Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 18, 1912, Page 4

. orwich Buliletin aud Couries. 116 YEARS OLD, Subscription price, 120 & week; &0c a month; $6.00 a year, Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter. Telophone Calls: Bulletin Business Ofoce, 480, Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-3. Bulletin Job Office, 35-6. Willimantic Office, Room 2, Murray Building. Telephone 210. Norwich, Wednesday, Dec, 18, 1912. —_ NEEDS OF SCHOOL 8YSTEMS. Tests which have been made in mathematics upon high and grammar school pupils in'the city of New York show surprising results and yet give to those institutions the very best warning of what the school system needs and is lacking. The report of Prof. Blan of Columbia is that seven were found in 190 jigh school pupils who tould not add one and one, nine could not multiply one by one and when it came to multiplying .1 by .1 there were 107 who failed and 127 who could mot divide the same decimals. This astonishing situation was also found to exist in the elementary schools and emphasizes the fact in the strongest manner possible _that thmetic is in those schools being #adly neglected. It is a condition which would hardly be belleved with- put the figures and the authorities to ‘back it up. The product of the schools today get & different training than in the days when emphasis was placed espe- clally upon the three R's and with such progress as has been made in education it is a poor showing to have such disclosures made. It is best, however, that they should he made in the school rather than when the puplls atte: to get positions on their qualifications. Surely something is wrong, elther with the method or the puplls in the teaching of arithmetic, rome of the important elementary * ‘branches of education. It s a regret- table fact that so many graduates of high schools today show a lack of efficiency not only in arithmetic but in spelling and writing, and to the latter two but little attention seems to be pald. THE COAL DECISION. A finding of progress is that by the United States supreme court concern- ing the suit against the coal roads by the government and known as the hard voal trust. Even though it Is only a partial vietory for the government in the opinion of Attorney General W ersham “the abrogation of the illegal contracts will make material for com- petition In the coal trade” This is made possible by the annulment of the €5 per cent. contracts and opportunities by reason of the de- cision whereby the government can carry the matter further, By the de- cision the contracts of the so-called trust and the independents are de- clared illegal but what good that will de to the consumer is a problem which it will take time to solve. How it is going to reduee the price of coal is what is interesting the con- sumer. The independents are the ones which have been demanding premiums for thelr coal. Now that their con- tracts under the 65 per cent. agree- ment ars off it will mean larger quan- tities for them to dispose of and should they hold that for the additional pre- mium it means no help for the con- sumer. 1f they want to meet the de- mand and get the trade by undersell- ing it Wil work to the advantage of the man who pays the final price, but such has been indicated by any action, as their attitude to the Me. Tt is #oubtful if the inclination to reduce will be stimulated except by the piling up of the supply and by entering into a cutrate competition. However every e that will bring ths mearer is to BILLPOSTING ORDINANCES. Every city has its wrestle with om of bill posting, where the tions shall be placed and how far the business will be restricted for tha tmterests of the general appearance of the streets. This reform is being pro- moted in Omaha at the present time end of it the Omaha Bee has this to e the re- he determination of the city coun- efl to enact a new billposter ordinance comes not a day too soon. The pro- posed measure s designed to abolish “unsightly”. posters, which marks it a8 a very ambitious measure and leaves room for the exercise of some rare discrimination a5 to just what constitutes unsightliness. The law is not presumed to put all billboards out of business, but whatever it dees or leaves undone, it should rid the down- town business streets of a lot of rub- bigh that has no right there and make 1t