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Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

ward a man with competency for
life who would work ten hours in
the Yard 1t was an advertisement
calculated to draw q perfect crowd,
a fighting mob of frantic workers-but
a week went on and nothing hap
pened.
1T is always very sad to feel that
YOU and YOUR troubles are not worry
ing anyone in the least. ! had reg
ular riot of woe. / saw the whole
glorious summer pass by with the
yard getting worse and worse and su-
they passed to say, My goodness!
What slack people live here! How
dreadful
"Finafly the sight got on my nerves
so that l literally ran away into the
woods one morning with a book and
some sandwiches and didn't come back
till late in the afternoon. At first
thought there was a convention at my
house. Next, with cold, tricky chills,
wondered If all the people to whom
had extended. general invitation
to come up and visit some time had
arrived simultaneously. Then I saw
they were all men. They sat all over
the front steps, the rustic seats, the
stumps, and two were perched on the
rail fence, like blackbirds. They sat
with ominous placidity and heavy
smoke curled up from the pipes in
their mouths. There seemed to my
alarmed eyes to be dozens of them and
they all turned a reproachful gaze up
on me as haltingly drew near. They
seemed to wait
what is it? I cried. "who-who
are you?
I'm Peter said the one with the
saddest eyes. I came by 9 o'clock to
work. Ny scythe and rake I brought
Il gazed about me. The place was
full of scythes and rakes, each man
hanked with his own property. I was
glad Peter had not brought also the
six cows.
I'm joint doomed the Oldest man.
I get dollar-half a dayi' He glared at
me, for the day had been long, wait
ing.
Then the grand chorus broke
loose. They were Bens and Dicks
and more Johns and Charles, and they
had ali come to work. They insisted
quite fervently on their mad desire to
labor, and insinuated II was all my
fault. Moreover, they got dollar and
a day and their jaws set when they
mentioned It. 1 had a vision of my
self either in Bankruptcy court, or
else cut into little pieces by their
scythes. l felt very infinitesimal and
helpless.
Then had an inspiration. 1t was
wicked, but, remember, I was scared.
"'Yau've made a mistake I said
airily, in my best society manner, but
with my teeth chattering. I don't
want any one to work-it's some other
place.
Then I dashed into the house and
bolted the door and quakingly watched
the mob amble away. And the yard is
still a wilderness" -Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19
OPENING THE DOOR OF ACHIEVE
MENT,

The trades school bill just passed by
the legislature appears to be endorsed
by wisdom. If the work is properly
carried out II may be made of great
usefulness and helpfulness to boys.
Many d youngster goes wrong because
Of the lack of training that gives self
respect and awakens ambition and a
desire to make the most of himself
Opening the doors to achievement is
never a mistake. There is plenty of
latent mechanical ability and good
stuff in thousands of youngsters, now
running wild and useless. Today it is
a difficult thing for most lads to get a
chance to learn trade. The state
board Of education has dif1cult but
mighty important task in intelligently
carrying out the provisions of this
new law. We could wish that It had
fallen in other hands, but this board
may happily disappoint us.-Bristol
Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Loudon Charlton, Mime. Sembrich's
manager, has received word from the
prima donna that her illness, reported
by cable a fortnight ago, proved moth
ing more serious than a slight indispo-
sition, and that she is now enjoying
her vacation in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Nine. Sembrich will sing her operatic
farewell in Berlin early~in the fall, her
only engagement before that date be-
ing private appearance in London at
the home of William Waldorf Astor.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Richard Bennett, the John shand in
what Every Woman Knows" has
gone to Los Angeles to Join the Be-
lasco company. His first appearance
will be in The Lion and the Mouse"
in which he will have the part Of
Jefferson Ryder. In the original pro-
duction he played Ryder's son.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Arthur Shepard, OF the faculty Of
the New England conservatory, was
awarded the $500 prize for the best
song and $500 for the best sonata
submitted to the national federation Of
women's clubs, which met in Grand
Rapids, Mich, recently.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

1t is surprising that these schools
are opposed by federated labor. Any
thing which increases the efficiency of
labor tends. to increase wages. There
is little danger that efficient workers
will become too numerous. The higher
the average intelligence of the work
men the better are the conditions of
industrial life likely to become. Ig-
norance, prejudice and supreme self
ishness have been the cause of some
Of our greatest labor contests. There
is no science in capital and labor get
ting apart, science only applies to the
exercise Of an amicable spirit. Let
the boys learn the rudiments Of
trades and prepare themselves to be-
come captains of industry.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Ben Hur opens its eleYenth sea
ard BUTLER will play the title role. A
new and enlarged production is being
built. Twenty-four horses will be used
in the chariot race. Only the larger
cities in the east and Canada will be
played.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Miss Charlotte w. Symons, who
was a classmate OF Mary Lyon. found
er of Mt. Holyoke college, and a friend
of Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
and Julia Ward Howe in the anti
slavery days, died late Saturday night
at the home Of her nephew, William
H. Woodbury., 1S1 Cenral street, Som
erville, at the age Of 90 years.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

