Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 22, 1910, Page 4

ol wizlo’-flcfl- and Goufief, 174 YEARS OLD. AR = e it th toffice at Norwich, Entered a: the Pos S S . Ei Willimantie Office, Réom 3. Harray Butidiax. Telephone. $10. s Nerwich, Saturday, Jan. 22, 1910. DEEP DISAPPOINTMENT. Leoking over the political fleld at Boston, there is no doubt that there is deep disappointmeént over the result to both Hibbard and Stofrow. That ex-Mayor Hibbard should have Deen supported In his petition by 5,000 voters and then have received far less than that number of votes, séverely tested the temsion of his nerve and it canmot be said that he stood the sirain well, since he openly dsclares that he does not regard the public “as being upon the level” whatever thet may mean. It unquestionably means more to him than to anyon: elfe, and it certainly Indicates that he i& taxing hls defeat very serlously. That the republican _candidate, James J. Storrow, spent $103,260 to be mayor of Boston, and failed, shows how badly he desired the homor, as well as how easy he was with thoss who make expenses, and how little the voters really cared for him, although he had the support of most of the papers of the city. e estimated that the four ean- alaates for mayor of Boston spent in the campaign a quarter of a miilion doilars, and this seems to indicate that the mayoraity may be & prise as well as_an_honor. Mr. Fitsgerald knows how to win out in the most economical way, and in the face of the criticisms he has been subjected to, and the new reforms, which have increased the power of the mayor, as well as doubled his term of service, he may #0 conduct the af- fairs of the office as to surprise all his opponents. e 1s a mMost success- ful politician and his triumph with every paper against him in the city = an achievement he has no reason %o be ashamed of. Boston ean now settle down to four years of turbed business, so far ®s local politics are concerned, and exposition spirit these are to be four notable years for HOW TO BECOME A SUSPECT. There are places and occasions when the hip-pocket seals the weal or woe of a citizén. The man who carries a pistol in his hip pocket is a suspeet the moment it is discovered. It was only the other day that a roung man with & bulging hip-pocket was unceremoniously seized in the mnte-room of the Whité house, and his pistol was taken from him and he was held as a prisoner. It was father an unpleasant experience if the vyoung man intended doing no harm, but who knows what & young man intends to @0 who goes armed? In the first place, it is fear which prompts him to have defansive weapons ready, and it is usually fear which prompts & misuse of them. It is not a personal right to carry arms, but in most communities it 1= a penal offense. There is no disputing the fact that regular carrier of concealed weap- the criminal class, and the only ons excusable carriers of defensive weap- ons are those persons who must meet them or know that they are upon thelr track. The man with the handy weapon too eoften finds himeself indicted for man- slaughter or murder. The fear which prompts him to carry the weapon too aften Incites him to use it unwiselyr There is no reason why orderly and Ppeace-loving citizens should go armed —or why those who do.should feel pegricved at being classed as sus- Jects and dealt with accordingly. THE BEEF QUESTION. The beef question Is a serious ques- Mon In all sections of the country and hem are moving to find the Speaking for the southy a paper says that “one of the greatest needs of the south today is packing houses. Never will this great Rgricultural section come into its own and make substantial progress in the nent of wealth while the ma- Jor part of its meat and bread comes Fom another section, the consumer paying cost of transportation and the ecruing profits incident to the hand- ling of thess commodities by a chain of men and dealers. “The south should not only produce ‘1: the meat it consumes, but it should cured and handled here. This is just as true of other sections ©f the country—Is just as true of New Engiand. There are two factors which are Bringing distress to the people, the eontrol and distribution of meat prod- mcts and the fixing of prices at Chi- Pago: and the commercial policy decreases the milch cow herd of New England In one vear by 14,000 Bead in order to keep the prices of itk and dairy products up. The pol- fey which keeps grain so dear when the country is producing banner crops in some =ections that pigs and dairy animals and hens cannot be grown at » profit, is against the people and mgainst cvery interest of the state, and the government, and should be exploit- ed and made an end of by the govern- ment at whatever cost. This central control of commercial- fsm should be broken up and centers ®f supply be So located that cattle nd stock-raising of every kind will encouraged and prices of meats and #airy products be made