Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 2, 1916, Page 4

e much coveted tickets at 1 advance “in price. Rese: was only what might pected and the - students - found a method of stopping such operations, if those in charge of the ticket sale Qidn’t, when theyseized. the specula- tors, gave them .a thorough search. took away all their’pasteboards and |1¢ Kansas Can, Why & a':t was ‘not_at all sur- :r prised to read in your some days R cohert. Gataon in wias desirous |lowed up in the big city of New York, of moving his business from Bath| “What is this to you and your read- street to Franklin street. No dowbt|ers” Why, just’ this—Mother sold the he expects to reap a big harvest out |old farm fourteen years ago, for it had of the men in the employ of tne Hop- | come into possession from her kins & Allen shops and would be much } mother, and all of a sudden a year or pleased to get settled in that locality | two ago, there was a stirring in the by Christmas. I know some who are |breasts of us boys to get that old struggling hard to overcome their ap- | place Back: not that we expected, any petite for drink and were it not for{of us, to retire vet, but ‘ecause when these accursed saloons that are lo-)we visited the old place and stood at] cated on their way home they might|the top of Landphere’s Hill, after al- be able to overcome thefr weakness|most fifty years since one of us. at and instead of reaching their homes, | least, stood there first, we couldn’t dis reeling from one side of the walk tolcern’a single mew house within the the other and cursing thelr wives and of vision anywhere on in many cases their children, would |landscape. Tt was the same old coun- be as true and good men as this or|try, ur of course, there were the as- any other city could find. sociations of memory and a -few of The saloon is sometimes called a|the same old folk, notably Nelghbor bar—that’s true. A bar to heaven, & | Newton L-g dphere and his sister. door to hell; whoever named it named | * Well, sir, we bought the farm and it well a bar to manliness and wealth: | we were fortunate enough {o strike up a door to want and broken health: & |2 real friendship with Mr. and Mre. Joo. bar to honor,. pride and fame, a door | gerh T. Ghurch, who for . foarteen to grief ‘and sin and shame, a Dar|years had owned the farm, and it o home, a bar to prayer: a door 10| wasn't long before we were at work arkness and despair; a bar to hon- | (ogether fixing up the old place and ored, useful life; a door to bawling |j;"a modest way endeavoring to make senseless strife; a bar to all that's|i » happy self-supporting institution. true and brave, a door to every drunk. Don’t laugh, Mr. Editor, we really be- ard's grave; a bar to joys that heme (00" i o T N e womer imparts; 3 door to tears and aching | ! ] hearts: ‘a bar to heaven a door to hell. | 0, that will find 2 market and ‘:: Whoever named it, named it well. If the men who vote for the saloons | j And now my story's begun. had to furnish the boys to fill them every town, I believe, would go “dry.’ Frances . Willard said: “The pro hibition of the liquor traffic is pledged by the natural law of humen broth- erhood. by the r] t of every man and woman to be ‘al that God meant to make them, and by the right of every little child to be sheitered from harm. There is nothing radical or unreason- able in helping a weak man to carry his week's wiges home to his wife on Saturday. There Is nothing fanatical in_helping her to send her children to 120 YRARS OLD R e — ¥~ Subseription price 13c a week; 50c a meonth: a yem 9 { Er ned gt the Poatatfice at Norwloh, (Written Specially for the Bulletin) The thousands of passengers the | | electric cars, and thousands of ?fl)&l" in automobiles who ride past a certain - | house on upper Washington street, handed Them the face valwe thereof. Whose first inquiry WS |vear after year, running close to itd The students @pparently placed the et g ho | ENtrance steps and cotching. fietting blame upon the speculators and hoped | makes his way'is th b0 hobes by the treatment.swhich they save[to get what his work proves to be them to discourage any further trou- | worth—the one who is wiliing to earn ble from that dtréction, but the real [his money; and “this sort of a man, trouble -appears’ to lie-with the man- [says this cxperienced employer, “has agement of the ticket department. for | Deén known to so -dwonc’o bt 115 just as long as there is no effort made m:‘ "‘,“':‘r“!lfn:lgl'"g? e Staces there to favor the students with the | Gic EOVErRmeRy pays & UBET [ JHICE first privilege of getting the tickets, it the first thing in the consideration of can be expected that outsiders are £0- | an employer. but “what's the profit?” ing to take advantage of it. The ac- And those who give évigence of think- tion of the students ought to be a ing _of their own interest's first are sufficient warning to the management ized as usually thinking of their E in the future however. employer's interest last. NEED BETTER COLD STORAGE| When a man has cultivated a high LAWS. opinion of himself he usually has a poor. opimian of cverybody. elSe; and Many of the laws which have been| f passed In various states reggrding the everybody. else has a poor opinio This is.the halance Nature has regulations under which the cold stor- age warehouses can do business have gort cf an error, We are oprsel but_ resulted from tlis wmannér fn which advantage has been taken of such fa- cllities to deceive the publio and to palm off on them, as fresh, articles of food which have been kept for many months and sometimes years. Such supplies have invariably been held until they would command the best prices, that being the object of course in