Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 16, 1909, Page 4

113 YEARS OLD. price, 12¢ & weeks G0e @ tered a: the Postorfice at Norwich, 28 5 xatter. Telephono Callas n Businass Office, 480. n Editorial Rooms, 35-8 lletin Job Office, 25-8. imantic Office itoom 2 Murray Bldg ‘elephone 210. The Circulation o The Bulletin. The Bulletin has the largest cir- culation of any paper in Easters Connecticut, and from three to four times larger than that of any In Norwich. It is delivered to over 8,000 of the 4,053 houses in Nor- wich, and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is dolivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danlelson to over 1,100, and in all of these places 't {s considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five post office districts and forty- one rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of the R. F. D.! routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION eseessvsnsese §A12 1801, average ... 1905, averag 1906, average. . 1907, average. T PR 908, average..... o January 9.... Iy LONGEVITY. With the many Bible examples of patriarchs over 100 vears of age it is singular that the Christian world upon the declaration of one man sheuld have accepted the dictum that threescors years and ten is the length of days for man end stick to it when it has for ages been proven to the contrary. Metchinkoff, after a life of study, declares that there is no such thing among men as a natural death, that men die from disease and accidents, and he belleves man capable by obedi- ence to the laws of his being of mak- ing the average life of man 100 years. A correspondent calls attention to the fact that one of the most re- rkable gatherings of modern times s held in New York's East Side district the past week, the event be- ing the celebration of a sixtieth wed- ding anniversary on the part®f a wife aged eighty-five and a husband aged ninety, Around the table were gathered one hundred and eighty-sev- en guests, whose total ages amounted 10 14,960 years, or more than seven times the length of the Christian era. Compared to the ages of a large num- ber of the guests those of the hus- band and wife seemed insignificant. The average number of years to the oredit of each person presemt was olghty, or just the four score allotted by the Bible as the extreme age of man, Five of those present, however. had passed the fivescore mark, while thirty-one were over ninety years of age. The oldest guest had just pass- ed his one hundred and fourteenth birthday, two had seen one hundred and seven years, and two others one hundred and six. No less than seven persons in this notable gathering were in their ninety-ninth year. A feature of the celebration was the rendering of a spirited Russian dance called the Kozotsky by a nimble youth aged one hundred and six. ‘Here were five guests over a cen- tury and seven more within a year of ft—twelve persons whose average age was 104 years, It was, indeed, what it was alleged to be, “the most remarkable gathering of modern times.” THE PROPER ORDER. New Haven women—some of them— have formed a club with a view to studying politics. That is beginning at the foundation of political activity OMen, generally, vote first and study politics afterwards, or not at all— Ansonia Sentinel. Politics 1s a wonderful study when pursued in a club or Y. M. C. A. class end very mueh resembles journalism as studled through college instruc- tion or a correspondence course. ery practical business has an open and @ hidden side, The first principles can e taught or learned in any old way, but the maze underlying politics—the art of manfpulating the wires Is a personal study under secret and sin- gular circumstances usually. A super- ficlal knowledge of politics is hardly worth the having—the political grip is the thing, and that comes by prac- tice only. It may be a good thing for the women to study politics, but they should be careful not to get in too deep. It is a different game from Bridge! The suggestion of a Minnesota con- gressman that the secret service be used to teach Washington children leap-frog on the city play grounds, was very dignified. Honesty may be the best policy, but the clerks who wish to live Iike Christ say it is impossible to do so under present-day commercial regulations and pretenses. Congress Is so absorbed with its dnterpretation of the president’s mes- sage that it is not likely to pass the 85,000 bills now before it, this ses- slon. ‘The shoemen have held a confer- ence and decided that the number must be put in plain figures upon wo- flen'- shoes, What an indignity this Congress 18 acting like an old-fash- doned school under the lead of a few recalcitrant boys who hated the teach- er because. he insisted on hfs rights. CONSIDERING THE ESSENTIALS. The first international aero congress was in session this in London and discussed t, science, law and business of ¥ing for three days. This s not sufficient to