Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 2, 1909, Page 4

113 YEARS OLD. nrice, 12¢ & week; S0s o the Postornce at Norwieh &8 seccnd-c..es 3 atter. The Circulation of fhe Bulletin. The Bulletin has the largest cir- culation of any paper in Bastern Connecticut, and from three to four tmes larger than that of any In Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,05% houses in Nor- in Putnam and Danlelson to over 1,100, ana in all of these places is considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- fine towns, one hundred and sixty five post office districts and forty- one rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is soid in every town and on all of the R. . D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, average 1906, average : i L T e Y THE USEFUL SCHOOL-YAR! The school-yard which does not spell a use beyond play 1s not what it should | vote for bread. e in thib twentieth century. This is the age when special play- all cities above 10,000 population for the chil- nds are provided in dren as & means of physically an morally developing them and making of them better citizens, and, If needs ibe, better soldiers. There are many cities in which the school-yards might be devoted to suc! uses as these playgrounds are an prove to be very beneficlal to the ris- ing generation. Newark, N. J, is now agitating th making of the school-yards as attrac- for apectal training in athletics and sports. The Newark News says upon the rec- School tive fresh-alr centers—as places ommendations of the Public Athletic association: “All of these recommendations ca be carried out with but little extr: expense and with much benefit to th puplls, There is a growing deman that the public schools be used more extensively than in the past as soclal The plan outlined for the center: improvement of school-yards woul be & move in that direction, in addi- tion to making the schools attract! to the pupils aend ‘. physically. ¢he schoolhouses In large citle throughout the country will not b closed up tightly after school hours, but will be opened for the benefit of the public when not in use for strictly educational purposes. That fs a mos desirable object to attain.” This is & good subject for consid eration, here in Connecticut, ne Keeping abreast of the times Is a real |y, Connecticut habit. WHERE DID LINCOLN STAND? The attempt to make the people be lieve thatiLincoln was in anv senss liquor dealer is not much worse than the endeavor to show that he was a prohibitionist in the strict s nse of th term. On the liquor question Abra- ham Lincoln went to no extremes—he was sane and safe. There are two notable utterances in bis public career which leave no doub ®s to his personal convictions on th subject or his opinion of the traffic. “For thirty vears,” said Lincoln, bave been a temperance man, and am too old to changs ‘“The reasonable man' said he, on another occasion, “has long =inc agreed that intemperance s one of t} greatest, it not the greatest evils among mankind.” - There is nothing uncertain’ abou these utterances. He was conserva tive and rational and taking this dec lJaration of his “Some things are legally right that are not morally right” | is easy to conclude where he would — stand upon this or any other issue. Slavery was & legally right system and & morally wrong system to him, and he had resolved In his great heart to make it legally wrong as well as morally, should he ever have the pow. er, long before he had any reputation | it. es a putlic man. ‘Whers Abraham Lincoln would stand on this question today Is clear enough to those who measure his character by The man who his mature utterances, recognized “intemperance as one of the greatest evils that evil. Abraham Lincoln was a true man and he alwsys stood true to every hon est and hoporable cause. He never could be a fanatic—he never was less than an earnest, sincere man. The Book News Monthly, printed at| The citizen whn knows most about Philadelphia, has an “Tk Marvel” num. ber for February which will Interes all admirers of his works resident in There are two “Tk Marvel ~—Fireside Philosopher, hy James Mel- | the wvin Lee; and “Oliver Goldsmith’s Kin- of “Ik Both eastern