Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 13, 1909, Page 4

Fintion price 12e @ week: 3gs @ th{ €600 a year. Biiterea at the Postorfios at Norwioh, The Builetin has the lafgest clr- Culation of any paper in Easterm Conmecticut, and from three to-four times larger than that of any ! § Norwich. It is delivered to ov: 22,000 of the 4,033 houses in Nor- § wich, and read by ninety-threo p cent. of the people. In Windham 1t is dolivered to over 900 houses. 2in Putnam and Danielson to over § 1,100, ana in all of these places it % is considercd the local dafly. i forty- § Eastern Connecticut has nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five post office districts and for ene rural freo delivery routes. The Bulletin is "sold in town and on all ‘of the R. F. routes In Eastern (onnectlout. CIRCULATION 1901, average . § 1908, average every D 1908, average. 7179 1907, average THE SUICIDE MANIA. The record kept by the Chicago Tribune shows that the sulcides inf this country duyring * 1908 averaged nearly 30 a day, faking a total of 10,853 for the year. In the past ter years the increase in suicides has been nearly 100 per cent, which is all out of preportion to the growth of population. When comes to causes they are set forth as follo Despondency is siven as the ip 5,318 cases; fnsanity in §10; domes- tie infelicity 1h 778; 11l health 718; bus inees depression 63 vor 536; dis- appofntment in love 519; and unknown " 1,541 \ The pistol was thegfavorite instru- { “ment, 3,102 having gone that route, \ while poison took 2,735; asphyxiation 1,036; hanging 1,041; drowning 1,004; throat cutt'ng 825; and the others went by various ways, leaping from foofs throwirg themselves in front of en- _ #ines. and, ine one case, even br self- impreed starvation, Strange as it may seem, love oc- ples the seventi®place, showing that exasperations of the heart are new second even to the terrors of the drink habit The passage of laws to check the siyeldal tendency has had mno effect( vpon the people. BRITAIN, THE TERRIFIED GIANT While the greatest movement for | peace in modern times is on foot, it seems strange to sec land 1 state of terror concerning her foes, and concerning her unemployed mil- Lion: ust at present Great Britain fs d Intaining an active army of a quar. tép milllon men. She bears also the of keeping up an organization of 489,000 reserves c-five bat tleships, 103 ulse torpedo beats and destroyers, sixty-one su marines, nine scout ships and seven- | their | teen torpedo gynboats absorb milllons of taxes annualiy. Lord. Roberts has made an eloquent appeal for an army of one million !flned and fully equipped soldiers efid the admiralt; 5 ha tioned for angappropriation wi h which to build -v' Dreadnoughts. England swas devoting her ener- gles to the hilflding up of her many- factorles and the enlightenment of her 4 people; as she is in guarding against i, b: Christlan nelghbors who fill her distrust and' fear, it would be er for her and the nations who are following her wild example. ' AGITATING THE LEGISLATIVE MIND. Bomehow the weightier subjects do A not stir the legislative mind as do the brought before them concern- length of hotel sheets, the taxing of %achelors o ther the rooster is a hen or the mare a horse. The Massachusetts legislature has . been setiodsly discussing whether & rooster s a hen, and gotten regularly before them it w discuss with ecqual ardor: W 1d en s & clam happlest—at hikh or low wa- | ter? fhe Newburyport News is of the opinion that “By and by the solons may be arguing as to whether a mare i#A horse, or a drake a duck afe in a terrible “state of mind, says News, for they fay that they 't find the word "reoster” .defined in eny dictionary, We will ot send . them our dictionary for we jight want |- : but we may be & mllowed to inform them that our copy ¥ of “Noah Webster” defines a rooster a# “the male of the domestic fowl.” charge. fhese solons should gemember that n is a vooster whilg on the roost; §d the follow with: a cock-a-doodle- 408 styls 1= popularly known us a rodster among the boys. A rooster is not tlways a cockerel. LTS — Well stated: “The poor we have amlways with us, but the great civie problom of poverty to solve is to pro- vide for the poverty which is a mis- fortune, stamp oug the poverty which 18 disease, and exterminate the ‘pov- . erty which 1s a crime, The farmets of the country must be ndering ¢ the farm” commission gets a chance to digest dts stuff what . willbe produeed for them. It may be i P . " A cheertul scribe has found out that lI those who cannot huy an automo- be able to tTke home ‘an au- s horn for little Benny to play SENE o 6559 | such duties efficiently, Make it oblig- | atory upon the war department to use up all available retired officers | betore an officer on the active list can detafled. Utflize the lower- grade officers