Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 15, 1909, Page 11

A New Pencil Wood. Food and candy manufacturers in- sist that color has a good deal to do with the popularity of their products. If the goods don't'look appetizing, they ply . won't sell; moreover, they must have the look always associated with the especial article, or fancy turns against them. Does color have @ similar hold in the matter of lead pencils? From time ‘out of mind lead, pencils have been made out of red cedar, and nothing but a red cedar case, somehow, seems to guarantee a lead pencil's being worth while. Of course, there are people who have a fangy for lead pencils that match the furnishings, and then it's all one to them what the pencil is made of, so long as it has the right coat of paint on_the outside—pencils yellow, blue, red, even plink, get some patronage; but from the business point of view— and that is what counts in the making and selling of lead pencils—the red cedar hue is the popular looks. The United States government, however, is about to beg of the people that they should put away any preconceived no- tlon as to how a pencil ought to look and to take kindly to the pencil made of yellow cedar, which looks whitish, —if once the yellow cedar pencil gets upon the market. . This is the situation. TUncle Sam owns millions of acres of rich timber land in the Northwest, on which stands much timber of mature age— fir and pine and Alaska cedar. It needs cutting, because it is ripe and on its way to detérioration. It ought to be out and young trees in. But there is yet no demand for the far- away pine and fir, when private hold- ings nearer at hand are equal to sup- plying the demand. Pencil cedar, however, that has yearly been sup- plied from southern forests by the mil- lions of feet, is disappearing at an alarming rate and a substitute has simply got to be found. The common western cedar, red in color, is too coarse grained and soft. The Alaska cedar under the control of the national forest reserve is believed to be solid enough in texture and soft enough in quality to answer every requirement of thé& pencil manufacurers. The mat- ter is to be laid before them; but when they consider it, they will also ask, will the people buy pencils made of white wood? Custom’s hold is harq BUSINESS DIRECTORY Of Eastern Connecticut, NORWICH FIRMS AUTOMOBILE STATION, J. it, 6 Otls Street. Automoblle :-d Blcycle Repairing. General Ma- chine work. Jobblzng. ’'Phone. BUILDING MATERIAL. Peck, McWilllamis & Co., 47-56 West Main Street. Lime, Portland Cemant, Pariod Roofing. BOTTLER H. Jacke], cor. Market and Water Sta. A complete line of the best Ales, Lager end nes, mpecially bottled for fam- iy use. Delivery. Tel 186-5. “THE FOUR-MINUTE RECORD.”, Come in and hear it. It's something great. Geo. . Yeomans, 323 Lafayette St. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE. Geo, E. Bachelder, Room 2, 656 Broad- way, Real Estate and Investment Broker, Notary Publie, Audl(lnf and Expert Acccuntant. Telephone 615. WILLIMANTIC FIRMS STIMPSON’S STABLES, rear Young's hotel Main st; ‘Thor- oughly up to date service anteed. | to brea But what the people must, m‘nt and heavy !un-'at & P8 | they will.—New Bedford Standard. Hot Apple Punch. A good punch for Christmas is made in this way: Roast one-half dozen well flavored apples without paring, then mash fine through a sieve and dust Undertaker and Embalmer ) vith v d el o1 d ted 32 Providence SI., Taftvlle. | nuimes. Tarn into o niehon s Srated | two quarts of hot sweet cider, sweeten Prompt attention to day or night calla ' to taste and serve at once witk ginger Telephon. #9-31. asri4MWFawl | arehins in Enamelware PIE'PLATES - ' - = . Sc ROASTING PANS - - 25¢ . BERLIN PANS with cover - 25c Large size BERLIN KETTLES with cover 45¢ 45c¢ GEORGE 6. GRANT, Large RICE BOILERS - - - - Agents for Armstrong Mfg. Co.’s Stocks and Dies, Pipe Cutters, Pipe Vises, Etc. THE HOUSEHOL.D, Bulletin Building 74 Franklin Street CALIFORNIA ‘Washington, Dec. 14—With a sup- porting cast of reformers galore, both male and female, Henry Brolaski of Monrovia, California, . who professed to be a gambler upon race tracks, was the star feature of a hearing today before the senate judiciary committee in support of the Burkett bill, which aims to prohibit the transmission of race track betting odds over telegraph or telephone lines. Poor Chance of Getting Your Money Back. In most candid and picturesque fashion he gave detalls of the gam- bler’s life and showed the poor chance of returns for money invested which is given to the gambling public. He was one of the owners of a Mexican track which was regarded as the basis of gambling operations in the United States and was put out of business at the instance of the department of state through co-operation with the Mexican government. He is now seek- ing