Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 25, 1909, Page 11

\ . (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Some years ago a neighbor of mine had an illuminating experience. That season his “King" apples had been rather better than usual—big, smooth and well colored. It was an “off” year in the apple market; big crops had knocked prices down so tl ordinary Greenings and Baldwins were hardly | worth picking. (I kept mine, that win- ter, till March, rather than sell at 50 cents a barrel, which was all anyone oftered—and then sold 'em at 35 cents!) But my neighbor's , being rather fancy, brought him $1.25 a barrel ‘Whereat he exulted somewhat. Which shows how little it takes to please the children! Well, some time after that, happen- ing to be in the oity to which his Kings had been shipped, he saw on a fruit stand a tempting display of apples which looked exactly like his. of course he could not be suré that they ‘were the identical-apples he picked oft his big-branched trees on the north orchard lot, but they were Kings, they were of similar size, similar smooth- ness and similar coloring. They were as good but no better or bigger than those he had sold for $1.25 per barrel. He picked one up. “Three ' cents,” eaid the fruit selle “three cents apiece or two for five” My neighbor took two. Then, as he went on about his business, he did a little “figgerin’.” Noting the unusual size of the apples ms he was picking them, he had count- @ed several half bushel baskets and had foun# that the average was about 60 apples to the basket, i. e, about 120 to the bushel, or about 345 to the barrel of two bushels and seven-eighths. Now he had been paid $1.26 per barrel, As- suming that the speculative buyer made 20 per cent. profit, this would have added 25 cents, making $1.50, The freight from his station to the city where the apples were sold was 20 cents per barrel. (The speculator @idn’t pay that, for he shipped by car- Joad at lower rates. But assume that be paid 20 cents freight.) This makes the cost of the barrel, in the city, BL70. Now give the commission man who recelved them another profit of 30 per cent. and you've got $1.87 as the #fnal cost of the 845 apples which the fruit seller was retalling to customers wt_two for flve cents, or $8.62. Pretty fair profit somewhere, eh? Of course, nobody knows exactly wwhat profit the speculator took. It g:y have been more than 20 per cent. or what profit the commission man took. It may have been more than 10 per cent. Nor can we know how many of the 346 apples in that barrel spoiled ‘before they were sold, or had to be re- jected for one reason or another. Al- lowing that just half of the barrel was waste—and that's a simply ridiculous assumption, in view of the evenness with which the apples were sorted and harreled—there still .remains $4.31 as the cost of the barrel to consumers, as egainst $1.25 paid the producer. One of two things is perfectly self- evident: Either the consumer paid twice as much for his apples as they were worth, or the producer didn't get half as much for them as they were [ S This general truth applies to many other country preducts. Today the same milk which the dairyman of Or- ange county, N. Y., gets less than three cents a quart for sells in Manhattan, a hundred miles away, for nine cents a quart. The mere statement of that fact is convincing. It needs no argu- ment to show that either the dairyman is belng underpaid or the milk buyer evercharged. “But what are we 1t?” you ask. "How can we stop this eadmitted wrong?’ Well, the only way fn which it has been stopped, here and there, and the only way in which there meems any promise of stopping it ev- erywhere, is by co-operation in buying and selling, on the part of farmers. Small farmers like you and I cannot make individual shipments of our dozen or two eggs, our eight or ten pounds of butter, our few barrels of apples to individual consumers. Nor can we buy our fertilizers and our cat- tle feeds aud our house supplies by the carload lots and at wholesale prices. But we can do both these i:hings if we will combine our separate buying and selling into a co-operative bnyflv and selling, wherein several - or hundreds of us shall buy and well together, going to do about The thing s not im- practicable. It has been done; it is now done; 1t ean be done any- where, where men are sufficiently ristlanized to subordinate private #ain to a common good; or where they #re intelligent ‘nouh to see that mere Co-operation has failed in many An