Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 21, 1912, Page 4

) ] - Borwich uiletin and Coudied. 116 YEARS OLD. sve p w-—k\ 1%c m week; - Eniered at the Postorice at Norwica Cobn., as second-clasa matter. uita, Sephene Calles ons .m mm 210 Norwich, Saturday, Sept. 21, 1912. T T e BEST RESULTS WITHIN PARTY. | The position taken by Col. Frederick Hale of Maine in regard to the sup- port of the republican party reflects the attitude of many who represent the element of the republican party who are looking for results in their stand for progress. Colonel Hale secs no need of a third party and will stand for the continuance of the present ad- ministration, belleving that through republican party the changes de- can and should be secured. Col- Hale's position 1s thus presented, he says: ? myself as progressive as bers of the new party. I be- the spring, when I supported Roosevelt for the republican for president, that the re- party needed to be more pro- e and 1 belleve so still, but T many in that I believe that can best be wrought the republican party itself.” is the very ground which many of prominence have taken is the only safe position in sup- the principles upon which the and prosperity of the country Maine has shown what havoc result from a split in the what can be done by stand- A republican, though he himself a stronger pro- others, knows the dan- trade and the terrible ef- d have upon the industries workingmen. This can un- uestionably be overcome by present- front to the common ene- the as -8, 8 Murray i | AT Eié‘ gfggg; : 3 ! o e é EELE democrats, and just such ac- that by, Colonel Hale is being throughout, the country. POPULATING THE FARM. With the admirable, opportunities ‘which this state offers in the way of i dairying, or poultry raising, it is not strange, in view of the many farms wheh are mot worked, or worked only for immediate needs, that in the dis- tribution of immigrants throughout the country, their attention should be drawn to the Nutmeg state by the government officials whose duty it is The idea of the treasury depart- ment taking a hand in the loosening of the tight money market, as report- ed from Washington, for the benefit of the farmers and aiding i~ moving their crops, is a good suggestion and | one which should result in a great amount of good. the fact that the banks in the farming sections will be hard pressed for mon- ey it is planned to distribute from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000 among them. With a good sized working balance in the treasury the department can do this without trouble and prevent fur- ther stringency in the money market. ‘While the banks might be able to take care of this demand, yet at the same time this money lying ide cannot be put to better use and ft will prevent any strain on their rescurces. It would not be the first time that such action has been tnken. Govern- ment funds have been let out on va- rfous occasions in the interest of bus- iness, and it has always had a bene- ficial - result. * The consideration that the money belongs to the people and that it should be used for the time being where it will do the most good to the people is a consistent decision. A tight money market indicates good conditions, but the farmers can ap- preciate the benefit of not being held up by higher rates just because they happen to have a big crop to dispose of. TR AR L i BE READY FOR CANAL TRADE. It is a timely warning which Direc- tor General John Barrett of the Pan- American union sounds as to the need of this country realizing the import- ance of being prepared for the trade | which will be opened up when the Panama canal is put into nse. A care- ful study of the conditions in other countries in comparison with this, showed that much energy must be ex- erted here to keep up with the plans | which other countries are making to gather in the trade with Latin-Amer- jcan countries. Foreign ship yards being Tun to capacity and steamship companies preparing to engage in the trade, with governmental investiga- tions under way as to business oppor- tunities are all important factors in showing that Great Britain, France, Germany, -Austria, Holland, Belgium, Australia and Japan are all planning to ‘get their share. The fact that the foreign market 18 anticipating much increased trade does mnot indicate that this country will not get its share, but it requires time to get ready for it and the im- portance of being prepared to take care of it and handle it cannot be too strongly urged. With the country looking to build up and extend its for- eign trade there is no better chance than with the South and Central American republics. This is their nat- ural buying place, but with all the world straining every nerve for it, the call to hustle should be sufficient to this country and its business interests to arouse them to the necessary ac- tion. to look after the allens. It has been demonstrated, time and again, that _Tesults are