Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 13, 1910, Page 7

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) 1 sometimes wonder if there is any Power, this side of Omnipotence, able to make Rufus Hollander understand ‘what a pesky nuisance he often is” Rufus is one of those chaps who is at odds with the universe— especially the human part of it. He seems to be of opinion that he has Been divinely appointed—he certainly has no man_giving _commission—to Tegulate the affairs of all his neigh- bors. He feeils, apparently, that re- sponsibility for all their manners and morals, their ethics and their politics, their domestic and their business af- fairs rests on his creakins shoulders. Ome result of this, which is not of very much importance, is that he is always stirred up and unhappy: anoth- er Yesult, which is of a good deal of impertance, is that he keeps his neigh- bors more or less stirred up and un- happy. The world has in it a Rufus Hollanders New its full proportion. Probably know of at least one within the of your horizon. You may consider yourself as lucky as the average if there is but one. Some neighborhoods have two. In that case the atnfos- phere thereabouts s alwavs compar- able to that in the eyelonic center of a swarm of hornets. It's mighty live- 1y all the time—and more than un- pleasant for the unlucky chap who happens to get caught in the vortex. Human imagination_fails to conceive of what would happen if there should ood many England has you ever be three at once, in the same hello” range—the turmoil and the ferment, the row and the uproar, the rumpus and the riot, the bear garden and the Bedlam. One is enough: two are a public infection: three would be & murrain and a plague and a pesti- lence. I read, the other day, of a eaucus somewhere out west where the insurgents and the machine men and the suffragettes all mixed up in a determination to rule or perish, and which ended by the prohibitionists @etting all the nominations, after the other three sets had become t0o ex- Bausted to do anything but glare. This, I suspect, must have been something tike. But to come back to Rufus. He is a man of more than ordinary native intelligence. But it is wholly untrain— ed and erratic. He has some fore- sight—can sec a_day, sometimes Lwo Rufus Hollander, the Pesky Nuisance. He doesn’t go much on rules of log- c. 1 doubt if he ever heard of a svi- logism, or could see the force of one if he were to meet it. His compass and guiding star is “common sense. Unfortunately for the rest of us, he never finds any hat except his ‘own surrounding. that quality. When they aid out the new railroad,the engineers made a long detour through our val- ley instead of following & straight line along the base of the hills. Rufus promptly decided that this was a case of “graft.” and holds to that opinion today. The extra mile of track and the extra payments for right of way were, to his mind, just money stolen from the stockholders. The engineers explained that their line had to reach a certain altitude, some miles north of, us, and that the longer route with low- er’ gradicnts and less “cuttings” was actually cheaper to build than the shorter line with numrerous excava- tions amd a high grade. Moreover, it would forever be a daily saving in the operation of the road to haul its trains up an easy rather than a steep grade. Rufus 1S not an engineer nor a rail- road manager; he is, like myself, a cabbage and potato raiser. But the engineer’s reasoning slid off him like water off a duck’s back. He knew better. And that settled it. He never buys a ten cent ticket, even now, with- out putting on record his protest, bas— ed on the fact that the ticket could have béen sold for nine and three- quarter cents, if the road wasn't pay ing interest on the needless cost of an extra mile of track. not an astronomer. He secs the Pole Star stand still in the north- ern heavens and the Dipper swing around it. When I incautiously at- tempted to explain to him, once, that the Dipper ‘didn’t actually swing around Polaris, like a stone at the end of a string in a boy's whirling hand, he simply sneered at' my credulity. Couldn’t he see it move from hour to hour? Hadn’t I any. brains of my own? Couldn’t 1 use my “common sense? What was the use.of talking such “stuff” te him? I laboriously explained how the revolution of the earth, on an axis pointing at Polaris, made the oth- er stars cach side of it Seem to revolve, while really it was not they but our tot of an earth which was rolling over. I attempted to give him some idea of the incalculable and unimaginable d tances: of those stars. “The earth is flying through space at the rate of Rufus or three days ahead. But he never makes allowances, when looking off to the distance for atmbspheric distor- tion. Therefore he seldom sees things right. He has a conscience. But it has never been pruned or trained, and it has grown into a veritable jungle thicket of scratchy abnormality. Start a grove of white pines and each one will grow up straight and slender and tall towards the making of first- class timber. Start one white pine all by itself out