Illuminating Experience—Apples at the Fireside and at the City Fruit Stand—A Rake-off Somewhere— The Advantages of Cooperation Among Farmers— How It Paid One Neighborhood—The Brotherhood . of Man Beats the Demon of Greed. cases. Wherever these cases have been studied and their causes learned it has invariably come out that failure was due to the fact that some if not most of the members wouldn't really co-operate; that they wanted to use the organizations for their own private enrichment, wholly regardless of the rights of their fellows. The idea of co-operation which- too many people have is that of the monkey and the cat, where Mr, Monk held Kitty by the back of her neck with one hand and {with the other used her poor paw to pull his chestnuts out of the hot coals. That sort of “co-operation” ceases as soon as the victim can get out of the exploiter’s clutches. Real co-operation implies either a sincere willingness on the part of the co-operators to share equally in duties, responsibilities and galns, or, at least abllity to see that such equal sharing is wise business policy. T for illustration, last year's ex- perience of a little co-operative credm- ery out in Minnesota, In the side is- sue of selling eggs. The farmers who brought their milk or cream to the creamery found they were getting much better prices, relatively, for their butter than for their eggs. So they “got together” on the ,egg question. For a year they took all their eggs in to the creamery, twice a week in hot weather, once a week the rest of the time, Every egg when brought in was stamped with the name of the creamery and the personal mumber of the farmer who brought it. Then, twice a week, the accumulated eggs were looked over, sorted as to size and color, put up in cartons of a dozen each, and shipped in cases bearing the creamery's label and its guarantee that the eggs were strictly fresh. As a result the patrons of this creamery netted just ten cents a dozen more for their eggs during the year ending last June than the average price paid to farmers throughout the state. This, after paying all the expenses of sort- ing and packing and selling, you un- derstand. In other words, it paid these farm- ers a mighty big profit to co-operate in the sale of guaranteed eggs—which are the only kind a decent farmer wants to sell, anyway. Incidentally, it may be d that this little creamery, way up the timber region, where farms are scattering and climate is harsh and markets are dis- tant, is saving its patrons every year from twenty to twenty-five per cent. in the cost of their seed grain, their dairy feeds, their household supplies, even, as a lIncal paper puts it, “th dynamite to blow out their stumps, by purchasing all these in wholesale quantities at wholesale prices. Isn't a system which results in giving the farmer largely Increased prices for his products, and furnishing him his sup- plies at largely reduced cost, a good thing for Mr. Farmer? % | suppose you'll be reading this of a Christmas morning, or very soon thereafter. And, gecnuie this is the Christmas season, when, If ever, we all get into our systems something of the sense of good will which is that sea- son’s distinctive characteristic, I am emboldened to say that the mere mat- ter of your or my profit through co- operation is really not half so import- ant or so interesting as another good that comes through it. I mean the gain that comes to the whole great world of us in the growth of our Hu- man Brotherhood. Some are inclined to shake doubting heads over the pros- pects of a world federated in one great commonwealth of mutual helpfulness, as only a dream of the poets. I am. inclined, the rather to see in it a Vision of the Prophets—a Vision, not of some impossible paradise, but of a certain future in which men will re- gard the outcast demons of greed and selfishness which now mark our eco- nomic stage with as much horror as we now regard the fiends of cruelty and ruthlessness which ruled the bar- barous past. To me the chief value of co-operation Is in its tendency to bring that future evea a little nearer realiza- tion, Everything is good which helps to keep men shoulder to helpful shoul- der—not fist to hostile fist. Every- thing is good which, by ever so little, pushes the gray world forward towards that Golden Age which, believe me, lies in the future and not in th- past. I think T see in every attempt at co- operation, though it be only for purely material good, an embryo of that vast- er development of helpfulness/ and brotherhood which shall eventually hind the whole race into one republjc of peace among men of good will. And if that isn't a proper hope to feel and a proper wish to express and a proper thing to argue for, this Christ- mas season, then I've misunderstood the season and its spirit! THE FARMER. LETTERS FROM TWO TOLLAND COUNTY. .COLUMBIA = - Moliday Guaste—Christmas Entertain- ments—Recataloguing Free Library ~—News Interests. Christmas brought with it the usual sumber of family reunions. Mr. and Mrs, Willard B. Clarke spent the day with the famfly of their son in New Haven. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Utley with friends in Hart- ford, and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rice with friends in Pittsfleld, Mass. Ben- ‘amin Blizsard and wife of South Cov- entry were the guests of Mrs. A, L. Blizzard of this place. Christmas Exerci On Friday evening there were Christmas exercises at the church by the Bunday school. The church was handsomely decorated for the occas- fon and two large Christmas trees were heavily laden with gifts for members of the school. “The exercises of music and recitations by members of the various classes and exercises by the Knights of King Ar- thur, & boys' club, and the Queens of Avalon, a club of young girls. The attendance was large and the enter- tainment was enjoyed bw all. On Thursday afternoon the school at the Center had special Christmas exercises at the school house. Songs and recitations, and a Christmas tree mflh for teachers and pupils fur- entertainment. 1 Notes,, Miszs Jesephine Kneiland, a teacher Bast Kullng: , and her Miss ulta wn ‘who 1s t ing in llington, are spending a two weeks' vacation with ther parents, Mr. snd Mrs. W. H. d, in Pine street. ‘Williash Wolff leaves next week for Conway, Ma: where he expects to spend r l&tho employ of his . 5 L by - STATES. moved into their new house on Colum- bia Green, The schools in town closed this week for a short hollday vacation. Many of them had Christmas edercises before closing. Appraised Fire Damages. An insurance agent wag in town last week, and appraised the damage to the house of Henry B. Hutchins, from the recent fire, at $99.50, Gone to Florida. . Prof. A. E. Lyman, cornetist and instructor in band music, has gone to Florida, where he will play at a fash- inoable resort during the winter, Assisted at Library, Mrs. Johnson and Miss Chase of Hartford were it town one day last week to assist in recataloguing the free library. While the work is well under way the end is not yet, but when finished the work will ‘be com- plete in every detail * SPRING HILL Santa Claus V. Stovepipe Causes Smoke. Damage from Mrs. Joseph Amidon has returned from Hartford. Mrs. Dan Flaherty is at home again, after being away several weeks. Miss Vera Freeman, teacher in the Gurleyville schoel, is making prepa- rations for a Christmas tree for the enjoyment of the children. Mr. and Mrs, Clinton Bingham, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Scofield, all of Hart- ford, will spend Christmas with their parents. Miss Bertha Woodmancle has been the recent guest of Miss May Storrs Wednesday evening brought Santa Claus to the Baptit church. He came early as he was so busy Christmas eve at every home. Cake and hot drinks were served to the children. Rev. Leonard Smith is suffering xlu‘ ,ne. of Lhe face. He was Wwhen the Christmas tree ! was to Andover—Pupils’ Christmas En- tertainment. byt . Hebron grange has elected the fol- lowing officers for the ensuing year: Master, C. 'W. Hutchinson; overseer; Miss Carrie J. Hutchinson; lecturer, J. G. W. Herold; lte;n% F. S. . ; secretary, ‘W. N. Hills; gatekeeper, Henry Dietz; Ceres, Mrs. F. S, Brown; Pomona, Mrs. C. J. Fogil; Flora, Miss Daisy White; lady assistant steward, Mrs. A. H. Post. About thirty of the members of He- bron grange attended a meeting of Andover grange Mondax evening, con- ducting the meeting and furnishing the literary programme, after which the members of Andover grange served a sumptuous supper. Christmas Entertainment. There was a Christmas entertain- ment at the school house in the Tenth district Wednesday evening. Mrs. C. L. Perry and son Clifford were in Hartford Monday. Quigg and McDonald have moved their sawmill to Lewis Phelps’ Jot. Miss Annie Hutchinson arrived at her home here Thursday from Alfred, N. Y., for the Christmas vacation. Mrs. Wychoff Wilson of Hartford spent a few days last week with her parents. The puplls in the Tenth district have secured a clock for their school house by selling