cornering them rather than the idea of regulating the supply in accord- | comes inflation if rot held in check ance with the demand. | and gas is iighter than air and dan- That the methods of the cold stor- [gerous. Life is lived right ivhen it age interests have not been reformed | Makes others have a high opinion of any more than the enforcement of the [ YOU- laws has~required, and then only to the extent of meeting the letter of This is believed to have been the shop of Thomas Harland; for erkins notes that after the fire he must have moved into the Nevins shop, which he was occupying at the time’ of ais death, in 1807. Look out for the style of your in- quiries when yon are lookiny for a job. Many a man’s tongue debars him from getting work. An experi- er says he never eta- %" . ; Thomas Harland came from Eng- land to America in one of the ships ‘which brought the tea to Boston in 1773, s Intention had peen 10 set- tle in Boston: but finding that city in such an axcited and unsettled state, he decided to go at ance to some more remote place in the dountry, and so came to Norwich. He was an experienced goldsmith, having served a long apprenticeship in England, and, as was the custom of those times, after his term of appren- ticeship, he had journeved from place to place, even wandering as iar east as Warsaw, probably exercising his craft, and incidentally learning for- eign ways of workin cond-class matter. “Telephone Calla: inass Office 40, ‘Bditorial Roorid 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 85-3. ., o «§7. Church St ok fice, -6 ich, Saturday, Dec. 2, 1916, ant grounds, sot realize, they have been toid, that this dwell- ing has sheltered the members of one family since 1779. In this age of frequent moving, when families flit from home to home and from apartment to apartment, or even city to/ city almost as the birds migrate, it is someting to have lived under the same roof for 137 years— which is the record of the Harland family. ; oD 4 Then, too, in an era when the crav- ing for “something new,” when in- herited lares and penates ate relegated to the attic or the auction room, there is a wondrous charm about & lome in which the substantial furniture of colonial times is daily vsed, where the table 1s set with china which h: done faithful duts .during generations, where the quaint flower garden is each summer gay with posies from seed planted by dead-and-gone forbears, and where the clock made Ly the family founder still ticke in the wide hall, with the “Forever, Never; Never. Forever!” of the timepiece Wh.k;h“él\- time any better than two Jocomotives | $hired Lonsfcllow to write his “Old Clock on the Stairs. can pass one another on the same track. One must have a good opimion | | of one's self, for in this lies seif- reliance; but good opinion soon be- Oflfi“h is nuly-l.lu%l the of all ailments of women. Thein- testines must be made to do their work =3 pature intended—in a normal way. Have color in your cheeks. Takeone ortwo tabletsnightlyand note the pleas- ing rmsults. All druggists—10cand 25¢. Always the Harland house has been famous for its books: we are re- minded of that - in Miss Margaret Fuller's charming biograpiy of Id- mund Ciarence Stedman, “A New England Childhood,” in which some of the most interesting chapters describe young Stedman’s delight at being free to enter the Harland homestead at will, and to read any of the books which climbed up the stairway, in row upon row. There is proof from the first that the Harlund pioneer must have heen a man of ellucation: for the inventory summer; went through the rcoms and | of his library, which was a large one marked ‘he wonderful treasures re-|for those days, shows in the varicty | maining from a former day; strolled|and the selection of ite books a famil- through the charming grandmother's|iarity with the best historical and garden, the crassy flelds of the an-|Dhilosophical writers and poets of that cient house-plot, purchased, according | period. while the large number of to Miss Perkine’ Old Houses of Nor- |French books imply a thorough knowl- wich, some time duriog 1787. edge of that language, which was then Modern comforts have made not common. ry and fleld artillery were massel im- mediately behind the front Jine in the expectation that the German positions were about to be pierced and tha“ they could then dash through tho breach. The Associated Press corespondent was present during the whole of thc fighting_on those days, and the only mounted men seer. anywhere near th field were military policemen directing the supply columns and the drivers of the horsed transport wagons. Even the German prisoners who sur- rendered as a result of the attacks on Saillisel and the Saint Pierre Vaast were placed under the guard of infan- trymen, for the ground in the vicinity Sunday doesn’t swell with pride, bu confesses to his audiences. that he is a windjammer; and tells, his inter- rupters that two windjamniers canrot successfully do business at the same ownership_of the Jonathan Hill Farm now stands in the name of Mary A, Richards, of Homolulu, and Mrs, Ricpards and her husband, Theodore the writer's youngest brother, and Mr.. and Mrs, P, H. Richards, of Brooklyn, end yours truly and his wife, with three of the grown children of _ the bunch, bave been up here at Mont- ville to celebrate Thanksgiving in the home of their angestors; and you may be sure that this was a real Thanks- glving. It wasn't the lure of land in general saw this quaint clock the past 3 has the largest A near-philosopher says: ' any ‘paper in Bastern no cure for the indigestion caused hy “There’s the School with good clothes, good shoes | that brought us back to the otd farm, | (=¥men: for the