on the retired list first, as far as they wlill' go—leutenants, ains, and majors-~in the interests a | | their if it could be| They | THE JINGOES LOSE BY A SMALL | MARQIN. Senator Perkins has probably made a mental note of the fact that Roose | velt hlds a full hand even when h& bufts into the game. His attempt to checkmate the president was a total failure and the demagogues he played to went to the wall, ‘Callfornia refused to accept the government figures concerning Japa- nese immigration to this country, be- cause they made them look ridiculous. In the twelve months, ending No- vember 1, 1908, the total number of Japenese admitted into the United States—not California aléne—was 6017, and the total number that left the country was 5,832, an increase in Japanese populgtion during one year of only 185, Teking the six months’ period ending November 1, there left the United States 1,207 more Jap- anese than came in. X Secretary Straus of the department of Jabor and commerce at Washing- ton, in support of these figures, said: “If Japanesé can walk across the Pacific ocean. it is possible for them to come in without our knowing it, | but not otherwise. It is not the in- r sefiracy of thé figures to which the alifornfan agitators object, bt to | their accuracy The figures show a condition that i not pleasing to these ouble-makers, and that is why they | call them fnaccurate. I challenge the | Califordians, singly or collectively, to | show anywerror in the figures of the department of commerce and labor. | 3t any of them will come to- Wash- ingtom; T will gl show them proof that will absolutely convince even the | mokt skeptfeal of them." | The California’ agitators have not | atitempted to furnish any proof of | th denial of the correctriess of these gures, and the probabilitleg are all in | favor of their approximate accuracy If California cares anvthing for th good will of the rest of the countr hould conduct Iitself in a more be- coming fashion. It certainly should be | ashamed of itsel TWO SIDES TO THE STORY. While it fs alleged that the army short some 612 commistioned offi- disclosed that this is be- retired officer has no stand- in Washington—is really given no A ret officar, wriling the 1ing Post, says | ongress, hefore it passes amy sing the number of officers, ss @ law tequiring that all recruft- € and school details be filled by | retired officers, who can show that | their mental physical powers will ke it possible for them to perform of economy. Cut out about half the ‘military colleges’ and recognize only a few of the higher grade, If the smaller schools want an officer for an advertisement, 16t them find and pay some retired officer, who is willing to do that kind of work. Grant full pay and allowances to a retired officer as Instructor of military sclence at the colleges on the government list. Then, by this tima next year, if the war de- partment can show that any of these detalls are held by officers on the ac- tive list, because retired officers can- not be had—why, vote an increase of officer 1 This seems to be a fair proposition and one which ought to attract the ion of the war department. If officers can be made use- re Is mo reason why they should gl n the opportunity. EDITORIAL NOTES. busy to repair gave her peri. right. that es a seven- to: become a The p cont mea) ar boar ser ver lfkel g house, must groundhog certad be getting this weather. lues Lincoln that selfish capital- harder to deal with the confederates. The men who mét Lincoln improved tunities yesterday, as did some who never had met him. n t an oppor Philadelphia, with Salome in full, is having more exciting time than Boston th a ngelists. Conversation is an art and none of s will be offended when It is said that there are few artists among us. The Baltimore American says that the best monument to Lincoln is & government patterned after his ideas. Do not deplore the advances that ars wiping out old landmarks, they in turn will be old landmarks by and When Panama knows Ameriean con- gressmen better she will understand more fully the extent of their privi- Prohibition in Georgia has driven the cit stills into unused graves. Iilfcit stills seek stradge bedfellows under prohibition. glves notice that the open y to become general be- open shop. It may be an example stor pulpit is fore as The mayor of South Norwalk is sald to make a hat the quality of which is | its recommendation and its withstand= ing of all combination . Happy thought for today: A grate- ful cou: has to discover ite grate- fulness time after the gbject of it has passed to his reward. - — \ cheering of the name of Gen- Leo at a southern Lineoln, celes tion is not today looked at as be- g out of order. The times do change. | Sadly in Need of Treatment. . Senator Luther¥ famous school re- form measure will soon be on the rocks, The country school is a far bet- ter fnstitution than hé is willing to admit. In fact, it is often doing a really better work than the city school he worships, though the country,school buiiding is not so_pretentions nor the toachers such exalted faddists. The really essentfal thing is to curtall the powers of the state board of education. s sadly in need of treatment for it s known as “swelled head."