Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 22, 1909, Page 4

Borwich ‘éllifi'i and g-‘i:“a 113 YEARS OLD. Subseription mough; Conn., as ncond -c! Telephone c.n-- Bulletin siness Offic Bulletin itorfal RO Bulletin Job Otfice, 3 Willimantic Office, Room 2. Murray Builing. Telephone, 210. Norwich, Wednesday, ’l'he Circulatlon of The Bulletin. H The Bulletin has the largest cir- culation of any paper in Eastern Connecticut, and from three to four times larger than that of any In Norwich. It is delivered to over 8,000 of the 4,053 houses in Nor- wich, and read by ninety-three per $ cent. of the people. In Windham $ it is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to nv.r; 1,100, and in al’ of these places .t! is considered the locel dally. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five post office districts and forty- ene rural free dellvery routes. The Bulletin is sold In every town and on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1001, 8VOPRgE +.oveeriosesaion 4m§ 1905, average. 5920' 1906, average. 5,559g 1907, lv-rlge.............47' | 79; eessssssseessasesssenssananed s THE JUBILEE BOOK. The Jubilee Book, containing a cemplete record of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the town of Norwich, with complete {llustrations, containing at least 100,- 000 words and 50 pages of portraits and scenes of decorated streets and sectjons of the parade, etc. The Bul- letin hopes to have the book ready for delivery early in December. If you have not ordered one, fill out the cou- pon printed elsewhere and mail to the “Business Manager of The Bulle- tin, Norwich, Conn.” i TYTTTTTTTT AR : : H HONOR V8. DISHONOR. When angry officials vent spite and jpleen upon an honest man--when of- ficials, nettled by criticism venture to dishoner & soldier ‘for upright con- duet and homest criticism, they find instead themselves in dishonor. Of course, the old idea of a soldier of the ranks was that he had no right to say his soul was his own—those days are ancient and every soldier of intelligence is today recognized as a captain. Private Walter M. Pickett of New Haven, a bright newspaper correspondent, has been summarily dismissed the service by order of Adjt. General Cole, for his sharp eriticisms of the conduct of the war game in Massachusetts, In which he was an interested participant. Private Plckett aid not try to evade the responsibil owned up that his opinions as a nev paper man were correctly printed and explained that it was as such he acted as a critic, not as a private soldier. Shoulder-strapped and brass-buttoned rule was not broad enough to compre- hend that the two capacities were dis- tinct, and that the newspaper critic had as much right to speak his opin- ions as the private soldier had to shoot. 8o young Mr. Pickett {s out of the state service, honored instead of dis- henored In the eyes of his contempo- rarles, expressing no regret and ready te handle a more trenchant pen in the future. He has not retracted or apel- ogized, but stands pat distinetly hon- ored in the eyes of the fraternity. WHERE WE LACK. Tt is not strange that Wu Ting-fang thinks that we Americans could be im- proved in many ways, for the Ameri- cans are not as gentle mannered as the representatives of many alien races. When he returned from his travels in South America, he gave us one of his light raps by remarking: “Politeness is a marked peculiarity of the Peruvians. They are of the Latin races. What I noticed particularly was that they were so polite—something like: our own people,” None of the company ventured to comment upon his remarks, and Minister Wu broke the silence by remarking: *“I did not say Americans were not polite!” When it comes to average politeness it is evident enough that the object lesson is not American. Young America laughs at the politeness—which it re- gards as affectation—of some of the representative races; but there is something pleasant in their polite and cheerful salutations. Minister Wu may have been boldly insinuative, but he was not openly in error. COMPULSORY CREMATION. While cremation is recognized as the most sanitary way of disposing of the dead, there is something so abhorrent gbout it to the average mind that it does not increase in public faver very rapidly; but at the annual convention of cemetery superintendents in a discusgion of .this question by them it was declared that compulsory crema- tien is among the possibilities of the near future. It was shown by statis- tics that the number of cremations in the past ten years had been dou- bled and the belief is that it will con- tinue to overcome the prejudice