Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 5, 1913, Page 4

1918, glorwich gh iletis aund Courier. 137 YEARS OLD. Subscrigtion price, 126 a week; 500 & month; 96100 a y- - —_— Enteredyat the Postoffice at Norwica, Coun., asésecond-class matter. Telephone Calls: Belletiny Business Office. 480. Bulletin Edfiorial Rooms, 3 Bultetin Job_Office, 35-2 Wiillimantic Office. Room 2, Building. Telephons 210. Norwich, Saturday, July 5, 1913. Murray The Circuiation of The Bulietin The Bullctin has tne Iargest efr- culadion of amy paper in Basiers Commecticut, und from three to four (mes lmrger thum that of amy im Norwueh. It iu delivered to over 3000 of the 4053 kouses Su Nor- wick, amd read oy uinety-theee per cemt. of the people. Im Windham in delivered te over $00 houwcs. ud Dauniclson to over all of thewe pluces it i» comsidered the local daily. 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Sworn o and subscribed before e this 30th day of June, 1913. (Seal.) _ester Greenman, Notary Public. (My ommission expires Feb. lst, 1 14.) RIDERS IN ORDER. When President Wilson signed the | ndry civil appropriation with the objectionable rider, he revealed an at de regarding such procedure, re- gardless of his explanatory note, which indicated that urfler like conditions he would do the same thing again. That he will have the opportunity and that similar conditions will be arranged is indicated by the action of the dem..- cratic caucus which considers it yrder to attach a rider, abolishing the commercial court, to any importan: ppropriation bill This is another instance against which the pres t should register a strenuous opposition. The value of the mmerea court, which is recognized many democrats and was m,nFM—‘ ered a court of much importance b the last administration, is a matter which should be dealt with by itself. | There is no reason for attaching its abolishment as a rider to any other bill. An encouragement which may noi do him justice, but nevertheless a encouragemer into whi he entered with full knowledge of situation was held out by the president when ko k of courage to apply re sundry civil appropri- weakness is now known and there will be repeated attempts place him in the same unfortunate situation. A veto might ve had som influence against his pending tariff legislation, but it is the discouragi ment of the underhanded scheme legislation which is demanded. Th. action on the abolishment of the cem- merce court if it is attempted shouid be wpon its own merits. RAILROADS AND CANAL. The tendency towards greatly in- creased trade by way of the Panama and Tehauntepec railroads from ocean to ocean in the past few years is only an indication of what this growth will be with the opening of the canal when the transfer from steamship to r: road and back to steamship will be avoided. The traffic by way of the steam roads In th scal year has Dbeen approximately 132 million dollars in value, whereas in 1907 the busi- ness which was done in that manner reached the small total of twenty-one The past oweve rease of about nine mil lMons over 1912, to a decreasge in the value of sugar sent to the east coast of the United States from Ha- wall. It was chiefly due to the open- ing of Tehapntepec road that the growth In the past six years occurred the Panama r ng but a six mil- lion dollar a year business previous to the additional line. Added facilities attracted a great advance in trade and what the railroad was able to develop will be small in comparison to the canal drawing power. The bulk of the trade has developed from the east coast of this country this westbound traffic having increased from thirteen milllons in 1907 to 87 millions in the closing fiscal year. Much of this was coast to coast trade, but thirteen million dollars’ worth went to forelgn countries via this route. It is the natural shorteut but the railroad service is due for the se- verest competition it ever received as soon as the canal is opened to naviga- don. An acknowledgment of the effective- ness of the “cat and mouse” act is made by the plea for a pardon for Mre. Pankhurst. There seems to be no other way for her to get back to ber old practices in | i | | THE SPOILS SYSTEM. When the postmaster of San Fran- cisco declares that he will not resign his office In conformity with the reques: from the posimaster general it reveals a situation which indicates a return to the spoils system of fiiling offices, however much that is declared to be against the belief of the president and administration. Postmaster Fish has had a long term of service under sev- eral administrations and his present commission does not expire for three vears. He 