Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 22, 1910, Page 4

1901, AVErage ....sccacccccces HA1D COMMERCIALISM IN POLITICS. The papers of Vermont are dis- eussing still the use of money in pol- itical eampaigns, and the legitimate and fllegitimate use of it is being very thoroughly exploited. - The Vergeanes ‘Emterprize, discussing the subject, cays: ',':'h. only questior of importance is whether or not the expenditure of money has been excessive or illegal. If jHegal there i» a law and e penalty and If excessive and improper, more political interest in the ways beea used and always will be used, and the publication of campaign expebses will have very little material wupon the amount of expenditures r to use in a political campaign.” There is no doudt that more money ean be used In a printer's ink, self- advertising campaign, at regular space rates in the papers than was ever used in any gumshoe campaign in which barrels were opened and the “dough” secretly distributed to “in- fluence” the voter. In a legitimate expemse campaign in Boston, did not three candidates for mayor spend $280,000? And candidates for govern- ors in our richest and most mtemxent states do as bad as this or worse. ‘What show does a poor man stand for high office if he only has the abil- ity, the capacity and the dignity be- coming the atation, 1f “the dough trough” has nothing in it? Back to the simple life is just as good a politival as an economical slo- gan. A NEW DEFINITION NEEDED. According to the census definition, a2 housewife is a person without an ocoupation, when the truth is she is a person of so many occupations and long hours that the eight-or ten-hour mean has reason to blush over the long thours and poorly compensated worker in his own family. The census bureau will honor itself and the country when it recognizes the housewifs of America es a person of lasge accomplishments and extraordi- patience and skill 't will be remembered that the court doe= mnot think that a wife has a vocation, but one bright woman made the coumsel and the court take her dGefinition of motherhood as a vocation, and if they did not accept it, there is Iittle question that the great reading publio of the country did. ‘That old proverd that “A man's work 1s frem sun to sun, but a wo- man’s work is never done,” gave wo- man her laurels when man’s long days were no match for her industry and endurance, and as man’s hours have been made less and less hers have ¥nown no diminution. The world really neede a shorter hour system which will affect the housewife’s time as well as the husband’s. TUnmarried women who work as do- mestics now demand reasonable hours and fair compensation; but mother- hood eamnct find days long enough to completely raeet and perform the du- ties which falls to It. “A housewife—a person without oc- cupation!” There is need of more i sense in the definition department of | the census bureau. A housewife in America has more occupations than & Jjeck-of-all-trades, and shows her skill by being good at every one of them. William Allen White says that his life has been so uneventful that should he ever write his blography that it would read like a department store seed catalogue. Tt would be high- colored, then! A meter which rings a gong when a speed limit is exceeded, and keeps it ringing untll speed is reduced, is of- fered to automobilists. It is not likely to _be in popular demand, for it tells tos much, ‘The doctor who can remove a man’s skin in two months is not really in the gameq of life, for there are many men who can skin you in two minutes if given only half a chance. Tt has leaked out that the White house cook is going to marry a po- iiceman. ‘The natural law operates in ‘Washington just as it does in Nor- wich, Pregideat Taft thinks he can stand this term of office, Dut the suggestion x-mmlnlmtu?:lm census enumerator is sworn not amount of capital invested Is have extended into the mm!‘oa- and the business has furnished employ- ment for a large number of people. This point has been raised because of the general proposition to abolish the old form of celebration and substitute something new, more sensible and less dangerous. Money ought not to weigh in a case where human life is endan- gered and the business that flourishes only at such expense cannot reason- ably be encouraged. There are going to be less fireworks sold this year than last and the amount will continue to decrease until there will be such little demand for them that it will hardly pay to engage in their manufacture. There has already been considerable making of cannon crackers and other dangerous explosives.