Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 11, 1909, Page 4

£ R o | @Bnterad as the Fostoffios at Norwich. &8 gecond-class matter. 1 Telephone \‘l tn Business Office. 480, § ' Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-3. i 244 etin Job Office, 35-6. EA tle Office, Reom 2. Murray FAd ing. Telephone, 210. Norwich, Saturday, Dec. 11, 1909. HAT 1S CONGRESS GOING TO DO The present session of congress has " Bt in its power to strengthen the Bands of the administration and to promote republican interests or to ve the way for the ascendancy of the democratic party. Much is mot to e expected until after the holidays; LiBut in the next few weeks the policy #¢ the dominant party, or the lack of §t, may indicate the trend of the fac- tions. The democrats are hoping that the oM republican ability to forgive mnd to forget, to harmonize for the common good and the good of the coumtry, has been lost, and that fac- tionalism will rend the party beyond very; but the chances are that ey will ses the republicans acting together for the interests of the party and people since they realize that dis- fntegration means in the end defeat. It is probable that the conservative spirit and good. sense of President Taft will be accepted by a majority of his party, and that the policies of the party will be honored and such legislation carried through as will im- press the people with the good faith mnd honesty of their representatives. Some of the leading democraic writ- @rs for the press predict harmony in the republican fanks and & fairly sat- tory closing sesson of the Sixty- congress. EQUALIZING TAXES. 1t goes without saying that a polit- Real system of taxation cannot work miore fustly under a board of equaliza- tion than without it. The system of ‘gaxation in this country has never ap- proached a plane of equality, and is never lkely to. Virgini, like Con- mMecticut, is trying to equalize taxes, wnd the Richmond Times-Despatch says “It can be shown that real es- tate assessments in Virginia vary from 42 to 110 per cent. of the market value of the property. It inevitably follows that & man in ene gection of the state 48 called upon to pay three or four times as much in taxes as another man holding property of precisely the same kind in another section of the state.” This reads just as true for this te as for that. Some towns here paying on full valuation, some on @6 per cent., and the remainder upon & go-as-you-please schedule, and with Jocal political assessors there appears o be no way ta remedy the evil. The Mimes-Despatch declares “the unequal assessments are simply a natural and w;n of an entirely unequal tax “To equalfsé .assessments and not to remedy the entire code would Be putting new wine in old bottles” This dystem. is ot pecullar to New England or the sélith, for it has spread with the growth of the country and it m “to' biits# domplaint every- } How the assessing is done in Vir- ‘#In¥& 1s shown by The Times-Das- pateh’s. explanation that “a lenient as- @essor will take a leisurely ride over @ farm and then sit down to eat din- ner with the property owner. He will presently 'dacide that the property should be taxed at, let us say, '$3 an Mcre. Another man, who obeys the Jetter and spirit of the law, might as- meas the same property, or similar property, in another district, at $25 an acre.” How much ke home this seems; and the Virginians admit, that “for this gross injustice there is no exist- ing recourse. The taxpayer has to grin and endure, or laugh and take it easy, as the case may be.” IMPROVING LIBRARY SERVICE. It seems strange that the Hebrews eall for the heaviest reading at pub- llc Wbraries while the Americans call for the lightest. Great works are too much neglected and this is how the elassics come to be defined as “books which everybody eulogizes and nobody reads” Tt Sam Walter Foss s right, public documents, state and national, contain whole literatures. He says there s to be found therein philosophy, religion, philology, sociology, natural science, fine arts, useful arts, litera- ture and history. Scholars, specialists, experts, have devoted palnstaking wears to their production. The men- tality and the lives of many men Bave been put into these books. There 1s fertllity in them. There is the dy- namic possibility of great fruitage, and ho recommends a trial of “dry farm- 4ng,” to get the best fruits from them ~—a constant stirring to get the best there is in them where it will do the most good. And Mr. Foss asks: “Why not do ® little dry farming in the wide but, at present, nearly uncultivated do- mains