1is, however, a republican, and others are desirous of holding the office. If there are any charges which show inefficiency they can be sub- stantiated and the situation does mot demand that there be a removal with- out cause. In his stand that something more than his polities should be ad- vanced as a reason for his vaeating the office the San Francisco postmas- ter will receive widespread support. The merit system should be given the strongest support by every ad- ministration. It is in the interest of the best government. If there are charges or if officeholders are not effi- cient they are not an asset to the department and should be removed regardiess of party affiliation, but it should be solely on those grounds. Op- posite partisanship does not constitute inefliciency. Whatever changes are made during appointive periods should be entirely for the benefit of the ser- vice, with sufficient reasons given to certain that it is not the act man. CAPT, POTTS. For the purpose of making room for the younger men and officers in the navy the department maintains & “plucking” board whose duty is to de- cide upon those to be reetired durinz the year. In the opinion of the board the men who can best be spared, he- cause of lack of a certain amount of sea service or failure to rank in qual- fications with others, are slated to go. How often the board selects those for who would he of panticular value to the navy eldom known e cept through expression of opinion but opportunity .for demonstrating that Uncle Sam was about to part witu 2 commander whose services were of the kind to be desired, was offered Captain T. M. Potts of the Loulsiana when an unforeseen accident occurred which threatened to sink the ship. He make it retirement met the emergency through heroic efforts and solved the problem with- out even beaching his vessel. This eleventh hour chance which was | iven Capta'n Potts to demonstrate | his worth! to the na hat he w capable through the sea service which he hag had, to overcome a crisis on ! shipboard resulted in a demonstra- tion which was pretty good evidence { that he was qualified for promotion | rather than for retirement. He dis | played his ability under adverse cir- | cumstances and his declaration that T have never beached anything before | and 1 don't intend to now” will he classed among the famous naval say- | ings. The plucking board may con sider some other official superior, but Captain Potts has shown that he is strong where emergencies exist. 1 PARCEL POST C. 0. D. With the interchangability of the stamps and the abolishing of the spe cial stamp for parcel post service, the additional feature which is ushered in this month, the C. O. D. service, which this same branch of the posi- office department gives. promises to he of much value without causing amy serious harm. The chief objectors press companies, but Transcript points out: “Express- com pany dividends may not continue as fat as they have been, perhaps, and it may not be desirable that they should Since the present century came three of the four leading express com panies have more than paid the amour of the capital stock in dividends shareholders from their earnings. Two of them have declared special divi- dends of two hundred and three hun- | dred per cent. respectively, so it is oh- vious t t there still remains, before dropping bel a much wider post is likely to wipe out, even should it expand considerably beyond its pres it development. This new feature of the postal service is a balance whe to the express ness rather than t competitor.” will be the ex- as the Boston w fair investment returns, margin than the parcel bu direct The only effect of the introduction the C. D. privilege is to remove menopoly, Tt gets the business on a | fair rect competition and is a 4i- public at large. EDITORIAL NOTES. fappy thought for today: The fifth s a time for glorious reaction. The Fourth of July always brings . smile to the treasurers of the base- ball team A reassuring fo of the old soldier ne the “m of the condi- that they s” call fortunate, (ture is | tlon | aid not Te To those who ar the plan of 4 holiday and t | over it in will make it 4 BEven with General Humidity in com- mand it wesn't too hot to start a fight, and a bloody one ettysburg. As the Rose of New England No: wich is making a magnificent display just now, but it isn’'t half of what it ought to be. Colonel A his Argentine Roosevelt campaign the .only pop- ular thing left will be to start an arc- completes tic expedition. Now that Pennsylvania has voted a tax on anthracite coal Connecticut will | have to jump the price on nutmegs to | boost the revenue. The vote to strike by the