Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 25, 1909, Page 4

wich Bulletin and @oufied 113 YEARS OLD. LRI g o s e - w Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter. ¢ Callat Bulletin Business 40, Bulletin Editorial Booms, 85-3. Bulletin Job Office, 35-6. Willimantic Office, Room 3. Murray Buflding. Telephone, 210. Norwich, Saturday, Dec. 25, 1909. The Circulation of : : and read b: ninety-three per of ihe people. In Windham it is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putbam and Danielson to over 1,100, is considered. the local dally. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five post office districts and forty- % ane rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin s scld in every town and on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Conmnecticut. CIRCULATION P aEEIENIIREIINaESSRENeINILIRIIRINNIIIIIIINAT 1901, average ....ceedesesses W12 1908, average...... 5,920} .s.sss§ imu. average December 18 CHRISTMAS. To enjoy Christmas fully we should mot only lend ourselves to making others happy, but should become con- sclous of the gift which money can- not buy that is ours through the rev- elatlons and inspiration of Christ's birth The star of Betblehem gulded the wise men of the east to the place where the Saviour lay; and from that day @ star of hope has shone Into tHe most squelld homes, for He who wad boen In a stable and glorified even poverty, He who was the shepherd of the sheep, would not have one go astray, but extended His mercy and love to all. He asked nothing of the world but right living, pure thinking and loyalty to the principles which would make of all men sons of God. And what 1s the price of His pres- ence to you and me?, It is not with the great and the and the rich that He dwells, He does not answer to the call of the potentate, or bow before the y, or strive to please the influential—no nation, or sect, or gult, can clalm Him, for where Love {s God s, and that is' His permanent abode. As Henry Drummond puts it, “the greatest thing in the world is love.” | but the world has mot yet come to| realize it, for if it had the price of | peace would not be preparedness for | war, Have you and I learned that “the greatest thing a man can do for | his Heavenly Father is to be kind to | some of His other children”? Oh, this} old world is slow In learning this | easy lesson. Love fs unselfish, it knows not en- wy—yearns not for fame—is filled with charity, Is not easlly provoked, for it thinketh no evil, but is gentleness— | and this gentleness invites God. This ralment of Love was the Sav- four's gitt to the humblest! human soul; and how man has striven to di- vide the raiment, and sects have tried | to claim exclusive rights in it; but no men on earth can be robbed of | this raiment for it will come to him, as the sunlight comes to energize the | earth, the moment his heart is open { town and independence; OUR ANNUAL SACRIFICE. | This js the title of a pamphlet just issued in Boston to awaken the peo- ple ta the fearful sacrifice of life made in commemoration of Independence day. If men- were as slow to wrath as they be to reform, the flerce side of the struggle of life would be very much improved. The Boston Globe, speaking of this pamphlet says: “The startling facts which were complled for the ‘1915 movement by Dr. Scannell of the school board, are a terrific indictment of the fathers and mothers of America for their careless- ness in permitting their children to handle dangerous fireworks. Do the: fathers and mothers realize that the killed and injured at the battle of Bunker Hill were only 1,474, as com- pared with 1,622 killed and injured while ‘celebrating’ the Fourth of July in 19097 Only 274 was the toll paid for York- only 238 in the combat where the immortal watch- word of Lawrence—‘Don’t give up the ship'—was first heard; only 335 on that day when was fired the shot heard around the world. “Those were occasions of real patri- otism. The follies of the Fourth are the result of a sham patriotism or a disordered imagination, which would lower Lexington and Concord to the level of a. brutal orgy. “Besides, the loss caused by fires July 4, 1909, as a result of so-called patriotic calebrations, was $446,500. “Wortily to commemorate the achievements of our ancestors or our brothers is not only a duty, but a joy. Public fireworks exhibitions, controlled by persons who know the proper use of euplosives, are in harmony with the spirit of the event, But who gwould say that the toll of death and Injury pald for Folly's Fourth of July is a worthy tribute to those whose memory we honor? “When barbarous methods of ob- serving the Fourth have been aband- oned then will be opened the way for 2 commemoration