Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 23, 1910, Page 4

auiwj'ih &ulletin aund Goufief. - 114 YEARS OLD. . months; a year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Tonn., as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: 7 4 Bulletin Business Office, 450. s Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-3. Bulletin Job Office, 35-6. Willimantic Office, Room 2 Murray Building. Telephone 210. Norwich, Saturday, July 23, 1910. The Circulation of The Bulletin. The Bulletin has the largest eir- culation of any paper in Eastern Connecticut, and from three to four times larger than that of amy in Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses ia Nor- wich, and read by minety-three per cemt. of the people. In Windham it s delivered to over 900 houses, in Putasm and Danlelson to over 1,160, and in all of these placgs it is comsidered the local dail Eastern Commecticut nine towns, ome hundred five postoffice districts. ome rural free delivery roufes. The Bulletin is sold in town and om all of the R. . routes in Eastern Connecticut, CIRCULATION - -5.920 1901, mverage . 195, average . Week ending July 16.... SITES FOR WOMAN’'S COLLEGE. Norwich ought to make a bid for the proposed woman's college in this state. There are large estates in the merket here at most reasonable prices most desirably located, The David A. Wells and the John F. Slater estates abut one another and extend from Brosdway through to Washington street, giving high land in the best residential part of the city, which would accommodate a large institu- tion, and the fine old colonial houses pon them could be utilized for resi- dences for the faculty or for dormitor- ies. Then there are large landed estates bordering Yantic cove which would afford ample room for a beginning and ny increase of facilities which might be needed. Norwich as the educational center of eastern Connecticut -has other at- tractions which would serve as auxil- liaries for such an institution—its two cell equipped libraries which are of sueh value to our public school s tem. For beauty, accessibility and facili- ties to promote such a college few cit- ies in the state have more to offer than “the Rosé of New England.” THE FAIRS PETERING OUT. There appears to be no one ready to deny that the county fairs are peter- ing out—that they lack the attraction they once did, although the exhibjts remain about the same. In the controversy over the merits of a fair a part of the people seem to think that the faker and the fair are inseparable—that the faker makes the fair go: while others regard them as intolerable at a fair, because the fakers make the morals go and are a degrad- ing feagure, doing more harm than good. Both sides may e mistaken, and a spirit of unity might make the fair Qo better than ever. Pulllng apart never spelled success—pulling together generally does. The trouble with the county fairs is that they have become separated from the spirit of the times. It takes a live spirit to make a live fair. Read this pggestion from the Rutland, Vt., News: . The managers of the Rutland county fair during the first week in September do well to encourage merchants and citizens generally of thls city to ‘keep open house’ during the fair. The plan to gaily decorate the principal streets, illuminate bril- Hantly at night and to have plenty of music and innocent hilarity in general is to be encouraged by every interest here. Rutland has a splendid oppor- tanity to outdo itself at this time in hospitality to visitors and to give plenty of entertainment day and eve- ning so that they will feel that they have been well treated here, not only within the fair grounds but throughout the city.” The gala-day spirit is usually lack- ing In the centers where county fairs are held. Would not the open house idea be a card for business as well as for the fair? BUT NOT WANTING. These are days when everything is suspected and many good things are knocked and the public warned to take care of their health—to stand for and demand pure food products. No little thing has been more revied than the ice cream cone £0 popula® with chil- dren on city streets—an alleged doc- tored and preserved by boric acid or other harm- ful preservatives—a menace to the health of the children. The boards of health of Boston and the state of Massachusetts took this matter up anc. find that the ice cream cone doesn’t contain any health threatening com- pound and that it is as safe and pleas- ing to the palate as the ice cream served in the attractive parlors of the Dbusiness streets—as a cooling, sooth- ing, /satisfying luxury the ice cream cone was given a clean bill of health and its freedom, the caution being giv- en to the vendors to keep it as free as possible from contaminating street dust—the dust which infests the hous- es and of which every citizen is ex- pected In time to eat his peck. Boston children are happy as well as the ice cream cone vendors, and the menacing spook of little luxuries has gone from mind and memory and the inquiry, “Who's afraid?’ is not even being made. WEIGHED FOUND Some men who oppose fight plctures on account of their evil effect are like- Iy to travel to some other city to see if they are really as bad as they thought. Since Missouri is discussing the probabdle location of hell, it is sug- gested that Jonah and the whale is a tetter summer subject—the other is warm enough for Januar. These great trusts stick to “Nb trusil” as a motto, No other will do. sickening thing—the tidbit’ So,| price, 12¢ a week; 50¢ a [4ap) | Poverty has its advantage and ad- versity ‘its uses. If you are poor you can wear out your old clothes. You | are, excused from ealls, you are not troubled With visitors, bores do mnot bore. you, sponges do not haunt your les, brass bands do not serenade vou. No one thinks of presenting vou a testimonial, No store keeper irri- tates you by asking you, “Is there anything I can de for you?" Begging letter writers don’t bother you. Flat- térers do not flatter you. You are saved many a debt and many a de- ‘ception. And, lastly, if you have a true friend in the world, you are sure to know it in a short space of time.— TExchange. _These blessings of poverty are fig- ured -ag the penalties of wealth; but life 1 no one go scot-free. The rich ‘have no landlords to evict them, no6 collectors dunning them, no wants haunting them, no selectmen or city missionary giving grudgingly of mon- | ey and liberally of advice, no doctor's | moving stow in an emergency and ask- ing “Who pays?’ before rendering aid. They get the glad hand instead of the frowning ' face, the pleasant | word instead of the ready gibe, license | to. the limit instead of restraint, ad- | monition when violating the law in- | stead of the jail. The rich and the | poor bave their troubles as well as| their joys, and the rich never ask to | exchange the annovances of wealth for | the blessings of povérty. What each olass is immune from may not be such ‘blessings as they seem to be. PARALYZED LAW. | The Charlton murder case illustrates | the fact that it Is possible for a tech- nicalicy to completely cheek justice if | the authorities are correct. That a murder of the most horrible character has been committed is confessed—an American woman by an American hus- band—and yet American authorities say that if Charlton is not tried in Italy he cannot be tried here—that he | must Le turned loose. In the face of crime confessed' this looks more like stupidify, than any exhibit that has | ever been made on the part of the | judicinl arm of the government, Italy, en the other hand, claims the right and the power to try her citizens | for crimes committed anywhere on earth, and this seems more to the | point. . A country like America would de- grade itself before the world to upon such grounds turn a murderer loose Charlton does not need more freedom, but the noose. If criminals can by luring their victims to foreign coun- tries and doing away with them and then rushing home paral the law, where 18 its strength or its majesty? If this country cannot punigh Charl- ton for killing his wife he should be returned to Italy promptly as promo- | tive of justice and the cultivation of law which will mob-law and that respect for the conserve order and ma; Iynching defenseless. It would be a crime on the plea that the country is without authority to turn such a culprit loose. would have reason to regard the law as a joke and to himself laugh at it. FRAUDS IN TRADE. “The tricks of trade” are simply his- toric; and it has been several genera- tions since buyvers have winked at one another and laughed over them. Th have been taken as a matter of cour: until now—"Do him quick or he'll dor you” is regarded as the golden rule of the 20th century. New York has just closed a cam- paign in support. of honest weights and measures, andl it has found cart loads of false weights measures. from the quart fstrawberry box that holds only a pigf th the vardst that is 33 inches lofgthe only cheat they have rot g is the man who skilfully hand when he is strol for favor profit. to convince them 0#R had bought in the past §ear 25,000 worth “of oden skewers and Fag-es lat meat prices, say mothing g3 e thousands of yards of cheap ciotfll &1 as Dbandages have brought T of silk velvet. We learn from that metropolis that the public is cheated annually out of $20.000,000 through short measure and dishonest weight. It really seems as | if the business world regards it a vir- tue “to prey without ceasing.” And what are we going to do about it? Just what we have been doing— abide