elevated railway employes in Boston doesn't add anything to the prospective com- | forts of the riding pubiic. | Bulgaria aspears to seek peace, but | she knows how to obtain it and how | to get it quickly. She has been hol | ing the key to the si | it S ( (With South Carolina calling for | Uncle Sam to return his aid to the state militia regardiess of Gov. Blease, recall, That Joseph Walker dared to oppose the declarations of Col, Roosevelt at the Newport meeting is startling. Can the Colonel afford to go as far off as Argentina? The work of the officers and crew In overcoming the accldent to the Louls- fana shows the heroic emergency work for which Uncle Sam’s men can be depended upon. While New Engiland struggles to re- move the quarantine by destreying the browniail and gypsy moths it can also do itself a service by burning out the tent caterpillars o more to get | it'’s lucky the state hasn't adopted the | THE MAN WHO TALES | Few people realize what a scape- goat we make of heredity. There is Do reasen under the sun why your disposition or mine should be-like that of our forbears, or why we should suffer the same physical diseases or manifest the same idiosyncracies. If we are conscious of what they were and take a pride in being tempera- mentally or physically like them then there is no deubt we can be; if we have the same habits they had, live in the same atmospheric or climatic condi- tions, we can die as they did. If we realize our mission in life we shall be different from them om_every un- desirable point of view. We can as well be healthier than they as we can be richer, or we may be physically weaker than they and create condi- tions which make us poorer. Man is to live his life not the life of his for- bears, and his achievements or his failures should be his own. If condi- tions are poor behind him it is up te him to make them better. It has been said that a rich man must take exercise and live like a poor man to sustain health. Elegant ease and high living are known to be a4 menace to the well-being of man. It is one thing to be wealthy and an- {other to be healthy. Strength has to | e acquired and is even more nmeces- sary for our well-being than wealth. {1t is not a crime to be rich but to | many people wealth has proven to be a misfortune. Wealth as well as want has made many people insane—where the human soul and blinds it to its | own interests, There are some things {all men have to work for—strength and knowledge and wisdom cannot be had for money: neither can love virtue. Character is greater than wealth; and so is knowledge, for it creates wealth. Nature's laws do mnot encourage laziness, and it is not to the idle life yields its satisfying re- wards. In the garden a three-stalked holly- hock stands in its chosen place close beside the peonies with its bud- clusters in initial form, too close to bloom untll it has individualized them at equal distances along its rising stem, which reminds me that it, like the poppy, 1s distributed by the wind, and finds a new place every year. This is a squatter from my neighbor’s | garden and I spare it because of the | silkiness and beauty of its flowers. It is the tallest of the mallow family and its popular name, hollyhock, tells us it is a mallow from the holy-land. Maurice Macterlinck in his = "Old- | fashioned Flowers,” says “the Rose- mallow, Hollyhock, riding the nigh horse of her many names, flaunts her cockades of a fleshier silkiness than a | maiden's breast.” The hollyhock has to be humored to do its best, and its of wandering all over nomadic habit a_ neighborhood ! highly to its credit; but when I spy it among the weeds 1 spare it because it has,a glory all its own which 1 en- Joy. How much easier it is for most of | us to sense our duty towards instead of toward ourseives. Few mortals seem to grasp the thought | that is to reform themselves. Good self- government is not as common as most folks think: and it is the lack of it that creates most of the friction in life. Ola Buttinsky was a_man who | was a live wire when it came to per- forming his duty toward those with whom he was associated. He could tell everyone of them how to improve themselves, and there wasn't one of them who did not realize what a bore i he was. His conceit of his own good- | ness made those he was disposed to advise for their own well-being, feel that he was no good. The man who is too positive in any direction is in danger of producing a negative effect. Excesses of every sort make an end of discretion. There is little danger of excessive effort when we tackle our duty toward seif. What is the use of having a dis- turbing past? This is what keeps people awake