the commiitee and their a | sociates were incorporated by the state lesislature in 1sil as the Mason Monument association, wi,h perpetual succession and _aurhority to take | charge of certain funds remaining on | | hand, and to watch over and preserve the monument. At a mecting of tha association May 27th, 1909, Amos A. Browning, Barziliai | P. Bisaop, Gu Dolbeare, William | C. Gilman, ¥rederic P. Guiliver, Bela | P. Leerned, A. W. Dickey, Irederick L. | Osgood, John F. Parker, Gilbert S Ravmond. Beriah G. Smitn, Newton P. Smith, Edwin A Jonathan Trumbu 1, Henry R.| Gallup. Costel.o Lippitt, s Holbrook, John P. Huntington and | Jobn C. Morgan were elected mem- | bers of the corporation. At a later | | meeting a president and eix directors jwere elected and authorized to have | { the monument and ground put in or- | der before the quarter millennial cele- | bration. This was done accordingly | _ Probatly more than one reader of | The Bu'letin could solve the puzzle of | | the monument which disappeared from | { Yantic cemetery. after its elaborate dedication. i: 1359, to the memory of | Major John Iason. No one will question the fact that the present site of the Mason monument, in the old| urying ground, is far more suitable | than to Fhide it away, as was done in 1859, THE DICTAGRAPH. How She Loves Cats. Mr. cats Editor: Evervbody doesn't- like n the same way. Some people ke them in their laps and gardens, but I like them that they do not help me to cultivate | | my garden, keep me awake of nights, | {or kill birds on my premises The trouble is there are {cats straving away from {really love them close & | those t00 many those who to among | who love them a £00d ways off. | T do not kmow how this can be | | regulated, but if I had a <at T ehould | try to keep it so well fed that the | back door would be a magnet that| would hold it true i T do not like to hurt cats: but T am | really afraid I shall if they are per- mitted to annoy me much more! MARIA. 24, 1917 Norwich, Aug. STORIES OF THE WAR THE KING OF ENGLAND IN THE| FIELD. On Saturday, July King George | continued the review of his armies in the Vimv Ridge field, not a formal re- | view, but a long journey with maay | halts through country behind the bat- | tle lines, where hundreds of thousands | of British soldiers are billeted in French cottages and barns, camped In wayside fields amidst the ripening har- . and carrying on the vast labor | upon which all fighting—no more than | one episode of war—utterly depends. In a sunken fleld, very smooth and long, between two hizh wooded banks, there was a great surprise and a great sensation. For just as the king step- per out of his car a young tree in full foliage on the left of the field up the | high bank toppled forward slowly and then fell with a crash into the under- srowth. Something was moving in the undergrowth, something monstrous. It came heaving and tearing its way through the bushes, snapping off low | rranches and smashing down young saplings like an elephant on the stam- pede. Then it came into sight on the top of the bank. a big gray beast with a biunt snout nosing its way forward, and all tangled In_green leaves and twigs. like a brutal Bacchus with wine leaves in his hair. It was old brother fank doing his stunt before the king. King and Prince Inside a Tank. From the far end of the long, smooth fileld came two other twin beasts of this ilk, crawling forward in a hurry as though hungry for human blood. In front of their track at the other end of the field we two breastworks built of sandbags covering some tim- bered dugouts and protected from sudden attack by two belts of barbed iwire. The two tanks came along like the spree, WeRsRtio o, 2P a little behind. executive committee | 5 ome of thes ‘when he laggel They hesitated for a moment_before the breastworks, as if disliking the effort of climbing them, then heaved themselves up, thrust out their snouts, got their hindquarters on the move, and waddled to the top. Under ‘their