Connecticut. articles—both {llustrated: An Impression . Marvel,” by W. de Wagstaffe. are beautiful tributes to the scholar. ship and genlus of Donald Gran: Oditchell, A loose portrait of “Tk Mar wvel” goes with this number. The man in the surf of a Florida beach does not envy the man in a | Wisconsin enowbank. - | Happy thought for today: it looks the same Look a it is dolivered to over 900 nounx,} in bettering them The time {s coming when among mankind” would not be found alding or abetting AN ITALIAN TRIBUTE TO The Ttallan people are as emotlonal as they are mercurial, and when an opportunity offers they do not hesitate to express their tender feelings for those who have suffered. The people of Connecticut are all interested in the a | New York Sun's compliments to the itallans of that city for their manifes- tation of feeling on the arrival of the remains of Consul Cheney and his wife from Messina. The Sun said: “Yesterday's procession of Italians was one of the strangest and one of the most impressive in its significance that this town has seen. In honor of Consul Cheney of Messina it was selzed zpon by the Itallan population as an opportunity to show their gratitude and that of all Itallans for. the sym- pathy and aid given by Americans to “You seen the fam'ly, didn't you?" asked the master of the re- turning traveler with the worn cap, who had arrived on the 11 o'clock {relsht after a visit to a neighboring own. v seen him,” replied the returning traveler. “There ain’'t no tam'ly. On'y a aunt of hers that's visitin’ ‘e told ‘em to send the buggy, didn’t you? If you dicn't ar’ Henry wants anythin’ in"town he's jest as apt not to hitch up to the waggin', an’ I'm that crippled with the rheumatiz I couldn’t stand it for to ride, not even on a spring seat, thelr Sicilian and Calabrian brethren. | less it was in the buggy. If he comes It was also, no doubt, a plous and|With the waggin I'll have to stay over mournful remembrance of all the dead, | 18! ‘lmfl‘:‘/;‘l:nil\:l';';“‘:;;yfi?xey»m e iitten like Mr. Cheney and his wife, | o 101, B SO DOREY e B aster. the immitigable disaster, and of | “5om't vou worry about that. I mean the suffering and the ruin of 80 many | her hushand. They say he's a fine of the survivors, It was a simple. | man. and therefore the more touching, com- You don’t meed to bleve all you memoration. Many of these figures, | hear” said the veteran. “He ain’t no unfamiliar even In a city so Itallan, :gyv,xnh;l&!g‘:v;:}"mm b o ol emed to come from the Calabrian i 5 4 4 mntains, from the Sicilian back- TSRV s e gt (18 (61L my D | country, v, perhaps most of the| There's lots of fellers ‘don’t run archers, must have glven up a day's [ much to legs,” said the bagzagemaster. pay to take part In this testimonlal|[ “That's true enough, an’ I don't know of'grief and of thanks. It was sol- at amounts to shucks,” said emn, dignified, evid v eteran. “It etands to reason. If a mn, dignifled, evidently free from the | the vetoran. v FTORCE 10 TCAols legs theatrical, wholly sincere. It not only 5 ¥ V1l grow the way they oughter. It §| honorea worthily the dead, but it | }o"lougs an’ Inya ground they'll be sorter | 3| showed that erous, grateful and| gpindlin’. You take notice an’ sea if I| miable spirit which Is characteristi- cally Ttalia ain't right. If I had a sirl an’ a feller | with legs like that came around the house I'd take my shotgun to him. Yes, i HASN'T REACHED HIS DOTAGE. I had a hired man one time, one them thin-shanked. broomhandle The Commoner, Colonel Bryan's|f.i.e an'— paper, fa stlll printing readable opin- | ““phiv say jons from democrats about their party | said the bageagemaster. “You say | vhich are as amusing as anything | yourself that they keen a hired girl an® Mark Twain has ever Issued. her mother says she's zot a half dozen Here 1s an old resident of Indiana | £00d drestes hangln, up in her closct who has a clear head at 5, although | niiin' ne more. his jmagination is rather foggy, for he nows what the democratic party is, nd answers the question which has been so earnestly asked by many men. | qane, they make @ positive date. M. M. Warmoth, age elghty-five i ears, of Georgetown, Ind, writes:| 4 pennsylvania woman sneezed two The