nights worse than any other one thing, and it'makes lunatics of some of them. Those who dwell in the present and live well see nothing in the past which haunts them. If they have erred, they may also have profited by their errors; and the error which teaches a wholesome lesson al- { ways seems good to look back upon. It is persistence in evil—a pride in | being the® black sheep of the family which concretes a past that bears heavily upon the heart, which arouses conscience to sit in judgment within us. This is the judge we cannot flee from: and our contempt for the court makes it all the worse for us. If we have a past that causes us wakeful nights it is time.to rob it of its power by a’consciousness that we are able to make a good today equal ten thous and bad yesterdays. To get right down to suppose any one is person who prefers goodness to evil, and finds pleasure In good works. The issues made by people over their differences in religlous opinions are not the fruit of righteousness. Men do not quarrel over their religion, but about thelr Interpretations of secrip- ture, or their conceptions of belief or duty. To conform to any belief is not religion; but kindly acts prompted by the truth T 1 religious minded a spirit of love is. When yeu get a clear view you find true religion is the same the world ever. There is nothing pieus about a deneminational fence—that is a man-made limit that has no heavenly certificate of charac- ter. It seems to be a tug-of-war line where there has been declared— peace; but this is something people who like to argue can dispute over forever. In business religion isn't recognized unless it pays 100 cents on the dollar; and in Heaven something jmore than a sectarian label will be ! required. The man who strives to avold fric- ition in this world has good sense. Friction isn't really necessary in the every day affairs of life. I puts a Dbody In a bad frame of mind and adds nothing to the effeciency or, capacity of the individual. Some people chafe | over trifles—fume and fuss and scold about the smallest affairs, not because it helps anything forward, but be- cause it relieves a discontented spirit. Discontentment can chase cheerful- ness out of the heart and put wrinkles in the face, and turn down the corners of the mouth in short or- der. It hangs a grouch label on all | its victims. It is as easy to radiate sunshine as gloom; and forty times as | profitable. Resentiment was not de- | signed for every day use. Its place in life is like the high light in art—a very little of it produces the required effect | | Do you ever connect age and light? | Whenvou look up at the stars you see | the light of the stars not the stars, When we look at the sun, our star, 93,000,000 miles away, we see our dal light, and come the nearest we ever shall to seeing a star. All other so- called stars are light points from three years to forty years old. When it comes to stars, fofty light years away with the lght travelling at the rate of 187,000 miles a second, we van- not comprehend the distance any more than we can understand what eternity means. The nearest little star that twinkles in the sky tonight began to twinkle for us in 1910 and its twinkle is three vears old. And the twinkling stars represent light of different ages. Light forty vears old is the oldest we have learned of—older than the aver- age age of man s New Bedford, Mass, has equipped its . water department with motor trucks, Wwealth increases selfishness it dwarfs nor . not regarded as | others | the easiest way to reform others | T (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) “What do you do to pass away the time?” was sald in my hearing the other day. The laughing response Was “I don’t have any time to pass awAy. It passes altogether too fast for me. I sometimes wish it would go more slowly, and I feel like seotting back the hands of the clock.” “Well,” rejoined the first speaker, “I don’t see how you are so busy. Your family is the same in number as mine, | and your rooms are much the same in arrangement. 