unlawful for this section to be turned to such purpo: Bibit the displaying of signs and ple- tures on buildings In process of con- atruction or the inclosures temporar- iy built about them along the prin- gipal thoroughfares. Abuses of this kind have reached the limit of late but not without some compensation it they have helped to Inspire the coun- oll to action The abuses which have stirred this western city are common everywhere until the action to prevent them is taken, and it is an averiue in which plenty of opportunity lles for improve- ment. Bill posting should be kept with. in its proper channels, while the plan of keeping empty store windows filled with old and out of date posters is another practice which should be dis- couraged. Over in Ansonia it is seriously be- Meved that a canal from tldewater at Derby to Waterbury will be the mext big project. It is liable to hap- pen about the time the canal so fa- worably talked of is dug from Nor- wich to Willimantic or Worcester. Becguss of her yhilantbropy all the seuntry Is interested in the engagc ment of Miss Ielen Gould. ' Inasmuch #8 she had previously said her faflure 0 marry was the Inability to find the right man, Mr. Shepard 18 to be doubly “alonels Bryan and Roogevelt, with thelr dollar a word stories will know How to sympathize with the Califor- 244 minister who lost 312 sermons and - ¢ only received $300 damages therefor i ;.au- the railroad transporting them. ©President-elect Wilson has returned to this country. He has decided to fine himself to the lesmer of two . derpey—figst, there are | w. It should pro- | AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND. Ordinarily the filling of any vacancy in the diplomatic corps where such an important post as the ambassador- ship to England is concerned would takesplace as soon as could be respect- fully done, and such would be done now by President Taft if the time| for which such appointee\would serve | made it worth while. It is understood | that the holders of such important | posts will resign at the end of an-ad- ministration and suth being the case whoever was named by the president would have barely two months to sérve before another would be taking up:the duties. This is one of the most im- portant diplomatic posts, the service at the court of St. James being one of great-honor and responsibility, and it is but natural that each administra- tlon should desire its own represen- tatives for the full and sympathetic expression of its' policies. Ambassador Reid by his magnificent conduct of the office has matters &0 well in hand ang through his person- ality has cemented the relationship of the two countries that all matters | can be dealt with from this side un- ti] his successor takes office, Pres- ident-elect Wilson has plans for the amb: orship of course and until his appointment is made and confirmed the vacancy will exist as a tributé to the deceased ambassador. Naturally on first thought it was surprising that such an important place should not be filled but under the existing condi- tions the decision seems a wise one. CANAL TOLLS AND EXPENSES. Great Britain in its protest against | the Panama canal act seems to be act- | |uated by the impression that the for- | | elgn vessels passing through the canal | |are to be depended upon for the sup-| | port thereof and that the remission of | tolls on American shipping is taking | a part of the burden which rightfully | belongs upon American shipping therefrom and imposing it upon other | countries. Great Britain realizes that | his country has the power to vote any subsidy which it may desire to its steamship lines for the promotion | of greater business in that direction | and whether such a subsidy s paid by | | returning the tolls or by not collect- ing them makes absolutely no differ-| | /hichever is done | for any but Am |to engage in that trade |under the present act no tolis are to| |be charged for the use of th anal. What seems to be necessary is to |elear up the minds of the British em- |pire and other countries which' are siding with her in the opposition to |the operation of the canal as planned. . The rates which have been fixed ar by no means permanent and they are not established on the of meet- ing the expense of the operation of the canal or the placing of it on’a profit making basis. Therefore the foreign| re mot providing