The Shuberts will have a "produc-
ing company at the Belasco theater
in Washington for two months this
summer. A new and untried" play
will be presented every week.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Henry B. Harris has engaged Macy
Harlan for prominent part in The
Noble Spanlard." Robert z. Blossoms
son.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

SITES, 1o0Dne WrI-
tated, itchin 9
surfaces, stimulates
the hair follicles,
supply the roots
with nourishment,
loosen the scalp
skin, and make
the hair grow up
on a sweet, healthy
scalp, when all else
fails. No other
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

There is no doubt that Wall street
needs the noon prayer meeting, but it
will take more than that to make it
white.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Klaw & Erlanger have arranged to
produce 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm" by Kate Douglas wiggin and
Charlotte Thompson, in New England
in November The play will be
brought into New York in January.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

The state highway commission of
New Jersey has ordered a map made
of the proposed ocean beach boulevard
for that state. Getting. it on paper
has been no easy matter.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Sometimes a deacon is caught try
ing to pass poor nickel upon a troll
ley conductor. This is what makes
conductors suspicious even of evan
gelists.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19
SUNDAY MORNING TALK.
NESTING TIME THE COUNTRY
OVER.

This month sees the establishment
of thousands of new homes. The
honeysucJ5les will not creep over the
lattice work in front Of all of them, for
nowadays he vine covered cottage
has largely given way to apartments
in monotonous rows of brick or stone
where it is impossible for the bride to
listen for the click of the gate as her
I'rince Charming comes up the flower
lined path to receive her greeting aft
er the days tell. Yes, the representa-
tons of these new bowers Of love
found in novels and poetry hardly ac-
cord with what has now come to be
necessitated by the fiocking of people
to cities and the inevitable limita-
lions that follow. However, the exte-
rior of the home is, after all, only the
setting of thu jewel and who cares,
provided he is dead in love-" whether
he begins in brownstone mansion
or a far more modest domicile, if it be
he has succeeded in wooing thither the
object of his alteration and can say
with the young man in "Dombey and
Son." "The state of my affections to-
ward Miss Dombey is of that unspeals-
able description whereby my heart is
a desert island and she inhabits it
alone"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Miss Wright is showing the world
that in the end it is well to stick by
two fools, especially when they are
members of the family
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Louis James will make an elaborate
revival of Henry VIII next season
with Mrs. James in the part Of Queen
Katherine
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

The reason Claus Spreckles gives for
remaining a bachelor is that he is
too rich to wed. No woman will re-
gard this as good reason.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Groton.-District Deputy George r.
Hampstead and Mrs. Hampstead. who
have been in Saratoga for a week. at
tending the convention of the indie
pendent Order Of Heptasophs, have re-
turned home.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

The senate really appears to be
inclined to arrange matters so that
the Sugar trust can get rake off
of a few millions every year from the
Cuba sugar-crop.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

When Senator Buckley got the FIJI
ipino cigar limit cut in two, the to-
bacco raisers of Connecticut uttered
blessings for their true friend.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Nahan Frankie and his orchestra
will give their usual concerts of clas-
steal music at Central Park, New
York, on Sunday afternoons this sum-
mer.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

The American citizen who returned
9S cents to the government conscience
fund must have had a mind that ev-
cry little thing disturbs.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

If the committee does not look out,
the great anniversary parade may be
so long that there will be only room
for it to be a standing exhibit.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Democrats are so scarce now that
Colonel Bryan does not venture to
read any Of them out of the party. He
only sees that they are properly re-
buked.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

1t costs the Goulds a good deal of
money to supply such racy reading
about their family affairs to the pub
lie.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

The question Of adjournment excites
controv ersy and confusion in the leg
islature. The people ought to fix the
question for the good of the state.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Happy thought for today: Two
weeks from this day Norwich will
have its Jubilee front on.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

If Mrs. Howard Gould had been the
mother Of half dozen girls and had
them TO dress, what busy metropolis
she would have created around her.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

The Circle theater, New York. will
open about August 30 with Mcintyre
and Heath in new three-act musical
comedy by John j. Mentally, lyrics by
William Jerome, music by Jean
Schwartz.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19
EDITORIAL NOTES,

The debates on the diamond nova
days are a leetle hotter than the de-
bates in the senate upon the tariff.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

The men who play checkers in the
country store might, with the same
application, become Marconis, or
Wrights.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Since Senator Buckley has told the
people briefly just what the tariff is,
what is the use of celebrating upon
it?
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