1 have joined the neigh- | borhood whist club to fill up my time, but I understand you declined to do | “Yes, I did,” sald her friend, “for my time is too fully occupied for after- noon whist. You probably work more rapidly than I. The care of my rooms, preparation of meals, and the neces- sary sewing demanded in making new garments and repairing old ones keep | me quite busy all the day. Mr. Rey- | nolds and I often go out together in the evening or on a holiday with the children for some outing and 1 find more recreation in that than I should in afternoon bridge.” Oh, well,” said Mrs. Gaynor, the| first speaker. “I wonm't be a siave to | my housework. I have the paker fur-, nish me bread and most of my desserts | and I seldom do my sewing. Such | stylish things can be bought nowadays | for so little money that it does not pay to make and repair. James srumbles ! sometimes at the size of our bills, and often’ tells me that Mr. Reynolds spends less than he does, but I cannot help that. I mean to take pleasure in | ‘life as I go along instead of skimping | imyself now to provide for old age; which may never come.” That may be a good way, but we | ke my cooking better than the baker's | wares, and the difference in the cost of | our clothes pays me for making them for myself and the girls. I can get | ! better material for them, and am bet- | ter suited in the style of garments. | | Then John and 1 hope to have a home | of our own some day. We are sure| of being happier if so placed, and for | ! the children’s sake are desirous of be- | |ing somewhere else than in a flat with | ino outside room.” | “All right.” replied he | {rose to go, “everyone to her liking. My | | way seems best to me. For pity’s sake! | see that great rent in my sleeve! Why, | ! T bought this waist this season, and It | {has been laundered oply twice. I de- | ;clare, they do make garments; so | | flimsily nowadays, but I got this at a | | cheap sale, and it was a great bargain,” | {and she took her departure, leaving | Mrs. Revnolds free to return to her work of making a shirtwaist for her- | self. As she turned toward her ma- chine she thought: “I'll warrant this i waist will launder more than twice, | 'and outwear more than two of he ar- gains, and it cost me less besid Not long afterwards Mr. Gaynor on |coming home to dipmer said to his | jwife: “I saw John Reynolds today and I think he is a lucky fellow. They are to take possession soon of one of those new cottages in Mills place. ‘Well, old fellow,’ I said, ‘you are to be congratu- lated. " You will have to patronize the| | trolley after this, as well as I, so we'll | meet more frequently than in the ps | “1 mean to walk to my worl plied he. ‘It is only a little more than | a mile, and will give me much-needed exercise. 1 have been better since I| began to walk more. i * Te- | | ject is very truly second-hand prope ‘Well,* snapped his wife, “John Reynolds’ wife drives herself to death for her family, and pinches every pen- ny to increase their savings. But, then, she is stronger than I am. I am so worn out with my cares at home, and my soclal demands, I think we had better send the children out to Grand- ma's for the vacation, and leave me free to go to some pleasant place for a change. You could get your ‘meals at a restaurant while I was gone. You say you shall not take any vacation.” A look of disappointment shaded Mr. Gaynor's face for a moment, but he patiently agreed to the plan as pro- posed. Autumn found them returned to their fat, the children well and happy, the mother claiming to have enjoved her change of scene, and the over- worked father showing plainly the ef- fects of his lack of rest. “What's the matter commented the children one day. does not act as he used to do. with Papa?” He lies on the couch all the time of an, evening now. 7 “Oh, that's nothing,” said their mother. “He'll feel better when the weather is cooler.” But she seemed in no way to feel herself responsible for the condition of things. -What wonder that the chil- dren grew up selfish, and indifferent, expecting everything to be donme for hem and making no returns. All of which reminds me of the rea- son given by the farmer for the high cost of lving. Now, I am not a farm- er, but T read every week the “Farm er’s Talk to Farmers.” What I don’t know about farming would make a Dbook, and all 1 _do know on that sub- ty, but I enjoy reading those talks in | The Bulletin, and find them profitable | en by the increased as weil. Now, one reason giv writer in question for th cost of living Is that we pay other peo- ple for doing work which we could and should do for ourselves. We pay, like the Gaynors, other peopl to make our clothes instead of making them ourselyes. We ride when king is much better for our health. We smoke and munch confectioner; when we | know we are better off without it. We give cur afternoons and evenings to ! cards and the theatre, and wonder where the money has all gone when we find ourselves in need. Any at- tempt at economy or thriff beyond our own practice is called stinginess or lack of progress. Small wonder that the majority of us find it difficult to live within our means. To return ‘to the Reynolds family. A few years sufficed to establish them | in their own home, enjoying many a comfort mot