majority of people in this nation | o¢ her ribs out of place and a Texa are now very poor and have to do| iy had three of hers broken by a days' work for bread, The laborers| woman who hugged her. Such is life! are mostly under the control of the — moneyed interests and the bread scare| The Oklahoma woman who can cook is effective, The democratic party now | corn in 101 ways is asked to find some is a pretense; it is a beggar in poli- | way in which the conmrumer can look tics: it has no force in business, What | gentee; while gnawing it off the cob. good for Gompers to advise poor peo- e S ple to vote for Bryan when they must| gepator Tillman glves notice to The | The man who is hun- | xews and Courier of Charleston, S.| gry knows what to do. The democratic that he has not reformed, and the defeat is only natural. The party has is disappointed, but mot sur- no ability in business as well as no vote for a majority. This is a gov- d | ernment by force. For myself, T will say I voted for Bryan because he is a good and able man and deserved the presidency. If I was an able man llke not dabble with demo- he's pretty well fixed, comes to the ending of all things mun- Ne prised, Is it not a real comfort to think that the board of relief is sitting over i hall for a whole month to see Bryan I woul h | cratic pol d | Thig is a capable citizen, for he is able to tell in three lines what the democratic party I8, and as a demo- e | cratic definition it ought to be very generally accepted. THE GREATEST QUESTION. The greatest question of the day is “How to llve?" - This is the question that presents itselt to the minister in the persons of all fn the congrega- tion before him. It is not surprising therefore that the former assurance that God does all things wel] does not The legisiators of Oregon venture to limit the ler gth of hatpins used by the women. 1f the women there ex- ceeded the mea In number, legislators would be more cautious. WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. What is Needed. The corrupt’ practices act seeks to prevent the use of money {llcgitimate- Iy in elections, but it doesn't go far enough. There ought to be some meth- od devised by which it would not be suffice. The minister is required to|necessary for a candidate to expend so show his faith by his works and this is |much. It is legislation along that line done splendidly by hosts of ministers | that is needed far more than the re- of all denominations. The specific work | Pral of the law, the only 7b1(‘ct of of healing is now being laid upon the (Which Is to Insure clean fFEovgus. minister's heart and he seems ready | " @ o chisin for the burden, The great progress made by the application of faith to the i One has but to read his paper ever: lessening of the ilis of the mind and |, O Be%, PUL 19, 1end S PRRC SR the anguish and uncertainty, the doubt | fhe pumber of burglaries and other and despair of the soul is_indicative | crimes 3 are being committed, are of the greater pressure of modern | getiing to be unpleasantly numerous. times, Just what will He the outcome | There is good reason to feel assured t|of the newer forms of social. service|O0f the ability and integrity of the po- ho one may predict. Thers fs muech |lice department. but still, even making n a e a a Burglaries Unpleasantly Numerous. . - | chaft where there is wheat, but the |allowance for the increased amaount of winnowing process has always l1ald |cure to come with severe weather,there iins of truth, At present |is reason for extreme caution—New | it seems fitting to lay on the hearts of ers in this sphere, ministerial and lay, the words of Jesus to those who - | came to Him and said, “Lord, we found a | one casting out devils in Thy name and Haven Journal-Courler. Parts of Speech. In the school days, long ago, when Buglish grammar regarded rath- e —— menu, he ordered it. |to the fact that New Haven still keeps | New Haven could do wdl to follow ia life lost through delay—Waterbury |—Denver Republican. Dr, Newman S: will be one of the speakers - at theological seminary’s midwinter conference this year, and one of the topics discussed 'mm be “Psychology and Therapeut- o hat be.” ‘Don'tmw.fl one o these yer