Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 1, 1910, Page 4

arwich Bulletiz and Goufied. 154 YEARS OLD. TR tion price, 12c & week; 56c & saonth; 8800 & Your: Entered at the Postoffies at Norwich, Conn., as secend-class metter. Telephome Callst Bulletin Business Office. 430, Bulletin Editorial Hooms, $5-3. Bulletin Job Office, 35-6. Willimantie Office, Room 2. Murray Bullding. Telephone, 210. Norwich, Friday, April 1, 1910. MUST KNOW HOW TO SHOOT. All the fighting nations are encour- sging marksmanship among the peo- ple aad the United States has just fallen into line, the senate having unantmously passed a bill appropriat- ing $100,000 for rifle practice in the soheels and universities of the coun- iry and among civilian clubs. The proposed appropriation 1is to e devoted to civilian and schoolboy rifle practice, An interesting exhibit of what is being done in other coun- tries to promote rifle practice among civillan riffe clubs and in the schools accompanied the report made by Sen- ator Briggs. In Canada, the Domin- ion Rifle assoclation receives annual- iy from the Canadian government a subsidy of $15,000, besides a full al- lowance of ammunition, amounting to 100,000 cartridges each year. The government of Great Britain Jonates each year to the National Rifle associgtion of that country 500,- v0p rounds of cartridges for use in the annual contests held at Bisley, and furnigshes the Bisley meetings with soldiers to run the matches and camp equipage for the use of competitors. Australa has a reserve force of 50,000 civilian riflensen and appro- priates $500,000 annually for ammuni- tion for their practice. The railroads in Australia give free transportation to members of the rifle clubs when traveling to 2nd from the ranges. Torty thousand schoolboys are ergan- ized into cadet corps amd are fur- nished arms and sammunition by the government and recelve instruction in rifle practice. In Franoe, the government issues rifles free to the rifle clubs and last year the free issue of ammumition to such clubs cost the government $100,- 080. The government also appropri- ates $12,000 to the ational society, which is used for prizes and decora- tlons, In 1882 the Itaifan government eor- ganized an assoclation for the pur- pose of teaching all citizems to prop- erly handle the military rifle. This organization is under the supervision of the secretazy of war, who has his headquarters in Rome. Total or pa tial exemption from mdilitary duty is given to members of the rifle clubs who have proftably taken shooting lessons for two years. In tzeriand, there are more than 8,600 shooting societies with over 200,000 memders. In 1302, the date of the last report Teceived, 84,309 members qualiied as marksmen. If the same ratio was maintained in proportion to population, the United States would have 4,280,000 marks- The government of Sweden annually appropriates $153,78¢ towards rifle practice which s apportioned among grants to rifle clubs, to the national shooting societies for ammunition, target ranges, target prizes, printing, ete. In 1905 there were 1,850 rifle clubs in Sweden. How the world does these combative lines! move along SPEAKER CANNON'S FRANKNESS It is not likely that any one will deny that Speaker Cannon is a frank man; and strange es it may appear the frankness which has made him pop- ular at home has operated to make unpopular in other parts of the country, This is what a western pa- per says of him: ‘“He cannot be beaten in his distriet. The people like his candid ways and his outspoken talk. He is never a hypocrite. He does not watch the weather vanes on all the barns to see which way the wind is blowing before he announces an opimion. He is 2 man of truth and honor, one of the few survivors of the Abraham Lincoln type. They say he swears oceasicnally, and this may be true, but he tells the truth and treats his fellow man with the true Chris- tlan spirit.” ‘Whether we like Speaker Cannon or not. we must admit that this Is a pret- ty good home endorsement of a man. He doesn’t impress The Bulletin as eing of the Abraham Lincoln type, for there is nothing in Lincoln’s his- tory of such an arbitrary charaeter as Speaker Cannon is condemned for ex- hibiting. He is justly arraigned for an abuse of power, and that is what Lincoln was never guilty of; and if he had treated the republican mem- bers of the house with the true Chris- tian epirit not an insurgent would heve shown himself, This testimonial from the west needs revision. THE RUBBER CRAZE. The public doesn’t have to be told that there is a great scarcity of rub- ber, for the footwear under this name gives daily evidence that rubber cov- ers a multitude of commercial sins. Rubber is In ever-increasing demand for all kinds of use and if there is no