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2 lg! 8 usiastically favorable to the tion. The enemies of utilities commiasion have busy and cunning in fheir of the nmu‘ nn'.m ’n;r:udfl commerce aside from N lll-nlmfnnlnd of corporation 4 that provided in the 2 ‘pudlic utilities bill, delicately but cun- % introduces provisions of con- ol that would, if adopted, strike in ‘Cirection in the way of business contrel.” It is apparent that the supporters of the public utilities bill must do | wometbing more than to assert that a © majority of the members of the cral assembiy have pledged thems: i for the measure and patiently wait for 4 them to keep their promises. Vigorous metivity appears to be the only thing that can prevent the promises of both political parties from being broken. ® ART AND ST. PATRICK. Our Irish fellow citizens will if“iiig‘ t piace in the selebration, with a pipe in the hat-| neckties, the old clay papier-mache pigs are the oufput a ceunter-art spirit, and are. so ‘wontemptueus that no one can blame sincere Irish fellow citizens for them as irreverent anl vul- bols which decency should tenance. . _ There are fitting symbols and pretty Sentiments which become this anni- i the ward and to have pointed out that 3ts fliree leaves symbolize the Trinity. “The harp recalls the method by which Piae o0 early Christian days spread through- &1 of northern Eu rope, from one hamlet to amother, from v ome court to another, from one land to its melghbor. So must have spread a - wood deal of the teachings of Christ, . recited to the chord of th chanted in metre and appealing with thelr beauty and poetry as with their g message of love and hoj % Hers is one of many kindly senti- ments for the day: ‘“May love, joy and peace in Ouid Ireland increase, defying fll wind and dull care!” VICTIMS OF THIN ICE. It is at the beginning and end of winter that lives are lost because of 1hin lee and in the spring is the time «when the ice is most treacherous. The Worcester Gazette says: reports of drowning fatalities through- out New Fngland, numbering more 1-1 & half-hunidred during the wint ell serve as & warning for all Who il seek sport om the ponds and streams. The ice has been of unusual thlckness this wister, but at best, ice, over running water, is and demands care on the part of all who venture upon it. “If the season has scored a half- deaths 50 far, there is reason o believe that @ still greater record will be made during the weeks now at hand when ponds are breaking u; At ths season of the vesr it takes But & few hours for the rising sun to homeycomb thick ice. The signe of weakness are definite. When the ice to show streaks of black that evidence of thawing, the sign be a warning to keep off. It weems a pity that lives must be sacri- ficed; just becawse young people will #1ve way to the impulse to have just one more skate, or fishermen one more xay’s sport before the ponds break up. dles now u false bottom, or the l‘l(flll‘ pack- or any other device by which thl without going -jato the differences in ‘weights and measures in foreign coun- tries and in different parts of this country. Uniformity of law is some- thing state * Jeglslatures have not aimed at and apparently take little in- terest in. _ It is clear that a natienal law weuld answer every purpose. EDITORIAL NOTES. It takes mo spurs to ride a hebby, but it takes a good face-and & fair amount of resolution. The extra’ gession of cougress is likely to have some of its llunthm] taken up by the revolution in Mexico. Mud and marbles in the spring al- ways did stir up relations. ‘What boy can keep clean under such conditions? Sir Edward Grey thinks present- ‘ef | day preparedness for peace, if not held up, .is likely to be the destruction of civilisation. e it If New England principle meant to- day what it énce did, Lorimer could not have thanked her senators for sav. ing his peit. American mjllionaires are showing London that they want the bast resi- dences in town and do mot esfe @ rap what they cost. Mrs, Marshall Field is said to