Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 4, 1913, Page 4

Forwich Fu lletin nnd Confied. 117 YEARS OLD. Subscription price, 12 a week; 50c a aonth; $600 a ye-~. Entered at tbe Postoffice at Norwich, Jnn., as second-class matier. Telephene Call Bulletin Business Office, 480. Bulletin Editoriad Rooms, 356~3. Bulletin Job Office, 35-6. Hilimantic Room_ 2, Building. Telephone 210. N — e Norwich, Saturday, Jan. 4, 1913. e YEAR OF WUNUSUAL THINGS. The new year has got to make rap:d »trides if it expects to equal the rec- ord of the past as to unusual occur- rences and advancements in many lines of effort. There are many di- Tections in which everyone would be Pleased if 1313 gid mnot begin to touch past pefformances and such includes flisasters on land and sea for which 1912 was particularly prolific. It could @iso with much benefit to humanity show a large decrease in the cases where anarchy has displaved its pres- ence and check the hand of the assas- sin. The past year recorded an at- tempt on the life of Italy’s king, the murder of the premier of Spain and efforts to kill the ruler of India and an ex-president of this country. Crime has been unearthed in all its terror and the call for reform never sounded louder or met with greater response. In discovery, the location of the south pole by Amundsen followed closely af- ter the discovery of the northern axis. while in the affairs of nations the new Chipa, the Balkan affair, the Central American difficulties, have all had thefr place. In political affairs of this country a most unusual condition de- veloped and the -igh cost of living has reached its height. Economically the nation has progressed, great industrial problems have been encountered and large concerns have been brought to a meore respectful position before the government. ‘The banmer crops and the wave of prosperity have had great inflyence upon the country. However, it has been a year of peace and the year closed with no warfare except politieal on our horizon. It was a year of much progress and one which will have its influence on the future as lessons from it are drawn. Murray SEEKING THE OLIVE BRANCH. The manner in which the progres- sives In a number of the states are entering into deals with other parties indicates that they are looking about for an olive branch whereon to light. Maine has shown the disposition to return to the fold and a union of the progressives with the republicans seems to have been effected and the state will thereby send a republican United States senator to congress, and the control of the state legislature is likewise republican. Just across the border in New Hampshire, however, they turned the cther way. The dem- ocrats had mo difficulty in atiracting then to a fusion whereby a democrat is chosen as governor of the state. Other states such as New Jersey and Michigan find the progressives labor- ing, not for thelr own principles, but for the party where they will find the warmest reception and the most plums. By such desertion of pfinciples, the great honor of standing for the ne- Plest things in legislation and politics seems to have been forgotten and it must be disconcerting to the great leader of the movement when he real- izes how carelessly ‘his admonitions bave been treated. Many were the claims that the new party men were to stand for their principles through- out, regardless of the course of the wthers, but the bait of political office bas touched the hearts of the faith- ful. Is it possible that they have found something good, after all, in the open- 1y declared “corrupt and boss ridden old parties?” HIGH PRICES ABROAD. It is not alons in this country that the high prices exist or that there is an inclination to maintain them for a continuation of the adyance in prices in foreign countries is shown by a statement just completed by the bu- reau of foreign and domestic com- merce. The law governing the im- portation of marchandise into this country provides that the valuation stated shall be ihe price at which the article was purchased in the country from which it was imported. A com- parison of articles imported this vear with those imported in the past two years shows higher prices in the month | of October of the past year than in the corresponding month of 1911 in 45 of the 75 articles compared. Coffee shows an increase of over four cents 2 pound. Raw sugar has steadfly increased since 1909 when it was 2.32 cents a pound until now it 1§ 2.59 cents. Manila hemp has jumped $42 a ton, and hide of cattle shows an increase of three cents a pound snd calf skin nearly six cents. Ni- trate of soda has gone up $10 a ton steel ingots have practically doubled | I price, bananas have gone up over two cents a bunch, rice shows an in- &7ease