Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 28, 1912, Page 4

- &orwich Eulletin and Goufies. 116 YEARS OLD. e et Substription prics, 120 a wesk; 800 a Ménth; §6.00 & yeor. Entared at the Postoffice at Norwich, %6hn., as second-class matter, Telephone Calist Bulletin Business Offics, 480, Bulletin Bditorial Reoms, 353, 'Im.n-ua Job Office, 88-8. li Office, R L Building. 'ru‘wofll& i e Norwich, Saturday, Dec. 28, 1912, S —————f—— ine Circulation ol The Bulletin, The Bulletin has the langest et éulation of any puper is Easern Cenneceticut, and from three to four Ulmes larger than that of any Norwieh, It lu deltvered to over 3000 of the 4,003 houses ia Nor- Wieh, and read By ninety-three per Sekt. of the people. In Windham # v delivered to over 90U houses, ia Puiaam and Danielsen to over 1,100, and in all of these plnces i {4 comsidered the local daily, Eastera Comnecticut has forty- Sine towas, oac hundred and sixty- five postéffice dlatricts, amd sixty fural free delivery routes. The Balletin ix eold In every towan Snd on all of the R ¥, 0. toutes In Eastera Conmectieuts CIRCULATION 1901, AVerage .i..ciioransiain A1 5920 THE ALIEN INSANE. States which recéive many immi- #rants and are being called upon to deal with the cases of insanity which either ars admitted into the country or else develop after they reach here, are much interested in a coming gath- ering of resentatives from Such states for purpose of urging the shifting of the burden from the states to dongress. In connection with the expense of earing for the insane in the stats in- stitutions of the counitry the lafge pumber of allens who become the charge of the commonwealths add greatly thereto, and while it is pos- #ible to deport them ih case the come fition develops within a period of thtee years after reaching these shores there 18 & cost attached to that. The st in New York state has grown such figures that an investigation been underway and in the past gear 1171 from that state were re- turned after more o less care and ad- ditional expense of Investigating thelr preliminary to deportation. In state hospital here the number has gone to 35 In & short with the number to be In- soon. The allens are admitted by the fed- eral authorities, dut they maks no for the care of those who insane. It is but natural that this expense should be met by the gov- ernment, and by the enactment of such Isgislation and the additiongl expense entatled stricter regulations comcern- ing insanity may be enforced. Cer- tafnly remedial legislation {s needed. ——— e CASTRO'S CASE. Mueh interest is aroused in the ac- tion which will be taken when Cip- riano Castro, formerly president of Venezuela, reaches hete Sunday from Franee. The government has ordered that he cannot land In this country chiefly because he is Castro, but any one of several reasons can be given for the order deporting him, but it 1s likely to be on account of his physi- cal condition. Castro has long been an outeast and by keeping him at a distance where he can make the least trouble for his country and matters connected with that, the best thing is being done. Castro has stated that In coming to this country he Intends to settle here and keep away from Venezuela as long as the Gomes government exists, but America is a too conven- fent etriking ground for those who have designs on the Latin-American countries. Already enough influence in starting rebellions is charged to people in this counts to warn the government that while Castro may be coming here to séttle, there is no provision that will prevent him In the near future from striking at his for- mer cotntry's government from this convenient locality. Castro is oné of thoss who can pass the literacy test and yet rank among the undesirable glass and It means the prevention of any - further addition to the ranks of such people if he ls kept from mak- ing this country his headquarters for annoying Venezuela. 