be anxious to signalise the coronation of King George with her presence and an output of a million. The man who gets the habit of laughing heartily does mnot have to glve much attention to dfetetics for he can keep healthy without. ‘The Pennsylvania raliroad carried 150,000,000 passengers in 1910 with- out injuring one of them. This is a record mnot likely to be beatem. The corporation tax law has been pronounced constitutional and Uncle Sam has no one to deny that the $27,- 000,000 collected HRouia b The democratic mz:my in the Maine legislature is so dull that it is ered with instructions from as to what it must do, Some peaple in Massachusetts are @etermined that General Butler shall not have a statue erected in that state to commemorate him, if they cani help it Happy thought for today: The milk of human kindness is said to be one nr he best things in the world for the It makes all who use it mee hgtter. ¥ + General Butler may have been mak- ing money out of his country when it was in its life-struggle, but what a Iot of company he had that has mot been dishonored. An agricultural survey of New Loh- @on county would promote agricul- ture, which cannot improve without commercial benefit. Strength to your elbow, Congresgman Higgins. When the Panama canal is opened.| in 1915 the naval fleets of the world are to be at Hampton Roads, and this 18 likely to be the greatest sight in connection with the grand affair. It took the Massachusetts legisla- ture 14 years to pass a'law to pre- vent civil service examinations from taking on muck-raking impertinence with reference to acts in juvenile days. Music in the Home. A member of the faculty of _the Ethical Culture school of New: York urges the development of music in the home by unusual though slmple means. He would have the gr chl!ll learn to play upon his momm dishpan as an iftroduction to the key- board of the piano, and uate from thrumming upon & rubber band to the strings of a violin, -He mentioned also the triangle and the' vlmv!nnu as ex- { The man in th spoon with The incl:-'n counted - measures, le The woodwind turned the lewves; The quail, he had to whi: Those moeking-! are The IIO'-!ID'( SR t an u-deh ‘l‘a m.mum The cow tomsed off & sole; for No oue could* lov u well: Her, g and tipped ‘with She aho Tang a bell could play upon the comb; "Friey wiehed Ho hadnt come, 2 For ail the music that he knew “Hum, Sweet Him. —Harvey 'wminaon Loomis. UNCLE JEI “CHAT WITH THE LITTLE FOLKS. There. have heen 80 many answers to the hidden word puzzle that we to meleet the very beat of them; and to print the names otthn other competitors, so we may room for little stories of inter- kg A, eent in; u«! chlt,.fd hopes spdogine will sake \nen an interest ln tho The young Totks wre doing splendid- Iy and nu- will make our department as good as eny of the kind printed. THE HIDDEN WORD PUZZLE." ‘The Man in the Moon. What a jolly looking old fellow he is: Ism’t it fun to_watch his dear old face in the sky. I was going to bed dwin: went over the the city 1n his airship, but I got up in my dress apd-ran out on the street to him. Oh, my!-what tales he will tell of the naughty boys and girls who run the strests aiter datk end some of them gheep, playa when they bed, aslecp Totin, aged's, Nor: If the man \n the moon don't come down pretty soop he won't find fl;: way to Ne Norwich-—he may stop 8t Ly man’s m W{wo spoons, then he can wo u) eat Pease-brook por- ridge—J¢ w. Blair, sge 11, Norwich, The man - the moon must look down om us soon, and see that we have some good ‘water; for if he de- Jaya many more daye.’things will be than they _oughter.—Lincoln Cralwtord, ege 11, Norwich. The man in the moon is up to dae: he lives up pretty high; he does not need an aeroplane to sail around the Its funny e don’t go to bed, for when .everyone jis sleeping he is smiling up there in the sky and peep- ing, Wnll\l. Defllflns But i#f hewould come -down some day (perhamps he'd 'llle the Aotion) and tell us all that he has seen—there'd be a great com- motion.