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the cattle 3 civilization has made also, upon the supplx of cereals once went to manufac- ture beef and mutton, and the cost more t upon choicer cuts.” condition only the more em- Fhasizes the part which the east and ‘south same as the/east did lomg ago, can T{h.y in contributing to this D e west is going backward m there ‘is no repson why there could not be a profitable stimulation jof that husiness again right here in CIRCULATION 1901 AVErage.ccerccesarss 4412 3905, AVOrage..eeseccosns &en Have The Bulletin Follow You Readers of The Bulletin leaving the city for vacation trips can have it follow them daily and thus keep in touch with bome affairs. Order through The Bulletin business office. ARBITRATION SHOULD PREVAIL, ‘While railroad questiens are so much in the public eye, it is impos- sible to overlook the action which has been taken and the statements which have been made in connection wiith the demands of the engineers and firemen on the western roads. While their wants are much in ling with such appeals which are made to railroads, the most surprising declaration is to be found in the absolute refusal, made fn advance before any such sugges- tion had been offered,.that arbitration under the Erdman act would not.be eonsidered. \ o As in all such instances. demands far in excess of what can reasonably be expected have been made, but with- out a possibility of a compromise on e fair and just basis. The undertaking .is ome which proposes to force the roads into conceding the increases, re- #ardless of the justice thereof and re- gardless of the effect upem- the pub- lie, with the alternative of a strike. ‘Whether, by their stand, is i3 to be sonstrued that they will not Hsten to the submission of the questions to ar- bitration at all, or that they will not do eo under the Erdman act provisions Is not made plain, but if there is merit % In their demands and justice is back of them, there is nothing in arbitration which calls for any such -attitude as that. Rather does their stand preju- @ice their cause from the start for anything which will not stand the serwtiny of arbitration cannot lay claim to justifiable action. BETTERING CITY GOVERNMENT. Just at this time when much atten- tion is being given to charter changes by municipalities, the action of the city of Cincinnatl upon such a ques- tion shows that all cities are not eager for auch a reform. By the change, had it been voted, the city would have eonferred greater power upon the mayor and reduced its common coun- el to a smaller and a single-cham- bered body, for the purpose of obtain- in& better city government, That the plan was defeated hy seven thousand mafjority indicates the feel- ing of the people of that eity upan the value of such alteration. Many cities are considering a somewhat similar change, & fow have adopted the city manager Plan, Dayton in the same state with Ohlo being apparently well impressed by its venture, while others have beén inspired by the commission foym. No charter can be gxpected to rémain perfect for all time. Progress and the dévelopment of weak spots eall for the proper remedy, but when it comes to serious c¢hanges in city thé removal of some or complications, it all de- “Pefids upom the kind of government which is being obtained under the ex- isting form. With all the various kinds of charters, the fact seems to be borna oyt that city government rests hiefly with the citizens, more tham with the type of a charter. It is not of government se mueh as of men who are chosen to ad- it. If the best men are etect- ed ta office and publis opinion gives backing to a businesslike, sound efficient conduet eof city affairs, results are going to be obtained. ueh is apparently Cincinnati's view the question, * RAISING BEEF. Again the price of heef is hefors country, It is .always a subject of widespread concern and particular- 1y 80 now because of the claims that the prices would go down and ¥ down just as soon as it %as made possible to get it inte the country without a duty. The trouble is as it always has heen that the supply is insuMicient to meet the demand, the great cattle raising country in the west is turning te other things. Concerning this situation the Yo ! York Times declares: “The cattle kings of the west are abdicatng, ..e., horned subjects are going the way of | the Wisen, That is why the price of Béar io high, and why it is getting o R TR 2 £ New Bngland. RECCGNITION BY GOVERNMENT. From the action which has been taken in the bemalf of increased pay to the railroads for the transportation of the mails, good results are indicated from. the amendment to the Moon bill which has followed in the lower house. Coming as the result of the recommendation of the