wround in the vicney HoRL three the la; the. discl o ; 3 Y| quaint houso more convenient,: steam — and a zood dinner in the little basket, | but the vivid memories of boyhood and | i 1g Juch broken ul B L B 2o te | whien v B e nes | baving to eat vour own. woma”|feat, and telephomer: amd.gas and| In his first advertisement tho Har: | Erobibiiion seoes e oaikTac st {the Chatmof o piace nnchanged ex | comd. T e e s o N "It.is delivered fo over§ | sioner Hartisun of the department of | more closcly resembles a blight than | SleptTicity have supplied those essen- |land ancestor calls nimself, ~a as the man. It is for the wife|cept by the natural decay, Which We|portunity of aeein.s the cantonments of R 0 ey Bouses i Nor- | i siariewn Of s department of imdre closcly reseibles & BlIEht thasIiials” of up-to-ddte IIViHk and_clock-maker from London os well as the husband. It is for so- wich and read by nipety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham dt is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putham end Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it 15 considered the local daily. lern Connecticut has forty- have not been too eager to put away by renovation. The names of all of us can still be seen, carved on the clapboards on the back of the old ell of the farm; but we have been having a big time. 1t is perfectly the middle class tepant now demands in a fiome; but they do not take away from the staid and impressive dignity of the ancientshouse as it stands, so rich, so simple, 60 suggestive of gen- erations gone, of the sturdy worker some French cavalry two days march from the batlefield. The chargers were In_excellent conditions and the veter- inary surgeons htemselves expressod surprise at the samil mtage of sickness among. the hegin- “begs leave to acquairt the public, that he has cpened a shop near the store of Chiistopher Lefingwell, Esg. where he makcs in the neastest man ner, and on the most approved prin ciples, horizontal, repeating. and plain New York, who declares that it has been found that supplies can be held in storage in one state for a period of ten months, then sent to another state for a similar period and even then re- habit to disclos: many things which are true; and a worse habit to make statements_which have no foundation in truth. The talking machine which will repeat whatever has been spoken into it is not a modern invention, It is ciety as well as for the individual. It is for the government as well as for the governed. It helps to pay the doc- tor his bills, the pastor his salary. It helps the milkmen, the farmer, the he butcher, the _grocer, the natural that you n - . ning of the campaig: is the re- t = . ) Aok who did his part toward the upbuild- | watches, in geid, silver, meta’ T cov- , the dentist, the photographe: should want to know who we old tim- | gyit the constant care given ithem e e eiadiesd mma strey- §| time: and 1t 1s impossible o5 easn |oply the diamond-point expréssion |ing of the rariy town and of those of |ered cases. aprins, musical. and plain | the (alor, the dressmaker the mer- |ors are who are reinvading the peace| b yf dof, Gonsiant care ziven inem districts, and sixty the . ible f. b & 11t i Sial that a parrot once dv!' his descendanis who perpetuated B}’ld' clocks, church clocks, regulators, etc.|chant and the manufacturer. If Kan-|of New London county. ~ ‘Well, the|when the remainder of the regiment mwm: e o ni ose responsible for it by any legal orod the had talked to0 muen: but|Pore his name with honor and with{He also ensraves and finishes clock | Sas does- all this, then why cannot|man who owns the farm is the pub- goes into the entrenchrients. One 'y = procedure. iR :‘am‘:fl_“ maging hi Put| usefulness. faces for the rade. and cuts and fin- | Connecticut do the same. lisher of the oldest paper west of fl"'ilq\udron of each unit is detailed for B TaE o ol i svey}| Under such conditions it s not sur- | the _human talking machine is 80 : : ishes watch-wheels and fuzees of all| Respectfully, Rocky Mountains. It is entitled “Thelquty in the cantonment wkile their and _on % . - o prising ‘that the commissioner terms Thie 31 Bova? dan ho Tadc fo nngert As noted, it was in 1778 that|sorts and d:mensions. A Qlember of the W. C. T. U. Friend” and was published by ecarly|romrades are engaged in the fighting foutes in Hastern Connecticuf the cold storage Jaw a joke and it is | (a1t mever can be mice fo PRACT | Thomas Harland purchased from missionaries In the Sandwich Islands|zone. Even the officers leave ~ thier CIRCULATION certain that it calls for aditional les- | S0 “Eating one's own worbe witi| David Nevins 1and with a shon there- | Advertisements of the Harland shop Who Was to Blam years before thers was snything worth mounts behind. 2 ; isiation to prevent such advantage bo- | ever become a ealthtul diet Trarringe.® ho SAlte Sna howss *'paat | sppear frequently in_ the Norwich : The wail of " South- Theodore In {reasurer of. the Board of | has bece rantonst e mrer & yens ok e ing of the consumer. e co — DAL Lt : s = o arly 3 is most certainly heart-rend- | ypicor OF R = changze will P storage interests aro responsible for| The man who can take a glass or| ML he (e of modcrs travel tisho) In one puper ~Goodman Harland | ins. What terribie. terriple things the | Misgions *Sat has to do witn a large iy is unlikel 7that any chunze will cc. AVOPRTO .