Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 25, 1909, Page 4

Entered at the Postoffice at Norwieh, nn., as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: tin Business Office. 480, Bul tarial Rooms, 36-% Builetin Job Otfice, Willimantic Office, lo-. 2. Murray + Buflding. Telephone, 210. = Norwich, Saturday, Sept. 25, 1909. OUR MUNICIPAL PEAT BEDS. It looks as if our municipal peat beds would be too valuable to pond water on by and by. Professor Da- wis of the United States geological survey, sees power and light in them. He sald recently: “I believe the day is coming soon when cities located near the peat bogs and away from the coal flelds will ob- tain their power and light from peat. 1 understand that Florida is to have & power plant soon that will use peat @s fuel and will transmit the electric- ity to Jacksonville. The by-products of great value. including coke, {llumi- nating eils, lubricating oils, paraffin wax, phenol, asphalt, wood alcohol, acetic acid, ammonium sulphate and combustible gases of good fuel value. If used for fuel gas there is enough nitrogen stored in the peat resources of the country to supply 644,000,000 tons, with a value of $36,000,000,000, in addition to the gas.” It this is true, New England has an era of cheap power ahead and Jight before her, for she has bogs ga- Jore which it would take centuries to exhaust, The new age of peat will be some- thing the old peat burners never dreamed of. IF SERVES THE DREAMERS. When a dreamer attempts to get senfational with an if he startles some folks, but not all. A writer about the fecundity of the herring, has this to erage number of eggs de- posited annually by a full-grown her- ring is 30,000. . It all the progeny of a single pair of herring ‘Wwere to reach maturity and spawn, and if all their progeny were to sur- | wive and spawn, and if this were to " B0 through a few generations, the Tesulting volume of fish would be be- yond comprehension. In fact, if such uprestricted multiplication were to continue for a perfod as short as ten years, all of the seas of the earth would be filled solid with herring, all Jand would be submerged, and all other creatures in the world would be crowded out of existence,” Isn't that awful to contemplate; || and there are hundreds of other fish Just as prolific and if they should all grow they would push the herring out of the sea and all the people off the earth. If the moon hadn't been made of green cheese the cow mever would have jumped over it. WHAT THE FIGURES SHOW. While the celebration of the Fourth in 1909 showed an increase of fatali- thes, there being over 500 deaths and 5,623 injured persons, where cities have taken action and enforced new ordinances there has positively been a decrease of accidents. Cleveland, O. reported 13 deaths and 93 injured in 1908, and mo deaths and only fowr injured from this year's celebration. Chicago limited the sale of fireworks, prohibited blank cart- ridge pistols and restricted the size of firecraciers, and reports no deaths this year, against 12 laast year. Bal- timere has for some years prohibited mearly all forms of fireworks and re- perts no deaths and five injured this year, against one death and ten in- Jured last year. Washingion, D, C. reports no deaths or injured as a re- sult of suppressive measures. The larger death roll of 1909 over 1908 and previous years means simply that the #places which still permit an unbridled Fourth are ‘suffering more accidents than ever. In the course of time all the cities will be falling into line. WHERE LIGHT IS NEEDED. It the Charleston News aud Courier is right, the growers of Sea Island cotton at the seuth are suffering con- stant loss for lack of protective or- ganization and a knowledge of what this long-stapled cotton is used for. The demang for it is so great that it is contrgeted for at from 55 to 85 cents @ pound before it is grown, and this paper allegus that the grower at that does not know whether he s getting @ fair price for his staple or not; and that while he must under contract grow the staple to sample he has no judges of the standard length and is often vietimized by the contragtor. The News and Courier says: "“The long staple cotton is mot only a natural pressing questions of this wtoknpupnodrom.tm Jeast possible cost. and how €o keep Cown dust with the greatest success. ‘While the good road question is pret- ty well solved, the laying of the dust s an issue which of late