Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 7, 1910, Page 4

rni:h Bulletin 114 YEARS OLD. —_——— -.-w-d—.u--w«n—- onth year. " Enmtered a; tus Postolfce at Norwlich, Conn. as sewend-class matt Teiephane Cglla: Tetin Business . dso. Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-8. etin Job Office, 35-8. Willimantie Office, Room 2. Murray Baildlag. Telephone. 210. Norwich, Friday, Jan. 7, 1910. The Circulation of The Bulletin. The Bulletin has the largest cir- culation of amy paper in Eastern Cemmecticut, and from three to four times Jarger tham that of amy In Norwich. It ix delivered to over 3000 of the 4.053 houses im Nor- and read by mimety-three per cent. the people. In Windham it in dclivered to over 900 mes, in Putnam aad Dantclson to over 1,300, and in all of these places it i comatdered the local daily. Eastern Commecticut has forty- Sive pomtaffice dlstricts, ome rural free delivery routes. The Bulletis fs sold in evers town amd om all of the R. F. D. routes In Easterm Comnecticut. CIRCULATION average averaze average , average MAYORS ALWAYS TALK WELL. rare t a newiy elected | fails to frame a pleasing in- augurdl address, or to forecast changes which are pleasing to the people. They es as in- sion, for not do venture to make recommendations which are sweet music to the ears of the tax- pavers; and since their power to rec- ommend is better defined than their te perform, they cannot be held %o respo: ¥ for the failure of their stical economie suggestions which suggestions to the end of . The mayor of Waterbury appropriations to handieap his administration and neglected streets which are a disgrace to the place. The Republican, referring to | s remarks upon the im- t of the streets, say ‘We can only wish that he had ad- @ed that the sooner the city picks out a professional road builder for street superintendent. pays him about 33,000 or $4,000 = year, gives him a rmanent position and keeps the reet department out of olitics, the will get good roads and and our money’s worth.” is sound talk—the political is mo joke If political one need not travel to sooner we raterbury to find this out Over at New Haven there is an at- tempt to commit the mavor on the e question which is very likely to fail; and the mayor of Middletown has a defieit in the water department which has caused public scandal and Ias become a menace to the municipal peace. There are complaints of les everywhere under the old politi- cal forms and this is why the govern- ment By commission, or conservative business government, is becoming pepular In all the cities of the coun- try. rregu AN INCREASE OF WAGES. The Providence Journal 1s right when it says: “If the railroads are forced to raise the wages of their employes, freight rates will have to d; the public may as well s mind to that!” may as well make up Iits mind that those who pav the freight on all goods for consumption will _charge the advance with a slight ad- isumers and the bur- ic upon the wage- earners as well as all others. That the cost of living has been more out of proportion to the wage- Fate of late than it should be, is ap- and how the old rela- ablished no one is doubtful if it th the present fever for ends regardless of effects ressed classes. the ve further: has foreseen the e for some 2id_that the = upon demand fo time past, cight per better a sured now a rema that ma dicate th the higher cost of aperation involved in the largzer compensation of his workingmen will not be taken from the pockets of the stockholders; and in- deed why should when the pres- ent rate of payment represents, to many of them, little. if any, more than & four per cent. return on their in- vestment 7 A Boston paper protests against cailing smalipox epidemic when there are but fourteen cases in a town. Up- on this basis it thinks grip and lazi- ness might be included Jt i now mistrusted that Dr. Cook an magician. and it is al- at he flung 1.600 feet of rope to the air, clum® it and pulled the rope up after him coasting schooners have it of late, and four-master is missing. Hard ope knocks and ice-armer have made them uncomfortable. Happy thought for today: Emerson @dvised us to hitch our chariot to a star. but the best lasso-thrower has mot been able to do It yet. WHAT I8 SLOVENLY AGRICUL- TURE? When a British agriculturist I over our rural districts and comm upon American farming, as & whole, and expresses his surprise at the good results, while he rates our farming methods as slovenly, what does he mean by