1005, average REDUCING COST OF LIVING. When the question of reducing the eost of living is given a good square Jook in the face it resolves itself into 8 case of meeting it through economy d the elimination of the many little ::dltloml costs which get tacked on because of the idea that first one little thing and then another is necessary in thése times of conveniences and lux. uries. Such are by no means all the reasons for the high cost of living to- day, but they add to it and 1t is in that direction that one of the western towns 1s making an effort to help the situas tion. In that eity a grocery store has fixed two prices on its goods, one price 2 they are delivered and one If the customers carry their purchases. The upkeep of an elaborate delivery wer- vice is thus lessened to the grocer and he {8 therefore in a position to make better prices on his goods and yet reals ize his profit, It is claimed that If no deliveries wers made at all better prices could be offered to the public and thbis is the principle on which many large stores operate today, making addi- tional charges If paresls are sent, Everyone, however, I8 not willing to 4o their shopping, preferring to tel- g9phone and have their pareels deliv- sred, and think meve of ft if it can be done by automebils, Medern appli- ances afl contsibute te the cost and when it comes to making a reduction in such costs it must come through sSome of the ocemveniences he of features which contributs to looks and mot to susten- ance In more than one locality of this country the value of hiring an in- structor for the purpose of distrib- uting his knowledge in the most com- | plete manner over a stated territory| has been amply demonstrated. In-| strietion by Itinerant teachers is & feature of German agricultural educa- tion, especially in fruit growing, ac-| cording to advices recelved at the United States bureau of education | through consular advices. The work is similar to the agricultural exten- slon work carried on in some sections | of this gountry, but shows several in- teresting local differences. The school for wine and fruit grow- ing at Kreuznach sends its instruct- ors over the entire district of 200 vil- lages. The pldn is found to be ex- cellent not only for the farmers who receive the direct benefit but for the teachere themselves, who are enabled to keep in close touch with the prac- tical side of their work. This instruc- tion is furnished entirely without charge. The horticultural school at Oppenheim besides giving instruction by leotures and furnishing practical ald to the farmers has Introduced model vineyards whereby the school 4and the owners enter into contract to conduct it along the line directed by the school for five years without charge. Thereby the latest methods are giv- en to the growers, which results not only in inoreased production but bet- ter products and thereforé a better- ment of conditions. TRESPASSING IN THE AIR. Becduse up to within a few years aeérial navigation has not been pwos- sible theré have beén no laws made concerning it, but it is evident that the time is coming when not only in- ternational but state regulations must be enacted. This is plainly Indicated by the action of the French author- itles In selzing a German flylng ma- chine which was trespassing in French air. The New York Tribune in advo- cating & code of alr laws says: “There can scarcely be any serious challenging of the right of a state to the ownership and control of the air above its territory, however difficult it may be at times to assert that con- trol. Municipal law in nearly, if not quite all, clvilizeq states recognizes ownership of air space above real estate to an unlimited altituds. N, man can erect a dullding overhanging the land of his neighbor. Obviously it would be stultifying to assert that states have not simllar ownership above their tefritorial areas. The sug- gestion that the air should be free after the analogy of the high seas is unacoeptable, for really no such anal- ofy exists. The trelation of the high seas to any given country is radically different from that of the air above that country. The freedom of the seas ceases at the three mile limit, or at the point at which that freedom might impair the security and privacy of a state. But it is manifestly impossible to designate such a point or such a limit In aerial navigation, The use! of the air, at no matter what height, | potentially affects very seriously the! interests of the land beneath” Buch a settlement of the points in- | volved in aerial navigation and the| usle of the air above the different ter- { ritorfal divisions ought to be easy of settlément. Ordinarily it might make no difference, but with regufations dnd their observance all trouble is overcome. EDITORIAL NOTES, The New Year is close at hand and with it will come the bills for the Christmas presents. It will be the bargain counter pro- posals which will interest the shoppers for the next few weeks. The new regent of Bavaria refuses to be proclaimed a king. He probably has visions of the bomb thrower. This enlistment of Cupid into the ranks of the sufffige movement on Albany has the ring of a press agenit's dream, Hickey, the: murderer of boys, has| been given a sentence of twenty