vast t the sand- bags flattened out, the timber beneath slipped and cracked, and the whole structure began to collapse as the twins plunged down on the other side and advanced to attack the barbed wire. That barbed wire, so formidable to infaniry, *o damnable in a rush upon enemy trenches, was simply idi- otic against these monsters. Its posts fell, its tangled barbs were torn like raged threads, and it was all laid ow. ' Another tank now came into action from the far end of the field, bearing the Jegend on its breast ot “Faugh a Ballagh,” which, I am told, is Irish for “Get out of the wa: It was the Derby winner of tanks, fleet as a sea elephant of Kerguclen Island on a rampagious hunt. From its steel flanks guns wageled to and fro. and no dra 8on of old renown looked half so menacing as ths. St. George would have had no chance against it. But King George, whose servant it was. and to whom it was tame as any tor- toise, was not afraid, and with the Prince of Wales he went through a steel trap door, into the body of the beast. For some time we lost eight of the king and the prince, but after 2 while they came out Jaughing, hav- ing traveled around the field for ten minutes in the queerest car on earth. A Great Thrill. __The great thrill of the day came ‘ater. It was a thrill that made us all gasp, and for one terrific second feel our hearts jump into our mouths. Through the woods of the high bank on the laft came a tank, looking rather the worse for year, as though battered in battle It came forward through the undergrowth and made for the edge of the bank where there was a machine gun emplacement or bomb- proof sheiter above a steep bank, al- most perpendicular. It seemed impos- sibie that any old tank should enter- tain_the notion of taking that. jump, but this tank came steadily on until its snout was well over the bank, and steadily on again with that extraordi- nary method of progression in which the” whole Dbody of the beast moves from the ncse and upwards until it seems to have a giraffe neck and very little else. That very little else was sitting on_the top of the emplacement while the forward part of the tank was poised in space regarding the setting sun. However, without any hesita- tion, the whole mass moved on, lurched out.'and nose-dived. Good Lord! It was then that the thzill came. The tank plunged down like a chunk of cliff. and as it fell went sideways and lost its balance, nd, as near us anything could be, al- most turned turtle. It richted itself with a great jerk at the nick of time, just before it took the earth below and shaved Ly a hair's breadth an_ammu- nition dump at the bottom of the drop. It was the finest tank trick I have ever seen, and was greeted by laughter and cheers. The kinz, however, and other spec- tators were rather worried about the lads inside. They must have taken a mighty toss. No sound came from the inside of the tank and for a mo- ment some of us had a vision of a number of plucky fellows laid out un- consciows within those steeel walls. The door opened, and we could see feet standing straight, which was a relief. “Let em all come out” said king, laughing heartily, ard out they ail fumbled. a row of youns fellows as merry and bright as air pilots after a good landing. “Didn't you get a nasty knock?” asked the king, and the answer was “Not at\all. sir"—which, T fancy, has to be taken with a grain of salt.—Tondon Chronicle. OTHER VIEW POINTS It costs less to buy a screen door than to get sick and lay off for a month.—Litchfield Enquirer. Write this down where you'll see it every day: The time to draw busi- ness is when you want business, and not when you have more business than you can attend to already.