Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 5, 1909, Page 4

Herwich Balletin ‘und Qoufied. 113 YEARS OLD. ool B N Em 'ufl. o o.:':;_ Norwioh, Friday, Feb. 8, 1909. §Tl|¢ Circulation of i The Bulletin. The Bulletin has the largest elr-’ EDUCATIONAL COMMIS- SION'S REPORT. The mewbders of the educational commission have given their atten- tion teo the faults and weaknesses of our loose and old-fashioned education- al system, opened it up in all its im- perfections and grossness and pointed out that sanitation, systemiatization, eonselidation, supervision and eleva- tion are needed to make it of greater ‘benefit te the rising generation and to the state. We all knew whet the commission- ers say is true; and we ought also to know thet so long as our school sys- tem iy the prey and spoil of political cpaft, graft and ambition, it will be like an old dlscarded coach of a past The responaibility for the eonditions shown does not rest upon the managers of the schools, or upon the quasi-political boards of education who conduct educational matters non- partisanly by even deals to give em- to faverites and to keep " evenly divided; but upon the peepls, who should make the schools nen-political, clean, progressive and ereditable to the towns they represent a8 well as to the state. The commissioners’ twenty-two rec- ommendatione for number must have the reading pubilc, as they did The Bulletin. Twenty-two recom- mendations maks a big kettle of fish, and may need ice to keep them until they can be carefully considered and acted wpon. A few striking recomen- datlons which seemed absolutely nesessary ‘would have made a desper Impression upon the legislature aad would have simpiified a reform which the twenty-two recommenda- tlops seem to make eomplex and al- mowt Smpossible. The Bulletin would Mke to see the mutter taken up and carried out as these efficient and earnest commission- ers recommend, because it knows that it means o better citizenship and a groater state The dissemination of accurate knowledge promises power to every good cause, and advancement In man- hoed, mechanics, manufactures and gevernment. The commission has ral the standard because it need be ; and if the legislators recognize what s cordial support of this newt standard means for the future of Con- neeticut they cannot consclentiously refrain from at once moving for its sacomplishment, DESERVES TO BE OVERHAULED. The American navy is going to be overhauled because it deserves to be. The putting down and defaming of one honest man, Governor Lilley, will not eave ity pelt or the pelt of the grafiers in whose interest he was sup- pressed and maligned. ‘Waat he sald against the navy still lives; and it will not down, but haunts the men who are responsible for the worthless navy yards and the THE political graft which robs the country. of hundreds of thousands everv year. Admiral Bob Bvans once remarked that he would rather fight a battle than take his ship into the Charleston navy yard. That looks as if it was a yard to abandon, and there is L the matter with the suthority for the statement. ‘What the New York Sun has sald the lines of endeavor taken up » Lilley is famillar to the readers of The Builetin. Read what the Milwaukes (Wis.) Journal hes to say of our navy yards: “Hundreds of thousands are annually spent on yards which are practically useless. Senatorial influence causes appropriations to be made for Charles- tem, Portsmouth, San Francisco and other glaces which ought to be aband- oned and proper sites for naval bases substituted. “Om the Attantic seaboard there are but twe bases suitable for the modern man-of-war, namely, the yards at Norfolk and st New York, On the Paoific coast there are the yards at It is very daagerous for the heavy-draught vessels even to try to navigate their channmels. And yet members of the naval committess eontinue to favor and segure appropriations for obsolete sites and useless docking places. <™ as to whether an iron- clad have four inches more or lass fresboard when thers are not encugh to deek the ships is o waste of time. To appropriate for harbers which eanmot be used, when there are sites like San Pedre to be | ‘WHERE THE DIFFERENCE IS. “In theory in the statute book,” says the P phia Press, “buman life has the same protection in both these English-speaking countries. The English jury almost invariably con- viets unless it can distinctly be shown that a man who has had to do with a homicide was forced to the act by self-defense, whatever other provoca- tion there may be. BEven then an Eng- lish jury will apply the strict legal rule that a man is only justified in taking life in gelf-defense when there is no other possible escape from be- ing killed except by slaying another man. The American jury almost as invariably tends to acquit, to disa- gree, or to find a verdict for a minor grade of manslaughter