to have tracks, in which he has no interest, dealt with in like man- ner. Fifty Poolrooms in New York City. Introducing himself as having been a gambler, poolroom proprietor, book- maker upon race tracks and a hand- D — When the “New” Moon First Becomes Warning in Will Against Sin of Idle- ness. A striking appeal to rich young men not to allow their wealth {0 tempt them into habits of loafing and idleness is made by the late Lieutenant Colonel Edward Tufnell in his will, disposing of vstate valued at £34 4 gross and net personality £103,1! states the London Express. ‘Colonel Tufnell, who had residences in Eaton square, at the Grove, Wim- bledon park and Crowhurst park, Sus- sex, was unionist M. P. for Southeast Sussex from 1900 to 1906, and was for- merly @ member of the king's body- guard. The appeal against loafing is made in the following remarkable clause in his will: “I desire to bring home to the minds of my sons, and of each and every young man who may hereafter take benefit in my property under this, my will, how strongly I hold to the view that every man should, during some substantial portion of his life, and cer- tainly during his early manhood, have some definite occupation, and lead a useful life and should not suffer wealth or other temptation to tempt him into idleness and a mere loafing and use- less existence. “I might have so framed this, my | will, as to have made idleness operate to forfeit the interests hereby confer- red on by sons or other young men in my property, but I foresee that such a provision might, in certain cases, work hardships, and I prefer to hope and to trust, as I do, that no son of mine and no other young man who may under this, my will, succeed to the enjoyment of any property of mine, will 50 disre- gard my views herein expressed as to lead the life I so strongly deprecate.” Colonel Tufnell himself always led a strenuous life. He saw active service in the Nile expedition of 1884-35, when serving in the Eighteenth Royal Irish regiment. Speaker Banks Improving. Reports from Judge Elmore §i. Banks of Fairfield, the speaker of the house at the last session, who is recuperating in Havana, Cuba, are of a most en- couraging kind and it is predicted that he will return within a week very much improved in health by the trip and respite from office cares. The British government has organiz- ed a special department at the nation- al physical laboratory for investiga- ::nn in aerial construction and naviga- on. Of Long Years’ Experience Given a Hearing Before Sen- ate Judiciary Committe=. book maker, worked in his line were in New York city. He cale 1,500 handbooks, which business, horses. bookmalkers, handbook makers. He said that and that the evil was growing daily. But One Way to Solve the Evil, “There is only one means,” said Mr. Brolaski, “of putting this evil out of is by having the United States government enacting a law prohibiting the trans- mission of a poolroom and race track business effectually, and that Brolaski said he had throughout the south and west and had had twenty- one years’ experlence. He roughly es- timated that there were now in the United States between sixty and sev- enty poolrooms and that fifty of them te ed that there were in operation neav;lly e! declared, operates as the initiative of the unsophisticated to gamble on the He gave at length details of the methods employed by race track poolroom operators and in New York city there were at least 10,- 000 handbook and poolroom players, in Posen— .lt deserves, rather, to be eulledl; fort- ress—is neari ed t 1) $5,000,000 to to cost from 2 %umu it is finished, says The New York Sun. It confronts in gran- ite grimness the stranger as he leaves the Posen railway station, his eye be- ing at once attracted by its central tower, over 230 feet high. Smaller towers and bastions relieve the som- ber effect of the high ramparts. ‘The main tower contains the chapel and suites of apartments designed for the use of the kalser and his family. The chapel is inlaid throughout with a mosaic exactly like that“m the fam. ous Wartburg. Below the chapel is the royal entrance, a huge, arched hall of marble and sandstone, and at the end of this the broad stairway leading to the first story, with ite royal dwelling rooms angd festal sa- lons. The latter are enormous, the grand salon alone covering 600 square yards and being ornamented with mar- ble pillars. The building of the castle, which has been going on fer the last four | vears, has given employment to thou- sands of Poles, but the population of the province will always regard it as | a4 symbol of Prussian despotism, | —e | Ha, ! Pasted on the cover of one libtary | One Admirer. information over telegriph or tele- phone wires, either openly or in ci- | COpY of a certain 1908 novel is a cir- pher, and by having those laws en- | culation record ‘tlut