obtained from farms in this locality by the expendi- ture of the same amount of energy, <apital and attention, which would bave to be given to a successful prop- osition elsewhere, . The aliens are already finding out the value of Connecticut farms and Jfrom one corner of the state fo the other the country districts are dotted with them, and they are fast getting, an insight into American methods. They are of all nationalities from the (Chinese to the Slavs and they are getting the bemefit of the educational institutions for their children, a mat- ter of utmost importance, even in their opinion. They apply themselves to the eonditions as they find them, read the newspapers and keep in touch with all Mines of progress. Though not all on ‘the fari, two-thirds of the population of the state today is of foreign or ‘'mixed parentage, and recently arrived immigrants form over four per cent. of the foreign-born whites. Connecti- cut has the opportunities for these as well as others and with the point- ing out of the inducements to those constantly arriving, the time is com- ing when there will be no such thing as vacant farms. ' The ome regrettable feature is that " the native-born so overlook their op- portunities as to allow the advantages of the state to go begging for people to recognize and accept them. 'WHAT 1S A PROGRESSIVE? It is only natural that the question should be asked from many quarters, in view of the fate of Jonathan Bourne. What is a progressive? Bourne, it will be remembered, lost the nomina- tlon in the Oregon primaries for sen- ator on the republican ticket. He then| sought it on the progressive ticket, and also lost it. This time it was be- eause he was not enough of a pro- gressive. This causes the Springfield Union to exclaim: “Bourne not a progressive! Tt can- not be. Why, he is the very father of progressivism. It was he who created the Oregon idea. -1t was he who gave Oregon direct legislation, the initiative, and the referendum. It was he who got Oregon to adopt the recall. It was he who championed the direct primary and persuaded Oregon to try it out. Tt was he who devised the parcels post plan recently adopted by congress, It was he who urged tariff reform. It was he who, four vears ago urged- the renomination of Colonel Roosevelt and flooded the country with literature to prove that such remomination would ;mot be in violation of the third term precedent. It was he who gave us the slogan, ‘A second elective term.’ “Whenever we have thought of the progressive party, or of the progres- sives before they had a party of their own, we Instinctively conjured up a vigion of Janathan Bourne. The two seemed one and inseparable. Progres- sivism without Bourne was as im- possible to concelve as Bourne with- ‘out progressivism. If anybody had asked us to give ofthand a concrete .example of a progressive we should Jhaye replied unhesitatingly, -Jonathan Bourhé of Oregon.” In view of Burne's record it is no wonder that the exact qualifications of a progressive are -uncertain. When Bourne is dropped for failing to meet the requirements, how can others dare to think that progre: thing but radicalism? Baldwin continues to be the apple | of the democratic eye in Connecticut. Is the nutmeg losing caste in that state?—Des Moines Capital. Not much! We still take nutmeg in our| apple ple and lemonade. When the Harvester trust will spend $4,000.000 to beat the grasshoppers, it's casily understood why G. W. Per- kins and his barrel entered politics, Happy thought for today: Perhaps the Colonel named the third term par- ty bull moose because he rocognized #t was a beastly affair, any way EDITORIAL NOTES. Another victim from hazing shows the need of better discipline in schools. The cranberry trust is looking the' market over and calculating how to get most out of it. Roosevelt favors the recall of pres- idents. This makes it evident that he has given up hope. Now that the pennant winners are assured, interest centers in getting a seat at the world's championship 'se- ries. Costa Rica is not a country to be sneezed at. She has nineteen vol- canoes and is always booked for a hot time. | A yellow journal drove a Baltimore |/man to suicide, and yet it will con- tinue its work because the public sup- ports it. An Ohio man has gone Insane from reading the Congressional Record. This habit ‘shows he lacked sense to begin with. Since the election there is no dan- &er any one will believe Theodore put “Me” into Maine. Its priority has been established. The Rose of New England gets the prize at New Haven. That's a com- pliment to the city, the committee, and the youmg ladies. Cummins of Iowa is trying to make out that the Taft party is the third party and says he is “ag’in it!” He'll do for a bull mooser. ¢ Fifty-seven thousand Scotchmen left the home land last year. There is only one variety of Scotchman— the one that makes good! Candidate Wilson declares the peo- ple are getting tired of politics. He