make even a beginning upon the problem of the navigation of the air which to a degree must prove t0 be an invasion of the rights of the property owners who are supposed to own down“to the center of the earth; and if the carth line is 4,000 miles deep, who shall say why the air line should not be 4,000 miles high. There is a probability that there will be a more careful regulation of the boundary lines and that sky own- ership will have to be qmore definitely | defined before there can be the free- dom in air navigation that there.is up- on the ocean. It is hinted that the right of way may be acquired by the use of the law of eminent domain, but even then there are likely to be damages to property and trespassing upon estates which will be more or less annpying. If the burglars should take to the aeroplane as a convenience for their business as they have to the automo- bile, cities will have to keep a fly- | ing ‘battalion of policemen to overtake them. The era of air navigation promises to make quite a change in the daily affairs of this littie world of ours. NEGLECTED DEPOSITS. It has been at last determined by | the supreme court of Massachusetts | that the law turning over the un- | claimed deposits in the savings banks | of that state after twenty years to | the state treasury is constitutional. A Boston paper commenting upon the decision by the supreme court says: “No injustice is done to the banks by this idisposition of neglected ac- cumulations, because they have not | been established to profit by the in- ’ndverlence of those with whom they | do business, while if no claimants ul- timately appear it is fitting that the people through state action should be the beneficiaries, The state, however, is responsible to the owners of such deposits should they appear. There has been no violation of contract, since all contracts expressed or implied do not contemplate such contingencies. “The returns of the savings banks for 1907 showed seventy-four banks {that had no accounts unclaimed for twenty years, while the remaining 115 had over 1,900 such accounts with de- posits of over half a million. The statute In controversy applies to un- claimed deposits of twenty years' standing and thesg will show even a smaller agg) egate. “In the solidity and safety of these institutions Massachusetts leads the country. There is nothing surer for the person of small accumlations than the savings banks. They could hardly be made more attractive to the class of people W] they serve unless it might be b#removing the tax which they now pay the state. PAPER FROM BAMBOO. Japan, as well as America, is stirred up over the scareity of raw material for the production of paper, and is moving to reinforce herself by the use of bamhoo. The work of the United States gov- ernment toward determining the amount of paper materials used and the source of future supply is being followed by the Japanese, according to an advice from United States Con- sul John H. Snodgrass at Kobe. The imminence of the danger is apparent from the fact that the Japanese au- thoritles have requested the paper mills department of the Mitsu Bishi Kalsha to take over some 7,500 acres of the bamboo forests of Formosa It is known that the bamboo tree has been the raw material from which the. Japanese have (recently made the larger portion of their paper prod- ucts; so it is thought that, by intro- ducing the improved methods of for- est cultivation and harvesting, this tract of woods will furnish yearly 10,- 000,000 hamboos, adapted for conver- sion into paper pulp, No matter whether the paper com- pany will establish its mills in For- mosa or ship the bamboo to Japan in a partly finished state, the devel- opment of this new source of raw material will be of high importance and may overcome the mnecessity of the Island emplre looking to foreign countries for the future supply of paper pulp. EDITORIAL NOTES. Happy thought for today: Keep the heart glad and the mind cannot go mad. . Common councils such as Pittsburg had, have to be addressed as “your hon- orable bady.” This week, as once before, the heav. fest snow was in the states south- west of Connecticut. Theodore means the gift of God, and congress cannot understand. It will in the course of time, President Roosevelt rode the army officer's objectlons to the new re- quirements out of sight, Denver has a three-weeks-old baby girl that can talk; but sh cannot match Carrie Nation, yet, Carrle Natlon' says “the devil is loose in Scotland.” He is not tied up on this side of the water. Indiana did not think John W. Kern of senatoria] size, and declined to give him a seat in the United States sen- ate. Tillman has thriven on personal at- tacks upon public men, but how ten- der he seems to be when he is touch- ed, Castro is a skyscraper comes to making international trou- but a boy's suit of clothing fits when it Outside the bucksaw, the snow shovel has as much hea'th in it to the square inch, as any everyday imple- ment. A granite capitol for the state of New Hampshire seems to be the prop- er thing, It ought to sit like a halo on a saint. Attorney look General Bonaparte did up from his work long enough to tell Senator Tillman that. he was mistaken. . The Virtuous Umpire. Virtuous baseball umpires! They not only spurned the bribe,but they are prepared to expose the names of the would-be bribers. It is a fine card for the incorruptibility of the game.