postmaster general it is evident that the presen- tation of the claims by the railroads has not fallen upon barren ground and that the justice of them, to a cer- tain extent at least, is to be recog- nized. By ‘the amendment thera will be added ahout three and a quarter mil- lon dollars for the carrving of the malls, making in all a total appropri- ation of about sixty-two and a third millions. While this does not grant all that the railroads have asked for it does mean a copcession and a re- lief and may be the stepping stona to the placing of this mail pay question upon a positive instead of an estl- mate basis. Mail business is increas- ing every vear and in addition to the regular matter the parcel post has added a tremendous amount of work and calls for much greater accommo- dations. It is but proper that the post office department should meet these additional transportation charges | and at the same time do it-in such a manner that it will result in providing the service that will best accommo- date the public. It is incumbent upon the department to see that it is not overcharged or that it is not wrong- fully gouged because it is the govern- | ment and inclined in many ways to| be free with its money, vet it should ! not seek to dodge its just exgenses. HOT WEATHER DONT’S, There is a lot of advice drifting about concerning hot weather conduet, in the interest of health. There are many things which experience has taught and which have been indelibly impressed upon the mind, but expe- riences vary and what happens to one! does mot of necessity befall everyone else. Tt is through the great amount of inconsiderate action that profitable lessons are learned and much unneces- sary trouble prevented. Thus much good is possible from the following list of hot weather don'ts: Don't worry. It never did any good and it never will. Don't rush into a lot work. : Don’t eat for the sake of eating. nor drink for the sake of drinking. Over- crowding does more harm than good. Don't eat food that has been kept too long. Don’t eat contaminated food nor fruit. Don't work hard in the direct rays of the sunm, although many so-called | sunstrokes are due to other causes than the great luminary, Don't attempt unreasonable tasks and dress according to the weather. Avoid excitement, keep cool mentally and the best results will .follow. Such is what a great majority ean be expected to do without advice, but it is nevertheless a grand good time for the use of a large amount of com- mon sense.’ The merits of its cooling influence are unquestioned. —t of useless EDITORIAL NOTES. If your vacation comes within forty days it_might be well to tip off the weather man. The abdication of Huerta will never ba complete until he gets away from behind the throne. The impression seems to prevall that that hoot owl in congress was purely psychalogical, Everyene who risks his life in a cance should realize that it is likely | to mean his last vacation. The man on the corner says: Tt is! one thing to be happy, and another to find it out before it is too late, There are a great many others be- sides Huerta. who are going to re- member whe put a new era in Vera Cruz, Seventeen new peace treaties have | been signed and await ratification, but a hurried serutiny doesn't reveal Ul- ster in the list, When Villa warng I. W. W, agitators that they will be shot, he certainly makes it plain that he believes in drastic measures for peace. I/ ig_an interesting anneuncement from Rochester's dental convention that painless extraction is almost an | acgomplished fact, but no such report can be made upon the personal tax. The constitutionalists change from the offensive to the defensive is a for- mation’ which is going to be watched with a great deal of sympathetic in- | terest. —— It is being saild that the next ap- pointee to the supreme court hench should be s democrat. Possibly, but ' in thig tribunal fitness should precede polities. That weuld-be Chicago policewoman | who is making a redmction of 25 pounds in weight in five days may vet find her recipe more profitable than | swinging a club. The one satisfaction from the Inter- | state Commerce Commission's report is that there is mo excuse for a con- tingance of such s and that con- valescence Is reported. By the way in which the progres- sives of several states are running to the fountain head for directions, it ig but natural to wonder what might happen if he were still monkeying in South America. - o The dou! Waterbury while canoein dangers from unskilled operators until it 48 teo late. It is only one of the |yvou go through it for me. ble drowning accident in | g is another | ingtarice of never giving heed (o the | EleTS from Malthus down to'the frust “Come up to my gquarters. 