of Eschylus, Sophocles and Eu- ripides? No one but Shakespeare ever gropped the plummet deeper into hu- man nature than they. They have let Joose large thoughts upon the world. Has the world grown so wise that it . eannot find mew wisdom in these old thinkers. Why, indeed, should not a public Ifbrary consider it an Important part of its work to induce men to make themselves great by mastering the thoughts of the world's great thinkers before them? Great thinkers appear dn the world from time to time, utter thelr thoughts, and only a few hear them. Emerson thought there wefte only five or six men in any generatian awvho understood Plato; dut Plato's work comes duly down through the generations ‘as if God brought it in His hand’ for these five or six men to read. A CHRISTMAS WISH. The children of this country have = faithful friend and advocate in Ja- eob Rils, of New York, who would see them led for the greatest pleasure of «childhood and the greatest use in age. He sent the following wish to the con- gress of the Playgrounds assoclation during its last session in Pittsburg: | “S8o long as there is @ child -in- ofir Jand who toils in shop or tenement when he should be out at play, whose | scheol is swithout a playground and whose out-of-ddors ia pounded by the ‘er a tree or shrub or flower, y ‘the masses will hate the classes, the policeman e _to the Boy. an tneJy. .mmmmu.mm - an that abundant common come with the season of of Massachusetts leads the way by making an athletic field a compulsory equipment for every place in that state of over 10,000 Inhabitants, and every place of 30,000 population must have two. An advocate of these playgrounds in Massachusetts calls attention to the fact that supervision of the children is necessary for other things than play. “Unregulated play,” he says, “has cer- tain evil possibllities which it is just as well to avoid. Clean play. avoid- ance of tricke:y and cheating, the use of proper language and pride in honest winning are perhaps not any more spontaneous than a knowledge of eek or of the procession of the equinoxes. 'We cofe at all of these things through certain channels, and it is just as well to provide the chan- nels as to leave it to them to provide themselves. So supervision is neces- sary whether we think we like it or not.” This seems #ight, too, for if we pro- pese to make the most of the child negligence can pl no part in the training. The best trained children make the best citizens. A JUST RULING. That was an excellent plece of judicial comment made the other day in the police court in this city when it was held that the male companion of the street walking girl should be taken into custody with his female friend. The police now have their tip to capture the male as well as the female street walker when they be- come offensive. And why shouldn't the male friend be arrested with the fe- male? Isn't he just as much of a street walker as the female? As a general proposition and from the view. point of common sense, why shouldn’t the male street walker be taken to po- Qice headquarters and presented to the city court judge?—New Haven Union. It is strange that lewdness of men is not regarded in the same light as lewdness of women. The male oglers and mashers and agents of im: lity are given free scope for their¥foul purposes just as if they were legiti- mate, in almost all New England ci fes, while women of the same type are subjected to strict police surveil- lance and find themselves frequently in the city courts. New Haven i ting & good example. What is good for thé goose is good for the gander. AMERICAN RICE CULTURE. Rice stands next to wheat and corn In the list of the world's food crops, and as a clean and wholesome diet is gaining favor in the western world, and the cultivation of it in this coun- try seems to be progressing by leaps and bounds. It was not so long ago that 100,000,000 pounds represented the total crop of this country, but the bu- reau of statistics at Washington calis attention to the fact that the yleld has now reached 08,000,000 pounds, with a prospect of greatly increasing the crop In the mear future. The world's grop of rice is estimated at 175,000,000,000 pounds annually and it fs to the Asiatics what wheat 1s to the people of other parts of the world. There are a hundred ways in which rice can be served and as the cooking of it is the better understood the de- mand rapidly inereases, There is no reason why the southern states should not eventually become as celebrated for their rice crop as for their cotton crop. They have plentv of rice land