doesn’t seem to be putting anything into the game to make it more inter- esting, If the Colonel's opinion of the su- preme court of the United States is no sounder than his opinion of Judge Baldwin's case, it will not stand the test of - time. ‘ Mushrooms are a delightful dish, but in these days of many deaths it re- quires 4 man with iron faith in the harvester to bg satistied he knew what | he was gathering. | Ni¢holas Longworth h is a republican and will support the Republican ticket. icholas has probably heard his father-in-law talk on other occasions. oken. He 1 A western bull mooser says “there may be men enough in the country in favor of, condoning theft and piracy to defeat Roosevelt in November. What a wicked lot we are! | The late Bishop Grafton of Wiscon- sin leit an estate of $4,000. He gave | @way $700,000 during his life. for ben- | eficial .purposes, without advertising his determination 1o die poor. No wonder complaint is made of American weights and measures. low ells rve by the pound, Connecticut | 4 | sells it by the bushel; but in old Ken- tuck’ they sell it by the t It seems sirange to who profess to want things straight persist in having some vital affairs crooked? In the 48 states of the census shows approximately h sittinzs -not sitters t religious £0,000,000 HELPING THE CROP MOVEMENT.: Fully appreciating | ors of some states openly de | 2o0d a president as the ¢ ever had, in which they the bad example of one A republican national commiitee, | part hull meose, was a fine politic al spy arrafigement. How it is those THE MAN WHO TALKS | Do not be an easy promiser and a poor performer. No one can deny the | statement that the only people who do not make any. for total abstineace in this direction; but there is gocd reason Why every person should have a care. To be a good promiser and a poor doer is the way to make repute as a gay deceiv- er, it nothing worse. Some people to attain their ends will promise any- thing, and this is why most poilitical promises are regarded as a joke. A promist not kept under all circum- stances is like a note of hand unhon- ored; and it brings dishonor upon the promiser’s head. It is a good rule to promise little and to do much, for this always gives a person a good name. You know “a man’s word may be as good as his bond,” and then be worth- less. This is a meaningless compli- ment that has been too long seriously aceepted. The word that is as good as gold is better, The cricket is the tiny minstrel who welcomes autumn with his strident music, making the fields ring with his calls for his mate in late afternoons and evenings after mid-August. The cricket is a bunch of ferocity and his pugnacity, which leads him to be pull- ed out of his hole on a straw which he bites when it is presented therein, has given him rank among Insects &s a candidate for the fool's cap. Among the French maxims is this one: “You're a greater fool than o cricket.” The crickets are jealous and will com- bat one another in the nuptial seasoa with bulldog ferocity. Thelr battle- cry and their love song are distinct, and a little study makes one familiar with each, o that it may readily be known by students whether a combat is raging in the grass, or a Romeo and Juliette serenade and interview is go- ing on there. The Chinese match and fight them as Spanish sports do cocks, ar as American sports do bulldogs. They have many brawls in the grass and no end of tragedies. cricket feeds on vegetation and 1 insects, and is not as an injurious insect. Now the bird students are look- ing out sharp for the fall migrants of birddom who stop for a few hours or days for rest on their southward jour- ney. As I glanced out of the window on the morning of September 9th 1 saw a small flock of strange birds in a tree across the yard. All of them but one were black and white with a black poll, and the exception showed very bright yellow plumage when she flew. 1 reached for my descriptive list, and in a few minutes had deter- mined by the presence of that single female that they were black-polled warblers, who, having. reared their brood in northern New England, were on their way to the tropics to spend the winter. As I had never seen these warblers it was a pleasure to have them come to me instead of hav- ing to hunt them in the wilds. They did not linger long in the city limits, and ere now doubtless far south, if they have aot reached winter quar- ters. believe all you hear, or mind, evbe:yt';:fig oftensive that is said of you: Tt doesn't pay to hear'too much or to try to keep up a continuous defence against thoughtless or malignant peo- 1 largely to blame for though we are_not consclous of it. thing to guard against is' provocation, for under it most people say many things they know are not so, and do many things to be ashamed of. It is a good habit to think well, even of your enemies; and it should be ‘borne in mind that evil thinking of any sort ig more injurious to the thinker than to