Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 12, 1909, Page 12

‘Them to Do—Why Thyy Do It (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) The very most amazing thing to me about the United States Is fact hat there is still such a country. Con- sidering the blundering and stupidity nd selfishness and shortsightedness ng hypocrisy which are manifestly he controling motives in most of our legjslatures and congresses, it is a conder that things haven't gome to nal smash Jong since. I'm 1ot king about one party or another x heaven forbid. I'm talking about the aveérage lawmaker who I8 clected by the average constituency. i Take the run of men as you meet thent. A large majority are fairly in- telligent; fairly reasonable; fairly hone quite patriotic. You'd have difaculty in fooling them, individually, about matters concérning their own interest. You can trust the most of them to act fatrly with you and_to show considerable good judgment. But when you banch thaf same lot together nd, set them to acting for the general d, they are about as sensible as s0 any monkeys; about es reasonable as sheep, and about as foresighted as paving stones. Why is it? The acting fogether of the public for the public welfare and benefit iy all there is to our sys‘em of goveriiment. It is vastly more important, in itself, that this mutval, public action be wise and just than that sny private action be pru- dent. Moreover, on the lowest ground of selfishness, It is more necessary. Ang yet, if you will show me one self- évident bit of wisdom and justice en- asted by any legislature or by con- gress in the last year I'll agree to show you feur self-evident acts of selfish- ness or wrong or folly enacted, or as many acts of wisdom defeated for un- worthy reasons. I'm not thinking about the tarnation tariff. The more I hear and read about it, the less I know—which is just the ease with most other people. All that s clear to me in thé matter is that congreys Is wasting some weeks of time and some hundreds of thousands of dollars in pretemding to- consider it, “Pretending,” 1 say advisedly. For all thig debating and speechifying is not consideration but bluff and buncomibe. There is no reason for suspecting that a «Ingle vote has been ¢hanged by all the speeches made in both housés. So far as thé outcome Is concerned, the till might just as well have been pass- &4 by the house the morning it was in- troduced, and by the senate the same afternoon. Never mind the tariff, though, Take satne mare comprehensible needs of the country as a whole—of the people as a whole. The othér day I talked & ifttle about the crass blindness and sowardice of congress in refusing to stlopt a parcels post measure which should put this benighted country of ours on an equality of service with, sgy, Tasmania or the Black Forest. This is the only country in the world today pretending to a high civiliza- tlon which fails to give its people the manifestly reasonable, economiecal and just service it could give and is maintained to give along this line,. We brag about our progressiveness and our advancement, and, yet, in this matter which touchés the interest and the convenience and the comfort and the pocketbook of every American @welling in the country districts, we @re the very tail-end of the pup. In- deed, we can hardly be said to be at- tached to the dog, at all. The string has broken, and we're more like” the battered tin can lying at the roadside apbout ag useful and no more pro- gréssive, All because the lower house of congress Ig afraid of offending some political interest and hecause the up- per housé is or has been dominated by the callous greed of a gang of ex- press and transportation managers, whose private profits depend on their eontinued ability to exaet high prices. Then there are the postal savings banks. For about thirty-flve years postmaster generals have annually adviséd or begged for their estab- lishment. Does any one doubt the value of savings banks to the com- mon peoplé? There are about fiftéen hundred of them In the country, nearly all in fourteen states. In those four- teen the savings banks deposits amoant to $3,590,000,000; in the other thirty4wo states and all the territories to about $70,000. New York and New England have twice as many deposits as all the other states combined. By the postal savings scheme each ‘of the 68,000 postoffices, most of them in those thirty=two states, would become a depesitary where the thrifty man or woman could put into the hands of the government his or her small sav- frigs with thé feeling that they were as secure ad the life of the nation. It is no part of the plan to run them for profit, elthér t& the government or to the depositor. The rate of interest proposed is only 2 per eent, which would eliminate them from all com- petition with privately managed banks which pay 8 1-2 or 4 Yer cent. A Criticism of Man in the Mass—Why Do tive Bodies Act with