Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 27, 1912, Page 4

Sorwich ulletin and Goufief. 116 YEARS OLD. e Conan .'."z.':i.'.fl-"“.%f.".""" & Bufletis Beliarl Nopma T Bulletin Job Otfiee, 85- . Tomm.. Willimantie Norwich, Saturday, 27, 1812, the Circulation ol {he Bulletin. calation of any paper in Eastern Commecticut, and frem three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich, It s delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Nor- wich, and read by nimety-three per ceat. of the people, Im Windham it is delivered to over 000 houses, in Putaam and Danlelson to over 1,100, and in all of these places It fs caomntdered the loeal daily. Bastern Connecticut has forty- nise towns, one humdred and sixty- five postoffice districts, and sixty rural free delivery rowtes. The Bulletin is sold im every town snd on all of the R. F, D. routes in Eastern Commecticat. CIRCULATION 1901, AVEFREO ...t on et oo 41D 1005, average . cooneeeonne- 5,920 January 20, ~ CONCERNING LOYALTY, Civie loyalty is just as important | seriously considering the question of 2s loyalty to the flag. What Is it? every interest which makes for a thrifty city and a good Itving. Loyalty and bread and butter are more closely allied than most folks ink. he cltizens’ welfare and interests are all interwoven and in a way they @ll depmed upon one another for the advances they make in life and the comforts they win. If we work for someonc else, We depend on the enterprise and efficiency of our employers for our own ad- vancement. If we are selling gooas to our fallow townsmen, we depend on their good will for our success. If we are producing some commodity that is sold elsewhere, we are still dependent on the energy and fidelity of those of our townspeople who work for us. Thus our welfare and that of our families is bound up in the closest ties of imtimacy with our fellow citizens and the place we call home. Loyalty to our town is what makes for our fame and influence and gives it pational importance. A man who doesn’t think much of his town is al- most in the attitude of the unworthy son who sneers at his mother. It is 1 dirty bird that defiles its own nest, Money spent elsewhere helps en- large industries, pay taxes and build up the other town, Slurring home en- terprises is speaking words to hinder instead of to help. Do not be a knocker or a drag, but ! join the boosters—be in the line that | is pushing for a greater and a better city, THE REMSEN BOARD HANDICAP. The Remsen board has recelved many hard knocks since the day it was created hy President Roosevelt, and instead of improving the situation really made it worse. In Jooking into the charges against r. Wiley, the investigating committee inds: i The honorable secretary of agricul- found that maggot fumes would cure repent date says: The Dulletin has the largest efr- §| dred patlents can breathe the fumes Just standing true to | there Is every sign that skirts will ba e seems to have regarded the find- s of this board as conclusive in all cases over the opinions and findings of the bureau of chemistry, the tribunal which by express terms of statute is ested with authority to determine the juestions of aduiteration and mis- branding within the meaning of the act. In the practice of the depart- ment, the bureau of chemistry has seen restrained from examining any | specimens of foods and drugs under iny geéneral subject which is submi:- ed to the referee board during the time of the examination of such juestion by such board; and if such general subject is submitted to the referea board before the bureau of chemistry has made any examination f specimens to determine the question | t adulteraiicn or misbranding, then| the bureau is not permitted by the etary to make any such examina- on until the board shall have made its report. It has resulted in another remark- able situation, viz, that under the| practice of the department, the decls- | fons of the bureau of chemistry, if in opposition to the findings and opin- fons of the referea hoard, can not be referred to the courts and thus per- mit a judicial decision to be made, as omprehended under the plain pro-t vision of the law. It would thus hap- 1 that If the bureau of chemistry | were right and the referee board were in error that violations of tna law would recelve protection through the supposed enforcement of the law; bc-i cause the effect of such a poliey is to give this advisory board, created by executive order, paramount authority over the bureau of chemistry, and lodges In the personal adviserg of the secretary the power to annul the de- cislons of the bureau within the de- partment of agriculture, which was 1cated by la This was a alairs, very unfortunate state As a contemporary puts \s the Remsen board overruled the nt's bureau of chemistry, so itor of the department, Me- led the bureau, and the ided and overruled itself. enforcement? They were ht of In a government of per- Every one, from the