otter- | Mrs. Margaret Van Dwer of Menio, mobilis?” asked the astter. | Ia., with a claim to an unbroken res- “Old man East told me he did." dence in Iowa for 71 vears, is up to “Yes, he's got one, all right,” admit- | date entitled to the rank as the old- ted the returned traveler. “That's “t: est lowa resident. save his he added, sarcastically. ot iy o ‘provider an’ treais| TLottle Puldwin, a colored women | bapllla from whercs the hair,gets his wite right 1 don't see as there’s any | of Asboro, N, C., presented herself for | life. kick comin'/from anybody,” said the|a license for her fourth marriage. bagwagemaster. “He ain't one o the She stated that she professed relig- Xind that jest got their money from |ion seven years before the civil war, their daddies, He made all his, an’ if| and at the close of the war had niné he done that there must be somethin’ | children. to_him.” “Pipe stems, T call 'em,” said the old man, shaking his head. “Here, look at my legs. I'm clost on to 70 an’ Iain't got the underpinnin’ I had thirty years ago, but I can beat him all to sticks. You wouldn’t belive that, mebbe.: It" o, though. 1 wanted to tell him he'd better turn them calves out to grass. because it goes to the root of Herplcide stands the “test of use.” and free from ofl or grease. King Alfonso of Spaln has signed a decren conferring upon _Queen Helena of Italy the Grand Cross of the Order of Beneficence, In recog- nitlon of her labors In behalf of the survivors of the Itallan earthquake. A smilar honor was recently confer- Ted upon the queen by the emperor it, Mich. TWO SIZES-60c, anp $1.00 Still Unreformed. No, sir, If a girl o' mine picked on ajof Austria. There aré indications that the first feller like that I'd take my shotgun to of the year and its good resolutions him if he didn’t keep away from her.”| Rev. Charles A. Richmond, pastor |did not bring much steadiness to the T Jon't see why,” argued the bag- gagemaster. “Old man Bast savs it there's any mortal livin' thing that she swants all she’s got to do IS to ask him for it an’ he'll get it for her.” “If you seen him a-comin’ down this here platform right now you'd wonder what it was held him up” said the veteran. ‘It he shouldered a half a sack o pertaaters they'd snap off ith the weight o’ them. I'd bet on it. “T don’t see why vou are all the time harpin’ on the man's legs” sald the baggagemaster. “ blleve in legs” sald the old man, firmly. “Our folks, every last one o them, has always had good legs. Look | at Henry’s legs. I had jest as good a pair when 1 was his age. You ain't s0 bad off yourself, if they didn’t bow out. Tt's a pity you an’ Henry an’ the rest o' your folks don’t run a littl more to head an’ a little less to legs, sald the News. of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian church pf Albany has been elected president of Union college, Schenec- tady. The college has been without a president since 1907, when Dr. A. V. V. Richmond resigned, to accept a call as pastor of the First Presbyier- ian church of Buffalo. |no._ doubt, —Salt Lake Tribune. Champion of His Town. A Maine man has wrliten moreover, that L. Wiibur Messer, general secretary | Washington Herald. of the Young Men's Christian asso- ciation of Chicago, has started a| project for the erection near the heart of the city of a hotel to ac- commodate a thousand men, to be run | on the plan of the Mills hotel in New York city. He thinks that $500.000 will be epough to finanee the project. Due to Come Off. taking & risk on Senator present smil two years.—Chicago News. Giving Advice. If anyone calls you a grinnin’ gar- mem.- | goyle look it up in the dictionary and Mrs. Caroline P. Wallace and Miss | Carrie A. Tennant of Califor bers of the Women's Restoration | league, who have conducted. meeti in Geneva, Lusanne and Parls, in the baggagemaster.—Chicago | interests of the child-wives of India, have gone to that country to work in behalf of a l]aw raising the age of mar- riage in Indla from 12 to 16 years. A wedding cake six feet elzht inches high, five feet in dlameter at its base, him.