causes profound forced after they are passed; also | Wonderment. The book has been prohibiting the use of the mails to public race track newspapers that prices or results” Visible. The “new” moon at its newest is in- | e being | entirely turned away, and a discussfon among certain astronomers as to the earliest age at which it shows The matter ap- visible to us, the illyminated si has arisen its slender crescent, pears to have some degree of impo: countries tance, as in Mohammedan the month for religious purposes said to begin when the moon first ap- pears after sunset to two good wit- nesses. A lady's statement that on May nine and one-half hours old hours old. could count fourteen stars in visible. An obgerver in Belgium who ques- tioned the accuracy of tae Kepler rec- ord saw the new moon on Nov, 1889, when it was only eighteen hourl; 20 she saw the crescent when only thirty- has brought out the old record of Kepler that he saw the old moon in the morn- ing and the new moon in the evening of the same day, so that the crescent could not have been more than eight Kepler, however, was gift- ed with such unusuval eyesight that he the Pleiades instead of the six ordinarily taken out of the library 14 times in all; ‘12 times on the same card. That remarkable record is a matter for se- rious speculation. How could a book of that caliber convey to any soul a message so tremendous that a dozen readings were desired? By the aver- age reader and by critics it would be considered a commonplace book. When published it created no discussion, made no impression. There has been no skipping in read- ing that book. It has been read care- fully from cover to cover: every page r- | shows signs of usage. These very evidences -of absorption bear eloquent is | testimony to the interest the story evoked in its one devoted reader. If it were another kind of book, a scien- tific treatise, or a textbook of some kind, it would be conceivable that a student might wish to take it home 12 different times to pore over it for a month at a stretch, but how can a trite, threadbare little nevel so stir a human soul? Verily, here is another mystery pest finding out., — N, Y. Times. —— e, The Speedy Mauretania. We have not heard the last of the Mauretania's great steaming powers and performances. Toward the end of the year, when the passenger sea- son slackens down, the Mauretania will go into dry dock and be fitted with new propellers designed at Wall- and twenty-two minutes old, and in|send and specially intended to utilize Great Britain W. F. Denning, ¥. R. A. | the vessel's reserve of engine power S, saw it on March 30, 1881 when[which has not yet been called into only twenty hours and thirty-eight | full play. The propellers are similar minutes old. It is pointed out that time and place must affect the observations and that the clear winter sky is more favorable for seeing the crescent early than the brighter sky of summer t ght. Only Fair. If King Edward is to serve as ar- birtrator between Chili and the United States, President Taft ought to recip- rocate by settling the case bettveen the to those which have recently been fitted to the Lusitania,.and with such good results that the vessel immedi- ately broke the record. The Maure- tania, however, soon responded, and went one better, even .with her old propellers. With the new ones, when fitted, it is naturally expected that she will do still better. Indeed the builders and engineers of the Maure- tania anticipate making her a 2¢- knot ship at the least, for her special lords and the commons. It could hard- | 8dvantages in design and engine pow- ly be a more ticklish job than the |€r W :_ll hr' brou‘ht_ out to thei full conservationists have given him.— |capacity.—The Mariner. Springfleld Republican. , T 2 il e The Girl Waited, Proving Their Innocence. The first chapter in a fovel recent- Sugar Trust officials declgre ing practices of their Star. matter—Kansas City Indignant customer—I want to teturn i It's not ivory, al rep- i this jewel box. they were ignorant of the dishonest weigh- subordinates, and prove it by concealing or destroy- ing all of the records bearing \pn the ly published contained the following: “And as the fair girl continued to sit on the sands, gazing upon the briny deep on whose heaving bosom the tail ships went merrily by, freighted 0 who can tell—with how much Jjoy and sorrow. and coal, emigrants and hopes, salt fish Indianapolis News, resented. Dealer (musingly)—Now, I The obsgerved rate for the sound of wonder if it can be possible that ele- { “a” in “great” is 420, and for the phant had false teeth?—Cleveiand | sound of “a” in “mat” 770 waves a Leader. second. in the selection of your Christmas Gifis: (lance At Our Windows More than likely you will find your idea already worked out for you. 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