soap, etc. C. H. McCray of Ellington and Mr. Brown of New Haven were in town recently., SOUTH WILLINGTON Uriel Lodge Elects Officers—$20 Pen- sion for Local Man. The following officers were elected at the annual communication of Uriel lodge, No. 24, F..and A. M, held last Saturday evening: Harry L. Garri- . W. ; Wallace M. Lillibridge, S. W.; Clarence H. Savage, J. W.; William H. Hall, treasurer; Walter A. Allen, secretary. The business meeting of the Sun- day school takes place next Sunday. The schools in town closed Friday for the fall term. The winter term commences January 3. James C. Jennings has received a letter from Congressman John Q. Til- son conveying the information that his bill giving Mr. Jennings $20 per month pension had passed the house. Mrs. John Lampert of Derby is vis- iting relatives in town. Frank Spicer is home from the west and is spending a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Spicer. Ice is a good five inches thick on the lake. Not many more days of such weather will be required before ice eutting ‘can begin. STAFFORD. Distribution of Gifts Follows Christ- mas Dinner. ‘William Parks is in New York on & business_trip. Miss Mildred MacCullum is spend- ing Christmas with her parents in Ludlow, Vt. Miss Gertrude Wightman returned home last Friday from the Springfield hospital. . There was a Christmas dinner in the chapel of the Baptist church Friday from 530 to 7.30. There was a dis- tribution of Christmas gifts. John Powers of East Longmeadow last week finished drilling a well for James Johnson and the drill has been taken to the house occupied by Claud Pinney, where a well will be sunk. Mr. Johnson’s well is sunk 66 feet below the bottom of the old well through solld rock. A fine vein of water was struck. STAFFORDVILLE Preston Resigns—Plans Street Lighting. Miss for Christmas will be observed with special exercises and trees in both local Copgregationaj and Methodist churches. Pupils and friends of Miss G. Gladys Preston are sorry to learn that she has sent in her resignation as teacher of the local primary school, on ac- count of the death of her mother, Mrs. T. Wevland Preston of West Stafford. A plan is being worked out for lighting the streets of Staffordville, which can be accomplished at a very reasonable rate by the combined ef- forts of public-spirited citizens who are willing to share expense of lights in their own vicinity. ELLINGTON Christmas Grange Enjoys Tree— Not Miss Golda Fiebman is home from Hartford for the winter. Miss Mary McKnight Is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John S. McKnight. The Grange Christmas tree was held Wednesday evening. Each one who brought a gift received one. * The next meeting will be announced later by the worthy lscturer. Miss Stenson has returned from vis- iting friends in Hartford. Mr. Aborn of New York, who came here to attend his brother’s, Sylves- ter’s, funeral, hag returned to that city. " WILLINGTON Rev. C. W. Wolfe, former pastor of the Baptist church here, now pastor at Gaylord, Mich.. is editor of the Young People’s department of the Michigan Christian Herald, the official organ of the Baptist state convention of that state and of all affiliated so- cleties. He has an able article on Our Christmas Gifts in the current number. Rev. Wilson R. Terry, who was pas- tor here, is still in Southfleld, Mass., and in comfortable health. Mr. Terry has resigned the pastorate of the church in favor of a young man, al- though they still live in the parsonage. He is pensioned for faithful service by the Massachusetts state convention or ministers’ conference. MANSFIELD DEPOT. Fire Averted by Assistance of Neigh- bors—Notes. The regular missionary meeting will be held Sunday evening; subject, Chi- na. Mite boxes will be opened at the close of the gervice. Mrs., Merrit Slrnlth will be in charge of the ser- vice, » . erife Stedman is quite feeble, Dr. Johnson is ., and able to be about the house. = Fred Snyder Is {ll with tonsilitis. An_ alarm of fire Tuesday morning caused excitement when it was learned gx- huornM‘r."Keech Hu on fire, “or, 4 while ooked as if the house wa dooned,-'nt plenty of help was at Conn,, called g nday. He shipped a carload of fine cattle to Boston last Notices are posted for a special tax- payers’ town meeting to consider the uestion of exempting fx or a period of ten years persons or corporations who shall invest in any industry in town, not in comj with any industry now established in town, the amount of $25,000 over and above the present tax