—New Britain Herald. The reforming of the Fourth of July does not contemplate the destruction of a great American industry. The in- dustry itself in pandering indiscreetly and excessively to the love of noise has brought upon the country great affliction and upon itself the very peril of which they now complain. One hundred and thirty cases of lockjaw as the result of blank cartridge firing and the loss of fingers and hands and eyesight because of premature explos- ions of dynamite crackers and torpe- does give evidepce that they should be removed from common use by children. When these extra-hazardous mnoise- making devices are removed from sale, there will be plenty of noise left. It is not a noiseless Fourth which is be- ing agitated, but a saner, safer Fourth. A GOOD BACILLUS MADE BAD. The claim is made by some distin- guished physiologists that man has mistaken his place in nature and to this is due many of his physical llis and crises. ' Dr. Oldfleld points out that “mistaking his place in na- ture, man has been eating more and more meat, and this has had to remain in his body long after its value was exhausted in the small in- testine, and passing into the cecum in the condition in which in a dog it would be ejected from the body, it must remain in man because it is mixed with cellulose bodies which re- quire more digestion in the cecum and colon, and it is just here that the appendix is situated and the danger- ous disease set up. Dr. Oldfield calls attention to the €act that fleshy fowl and fish not only rapidly decompose, but in the decomposition become a suitable soil for the multiplication of just those very micro-organisms which set up intestinal inflammation and abscess. “The colon bacillus, which is present in all healthy intestines, is a kindly, useful agent when its surroundings are healthy, but if the contents of the intestines become purulent: this gen- tle bacillus changes its nature, and not only where it penetrates the in- testinal walls does it carry poison in- to the surrounding tissues, but where it collects in e blind pouch, like the appendix, with fetid contents, it be- comes actively virulent.” The record has been made that no severe cases of appendicitis ever oc- cur ameng fruitarians and that surgi- cal operations are not necessary. MORE CARE NEEDED. Inefficient management and a care- less public make a sorry record for the steam and trelley roads of this country. The interstate commerce commission’s last bulletin discloses the fact that fatalitles are increasing when they should certainly be decreas- ing. The report just issued, says: Ten hundred and ninety-nine per- sons were killed and 22,491 injured in railroad accidents in the United States during the last three months of the year, This is an increase of 301 in the number killed over the same period of the preceding year, and an increase of 5,645 injured. In the same months of 1909 elec- tric railway accidents killed twenty- six persons and imjured 642. There were 3,206 accidents on steam roads, involving 1,345 collisions, and 1,461 derailments. The damage to cars, roadbed and equipment is esti- mated at $2,733,830. ‘This is a discreditable showing for all of us. The rush and the hustle of life need not be pushed regardless of consequences. EDITORIAL NOTES. Don’t mind your horoscope. If the new ome. The defeat of Aldridge in New York is a hint to republican managers ev- erywhere to quit their foolishness. The Sugar irust never adds sweet- ness to the thought of the family, if the bonbon dish is never empty. Battling Nelson is guite particular. He takes exception to “gent,” and| gives mnotice that he is a gentleman. Some folks think notoriety is just as good as fame, being unaware that neither ever proved a blessing to a | man. Now they find taat Mt. McKinley has twin peaks, and that last one ex- ploited was not the first, so the first‘i may be last. Happy thought for today: We are still prone to dodge just responsibility by that old inquiry, “Am I my broth- er’s keeper?” Halley’s comet now has n speed of about 113,000 miles an hour. Tt is get- ting near enough to show the aviators what speed is. ‘Who the next mayor of Norwich will of the people. Would that it depended upon public good sense. If a Chicago sausage maker should catch and carry off half the dogs of Norwich* there would be enough left to do all the