of a third of a cent a pound. Tea has increased three cents a pound in three years and other articles show similar increases in one year and much more marked Jumps in the last three years, We are, therefore, not alome in the condition of high prices and the remedy does mnot appear to exist in| foreign goods. ‘When it is asserted from Paris that | should Emperor Francis Joseph of | Austria-Hungary die Belgrede would | be emtered within twenty-four hours, an explanation is given for the prep- arations which have been underway there for so long and at such expense, Much depends upon the vitality of the aged monarch to frustrate it. When Governor Sulzer of New York axpects each department to reduce arpenses ten to twenty per cent. he i making a seasible plea, but it ig icely to fall on deaf ears. Expendi- ture of state money is a hard thing to weduce. Progressive principles are certainly great and inepiring things when the Now Hampshire followers sell them and the mmonhlp to the democrats for the of the speakership in the legislature. Some barterers those | experience the repetition of which ev- b WASTING TIME IN COURT. Until Justice Goff established a new record in the disposition of the Beck- er and gunmen trials in New York it had been customary to extend and delay such important cases, on th part of the lawyers, beyond all rea- sonable bounds for the purpose of &x- hausting every conceivable means of Securing ‘an acquittal, bv introducing such a mass of evidence as to confuse the jurors ang thwart justice. Justice Goff put an end to that and a Kansas jury. svidently appreciated his atti- tude when at a recent trial which had Tequired three weeks and promised to consume the fourth, they protested to the court that there was need of elim- inating much of the delaying and use- less questioning and hasten the pro- eedure as it was necessary that they should get back to their work, It had its effect. It brought forth mo orders but there were restrictions by the court and an awakening by the at- torneys who realized that delay might affect the minds of the jury, There are times of the Year when farmers in particular suffer greatly from slow trials and it is their indi- vidual interests which are being in- jured. It is but reasonable that pro- gress should be as expeditious as pos- sible and though farmers did mot fill the jury box in New York that was alsc the opinion of Justice Goff. Ser- vice on the jury is a duty which should not be shirked, but it should receive the proper respect by over- .coming a tendency on the part of lawyers to waste valuable time. CHECKING THE WHITE PLAGUE. Connecticut stands high among the other states of the union in the ex- penditures in behalf of the fight against tuberculusis, ranking sixth in the matter of total outlay which reaches the aggregate of $685910 for the past year. By figures which have been compiled by the National As- sociation for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis it is shown that near- ly nineteen million ;was spent in the work about the country during the year. In this connection it is a mo- ticeable fact that the expenditures for sanatorium and hospital construction and treatment make :he largest sin- file item in the total, amounting to nearly $16,800,000 or an increase of nearly five million over the year pre- vious. It is in this particular line of work that the state and the various organizations engaged therein are di- recting their efforts, the importance of giving the patients the best and most approved method of treatment being fully realized. How extensive the war against the white plague is being waged is indi- cated by the Increase in the expendi- tures for the open air schools and fresh air classes to over $115,000, the outlay of $280,000 by state and muni- cipal authorities in institutional work outside of the maintenance of insti- tutions and the expenditures of half a million by Insane hospitals and penal institutions for the care of their tu- berculosis inmates. Interest in the effort is growing as the people ara becoming educated to it and its needs and from the Increased interest and funds magnificent results can be an- ticipated. EDITORIAL NOTES. Only thirty-six months to the next year when girls can propose. | It looks as though Rockefeiler and Turkey are running an endurance race. The Texas actor whose wife shot at him twice and missed knows the value of stage ammunition. Happy thought for today: Every- thing comes to him who waits, but it is well to meet things halfway. If the governor of Arizona urges too strongly the abolishing of the sen- ate he is liable to hear the recall sounded. Jesse Pomeroy will find plenty to help him keep his New Year's reso- lution not to try to escape from pris- on