Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1910, Page 4

and Gonfies Ppostoffice at Norwich, a5 second-ciass mmtter. Telephone Calla: n 4s0. i Eavenl St o Siiletin Job Orfice, 35-0. h& Office, Repm 2. Murray ‘Telephone. 210. | Norwich, Saturday, Jan. 1, 1910. The Bulletin. The Bulletin has the largest cir- & culation of eny paper in Bastern Comnecticut. and from three to four tmes larger tham that of any Ini Norwich. It s delivered to "-rg 3000 of the 4,958 houses in Nor- wich, and road b: rdnecy-thres per cent of the people. In Windham § is Geliversd to over 300 houses § Putnam and Danielson to over $ 1100, ana in al! of these places it 1= conzidered the locel dally. i Sastern Connecticut bas forty- mine towrs, one hundred and sixty. £ve poet office districts and forty. oe rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin s scid in every 3 town and en all of the R. F. D. i coutes In Eastern Cemnecticut, CIRCULATION 1908 THE BULLETIN—1910. was one of the best stors of The Bulletin: sous growth of The n years pa the guaranty i ment in 1810. The s ned to fully the evidence that in endeavoring to attaln this end is to he found in its Mat of §) regular cerrespondents In the towns and village of eastern Con- mecticut: and its full Associated Pre: @ervice and its special departments and eover iix field and it spares ro expe geniributors. leaves no doubt of its full purpose The Bulletin will make it a point | 1 Norwich—to endorse every | will tell for the! wall-being of t believe in any but belleves oks for hes for a pur- has-beens, be spirit w tter Nor- ment of permanent departments argeable the heavs we are burdened not attemipt to ape larger should strive to make Nor- wich as well ordered and as reason: Sle a piace to live in as any city of $t= size and peauty n New England The Bullatin knows its Norwich and #t wi the forefront In every endeavor to Sries or to open trace. As an Bulietin record In ev THE BULLETIN'S CALENDAR The - Bull distinguished itself handsome colored have been ‘n rec putting _out calendars which large Gemand not only | iocally, but in all parts of the coun- | trv in which The Bulletin is circulated. | This year it printed a collection of | | two-colored views of the performanc: and decorations of the huildings dur- Ing the celebration of the 230th an- miversary of the town, together wit ®ood portraits of President Taft, May- or CosteRo Lippitt and President Win- slow Tracy Williams, who distinguish- ¢ himeeif by direction of that cient in management regards most attractive (as it i the most expenzive) calendar ever is- #uad by the company, both in its ar fistic groupinz and pleasing color eftert. | There i= onlr one point at which it Wil be deficient—the supply Is Jkely to be equal to the demand. The intention is to have every Dull subseriber have onc and above this | 3.89¢ the surpius Is not large. The Bulletin will also izssue to its Dusiness patrons its large local ref- erence calendar for Norwich and the other cities and large towns in its Slelc. which will be sent out as usual | early in January. ®o popular ‘These calendars are they never equal by distributing agents we ex- pect avery advertising patron to re- celve ome. After our patrons have Becn served -the remainder are given o wihose who eall for them THE YEAR. Have you ever thought that “the Fear does nothing but open and shut,” and that man does all the resi? At the sarewelling point of the y 3863, we know that 2 million have die and a mililon been born in this coun- 2y In the past twelve months. There have been 500 a day injured among ihe workers; there have been 18,000 homicides; and 10,000 suicides that | | r =t price, 12c & week; 50c @ Fear. 4 ulY!ARsm' 2oEd —————— F - ~ :The Circulation of ! { rity are $8,700,000,000 in value from farms; the money order ‘business of the country amounted to 750.000,000. The revenue of the pos- Ml department for the year has been $200.000.000: the total of imports hi hoen $1.311,920,224: and ihe exports $1,653.011,104: within the vear 150 000 cattle and horses and 17.700,000 sheep and goats have fed within the national preserves—lands which repre- sent £2,000,000,000 in value; over §141,- 000,000 has been given for public use from private wealth; and we still have a billion-dollar government, The year has had vastly more wealth'| than want, ple vance than retrogression. every evidence that God is and that man’s destiny has not half been achieved. There may be an age when the worst men will be as good as the best men of our times. As Wordsworth noted on a January ist of his time, “We from today, my friend, will date the opening year.” THE INESCAPABLE AVERAGE. The Boston Post calls attention to | the feet that the recent disastrous