cheaper to the people The United States appraisers having gecided that a cow cannot b8 properly Ested among family effects, @ bright editor suggests that she belongs Among the family jewels. The president of the New York Central railroad is quoted as saying that “Wages must go up!” If he will please press the lever, the working world will thank him. California’s orange crop is said té have suftered to the extent of one mil- lign, end this means that the navel ofanzes are going to bring fancier "prices than e Since Dr. Cook is sald not to have paid his typer, there is a desire to Bear from his Eskimo dog that we' may learn if he was not stolen by Under present conditions, the posi- of the vice president appears to nuts, and from the length of to the style of millinery. The was when “dead bird” meant much te a setter dog, but now it means more to the dstectives of a humane Soclety. | is Congressman Coudry has presented & bill in congress for old age pen- sions, due to every man who has at- tained the Biblical limit of threescore At sixty some people make resolu- ns to get more pleasure out of life. hey should have made such resolu tions forty years sooner, then the might have acquired the habit of get- ting honey while they worked. ere Dleasure in work, as well as in PRty o Slghimare for sixty years a nightm 85 ot think It can be magicaily turnod @ dream for the rest of your days. 6 pleasure of living is not in the and ten, with the hopes that it will | future but in the now; and if you have become the law of the land. Under this law, if the septuagenarian enjoys the plethoric stipend of $140 a year—which figures out $11.75 a month or 40 cents | £ a day In round numbers—he is to re- t learned how to get it from day to 80y ‘G0 mot thinks that you can et it from year to year. Put into Iife hon- esty and honor—take out of life the \ult they yield. Then yowll find both Ppleasure and peace. ceive a pension of not quite “two bits” a week, while if he draws down $102 every vear he shall receive $16 a year, 30 vents a week, or Sundays or $1.25 a month, 5 cents a day, not counting and excluding thoss bothersome frac- tions which might illuminate the beau- ties of this triumph of Ainancial séciol- ogy, but would only befuddle the av- erage mind. < Now, this Is what 1s denominated by the Kansas City Journal as distorted paternalism, and Who can say that it @eserves a better hame. A pension system which would give one tworthy citizen five cents a day and another forty cents a day could not be regarded as a square deal. It is not so much to help the deserving poor that these measures are present- ed as to gain public favor for men who are both incapable and undeserving. SKIN GAMES. \ Bverything in fur i not what it seemns to be—nor everything in art. Art and trickery have long been mixed up by the commercial sharpers, and so mixed that new fiddles have been sold as Cremonas, and imitation art sold for the old masters, The skin game 18 quite likely as old as the days of Barterand, yet, it is doubttul if the fur of thé rabbit and th& musquasn ever until this century pataded as seal skin, and were palmed oft upon inno- cent customers when pulled and ayed and artistically made, at sealskin prices, the prices being the only ap- proach to sealskin about them. This is what is being done in Great Brit- ain, and the American consul calls at- tention to the fact in his reports that women who think they are wearing French satffe, ermine and chinchilla are simply wearing rabbit-skin gar- ments which have been given the color and respectability of these more desir- able furs in trade by art. The skin of the opossum does duty as beaver and otter, and American sable as the skin of the Russian silver-skin fox, so deftly have the white hairs been ar- tificially inserted. When ’possum goods are sealskin and goat goods bear in the fur market, muskrat and woodchuck may be also met in dis- guise. Anybody can get into a skin- game in these days who goes to mar- ket, without the employment of cons federate EDITORIAL NOT The Black Hand suspects are able to employ nine of the ablest lawyers of Ohio In thelr defence at Toledo, The speculators have not cornered food for thought, yet; but no one can tell just howy long it can keep & free flela A prisoner in a New Jersey fail has galned twenty-five pounds in five months in spite of the high price of food. Now Secretary Ballinger is charged ‘with not forgetting his relatives in the distribution of political plums, What else is there? ‘With the opening of the legislature at Trenton, the Jersey papers an- nounce that “the smothering season” is on once more. Twine in any family are always pleasing, but the double parmanent ex- pense that comes with them staggers the workingman. ‘The Toledo Bldde thinks that the only hope a man can have of getting legal advice for mothing is by marry- ing a woman law T, Emma Goldman says that “woman’s suffrage is all bosh!” The women of the