those thought about. It is evil thought that makes the savage, just as it is no thought, or vacuity, that makes the fool. Meanness generated against the other fellow doesn’t im- prove either party concerned. Self- possession under all circumstances makes the strong and the remarkable character. ‘The New Lendon county fair needs be knocked off itr old pedestal and to have a new one. We do not want to smash any of our idols, but we should like to keep them creditable to us, both on the exhibits and the receipts side. It cannot be along the old lines of veteran good fellowship, low premiums and favoritism which have marked the past. The fair which has the same rules, the same com- mittee to make awards and the same judges in the stand it had when we Wwere boys, all good men and women, perhaps, is not keeping in step with the band. It is too bad for a county fair to become so feeble that a trans- fusion of young blood is necessary to make 'it show any real signs of life. It is not the interests .of extensive exhibitors which make a fair; but the interests of many exhibitors who have confidence that a square deal is al- ways in order. Live secretaries can- not overcome antique handicaps—the best pole horses can do nothing if the leaders are lying down in the track. A county fair should be more like a Wild West show than a 17th century picnic in these days. Let's give it & jounce and accelerate its motion. | never could see why a person of no economic ability should always feel so generous and so competent to tell the person whose economical practices have made him before-handed how best to spend his money. You have heard some one of no means tell what they would do if they had someone else's money. They really think they would do exactly as they say, hut you and 1 have reason for doubting their statement because they have not tak- en into account the effect of economic training upon the individual or the calculation and care which are neces- | sary to make a wise use of money | after it has been accumnulated. Some people think money is only good to spend, but it is a mighty interesting thing to look at when you know it belongs to you; and it comes easy to but few people. It has been well said, “No one needs money 80 much as he who despises it,” but there is no doubt Fielding was right when he said: Make money your God, and it will plague you like the devil” How a nursed grievance grows. Like | a mushroom, it can take on large pro- portions in a night. 1s there anything that pays.the average individuai less” | Of course, an imaginative lawyer oc- casjon: finds it profitable to fan a grievanc tion. You understand what satisfac- tion obtained through the courts means: a spite. gratified and liberal | fees paid in a majority of cases. Nurs- ing an ordinary grievance is an arti- way of keeping inflamed. one venemous to his anneyer toward everybody else in 1. It keeps the nerves un- and produces conditions whicl | ficial wo | defy the skiill of a physician. It | worse than waste of time, for it is | rank foolishness, It is a good thing | not to know rievance when you see | one, Blindness is not always an af- , although generally so regard- Of a recent afternoon I saw a flock starlings, and must admit that i saw nothing beautiful about their | plumage. There were 20 pair imported | and released vears ago in Central Park, { New York, and from these they have | increased in numbers and spread | through the middle and New England states. While thev may be easily mis- ken for a grackle, they have a yei- jow bill and a metallic plumage which keep all their promises are those who| There is no reason | into a serious offense in thc | courts for someone else, because some- | one is looking for redress or satisfac- | NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1912 PRREETH T ‘ {r (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) | There is no time like the autumn for | taking country walks; and there is no | exerclse more exhilafating of profita- | e. The tiwentieth-century man differs from the nineteenth-century man by {having a less dependable pair of legs to serve him. = Next to the power of self-control comes the power of endurance, for not only the real tasks of life but for many of its delights. The best muscie development and the best lung expansion is to be ob- tained on country roads as well as the best knowledge of nature. Do you realize that it is ignorance which makes people talk of the soli- tude or loneliness of the rural dis- tricts, for nowhere is active life more abundant or more interesting. One who is interested in the growih of wild plants, the action of the birds and butterflies, the nimble exercise of the squirrels, the homey gathering of the bees and the industry of the ants, the crystalline’ structure of the rocks or the ever changing beauty of the landscape or the heavens, has no feel- ing of loneliness. Few people realize how a knowledge of and love for nature multiplies the joy of being and of living, to say noth- ing of the feeling of power and the reinforcement of - physical .energy, Wwhich has been shown to add years of happy life to one's existence.