still awaiting development. EDITORIAL NOTES. The rancor of the opposition to Dr. Cook is so hot that it is burning out the field. It is too much When the steampipes get to snap- ping in the night, steam heat has to ‘be recognized as a disturbing element. There is a general fceling that sec- ond class mail matter has been sneak- ing through the mails mighty cheap. It is not strange that Bailey shocked He has shown himself ca- | the senate. pable of shocking Texas once or twice. The new minister to China can hur- rah for the flag in public, but his opinfons must be privately expressed. In the west they are convinced by rocent experience that snow is not so nice to shovel as it is to think about. In a Christian country the life is be- gun at birth, but it is remarkable how early juvenility begins to side- step. The president favors more speedy justice, but the rogues of this coun- try have not yet endorsed this senti- ment. ‘Wall street does not see anything in the president's message to get ex- cited over; nor the tountry anything to be_ oftended at Happy thought for today: Perhaps everyday opinions would be more val- ved If we would just give trading stamps with them. There are 328 lawyers in congress and 158 other fellows. The chap who does not know his law does not know where he is at there. The mew corporations for November represent a capltalization of over two hundred and thirty millions. A million greater than in November last year. ‘The man who i= going to the ever- lasting dogs thinks he is having a good time; but it is not so with the man who is having his teeth extracted. When the farmers see on paper that they cropped off nine billion dollars last year, a good many of them won- der where their share of the cash went to. A Toledo man says that after read- ing the opening paragraph of Presi- dent Taft's message his wife turned to the last chapter “to see if the hero married the girl! It is now alleged by the figurers that the extermination of the house- fly means a saving of two biilions annvally and two years added to the average human life. There must be more to be merry over than to be thankful for in' the municipal. elections of Massachusetts, o they are held after Thanksgiving and just before Christmas. A Camden, N. J,, policeman has just resigned because he “was tired of working.” Camden does not seem to ‘We are thii about mw.uduc%.m- w really should be a spirit—a t of helpfulness. If we look our late an eutput and receil t the mercantile spirit. It remembers “Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the Kingdom of ;" and that unqualified command, “Feed My lambs!” The Christmas tree {s not a real Christmas tree which is decorated with four dollar presents for our chil- dren and four cent presents to the children of the needy—the children ot . In our conceit and selfishness we strdy far from the true way even when we think that we are righteous and God is illuminating the way for us—we. should alwa: be more con- cerned that the way be illuminated for our neighbors. The sru:flcl.fl‘ exam- ple of righteousness does not have to preach, for he is doing things—he is a light and a leader to the benighted. So the prospective farmer must know what a well-balanced ration is for stock to keep them healthy and free from colic. Now is not this an @ccomplishment which would make more practical and valuable a pros- pective wife? But we humans g0 on making garbage cans of our own stom- achs, while we fit health foods to the stomachs of cur domestic creatures. ‘When God wrote the laws of our being on our hearts, do you think he fore- saw we were such fools that we would observe them for kine and violate them ourselves. We make a law of modera- tion for the brute, and then gorge our stomachs with food enough to lyze a goat. The stomach is the most abused organ of our bodies; and when it is disordered there is no order in our physical system—we are indeed sick. It is woe for us and meat for the doc- tors. " The human race is just suffer- ing for a well-balanced ration ‘which will keep it healthy and 'free from colic. Among men there are all sorts of gentiemen, even to the gentleman bear —who alternates from bear to gentle- man to suit his moods or his environ- ment. His concept of a gentleman does not meet with acceptance general- ly. Priding himself upon the fact that he was a gentleman born and bred, he somehow feels at liberty (o make a breach in the amenities and Ppropri- eties whenever it suits his temper. He doesn’t seem to comprehend that tem- per is the least defensible of anything in a gentleman’s outfit. He