—St. Louis Republic. A Toss Up. ity—slush or lce-caked pavement Cumberland Evening Times the chicken was the headliner on When it was brourht on he exam- No, they do not, but Herpicide does f the and kills the germ that attacks the Letters from prominent peopls every= where are daily proving that Newbro's | Tt is & delightful dressing, clear, pure fold by leading druggists. Send 10c. in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detrott The Lee & Osgood Co., special agents ————————————————— wobbly pendulum of the seismograph. 11,780 | words on a single postal card. We have he Is tne champion’ checker player of his town.— Insurance agents will not be safe In Depew's for a longer perfod than it means what is seems to, smash It is Aifficult to decide which is the greatest menace to a man’s Christian- HIGH CLASS MOVING PICTURES AND ILLUSTRATED SONGS. I Eprasty anl Brobity.” & I “Captured by lephone,” “Th rl Across the Way.” Mr. O'Nell will sing “The Flowers Qutside the Cafe.” Continuous performance from 2 to 5and 7 to 10 p. m. ADMISSION & CENTS. 327 Main Street, ©opp. Post Office. febld A Fine Assertment ol ... MILLINERY at ifttle prices. MRS. G. P. STANTON, SHEEDY’ VGG FIETUEE ADMISSION No Higher Ladi Afterncons 5o 10c Tillman's Cleverness. Senator Tillman was at least able to expain his business transactions with- out falling back on forgetfulness.— Washington Star. The French law prevents doctors — |trom recelving money bequeathed to them by patients. and welzhing recentl Grand Pacific hotel, ped to Hamilton, Ont. in the making of th ed in brandy and wine for six days and | the materlal would require a moving | van to transport it at one time. ined it carefully and then, cajling the walter to his side, said in a voice that carried throughout the car: “This chicken has been in cold storage eight monthe, three weeks, four days and five hours. has Bonassa umbellas. Take it away. The dining car eonductor took Dr. Wiley's name, reported the incident to the general superintendent of the din- ing car gervice and an order was sub- sequently issued that no cold storage fowls should be &erved on that rall- road.—Washington S Edward Payson Weston desires more | national attentlon. Not content with his walk from Portland, Me., to Chi- | cago, just, 40 years after his record walk of October. 1867, the old centl man plans another exhibition of h powers. On his 70th birthday. Marcl 15, he proposes to leave New York for San Francisco, a 4,000 miles’ fourney. which he expects to cover in 100 days, resting on Sundays. Just Criticism. The fatal Higgins fire calls attention fire alarm box keys In nearby houses. the example of up to date muncipalities and adopt boxes which open with a handle, or those In which the keys are left in the doors, protected by glass boxes. Better a few false alarms than Wonderful Ins During the flield trials at Crab Orchard, Ky., a prize foxhound, ow in Hot Springs, Ark., was lost. Th happened in November. A few days ct. Amerlcan. ago an emaciated, bleeding creatu ¢ 2 turned up at the home of Judge Hutl use where syrup takes. A Railroad Parade. of Hot Springs. It was the missing A pure, wholesome food. veled ovi nkn Prestdent Hill of the Great Northern 305 1t bad & ;‘-‘a miles. It had 't In 10¢, 25¢, and soc air-tight tins. has accepted a Minnesota state Job and | gwiv: “the A ppl and Arkans: A book of cooking will now, it is said, under the anti-| ivers, For over two months it had to ~ pass law,be compelled to pay for trans- | qupcict on a strange country. What making recipes portation over his own railroad. The |govnav, O0 & CHa Jove of home are on request. faw is a good thing, but it hits som times in funny places.—Columbus De- spatch. here dlsplayed. That Is the kind of an animal to muzzle, is it? New Yerk city is now growing at the rate of 10,572 persons a month by the birth rate alone. His Reason. But perhaps that Alabama temper- ance man who has been Indicted for The most delicious for griddle cakes of all makes—or any CORN PRODUCTS REFINING COMPANY and candy- sent free selling cider containing more than 9 per cent. alochol was merely trying to keep them from buying anything worse. —Indianapolis Ne Nothing Fatal About It. B, H. Harriman is reported to be vexed with President-elect Taft. Well, he was slightly irritated once with the present occupant of the White House, but