which is its greatest check. It is singular that incineration should appear te be 80 much more dreadful a thing than the burial of the dead in the melding earth. To those who favor cremation it seems that every person ought readily to appreciate the sanitary ad- vantages of it, but inasmuch as they de not, the time when cremation be- lcomes wuniversal depends altogether ‘ ?n thy amount of enlightenment on e subject necessary te overcome a prejudice based upon a tender senti- mnt. pr———— ‘rlu oyster is getting inte goed so- cigty just as fast as the weather will permit. The Wall Street Journal ly been doing a li uring with reference to the business of the Standard Oil company. ‘1t finds that the net profits of the Standard OIl company are running at the rate of approximately $83,000,000 a year. The production of petroleum in the United States in 1908 amounted to 179,572,479 barrels, valued at $129,708.258. The Standard Oil company, largely as the selling agent, is supposed to control about 80 per cent. of the il produc- tion of the country, so that of the number of barrels produced the com- pany must have handled approximate- 1y 143,600,000 barrels. The net profits of the Standard Oil, based upon $83,- 000,000 a year, are therefore at the rate of about 58 cents a barrel of Am- erican oil produced. The &verage price per barrel of oil produced in the Unit- ed States last year was approximately 72 cents. However, the profits of the Standard Ol company also include revenues derived from foreign subsid- faries. ‘The world's production of oil in 1908 aggregated 284,614,000 barre! Assuming that the Standard Oil cor pany controls 70 per cent. of the world’s production of oil, it must have handled last year close to 200,000,000 ‘barrels. THE DEMOCRACY OF DEATH. The death of E. H. Harriman called forth from the press many comments upon death as the great leveller, and thus has brought to light once more the splendidly presented thoughts of the late Senator Jonn J. Ingalls upon this subject, when he said: “In the democracy of the dead all men are at last equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. At this fatal threshold the philosopher ceases to be wise, and the song of the poet is silent. Dives relinquishes his millions, and Lazarus his rags. The poor man is as rich as the richest and the rich man is as poor as the pauper. The creditor loses his usury, and the debtor is acquitted of his obligatiton. There the proud man surrenders his dignities, the politiclan his hoenors, the worldling his pleas- ures; the invalid needs no physician, and the laborer rests from unrequited toit. Here at last is nature’s final de- cree in equity. The wrongs of time are redressed, injustice is expiated, the irony of fate is refuted, the unequal distribution of wealth, honor, capacity, pleasure and opportunity which makes life so cruel and inexplicable ceases in the realm of death. The strongest there has no supremacy and the weak- est needs no defense. The mightiest eaptain succumbs to that invincible adversary who disarms altke the vic- tor and the vanquished.” EDITORIAL NOTES. Of course, Taft thinks that the tariff bill is the best bill ever, or he would not have signed it. Miss Elkins appears to realize that an American queen can make the na- bobs of Italy come down. Hog cholera costs the country forty millions a year, and the end-seat hog and some others are immune from it. Many a family man acts as if he thought his wife put down the door- mat for ornament instead of for use. The man who thinks he owes pos- terity nothing can make posterity in- debted to him if he will just get up and hustle. It has been decided by the Sons of Rest that-the man who does not get «is head turned by success must have | a stiff neck. ! Happy thought for today: All the good people do not die young, for if they did you and I would have been dead long ago! Down in Georgia a recently prose- cuted case shows that one may shoot his mother-in-law for $20.75. This is a bargain price. Tt is not likely that Harry Whitney of New Haven knows that he has be- come a missing link. What he didn't say should cut no ice, Dr. Cook did not present the new- found land of thirty thousand square miles to the government. Finding was not having with him. It is just as well that everybody who wants to be a monopolist can't be, for that would rob monopoly of all its power and distinction. Prohibition is said to have split Alabama from end to .end, but that will not make two separate states of it, if we debar wet and dry. No one will blame Dr. Cook if he gets a lttle wrathy when he learns what his old friend and comrade, Peary, has