our time, which never seems to come, The small and honest dealers get stung just as the public does;and they strive to even up in the course of trade with buyers who are eager to get | something for nothing—if it is noth- | ing more than We are a a wicked, wic EDITORIAL NOTES. “All pull together” is a good motto trading stamps. crowd if we do live in d world If it is made practical it never fails | to show results. Georgia is getting -ready to eat peaches and cream: and Conneeticut is indulging a bit, too. Russia and Japan stand for the open door, but they intend to keep Uncle Sam on the waiting list. The title of a new pamphlet is “The Woes of the Weather Man.” Horace Johnson is not the author It is more important to know how to alight than how to fly. Lack of skill in that often proves fatal. Talk about dodging automobiles! Tt takes a smarter man to dodge the con- sequences of fhe errors of his own life el £ - It is predicted that the day is com- ing when every man will build his own airship. It will not be tomorrow. Milk at 9 and 10 cents a quart in summer in the cities is not likely to be peacefully abided by the consumers. Happy thought for today: TIf you do mot hear a little bird singing in your heart, listen to the birds in the trees. The Massachusetts corporations have paid all the corporation tax of $1,409,014.67 but $1,546.33. That is act- ing with despatch Politics are hot in Maine and Ver- mont, but it creates little friction in Connecticut. After the killing frosts Connecticut orators will stir the ozone. The state of Washi in hopes of having statues of I Iton and Eve within its borde: because Washington is so much like the Gar- den of Jden For a_Honeymoon Voyage. The acroplane designed for a honeov- moon vamaze follows only by @ few Vears the® “bicycle balt for twar—N, | T, Wonid, ; | George ¢ | not real | worn for | are otherwise. intentlons, but a guiet, modest, sllent friend who bestows gifts which befit. This is what each day may seem to be to vou if you only =o will, and the thought is more than a dream, for it makes the days different in their rela- ition to vou If you are undeservin 2 R A every day is a good day, because it is God-made. We have a way of @bout the weather as if it was a mat- ter of chance instead of a regular manifestation under Divine law. Those who learn the science of the weather recognize its cycles, its alternations, its secming vagaries. They do not un- derstand it all, and never will; but it runs like & well planned and endurable machine, and it never fails to produce | results. ' Too often men’s failures are | charged up against the weather, as has been shown by the dry tillage which operates well through drouths and in countries of limited rainfall. Those who believe in daily prayer should bear in mind that the weather is a dai- ly blessing, regardless of how it upsets our plans. We have divided men into gthe good and the bad, the rich and the poor, the desirable and pndesirable, the orthodox and the heterodox, the chosen of God| and the heathen, the washed and the unwashed; and Still we are not quite satisfied. 'Over half a century ago Meredith’'s “Juggling Jevry” ang: “T've studied men from my topsy turvey clo: and, I reckon, rather true; some are fine fellows—some,right scurvy, most—a dash between the two.” 'But in a world of contrasts “the e between the two” is not as in— consequential as we would make it, for | n't it separation that intensifies vir- ues and vices as well as merits and demerits. Things conglomerate seem to ar the imprint of accident rather than design—a mixup without a pur- pose. Some think man is what God has made him, and some are of the opinion t is what he has made 1at matters it since he ture governed by irrevocable relation fo the law deter- 'e type of man he is! r I long since came to realiize that It is the every day plodder who is s the under dog, and he too poor an estimate of him- s have of him. Me does e that the base for honor and gnity is in striving to do things well. When it comes to the drudgeries of life, those who recognize that drudgery is as necessary to call forth the treas- ures of the mind, the abilities of the hand, as harrowing and planting is te make the earth vield its harvest are wise, while those who are worried and want _of cheering thoughts There is strength-in the inspiring thought that there are sweet. awaiting humble souls who c fighting against great odds in the battles of a scemingly commponplace | life. The heroes do not all get into print—cannot all wear Carnegie med- als, or have Carnegie pensions; -but| they all surely get their reward. The | heroism man lauds loudest is not that| which brings greatest satisfaction to the human soul. You cannot make a boy believe it is unmanly to smoke, because he sees the best respected