years, How long before petitions in behalt of his pardon will be started? Norwich suffers normally from bad | sidewalks but that 18 no excuse for fallure to remove the snow from them which only makes them worse, Those In charge of parcels post might get a few ideas from Santa Claus for the handling of a large quan- tity of packages at short notice, The condition of Woodrow Wilson's health promises to be a matter of greater newspaper prominence for the next four years than ever before. e ienioncind s Turkey 1s making a bold stand for Adrianople. She is not making any concessfons without a struggle, but nohé needs peace more than she does. e Attt It fen't time to desert the Red Cross seals untfl the first of the year at least. There Is lots of time in which to help swell the anti-tuberculosis fund. l ‘With the many stumbling blocks en. countered in the peace conference Tur- key should remember that it is at the block that so many lose their heads. The snow storm left Nantucket two | feet deep in the beautiful and the cable. connection broken. But then Nantucket always did want to be dif- ferent and exclusive. ‘When Willlam Loeb, Jr, a Roose- velt man, signed with the Guggen’ heims, he went over to the camp ot the enemy. It is a business not a political deal however. Chicagoans found it unnecessary to have whiskers and furs to be Santa Claue to the poor. Nearly 15,000 children were made happy thers by gifts from the Good Fellows. It might be well to remind the publie that the Inauguration of parcels post is not like the opening of a new store, No crowd is wanted at the beginning and there will be no souvenire, The boy attending the hat rack of e Bt, Lou!s hote! has saved ensugh| from his tips to buy a hotel his | own. Possibly he figurcs that cheaper | than taking a room with a bath. From all over the state Hartford is being advised to get thelr water board on a buelness instead of a political basls. It is unquestionably the only way to conduct municipal affairs. When" Governor Blease released the last lot of priseners under the agree- ment that they leave the state, he must have realized that he was gets ting rid of a lot of bad characters, If they were net fit to live in South Carglina why pardon them® | ehow | to the other fellow. Too many people | but doing what your heart Do you ever sit down and think of the capacity of one-syllabled words? ! When you have said space, time, God, man, love, hope, won, you have includ- ed more than you can really compre- hend in a single line. Note the dif- ference between mate and mother— | the music of love seems to have crept| into the second word—the inflection ' seems to make it sweet. There are those who like to use big words which they are more devoted to! sound than senge. We all of us take the dictionary for better or worse, and most of us get the worst of it.! We snuggle up to the wrong words | —make too much of hate and too lit- tle of mend, too much of cheat and too little of charity. We fail to get a, grip on the good words which reflect good actions. Carlyle sald “If you! do not wish a man to do a- thing, you had better get him to talk about it,| for the more men talk the more like- | ly they are to do nothing else. “While | words crystallize history and syllables are said to govern the world, few of | us master them, but let them master: us. i Living day by day makes strong men. Men who concentrate their ef-! forts to make today the best day of | thelr lives look back upon improving | yesterdays. What we are going to do | cuts no ice—what we are doing castes the die for us. Abraham Léncoln| said, “I have no policy, but meet all problems day by day, and each day @do the best I can.” This habit was| a factor in making him great, and it! will develop growth and power in every | man who cultivates it. How many | are secretly saying to themselves, 1! mean to do better next vear, when it . is up to them to do better now. We; all proerastinate, and this has Dbeen defined as struggling with ruin. Too | many men die deliberating. We make promises to ourselves as we do to oth- ers, without any intention of ever, keeping them. We demonstrate tha!i tomorrow is the fool's day for reform, | without realizing that it is our day. Today is what we should wrestle with. | There is never any more musio in l‘. musical instrument than the player! can get out of it; and an amateur can| get just as many discords from a! Strad, vielin as he can from a $1.50| instrument. The thrill of the heart—| the music in the soul—is the measure of a player's ability. I suspect that a| great many people think they are