— ‘Word comes from Florida that Rich- ard Croker has caught a shark: He knows the ways, of sharks so well that - this does not appear to be strange, Boston Herald. e There is no consciousness that is doing more for man today than the consciousness of the presence of God —a realization of the fact that he is omnipotent and omnipresent—to really feel that all life is one, that we are brothers and sisters to the birds and flowers—that the universe was plan- ned for good and that nothing can do us harm. It is so much more consist- ent than to profess to love God while we hold in contempt the least of his creatures. 'There are men and W men today who recognize God as an ever-present force and who have evi- dence of his power to heln and they are living in an atmosphere of love and good will—of peace and joy. They abide with Him and He abides with them. This is the condition which will “completely redeem the earth— which will establish the peace which abides. | never could see sense or style in putting a helmet upon a police officer and making him look like an African explorer, or feel like a helmeted knight of four centuries ago, An American policeman was never buiit to wear.a helmet and the helmet was never de- signed that would become a police- man. There is no character in a hel- met. Tt looks like what it is—a relic. The American policeman would look Letter in leather auto caps—in some- thing he can wear on his ear—som: thing which will give him the style of a cock-of-the-walk. A helmeted cop with a t. d. pipe in his mouth looks like anancient armored knizht with woolen mits on. It was adopted s0 that if a cltizen wrests from a policeman his club he could not crack his skull at a blow, This is the only defense there eter was or ever can be for its adoption, but it has saved no liy The helmet is what it is—an out of date scarecrow. Waiting for good luck and waiting for one’s ship to come in are both long and unprofitable waitings. I am inclined to think there may. be such a thing as good luck, but it is not the prize for idleness or vagabondage. I have noticed that good habits and good luck, good manners and good luck and good work and good luck ap- pear to be agreeable companions. Good luck does not like to be seen in shift- less company. The man who s wait- ing for his Juck to turn would be more of a man if he would go to work and turn it. In this world good things are quickly snatched up—good luck with the rest. It things do not 0 rlght, look within—not at the other fellow. The fault is our own ten times where ‘it is the other fellow’s once. Good luck is a dream until it has been materialized by industry. These good words from an apprecia- tive friend, A. J. C.. of Southbridge, . an inspiration. 1T may has he helped me. He writes: The wise man sald: “As a well of water, in a dry and thirsty land, where no’ water is, so Is good news from a far country.” As my pa- per comes to me, [ turn at once to “The Man Who Talks.” I have had another vear of blessed and helpful comrade- ship with him; and have learned many a helpful lesson and received many a good word, that has added light and directing influence to my life and way. There are sermons in those talks; ser- mons, if they were read by the whole world, would change many a down- ward path into one of right and useful- ness, They are laden with the old- : “Peace on earth, good Across the distance be- tween us I hold out my hand of fellow- ship. In its clasp are my best wishes ou. Let the good words go on, and the blessed spirit guide you, and ear be full of the best and good the things of our Heavenly Father.” This friend and brother has my most cor- dial thanks for his helpful words and kindly wishes. There are lots of people who think that they are living according to the Golden Rule, who when they do wrong speak of it in whispers, and when their neighbor happens to do anything wrong talic* right out loud about it. You have noticed folks of this sort, of course, for Sometimes I think speak with a little more ~2dom and voice about the othar fel- low’s meanness than 1 dare to about my own. When it comes to guarding ourselves, we are, too many of us; like sentrie leep at their post. When we st satisfied with ourselves our wea: »s are most apparent to others. We are all human and need to have a care. I do not know so much about skates as I used to. The old fancy, curl-toed skate, with its leather straps, has no standing with the club skates and hockey skates of today. The old skat ers could cut any