- Famiilarity with nature makes man akin not only to everything that flies and runs and swims, but makes the very rocks seem to him like old ac- quaintances and the favorite birds and flowers like dear friends. Nature study should be better un- derstood, its value given a higher es- timate. Pgpe says “Man looks through nature up to nature’s God”; and Charles Kingsley advises us “to study nature as we would the countenance of God.” Stregt wrote: “Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumines his mind and purifies his heart; an in- fluence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence”; and Lydia Maria Childs tells us “Nature is beautiful, always beautiful! Every little flake of snow is a perfect crys- tal, and they fall together as grace- fully as if fairies of the air caught ‘water drops and made them into arti- ficial flowers to garland the wings of the wind.” Nature is inviting in the light of knowledge and invilg-tln; and edify- ing and inspiring. e leads to high aspirations and reveals herself as be- ing akin to wisdom and to God as a reward for dfligent search after truth. ‘Why is not man more ardent,for an mfl. ‘which is both a blessing and a benefit? One is prompted o say it is because he is lazy; but it'is more likely ‘that his lack of knowledge as well as his “dislike of anything which is exhausting is the true impédiment. some of the feathers are tipped with buff, but in sunlight they have a steely appearance on the back and are brown beneath. They are disliked by some bird Jovers because, like the bluejay, they are fond of eggs and will plllage the nests of other birds. They build ests in hollow trees and in buildings f they can find an entrance, and they are not secretive about their nesting places, but rather careless about dis- closing them. They are not easily reached and this makes them more bold than other birds in this respect. As an acquisition they are no more desirable, some think, than ig the Eng- lish sparrow. SUNDAY MORNING TALK THE USES OF INSIGNIFICANCE. The world around ,ordinary people are in the overyhelming majority. We appreciate the truth of Lincoin’s re- mark that God must love the common people because he had made so many of them. Mingling with our human kind we discover that they are, for the greater part like ouirselves, quite on the average. They are not wholly good nor wholly bad, not whelly happy nor wholly miserable, neither geniuses nor dunces. The consciousnese of insignificance may, of course, prove a fertile source of discontent. Anyone, with a spark of ambition ,has some desire to be marked off from the common herd. He wishes to do something out of the or- dinary. Although honors may come slow, it is not until some time past middle life that he begins to realize that his achievement is to be in no way remarkable. He resigns himself to mediocrity with a pang. The consciousness of insignificance may also prove a source of temptation, It is easy to hide behind a sense of in- feriority. We may feel that not much, after all, is expected of us. Like the man in the parable, who received one talent, we are likely to conclude so petty a gift is unimportant and to hide it in the earth. Yet when all this is said, there is a power in insignificance that we must recognize when we look about us. Great names inspire and great men lead, but the work of life is done by the mute inglorious millions whose names are not known two blocks be- yond their own neighborhoods. A world made up of solo performers would be a difficult place to Iive in. If all were engaged in writing the great | poem or leading the orchestra, who would stir the muffins or weed the gar- den or mend the children’s socks? ‘We should make sorry work of it in | a universe that lacked the sons and | daughters of Martha. Bvery triumph | of our civilization is -dependent on them. The most brilliant engineer would be useless without the seryices | | of rough hands that pass your house | in the gray of morning, carrying a | snack of noon-hour food in a dinner | {pail. The sky scraper, with your own | office on the 11th floor, stands firm be | cause an army of common men, just “wasps” in the usual phrase have laid | the foundations. The bridge that car- ries over the dark river the sons of Mary, “pleasantly sleeping and un- aware,” was put together by a solid and uncommunicative set of fellow | probably known as individuals, ev |to the fore of the job only by | | their respective numbers. The man | | who mixes the mortar or runs the | derrick is as essential as the archi tect whose name is inscribed on the building. Humble folk may have a greater | part than they know in shaping the | | world’s destinies. The great Earl of | Shaftesbury, whose benefactions filled | | England, confessed his supreme