in which may be utilized electricity, the wizard whose wonders outshine the marvels of Mer- lin and whose awful magnificence is docile even to the touch of a child.” ANOTHER SIGN OF BETTER TIMES. In its hard times this country has not been alone. According to the min- ister of finance of Canada, that coun- try ran behind eleven millions last year, but he notes indications of a complete revival of business. This is good news in America, for Canada is a liberal patron of this country and money shortage there means less bus- iness here and more business adds to our profits and pleasures as well as to theirs. The two countries are so closely allied and their interests so often run counter that we cannot af- ford to have any tiffs. May the neigh- borly spirit and good policies of trade which have always characterized our relations continue in force for ages to come. A VISION. When Boston gets a vislon of “the greater Hartford,” eastern Connecticut has reason to become deeply interest- ed. The plan for making the capitol of this state the peer of the first cities of the country, provides for a thou- sand or more factory sites of five acre: each, every ane with water front and railroad tracks, where boats and cars could leave and take their freight from the factory doors. with an abundant supply of water and land enough with- in walking distance for the employes to live in comfortable homes. The engineer avers that nowhere else in New England is there an equally favorable opportunity for lo- cating factorfes that would probably | employ something like a hundred | thousand working. men and add half a million to Hartford's population, “making her the leading city of the nation In the manufacture of that class of goods requiring skilled work- ‘men, and a force in the betterment of the ‘world.” The Boston Transcript, commenting upon this, says that “the engineering difficulties are by no means serious, yet it will probably be many years | before Hartford will attain her half- million.” Of course. Hartford realizes that such a good vision as this takes time as well as millions, but if her spirit | of progress is geared high she may | make, figuratively speaking, a mije a | minute toward the attalnment of this | desirable and self-exalting scheme. | ACTIVE, BUT NO LONGER SPEC- t | credit. | THE MaN WHO TALKS w, somewhere, that ijlumined their ave lived long enough and wonder why they cannot die—they recognize Death as King and death as the peace t desire, They are honest people, too; but how differ- ent from those who have gathered sun~ hine and who never lost sight of the star of hope. It has been said that the real pun liar is that be finally believes his own lies; and per- haps the punishment of the doubter that he can only believe in the gobunl of his distrust. We must or be mastered, and the power is in our own hands. The law by which we are go erned is irrevocable, hence it becomes us to get into the light rather than into the darknes: ess. they lost the hearts. They This will be to a great many people the first Christmas that they got in- terested enough their consciousness; to o be memorable for what it holds for them; and to still others it will be a fading glory—a remembrance of what used to be, and perhaps is to come. The first Christmas remembered clings to the human mind, not ecause it was great, but because it was pecullar- ly impressive. One old man said he rememberéd his first Christmas be- cause “Santa Claus brought him the first monkey on a stick that he ever saw, and no paint ever tasted better to him than that paint did.” It is strange what a little thing can im- press the juvenile mind for life. Things ot small account cling like bats, while the birds of paradise fly from sight and memory; but it has ever been thus. The managers of the moving picture houses have a very polite way of in- viting the women to remove their hats; and the well bred women present usu- v have these obstructions in their laps before the hint is given; and those who come in-late obey the rule with- out delay; but still many women do not take the hint, or profit by the good example of others. hey do not seem to realize just how impolite it is to violate the rules of an amusement house, or how they are marked down in the minds of auditors who are rob- bed of a good part of the entertain- ment by their obstructions and ob- streperousness, They are willful wom- en, of course, and what a time their mates must have with them. A balky horse in the barn is bad enough, but| a balky woman in the house makes lite's road a hard road to travel, and she pretends not tp know it, too. I do mot know, but the man who gets his political or religious views on trust, as many a shiftless man gets his- goods, finds