has produced & popular call for ofled streets. After|sy a long experience with water—salt and fresh—we know how expensive and inefficient that is. Since 1903 the na- tions have been trying emulsions, and oiling the road does not half express what has been done in six short years. There are, according to the Municipal Journal, twenty-eight distinct road emulsions in the market, and who can tell whether to lay the dust by the Bouharal process, the Dustabate sys- tem, or the Terracolia way? There are shouters for apoknia, apulvite, basilite, crempord, lustoline, ermenite, brahmite, odorcreal, peossiderite, pul- vicide, rapidite, westrumite, zibellite and the other twelve mixtures for set- ting up a dustless roadbed. Concerning the use of oil, nicipal Journal saye: “An excess of oil Is very undesira- ble, as it requires too much sand to prevent it damaging traffic, and if too thick this sanded skin peels and leaves a very poor surface. The usual prac- tice seems to be from .2 to .3 gallons per square yard on macadam, .3 to .4 gallons on gravel, and .4 to .7 gallons on earth roads. “Wao believe that this matter of giv- ing too much ofl is one of the most common causes of partial failure or nuisance occasioned in the oiling of roads, and also In the incorporation of bitumens with the road metal” This whole business is in the ex- perimental stage and it will be some time before the best dust-layer is dis- covered—that is, the emulsion which does the best work at least expense. WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR LONGEV- ITyY. Tt goes without saying that a life of excesses will not be a long lifs. When a New York woman celebrated her 99th birthday in a hale and hearty condition recently, she was the sub- ject of many inquiries. The prohibi- tionists wanted to know if her old age was not due to the fact that she never drank. Somebody wanted to know if smoking was not responsible for her longevity. Ome man insisted that she was old because she was an apple eater, another because she had faith- fully eaten & bag of peanuts every Fourth of July, another because she had faith in Mrs. Eddy, another be- cause she was a lineal descendant of Methuselah, another because she nev- er rode in an automobile until her 99th year, and, finally, a discriminating gentleman all but convinced the lady that she would have been dead years ago had it not been that in her fiftieth year she took two boxes of sweet- coated chocolate sugar pills. We often notice those who have small vices live long-not because- of the vices but because of their tem- perate habits in all things. This old woman's recipe for long life was: “Be cheerful. Be contented. Do not wor- ry; but keep your body active by wholesome employment.” This rec- ipe will leugthen the days of those who govern themselves in accordance with it EDITORIAL NOTES. No jockeying can stop Dr. Cook from coming down the home stretch in good form. the Mu- They are asking out west, “If the jury has to be fixed, what is the use of hiring a lawyer? It takes courage to praise the new tariff law in Iowa, but President Taft went there and did it. In is the season this clams, green corn and blueberry pie, Maine, of Peary is right in the nick of time. At Boston, they appear -to have civic haloes for their star officials. Why does not Norwich lay in a stock? The baseball tailenders should not repine, for it is something to be a part of the pedestal, even the base! Happy thought man who essays to portance alway for today: The judge his, own im- The czar of Russia cannot do any- thing unconstitugional, for he’ wipes constitutions out and writes 'em up! Vhen the word “inaptitude” is writ- ten against a middy at Annapolis, hi time has come 10 go out of the naval business. Glenn Curtiss claims tha: the fiy- ing machine is its own protection; that it carries a wrecking draft with it no other machine can live in. There are mighty small men in high places in this country. This is shown by the way some of the authorities in New York treat Dr. Cook. The president of a bank sald re- monepoly, but it is a product which the world is foreed to have, “The question at issue is vital to this city, and a large part of this state, Why is the market unsteady, and why are prices low and unsatis- factory? Theé anewer is humiliating. It is ignorance. There is no one man to blame for it. It is not the fault of the factors in this city, nor is It the fault of the growers. The situation the