again. i It is but a few days now to the convening of the general assembly. May the session be no worse than the | best in the past. Is the story about the Russian=Jap- anese war and Col. Roosevelt a hint that he would like to be asked to set- tle the Balkan trouble? President Taft is planning to take| a Jong rest. A vacation after March 4 | will be much different than it has| for the past four years. i The western man who says there is no real interest in football never hap- pened to be in New Haven or at Cam- bridge when Yale and Harvard met. Some of the new governors are set- ting examples which are calculated to make the people consider them pres- idential timber in the next campaign. European financial circles are to be given a chance to bolster up the Mex- ican credit. Madero is realizing the truth of General Sherman’s war senti- ments. A close season for bull moose the vear round is being urged in Maine, which may account for their return| there to the republican party whence | they came. Of course resignations of senators in the midst of their terms is as un- usual as such practice among post- masters, but Senator Balley seems to look upon {t as an act of heroism. Norwich can sympathize with New | London in the burning of the alms- house and the iozs of life. Tt is an ery town must guard against use every effort to IDEAS OF A PLAIN MA “As Thyself.” “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Did it ever oecur to you then that the whole worthiness of your life de- | pends upon the way in which you love | yourself? It is manifestly impossible 0 love your neighbor nobly uniess you love yourself nobly. The whole gist of superior living lles in. superior self-love. You cannot Tespect humanity unless you respect yourself. You cannot love your wife unless there is in your: own heart a _secret beanty that| enchants you. You cannot love your child unless there be in your soul some mirror that reflects his innocence and charm.’ You cannot be faithful to a friend unless you have in you a foun- | i democrats. Fifty-five violent deaths in Atlanta for 1912 tell a weird story of the in- abflity to check crime im the south. And vet South Caroling stimulates just such conditions by the abmse theme 8 e BTAOTARE BowAT, tain of falthfulness. And you cannot even love God, in any helpful way, if thera be no glow of divinity which yeu recognize in yourself. The best part of may love which T bear to those I love the most is the cuns:lou.une: tbll;; 1 a.m‘.upn«hla of a great love, n me s & ‘Doble sox thak | you see them at their worst.” | seds ‘ keep cut of the swim see in it the | whirlpools of petty vices which usual- 3 yon #B0 it, and it does n ~ women get a their share, or iake m seriously than the ‘men lonable to flatter people, be ‘much easier than it | s" it wag Ben Johnson ihe fhluresan, s emn P sobriqu ted 80 Dbeen to dle. people dis- like those who flatter them too much, and equally disregard those who do mot flatter them at all. It was Held!ns who discovered that “if you commen 2 fool for his wit, or @ knave for his honesty, they wiil receive you into their bosom.” Only vanity recognizes fattery as colnage. g Did you ever give attention fo the wants of the race. They all want to be rich and none want to be poor, but there is such a difference of opinion as to what constitutes riches that some want money and others want the riches money cannot buy. They all want to live on Easy street, Put as the street is not long enough to mc- commodate more than a few, this is hardly worth talking about. ~Women who are thin want to be fat and wom- en who are fat want to be thin. Men who know nothing about agriculture want to farm, and men Who know nothing about trade are anxious to go into business. Most men want a “soft snap,” but only a few men have ever found one. All want high living, but low prices. In fact, the desires of the race appear to be involved in impessi- bilities. Perhaps this is what makes a few people think that everybody else is crazy. Socrates reminded us that “the fewer our wants the nearer we resembled the gods. Some people do not believe in d'ood fortune, but they camnot cry it down because nature is all the time demon- strating it. It is good fortune to be well born—born to parents of heart and intellect, or of money and good sense. To be born ameng the child workers and to become a wage slave in juve- nility is hard Juck. That is what say it is—born to a condition one must be rescued from, or else be an under- dog by inheritance. How absurd it is to say we are born free and equal. Quality is what some people are ambi- tious to represent, and they want noth- ing to do with equality. Some are born to ignorance and want and erime —are trained {n evil ways and coerced to do