both President Roosevelt and the nation survived—New York Press. o Bryan Will Begin Learning. Autos will replace horses in the ‘White House sables. No doubt the president who goes in March 4, 1917, will replace the autos with aeroplanes. . common’ Able to Stand It. i Y d A The country will perhaps be able to ou { 0 W ant ¥ conceal its anguish if Albert J. Hop- AT R kins is not returned to the United L % 3 tes senate from Illinois—New York Sun. we forbade him because he followed |er as an end than as a means of edu- not with us.” Jesus'replied: “Forbid there were eight parts of | without counting the hema- him not, for they that be not against us are for us.” The sphere of service |a to the bodies and souls of men is|=o too wide for warring camps to set up |to learn participle, which sometimes | guised as_a noun, and | s a verb. It took months ose parts of speech, so that thelr banners and thus mar the newer |Y0u could detect one at sight—nouns, impulses that seem to be throbbing DIONOUnS, i fln‘:s“’;-nd“d;';g‘:- = , : | prepositions, “conjunc e | e e T tallzation. | soctions—ana generally the most intel- | @)} = Piiidie AmarieniL |ligent boys and girls, who had more e {interest in things than in words, were «| What the people are yearning for is | the slowest to learn them. Nouns were 1| something which will produce practi- |the easiest. “A noun is a name.” cal results in something which | Nothing simpler. For instance, “wom- will directly prove to be 1jan” i€ a noun & Perfonal]™n.t now comes Charlotte Perkins benefit as well as practical truths e | which will prove to be indirectly ben- |y eficial to every community. The | nom?, orld is seeing and declaring that the | “The religlon which fs not practical is not (alw t | worth the having. who is always stirring things that under present eco- conditions man is the noun. voman js a preposition. She Is s of, from, for, to, by, or with itself, never an inde- 20 F pendent entity EDITORIAL 1 it the case were as bad as £ i Br, s Mrs. Gilman makes it, woman's posi- Washington billboards are to dis- |tion Is far from hopeless. Prepositions play no more corsets. The corset that {are indispensable. They take their fits a billboard is yet to be invented.|name from being placed before their it ————— {obiect. And what is woman's “ob- No liquor on the railroad lines of ‘ject?” Besides, woman lsn't only on Kansas for sale means more liquor n PArt of speech. She Is all of them.from . g o noun to interjection. And. fudging from the pockets of the travelers, of course. | ") [0 C"0r ta agitation for equal R | suftfaze, it will not he many vears be- fore man will be glad to be even a fon.—Boston Globe. The Connecticut legislature of 1909 t going to be so different from legislatures which have preceded | is - | the et The Highball. e proceedings of the legislature are far from barren. When 1t comes to benzoate of soda no one s crying for it except those|s who @o not consume the goods con- |to succeed Mr. Teller, it has put on taining 't. record a definition of ‘a “highball” as - “‘a kind of ngaree, good for ague or other diste r, and s0 ha le: Jack Binns would swap all the praise | S oy Jistemper, and so harmisss that Colorado Be- electing \a United States senator f he has received, not omitting that in|he has grown up.” This guarded defi- congress, for a little cottage and lot | nition. which smacks of conservative all his own, statesmanship, recalls a similar in- as to what is a “cocktall” ad- aressed to a medical expert by a learn- ed Massachusetts judge. The expert 1 testifying as fo the probable ef- t of a given number of cocktafls, when he was asked by the bench: “What is a cocktail, doctor?” The an- swer “A cocktall is an emollent for a_dary or f{rritated throat, which v be applied _with a feather, but lly s mot.” Whereupon the court expressed itself as much enlightened. —Boston Transcript. earbeer Is sald to sustain —— viwr of 4 nose surprisingly con- Another Teddy. sidering the fact that the beer is only| The crack military company of New an imitation, Haven, the Grays, now has a “Teddy” almost as distinguished as the Teddy on Governor Lilley's staff. He is “Ted- dy” Lilley, the governor's son. It's a great season for the Teddys, and if there are enough of them to go 'round, regiment should e equipped with' one.