Tesult of many years' acquiescence in an intolerable condition, “The re-establishment of the Sea Island cotton exthange is an tmmedi- ate palMative, and through it final re- lief may be obtained, if it will con-! duet the exhaustive inquiry necessary in relation to the foreign demand. Its consideration of the establishment of a thread mill here is extremely wise. If forelgners will not pay proper prices, America should use the prod- uet herself. “Charleston is the greatest market, in fact the only market in the :world for the superior long staple cotton. It is the duty of the business gen of this city.to do all in their er to dscover the faults which nowf endan- ger the ipdustry itself, and the.time has come when a final solution and no mere temporary expedient is de- manded and expected. The fight has but begun in the formation of the ex- change. Charleston and the islands have Jclned hands for a fight to the finish.” The temperance issue promises to make the October election n Norwich of the tabasco order. The prohibition- ists allege that they are confident of success. We shall known when the votes are counted. The zeal of some reformers ap- proaches the brazen effrontery of a ' rogue. The chronic grumbler would snarl it recording angel should speak to cently that his bank held mortgages on 700 pieces of property while the owners ride in their own automobile. The ovation Maine gave to Com- mander Peary must be most assur- ing. He will discover that the Amer- ican people love judgment and justice. It has been discovered that the names of some of the Eskimos come nearer to a college vell than anything under the sun could be imagined to come, A colored woman south who con- sulted the spelling book for names for her girls, decided Lar-ce-ny and Fe- lon-y were nice sounding names for them. A Berwick, Pa, others by offering a house and lot to the first Berwick batter meking a home run in the Berwick-Danville, games. A This is what Peary heard from a gamin in the streets of Portland, Me., where the crowd to see him was im- mense: “We love our Cook, but, O, you Peary! The late Governor Johnson of Min- nesota had a family dependent upon him at twelve, and at forty-eight He was eonsidered equal to taking care of the nation. Barre, Vt, is haping to get the contract for the granite paving blocks for the city of Paris. That would be a big one, and s likely to be “the fish that got away.” The man who cannot tell the dif- fterence between evidence and fire- works has served on the jury long enough. we want now is a man who knows a case when he sees it. ——ee % Derby.—Judge George B. Clark was injured on Tuesqay by being. thrown from his wagon wise poet It's a 1 world to_ see, or it's dismal in every zone. it must be in its d-tnnda on yourself been given to & to N‘ll- the truth of this. The imagination plays a strong pl.r! in life for good or | the masters of our minds we. shoald be the painters of the pictures which please if, as we be of the pictures tha The Quail Trnp. Sept. 23, 1909.—My attention has been called to a list of common birds which appeared at in- September 6th me a Carolina picked telephone wires at the N Birds of East w.mu-r.w: Pond aub—wh- shm)u Mmmm TALK. " Kill Rail, Crossbills, and wowo- Shots| Y nueovnv. THE 40 or All bonor to, é in the w-lm X orlhlrmm 2 Sringing : Prh- haunt it. Lucky is thé man who puts fear in his boots and sits upon antici- pation. The reason man has more trouble than he ought to is because he does not keep things in their proper place. Disorder puts the world awry in a great many different ways for dif- ferent peaple. We have through the kindness of friends ‘had Burbank's wonder berry ripe and raw and stewed, and while 1t is something like a dog-berry in form and acidity, it s also when stemless what real admirers might call “a_glorified huckleberry” There is a great _difference of opinion about the use of this berry because our tastes differ, and some persons have to learn to like it, as they do tomatoes and some other things. The name is a misfit, for the berry is' no more of a wonder than a great many other edl- ble things that are grown and eaten. The name enhaloes the berry in mystery when thers is nothing mys- terious abpout it. It is like a good many varieties of other berries, good to eat but not so distinctive as to command special attention or com- mendation. If it was what it is claimed to be there would be as much demand for it in the market as for any