mu- | sicians who are not; and still I have! always envied the boy who can pull! “Home, Sweet Home,” out of a har-| monica without any variations. A story is told of a boy who had a fath- | er who owned a very expensive old| violin, and when asked one evening, by a male friend of the family. “Where | Pa was?" sald: “Oh, he's home pulling | the caterwauls out of ‘Schubert’'s Ber-, enade.” But the fact was, of course,| he was putting them Into it. Music| hath charms, we all admit, it rendered charmingly; if not, we are llable to| think otherwise, Some peoplé enthuse | over music who cannot tell a clef from | a stave, or a noté from 4 bar, becauss | it is something to ‘"seem!" Sweet| sounds are pleasing in limited sup- plies. In mid-winter, when the earth is farthest remeved from the sunm, the starlit sky séeéms to be nearer the earth.’ Why should we yearn for the work of old masters when nature hangs be fore our eyes every night such a ra-| diant picture of suns and worlds and ! comets and meteors, a picture which man has looked upon with wonder and awe through all the ages, a picture he has revered and still cannot compre- | hend. Moses led the children of Israel to the promised land beneath this very canopy of light and beauty; and our! star, or sun, was the star of all the philosophers, sages and prophets since God sald: “Let there be light.” Per- haps you have never looked vpon this' picture as yours—yours to admire and | to contemplate with the admiration | which it merits. The sky seems to be| bluer, the ¢louds whiter and the stars| brightey in winter time. When you are | out at night, look up! What some people think is goodness is the purest seifishness. They main- tain a life of good order and conform- ity because they belleve their best in- terests require it. In this they may be right; yet they are wrong when they think this s righteousness. Right- eousness ls something more than be- ing a good fellow—it is beéing good get up to the verge of righteousness ! and then stop. Doing what the preach- | er tells you to do is not plety, but conformity to suggestions or advice; | rompts | i‘ou to do in kindliness, of Godlikeness, s plety. Too few people who profess to be good take stock In “the still, | small voice,” although it is the sym- | bolic Redeemer. It isiup to every one of us to honor our own convictions and far from being manly to scout | the other person's. Some day we may | be obiiged to sit In judgment against ourselves. We may be the only wit- ness against ourselves in the day of judgment. | haven't enough patience with the man who talks about wage slaves, but 1 feel that I am going to have more, for I have deflned the wage slave for myself and the slave driver of Ametica in this year of our Lord 1912. A per- son whose compensation for his best efforts is not hardly enough to keep body and soul together—to keep the | wolt from the door—is a wage slave, | The family whose total efforts are ! required during long hours to keep | thém barely comfortable are the vic- | tims of a system as deplorable as the | slavery abolished by Abraham Lincoln. The reign of greed is a reign of tyr- | anny and oppression, These indus- trial wars are not caused by the poor, | but by thelr oppressors, and they. show | an Indwelling spirit of manhocd among | the people which is a ocredit to the | race. The Golden Rule has never yet | | been recognized as worth honoring | industrially or commercially. hope that it may be some time. Let us: Have u ever thought that the ! mother of all the ocrdcles is democra- ey, or that of all of them It is the best? From it ali other ocracies have come despite the old fiction about di- vine rights. About the cheapest ocracy there is in life is plutocracy, which was never yet known to have a real man in {t. It is not a demonstra- tion of manhood, but a grand exhibit of vanity, It should be remembered that in life all things work from the bottom up. The root of all progress, greatness and genius Is in the people. All wealth is created by the people, If not possessed by them. The abuse of wealth and power upsets order and destroys nations. I agrée with the writer who sald: “One'd blood boils to read the dedication of a Beethovan sonata to some royal a Mentality never appears well flattering weakness, There are real kings among men, but they are not of the privileged S8 they ara up-lifters, not down-treaders. | “The young” s en Daniel DeFoe 17th century ph he good d r The next century Wordsworth volced the same sentiment in the words: “The | good die first;” and three hundred years from its start there doesn't ap- pear