valuation of the real estate on which they may locate. One hund: and eight hunter's li- censes havy issued in Hopkinton town clerk's office_this year. As li- censes terminate December 31 it is not .probable that any more will be issued in 1909. Public exercises were held Friday afternoon of this week at the close of the fall térm of our public school. The teacher, Mrs. E. Pearl Kenyon, has spent much time and effort to make them interesting. Mrs. A, Irene Mills is entertaining her sister from Providence. Mrs. Annle Hyde of Westerly ar- rived in town Wednesday morning. ROCKVILLE E. C. Kenyon Injured When Floor Fell ~—Cactus with 135 Buds. Emory C. Kenyon is out again after being confined to his home for several days from the effects of an accident which happened to him Jast week. He started to lead a horse from the barn when the floor suddenly gave away, caused by a portion of the basement wall fafling from underneath letting the floor down with Mr. Kenyon, the horse and a cow to the basement, from which they fortunately escaped serious injury. Myr. and Mrs. Harold R. Crandall were guests of his father at Westerly last Saturday, Mrs. Jared G. Barber has a cactus which gives promise of great beauty, having 135 buds. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Taylor of Wy- oming were callers at Woodcrest on Sunday. Mrs. Henry Lanphear of Westerly was the guest of her sister, Mrs, Abel B. Kenyon, on Wednesday. WEEKAPAUG. Christmas Entertainment Next Mon- day—Farmers Getting Wood Supply. The Christmas tree and entertain- ment of the Dunn's Corner’s Sabbath school will take place in the church Monday evening, December 27, at 7.30 p. m.; if stormy Tuesday evening. John Maxson left town Tuesday for Lake Weir, Florida, where he will spend the remaigder of the winter. Among the callers at Rocky Crest, Sunday, were Charies H. Crandall, Joseph Gourley, Martin Barnes and Charles Sole of Jamestown, R. T Palmer Pendleton of Quonochontaug with his gasoline saw has been saw- ing wood for W. C. Rathbun, Nearly all of the farmers are tak- ing advantage of the good wheeling and are carting their winter's supply of wood. The roads are the best they have been in a long time. ARCADIA Social and Dance Well Attended. There was a social and dance at the hall here Saturday evening which was well attended, Mrs. Jane Hadfield visited her daughters, Mrs. Benjamin Albro of Hope, R. I, and Mrs. Walter Pierce of Arkwright last Thursday. Herbert W. Bates of Pawtucket, Jo- seph Lambert of Hope, R. I, and Charles E. West of Providence were guests of Benjamin Sheldon Sunday. Thomas Tefft of Pine Hill installed his sawmill on the Austin homestead farm Tuesday and Wednesday, pre- paratory to sawing lumber. ESCOHEAG Elisha Bitgood's mill is set up on Gardner's lot. Mrs. John Perkins and Mrs. John él:rbe'r went to Kingston, R. I, Mon- ¥ ¥y MADE IN PRISON. Interesting Handiwork of Wethers- field Convicts—Lifers Who Are Adept. This 1s the season when the prison- ers at Wethersfield state prison offer for sale the accumulated results of their sparestime work of the past twelvemonth, says the Hartford Times. You know, it's no “lead-pipe cinch,” this going to prison. The men and women there have to work for their living just the same’as the rest of us. Sometimes they work ten hours a day, and sometimes only seven or eight. They never work by artificial light—that is, never at their daily occupation, . But after the day's work is done and the hours of freedom come before bedtime, they may employ their leisure on those pursuits, the fruits of which are offered for sale in the annual bazaar now in full swing. The proceeds of this sale go to the pris- oners, and it's a boon to a lot of them, a part of whose punishment is the anguish they suffer because of the hardships of wife and family at home. e of the money goes to these innocent sufferers, no doubt, and that's where a patronage of the bazaar takes on an aspect of charity that commends it beyond sentiment. Antoni Azioli, under life sentence for murder in New- Haven, carves boats, and his chef d'oeuvre is the City of New York, @ broad-beamed man-o'-war, with a broadside of black guns, turreted batteries fore and aft, and fighting top as well. She is carved out to the very tip of her two short masts and the basket-tops of her. three stacks. A handsome craft that would delight the heart of some buster boy, perhaps of “Little Joe,” beyond measure. And it is all done by hand, from stem to stern. One wonders how long Aziolo has carving away at this prize