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LOOKED AT LOGICALLY. The Rtev. Mr, Nugent of Newbury- port, Mass, speaking to his congre- gutlon of u recent evening in faver of no-license, presented these logical thoughts (o his hearerd, as reported in The News of that city: ¥rom n bushel of corn the distiller Horwich Bulletin nud ohfier = s —— - r = | gets four gallons of whiskey, 114 YEARS OLD. Which retafls at . 11650 — = e —— The farmer gote . v . A% Mol e price, 126 & week; H0c & | The [ 5 government geis. 4.40 P 0o u yer The rallrond company 4,00 - - .‘—9«-’. - TEER e manufacturer gets. . 100 Fntered at the Postoffics st Norwloh, | The drayman gets ...... A8 RS, S0 SOONEsE b ‘The retaller gets . 7.00 e :":""' Onttes The conetimer geis runk Tujiattn Busin The wite gets Hungry BonsEs Y44 The children wet L. Ramn Willimantle Offiee, The politician uetn L OMce The man thet votes Heense gots What? “Woe unto him that giveth his nelghbor drink, that puttest thy bottles 1o him and maketh him drinken aleo. hone 216, T Deo. 12, 1910, THE EXTREME COLD SNAP. | Vérb must agreo with thelr sobstan- tve i person and nomber, and put- It o ot custemary for the tempera- | (.ei agree with thou, (f put, thew ture in this iatiude to fgil to 14 de- | 8 FETEE EEE ML ot and ses een helow zero as carly as Decem- | ..y Who mukes the drunkard? The beri0th, aitheugh sccaslonnlly the dce- | .,i,qn, The waloon is just as much o ren have gathered thetr whole crop in | qrunkard-muker #w the man who the first half of Jamuary. With the | |0 8 m o cemaker, Fiut smortneas of water In Norwich wnd | . hi (he shocmaker 8 proud of his hhe mhoriness of water in the twol .. quct, the saloon keeper in sshumed onda and the necessity for Taying u | be his rorwithatanding the fact that e of pipe and installing & pumping | hig buginess is ax national and Jawful tatbom at Trading Cove before relief | i the public school, 'n bo assured, it 18 net pleasant 10| why makes the drunkard? The sa- ntemplate the freezing of the ponds | 40, “hich swill materially deerease the vol Who makes the saloon? The law v of water on hand. It 18 not| wn, makes the law? The voter trange that the people who are duy- “And evegytime you vote 1o license ng all their table and potable water W 2 1-2 cents a quart; and the theu- sarwin who are depending upon nearby eprings and the everflow of fresh- ater tanks are gatting more nerven am they sea the vielhis aupgiy in all directions growing lews; or that th nufacturing and businass cenecer: are apprehensive of the day when wa- e 16 run their steam bellers may be o mearce or lew in pressure that they m. have to stop business There sheuld he hustling to reach at o earliest possible mament the relief hich a ftemporary pwnping station Al Trading Ceve wrook will give. The meling of smow is o slow and Hresome precass; but on the high land about the ity necessity is compelling the people to do even this All that i Ifkely to save Norwich from the worst of experiences is a oun rain and Norwich was ar o earncstly praying for hoa caving tham 't Is today THE HEROIC COAST GUARD. “There I8 ne nobler service In this ceuntry than that of life-saving squads on the eoust of this grest re pobfe, In the thirty years since its rganization it has to its credit 102,000 os saved and property totalling $166.000,000 in ur The Massachusetls coast guards ave taken the brung of the werk, and g propoertion of the rescues have san made along the Gape Cod ceast, where there have been about 1,100 wrecks. Deeds of the rarest neroism wre recownted of the men of all ata- dons and ne hazard has been deemed 100 great in the perfermance of du- jex cangarous at all times The New Engiand coast is a fruitful field for wrecks and the past half- sntury has witnessed some 14,000 dis- asters along these shores. It is stramge the justice of pension- | not expected % the men who are disabled in thls oy ervice, and the women who have lost The Christmas smile is a good thing their husbands, has not been recog- | 1o take shopping with you, and it has nised by the government. There are|a =oothify effect upon the girl behind ne braver or more deserving men to e tound anywhere than velunigers for this work A WILD STATEMENT. Secretary MacVeagh, in his annual report takes not f the statement ade by Senator / ch that $300,- 000,086 cowtd be saved if the business f the government Was run upon bus- state csw primcipies, and makes the fol- ks owing comment upon this subject: Compliment a woman's ne When 1 4 the fact that the entire | nineteen times twent; sréinary expenditures of the govern- | ymilingly remark that you are a ge ment last yeer were less than 3660,- | tleman of good judgment. 