Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 15, 1909, Page 4

P i 5 5 and gaa.fltfi 113 YEARS OLD. ln*wm. " a W-I', n - month; e Entered at the Postolfice at Nerwich, Conn., as ond-class tte: ne Calls: Bulletin Business Office. 480, . Bulletin Bditorial Raoms, 35-3 Bulletin Job Office,: 35-6. - = sdong Willimantic ~ Office, 2 Murray fding. - Telephone, 210. Norwich, Friday, Oct. 15, 1809. ~ - THE JUBILEE BOOK. The Jubilee Book, eontaining < & romplete record of the celebration of Jxe 250th anniversary of the founding »f the town of Norwich, with compléte Nlustrations, containing at least 100/~ %00 words and 50 pages of portraits and scenes of decorated streets and sections 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 outithe, cou- pon printed elsewhere and mail to the “Business Manager of The Bulle- tin, Norwich, Conn.” HEARSAY EVIDENCE. Had Commander Peary besn more familiar with the law and the evi- dence—of the requirement of the courts—he would not have made such a weak statement with the expecta- tion that it would in any way affect ths opinions of the people. The plv- otal point of- his averment is to be found in these few lines: “The answers of the Eskimo boys to Commander Peary’s independent questions, showing that they killod no game, make no caches, lost no dugs and returned to the land with Jonded sledges, makes their attain- ment of the pole on the trip north «f Cupe Thomas Hubbard a physical an, mathematical Impossibility, as It would demand the subsistence of three men and over twenty dogs during a journey of 1,040 geographical miles on less than two sledge loads of sup- o5, The testimony of Peary and his able men does not add anything to the strength of this statement by two Tiskimos who were pledged by Dr. Cook not to tell where he went, and he laughingly says that they have kept their pledges with him. Both Peary and Cook are agreed in the averment that as they pledge so the Eskimos do. The press of the country do not see that the statement makes any change in publicopinion, and the most Ad- miral Melville claims for Peary is that he has made out a strong presumptive case, which the ablest of Cook's friends dispute. Here are a few press opinions: The Boston Advertiser: Peary whole story becomes simply ridic lous—If not spiteful. . Springfield Republican: We can only record that Dr. Cook’s case seems stronger at this moment than at any previous time. . Moeriden Journal: Peary's evidence against Cook will not change a vote, as they say at election time. The Philadelphia Ledger: ‘What one explorer thinks of another is of secondary Iimportance. The New York Times: If the state- ment made by Commander Peary's party could have been published sim- ultaneously with the report of his journey to the pole, the unfortunate controversy would hardly have arisen. Mr. Peary'ds statement would have been accepted, That it will be uni- versally accepted now, that it will al- ter conclusions already reached is more doubtful The Boston Herald: The statement of the Eskimos add to the uncertain- ty. There are but a few pdpers that re- gard the statement of Peary as of any value in settling the question as to whether Cook discovered the po.8 or mot. Dr. Cook has his data and his observations and these ought to settle who went farthekt north, for it is not probable these two men halt- od at exactly the same point. AN IMPENDING CONFLICT. The conflict for pure food between those who stand for the people and those who profit by food adultera- tlon is not over. We are told that the issue at Washington will be a flerce one next winter, as the con- flict has raged since the passage of the pure-food bill The food commissioners who are ‘opposed to doctoring ketchup, tomato soup, jams, Jellies, etc., with chemicals, will take the matter before Presigent Taft this winter and- request him to order an investigation into the actual condi- tions under which benzoate of soda is employed as a preservative. For reasons not altogether clear the de- partment of agriculture has side- tracked the only report ever made on the actual trade conditions where benzoate of soda figures, and has persisted in maintaining a friendly, even a paternal attitude, towards the drug solely because of a negative re- port from three chemibts as to soms experiments. These experiments, as everyone knows, did not