—Woodbury Register. The thanks of every community to the examining boards. who have toil- ed unceasingly, who have dispensed justice to the high and lowly, to the rich and poor alike—Connecticut Western News. The Red Cross idea of putting a moth ball into the toe of each sock sent abroad to our soldiers stirs the crass Boston Globe to remark- that a LYCEUM THEATRE, New London THURSDAY, AFTERNOON and EVENING, AUG. 70 BERM d_her distinguished compnny Theatre Sarah Bernherdt, Faris JIRECTION W. F. CONNOR Mme. Bernhardt will be seen i thres characterizations MATINEE “PORTIA” in “THE MERCHANT OF*VENICE” “MARGUERITE GAUTIER” in “CAMILLE" NIGHT “JEAN de MAUDUIT” At Contralto ANNIE LOUISE DAVID Harpist JEAN DUVAL & CO. Gems of Art NEMESCIO RATIA Baritone Mail orders now. BREED TODAY AND TONIGHT ANITA STEWART SN The Message of the Mouse §~ HEARST PATHE NEWS BIG V. COMEDY. TOMING MONDAY and TUESDAY BRYANT WASHBURN Filling His Own Shoes T PEARLWHITE THE FATAL RING Majestic Roof Garden TODAY STEWART HOLMES —IN— The Broadway Sport TOM MIX in The Soft Tenderfoot Two Complete Shows, 7.30 and 9.00 "Auditorium_Matin plug of tobacco would be just as ef- fective—Meriden Journal. One of the issues in the coming Wa- terbury city election is likely to be improved trolley service. Almost any man running for office in any eity in Connecticut could win on that issue. and if he did something he could hold office for life.—Bridgeport Post. When one complains of reckless driving of automobiles many people toke the easy going view that 85 per cent. of motorists are cautious driv- ers and it is not worth while to take severe measures. It is probably true that not more than 5 per cent. could be called reckless. Yet five people can make things mighty uncomforable and perilous for the other 95.—Cheshi: Hamden Times. Better Rest "Em a While. Some people think that the congress ach performance the following artists will appea Seat sale Tuesday, Augu War Prices—Matince 50c to $1.50. should sit continuously during the war n “THE STAR OF THE NIGHT JEAN COC ALBERT DONNELLY Shadows FLORENCE HARDMAN Violin THE HELEN MOLLER Evening TODAY— m 4—sHOWS 1.3, 3.15, 6 and 8 P. MARCGUERITE CLARK in Her Greatost Stags Succ SNOW WHIT 7 Act Paramount Feat 5 Part Triangle Feat .REEL LIFE—Educatic NEXT WEEK Monday, Tuesday an D whe Plax that 11t tans of Soclety’s glas Tthe “play that every m end woman in the World | should see—thie roduced by THE [EYS_(Lois Weber and Pl 1ips Smalley), produccr “Where "Aro My and other film Don't fall to seo= F James m the Oppe gnards the samctity of American home—tho dr that fearlessly “poricars ¢ ‘will grip pellbound. nt cast VERSAL star 7 Massive Parts, also, 5-part Triangle play tak story that ran in the Sa ing Post. looking over som to assist the is not so sure.—M Dining room o the big hotels must ery day for the sake A MASTODONIC EXHIBITION of Hor: Cattle, Sheep, Swine, Pouftry and Pet Stock, Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Farm Machinery, Automobiles, Carriages, Merchants’ Displays, Musical Instruments, Flowers, Fancy Work, Pictures and Household Articles. WE WANT YOU TO COME AND SEE THE BEST FAIR EVER HELD IN THIS COUNTY. FOR THE BLUES 2.16 Pac Colt Ra PAUSE IN YOUR LIFE STRUGGLE THE BIG FAIR Monday, Sept. 3 LABOR DAY 2.22 Trot.....Purse $400 | 2.26 Trot. .. ..Purse $100 | $2.25 Pace. AT NORWICH, CONN. N SEPTEMBER 3rd, 4th, 5th FREE VAUDEVILLE VAN NORMAN BICYCLE HIGH DIVER HOLMEN BROTHERS COMEDY: ACROBATS LAMAZE & BLAZE HAY WAGON COMICS FOUR WILSONS PRETTY AND PICTURESQUE STUNTS ON THE WIRE THE ORIGINAL Albers Roller Skating Bear BALLOON ASCENSION and Triple Parachute Drop DAILY BAND CONCERTS Tuesday, Sept. 4 GRANGERS DAY ..Pur: .Purse $400 RICHTE 1ICCE ETTE THAN EVER Wednesday, Sept. 5 RED CROSS DAY $500 | Free for All ..Purse $300 12.18 Paco Motorcycle SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL. NEW LONDON COUNTY FAIR sy, THE BESTFAI FOOD AND DAIRY PRODUCTS Produ Finished Table Butter, Cheese, Bread, other cdibles. Ilustrations of saving Fruit Vegetables by Cannin Pickling, Butters, Relishes, producing Marma A MODERN FAIR 80 GET OUT YOUR At PLANE AND BRING THE W FAMILY. Pures $400 IDULL C Purse $500 Races YOU NEED THE RECREATION ENID BENNETT in The Mother Instinct The screen dramsa that safee Chas. Ray in Sudden dir