business. “Little Tim” Sullivan of New .York, who gave money to the poor of the East Side like a millionaire, left an estate of only $15,000. The Furopean sovereigns do mnot ! venture to kiss Colonel Rnosevelt. They are aware how he stands on| the mollycoddle business. ‘We are constantly being warned agamst great grabs; but the great grabbers get into government places oftener than they get into jail. On the baseball field it does mnot make any difference how homely a man is if he only makes a star play— all the Flufty Ruffles want to kiss him discussion in favor of prohibiting the | astrological one doesn’t suit, make a | be depends wholly upon the temper . Tobin that hopping bulkily across one lawn and never saw the in another place ready for indow curtains were twouse and inside could be seen paper- hangers moving about small boys blocking the way. They ranged from a three-vear-old in - coats and with a dirty face to ure youths of seven or eight. One of them was chalking a large circle on the cement walk and the others- were telling him how.' They all talked at once. The three-year-old set up a LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Room for Suspicion. Mr. Bditor: T send you the following clipping from the Waterbury Ameri— can: “Candidate Goodwin comes out “‘vigorously’ in faver of a public utili- ties bill. He comes oyt ‘vigorously’ in favor of an employers’ lability ®ill However, he stands no_ further ad- vanced than Candidate Lake, who is ‘vigorous’ for both measures. The last general assembly was also ‘vigorous’ for a public utilities bill, tho_ix its vigor was unequal to the task of ac- complishing the measure’s pdssage. ‘The eirgmncam. ‘t_hum‘ls that the first ‘step of any aspirant for gubernatorial honors is to declare himself in favor of this legislation.” ‘This is significant, and, what is more, at such a time as this the voters should have a care regarding amn.n. ling alliances. Mr. Goodwin nephew of J. Pierpont hence the Consolidated pretty near being his uncle. to blame for this relationship, and no one would venture to say that he was a megaphone for either, but there is room for suspicion among the suspi- cious; and@ what,are we going to do about it? A SUSPICIOUS ONE. Norwich, April 19, 1910. The Valuable Toad. Mr. Editor: The trilling songs of the toads this evening reminded me that I promised in a letter written for The Bulletin on March 3d to tell why the death of a toad is a greater loss than the death of a robin. But first 1 wish to say that I am heartily in agreement with what the editor says in his footnote to the let- ter in question. It is most assuredly true that all useful birds should be sTeatly increased. Our only difference of opinion lies in the gquestion of the usefuiness of the robin. The toads are just crawling from their winter homes and taking the shortest paths for the nearest water- hole, and for several days we shall hear their tuneful trills. The females will lay their strings of eggs, glass beads with black centers, and then all the toads will make their way back %o t_heh- garden bhaunts, there to live a silent but useful life till spring again calh them to their Mecca. The bead- ke eggs will soon hatch into tiny tadpoles which n a brief time will turn to tiny toads. These small toads are the prey of countless enemies and ac- cidents, and #t 1s fortunate indeed that each mother toad lays her hundreds of eges. The usefulness of the toad lies chief- Iy in the fact that he apparently lacks a sense of taste. It seems to matter little what the flavor of his repast be, and noxious insects with vile, colors and viler odors are gathered in by the toad as well as are insect sweetmeats. Thus many of the ensmies of our gar— dens and our orchards which the birds will not molest are kept in check by the ugly toad. One can watch the toad eat'or one can examine the castings of the toad, and efther study wild convince him of the truth of my previous statements. Among the pests which the toad makes a part of his diet is the garden-siug, a most pernicious gastro- pod. This animal ruins lettuce, cab- bage, and other tender plants, and its destruction is of paramount import- ance. Then there is the thousand-l ged worm, one of the myriapods, es- pecially julims flavozonatus, which is so destructive to melons, tomatoes, and any soft fruit or vegetable which comes in centact with the ground. It is no uncommon thing to find thirty or lower side of a single melon. So far as I know the toad is about