pleasure in it: but there is satisfaction in being able'to tell why we believe that one thing is right and another wrong. Too many people affirm their beliefs as if they were a perfect work. Belief is the half-way house on the road to know- ing, and it is no loitering point for a man,_ to say nothing of a son of God. The point of belief is where ex- amination begins and the truth is es- tablished. Believing a truth is not mastering it and letting it master us. This is what truth is for—to conquer and to purge man of error. When it is only believed in it doesm't gather force enough to do the purging. Be- lief is a balker—knowing is mastery. It may be “more blessed to give than to receive,” but that has not be- come the spirit of any ave, yet; and while it is spoken of as the spirit of Christmas it is far from being the mo- tive of the human heart. We know that the boy who joins five Sunday schools in December to be in at the Christmas trees is a getter. The mil- lionaires of life are getters; and where the givers are I do not know unless they at last become dependent upon charfty. The world quotes o many nice things and does so many mean ones, that it is hard to trace the line of its sincerity. If this beaytiful spirit was lived up to, children would be so anxious to see their poor friends were remembered that they would for- get their own selfish desires. It may be more blessed to wive than to re- ceive: but the world is not seeking blessings in this way. Good advice comes to us in many forms, The eccentric who sald: “Stick to your tin whistle until you can buy a horn!” expressed In a humorous way the underlying principle ‘of all econo- mies. This is an orderly world of ours, and those who abide by the rules of order usually succeed. It is dis- order that ruins business and wrecks governments. A new. horn on tick is a debt; and if we do not make repute for honoring our credit we ‘have no Credit rests better on a cash basis than ‘on a promise-to pay. The payer is the real thing, although the good promiser is honored and gets on in world. It is when a man prom- ises too much that he is done for. In marriage or trade the good promiser Some people live in gloom and dle | Someho “’Tis the night Mm Christmas!” and, while waiting for Santa Claus and his feindeer to come dri down our chimney—hark! even now I hear clattering of hoofs and the - tinkle of little silver gy vy say, m; music of Christmas memories _sing- ing in my heart. Tender memories, they are, singing me back to the of my earliest c%lldhmd. ‘when youngest child of three, used to my long, small stocking by the hearth, between - those of my brothers, and lay me down to sieep in simple faith that Santa Claus would surely come, that ht&rlwnuld find them all, and. fill them to_overflo 3 Of course we tried to skeep awake. We used to take turns at watching, I and my brothers, who, ‘both older than I, were then still such very little boys—as I know now, having brought “up soms of my own. Tre- mendously big amd grown-up they seemed to me then, sons of giants when bent upon teasing their long- suffering one small sister; big and bold and manly little fellows both,” as I see clearly now, looking of course we tried to keep awake, and of course we slept as sound as tops all through the long, cold winter night, only to wake at peep' of dawn so surprised and so disappointed at hav- ing missed once more the vision of the reindeer and old Santa Claus’ jolly face. The one who wakened first was sure to give such a whoop as would set the other two scrambling out of bed and three pair of bare feet to scampering across the nursery floor to the chimney-side. Such heavy stock- ings as we always found, almost too heavy for small hands to lift down— though somehow we managed it— bulgy, too, with hard, bumpety, won- dertul things poking out in rounds and squares and_triangles and other sort of shapes. Santa Claus’ wife—did you know he had a wife?—would thought- fully leave a toasted muffin or a cookie or -two near the top, and I can see my two brothers now, biting into muffin, the muffin a half moon between their teeth, their mouths quite hidden by muffin, while their impatient’ hands dove deeper and deeper into the stock- ing legs ang rose again to view, filled with treasures rich and rare, bevond compare, Away down in the heel ‘or the toe, each onme of us never failed to find a shining silver coin. Many a happy Chflnm:r mine since Lflole men& ays. by year of a most tenderly cherished childhood, of & brilliant, beautiful girl- hood, the Christmas Eves and Christ- mas Days are memorable for their joyous family reunions, the Kkindly gifts, for the sleigh-bells ringing, the north wind blowing, the hearth fires | blazing, for young voices singing