to be any foundation for the statement In fact, unless it is applied to juvenllity where the death rate is greatest and Innocence perisheth—vide goodness—through the Ignerance or negligence ot parents. In fact, no ens dies because of goodness, but mil- lions of ordinarily good peopie die be- fore their time hecause of ignerance of the laws of lite, What we call gesd Uvers are the worst sinners agalnm good d W | Time makes ancient good uncouth, { when leading to ge t n 3 (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Christmas was over and the house- hold were talking over the events of the previous day. I said “the house- hold,” but the father had gone to his business, and the boys had urgent calls from outdoors, for it was their vacation, and the hours were too prec- ious to be spent indoors, so mother and daughters were having their chat all| to themselves. “I think,” Mildred, the oldest, was saying, “the entire day was a success We all enjoyed our gifts, and those we sent must have given pleasure, I am sure, and, for my part, I received all I hoped for and more, too. “Yes,” laughed her younger sister Florence, “we all noticed how fre- rested on that dia- mond ring. at was the unexpected, I suppose. It makes you see all things in rose color just now, but we are not all favored the same way, though we all can claim a prospective brother- in-law as one of our Christmas pres-| ents.” “Don’t tease Mildred, Florence dear,” reproved their mother, as she noticed the flush mounting to Mildred's cheeks, We are all delighted at her choice, and the announcement was an additional pleasure at the Christmas feast. Your father considers Walter a promising business man and feels confident of his success.” “Yes,” spoke up one of the younger| ones, “but wasn’t it lucky I hung that mistletoe right in the center of thei room! I think I ought to be thanked for 1t i F‘NE\'GP mind that now,” remarked their mother, as they all greeted the, last speaker with a merry peal of laughter. “How nice it was that we, could have the boys at home for the day, and Robert Grant, who came with them, appeared to enjoy it all so much. He told me this morning with tears in | his eyes how happy he was to be here. Poor boy, he is 50 alone in the world!™ “Then there was your guest, Mam-| ma, old Miss Newland. We should; hardly know our_ Christmas without | her at the table. Why do you have her | every year? | “Because she was a dear teacher ot mine Years ago, and I value her high- ly. She is so forlorn in her boarding house room, and says her coming here {s the grentest treat in all the year. You shouldn’t call her old, though, for she is not any older than I am, and I do not consider myself an old lady.” “But what would happen, do vyouj think, If she and old Dr. Black should | chance to meet under the mistletoe| bough? He always comes to see Papa | on Christmas, but will never come to dinner, Prefers to dine at the club, he says.” YFor one I am glad he was not at| tha table,” saild Mildred, “for he is| such a merciless tease that I am a| little afraid of him, much as I like him.” “He knows how to select presents, anyway,” remarked Florence, “and is| generous with them, too. I say, long live Dr. Black.” “That reminds me.” said their moth- er, “that we have something to do be- sides talking all the forencon, The rooms downstairs need a good ideal of attention, and those presents are cast| about in rather an untidy fashion. Mil- dred, you will la haps. Florence ma; fc In order. It is all over the plano, just where 1t was used during the evening. How merry the boys were v their college songs. Bertha!" turning to the younger one, “it would be well to sort over the flowers, don't you think? The boys will all be home for luncheon, and I'll go to look after that. We shall all find plenty to do to keep us busy, so scamper off and set vourselves to work” And Mrs. Rad- cliffe furnished the example by rising and starting downstairs. They each found sufficlent to do, and the time seemed short till the boys and their friend came to lunch, with much to_tell of the doings of the day. It was a surprise, however, to see Mr. Radcliffe entering the house, for he seldom came home during the mid- dle of the day. He evidently was in a happy frame of mind, and it had quite as plainly made his wife happy, whom he had contrived to interview for a moment before joining the group in the dining room. “What's the news, Dad?' asked one of the boys. “I know it is something good by your looks and Mamma's, Tell us now, can't you?" “Yes, my boy. 1 came home on pur- pose to tell you I am offered