— stol Press. [ resentative in the olvil war. A Little Slow. The movement (n Connecticut to erect a statue to General John Sedg- wick is certainly not marked~by pre- ousness, considering that he was the state's most distinguished military rep- ® in_ these days no ome should lack cornpanionship. .'‘Good books are plenty and a good hook is company enoug for a bright man or woman. Such company is never wearisome—neither is it sensitiye—It §s a bright mind ever at your service. What one reads is of less importance than what one thinks. Some books completely meet our tastes and seem to fill a long-felt want-—they are one sweet song; but ather hooks we must master; and the mastery of a book Is not weak achievement, for had it been . the proverb waould never have read “Be- ware of the man of one book!" This would apply equally to the master of the Bible, the Dictionary or Crabb's Synonyms. The man who Knows one #reat book well is not common, there- fore e is dlstinguished. The compan- ionship of books gives ability —and character to those who seek it. Twice within a month the kite fiyers have found that it was ten or more degrees warmer a third of a mile from the ground than In this atmosphere of ours: andl that is why it rained Jn- stead of snowed. Science tells us fhat only thiS belt of atmosphere in” which we'live and move and have our belng is illuminated by the rays of the sun. and that space is as black as night all the time and that ten miles up it is cold_enough to freeze the north pole to death. Heat is largely generated by the sun's electric rays striking the surface of the earth and creating fric- tion, which gives the warmest atmo- sphere close to fhe ground; but in idwinter: we find that the upper at- mosphere is occasionally warmest. How is this? T shall not be able to tell you till the sclentists find out. 1 am quite eure, though, that there fs wthing acgidental about it How easy it is to find fault with public servants. it =0 naturgl for us to think we could do things 0 much better than the man who holds the commission, draws the salary and takes the responsibility. He doesn’t n cven to respect our opinion, and we should like to know why. It is veally because his opinion is the opin- ion by which all things have to bd set- tled, and that is the only opinion he carcs to stand sponsor for. We are all Smarter than the mayor, chief of police ‘and® chief of fire department, of course; hut vou see we haven't been scovered, yet, and cailed up higher ¢ the people. Wa should /be careful not to tell what we can do under seri- ous exigencies, for if we keep still and the people call us we may surprise theni. We know what we should do, of course, but perhaps we wouldn't do it if we knew what the other fellow Knows. “Bear ye one another's burdens” is an old square-deal command which is oftener quoted than honored. Few ™ FiE W Wil .IKS‘,' i realize what they miss by dodging it. The. burden bearer feels for the op- pressed—considers all who make a sacrifice for others. Honest Abe Lin- coln could not speak of the bréve boys at the front, battling for the union, without also saying: “Oh, those mot ers who gave them to the country. Me bore every kind of a burden in private life and that prepared him to Dbear the Lurdens of his country in the hour of its greatest peril. The heart which knew the strifeand the pain in the way to the White House from a log cabin could bear up wijen the woes of the nation seemed to bhé unbearable The burden bearer develops heart and power to ‘dare and to do. The disorderly -boy makes a dis- orderly man, and the woman who is complaining of a dieorderly hubsand is bringing up disorderly boys. There is no real reason why boys should be more disorderly than giris; and vet they are permitted to be so slack about indoor affairs that but for the extra work of mother or sister the house would always look like “the devil's auction room.” Now, why are ys humored In the disorder which is a source of constant complaint in the husband? There should no reason why boys ined to be ad® nea house as girls, and this is the ¥ in which the orderly hysband can be produced. | am always interested in the junk hunter who can't understand English, but who always understands’ old junk. He pretends to purchase refuse ma. terial, but that is usually a false pre- tence. He never tells you what he'll glve for it, but asks you what jou will take; and if you offer him $5 worth for twenty-three cents he will calmly tell you