in the pasture; let the cows break off its top and half its twigs: let the sheep nibble at it; let the lightning hit it gently on one side; let it grow just as wopperjawed and dskew as it naturally will under such circumstances, and it wil be_ about the most useless thing In two counties. That's Rufus. He sticks out in all di rections, and is very pitchy, but that's an He has a mind, and he ‘makes it up.” Just what processes of .ratiocination he goes through in this mysterious op- eration have never been disclosed to outsiders. He scorns to explain. When that mind is “made up” it is “made , and, furthermore, it is lear to Rufus that his par- ticular make-up I8 the only make-up of all possible make-ups which any Intelligent and honest man can have. “Orthodoxy Bishop Warburton, “is my doxy; heterodoxy is some other man's doxy.’ Rufus is orthodox: a for the rest of the world: we're a heretics! There's a story of a dour old Secotchman who was discussing the theological “outs” of his fellow parish- ioners with his wife. He pointed out the manifest heresies of various mem- bers of the kirk; not even the preach- er was wholly sound. “Then ye think.’ queried his wife, anxiously, “that you 2nd 1 air th' only yins sure o' heav en?” “Ah, weel, Je: said he reflec- tively, “I sometimes hae me doots sbout ve” That's Rufus, again, to a dot. Whatever Rufus knows, he knows, there’s no’guess work in him. At least, that's his own ldea of it. The “tw! light of dublety” never falls across his sky. 1f an eve-winker gets in his eve, all the rest of the world must walk ome-eyea till he gets it out. If his nose titilates the universe must sneeze. He is Sir Oracle wand when heopes his lips let no dog bark. He doesnt mean to be a crank and indeed, he is very intolerant all who do not agree with him being inciuded in one of those two classes. He means to be “reasonable” and actually thinks he is. Fe means to go right and actually does it, according to his own remark- “able conscience. Really, there wouldn’t be any very great harm in him if he didn’t also feel that it was a part of his vocation to keep pulling the nose of ail humanity towards his concep. tion of the “true morth” It's his per— sistent attempt to steer that somewhat unsteerable agglomeration that makes Rim a little too difficult at times. The Important Problem confronting anyone in need of a laxa- tive is mot a question of @ single ac- tion only, but of permanently bene- ficial effects, which will follow proper efforts to live in a healthful way, with the assistance of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, whenever it is re- quired, as it cleanses the system gently yet promptly, without irritation and will therefore always have the preference of all who wish the best of family laxatives. The combination has the approval of physicians because it is known to be truly beneficial, and because it has given satisfaction to the mililons of well-informed families who have used it for many years past. To get its beneficlal effects, always genuine manufactured by the | janism nineteen miles a second: isn't that going some? But if those Dipper stars had to swing completely around the Pole star every twenty-four hours, they'd have to go farther in a second than our earth goes in a million years. “Don’t care nothin' about how fas they’d have to go,” said Rufus: “gues: God’s able to make 'em go as fast He wants ‘em to.” And that endes right there. it, You see, Rufus feels him— self a good deal bigger sharer in God's counsels than I have ever been able to convince myself that T am. in trouble with s neighbors and always in trouble with some of them. I think he would “Feel that day lost whose low-descend- ing sun Saw no new rows or rumpuses begun.” He feels it.his duty_to oversee my gardening operations: 1 don’t now re- call that I ever did anything just right about them, in his eves. He also feels responsible for Neighbor Waterhouse's chicken-pens: last time I met him, he set forth several volumes of criticism on those hapless buildings and_their wretched inhabitants. Neighbor Sheri- dan sends his_children to Sunday- school in ihe buggy. “It would be a mighty sight cheaper fer 'em if they had to walk” says Rufus. He also takes charge of our politics; tells us when to vote “reg’lar” and when to insurge”: and hates us forever after if we don't follow his lead. He always begins having the first week-day after the Fourth of July,and so must every farmer in ten miles if we want to keep our names on his good books. He looks after our clothing: because he prefers plain blue-and-white striped overalls of denim it follows that one who wears overalls of blue drill with a bib on 'em is either weak-headed or wrong-heart- ed. And so it goes through all the multiform details of life. -The other eleven jurors are all always stubborn or ignorant or corrupt: but Rufus is always right. Dear brother or sister, as the case may be; 1 suspect that we've all got a little touch of Rufus in us. Some a bit more: some a bit less. Was it David Harum whe said that, when it came to money. “a little too much was just about enough?’ . But this Rufe- is not like that: even a little is too much. “Am I my brother's keep- asked Cain. No, he wasn't. The whole trouble was that he had tried to be and then attempted to lie to the Lord by asking an honest question dis- honestly. It was just his mixing up in Abel's affairs “with a club that caused all the disturbanceand dower- ed posterity with a train of murder- trials and criminal lawyers and insani- ty_experts and _some score of other evils. Tf he had stuck to his garden and had done the best he could with it, and had let Abel alone to tend his | sheep in his own way, he might have been better off: Abel certainly would have been. FARMER. A Steadying Influence. Those who regard with favor the establishmeqt of a postal savings bank system in the United States will be THE pleased with the showing made by the B h postoffice savings banks as ven by Consul Griffiths in the Daily Consular and Trade Reports. Nearly a billion dollars to the credit of more than 11,000,000 depositors are In the postal savings banks of Eng- land, Scotland and Ireland, says Mr. iriffiths. There Is one depositor in about every four of the population, and the average amount to the credit of each depositor is abéut $70. In Ire- land the average is $96, while in thrif- ty Scotland it is only $63. About half a million school children have depos- te. ot the amount of mouby in’ the savings banks, but the fact that so lurge a proportion of the population has any moues at il in them-is the siguificant thing indicating, as it does the habit of thrift and the struggle toward independenice The. influence of the Eritish postoffice savings bank upon the character of the people has been wmarked and there is no reason why the same influence should not be equally potent in some parts of this country.—Boston Globe. Beer brewing in Japan dates back only,20 years. In 1908 the production ont only supplied nearly ail the home markel, but’ suffioed for §601,443 of exnorts ‘August is the great plenjcing month for everybody but the farmer. A more liberal use of the hoe would double the crops on some farms. brush, if Bill Bangs does say any old time will do for that. ~ Cy Cymbal says he gets a big crop. of yarns from the country visitors every year. That's Cy's most enjoy- able crop. Parson Dawson says, “The wicked do mot live out half their days,” and ‘there’s Sal Snags, who has been saying ‘bad things about the church for 75 vears, and she doesn’t weaken much. She must be satisfied with her half. The phonosraph may make the dairy cows give fatter milk, but the phono- graph and music costs as much as one good cow. A thoughtless farm hand can put more deviltry into a growing calf in a: day than a good manager can get out in a year. Sariah savs if T enjoyed farming more I'd get better results. I asked her her where she got that, 'and she said in a Boston daily, and I looked and found it in the funny column. A horse that isu’t scared of any kind of an automobile Is crowding up im value to the cheap auto level A hog that is fond of chicken is an uncertain asset. : I think that sterilyzed ferable to fertilized milk, many ity folks don't know ence. Milke speculators have found so many ways to get the farmer by the throat that he can’t get clear of moren one at a time. The milk trust is an octopus all right. Some farmers think when a cow don’t come up to standard that the tester is below standard instead of the cow. Some men’s brains seem to op- erate backward If it was as unprofitable to yawp at a wife as at a dairy herd, the yawpers would all reform just because they couldn’t stand the expense. A man who don’t chat with his ani- mals is regarded as a derned unsocial cuss at the barn and the pig pen. milk is pre- but a great the differ— Parson Dawson’s boy talks mere about sociological sequences than he does about farm work. He's pretty well up in the air without the use of a flying machine. You can tell by a hen's kle where she's laying her eggs if you list- en sharp enough The March pullet commences to lay in August and ought to be a profitable Thanksgiving hen. A lazy man appears not to know how to take care of anything but his health ana he takes better care of that than is necessary: New England is rioting in new mown hay, and the crop in the country is three million tons shoft, which shows that we get booked for cream some- times. The Pre: Unfamiliar_as dent of Brazil. is the fame of that austere South American statesman farshal Hermes da Fonseca, to citi- ens of the United States generally, he had attained, long prior to his elec- tian to the ‘chief magistracy of his native Brazil. an enviable European renown. His life has been devoted to the extinction of the revolutionary idea among his countrymen. So_well has he succeeded that, although Brazil has enjoved six presidents since the establishment of the republic—when Hermes da Fonseca assumes office this November he will be the seventh—not one has been a political or military ad- venturer and not one has been driven from_ office by revolution. In the course of that tour through the old world which President-elect Hermes da Fonseca is-about to crown with a he has been eu- of Burope visit to these shores. logized by the entire press as the antithesis to Castro. Marshal Hermes, in the words of the London Times, has proved by his career as statesman and as soldler that the Latin republics of the new world can, when they please, produce official types as constructive as Cavour and as effi- cient as Clemencean., The best speci- men of this new snecies. our contem- porary_ventures to think, is the bril- liant Brazilian who, uniess present: plans miscarry, is to be the guest of President Taft and perhaps a visitor to West Point, an institution in which he has long been keenly interested.