figure on the ice, from a fizure 8§ to a oigeon’s wing, but the hockey skate is, not built for curves and flourishes—it is a straight runnered business affaly, and is design- ed for speed—just for hockey. It Is built along strenuous lines and Is not adapted to v work. An old skater on a pair of hockey skates for the st time feels like an eastern horseman on a western broncho. ‘He is very apt to run abunk or to sit down hard most unexpectedly. It is wonder- ful how the youngsters of today will race on them, and what fun they have in their play on the ice. William, | am not surprised to find that you are anxious to know how to monouncs “chauffeur” Policness re- quires that you should pronounce it the other fellow does unless you et a chance to shoo-fer first.” In my b d and polite moments I have calied it cho-fur and shuf-fer and sho- fure and shov-er and show-fer and chof- and chow-fer and chaw-fer and shif-fer and sho-fur and sho-foor and sho-feer. I have boxed the com- pass on that word once, sure: and m destined to box it backwards un- less something interferes. I tell you, William, some of these foreign words which get upon the American tongue have a great deal to answer for. Do the best you can, If you can lead off it is all right. but where you have to follow it is difficult. A writer the New York Times amily tree a figment of the and classifies it as horti- mind. He says that “a al tree would not be spreading outward over thy th and not inwawd to a sin- gle trunk. And yet people will claim to find in themselves resemblances of ¥ and mind to somebody who lived ago, and they will y __for aborescent on a bit of parchment ' There are people who ike real comfort in tracing the fam- ¥ line buck to some noble individual. 1 suppose The-Man-Who-Talks start- ed h Adam, his forbears were in th k with Noah—too good to be wiped out—and came over in the May. flower, It more on the Mayflower, but necessity takes 1o note of the fact that the good ship has been fearfully overload- ed. T have stood on Plymouth Rock, myself, and know that the Pilgrims must have landed on it one at a time, and not lingered—in fact, they never realized what a rock it was going to As to the family tree— it is easier imagined than described. acty fancies dr or Stiff j It has been well said, “Once we thought work was a curse; then it came to us that it was a necessary evil; and yesterday it dawned upon us that it is a blessed ' privilege." This shows how truth forces its way Good Definition. A born diplomat is a person who can always appear interested in other people’s troubles.—Biddeford Journal. through error. We know today that work is development—that work fs progress—that work is attainment. Man is glorified by his work as truly as God is by His. The pfice of physical {7 THE WA WH TALS. seems a pity to load qne.l t WHAT WE TOOK. ‘T'¢ like to see 'em all closed up,” sald the oldest resident. “You can't never make me believe that drinkin's pecessary. It ain’t. The more a man drinks the more he wants to drink, an’ the less he wants to work an’ take care of his fam'ly.” " - “What would the workin' man do with himself evenin's if he didn’t have, the saloon to go to ?” asked the cu tomer who was buying herring. _ ‘He'd go home an’ stay with his fam’- iy, like he ovght to,” said the oldest resident, severely. “Drinkin’ ain’t nec- £ry. A'man’s better without it. Where do’ you s'pose I ‘went evenin’s when there wasn't a saloon within a mile of here? That's what I'm tellin’ you. I lived here when there wasn't a saloon nearer than Dutch Jake's, an’ that was ‘where Grenshaw avenue Is now—Gren- shaw an’ Pepperell. If that ain't over a mile I miss my guess. If I wanted to go to a saloon I had to wolk over there. Well, I want to tell you I didn"t ghen want it bad enough to walk so ar.” “I guess you kept a dimmyjohn in the house, didn't you, Mr. Wickers?" asked the corner grocer. “I did,” said the oidest resident, defi- antly. “I ain’t goin’ to lie about it. I kep’ a dimmyjohn, an’ if a friend come to see me I got her out. It was good stuff, too; not like the whiskey they sell nowadays. But I wouldn't do that now—not even to be sosherble an’ neighborly. I'm sorry I dove it. Td have been better off if I hadn't.” “Well, T can take a duink or I can let it alone,” .said the herring customer. “If 1 teel 1 need it—4 You don’t never need it,” said the oldest resident. “That's ali a notion. You're a young man compared to me. an’ if anybody ever needed it I would. My blood's gettin' sorter thin an’ I feel the cold more't you do, but I don't strength and beauty is work; the price of every,achievement is work; the price of freedom is_work; the price of mastery is work_ The song of the ani- verse {5 work. Work is life—inertia is death. The vital forces are always working forces, All that is and all that Is to be is the fruit of work. We are of the work which has made life what it is—we are in the work which is to make life better. { SUNDAY MORNNG TAK