Wisdom, Act ” the People—Our Servants Do Not Do what we Hire Do Not the Farmers See that — Those are the main facts about the g:hl mlnr bank scheme. As said ore, nearly every -postmaster gen- eral for thirty-five years has urged it; Dbill after bill has been introduced in- to congress—but we boastful Ameri- cans haven't a single postal savings bank, thus far, Yet such banks are today and have beem for many years in operation—in successful and public- ly useful operation in Ceylon and Ja- n, in Egypt and Sferra Leone, in gl‘ew South Wales and the Bahama is- jands, In Finland and Dufch Guiana, to say nothing of such lands as Great Britain and France and Haly and Ru gsia and Austria Beigium af Sweden and Holland. They have been in successful and ular operation in England for forty-eight years. Time enough, one would think, for even an American congressman to get evidence concerning their practicality and value! These two utllizations of wur existing postal facilities are especially urgent for rural Americans. Then there is the question of compénsating workmen for accidents which are, apparent]y, the necessary product of trades. We are still killing and maiming workmen by the thousand and burying the frag- ments in cemeteries or poorhouseés, be- cause we still cling to the outworn and outrageous injustice known in law as the “fellow servant” the “assumption of risk” and the “contributo negli- ence” docétrines; doctrines which no ess than sixteen European countrties, {ncluding Great Brifain, France, Aus- tria, Italy, Germany and Swéden, have alrrady abrogated in whole or in great part. Even the Transvaal and South Australia have workmen's ‘compensa- tion laws, vastly betteNthan ours. Yot neithér congress nor any state legisla- ture has thus far done anything effec- tively righteous for the protection of the servants of industry. What feeble attempts towards justice have “been made the courts have managed to nullify. Now, here are thres things-—parcels post_postar savings banks, a just work- men’s compensation law—thrée things which nine men out of ten, taking time to think of them, will say are plain]y desirable, manifestly just, proven to be practicable. They are three things in which the United States of America should have led the world. For this government is asserted to be one “of the people, by thé peoplé and for the people.” And yet in every one of the three we are behind every civilized conntry in Europe, and in some of them behind éven the islands of the antipodes. Why? Manifestly this is not 4 “government for thé peoplé” in these three matters, And yet it is government “by the people” Two of the threé reforms are distinetly in the initerests of the farmers; clearly for their benefit; the lack of them is a manifest denial of justice to us, as a clags. Why, then, don’'t we get up on our hind legé and compel our servants fn the goverament to do that which we hire 'em to do and pay 'em for doing, but that which they don't and won't do? 5, There we come back to the mystery of it; why many men, acting together, are so much less wise and just and shrewd than the individudls of the bunch are, when each is acting sep- arately. “Behold, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.” But why? John Farmeér Is fairly i telligent; George Jones is fairly inteili- gent; Bill Smith is fairly intelligent. Bach one of them, acting by and for himself, acts with pruder re and fore- sight; why should the three, when called on to act together for mutual welfare, become doddering imbeciles? There needs to be, in this equntry of eurs, a comuléte and radical change in the way in which we all take our puh- e dutiés and choosé our public ser- vants. And we farmeérs néed the quic ening every bit as much. if not a littie more, than any other class. I'm not talking- “politics,” if you please, 1 4aon’'t care whether you're 4 democrat or a mugwump or a prohibitionist or républican or a “sit-on-the-fence: there are good men’ in all the parties, and double-a’d rascals in all. What's party politics got to do with the mail man’s bringing me a parcdl? or the postmaster’s taking my weéekly savings and giving meé Un Sam's receipt for it? or the government’ eihg to it that I get some payme-nt fc v’ leg'cut off by an unprev dent at the factory or m ? One ¢ us may believe in pnrotection and in free trade; another in proh and a fourth in regulation. We can differ on such matters, hut we all agree that we want a parcels post and postal #avings banks and just compensation for the accidents of honest labor. Why can't we get togéther at least once a yvear and howl unitedly for the many things we agree on, instéaq of forever standing apart, snarling about the few things we differ in? THE FARMER. e ettt e Love and Envy. The highest love is ever quickest to detect the failures and inconsis: teneies of the beloved. Just because if Its Intensity it can be content with nothing less than the best, because the best means