popular berry, and it would not be parading as a wonder but as a commercial fact, It was pleasant to the taste, but it did not make us yearn for more, What is a friend? Perhaps you know but I do not feel sure. 1 heard a mis- creant say of a justice once: “Oh, he's my friend, 1 can hold him down, all right.” This may have been true and it may not have been. If the justice was & friend to him he could not have been a friend to the public. A friend of this sort would be a subservient fool, and an enemy of the public. Friendship does not mean special in- fluence or power over another right or wrong; it should not imply subser- vience of any kind whatever. TIt. is kindliness which can neither be solicit ed nor bought—honest good will. Blatant fools say: “He's a friend of mine. Such asser- 1 can handle him.” cerned. Such conditions Ao not mal friends but pals. The hold-up In any direction is no evidence of friendship, it is too nearly allled to crime. A friend never asks or expects you to share his dishonor or his shame, When it comes to dahlia faddists T find that the Chapmans of Westerly, 1, are good teachers of amateurs —they are nice people to go to school to. They not only show visitors what dahlias are, but like to tell them how to grow them. They do not say “Jack Rose” is one of the finest dahlias that ever was grown, but simply a com- »d fiower that is over- logues: and Jack Rose stands there by the dozen o con- firm their statements, for among well fed and well cultivated flowers it stands with less merit than many new duhlias of less pretence. They freely tell one how to grow dahlias and grow them right, because they know that success is an Incentive to their bus! ness. It Is doubtful if there is a bet- ter kept field of 6,000 plants in Amer- ica, for it is as weedless and neat as a ball room floor. They are first- class horticultural teachers orally and from object lessons. “Pictures are awful disappointing,” writes Jane, “and 1 do not hlame you for not, wanting yours in print. Looks count for a good deal in this world, and too few of us are good-lookers. I realize how you fee! about that kind of publicity, for T am sensitive to the same feelinz. Nobody every asks me for my picture, and I'm glad they do not seem to want it; but I do not think you are so plain as you pre- Some people are so homely that n stop a clock by just look- ing at it. You might curdle milk; but you would mot do the other thing!” Looks, Jane, are not debatable. If we cannot compjiment one another upon looks we remain silent; and looks invoke more silence than almost any other one thing in this world, simply because it is not a safe subject to fool with. All people do not know how they look, and the Creator made us blind to our exterior appearance that our joy might not be marred by such a superficial quality. | suppose that everybody alive has made a scrap book first or last; and some systematic scrappers have left scrap libraries which finally brought big prices. The most extravagant scrap books are those made up by thé scrap- ping bureaus for public men who not only desire to know what is said by the papers about them, but also want their descendants to get through them some idea of their importance, which, by the way, is a very human desire, But there are big scrap books and medium sized scrap books, and little scrap books and picture scrap books, and business scrap books and enc clopédic scrap books, - and personal scrap books; but why do we make useful scrap books large? Why should not the scrap book for ready refer- ence be made about the size of a diary —a size that can be put in the pocket for reference as well as laid away on the shelf? I have made them so that a half dozen might be carried in the pocket at a time, and find they are better than the kind we put on the shelf, or which eventually rest in the attics. It is now cl ed that the weed- less, well-stirred soil is what makes farming the greatest success. Dry farming is a modern day discovery and it has been well demonstrated as wor- thy attention. It applies_to flower growing too. The caked earth with Occasional rains and mot a few weeds, has ceased to be creditable farming. It is the stirred soil that holds moisture longest and gives most vigor to plants. The best dahlias I have seen this year ‘were watered little and cultivated much. t any plant wants is' attention, just food and water is not enough. The slouch never can make a good farmer for nothing