anti-suffrage association ought to get her to talk for them. Perhaps the man who wrote & poem and then shot himself, awoke there- from to adverse conditions, Fate fol- lows the man who rhymes. The higher-ups in the Sugar trust enjoyed the big dividends, and did not | ask how they were obtained. ‘There is nothing like being a blind tiger. Happy thought for today: A great many benedicts who think that they do as they please are constantly pleas- ing some one else by what they do. —_— So the constitationality of the cor- poration tax law is to be threshed out in “old Varmount.” We shall be look- ing for it when it leaves the machine. The governor of New York gets a salary of $10.000, but it costs $20,000 to maintain the dignity of this office, so it is no longer a poor man’s job. Under the Dog Star. The Doz Star rages! nay, ‘tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, Is let out. —Pope. It is fortunate for Fair Haven that it has within its borders a man wise in the lore of the skies. Otherwise that delightful portion of the earth might have gong clean daft, and had all its necks benmd backward at a right angle, scanning: the heavens for the Tillinghast airship. more than once re- ported to be soaring by night over the Quinnipiack meadows. A few nights ago it was reported again, this time fiying low over the East Haven hills. Then did the wise astronomer come ong. When he scoffed, they eaid: “There it is. Don't you see that light bobbing up and dowh off there in the direction_of Lake Saltonstall?” - e looked. What he saw Was easily un- @derstodd, by him. It was Sirius, the Dog Star, which often, when it is near the horizon, shines with an uncertain, wabbly light. A So the mystery is explained; also the reason why the wonderful airship ap- pears only at night. The Dog Star, for generations responsible for many of our smmer woes, is seeking to extend its baleful influence over the winter also. This, in the classic orthography of the home-made philosopher, is "2 muteh.” But how fortunate that tho culprit has beeri detected and convic ed before summer comes. For what he might have done to our airship-warped imagination then is terrible to contem- plate.—~New Haven Register. His Only Fault. We have admired a certain womah 85 years, except when 8he puts on her Tanners. Theén she acts and unnatwral. — Atabison There are Iots of folks who do not seem to realize that cheap help Is usu- ally the dearest in the long run. The statement that “there's nothing 8o cheap as a cheap man” has never been seriously disputed, and the saying 18 Just ax true of a cheap woman. Such people do not put conscience into their work, but concentrate their attention upon what they are going to get out of it. In effect their work could not be more uncommendable if they plcked your pockets. Those who watch the clock, wash, up on their employer's time,” come to work a minute or two late,'and never hustle in anvthing ex- cept their application for the pay en- velope, make themselves as cheap us “wet goods at advanced prices.” Thes workers are not 80 scarce that they are seldom met. We all have our experi- ences with them. but we cannot help pitying people who thus stand in their own light. ° The man who lumbers through the snow with & coal scoop looking for a Job to shovel your walk and holds you up when you are cleaning your own walk by saying: “You wouldn't take a Job away from a poor man, when you don't need it—yot know you wouldn't, boss!” seems to have tact: and as hé takes your snow shovel, tells you he does work for the upper ten who thank him and pay him more than he asks because he does the work 80 well, you notice that he handlés hie tongué ex- pertly and feel reconciled to being brushed off your own walk like a fly oft the dinner table. And when he has made your erooked lines straight and all waiks satistactory, and ventures as he takes his pay 16 say You do not need your outfit, can't you loan 'em to me for a iittlé, and see him walking oft with your ‘money in his pocket and Your mittens on his hands, and your snow shovel and broom over ~ his shoulder, you cafnot help admiring his persuasive mannet if you do not like his style in other respects. You do not fail to recognize that you have em- ployed an artist unawareés. So you wish to know what books T read, do you, Willilam? Well, the books that' are presented to me, the books that are recommended to me, the books that most people have no interest in, and the books that are furiously con- demned: and I _always expect to get something beneficial from them it there is anything good in them. As I have cultivated a dlsposition not to quarrel with persons I find it easy to got along without quarreling with Dbooks. If T do not agree with their conclusions T do not throw them down unfinished or snatl about the author. 