been saying about him. The character of every neighbor- hood is a good mark or a bad one on the map of a town or city. Is your neighborhood marking up or down? The law’'s delays have been sub- ject to criticism for several hundred years, but if the world would stand pat against the delays of lawyers, a change would result. Those people who were hankering for a speech from Taft in the west that was perfectly clear have discov- ered. that Taft is a man who delivers the goods every time. ‘When the Apostle Paul told men to put on “the whole armor,” the foot- ball players were not born; but they obey the .command and would scare crows from a eornfield. Mrs, Young, superintendent of schools at Chicago, realizes that one woman can east a gloom over a stag party, and she declined to be that woman when Tau was there. WHAT THE PAPERO SAY. As a Big Stltk President Taft does not know what to do with the pole, but Mr. Roosevelt never would have been puzzled in that way, with so many malefactors of one kind and aneother cluttering up the _map hereabouts.—Chicago News. Took No Chances. The remains of a gigantic rhmocer- os have been unearthed in Oregon. Probably it headed the exodus from South Africa when the Roosevelt hunt- ing expedition was announced and | starved to death in a strange land.— | Denver Republican. The World’'s Sécond Childhood. With gum drops winning the north | pole and chocolates tempting the Penn- sylvania youth,to church, there seems to be reason for {nfln; the world is !I‘nl its second childhood.—Washington mes, Where Both Agree. Fortunately sthere is an agreement on one point: Both discoverers dsicov- the pole on the same day of the -Tuesday.—Providence ’l}rtbune. appointment by hedging herself within ble of the trolley cars, the faint trill- o S derer street, ing from ?u sonable ing aimlessly ofl mw a deserted fi A tew scattered with between ornamented it on al e, and it was from their ence u eventually gained the dignity of the term—street. At the farthest, end, next to the empty fleld, that in winter was piled high with neutrally tinted snow and in summer served as a dump heap for the entire neighborhood, lived Janet Douglas. Janet hated that dreary street. "It seemed symbolic of her - whole life, which was an existence robbed of all beauty and the twang and effervescence ;)tljoyauunels, leaving it grgy, unevent- ul. 3 B s ool v of the Malcolm seated himself lll:nfiy on the steps, the light from am doorway faling athwart his calm, im i g to sul relief that it seemed to Janet's wistful gaze to be hewn from granite. “What could ever move him?” she wondered patiently. “He has never feit as I have. I must be content with ‘his friendship.” Buddenly the silence between them was broken by the unusual sound of horses’ feet thudding down the quiet street. Janet, listening expectantly, heard the slam of a cab door and the hm'u-d clatter noisily back to the main road. Two people were rushing headl toward the house, and as they dasl breathlessly itno the circle of light that flooded the porch steps she saw one of them was a you whose laugh- ing face was flushed with happy ex- citement, and who was dragging in tow a preny. bashful girl. “Please, may we hide in your porch?” he asked, gayly. “They are after us hot foot in two autos and have chased us, all over the city. It occurred to ma to drive down this out-of-the-way street and send the cab on to the sta« tion without us, You see,” he explain- ed with a certain proud embarrassment, “we have just been married.” The little bride dblushed furiously and shook the pink confetti from her ruffled gray plumage. Janet watched them speechlessly. Never before in the annals ‘of that quiet street had anything so wonderful happened as the advent of this radiant couple, who seemed the embodiment of all she had once dreamed for herself, She caught her breath at the reverent tenderness in the young groom’s eyes as he removed the confetti from the bright meshes of his little bride’s hair. d wil t rea- mtu.’:?:tr:b- i From Hs two hmcul novels “The Prices Years , when Malcolm Kent first bégan calling on her, she had hoped for escape from it and peeped -hyly into a future radfus of happines where she saw reflected her own m~ age crowned with the twin stars of wifehood and motherhood. But the years had drifted past and in her heart the hardy little flower of hope slowly faded, and only the whole- some sweetness of her nature prevented the noxious weed of bitterness from springing to life in its place. , Malcolm still ecalled, apparently satisfied to be counted merely as a friend, and Janet hid the pain of dis- ISSION 10c é\?