this knock?. He means that the rural districts are more unkempt than those of England, that the fences are not as straight or well kept up, that the ditches are not so weil made or so prettily bordered with flowers, that the hedge-habjt—the tree-border- ed rond—of England {s missing. In fact, the aesthetic taste of the people and the habit of improving up- on nature is not so common here a: in Englund, the prettiest and clean- est and best-kept country, as a whole, know to travelers in this world. Com- ing from such a country to this, the natural disorder is at once apparent and a Britisher calls it slovenly, with- out considering the newness of the country or the highness of the wage rate. There is no help hired here to work for ten or twelve shillings per week, for that is often the wage-rate of the day. As to cropping, the high- est crops known to agriculture, as well as the lowest, are reaped here, and when it comes to the average America may sag a little, but “when it comes to the highest in corn, wheat or potatoes, no country surpasses to any great degree. The American farmer is now learn- ing the advantage of good roads to his property, and he will after that recognize that the pretty, shaded road is most desirable. Aestheticism comes slow in the rural districts of America but it is surely coming because ap- pearances count for éountry roads a: well as city streets. It pays to have everything shipshape and the trend is that way. A HORACE JOHNSON DISTURB- ANCE. It may be just as correct to speak of the recent storm as a Horace John- son disturbance as it is to call the comet which was tearing _through space fifteen centuries before Mr. Hal- ley was born, Halley’s comet. Un- doubtedly, Uncle Horace Johnson has all the up-to-date almanacs, if he has not the desired observatory, and since they mark the warm and the cold | waves, the rains and snows and earth- quakes a year ahead, a man who is a fair interpreter of English and a care- ful calculator may with such a foun- dation for work, guess right three times out of five. As most people do not see these astromomical and as- trological forecasts, a cunning man may excite the wonder of the multi- tude by predicting a week or ten days ahead what kind of an atmospherical disturbance is portending. If Chief Moore paid a little more attention to some of the famous almanacs of his time he would not have been so hu- miliated last spring. Most people do not know that Uncle Horace is more of a humorist than a meteorologist. and that he sits and laughs over the confusion to the people and the credit to himself which these predictions of his cause. Horace Johnson has the sibyllic manner of expressing himself so that the interpretation fits what- ever happens. f Uncle Horace's mental agility” ex- ceeds his physical, and he can out- predict any man of his years as well as out-run him HE WAS PUT TO SLEEP. Tnsomnla s a distressing malady, and it is not strange that the sufferer is usually willing to try most any remedy from a lunch to a Turkish bath to find relief. A victim of in- somnia tells of a new diet which was recommended to put him to sleep and it operated like a charm so far as going off was concerned, and this is the way he relates his experience in the San Francisco Argonaut, as the experience of ten minutes in dream- 1a; “First let me say my friend was right. 1 did go to sleep very soon after my retirement. Then a friend with his head under his arm came along and asked me if T wanted to buy his feet. I was negotiating with him when the dragon on which I was rid- ing slipped out of his skin ana left me floating in the air. While I was considering how I should get down, a bull with two heads peered over the edge of a wall and said he would haul me up if I would first climb up and rig a windlass for him. So as I was sliding down the mountain side a brakeman came in, and I asked him when the train would reach my sta- tion, “‘We passed your station 400 years ago, he sald, calmly folding the train up and slipping it into his vest pock- e At this juncture the clown bound- ed into the ring and pulled the cen- ter pole out of the ground, lifting the tent arid all the people in it up, up, while I stood on the earth below watching myself go out of sight among the clouds above This simply shows that a person should know his diet before he takes it. The diet which puts a man to sleep does not always soothe. EDITORIAL NOTES. has appropriated three half milions for the construc- of submarine boats. She