shows his quality by being impolite to_an; and all persons not of his class who do not impress him well, and savage to his own class if they do not meet his idea of greeting or treating a gentleman born and bred. He is the most uncom- fortable gentleman I have ever met, and how he came to think he is a gentleman instead of a bear can only be attributed to his lack of observa- tion when he meets manly men and snarling animals. A writer says: “They say there is nothing in luck. Still, one man we know was a railroad brakeman six weeks and was made conductor, while another has been a brakeman ten years and is still braking.” This is more 1ikely to be looks than luck. Some men look like men who ought to be ad- vanced, and others look as if they were born to fit the place they are in. The one regarded as having been In luck may have as brakeman maintained the neatness and affability which marked him as a man fitted to go up higher— the other may have been a plodder and so generally unattractive in his per- sonal appearance that he did not look capable of doing anything else, Looks are a good asset to any youth starting in life. Take horses, for instance; the good looker is more likely to be in a gold_mounted harness attached to a gentleman’s carriage than in an ex- press wagon. Looking up is one way of getting up. Efficiency is sometimes mirrored in appearances—do not for- get this. Next year, when Halley's comet ap- pears, we are going to look upon a tramp of the skies that is believed to have terrorized men as an avenging angel with a flaming sword away back in the days of Solomon. Fear in those days was more intense about the in- Visible powers than the visible: but the world nowadays is so busy with visible problems that it lets the invisible take care of itself. The world twenty odd | centuries ago was harassed by aveng- ing gods, but we have them all de- throned but one, and conscious of Him as a living Father so that the fear which made abject man sacrifice his fellows and rear others to appease | @ivine wrath has been eliminated and | man is happler and life more worth | living. These are the best days the | world has even knéwn. The world was | a great while in getting its eyes open and it is questionable whether it has yet cut its eyeteeth, The young woman who says to her husband: “This is not the ple your mother used to make, but something petter,” is not likely to hold him so firm a3 the good old-fashioned girl who used to get all of her mother-fn-law's good recipes and cook things the hus- band bhad a special liking for in the g00d old way. This is a wise wife's Way of getting a grip on the past and making it serve her in the present. The used-to-be’s are ecliminated, and the things mother used to make are in the family—perpetuated as nourish- ing titbits instead of having been left ana lost in the home nest. When a man’s stomach Is satisfied and his liver kept In good order his heart is mot 1ikely to go astray. The husband who is always yearning for the goodies of the past is not well tethered. It takes more than a smile and an apron string to hold a husband in these times. I have trimmed up my grape " and I thought 1 had done a pretty §00d job till I carefully looked them over one quiet afternoon. 1 had properly cut them back, but one vine seemed to say to me: “This house is divided against itself.” 1 could not quite understand, but I remembered that a few years 0 I made up my mind to do away with an old vine and so a hacksaw was called into service and it was sawed off level with the ground: and then I took down the supporting arbor; but the next spring when 1 saw how merry the old vine was with its new shoots I restored its support, and now 1 get the best concords from ‘that vine. 1 looked at the vine again, which seem- ed to say “this house is divided against itself,” and saw that the suckers had been overlooked until there were real- ly two vines trying to do business on ome set of roots, and in March I shall walk out and take the head off the oldest part to give the young bloods a chance, and J expect to get from this vine better fruit and more of it. Vines are good teachers, but they are not to blame if they regard us as rather dull students. We are approaching the season when quite a portion of the people frame up g00d resolutions to guide them in life. “I'T used to do it until it dawned upon me that once a year was not often enough to resolve for my own good and that the reason they could not be kept was because of this dilatory method. Tt is foolish to be resolving from year to year to live more correctly when it is easier to do so from day to day. The da: “Howdy,” said the man from Arizo- na, who had time to kill and was feel- ing lonely, addressing the pretty sten- ographer in the hotel copridor. “Do yom want to dictate a letter?” asKed. “Well, § hadn't thought of that,"” sald man. ‘fhe stencgrapher glanced At the clock and then returned to her work. “Fact is” continued the man from Arizona, taking the chair at her llfl.t “T'm eo lonesome that I'll bust If don’t find some one to to. Say, miss, are you very busy?” “I dom't have any time to be fdle. D_‘o‘,ou want to dictate to me?" ‘e westerners don’t presume to dic- tate to women. 