referee i down, seems to have become & to himeself, and the worst of Dr. Wiley's offending was his own tech- nically extra-logical course in the pay of an expert to secure some enforce- ment of the law.” Dr. Wiley has had a hard battle to fight in the Interests of the people, and there is no question but he is the man to carry forward the werk strictly according to law. W There was nothing elee to be dnnl but to sxeperais him, WHAT A MAGGOTORIUM IS. ‘When we saw in a British paper a while ago that an Englishman had tuberculosis, we were somewhat sur- sed, since pure air and fattening 'ood heve been supposed to be the dependahle remedy everywhere for the white plague in its incipient stages, we thought it was a joke, but it Is not. The Birmingham Post of a “About a month ago, Dr. Kaye, medical officer in the West Riding county council, reported unfavorably on Mr. Bryant's claim, and soon after the Denholme district councll, where | & 'maggotorfum’ is situated, refused | to pass plans for the erection of a sanatorium in connection therewith. Mr. Bryant was not so easily rebuffed. #e had other plans prepared, comply- ing with some objections the district council had made, and the council on Tuesday sanctioned them. These plans provide sleeping shelter for 100 pa- tients, and a room over the maggot- breeding sheds where some three hun- rising through the pérforated floor. | Thus this system will be given a trial under better conditions. “Meanwhile, interent in the treat- ment is extending. Mr. Bryant has been asked to send & man to South | Africa to superintend & maggot es- tablishment there. Inquiries have been received from America and Italy, while other ‘maggotoria’ are being establish- ed in this country. Mr. Bryant hopes to give definite proof of cures before long.” Maybe we shall yet have to accept | the maggot as a blessing, HOBBLE SKIRT ECONOMY. ‘The adoption of the hobble and the harem skirts with the omission of petticoats has been a severe tax upon | manufactuters everywhere. It is estimated that these scant| fashions caused a loss of over $5,000,- 000 to the French manufacturers, and the loss to American manufacturers must have been as much or more. “The English manufacturers of pet- ticoats have been serlously affected,” says a British paper, “by the craze for scanty underwear, that they were | an appeal to women in the matter. Ag fuller in the future, and underskirts of moderate width are seen in all the | shops, there is happily no need for them to do so.” The journal quoted, however, while not going so far ag to admire the sym- metrical beauty of the Dutch ladies in | days past, when they were said to wear seven pettiocats of wool, laments, for the sake of trade, that some such fashion is not now in vogue, and then in a menacing manner asserts that it | ig the hobble and harem skirt and such fashions that are largely respon- alble for dull times and dissatisfac- tion among the workers. It is gratifying to the manufactur- ers to see the styles broadening out a bit. EDITORIAL NOTES, Any regular boarder feels hurt if | hash is served when he goes visiting. ! Jack Frost is showing that he is an old master of art. He has no dupli- | cates in his work, The only thing which seems to verge towards harmony in the democratic councils {8 Harmon of Ohlo, Free i The shortest day Is a month behind | us, but the sun doesn’t seem inclined | to hurry up in the morning. It looks as if Mrs. Morse preferred her second husband in disgrace to her first husband in respectability, D S | As age creeps upon a woman she becomes suspicious finally of the mir- ror that has served her so well. The ice crop appears to Be hoping that the batrons will pile it up outside the ice houses so it can see May flow- | ers, ‘When Baltimore paid $100,000 for | the national dGemocratic convention, she put too hig a price on the old relic, The man who cultivates bad habits never thinks good advice is worth anything unless he is nsarly scared to eath. If the democratic tariff schedule ! should be adopted by congress, Con- necticut industries would get a hard knock. The man who was talking about the climate’s changing, in early Decem- ber, doesn’t think it is a worthy theme in January. | same time. There seems to be a provi- The city that doesn’t maintain a live baseball team in these days Is not considered to be on the pink section of the map. The report that J. P, Morgan is going to Bgypt to buy the Pyramids will not appear to be a truthful state- ment to man: If there was not money in it, there would not be such a demand for in- vestigations. Tt costs money to in- quire into things. Happy thought for today: Do not think because you were not born to opportunities that none of them is coming your way. Colonel Bryan's endorsement of Wil- son has not added enthusiasm to the campalgn, but just made democratic highbrows go higher, Some people cannot see the differ- | ence between good trusts and bad. The difference is the same as between social clubs that respect law and those that do not. The old men-of-war's-men of the American navy, cost a few hundred thousand and were z00d 40 years. Now the $9,000,000 battleship goes to sec- ond class Inside of ten years, “The world do move.” The voters of Des Moines, under the new plan, have voted for a mun‘cipal market and The Capital says: If the present city council cannot find a way of fuMilling that commission, the vot- ers will elect a council that will. There is no use beating around the bush. Bunco of New Haven Man. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 25.—For ob- taining money under false pretenses from a local hotel proprietor, accord- ing to his complaint, John P. Morna of this city and Henry C. Egan of ‘Waterbury were arrested here late to- day and are being held pending an in- Vestigation. The men were also so- lieiting advertisements for a journal to be published by the Protective As- #oclation of Railway Men, whose pres- ident, according to papers in their nossomaion, lives in Troy, N, Y, ! The young mothers have been trying £ The man who keeps his word is worthy of much more honor than he gets. Ome literary chap declares he Would rather keep the company of a burglar who keeps his word than with a college president who doesn’t. Only men in active life are aware how scarce the men are who are true to promise and appointments. Profes- slonal men of all sorts appear to be the very poorest for keeping their word; and most of these sinners do not know there is no excuse for such a ly- ing habit—that excuses have no stand- ing anywhere. Franklin wrote: “He that Is good for making excuses is sel- dom good for anything else;” and Shakespeare avers “Oftentimes excus- ing of a fault doth make a4 fault the worse by the excuse;” and then un- called for excuses have been consid- ered as practical confessions. The man who keeps his word is not likely to have much fuss with 8t. Peter later on. It is said the wicked stand on slip- pery places; but I often doubt whether it 1s true or not. I notice the slippery places on January sidewalks are no respecters of persons—the wicked and the righteous cut up all kinds of stunts | on them. It i§ always amusing to the | man not standing on a slippery place to see the imperiled trying to keep their feet and their equilibrium at the | dence in a slippery walk otice in a while. The man who chided his wile who slipped, cavorted and grabbed at! space in a wild way because she “did not pick her steps and be more care- ful,” feit his feet go up in the air and he came down with a heavy thud. It seemed good to hear him strike. “That’s too bad! Are you hurt?" asks his amiable spouse; but he was mortl- fied, and feeling his pride was hurt, he clambered to his feet, brushed his trousers and sald nothing. He wa- feeling cheap enough without having his own foollshness pointed out to nim. Do you know the truly good meén is as unconscious of his kindliness as a real hero s of his bravery. Things done from the heart do not appear to addle the brain and set it to hatching & mew conceit. There are too many people who think they are real good. Goodness i{s no more worthy of con- stant thought than health, You never knew a healthy person to waste any mind-force on health. It ia those who have made themselves feeble through excesses who are studying diets and trying to learn the way back to & strong and wholesome existence. It is a wise thing to study ourselves—to, a8 far as possible, become aware of the laws of our belng—the laws which the | good book says are “written upon our hearts.” We are too ignorant of every day matters which vitally concern us. What we need more than conceit is illumination. The man who swells with pride is inflated with the wrong stuff. For the benefit of those who are busy looking for “soft snaps” it may be well to say that they are not what they seem to be. Way back in the days of Hesoid it used to be said in Greece “Sweet precedes virtue.” Those who have traveled the road know that hard work precedes knowl- edge. If knowledge was easy to get the world would be full of sages; and if soft snaps were all their name im- plies, and common, there would be no end of louts. There seems to be something magical about W—it is the initial for Work and Win. If there is another letter in the alphabet that is both a vowel and a consonant I am not acquainted with it. It is double in construction and double in use; but we wander from the subject. A soft snap comes near to being idleness; and “idleness,” Jeremy Taylor tells us, “is the burial of a living man.” Do not look for burial, but work for knowl- edge, which s power and achieve- ment and greatness. The person who knows that the party who makes a mistake is the one who feels worst about it makes a good companlon, or a good judge. What a blemish it is to a human to be able to see the faults of othel and to feel duty bound to speak to them of their short-comings, It may be someone's, duty to do