northeaster and the following cold | snap are simpiy an attempt on the | part of nature to establish the annual | average of temperature. In support of this theory, The Post sa. ure than sadness, ad- There is We have had hot and cold summers mild and severe winters: and we srumble or take it contentedly, ac- cording as it happens to suit us in- dividually in each ease. But when we figure it all out we see that one year Zoes about the same as another; that what we miss in temperature at one season, or at some particular point in the season, is balanced at another: “From the sun we get each year just about the same amount of heat. Its distribution through the seasons also varies very little. The bother of it is that we never know just when some cccentric change i3 coming. Perhaps the science of the weather bureau may in the course of time reach that desree of prescience” The Inescapable average, s no dream in nature; it is no dream in the race of life and death; #i is no dream in the statistics representing human dis- tress and its results as shown in the list of homicides, suicides and fatal tles: it is no dream in the Industrial results, or the results of beneficent elving. Fach year the nescapable av- erage holds true in most of the depart- ments of life, and it Is one of the evidences of the presence of Provi- dence In the affairs of men—the base upon whieh rests the maxim: “Man proposes—God disposes. EDITORIAL NOTES. Happy thought for today: Never be so happy as to wholly forget those who cannot be. Go early and avoid the rush will be the admonition when the markdown sales come along. The Bulletin wishes all jts readers many Happy New Years as they what to do with, as know = has | his lberality and efi- | eelebrated | | Haven The Chicago man who has organized a new democratic party has neglected to give It a distinguishing number. Perhaps you have mot moticed that the state of Connecticut wears her laurels well. She'll wear them stralght | during 1910. The counterfeit $5 bill gpes a great wars at this season without being de- ected; and, bad,as it is, accomplishes little good. A Chicago man of 23 Fears' experi- ence says: “Get married.” The pes- simists think this is trick rather than honest advice. May Norwich bug-juice be so thor- oughly watered that the toughs will glve the police of Norwich a quiet and happy New Year. s Zelaya. will find that the Mexicans do not like the Tnited States. but they know too much to risk twisting the elephant's tail. The fellow who lets the January bills zet yellow and dusty is not the ne who accelerates the speed of good things in this werld. Who ever thought that there ever eould be an eyil odor about, .the dis- | eoveryof t orth pole? .The unex- pected reaily happened. - e | The punster who discovered that it | ways “Chicago, Tll.” should keep vy from the “Windy eity,” or the board of health will get after him. The whiskey trust no doubt feels thankful that President Taft dld noc find that whiskey was an embualming fluid. It still makes a’ fellow balmy. The Bulletin wishes all its contem- poraries a happy and prosperous New Year. May the pulp paper behave it- self and the Ink take on the shade: of night. Year The ew resolutions are a failure t out with a pres- sure of 2350 pounds of zeal to ths square inch. A good, low pressure is om# of the railers would have selieve that the airship was bavi- d by Dr. Cook, who just hovered orwich as a compliment to The They do not make it clear whether the retired sea captain of New York who has been operated on timy was in the hands of the surgeens, o other operators. When we look at Nerwich sitting in the midst of snow she looks just like the beautiful white roses of June. May her 1209 “dawn of better days” prove a future blessing. Dinner Awaits McGe: A welcome reception and supper in his hemor at the Oneco hotel awaits “rank_McGee, business agent of the ew England conference board of moulders, on his release from the New county jail. whieh will be on . 10 next, says a New Haven story. The affair is planned by the local Iron Moulders’ union and John Mitchell, the well known labor leader, one of the viee presidents of the American Fed- cration of Labor, and ex-president of the Mine Workers, will be one of the invited guests on the occasion. Joseph F. Valentine, president of the Inter- national Moulders' union, also will be of the party. MeGen wa | rrested during the strike 10,000 accidents upon the rafl- and a thousard strikes in the ; and the fire losses have been 4 and Afty millions. In thelr these form a Aark picture, bui are mothing compared to the ‘and thrift and happiness £0 to make up the bright side at the McLag: foundry on the charge of Intimidation and was sentenced to