1 find that most of the writers are honeat, and 1 find sometimes that the writer was in an jlluminated path un- known to the reader. Books are quict companions and those which please me most I read most. 8ome folks find as much pleasurs in talking about their sorrows as others do in dodging their poor relations. I recall an old admonition which ran something like this: “Don’t parade your sorrows before the world; but bury’ them as dogs do their bones; and then growl if anybody offers to dig them up.” This always scemed to me to be pretty good advice. It should be borne in mind that while Joy never lacks company, Sorrow spreads noth- ing but gloom. “Laush and the world laughs with you—snore, and you sieep alone. There is mastery in putting the best foot forward., there is tact in putting the best side out, there is art in wearing a smile instead of a frown, there is success in saying good- day fo woe and welcome to every good thing. | was acquainted with a well-to-do ‘bachelor and once upon a time he con- fided to me what his ideal of a wife was. He used to sit and dream about that fdeal of his because she was hif sister, Now few men find their ideal in their own family: and when they do they do not realize that there are no duplicates. He married later & woman whose history 1 had known for twenty years—she captivated him and he thought there was not another such woman in six states: but she was as near to his ideal in physical beauty and mental accomplishments as a grasshopper is to a kangaroo. I never said a word, but smiled. I have smiled for years; and he has gone na the smiling and the weeping,” while she has wed another, and smiles as if e had nothing to weep about. This is the way of the world Sam Slick is out of the minds of the people, and is found now referred to in an occasional book; ®but the truths he used to set Defore our an= estors are just as good today when set before us. Listen to these prov- erbs from Sam: “When the fox tufns preacher, the geese had better not go to night meetings.” “Hypocrisy has enlisted more people for "Old Scratch’ than any recruiting sergeant he has. “The mind is like a slate—one thing gots rubbed out for another.” “There is no security where there is a com- mittee of safety.” “No man or woman can be a general favorite and be true” “Bvery man should skin his own ekunks!” We are not as familiar with the vernacular as our fathers were— think we have something better, per- haps; but it does not on its face ap- pear to be any more effective, The moving picture houses have not yet realized the fact that pictures that pléase the children are sure to pl e he old folks. I was one of an aud ence of eight hundred persons recent. {1y, and of these six hundred were chil- dren under thirteen, and they were entertained with a series of tragedies from life growing out of crime, and to pass upon them honestly were not of a character or variety to please any kind of an audience. There were no pets or children or flowers—it was just one distress after another. There were more heartaches than laughs in them— there were killings, but no heroic res- cues. They seemed like a hit or miss lot, and they did not send an audiénce away wishing for more. I wonder who selects such pictures for juveniles? Where along the sands of time do you think man looked himself over and +firsg thought that he was good? We know that according to the theologians he wak'a good thing at the start but soon was in the way of making a bad finish. Then, according to the scien- sts, Wwhen hé got to be about as bad as he could be, he took 4 turn for the ib@\ler and then came the contrast and the good cla: and the twoe classes have . forged ahead thése many cen- turies, keeping the contrast pretty well palanced. In other words, when man got to conning, con-science was Dorn. Just how good man has be- <come can only bé judged by his works, and these do not give any sign that he is. approaching the angelic state. He still needs a comservator to make ll square deal, although he can talk bout it glibly ehough arbors hate and (Written for The Bulletin.) be e pray that we the Yo 0 can ‘hondetly. 2 = in sol measure. e e Sinmtond et e - : der Ipl you all toom friends and ibors mine, as 1 often do, as in a hand-to« and_handi Viction that he is sure to get the bot- ter of me eventually, as he does of us May I ‘that_oftentimes I teel like giving up the fight and arift- ing with the lotos eaters into the land where it seems always afternoon. Think of daring to make such a con- fession here, in_the very heart of New England, here where the teaching used to be, “Put tired to tired, and go at it again;” where éven now it is, “Grap- ple, for your life;” here, where ice and snow and sleet and the grip make of our lives a veritable warwhoop dance for existence. Having dared once, let us dare_ still more, and confess that ooy wa Tomgs. S¢ u Aaturdsy‘atie- v, and longs of a er- foon to step aside and piay awhile. One of the qualities we love best in Robert Louls Stevenson is his indom- itable courage, his almost feminine quality of fortitude, which