« s snans ase whatever legislation has been enacted |let’it alone sometimes does; but often- | &3 €07, VA58 TrEE: - O “nywh manu. | ,returns thanks to his friends for their | poor, dcar. down-trodden rebels and il i\clar‘:m,: boer::{mmma G grnd £ to regulate them thus far, but it is|er doesn’t! What a man can do is|e ot 00 GGae suint to the | <ind encouragement’—this is in No-| their families did suffer. Twas a|/SE0OS L b be the & evident that they have s vet been |best judzed by what he does do not|SCuY”, WCh MRS Bt 10 (he | vembor, 1774, 142 years ago and about | shame, yes a tersible shame, to make | , Faul. he next older brother is the i b J by what he sa A man who is|®&" s e ety ear after his arrival in Norwich—| those “ladies”, reared in 'he lap of | PTeSK T thie Gt dealt with t0o leniently, and that the [P¥ What he save. 4, man Who 15|the hours of eleven and ' twelve at|®a}q hogs ieave to Inform tnem and | Log ot e e e f2P of | pany. the Hub being the oldest paper POINTS time s ripe for more rigid and eftec*| §IY JOF PYACHTES, MWIED A78 S0 BT I nieht The loss was computed attne public in ceneral, that he has now | see iy Caint bpond become of some | | blished in the vehicle trade in the OTHER VIEW INT: ay = e or ah $1.500: through the Spirited exertions|compi Senmralet SO e th. Iy v 1 world. tive laws. G T IRa Horce: G- habit . this h e ompleated an Assortment of War-| that the dear white Jadies of the south NG S me s a b aToarh g S T voluntarily. No one really knows the [Of the citizens. the dames were pre-|ranted Watches, viz: Horizontal, | had to toil as well s their black—yes| ARd vours truly, why e ts simply RESTRICT THE HEADLIGHTS |force of habit until he has grappled | Veénted from cemmunicating to any of| Shewing Scconds from the Centre,| and light vellow —sisters. The wail js|AD Advertisinz agent who succeede 2 i BrapPsit| the adjoining build Dayiof Atorth. Skelst Bighte o 2 A s his father, and has seen the great bu Aaew e Bk Dbt 4F H¥ing has Ssen SHOP EARLY. At the last session of the state leg- | With the habit to abate i- Habit Doy Wetne e eninand Wbl ponly o fakut gech o inc vebel Rowk L0l Cr eeeiiitie intw {vail L v fe RISl UM oF R¥iow has Wown e o : makes a slave of man o steal hily ay Watches,” in gilt, Tortoiseshell, | ing I have heard in every state north | in°ss of 5 . put up to_ rme; a nev } s is-the time of the year when | islature not a little attention was | EKE] 2 SU0® N0, P40 t an_ex- and plain Silver Casca: Eight-Day | of Mason and Dixon’s line in my tray- | small besinnings to a point where M|point of view. They Just over-esti- ch ‘should be given to the | Eiven to automobile legislation. Not sl e e T Clocks, in Mahogany and Cherry-Tree | cls among them. But who twas to|iS @ mishty sales factor. > mated the crop outlook last year, ard o = tonr ne -, a New York, this latter ind - Plea for early Christmas shopping. |2l Was accomplished that ought to|undertakes to overcome f. It iS DoS - Cases. also keeps Workmen in | blam Who asked the rebels to fire | dnties in New York, ! stopped working so bard like so man Christmas isn't so far off. In fact it | Dave been, and the weak spots in that | sible that a few men may be abie to the Jewelry Liu: o Sunday Morning Talk ness, and has for xale|on Old Glory at Fort Sumpter? Who |¥idual swelis out his chest and aysioners in the couniry. That 1 88 olose to Thanksgiving this year | Which was enacted have cropped out. ; ] after one holiday passes before for another have less than period in which,to; do their shopping this year. But inasmuch as cellent resuits have been at- in past years by this movement ‘there ought to be every effort put for- sward this year to continue it. ‘The merits of early shopping ought #o be apparent to evervone. fexcellent habit which deserves all the icouragement it can get. It is a time It permits of greater satisfac- to the purchaser. and bustle of the last minute it saves the wear and tear of energies. - And in this regard are those behind ought to be given some consid- ‘They cannot be expected to flo the impossible but rather should they be assisted to render the best ‘through the forethought of the Tveryone knows how much pasier it 1s to shop before the holiday rush strikes on and they should stop to realize that they can contribute to the relief of the last week and the last flay if they will but make their plans to get their Christmas buying out of It s therefore advis- It relieves the the counter the way early. ble to start now. PROMISES DISREGARDED. From all that has been learned from y relative to the sinking of the there appears bt in Berlin as to just what the jumstances were which led up to Worpedoing of that vessel. with those who vere on board the ill fated ship. The lvors appear to have a pretty good “of the tragic affair and accord- o the testimony of the Americans Who were aboard and #p was torpedoed with, first was appargntly a fatal blow While the vessel was settling at the those abozrd were lowering life- and _getting escaped, the as fast as But even that was not sat- ry to the submarine comman- for before all had gotten into the ler’ boats another torpedo which caused the vessel to break ‘two and immediately sink before it Possible for those remaining to "% That appears to be nothing but a 0 of deliberate murder but in ad- e Who managed to get into fe boats were forced to remain adrift 43 hours thereafter, that little if any thought was jyen to the requirement that those d be left in a place of safety. It is perhaps these very facts which is quite apparent that promises regarding a, warning and protection of humanity are being ngly disrezarded S 1n almost every place where an im- athletic contest s to be held, ‘where 2 large crowd is sure to be for admission, there is al- y8 to be found the speculators. Ef- to keep the ticket: are made with fairly good suc- | In some instances but in others i too often disclosed that those who have first claim upon tickets ‘out and those who want for the purpose of mak- ndsome profit therefrom are out of their . recently In Phiiadel- the students of the Uni- Pennsylvania wero much sy falled to obtaln tick- headlights. are traveling in the opposite direction. Not a few deaths and many ac their inability to penetrate the dark- ness beyvond the flood of light. The remedy for this danger beam will be as narrow as possible. What is necessary is to determine up- on a satisfactory method of overcom- Ing the dazzling headlights and then see that all cars are equipped in ac- cordance therelwith. Such legislation hag been adonted In other states with good results and it is time that Con- necticut settled this matter and set- tled it right. for greater safety on the highways which has been neglected too long. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: Most people have thus far made a fu- tile attempt at outliving bother. The next big event to look forward to in the immediate future is, of course, the opening of congress. e It is a hard task for a lot of people to persuade themselves that there have not been two Mondays this week. It begins to look as if it was a war on low prices which has been doing so much to give 'us our high cost of living. The report that Villa is in commana of several sections of the city of Chi- huahua doesn't add anything to Car- ranza's prestige, The freedom with which they are used today is not warranted. They are not demanded far,safe. travel but on the other hand they,are a con- stait menace {o those vehicles which dents have been caused by the drivers los- ing control of their cars because of es either in the tilting of the lights so that the beam strikes the roadway anywhere from 75 to 100 feet ansaa, by the frosting or lacquering ofthe lamps or by adjusting the light so that the It is one of the steps foe. Some men say men moral uy law tain extent, is true; to make #il you cannot men a liftle more re- spectible than they are ever likely become without it. The large extent is the fruit of moral con- cepts. If the law cannot make men moral, moral men can demand lax which suppress cerfain social _evils, and give their weaker fellow citizens a little better chance for respectabil- ity; and also, for redemption. The morai force of man cannot be ignored. A mar's scif-control is hot wholly attributable to his will, for the inaccessioility of things evil lessens his desire, or 3t least, removes the opportunity for #ndalgcrce. We can conceive of the primal man awed by superstition and guided vy fear; but he was inferior 1o the moral or the /| religious man who is moved by his concept of love and its power; .and who realizes evil suppressed is evil handicapped. Every man may be entitled to his century, but few/ get it excep: in an ephemeral sense. It ‘s a fact tha: the world over not morc than eight or teu persons in ore hundred thousand live their full century. No reason can be discovered why mén should not Jive as long as the eagle cr the elephant; but his average life 15 not much in excess of “the life of the babocn. The man who thinks he i living like a prince usually living like a fool. Those 0 are qualified to speak declare that the chemical mixtires of man's diet are life-destroying. Those who do mot eat too much suffer from a _ health- destroying comniration of food. Fletcher has proved to the world tha man doesn’t even kmow how to eat properly: .and -thesa who. Fletcherize, who persist -in. masticating their food untll it becomes fluid,” aré the ones who abate diseasn and live long. Some say the lenzth of life is mathing —the quality of it is ail! But this is a sentiment which has never made a deep impression upon the human race. Homer McKee's prayer was a prayer which ought to be of general service make and. this;.to, & cer- but the law. aelps to law 10 a Virtue rarely moves us till it is em- bodied. [Excellence must be exhibited in a human life before we really be- lieve in it. Philosophers may discuss honesty or purity .or courage. as.ab-\ Stract propositions and tell how fine they are, but the average man with- holds his assent till ne sees these qualities lived before his eves. One honest man in the cor:munity is worth more as a cominendation of honesty than a treatise on ehics in six thick volumes. 5 Most of us hav: believed in people before we have undersiood or assert- ed principles. A cause may be ex- plained in hooks, fortified with argu- ments and defended wiili blows oven, but, until a human life has arisen to make thg couse vivid and compelling, the overwhelming 1najority of men will pass it by .5 a minor issue. Personal loyalties hold men as does nothing else in the world The records of our human willingness to work and | to sacrifice throngh this migrive arc full of interest and significance. What men could 2ot be prevailed on to do through any abstract persuasions they have done gladly for pcrsonc. King {David was a mon of grievous faults I'but withal, one of such beauty and charm that his common soldiers would any day put their lives Jeopardy for his<sake. Consider, for instance, the oecasion when a handfui of his how- |men broxe throvgh the lines of the i Philistines mere! to get thei leader a cup of water from a particnlar well ithat his fancy clung te. The iater Stuart kings were hard culers in many | wavs, yét Low many British mothers | Zave their sons to dic for ‘Bonnie } Prince Charlie!” In Westminster Abbey one looks on a tablet over the zpot where Rcbert Livingstone lies buried. How did it happen that England could finally re- ceive her hero, this Christian weaver Doy who died in the heart of an un- trodden continent? It was because two black lads had carried isa body for 40 weeks on their <houlders. Through Jjungle and over plain across river and mountain they had journeyed, endur- ing