—Lillfan Callahan, aged 11, Norwich. " The man in the moon is up in the sky; I camnot tell how many Yeet high; bhe rises in the east and he sets in the west; when he goes to see his swegtheart he dresses in his best She . loves to see him coming, for he ; some day he will little w]l&—Efluh o ‘The man-in.the moon came tumbling down and asked his way to. Norwich; he went by the south dnd burnt his mouth with supping cold peas-por- | Conn, -Agn e.—Agnes Klosz, age 10, Taftville. The man ir the moon came down soon and asked his wav to Peasbrook; the brook was dry, and for water free from filtration.—Octave Morrill, ‘age 13, Norwich. 3 The man in the moon came too soon to quench his thirst in Nor- wich; with Stony, Pease, Bog Meadow 'lmew nflmfl wmwnwn, ,,..,.% ok S hdlfitm’ lb‘_l«‘fi“m age 1, tn)o > dawn to ‘?fiql;lu:t‘ 'h;l“‘n‘- were wed, I have ityed on bedns and ege ‘wich, and heard ¢ 11, Narwich. ; Thy in ked down last June upon drouth-stricken Nor- wich; ia looked to the north, e look- -ahuuun.nve ‘em Peas brook Rorwien T » b ] orw rad The man in fellow: he s siways his face 13 yellow, on & summer night he ines very bright, but in the daytime The man in the The man in the moon was a very 23 mans Be ploked’up sticka on shen- tossed him up in he 'sky, and he is up there now, I see. —Raymoud Whittaker, eged 9, Nor- wich, My papa and mamma say that as long as they can remember they heard g tie2xn o Ve Moo, ko he must be quite old. sometimes sings e song bt ehe of & YounE lady who liked him very mueh. She said she would not believe he ever did any wrong unless she him her- How nice it would be if every. y: thought . the, same of anl ;mxe boys and girls. Don’t you think so, Uncle Jea’—Anne. D. McDowell, age 9, Stoninston, Conn. The mén in the moon, With & silver spoon, came to test the water of Nor- wich; for the man ‘from the south poisoned his mouth with microbes in his porridge.—Earl Phillips, age 11, Norwich. The man in the moon lives up so u:h. at the very top of the sky; he d Bt come and shine at, noor, Bat Do untfl the the milky way. old man was very bold, and sawed wood on Sunday, 'is told; then God put him way up there obloouldntmuhle e folks no mor: such & hore. And st Shinkl this o1 mink_every nig much aa to say, happy as happy can be, for thes one here but me—3iss Lulmene Rioux, age 12, Jewett City, Conn. THE HIDDEN NAME PUZZLE. To solve this puszle, eut eut ‘the letters and place on a sheet of white paper and arrange them 5o as to TDell the name of the person the lets ters represent. When they: hidden name has been discovered write @ short story about the peraon, A prize Bok at the end of the month to two compatito Correct ' Answers of Hidden Word Puzzle, Helen Vhitaker, aged 12, Taftville, Conn. Marguerite M. Copeland, aged 12, Norwich, Copn. to0 ‘e did cry down Dora Moran, sged 10, Lavrel ‘Hill, orwich. o Lois Kinmey, ased 11, Norwich, Comer, Buih Hesp. aged 11, Tativitie, Cont. Yvonne aged Rul’h B. Wmhm!. aged 8, Leonard's Troy S Main, aged 11, Norwich, Conn. Carrie E. Main, age 5, Norwl Calvin Rawson Main, age 7, wich, Con: Ellen ll- Connelly, age 7, Norwich, Conn. Alfred Horigan, age 12, Conn. or. : A'Night- ]’ERRY AND BOCO SEE EYES IN THE WOODS Story for Little Folks. nunmu-nnyou' Jaughing end 11, Jewett C)ty, Norwich, | other monkey is still living. The Story of a Cow, By Geo, HoMinigworth, age 8, Norwich. | 1 was born out on the plams.. There ‘were. mymrc.vg there, too. Our brother, He was eruel He would Idt l.nd “vhlv al of the @ was not sol a lnu‘ time, and whln I was sold, my mother was sold the same man. We have lived here lor a great many years amd are very happy- LENA OF THE MOUNTAINS. Oh, 1 all you little le who read this little story could have but known little Lena. She was just the sweet- est little girl in -the o world end living there away up in the heart of the Rocky ns, seemed like some Dbeautiful flower dropped flfll‘t down from' some sky Her bome wes 6 rough cabin mad of heavy logw, and months and mundn often went by without her seel: was hardly more than a baby. J like the pretty