1 have | something to show you, and—ne ol —'l'“mq your o s e ! You take Hirma I Sellovig .t spense. u ving s not feund ort rl’ddl-i ?u knwfi‘l‘h e y, yes ropped sales-room at a London station. You know, ‘they sell oft the uncalled for luggage at intervals, and a sale was just going on. A number of the boys were there, and we each commenced to bid for a trunk. I selected rather a small one, and—here wé are! Come right in and view the burden of my woes." He led the way into a pleasant apart. ment and inted to o small leather trunk wmcgo stood in the middle of the rooms ‘Open it, if you want to," he said. “I've had enough of the confounded thing. It stuff, and ‘what d6 you suppose I can do with { I haven't an aunt or a cousin in th wide world.” 7 “Keep it till you're married, Fred. These seem to be good clothes,” said Courtney, peeping into the box and lifting the dainty garments with a haif reverent touch, in spite of his laugh- ing face. “Humph! The idea cf such advice from you! Why, old boy, I shall not marry for ten years—five anyway— and I'm not going to risk keeping these things here and being taken for a lady burglar. Mrs. Gaffrey would find them in spite of everything—smell murder in the air and hunt around for the skull hones. No, I'll dump the trunk in the river, that's what I will do.” “Pshaw! You're too sensible for that. These things cost money, lots of it, T imagine, and you paid some- thing for them in the bargain. You might sell them to the second-hand —no. T've a better scheme than that. Why not go through the trunk syste- matically -find out the owner's name and eddress—there are surely letters or something—and write to her, offer- ing her the whole thing for a reason- able sum?” “De an act of charity and yet turn an hqnest penny. Any one would know you are Scotch. But' I must go back to the store, and—Here! You have all the flme there is; suppose All T ask is that you will keep Mrs. McGaffrey cut. Fare-dleu!” And off he went. Courtney laughingly locked the door, but the smiles soon left his face as he proceeded with his task. He won- dered if. the little battered trunk had beer; lost in some of the dreadful ca. tastrophes he had read of. He im. agined the owner killed and her body as well as luggage unidentified in the horrible excitement. They were girlish things—dainty veils and ribbons, ginghamsy silks and snowy linen. He lfngered over a small, worn slipper, and felt a thrill akin to that awakened in Cinderella’s prince. “No clew yet,” he murmured. “Per- haps there are letters ir this box.” Its catch was bent, but he wrenched it open and out flew—his own photo-| graph! He sat down plumb in a box of laces and stared. On the other side were his initials and a date he had been trying for three years to forget, “June 2, 1890." Burr's trunk!” “Oh, my little giri, wha to you? he exclaimed. has happened Maybe some “one— No, here 3 initials on this belt buckle, and your glo 6, and this slipper would just fit your little foot.” The young man grew excited and rapturous over eaeh article. Presently he lified a package of letters from one corner. My own—and they express the greatest happiness life ever brought me. They are like the leaves that flutter down in the November rain. I wonder why she kept them. How many there are T'nfastening the cord, he turned the letters aver and found many of the envelopes scribbled upon by a familiar hand. There were items jotted down to be remembered in answering, ‘and scraps of poetry which had mnot long since reached his eye and been ever since cherished in his memory. Upon the last one—for they were all num- bered—was written in ink this girlish confession, “Al Courtney, I love you, but will never marry any one so in- constant. Resting his head on the empty tray silence, he exclaimed: — T was a fool—a consummate fool— and now perhaps she is dead.” A noise arouged him, and in a be- wildered way he surveved the gar- ments strewed on every side and gazed mournfully at the beautiful hat, through which he had run one foot, and the box of laces he had uncon- sciously used as a cushion. Fred would be coming in a few minutes. He began repacking the things with ruthless haste and stowing the letters in his own poeckets was lying lasily an the couch reading tlhe paper when his chum entered. “Well,” he cried, 'u unearth ?”