touch in any way upon the question of “medicated parbage,”. which, by the way, was not referred to the Remsen board by Sec- retary ‘Wilson. It is charged that ref- wse from canning factories is utilized In the manufacture of condimenia! tonds. A report of a government in- spector confirms this charge. Now usmes the association of food com- mssioners with a resolution asking Presldent Taft and Secretary Wilson “to Institute further studies concern- Ing the use of preservatives and along the broadest lines.” The attitude of Secretary Wilson tpen the question leaves no doubt that: the time for his retiracy is well- tiroed, and if President Taft stands us Roosevelt did and declines to favor t:rther inquiry, a congressional inves- Ligation will be sought, and' it is open- ly asserted that if congress goes in- to the matter, the condlitons will be found equal to those which existed in the meat-packing trade befora the passage of the meat inspection iar. The foes of benzoate of soda, which include legions of physiclans and oth- ers Interested in public health, a cetermined that the question shall he dealt with from a broad standpoin: and that it shall not'be side-tracked by reference to a quasi-official com- miltee, the scope of svhose. inwi €ailon was deliberately limited so0 as t> give the public no information as to the actual conditions under wiich tiieir food is doctored. It is also in- timated that the question of how far the employes of the department of ag- ricviture were justified in their :f- forts to secure the passage of the resolution at the Denver conventior, will be agitated, and whether their | be able to railroad to retreats rela- | the Verment supreme court holding ——— CONVICTION TOO EASY. . There is a growing sentiment in Vermont that the commitment of pa- tients to state insane asylums is al- together too easy, and that more care. ful methods should be invoked, that the selfish and unscrupulous shall not tives or friends for base and criminal purposes. _On this subject, the Barre Timmes says: i “People have been ‘railroaded’, in- to the asylums with too great de: pafch and under system which might be abused. Therefore, the opinion of that one Lydia Allen of Orleans coun- ty was illegally held in the State asy- lum because of the manner of her commitment will put a stop to the present system, or, rather, improve upon it by requiring formal hearing to be held, in which the alleged insane person will be represented by a guard- “We do not wish to be understood as asserting that judgment of medical examiners has erred in declaring the insanity of those already committed, or that they, through some. collusion, have failed to recommend commit- ment of parties who were really fit subjects for ‘the asylum. But up to the present time it has been a com- paratively easy matter to ‘get an or- der,’ as they say, for the commitment of a certain party to the restraint of the insane hospital. “Depriving a person of his liberty and placing the matter of his release with a féw, men in charge of the hospital is something too serious to be accomplished 'with a mere brush of the pen. At the same time there should, of course, be either absolute temporary restraint of - suspected Iunatics, or they should be subjected to close guardianship; the suspected persons ought not to be allowed to go at large to do their will. But there should be more formal procedure prior to theilr commitment. “It is to be expected that the de- cision of the supreme court in the Lydia Allen case will lead to the de- sired change.” This is a matter for serious thought in this and every other state where these hospitals appear to be becoming more and more convenient and their population greater and greater, NOT A ‘THINKING MAN IN THE CASE. A little court work reported from Tennessee shows that good thinkers must be scarce there. In that state, early in the year, a citizen was ac- cused of having counterfeit coin in his possession, was proven guijlty and committed, and after he had been in jail for five montHs, the coins were submitted to a test which proved that they were genuine. This is a little worse than anything known to have happened in a New England state in the way of injustice through stupid- ity. One would think that the very first duty of the prosecution would be to test the coins for the purpose of having expert