wherever there are any conditions which eonfuse the main issue, These may spring from the ‘higher law,’ they may be based on considerations of self-defense or they may turn on swift anger. But in every case they tend to lead an American jury to avoid a conviction. The practica] result of this difference is that among all lands England is the one with the smallest number of homicides and the United States is one with the largest.” It is doubtful if in the courts of any country the defense {s permitted to in- troduce the same amount of irrelevant testimony or permitted to use such methods to divert the attention of the jury for the purpose of confusing it, as are allowed here, This is the one great and free country of this era of the world, and in no country are so many sins committed in the name of freedom. America has not shown itself capable of keeping freedom within its proper limits. ! PATRICK’S PERSISTENCE. Lawyer Patrick, who was convicted of muftdering Millionaire Rice for his money, has won a remarkable victory in getting a rehearingjof his case after having sat and devls‘éd legal methods of procedure for his relief in the death chamber for nine years. ‘While as a murderer Patrick excit- ed the contempt of the country, as a fighter for life his unfaltering persist- ence now colmnands its admiration, although it deserved to be made in a more honorable caufe. The action of Justice Gaynor is bringing down upon his head severe criticism. The Waterbury American very well represents public sentiment when it says: ‘“Justice Gaynor is contributing his part to the legal farce in which Murderer Patrick, convicted in 1900, is the star performer. The justice hag granted a stay on Patrick's contention that commutation of his sentence from death to life imprison- ment was fllegal. This is Patrick's twenty-third effort to fight off the consequences of his crime, and prob- ably will not be his last.” There certainly should be a limit to a convict's rights to appeal to the courts. His privileges as a member of the bar ought to cease when this case Is closed. EDITORIAL NOTES, When we speak of persons of good sense it 19 noticeable that they usually agree with us, A remark from the south: “And this is the jolly, jingling month of our old friend, the Valentine Man!" Not only the newspapers, but the literary magazines of the country are now engaged in blowing up the navy. For a man who isn't president and is not going to be, Colonel Bryan holds more than his share of public inter- est. — e e Jack Frost has shaken hands with Atlanta and real ice instead of arti- ficial can be put in the cocktails there. The democratic papers are howling about the great republican deficit, but it has not eaten up the surplus in the treasury. The agent of the National Audubon socleties is of the opinion that 13, 000,000 American song birds are slaughtered annually. The voter who cast his ballot for Lincoln is still Interesting—so is the voter who opposed him, but who sees | things today in Lincolnian light. Three railroads, covering 4,700 miles and valued at about $100,000,000, were sold in g week recently without jarring a single interest in this country. Congress cannot get rid of the in- dictment that it is aiding criminals in tying the hands of the administration in {ts use of the secret service. Taking the drunkard home may be a very humane affalr, but if he i{s in a condition to murder his wife or chil- dren It looks like a criminal operation. Senator Jeff Davis refers to the peo- ple as “Old Man People.” #He doesn't realize that he has accosted the “Grand Old Man” of this noble coun- try. Happy thought for today: Tt is easier to clean out the old tin cans from the back vard than it is to clean up politics; and a more satisfactory work. The man who played a pianoforte for 25 hours without stopping fell in a faint when he did stop. How many fainted while he was playing is not recorded, A permanent assessor might be a rea] good thing, but he should know how to figure in propartion, as well as to realize when assessments are all out of proportion. The gecretary of agriculture has condemned bleached flour, and since the manufacturers have decided to make no more, the golden-yellow loaf of old may come ggaln, Massachusetts is taking In her in- sane asylums seven women a year made mad by the excessie use of li- quor. The commitments of female drunks was 1,869 in 1908. The Nashville American is howling for “pedigreed jurors for that state' ‘Well, there are enough citizens whose ancestors came over In the Mayflower to furnish pedigreed jurors for the whole country, Matter of Money. The wife who once wanted to give her husband away has sued for di- vorce and $200 a month alimony. If she can get any such' sum as that from him, he is certainly too valuable an asset to have been offered as a s| gift.