and | youthful feet dancing to the tune of | the joy of living. Then came the | et Christmas love-gitt, and next year | the first Christmas marriage gift, and | later still a wonder-year, when, on the | first Christmas Eve of new bright life, Santa Claus filled the baby sock hung to the arm of a boy's high-chair. There followed Christmas days in oth er lands, sith the organ roll of Christ mas music in the great cat.hedrals)t the has ' been ear another’s eccentricities. A conceit of this kind is cheaper than it seems, and a source of more worriment than is ever spoken of. To know a hus- band well is _all right; but it is not necessary to know all the dashes and | exclamation points that are in him. The formalities of life are all well enough in their place, but those who prize them too highly are seldom es- teemed by their neighbors or assocl- ates. It is always well to avold ex- fremes. I have heard of persons be- ing so wedded to- formalities that they hesitate when it comes to bowing to the inevitable without an introduc- tion. There can be no graciousness where forms are carried so far—there can be little real sociability. This is here pity should be exercised oftener than blame. Extremes in life always | exceed in humor the cartoons of the artists. Informality carried to excess may be worse. In this world of tangles the happy middle-ground ap- pears to furnish the best and surest traveling. SUNDAY MORNING TALK THE HEART OF CHRISTMAS. Most of our Christmas presents come with wrappings about them, and one of the delights of Christmas morning is untying the twines and stripping off the coverings. Of late years a good om yea. Christmas ot gifts; with when 1 would to loved ones at over one’s a . stranger, stranger, in one’s own country, fair town. More than on ing pilgrim has been rudely from the dream of hiy home-coming, to find himself no more than a pass. ing stranger within the gates. To_us, thers came a Christmas sad- dened by the absence of a loved face, a face we were never again to see in life, and never again Christmas Eve and uite the same. get to be speed by and the vacant pl ‘hri a to outnumber the places filled. For the sake of the little ones, however, the older ones no less; for the sake of here whose lives must not be clouded nor overshadow- heartaches are all dear ones eve ed nor saddened, the crushed down deeper and deeper, unt they lie at last so deep and still in in- nermost recesses of their own, that the only outward and visible sign is a se- rene and smiling face. So it s that year after year with all, you and I and everybody, the glad fire is kindled on the hearth, holly wreathes are swung at the windows, little stockings are filled, the Christmas tree is hung with gifts, the Christmas candles are light- ed, and the Christmas antims sung. From Robert Louis Stevenson’ “Christmas Sermon” one of the holl day cards gives these brave word: “To be hon to be kind—to earn Iittle and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to remounce when that shall be necessary and not be em- bittered, to keep a few friends but those without capitulation—above all, m_condition, to keep | task for | all that & man has of fortitude and Reallzing what Christmas means to children, and how much little own ten- con- sidering, too, the older children, even the white-haired and enfeebled ones: anA rejolcing over the loved faces and loving hearts that live forever in my let me adjoin words from theysame ermo; “The kingdom of heaven s of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give Gentleness and _cheerful- on the same friends with himself, here is delicacy.’ children have to do with m: derest Christmas recollections Christmas memoris ther pleasure. ness, these are the perfect dutles What is our dear, spirit of giving? s stocking filled mankind. mas celebration throughout the civilized world, and he means something to us personall: then Christmas W deep and vital, too. ofr, then, with Christma that have grown up around the hol festival to its very heart. the Rise, happy morn, rise, holy morn, Draw forth igh night, Oh, ]Father, touch the world and ight hi 5] The light that shone when Christ was born. THE PARSON. ' POPULARLY SUPPOSED. Animals Not 8o Slespy in Winters as Popuarly Supposed. In your issue of Nov. 4 the writer of an article on hibernation makes several mistakes’in his statements. “the brown ‘bear, still fairly common In our state,” The fact is that the brown bear For instance, he writes, sippi, sional spot from the black. common black bear. are called by the trade. He states that bears “sleep all win- It is sald ter without waking at all. stmas Day Indeed, all holldays he days as the years laces begin mythical Santa Claus but the spirit of