mischief, “We are all born fres and equal” is a pretty phrase, although it clothes a base illuslon. The well- born have reason to thank God every day that their lines were cast in nleas- ant places. William, do not put that old con- undrum to us: “Does the bride marry the best man at_her wedding:” Of course she does. Who is the best man at a wedding, anyway? Do you not know that he may be the worst man in the bunch. The bride never is con- scious of any best man at the wedding except the bridegroom. The next best man to him is ths one he salects to see him through the nuptial ceremony and once in awhile when the bridegroom has failed to keep his appolntment the best man has been knowr to substi- tute just to prevent. a failure of the ceremonies; but it is a rare best man who has the courage to do this. The ; best man at a wedding rarely gets to be the best man anywhere else, This may not always have been an empty title, but in these daye the best man is a very ordinary individual. The bride always marries the best man, and she has to take him for better or worse at that. Every man has his uliarities, so the man who thinks .Kls neighbor is very peculiar may be equally peculiar himself. It is claimed by those who read character and who detect crimi- nals that every man has his betray- ing sign—that he cannot 5o completely disguise himself that some mannerism or habit will not disclose his identity as positively as the Bertellon meas- urements. | He twists his beard, or runs his fingers through his haif, or' slouches in his chair, or is awkward with his hands, or snaps his fingers. He has singular ways which are as natural to him as his eyebrows. That old maxim “Be sure your sins will find you out,” might be amended to read: Be sure your veculiarities will give you away. A man may be so dis- guiseq he does not look like himself; hultt he cannot help acting like him- self. It does not seem as If In two months more the migrating birds will begin to | come north again; but those who are interested in birdlife and nature will see the cedar birds coming north in flocks the last of February, owls -and hardy buteos will be select- ing their mates and preparing to 8o to housekeeping. The skunk cabbage will begin to show signs of life in the frozen swamp and on the warmest days the day flies, or ephemera, will be seen dancing on filmy wings in the sun. The insect life of 1913 is just awaiting the summons of the sun to be up and doing. There is hardly a tree, shrub or dry stem in the fields that does not harbor some awaiting in- gect life, and the fallen leaves harbor and keep warm inuumerable swarms of insect rovers, and it is upon thess dormant insects that our hardy winter birds feed. Things are not as dead and | dreary as they seem, and the recall ig not so distant as same of us think. There is no need of argument to sus- tain the truth of the averment that “when vou get the best of some men: It takes | a man to keep calm when he becomea conscious that he is overmatched: and | gtill he has nothing to gain by losing his_temper. To lose one's temper is to lose one’s self—to become irration- al and to say or do rash things. The men who govern their tempers never place “T can't” in fromt of them. “T can't” from most points of view ex- presses something more than lassitude for one might as well say 1 will not iry! It is a complete surrender to weakness, and equivalent to an en- dorsement of perversity, This sort of & surrender is 80 common that it real- ly imped: the progress of the race. The more "I can'ts” a person has, the greater drag he is upon himself and all who would assist him. Keepirrg in the swim hes caused many a man to founder; hence, why should the man who keeps out of it be derided? “To be in the swim” is with a certain class to be popular. This is oftcn mistaken for the slogan of the progressive, but it is not infrequently ' a fair start for degradation. Hvery: thing in this world is not exactly what it seems to be; =and a great many things labelled Good have in them the of degradation. People Who 1y characterize it; and they get more real joy out of life, if less notoriety. Liveliness well directed under consci- entious control i8 & commendable thing; but under other conditions live- linees approaches villainy, Every cat has to be :mlrd by its color. In se- Jecting waiks in Jife the most popular is not always the path to Peace or and the | ' of another.” - foreible remind- w stmds bills come in,” fer, - *Judging from number of parcels we sent out, - be a pretty pemny to pay, I “Not from my purchases,” replied his wife, “for I resolved to pay for all zhbwlhfi. and not have anything “S80 you have been making resolu- tions, already, have you?” chuckled her busband. “Lucky for me! Have you