untold perfl and privation, till the seashore had been reached. Then they had guarded the Lody till the long Sliver Tca-Poi. Suzar Basket, Crem- ieure, Tea-Tongs, Spoonus, etc.. Chrys- tal, Silyer, Plated and _Pinchbeck Buckleseof ihe peutestepatferns S1- -Gijt and Steel Wateh Chains: vatiety of Seals, Keys, et>. The above will be sold cheap for Cas untry Produce.” In 1790, according to Miss Caulkins’ History of Norwick, Thomas Harland had twelve hands in constant employ, and ft was stated that he made an- vo hundred watches and forty watches nually t: His price for silver variea from €4 10 s. to Two of his numerous app were Nathaniel Shipman and William Cleveland, the latler grandfather of President’ Grover Cleveland. The row of elms" which stood in front of the Harland house was set out by Nathan- iel Shipman, Sept. #th. 1781, the éay that New London was burned by the British. THE DICTAGRAPH. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Must Protect Our Natural Resources Mr. Editor: Relative to the item Which appeared in your paver of the 28th inst. under the heading of three dangerous bills, relating to the con- servation of our natural resources, the Ppeople of this generation don't seem to be satisfied with what rightfully belongs to them. They want the whole earth, and the fullness thereof, to come into their possession, and to come now. Indeepndent of our duty to future generations, the conservation of our country’s natural resources should be sacredly protected by the people. The latent water power In _thi country, will be worth billions of dol- lars, for the future use of the people. A very large majority of the people in this country, it is probable, have very little conception of the value of the water power now undeveloped. It was stated in your paper of the 23th inst., that there was power enough to drive all of our factories, all of our present electric light plants, and every ma- chine now in use, and have an abund- ance of power to spare; and all of this | continue { position, whe | us who have lived much In_th since the war know considerably more i where Cnited States, 1o fir it wus certainly Sherman, Lurnsig She: 2's soldie: but wno is there on have liked to see the cducated) women oI were so bifter from o until this on the old flag? not_one of Grant. Hancock, Mead Not only that, arth who would he south, 51 to '65, day, the useful, of the north could have been at their merc; te in tne day to bri southern question, but some e south nd in old about conditions there erner” appears to thin You have only to 2o back than to Nov. § and read election news to hear some- home of ng. In issippi, rebel of all who Jeff Davis” had votes, Hughes 4,600. The reason Wil- son’'s vote was so small was due whol- ly to white ignorance, the rea the Hughes vote being small was evi- the Gied a dent fear of shot gun or some other equally bad southern method of pre- venting negroes from voting. ballot_boxes in Harris county, Texas, but 48 republican votes were cast, § in each box. The law requires one re- publican judge, one republican clerk and one ‘republican checker, conse- auently those three were allowed to vote, but in one box in Harris county 1600 negroes were registered the vote stood three for Hughes just the_same. Not a single state south of Mason and Dixon’s line cast its vote honor- ably for Witsen and not a single dem- ocrat can be found in any of those states that is of any character, who would swear that the election was an honest one. Georgetown, S. C., nine-tenths re- publican negroes, was carried by Wil- son. The negro wards of Montgomery, Ala., cast hardly any votes. The dif- ferent North Carolina counties the vote was one to 63 population—nesroes not allowed to vote. The south in spite of “Southerner” ts the same old- bitter, wicked, un- American, slave-driving south. The same old spirit that fired on Fort Sumpter keeps the best people of the ignorant (while who placed in a Joving, 77,000 son of In the i i G Y eners £ the Jon- take a glass or let it aione, but they Brilliant, Garnet and plain Gold Rings, ed Jeff Davis to prepare the w that he is general """.‘“S;" ot % take|trader's idex of present coniditirs, It is to be ex 1] a of ones who affirm with gusto Gold Neckloces, Garnet and Prilliant | for a rebel victory while connec athan TIill Farm. o, he must takel,; 3 you can take it for what it is B e o9 nere remain ! wii eomefin°f§f°§.‘.'cl,hf§5\'.°'& :-:hfrz;-." :}::l“(fl‘\(!t;mra\'i the power. The ones Broaches, and Hair-Sprigs in Gold and | with the cabinct of the president of | {hat back. for the real manaser is 8till {yorin and contnue to go down a iit- B Ar Rhovplng daya } 0 i aeanion g NE | who:vay this are nsually the ones Silver: a Variety of Pearl. Brilliant| the United Toreph T, Chuureh, a. resmected citizen | H0%00 857 2R profiucis Middie- Christmas arriv TR S i hich < | whe do”not to let it alone, they THE PERSONAL EQUATION. and Cypher Ear-Jewels; Cipaer and; Who asked Gen. Lee and the other |of Montsille and = township assessoriown Press. B .y (i who bavs G T it e ’;“;’:;:‘\"‘:; are the willing victims of a jowerfu = Brilltant Buttons and Studds: & large | rebels, educated af the expense of the | What Rizhards doesn't done nothing at all, or who wait un- farming would fill all of New London county. but with Church to fill the aw- ful void. there is going to be something done that will, at least, offer recreative life 10 a few of us and an Interesting fask to the-real farmer. Please understand we are boasting of nothing except the pleasure of re- membering old scenes and reveling in them as though we were boys again. Yours for fun and feillowship at' the farm, J. A. RICHARDS. Montville, Dec. 1, 1916. New York investigators that while hard coal at the mines v costing oply 25 t0.50 cents more t" formerly. it was co: several dol'ars a ten more. Who dealers were taking heavier toll usual, and retailers 75 a ton were fuel at $7.50 to $12 a fon. isn’'t_all with the retailers. They piy fall in with the pre of charging all the traffic along the line. But it's a vicious s tem, and a few more doses of munici- pal coal would be good for it.