it; but the husband or wife who thinks it is their duty make a mess of it. T knew a man once who always had hard luck because he had poor judgment, but he had a wife who could face any situation with a smile, who could sleep sound when it was time to sleep; and could always see a brighter star rising opposite where the other star went down. She never com- plained over disappointments. He said “his wife had sense encugh to know | that a man's own knowledge of the facts or failure was as much punish- | ment as a man deserves;” and after| having sunk a fortune and failed to| abide on Easy street he sald it was worth al] the trials he had to find out What a sweet and gritty little wife he | had, The word of censure comes easy, but the word that cheers is best, Why do we think people who are controlled by their will are will-less® Did you ever see one of these will-less persons get set concerning their own way? There is no lack of will, you notice, when the will is summoned to support a wish. The will fails only| in th directions where there is a total absence of desire. There is no lack of will-power among men; but a great deal of it has been perverted to won't power. This is a power man| can turn to his own good and to the | henefit of his fellow men; but he uses | it often against himself and every in- terest which commands his attention. He really doesn't know how to use his will. He has in place of a divine power a willfu] habit. He has creat- ed a Frankenstein which mocks at him. He is weaker than his enemy, because he surrendered to it the mas- | tery which was his birthright. The trouble s with the man, not with the will. He should know that will through service becomes a force for continuous good. Something happened in the heavens this month which will not hagpen again in 300 or 400 years; and you did not know it. Only a few people on this green earth did, for there was no blare of trumpets, for it happened as gently as a flower opens or the dew ‘alis. On Thursday, Jan. 4th, the moon was full at 1.30 p. m, and In some parts of the earth it was visible for 19 1-2 hours because of its high north- erly declinatlon. And about 2 o'clock on that day it was nearest the earth it is possible for it to be; and then it was 221,400 miles away. Authorities do not agree when it will again be so near, and some of them think it may be four centuries before its recurrence, which means the passage of 12 gencra- | tions of men from earth befors the| phenomernion will be again witnessed. How little vices operate against good in this Christian world of ours.| to produce viceless boys for many | generations; and all of their prayers| and their good counsel and the con- stant watchfulness has gone for nausht and m of them have been led by their ures to doubt the word of ¢ied What is the matter? There is| noiling the matter with the teachings t. the mother's knees. Oh, no; but the | lcys think mother is mistaken as soun @5 they are big enough to get around anu become observing. What did mother mean by telling him . little vices were wicked when the minister smokes; that smoking isn't respectable when e sees his Sunday school teach- er often with a cigar in his mouth; that drinking is dangerous when he sees Deacon B0 and So taking his “wee nippee” Of course, mother is clear off her base—she's a womau, and she doesn't know: and these little tol- erated vices queer the mother and an- nui the mosi slpcere and pmesious ‘though we claim to be thrifty and pru- dent. | lips! (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) “Wilful waste makes woeful want” is a proverb famillar to all; and we have always been told to “Waste not, want not”: but still most of us go on wasting our resources in many ways, We complain of being overdriven with work, and yet we waste our time ir many ways. For one thing, we plan unnecessary work, thus taking fhe time which should be given to more essential items, Why should seven rows of trimming be used when one answers just as well? Why must rufiles and tucks be put on the child's dress when it will be just as com- fortable and more quickly made with- cut? Why must elaborate embroidery be used in decoration, where a simpler fashion will do as well? The same hLolds good in the kitchen. T've heard fine cooks boast of beating cake for a long time by the clock, of spending hours in\preparation of sal- ad dressing, whlc\\ must always be stirred in the same direction or dis- aster will certainly follow. Think of all the time thus wasted in preparing food when a simpler diet is acknowl- edged to be much more healthful. Why do we eay of one, “She's a good cook,” when we only mean that she makes rich food to tempt the taste of those who come to her table, even though it be no kindness to them? “A good cook” should be the title given to one who gives healthful food to her family and satisfies their ap- petites without spoiling their diges- tion. Let these women, so proud of their overloaded tables, spend .less time in the kitchen and more in the open air. How much better it would be_for all concerned! When a housekeeper is sensible enough to turn the key on unnecessary walk every day, many of her nejgh- bors wonder how she can be on th: street so much more than they. I notice she and her family are well and strong, and she finds too, for much reading, and can talk intelli- gently on the topics of the day. But most of us are so bound by habit and custom that we shall, probably, keep on wasting time and strength, rivet- ing our own chains, even while we complain of them. ‘We waste material in much the same way. country that the food thrown away would sustain many a family now Incking food. Americans, as a rule, are open-handed, lavish buyers, free spenders, and many feel it beneath them to purchase thoughtfully. We | are altogethér too much afraid of be- ing accused of counting our pennies clesely. In some ways this is an ad- vantage. When the wealthy spend their money in showy display and sense- less novelties, the chances are that ihe money may come into the hands of those who are able to use it prudently household work, and take time for a | It has often been said of this| and so it is not altogether a waste. ‘When we read of large sums spent on flowers and banquets, on dogs and cats, we should rejoice rather than criticise, for employment is thus fus- nished, and payment made for it to many a deserving person, to whom the reward of well doing rightly belongs There is another waste which we should avoid, We waste our vitality whenever we lose our self-control. The nervous man or woman, who allows himself to become excited and over- wrought in a heated argument, loses more vitality in that way can be re- rlaced in many hours. One of my friends pretends fits of rassion with clenched fists and tense muscles, and I am sure she is wast- ing strength which is needed for bet- ter things, We need all our strength of nerve at all times, and cannot afford te throw it away in earnest or in pre- tence. The same is trué of our mental strength. An old friend of mine used to say if a basket is full of rubbish you cannot use it for a good purpol until it is cleared of the waste ma- terfal. This is certainly true. Let the mind feed till it is satisfied upon lit- erary trash; and it finds itself unequal to appreciate anything better. Feed it on divine words, its appetite for anything more elevating is destroyed. Tempt it with low, exciting plays, it loses its taste for those of more merit, Do you suppose one who heard and ed nothing but what known as “ragtime” music could have enjoyed Bonci at Slater hall the other night? If one is satisfied with a jewsharp, will he be apt to care for the violin in the hands of a master? Pictures of com- mon or low merit unfit one for appre- ciation of those of much greater worth. So, too, we waste happiness for our- selves and others, Opportunities offer to share some good thing with an- | other; we know it would give pleas- lure to that one, but it is too much trouble to write the note, or say the required word, or do up the package, and we let the chance go by, I once heard a pleasant thing said | of one now living at a distance: “She | will think of more kind attentions to | others in an hour than most people | can plan in a year. Only the other day it was said in my hearing: “He is a friend worth bhaving. Always ready with a smile and a kind word or deed.” We lose happiness ourselves when we refuse these little chances to do for oth o there is a double waste. be ac- cused of a waste of words, which is cne form of waste which we should | avold. In all lines of mechanical ad- | vance, the trend now seems to be to | turn waste material into something of value. If we try the same plan in other directions, perhaps we may be able to enrich our own lives and | those of many others with whom we | come in contact. AN IDLER. counsel which ever fell from human What Larm is there is these little vices, you ask? Wkat is your paramount interest? Can you tell? It seems to me as if nine was self; and I do not think I am so much different from others. As I think of this I can see where it leads us all to! You may. This is what makes & man go out and see how his “hawgs” are growing three times a day while he doesn't visit the schoolhouse once a year to see how his children are developing; this makes a woman look after her own finery with more fidelity than she does after the proper training of her daughters. The preach- ers have been tryving to make man change his paramount interest now for 2,000 years, and the majority of them are still looking sharper after the tvel- fare of the “hawgs” than after the future of sons and daughters,. Do not flatter yourself that man is mentally fast—facts do not sustain the conceit. SUNDAY MORNING TALK THERE 1S MORE BEYOND. On old Spanish coins may be seen the pillars of Hercules with the motto surrounding them, “Ne plus ultra,’ that is, “Nothing beyond.” When