1 just taought you looked sort of friendly, and I haven't a soul to speak to—my sisters have gone out shopping “T'm ready to take your letter,” said the pretty stenographer. “rd rather talk to you—letter writ- ing isn't much in my line. 1 brought my sisters to the city to let them see the stock show. “pid your sisters thoroughly enjoy the show?” “They've not had time to go yet— been shopping two days and In the evening they want to go to some theater. I don’t give a cent for thes soclety plays, do you? I want som thing lively. We have good shows our town.” R o S W TR o ST R R e TR done upon a small scale than a big one. What is the use to wait for the flame to make headway so as to dis- lay greater skill in putting it out? Sneh ‘conduct would be foolish, but we are told so to conduct our eternal lbl;b:r:ll.l. Do you not see that it is h? The way to heaven may be a straight and narrow way; but you may have noticed that denominational lines leave no doubt that there is no lack of cross roads. There is nothing very compli- cated about the path. “As ye do it unto the least of these ye do it unto me,” said the Divine One. There is no evidence anywhere that a hog ever became an angel, or that a kindly, humble man ever became a devil Think of the future with love, not with fear, and do_not forget that salvation is not to be had for a price or by false pretence. When heaven is established within you you are fitted for heaven. Divine rmony comes right through the heart. It does not make any dif- ference what a good man calls himself or what anyone else calls him. To live right for this world is to be right for the mext. SUNDAY MORNING TALK THE BROADENING SCOPE OF EDUCATION. The almighty dollar excepted, there is perhaps no single subject on which the American people bestow so much attention as education. Look at the vast sums appropriated from public treasuries and the constant unclasp- ing of private purses in behalf of various institutions. The magazines and papers are full of discussions on different phases of education, physical, intellectual, moral, industrial, voca- tional. Large conferences and small conferences agitate the same theme. ‘We are one as a natlon in our desire that the rising generation shall be- come intelligent and able to put its information and training to good uses. Nevertheless, there is far from being unanimity concerning some of the underlying principles and methods of education. New college presidents in their inaugural addresses confess that in certain respects the situation is unsatisfactory. Too much emphasis has been laid on a single branch of learning or on athletics or on elec- tives or om social life and the real things for which a college should stand have become side shows. The public schools, too, come in for their share of criticism. Ministers some- times think that they, more than any other people in the community, are the target for gossip and abuse but the school teachers are talked about also. Why shouldn't they be? Don't the taxpayers support them and doesn't the right of free speech go with taxpaying? But because of all this discussion, because educators are asking whether traditional methods and courses may not now' be modified in the interests of efficiency and a more all around product, I regard the situation today as full of cheer and promise. The children of a decade hence to profit greatly by current discussions and contemplated reforms. Here is one item registering a sub- stantial advance. Mrs. Young, the new superintendent of schools in Chi- cago, has decided to substitute for algebra in the eighth grade what is known as a “Chicago course.” Pupils taking it will become familiar with the history and geography of their city and the adjacent region. Through systematic_visits, with their own eyes and ears they will learn about the lo- cal industries, the stock yards, roll- ing mills, manufacturing establish- ments as well as the institutions of a higher grade, like