to be found in the c The chiidren were trained to hablts of industry .and . the health of all was more firmly established by regu- lar exercise in walking to and from business and school, and the pleasures of life much increased by the feeling of independence gained in thelr own home. Certainly for them economy led to health and comfort, if not to wealth and showed one way high cost of living. Several of their friends followed their example, and Mills place became a cluster of happy homes and congenial neighbor: Which is to be commended and imi- tated, the Reynolds method or the Gaynor way? AN IDLER. SUNDAY MORNING TALK LAST EDITION GIDEONITES There were 32,000 in Gideon’s host at the beginning. After the timid ones had beeri removed 10,000 remained. .\ | secong searching test left only 200 m=n | fit and willing to do battle. But these {last were warriors whom no danger { could afiright and no difficulty appal. | It seems strange that out of an arn that would have made so formidable a | showing on dress parade or at a mi- |itary picnic, only about one out of es- ery hundred was_ eligible for the her oic enterprise in hand. The shrinkase must have caused some misgiving< ieven among the survivors themsel | especially as they looked down the | | valley upon the widespread Midiani:e | host. The courageous attack of the little band was successful, however, an. | Gideon was abundastly justified in his { unusual preparation for the fight. lie | was not the first general nor the last | finding it better to go into battle at { the head of a handful of loyal veterans than commanding a rabble intent only | on flight . | We often attach undue importance | {to mere numbers. We bow down to | the crowd. We assume that all mat- | terg are settled after we have count- | ed hends, The truth is that chance of success |are not to be gaged solely, perhars {even principally, by these numerical | |standards. It wouid steady us many | ‘[1m85‘l to learn the arithmetic of God There is a divine strategy whereby | | there shall “one chase a thousand and | | two put 10,000 to flight.” | 1 have known two or three good | | women ‘to start a train of forces thar | | eventually cleaned up a township. I | have known a dozen men, aroused and | | enthusiastic, to change the whole mor- | {al climate of the citv they lived in | | Thugs and disreputabies found the at- |mesphere becoming (oo rarified and meveq out. | Almost any gosd enterprise you can mention is really supported by a small | coterie of interested, enthusiastic peo- | | ple. They stoke the fires and stand | at the wheel while numerous passen- ! gers share the glory of the voyage by occupying steamer chairs. They brinz the banquet to pass while others sl | at the head table and make the impres- sive remarks. As a clergyman, let me pay tribute to the faithful few always to be coun:- | ed on in the steady work of the church. The minister may find himself negiect. ed by many, maltreated by a few, but he is pretty sure to find himself sus- tained and helped by a choice cir who have caught his ideals and shared | | | | |nis spirit, These loyal, dependable, | James-upon-the-spot Deople make hi: | work possible and yield joy and inspi- ration to his life. | _The boys of the state militla were | eXpected home after a week of camn duty. An officer of the regular army passing along the street was cheered by the crowd walting to welcome the volunteers. The man in khaki smfled grimly. “They needn’t cheer me,” he said; “T'm no hero, I'm just a regular. Tell me, you who have ever tried t. {lead a charge against either materia! | or spiritual foes, what would you d) without the ‘regulars,” those disci- plined and faithful souls who can Le | counted on? They serve, not in spasms of enthusiasm, but with the steady, | reasoned persistence that counts, Be- cause of thelr splendid courage the colors are kept flying, the guns are fired, and the victory won, THE PARSON. Attraction Too Great. If President Wilson will make his next visit to the capitol while the Washington baseball team is away from home he may-find more of the senators In their offices.—Washington Herald. Food for Thought. Another thing that sets a thoughtful man to pondering is the entire willing- ness expressed by the trusts to reor- ganize so as not to conflict with the { holders go without dividends: {ana The cry of the farmers has been for hot nights that corn and might strike their stride. Certainly if hot nigLts are needed to make crops srow, they must have jumped consid- rably Tuesday night.