twelve months in the county jail. He commeneed to serve his sentence on the 11th of last March, but will be re- ased two months earlier than the The men who talks wishes all of his readers “A Happy New Year: This is a popular way of showing a kind regard for one another. We wish people “a happy New Year,” who are conscious that they have had a miser- able past and who anticipate an un- happy future. It serves as a momen- tary henediction, but it camnot lift them from their states of depression, because the mind gnvites gloom. It could as well under~the very same cir- cumstances invite hope, but they do not realize it. Igmorance of a fact kes all the 0dds in the world. They do not count themselves as among the ignorant. but few men can escape the charge, however they may have been trained or educated. Man is a creator and he is the oply creature so distinguished that God has made. He invents material things and creates all sorts of combinations und conditions. He organizes to fleece | his brethren and to protect them—he creates social conditions which please or disturb himself and others. He not only carves his own career, makes his fortune or invites his fate—but invites beauty where desolation pre vails and it comes—invokes plenss where there is want, and it comes;and cont bility is -ithin the sec of his power. Eife is not wh makes it. but what man ma the sooner this is recognized the het- ter it will be for the race. Man has a high commission from his Heavenly Father, but doesn’t more than half realize it. d and Some folks think that snobbishness is a heavenly gift—they never yet have learned that this spirit was born when the first man or woman found utterance for the sentiment: “I am holier than thou!” and it has given birth to every conceit extant which applies to superiority of dress, or to assumed hereditary distinction, or to Detter social standing. or higher educa- tional attainment. or to cheap renters in their relation to high renters, to clean occupations in contrast with dirty employment, and it has been carried to such a point among men that there are a million conceits of superiority; and snobbishness is just as common in the labor district as in the residential section of a city, and often more so, The world does mnot value men and women so much be- cause they have pure minds and clean hearts as because they wear good clothes, live in fine houses. and put up a fine pretence. Man has made life what it is. The itching for fame Is a much more common disease than most people think and with some It is not cured until late In life. This kind of an itch is not cured so readily as the other kinds, and those who have it are very often referred to as having a bug, and very properly. too. How It is cured js not so apparent, for the cure is usually as unexpected as It is sudden. When the young man who dreamed that he was designed for the governor of a state gets settled down as a hack- driver he dreams no longer of fame, but wonders if there is not still a chance for him to be a hero. Some men have been suddenly cured of this itch when they saw their picture in print for tha first time—this was enough to eud all further aspirations. 1t is a complaint common in the downy life of man—maturity invites the frost which is fatal to it. Forget your new resolution making and hang this up for 1910—"Look not back but forward!” Attainment is not in the rear. The footprints in the sands of time are behind you and they are nothing to be proud of—your feet have been growing and spreading and are not as shapely as they were. It is well that most of them disappear and the remainder cannot be told from Dbear tracks except by experienced trail followers. It has been sald that when & man of 50 takes a business squint of the past—just puts his eve on it as a carpenter puts his eye along the edge of a board—nothing impresses him more than the worthlessness of the things he wanted at the age of 21. He sees that he didn’t know what he did want then, and he finds at 50 that he then hardly knows what he does want. 1 was interested in a lot of little whirlwinds that were describing cic- cles on the walk the other day, which would always be invisible but for the dirt and particles of paper which they appear to be fond of stirring up, and I always feel glad that little whirl- winds are the only kind which seem to be natural to New England, for the big whirlwind is something terfific. 