the sapport for the canal inasmuch as there be a large enditure for years by this country for the maintenance and operation of the interoce wat w in addition to what is received [tolls. They may be supplying the vis- ible revenue, but tha not equal |the expenditure and inerest accounts. EDITORIAL NOTES. stop is insist upon s | | An automatic those who thin fce. ing. upon ! Now that an; seems rather cru to the fish, eworms can think it 1 to feed those brains Vice President-elect M his own shoe ing each shinir hall blacks es in improy- Happy thought for tods kind of a town is or prettier as it grows older. The best ople have completed shopping, others | their Christmas lists. | This 1s a season when discrimina- | tion must be u n giving, but any of | the organized charities are safe chan- nels. While many pe their Christma haven't finishe There’s a news value in every ad- | vertisement and careful readers ar | profiting thereby. doesn't pay miss them. It Tlogging is the penalty of the new English law for white slavery. It it| good effect it ought to come into universal us | It tsn't too late to shop, but the| shop early season is over and it is |a question now of not being any more boisterous than necessary. [ Yale made a big score against Har- vard when she got the exclusive right to dig up Peru. But then they may revise the rules next year. | Even if Austria has internal dis- sensions ient to keep her out of | war, it 18 an established fact that| she has made an excellent bluff. Instead of its being the anticipated blessing which sas expected by the poor man the cold storage is being manipulated to the detriment of his' | bankroll. i | New England and the provinces have a record of 28 deaths during the hunt- 1 season. That mea: nearly two {to every thousand Geer and is a toll | too large and costly. If there are many of the party of| 25 hiking suffragettes who fall by the | ayside it will be a small and weak representation which appears before Governor Sulzer at Albany. The 50 suce Housekeepers league has been sful in breaking the egg mar- { ket that it might be well now to tackle |the butter corner of which 60,000 tons | d.to be in cold storage. Now that the parcels post is about to start, it is discovered that the ex- press companies can reduce rates, and ifur once it looks as if lower prices | were coming in the way of the man |who pays the freight, ‘is fascinal- ing i Welss scan- | dalized Paris one morning by saying of a certain startling affair, “It is beautiful, a beautiful crime.” There is an element of truth in thi To read of crime is to feel all those suppressed forces and wayward de-j sires in us appealed to; we have often'| wondered what would happen if we should Tet ourselves go. [ There Is something that stirs us. in; every action where the soul defles pru- dence, which is o necgssary virtue, but a small one. The criminal feels he is a hero. We feel also that be is a hero; bad, viclous .. NORWICH' BULLETIN, DARK The animal was a Dolecat, o beast looking very much like a Very very. dark ferret, which,in fac Delng the wild an ticated ferret. It was or he was, to. be correct—very low and ' long, ' with a bushy tail and a flat, cruel head, such absurdly short, legs, . that when he ran he lop and arch his back. He was bloodthirsty member of the wild, and very plicky, and it t seemed it nature had made he could not be mi: and more gentle cre carried about with him an odor which | | wa the sort of smell And simply awful that you don'tfo he lad been given “fonl mart”. The polecat passed on do of the wild hunters a the polecat Is untiri d rather than active. this is why he missed his f a hare an-hour later, afic and also his spri tailed black-cc He had not quite noises made by the mud jr: after worm Slowly see the heads mov glided. 