these cofns were struck Spain owned both sides of the Mediterranean and imag- ined there was no land beyond the waste of water that stretched west- ward. There came a day, however, when a Genoese sallor pointed his 1it- tle fleet of caravels toward the sun- set and left leagues of blue water be- hind him. Coming finally upon a new world he forced Spain to revise the old inscription. The pillars of Hercules were retained, and the “plus ultra,” but the “ne” was omitted. For Spain had found that “beyond” there was more than the imagination of man had dreamed. We often write the old motto on ex- periences in our lives that seem final. It may be either some loss sustained or some goal reached that has the effect of a damper on aspiration for the future. Through good fortune or through 1ll, men reach the point where they assume that there is nothing be- yond. They have come to the confin:s of their world. Distressing loss often hag that ef- fect. One loses his health or his mon- ey or his reputation and concludes that there is nothing left for him in Iife. He has reached the limits both of desire and of duty. Any possible beyond seems like & barren waste. Personal sorrows are not infrequent- ly pillars of Hercules beyond which the voyager on life's ocean will not ven- ture. The passing out of our circle, for instance, of some personality that hag meant companionship and happi- ness seems to put up the bars against us. We see nothing ahead that is pleasant or desirable. The Israelites of old, led captive across the desert, felt that their national existence was at an end. They Lung their harps on the willows and refused to £ing the songs of Zion in a strange land. Not otherwise men and women everywhere, in the presence of those tragedies of which life is full, feel that the music, ‘buoyancy, and delight of existence is clean gone forever, It is useful at such times to reflect that the march of the years may still bring us gifts that we have never sus- pected could come our way. Colum- bus, on his weary voyage, must often have concluded that the old motto was right after all, and that there was nothing beyond the horizon, when one day there swung out of the mist a whole new hemgisphere. Similarly peo- ple often find a delight in work and a | Joy in companionship that almost sur- prise them after losses that have shat- tered life to its foundations. sane and right hope that, in the provi- dence of God, life should continue to be interesting and useful to the end. Likewise there is “mecre beyond” for | every man who thinks he has reached a final success. A great unexplored ocean of truth, of experience, and of attainment lies before us all the time. The most learned schoiar is, like Isaac Newton, only a child picking up a few pebbles on the shore of an infinite gea. The most gifted artist has not sensed more than a fraction of the world's beauty. When any worker begins to be perfectly satisfled with his product it is a sign that he has begun to fail. This present life itself is only a preparation. It is only the vestibule to the temple that shall one day be re- vealed. Let the outlook be extended beyond this narrow spot that men call earth. Br owning ix & true poet and albages and turnips this season. It is a| true thinker when he sings with in- ite cheer: Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life for which the first was made; Our times are in His hand Who saith, a whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God, see all, nor be afraid!” THE PARSON, NEW BOOKS. Our Common Friends and Foes. By Edwin A. 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AUDITORIUM ™= ILLUSIONISTS SUPREME RCYAL TROUPE OF OR One Ton of Special Scenery RECORD MINSTREL TEAM OF THE WORLD 1868 Pictures No Hills or Stairs to CI Three Days FRANK J. HURLEY ina Musical Novelty 3 Shows Daily MATINEES 5c¢ ILLUSIONISTS SUPREME THE MYSTERIES OF INDIA Mysterious — Wonderful — Startling — Weird — Gorgeous Fox & Ward Other Features ~ JAMES CLANCY'S POLI Commencing Monday Matinee, January 29th Geo. NAGAL and Carrie ADAMS Presenting “A Little of Everything” And 4 Reels of the Latest of Photo Play We Positively Show the Best Pictures in the City 2 Complete Shows Evenings EVENINGS 5¢ and 10c Bill of the Season KARMI IENTAL NECROMANCERS and Effects. Mind Readers Appeared at the 5th Ave. Theater. to 1912 Old Timers’ Week ; Pictures imb—Walk Straight In TURNER and DE ARMO Juggling Pantomime Comedy Same Hours BREED THEATER Feature Picture Today “THE COWBOY COWARD"” Superb Essanay Production Same Prices Proi onee Automolile Show STATE ARMORY January 22- Opens Monday January 22, at 7.2 a. m. to 10.30 p. m. One of the most complete display: The most beautiful scheme of deco: 27 inclusive 0 p. m, and daily thereafter from 10 s ever held in New England, rating ever shown. First-clags Restaurant. Adm ion 50c. Wednesday, Society Day, $1.00. Bible Question Box Your Bible questions will be an- swered In these cslumns or by mall if sent to our Bible Question Box Baitor. Q.