men smoking. What good does it do a father to tell his son that smoking is a bad habit if the so full boy must meet the minister, of knowledge, godliness and grace, with a cigar in his mouth. If it is wicked, he wants to know why his Bible cl teacher tells the bovs to be good and then yields to evil him- If it is unmanly why do the the judge and the mayor have leasant Smoke together? It is mot so very strange that the smart boy with a father of no little vices thinks that hts father is a falsifier when he tells him that smoking is a filthy and soul-enslaving habit, for it wears the brand of respectability every day; and | tobacco smbke whirls on the ambient | air wherever good men gather, or | at men emble, or brave men | meet. Is the boy blind or is Daddy | trying to deceive him? Now they tell us that the skilled dentist can read in our teeth our true character, which calls attention to the plicate records of himself that a nan ies with him unawares. The )hrenologist is our character by tracing out the bumps upon our head the and relong in ting cl: cord in the vour eyebrow t looks us in the face | e tells what we are—whether we | the developed or the de- Then others find your v vou walk, the arch or the hang and pat- n of vour ears: and they all -find | something true of you as wonderful as Bertillon’s discovery of every per- son’s identi in the hide-marks of the | finger tips. If man understood him- | self better he would be careful abent the outer signs he is dally creating | and hanging out upon himse f: by the | scivarce of and the violation of the law of hi . 3 The person who is self-enterts a for himself and | he loes not become | y or friends. througi | her: idleness. It I been observed tnat | the man who knows how to make u of his leisure time—who has the ab ity be merry when at leisure, is the best workman when he is engaged at | the desk. counter or bench, It is clear | enough to the mind that he shou:d be, | for he has a ch ful heart—he has aims the e of zeneralship | it every day. | s right recently when | most 3 knows se “The useless thing 1 know is the man who says he has failed becaus ymeone else not | elped him.” Self-reliance n assat | h pays dividends if it doesn’t ap- of the stock jobbers. | == { d to his own in- | lists The man who is bl terests must have mething more | than s tacles fitted to h eves to make him see all right. It is not his| eyesight that is impaired, but his fore- | sight Perhaps you do not know that) a fly has better hindsight than fora- | sight, but he has. It takes ten blows to | is, swat a fly from behind to two to do| him in‘front. Some men have superior | hindsight without the guard-movement of the fiy, which turns on its own cen- ter often to k a sharp view of its surroundings. When a man gets blind ! to his own interests it would be a blessed thing if he could send for an| oculist and have the defect immedi- ately remedied: but it takes him a long »ver that he is blind, and | than he must heal himself. A guard| against laziness as well as penalties| for it is to be found in the laws for| physical government time to ai Perhaps the best reason why talk is cheap is because the supply is in ex- cess of the demand; and yot, man has manipulated this market so that the| cheapest kind of talk not infrequently | commands the highest price. It is not| necessary to cite instances for any ob- serving man can do that; and some who are not observing may have Jearn- ed how it is from exverience. What we cannot readily see in this world we are sometimes made to feel so that we cannot forget it. But then, the tips one receives are usually about as good as the tips he gives out. A great! many word-bubbles men play with lack the rainbow hues of the soap-bubbles the children amuse thamselves with. We all of us fool- with words more than we profit by them. B Did you ever think of each day as a gift-bearer—a friend who may have something nice for you—not a loqua- cious, no friend who heralds good liks a discreet friend the day quietly bears away the good things it held for In the battles of life we win'or aves> “ay; and it is the sum tota) THE MAN WHO TALKS || | ignorance of law, | the | some very (Written for The Bulletin.) The fleeting delicacy of twilight 2 ed into the stillness of fragrant night. Slowly, as the violet and rose melted into pearl and gentle dusk closed in over the meadow, the sky withdrew into its furthermost reserves of unfathomable blue, and one by one the stars came out. From-the heart of the hay we greeted them, Lady Greatheart naming fo me as they mounted, Arcturus, Spica, twis g Vega and rosy Antares, urging me to know and love them, not for her sake, but for their own. “I_would_love anything for you,” I laughed. “You know I would. A moment later, from my arm-chair of hay, “Tell