in the vegetable world responds to neglect. Man was designed as a master and if he hustles plants hustic. He can put vigor into them by devotion to their needs and well-being. The shores of the islands of Long Island Sound are now black with swallows—they gather there for their dash to summer land, and what is queer, they go in the night. They are day-fliers except when ing. The reason for this is that they regard the night less perilous than the day—a lar- ger per cenf. reach their destination under the stars than could do so under the glare of the sun. All the lighthouse keepers can tell us of the fate of some of ‘the birds that fly in the night. At wn following flerce storms and high ory season the ying dead at the lighthouses, having flown against the light and killed themselves ln the night. Mariners tell us of birds wn off to sea that ll{ht in the rig- umnnlnd that gladly take wa- Many weary of 'In‘ and um to lmc nn‘M drowne. in the sea, having fallen in their ex- haustion. The winged creatures do not find lite one sweet s ng. You love flowers and appreciate tervals in a Putnam r. Such lists are often useful in mmm‘g gen- eral catalogues, government and state reports. They are of value when ac- curate data of spring and fall migra- tiors are made, when new arrivals are rejorted, and fresh economic habits noced. We wish the author had given us more of his experiences in the field, and said whether he shoots hi. #s we infer from the close measure- mwent given of the warblers. No doubt his notebook could tell us what use- fu! birds continue to diminish near his JBievse, what kinds hold their own and ‘what ‘species of service to the farmer may show slight gains. Has the last colony of martins at East Woodstock been driven away by the sparro How many communities of cliff swal lows still remain in or near the vil- lsge With no visible enemy to dis- turb the many pairs, can this observer expiain why there are so many unoc- cu| fed holes in the sand swallow bank at the park? There'are fewer English sparrows at North than at East Wood- stock, so that ome of the charms of quail trap life is immunity from this pest. Like the Lilibridges, the Mains and the Brands, all true bird lovers, we give passer domesticus a scatte gun welcoms cious ist we The waders, swimmers and ra birds are not included in the refer to, nor is mention of rare winter and summer residents. All of the eastern herons are to be found at times in East Woodstock mill and fac- tory ponds and quiet pools of muddy brooks, except the snowy and least bittern, which are occasionally report- ed in the lower part of the county, I do not know a better place to observe the herons than at tters’ pond in the neighborhood where a pair of great blues have been f g for twoweeks. For ten days two great blues have been seen daily by the trainmen on the west side of Tadpole near Jewett City Night herons feed nearly all summer at Potters’, bitterns boom at dusk, and green herons are seen there every day in summer. Two pairs of green herons bred in the pines this season at the cast side directly over a bed of pur- ple cypripedium. I have eaten both night and green heron squabs on Fishers Island, and can remember when Mohegan Indians brought dress- ed squabs to market while the squaws had hulled wild strawberries for sale in tiny cone-shaped baskets. A of dusky duck, raised last spring on the western reedy border, were seen all summer by trout and pickerel fish- ermen. Irving Paine shot a pair from this branch for his table. 'he wood ducks which used to frequent this se- cluded water hole departed when the hollow forest trees east of the pond ‘were cut off, Many the toothsome ducks 1 have Gates Hallville pond, near Lincoln park. It gun that has made but sweeping the county of all standing timber where alone they can breed will soon exter- minate this beautiful hole-builder. eaten The first wood drake | ever shot was fn Damon Chandler's pond, North Woodstock, and the next one at Fos- ter Child’s pond, Village Corners; but these ponds are dry and the woods around them gome. My first teal was from Sam Allen’s pond, Sandy Hol- low, first hooded sheldrake from Fort Ned, Canterbury, and only eider from Fishers Jsland ‘sound, near Nawyaug point. Quail, hawk and crows, I first winged from the road wagon of the late C. A. Brand. A far cry between these boyhood pastimes and shooting snakebirds from a steamer'’s deck on the Ocklawaha river. Once in Acad- emy