joins naval divers. Germany and a t the Charleston, S. C., felt grand at a business showing for 1909 of seventy millions, but the little city of Norwich did more than twice that. Daylizht is gaining a minute a day, and if it does not mean much now, it w mean a half-hour less of lamp- light at the end of January. A Jersey because him know man asks for a divorce his wife has not spoken to for three years. He doesn't comfort when he sees it. The Missouri schoolmaster who has just married a widow worth three millions has not devoted himself whol- 1y to coaching the “young idea.” The trial marriage is horrible to think of, but the divorce rate shows that they are quite common in every community. One in eleven dissolves. Dr. Cook cannot claim the cham- pionship as a liar, for the newspaper n who has located him in twenty- 1t American cities takes the paim. Ninetv-one of the 100 counties in old Virginia have joined the good- road movement, and over a million has been allotted for road improve- ment. The government’s December income showed two millions above expendi- tures, The tariff measure is working the balance to the right side of the ledger. President Taft favors the appropri- ation to take the Male eui &€ MHa- THE BULLETIN DAILY STORY. SAME OLD STORY. Young Murchison sat at one side of the library table looking grave. Young Mrs. Murchison sat at the other side of the table with the suggestion of & pout on her pretty face and between them lay the ly “account book, several sheets of covered with figures and the pencil Murchison had just laid down. “Mildred,” he said solemnly, “we might just'as well look the facts in the “Ch, what's the use” she asked, “when the facts are so disagreeable? Let's talk about the New Year's eve party.” g “But, my dear child,” began Murchi- son, firmly, “here we are at the be- ginning of a new year—" “Don’t call me ‘your dear child’” protested his wife.” “I'm just as old as_you are—nearly,” she added, hastily. “Here we are at the beginning of a new year,” repeated her husband, “and we haven't as much money in_the bank by $180 as we had last New Years.” “Well, if we haven't we haven'l” Mrs. Murchison sald lightly, “and I don’t see how we are going to get it back by pawing over a lot of silly old figures.” “That isn’t the idea,” pursued Mur- chison, gently. “T'm not worrving be- cause it's gone I'm simply trying to point out to you that we could do bet- ter next year Mrs Murchison faced about brightly and clasped her hands on the table. “All right!” she exclaimed. “What are we_going to do?” “That's the girl” said her husband encouragingly, patting the folded hands. “We've got 10 cut down our expenses next vear.” “On, but how can we, Billy?” wailed Mrs, Murchison. “I simply can't go into’ a cheaper flat. T've got all my glectric cooking things fixed aad all that” “That isn’t necessary” explained Murchison; “there are other things we can drop. Let's begin by cutting out this New Years eve business down- town. Mildred sat up stralght and stared at him. “Why, Billy!” she exclaimed, “we can’t do that! We promised those peo- ple to go and they’ve got our seats re- served at the table and everything. We'll have to g0.” “Nothing of the sort!”rerorted Mur- chison. “Don't worry about the seats. They'll get somebody else to take our places without any trouble. If we g0 down there it will simply mean spend- ing $20 or $25 on supper and drinks and wine and tips for a lot of people we sec about four times a year. Now what's the use of that? If we're going to economize, we must begin by cut- ting: out the Iuxuries.” 'Well, Will Murchison! If you call the ordinary social occasions of our position—meeting our frinels and ex- changing greetings—if you call these ‘luxuries; we might as well move into a cheap tenement some place and hide away from everybody. Let me tell you that if you don’t go to that party New Year’s eve Tll go without you and Il just tell them ail that stayed at home to save the mones Mrs. Murchison pretended therewlth to read a magazine. “Oh, very well,” he sald, humbly, “if you're set on going, I suppose we can postpone the economizing until the new vear really starts.” Mrs. Murchison was inctantly molll- fied. “That's a dear boy,” she said, “and.now we'll find some better way to save money. What else can you think of2” “Well, T had been thinking,” began Murchison rather timidly, “thdt it will be rather a needless expense for you to go down to St. Louis to visit your mother next spring.” “Well, of all things!” his