available substitute, the fact remains that the so-called commercial rubber gets less and less elastic and Jooks no more like the old-fashioned rubber than rawhide looks like ‘“shammy.” Rubber has doubled in price within a ear; and this product is offering an nviting fleld for speculation. There are now more than 300 rub- ber producing plantation companies in existence, whose production amounts to 4,000 tons per vear. This form of investment will no doubt be vastly stimulated by speculation, which at ithe present time is running wild in Londen. . A London despatch, March 27, says: “No fewer than ten more rubber com- panies, with an aggregate capital of nearly $2,000.000, were otfered to the public during the past week. Since the beginning of the year 110 compa- nies, with a nominal capital of about 27,500,000, have been floated.” The Portland Express says that “the union station ticket sellers are getting a big Stock of Sebago lake pasteboards ready for the rush of sal- mon fishermen.” ;. A Mississippi state senator says he has been bribed, but his word is so poor no stock is taken in the state- ment. See what a man may come to. A Wisconsin brand of whiskey has been found to contain carbolic acid, red pepper and the juice of tobacco. might be calied a dlend. ALL FOOLS’ DAY. Countless generations upon this whimsical date have unsuspectingly gone in search of left-handed screw- drivers, and round squares, and have essayed to borrow the “History of Adam’s Grandfather.” To the stiff and priggish, and the matter of fact, April 1 is a day when the fool gets an an- nual license to gloat over the down- fall of the wise man. But one maust not take the little by-plays of life -too seriously. It will do no harm for some of our philosophers to practice kit- tenish tricks again. Our stolid and phlegmatic human nature needs to get frolicsome occasionally and is the better and Xkeener for a yearly scrimmage of wits on All Fools’ day’s jocund footing. So smile on when you plant your teeth in a luscious wool doughnut!—Meriden Journal. And the practice had a prehistoric origin. No one can tell and no one appears to care why all fools have a license to trick their betters on April 1. It is a season of pleasantry for the children and the practical jokers’ approved opportunity. Those who are too busy to remember the character of the day, or too dignified to recog- nize it, are usually its victims. It comes, however, but once a year, POSTOFFICES AS REPOSITORIES. The recent robbing of the Rich- mond, Va., postoffice, and the arrest of the thieves and the recovery of their spoil has called attention to the fact that over four postoffices are burgilar- ized in this country every day, or 1,664 during the year. The loss of $20,000 in stamps at Riehmond was nearly equal the total annual loss, because most of the burglarized postoffices are in lit- tle villages and do not have large values in stamps, or a large sum of money op hand. Upon this revelation an exchange remarks that “the pros- pect presents no encouragement for postal savings, but rather argues in fa- vor of bank deposit insurance as a cheaper mans of providing guaranteed banking for the wage earner.” EDITORIAL NOTES. Some people who just kill time com- plain of being awful tired! The New York senators at $5,000 a head went off at the old price. It is many a year since March shewed up s0 much waste baseball weather. ‘Work is a sure cure for spring fe- ver, but it is easier to get a tonic at the drug store. The handsome man Is sure to be ruined if he has not one saperior re- deeming quality. ‘The abolishment of the flying tackle in football was depressing news for the undertakers. Any man who wants to get away with bank or public fuunds can find precedents enough. The man who has money tc burn never shows any dispesition to in- dulge in the sport, Warwick, R. I, is to become a city. It has 21,000 population and could have done so before. Chicago has given herself just two weeks in which to raise an anniver- sary fund of $350,000. ‘The Egyptian nationalists like Roosevelt. He thought speaking for their good. do he not was March came in like a lamb and So did April, but this is no sign the sum mer of 1910 will be sheepish. It is estimated that the gain corporate dividends and interest $27,000,000 greater this year than las in Happy thought for today: The ice- men realize that cheaper ice means fewer complaints and more bad bills. A Chicago philosopher ered that it is better to be judged by your appearance than by your disap- pearance. ‘When Colonel Roosevelt begins to | talk politics he is not likely to say anything predatory wealth can ap- prove of. A Chicago policeman is said to ha accepted a bribe of 350 cents. bribe and the tip are getting pretiy close together. ‘The creditors of Dowie’s Zion are receiving 29 cents on the dollar. Per- haps they do not realize it might have been woree. The Nebraska judge who has de- cided that & woman may be a gov- ernor, could not have peen aware that she always has been. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. A Great Thing for the Party. itor:—The Bulletin of the inst has the following: “Speaker Cannon is not acting with wisdom, and if he does not curb him- self President Taft may not be able to save him from the punishment %vhich he richly deserves.” But why Bro. Bulletin should Presi- dent Taft seek to save Mr. Cannon from “the punishment which he richly deserves?” Every true republican may well re- joice to see Cannon eliminated, for it is the best augry of republican suc- cess at next fall's election which could have occurred. With Cannon and his vet Pet *Pernicious activity” in power the republican party might well trem- ble this year, The people have put their seal of ap- proval on the removal of Speaker Can- non from the rules committee, by the house of representatives and although it savored of a belated case of mumps, still it proves that the republican party continues to be what it was originally, a party of principle. ‘With this greatest move toward bet- ter government, and malice toward none, may all hope that Mr. Cannon will realize that if he bad not in- dulged in a sort of mental intoxication, cutting principle up into job lots, but on the con had been as honest and faithful to his trust as a woman to her mite soclety he would at his age, been on his job until he departed hence to cavort with the angels in the deep blue of the unexplored bevond. J. W. MILLER. Bristol, Conn.,, March 30, 1910, 28th Bryan in the Sena It is again announced that if the legislature of Nebraska to be chosen this year shall turn up with a demo- cratic maejority on joint ballot, Mr. ‘William Jennings Bryan will not be a L‘?ndiél:;‘entlu.r United States senator. r. an engaging personality. He has a large following, and all of us must respect him for his purity of life. It would have proved fortunate for this country if Mr. Bryan had been a senator in congress the twelve vears, 1895-1906. There his preachments would have been threshed out in the thick of mtellectual and patxiotic com. has discov- | “I don’t understand,” said the retired merchant, “why there is such a preju- dice against the book agent. It is as foolish as the feeling against the great American mother-in-law, who is one of the proudest products of modern civilization. I have met ‘book agents and I have never seen one who wasn't polite.” “Since you retired from business,” said the hotel keeper, “you“uh:.yo S0 ‘most masked stranger pointed a gun at you and asked you to hand over your val- uables the break in the monotony of your lfe would be welcome. The trou ble with the book agent is that he is de trop. He doesn’t fit into the gen- eral scheme of things. He is a peg in a round hole. He wants to sell you a beautiful volume, bound in hend- tooled sole leather and ornamented with brass-headed nails, when you are racking your brains trying to figure out how you're going o pay your rent. “It is a shameful thing, but the av- erage man who has to rustle for a Hv- ing is seldom overwhelmed by a - sionate longing for fine books, as ‘Walking With Weston’ or ‘Poling With Peary” When he does want a book he goes to the book store for it. The man who runs the book store doesn’t come around and bore you; he doesn’t try to sell you a library edition of ‘The Life of Jesse James' when he knows that you are worrying over a sick began b gold-filled teeth in my face over the leaves of a book that Olympic Hall, horse. He knows that when you are suffering for a book you will call at his joint and look over his junk, and he doesn’'t stop you on the street to show you the pictures in & new horse hook. “That’s where the book agent loses out. He doesn’t wait for you to go to him; he comes to you, and he is sure to come at the wrong time. If the book agent saw a psychological moment coming down the road with a sign on it he wouldn’'t recognize it. ago,” went on the hotel keeper, was 80 worried that my raven locks almost turned white as the driven snow. A stranger came to the hotel and registered and went to his room, and next morning sent down word that he was sick and wanted a doctor. I called in Dr. Gravestone. “That eminent practitioner came down from the invalid’s room looking mighty sorrowful. ‘Tm not sure yet’ bat. It would have saved the demo- cratic party from some of the chips and whetstones Mr. Bryan gave it for fads, and meanwhile, such as bank guarantee and that other impossiblity, limiting material production by act of congress. : Mr. Bryan has not yet met anybody face to face in debate since the