a much better position than I now have and a considerable advance in salary. I feel that the firm are very generous to deserve it all, and more, too. Every one knows how long and faithful ur service has been there, It is time they recognized your merit, and much dit that they have done so." t has got into_that tele- phone!” exclaimed Mildred. "T'll go answer it.” Soon she returned with a demand for her father. “It's Dr. Black, Papa, but he refuses to talk to any one y his message is too im- ntrust to anyone else.” il, I'll go at once, and see to say. Perhaps he wants e me on my good luck” utes later ne came back ongratulations were due to the other party. What do you sup- pose, my dear?” addressing his wife. “The Doctor and Miss Newland have decided to spend the rest of their lives together, and wanted us to know it first of any of their friends. Had you any suspicion of it? I never dreamed of such a thing.” Mrs. Radcliffe smiled as she replied, quietly, “I had thought it might come to this some time.” While Bertha shouted: “It was all that branch of mistletoe! Give me the credit for it all. I mean to see that some mistletos is hung in our rooms every year. Let's all drink to their happiness in pure cold water. You know, Dr. Black does not allow himself anything else as a bever- age—''Here's happiness to them both! Long live the mistletoe!” AN IDLER. “Very w what he to congratu A few to them. *“ thelr own well-belng and existence. There used to be a prevalent idea that QGod took the good to Himeelf, but the | error of the thought is apparent when we know the world needs them more han He does. The wonder should not e that the good die young, but that the so-called villainous live so long. SUNDAY MORNING TALKI e T T s THE CALL OF THE_SCRAP HEAP. Let us acknowledge its place among the useful institutions. Every business | concern needs one. At a certain great méanufacturing plant one sees in the yard a small mountain of wheels, gear- | ings, fittings, that have become worn or obsolete. The size of the heap is one oDen secret of the success of the com- pany. Whatever has lost its value is thrown out. It takes some courage to have a scrap heap. We are surrounded by So many things that seem almost too good to be thrown away. Many a manu- facturer has held on to old machines | that were not guite used up till the markét has gotten away from him.| Business has a way of seeking out the man equipped to produce cloth a trifle better or two mills per yard cheaper | than his competitors. The old is not always the better. An | American firm lately started an ice plant in Smyrna. A fine clear ice was | manufactured from distilled waterand | sold at §6 per ton. But the company ! promptly came into competition with | the mountaineers who from time im- memorial had hawked snow packed in skins through the streets of the city. For a time the Turks actually prefer- red this uncleanly product, though it cost four times as much as the Amer- fcan lce. The new company will win in the end and the animal skins will give way to icemen’'s tongs handling the clear cakes. But meanwhile the Americans have had to install circular saws to cut their ice Into a product resembling snow before the people will buy it. So hard does ancestral habit yield. There is a conservatism both in bus- inesse and In religion that is simply stagnation. Inertia is one of our an- clent foes in all flelds of endeavor. Be- cause of laziness or fear men stand still or mark time. Loyalty to the past need not blind us to its obvious limitations and blun- | ders, The methods of our forefathers | were good for their times but the times | have changed. Interpretations of forms of expression that were adequate for the years past do not fit the enl ng thought of today. 1Life is a progress.! We go from strength to strength. i New occasions teach new duties,* They must upward still and onward Who would keep abreast of truth. The close of the vear offers sugges- tion and opportunity in this direction. Sundry unprofitable habits of body and of mind, various unworthy purposes and motives should be left behind in the old year. They should not be al- lowed to cumber 1913 as they have cumbered 1912. There is a more te- Iy mansion of thought and experience awaiting each of us if we will take it. The old outgrown shell may well be cast as rubbish to the vold. Thers is & profound valus in retro- spection, but it should not be too pro- longed, Mistakes and sins should be viewed in their true light, branded with their real names and then be for- gotten as soon as may be. Retrospec- tion serves its only useful purpose repentance fruitful remorss. remedied in t! of rusty junk s numerable and vietory. It is one of the great coneolations of life that our most miserable faflures | may prove similarly useful. How many of us are indebted not only to hours of success and mastery but to painful ones of defeat and trial! The faith of Tennyson is being proved the worid around that he foundation of beautiful columns of Men may rise on stepping stones Ot thelr dead selves to higher things THE PARSON, i that he has paved the way for poking | office.