100,000, ud when a great part of these — - — expenditures is not reducible at all, Nine oaks taken from the Mount as, for exampie, the interest on the | Vernon estate were planted in Prov- et and the pensions, one can readily | idence last week. In its tree enter- <ee that there probably is not well more than $780,006,000 zros: very left the #aloon you take vour place among those on whom the woe is pronounced, for, “Thou puttest thy botile to him 4 makest him drunken also’ The | saloonkeeper is a8 good as In that legic? His buminess is s0d as the law that sanctions it Is that logie? | “The taw Is as good { who made Ts that | the maioenkeeper s | voter who gives him his | i no difference. The | to license the saloon is partner { business.” The Rev. into words, plame in & and abet the sid “more | he | timit his i as the voter logic? Then good as the licenze. There votes in the it man who Mr. and agent puts welght distributes the ide all who ald It needs not be to hiz elbow,” for energized to the he inel to traffic power to be EDITORIAL NOTES. Happy thought for tod rkest hours precede the ¢ The n—sun- never % The Christmass bazaar is one of the | entertainments that it is fashionable to come away from brok: | The Glover trial leaves no doubt that ver was a degenerate, and was d signed ome to a ba to These cities that pad the census re- | port would cry for succor if in time | of war their quota was made up | it The Santa Claus club cuts the gest dash in December in the cities where it looks after the poor children. caker Cannon knows how to quote | Scripture effectively, and he rather likes to toss out a phrase when it is the coui 14 of the that t very mu e coldest nay rest winter cannot hold an h colder. ired still being run winter there seems than in Connec The in Maine and to be less automobiles severe Providence lacks not u which to save $309,000.000." Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burne It is evidently easier to criticise the | that to be surrounded with p nanegement of the government than it | makes her cheerful. Nothi nore s to economically administer national tating to some people affairs. The locality argument for ap- — propriations as demenstrated in the Considering the time that has been bills for public bulldings, in the river [ Srent on the Glover rder e, it nd harbor bills, and the navy yard | does not seem as if the probe was a sudget, indicates how difficult it is to | very long one that the detectives used. namize even where econoemy might a— e Somn The shoot n in Maine closes i - on Wednesday of this week, and of JUDGE BALDWIN. late the crusty snow has made the Ihe man who said Judge Baldwin | TUHIZ Very poor and unsatistactory. was tou okt for poMvies and didn't| o .ne i Tolinwel Y A ponything abeut the game| ;)40 weather, would mean at least st have changed his opinion about g y = six weeks of sleighi bis time. The judgs acted like 2| connmetiont ich past master during the campaign [ g and since his election he hasa't put| s foot in it very many times. Bven n the selection of his staif he seems have been long-headed enough 0 pleases all e ses Looks as though the guverner-elect has a few g8 up his sleeve that his friends, ind enemies. 100, mnever thought vere there—Walerbury Democrat Judwe Bal@win looks over the capi- ol at Hartford. Judge Baldwin sits down with the demoeratic senaters at 1eat, Judge Baldwin picks a military aff. Judge Baldwin instructs the awgiver in law, and Juege Baidwin shves many ather demenstrations of Eprising enargy and pelitical adapt- (hility. Preseat public conditions political alignments in this state ght be considerably differcnt had | idgs Paldwin tuken a leading place the democratic party a few years carifer.Waterbury American un educational movement for the p 3 pose of encourneing grester Interest 2 n the work, by means of lectures, an And all of this is unquUestionadly | tantevn alide demar and the fact that It is so makes | ers' Ineitutes Mareot age Umit wpen (he chiof justce- | of aut samples of commo | 0 lowk " nore UAnCCeIWATry seeds, 1bel | Ather states make sweh @ position for s - mateliing. o ve removals in such states, for feeblo ! farmer to familiarize himself with incumbents usually resign. Gevernor | pure sceds and their impurities.