1 never saw but one and that picked up the trunk of a felled t on the east bank of the Mississippi river that was at least forty feet long and whirled it round and around as it rose until it did not look larger than 2 walking stick and I did not n, But T can imagine if such a stick of timber should fall upon a house or a steamboat it would mean destruction. Only the little ones are amusing. see it come dow It is well in this world to know how to graduate our losses. It has been demonstrated that there may be galns which are losses and losses which are gains. One wise man wrot: ortune lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost: honor lost, more lost; soul lost, all los You 'will notice’ from this list that as the world judges things that which is least is of most value and that which is of most value is of least account. The blind go rizht on leading the blind, and the frivolous go Tisht on hooting the watchmen on.the wall, They take no note of imperish- able’ treasures. but seem to have ac- cepted for their motto, “Fat. drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die!" It is a good rule of conduct “to for- get the faults of others by remember- Ing your own.” The only trouble wi it is that so few folks realize that they bave any faults that they are not con Scious Of having enough to sustain memory on for half an hour. A man usually espv the faults his T ors_ while a person of ke sight cannot descry his own. We told that every man has his weaknesses, and 8s a pointer told that one of them is a de to get something for nothing—a trading stamp fever or gold-brick ambition: but he doesn’t take the cue because the modern golden rule | or he'll do vou!" told, that “to den “Do him quick And. we are also a fault is to double This is where the world is run- ning up its compound interest at a terrific rate! An American proverb is that: “A man who can swap horses and catch fish and not lie about it is just as pious as any man can become” No one can tell what there is in either avocation to make & man prevaricate but when looked at squarely it will be found that the spirit of competition is oftener the life of 2 lie than it is the life of trade. When a mar = nation gets to plaving with achjevements he cannot hi the part his tongue will ta ¥ tongue of the man who likes to hear nself talk will say things that a graven image would repudiate. It is indced an unfortunate plight when one gets, where what sounds like a lie to every one else sounds like the gospel truth to him. Can’t Blame Him. It is reported from abroad that Mr. Roosevelt does not wish any banquets elapsing of his full sentence on ac- count of geod behavior. McGee after his release will resume his former occupation and fill his old t as business agent of the New land conference board of moulders. given in his honor at Berlin. Having banqueted at Berlia, the kaiser will probably make allowances for Mr. Roosevelt's reluctance and refuse to take “a sinister view” of the episode— New Orleans Times-Democrat, New Years day! The Day of the Year, as the French call it! The day when Janus turns his faces both ways, one with a wink of the eye upon linger- ing Autumn and a “Depart, your oy AR e 2 an Tas otner fornara toward impatient Spring with a “Not yet, not yet, pretty lady, give old Win- ter his chance.” A funny old fellow is Janus, with his two faces. Double-faced, should we call him? Hardly that, for the face that looks backward never changes e with the face that looks forward. If we see him stern and severe and in haste to be rid of us, severely stern he is to us always; while we that see him zenial and relenting and glad to wel- come us, never dream of that darker, harder face of his that turns the other way. Does Janus chuckle? We should think he might, he arrives so soon aft- er Santa Claus, only to find that be- tween Christmas and New Yeai’s ev- ery step of his road is paved with good intentions. If that stern, backward- turning face of his ever deigns to re- lax, it must pe in a sort of grizzly com- passion for poor, grown-up, ever child- ish human nature; for all of us, indeed, who can be childlike in the good old Christian way at Christmds, yet turn childish to a degree and even peevish over our broken toys the day after. “or, vou see, old Janus must needs wade to his post at the top of the year breastdeep through the trash of sueh resolutions as are made on purpose not to be kept. And it is is sorely needed, for he knows that the herofc resolves so scrupulously formed during those last seven days of the old vear have no real force. no enduring fibre. He can tell us that the longer the list and the more strained our en- deavor, the quicker and surer will come the first break—a break that brings with it unacknowledged depths of hi miliation, discouragement, and, in cer- tain saddest cases, despair. He knows that the only resolutions which count and wear are those that are new every morning and renewed every evening, all through every year, unti] they be- come the habit of our lives, not to be put on or off like a garment, but to envelop us like a sheath. We may sus- pect him of hiding a tender spot in whatever it is tha. serves him for a heart, and of being touched by what he knows to lie at the root of all good in- tentions, namely, an instinctive hun- gering and _thirsting for something better, an inborn yearning for the ideal. 