* 0 mystery at all” was the delib- erate answer, “but the ‘stuff,’ as you call it, is worth something and would be a regular gold mine to a girl. I've a netion to buy it from you and pre- to my sisters. What will yeu “what mystery did “Oh, come! to help me out. You're just doing that I ¥now yeur benev- EVERY DAY REFLECTONS i Proving Things. Every once in a while seme eeient- ist comes forth with figures to prove that, at the present rate of increase, the ,population of the United States will be 200 to the square foot in 2014 A, . P Or that, if things go on as they are now going, there will be no echildren at all born in 1999. Or that in a certain time there will | be more insane people in the country than sane; and the sane will be locked up in asylums. ’ Or that in a definite number of years every house in town will be a dance hall, and there will be more tangoists than there are people. Or that tuberculosis, eancer and the hookworm will use up the entire pop- ulation and go after the dogs and cats. Or that, with the present rate of in- crease in automobile business, every human being in 1996 will have three machines and.there will be no room in the streets to move, two deep, all stall- ed. Or that, copsidering the trend of things in Washington, we shall have a king or a dictator in a little while. Or that, taking capitgl and labor far our statistics, it will not be long be- fore two or three gentlemen own all the money and the millions will be gnawing bones. Or that religion is dying out, and at a certain date the last church will be converted into u livery stable, Statlstics are grand. Take 'em with a liberal dose of imagination and they ’t’i“:x about the scariest things you can nd. < The one thing that the figure jug- many similar reports which will be Fessived this summer. :.:‘srer_ leave out of conmsideration is s T That when gnything in hyman fairs }au to be abeut so it comes top-heavy apgd falls, you e “there, dldn't AL “Fm not sure about that,” said ‘T've thought about it all the morning, and the idea grows on me. It will be rare fun to try, you say the name “But no doubt this girl H law, became ._anyway. What did Smyth estate went time was not was killed— m‘? that l“” fi- som: y n luggage 18 seldom lost except by some | Sectetly married ‘y% - such accident, and—and maybe she is|land, In 1796 an old woman. Fred laughed immoderately. “Just as if that would make an act|baron wi of charity less meritorious. Old women don’t usually wear white lace hats, though. You must have found some- thing precious in there—jewelry something—which makes you anxious to martyrize yourself. It's mine, how- ever, and I am not as anxio to with it as I was—not till I've looked through it anyway." As bhe turned the key Al remembered that his own photograph was lying in a conspicuous box and exclaimed: — “Wait until after dinner, then. I am half starved!” “Perhaps it would be better,” was the answer, and they passed out to- gether. ‘When fairly down stairs, Al said he had forgotten his handkerchief and flew back three steps at a time to get it. ~ Securing the picture and placing it in an inside pocket, he said to him- self:— ‘Surely there is nothing else to give me away. But I must wheedle him out of the trunk.” After dinner Fred “went through” the contents of the trunk. making boy- ish remarks concerning each article as he threw it aside. Al Inwardly winced at these remarks and could scarcely restrain himself from knocking him over on the spot. “What makes you so crusty?” quer- ied Fred suddenly as one of his choicest Jokes was met by a gruff “H'm!” “There's no fun in you, and why you want this stuff beats me. Your sis- ters would turn up their noses at sec- ond-hand clothing, if it is pretty. But it isn’t worth fussing over, so take it along. No doubt it would prove a white elephant on my hands sooner or later.” Not until the trunk was safely in his room could Al breathe freely. Even then it was no easy matter to keep it out of his sister's sight. They mas both a pet and a confident of their one brother and had a fashion of dropping into his room at all hours to telli him of their schemes and woes. He had pushed the trunk under a mahogany table in the cormer, the old-fashioned cover of which reached almost to the floor. ‘When he told them he to be taken with him, finally deciaring they would clean house while he was gone and “sort out his trash.” So behold him, in the dead of night, carrying the “white elephant” up the narrow attic stalrs, bumping his head on every rafter and getting cobwebs in his mustache. He covered it with old clothing, pushed a big box in front of it and then crept down stairs, feel- ing as guilty as if he had been con- cealing some erime. At breakfast the girls both talked at once abeut burglar who tried to get in and how they pounded on Al's door and could not even get an answer. At noon he was off, and as the train whirled on ward he became possessed with fears. She might not be at Hast- ings; she might not care for him after these three years; she might even be married or dead. Arriving at his destination at last, he only stopped to leave his bag at a hotel and walked rapidly to a familiar house in the suburbs. Riuging the bell, he inquired for