—St, Louls Post-Despatch. The Neble Anson. “Not while I bave my health will I take a public benefit,” says “Cap” An- son, one-time chlef of the Chicago bassball champions. He is still tg. '—Brock- “noblest Roman of them all. terpris : “In about a week from now we'll be all sitting out on the spacious veranda of a comfortable, homelike ' hotel in light summer clothing,” said the afflu- ent-looking person, - complacently. “We'll think of you and drop a tear of pity if we can.” “You've made up your mind that youwll go, have you?” said his friend in the thick knitted wool waisteoat, a lit- tle enviously. “Got the place all picked out and be- gun to pack,” taid the affluent one. “I feel sorry for you, having to stay here in this bleak climate. Think of smell- ing clustering roses and mint ‘uleps, my boy! That's what I'll be doing by next Wednesd: “I guess you haven’t been noticing the election returns,” said the man in the knitted wool waistcoat. “Don’t you know that the south has gone dry? So far as the roses are concerned, I can go to the greenhouses across the tracks if I want to. It won’t cost me a cent for transportation, either.” “No more shiverine in street cars,” said the affluent-looking person. “Nothing but waving palms and mock- ing birds trilling on the bough and chicken gumbo. Too bad you couldn’t manage to come with us. “It's a shame, of course,’ said the man in the knitted waistcoat, “but I'm just getting into the swing of my buckwheat cakes and country sausage and I'd hate to give them up. You'll be doing your shivering when you try to dress on one of those raw, ralny, sloppy southern mornings without any stove in the room. I'll bet you'll think longingly of Chicago and steam heat then. I've eaten my breakfast with my overcoat on in the balmy southern clime often enough to know what I'm talking about. I've had that johnny cake for berakfast, too. Don't men- tion it. Give me the merry codfiish ball on a hot plate.” “You don’t care for the perfume of magnolias and oleanders or to drive along avenue of stately live oaks, I presume,” said the affluent-looking per- son. “You hate the warm sunshine, don't you?” . replied the man with the knit- ted wool waistcoat. “I love the warm sunshine, and the little feathered song- L S Common Sense in the Dark. Representative Lockwood of Green- wich has conferred a benefit on the state just by offering his resolution re- quiring lights on all wheeled vehicles out on public highways after dark. If the bill becomes a law, a very great benefit will be conferred. If the bill is turned down, still there will be the benefit of again calling attention to a | change which has got to come, If it is deferred now, it will come later—after a few more lives have been sacrificed for lack of it. 1t is a curious fact that less clvilized’ places are far ahead in this matter. The Courant has pointed out hitherto that in the City of Mexico every ve- hicle has to carry its lights. BEven in far-off Manila this rule is absolute. It prevails very generaly, but in this state. be it city or country, there is no such rufe, and people drive about in the pitch dark on the assumption that no- body else is out that night. It fol- lows, of course, that there are col- lisions; the one wonder is that there are not many more. At present rubber-tired vehicles are compelle&'to use lights, and there are some f0 so short-sighted that they think that If the automobilist has a light th4t i{s enough; they can see him and that's all they want. They forget that he should see them, which can only be done:(except at closest range) when they, tomy have lights. It is a precaution thut, one would think, need negibe incorporated in any other law than the law of self preser- vation: but that law does not seem to work in this case and so the statute law is needed, and it is needed mighti- If this session lets the opportu- nity go by, it will make a big mistake and be responsible for no one hnows now how many accidents.—*artford sters and the pretty flowers and green grass and the leafy trees, but there's a beauty in the blowing of the blast and a grandeur in the growling of the gale likewise. I love also the keen, crisp air of winter that sets the blood to tingling and fills you with energy and appetite and gives ypu a stock of vigor to last through the coming flm- ina The Bminent Irish Comedian " CHARLES MACK in the Pictiresove Irish Play witn Mmusic mer. We're going to have some snow before the winter's through an then hey for the jingling sleigh bells! I'll be tucked under a fur robe u: a neat cutter with a hot-water tank at my feet and a speedy little horse pull- ing on the bits, scudding down the boulevards wihle you are wiping the perspiration frem your brow on the veranda and wishing you could get a breath of real air. Tll think of you then and I'll try to deave a sigh.” “You'll be down In the basement wrestling with the furnace and experi- | menting