s than courage so much more steadfast and enduring. Doubtless he had his sea- sons of heart sinking. Such & sensi- tive soul as his must have sounded the depths, Indeed, reading between the lines, it is not difficult to trace in everything he writes an underflowing current of sadnéss, a passion of Gues- tioning, and what, in any other than he, might seem hopelessness. But like thé doughty Scot he 18, he waves his bonnet in the teeth of faith, it he be not brave at heart, is bound to make us think him so, and shows the world how a high-hearted man can work and play and live—and die. So, then, friends and neighbors mine, let us too take heart again. Sings Robert Louls B “The world 1s so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as Xkings, which brings we back to our question, Why 1s not ail lifs one grand anthem of joy? Strange as it may seem, t asking of this question has brought a storm about my ears. My nel ors seem to resent it. One or two have even said that to grind away In work- shop, factory or kitchen, every day and all day and all the year round, is not delightful, not even endurable, and can never be made to be. They more than hint, too, that I am talking on paper of what I have not proved. Now before T take up the asgument let me tell you what of all things I should like Dbest. It would be to live in a Christ- mas world, in a world where everybody holds everybody else in loving kindli- ness of thought, where everybody works and everybody plays, where 1o one is ever overworker nor underfed, whero strong men and true do hof break down in middle life, where wom- "IN OUR WORKDAY WORLD i . to BTOW. tiful world it would be! our question May not of craft-work be lifted to the art-work, the plane of wo work's sake, for sheer dell doing? If we are mot are hopelessly tired and wearily hope- less, 18 it perhaps because we are only learning our way along, sropine blind; ly, and toiling for bread alone? I t that not every one of us likes to o precisely the same work. Your cholce might be repugnant to me, my sort Qistasteful to vou; and 5o far as ‘we have conned the lessons of life we have yet to find any real work that does not involvé Eome measure of arudgery. But given each our own work, 16 there not a principle, which, 18 brougnt to bear upon the doing of it, shalk help us to love it for its own sike and for what we can make to grow up out of it and bear fruit? The toiler toils, the drudee drudges, the digger digs. But, surely, this is not all. The unskilled work laboriously, but the skilled workman labors with an_ever-increasing degree of satisfac- tion. Beyond the skilled workman is the artist, the master—and the master plays. Under his trained touch the thing he plays with changes into a thing of beauty that is a joy foreve; ‘l Joy, Oe‘:‘lulea ’l e n;ll;elr flte.ln{lé sings 'to it, and joyousiy play: Delng. This is ohe xind of piay. But can we suppose there was ever a time when the master did not work to win? There is the other Kind of play, the kind we are all longing for just now: genuine play,jsheer child-play, play for the pleasure of playing. This is the sort of play that no one of us all has duite enough of, I sometimes wonder if life in New Engjand |s harder than elsewhere. 1 am a New Englander through and through to the core, but it may be because I have lived outside its boundaries that I see some things as clearly as I do. One i« that New Bnglanders do not play enough; and that we all grow old and sad and dead- Iy dull before our time. We do not know how te play, any more than we know the beauty of leisure. And if New Englanders ever did play. the gentle art of knowing how was for- gotten by our forefathers before we were born. You may resent this ai persion, dear friends and neghbors mine. 1T hope you will. If you do, I shall enjoy crossing swords with you. If you resent it too bitterly, and write me letters about it and there ensue a war of words, 1 shall retreat behind my pen-name and from the safety of my ‘seclusion shall keep on insisting that you and I and all of us do take ourselves too seriously, that all the world_makes too hard work of living, that the art of living is the noblest art of all: moreover, that {f friends and nelghbors could learn to work togeth- er. to co-operate instead of eompete, thiere would be plenty of time in our work-day world for play, and plenty of courage for the great emprise of high and noble living.) 