The Question Why. In one of his sweetest poems, James Russell Lowell describes his _pitiable loneliness when a.darling child was taken from him. One of the verses in which he voices his dissatisfaction with the ordinary explanation of trouble is this: “Your logic, my friends, is perfect Your moral most drearily true; But since the earth clashed on her cof- fin, I keep hearing that and not you.” One has some such fee'lng as this when he reads many of the sermons and articles that have sought to in- terpret the meaning of the terrible ca- tastrophe in Slctly. Most of thém leave you still asking why, why, why? In a group of distinguished scholars a conversation once turned upon this question of mystery connected with the divine rulership of the world. One man after another sought to contribute what light he could, until it became the turn of the oldest and most revered among them, the president of a leading theologival seminary, to speak. All he said was, “Gentlemen, we might as well confess that God does a grtat many things that man could not consc entiously do.” He meant that if a n were in charge of the universe, and all power committed to him, he would not permit ahe things to happen that are allowed to happen every day. For mystery is ar every day affa The terrible upheaval on the other side of the sea is simply an exhibition on a tremendously large scale of what is happening on a small scale almost every moment somewhere. Indeed, if we can endure and rise above the mysterious dispensations that touch our own lives from time to time, we can probably summon up enough’ philoso- phy to meet the great public calafnitles concerning which the newspapers scat- ter particulars far and wide. We do not put the question “why,” for the first time when we read of devastating con- flagrations, of engulfing whirlwinds and merciless earthquakes. We put the question, “W’ whenever wa hear of a falr, innocent, promising child taken suddenly or by the slow working of disease, from lifé; or whenever a young man just through his stadies, on the verge of great usefulness in the world goes insane; ‘or whenever the fath and wage earner In a large family de- pendent upon him suffers a maiming accident; or whenever sickness or death strikes as it seems to love to do, a shining mark; or whenever tragedy famillar_and beloved clrcle of dear ones. We are saving why nearly all the time, if we have any degree of sensitiveness to the sorrows, the woe and despair of our fellow men; and if we can give an answer to the ques- "'Im in one case, we probably can in all. But the fact is thers Is no answer— at least none that solves entirely the mystery or satisfies both the demands of the reason and the Instinets of the heart. Better for usis It to admit that we are in a world for whose beha- vior we are not expected to give a to- tally satisfactory accounting. We did id not make the world and there are limlt sto our responsibility for It; and yet we may be sure of at least three ihings: First, that it Is, on _the whole, a good world. Otherwise the number of suicides would exceed the number of those who dies a natural death. The way In which men cling to life, even though they know little but poverty ang trouble, s proof tha the sreat ma- jority of mankind regard life as a boon. Another certainty is that human sym- pathy, the best thing that passes be- twen man and man, would never ex- t were it not for trouble and sorrow. The spectacle of the warships of var ous nations hurrying toward the Ttal- jan waters on errands of rellef has teen one of the relleving sizhts in connection with the awful earthquake. Such a,tragedy may do more than in- ternatidnal peace conventions to bring about friendly understandings _that shall make armed confilet forever im- possible. o, too, when trouble comes to an indiyidual. how quickly others signify their appreciation of his suf- fering. and their desire to do their lit- tle best toward making it bearable. One more thing s certain—trouble works out beneficent resuits In the field of character, provided one does mnot rebel and complajn. The world is ed- ucated and disciplined by world trage- dies. The individual is purified and en- nobled by bitter experiences. So long as the mest perfect character that has ever walked this earth was called upon to endure the tragedy of the cross, not only at the ead of his life, but all the way through, we who were cast in a lesser world, who own ourselves far from perfection, ought not to comvlain when the knife cuts Into our flesh or the scourge is 11id upon our backi The reason can give no answer to the question, “why,” but fafth, Instead of keing discomMrted and vanguished, is braced and made more robust by every encounter with mystery, for falth takes Into account two gréat factors— God and the future life. And because it rests profoundly on these realities, stalls in one form or another into a | make that 75 excuse. There's lots 4 times I get up in the mornin’ feelin’ out o’ sorts, but I know whiskey ain’t what I need. I've got seg e enough to know that it would do me harm if I took it, an’ what's more, 'd mebbe get in the habit o' takin' it. No, sir, I ain't took a drink o' whiskey in fifteen years. Yau couldn’t hire me to.” “What do_you take, Mr. Wicker?” asked the corner grocer. “T take a little tonic If T ain't'feelin’ right up to the mark,” replied the old- est resfdant. “Jest a little torie. That's all any man needs to_take. Skunk Root an’ Huckleberry Bitters, that's ;what it is. If you want a good fam- ily med'cine that's the kind you want to get. There aim’t nothin’ ‘but veg. ertubble in it—guaranteed. It wouldn't hurt you if you was to take a whole bottle of it at one clip. I most gen'ral- ly take a wineglass of it when I get up in the mornin’ an’ another at noon an’ one afore I go to bed. It keeps the germs Killed off. Then if I'm feelin’ a little out o' sorts, as I say, I take a dose every fifteen minutes or half-hour until I'm relieved. I want to tell you there's a tonic that takes right hold. It puts new life into a man, sets the blood to circulatin’ the way it ought an’ makes you feel cheerful an’ happy an’ contented with things an’ folks. “A good deal stm’lar to whiskey, suggested the corner grocer. - “You give me a wine glass o' whis- key when T get up in the mornin’ an’ one at noon an’ another at night an’ a dose every fifteen | minutes ’tween times an’ I bet I wolldn't want any more than that” said the man who had been buying herrings. “What do you want to mix skunk root and huek- leberries in with it for, though? That's what gets m “You fellers think you're all-fired smart.” said the oldest resident.—Chi- cago News. faith sings ou, even thought the storm may roar without. THE PARSON. WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. A Satisfactory Appointment. While it was expecte Lilley would Waller of ta pected that Governor me Judge Charles B. common pleas court to succeed himself, the nomination is none the less gratifying to the friends of the judgs and the mambers of the New London county bar. As a judge, Mr. Waller has been industrious, dignified, impartial. He has also developea a judicial temperament, all of which has Taised him in_esteem in this county and won him the respect of the people. As one good term deserves another, his retention ov the common pleas bench is most satisfactory hoth t prac- ticing lawyers and to th New London Telegraph. Nobody Knows Why. Mr., Banks, having publicly declared that his committee appointments would g Influenced in no wise by the votes of members in the senatorial caucus, it is piain that his refusal to | reappoint Mr. Hayes to the judiciary committee s founded on some rea- son other than M port of Congressman Hill. Neither can it be attributed to Mr. Hayes' lack of experience, since he served on the committes quring the last session: nor to incapacity, since he proved himself a very valuable member. Any idea that Mr. Banks desired to retain Mr. Hayes services but that Mr, Hayes refused is dissipatsd because of Mr. Hayes’ semli- public announcement of his desires. Nobody knows why Mr. Hayes wasn't appointed except Mr. Panks, and Mr. | Banks won't_tell. The one certain | thing is that Mr. Hayes' vote for Mr, | Hill had nothing to do with it. In | pite of the disappointment Mr. Hayas’ | y and ambition are A Level Headed Representative. Possibly there are more “brilli: men in congress than E. Stevens Henry, but if there are any who to a | greater Jegree possess that excellent | quality known as level-headedness, which he is noted, their name: escaped us. Mr. Henry certainly met expectations when he toox his place among those dignified members who voted against censuring the president. —Bristol Press. A Straight Charge. By way of paying its respects to Mr. Roosevelt, no opportunity for which it omits now, the New York Sun prints the 1908 majorities of the republican states in comparison with the majori- ties of 1904, to show how serious on Mr. Taft was the effect of the Roos velt handicap. Finding it necessary to explajn an exception in Connecti- cut, The Sun says: “Connecticut gave its increased Taft vote as a re- buke to Lilley and his machinists.” The powers which did the to de- | sky—bira | att appeal to the Well-Informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value, but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweetens and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to increase {he quantity from time to time. It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objection- able substances. To get its beneficial effects always purchase the genuine— manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug- gists. crease the vote of Mr, Lilley weren't working chiefly for an Increased Taft vote, and nobody knows that fact bet- ter than the New York Sun—The Register. A High Compliment. Those disturbed members of con- gress who are so exercised about Gov ernor Lilley's technical retention of his seat In that body for a few weeks are paying Connecticut a high compliment in insisting that the services of our congressman-at-large are worth $500 per day. If the vacancy existed it would cost about $30,000 to fill it and the term would expireé in March. Con- necticut can use the money to better advantage.