that he will give you a dime and take it aw He as- sumes that you would be rid of it if vou have to glve it)to him te carry it he away; and then figure to.get it at his own price, and usually succeeds. “He no under- stand In-ger-lish,” but he understands the best end of the bargain, and gets it nineteen times in twenty. commences to We still laugh at the man who goes without his breakfast and the woman who tulks about the errors of mortal mind hey are both in the way of self-denial, and @re on the way to self- coutrol. Tt takes force to knock out an old habit—it fakes resolution to] defy | custom, he mean!) of the no-breakfast theory ‘is sel f-control,” says an vocate of It, “and it was through that I came to a knowledge of the truth of God.” According to this, it §s not 4tarvation, as- some. think, but revelation. - The man who becomes the master of his stomach knows how many are vietims of appetite and glutfony. When the stom- ach {s right, everything is right, and when it is overdone fts owner is un- cone. ‘The world lboks different to a man of poise and power than it does. to a dyspeptic and it always will, but :herdr\‘urwpllfl seem to give local color 0 life, Not long since a desirabie citizen said %0 me while converaing of munici- pal affairsi “There are better men in jail than we put‘in ofice!” “Do you an that?" said I “ used to be eut ights with the boys,” he replied, “and now what I'm talking about. I'm doing better now, but If caught then 1 <hould have béen in jail” 1 con- fessed that in moments of self exam- ination 1 had asked myself it there were mot better men in prisgn than sself. As near as I am capable of judging, the worst men never get into prison, because they never get found out ~ The great criminals look , upon prisons as boarding houses for fools and, weaklings. Justice wabb! A man \who stole eight cents went to prison for eight years, and the man who stole half a million was sentenced for one year and as much more as leniency shouid Gecide upon. s Whoever thought Billikin, the god of 800d luck and the.smile that never comes Off, was a - poor counterfeit. There are Magsachusetts communities Who are gofng daft over Ebisu, the Chinese god of good luck. This heathen image is for sale with a certificate of character which says that he has watched over the lovers of China for 3,000 yvears and brought them good luck and many happy returns of the wedding day. He may do for China, but he will not do for America. Billi- Kkin, the god of the everlasting smile, i our dispeller ofithe gloomy moments which =well Into hours of despair. He iy’ the hairléss, careloss, barefoot Imp Who stands for blg feet apd a liberal understanding. It is real nice to have u good opin- jon of vourself. First or la we all think that we are some pumpkins. It does=n’t codt anything tojust swell with our own conced. but T have ajways trfed to guard myeelf from showing up such a high estimate of mysslf as to_prompt some sharp, sarcastic ob- er to eay: “If T could just buy him for what he {s worth and sell him for T - "~ BIRDS IN TH Sill where the Birds are During the winter, I haye seen very few reporgs in The Bulletin from bird students. Perhaps the lack of weath- er cold enough to bring as many pen- sioners as usual to our doors may ac- count for this, 2 Birds are always to be found on my “half-acre.” For a few days late in August and about three weeks in September there are less than at other times. In June from eighteen to twen- ty kinds could be ‘readily identified in a day. During January I have seen fourteen kinds. The crow, bluejay, whitebreasted nuthatch, bluebird, myrtle warbler, brown creeper, junco, goldfinch, and the English, song, and tree sparrows. In 1908, in addition to the above, the. wenty-five were noted with- The nighthawk, ruby-throated hum- hoebe, least fly- switt, ming bird, kingbird, catgher, cowbird, timore orfole, purple finch, ~chipping _sparfow, fox sparrow, indigo-throated vireo, 'red- eved vireo, black and white warbler, yellow warbler, ~black-throated blue warbler, redstart, catbird, house wren, golden-crowned kinglet, ruby-crowned kinglet, and robin. 1 also sdw either bronze or purple grackles and meadowlarks just across the line, on adjoining land, and heard whip-poor-wills, bob whites, and sereech owls very near. Nbt far away I saw red-winged blackbirds and pur- ple martens, Within_the last three vears 1 have aiso seen within the ‘“half-acre” thy following twelve additional ones: Woodcock, hairy woodpecker, ' black- billed cuckoo, meadow lark, white- throated sparrow, fleld sparrow, to- whee. warbling vireo. Maryland' yel- low-throat, black-throated green war- bler, brown thrasher and Canada geese in flight, Nearby I have seem bob whites, barn swallows, an English pheasant, and just out of the village a pair of ross-breasted grosbeaks. Also other kinds, which I could