7 ®' rup RECLUSE. prefudice is entertaining devils tm- aware. Unwholesome broods never produce wholesome wonditions. The | t nurser of wrath is in misery, not the | object of his wrath. Conscious die- turbance is the only thing wrath can put its foot upon and stand up. It feeds on misery. Prejudice is the pre- coclous child of ignorance, gnd it is a’bright child only t0 Satan, Both lead to evil conduct—contemplate dark deeds. Neither in this world vere ever known to @o a kindly act. The pre- judiced speak 1l of those who have never harmed them—the haters plot to make life uncomfortable for their enemijes, not realizing they are making it hotter for themselves. The heart that abides in peace with all mankind finds compensation and joy. s o e e e, SUNDAY MORNING TALK THE BIGGEST THING ‘WORLD. IN THE Put the question to & group of aver- age men, “What is the blegest work being done in the world today?" and very likely one would say, “the digging of the Panama canal” and another, “the construction of a railway through Africa from Cairo to the Cape” and perhaps a third would insi ‘e the reclamation of great deserts through irrigation. Wrong, every one of you. The greatest work gentiemen, that is £oing on today is that under the ban- ners of what is known as foreign mis- sions. A fotally new and a much fafrer es- timate of the enlu;rl-a is adually taking possession of the public mind. A generation ago the popular concep- tion of a missionary was of a solemn, white-beared_individual in a frock coat, with a Bagster Bible in his hand. standing under a palm tree preaching to a group of naked heatnen. ~Today preaching s but one of the many phases of modern missionary work, which includes all gorts of ministra- tions to human need. These later developments have been forced upon the missionary. First, he 100ks about him. and sees a multifude of diseased folk, and he reasons, “What's the use of trving to save their souls and ignoring the pitiable condi- tion of their bodies?” "So he writes back word to his board, “Send us out some good doctors.” And thus medical missions were born, and they are now blessing the Orient. through hospitals, dispensaries and house-to-house min- istration. Then the missionary looks farther ana sees a vast amonnt of ignorance and exclaims, “Why. w= can’t let these children grow up unable to read and write!” So back again he sends ,this time for Christian teachers, and soon schools, colleges and theological semi- naries are irradiating the darkness of Asia _and Africa. In due time Chris- tian literature becomes necessary, and so printing plants have to be estab- lished, and often, too, trained agricul- turists and manual teachers are de- manded, in order to help the natives to eelf-support and to a mastery of some trade. The outcome of these varled ap- roaches to far-off nations is such a erment as we are now witnessing in China. or_such.en upheaval as that through which Turkey has recently passed. Foreign missions do not di- rectly produce revolutions, but they inculcate the principles of democracy and constitutional government, and in Que time sultan, czar and every other embodiment of medievalism and tyr- anny must go down before the onward sweep of knowledge and virtue, So this busin of carrying to other nations the best that we know of God and the ideals of human life presented in the Gospel looms up as a vital and virile undertaking. No wonder that some of the brightest young men and women In the land are investing their lives in the foreign work. The-— see a rare chance to mold these far-off na- tions which are throwing oft the fetters of old customs and beliefs and reaching after the light and hope that are found only in Christianity. A splendid host of such young ople came together o Rooncarers RS fecontly,” 2800 strong, from over 7l institutions to consider the various flelds of the Ori- for service there, fellows, , India s’ Many' of them could com- mand large salaries at home, but the glitter of gold is no attraction com- pared to the chance to help build a new national life. And look at the way in which lay- men in this country and Canada are arousing to carry their share of the financlal load! Such meetings as are being held in 50 cities of the country, in_which many laymen pledge them- selves fo doubie and treble their gifts, tell the story of the way in which hard-headed business men view the propositien. Then, too. we have such statesmen as President Taft and Am- bassador Bryce committed heart and soul to the forelgn missionary propo- sition. This is a good time, brother, to wake up, if you never have before, to the Joy and privilege of sharing in the “biggest work in the world.” THE PARSON. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. In a Quandary. Mr. Editor: As I read the doings of the Board of Trade my thoughts car- ried me back to my boyhood days. when I used to g0 down to the ol rolling mill and see the hot iron go through the rolls, then go to the ship- yard and watch the ship carpenters at work fastening the planks to the frames to make the complete ship, step over to the boiler and machine shop and see the men at work on the bofl- ers and engines that would make the ship go. From there, looked into what is now the cutlery works and watched the workmen assemble the huge cast- ings that went to make the big water- wheel complete. A little further on we came to the new rdiling mill; leaving the new mill, the next manufactory on our journey was the