—Rockville Jour- nal. With all the talk about the decolette style in women’s dress, it is well to remember that the few extremes of dress will remove the well deserved opinions of women that dwell in the mind of the average man—Middletown Press. Is there anvone in these who would dishonor the name of Lincoln? Is it neceseary for any patriot to rise up- and defend that sacred name with tongue or fists or knife? This story of a fracas at Getysburg over an insult | to Lincoln hard to understand.— ‘Waterbury American. Secretary Daniels has warned the navy yard employes that they must not lobby for an incrcase of wages. And the navy vard employes are wons dering at the silence on the part df the democratic newspapers, whicl raised such a hullabaloo when a sim- flar orde sued by a republican administration.—Springfield Union. One of our exchanzes, speaking of the railroads and the dificulties con- fronting them, is moved to say that raflroads must make improvements out of earnings and let their stock- in other words, maka thousands of stockholder who are dependent upon their divi- dends for their support, go hungry. Cold blooded selfishness and supreme cheek is this—not philanthropy.—New Haven Journal-Courier. Conscientious members of all polit- fcal parties should be willing and an ious for a thorough sifting of the Mui- hall charges concerning the so-cailed “underground system” at the nationil capitol. If there is, or has been rot- tenness, let it be dug up, condemned obliterated. If punishments are rved and are possible under the let them be inflicted. If the arges are false, let him who is r2- ponsible for them be made to eat his | words.—Ansonia Sentinei, It has too long been the custom in Meriden for pedestrians to imagine that they always have the right of way at street crossings over vehicular traf- fic. That serious accidents have not been numerous instead of almost non- existent is a wonder. In other cities “He | of reducing the | OTHER VIEW POINTS I There are some overlooked. can invest them at once. hundred, as the case may be; Your interest return is certain, A ‘savings account at this bank have to be turned into meney; peints about the “Savin You don't have to wait until you get an even while you are accumulating your in to your principal and begin to earn more interest. You can begin to save here any day in ~ | the year, but today is the best day. & The Chelsea SavingsBank Bank way"Sthat are You can always invest small, odd amounts at:interest, and you or five earn compound Jinterest and can be added ?niunmnny always a cash asset—does net is money. i it the traffic regulations are as rigidiy enforced with persons on foot as with teams and automobiles. Chief Bowen is to be warmly commended and strongly supperted in his determina- tion to enforce them in Meriden.—Mey- iden Record. WATCH YOUR STEP! oy The Conductor. Buying Men. “I got a buddy that's a detective. ! 11e's in ome of th' hotels. They call { him th' ‘house man, but he's a sure | enough detective. He's got a star, an’ | if he'd arrest you it'd be th’' same as |if a cop would. He's on his job night | times. Him an’ me's got th' same | room. Only he sleeps in it after I've | gone ‘to work. That fellow's smarter'n a steel trap. Lizzie don't like him. She got peeved at him one night when we was all eatin’ together an’ Danny i said (Danny Lynch, that's his name) | every man has his price. He said he knowed it 'cause he'd bought lots of ‘em. 1 didn’t get mad at him like Lizzie did. He didn’t mean it th' way she took'it. You see, he's just iike a fellow workin’ all th' time in-the stockyards. He couldn't smell a bou- quet if you soaked it in hair oil. You | know a geod bird dog runs around { with his nose to th’ ground all th’ | time lookin’ for bird tracks. That's | Danny. If a bird dog’d run into a bunch o singin’ canarfes an’ flush ’em an’ you wouldn't sheot thefr yel- low heads off, that dog’d quit you for a coward. Lizzie says to him, “Dan, you got a evil mind. vou had your price, an’ I knew Jerry ain't got his. Have you, Jerry? An’ I says, ‘No, no, I ain’t.’ Not since I | knowed you. You got me bought and ! paid for. I'd swim the river for vou. ; Danny laughed so hard he choked an’ he says. ‘There, I told you every man had his price’ An' Lizzie says right out loud so's everybody heard it, ‘That ain’t what price means. Price means that somebody can get you if they offer more. An’ nobody can get Jerry away from me’ Lizzie's right. She ain’t got no price. She's got a cop- per rivet cinch. tand back an’ let em off! “Don’t stand on th’' platform! “Watch your step!” EVERY DAY REFLECTIONS | | Art of Resting. ‘We are making our lives one sided in allowing them to be too fully oc- cupied with the external activities. Too much occupled they cannot be, in the true sense of