— Current Literature. The Vermont Campaign. The ‘republican candidates and the state committee met in this city yes- terday and outlined a plan of can paign to begin about the first of August. There was an almost com- plete attendance of the members of the committee, and there was manifest a gratifying disposition to get together and work for a good-sized majority as one of the first steps to insure con- tinued republican control of congress, as well as for the effect on future cam- paigns, in our own state. In this particular connection we note disposition on the part of certain es to indulge in a liminary campaign, new lines of de- to the disrup- a papers on both rehearsal of the pi as well as to oven markation. all tending tion of thé party. It is not to be expected that a self- respecting paper will allow itself to be misrepresented, or that those papers which supported one candidate can say anything, they- choose about their neighbors and expect not to have their utterances resented. Unless all factions can differences and manifest a to forget past bitterness and get to- pether, we may be forced In the not Qistant future to note where our re- publican majorities are coming. from instead of fighting within our own ranks. When we say this we do not overlook the fact that all the harmony cannot reasonably be expected to come from any one side.—Burlington Free Press. drop their disposition The Texas Problem. Texas is blg enough and populous enough to cut up into the five states which -were made possible by the act which admitted the Lone Star state to the unjon. From time to time it is suggested that it would be well for Texas to agree to the division, but the prevailing opinfon seems o be that the state will do better to stay as it is'and develop itself to the limit. Tex- s has changed since General Sher- nan expressed his famous opinion of it. If he owned the state and the oth- er place now he would rent the other place.—Lowell. Courier-Citizen Nothing Marvelous. There is an alligator in Florida that eats peanuts. That's nothing. -Tha people of Pennsylvania will swallow anything—Charleston News and ‘Cou- rier. Government Survives. The government at Washington is etill busy, despite an attack of ab- senteeism,—Washington Post _It's a good tinie now to cut and kill THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: third. Award made the last Saturday The Bulletin wants good home let: ful letters of any kind the mind may Wednesday of each week. Writé on b Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDIT! Daughter’'s Room. Editor Social Corner:—Every girl likes to have her own room, and she has a right to have it neat and pretty. It does not take costly furnishings to accomplish this.. It may be done with simple furniture, including a desk in which “she may keep her stationery, and wheré she may write her letters, a small book rack for her own books and library books which she may be reading, a rocking chair by a window, a neat half-bed and a bureau are suf- ficient. The little personal touches, such as the photographs of her friends, & framed engraving, a workbag or bask- et, will be added one by one. ‘And she should have her attention called to the fact that her manage- ment or keeping of the room is an in- dex to her own character; and she should take pride in having its condi- tion commend her. If careless and untidy, her room will reveal hur eharacter: if thoughtful and intellectual, her books will bear testi- mony to those qualities of heart and brain; if restiess and unsatisfied, vague as this may seem to be, a girl's room will tell the story of her moods ana yearnings. It is worth while for the daughter to make her room a retreat which she will love, and to which she may invite her friend Young girls who have rooms should take thought of them and become con- scious of the value of a tidy retreat to her_in various way Norwich. AUNT SALLY. Her Pennies Count Up. Editor Social Corner.