not ident At the time of my last report, early in July, several of my tame birds were bringing thelr nestlings to the window sill, whero a supply of food is kept for their benefit. The downy woodpeck- er and her three babies only stayed three days. The chipping sparrows and thelr nestiings continued their visits for many weeks, The last time that 1 saw one on the window sill was on October 22. The song Sparrows some- times carried away crumbs, but neth- er they nor the nuthatches brought thelr families to the window. The son@ sparrows came until nearly the end of August. My pair of tame nuthatches, after being absent nearly four months, came back on December 6th to the window sill. The female came at onee to my hand when I held it out with food. The male seemed more timid and did not come to me until he had been back eleven days. They occasionally walk down a tree trunk to me when I hold my hand beside It, but will not fiy to me in the open, as the male has done im- two winters. The female did not earn to come to my hand until July nd has never been to me In the open. When she came back this winter, she soon learned to fly from the tree to the window sfll when I tapped on the glass for her. As usual. when they have more food than they wish to eat, they thrust it in a crevice in the bark of a tree and frequently cover it with & bit of bark or mo; When my pair of tame chickadees came back in June after a month's absence, they brought five nestlings, which they left at the end of twelve days. The young birds stayed -eight days longer, when they, too, went away. Several learned to eat from my hand. Their call note was more plat tive than that of the adult. To me it ounded like “Ba-bee, ba-bee. After they went away, although I sometimes heard chickadees calling in the distance, I did not see one, until 2| A Preston Woman who Trains Tlnm—-Tum 'Nuthatches| " —Chickadets who Do Not Forget Their Mistress-- . FEBRUARY 1 o ways at the Window Fed. 4 L the last week in October, when fve same ones that have been here in the past, as they did not have to be tamed. Others dld not understand coming, to Jme for food. 1 can distinguish, one pair which comes more frequently than the others by a dark mark, perhaps the result of some injury, which crosses the breast of the male. | At first he was referred to as “the one With the mark.” Now he s named “Markie.” He is so fearless that he often lights on my head, if 1 stand stil] for a moment when in the yard. If I hold half a squash seed, the meat of which is his favorite food, lightly be- he will take it fearles: he will flutter before my face and take the seed without lighting. Sometimes he lights on my hand if I hold it so that he ean reach. T, if T chance to wear a certain hood with a band of astrakhan:around the fage, he will cling to that, low down on the side, and reach around for the seed, He will balance on the clothes- line, when the garments nearby are blowing In the wind, and take a seed from my, lips or haye one passed to him between thumb and finger. 1 carry his food out in a cup-cake tin. This morning, not seelng him, 1 set the littld dish in a -siged empty cake basin, which I with me, and started to go in, when he came in gight, 80 I held out the dishes, just as they were, He lightsd on the edge of the large one, hopped in and step- ped to his own little dish, in the cen- ter, helped himself and flew away. He is so fearless and full-fed that he frequently throws away several pleces before he is suited, and s-me- times goes away without anytbing. 1f 1 want him to stay on my hand a lit- tle I peel a squash seed and cut the meat into bites, which for him are about the size of a pinhead. He will then sometimes stay and eat a dozen { or more. When the seeds are only cut | in halves, he flies to a tiny twig, and | | holds a piece under his claws and | | picks out the meat -pertectly clean. Sometimes “he will eat walnut meat, but will not eat crumhe, either of bread or cake. rkie is very nice with his mate, but is quite important with the others, seeming tosthink he is “monarch of all he surveys. ' Considering how very tiny he is, his airs are rather absurd. His mate, whom we call “Matie,” is a very daintly little bird..” When she comes to my hand, she settles down as light as g feather, while he plumps down very uriceremoniously and sa- lutes me’ with a loud . “chick-a-dee- dee.” My window visitors today were five chickadees, a nuthatch, a junco, and an English sparrow. 1 have noticed that the juncos and tree sparrows us- ually appear in larger flocks than u: ual before a storm. The juncos enjoy scratching in the haysesd, which T scatter on the ground at their fead- ing place. When an English sparrow wishes to stir it, he moves his bill ftom side to side, as a robin stirs dead leaves in the spring. One of the best descriptions of a bird's song that I have ever read is that by Frank M. Chapman in “Birds of Eastern North America,” where he writes of the. tree sparrows, with “thelr chorus of merry, tinkling motes, like sparkling frost crystals turned to music.’ . ‘While te some the taming of wild birds is & pleasure never ending and always new, yet there are many others Who meed to consider the vast amount of insects and wead seeds that are de- stroyed by the birds, 5o that they will make a greater effort to feed them in very cold and.stormy weether and to protect both eggs and birds from the law-breakers who are found not only | among the allens but t0o often In the | families of respectable citizen: Preston City, Conn,, Jan what he thinks he {s worth, T should be able to retire from business.” 1 tell you there are a great many risks in this world of ours, and they are not all money risks, and the cautious man is looking out for them. remember that a fiy upon a coach once said: “What a dust T have raised.” It Is a good idea to take your good opinion of seit and hide it as Captain Kidd a1d his goldi—where he could not find it and no one else could. 4 { SUNDAT MORNING_ TALK . LINCOLN, LIFTER OF HUMANITY. The air this last week has been vi- brant with the pralsed of Abraham Lincoln, In the innumerable tributes to him one fact shines clearly forth. Lincoln s loved today, and will be loved to the shd of time, because he got under humanity and. lifted it. That s what makes him a man, not of ifls own times only, not of his own nation alone, but a universe! man, If he had been born 50 years earller, or 50 years later,.or born in Russia or China instead of in Kentucky, he ‘would have made his own distinct and remarkablé contribution to the prog- ress of mankind. Have you noticed that it is not simply at the banquets of the rich and privileged classes that Lincoly has been eulogized, but the common people in great numbers and with . intense enthusiasm have come together, drawn by the desiré to honor Lincol And this is true not of the centenary period alone, but increasingly true of all popular aesemblages at which the rights of men are the the ‘Within the last month I have heard gather- ings of socialists applaud the name of Lincoln as heartlly as that of Kelr Hardle or John Spargo. These audi- ences belleve that Lincoln is essen- tlally with them in their struggle to obtain a better social and industrial order. And so he is, h mot mec- essarily committed to all the defalls of their‘prepaganda. But how did Lincoln lift humani’'y in his own time? By sufferi with it. What pathetic, sorrow-laden years those were in the White house, the one place in the world were & thought- less person would think to be found. But day by heart went out in yearning countrymen_ for white as well as black, for southérners as well a8 northern- ers. He was too great to be a parti- san, He was sorry for all men who were in physical or mental or spiritual ‘bondage, who misunderstood and hated one another, who were as sheep with- out a shepherd, But this all-encompassing compas- sion dlé not blur in Abraham Lincoln mind the sharp distinction betwee: right and wrong, good and evil. No one can lift his fellows by coddling' or goft-soaping them, by refrain! from pointing out the consequences ylelding to' temptation. Lincoln sought aver to get men to see the right course and then to do the right with all thel might. His own astitude he expressed in these golden worde: “I am not ‘bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed. but I am Wbend to up to what light I have. I must si with mm‘u that stands right; stand while he is right, and part with him. when he goes wrong' 'ARd Lineoin itted whitas and blacks, rich and poor, rortherners and south gruers, by glving himself all that was in his mighty physical frame, all the energles of his logical, penetrating and | forectul mind, all the resources of his | large and friendly heart. Many of us | are ready to lift others by giving gen- erous advice, by indefinite offers tance, by even venturing to that we will pray for them. But who ! of us will go down into the engine | room and 1ift a few' shovels of coal | f6r and with the stokers? Who of us will kneel right down under the load that s too heavy for the other fellow’s beck? Lincoln did. He never bragged about it, but once when under fire— and how many times he was the vie- tim of misrepresentation and abus he quietly sald: “I dq, the very best I know how—the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. I the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount | to_anything.” But Lincoln' could never have lifted the people of the nation which he lov. ed more than his own life had he not himself been constantly lifted‘nnd sus- tained by a ‘higher power. All bioz- | raphers and careful students of Lin-| coln now agree that in the truest sense of the term Lincoln