made any for the New Year?” F “Yes, I have resolved to pay as I go, for one thing. I think one gets bet- ter treatment and better goods at the storea by doing so, to say nothing of the fret and worry over unpaid and ex- ected bills. Don't you think that is a ine resolution for 1913 “Indsed I do, my dear, and only hope you may be able to keep it. But I do Dot see much sense in New Year resolutions. To begin with they sel- dom last long. Then we do not agree, the world over, as to the date of the New Year. We call it January Ist, but some other nations begin their year on a different date. That makes 1t rather confusing, and, after all, why is New Year any beiter time for such resolve than December 26th or any other day? Does a man say he will stop dripking or smoking on the New 2 Let him stop it then while he is talking about it. Does a woman realize she spends too much at the candy.counter? A few days before New Year's day wiil furnish a good opportunity for self-denial to get a good start.” “But, James, T couldn’t do that” ex- claimed Mre. Carrier ,in tongs of dis- may.” Just think of all th¥e lovely boxes of bon bons which were sent to me as Christmas gifts! Shall they be thrown away? They did not cost me anything for they were not my purchase. It would be false economy to cast them aside.” “Very well, Mary, begin the New Year with your resolve, if you choose, but do not forget that like to see you well-dressed, and the table must be as well supplied as now. You know I often bring home a friend to dine, and there must be no retrenching there. “I promise you, James, that you shall be satisfied in both directions. I do not mean to have less, but pay less, and 1 am sure the end of the first quarter of the year will find me with a snug bank account to my credit. “All right,” agreed her husband,” I'll gixe you the umual sllowsnce for the ouse and your wardrobe, and hope you may not be disappointed in your plans, although I have not much faith in them. Don't expect any such reform in me, however, for I do not believe in New Year resolutions.” “I wish you did,” pondered his wife after he had left her for a visit to the club.” *“I know what one I'll like you to make and keep. You belong to so and she sighed softly to| hergelf, “I do not wond::.h‘e is zhr. for he is such a dear, but we almost et anywhere together, now-a- Nothing more was said in the house ! concerning the resolutions, and New Year's day came and went as usual. Mr. Carrier, nevertheless, found him- self wondering how his wife was suc- ceeding with {n plans but had prom- ised her not to inquire till April, that She might have a fair trial. Mean- time, he had concluded to try the same plan, and hugged himseif in the belief that his savings would be more than those of his wife. Bverybody knew a man’s clothes cost less than a Wwo- | man’s, and he would surgrise her in- to lcknnvlednh:i that he was as good an economist as herself. Three months run away very rapidly, and April came before either Mr. Car- rier or his wife realized that the quarter's trial was concluded, and that the result of their experiment was to ‘be announced. Mr, Carrier considered Apri] First an exceilent time to divulge the secret working of the preceding three months, and laughingly told his wife that he was ready to hear her confesgion of fallure as an April Fool joke. But she smilingly produced her | bank-book in which were recorded her savings and a fine little sum they made. Something had been laid aside from each week's allowance ,and her husband’s eves opened wide as he saw | the result of her endeavors. “And you haven’t notjced any lack about the table have you? And I'm sure I've dressed as well as usual 1 found my plan made more difference in the prices at the markets than in the dry-goods stores. Cash prices for food were so much lower than I ex- pected. I shall continue the plan all | the year, for I find it pays to pay cash for most things. I wish you had tried the same plan. I am certain you would feel repaid for the trouble, if you had done so. “Well, Mary,” confessed her husband, “I will acknowledge myself beatem. I did try the same plan, thinking to out- run you in the race. 1 might have known it could not be done. My bank account is no greater than at the New Year, for although I saved something in January, February and March took it all away. It is those club dues that eat up a man's spare eash. I am con- vinced of that. You have shamed me into a more reasonable course. I will quit some of those clubs, and we'll see If the next quarter will not make a better showing. It is a disgrace to me to be able to do so much less than you, and I shall pouse myself to more effort in_that direction.” But, James, you enjoy yourself so much with the men at the clubs! I am afraid you will miss them very greatly.” “T'll’ have more evenings to give to you, and we will go out together more often than we have of late.” “That will make me more than hap- py, for I own to being a little jealous of ‘those clubs, and shall be so glad to have you all to myself occasionally.” “Let’s begin tonight. 