the only ene- my to his crawling pest. This myriapod can do an immense amount of damage. In the case o my own garden. it is one of the worst pests. My bee-hives furnigh such easy | living to toads that few toads | the garden their home. They prefer to live under the hives where it is ones. Of such there are thou- sands daily in the summeér months and the toads grow fat. In, the mean- time the millepeds thrive and multiply |in_the garden. | the Tobin. The robin loves fruit. The | toad does not. To be sure, if the toad ' happened to pick up a fallen cherry ! more of these. worms feeding upon the ! convenient to pick up crippled bees or | <Hipietse I Ei s EeEdE many less fatalities is our duty to look out for. Probably we should get laughed at were we to ask to have the life of a toad a filne of . Ignorance is ever to laugh, LATHAM, Norwichtown, Aprit 19, 1810. (Mr. Latham is well Governor Lilley Dead a Year. fiSuccmei:ttto 2 foe that is some- mes baffl or & 'rhn-, but thu : ways trumphs in the ol George L. Lilley died ln murd a year ago today. He had sta.rl.nduu.run'pnr!lndllflca, seeking to- lay scandal bare, he was mercilessly ounded and partly thwarted. Governor Lilley’s dm occurring soon after he had upon his career in the executlve chamber and after a.large of sentiment pre- viously hostile become friendly, made a profound impression upon the people of the state. His refusal to harbor any grudges h mies, his iInsistence on campaign anim d die with his election, and his to pursue a broad and camcllhtory olicy as governor, won public senti- ment and enabled him to command popular confidence. It was his am- bition to make a high record In the gubernatorial office and to prove that the black colors in which his personal enemties in his party had painted him were unjust. striving to serve the people and to utilise the oppor- tunities of his office he didn’t spare himself, but the burdem which he as- sumed was too great for his physical system, already overtaxed, long to ‘bear. The programme which Governor Lilley mapped out in his inaugural address and from which partisan con- siderations were eliminated appealed to the public. Many of the things which he wished to have dome are still undone, Many of the reforms which he urged are still unadopted. ‘What would have been accomplished if he had lived it is idle to conjecture. ‘What achievements he would have been able to perform in the public gervice, and what disappointments would have awaited him, God only knows, 'After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well, and ‘memory of him is still fresh and fragrast—Hartford Times. Mt. Etna’s Past. ¥tna is a giant. It 1s the largest ac- ttve volcano in Europe. The circum- forence of its base is 90 miles and it rises straight from a sea 6,000 feet deep 10,738 feet into the air. The eruptions of HEtna are in scale | with #s size. They are not so { quent as those of Vesuvius, but th«‘y The toad is a perfect antithesis to! are more grand and more terrible. Upon the mountain itself they have left their marks by duilding over 200 subsidiary craters upon 1its summit, | The Bostonian Shoes for Spring are the snappiest made ahm that the | sun shines on. Special Agency, P. CUMMINGS, (Premiums) 52 Central Avenue Custom Grinding TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS at YANTIC ELEVATOR. A. R. MANNING, Yaatic, Conn. Telephone. decl4d OUR WORK meets the approval of the critical people, | Rogers’ Domestic Laundry. Tol. 958. Rear 37 Franklin Street. sept27d QUALITY in work should always be considered, w:whmnemmmmm the inferior kind. Skilled are employed by us. ov.u' prlcn tell the whole story. 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A new fissure two miles long on_the east flank of the moun- MUSIC. tain and the flow of lava was phenom- enally heavy. In 1884mther. :.:‘ small outbreak and another more V! Jont in 1872, Others occurred in 1834 NELLIE S. HOWIE, and 1892.—Chicago Evening Post. il St W, Have to Be Shown. Roem 48, " Ceatral Bullding. Let us restrain, until towflxt,he end first dmini ur O oiok <o chace the Tame CAROLINE H. THOMPSON of Milwaukee to Utopia. — Loulsville Teacher of M res 46 Washingten Street. Getting Wise to Him. It he remains- much longer among them the people of Europe will cease as such a prodigy et home.—Philadel- phia M e D R oy to 5 want to pay you your 1 before I go. Doctor—Well, you're dead easy!—Boston Herald. Orrine Cured Him F. C. 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