—New Haven Register. { know at all, THER VIEW POINTS After the Christmas wreckage of & family has been swept up and deposit- ed in the broken glass and china bar- rel in the basement, the question arises how much common sense was display- ed in the gifts of the season.—Meriden Journal. The fruit steamer Turrialbar did not repeat the experiences of the Titanic, although the time of year was less favorable for her. All her passengers were taken off safely and no lives were lost. Her cargo of bananas was thrown into the sea, and therein was a loss that only nature can make up. She will do it in due time—Bridgeport Standard. The mayor is right about getting the sidewalks cleaned off promptly. Now up the taxpayer, it should be perfectly proper to poke up the street depart- ment to its duty in regard to cross- walks-through the slush of which the wage earners and school children have to wade after every snowstorm.—Wa- terbury Republican. That affliction known as the “grip” is never less than grievous to be borne, but of all concelvable persons to whom it must be unfelcome the most conspicuous is a man _whose | election has been ordered by the peo- ple just when, with the approach of | the action of the electoral college, he becomes intensely busy in preparation for his_assumption of the dutfes of Completed plans for the new battls- ship Pennsylvania made it certain that she will be the greatest dreadnought afloat. She will be *08 feet long over with armor and armament sur- ing in effectiveness those of any ing craft now in existence. The total cost of the completed ship will be between $11,000,000 and $12,000,000. The Pennsylvania should be a power- | ful peace persuader—New Britain Herald. Extra letters by the hundreds are coming in Miss Gould's mall, and ex- tra cards by the hundreds are left at her residence, through the curlosity of people, many of whom she does not to force themselves in npon herself and her flancee, . Shepard. This ia the penalty she vays for being one of the most popu- lar women in the countrv, a pemalty that to a w n of ing nature must be severe—TW: y American. The name Hawthorne s one osso- clated ,with excellent English writing. Julian.’ of that {lk, has quite evidently | {nherited his share of that accomplish.- | ment—and a fruitful fancy fit for works of fiction. But the legitimate field of fiction is not In _skilfully- worded invitations to people to put their money into foundationless min- ing schemes. Mr. Hawthorne seems to have devoted his talents to this line of fletion, “not wisely but too well"— Stamford Advocate. Winning of prizes in corn growing contests has become a good deal of & habit around Meriden. Just why that section should prove superior to the rest of the state as corn ground is not explained. At any rate, the honors go there. In the recent big New Eneland | corn show held in Boston a lad named | Rooke, who lives but a short distance | from Meriden, won the big prize for the beet ear of corn and also a lot of | smaller In the awards just made by the state board of agricul- ture In the boys’.corn growing contest 80 Tow's This? Hundred Dollats Re- | Catarrh that | Hall's Catarh | Toledo, 0. have known F. Cl y for the last 15 years, and belleve him perfectly honorable in ail | business transactlons and financially ! able to carry out any obligations made by his firm, NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE, Toledo, O. 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The assortment comprises the best models of the season in a variety of high-grade fabrics. $30.00 OVERCOATS and SUITS. ... ... i g o==o==céo:=lo==o== .$18.50 $20.00 OVERCOATS and SUITS............$14.50 HATS, CAPS, GLOVES HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, SWEATERS, BATH ROBES, HOUSE COATS AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. [JThe Manhattan 121-125 Main Street L°=°=o= prizes. The Wallingford yleld for ‘a| When the nature of Chester's otcuphe full acre fell just a trifle short of 100 | tion was revealed to them they made bushels.