piece. Michael Cherest, another lifetime man, makes leather canes, and sells them for $1.00 apiece. Michael is a skilful workman, He takes a flexible steel rod, perhaps a quarter of an inch in diameter, and upon thls rod he strings amall leather rings of about one-third of an inch thickness. They are glued and viced down until one can scarcely discover the joints. The shaft is shaved down to a nicely ta. pering tip and a handle fitted to the r end. The whole is polished with a high polish, until it resembles a piece of exquisitely rich malacca. The cane is heavier than ebony, very resilient, and serves both as a an admirable both ;ocnph‘plim 4 spare hours. p is the knife, drug store in the ci ‘'This would unde venience, especlally prescriptions which says the Sentinel. There is also talk among the news- dealers to cut out Sunday papers and make the town truly tight on the Sab- bath. There is considerable kicking al- ready over the closing of cigar and confectionery stores, and if the drug- gists and newsdealers decide to give likely to become general. The past two Sundays the closing law has been pret- 1y generally observed and while there are reports that some of the stopes did a little business on the quiet last Sun- day, there was very little doing. $1,000,000 CAPITAL. Interesting Proepectus of Company Inaugurated in Hartford. The United States agricultural and | Industrial exposition company. having temporary headquarters in Hartford, has been incorporated under the laws of Delaware with a capital of $1,000.- 000. The objects of the company are: To organize and to hold the United States agricultural and industriai ex- position, finance and hold expositions, falrs, exhibitions and meetings for the promotion, improvement of and edu- cation in the arts, manufactures and products of the soil and mines and by exhibition displays of agriculture, floriculture, horticulture, forestry, ani- mal husbandry, mechanical mestic arts, to illusti development, resources, products and advantages of the United States, ter- ritories, insular possessions and for- eign countries. J. Alexis Taylor of Hartford is the director general of the company, The board of directors consists of: Albert E. Brown, treasurer. New York State fair; D. Graham, Topek: Kan.; G. S. Walker, Cheyenne, Wyo. Joseph E. Wing, Mechanicsburg, Ohio; Dr. F. B. Dixon, Raleigh, N. C.;’ C. W. Bush, Wilmington, Del.; James Hand- ley, Quincy, II.; and R. P. Lyon, Hartford. PLANTS KILLED BY POISON. Hartford Expert Prepared Overdose and Florist Loses $3,000. Cyanide of potassium has been re- sponsible for a good many tragedies, but the offense laid at its door Satur- day night was one of an unusual kind and it was tragie, too. It killed 10,- 000 carnation plants In the new green- house of John Coombs, a florist, in Hartford. Some of the blossoms were out and more of them were about to come out when the tragedy occurred. The poison is used for fumigating purposes, and to kill \n:: am: the flowers, and on Satu y night a skilled workman who is accustomed to-the task welghed out what he sup- posed was the proper amount and set the fumigating process a-going. On Surday merning it was discovered that the dose had been too heavy and the plants were ruined. They hung their heads as disconsolately as if they had taken the poison with their own hands. Four to six blosoms were expected from each carnation plant and the tragedy ls inopportune at the Christmas season. The loss is estimated at $3,000. Election Case Dismissed. In Bridgeport, Judge L. F. Burpee of the superior court, before whom was heard the application of Patrick McCullum of Easton, for a recount of the ballots cast at the last annual town meeting, on the ground that there was no choice declared by the moderator for the office of town clerk, to which he and George B. Beers were 1he opposing candidates, has dismissed the action. The claim set up by Mr. McCullum was that he and Mr. Beers both received 96 votes, and that the moderator declared there was no choice. A Happy Holiday. Miss Edna May urged the ladies about her mever to give their hu bands Christmas presents of wine, ¢ gars or cigarettes. “We know nothing about these things,” she said. “The fact was brought home to me at a luncheon at the Hotel du Palais in Biarritz. “In the dining room of this superb hotel, with the enormous breakers of the Bay of Biscay crashing against the stone foundations of the terrace, ung marquis sald to m ““Last Christmas was the happiest of my life’ “‘How was that? I asked. “*A thief broke into my town house,’ said he, ‘and stole the cuse of 1,000 cigarettes that my wife bad given me. " ‘Misconstrued. “It's a lovely morning” ventured the young man who had bought a neck- tie. The girl waiting on him did not de- y it “Most becoming way you have of dressing your hair.” “Sir!