with the drafts,” said the af- fluent-looking person. “You'll be tele- phoning to the doctor and telling him to hurry because one of the kids has got the croup or tonsilitis. That's what you'll be doing, my friend.” ']l apreciate the summer all the more when it does come, then,” said the man in the knitted wool waist- coat. “T'll feel my heart expand with the first signs of spring and you won’t. You'll come out of the hot sunshine of the south to the hot sunshine of the north and you'll be so eternally sick of hot sunshine that you'll want to join the first polar-relief expedition. Providence ordained the seasons for the good of man and made man to suit all the Old Songs. Special Matinee Evening .. ) on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 9 o'clock. ance, £ VAUDEVILE WOVING PICTURES them, not to dodge them. Tf you want hil to fly In the face of Providence, its all || ADMISSION I uc L“"":"d ;" right, but I don’t. Spring, summer, No Higher Afterncons autumn and winter are good enougn for me.” 2 “Don’t you think you could come with us, old man?” asked the affluent erson. “I'd Hke to, first rate, but I can't af- ford it, this year,” sald the man with the knitted wool waistcoat. “Do you have to go?" “I guess I do,” said the affluent per- son. “I'd a darned sight sooner stay here, but the madam wouldn’t give me any peace if I did. TI'll ind some ex- cuse to get back in a week or two, though.”—Chicago News. Were Right Once. Bivi in s good authority, and use of “pint” for *“ “oil,” “bile” for “boil “your'n,” etc. no longer need authority “fle” for knowing imitation of the past, use. Mayor Lee’s ldea. Mayor Lee's idea that a tax rate of fifteen and five-tenths mflls would be a good thing if it could be assured as the rate for a number of years has merit, the merit of certainty and the assurance against an increase in the near future. Then preparation to mest it could be made with confidence and city expenses would have to be apportioned to come within that limit. In running the finances of the city it would be well to have a fixed stand- ard to go by, and the rate of taxation for last year would be a good one to try. There would be no objection to making it lower, if at any time it could be done.—Bridgeport Standard. John Arbuckle's they can raise engineers the face. powerful magnets. air. The Price of One Battleship. 000,000, ‘This, Real Brains. ‘Where a woman has real brains is to be able to fool all men without them. —New York Press. est British battleship, Vanguard. —Waterbury American. COME BACK TO ERIN the Greatest Irish Play Ever Written. Hear Mack’s Real Irish Bag Pipes and They Would Lift the Republic. believe Republe, even though she lies 240 feet below the sur- ‘They propose to Mlft her with Salvage experts laugh at the scheme as preposterous. But for that matter they laughed at the idea that the Yankee could be taken off Spindle Rock by compressed February, 6 Matinee and Night 25¢ N Toe Seats on sale at Box Office, Waure- gan House and Bisket, Pitcher & Co.'s Cars to all points after the perform- ebdd Matinees TheBen rtoire—Evenings. Fepens Dnl‘-‘l?elt Russia . On Thanksgiving Day A Cowbov's Romance .« Uader Sealed Orders . Shipwrecked eos— .. Jealous Woman The Governor's Wife ‘A Man Without & Country eAnasday Thursday Saluraay . Tuesday TWadnes. ‘Thursday [atin vy BaLUFGLY oo ses s On_Thanksgiving Day Ladiew Tickets Issued for Monday Evening. CES: Evenings, 10e, 20c, $0e. PRIC Matinees, 10c, 26c. Seats on sale Saturday, Fob. 6, at the Box Office. Wo -e-an House and BY ket. Pitoher & Co.'s. © A Cars to all points after the perform- ance. feb5d SHEEDY’S QGertrude Griffith & Co. “BOBBIE’S PAL.” DAVE BENNO Songs and Dances. Marvelous Acrobatic Comiques. Prof. Lounshury of Yale says there it, for the for pt It is getting so that we these things. Prof. Lounsbury is authority | day and Saturday enough, and he comes pretty near au- Hands thorizing any form of speech we may, | Pranks, in our picturesque originality or un-|Arrested The 48 schoolhouses which Chicago is planning to build in the next two or three years will cost a total of $9,- as an esteemed con- temporary notes, is the cost of the lat- On which proposition is it better to spend $9,000,000, a battleship or schoolhouses? Final Clearance! Men’s and Young Men’s Overcoats and Suits Courant. HOME GARMENT *1AKING. The Bulletin’s P2itern Service. GIML'S AND CHILD'S DRESS, Paris Pattern No. 2768 — All Seams o Allowed. . This dainty little frock for the grow- ing girl may be developed in any ma- terial, from chambray to batiste or wool batiste to fine challis. The full body portion is gathered into the square yoke at the front and back, hich is hidden by a collar of the ma- terial. The full i attached to the belt, which in this case is made of em- broidery insertion, similar insertion be- ing used for the wristbands on the full length sleeves