—Water- - ng the cou: who are paying STORIES OF THE WAR bury Republican. Britain's _fire department has on more than cne occasion proven ii- French Cavalry. Just_fourteen months have passed since French gavaky has apeazed on the battlefields of the Franco-German front as a mounted force. The last oc- casion of their emplayment in their real work was September 25, 115, when a single squadron of crossed the German lines in Cham- pagne—and brought back some pris- oners. The French general staff, however, has not permitted the splendid horsed regiments (composed of cuirassiers, dragons, hussars and mounted rifles) to remain idle. They take their turn with the infantry regiments in the trenches, where they do exectly the same arduous duties as the foot sol- diers for a period and then return far behind the front to exercise their mounts. Earlier in the war, when fighting was severe on the Yser, the French cavalry came into touch with the Ger- mans on_several occasions and gen- erally with sucess. Trench warfare along the continuous line reaching from the North Sea to the Swiss fron- tier, with no flanks to turn, has ren- dered their employment on horseback impossible. Extracts from German newspapers describing the battle around Sailly- Saillisel on November § and 6 this vear declare large bodies of Frencn caval- self efficient in many respects. handled fires that were threatening to the business section and it has effacted substantial work in lesser blazes. cases where the flames were confined to buildings in the heart of congesied districts the fire fighters have gone azout their work with a zest and zeal amazing, and comparable to the work of men in other cities’ firn departments. department nussars members of here are equipped with nearly all the essentials with which to fight fire. There have been instances where they worked because of prevalent darkness in the Dne of these occurred night. Because of the conditions ex- isting then it was sometimes Jifficult to see just what should be done and the men were forced to grope way about a building that had it fali- en further prey to the fire would have threatened the best business part of In view:of this it might be well to consider the plausibility of furnishing the fire department withva searchlight that can be attached to an_extension lad- der and thus furnish light for extreme- ly- dark places while the men are at work fighting fire.—New Britain Ifer- 4. under difficulty Fighting Through Consonants. Russia 15 slowly approaching _th= pronounceable parts of Europe.—Wall Street Journal. to man. It doesn’* mahe any difier- is about to be given away for the ask- south the most industrious, go-ahead The crown prince of Germany knows how to sympathize with the crown prince of Rumania in his forced re- treat—or should we say the taking up of a mcre strategic position. There is a chance for some people to remark upon the steadily increas- ing cost of philanthropy, but the great mass of people must remember that the Red Cross seals are still a penny apiece. L A judge in Pennsylvania has decided that the right of way in the street be- longs to the pedestrian. That will never be accepted by certain horn- blowins autoists who can frighten him out of it ——— ‘Germany promises to make repara- tion if the Marina was unjustly sunk. That may be all well enough as far as the ship and cargo are concerned but how does it propose to restore the lives of the Americans and others lost? Champ Clark says keep a few hens and ralse your own oggs. He might also have advised keeping cows and control your own milk and butter sup- ply, raise cstilo and plant a garden and produco your own corned beef and cabbage. Carransh is not as yst willing to dlscuss tho agreemont reached by tho United Htates-Mexiaan commission in thin country, o Possibly he. feclg that Villa may have semething ey bout it apd he dagsn't,want to usurp is_privileges. ence who Homer McKee was, since he | vovage was over and the keroic mis- prayed wight. Hec askcd the Lord to help him to so live that he could lie down at night with a clear con. science, without a gun under his pol- low and free from being haunted by the faces of those to whom he had brought pain; t: blind him to the faults of the other fellow and raveal to him his own: and keep him young enough to laugh with lus children ani to lose himself in their play. If we do not know wko lie was this shows what he was; for he was clear vision- ed and knew what was best for bim; and we recognize that he was so just and broad that what wae good for him was good enongh for all of us. 1If man prayed better he would do bitter. It beats all how many peopte like to talk music_who do not know much about it. They make highfaluten of all the Italian terms they can repeat and it never does to request them to put those musical terms into Eng- lish for they do not know hew; and the request is very embarrassing to them. Therc are thrice as many peo- ple in America pretending to have an appreciabie knowledge of common music than really . have it: and ths producers of elassical music estimate that half a dozen persons in an audi- ence of twelve hunired may be able to wholly appreciate . There :re few subjects about which the public 4now less than about music: end there is not another science in the