1 have tickets for the theatre. I bought them think- ing to comfort you when you were forced to confess your failure during the quarter, but I am compelled- to ad- mit that you are the better economist lof the two." AN IDLER. ‘many clu SUNDAY. MORNING TALK Overtime in the Excuse Factory. One industry knowns no such thing as slack seasons. The plant where excuses are manufactured is running night and day the year through. It can never shut down, even to oil ma- chinery, if it is to supply the need of the millions who demand its product. Nothing short of ceaseless operation will keep it square with its orders. There are more than 57 different varieties in the product it turns out. You have only to go and ask your neighbor to do something he does not want to do in order to get a sample perhaps several samples, from the enormous stock available. If he can- not find anything among the stand- ardized paterns a minute's search will discover some special design suit- ed to particular requirements. In youth custom required that mother should write an “excuse” to teacher in the event of our being late to school. We soon outgrew the neces- sity of calling on another for such help. By middle life most people have ready at hand a stock of excuses of their own selection adequate for all occasions. Not many of these excuses would stand close examination. They are generally as transparent as glass. Peo- ple sometimes add to their tortuous explanations of failure or neglect, “a poor excuse is better than none, you know.” They actually bpsin to apolo- gize for the very excuses they have put forward. An Oriental fable tells of a man who went to his neighbor to borrow a rope. The neighbor replied, “I can- not lend it to you, for I am using it myself to tie up a heap of sand ‘But,” said the first, “you cannot tie up sand with a rope.” ~“Oh, ves,” his neighbor returned, “you can do almost anything with a rope when you do not wish to lend it." Some of the excuses you heard yesterday were about equally foolish. The scripture parable describes a great supper that had been prepared for many guests. Straightway the in- vited ones began to send in their let- ters of regret. One had bought a plece of ground and must needs go and see it. Having passed it three times a day for 20 years he began to be fearful that it would vanish out of sight before morning. Another had bought a yoke of oxen and must go 10 prove them. Having tried them out pretty thoroughly before purchase, he fancied they might act a bit different- 1y now that they actually belonged to him. Another had married a wife up the cook stove and laying the par- lor carpet left him no time to be and therefore could not come. Setting courteous. Many centuries have come and gone since that old banquet in Palestine, And the tribe of excuse makers has increased. The note of apology is a cheracteristic one of our time. We are becoming experts in evasion of responsibility. When men in our time fail or are unwilling to try ,there are various iscapegoats upon which to lay the | blame—heredity, _circumstance, en- vironment, | A well-known writer says, “Our peo- ple have succeeded in explaining away every known form of iniguity. There is no crime that cannot . be 'apoligized { for, no sin that eannot be gilded with a. golden hue.” That is @ serious indictment and should alarm us if it is true. The only way to set the matter right is for {himself and with his fellows. = We !should put each subterfuge we are | tempted to offer under the moral mi- croscope that we may see how cow- ardly and false and foolish it is, and then resolve never again to take prosperity. love, as & harp responds to the musi- cian's touch. but the =X refuge behind a lie. THE PARSON. Job For Ex-Ray. Net hevipg an introspective the industrial system, ete. ! | each of us to begin to be honest With'| man whose busin OTHER VIEW POINTS The Connecticut association opposed to woman suffrage is roing to help make things lively at the capitol this winter. With 3,000 members as a nu- cleus the assoclation is by no means feeble.—Meriden Journal. Hope 1913 has something good In store for Rockville. The list: Hospi- tal, manual training school federal building, new depot, business men's club. It may be too much to expect | them all, but we should at least see one or more on this list realized— Rockville Journal. The sentences imposed upon the convicted dynamite conspirators can- not be said to have been drastic. In most cases they were surprisingly, light, and vet sufficient to make men think. And when they will stop te think, calmly and soberly, there is hope of reform.