hospitals, libraries, social settlements and churches. A capital idea it is and one capable of being applied in many a small community, whose boys and girls should certainly know who its plo- neers and heroes have been, what men and women of worth it has con- tributed to other places and what its present equipment is in the way of natural resources and institutional forces. Another line of suggested education seems to me equally adsirable, A bright western college professor has recently told his pupils that he should not consider them truly educated un- less they could say yes to certain test questions such as these: Has education given you sympathy with all good causes and made you ea- ger to espouse them? Has it made you public spirited? Has it made you brother to the weak? Have you learned how to make friends and keep them. Do you know what is is to be a friend to yourself? Can you look an honest man or pure woman straight in the eye? Do you see anything to love in tle child? Will a lonely dog follow you in the street? Can you be high minded and happy in the meanest drudgeries of life? Do you think washing dishes and hoeing corn just as compatible with high thinking as plano playing or golf? Are you good for anything to your- self? Can you be happy alone? Can you look out on the world and see anything except dollars ahd cents? Can you look into a mud puddle by the wayside and see the clear sky? Can. you see anything in the puddie but wmud? Can you look Into the.sky at night and see beyond the stars? Can your soul claim relationship with the Cre- ator? A rather fanciful “quiz” I hear some one remark. But, Mr. Objector, don't vou wish that you ard your children could say yes to every one of those questions? 2 " THE PARMER. ut- her in | sisters,” T AREY o s “T'd 1ike to see the west.- Perhaps | of J r let mé know. I'l give "!rl of your young life. ~sald 04 “That's the only thing—we're all try- ing to remedy that, roo. 1 don't to me m Amending Lincoln. B e e <kt ot SAY- e, ‘“when 3 v body.” This 5o constdered the first amendment to Lincoln’s immortal epigram. Tribund a girl to take a shine time she sees me—" “ think I'll go to lunch now,” re- ‘marked the stenographer. “Say, if you wouldn't think it bold— couldn’t wes" “Excuse me a minute.” Glancing at wrote something on her One Way Out. It is teared that the Standard Oil company may escape the dissolution order on a technicality by just buy- ing up the rest of the world—Detroit Journal. —_— Never. A rumor alleged to come from Tokio that the Japanese government will abandon Port Arthur is likely to be confirmed about the same time that the British government abandons Gib- ‘raltar,—Pittsburg Des) HOME GARMENT MAKING. The Bulletin’s Pattern Service. to meet a hustler like you. May I in- troduce them? Perhaps we can all go to the stock show tonight—that is, if your time isn't a\:lh as valuable as this,” locking at the bit of paper ‘with the typewritten lines she had given him. “You're not golng to turn me down, are you?” She smiled at him as she pinned on “I think I should like your she said as she left him.— Chicago News. RE-ASSERTS HIS CONFIDENCE IN EXPLORER COOK. Captain Loose's Story a Fabrication from Beginning to End. New York, Dec. 10.—Charles Wake of this city, an intimate friend of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, came to his de. fense today with a sthtement re-as- serting his confidence in the doctor's integrity and attacking the credibility of Capt. A. W. Loose and George H. Dunkle, who have sworn that they as- sisted the explorer in the preparation of his data concerning the North pole. The statement says in part: “There is no shadow of doubt in my mind that their story is a fabrication from beginning to end. I ask nothing re than that the public suspend Ju ent until the doctor has suffi- Cclently recuperated again to take up the pattle of evidence against his de- tractors. “Meanwhile, in the security of his retirement, far from the roar of the well-greased affidavit mills, he is in entire ignorance of this latest tem- pest in a teapot, and I propose to keep i !my pledge by rg[yefil:li h'j. retreat. LADIES’ NINE-GORED SKIRT. can say, however, that he is not now — and has not been, in anv sanitarium,” | Paris Pattern m — All Seams A Mayor Who Quotes Scripture. Mayor Woods of Somerville knows the Scriptures, and in a veto lnen-fie which e submitted last night he quoted from the Bible for the benefit of the aldermen. ve, As 4 shown it is made of dahlia colored silk Familiarity with the Bible is an aid | S50wR L3 RIS N On"S Thrim. The to eftective speech. Speaker Cannon |por®l PO S0 "pe made of braided often drives home a point With a | fabric, if desired. There is no fullness Seriptural allusion, and his knowledge [ whatever about the hips. and an In- of the Bible is extensive. Mr. Bryan | verted box pl has displayed a notable readiness in|reguisite flare. handing out_Biblical quotations to his e pattern is in five sizes, from 24 andiences, Daniel Webster knew his | 10,32 Incnes! waist measure ¥or 34 M Bible well, and in his address on the :""f‘,,'.',’:.,'.