1 He waited with. ey he custom of his cn an eel, the the ban at even polec land of o ntended to do, the same rt of flame » foam ju spot where t ment stor of the domes- | though strong d to gal- | L very | DEEDS & ledge, and did not stop until he was | seven hundred yards away. Then he stopped very suddenly ~because the dimly Qiscernible form of @ rabbit, aging in from the field without, had | bdunced clean into him,*knocking him |and itself kicking over and over. |" The rabbit picked itself up in a flash, | and shot away up a rabbit tunnel that ran through the tangled herbage. But the polecat had no time to attend to the offender. Something else was following hard on the rabbit's heels, cat had barely time to sideways before that came blundering in upon The creature was very excited over the chase, and I suppose the change from the moonlit field to the inkly black hedge deceived it. Anyway its wl brushed the polecat’s tail as he slithered out of the way and per- haps it thought he was the rabbit. Quick hining it struck with bared nd inflicted a gridiron red tear inches long across the polecat's polecats “are bloodthirsty bri- and murderers, but they are no In an instant the polecat had turned on himself and buried his s in the other beast’s throat, and | the gpitting and swearing | sliowed made it quite clear | t the other animal was. Only a ke those unearthly sounds. asted 35 seconds. To the scuffiing, it was_fairly en the cat went awa I think d to go, because he ran as later something crossed quickly n* space of moonlight between icks in a farmyard not far was the polecat. looking' for the fowl-house, found it. Chi cannot o first fowl-house he had I think, because soon in at the small entrance ed by fowl { en that polecat went mad with the t of slaughter. He killed not one fowl], but as many as he could. & He was racing about, ng all he saw, like a mad beast, F e door flew open and he stopped. ang! of the gun was ter ccat semed to be suddenl pt from his feet and, dropping in a led heap, lay still repc “I'll teach to fasten back the wind had blown shut, ned polecat see it is tricky work lantern and the pole- farmer There is to whethe market is or crowd in the field hydroae to X New H the God Ansonis creatures. Here in the probat widened the r the police court has proven time and cipfulness to stem that val of all materially of subs inor offende meet ul people.— the date indelibly on eggs they are laid? ~Short of might be a law requiring | ajsel to equip themselves h 1ubber stamps and imprint the | and truthfully, under | avy penal Providence Bulletin. Richmond, Va., proposes to have lts chamber of commerce undertake “a season return home dinncr traveling. men” Thats a od boosting id Anything zes porjularly the influence | mén in the promotion encouragement.— e loss in ton- anthracite coal t April and now “of nsion of made up ess will make it | 1p. A good month of December wili almost square the ace but as de- nd increas t is needful to get a ttle ahcad.—Bridgeport Standard. Phere i where. rded as an intelli- | ss of men, but the the interstate commerce | sion does not prove it; on the| it is agaifst it. Before such | ent, how ting try to know the reasons c es being 50 neglectful.—New aln Herald ing why the prices so high. There are| At a.restaurant in s charged for a | biscuits.” This por- | vario this city portion of cen fancy oyal BalingPowder | bought. Rich qualities in the new styles of |a set. | tion proved to be thr | the prices. | 3-5 Water Street, AbsolutelyPure No Alum : No Lime Phosphates There is Only One Al for this d{i‘mre on every box. 23c. ““Bromo Quinine” That is. Laxative Bromo Quinine WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1912 . Furs for Xmas it Moderate priced Furs 5ut yet Furs of the dependable sort that do not appear cheap and poor. You can select Furs here without going beyond your means and you will secure hand- some grades in Coats, Scarfs and Muffs, or in Children’s Furs of which we show an excellent line. Furs give lasting enjoyment and they are useful and handsome gifts if properly Ci in Persian Lamb, Caracul, Marmot, French Seal, Hudson Seal and Pony. Exceptionally handsome sets of Black Lynx, Eastern Mink or American Sable, Black Fox, Persian Lamb, Caracul, Natural Wolf, Black Wolf, Beaver, Mole, Sable Fox and Sable Opossum. We have just received a new line of White Sets for Ladies or Misses at popular prices. CHILDREN'’S FURS in SETS, from $3.00 a set to $10.00 MEN’S RACCOON COATS for Auto wear, and MEN’S FUR LINED COATS for Street wear. We are showing extensive assortments of all Furs and invite your inspection of our stock. dJ. C. MACPHERSON, Farrier, 291 Main Street, Norwich as “sea.foam.” They a pound. At the rate restaurant they - would pme. Of | \ such an ts known literary taste is increasing frauds can be perpetrated ving $5,000,000 in the sale of fake ditions de luxe” to dupes—New York World. cost $1.20. course, a restau enormous scale of profit will soon close | its doors for want of patronage— | P TR Middletown n | Reducing Cost of Living. | e latest democratic recipe for re- ducing ‘ ving: “Give us baclk th fices.” ———— T . Horse of Another Celor. Whipping the cholera is likely to be bigger job foi Balkans than ping the Turk—Knickerbocker Globe-Democrat. The Lawless Metropolis. Thirty years ago the. man looking for turmoil went 10 Arizona and fought Apaches. Today e runs over to New rk.