—I read Sweet Layender's” letters of how she saved her Easter Sunday money, and 1 ouldn’t help but write a few lines about how I saved mine. Often in paying butcher, baker and candlestickmaker we receive our two or three pennies back in change. After coming back home I put all the pennies that I have in a small bank and when I have a hundred I have them changed into a bill. If the sisters would only try this plan I am sure they would soon be as pleased as I was the other week when I put seventeen dollars into a great big bank. Here is a recipe for a cheap cake: One cup of sugar, tablespoon of but- ter, one well-beaten egs, one cup and. three-qudrters: flour, two level spoons baking . powder, spoonful vania. Mix well; bake in hot oven. Tastville. MAZIE S. Frank's Experiences. Editor Socfal Corner: T do not use little bits of money for things to please the eve and the taste. .1 was’ brought up to use bits and pieces in a way to make ‘them tell—clean from the table and saved they will make a savory dish at another time. When they can- not be used for the table they may be used to feed the hens or pigs. Saving the table pleces is saving money all the time When T was between 7 and 10 vears of age mother left me in charge of the house while she went to a near village, and T took a - notion to tidy up the kitchen a bit. While T was working father came in and I sald: “Let's have a boiled di He went out and split some wood and pulled some tur- nips and the dinner was soon done. When mother returned she looked sur- | prised and said: “Youwll do. There is . good family wants you to live with them. Theyll be here to see you.” They came. T plucked up courage and went with them on trial. I guess they were satisfied, for 1 stayed with them for eleven vears on cheerful promises, and it was there I saved my first $25, but it never. materialized as it seemed to he $25 for them, and when I came home my purse was as flat as i clephant had stepped on it. 1 have thought that they might have given me more schooling, but that would not have been working all the time. When a dollar comes my way it makes as 4 long strip on a vard’s length. T always use it in a.profitable way. Good_wishes to all of the members of the ‘Social Corner. Moosup. FRANK. Saved Fifty Dollars in 19 Weeks. Bditor Social Corner: I will send my way of saving money to the Social Cor- ner. I find thé best way to save is to put $1 per week away, no matter what happens, then if you can save more try to do so. T have saved $50 this way in nineteen weeks. 1 put $1_each week in an old poeketbook. I put the rest of my week’s wages in another pocketbook, just spending-what 13 necessary. At the end of the nineteen weeks I had $19 in one pocketbook and $31 in the other. Of course, T _was very ful what I spent. But I do think ne can put away $1 a week it is the best way to save, for at the end of the year you will have $52. Still, some may not be able to save $1 each week, then 25 cents would be better than nothing at all. Some weeks ¥ou could increase to 50 cents. : At the end of the year.it would amount to a neat little sum. T trust T have made this plain. fville, ELLEN. Things We Should Know. Editor Social Corner: When. peop! are going away on short vacations they do not know how 1o manage house plants when they havé no meuiber of the family or nelxhbnr to water them. I thought é)erDADl ar readers might be interesfed In aisimple home-made deVice for watéring them. Any person can do. this: Set a bowl of water well above the lével of' the plant to be watered by means of a box or a pile of books. Twist several strands of common darning wool together or braid them fo form a_long wick., and soak them in water. If one end of the wick reached to the bottom of the bowl, and Kind Words and Few are Woman’s Ornament. $2.50 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to_ EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. APPRECIATION AND THANKS. We miss from the Corner the letters of “Arethusa” and “Hannah Home- spun” and some of our first supporters in the and the hot weather are not helpful to hope the absent ones will have a good time and have something the mere interesting for the Corner when they get home and again lend themselves in earnest to home duties. The Bulletin readers are valiantly aiding the Corner with practical and suggestiv2 letters, and “J. E. T. oldest and most original writers, sends In a timely recipe for Thanks to all the ladies for their continuous help to make the Social Corner | worth reading.—Editor Social Corner. in each month. ters, good business leiters; 50od help- suggest. They should be in hand by ut one side of the paper. OR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. work. The vacation season voluntary work of this kind. We of Yantic, one of our this week. the other hang over the plants, a steady drip will continue, until the bowl s emptied. As a means of keep- ing the plants wet this works well. The following recipe will cure some cancers and tumors if applied before they become chronic: Thicken a yolk of egg with salt, lay it on the lump, | renew when necessary. Drink at least a quart of red clover tea daily. Make it strong. Begin the plaster and drink the tea as soon as a lump is perceived. The abandonment of a meat diet also helps. Where it s essential that buttons | should be sewed on to stay the follow- ing plan is a sure guaranty: Make a | big knot in your thread, which must be | strong. Hold a small pearl button on the inside of the garment, draw the | thread through from the right side and | sew the pearl button on firmly. Then sew on the regular button. The peart one will'hold the other so that it can- not rip or tear off. 1 hope some members of the