'a real reaching. out after God, which, «onsciously or unconsciously, underlies human nature’'s passionate impulses and honest, though feeble, aspirations. It is good then, we see this inward, instinctive something that =ets us all to making long lists of the things we are going to accomplish this coming year, the faults we intend to correet, “the virtues and talents we bave détermined to develop or improve, ‘What, then, underlies the breaking? Janus could tell us—and, we believe, in looking both ways, he has observed many generations of men and learned buman nature to the core. He ecould answer that the breaking need not be charged to original sin nor total de- pravity. and not €0 much to badness or weakness as to the apparent impos- sibility of attaining the ideal, the try- ing to do too much at once, the frult- less effort to force many days’ work into one, and the incomprehension which would crowd into the one short week between Christmas and New Year's the self-culture of mind and heart that in reality requires a Hfetime to perfect. rubbish and | just at this point that his compassion | for_ - a Pt A %_ldwmdullul that resolution, and one only, ity Meht ana Svery morming, 1o live eve and every mo v 'lglt and let it lve 'flnfl‘l every ‘bour, and " siceping. would, transform our lives: a lastly, that sinking into our heart of hearts it might find some such words as these: “With malice toward none. with charity for all, with firmness in the i God’ gives us to see the right, let us strive on,”"— i strive to do faithfylly the work that day by day God gifes 2ach one of us to do. Surely, were this one quiet res- olution to be made and kept by us all, Janus would walk next vear over a well swept path; and who knows but that his backward turning face might change from grims to genial, even as winter melts into spring. How glad Janus must be of his two additional faces—he has four in all— how glad to have one face with no watch-dog duty attached to it, a face to look out upon t} world with, and eyes to see how beautiful our world can be. Says Browning: “God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, Ons to whow. s womsn when ho loves er.” Heaven forbid that Janus should be 50 absorbed in ‘guarding the gates of the Past and Future as never to turn that third, care-free. childlike face of Lis out over our snow-drifted fields and meadows, never to rejoice in the poy of a faery world, a white world. a wonder-world, such as we see today, with feathery, faery tres Erowing out of a sea of purity up into a dome of blue. “With his nature-loving face, doubtless he is urging us. to add to our one resolution, or to Include within it, an awakening to the spirit or beauty: to make friends with the sky—which is doing something bewlldering and bewlitching every minute of every hour, on gray days, rainy days, dismal days, dreamy days, misty days, _pret- ty days, golden days, and all days of the long year _round He way be urging us to look off to the Bhills, whence cometh our help to rise above the pettinesses of daily routin to chum with the trees; to dance on glad feet over “the brown old earth to drink in the rare tonic alr like new wine; and. above all, to open our hearfs to stars and flowers, to whist- ling winds and billowing waves, to rain and snow and sleet as well as to sunshine an warmth to pirds and anmals; to pri oners and cautives; to little chil- Gren and_old folk; to those in the strain and stress and struggle of mid- dle life; indeed, to everything that Dbreathes the bréath of lfe. So shall we malke of this new year the happi- est_year we have ever known. We shall revel in the beauty and grandeur of the changing seasons. We shall be lad of life and of all that life means o us: glad with the jov of living, the joy of loving and helping, the joy of | the heart that answereth to heart; the joy and_the love that make of every | day a Christmas and of every year a Happy Year and New. THE RECLUSE. SUNDAY MORNING TALK THE GROWING MAN. Now and then I hear the comment passed upon . this or that individual “He is a growing man,” growing woman.” Sometimes it Spoken_concerning a subordinate In a great industrial concern. Sometimes the wife and mother in a large house- hold is so characterized. ~Sometimes it is the compliment paid a profes- sional man, a minister, a doctor or a lawyer. s It is a beautiful thing fo say