green growing things of the mountains, she had grown up to a little. Hrl of Mn& but she was far more . beauti: any growl thing, end hn' mma ‘Eh momln& Somo days her thee would ‘o off 40 be gone the whole t Lema was mever lone- animals th the cabin to be the little cadin table. lt larger animals came ulan:lnt she would rush into the house udmtmdgrla&wflgtcrm:m“ away, en then, she was fr&eflet But there was one night that little Lena was frightened. tl?r father had kissed her good-bye in tHe early morn- ing to visit some of his traps. was one of those same quiet, beautiful mountain days and Lena sang as be- fore and busied herself here and there. sweeping and dusting the inside of the cabin, and doing other little things. A rabbit or two came to see her as Gsual, a5 sho fed them, SinEing tnem a funny liftle 51008 the while. And then, slow} #un began to dip be- lund the myxheu mountain pealk. Tather will' come 800n, now,” the child watd 4o t grew darker. Finally the sun sank. out of sight alto- gether. - It was now very dark and’ still her father did not come. [To the girl or boy who will write the. nearest correct conclusion to this Sorr 1 36 i “lines—it takes 28 in the M! a Wla ook —Uncle Je A 'MISCHIEVOUS . KITTEN. There once a little girl about she @ pef Tommy. As the little ‘nam; girl's . mather , went. 4o the. kitchen she put her ring on the ¢able. The cat came had been { Cough, !uch .uu\u m wmou. s them Yor our! ‘emale complaints, ki orgers, billousness, and for new and vigor. Try them. Only 50c at l‘. & Osgood Co. A Special Medicine for Kidnay AII- ments. Many elderly people have found Fo- b sands troubl the | lo¥'s Kfldn"bl::modl a quick relief and efit from- kidney and went others to know of Osgood Co. LANG Dry Cleaner and- Dyer 157 Franklin St. SUITS PRESSED 50c Our Wagon Calls Everywhers PLUMBING AND GASFITTING. JOHNSON & BENSON, 20 Gentral Avenue. SLATE ROOFING In No Qambine or Trust m (COAL AND LUMBER, -GOAL 95 Per Cent. Good— * Chappell's Coal state law of Pennsylvania al- lows 6. per cent. of slate in the do- mestic sizes of Ceal JOBN A. MORGAN- & SON, Goal and Lumber Central A D l.fllll!)l’. OfMeo—son Markat and Shetucket 9t Tolephame 108-12 CALAMITE GOAL “It burns up cléan.™ Well Seasoned Wood C. H. HASKELL. 402 — 'Phones — 489 Spring Season will soon be here. Time tn think of WALL PAPERS and DECORA- ’Ahvl-u _.“*_— Evenings at 8. "POLI PLAYERS Presenting In The Bisliqp’s Carriage No advance in prices for St. Patrick’s Day. Next Week, “THE CHRISTIAN" uwc. 'l!.uAHLVH!TE. Pial‘la Tuner, “ 48 Sauih A St, Taftvilie * o. aeEn TUNER 122 Proapect 8¢, Tol $i1. Norwleh Cb la{é;t Novelties Chignon Puffs Cluster Curls «.__lor the New Colffurest i sfiilal (o, 61 Breadway 'Phome 50 The Goodwin Corsa and Lingerie m’:‘g AND REPAIRED, Bock Beer On Druft or in Bottles. Team Dellyers Everywhere. H. JACKEL & (0. Tel. 186-5! cor. Market and Water Sts. Our Two Big Furniture Stores offer you many bargains in Furnituse and Floor Coverings You ‘could select mo better time to furnish” your home with up-to-date Furniturs and Rugs at a saving of cost than NOW. The large assortment of high qual- A Guiters TIONS, * We. have them in &l gradss kinda of and prices. We are now taking edvance orders for ‘l::‘lntln' Paperhanging and Dec- . 'P. E. MURTAGH, 92 and 94 West Main Street. amples of the more. e lnl&'rn ments » child could learn to play, and he. might have extended the Tist with the instruments employesl l. the kin- der-symphony—the cuckoo, the water whistle, the watchman's rattle, and the other diminutive editions of .the caco- onous inventions of . Richard Strauss. To clrry the idea further, l chiia ‘who has the laudable ambition to be- come the tympanist in a symphony orchestra. might be taught to -drum on the window pane on rainy days; he should be fed on drumsticks; he is 10 be encournged to practice the o veille and -the rataplan with his knife and fork on the edge of the hhh. Hereafter 1uaoeleu Bakints s throw empty tor h given a -um bit-of twh- -d - iéce in and got on the table and was play- ing .with the ring, fl.ndp\neduol! the h.ble to the floor, As she ng with 1 on the floor it rolled away into & hole an th cat could not see iv any He ‘went out to the barn to .u;',l“o% the hay. o The vaughn Fnundfy Co. TR IRON CASTINGS the ring it was gone, and she 26121 Telephone. 