—Hartford Post. ey Y auir .| When the ice cream trade gets into the hands of a trust, the single cream with two spuons is likely to hecome more popular. - |1aw will not ceny that knowledge is t | the most expen tive that he knows any. thing about, Atlanta’s - Ethe; Barrymore set her hair on t | ire while lighting a cigarette on the - | stage. - This shows how perilous it is for women to smoke. It does not make much difference how the coal barons Jook, since the coal bins look as if the steam heaters had been working overtime, Wiley and the Chicken. Dr, H. W, Wiley, the conservator of food, almost broke up a dinner party on a dining car that !< run between Washington and Nev: York. The car was well flled when he en- tered and, seeing that roast epring t e| Men are never setting a date for the dawn of the millenium; but when it Latest Ohlo Idea. Governor Harmon seems to be of the opinion that Ohio Is a good deal bigger than the United States and Inestimably more important.—Philadelphia Inquir- er. A Possible Conspiracy. This 'possum business leads one \to believe that some southern dialect ex- pert will get the job of poet laureate. —New York Tribune. Man of Experience. Mr. Taft is still loking around for a good financier to put at the head of the treasury department. We suggest J. Pierpont Morgan.—St. Louls Republic. "'. Shon- Right: Got the Lemon. In spite of the disturbance in the market due to the earthquake at Mesl sina, Governor Lilley got his lemon all | right—Loulsville Courler-Journal. When Revenge Comes. When automobiles are “within reach of all” who knows but the poor may get even by keeping the millionairels dodging.—Atlanta Constitution. R Merely a temporary disturbance of Carrl) Nation likes England better now. She is being arrested more fre- quently.—Philadelphla Inquirer. Also it leads to disease. 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The dollar bottlecontains 2% times as much Indigestion Is Not Really A Disease digestive functions. Yet it occasions considerable discomfort---if ncglegtcd. Kodol insures against indiges- tion and dyspepsia, by guaranteeing digestion. these conditions of the blood. creating poisons which are fed into the blood and thence, throughout the whole system. ‘Plain as A- avoided. Whenever the stomach (through abuse or neglect) fails in the will cheerfully takes it up, just where the stomach left of Kool is not al medicine—merely a timely assist- §ests the food just as the stomach should digest t. Kodol has then accomplished all that is nec- essary to accomplish. It_does so by B-O—1isn’t it? Yet all this Is easily rformance of work, ke up that worla. dlll Kodol is prepared in liquid form. This is es- sential, in order that uired epsin all the elements re digestion, may be included. tablets of course help a little—but pepsin digests only one class of f complete digester. Kodol is. 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Norwich, Ct ELECTRICITY FOR LIGHTING CHANGE IN PRICE The prics to be charged to persons and coyporations for _electricity fi has been changed by the u tako effect on N ay, all bills ren tricity for metre roadings taken Oct. 20 1908, to have been used since the last previous readin shall be billed according to the follow- ing schedule F (o 436 Klio-watt hours, 10 conts per Kkilo-watt Over 450 kilo-watts, 10 cents for first | 450 kilo-watts and 5 cents for each ad- ditional kilo-watt. : Number of kilo-watts used, Kilo-watts at 10 cents.......$345.00 Kilo-watts at 5 cent 173750 Ambunt of Bill... | Norwieh, Oct. 1, 1908, | JOHN M'WILLIAMS, { WILLIAM F. BOGU GILBERT 8 RAYMOND, | Boara of Gas and Electrical Commis~ sioners. octsd “Dignity Is What We Use To i | Conceal Our Ignorance” is Elbert Hubbard’s definition of the word dignity. Unquestionably Elbert 1is eorreot, | and every thinking person will agree | with him. 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C. . WILLIAMS, General Contracting and Building, 218 Main Street. *Phone 370. auglsd Watch Repairing done at Friswell's speaks for {itself. WM. FRISWELL, 25-27 Franklin aniaw s AL TR want an estimate on any work In my" N —