“.‘(':‘vfimy"&:af P Ve completion of the Bunker Hill monu- yards 36 inches wide, 3% ment he paid a striking tribute ta the | inches wide or 3% yards The very handsome design here pre- sented can be made up not only in the tashionable wide materials but in nar. 0 row width as wel 1s_esi clally adapted to silk, velvet or v veteen when not of wide weave. ‘book. rdhiz Dr.uwlt“hflul ‘n.lpi. G‘!fi h’"d:ld il s “wids, 4 yar heties wide, cat writers and many great | JiohSe, 116 | ddid g edgs of the Scriptures. Wholly apart | About 33 yard: o s prbebene from moral and religlous considera- tions, a_person who knows the Bible thoroughly has a marked advantage over ths person whose acquaintance with it s slight. Ability to quote Scrioture adds to one’s equipment. It Brice pattern, 10 cents. rder through The Bulletin Company, Pattern Dept., Norwich, Conn. An Ohio postmaster, who resigned has been adjudged insane, probably at a burlesque show, and is now, vinced that would not have sa adelphia Telegra] Some Consolation, at Least. John D. Rockefeller saw Jim J‘;I: hting, at least, ph. Inasmuch as she has had a sugar scandal of the first class Japan may be —Loulsville —— turnished prom tly. as a full-fledged nation. Courfer-Journal. FEATURE PICTURE: Tl:e Vaughn Foundry Co. IRON CASTINGS stock of to 26 Ferry Street Prima Donna Soprano, in Selested Songs. Matinee, Ladies and Children, novisd patterns. No. sanz2d T. F. BURNS, Heating and Plumbing, _“92 Franklin Street. MUsIC, NELLIE 5. BOWIE, Teacher of Plano, Central Bullding. Room 48, CAROLINE H, THOMPSON Teacher of Music 46 Washington Street. ilt at ‘the ‘back gives the |. is, Indeed, true, as Shakespeare point- ed out, that “the devil can cite Scrip- by other postmasters.—Detroit Free - | Press. ture for his purpose,” but he doesn’t . F. GIBSON Tin and Sheet Metal Worker. Agent for Richardson and Boyntes il Same n." Conserval e oot11d Fumeces 20 F. C. GEER l‘::;:t jain Street, Norwich, Conn Tu-:n 122 Prospect St, Tel. 511, Norwich, Cv YOU CAN GET agood and suifable Xmas present for the Horse, Car- riage, Aufomobile and Chauffeur at L. L. CHAPMAN'S and Carriage Repository, Norwich, Conn. Fine line of Kid, Jointed, Celluloid, Rag and Unbreak- able DOLLS of all kinds. Doll Heads, Wigs, Arms, Ete. Work, Scrap, Nursery, Favor and Novelty Baskets in great variety. MRS, EDWIN FAY, Franklin Square mnov3od A. W. JARVIS is the Leading Tuner In Eastern Connecticut. 'Phone 518-5. 15 Clairmount Awe sept22d JAMES F. DREW fiano Tuning and fepairiay Best Viork Only, “Phome 432-%. 18 Poridne Awe. sept23a Evening School IN CITY HALL NOW OPEN TUITION and SUPPLIES FREE try it very often. In the matter of expression the Bible is the masterplece of the ages, and anybody who seeks a simple, compact and effective style should search the Scriptures.—Hartford Times. Not a Condonable Offense. | A correspondent writes: “T have read | with interest In_The Builetin, Decem- | ber 9, James N. Arnoid’s defense,of | Benedict Arnold. I have long thought that historians have falled to do full justice to his unparalleled bravery at Critical points in American history, and I once wrote something in recog- nition of it. Little exception can be taken to the facts stated by Mr. Arn- old, but he goes too far in asking us “to ‘condone” the infamy of the traitor on account of his valor. A tender hearted woman was ready to excuse the sins of Satan because he was in- dustrious! We may pity the man, we | might forglve him if he were penitent, but the crime cannot be palliated or extenuated by his brilllant career, nor by his financlal straits, nor the injus- tice that he writhed under. The foul blot on his splendid escutcheon will remain indelible as_long ‘as his name endures in our annals. He might have lived in history as the greatest of he- roes, had he dared to return, confess his crime, repudiate his ill-gotten re- | ward, and redeem Andre.” Old Oaken Bucket Must Go. | The government is putting the ki-| NESS? bosh on the farm wells and Is inci-| dentally taking all_the poetry out of | the “old oaken bucket” which instead of