Fifty- third congre: In the senate he would have to arnswer and be answered by men of “hard-headed common sense.” He would be weighed in the balance wher Clay, Calhoun and Webster weighed. He would there see the < of separating the refined gold ‘Washington Star, Some Bible Figures. publisuinz house which issues ny as 80,000 cepies of the same book usually plumeg Itself on the achievement and lists the favored publi- cation among “the best sellers.” If one house should print ten times that | many copies of the same book, all rec- { ords would be broken, and there would be a tremendous senmsation in literary cirel W therefore, a well known atistical writer shows that one pub- lishing house in this country has print- {ed ten times $,000,000 coples of the same book the statement ought to at- ract a great deal more attention than | probably will | One publishing house in New York has isued 80,000,000 copies of the Bible, and is printing more than 1,000,000 copies a year. The philology of the en- terprise is not its least interesting feat- ure. The Bible is printed in fifty lan- guages In its entirety, and portions of the sacred book are printed in 400 tongues ané dialects throughout the world. These unprecendented publica- tions represent actial sales, and not gratuitous distribution, it being un- derstood, of course, that, while millions of copies have been given away, they were all originally purchased by so- cieties, individuals, ete., from the pub- | lishing ‘hous Kansas City Journal. Long-Living People. Actors and actresses live very long. Yet they are constantly taxing their bodies, intelligence, will power, and emory. Strenuousness appears ¢o be guarantee of longevity.—Gawulois, | Paris. But gardeners are not exactly stren- { uous lvers and their trade leads all ers as conducive to longevity; it is probably life in the open air without sure to buy it sooner or later. “But at that time I could think of nothing but smallpox and gold-filled teeth and the ruin that stared me in the face. “I began to see red. The agent was explaining that it was only necessary to pay $5 down and $1 a month for ninety-eight yesrs when I encompass- ed him around about and smote him. “I don’t remember much about the stove and was trying to tle his legs around the stovepipe in a double bow- knot. money. “The eick man u; rs? Oh, he had the hives.”—Walt ason, in the Chi- cago News. excessive muscular exertion that ac- counts for their length of years. On the other hand, judges, who take lttle exercise, sit ofen in bad air for many hours at a time and use their brains a great deal, also live long, as Mkewise do clergymen. As for the longevity of actors and actresses, it is rather -difficult to ac- count for it; they keep irregular hoursp, eat frequently at the wrong time, are often subject to corroding envy, and run many risks from drafts, and in travel; yet notoriousiy they often reach a very advanced age. One for this is that they are 00 dbusy to be- come morbld and are apt not to who are tied to a routine? The“‘gz atrical profession must dbe a law to itself. The Horseshoe Dabate. The horseshoe is a sign of good luck until it gets into congress, and then it betokens a row. The item of expense of shoeing the horses owned by the federal government and used by the the leaders of all factions waxed ora- torical and hurled defiance across the hal with a spirit recalling antebellum days. Champ Clark’s ire was so arous- ed that in his vigorous inquiry about the epprepriatien of $8,080 annually for the care of the government stables he demonstrated conclusively that he is really from Missouri. Just what it cests ¢o take care of four horses and three vebicles and bave them at call day and night has not even yet been ascertained, although during the progress of the debate the cost of shoeing herses in almost every state in the union was anaounced. Of course, this was not done efficially, and the testimony could hardly be called expert, for none of the congressman have been farriers. But the democratic leaders apparently thought they had discovered “seme choice bits of campaign material” and we may hear from them again on the same topic.—Omaha Bee. Cnailaren " Cry FOR FLETCHER'S® CASTORIA Stomach Will Feel Fine in It what you just ate Is souring on your stomach or lies like a lump of lead, refusing to digest, or you belch Gas and Eructate sour, undigested food or have a feling of Dizziness, Heartburn, Fullness, Nausea, Bad taste in mouth and stomach headache—this is Indigestion. A full case of Pape’s Diapepsin costs only 50 cents and will thoroughly cure your out-of-order stomach, and leave sufficient about the house in case some one else in the family may suffer from stomach trouble or Indigestion. 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