™ “How do vou manage to keep vour hands so beautifully white? I should think that in handling goods—" “Take your necktie and skip, the girl. “I had the floor man: lead'a fresh guy out by the ear terday.” “That was all rot I read about pay- Ing attention to the tired shop girl at | this season,” muttered the customer | as he hurriedly withdrew.—Philadel- | pha Ledger. Three Assassinations. Three assassinations, one in St. Pe- tersburg, one in Korea's capital, one in British India, are a grim beginning for season of good will to men. In each the element of revenge and de- sire to shake off oppression appears the motive, whether upon a sane or frenzied brain. The axioms that never yet was any cause really advanced by an assassin’s deed is not likely to be altered by any of these crimes.— Boston Record. id| | A ger yes- Headgquarters for The Lee -&—bggood Co. 131-.133 Main Streel, dec2ldaw unbroken friendships, n of el T ne, affec t on earth, and heaven at lsst for all of us—Charles Dickens. Sincerely, THE EDWARD CHAPPELL CO., They who Sell Coal. 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HASKELL 489 'Phonss ———— 402 87 Franklin St 68 Tham mayéd Is What Cou_ats In Photography. “NEVER SAY DIE” the .real personality, acter, the little Not a our friends sece to love 1 on The Photographer, Norwich Savings Soclety General Contractors ‘Phone 715. DONT WORRY; Warry over Realth no good, and merely causes wrinkles, that make you look older than you are. If you gre about It to make ycurself well. this we repeat the wor of other former sufferers from womar. ly ifts, similar to yours, when we say, Take Viburn- 0. It is a wo:;u&ful female remedy, as will admit you ‘" '“mman- for s nse 'x $ at druggists. FRANCO-GERMAN CHEMICAL CoO. 106 West 129th Street, New York mariid . geems to he' a part of Santa Cla good-natured character, but he would surely advise his friends to dye when it came to the renovation of seemingly old clothing. For it’is a fact that, when properly dyed, even an old gar- ment looks like new again. Let us show you how to save fifty per cent of your clothing expenses. AHERN BROS, 63 BROADWAY Jun3d Lang’s Dye Works, Telephone. 157 Frankiin St. dec21d WM. F. BAILEY (Successor to A. T. Gerdoer) Hack, Livery and Boarding Stable 12-14 Bath Street, HORSE CLIPPING A SPECIALTY. Telephone 882. aprisd It Makes Wrinkles. ili-health does yowr ck, don't werry, but To s of thousands printed in | ' ges with every bottle. Price No Building in Norwich wiil ever be too large for us to build. All we ask is an oppertunity to bid for the job. compeis close figuring, bu' years of experience has taught us the way to figure close and do first-class work General Holiday Presents Among our large assortment of Leath- er Goods suitable for Holiday gifts a NEW THING is a nice LEATHER JEWEL CASE. You cannot buy it anywhere else in this city. Come in and see it. Pricss range from $2.50 to $6.00. The Shetucket Harmess Co 283 Main Streel. Competition Is keen and C. M. WILLIAMS, Centractor and Builder, 218 MAIN STREET. ‘Phones—Office 569 juni3d The | "Phone 370. may27¢ WM. C. BODR Telephone 365-4. declid ALL HORSES DIE No other form of property insur. 1647 ance iy sure of being a loss. y GeT vour Horee insuren so- | Adam’s Tavern fors it dies trom a SUNSTROKE. . E. G. RAWSON, Gen. Agt. 1861 227 Main St, Norwich, Conn. t house B54-2. offer to the public the finest standard brands of Beer of Europe and ‘:nm Bohemian, Pilsner, Culmbach Bavarian Beer, Bass’ Pale and Burton, Mueir's Bcotch Ale, Guinness' Dublin _Stout. C. & C. Imported Ginger Ale, HUY P. B, Ale, Frank Jones' Nourish- iing Ale, Sterling Bitter Ale, Anheuser- Norwich Nicke! & Brass [o, T ableware, | Budweiser, Schlitz and Pabst. Chandeliors, Yacht Trimmings A. A. ADAM. Norwich Town. and such Refinished. Telephone 447-12. Jys3d 69 to 87 Chestnut: octdd SPRCIAL RATES to Theatre Troupes Travellng Men, ete. Livery connested NARRAGANSETT BANQUET ALE. Family trade supplied at 80c per doz. Norwieii, Conn, NOTICE AMERICAN HOUSE, a..'li'.{?.‘.‘"..‘..'.fi&‘.“'.’&.!f"&"..."' o Parrell & Sanderson, Propa. mmhun.iull-m. Telephone 660. aug17q ket THE PLANK Headguarters for Best Ales, Lagers, Ete., in Town, JAMES' O'CONNELL. Prepristor. "t s e We are headquariers for