‘m Reserved Seats 20c the bulwarks of wounded pride and showing such a bold front of indiffer- ence that a braver man than he was needed for an attack, Tonight as she rocked back and forth in the dusk of the virne-sheltered porch, she could hear the distant rum- It was something to be imagined rather than known by actual experience, and far too exquisite a thing to have found birth within the bdeak boundary of her own life. During the merry explanations that followed it surprised her to see how amused and interested Malcolm he- came, and it was he who planned the final outwitting of the pursuing wed- ding ests. At Ifl‘:s suggestion Janet led-the little ing notes of a hurdy-gurdy, and the old dissatisfied sense of remoteness from the actualities of life, that of late had been dormant, gripped her afresh and filled her with a vague unrest. So == EXHIBITION DAYS OF Fall and Winter Fashion Wednesday Twenty-s:coad and and Thursday, Twenty-third Ono the afore mentioned days a Brilliant Collec- tion of Artistically De- signed linery will be here for your inspection. The thoughts and ideas of the fore- % most Fashion authorities in America and Enrop: are represented in this exhibition. This Annodncement will please be accepted as a Formal Invitation to our Opening, as cards will not be issued. nlocu H. IN“AN Presents ‘THE CLANSMAN " Dramatized by THOMAS DIXON, Jr. 3 . . COMPLETE "AND ORIGINAL NEW YORK 75 People on the stage, 2 ur‘loua of ;eenery and Effects and ‘l‘roop ot mmuhum.noxonee.w:urm“ummu.nmher & Co’s on Friday, September 24, at 9 o'cloek. By Cars to all points after performance. ” and “The L-;p.ra'. w 25, 35¢, 50c, 75¢, $1.00,$1.50 sept17d SAM BERK or New York fo illustrated Songs | Pictures changed Monday, Wodnosday aed Friday Week of Seplember 20th, I.l GAGE STOCK CO0. EVENING. .His Majesty and the Malq . Rival Clfldld‘ The Fighting Chlnc. MATH\bl Wednesday. Wednesda .. 'The Golden Rul Thursday . . Belle of Richmon: Friday.. .His Majesty and the Mai4 Saturday ......... ..., Little Alabamas PRICES— 10c, 20e, 30cj Matinges 10c, Seats on sale at the Box rl o‘ Wauregan House and Bisket, Pite he & Co.’s. Cars to all points after performanece, Annual Show s DAHLIAS and other Fall Flowers Satarday, Sept. 25th, at BUCKINGHAM MEMORIAL, from1to9 p. m. Admission 15 cents sept22WFS BREED'S THEATRE Charles McNulty, Lessee. Devoted lo Firsi-class Mevin) Pictures and IHustraled Sengs. Feature Pleture, Biograph Hit. “THE INDIAN RUNNER'S ROMANOE” ~—AND— Many Others. Miss Grace Alwin, soprane, in high class and Illustrated Songs. Matinees, Ladies and Children, Sey Eveniugs, 10c. BREED HALL. A. W. JARVIS is the Leading Tuner in Eastern Connecticut. 'Phone 518-5. 15 Clairmount Ave. sepl224 JAMFS F. DREW venings 20c. e . Wi stom 'Piang Tuning and Repairia) Best Viork Only, ‘Pnune 432-3. 18 Perkine Ava sept23d F. C. GEER TUNER 122 Prospect St, 883-6. Norwich, Ct Tel. Miss Butis’s School BEFECH DRIVE Will Begin Thursday, September 30th. Pupils in all grades are received. septiGWEM bride cautiously up the street to a nearby trolley, whera they were joined by Malecolm and the groom, who sneak - ed around by way of the field. A car bound for the nearest suburb was safely reached, and after grateful farewells the young touple were whirl- ed away .into the night like twe bril- liant meteors that had flashed for a moment across Janet's dull pathway. But, as she turned back to her quiet street with ‘Malcolm, she was con- scious they had left behind them « subtle -trail of influence. The very manner in which Maleolm took her arm proclaimed it, and when he spoke his volce had in it a ring she never before eople were very hap- heard there. “’rhou younzf py/" he remarked, as he laid his strong hand over Janet's under cover of the friendly darkness. ‘"There was a time, Janet,” he contlnued earnestly; “when 1 hoped for just such happiness for you and myself. But when circumstances were in a position to warrant my speaking of it I saw by your manner how useless it would be, and I dared not risk the pleasure your friendship afforded me, sotkept silent. Somehow, the sight of that lad tonight who had pluck enough to try for and win tha thing he wanted has given me cour- age to speak. Have made & very great mistake by doing so?" Janet looked timidly up into his eyes and saw In them the same beauty of expression she had seen in the yqun, groom’s, and the sight blinded her its bewildering flashlight of jey. hid her tace arm. But colm und'fi w ufi‘q walked bl hwn tha quiet street that of a l den had hecome to them a od . for wat it not through its' mediu flut love at last had found them?-%Boston Post. y