Miss Burr in a matter of fact way, ag if he had seen her the day before. He watched the girl's face as she spoke and saw no trace of surprise. She simply said:— ‘Miss Burr may not be able to see you. but come in and I will ask.” Presently he was shown into a small, sunny room, where on a couch, lay the one girl he had ever loved. He meant to explain at once the cause of his foolish going and eager coming, all of pwhich he had fromed into frank, beau- tiful sentences, but somehow they for- sook him, and he fell back on the commonplace. She received him with quiet words of welcome and then said— “Pardon my position, but I am sueh an invalid that it is a trial to sit up.” “An invaHd?" he eehoed faintly. “Yes,” she answered. “Did you not hear of my accident several months ago? On coming home from a visit 1 stopped for a day or so in a London hotel. The building caught fire a few hours after I entered it. The horror of the scene is stamped—branded would be a more appropriate word— on my memory that I cannot bear to talk of it. I lost everything except the ulster which was wrapped about me, and would have lest my life, but for the brave fireman whe broke my fall. Oh, no, I am neot seriously in- jured,” she continued, in answer to his half spoken question, “though I have been ill ever since. Itwwas such a shoek you kne By deft questioning he succeeded in making her say:— “¥es, T lost my trunk. It was left at the station (I expected to Eo on in a day or two), and the deposit ticket was destroyed with my pecketbook. Railway people are nesessarily partic- ular about identifying luggage, and for weeks I was too ill to even remember it. Besides, T had only gone for a short auting, and {t held nothing of much value, except some Kkeepsakes that were dear to me” A deep flush stole over her face at these words. He watched it for one delicious moment, and then gathered her up in his arms, exclaiming:— T will bring them back if you will pay the reward I want” Then—or, rather, after ha had tor- tured her impatience mercilessiy—he told her of Fred's “bargain” bought at auction. She begged for it, coaxed pleaded, all in vain. He declared she could only have the little leather trunk as a wedding present. And a very havpy wedding party it was too—TLon- don Tit-Bits. A Great Clock. The most trustworthy clock In the world is sald to be that in the base- ment of the Observatory at Berlin, in- stalled by Professor Foerster in 1897. It is enclosed in an air-tight glass cyl- inder, and has frequently run for three months with an average daily deviation of only firteen one-thousandths of a second. The Observatory staff are not satisfied even with this remarkable accuracy, and their efforts are direct- ed towards securing ideal conditions for a clock, by keeping it not only in an air-tight case, but aiso in an under- ground vault, where neither changes of temperature nor of barometric pres- sure can ever affect it.—[From London Chronicle. Rather a Large Order. A Mttle boy was asked by his busy mother {o telephone the grocer for cer- taiz hoveehold suppiles. This is the way the message ended: “Please charge and sond ten cents' worth of apimal erackers, and please take out &l the siephants, because the baby the | the | or | were produced in sul i | belonging to the vicar of & ~written doc: t by hich that he married, but his wife di birth of his son. whom he in the care of his nurse, Ly tiation. tludt the son had run away to Eure] ant presented his case. As further ev- iderice he brought into tne cowu=: vars- our jeweiry and broj>-ucs, sealed papers nd a poraait Hugh. Some of the documents 1l impression of a seal, “Qui Capit Cap- itor”* The case seemud cler~ for anf, when he w13 usked sums puestions atout some sewa he Ml ordered en- graved by a seal engraver in Halburn, and admitted g°'viig am order fir a card plate ani carls, hut denind tha: he had orderad & st 561l ma to the pattern anl mot:> of the Smyths Through an ofror of 1he engra. ér n.se f the seals I'ad hean trausfmét inty '‘Qui Capit Capitor,” whila the real motto was: “Qui Capit Capitur,” Smyth sald he had never seen the deed by which Sir Hugh acknowledg:4 th: ex- istence of a son until the 17th of Marcn and as he had not recelved the seal until July, he could not p:asibly kave placed the seal ou tlia Geed Bt & iat ter was broug™t s1:.to court datad March 13, which, he admitted was in his handwriting, and which bore the seal with the mistake. And this same im- pression was on the deed. The cross-examination counsel then asked: “Did you, in January last, ap- ply to & person in London to emgrave for you the cregt upon the rings pro- duced, and also to engrave the mame ‘Goodin’ on the brooch?" The answer very hesitatingly given was: Yes, 1 did. The piaintiff was committed by the judge on a charge of perjury, to which a charge of forgery wae subsequently added. /The second trial took place at the assizes, at Gloucester. It was brief, but damning. 