testimony as to their character and value, or lack of it. Nothing of this kind happened until the man had been unwittingly dis- graced and served ar criminal sen- tence for which he can get no re- muneration. Dull public officials are often too hasty and make gueer mis- takes, but it is not often that such a lot of blockheads get together as must have been involved in this case. A FAIR WARNING. The Rev. Walter J. Shanley of Dan- bury has not subsided upon the tem- perance issue but is determined that the saloon keepers shall live up to the provisions of the law and respect the requirement of their licenses. He has addressed the following notes to the saloon keepers of Danbury: “Dear Sir—As saloon keepers of Danbury are selling intoxicating li- quor, in open and flagrant violation of the law, to minors of the parish of which T am pastor, T wish to notify you, that as the police of Danbury are inefficient in this matter, I will secure the services of a detective agency to obtain evidence against the law break- ers, and will do all in my power to have their licenses revoked.” This will alarm only the guilty and they should be alarmed. The man or men who do this really render good service to the honest and clean liquor dealer. If the business cannot be car- ried on profitably without violating the Jicense, it will be well for the public to know that. The inefficiency of the police represents the inactivity of the citizens, Where the moral en- gine works,steadily the police always makeé wonderfully good records. EDITORIAL NOTES. It has snowed in Texas and Colorado and no snow announced on the White mountains, yet. Key West is® calling loud for help. That little coast town was completely wrecked and drowned out. ‘The next oceasion for united church effort is on Prison Sunday, which comes on the last Sunday in Octo- ber. Since the price of cards has not been raised, it is likely that more whist clubs will be organized this fall than ever. ‘When the janitor declines t> fire ur before the stipulated date, the tenant has the privilege of sitting arouna ia an overcoat. o Now that an editor’s son has flown five hundred feet high, the way to get clear of the irate subscriber is plainly pointed out. There is one point pie-eaters should not fail to observe, and it is this: The pie-makers who eat their own pie are the ones to patronize. This is the third fall in fourteen years that eastern Connecticut’ has been favored with immunity from a black frost until October 14th. If Minister Crane tatked too mu-h it 'was because of his inexperience. It is a big part of wisdom :) know when to talk and when not to, Magnate Morse has no debts to haunt him or to eat up his estate, for he paid them all up before he went to live at public expense for fifteen years. They are now saying that the Har- riman estate, which was conveyed in 99 words, is valued at $309 €50,200. The first estimate Is apt to near- est. Happy thought for today: -~ When & woman says unprintable things she doesn't get out in the back yard to #ay, them, for she kuows that the Too Cold fot That. The frécent cold snap it the west gave rise to the following story, leh is vouched for as baving hap- d. old negro preacher was deliver- ing a very vigorous sermon on hell He pictured the warmth of the lower regions and the fort that sin- ners who reached there would experi- ence. ¥ He noticed that the _description, though embellished with all the wealth of detail of which he was capable, did not have much effect, and after the ervices he called one of the deacons side and asked him what the matter was. “Well, pahson,” replied that digni- tary, “to tell de trufe, ah ’spects de weddah was a little too coid foh suh- mons on hell this mawnin’!” Her Compliment. Everybody knows how children wor- ship their school teachers, in case the latter happen to appeal to the youngsters and try to make things interestin, i A well known Louisville girl was pald what she regards &s one of the finest compliments she ever receive She attended an afternoon function at a home where there was a little girl of 7 or 8. The youngster eyed her shyly, but with evident admiration. She looked at her a long time without speaking, but finally she went up to the object of her adoration and simply said: “Say, I wish you were a school teach- er and that I was in your I There was, of course, nothing more to be added to that.