was a re- ligious man, _ Richard Watson Gilder says in the February Century: “The Deity was to him an ever-present, ev- er-regnant influence. And his own tes- timony on this point is: ‘I have been | driven many times to my knees by the | overwhelming conviction that 1 had nowhere else to go. I feel that I can- not succeed without the Divine ble: ing, and on the Almighty Being I place my rellance for support. " THE PARSON. Need Be Put to Sleep. About every man in the state with a logislative idea has had 1t introduo- ed as a bill, and it is now in the leg- islative mill. That is as it should be. However much of a theorist he may be, every citizen should feel free to introduce such mw‘lT as appeal to him. The duty of teh légisiator begins after the bills get into committees. Then chloroform should be used promptly and at least 99 out of each Don't Wait Till Its Too Late—Follow the Example of a Norwich Citizen. . Rescus the aching back, # If it keeps on aching, trouble comes. Backache is kidney ache. £ you neglect the kidneys' warning. 1ok out for urinary trouble—dia- Dbetes. ommend Doan's others.” For sale by all Foster-Milburn take no other, Hexamethylenetetramin This Norwich citizen will show you 5 he | how to g0 to the rescus, cume, Some of these are evidently Mrs, Chas. H. Whaley, Myfig ‘at § Treadway Ave., Norwich. Conn., says: “Ever, since my first experence with Doan's Kidney Pills some six years ago, 1 have valued this remedy very highly. It's use has saved me a great deal of. suffering. My experience with various remedies taught me that many of them being good In oné way will cause distress in another, but such is not the cass with Doan's Kidney Pills, which I procured from N. D. Sevin & Son’s drug store. They act solely upon the kidneys, and do not affect the stomach, heart or other organs in any way. 1 consider it a pleasure to rec- Kidney Pills dealers. Price 50c. Co., * Buftalo, York, sole agents for the United States, Remember the name — Doan's — and New |l | 0 Wosk commening Ny, Fo. Matiness dally comméneing Tuesday. The Bennett-Moulton Co THIS EVENING " Shipwrecked ance. SHEEDY’S VAUDEVILLE Wil RTUAES to THIB AFTERNOON P A ngs, 10c, 30c, 30c. sixcigean. 00, Yoo Beats sale at the Box Office, Wau- (r;oqn figuu‘l.nd ilshn Pitcher & Cars. to all points after the perform- JOSEPHINE ARTHUR am! n “The Wager” ITALIA—Singing Comedienne “The Girl who Writes the Songs she Sings.” ALVOLO and OTHELO—Refined Gym nasts. Special Feature Film—LARLESIENNE GARDEN PARTY Directed by Mr. and Mrs. Roden- baugh. - .y Over 100 ladles and gentismen im the cast. chorus of 1650 It= Grand childrens’ tle girls, o " ang prettient show_ever gest, best ang pr ow given in the efty. Hot a walt or dull moment. Read “The Bulletin” for particulars Reserved seats $1.00, 75c and B0o Gallery 2ic.4 No extra charge for box seats. Bale us Fed. 17 at box offoe 2eb10WSTu Shows Week of 'm. 7. 22' " February l s COMPANY ADM No Higher The above is the name of a German chemical which malady. Take Foley's is one of the many valuable ingredients of Foley'’s Kidney Remedy. Hexamethylenetetramine recognized by medical text books and authorities as a urlc acld_solvent and antiseptic for the urine. Kidney Remedy as soon as you notice any irregularities and avoid a serious The Lee & Osgood C: is Cooper & MeNulty, Lessee: Devoted to First-class Movin years.—Bristol Pre: 100 bills pyt to sleep for at least two LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Clergy and Prohibition. Mr. Editor: called, facts Providence, R. L L have more you know the old come and men may go0" but church of God goes on forever. In view of statements going the rounds of the press, and par- ticularly to an article In & Sunday paper to which my attentlon has been I would lke to state & The Rev. W. to Greeneville In 1898, ders, and was raised to the priesthood. The salary he received was mutually agreed upon and was paid in full. The statement that he was popular is true. He pald his bills (llke the gentleman he i) and left for a larger ehurch in , from there he went to Millburn, N. J., from which-he went to a_still jarger church in Brooklyn, N. Y., which was destroyed by fire. After rebuilding ;:Q edifice ,h. ;ont to his present charge at Riverl l, As to the abillty of the liquor Main Street, dealers to pay more money than the church, we have reason to believe they subscribers. saying, this privilege, I thank you. Norwich, Feb. 1 Talking from Experionce. At Panama Mr. Taft may give the steam shovels some instructions as to how to eat their way straight across 1, 1909 A. Wasson came in deacon's or- day with six ot drama _and rello will eing Cooper will »sing G. A R Performance at B ola 15 and 718 Bvenings, 10c. few ung at FOR BALE AT . Bditor, "Men may ’ the For 4 THOMAS CROMPTON. 49 Main Street. Nearly opposits Theatre. febSa the {sthmus and come out on the other ‘Before held Mr. being indolent; too activi everyone.