me,” I ple: , “why we paper doll people—of whom T am one— should be of ali creation the only liv- ing things to live in perpe un- satisfaction? The grass2s are content to grow, the birds to fly and sing and nest, the stars to circle and shine. All | visible nature-things seem content to fulfill the law of their being. Why are we men and women the only ones to b discontented?” “Some of us are not,” was my lady's quiet Teply. “But you have been” I retorted. Surely, you must have been at _some time, even if you are not now. No one is born serene. Into seremity like yours one must grow, and—forgive m “—and have come through great tribu- lation.” Over the wide s s of meadow breathed the softened stillness of stlenca. Serenity, God’s peace,” spoke Lady Greatheart, “comes as we learn to be willing to fulfill the law of our being. “Tell me more,” I entreated her. “T would so gladly learn. I would giv anything for the peace that is yours. ‘Would you?” she turned on me quickl Tt means the giving up of every thing that the world prizes. It means the losing of one's life—" “To save it I interrupted. “How to do it? This is what I am asking. “What must T do to be saved quoted Lady Greatheart. “This is the cry of the world, though the world dces not know it. They think it some- thing that ministers preach about, but which has no practical bearing on the world's daily life. They think it means to be saved from hell after death, and do not dream that it means to be saved from the hell of their own mak- ing here and no “Hell 7" I demurred. For the meadow brook was rippling, the meadow grasses were lifting their shorn heads undaunted, the leaves of the trees were faving and whisparing, and, overhead, the stars were shining. “Not hell, perhaps,” she admitted. Rather, what Dante teaches In his ‘Purgatorio” and what most of us know as human life, namely, the work- ing out of the inexorable law of cause and effect.” ¥ Tt not like you to say hopeless things,” T objected. “Your mission in life is' to soothe and comfort, to bind up the broken hearted. Why do you speak of hell, and purgatory, and in- exorable law? She laughed her low, sweet, rippling laugh. “Yon would be saved,” she an- swered, “from the effects of your own and yet, like all the of our gains and losses which show what we have been to the days and the days have besn to us. Learn to note the little details for they are what tell for success in social life and in busi- ness. As we are admonished to take no thought of tomorrow, it may be w:,iu to take all the more thought of today. SUNDAY MORNING TALK IN BEHALF OF THE OVERLOOKED Persons in the thick of life's act- ivities, prosperous and happy, who sel- dom venture out of a certain beaten rack, who have already formed their circle of friends are in danger of for- getting that large but silent class in he community who may be classified under the caption “The Overlooked.” They do not come readily to mind when you are making out your list of dinner guests or your slate for the coming election, or when cataloging “prominent and influential” citi- zens. But théy are with us nevertheless, and though they seldom speak loudly | in behalf of themselves, they constitute a very appreciable element of the population. Their heads may be white and their figures no longer erect. Per- haps they are in those institutions known as “Aged People’s Homes,” thinking longingly of the days when they had homes of their own, but try- ing to endure patiently their loss of independence ~and enforced reliance upon the bounty of others. And some | of these dear old people are in our own homes, but not always the objects of that deference and consideration which we should like were we in their places. It is hard enough at best to grow very old and feeble, but still harder | when to increasing physical infirmities is added the pain which arises from being neglected or simply tolerated. Others of the overlooked are in hos- pitals and s rooms. “What!” we busy people say: “Jones just up from an operation? Why, I hadn't realized that he was sick” But to him the sickening smell of ether, the sharp, continuing pain, the almost unendur- able weakness, have been terrible real- ities for the last three weeks. Maybe it isn't our fault that we have not missed him from the office, the club, the church. But then again, maybe it s. At any rate, if you have ever your— self been prostrated by illness you know what that little bunch of flowers meant to you, and that little note. The invalids and the shut-ins are always with us and whensoever we will -we may do them good, provided we have not forgotten their existence, and pro- provided we do not postpone too long the carrying out of our benevolent in- tentions. But sick people and aged people do not exhaust the number of Overlooked.” T am thinking also of the multitude of persons who have seen better days, and who because of their reverses, have ceased to frequent the places where they were once welcome and influential, and of the men at the end of the procession who never amounted to much, and of the, color- less, mediocre, growing boys and girls who gravitate not to the center of the ballroom, but to its circumference, where they fulfil more or less indiffer- ently well the function of wall flowers. A college mate of mine—God bless him for his chivalry!