2 An attorney’s clerk confessed to hav- ing taken the deed from dictation. The brown paper which the prisoner had sworn formed the wrapper of the deed when he received it, was Identified as the self same piece of paper that had covered the seal when sent; the self same seal on which the engraver had made his unlucky, or shall we say lucky, mistake. The parchment of the | deed itself was made from a proces: that had only been known ten years nd so could not pesaibly e been written on by Sir Hugh exactly thirty years before. Various startling errors and dis- crepancies were found in the document itself. The ink had received its an- tique appearance by artificial means, the wax was undoubtedly new, and a reference was made to Sir Hugh's wife as “The late Elizabeth Howell,” where- as the lady in question was alive and | In good health at the time that the deed was supposed to have been writ- ten. The picture disclosed in the first trial was found to be that of one John Provis, the eldest son of a earpenter, and the prisoner was Iidentified as Thomas Provis the brother of the per- @on portrayed in the pieture, and as such he was rccognized by his sister. It was also proyed that he had been convieted of horse stealing, wife deser- tion, perjury and now with © more testimony was given, nor wag it needed, apd for twenty years nothing more was heard of John Pro- vi bogus Sir Richard Hugh OTHER VIEW POINTS Some fine sarcasm is found in the statement of Senator McLean. is apparent that Connecticut's former gcvernor has no flattering regard for the president’s banking and currency plan or his judgment as to the men who should make up the fede: re- serve board—Waterbury Republica: A citizen of Deep River, to be “candid and fair, mills in that plac employ 500 or 606 people, have been running four days a week frem April to June 26, and have been shut down sjnce then. He says it is a sad sight to see the employes gathered in groups studying psychology. — Waterbyry American. who claims A fourteen-years-old girl has sue- ceeded in swimming the Hudson at Yonkers, where the river is more than a mile wide and the current is swift. If more fourteen-years-old girls, and their brothers, were taught to swim so that they could support themselves for only a fraction of such distance in the water the undertakers and the newspapers wouldn't be so busy with drowning cases in the zood old sum- mer time—Hartford Times. It President Wilson should ire to appoint Mr. Taft to the supreme court a great opportunity for publie usefulness would be thus opened be- fore one eminently fitted for such ser- vice. It would be a wise and thisg for Mr. Wilson to offer this great honor to Mr. Taft but we do not believe he would accept it. Once his great ambition was to become & mem- ber of the supreme court. Teday he has other and very important ways for public service.—New Haven Times. Leader. By breaking up all political ma- chines and making it possible for the business man and the pri: to enter into the game of on even terms or better wii fessional politician, a change better is surely invited. Then we may | see elections,in which 1deas, ideals and| oharacter will be the determining qual- | ities, rather than an intimate knowl- | edge of births, deaths and marriages in the ward and a discerning sympa- thy for what is wanted by “the bow: ranged up agalnst the gleaming brass and polished mahogany.—Bridgeport Standard. | The stockholders of the New Haven and the owners and managers of hon- estly administered rallroads all over the country will have feelings of bit- terness towards the lay/ administra- tors of the New Haven. Such acta affect the public faith home and broad in American business proaper- ity and the character of American in- vestments. They prejudice the public ' and their official representatives and even public boards against the rall- road companies at a time when the roads as a whole deserve more fagyor- Children Cry FOR FLETCRER'S CASTORIA LUGILLE | b o b COLONIAL, ‘A RO of the EVERGLADES,” Two reels, with Mabel Tranelle “'l’n: TRAMP’'S BEAR” Ludicrous sode from Lubin ctory. b 1 IDLER” Wo: Cast. “GERTIE GETS THE CA nderful Drama with Bi SH,” M'NU.‘V’I NIGHT OUT” Comedies Matines Sc—Always Cool and Comfortable—Evening 10c FISH FISH FISH Can You Beat It--4 lbs. Butterfish 25¢ Come in and see what we are seiling other Fish for. low, ~ Stack for this week: Swordfish, Halibut, Salmon, Bluefish, Porgies, Flounders, Sea Bass, Steak Cod, Haddock, Pollock, Mackerel, Eels, Hard Shell Crabs, Lobsters, Littfe Neck Clams, Round and Long Clame Give us a trial. We deliver promptly. Broadway Fish Market Phone 383 0. LACROIX 40 BROADWAY HEATRE Prices are equally e able consideration than they have been | ments together and furnishes suppert receiving.