about anyone. It suggests something quite different from what is brought to mind by the conventional appraisals of hu- man kind. It is far from what we mean when we say this man is coming into a fortune and that man is learn- ed and that woman is clever. And yet it is not easy to define ex- | actly what is in our thought when we rate another as among the growing men of the world. A growing animal is a far simpler proposition. question then simply of legs and girth. A growing child, too, is perfectly com- prehensible, for by the term we slgnify chiefly increasing stature and averdu- pois. But what are the marks of the growing man? How many Tecognize position or at some humble post of duty? Humility is one of the invariable accompaniments of growth. Phillips Brooks used to say that humility and courage are the two fundamental traits of a noble life. Certainly no one can be growing who is weighted down by a big bump of self esteem. Growth is the bettering of a_past record and the present status. If any man can look into his past searchingly and note its slips, faflures, neglected opportuni- ties and transgressions and be in any sense proud of it, or measurably con- tented with even a fairly creditabie record, then he has never sounded the depths of his own nature. In order to be humble one need not be constant- Iy humiliating himself before his God jor his fellow men. But he must be free from the love of the limelight, the | constant comparisor of himself with others to their disadvantage and his own_glorification. Only then is he in the way of growth. T have never seen a srowing man who was not teachable. Abraham Lincoln said he would not give much for a man who is not wiser today than y terday. But how can he he wiser? Only by cherishing the spirit of a learn- er. "If you have mastered every de- tail of your profession or trade, if you jhave penetrated to the frontiers of hu- | man knowledge then of course you are | a very superior person and meed not that anyone should ever instruct you in anything. But that is not the atti- tude of the truly growing man. For aspiration is the key to progress. “What are you looking forward to this winter?” asked one city woman of an- other the other day. “You are in the midst of many musical and literary ad- vaptages. What u planning accomplish? was the chil ing reply of 2 woman with a good hi band, a competence, a well ordes homé and no chick or child to care for dally. No one with an jota of aspira- tion in his own or her makenp could ba content with such a negative policy. As Browning says: | “Aye, but a man's reach bis grasp. Or what's a heaven for?” must exceed Something ahead to do, “to be. to | bring to pass, that is the spur, and he who responds to it grows and only that 10an grows. Wondrously doss Chris- tlanity fit our thought today. 'Its pro- sramme “First the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear.” T Srontest sijumtion I Wy, 36 eres as vour Father in heaven 13 ‘perfect.” Its dazzling, far-off goal is heaven,with its possibilities of infinite growth. The rapid flight of time would be unspeak- Tt is a him when we find him in some high | bly sal were the human race stag- iant, The ending of a vear and the seginning of another would fill us with nelancholy and dismay if the future were to be as the past. But the grow- ing man hails it as another chance to press forward and he “greets the un- seen with a cheer.” THE PARSON. MUSIC AND DRAMA Laurence Irving and Mabel Hack- ney are to begin their New York en- gagement in The Incubus next week. Zelda Sears has joined The King of Cadonia company. This is her first venture into musical comedy. Edmund Breese is to be Charlotte Walker's leading man when she be- gins her tour in Just a Wife. Walter Lawrence is soon to star Henrv E. Dixey in a new play by F. A. Kunner, called “Mr. Butler.” Joseph Jefferson, Jr., is to have a part in the forthcoming production of “Miss Philure,” the play Chrystal Herne is to star In. Ethel Barrymore is to begin re- hearsals in the new Pinero drama, Mid-Channel. at once. The new babs | is doing nicely. thank you.