the blessedest, and it longs that the object of its thoughts should be most blessed forever. It is a mistake to think that green-eyed Jealousy is the quickest to detect the spots on the sun, the freckles on the face, and the marring discords in the musie of life; leve is quicker, more microscoplc, more exacting that the ideal should be achieved, Envy is con- tent to indicate the fault, and leave it but love detects and waits and holds its peace umtil the fitting opportunity arrives and then sets itself to remove the defect—The Angelus. How Seminoles Bury Thelr Dead. Seminolés bury their dead on top of the ground, after wrapping them in blnslola,tbnt always leave the top of the head exposed. They build & pen over the body and usually chink it with earth. When his squaw dies, the busband wears his shirt until it rots off, which is not strikingly distinctive. ‘When the husband dies, the squaw doesn’t comb her hair for three months. Little reverénce ‘is shown for the dead. When Tom Tiger’s grave was robbed and his bones taken for exhifbition the outery over the dese oration was almost wholly & news- paper affair. The nearest settlers were unalarmed and the Indians indifferent. ~Ffom “A Vanishing Race,” by A. W. Dimeock, in Collier"s. “They vsed to say I was a man with a futufe”. “And now? “Now they ref -me a4 man with a past vcu.n-?uu"-— | Will Not Down. “After all, my friends,” sald the cafnpalzn epelibinder, “vital princi- ples never change. ' Questions of expe. ! diency may arise to cloud the real and lving 1ssués from time to time, but the issues themselves are the same from generation to generation. Political parties in the main agree as to aims. as to methods that divide them. TFor example what one thing do we all, without régard to political affiliations, regard as one of the essentials of our civilization?” “A good five-cent cigar,” shouted an enthusiastic hearer on the outekirts of the crowd. “Busting” the Trust. “Look here, Bill,”” exclaimed the first citizen, “this orator person is bitter énough now on the subjeet of trusts, but, as everybody in this coun- ty knows, he was at one time a good deal interested in one of them.” “Sure!” assented the other, ‘“but just consider what he did whem he awoke to the enormity of the thing! Didn't he do his level best to bust that trust? He sold it every one of his fac- tories for twice what it was worth.” One of Two Things. “How cold your nose it.” “Dad,” declared materfamiliag in the mext room, “either tha® young man has proposed at last er Towser is in the parlor again.’—Louisville Couter- Journal 3 “Wheré’s this trunk going?" asked the baggageman. “W¢ll,"” answered the mild-mannered passenger, ‘from the way you are handling it, I'm in- clined to change my first impression on the subject and conclude that it .8 ‘ashington n:.nmm.u-—w It is a difference of opinion | Firemen's Mo —Today's Judge Oliver H. ular session of the z c : the case of the state against John was commenced. Cis:o was with the larceny of railroad ties, - ty-five in number, fism the New and New Haven Railroad company, taking them from the yari in Wester:y known as Purdick’s switch. x5 Frank B. Johnston of Groton, tie in- spector, the first witness, was exam- ined by Attorney Harry B. for the state and Judge John W, Sweeney for defendant. He testified that on Nov. 3, 1908, he had d the ties at Burdick’s switch, ich were the BRI In view of the fact that this insti- holds amount of securi- interest nn: 150,000 granite paving blocks ve shipped same as it was all Cisco had st from Westerly to TLey were received from Orrin C. g::i York the present week. G SYRUP 4" of North St u:iutheymhh e by is initials—0. C, ‘hese marks were Mr. and Mrs. wnu-nm Hoxsey i'u. 3 on the ties before their purchase and from _sou hros, Ofllfn:rn S so!g afterwards the railroad company mark where, they heve spe: e winter. one only, regular price 50¢ per bottle. was added. The ties were vilued at fifly cents each for No. 1 ties and thr- ty cents for No. 2s. He said he did not know Mr, Main personally. Herbert J. Sabre of Bridgeport, chief clerk in the department, testified {bat on Nov. 14 the compary purchased 120 No, 1 *ies and 20 No 2 ties from Orrin C. Main. Orrin « Main testified that he had sold ties to the railroad company on |fend: three different. occasions and that he delivered the ties at Burdick's switch in Westerly. His last delivery was in June of 1908, Twenty-two of these ties were rondemned. He' gave his nephew, Willlam C. 8pargo, authority to sell these condemned ties, which were in & separdte pile fromn the rest. A week or more ago he saw some of the ties he had gold to the railroad company in a yard in Piérce street. John Robinson of Westerly, section boss for the railroad company, testified that the ties in question were stored ir. the company's yard at Burdick’'s switch, which i used for the receipt of carloads of bulky freight and also for the delivery of like fréight