—] fleet in~ Hampton side.—St. Louls Republic. It Doesn’t Fully. the senatorial caucus was Brandegee was accused of now it is said he is It 1s impossible to plemse ew Britain Herald. A Chance for Observation. Feb. 22 tie day and 130 p. m. the minute promised for the arrival of the Paste that } in your watch cases and see how it cor- responds.—Boston Transeript. Roads. A Busy Pastor. A, Polish pastor Felt for Chair Legs. Baste bits of felt on the bottoms of l(-h!lh' legs to avoid making scratches in on hardwood floors. To Remove Bad Odor. A little salt sprinkledon a hot etove disagreeable odor. will remave an: New Britaln, Ct., holds tae state record in the marrying line, having folned fifteen couples in a single day this week. MARIETTA Haveyoumether? She is the sweetest thing you ever saw 'u:d sells for ten cents each or eleven for one dollar at the cigar-stand in the Wauregan House THE PARKER-DAVERPORT CO., Proprietors. CLIPPED FROM EXCHANGES. After a lanta, Th ear of prohibitiod In At- Constitution reports that arrests by the Atlanta police decreased §810; the fines c ollected in the re- corder’s court fell off $34,350, and the fines worked out on the streets were less by $10,388. The bureau of manufactutes is in receipt of circulars announcing an ex- hibit of American Chili, for a period months during the fall of 1909. South Amcricar Exhiblt company of 27 William street, New York city, hav- ing the matter in charge, states that goods must be in New York ready for shipment on or about May 1. Mrs. Milllcent Garrett Fawcett is the only woman who has ever been asked to addrers the University Debating so- at Oxford. At the recuest of the students she t00k woman suffrage as At the end of her spesch a resolution In favor of womun suffrage was put and lost by a_mafority of 16 clet hér subject. goods at ntlago, of two or three The FIRE The very best protection for the home and store is There {s a rumor that Mra. Julis Ward Home will in the near future receive a vitation from Harvard, similar | Explorations and Investigations have ehown that the known coal beds of supply this country with fuel for the next hun- dred vears at an annual consumption of 3,000,000 tons, and as yet only a portion of the coal lands has been ex- Sabinas is the center of the rtion of carbonif- has revealed the existence of at least 300,000,000 tons of northern Mexico plored. great coal fields, a erous Mexico whi available fuel. ‘would The finest, most tasteful and wholesome biscuit, cake and try are made with Royal fi: ing Powder, and not otherwise. Royel Grape Croam of Tartar a tube of KILFYRE, the chemical fire extin- guisher. Special price of the $2.50 size only $1.00 Company. NOTICE! )-gnnln( May 1st, all members ternational %MI rs’ union, No. 28! Matinees, Ladles and Children, Se. Ladies and Children BREED'S THEATRE Pictures and Iliustraled Songs. The Test of Friendship will be the feature Thursday, Friday and Satur- pictures of good comedy. Madame Mor- numbers. Mr. Glory or the| BREED HALL, ‘Washington Square. All Songs BREED’S THEATRE, Extinguishers EATON CHASE 129 Main Streat, Norwich, Ct. tebl2a of Hod Carrlers and of Norwich, will receive I8 cents per hour. JOSEPH ALDI Sec'y. febiza DR. A. F. HOWARD, DENTIST PICTURES CHANGED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. Roderick Theafre SILVA & BROWNELL, Lessees, HIGH CLASS MOVING PICTURES AND ILLUSTRATED SONGS. The programme for Thursday, day and Saturday will be: The istrate's Consclence, Magle Mirrors, Sallor's Sweatheart, The Unselfish Guest, Ingomar. Mr, O'Nell singing Beside the O Oak Gate. Continuous performance from § s 5and 7 to 10 p. m ADMISSION 5 CENTS. 327 Main Btreet, opp. Post Ofios, fevlla CADILLAC HALL 82 Market St, opp. Sheedy's Theatse, New class now opened for puplls. As rangements made by phone 422-3, or J. J. KENNEDY, 117 Main SL Private Lessons any Hour. SJan1sd JAMES F. DREW Piano Tuning and Repairing Best Work Only, "Phune 422-3. 18 Perkine Ave, sept2da Maher’s School For Dancing, T. A. AND B, HALL, 62 Broadway, Norwioh, Oonn. Dancing every Friday and Saturdey evenings. Baker's orchestra. Private lessons tn Walts, Twe-step, Bt t any hour. Classes now o phome 471 oct2 EXPERT TUNING 0 _improves the plans. AN work guaranteed. A, W. JARVI No."15 Clafremont Ave, Norwich, Conn. it School of Plane F. C. GEER TUNER 122 Prospeot 8t Tel, 889-5, Norwich, OL Just see what we can offer you in the line of Canned Fruit and Vegelables PEOPLE’'S MARKET, 6 Franklin St. JUSTIN HOLDEN, Prop. ‘odol s For Indigestion Ao DYSPEPSIA Jan22a ‘Headaches, dull in pit of the stomach, belching of gasand bitter fluid, “*heartburn these mean indiges: tion, or a. Then, if you will take a little l, you will know just why it is for lon—anddyspepsia. 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