—Springfield Sunday Republican. Henry W. Savage is planning to produce a farce called Miss Patsy. at | an early date. It is by Sewell Coliins and was adapted from a German play called Lori Pollinger. “It Is the ambition of every tenor, no matter where born, no matter how | famous abroad, to conquer New York,” says Ricardo Martin, the successful young American tenor. “Here we have the greatest opera house in the world and there is nothing abroad to equal the average of yroductions seen and heard at the Metropolitan.” It has evident! been decided that These Are My People, the sequel to The Squaw Man, was not a success, for it is announced that H. B. Warner, vho has been starring in it in Chi- <ago, is oon to be seen in Allas Jimmy Valentine, the play Paul Armstrong made from an O. Henry story In four ays. The attractions at the leading Ros- ton theaters this week include Bright Eves at the Boston; Eva Tanguay in The Follies of 1909, at the Tremont: Margaret Anglin in The Awakening of Henela Richie, at the Colonial; The The E xceptional Eguipment of the California Fig Syrup Co. snd the scientific attainments of its chemists have rendered possible the production of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, in all of its excellence, by obtaining the pure medic- inal principles of plants known to aet most beneficially and combining them most ekillfully, in the right proportions, with its wholesome and refreshing Syrup of | California Figs. As there is only one genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna and as the gen- uine is manufgetured by an original method known.to the California Fig Syrup €. only, jt;is always necessary to buy the genuine to gev its beneficial effects. one to deeline imitations or to return them of the California Fig SyrupCo. is not found printed on the front thereof. for “the County says the New York called ‘a_dulcitone, fore been tion in this for a try and was imported for Vienna for this special presentation. It arrived Friday of last week and was used for the first time for the Monday evening performance, beil la; SE-pikyesr oy “HAPPY NEW YBAR” REFLECTIONS. (For The Bulletin.) . The first of January nineteen-ten! Tm somewhat. ray, Yet atfii"3he of the merry is my sixty-ninth birthday, On th I run “like When t| Yet sing - While * Wi n x “beating time” with a Mr. Rogerson him- wrh now and men. inkled sixty,” look benign. 5 prospact 2% 3 n.}-:..‘ 1 my might! I must have lost some kiddish ways, Bince T was born in '41, Yet fondest hopes I sométimes rais Like boy One hope is I for years ma: race “the light fan| from my partner slip, With Before 1 Who has a race to run. Yo To make room for a younger beau. Three score 1s man's 1f so, T'v But should Down in tears, It dancing’s soon years! And nearly And surely had my share of of years and ten, the: allotted time on ‘eart! had my day, £ mirth, my limit be '11, this vale of 'smiles and right, T'l1 go to heaven get ‘Grace for coming —Charles H. Talcott. JOHN J. BLACK In Comedy Sketch, “The Main Guy.” ARMSTRONG & ASHTON Co. MONDAY POSITIVE) Nuw MoTION “That Boy and That Girl'—Sigter Team DANNY SIMMONS The Merry Hobo ALL SEATS 10cents OTHING GHER Entire New Show Thursday. JA THI; HASSMANS Kaullibrists _Kxtraordinary and Motion Pictures every Munduy and WELK OF PICTURES THAT HAVE NEVER DEFORK BERN SEEN IN THIS OFTY of Weal Vaudeville - CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE NEW YEAIS DAY STARTING AT 1307 Keith & Proctor’s VAUDEVILLE Ir UARY SPECIAL FEATURE SABINE, MILLE, VERA t BURKE STHE ARIIVAL OF K1 Mot A ¥ EDY LERS REFINED NOVELTY BOCENTRIC __ COMEDY [ 3 ADMIESION 10¢ Evenings Reserved —THi —CARKOLL SISTERS— LA BELLS —J00F ns MUSICAL ARTINTS ACROBATIO ST MBLE & LEWIS— seats 20c | Fictures changed Monday, Wednesday and Friday EMPLOYED 62 YEARS. Loren H. Robertson, Native of South Coventry, Sticks to Business at Colt’s. Before the Christmas shut-down the Colt Patent Wire Arms Manufacturing company gave some of its older em- ployes gifts of gol long and faithtul in recognition of vice, and amon; the men thus honored was Loren Robertson of says the Hartford Courant, ertson has company for sixty-two year: No. 102 White street, Mr. Rob- been In the employ of the and that ought to make a record which is pretty creditable to both partles to the con- tract. The company I8 in good health and so is Mr. Robertson, who Is en- Joying life and thus Just now h the plant | and there is nothing for him to do. whenever the shop runs enables him to be bus is & bit uneasy becaus hut down for inventory it were summer it would be different, for then he gets out at 4 o'clock in the morning and works in one of the best gardens in Hartford, but for all that he finds this a pretty good world to live in, and he ought to know some- thing about it, for he has been here for eight; Mr. one Robertson was born In South years, By Our Formula We produce In Hood": Sarsaparilla a medicine that has an unap- record of cures of ECrotata e fula, eczema, eruptions, catarrh, rheumatism, anemia, that tired feelin, loss of aj ite, etc. "The combinat roporti the more than twenty difforent remedial agents contained in are known 't remedial Sarsaparilla only to ourselves, so there can be no substitute. This medicing makes healthy and stron bl the ““Little Soldiers”” in your ,—those corpuscles that fight the diseage germs constantly attacking you. Coventry March 31, 1820, the son ol Elijah Robertson and the youngest ol a family of nine. TO TAKE EXEMPT LIST. Middletown Assessors Will View Prop erty Listed Commencing Wednesday. The custodians of property In town of Middletown exempt from tax ation, have been prompt in making re turns to the assessors of such prop erty in accordance with a request to that effect. Pretty nearly every ple of exempt property in town has be returned, There I8 some church prop- erty yet to be listed. It Is for the as sessors to make the valuation of They will probably start out on We nesday morning to view the property The completed list may be returne at_any time previous to the first of July.