days, Messrs. Brand, Rockwell, Hale and myself fired a volley from muzzle loaders across Poquetanuck cove at an indistinct quacking bunch and it was not till we had paid a round sum of money to a farmer for four crippled muscovies that we real- jzed that we were trying to bag barn- yard fowl them, but have you ever asked your- self what a flower is? It comes pretty near being the parent of the plant just as the hen is the layer of the egg. It is the seed maker, and not being able to work alone it invites the insects to go-operats with It AlL flowers are 2ot showy—some are like leaves and Rardly noticeable. Al flowers are not of pleasant odor, for the little flowers of the vy smeil like meat that has spoiled because that is the favorite odor of the flesh-flies which distribute the pollen and thus cross-fertilize the seed. We cannot tell how this ar- rangement was brought about. We find that plants and birds and insects are allied—that they serve each ether in various ways—we do mot know tha how of it, neither do they. There ars wonderful combinations in - nature which constantly tell of Divine wisdom. I also picked up a sora at tic with the same deadly on its neck. Mrs. Murdock’ another rafl from the ten young hateh- ed in Willlam Brown's meadow. e are my only English Neig 00d records, though I have heard the sora’ lIArp call in July in our own eat- reeds. A female was covering (rom ten to fourteen eggs on Groton Lv;ull’o!nt for five .y!u{‘-. in u:mulyn an saw. some o Held of the Wildcat rocks, East Nol‘wh;h. I could always find two or three pairs breeding at Poquetanuck cove, and from above the road at the cove I took a well-matted nest for the late Capt. Charles Bendire. The clptlln wished me to get for a series of nests of the local ra- pacious birds, and at one time I had by heroic efforts secured for him typ- ical nests of red-talled, red-shoulder- ed. Cooper's, sharp-shinned, marsh, and broad-winged hawks—the broad- wings being the smallest in the bulky lot. The great horned owl's nest had been used by rflnih and the barre owl's built by ouldered haw] With the a(d ol Capt. Thonuss Potter and his lobster boat I made a stren- uous attempt to tie up and transport a fish hawk's nest from Sea Flower beacon. It was a monstrous affalr, eneration, and in its com- P n hls ‘bushels of cornstalks and lobster warr yard$ of cables, dead crows, horeshoe crabs, deer’s feet, and busheis of seaweed and hanging usnea moss. The untimely death of Captain Bendire left these large nests uncalled for, and slowly falling to pieces in the cellar of 193 Broadway, they were finally consigned to the fire magazine of the steam heater. In the East Woodstock list we did not see the white-winged crossbill, which I never failed to find in open winter days in our own hemlock woods. An East Woodstock man early, last spring picked up an electro- cuted American crossbill in red nuptial dress. I have had two woodeock killed by ‘Woodstock wires, and nearly twenty mangled by 'phone and telegraph wires along the seventeen miles of the Colchester turnpike. These birds when fresh I have had served at my table, thus eat- ing game out of season without break- ing the intent or letter of the close game laws. i There are some flight woodeock al- around the few spring holes not up, an occasional bird in the en- silage patches, but not anmy in the birches. No young bob whites have been seen here, and we think the early whistling ‘cock qualls could find no mates and went into other towns. Pheasants do not increase locally, and ‘Woodstock hunters agree with Nor- wich gunners that the young do not survive the terrors of winter. But the grouse chicks, in moderate numbers, with crops gorged with late huckleber- ries, acorns, eyebright and white grubs, are large as the old “biddies’ and ready for the onslaught of the licensed mob. 1 have on the dryblock a fine, female eat horned owl.shot by Mr. @eorge Snow after it was betrayed by noisy pestering crows. One of the local malés among our stuffed owls was shot on a barn by Mr. William Gordon. chloroformed th- iast cannibal buto in the owlery. I often feel Tike feeding chloroform to our macaw_ for jts ga- earthly shrieks, bui for the f: it imitates exactly the hoots of and the calls of hobwhite, whi will, poultry, doge and the voice.” For eight-years there has been no record of eaglés at the Quail Trap, Ospreys rass over scinelmes, and one was shot by a farmer on Redhead Hill. Who can tell whether it