--Philadelphia Telegraph. At the Factory The BIG BARGAIN HOUSE, 3 and 5 Water Street, offers the following extraordinary bargains: MEN’S OVERCOATS, in gray and black beaver, at $11.98, retail value $20.00. MEN’S SUITS from $5.24 to $11.98, retail value double ten years the numbs a week by A Sweet and I.-Iw;fuhinl Girl Who EATRF. [isetiAgegd S} N@The Home of Belested Phote-Plays The Famous “BIG JAGK” THE BOXING KANGAROO GRACE LaVELLE MYERS, SACKS & VALLIN In the 8 o'Clock Train Great Fun A Sailor’s Heart, Red Eagls, Photo-Plays—The Old Reporte The Lawyer, A Good scenic and the drollest comedy ever written, 7. DAVIS T PRICES ...... venn. $200 to 25¢ HEATRE A BROADWAY! FRIDAY, DEGEMBER 20th Werba and Luescher’s Dainty Production of the Famous Operetta Vienness THE SPRING MAID DIRECT FROM ITS TWO SEASON'S RUN AT THE NEW YORK LIBERTY THEATRE Company of Seventy Including GENE LUNESKA and J, H. GOLDSWORTHY and the Famous “Spring Maid” Chorus and METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA SEAT SALE—Monday, 16th, t W e s MATINEF ¢ EverY DAY Broed Theatre FEATURE TODA “THE IRON HEEL " fssagy The Month’s Melodramatic Feature O'NEIL & CALKINS, Vocalists AUDITORIUM 3 Shows Daily, 2.30, 7, 8.45 Admission, 10c and 20c Feature Act Today ivene On a Side Street 4 People Other Acts and Pictures THE GAUMONT WEEKLY HOMER MILES PIAYERS 2 Keystone Comedies A Temperamental Husband “Troubles of a Deacen FLOWER YOUTHS’ OVERCOATS at $3.98 and $4.98. BOYS’ OVERCOATS at $1.98. BOYS’ NORFOLKS and DOUBLE BREASTED from $1.98 to $4.98. BLOOMERS, sizes from 4 to 14, at 17c each. CORDUROY KNICKERBOCKERS; all sizes, 39c, retail value $1.00. BiG BARGAIN HOUSE corner Washington Square ristmas Plants and Fowers There is nothing in Norwich more attractive than our display of Holiday offerings. EVERYTHING IN PLANTS, g FLOWERS and WREATHS. Our Holly and Mistletoe has arrived. N REUTER’S 140 Main Street Phone 1184 Are always difficult to select. our store and look over our assortment of articles suitable for sach and one of your friends. As a Christmas Gift, will please more than anything else you can think of. We wish to offer to the people of Norwich at bottom prices the following Cut Flowers and Flowering Plants: POINSETTIAS, the leading Christmas Flower. ROSES, all colors, red, pink, white and yellow. CARNATIONS in all colors. ORCHIDS VIOLETS (single and double). LILLIES, LILLIES-OF-THE-VALLEY. NARCISSUS, yellow and white. IN FLOWERING PLANTS WE HAVL Poinsettias in pans, Cyclaman, Stevias,, Primul lias, Begonnias (pink and red), Geraniums, Ete. Berry Plants, Ardisias and Salamum. Also a fine assortment of Decorative Plants, Palms, Ferns, Dracenas and Crotons. ALL HOME GROWN. We also wish to call your attention to our fine line of CHRISTMAS GREENS. Holly, Mistletoe, Boxwood, Laurel and Smilax. own gathering in first-class shape and condition We make to order Wreaths for cemetery and house d.ecorations. Also Garlands for churches and stores GEDULDIG’S, Phone 868 RELIABLE FLORISTS Holiday Gifts , Aza- Our That need never worry you. If you but Just to help you in your decision we suggest: ROCKING CHAIRS—Rockers for the children from 50c to $2.00. Ra for the grown-ups, $1.00 and upwards. MORRIS CHAIRS—We have just the ones you want in any fnis| leather or velour cushions, ranging in price from $6.00 to $25.00, WRITING DESKS8—Big ones and little ones, finely finished In golden ohk or mahogany. We have some excellent values, $2.60 PICTURES—There is not a more sensible gift than a picturs, a new line just recelved for gur Christmas trade, consisting of Pastels and Oliogrophs. There are numerous others which space doesn't allow us such as Boy's Wagons and Sleds, Shoo-Flies, Rocking Horses, I Carriages and Carts. Parlor Tables, Chafing Dishes, Casseralls, nets, Dinner and Tollet Sets, Sewing Machines and Planos. ‘We deliver goods Free to any part of Comnecticut.| - Shea & Bur