Christmas? And what is the spirit of Christmas but the | Is not then every- on to_overflowing With the imperishable gifts of hope and love, good will and good cheer? The reality of his earthiy existence is the heart of the Christ- now going forward I mean something wrappings of Pierce through the things the eastern day from In hand- ling 5,000 or 6,000 bear skins taken in Maine and the provinces, I have seen but three which differed from the These resembled the so-called cinnamon as much as they did the brown or Isabella, as they H !,' bear was fat, two cubs | ined her and she in the being food Wwh over of ‘went known and they iber, dis. ouf L all few the; precedent and practice, than any mere legislative enactment. If is backed by both ethics and reason, and will pre- xll, regardless of support or the lack it, from the bench—and there’s no shadow of contempt of court in this Of course the Woman with the Serpent’s Tongue is not figured in this consideration of the subject. She deserves all she gets, even from the poets. Fair play is a jewel, and in the in- terest of fair play the wife should be permitted to give tit for tat—and good- ness knows the man who glves the provocation should be willing to grant her that privilege. - ‘What the detalls of the domestic ruc- don back of this Missouri divorce case may be, we have no means of knowing, but it is fair to assume that the Mis- souri judge, who insited on beink “shown,” found ample provocation for the wil scolding, and rightly allow- ed her to keep it up. Everybody knows that right here in Connecticut where divorces come easy, no judge would give a man a divorce because his wife scolded. In nine cases out of ten, the wife who scolds has good rea- son for doing it, and in like proportion doubtless the wife who doesn't scold has no less cause but doesn’t dare.— Hartford Post. il Mexico Is Timid. Senor Enrique Creel of Mexico, for- mer ambassador to this country, who has come here to help settle the Nica- | raguan trouble, has a delicate task on | hig hands. His government would like to co-operate with the United States in peacefully smoothing out all the Centrul American difficulties. But the exicans and the Mexican govern- ment are not disposed to jump on tne prostrate form of Zelaya too hard. If the Central American trouble could be handled with soft gloves, that would suit Mexico to a dot. But Mex- ico cannot go along with the United States In this business of using mar- ines, gunboats and soldlers, if need be. This is for the reason that Mexico pub e sentiment is jealous of any attempt of the United States to deal summarily with any of the Latin-American peo- it ple. y,| "It is a case of blood being thizkar than water, and the last time the Mexican government co-operated with this country in Central American, tronbles the Mexican officers had to keep explaining to the public for weeks that it was not countenancing any summary measures, or lending itsel? to the American “big stick” policy. Iy Once as Stout the President. While discussing religious condi- tions in the northwestern section of the country in a recent meeting of the Methodist _Preachers’ association 'in Wesley hall, on Arch street, the Rev. Dr. Edward Blake, assistant corres- ponding secretary of the Sunday school board of the Methodist church, took occasion to criticise his own physical “make-up,” much to the enjoyment of {he other ministers in attendance. “while I was in the northwest,” he HEAVY WEIGHT- PAtE*—NIBLO & one seiva—MUSICAL IRVANG—vioumast = THE MORRELLE SISTERS IN sald, “T lived on the fat of the land wh&h ‘atcounts for my present condi- jon. Dr. Blake welghs about 5 pounds. “Y wasn't always as thin as I dm now,” he continued. “There was a time when I was as big as President Taft, but that was before he got his growth.” Pennywise Peter. “There was a half-witted youth in Bridgetown to whom the nelghboring farmers liked to offer @ penny and & nicKel. “Gathered about him In market day the farmers, ol other, would say: i “‘Now which will yef have, Peter? Here's a cent—here's a nickel—take yer choice.” “And fool Peter would Invariably choose the cent rather than the nickel, and the farmers, before such incredi- ble foolishness, would roar with laugh- ter double in two and slap their legs ly with their brown hands. “Peter, 1 said one day to the luna- ‘why is it that you always take ent instead of the nickel” ‘Petér grinned a very cunning grin. #‘Suppose I took the nickel,’ said circle on after an- tie, i The Yuletide spirit is not working overtime in some sections of the south. A day’s news contains reperts of sud- den death encountred by four negroes selected to play the leading role in a lynching. In two cases the victims were not charged with that “unspeak- able offense.” They were only accused of wounding white men, with whom they quarreled. Offending beasts of the fleld would receive greater con- sideration. It Still Stands. The epigram coined sixty days ago on the North Pole controversy: Cook i8 a gentleman and a liar, and Peary is ther, recurs with new sting_as the 'world accepts the verdict. But the hard words of the real discoverer will mot long survive fn memory now that so many share in the Indignation which swapt over the real discoverer as he returned to find his tifle chal- lenged.