Social Corner may find these things helpful. This is a help-one-another Corner. Preston. SUSANNA. A Happy Thought and a Little Want. Editor Social Corner: P wonder how many of the sisters have taught their daughters to sew and cook. If you haven’t you don’t know what a relief | it is to know that your daughters can make their own shirtwaists and get a meal if necssary. Of course, when school is in session there is very littie time for anything but study. Nevertheless, a great deal can be done in the line of sewing at 0dd moments. | Tt takes a great deal of patience to| | show a girl how to do something that you can do yourself in a third of tie time. but vsually the result is well worth it. I remember when I was young I wanted to learn how to cook: One day when my father and mother were away I experimented. The expriment wasn't much of a success, but it opened the way for.me to learn how to cook. T know some people are proud of the fact that their daughters never lift a finger towards th housework, but 1 think that makes children seifish and unhappy to have nothing to take up thelr time or to interest them. We make a great deal of candy, but| 1 can't find among my recipes one for sugar.pull candy, 5o if any of the mem- bers have a good one I should appre- ciate their kindness very much if they would 'send it to this Corner. Preston. PATTY. Cucumber Editor Social Corner: I have done them this way twenty years: Pick en about three or four inches long, and be sure to have a tiny stem on each one; put them in an earthen mix- ing bowl or agateware: iron or tin| poil the taste; sprinkle freely with oarse fine salt and let them lay twelve hours; rinse off with cold water, place in glass jar; new ring on jar; put in a piece of alum, the size of a pea and fill two-thirds full of cider vinegar, the rest water; seal up. A pinch of whole blended spice improves them. Will send a sample to any unbeliever who sends address or calls’for them. Yantic. J. B T. Never-Fai kles. Ways of Serving Tomatoes. Editor Social Corner: I am well aware that everybody does not like to- matoes, but for those who do I have two excellent recipes. Here is a nice tomato créam: One quart of milk, one can of tomatoes, baking soda the size of a pea, salt, pep- per and a little butter. Put the milk in a vessel and bring to a boil. Put the | tomatoes into another two-quart kettle | ana when boiling put in butter. pepper and salt and soda, and then the milk. | Serve as oyster stew with crackers. Then a most palatable dish is made of tomatoes and bacon: Do not peel the tomatoes, but cut them in half crosswise. Grill them on a buttered broiler. Fry thinly-sliced bacon till crisp and put one or two slices of the acon on each tomato. The tomatoes may be fried and.served in this way if preferred I have another little recipe that may be of use to some reader afflicted .with asthma and 1 know from expericnce | that it will actually relieve this trou- ble: To three parts of strained honey add one vart of castor oil. Stir and take a 'fablespoonful three times a day. i enjoy. the-nice letiers and zood | ‘things of the Social Corner. May its members ever mcrease. Jewett City. DOROTHY. Helps for Every Day. Bditor Social Corner: I have. found some nice recipes in the Social Corner which have helped me, and I am prompted to reciprocate . with a few things - ‘Take a piece of crumb from a new loat of bread, work into Soft mass, and use it as though it were India rub- ber. Rub the wall always from the | ceiling" downwards to the floor. - This | method not only removes fly marks, but | also will be found satisfactory for re- | moving the dust from the wall paper. Always fold sheets hem to hem be- | fore putting them on the line. Then | pin the hem edges to the line. letting | the. fold hang doivn. the whipping of . the gorners and | lessens the wear and tear; at the same thre the sheet will be more casily pull- ed into shape for froning. Small papler-mache tubs are the best “dishpans,” of you have fine ching to be kept without a chip, 1f a turkey or chicken is rubbed in- side una out with lemon it will make’| the meat white, juicy and tender. Boiled ham is a tasty, summer meat if_served cold. , When hoiling, add a teacupful of vifiegar and six or eight | sloves to . gallon of water, and ‘the favor of theh meat will be vastly im. proved. On taking the ham from the liquor plunge it at once into eold water This prevents | | the | the fat and meat | bow! scraper | & spoo: | book; { dollars with surpnsing ¢ ENTHU stantial savings for all are offering. 