wife burst out. “If that isn't just like a man! Of course, if we must economize, it's got to be on some little thing I want to do! Naturally, My lord mustn't give up anything! He can keep right on smoking 25-cent cigars and—and ev- erything, while I can’t even run down to_see my poor mother for a day. If I had ever thought you were going to develop into a stingy old—old grouch,” she wailed, “T would never have mar- ried you!" Murchison slowly gathered up the papers_and the account book while Mildred buried her face on her arm and wept: copiously. Then he walked around and put a consoling hand on the heaving shoulders. “Never mind. dear,” he said, “it's all right. Don't cry. We'll go right along and spend the meney in the same old way next year and If we have to g0 to the poorhouse we'll go in an automo- bile."—Chicago News. How the Northwest Feels. Mr. Pinchot js a man of wealth, an idealist; In fact, @ ‘crank” But cranks are usually honest and often very useful. ~ Mr. Ballinger is from the ncrthwest the east, hav oast, which feels that = gobbled or stolen everything in sizht in its own ter- ritory and turned it into private wealth, is now deliberately hindering the development of this distant sec- tion to protect its own monopolies. The northwest sees in the Alaskan field cheaper coal, and as ~ result of this its rapld erowth in industry. It wants that coal put on the market, and may not much care how this I8 done. It is willing a group of men should secure wealth, believing that in this way lies wealth for all that re- gion. The same is true as to water powers and the forests These people may be wrong: we think they are, but they are sincere and ask only what is the precedent of a hundred and thirty vears and of every other section. If Mr. Bal- linger has represented this creed of his own -~sople, which remains to be proven, still that shows him to be no more dishonest, to say the worst, than is every “stand-pat” protectionist, be he democrat or republican, nor than is Mr. Pinchot who represents an equally extreme creed of paternalism, which is, or should be a stench in_the nostrils of every Jeffersonian.—Du- luth News-Tribune. Bostonesque. Boston papers, like Boston people, are sticklers about English. A Boston correspondent left Washington over the Christmas holidays and intrusted his job to a western newspaper man of the ‘breezy type. The substitute sent what he thought was a hot story to Boston. He began it with: “Well, what do you know about this’ In_the paper his copy was changed to “What is your opinion of the fol- lowing?"—N. ¥ World Alfred Never Had Trouble. ‘William Watson's brother sa; writ- ing a great poem drove the Doet in- sane. Moral—be like Alfred Austin and never try to wri —Denver Republican. nything great. ve the bones of there a decent vana harbor, and to gi American sailors still burial. The page of names of the contribu- tors to the Trinity collegze cndowment fund just raised shows that the insti- ¢ in the he tution rests fir s of its friend; The insurgents must approve of anything Taft does, of course, for they beileve they can keep their block on sure if he will attempt to kick it off. The proposition to have the negro- exposition in 1913 managed wholly byl white men is intended to kill it. TIts enemies are trying to get it into their Awa pands Annual Clearance Sale Commencing Saturday, Jan. 8th, 1910 At the commencement of each year we hold a houseleaning Sale --a sale inaugurated for the purpose of sweeping out of the house every winter garment of every nature--wearables of every sort for men, for boys and children. It's good business on our part to do so--far better than to carry stock another season. The end of our SELLING time on winter goods is in sight--the end of the WEARING season is three or four months away. OUR CLEARANCE SALE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! OVERCGATS In All the Popular Styles Hats, $25.00 and $28.00 OVERCOATS, now . $21.00 $22.00 and $20.00 OVERCOATS, now . $17.00 $18.00 OVERCOATS, now.... $15.00 OVERCOATS, now... $12.00 OVERCOATS, now... $10.00 OVERCOATS, now.... All Cut £15.00 $12.00 BOYS’ OVERCOATS at Same Radical Re- ductions. CHILDREN’S OVERCOATS, price JUST ONE-HALF. 5 to Io years, $22.00 and $20.00 SUITS, now. $18.00 SUITS, now........lu.ne $15.00 SUITS, NOW. evvaeeeennnes....$12.00 $12.00 SUITS, n0OW..covncenns 0Odd lot of MEN’S SUITS, small sizes, $10.00 to $18.00 value, now... YOUNG MEN'S $15.00 SUITS, noOwW...... $12.00 SUITS, now. $10.00 SUITS, now...... $ 850 SUITS, NOW...ccavinse Odd lot of SUITS, sizes 16, 17, 18 years, values $6.50 to $12.00, at..........