—Boston Record. The Nanking City railway, eonnect- ing the Shanghai-Nanking railway and Hsla Kuan, is doing a thriving passenger business. A survey has re- cently been made for the extension of this line to Wuhu, a distance of about 60 miles, which will tap the second DR. KING, Dentist. - No High Prices I have twenty people a day tell me that they had put off coming because they dreaded the ordeal. greatest rice district of China. It is | said that thie line will advance by easy | stages through Kiukiang to Hankow, and will, if possible, be built In its en- |tirety by Chineso capital. No Pain Now, let me *“The Pine Ridge Feud” IN SELECTED SONG PROGRAMMNE. T Matines, Ladies and Children, L novisd music. NELLIE S. HOWIE, Teacher of Plane, i Room 48, Central Bulldlng ' Le the home good at Schawenks Conserval n. "Phone 518-5. Piano Tuning and Repairny "Pnone 422-3. i‘mcy Native Cikkm Apples, Basket Grapes, Malaga Grapes, PEOPLE’S MARKET, & STEWART—ack & iacx ER 1 EN—JuooLer Y0 Dancens CLASS SONGS — Wodassday and Frifey Master Harry Noonan, Christmas Day—1380 to 5 P. M, and 0 P. M. CAROLINE H. THOMPSON Teacher of Music 46 Washington Street L. H, BALCOM, " Tencher of Plane. i 29 Thames S'ine Siph sume !- oot F. C. GEER TUNER 122 Prospect St Tel. 511. Norwieh, Cv A. W. JARVIS is the Leading Tuner ix Eastern Connecticut. 15 Clairmount Ave. ons pt22d JAMFS F. DREW Best V'ork Only. 18 Porkine Ave sept23d Fancy Native Fowls Fancy Native Ducks Just the thing for Sunday dimnes. Oranges, Grape Fruit, Ete. 6 Franklin St. to truth. is popular for awhile, but the good ded ay for the ten thousandth ti that V. ‘Wiat meney cannot buy, the pure| .. TAGULAR, | paver wins permanent honofs. This S:”,,,L’(;,‘,’;gig:‘?ml‘&‘, e X e | that he can scarcely be aroused from My Mothod is Absolutel by Rovisa JUSTIN HOLDEN, Prop. in hesst can mmake thelr own without | The Malne state grange has just|is why we should “stick to the tin |, .. " ecents as attractive as possi- his torpo: The fact is that they are After the first tooth is filled or ex- money and without price. held its annual meeting and the re- | whistle until we can buy a horn! ble. Dainty ribbons, pretty boxes and | EVer torpid, and are rarely, if ever, tracted you laugh at your fears and ports ' disclosed that there are 433 ot baper, and, Jatest of all, the bright, asleep. Henry Clapp of rownville wonder why you waited so long. Don't rm m ‘What is better for contemplation to, day than this beantiful carol from | The Catholic Standard and Times: kept & pair of cubs two winters. He told me that they had denned in the hay before a ladder, so that he passed over them when He fed his cattle. He told me that he always saw their eves | when he passed over them. A friend Who kept one at Sault Ste Marie had | the same experfence. He always found them awake. I have known several cases where they were found denned In hollow logs and they were awake when found, and when disturbe think of having your work done till estimate, which T give for on’t put it oft any longer. When there is any talk about being cheerful Red Cross stamps make the garnishing of our gifts well worth at- | fention. Yet we should do despite to the givers if we put equal value upon the gifts and the ‘wrappings. In some such fashion the ldea be- hind the Christmas merrymaking and gift exchanging has become overlaid with its accessorics. If we do mnot watch out, we shall fail to plerce through them to the reality. When granges in that state and that eight n DR. KING, | Originator of the King Sa System of Painless Dentistry. “hetween the devil and the deep se 1 think of the drug clerk who serves #oda and ice cream to customers for two vears, and then devotes himself to compounding prescriptions for the | rest of his apprenticeship so as to be the servant and interpreter of the doctors and the guardian of the sick for the rest of his life. Every doc- tor's prescription is all Greek to us, you get my nothing. ¢ ones had been organized the past As the boys say: “That's go- inz some!” But the grangers are making less noise than they once did and appar- ently more progress. There are 56,230 grangers in good standing in Maine, and quite likely 250,000 more in the six New England states. The grang- | including the latest pattarme ready for inspection. 