—Middletown Pres One Poet’s Succuss. Still, Watson is colnirg money, Won- der if that serpent’s sting really hurt —Milwaukee Sentinel. LEGAL NOTICES. Notice to Taxpayers All_persons liable to pay taxes the West Chelsea School Distric Norwich are hereby notified that have a warrant to levy and collect tax of three and one-half (3%) mil on the dollar, taken from the Tow list of 1908, payable January 3, 191 and for the purpose of collecting the same 1 will be at the store of George M. Rathbone on Saturday, January 1 1910, from 9 a. m. to 1 p.'m. All_persons ncg will be charged legal fees ditions. ALFRED 8. CURTISS, Collector. Dated at Norwich, Dec. 29, 1909, dec3oa the | n it lecting this notice and ad- i f CHARLES MeNULTY, LESSEE FEATURE A Trap for Santa Claus \mar mocrarn suconss, {Master Har 4 l | | 4 1o ry Noonan, COTED 80 Ladies and Children, % | Music, NELLIE S. HOWIE, Tencher of Plane, Central Bullaing. Room 48, | CAROLINE H, THOMPSON Teacher of Music of 1 Is n on B uy resldence ov a¥ upil. Bame method s Lessons given at the home of the 0, | used ut Bohawenlca’ Conservatory. Ber lin. ootild 5 F. C. GEER TUNER 122 Prosvect 8t Tel. 511, Norwich, Gt A. W. JARVIS DR. KING, Originator System of We examine your teeth withou! to put the; Jess extraction free when sets are ordered. days 10 to th the th! of the King Safe Painless Dentistry. m in perfect condition. Telephone. DR. KING, Dentist. No High Prices 1 have twenty people a day tell me at they had put off coming because ey dreaded the ordeal. Now, let me say for the ten thousandth time, that My Method is After the first tooth Absolutely Paini led is or tracted you laugh at your fears and wonder why you waited so long. Don't ink of having your work done till you get my estimate, which I give for nothing. Don’t put it off any longer. t charge and tell you what it would cost Our charges are consistently low. Pain- Hours 9 &. m. to 8 p. m.; Sun- KING DENTAL PARLORS, Ne R Franklin Square, over Somers Bros. is the Leading Tuner In Eastern Connecticut, 'Fhone 518-5. 15 Clairmoun BepL2s JAMFS F. DREW Piano Tuning and Repairiny Best Vork Only. Phond exz-8. 18 Porking Av: septyia Ave. FALL STYLES including the latest pattarns, ready for inspection. Quality, minus the high price sting, telis the story ef our swe: cos: Whether you wish to order or not, we want how you the new line and fashions for FALL. THE JOHNSON CO., Merchant Tailors, Chapman Bidg. MID=-WINTER TERM —BEGINS— Monday, January 3d w London Business Gollege BRUBECK, Principal. Shorthand, Typewriting, Book- keeping, Commercial Arithmetic, Penmanship, Grammar, Etc. CATALOGUE FOR THE ASKING. NEW LONDON, CONN. We carry a superb RUBBERS line_of Rubber Joseph F. Smith, 65 Lroadway. corvmicny a; 3 a Overs, Felts, . ootweap, Btockings and, ONere, Foufi FL() RIS‘I‘ HOLIDAY the leading nlula[;ds—uo;g;“ . Goodyear | i d L. T . CUMMINGS, 200 Main Streel, Norwich. nes an lquors s For the Holiday Trade we hawe & PREMIUMS. 53 Cemtral Ave. Iv1a | comamiete. Ramortmaens ot Fare Wieis Sec and Liguors EH “ h I t [ PURE OLIVE OIL ot b [ A bottle of fine California Wine w 259 West Main Streef so dlvect fram Tialyt™ Wi well’ ("Cs | Hanas ars (0 our patren ’ [ 1ow price. "L us wupply”you | JACOB STEIN, MATTRESS MAKING a S“:":": b i (OO | Telephone 26-3. 93 West Main St. Mail orders promptly attended to. | Lol 105 . (o a1 'Paria of the city declsd dec29d dec24d Custom Grinding DR, JONES, Dentist, TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS at YANTIC ELEVATOR. A. R. MA: Telephone Yantie, Conn. dec14d NG, Rogers’ Tel. 958. septaid OUR WORK A knowledge of the above facts enables | meets the approval of the critical people. Domestic Laundry. Rear 37 Franklin Street. 35 SHETUCKET ST. Room 10 mayl A Happy and Prosperous New Year to all _» is the wish of C. S. Fairclough Prop. Thamesville Store. ’Phone 32-3 FRESH STOCK THIS WEEK Pollock, Haddock Halibu, hell Fish of all kinds, Ladd’s Fish Market, 32 Water St eet, The FRISWELL, ™.... wishes you a HAPPY NEW YEAR dnciidaw | | { | |