—Has Spiritism ever benefited the members of the race of mankind in any way? Is so, how? (Victim.) Answer—The value of Spliritism to the world is summed up in the words of a well-known author as follows: “According to the theory of Spiritual- ists there are a hundred times as many disembodied spirits about us as there are men in the flesh. Among them are all the poets, authors, ora- tors, musicians and inventors of past ages. They know all they ever knew when they were in the flesh, and have been learning a great deal more sinc¥; and with their added powers and ex- tended experience they should be able to do what mortals have never done before. They have had free access to the public mind and public press, with no end of msiwms ready to receive their communi-ations, and thousands and thousands of anxious inquirers who have questioned them and earn- estly desired to obtain information from them. They have talked and rap- ped, they have tipped and rattled, they have fiddled and scribbled, they have materialized und dematerialized, they kave entranced and exhibited; they have told us many things which we knew before; many things which we do not vet;” and many other things which it was no matter whether we knew or not; but when we come to real instructi reliable information, or profitable and valuable knowledge, Spirithalism is as barren as Sahara, as empty as a hollow gourd.” LETTERS T0 THE EDITOR Declines to Reply to W. A.'s Questions Mr. Editor: In your issue of De- cember 13 appeared an article from the pen of W, A. of Danlelson, Conn. H?d W. A. ever read Spaulding’s Financial History of the War, he would never have asked such an easy question as “Will Mr. Vallette tell us how the peo- ple should get this money?” I gug- gest that he get a copy of this history and learn from good authovity. After his first question of should get this money of his letter and questions would lead one to think that W. A. had an idea that Mr. Vallette was a natural-born , or else he was trying to adver- Just think of an American citizen asking “Should con- gress or the government shovel out this money to the people?’ No, Mr. Val- lette will not reply to such idiotic rot But Mr. Vallette is in the habit of signing his name to all his correspon- denc: e J, C. VALLETTE. North Franklin, Conn., Jan. 22, 1812, the remainder LAfler the Age of Fifty the human system i the accumulated From this age gradually declines polsons in the blood cause rheumatism in joints, muscles and back. These warnings should be promptly relieved and serfous iliness avoided by using the following prescription, which comes from a noted doctor and is said to have no equal in curing rhepmatism and restoring physical vigor. Good results come after the first dose. “From your druggist get one ounce of Toris com- pound (in original sealed package) and one ounce of syrup of Sarsaparilla com- ound. Take these two ingredients home and put them into a half piat of good whiskey. Shake the bottle and take a tablespoonful before each meal and at bedtime.” If your druggist does not have Toris compound in siock, he Stamford.—A schooner load of tur- nips has arrived in the Stamford cana from Long Island. A number of ves: sels have brought over loads of cab will get it for vou in a few hours from to take a patent medicine instead of this. Insist on having the genuine Toris compound in the original, one ounce sealed, yellow package. how the people | \is wholesale house. Don’t be influenced | LYCEUM THEATER, Walter T. Murphy.. MONDAY, JAN, 2! WOOLS, ¢ saaul . unsSEOR'S VMERRY, ] AL Prices 25¢ to $1.50. Sale opens Friday. THE FINEST 35¢c DINNER IN TOWN DELL-HOFF CAFE From 12 2 START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT That's what everybody tells you, ‘We tell you the same thing. Especially do we tell you this in regard to any jobbing or contract or construction work of any kind in the building line. You will start this right if you give me a chance to quote you |prices on building materials or let me |give you estimates for any contract work. I know how to do this work and do it at a reasonable price; & price |consistent with the best workmanship end materials, C. M. WILLIAMS, Contractor, Jobber and Builder. Franklin Square over Somers Bros, Telephone 870, QUALITY in work should always be coaslderea especially when it costs no inore tham the inferior kind, Skilled men are employed by us. Dur price tell the | whole story. | STETSON & YOUNG. | Hack, Livery and Boarding STABLE i | 'We guarantes our service to be the best at the most reasonable prices. {MAHONEY BROS., Falls Ave. Wedding and Engagement Bings WM. FRISWELL 25-27 Franklin Street Delivered fo Any Part of Norwich the Ale that {s acknowledged to be the best on the marke: — HANLEY'S PEERLESS. A telephone order will recelve promp: attentiom. 0. J. McCCRMICK. 20 Franklin St —_— JEWETT CITY HOTEL New and Up-to-date in e n'nflnl‘n B IRA E. LEWIS. Progristen. J