—Courier-Journal. A Likely Boy. A Newark woman who lives in an water boller has neither ears tongue. hot nor a Tom Lipton, the great tea mer- chant, who is supposed to have money to burn, hires girls to pack tea at $2 a week. There isn't much in it for them. It Dr. Cook is what Commander Peary has labored to make out he is, it must be admitted that he is the most magnificent liar %this country has ever seen. Captain Amundsen says “the truth is not in the Eskimos,” and Admiral Meijville shows they are great in re- membering location if not in remem- bering facts. Out west they are clalming that the experises of election should .be minimized. What a lot of candidates for governor there would be if they could run on $1.75. The country will not need any ex- positions in 1910, for it Mr. Halley gets his comet to the front in good shape public attention will be com- pletely taken up with it. Colonel Bryan has been selected to make the closing speech for the Se- attle exposition. This must be fcr the purpose of showing him what a successful thing looks like. CORN - HARVESTING MACHINERY. The Automatic Pickers and Shellers. Of the 3.526,814,000 bushels of corn raised in 1908 in the United States raised about 76 per cent. The hand- ling of this enormous crop is a con- stant incentive to improvements in corn harvesting machinery. One in- genious device is the corn picker, the operation of which is a continuous performance in legerdermain. This machine picks the earsfrom the stand- ing corn with deft precision, husks and delivers them into a wagon which ig driven alongside the machine. It has beén successfully used in the heavy corn raised in Illinois and in the large corn fields of Nebraska, Kan- sas, Iowa and South Dakota. Its only drawback is that it leaves the fodder standing and scattered over the field. Many farmers feed their stock by turning them into the fields, but it has been found that this method does not properly utilize the fodder. The cat- tle will not eat the tough part of the stalks, although there i much nutri- ment in them. Accordingly a macihne has been invented which takes the corn, as delivered in shocks, husks and de- livers the ears ready for the shelling machine, while at the same time thor- oughly cutting and shredding the stalks, blowing the shredded fodder through & pipe into the haymow or into stacks ready to be pressed, if de- sired, into bales in the power press. In the field there are macihnes which cut and bind the standing corn ready for the shredder. Dave Rankin, the largest grower of corn in the world, who has 6,000 acres devoted to corn near Tarkio, Mo., and who feeds it all to stock, says: “I be- lieve that with shredded fodder the steers do as well as on grass.” The corn shredder enables the farmer to harvest about two tons of excellent, succulent, shredded corn fodder per acre, while much goes to waste when @ shredder is not used. It is estimated that this fodder is worth about $7.50 per ton or $15 an acre. Another ma- chine which has made is appearance is a corn-shock loader, to be uesd in the field In connection with a gasoline tractor. This machine is capable of hoisting six heavy shecks of corn from the ground to the wagon when loading, and when unloading delivers one shock at a time upright on the feeding platforms ready to be fed into the maw of the husker and shredder. Saint Sophie Wright. A living saint is as much better a saint than a dead saint as life is bet- ter than death. Miss Sophie Wright of New Orleans is a living saint—“St. Sophie,” they call her. Miss Wright was born with a species of hip disease that has made her a cripple for life, Every step she takes is torture, and although she is a young woman in years her sufferings have turned her hair snow white. Her parents were poor and barely able to support her through high school. A life cripple, poor, without friends, how could she earn a living saintheod? That was twenty-five years ago, when such - thing as a night school was unknown in New Orleans. One night a young man, a stranded circus acrobat, came to ‘her and said he could get a job if only he could read and write. ‘Would she not teach him? She did, and that was the beginning of her night school. One by one the pupils came for free instruction ° until she was crowded out of her little home in- to