—a brilliant fellow, too always used to seek out at the parties and other gsocial gatherings that type of zirl and did his best to make it pleasant for her. Yes, the overlooked. are sufficiently. in evidence, provided we turn our gaze where they are. Make a list of ths persons in your street or in your vi- cinity who might properly be thus classified. Some of them, it is trué, may be unduly proud and sensitive, uniovely, some altogether to blame for being Set one side. But there are human gems wmong them, and to become acquainted with them may prove an inspiration. At ali events, if we select one or two as the objects of loving and persistent min- istry. we shall make ourselves more worthy to be called ples of Him whose main search on earth was for the overlooked. a THE PARSON, . 3 ' shrink taking the first | land of the real. o ATER, Chas. Mchulty, Lesse. “;?.'_:omnhmtwl'tohdl."lm- E % “Yet Dante went first through hell, and through purgatory, be- fore he was fitted to enter paradise. Can you not see” she went on, “that fhie Puaing fhrough purgatory means only ti ing purged and purified of all that prevents our entering upon harmony and happiness? It is the casting off fi the non-essential and ‘burdensome in order to recognize and retain the essential. In a word, it is the learning our relation to law.” “I see” was my Teply. “You are telling me of purgatory that !_my escape a hell of my own creating.’ —— “What is hell,” she asked, “but human ignorance of good, and trans- against the law of righteous- ness? And what is hteousness but right thinking and right doing? We cannot begin to think right until we gain some knowledge of immutable law. And we shall never do right, despite our best efforts, until we have learned to think right about our rel tion to God and to our fellow raen. “To live at all is not easy,” I sighed. “No,” she assentsd. “But right thinking makes less difficult. It leads us to live higher and deeper and nobler. " she added. “One sim- very still in her mound of hay, gazing with large eyes up and up into the deeps of the sky. She was silent so long that I almost forgot my ques- tioning, and was content to breathe in tha fragrance of the summer night 'lbn the sweet-do-nothing of semi-clum- er. “The world is craving happiness, yet fearing trouble and sorrow,” she said at last. “We never get what we de- sire as fong as we crave it, whils, on the other hand, much that we do great- ly fear does often come upon us. Now, way down under these effects must exist a cause or causes, which, if we could find, w2 might be able to an- nihilate. There can be no effect with- out a cause. But if we could destroy the cause, we should not suffer from the effect. We suffer because of our ignorance of eternal law. Our condi- tions never charge for the better until we have become deconciled to them as they are, until we stop chafing und: them, stop kicking against the pricks, and have learned to bring a willing mind to the acceptance of them. Somewhere, Browning tells us to look our conditions fearlessly in the face. to accept them as ours, then to work in and through them to the best of our endsavor, thus working out of them, if we can. These are not his words, but my rough interpretation of his meaning. You have asked me for a simple rule by which to overcome dulc itent. Here it i Resist not avi “The doctrine of non-resistance,” said I. “Is it possible to live by it? 1t is practicable In our daily lives?” “Saints and heroes have found it s0,” she answered. “True non-resis ance is possibly only to one who vol- untarily trusts himself to the wisdom of the Highest. True non-resistance never means mere idle drifting, nor ignominious giving up. In this, as in all things else, there s the bed-rock principle and its shadow, its opposite, which masquerades as truth, but sooner or later is discovered to ba counterfeit. To the unthoughtful, non-resistance may appear like laziness, or vacillation, or pusillanimity. In reality, it is the deepest form of self-mastery. It is to be poised, like a bird on the wing. It ie tha thinking no evil, the being de- livered from evil, the resting in God. It is the not battling against un- towardness of any sort, the not taking arms against a sea of troubles. It is the not astriving and struggling, it