1 Quality, minus the high price sting, tells the story of our swo. cess. Whether you wish to order or not, we want to show you the new line and fashions for FALL. There was a star whose light, Mystical and holy, Shone through the quiet night O'er a stable lowly. Sing praise to God on high! And rejoice that He We examine your teeth without charge and tell you what it would ecost to pot them in perfect condition. Our charges are consistently low. Pain- B P traction free when sets are ordered. Hours 9 a. m.to§ p. m.; Sun- days 10 to 2. Telephone, ‘Thus should beatify Humble poverty. A Merrie Christmas, gentlefolk! And may your wealth and pride Be mindful of the humble ones This blessed Christmas tide. F- There was a Little Child, Innocent and holy, Born of the Virgin mild In that stable lowly. Bing praise to God, who gave Unto you and me Such gift our souls to save! O! the ebarity! A Merrio Christnas, gentlefolk! And may your wealth and pride Be mindful of the humble ones This blesseé Christmas tide, | The men who are sailing overhead | in New England of nights now are making, the whole world sit up and | take motice. They have the Wrights ‘wondering and worrying. The old fire department used to| hang up its stockings, but that was | in days gone by. May it ever share | the sweetness of our dieposition, and be as merry as it can. We hope that every member of The Bulletin's large family will have a merry Christmas; and we also invite all ereation to join us, prohibitionists not excepted. An eleven-year-old Ohio miss rises at § in the morning, milks four cows and washes all the milk pails, being ready to.begin her day's work at 7 e m. ers are a force which has to be con- sidered when any important public matter is on foot. As an exchange remarks: “The grange and the Po- mona are the two centers of social commingling in many & New England inland town. and they undoubtedly make for ‘uplift’ Probably the grang- ers are today more effective for the advancement of farming interests than in the era of their more spectacular influence of legislation, Nevertheless the rural politicians find the Patrons of Husbandry worthy of observation, and keep their ears to the ground about the grange halls.” EDITORIAL NOTES. Bverything good comes to hoyhood on a slow freight; but to age it comes | along by express. There is' no denying the fact that Chancellor Day has a real passion for appearing in print, The democrats never have anything to say against Santa Claus. He is welcome in all camps. The children make things lively this morning, and we all like to live over with them the days of ‘yore. In the name of the people, Thé Bul- letin wishes Mayor Lippitt and all the members of the city government a very merry Christmas. ‘The holl weevils have heen Killed | by frost. What a pity that the hound- ers of honest men cannot be suddenly cut off in this same way. Fifty-three . lawyers having been added this year to the state of Ohio, get any more out of Christmas than you ‘about /' The man who cap make a deal of wise the state is all right. 32,500,000 cannot G, a western paper explains that “other- The impartial American examiners it with @ |are now inclined to punieh Admiral Gy t and sometimes I think it may be to the doctor before the ink has been long dry; but the prescription clerk in a drug store has got to be a good read- er, and an expert at guessing; and do you know he never gets praised for the errors he corrects for the M.D.'s, but he gets fearfully blamed for any | mistakes he makes in solving the rid- dles the doctors send him. He is a wonder and should be respected be- cause of the few errors he falls into, for he is always kept on the verge of the pit. You all know the woman who says: | “oh, T know my husband just like a book,” and this statement is usually very much doubted because it is re. garded as aw unusual accomplishment. | It is, and perhaps some other woman | | may envy her ability: but -the claim is never made that this knowledge is | valuable or satisfactory. There is such a fhing as knowing a mate too well. | Tt is always just as well for a pair | to be dlind to one another’s faults and not to be too observant of one that adds to the glory of their favor- | ite. One reason Senator Beveridge is such a great talker is attributed to the fact that in his younger days he was a successful book agent. It i3 mot probable that Zelaya Iis | haviog . a ,merry Christmas; but he | teels safer now that he put up a substitute and is free to flee. The man who alleges that large | ears are a sign of dissipation must be trying to turn public attention from the tuby mose as an indicator. Happy thought