world which roduces more fale pretenders. To e accomplished in music is to be an artist; and ‘o pretend to have an ap- preclative knowladge ~ of classjcal music is to be an pes, What 18 said to be the largest wind- mill in the world, a stes| one 50 fest in diameter, has n erected fn Hol- lland for draining a tract of land. i sionary was at last laid 10 rest under- {neath English skies. Two blaci boys from the jungle, Susi and Chuma were barely out of their ancestral paganism. Of Christian theology they knew little or nothing. They had perhaps never seen a church except one rude missicn hut in the wilds. But they had seen Christianity lived. They had been with Living- stone, and the spirit of thelr master had fascinated and compelled them. It was personal iovally that accom- plished what looked like an impessi- ble task. The supreme exampic of personal power is the Son of Man Himself. He summoned his foilowers o loyalty. not to a system of thought or to a code of ethies, or to a form of organization, but to his own person. He believed that the ages would respond to that call and He has not becn disappointed. “Come to me. “Believe in me,” ~ “Follow ive a cup of cold water in my mame.” The call has been heard from the apostolic vears until now. It sustalned the martyrs as they saw tbn flames kin- dle around them or as they faced wild beaste in the amphitheatre. It is to- day the spring_of the finest sacrifice and service, Whatever changes in human eoclety the coming years may bring, we cannot think of a time when the call shall not be hcard obediently and with love, 5 E‘:leh one “ol us (;'.. lh.fipflvllltl n his own time and way of making righteousniess eoncrete and attractive for some others of the sons of inen. Do wo talk abput purity? ~Tet us give &n oxample of purily? Do we eoxtol generosity? Le us show it forth in practize. " Tne virtus that wins the world is that exliibitod 1n human Wves. THE PARSON, ing, by the congress of these United States. Men are sent to congress to protect the interests of the people, not to give them away. Congress has al- ready enough to answer for in the matter of the Adamson act. It would be an unpardonable sin. for congress to dispose of the natural resources of the country: either to give them away, or to sell them, for any consideration. The value of them is so immense, and the disposition of them of such serious moment, that the people would rise up and fight for them, it necessary, it they realized fully their import- ance. . During the Taft administration the country’s coal reservations were men- aced by speculative interests fostered by people high up in the affairs of the nation which were exposed by Mr. Pinchot and it was found that some of our congressmen were jctively in- terested in the plot, the chief among them, being ome Mr. Ballinger. Con- gress said that Mr. Ballinger was not guilty, but all the same Ballinger ten- dered 'his resignation, and the coal res- ervations, if I am. not mistaken, were ‘protected and kept in the bands of the government. The water powers on navigable streams, should forever be kept in the hands of the government, and those of large proportions, on unnavigable streams should be kept under the control of the govarnment. It was not so many years ago, if my memory serves me correctly, that the government offered $100,000 to any ane who would invent a feasible plan for the development of the power of Niagara, and now it is necessary to it on the brakes, else, there would no Niagara Falls, and the grandest pptural wonder of this hemisphere 1d be a thing of the past. 1s casy to see a mistake after it ia past, but if the people of this coun- ty are to remain a free people it will necessary to awaken to the serious the soil around Norwich may be interested in. citizens, those of color, from exercis- ing the right of franchise. I expect a Jeft Davis blast in reply to_these facts, but facts they are. The war not only freed the negro but made a lot of useless dolls get out and hustle or starve and in so doing many of them have become use- ful in their home states and towns, but the worm of disloyalty has eaten 50 deep into the true southern heart it will take many years and more gen- erations to entirely wipe it out. We often hear with bluster about the way the noble southerner protects his women. We also have read about him selling his own female flesh and blood and I know that to have been a fact. C. B. MONTGOMERY. Packer, Conn., Nov. 30, 1916. Back to The Soil. Here's just a little story of ‘“back to that you and your readers ‘When we were boys, my brothers and 1 and when we arrived from Brookiyn by the night boat and came up the long hiil from Palmertown to- ward the crest of the hill iooking north and west and east, from the Landphere farm, we knew that was just below us in the valley and we_were like young €olts in pasture. Montville Centre and stood on grandmother's Our father, Joseph Richards, pub- lisher of the Independent at one time and afterwards of the New York Evy- ening Post, and later an advertising egent, had married a Baker, and moth- er was a Hill on her mother's side and.the old Jonathan Hill ferm, with the tablet in the chimney of the home. stead which reads, “Jonathan Hill, 1787" Baker's possession—Aunt as they all called her—We knew noth- Ing so wonderful as to run barefoot in had come into Grandmother Charlotte, roem is dangerous. AVOID DANGER There is no reason for having a cold room even if it is too early to start your heater. A cold Buy a Gas Heater and be comfortable A full line in stock. Prices $2.25, $2.75 and $3.25. Tubing 10c per foot. THE GITY OF NORWICH ‘GRS & ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT v 321 Main Street, Alice Building