larger quarters. Today, as the outcome of Sophie Wright's self-sacrificing labors the night schools of New Orleans instruct 2,000 pupils, and some of the leading V| citizens have been‘educated in these schools. Miss Wright started a private school for girls, which is very suc- cessful. She makes her living by teach- ing in this school all day and gives her evening to “her boys” in the night school. This erippled woman has built a home for crippled children. She is the main support of the home for con- valescents andl scores of other cha: ties. Every year The Picayune, a newspaper, gives a loving cup to that citizen who done the greatest good for the city during the year. Several years ago Miss Wright received the cup. In it was a check for +$10,000, subscribed by ..gzople of New ‘Or- leans to cancel & debt she had assumed in making room for her nij sehoole. Is it strange they should call her She pulled away. * . “Heavens!” she exclaimed. “That new jceman certainly gives ‘weight!™ A o After much effort she got the dumb- waiter up to the level. To her amazement there was a small boy sitting on the ice. With what little breath she had left she demanded: “What in the world did you make me pull you up here for?" , “Why,” replied the youngster, “I thought maybe the cake would be tod heavy for you to lift, 'so I came up to help you off with it."—Lippincott’s. Difficult Exams. Apropos of examinations and their terrors, A. E. Palmer, secretary of the department of education: of New York, told at a recent dinner an odd story of a young African prince. “This prince,” said Mr. Palmer, “en- tered Yale or Harvard—I forgot which —and amused himself with bulldogs and motor cars until examination time drew near. Examination time fright- ened the young prince horribly. “He began to study, and cabied home to the king, his father: ‘Exami- nation mnext week. Most difficult. Implore aid of gods in my behalf” A few days later this reply came back from the barbarous West-Coast mon- arch: “ ‘Rites performed. Fourteen picked youths, all sons of nobles, have been sacrificed. Omens propitious.’ “Yet, would you believe it,” Mr. Palmer concluded, “the young prince flunked.”—Argonaut. St, Sophie, or that she is also known to the people as “the best citizen of New Orleans?” She has -effectively answered the age-long query respect- ing ‘woman, “What can she do?” - She is of that noble company of women who are coming into their own in this, our day. Sophie Wright, “leading citi- zen of New Orleans:” And there are others—plenty of them.—Albany Jour- nal. Lost: A Few Comets. Lost comets is the subject of a fas- cinating chapter in “The Story of the Comets,” newly issued by Mr. G. F. Chambers, F. R. A. S, who is already well known by his “Handbook of De- scriptive and Practical Astronomy.” A great number of comets have been carefully observed ang their reappear- ances predicted and seen, and then they have failed to make their reap- pearance. Several well known comets have had this fate. A comet appeared in 1772 and 1805 and again in 1826, when Biela, an Austrian officer, found «that the three appearances related to one comet. . Tt returned twice again, and then in 1846 the most extraordinary feature in its career was observed. A tiny comet was seen to break off from the parent, to which it later was joined by a lu- minous bridge. Biela's comet return— ed once more in 1852, and for three weeks was - visible as a large comet, m nyr‘nnco. it has not been t is the oldest of lost De Vico's comet, which was a bril- liant spectacle in 1844, has also dis- ppearad. On the date when it should have been seen again in 1850 it was calculated that, owing to its position with to the sun, it would be difficult to distingyish. But no such excuse could be found for its next its solitary since, An Ordinary Jag. It is said that President Taft will sustain the ruling that blends are , if thev are not too much g Pe; | Dlended. What It 1s when it 18 t00 riods have been carefully observed,|PIRIeT TThat Nt fe when 1L I8 100 and have failed to make their Teap- pearances. S Philadelphia North American. The radiations of the human body that affect photographic plates have been found by De Fontenay to be warmth and meisture. Tt is safe to assume, though, that when the lines are finally drawn, it will be found that Comptroller Metz is a candidate