Richmond Stove foundry, whose products wero sent to all parts of the world. Then came C. B. Rogers & Co. where the manage. ment furnished Christmas entertain- ment for thelr employes and their families. It was there as a boy I heard Clara Louise Kellogg sing and re- ceived a year's subscription to the Sclentific American as a Christmas present. Anything doing in that line now days? Next was the ropewalk, Deacon Bromley: then the Bethel building, headquarters of Daniel W. Perkins & Co., and Willoughby & Co.: next the Pequot Iron foundry, where I used to watch the men pouf the hot iron into moulds. How many times I have watched the o0ld blacksmith make horseshoe nails in Breed's blacksmith shop and gone from there to the planing mill and tumbled in the shavings: then upstairs to see them rhake sash, blinds and doors in Bottom's shop; step across the stair- way and have a look at Henry Peale's men at work; then go over to the steamboat dock and watch the deck- hands unload the frelght; from there £0, to Huntington whart and see the ogsheads of molasses, go aboard- the schooner Quickstep and visit the genial John Kelly, the cook, at the same time sample the molasses’ with the use of a stick made for that purpose; from thers to the Vaughn foundry, ‘whers T used to carry dinner to one of the workmen, but would stay a little while after 1 o'clock to watch Jep Lamb and —— State of OWn, City of Toleds. ss. Lucss Counts. Trank 3. Cheney makes oath that he ls partner of the Srm of ¥. J. Cheney & Co., Iusiness in the Cily of Toledo, County and State aforesatd, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cursd by the use of Hal's Catarh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Swom to befors me and subscribed In my prea- ence, this fth day of December, A. D. 1885, A W. GLEASON, Notary Phuite. _Hal's Catsxeh Cure 18 taken internally. and acts directly on ihe blond and mucous surtaces of ‘he grviem. St for tegttmoutals i ¥ 3. CHENEY & CO., Tolsdo, O. Sold by all Druggists. Tie. Tuke Hall's Family Pilis for constipation. “They are not “goody cither, who go out and Japana as mis- (Seal) Foley’s Kidney Remedy will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine. It invigorates the entire system and strengthens the kidneys 50 they elim- inite the impurities from the blood. Backache, rheumatism. kidney and bladder troubles are ail cured by this great medicine. Commence taking at once and. avoid Bright's Disease ard Diabétes. Leo & Osgood-Co, THE GEO. W. C0. Frank Davis they worked on the different tterns that were 1o Dt made of fron later on%rmm there to Myers & Balley's, McQuirk & Bacom, Chelsea File works, to Cole and Walk- ers and the furniture shop in back; then to Norwich Falls by the mill to the pistol shop and pool shop; next visit the old_repair shop of ths Nors wich and Worcester railroad nna Plerce's Brass foundry; then up b the Roath foundry, the old gas house, armory (later the lock shop), Mowrey's Axis and Spring works, the axe handle shop, then the Shetucket mill, Chelsea Paper mill, bleachery, Hubbard's mill and the grist mill. Those were good old days. Every- body was happy and prosperous, not- withstanding we had no eight hour schedule, no labor unions, no strikes, no trusts, no mail order houses, no Larkin premiums, no trained nurses, To_ health officer, no_milk inspector, no dairy commissioner, no Board of Trade. Kveryone lived just as long and died just as happy as they do to- day. Now, Mr, Editor, I don't lknow Whether to call it progress of not, but this T do kno here were six chil- dren in my father's family and we had an abundance of good food, plenty of seasonable clothes, a nice place to live in. and my peopie Iaid by something against a rainy day on $L76 per day. Today, with all of "the so-called progress, it takes three times that amount to live, and not live well as we did in the days of long ago. 1 feel fke the man who composed the verses “Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight, make me ohild again just for tonight,” and when I read of $75 000 or $80,000 being spent in our city and town, 13 per capita for svery mam woman and child, for charity, it looks to me as though & good deal of our progress and prosperity was in the wrong direction. A WEST SIDER. Norwich, Jan. 20, 1910. Taft Should Send for Her. 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After using it you will general opinion “IT NOT ONLY RELIEVES, BUT CURES THE COLD."” voice the For the child—~DONNA SYRUP— price 25 cents. For the adult—LEE'S WHITE PINE AND TAR—price 26 cents, The Lee & Osgood Co. Druggists and Manufacturing Chemists, 131-133 Main Street, NORWICH, CONN. 1t your drugsist does not carry The Lee & Osgood Co.s preparations, will send by mail on receipt of price, During the and every day in the year, at mid-day or at mid-night, dawn or dusk, any: furnishe: quantity in all parts of the house. 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