—Providence Bulletin. to the roof when the coal previously ——— left for pillars is removed. It has always been contended that it is extremely difficult for city polica to make liquor raids because the officers are so well known and they find it hard to gain an entrance to the places where the liquor is sold. There does not seem to be any good reason why there should be so much woe in Meriden over the raids if’ the condi- tions were as the prosecutor said in his remarks to the court, but there should be a thorough inquiry for the “somebody” who gave the managers of the picnics assurance that they would not be molested. He ought to be made known for the good of Mer- iden.—New Britain Herald. The Cast of Noise. In a recent comversation the super- intendent of a large stamp mill made | the observation that ‘“nolse costs| money.” We had been discussing the use of stamps as crushing machines and the comparative merits of various devices for crushi ore. One of the arguments advanced by this superin- tendent against the use of stamps was . the tremendous and never-ending noise produced by the falling weights. In his opinion the din was responsible for many misunderstood directions and orders to employes, resulting in con- fusion, loss of time and expensive mistakes. The point is readily per- ceived. The average mill employe is anxious to give the impression that he understands the boss's orders, and rather than ask a guestion for further | information he will sometimes pre- tend to understand and then go and seek advice from a fellow workman. The order may be wrongly executed or not at all. The noise of the stamos contributes greatly to this condition, makes it difficult to give and receive orders, and undoubtedly causes many mistakes. The cost of noise may not be estimated exactly, but it is a real faetor. .[Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering. Richard Cleveland, son of Grover Cleveland, is. one of the American delegates to the International Edu- cational Conference at The Hague, Does it make vou feel 0ld? Some of us who do not know we are very far advanced in years can remember when Baby Ruth was a national figure. And there was no Richard Cleveland then, —Hartford Times. In Other Days. Senator Penrose jolts the Colonel's memory by publishing the telegram in which the Colonel “congratulated and cordially thanked” him for the phe« nomenal Rooseveit majority in Penn- ylvania in 1804. But he was not a wicked boss then and the Colonel and he were in close alliance.—New York World. Williams and His Job. Mr. Williams' performances werd those of a puzzled amateur. He did not know enough of his trade to use the letter as the shield for the protec- tion of the spirit of the administra~ tion he served not wisely but too Willlamsly.—Boston Transcript. in Congress. The President’s idea of a twentiel century patriot is a man who wil stay in Washington, like himself, to secure the enactment of a code of anti-’ trust legislation against which the, business men of the nation are rebel- ling. And they have troubles enough now!-—Boston Herald. ’ Need the Mene Nor is it surprising that the Senate refuses to agree to the House cut in the mileage sraft. With the contin- ued session of Congress utterly ruin- ing the chautauqua business, the poor senators meed all the money they can get—Indianapolis ‘News. Mountain of Culm Disappearing. The mountaing of culm or coal waste which break the sky line throughout the anthracite coal region of Pennsyl- vania and which were for many years considered a nuisance are now being made to serve a very useful purpose. There is at present a market for al- mast any grade of anthacite that will burn, and no more coal goes to the culm bank exeept for temporary stor- age and subsequent recovery by wash- ers. These ranges of artificial hil's, unsightly monuments to former waste, are céntributing their sharg ¥o the total coal production and are rapldly dis- appearing. Even the waste from the culm-bank washers is -being utilized, for it is flushed into the mines and partly fillg old workings where it ce. Greater Than T. R. Colonel Roosevelt has been advised by his doctors that respect for the constitution is necessary. Nature will accept only a limited number of mendments.—Springfield Republican. Another Story. England is to spend $10,000,000 on 2 dock for its merchant marine; but, then, Englard has a merchant marine. —Philadelphia Inquirer. What Worries Boston. What's the lonesomest sound mnext . to the music'of a tree-frog?—Boston Transeript. 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