for tod Every heart cannot be merry today, but all ‘hearts ‘ean’ be grateful for blessings of which they are truly conscious. _ importation of toys for this year amounts to seven and a half mil- Mons. We put out our wealth to in- srease the pleasure of the children. we have read all the beautiful arti- cles and storles and poems about Christmas, when we have hung up our stocking and inventoried their con- tents, when we have partaken of the turkey and plum pudding, and wished one another many happy returns of the day, have we really touched the heart of Christmas? At the heart of Christmas is the childlike spirit. Only those who are as teachabls and trustful as little chil-| dren, only those who have the child's| keen zest in living, his eager anticipa- tiveness, his quick response to bene- fits conferred, his simplicity and his joyousness, have really entered into the deeper meaning of Christmas. In a larger sense even than perhaps Dick- ens meant, ‘it is forever true that “It is good now and then to be children and never more so than at Christmas, when the great founder of Christianity was himself a child.” At the heart of Christmas we find also love. “Only he who loves, lives.” I do not mean by love, gush, senti- mentality, mere amiability, a well de- veloped bump of general bemevolence. I ‘mean what Paul meant when he penned that glowing description of love in the 13th chapter of the First Corin- thians. Read it over agaim, and see how much of the article there depicted you personally possess. ~Have you more today than you had a year ago? If so, you are fast arriving at the heart of the meaning of Christmas. You have begun to see through the coverings into dts real essence. There is life, too, at the heart of Christmas, a life, the life, of the cen- turies, the life which began in the mangéer and ended on the cross, the life into whose short span of less than 35 years was compressed so much of divinity, so much of human service. Wil persons on the earth a thousand years from today be celebrating the birth of Jesus, as his earthly his— tory recedes further and further into the past, and as sclence scores still reater achievements, will something fetter and more inspiring than the life of Jesus come into view? Indications do not point in that direction. On the contrary, he who was cradled,in ed, those who were in front found the A bear as soon as he gets out 50 he can use bears quicker than they were. his+teet is as quick as a cat. I ha had the skins of scores taken fro dens, and I never heard any hunter complain of their being slow. There misapprehension | is & great deg) of about bears hi¥irnating. vorite theory among scientist bears fo to den to fat, that this fat furnishes feed to support life, and that | in the spring they come out poor. The | fact is they come out fat, as fat, in. I have examined those taken fro dens from December to the last of | e m Franklin Square, What and Where far s can be told, as when they went | 1860 . CHRISTMAS - 1909 m We extend to the great American public an invitation to call and inspect of Syruwsfigs Eloaed Seana the system efjectually To gex\s \m\efi\a\ octs gond o™ cn\\\e\wwfi?g;mm ass\sts m\\\mm\né \obiual constypation Aways buy the ur_choice lini Holiday Footwear— O%erul ana sensible gifts for old and Sang. Courteous treatment and satis- Ywu-n gusranteed. P. CUMMINGS, 52 Cenmtral Ave, PREMIUMS. decl0d —— H. COOPER —— UPHOLSTERER Special Sale of Hair Mattresses $9.50 FOR 10 DAYS, Regular price $1 259 West Main Street. dec10d Custom Grinding TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS at YANTIC ELEVATOR. A. R. MANNING, Yantic, Conn. Telephone. decldd OUR WORK meets the approval of the critieal Rogers' Domestic Laundry. Tel. 958, - Rear 37 Franklin Strest. eptdid KING DENTAL PARLORS, over Somers Bros. 10 Buy In Norwich Joseph F. Smith, FLORIST 200 Main Street, Nerwich. e PURE OLIVE OIL There are many brands, but only one best brand. JRA leads them all. it direct from Italy. We s low price. Lot us supply you. 0. FERRY, 703, 336 Franklin St. very to all parts of the city. DR. JONES, Dentist, 35 SHETUCKET ST. Room 10 'Phone 32-3 maylid F Red Cross Stamps and Xmas Cards at Thamesville Store and all the rest of the good things for your dinser. We import ell 1t at a complete assortment of and Liquors. . FREE! - FREE! A Dbottle of fine California Wine will be given to each purchaser of and over untll Jan, 3d, 1910. Weakfish, Shell Fish of all kinds. THE JOHNSON CO., Merchant Tailors, Chapman Bldg. 65 Broadway. HOLIDAY Wines and Liquors For the Holiday Trade we ¥ HN‘I-« Hendsome Calendars (0 one patrona, JACOB STEIN, Telephone 26-3. 93 West Main 8t dec18d 3 Cod, Pollock, Smelts, Haddock, Halibut, Salmon, Mackers! Ladd’s Fish