is the not trying to have qur own wa: it is the not pushing to the front re. gardless of who may_ thereby be tramplad under foot. It is not the strenuous life, nor is it the simple lif In any feeble sense. It is the serene lite, lived as in the world but not of it, ‘the retreating into that inner réfuge where the eternal essence is ever at peace.” Springing to her fest and bending her radiant smile on me, “Dearest,” she eaid, tenderly. “It is to live in the THE RECLUSE. None So Blind. A committee of conciliation sought to settle a strike in Brooklyn, N. Y. The vice president, who was also the general manager of the company against which the strike was directed, said to the committee: “This business is a one-man affair, and I intend to brook no interference fin the part of employes or the pub- o It happens that this company is a part of a great trust, using all the | most advanced methods of capitalistic co-operation to promote its business and profit. Recognizing the value of combination in one direction and in- sisting upon its lawfulness and its moral right to exst, it denounces com- bination among its workers as unlaw- ful. It denies the right of the public to interfere while yet counting upon the public to support its own Indus- trial practic The poss self-binding among the so-called captains have still, we suppose, to be exhausted. Selfishness can be cultivated to a de- gree where It expects aggrandizement from the nejghbor as a natural right | ‘and a miracle from heaven, In time of need, as its just desert. The captain is captain because socety pleases. He ilities for will have to realize, painful as the| process is, that he can be reduced to the ranks—when society pleases.—To- ledo Blade. Overdoing It. The Colonel has lots of American sense. and so have the people. They also have a sense of humor, which is a great solvent of humbug and pre- ventive of precisely such political dangers as might in a country like France result from extravagant hero worship. An American Boulanger would be laughed out of court, and Colonel Watterson's “man on horse- back” was laughed at even by the Democrats. On the other hand, there is some uneasiness, and it is curious to note that even the Rooseveltian Chicago Tribune is moved to say that it is “not prepared for immediate transfer of the presidential office from Wash- ington to Oyster Bay, and is not pre- pared for the establishment of a dual presidency. or are we. Nor, we guess, is the Colonel ‘himself: and one would hate to tackle the job of charging him personally with any such contemplated tomfoolery. So let us take all this adultation of One Man. all this obsequious <ispo- sition to refer every question under the sun to One Man, as to a Superman who knows it all and a lot besides, as a passing phenomenon in the phycho- 108y of crowds, mighty flattering to the Colonel, if ‘not altogether indic tive of old-fashioned sturdy American self-reliance in the crowd. The na- tionat-sense of humor will get the bet- ter of this new-fangled political grand lamaism presently.—Milwaukee Sen- tine A Poor Mod “There has never been a state like Oklahoma,” says Governor Haskell. Let's hope there never will be another like it.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. A single cylinder engine of 5.000— horsepower, weighing close to 750,000 pounds, recently was built in Ohio for use in a rolling mill :lry nuisance.—John Burns, to a dep- ple can do -w° on.—Whitelaw Reid, at Carlton Gardens. is appointed has ‘bankers and Bishop of Lincoln, at Manchester, been struck with prejudice which is growing up against the reading of books.—Prof. Macgre- gor, at Leeds. b RM‘.‘M.UM"‘::‘." The very worst thing charitable pe- e is to ..J'.“ without investi- There is no such thing as an un cmpbr‘;d Christian; there is some- thing for every single —Bishop er'-, at Brighton. Christian to do. Men who thoroughly enjoy them- selves in their leisure hours are better mer at their work.—J. F. L. Bunner, M. P., at Middlewich. I believe every bighop as soon as he at once to go to his secure an overdraft— ‘We are more easily amused every day; it does not take o much to make us”laugh now Skinner, at Kis s it once did.—Albert Lynn. The proportion of the population living in towns is steagily increasing, and is now 80 per cent. of the whole. —Kier Hardie, M. P., at Merthyr. * ‘The love of the beautiful is becom- ing not only possession of the rich, but the desire very poor.—John Burn; and possession of the at Chelsea. Thoughtless verdicts encourage sui- clde just as the thoughtless giving of & shilling to a beggar encourages pau- perism.—H. G. Elwes, at Colchester in- Quest. In many clesses I have taught T have the extraordinary At all times dogs are a considerable nuisance to the putlic; and people who have dogs bestow on them an amount of affection which it is difficult to un- derstand.