1,920 DOZEN OR 23,040 PAIRS IN A prominent Philadelphia manufact Men's men of Norwich would buy them in doz them. the country at 15¢c a rair, 2 for 25c. AT 10c ‘A PAI Every this opportunity. Buy one o little price. ~ Our Mid-Summer Clearance Sale We have struck the keynot.a of genulne economy. deavors have been put forward to make this Mid-Summer Clearance’ Sale an event long to be remembered, as a season of liberal and subs Make it a point to visit this store Today for any and all your merchandise needs. An Exiraordinary Offering of MEN’S HALF HOSE THREE OR MORE PAIRS FOR EVERY MAN IN NORWICH. Half Hose. We made him an offer for his entife stock. was big—very big, but the price was low, and we had confidence that the They are fast black, full seamless half ho: combed Egyptian yarn—a stocking that ki J] ¥ie will place on Sale—1920 dozen. or $1.00 for a box of 12 pairs. ze from 95 to 11',—all neatly packed in one dozen boxes. Other Special Values in Men’s Wear. SIASM RUNS HIGH AT Our best en< who participate in the very unusual values we i ——————SSSCSS Millinery AT GREAT REDUCTIONS At 48c—All our Trimmed Outing Hite, Vallup s high as $1.95 THE LOT—ENOUGH TO PROVIDE [t 8¢ ALL our Wiomen's Dress iats At $3.98—All our Kine Dress Hats i % &—Pattern Hats and the “G ionee-deoldad, te, disbentinus, making Smart Tallored Hats—former pr The qulity | o5 high as $18.50. Vzo—Molre Belting in black, and « full iine of wanted c ings—special price %c an At 10c—Brilliant Taffeta Ribbon, en lots at the price we could offer made of two-thread been sold in the best shops of At white o Inch full (hem 3% inclres wide white, black and colorw, welue 12%c. At 16c—Molre Taffel Ribbon, full § inches wide, in all the fashiona ble shades, value 19c Handkerchiels 2/sc—Women's Plain Hemstitched and Cross ar Handkerchiefs at %i4c each, 2 for be. 34c—~Women's Colored Border Hemstitches Handkerchlefs at 30 each, 2 for 10¢ At 4c—Men's Plain White and Colored R, 3 for 25¢ Men, r dozen while you can get them at this At Aty MEN’S BATLI¥G SUTS At Clearance Pric Cotton at 59 from Part Wool at 89c from $1.00. Pure Worsted at $1.29 fron Heayy Worsted at $1.59 from_ $2.00. Fine Worsted at $1.98 from $2.50. MEN’S AUTO DUSTERS At Final Clearance Prices. Exactly 38 Dusters, marked Low; 11 at $1.19 from $1.50 as fol Women's Waist: WOMEN’'S $1.00 WAISTS at 50c Women's White Lawn Wa open front and long sieev of wide hamburg and pleated-—actual WOMEN'S BLACK PETTICOATS 69c WOMEN'’S $5.00 DRESSES at $2.98 Women's » Princess Gingham newest eff genuine 35, ses’ One-plece of Pure Linen ambray in all the :na fashionable colors 0 Dresses at $2.98. and Dr and WOMEN'S WASH SUITS at $3.98 Women's and Misscs® Waeh Suits, a big var in_white, tan, rose and comprising our entirc st up to $8.50—all now at $3 lavender— K that sold| 9. CHILDREN'S $1.50 DRESSES 98¢ Children’s Chambray Dr navy and cadet—some polka. k are ses in plain| with white full pleated, aney pin- dots—Sk and dress Is finished with ing, sizes 6 to 14 ye Specia! Values from Summer Underwear At 12/5c-—Children’s Fine Lisle Vests an odd lot reduced from 25c. Ribbed Vests in a styles, regular price At 11c—Women's y of At 22c—Women's Ribped Union Sul low neck and sleeveless, lacel immed, regular 3%c Suits a —_—————————————r—— Second Floor Special Oiferings. Dresses, Suits, Petticoats, Shoes, etc. should crowd our department until the closing hour tonight. WOMEN'S WASH PETTICOATS 60c -made/WOMEN'S 50c DRAWERS 39 Ofher Deparimen:s on Sale Border Hemstitched — Handker chiefs, value be Men's Plain White Hematitched 00. 0. 15 at $1.59 from § 7 at $2.98 from $3. At 7e 5 at $5.39 from 36 Handkerchiofs at 7c each, 4 for Light- Welght Rubber[At 12)5¢—Women's Embroidered te, value $6.00. flanakerchiets, very pretty de 1 signs, Art Depariment At 25c—Piliow Slips, al' finished and ready for pillow, with and with out ruffle, a variety styies, value 39c At 390—Finishsa and square, with nd braided edge: Embroidered value MEN'S SUMMER SUITS At Final Clearance Pric At $ 9.50 reduced from 3$15.00 $18.00. At $1250 r At $16.50 reduced from Pillow from Slips, ruffle, value Pillow oblong fringe Tops, fnished with cord of ruffie, very pretty lesigns, only one of m kind—speoial prices $1.98 and $2.98, actual vahe $5.00 to $10.00. EMBROIDERED BANDS Muslin Embroidered Bands plain and scalloped edges, in white nd ecru, widths 2 to 5 Inches—ver mieh ih demand for wash drenses special prices 19c and 20¢ & yard value 250 o b9 EMBROIDERIES at 12/40 a YARD. Hamburg Hmbrolderics, Baby Bdges ] s 2 § only, with inserting to maich, very Women's Black Underskirts of good 3 oy a 2% e alue quality cotton thffeta, made with| §8inty Fatierns at 12ic a yard, valu ; ; Hosiery ing and with deep floun: WOMEN'S CHAMBRAY SKIRTS 80| . .k PRI Women's Separate Chambray House|At 9e—Childrin's Black ed Hoslery Skirts, in blue only, trimmed with at 9c a pair, 3 for 38csvalte border in white—also of percale in whits grounds with black figures. Il at prices that Women's Striped Gingham Wagh Petticoats, color blue and white only made with desep flounce and two ruffies. 123%c At 10c—Infants' and Children's Becks black, white and with plaid tops, value 25 Women's Drawers 4f Fine Cross Bar|At 9¢e—Women's Fast Black Seamloss Muslin, trimmed with embroidery Hoslery at 9¢ a palr, 3 for 2be a o0 of Niinmoolt, made um: |At 116—Women's Hoalery, ‘black and ¥ with wid lace edging tan, also Black Lace and Black and ‘inserting and ribbon run, At ‘2"/’" M\'V ", “‘!