in- | debtedness to a faithful old servant in the household at Blenheim, Maria Millis. After her death he always re: | ferred to her as “the best friend I ever i had in the world.” { According to the legend, St. Anthony | had a revelation that there was in Al- | exandr 1 certain cobbler holier than | he. Seeking out his possible rival, he | {asked him what great thing he was | doing for God and man that had | caused him to win such favor in the eyes of heaven. The cobbler laughed | and said, “Good deeds do 1 none and great thoughts are whoily heyond me. I rise betimes in the morning and see to my family, and then 1 go'to my work and spend the whole day get- ting my liv I try to teach my children to love God and man and I | help my neighbors when 1 can. This is the sum of my hofing Verily,” * L Country Walks Health-Gaining Exercise 3 ; devot. N shows blue, green, black and a lightish | said St. Anthony, “T n:s ‘been blind. purple when obseryed close to, and | Thou hast found the secret of eternal B, Y There are many things which will} cause a person to walk a long ways: | To reach home or friends; to achieve some task and attain fame; to ac-, quire a fortune, or to show devotion to varicus causes; but these are really ) poor incentives compared with the charm of nature in the light of love ' and the great rewards which come of ion to her for her own sake. { ure has decreed that man must her on foot, hence her wonders‘ are generally inaccessible to all arti- | ficial means of reaching them; and not infrequently man has to dig deep for them. And when man has dug deep, what has been his reward? Revelation of resources which have added to his in- tellectual and material wealth, and promoted the enlightenment of the race. Walking will take off . that pallid countenance, it will make that step firmer, the eye brighter, the head clearer, the mind more conscious of power and the heart in closer touch with everything expressive of God’s love and constant care for us. In fact, will make new creatures of us all. It is exercise and enlightenment which robs the wilds of their solitude and makes the creatures of the flelds and woods old friends to us—we recog- nize their forms, know their names, have become familiar with their occu- pations and their worth—and we feel at home where for lack of knowledge others feel lost. Henry Ward Beecher was right when he said: “There are many troublcs which you cannot cure by the Bible or the hymn book, but which you can cure by good tion and a breata of fresh air.” There is healing in the programme of wild flowers, in the odors of ripe fruit, in the atmosphere, of pine woods, as well as in the cleau breezes from the seas or the mountain tops. To the walkers there soon comes a better manhood and an improved life. What is manhood but mastery? It was Theodore Parker who said: “It is very sad for a mard to make himself servan: to a single thing; his- manhood all taken out of him by the hyaraulic pressure of excessive busimess. [ should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minis- ter, a great politiclan. I should like also to be of a man!” self—to come into a full development of all his faculties, and there is noth- ing that will help him more than get- ting away from the artificialities ol commercial life and maintaining some- thing of his aboriginal relation to the earth and his Maker. It is becoming more and more fash- ionable to walk for physical and men- tal improvement—for the feeling of power and supremacy which can only be kudwn to the natural man who seeks something fo adore besides self. THE SUBSTITUTE. lite. THE PARSON. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Time to Be Careful. Mr. Editor: I believe that every man of average intelligence must agree Wwith me that as a rule W. H. Taft has been found doing what he thought was right—his idea of right and your idea of right may differ, but even Mr. ;I‘afl':ll enmglll l‘l‘r that he is usually ound on the right si grea qu';;tioxg. ide of all it e Canadian reciprocity scheme that he advocated so ltmzly some months ago, was not a scheme origi- nal with him; it was a democratic measure pure and simple, and_the farmers who today lean toward Wil- #son because President Taft made his one great mistake of calling a congress of democrats together to pass such a law; had better look back and see if they are galning anything by putting Wilson and his party in power. President Taft thought he was right in urging such legislation. His mis \take was in allowing enemies of this brosperous nation to pass this law that a republican congress had falled to pass, Governor Foss of Massachusetts was one of the original Canadian reciproc- ity boomers. As to Wilson's stand no one knows, for Prof. Woodrow Wilson had already written his book, and Gov., Woodrow Wilson had not com- menced to talk. He has talked since and talked to farmers. He told the farmers that nothing they raised was protected, or words to that effect, for