—Mr. Troutbeck, at Lambeth. The dramatic profession does not penalize sex; there is no separate sal- ary compartment in which women are segregated and underpaid becavse they are women.—Miss Horniman, at Man- chester, In most of the cases that come be- fore me now, instead of the fall of young people being due to drink, it is due to gambling. It is a growing evil. —~8ir Forrest Fulton, at the Central Criminal Court. It is much easier in this world to g0 with the stream, to float upon the stream, to let the stream carry you where it will. But that is not the way to influence your generation.—Lord Rosebery at Colchester. Veterans and Reecr If Leonard Wood, M.D., major gen- eral and chief of staff, understands the relative value of old soldiers and re- cruits, everybody else connected with the army, time out of mind, has been entirely wrong. For_some time there has been a rage for younger commanding officers and competent men in the prime of life are now put on the retired list in order that some youngsters may get up faster. This mania for youth has now so infected General Wood that he says: “As It exists today it may be described as an army of vet- erans. When such is the case there is danger of loss of enthusiasm. The soldier who has seen from 5 to 20 years of service does mot accept in- structions as readily as a recruit.” We will venture {o say that there is not a company officer In the United States army who will assent to this, and we do mot belleve that there i a field officer who will do so. General Wood never sérved with the men ex- cept for a few months with a regi- ment of volunteers. Beforé that he was in the medical department, and since that he has been a general officer. It has always been the established policy to do everything to keep the enlisted men in the service. The pay has been increased, an extra allowance has been made for age, a retired list has been provided, liberties and priv- ileges have been provided for the en- listed men, all for the purpose of in- ducing them 1o re-enlist. Year after year the commanding officers in their annual reports deplore the paucity of seasoned soldiers, to whom military life has become second nature, The recruit is regarded as hardly worth his rations until he has been in the service two or three years, and Gen- eral Wood thinks five is a little too much. There is no trouble about getting an army of raw recruits. The Wood policy can_be put into operation inm 30 days. Plenty of youngsters offer to enlist, and it will be the easiest thing in the world to make sure that they will leave the service at the end of one term of enlistment, If not soon- er—Philadelphia Record Enforced Water Wagon. The operation of that old Indian land statutory coniract brings about a_remarkable situation in this state. All or parts of 14 counties are sudden- ly to be made “dry.” In order to make effectual the federal statute which prohibits the giving or selling of liquor to the Indian, this large terri- tory has been mapped out and the chief special officer of the government is directed by Indian Commissioner Valentine vigorously to enforce the law. Thjs is the sequence of the raid by this officer, who rejoices in the cognomen of “Pussyfoof,” which re sulted in exciting scenes in the clos- ing of saloons within the “Indian Ter- ritorq” vet outside of the delineated reservations. Coming just at this time, when county option Is obtruding itself as a state political issue, this order creates what would be designated in diplo- matic circles as an interesting status quo. With these 14 counties and parts of counties deprived of the option right and forced into_ prohibition condition whether or no, the effect upon the po- litical campaigns is not _altogether clear. What is to become of the coun- ty option issue? How far will it be overshadowed and blotted out by the czarlike ukase which- orders this ex- pansive territory forthwith to climb upon the water wagon ?—St. Paul Dis- patch. SRR L S Has to Talk Along The Way. President Taft gets 10 days of rest by his excursion along the New Eng- lanc coast. At least, let us hope that the modern facilities of communica- tion will be so far interrupted as to glive him this respite. It is a concession to insensate pop- ular demand that he consents to talk on general subjects at points along his route, So far as his immediate gu- diences at tigse points are concerne it is the desire to sce a president tha draws them; every one of them would - @ dime to get within range of the presidential volce; and that is the standard price of admission to gramo- plione reproductions of oratory. Wisely the president seeks quictnde by divorcement from party politics. 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