$ 2.98 MEN’S SUITS $25.00 SUITS, nOW.ceveeerennes 75¢ value, 50c value, .$21.00 ..$17.00 ....815.00 .-$ 9.75 ...% 5.90 SUITS ...8 975 -8 725 | ; for 2sc. The Time to Buy Is Now and at This Place. $ 3.00 SUITS, $2.50 value, now $2.25 value, now $1.50 value, now..... $1.00 value, now....... BLACK CAT HOSE,zsc, all size ALLS of all grades Children’s Knickerbocker and Regular Pant Suits $10.00 SUITS, now.. $ 8.50 SUITS, ....$8.50 ...87.25 NOW. .eu.s $ 7.50 SUITS, now...... ...$6.25 $ 6.50 SUITS, now..... .$5.00 $ 5.00 SUITS, now..... .$4.25 $ 4.00 SUITS, now .$3.25 now .$2.40 Caps, Gloves and Mittens Down 15 to 20 per cent. UNDERWEAR ceee...$119 cesasssssce SBO WO =% e o ceseseceess BBO BOWZS, cesesescsen 48O Everything in stock included in these price reduction EXCEPT ROYAL COLLARS, 15¢, LINEN COLLARS, 15¢ per box. OVER- Early Comers Get the Best Bargains. Commencing Saturday Jan. 8th, 1910 THE F. A. WELLS (0. “The Store of Good Clothes” v BROADWA acksons Vaudeville HAMMOND & FORREST) oo doa V = audevillians. LOMOND. LASS 07 LOCH A Beautiful Story of the Hills of ostiemd. Scemery Eleotrionl Efteets. AUDITORIU Pm.c;nr’: Vaudéville NTRIC 3 SHOWS DAILY WEEK OF 2.30, 7 and 8.45 JANUARY 3rd —K.MBLE SPECIAL FEATURE SABINE, MILLE, VERA & BURKE in “THIE ARRIVAL OF KUITY MeOARTHY." e r s, ‘MARION & DEAN CLASMIEST T Sena” —GUY LESTER—RATERT 4 \wum T Bogewthic [ MBLE & LEWIS—fQRona™io LEWIS—2CRoBamio 1 gy TRIAL MARR BUSINESS DIRECTORY Of Eastern Connecticut. NORWICH FIRMS AUTOMOBILE STATION, . Coit, 6 Otis Stry Bieycle Repairin chine work. Jobbing. cor. Mark: Tine of the best Al fpectaily bottied livery. Tel 13 Bacheld Estate Notary Public. Abccuntant., T and Audits lephone $15. WILLIMANTIC FIRMS STIMPSON’S STABLES, rear Young's hotel Main st oughly up to date service Trucking and heavy teaming clalty. » | ot Dr. i for it and mention t! - uring the last 20 years for eommon cold and ‘when l&. B had e Sotghed up blood ‘Sod ured W. P. Bl me 80 A. C. MEY a spe- Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup rip in severe forms— Soarsatontod TTCE FREE T R O Tttt write ik o, NS, Ma. ( » IENA/ENY NAANNA /i Washday Trials who has once tried the cause of the unrivalled popul ity of the wet wash. 198 Franklin Str Norwich, Conn. Telephone $95. with separate a Alcohol ous_Diseas: tached departmens for Drug Habits. Address Telephone 676. IYEMWF Y 1IN S N\Y, no longer exist for fhe woman Wet Wash Way Come in and let us explain the S. & J. GREGSON NS AN /NN ar. NN AN A Grand View Sanitarium for the treatment of Mental and Nerv. nd do- lio and Grand View Sanitarium, Norwich, Conn. will ever be too large for us t Al we sk s an opportunity for the job. Competition is ki compets close figuring, but experience has taught us the figure close and do first-ch General Contracter 218 MAIN STREET. “Phone 370 No Building in Norwich o bulia to bid en and years of ay to work. C. M. WILLIAMS, and Builder may2ld A TN WIGH OLARS BONGR Pictures changed Monday, Wednesday and Fridey FEATURE IN sE soT b SONG Matines, Ladies and Tencher of | moom 4 . BALA r ot ons given at my fied at Bohawenin | i F. TU Tel. 611, ‘Phone 518-5. 1) sept22d JAMES F. Fiano Tuning an Bost Vork Phone 413-3. sept23a including the Quality, minus ¢ c Whether you wisi not, we want to new line and f Merchant Tallor: THEATRE CHARLES MeNULTY,LESSEER PIOTUR \THE LAW OF THE MISS FLORENCE WOLCOTT MUSIC. NELLIE S. HOWIE, CAROLINE H, THOMPSON | Teacher of Musia 46 Washington Street “NEVER SAY DIE”, ED MOUNTAINS. PROGRAMME Children, Se Central Butia 00M, Plano. Thames St y restdence of & Lo g oot11d4 C. GEER NER 122 Prospect St Norwich, O A. W. JARVIS is the Leading Tuner tn Eastern Connectical. Clal Acn DREW 1 Repairiag Only. 18 Perkine Ave. FALL STYLES test ready for Inspection. pattema, he high priee sting, tells the story of our sus h to order er show you the hions for FALL. THE JOHNSON CO., Chapman Bidy. 65 Groadway. seems to be & part of Santa Claus oid " Clothin, o it is & fact t | when properly dyed, even il &h ment looks llke mew again. . Let us of your clothing expenses s Lang’s Dye Works, Telephone. 157 Frankiin St de FRESH STOCK THIS WEEK Pollock Hammy Weakfsh, 8 § Macker Shell ¥ixh of all kinds Ladd’s Fish Markel, L 623 32 Water Stres Zero ‘Wealheilr' Calls for Fur Robes and [ Blankets. | e st < . it rig The Shetucket 283 Main | Telephone 865-4. Belln h . Harness Co treel. WL C, BODE,