and for railroad stordge purposeés, * Robert Walsh of Warren, for the past seven years a special ‘unt for the railroad company, in company witk Chief Bransfield, visited the premises of John Cisco in Pierce street and saw the missing ties piled up against the side of a barn in his yard ani the ties weére subsequently taken back to the yard at Burdick's switch, where they are at the present timeé William C. Spargo testified that he had a granite yard in Oak street, near the Burdick switch, and that on May 21 last he saw John Cisco carting away the ties. He ordered him to stop and informed him that he had no right to take the ties, for the witness had sol. them to the Smith Granite company, meaning the ties that had been con- Gemned and which Mr. Main had zu- therized him to sell. Cisco said he had purchased the ties, but he stopped New London Gospel mission work- ers will conduct the services at the People’s mission Saturday evening. Games scheduled for Saturday in Rhode Island-Connectlcut lague Stonington at White Rock, West- at Walkefield, Carolina at Nor- For Rellef ‘of Insomnia.” In case of insomnia try walking o & shower bath before retiring. Some people have conquered sleeplessness by fixing one brilllant object or listens ing to the beating of a clock. the are: erly R .': Rev. and Mirs. Samuel G. Babeock of Cambridge, formerly of Westerly, will sail from Boston today (Satur- day) for Genoa, where whey will spend the summer. Miss Grace Burdick, for the past seven yéars bookkecger in the Sun of- fice, has resigned. She is to be unit- ¢d in marriage this month with Thad- deus Weams of Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Burdick is succeeded Miss Eliza- BRIEF STATE NEWS i T3 vecir tor Biftscpor one o the two trade echools recently author- ized by the legislature. Woodbury.—The farmers complain of damage being done to their corn- by the crows, and they are out with guns to kill them, mour~*The annual outing of Ludlow chapter, D. A. R, will be held at the Ellsworth homestead, in ‘Windsor, on Tuesday, June 22. 8imsbury—Bishop Dantel A. Good- sell of New York ally dedicated the mew Methodist chur¢h Thursday afternoon before a large congregation. Hartford.—The Rev. Dr. Judson ‘White of: Tacoma, who has accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist church in Hartford, will begin his work Sunday, June 20. Thompsonville~—The total number of vieits made by Miss Karen Neilson, the visiting nurse, during the month of May was 214 and the number of pa- A Surel “De man dot don't do nuffin’ but look out for number one,” sald Uncle Eben, “Is purty sure soomer or later to attract attention to hisse'f as about de smallest figger in de 'rithmetic.” £3 - Teak Log of Record Size.\ The largest teak log recorded In Rangoon was 83% feet, with a circun> ference of 12 feet at the bdutt and feet at the top, and contained over ten tons of timber when cut zp. ‘Methodist ¢ but of late he has been a +he Broad street Christian ¢h More Libel, Customer—*“1 want to get a pleca of sllver as wedding present for & man who's marrying a Boston girl “What would you suggest?” Clerk~ “An icepick.”—The Bellman. :t" - "s".i’ z:‘flgnm The parade wi Memor! Ly o be by comy and the procession will form in Union street in the early afternoon and the march will start at 2 o'clock. The processfon will be head- €d by the Westerly Services at River Bend cémetery will be condusted by Revs. John M. Collins and F. C. A. Jones. o In Their Chosen Field. The man who cannot write usually can make his mark, yet most of those who think they can write find it mighty hard to make theirs.—Kansaa City Times. The Fi Y, corps of W y, had tice at the state rifle range };:m:l.hl'rhlsxi tél: range ,nu;, the -charge. Arthur ordnance officer. ‘Lu officerd save con:dcen'.élmu mvioo“ a; or the first practi thz season the scorés were satisfac- tory. The scores: Sulphur taking any more away, so far as the 200 300 600 tients attended was 24. witness knew. He never saw Cisco Yds. Yds. Yds. To | ouro Lo toterestt ‘ water take ties at any other time. At the | Capt. Babeock, 7 40 81114 | < g T sight is a time Cisco had ten ties in his wagon | Sgt. Trackeray, 37 @-—117|"wS owl wglch as pre-ampted a Baths and he drove away with thege, Sgt. Freestone, 40 — 177 |crow’'s nest and 18 ocrupying it in the — Sergt. Knoblick, 32 41110 | recesses of $ 1 pine tree near the ; \ Chief Bransfiel| testified to seeing | Serst. Leonard, 33 43— o8 | home ef W. L. Godfrey. At Little Cost Corp. Malone, , Corp. J. L. Brown, Corp, Ferguson, Cérp. John Bfown, 35 CorpWinterbottom 24 Mus. Cameron, 39 Mus, Sullivan, 89 Mechanic London, 83 Samen, Iiv::,'g ames F. E. Clark, 30 Collins, Foley, . Gardner, . Geary, two piles of railroad ties in John Cis- co's yard in Plerce street. Cisco said he had bought the lot from a North Steningtn man for $3.85. Witness asked Cisco if he thought that the uat who sold him over a hundred ties $3.85 cam> by thein honestly. Chief ansfield €aid he madé the -omplaint against Cisco_at the roquest of Mr. Walsh. Mr. Cisco produced a receipt «igred by Charles Colbert ‘o show that he had purchased the ties. Section Boss Robinaon, recalled, sald there were 104 accepted ties and 22 rejected ties in Cisco’s yard. Effective sulphur-water baths Nnu?:h.ek,—'nn Naugatuck golt oy may be made at little cost in fine shape for the game with the Derby golf team, which will played on the local golf links on y afternoon, June 19. Torrington.