dripping with nectar is now cov- ered with disease germ: The depart- been investi- gating rural water supplies in Minne- sote and out of seventy-nine farms visited fifty-nine had polluted water and in twenty-three of them it was | found that they had caused . typhoid fever. In eleven cases it was deemed Christmas Present THAT WILL BRING A LASTING SATISFACTION GIFT YOU ARE IN SEARCH OF—A PRESENT THAT WILL BE OF USE EVERY HOUR IN THE DAY AND EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. CAN YOU THINK OF ANYTHING MORE COMPREHENSIVE THAN TELEPHONE SERVICE WITH ITS EVER INCREASING, ALL-THE-YEAR-ROUND USEFUL- IT WILL PROVE INVALUABLE NOT ONLY TO THE PERSON TO WHOM YOU GIVE IT, BUT TO EVERY MEM- BER OF THE HOUSEHOLD AS WELL. The Southern New England Telephane Co. Also i Tafiville Schoolhouse oct26d Carriage and Automobile Painting and Trimming Cerriage and Wagon Werk of al! kinde Anything on wheels bullt to ordes 18 THE PRICES AND WORK RIGHT, The Scott & Clark CORPORATION, 507-515 North Main Street eprisa MISS M. C. ADLES, Hair, Scalp and Face Specialist impossible to preserve the water in wells from contamination. Only a small portion of the state was" gone | over, but the Investigation was suffi- | clently extensive to show that the pol- | lution covers a large area, is very dan- gerous and what is true of Minnesota must be true of other states. Farm wells are not infrequently near barns and stables or cesspools and in this way the water easily becomes polluted and it is only when the authorities get busy that the facts become known and the danger removed.—New PBritain Herald. 1869 ~ CHRISTMAS - 1909 We extend to the great American public an invitation te éall and inspect our choice line of Holiday Footwe useful and sensible gifts. for old young. - Courteous treatment and sa faction guaranteed. ! CUMMINGS, ) 53 Cemtral Ave, Hurry Up Cheap Aleohol! 1t is hoped the Inventors whose cheap process for distilling alcohol from saw- dust and other vegetable waste was recently announced will lose ne time The smell and the danger of gasoline, the comparative cleanliness and safety of alcohol, war- rant & quick resort to the latter #oon as it is sold at a price the people can afford to pay. Experiments which the government has made with alcohol for generating power are sure to attract attention. It |8 found that a gallon of denatured al- cohol can be made to do the same amount of work in an engine as a gal- |lon of gasoline. Moreover, the alcohol does not produce smoke and less Habie to yleld obnoxious odors, but the lower price of gasoline makes it the eeroq H. COOPER —— UPHOLSTERER Special Sale of Hair Matiresses $9.50 FOR 10 DAYS, Regular price $15.00. 259 West Main Street. RYE Fancy New Rye for Seed dec10d cheaper fuel. The experiments demon-— 9, Strated that almost say emgine with a A. R. MANNING'S, well designed carburetor will run as Telephone. Yantic, Conn. ~well with aleohol as with gasoline, ex- cept for a difference in ease of start- |ing and in certainty of operation— Milwaukee Wisconsin. For the Same Offense. " OUR WORK mests the approval of the critical people. u'.sgc l!oul\’aml Post, which llyld"un originally intended that lem— k] ts should hold the offices,” i - oetatahoula nela tas omcesis v | Rogers Domestic Laundry. Tel. 958. Rear 37 Franklin Strest. l wg;rmm Isnuw.n that What and Where to Buy In Norwich THE TURBAN SWIRL COIFFURE, the fashionable round effect in hair- dressing, requires & conspicuous part- ing. For this reason both hale end scalp should be in irreproachable con- dition. Miss Adles is the only one who ean give you the latest hair style and sclentific scalp treatment. Bhe witl be in Norwich entire week of Dec. 18th. WAUREGAN HOUSE. Norwich New York. Boston. Telephone 704. decsd The Norwich Nickel & Brass Ga, THAMESVILLE STORE will have your Sunday papers delivered io your door if you will give them your order. nov29d C. 8. FAIRCLOUGH. Joseph F. Smith, Tablowars, FLORIST ~ |"snd suh things Rofimishad. €9 to 87 Chestnut 8t. Norwicii, Genn. octid 200 Main Street, Norwich. yia POTATOES 75¢ per bushel. 0. FERRY, Tel. 703. 336 Franklin Street. Free delivery to all parts of the city. DR. JONES, Dentist, / 35 SHEDUCKET ST. | at Removul Sale for next two » 201 vc? All kinds of yard good: DE " nants, places in ton oo ete, wt FPECIAL: Two ‘thous: valued from & price 1dc. 29 4 n and see them at MILL REMNANT STORE, novidd 201 West Main NOTICE Dr. Louise Frank!in Miner is new locatsd In her new office, Breed Hal, Room 1 Office hours, 1 to 4 p. m. Telephone $60. Room 10 ‘Phane 32-3 &5‘?"-4’{%&%&: i . maylis - col