and to trim the square collar. The collar is further trimmed with a deep flounce of embroidery matching the insertion. If the model is developed in fine nainsook or batiste tha belt may be made of embroidery or lace beading, through which is run a pretty light colored satin ribbon, and the wristbands should be of the same .beading and ribbon. The collar should be trimmed with a row of fine lace in- sertion, a ruffle of similar lace edging being used as a finish, and the skirt should have a row of the insertion let in above the hem, the material being cut from underneath. Insertions and edgings of embroidered batiste are be- ing much used this season for the trim- ming of children’s dresses. The pattern is in five sizes—2 to 10 years. For a girl of 6 ye: the dress requires 33 vards of material 27 inches wide, 21 yards 36 inches wide or 214 yards 42 inches wide, 2% yards of in- sertion and 13 yards of edging. Price of pattern, 10 cents, Order through The Bulletin Company, Pattern Dept., Norwich, Conn. C Q D Now. “We are lost,” the captain shouted, as he staggered down the stairs.” Here's a well known pilece of verse put out of business by wireless.— Concord Monitor. : Evil 3 Spelling reform is abrawd in the land agen. Everybody knows it has not reached Wooster.—Worcester Ga- zette, $12.50 Formerly $18, $20, $22. These garments are all from our regular stock and the best pos- sible examples of $18, $20 and $22 values. Recent sales have closed out most of our medium grade Suits and Overcoats, so we have decided to make one final clearance of all our better grade garments. This is unquestionably the best bargain event of the season. Planhatfin 121-125 MAIN STREET. The Leadizg Store in Eastern Connecticut Devoted Exclusively to Men’s, Women’s and Chi> dren’s Wearing Apparg]. ~\ HANLEY’S PEERLESS An all round good Ale A pleasure to the tasie A tonic to the system Dissolution Sale Entire Stock to be disposed of before April Ist. Suits and Overcoats To Order at prices that command attention and investigation. have first cholce while the stock is complete. Buy now and save money. Fit guaranteed in every case. The N. Johnson Co., MERCHANT TAILORS. Come early and 33 BROADWAY. Week of h 8 Shows Daily F.br“." 2.18, 7, 845 MILDRED DELMONTE 8inging Comedienne, THE THFEE TOMS Roderick Theatre SILVA & BROWNELL, Lessees, " “ourne | HIGH CLASS MOVING PICTURES AND ILLUSTRATED SONGS. The programme for Thursday, Fri. will “In the of the FEne Patriot,” “Stockholm Mr. O'Neil singing “When You Lowe Her and She Loves You.” Continuous performance from 3 to 5 and 7 to 10 p. m. ADMISSION 6 CENTS. 327 Main Street, opp. Post Office. febdd CADILLAC HALL 32 Market St., opp. Sheedy’s Theatrs, DANCING PARTIES Every Wednesday and Saturday Evenings. | New class now opened for pupils. Ar- rangements made by phone 422-3, or J. J. KENNEDY, 117 Main SL. Private Lessons any Hour. Janisa JAMES F. DREW Piano Tuning and Repairing Best Work Only, "Phone 422-8. 18 Perkine Aves sept23d Maher’s Schoo! For Dancing, T. A. AND B. HALL, 62 Broadway, Norwich, Conn. Dancing every Friday and Saturdey evenings. Baker’'s orchestra. Private lessons in Waltz, Two-step, Etc., at any hour. Classes now open. Telephore 471-6. Dcl.'!fld_ EXPERT TUNING improves the plano, work guarantee. A. W. JARVIS, Neo. 15 Clalremont Ave., Norwich, Conn. wraduoate Niles B ANl saves and Tuning, Drop a postal decl8d ‘Phone 518-6. F. C. GEER 122 Prospect St., Tel, 889-5. Norwich, Ct ELECTRICITY FOR LIGHTING CHANGE IN PRICE The price to be charged to persons and corporations for eleotricity for lighting has been changed by the une- dersigned, to take effect on Nov, 1908; "that 18 to say, all bills rendered as of Nov. 1, 1908, 'for electricity for lighting as shown by metre readings taken Oect. 20-24, 1508, to have been used since the last previous reading, shall be billed according to the ?orlov- lnf schedule: to 456 kilo-watt hours, 10 cents per kilo-watt. Over 450 kilo-watts, 10 cents for first 450 kilo-watts and 5 cents for each ad- ditional kilc-w: att. mber of kilo-watts used, Example: Nu 450 Kilo-watts at 10 cents $45.00 550 Kilo-watts at 5 cents 27.50 Amount of Bill............ «ee 37250 Norwich, Oct. 1, 1908, JOHN M'WILLIAMS, WILLIAM F. BOGUE, GILBERT 8. RAYMOND, Board of Gas and Electrical Commis~ sioners. oct3d “Dignity Is What We Use To Conceal Our Ignorance” 1s Elbert Hubbard's definition of the word dignity. Unquestionably Elbert is correct, and every thinking person will agree with him. Think of the people with dignity and count those having It naturally, He who has It naturally, combined with ability, 1s & great success In llife, Those with assumed dignity are—well, | they are understood and dhcounto‘ | by_the public, We've no dignity, natural or as« sumed, and if its use was attempted by us the public would discount it. 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