—Bristol Press, How Much Better, Samuel Gompers told the executive council of the American Federation of Labor on Monday that the legal ex- penses incurred by him and his asso- cates in the Buck Stove and Range Loycott would amount to $19,000 or more, and that assessments on the members of the federation would have to be levied in order to meet these expenses. How much better it would have been—how much less costly—if Mr. Gompers had obeyed the law as other people do—Hartford Courant. Resentful of Rebuke, No man is fit to be a reformer or leader of men who cannot glve and take plain speech on the subject near- to his heart without losing his temper. BRANDEGEE'S ELECTION. A Brilliant Victory. ory of the senator was the ant because of the tremen- ght put up by Mr. Hill—New Haven Leader. Consolitary. There is some conso'ation for Mr. Hill in the republican legislative cau- cus. Mr. Brardegee may have wreste« the laurels from him, but he “won" The vic more bril three times consecutively, just the same. He obtained 111 ballots.—New Haven Register. Making Birds Useful. Pigeons take photographs in Ger- Th v take snap-shots from the -eye views, literally. Dr. Neubronner, who Irvented the trick, ches liftle automatic cameras to the pigeons’ wings. His success is com- plete. Out go the birds, and home they come with the negatives. A pigeon will take eight or ten pictures during a flight. The inventor has laid his re- ports before the Prussian minister of war, and feathered photographers are now in service at the military pigeon coop at Spandau. As pigeons fly high and cannot be brought down by the rifle, tha value of the Invention as a means of reconnoitring will be readlly appreciated. Besides, the homing pl eon is bound to come back. Naturally, the negatives h: to be developed be- fore they tell their story, but Dr. Neu- bronner has looked out for that. He has contrived developing rooms on wheels man An Abundance of Law. In the congress of the United States and the state legislatures two years ago r 25000 bills were passed. That exceeds by something lfke 4,000 the number of measures which went h the British parliament in the entire nineteenth century. A writer in the Atlantic reaches the conclusion that the figures show clearly why we have s0 many more fool laws than the Britons, why we have so many laws which are never enforced and why we never have time to consider much prop_ er and necessary legislation. Beware of “J Cheap Unserupulous dealers, mindful only of profit and caring notning for the health of their patrons, are offering for sale low-grade, impure whiskey, which they tell you is as ““good as Duffy's."” Imitations. Suhstitutes and ust As Good As.” Itisa cheap concoction and fraud, intended to deceive the people. Of course, wheg a remedy has been e public o long, has been prescribed and used by the best doctors and in all the prominent hospitals, and has carried the blessing of health into so many thousands of homes as Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey has, imitations are bound to arise. But they can imitate the bottle and label only—no ome can imitate the contents. Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey is an absolutely ure distillation of malted grain; great care Ecing used to have every kemel thoroughly malted, thus destroying the germ and producing a predigested liquid food in the form of a malt essence, which is the most effective tonic stim- ulant and invigorator known to science; softened by warmth and _moisture, its palatability and freedom from injurious substances render it so that it can be retained by the most sensitive stomach. Any firm that will sell imitation or substitution Sood; will seli impure ggods. The firm that is shonest in one thing would not hesitate to be dishonest in another. Whenever you see imita- tion and substitution goods offered for sale by a firm, beware of anything and everything put up by that firm. You endanger your own life and the lives of your family and frienus by dealing with them. BEWARE OF FRAUDS! Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey is sold in sealed bottles only—never in bulk. A fac-simile of the genuine bottle is printed here so that you may easily recognize it. It is our own patented bottle—round, amber colored and with the name ‘‘Duffy Malt Whiskey Company”® blown in the glass. The trade- mark—the Old Chemist’s Head—is on the label, and over the cork there is an engraved paper seal. Be certain this seal is not broken. It is the only whiskey recognized by doctors everywhere as a family medicine. At all drug- gists, grocers, dealers, or direct. $1 a bottle. Write Consulting Physician, Duffy Malt ‘Whiskey Co., Rochester, N. Y., for free illus- trated medical bocklet and free advice. 