7. e o By B K srosson | Dog Collars ring was. She sal Tin and Sheet Metal Workep|A large variety at Lowest ity and construction of our goods. combined with the present economical prices, makes this a rure money-sav- ing opportunity. Better investigate while the stock 1s / at its maximum of completenass. SHEA & BURKE, - Korwich and Taftville FIGHTING TO SAVE THE BIRDS. It is strange that the women are so slow to recognize the necessity for t0 buy the wings.and plumes (Copyrighted) It was not long before the owner of | by the - bitterns " oily, the_great flery eves swept by Jerry [OUs breast which daws and Boco on broad wings, close to the #round: 50 as to pounce on' any small game that had an appe tizing look, for he was hungry and lool for food and this great horned owl of glaring eyes ‘and sharp claws made the cat- e cuddie closer together; for they e nows to him, and in its Hght they aro made easy prey; and as long as the bittern lives he carvies his lanter drives bis stakes and fishes ni but the cats could not understand i and-they ran back to the woods 15 tha queer Slehts and sormds waln have confused mankind for ages, for the woods in.the night have hoen found by woodsmen to be a whisperin gellery, ‘and with ears to the wroun héar approaching ‘The Audubon society has issued from its headquarters in New York an ap- peal for “the support of every Ameri- cam woman, farmer and business man who must depend upon agricultural prosperity” in the fight which the Mssociation is waging against the milli- ners. The fact that the commercial ird destroyers are making valiant ef- Tommy) rolled it off the table, us he am my thimbie yesterday.” day the baby was playing on oyes et o mech ‘ailke. shas | thay Beautiful Spring is in sight hed been called cat-eyed birds. and s0 are our Carriages, ‘ The owl went on his way, and when Torts to the bird protecti - all was again quiet and safe they van- “’ 3 'ni 2 B - Sapiled, S Tt e B g g m‘“" Sired o v farthier into ‘the roods. Agent for Richardeop and Boyntoa Prices. agans Harness. 1 arouse ot merely the sentimental lov- | down' staifs children will cultivate & | isd 4o e spris cad oy r that | Fey Furnaces. = ¢h Now, it is your rrivilege to make . wers of our song birds, but practical facility that will before a coon came along,with his| Bogo 55 West Main' Street,Norwich, Conn, CI“ nad see em. comparisons and Drices. useful in suen, who realize the consequences of slide tros extermination, to {ake decisive manipulation, of get vruulq mndcr 1t a favor to ses an and the use of ““ It is the wo ever that -this hnmy L T e THE L. L. CHAPMAN (O, 14,Bath Strest, Norwich, Cenn. e e 'PHS“ISAN AND WM" 1, 8 d Floor, Shafinon Blds. Roon -cm i eyes whining; and by and by a fox| d his eyes were glar- foo? E":n‘ e miahe wosd peomt of all ¢ - ars shined, or thas wos, bor ete bet- '.l' in the wl than fll“ The Shetucket Harnsss Co., fatc: 321 Main Street, WM. C. BODB; Prop. ‘NOTICE Or. l,nu!n Franklin Miner now | focated in her new office, Bresd Hall, Room_1. ¢ Office Hourss, 1 to & i m. a1 _ QUALITY . Olwld ;lw-yn Be orwm klnd. Eklll'.d @ lft‘l‘lofl & YOUNG. T. F. BURNS, Heating and Plumbing, |— 92 Fraaklin Strest. ger. all the moths on m‘!{'&e‘.’:& Bk prekty s rabt ot v ianionds. i Twe of a Kind. ites exiie. b Bibe mmmx- discussing the Russian penal eystem. in cold storage?— '1 ights mmg‘m .’fl‘ “!fiw ln the i e hen ¢hey ewieq e i BT St ad chosen ‘their r ‘care, and o beasts came m’fi" 2 | siope B, " 'A Man's OvcflllM- A3 ip Washi; ’"m: for Swearing. “If f1a nnly thought to let loose & mouss in the jury nom —H Chronicle. Gnly Farce Comedy. what General Sterman o hen §t 1s in Mexico; but ; mz not, war,—St. Lo g P RS Unregulated Competition. The lecture platf are not- ss '8 théy will be when the lame