—As the funeral proces- slon conveying the body of George D. | Woricman to its last resting place was | going ? the steep hill at McKinley street, Thursday evening, the pins in with warm water and Glenn’s Sulphur Soap Excellent for rheumatism, hives, heat rashes and many chronic skin diseases. All druggists, ORI wvlini. -t ARSI U T HAll's Hair and Whisker Dye, black or brows, S0c. siderable difficulty that the casket was replaced and the procession enabled to eontinue its way to the new Hillside cemetery. For Bilious Attack Here is help for you. Your bilious attacks may be both prevented and leheveg, but prevention is better than cure. The means are at your hand. When a dull headache, furred tongue, yellow cast to the eyes, inactive bowels, dizziness, or a sick stomach, warn you of a coming bilious attack, resort at once to BEECHAM'S PILLS which act almost instantly on the liver and bowels, and quickly regulate the flow of bile.” A few doses of Beecham’s Pills will correct the stomach, put the blood in order, relieve headache and tone the entire system. For over sixty years, on land and sea, Beecham’s Pills, by their safe and thorough action on the stomach, bile and bowels, have maintained their world-wide reputation as The Best Bile Medicine Bozes 10e. and 25c., with full directions. Charles H. Brown of Nerth Stoning- ton testified that he was accosted by a man whom he since learned was John Cisco and accused of being the person who had sold Ciseo Some railroad ties, but he d2nied it. Then Cisco said wit- R McC]ellln; ness looked like the man and he wae - O'Connell, cccrted to the polise station, but wae . Sisson, held by the chief. Witness de- ‘Séenhcul‘. atson, 34 Carl J. Nordell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Nordell of Danbury, who sall- ed last Tu from New York for Europe, formerly resided with his par- ents in Westerly known here by reason of his unusual artistic ability. Thoe elder Nordeil kept a shomeaker shop at 6 streét and removed from w‘ng‘»y to Danbury about six years ago. oung Mr. Nordell will spend two yeatrs in studying art in Paris, Italy, Spain, Holland, Germany and other places. He hag been a student at the Museum of Fine Arts _in awarded the Paige $1,600, besides minor honors. At a re tion énd ‘lared he had never $old any railroad tics and had never sesn Cisco until he held him up in the street. John Ciseo, the accused, said he was 49 years of age and had lived in West- erly for twenty-five years, He tes fied that he bad purchased some rail- road es from a man who gaid his name was Joe Main and was given a receipt for the same. He met Main in Pierce street and he offered the wit- ness some railrosd ties cheap. Wit- ness went with the man to Durdick’s swetch who there pointed out the twa piles of ties that he would sell for § . Heé gave the man the money ard carted tha ties away until he was stopped hy Mr. Spargo. Witness told Spargo he did not want any trouble and he asked Spargo to find out as to the real ownership of the ties and that if all was not straight he would return the tieg to the rallroad yard. Stephen Reynslds testified that he was driver of a1 ice wagon and was getting a load of ice from the house 1ezr Burdick's switch when John Cisco £1d two mén approached him and Cicco id he had bought some railroad ties from one of the men and asked the witness to write him off a receipt for the ‘man’s signature. This the wit- ness did and the man sienéd the name of Charlas Colbert and Cisco paid $3.85. Chief Fransfield, recalled, testitied street Christian church, Thursday eve- ning, Alexander Mitchell, in behalf of the members 6f the society, presented an elegant fountain to President Charles J. Dutton. he present was in recognition of Mr. Dutton's recent admission to the bar of the Rhode Is- land courts. . & o The Westerly hi. 60| all team won in the game with the Tech nical school team of Providence at Riverside park, Friday afternoon br a score of 8 to 1. It was a slow, list- less game, and far away from the us- w— R A A A AR A AR ARRRARARRRAR - "TWILL HELP YOU Ter nerveusmess, irritability, heafache, backache, pressing- down pains, and other symptoms of genmeral femals weakness, thls compound has been found quick and safe. 1 think Viburn-O-Gin is the best remedy for weak women, It &oces me mors good than @ny medicine I bave ever taken. I cannot’ praise it stroms emough. 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