—Ansonia Sentinel. - Out of the thirty-eight convicts sent in a special train to the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kas, can anyone tell how many of them are Americans? How many were born in this country? | How many were immigrants? How many were of foreign parentage? Here is_a chance for an interesting study.—Middletown Sun. Ocean City, J. has a mew char- ter with the recall as one of its fea- tures. The firs mayor elected under it has been in office a year, and some of the people think he has been ex- travagant. He savs he hasn't. It enough of the citizens think he has, | they may recall him. The mayor knows: the people think. The re- call is a modern method of making those who think more potent than those who know.—New Haven Regis- ter. The assumption on the part of some automobile drivers that the streets are theirs and that they have a right to run through them at any rate which they fancy to be needful is something to be abridged, and will be abridged, we have no doubt. There is reason in all things, but the reckless driving of | automobiles through crowded streets, or around corners where accidents are | very likely to happen, needs remedial | measures,” strictly applied.—Bridgeport { Standard. The way to make a municipal play- ground go is to appoint a commission composed of the very rich who will see to it that the deficiencles of tax- payers are made up out of private pockets. This is what they have done in West Orange, N. J,, the commission representing a total individual wealth of about $50,000,000. Richard M. Col- gate, the well known Yale graduate, | Who' has many friends in Connecticut, iis one of the commission.—Waterbury American. 1t is lucky the hen is not attached to the land and that ghe cannot be in- duced absolutelv to quit laying in the winter. Think what the egg trust would do to us if such were the case! The monopoly would secure the land so that only a limited number of hens could run, and when the output of eggs in December and Japuary had been absolutely throttled the price of eggs would amount to a dollar apiece. Then i | —New Haven Times-Leader. i i for a living will awake some morn- |ing to find himself out of employ- iment and unfit for most any other kind of work. It answers very well ias a side issue, but that is all. The i is such as to permit him to dabble in polities and | to hold office. may do so with pleas- ) ure, but otherwise it is a losin~ -ame, and politics is a game or perhaps & trade in which few bacome proficient. He who cannot afford to play it had better. let it alome. It's a poor busi- ness for a man to expect to make a Glearan SUITS, were $30.00. © SUITS, were $40.00. DRESSES, were $15.00. . DRESSES, were $25.00.. Fur Neckpieces, 68 NTINUES TODAY Greatest Values Ever Offered in Women's and Misses’ High Class Apparel SUITS, were $20.00.................. Now $12.50 ih i es. s Now $22.50 @ COATS, were $15.00. .............:. Now $ 8.00 COATS, were $20.00.......0....,... Now $12.00 at Great Price Reductions The Manhattan 121-125 Main Street “Where Shopping is a Pleasure” O O e O . Sale ..... Now $18.50 °COATS. WP 82500, L e - Now 316.000 c....:.... Now $ 7.50 bl ne: NOW: $12.50 Muifs and Coats creased more than 111 per cent. being now twenty-two billions as compared with ten billions, round numbers, in 1900. bas in his recent report sent what is really a Christmas greeting to the peo- Pple of the United States. It is only by a concrete statement, showing that the The comptreller of the currency | banking power of the country creased by $12,000,000,000 within the past twelve vears, and that this. in- is _progressing normally and . that some idea-of the growth of the ¢ountry, smce the new era be- gun, about 1900, is gained.—Commer- cial Record. Big Glearance Sale of Celebrated Stein-Bloch and Companion lines of Overcoats and Suits none but the verv rich could have eggs. The man who depends on polities | January 4th savings now to be gained: $10.00 OVERCOATS and SUITS, $12.00 OVERCOATS and SUITS, $15.00 OVERCOATS and SUITS, $18.00 OVERCOATS and SUITS, $20.00 OVERCOATS and SUITS, $22.50 OVERCOATS and SUITS, $25.00 OVERCOATS and SUITS, living at. Proof of this may be found in-almost every city.—New Britain Herald. w2, DI takee Begins Saturday Morning, Read the following price quotations, then get busy at once and share in the substantial now__$ 8.00 now__$ 9.50 now._$12.00 now__$14.50 now__$16.00 now__$18.00 now_.$20.00 ASK FOR ROYAL GOLD TRADING STAMPS John A. Moran Clothier, Hatter and Furnisher, Corner ll;lu and Shetucket Sireots il