is a blight or the drought that has early in Seg- tember killed the leaves on all the white birches in the four parishes. Maybe it is & new insect plague, for Mr. Murdock, who was cutting birches today on Harold Hibbard’s farm, says that his clothes were covered with strange looking bugs. Who ever saw the woodbine as bright as it ls now without the action of frost? Sumae, maple and beech are foils, but the sandfire of the salt marshes alone can rival its glistening cardinal. From the army of warblers beginning to go south a Yew daily stop on the ash wind-break at the west windows of the Quall Trap, where I eit with pen- cil and notebook, recording this early movement. If the East Woodstock Dird man is similarly occupied, we can compare notes at the end of October. Bird matters at the west parish con- tinue to be well’looked after by the veteran ornithologist, the Rev. Mr. Jones, and there are a score of trained observers between Woodstock and Nerwich. Dut how many of these peo- ple could have the patience of the Here, for m"m lo, ig ghat great tract of the pnrwnl e. knows him- self thoro Who dares to com- mand his soul as Whittier command- ed his when hie wrote: “Sit still, my soul, in the silent dark, Let me question thee Alone in the shadows drear and stark, ‘With God and me. “What, my soul, was (h’ errand here? ‘Was It mirth and e: Or heaping up g01d from year to year? Nay, none of these.” There are depths of fesling in every man’s nature which he has never sounded. There are secret places in the soul wherein the springs of indi- viduality screen themselves from cas- ual observation. Motives, ambitions, yearnings, hopes and purposes reside there. Suppose Prof. Munsterberg of Harvard ould come along vlth his psychrometric apparatus how would you stand the delicate tests employed ‘What would you register in point of veracity, or purity, or humility, or courage? It is well for a man to find out these things concerning hun-el( before he & put In the witness box :nvltad into the psychologists’s lflfill- ory. Another interesting field of explora- tion is the life of our low men. We know too little of the thoughts and in- terests of others not of our own set or club, or church, or neighborhood. Th to find out is pot by organ- ‘slumming parties” and going ostentatiously into the districts where the poor llv. with the idea of ‘Qtlln‘ copy for “muck-raking” arti The right way is that of lylle’mllk‘ ap- Charles Kingsley, the Eng- list, once said that within halt average person resides can be found an unsuspected amount of the material that makes up the tragedy and glory of the human drama. If people are tame and ted your sight, or if they are narrow and self-centered, it may be because you have never taken pains to get below thelr surface appearance. Start out this very fall on a quest of exploration, Resolve that you will find within reach of your own dwelling, perhaps under your own roof, something noblér and better in human life than you have yet discovered. The only pre-requisite is that you yourself should be at your best, before you sally forth on this ex- ploring tour. Not by searching can we find out God In the perfection of his being. But the’ way to a true, even if partial knowledge of his is plain. Here again Paul.is an authority when he says, “We know in part.” The fact that our knowledge i3 fragmentary does not | validate what we do know. If there is one thing of which I am surer as 1 grow older it is that.anyone who is humble, sincere and loving enough can grow into the assurance that there is a God ruling this universe and that his ways with all his human children are wise and just and kind. This is the greatest discovery that any man can make. THE PARSON. was a large twnout of members to greet Supreme President Gibb at the meting of Seuth Manchester councfl, F. B. L.. held Thursday evening. OLD FURNITURE. Get a smail can of L. & M. Home Finish Varnish all ready for use. Clean the funiture with soap and water and wipe dry. Then apply one coat, It will make old furniture new at a cost of almost nothing. Sold by L. W. Car- roll & Son, Norwich; J. P. Kingsley & Son, Plainfield. Testi After Four Years. Carlisle Center, N. Y., G. B. Bur- hans writes: “About four years ago I wrote you that I had been entirely cured of kidney trouble by taking two bottles of Foley’s Kidney Remedy, and after four years I am again pleased to state that T have never had any re- turn of those symptoms and I am