—Bristol Press. NOT A MOLLYCODDLE Ferris éntered the house with a look | “Will you kind- ly tell me,” he demanded of his wife, | o “what kind of a mollycoddle we're | of dlsgust on his face. bringing up?” “I will if I can” Ferris, amiably. “If you can?” “Can? exploded responded Mrs. Ferris. | Well, when a boy gets to De | head, 10 years old and still plays with dolls | 2 bee line for the Ferris residence. “Lookit, lookit!" they shouted. “Come on over, fellows, and watch the &I boy! He's trimming a hat!" From all points of the compass the “gang” came at the call, They stood on the sldewalk and jeered the milll- ner, “Bissy boy, sissy boy!” they cried, insultingly. “Mamma's baby boy makes hats and doll dresses. Give him a bot- | tie of milk. Get him an animal ¢rack- Sissy boy, sissy boy!” P Chester calmly put the finishi |touch on a bow that he was working |upon. “Some bow, fellers, huh?* hé inquired plessantly, “I'm going to put it on the crown.” Which he did. Then he placed the hat gently upon his “Some hat, fellers, huh?” he asked, and his mother doesn’t know that he's | gweetly, a mollycoddle!” matieally. Ferris paused dra- “1 suppose you didn't know |as a damper upon the “gang.” | Chester's caln tones seemed to aét They and won't care when you do know, that | watched him in silence while he ti our son, Chester, I8 out In the back |the strings under his chin. ard wheeling Catherine's doll up and | down in_the doll carriage.” Mrs. Ferris laughed. “Now,” he said, when this was done, ang for the first time there was a hint “1 rather like | of belligerency in his voice, “does any. to have him play with Catherine and | pody wanf to call me a sissy boy?" her dolls,” she replied. out of mischief.” “Miachief!” snorted Ferris. ting into mischief. A | with dolls at his age!” “It keeps himl There was a pause. Then, “Sissy boy, sissy boy!" came rather falnfly «T don't | from the center of the crowd. think you need to worty about his get- Chester descended the steps in a dig- A fellow that plays | nified way until he reached the bot- From his tone | tom, Then he made a sudden and she would have inferred that getting |skiliful dive that landed him in the into mischief was the thing of all oth- | ers that Ferris desired his small son |startled y to_do. Mrs, Ferris laughed again when her | cénter of the group. There was & much like that given by (a puppy en suddenly attacked. Chester emerged from the encoun- husband, coming home rather early the | ter with the hat still on his head. His next afternoon, kitchen busily Ironing found Chester in the the triumphant carriage was in sharp con- doll's | trast to that of his foe, who Was now clothes. He lookeq up with e smile | travellng rapldly in the ditection of at his indignant parent. his own home. “Anybody else want “Come here and look at Mise Polly’s | some?” the conqueror inquired genlal- dress, dad,” he urged. made; 1 made it myself. chievous chuckle. Thereupon Ferrls once more sought | pin’?" he asked. “It's all hand- |1y, And it's all hand ironed,” he added, with a mis- |the erstwhile leader of There was an awkward pause.- Then the “gang” “Aw, what's the use of - “Come on, Ches, I | spoke. out his wife and declared emphatically | ug go and play football in the lot." that the boy must not be allowed to | do such things. “Really, dear” the least effeminate. sald Mrs. Ferrs, | | dropping a smile into the darning she |he sald, “T helleve, after all, we don't wes doing, “I kuow Chester is differ- ent from other boys, but he lsn't in He does odd Still decorated with his millinery cre- ation, Chester Jed the procession. Ferris gave a low whistle. “Well, need to be in such a rush to send that kig to a military school."—Chicago | News. things besause he wants to do them. Wait.” Even Mrs. Ferrls was taken a strange turn when, willing to | admit that Chester's independence had | shortly afterward, Ferris found his son sitting to Will Look Elsewhere. Chicago has a club of girls who pledge themselves not to marry a man | whose income is less than $5,000. But on the front porch trimming an e}dia man who knows enough to make hat of his mother's. “By George!” erris bellowed. $5000 a year ought to know enough to “I'll | look somewhere else for his wife,—De- send him to a military school or out ‘lrnit Free Press. . west to learn to be a cowboy—or—or— to to jail. Anywhere to teach quit such baby nonsense.” It was at this moment that Chester's parents, watching him from the win- saw the leader and a member of the “gang” appear on the corner. dow, Not Even on Saturday Night. 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