—bhil. Baigwin would not be Hkely to veto | adelphia Pres w LIl doing away with the age Nmit (nicago is enly 5,000 greater in popwlation than Berlin, dul Chicaxo, when she has Berlin's vewrs to her dit, will net wind any comparisen kely to be made. Senator (‘lark has demonstrated that 00 will buy a first-class dinner the world kuows that it can- even n second-class appedite York Interviews con- the carrying of the American the Seiwh pele, Caplain Bart- €l tadks and Hary Whitney just e Adulterated Seeds. The wild ganlic” wh tions of Pennsyivan xious plant first seen in 3 A farmer in Southern Indiana secured some seed the Ohio Valley and notice e of the omfonlike sulting crop. He ga thought. as “the en might have been car ha And yet within wheat from that secti try was refused oy « of the malodorous gar ? which are about the same size ree years the 1 of the coun- ers be wheat grains. In ertain localities land values have been sorcly affected by the presence of this weec Corn, aside all farm seeds are open to adulteration and liahie to carry weed seeds.” In view of this, and in | addition labor y oper: the government has been carying on Time for Maine to Get in Lin Maine se let us change election fromn September to Nove Bven the Old Guard w see u new light. it be recal that when Taft e to Maine ar commended shis state ror kesping Ilal %0 long in the senate, he cut the repu Hean vote largely, though he added | that this state oueht to change iennial elections to November. in this matter Taft is sound M folks deplore (hat Maine has > vete | at all in 1910.—Lewiston Journal, publican. { He's @ bad man, right. He pu w0 Goldfield saloons out of bus ness Root e ne” Na: drank ‘e up!'--Detroil Free Preeas { i ors. CONCERNING WOMEN, prtddhaiin The most recent recriit 1o the ranks of fashionable shophkeepcrs is Lady Angeln ¥ wiho has followed in the Tootsteps of Mrs, Patrick Heron-Max- well and Mrs, Wellexley, a relation throngh mnrriage with the Duke of Wellington, and opensd o flower shoy in George street, Portman square, Lon- don, over which she hus for a sign My Bbop” written in neat #ilt Jet- ars, | Mrs, Harriet M. King i #aid 1o be | the awner and acthal manager of one | of the largest farms in the world. Her farm 1% known as the Banto Gertrude ranrli, and 18 near Corpus Christl, Tex. Its pasturage s reported to afford | wruzing for 100000 caftle, 50,000 sheen | wnd nearly 3,000 horses. Mrs, King 1% | #id to keep 200 employes busy on her raroh and to find no difficulty in man- aging them. Pwvery sallor on the Delaware is the proud possessor of a comfort bas, which was presented to him by the W wn Temperance undon man's Chris of the #ta { Delaware through Mrs, Ella Thatcher, tive world's superintend- ent of work among saitors, There were B8 hus for the milors, who responded 10 the gift with rousing checrs, 164 by thair commander, These comfort bHags are made of denim and contain sewing matertal, plasters, diminfoctant reme- dlen for sores and burns, seissors a new testament, 8 hymnai and a letter from the woman Wwho made the bog, jub much a letter as @n anxious moth- “r wouid write to her own son if he was going away 1o be a Jackie Tar. CHRISTMAS GIFTS. Things to Pleass the Grandmother. While grandmother may appreciate the useful gift, a lacy trifie will bring joy to her heart. A preiiy bow of black marabou fitting around the neck and finahed with tasseled ends wil be un- expected, A black net fan with an appliqued porder of Iavender romes painted on satin will bring back her youtnful days, ' A pretty shirred girdie of black eatin finished in front with a satin covered uckle or a dainty jabot of black and white net will give much pleasure. A collar and cuff set of sheer white lawn embroidered with black or lav- ender dots, the coliar being finished with a pleated jabot, i3 pretiy, Also there are s0ft warm quiited Jap- anese vests to be worn under the coat ake a thoughtful gift for the ndmother would love a scarf of black Chantilly lace, or maybe one of the heavier Spanish lace, while from a small granddaughter could come a pretty breastpin. Things to Please the Grandfather. A calabash pipe will interest grand- father for many days before it is thor- oughly ripened. A pretty jardintere with fern would help to brighten Tobacco pouches are always accept- able. A compaet and useful one in