occupying—filling, employing, satisfying; but we ought lto learn the blessedness ( of occupied leisure, the deep music of silence, the pictures to be imaged in darkness. We must not be dominated by the ob- vious the seen and the heard. | An idle mind is possible with busy | | hands; so often this is forgotten. We may do many things and accomplish little, Simply because the activity is skin' deep, outward, superficial. We ant rest for our attainments to sink |in, to gather our harvest, understand and sift it. We may see too much to see anything clearly, hear too much to really listen: with much hastening we do not always arrive. To do things well we must some- | times think of what we are doing. It {is not enough to trust to impulse; good impul | quiet thini | Let us st we may itself is best fostered by g dy the art of resting, that the more truly work and do. Opposites. You can measure a wall or a carpet with a_vardstick; you cannot measure the_lightning. | You can cast a plumbline down a | pit or fathom the ocean’s depth, but | you cannot tell how deep is the grief |of a mother with her dead child in her lap. You can set a value in dollars and star, but there are no lenses or ioga- rithms by which to estimate the joy of two lovers. You can analyze water, earth or gases, and determine their constituent parts, but you cannot get at the clements that compose ‘inno- cense, conscience or remorse. Yo u can set a value in dollars and cents upon the services of a salesman or a bricklayer, but you cannot even approximate the value of an act of unselfish helpfulness. Bryan’s Idea of Joking. This administration 18 full of sur- prises, the latest being Secretary Bry- an's announcement that he Is too busy to talk.—Phlladelphia Press. T'd hate to think | N THE In years gobe by it .used to be that a manufacturer’s responsi- bility for the things he made stopped with -the sale of them. But that is mo longer so. We are living in an age of progress- ive and efficient business build- ing. Manufacturers no longer con- sider the signimg of an onder from a reputable retailer as‘the climax of their iterest and?ef- fort. And, what is more, the progressive merchants do not feel that they are,good business men unless they have agreed upon and put into practice some arrangement whereby both the manufacturer and the retafler unite in the endorsement of the article in question. By this kind of{ arrangement retallery offer their\patrons two- fold evidence of quality and re- lability—a , double nesponsibility | that spells safety torthe prudent buyer. And the manufacturer who wants to heip his dealers, uses local newspapers to bring cu: tomers to the retail counter to ask for his product. Dealers and manufacturers in- : terested in local advertising for national products are invited to write to the BUREAU OF ‘AD- VERTISING. AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, World Building, New York. Palace Pool and Billiard Parlors Six Tables—flve pool and one Billlard. Tables sold and repairing done at reasonable prices. Supplies at all times. 49 MAIN STREET Danger Signals Kidney Troubles, Bladder Di orders and Rheumatism. ‘When these symptoms are neg- lected, then Serious Diseases Follow. It is not only dangerous,. but needlesg, for you to tossuffer and endure the tortures of these troubles, for the new discovery, UROGEN promptly ends all such misery. Three. doses of Urogen a day, for a few days, is often all that is ever needed to relleve the worst backache or overcoms urinary disorders and relieve chronic rheumatism. ‘All druggists are authorized to return the purchase price if UROGEN should fail to yive you relief. Price 50 cents and $1.00 At all druggists 1647 Adami’s Tavern 1861 offer 1o the public Lle Onest standara braa\ of Beer of Europe and America, Bohetllan, Fusner, Cilmbdach Bavarias beer, Lass Puie and Burton, Mueir's Bcotch Ale, Guinness' Dublin Stous C, & C, umported Ginger Ale, Bunker ' Al P, Bi Ale, FI'B‘IJLK Jn:‘-‘ Nourlsh« ‘ug Ale, Steriing Bitter Ale, N iiaer, Sohith nd Pabit, A. A, ADAM, Norwioh Tewn. clepnone 47-1& NEWMARKET HOTEL. 716 Boswell Ave. First-class Wines, Liquors and Meals and Wel Ravebit ords John Tucky. Prop. el 4 Bherman law.—Ohio State Journal. shows, saloons and clgarettes Is $7,500, 000, according to city auditors, l The Income of Chicago from “movie” terest is paid on mercantile deposits. The Thames National Bank with its spacious’banking house and strong metropoli- tan connections, affords its customers every banking facility, consistent with conservatism: The combination of its capital, surplus, undivided profits and contingent assets, aggregating over is an unquestionable guaranty to depositors. Nq in-