“l'G Lisle Héi WOMEN'S $3.00 SHOES at $1.95 i L g Sl N R Women's Oxfords in tan, calf, vici|At 19c——Women's Embroldered Hostery. black lisle value 25¢ 15c—Women's White Hoslery, regular 165c a palr. 25c—Women's —white, tan, champag 26c A pair Boys’ Wear and velour calf and patent 'eather in with silic embroidery. a variety of styles, Oxfords, Ties and Strapped Pumps, regular $2.50 and |At $2.00 Shoes at $1.95 a | TODAY Women’s Gloves Lisle Hoslory - ce Tisla gulir Hoster At vaiue a many At Final Clearance Prices At 10¢~-Boys’' Eton Caps, value 25¢ 1,200 pairs of Women's Elbow |A% 19c—Boya’ Feach Hats, vatue 800 [Length Lisle Gloves, in black, [t 39¢—Roys’ Golf Caps, value 50c. Value |white and colors—these arc|At 19c—Boys’ Blouse Walsts, value 25c. v At 89c—Boys' Bathing its, value The 1 5 na orismans soia at ioe ana B o | TR, 75e & pair—price now 16c a[At 39c—Boys' Wash Suits, value 69c at §9c value $1.00—at 800 valu Dair. s skin n it. By this treatment ome oft casily, leaving underneath ‘intact. To make cinnamon rolls, work a lit- tle butter and sugar into the dough with powdered cinnamon to iaste. Kneaq_s--ll; make into rolls and set for a final rising. An excellent way to clean out mixing bowl, 5o that none of the batter 1s wasted, is to use a card This easily shape and fs simpler to use than and then skin the to the bow!l letter may read like a recipe but T am more practieal than Nt It may not help a1l the sister: help a few. ETLIZAB! This erary. but T hope it may Central Village. STH. name that comes into my hand, 1 should of justice, 1 ask you where so0on be rich. You see, I've no objec- the evidence that the bullet hit Pete tion to silver dollars. I would giadly | Jackson?"—Tit-Bits have a million of them. - - THE WOMAN AT HOM Various Cente: Noxwich. St. Louls proudly proclaims_herself the leading buyer of hickory handle Remedies for Ivy Poison. Boston is & center of letters. Editor Hoelul Corner—This s the | York 18 the most cosmopolitan Ameri time of>year when people get poi- [¢An city, Charieston I8 aristocratl soned by fvy and when it s conven- | Devond the fear of competition, = 8 fent to Know what to do at omce, 1|¥rancisco holds the record f o herewith submit @ cheap and simple | N8 back” after getting out of cond il oy tion, lveston was ‘once the hor Obtain a.d of powdered | of Jack Johuson—Loulsville Coirle tartaric acid affectod part. | Journal. Sprinklé the powdered acic on the = part while the place is wet. Let it Would Be Awful. dry with the powder on it. The po It is possible that political dirrer = der will crystalize. When it is crys- | nces may cause even an Ananias club From Dimes to Dollars. | talized and the "affected part dry, |to’split up into factions.—Washington Editor Social Cormer: The dime is|wash the crystals off. If onc appli- | Star, my favorite eoin. I llke it becnuse it |cation does not affect instant cure, is small. and bright; annd shiny: and |relief from pain, burning and itching, because T like silver. Ior years I have | ropeat it. The writer was, at one been in' the habit of saving the dimes [time so badly poisoned that his bod that are-given me in change, as many |and hands were covered with white people save pennies. Tep-dimes make | blisters. Twb applications of the a doliar, Of these pretty, little, insig- | above remedy instantly kilfed every nificant coins, ten make the ' doll blister. The poison is an alkaline o Toyoak a0 aling women, hers st o 000 Which, abstractly, often seems unob- | acid; the tartaric acid is saline and Mm i s freaceis tainable. Many a time my jingling lh;"fiflet-:n Ivmll;nl .ilunt A . Innl Il‘flf‘l( ::wumt dimes have helped me over a sudden nere is another first-class remedy hw botly are fmporant, Toth” i emargency. Occasionally, they have |Obtatuable in the country where hix fmoops umu':'um" odocal © procured for my family some special [ JFUK Ix not to he 4 unxmur,-no....m.m(m onal. Thing that was speclally desired. 1] SWeet fern leaves a mucous LAl SULBoSIory rumedy. While DF. bury th 3 chamols poueh, | tea and apply that in Ehoop's Hestorative 1 whoily an i teriel (res I nake & point of forgetting them | PAXGs of "the body afected et "Tho Kestoraitve. reaches thoughot e Until Soine beautiful need presents it- |- 1 KNOW What the- unnoysnce of ivy _%;i-q-v-na A Belf. Now, however Ving dimes | po1Son s This i inforuation worth | E“ e aluents, . for & definite purp interested "K":.'mn JUHN HENRY ,w,,w stk ora i savings bank 8y Norwich. Hoals o] woa iu the postal vings bank sy 1lwem. and i 'h!lu & e o Bve . am glad It 18 to be put in operation in s i . Sates LervO ys countrs. It will enable those From Missouri. Wastod ¢ brelie .Tm,:h;,,_d whose savings are of necessity small] An attorney was address ury Ko Dr. ‘Hliov s {o e their deposits without humil={yn e S A2 3 mn_nuvw ia—ppw el (13 iution, and %0 to exchange dimes for] “Gentlemens he sald, “Witnessel syem. P lerity. T am ng dimes,in order to have, as The Builetin advises, a “little wad” all ready by November. Since I have be gun to save for this purpose. T am in- ler‘lted w see how rapidly my dimes accumu o @It now sav 1 could save every one son's bodx: wuw the have sworn heard the report have sworn that th fire his gun: they saw the flash and they have sworl they suw Pete Jack son fall flat; they have sworn that this butlet was extracted framm Pete Jack- hul, gentlarsen. P Dr. Shoop’'s Night Cure St