he hadn’'t found out then anything about hay, eggs, potatoes and nearly all farm products. Oh, yes, Woodrow ‘Wilson talked, and talked reciprocity. Now, the farmers of eastern Con- necticut who are sore because of rec- iprocity anhd its short life, mustn't lose sight of the fact that the democratic congress that passed that law alsol passed a so-called farmers’ free-list bill, but kept all products containing sugar, rice, rice flour and southern products generally off that free-list bill. I have mentioned this before and not Jntend to repeat, but It is too good to keep still about. In the past few days there has come & great change over this country, po- litically T mean. Thousands of voters are suddenly asking themselves, Am 1 doing right in opposing President Taft who is at least safe, and making the election of an enemy of progress almost certain. A good heart to heart talk is good for all, and Roosevelt or Taft, it may be well to halt right now and size up the chances of Wiison, that's all. If it is anger at Canadian reciprocity that makes you desert the republican party, you better think what party voted for this law. If it is an honest desire to change politi- cal parties national control, then let figure a little. How are we going to do it? Will a vote for an independent candidate for congress in this district elect that man, or will it defeat Will- iam A. King, an upright, progressive republican, and send to Washington in his place a democrat pledged in ad- vance to vote for free trade in all of its destructiveness? Be careful if | not in national ticket in state and con- gressional. C. B, MONTGOMERY. Packer, Conn. Situation at Leonard Bridge. Mrs. Editor: The postoffice of a community has its own peculiar boun- dary determining its patronege and is supposed to be its illuminating center, around which are radiated the enter- prises of its constitution of affiliative associations. HEspecially so in all ru- ral routes, as it is the leading feature of the three public institutions of | which the schoolhouse and church ! have their minor importance so far as patronage is concerned in their daily influence. The postoffices of a nation are of sufficient importance as to have as- sumed an architectural character throughout the entire globe, and that individual in type to be recognized by the traveling public. To be sure, there are here and there instances of de- parture from this set rule of char- acter expressions; but now that ex- pressive of delight to the critic as to emphasize it as a coming type of pop- ularity as a domestic occupation. The greatest grotesque anomaly along the line of departure in postoffice architecure can mow be foungd if one goes quick at the head of rural route No. 1 at Leonard Bridge, Conn., where there has recently been such radical | change in its public business centers, | contingent upon the exit ¢ the lead- ing first families of the large and pop nlar F. D. Route No. It is doubtless, indeed, that - Money ON PURE FOODS LEGS OF LAMB ....... FANCY RIB ROLLS SHOULDER ROAST, bb. ....... NATIVE VEAL ROAST, b. ....... [6c gl.id-l‘ig”l-'mh ... 156 2000 w S1 EAK FANCY TABLE FANCY MEALY COOKING YELLOW ONIONS y 4.quarts 13c peck 25¢ i e e . FRESH CELERY RIPE TOMATOES COFFEE, bb. ....... 34c MOHICAN CATSUP In Mason jer, quart. .. 10c Mohican Best Bread At4p. m BAKES 10c Bagan. BEANS, it. BREAD, luf would, ever have been a postoffice or raflroad station, or, in fact, a Leonard Bridge, even, only for D. H. and H. C. Leonard, the creators and builders of the fact that trains of cars ever stop- ped at the location. It is perfectly superflous to mention that they cr ated and built well and deserve the aj plause of such s enjoyed the priv leges they grouped at this barren but picturesque location, all these years ot small money remuneration. Any enterprise must meet with the general approval of its patrons if it would result in a brilllant success to the community in which it exists. “Bternal vigilance ig erty,” and success today, as it was ever in the world's history ‘Whisperings of discontent are fore- runners of wars, that change the map of the world as final results. Koep your weather eye on Leonard Bridge and watch her boom in the near future under new management in her new home, and as she adopts the new parcels post and postal bank, the new features that our enterprising postmaster general, Hitchcock, is soon to introduce in 1913. 1f Leonard Bridge would hold its former record, it is evident that some- thing must be done of a public nature y i trons. St e WHO'S WHO? Leonard Bridge, Sept. 19, 1812, IDEAS OF A PLAIN MAN Do Things for Yourself. The most essential part of the edu- cation of a human being ig to learn to do things for himself. The beginnings of character consist in the disposition and ability to wait on one's self. This is also the essence of democ- racy. d i It is also the gist of the reiigion 0 Jesus. 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