ovi- dently cured to stay cured.” Fole; Kidney Remedy will do the same for you. The Lee & Osgood Co. Uneeda Biscuit I.lneeda Blscult Uneeda Biscuit Uneeda Biscuit are made from the finest flour and the best materials obtainable—. Thatmkuflumnnaded ) are baked in surroundings where clean- That Makes them PURE l are touched only once by human hands -vhonthoygttydflspukthen—-‘ That Makes them CLEAN BSeats on sale at & Cos Cars to all points after AUDITORIUM Tdeil, . H. BRENNAN THE CLAN _ Dramatized by THOMAS DIXON, From his two'famous nowels “The Gl-mnr qfl"th- Leopard’s Spote” COMPLETE AND ORIGINAL wam mnmmzwwoz Scenery and Cn.vllry Hol"lll. Olea. Wlunnn House and Bisket, Pitches on Friday, m‘-r 24, at § o'clock. after performance, 3 Shows Daily WEE! 2.30, 7 and 8.45 SEPT. The Weber & Fielas BEUSEL & WALSHP V7%, 2 timm ' and Troop of " 280, 386, 506, 75¢, $100, $150 Mofion | Esrimeasene —JUNE LEVEAY— lome e " e ———— P — i ————————— Pictures w8 p1e —SPRAGUE & DIXON— 0750, e e e and Uustraled | Acrobetie amic DOROTHY REED & ALFRED 2, 5., oL BBt L sl Songs ADMISSION 10c 20¢ A Leader in Trunks THE INDESTRUCTO X The Cheapest and most durable Trunk on the market today. We carry all kinde of Trumks, Travelin s and Suit Cases at BOTTOM Pilnls The Shetucket llmess Co 283 Main Streel. w WM. C. BODE. Telephone 865-4. aug2sd School Books Sclmol Snpplies For nearly leven\y years this store has been the base of supply for all school supplies, and as usual we are ready for all comers. Call or send for a lllt of books to {a dozen miles of the spot where the |be used in the ‘We pay cash for Rl N et books or take them in exchange. SCHOOL SUPPLIES A large assortment of the best qual- ity at the lowest prices. CRANSTON & CO. septlldaw The Norwich Wickel § Brass Ca, Tableware, Chandeliers, Yacht Trimmings and such things Refinished. €9 tn‘g Chestnut 8t. Norwicii, Conn An Overstock of 18 Concords Will closz them out at very low figures. Also Summer Goods which is light at your prices. L. L. CHAPMAN, septitdaw BATH STREET. Carriage and Automobile Painting and : p Trimming Cerriage and Wagon Work of all kinda Anything on wheels built to orden. PPICES AND WORK RIGHT. The Scott & Clark CORPORATION, 507-515 North Main Stree!. aprisa Do It Now Have that old-fashioned, unsanitary plumbing replaced by new and mod- ern open plumbing. It will repay you in the increase of health and saving of doctor’s bills. Overhauling and re- fitting thoroughly done. Let me give you a figure for replacing all the old plumbing with the modern kind that will keep out the sewer gas. The work wiil be first-class and the price reasonable. J. E. TOMPKINS, 67 Waest Main Street. NOTICE Dr. Louiss Franklin Miner is now located in her niew office, Breed Hall, Room 1 Office hours, 1 to 4 p. m. Teiephone 66C. auglia CHIROPODY and MANICURE DURING AUGUST #llwill bo located the first fo k Watch um,"“ ‘m{ at my rooms in the MRS. M. BURTON. auglsd y26d arn leun tor Week of Selher ‘Wauregan Ho & Co." Cars to all points after 'nmr-uu: . New Olympic Thealre Admission « - - sep 'Phone 518-5. "Poune 432iL ‘Telephone 363. CATOHY ILLUSTRATED SONGS | Fictures_changed - Manday, i Fridey GAGE STOCK CO. THIS AFTERNOON LITTLE TONIGHT THE FIGHTING CHANCE 200 Beats on sals at the Box eftics, nd Bisket, Pitehey PRICES—Evenings 10c, 20, Matinees 10c, 20c. Water Street. OPENS MONDAY, SEPT. 27¢th. | FRED HELD’S Motion Pictares and lilustrated Sougs WILLIAM T. DELANBY, a Norwich Favorite Bartoma | — Two Hour Show 10c — Change er Rov g g Monday, Weds esday and Friday. Mlhnu 2.15—10c. Children 5o Evening 8.16—any seat 10c. sept23d BREED'S THEATRE Charles McNuity, Lesses. Devoled to First-class Moving “THE ROYAL OUTCAST® § ~~AND-— Many Others. Miss Grace Alwin, seprano, in higlt class and Dlustrated Songs, Matineos, Ladies and Childven, Sot Waskingten Square ANNUAL SHOW OF DAHLUAS Evenings, ife. BREED HALL. and other Fall Flowers _ Saturday, Sepl. 25th, al BUCKINGHAM MEMORIAL, from 1 to 9.p. m. 15 centa 22WFS A. W. JARVIS is the Leading Tuner in Eastern Connecticut. 15 Clairmount Ave, JAMES F. DREW Piano Tuning and Repairiag Best V'ork Only, ¢ 7% 18 Perkine Aves sept23a 1.0 A New Collection of Excellent Colors in Coat Sweaters Perfeet fitting and correct styles. These garments centain more actual value at the prices than we have ever been able to secure. McPHERSON The Hatter. sopt28d JOSEPH BRADFORD, Book Binder. Blank Books Made and Ruled to Ordan, 108 BROADWAY. WHEN Yy s.m!’&. ll. m