3 Days Starting MONDAY, January 18th TAYLOR STOCK ©O. .From Farm to Factory Carmen Camille .From Farm to Factory Tuesday . Wednesday .... Lost to the World 6—VAUDEVILLE ACTS—6 Pric 10c, 20¢ and 30c. Matinees 10c and 20c. Ladles' tickets Monday night, 15c. Qars 10 all points after the perform- ance: janidd Roderick Thea're SILVA & BROWNELL, Lessees, will open Saturday, January 16th, 1909, with HIGH CLASS MOVING PIC- TURES and ILLUSTRATED SONGS. Change of programme every Mon- day and Thursday. Continuous performance from 2 to 5and 7 to 10 p. m. ADMISSION 5 CENTS. 327 Main Street, opp. Post Office. janlsd .,The Avenger ! THIS WEE K—EXCEPT TUESDAY. The Fenberg Stock Co. PRESENTING LATEST NEW YOKK BUCCESSES. \ This Afternoon The Lite of an Aclress ! Tonight TheHawkandtheDove Seats now on sale. 4 Cars to all points after the performs« ance. CADILLAG HALL 32 Market St, opp. Sheedy's Theatre, DANCING PARTIES Every Wednesday and Saturday Evenings. Finest Dance Orchestra. Latest Musle. Unequalled Spring Floor. DANCING SCHOOL Stage and Fancy Dancing a Specialty. Private Lessons Day or Evening. | oct7d J. J. KENNEDY, Instructor, B SHEEDY’S VAUDEVILLE and HOVING PICTURES | Pictured Mel Ast EDGAR FOREMAN & CO. 3 Shows Daily Wesk of 215, 7, 845 January THE HIGH CLASS G COMEDY PLAYLET, “A DUEL OF HEARTS” MAE CROCKER, JUNE ROSSMORE, odies. Singing Comedienne. RENO AND SMITH, onishing Acrobatic Duo. Ladles and Chi ADMISSION Afterncons 5c No Higher 10 PICTUR] CHANGED VERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. Idren $15.00 buys a 17 Jewel Hamilton movement in a 20-year gold filled case. $10.00 buys a Waltham movement n a 20-year gold filled case. FERGUSON & CHARBOMAEAD, Franklin Square. dec30a MABREY Caterer and Restaurant, 57 Broadway. no=27d Dr. Louise Franklin Miner, NERVE SPECIALIST Room 23 Shannon Buildin, Office hours 10 to 8. Tel 660. Malt Extract STERILIZED 5c a botlle $1.50 a dozen DUNN’S PHARMACY, 50 Main Street. Janéd DO IT NCeW te the best thing any property owner can do. Don't wait until cold, bad weather comes before making neces- sary fall repairs. If you have new work begin today by getting our fig- ures. STETSON & YCUNG, augdld Central Whart. New ng' Gifts New Year Post Cards, Calendars, Albums, Games, Jokes, Magic Lan- terns, Slides, Films, Steam and Me- chanical Engin Drums, Rifles, Wagons, Dolls, Hdads, Wigs and Clothing for Dolls, Stuffed Animals, Perfumes, Toilot Articles, Baskets, Eto, MRS, EDWIN FAY, Franklin Squara dec28a M. A. BARBER, Machinist 25 Chestnut St. LULLETIN POINTERS NEWMARKET HOTEL, 715 Boswell Ave. First-class wires, liquors and clgats. Meals and Welch rarebit servec to order. John Tuckle, Prop. Tel 43-& HAM AND CHEESE. The best place in Norwich to buy Pressed or Minced Ham or any kind of Cheeso is at Mrs, Thumm's, 73 Franklin Street. Others nave learned to buy of no ore else. A trial order will make you & permanent customer, ] Instruction for Violin, Cello, Mandolin | EUGENE WALLNER | Director of the Academy Musical Club, Prepare puplls for admission, 274 Washington Strest. jan16a JAMES F. DREW Fiano Tuning and Repairing Best Work Only. "Phone 422-8. 18 Perkins Aves ept23d Maher’s School For Danciag, T. A. AND B. HALL, 62 Broadway, Norwich, Conn. Dancing every Friday and Saturday evenings. Baker's orchestra. Private lessons in Waltz, Two-step, Ete., at any hour. Classes now open, Telgphone 471-5. oct20d EXPERT TUNING ves and_improves the plano. work guarantoed. A. W. JARVIS, No. 15 Clairemont Ave., Norwich, Conn. <radunte Niles Bryant School of Plzma Tuning, Battle Creek, Mi Drop a postal and I'll cal decisd ‘Phone 518-5. An F. C. GEER TUNER 122 Prospect St., Tel. $83-5. Norwich, Ct Cut Prices on Parlor Stoves and Ranges. The balance of the stock will be sold at reduced prices. Buy now and | save money. PARLOR STOVES $25.00 Stoves reduced to reduced to reduced to reduced to reduced to 76 Stoves reduced to \ WOOD HEATERS $5.60 Heaters reduced to .... .50 $4.00 Heaters reduced to . .75 3$3.50 Heaters reduced to 2.75 Heaters reduced to 1.78 M. HOURIGAN, 62-66 Main Street. Telephone 123-4. sani2d AMERICAN HOUSE Fuarrell & Sanderson, Props. SPECIAL RATES to Theatre Troupes, Traveling Men, ete. Livery comnected. SHETUCKET STREET. sept2d Is There Anything the Matter | With Your Feet ? If 80, you wouid do well to come and sec me. *In connection with this work 1 also do manicuring, shampooing and massage treatment. Cail und see me. MRS. UNDERWOOD, 51 Broadway. A Fine Assortment of ++«. MILLINERY at ilttle prices. MRS. G. P. STANTON, decta oct1d FOR THE NEW YEAR Standard Diaries, National Diaries, Almanacs, Calendars, Daily Memo. Calendar Pads, Fine line of New Year Cards. CRANSTON & Co. dec2sdaw WHEN u want to put your - ness hefora the Dublic. there ia no. 0~ dium better than thre h the IL ing columns o¢ The Bulletis 0"