leather or suede could have his mono- a potted pin room. gram embroidered or burnt on two sides, ifather enjoys an after dinner 13h tray made of a berry ucer covered with woven sweet grase would be appropriate. On one side the grass is woven to form a pocket for matches viceable woolén scarf is desira- ing of fine wool, it will give warmth without bulkiness Bath towels are a necessary comfort and if grandfather likes a morning plunge here is an opportu to add some daint ork to a useful gift by embroic Uses for Sawdust. Sawdust may be made to sers number of purposes for the housew!fe. 1~It is splendid for removing sedi- ment in glass and earthernware, etc, —A handful thrown on a dying fire help to revive it. Well dried and heated and sprin- le #spots in carpets, etc. ful in remoyving these ob- onable marks. It should be rubbed left for a few hours, treated again if necessary. 4—iieat some sawdust on a pie per in the oven, and nt remedy for m on metal or other polisk 5—Rub some dry sawdust on article 1at have been polished and the polish will last longer. 6—Slightly moistened saw. kled on outhouse floors, verandas or larder. etc, and brushed off with a hard broom will clean the floor without mueh trouble. st aprin- Fashionable Muff. Woman in Life and in the Kitchen y four times, provided it is completely submerged in cold water between, and then gently shaken and dried before uge Care of Dish Cloths and Towsls, No articles in kitchen use are so Jikely 1o be neglected as the dish cloths and dish towels, In washing these am - monia, if pro) used, is 8 groat Put a teaspoonful into the water whith the clohits are washed They should he washed every day. Fub sosp on them. Let them stand for half an hour in the water, then rub them out thoroughly, ringe and dry out of doors in the air and sun. The result will be | fresh and sweet smelling clothe and towels. A Consumptive's Testimony. I have lost three members of family with coneumption. T had to go in t age of 19 1 sput at #1 T weigh 145 #ound in lungs. The my At the Now am same way. Aood in clote, Doctors say 1 cure was wimpie Take decp long breatis through the nose: exhale wlow!y ihreugh the mouth Do this wherever you are. On trolley cars 18 a fine opportunity ¢ B ih back of the Jungw, Bend hands between the knees, and bre LW D., fn Chicago News Boston Brown Bread. T fncione ton brown bresd made entir ol whea flour. A 1ady here makes it and sells it ut the howpitsl for a liveithood: One cup sour m two-thirds cup Aark molasses, two and one-nhalf, cups of flour, one teaspooniul of " one tea- spoonful of butter, one teagpoonful of #oda, Put into cank in a %ettle of water and boll two and one f hours. Vogue of White Kid. Kid ornaments are Prom soft Jexther petals can be eut, Hutter over wire, and wings disks can be fashioned o ¢ forme ma cocardes and On Mack oute ing hats these white ornaments are ex- tremely modish. They o out the Black and white fdea ihat is prevalent in fashion’'s world. practical point which commends leather ornaments. A water toueh can be given to white kid whers by a_garfenla can be changed eameliia and =0 on. a Turpsrtine for Roaches A few drops of t entine where cockroaclies eongregn terminate them at once, whil Christra three Fruit Cake. cupfuls of brown pound of spoont the sl 1 of ing must currants be s ix all vake for thr ith buttersd thoroughly ee hours in pans aper. NORWICH MAN DID NOT GIVE FACTS.| Statement About New London's Water Suoply Far from Correct. t Riet statement Konomoc The fashionable new valuable pessibilities for who has an old half-worn number of pieces of fur which fashioned into one with a telling effect er has muff has the woman furrier rip t into | The woma 4n ma’ uff for herseif, since the ple and the muff iz really nothin more than a sort of flat bag for th hands. Frills of Fashion frem Paris. Tverything tends to smaller cot fures. Some have kimono sleeve: an embroideries in high are nd 1 lacedom. Persian Chant iy Most in black ggestin orienta fragrance of the flowers are and every year by et new aroma is perfe A new and de hiful edo Mi a. and e who like ental scents will certainly popular, for it ls delicious. an expensive me, but lasti required d lite ontinue to be | from $s.00 to $200.00. We alsc have a fine line Fobs, Bracelets, Silver Toilet Ferguson & OPEN EVERY EVENING. T mupposed | There ig an added | Diamonds Our selection of Diamonds affords a styles of Rings, Brooches, Scarf P Our Diamond Rings at $16.c0, $35.00, $50.00 and $75.00 are exceptionally fine. dants, Gold Beads, Gold Brooches, Cuff Buttons, Scarf Pins, Linto Lake Konomoe, ax it is desired o #tore it there, There might be water in Barnes reservolr any time it was wanted by siiply shutting the gate. I lLake Brandeges, the third iake from which New Lomdon Graws wate is more than half foll, The water from tids lake i uscd omy 1o suppiy power for the gumping #1atlon at Mill street—Now London Day. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What Norwich Believes, Mr Editor: Thanks be to the fujcer of government that Old Norwich stiil maintaine and beljeves in the Magna charter, by the people, 254 in the of Independence or il of « of New Englond wiil holdg that “This i u govern- seophe, by the peoyie, and people,” and with Cleve n, with JAocoln. #he 24 |"You can tool some of the peopie Lof the tima, you can fool ail of the per- the tme; but vyou an't he people il of the g oreich wtill belleves it | #ons have other privileges than me 11y to pay bills ut the @ictation of “The | Bigger Ones.” | - waler 19 and the J o, for heaven's sale {can out the militia Norwich, Conn., Dee, 16th, 1919, A Happy Outlook. | Mr. maitor: Thers in o bappy outioor for Norwich, after all. A secaker one of the meetings for o water m ply, in attempting to spur on the ers 1o immediats action looking to solutfn of the emergency, mzde v | cotivus remark hardly characteristic of the conduct of the ladies. oters Gidn't wake o wisw Tearf pointing to nin head for tho nteresis of etiernen who are 48 28 shown in their fine d them all right ti | The Tea Gown. years ago the tea gown was Zentesl Wrapper ar in the lace vn the on the long treamér bows which tied e gown of modest ow the tea gown 10 the extravagance comes to us in sty te as eizborate i ing gow of white =il tr ace and having a slaborately embroidered and on with black mousselin beads. Ei e gowns ployed choice of many ns, Etc., ranging in price $18.00, $20.00, $25.00, of Gold Neck Chains and Pen- Sets, Manicure Sets, Etc. Charbonneau, FRANKLIN SQUARE. you. to a life-long Iron Curtain Ruffies. Tron entire edge of a going as near as possible Then s o opposite tain and igon towurd Hoid edge of ruffle s iron over seam and gath ethed =aves time Drying Celery Tops. Celery is sometimes very scarce, and verr zood plan is te save the tops of 1! the celery this tima of the vear ! 3 n WiLs! he nice leav put them in a paper bag seasoning soups or dre Pretty Table Decoration. ax is @ pretty and effestive dec- for the dinner table. It is not CXpeisie, 4s iL can be used (hwee or fenox Soap is worth knowing. Get acquainted with it. Your grocer will introduce And the introduction will lead Colored clothes and white; wood- work; dishes: pots; pans—Lenox Soap is good for one and all. | | .| oroidery | AUDITORIUM .5, Tremont Quartette THAT COMEDY FOUR BOYIF. & EVANS, Pecentric Comedy Smging snd | Talking. Margaret—BRA LN SIVTERC—Pdith In & Refimed Wusienl Skit, Tl REHEARSAL, SOV, DANIVLE, Lmpersonnior. ADMISSION, 10c. EVENINGS, RESERVED SEATS, 2 BREED THEATRE Performances CHAS. MeNULTY, Leanss 2.30 Feature Picture, 7.30 “THE ENGINEER'S SWEETHEART " 5.45 5 s Doris Wood, Seprane. P. ‘ ‘WM. F. BAILEY fBuccessor to A. T. Gerdner) Hack, Livery and Boarding Stable 12-14 Bath Street. HORSE CLIPPING A SPECIALTY. AUTOMOEBILE TO RENT. Telephone £3% aprzsd flral Designs and CutFlowers For All Occasion GEDULDIG’S, 77 Cedar Streen Individuality POLI'S ‘ OPENING The 'libpl 'éLAYERS The Lion and the }Mo”use Is What Counts In st WILLIAM L. WHITE, Pholography‘ Pianmno Tuner, Bringing out . real permonality 18 4 th A St, Taftvilie the fin. ,olnts in . little - i — traits that mak we are. Toned dow pirtt of F. c. nEZR an art thing of TUNER a ready-m 1t you was 122 Prosnect B e AT o e Tel 811 MNorwich Gt HAVE YOUR LAIGHTON, The Photographer, sppostte 2ugisd ¥ratches and Clocks Rapaired ELL, Norwich BSavings Boclety We have a full line of S i dy Sleighs _Slqi immediatz delivery, including , Business Sleighs and somz Spzed Sleig are ready to dispose of at a remarkably low price. M. B. RING, Telephone 553-5. 23 Chestnut Street KEEN KUTTER Carving Sets CHAIN PLIERS THE HOUSEHOLD, Bulletin Building 74 Franklin Street s HA / Vi MO RS This um: saving dewvices, chine, The HAMMOND does the fine typewnt ng Let us give pense or obiigation on The Hammond Typewri 113 Church St., corner Chapel 5t., N