for something or other. SPECIAL OFFER TO BOATMEN For the next Sixty Days we offer the following prices : 1% M. P. Engine $40.00 Regular price $ 50.00 Dl 3% H. P. Engine $65.00 Regular_price $ 90.00 5 H. P. Engine $8500 ' Regular price $110.00 Send for special prices for larger Engines, Jump Spark and Make and Break above 3% H. P. Catalogues furnished. WEST MYSTIC MFG. COMPANY, West Mystic, Conn. ALL DENTAL WORK. can be done without n by Dentists who KNOW HOW. ‘{a pride ourselves on KNOWING HOW. Good Denta! work nowadays>is only possible by Dentists of experience. We have been 20 years gaining that. Each of our staff of operators has made some branch of Den- tistry his particular specialty for years, and whether you need filling, crowning, extraction or bri work, we have a SPECIALIST to do it for you, and do it positively without pain, and at from oie-third 't.; ona-k-h.l.l.! the prices prevalling at other offices for the same quality ot wor! IT WILL PAY you to invesiigate and consult us before going elsewhere. We make no charge whatever for examination and advice, Sets of teeth that fit, from $8.00 Gold Crowns, 22 karat....$5.00 Bridge Work Special —our own system — absolutely impossible for teeth ‘o All work guaranteed for 10 years King Dental Parlors, Dr. Jackson, Manager. Franklin Squar - LAST CALL! Just Today and Saturday EXTRA REDUCTIONS —— AT — Removal Sale of Plaut-Cadden Co. Leading Jewelers of this State. Established 1872 HIGHEST QUALITY OF NEW GOODS Yesterday the buying was at its height. It is the law of human nature to ‘wait, and we have been in a quandary this week as to just how low to mark some of these goods so they will go in the next few days. On some lots ‘the prices are as low as we can make them, but there are.several lines on which we are willing to make special sacrifice in order to insure immediate sale, among which will be found WATCHES, UMBRELLAS, CUT GLASS, CLOCKS. ' HERE ARE A FEW PRICGES: There GOLD RINGS now 75c and up. CUFF LINKS 75c up to $16.00. BRACELETS j50c¢ to $24.00. BROOCH PINS s0c up to $60.00. SCARF PINS 40c to $50.00. OPERA GLASSES, special $1.00 UMBRELLAS 85¢ to $15.00. LEATHER BAGS now 75c and up. $10.00 WATCHES now $ 5.25. $30.00 WATCHES now $22.00. still remains a large assortment $10.00 CLOCKS now $6.70. . $15.00 CLOCKS now $9.00. $10.00 SILVER CHAFING DISHES now $6.50. $ 5.00 CUT GLASS BOWLS now $3.75. $ 5.00 to $10.00 WATER BOTTLES $3.75 to $7.50 to $14.00. $ 2.00 to $7.00 GOLD FRAMES, $1.25 to $5.00. $ 2.00 GLASS PERFUME DEPOSIT WARE BOTTLES $1.00. $10.00 JEWEL CASES $7.00. s0c to $5.00 MATCH SAFES 3sc to $3.00. And over 100 other articles. OPEN EVENINGS THIS WEEK THE PLAUT-CADDEN CO “ ESTABLISHED 1872 Largest and Oldest Jewelry Dealers in_this State 1465 Main Street, Norwich, Gonn. “ST. ELMO” LB, Matinee. ... . 'sd 50¢c, 76c and Evening 2bc, 85¢, 76c, $1 and $1. Seats on sale at Box Office, Wi regan House and Bisket, Pitcher & on Thursday, Oct. 14th, at 9 o' 19 AN Cars to all points.after the perfor - ance, : octl4d Feature Picture FREE BOOTERS (Wild West Hold-up Selected Sgng and Strong Plcture ¥ Programme. Matinees — Ladies and Children Sa octldd New Olympic Theatre FRED HELD Vitagraph Pictures WILLIAMT. DELANEY Hiustrated Songs. Matinee 2.30..Evening continuous from 7.80 to 10 o'clock. Any seat 10e, oct1d Mmusic. CAROLINE H. THOMPSON Teacher of Music 46 Washington Street. L. I.l' BALCOM, Tencher Plane. 29 Thames Bt. iven at my residence or at the home of the 5 used at !chtwanfl onservatory, Ber- lin. oct11d F. C. GEER TUNER 122 Prospect St 889-5. Norwich, C4 A. W. JARVIS is the Leading Tuner in Eastern Connecticut. 'Phone 518-5. 15 Clairmount Ave. sept22d JAMES F. DREW Piano Tuning and Repairia Best Vork Only. "Phone 422-d. 18 Perkine Aves sept23d L Tel, firfid Vim‘ Sanitarium for the treatment of Mental and Nerv- sus Disepses, with separate and do- tached department for Alcoholin and Orug Habits » Address Grand View Sanitarium, Teleph €75, Norwich, Conn. _ive! +—OPEN— Del-Hoff Cafe Business M s Lunch x specialty. Also Regular Dinnor, fifty cents. iy%a _Ete., in-Town. JAMES O'CONNELL, P: Telephone 507. LOUIS H. BRUNELLE BAKERY We are confident ouf Ples, Cake and Bread cannot be exeelied. Give ve a trial order, novid HAYES BROS. Propa ont.ll 20 Fairmount Strest. A Fine Assertment ol "at ilttle prices. - MRS. G. P. STANTON, ™ octld 5