RooLvile.-The baby fawn found a
few days ago by c. NJ. Pinney of Boil
ton is fiourishing finely, and Is to be
kept by the family as a pet, the game
warden having granted permission.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Next winter Pol Plancon win return
to the Metropolitan opera house for
a farewell season.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

notice that young America begins
TO play ball before he is five, and tnat
he can master baseball language long
before they can hit the ball. Baseball
language as four year old puts 1t out
is not fit to print. 1t is often hotter
than professional would dare to use
straight. They can play ball Monday
morning without mixing bit of Sun
day school language in their utterances
although they were in their class the
day before. They never say anything
about fouls or errors. but they steal
bases, make home runs and when con-
ditions become too confusing hit one
another instead Of the ball. They Kick
and cry and swear-laugh and shout
and encourage one another and the
fans shout and dispute just as the
regulars do. Baseball is an exciting
game whether played by adults or in
fants.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19
MUSIC AND DRAMA

Richard Strauss is to rewrite "Elec-
tra," or parts Of 1t.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

The aepen garbage-can is a metrop-
oils for flies and menace to whole
Rsighborhood.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

Young couples before and after
marriage give much time and thought
of a home and usually concern them
selves chiefly with its externals
Wouldn't it be a good thing to pay
at least equal attention to the moral
apd spiritual fundamentals on which
the peace and joy of any new or old
home for that matter, depends? Here
are four suggested cornerstones:
The first is cooperation. What is
the use OF getting married If either
one is going on just as much of an
individualist as before the wedding, il
either one wants his or her way so
badly as not to be willing to yield or
at least to compromise? If any insti-
tution in society needs team work Il
is the home, for when different tenn
peraments are brought into such close
contact there is going to be trouble
unless each has learned to love the
other a little better than himself or
herself Put in, then, for the corner
stone the solid granite of a rO-opera-
tive spirit. Take time to talk things
over occasionally, to thresh out diff
ferencies. to get the others point of
view Sometimes to modify your own
in the interests of a common purpose
is not only the most magnanimous but
also the wiSest course.
The second cornerstone is consid-
Grafton Ever reople who make IL
their aim. to cooperate with each 9TH
or are not always considerate. There
gets to be now and then on the part
OF either husband or wife the habit of
teasing or even 'nagging," which, if
allowed TO develop, becomes one Of the
little foxes that gnaw at the vine of
domestic happiness. 1t takes a gem
eious nature to be really consid-
crate, to anticipate situations, TO
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

had worn out its welcome-was con-
sidered as having seen its best days.
No doubt it had, but for a single ma
room dahlia which appeared in a scrap
heap where cast-off dahlia roots had
been thrown with pointed petals in
stead of round ones-this was Jaurezi,
the progenitor of all the cactus dahlias
now so numerous and beautiful. The
pond lily dahlia, Nymphae, was discov-
cred in an old New Jersey garden, the
owner not even recognizing it as a
treasure. The insects and the flower
fairies had worked together and pro-
duced this miracle. No mans name is
appended to the Grand Duke as the
hybridizer. Man can facilitate better
than he can operate in this field. He
places in proximity the flowers ne
would have the insects cross and then
awaits results and he does not wait in
vain.
Man may improve his condition in
life by making the conditions Of others
better. We are told that the world
needs a great thinker, but it needs a
great doer more Action Is what will
create new conditions of life, not
thought The man who thinks is get
ting nearer and nearer the door of
revelation-the man who does is max
ing thought effective in every walk Of
life. dol" is an inspiring human
motto 1t is the brigadier general of
efficiency. Macdonald was inspired
when he wrote: DO the truth you
know, and you shall learn the truth
you need to know" This is what man
is prone not to do. The few who rec
ognize that this law is right and only
man Is wrong hold this as a precious
truth-the source of greater power.
Those who look and doubt do not win
those who recognize the truth and
do cannot fail.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

treatment Ii so pure, so sweet, SO
speedily effective. Gentle applications
OF Cuticura Ointment, preceded by warm
baths with Cuticura Soap, are priceless
for eczemas, rashes, and other torturing,
disfguring skin humors.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

All people do not understand bird
talk, and they do not sense from the
noise the birds are making in the early
morning that there is trouble in bird
dom, that an accident or tragedy has
unbalanced bird life, has brought grief
home to bird hearts. Every now and
then | hear the anxious robin uttering
cries of alarm in the early morning
which in years agone made me think
of cats. l then did not know that the
robins might be agitated by the first
fight of their brood or by a squirrel
that had robbed it's nest of eggs or by
many things besides the presence or
strategy or achievement of cats. The
robin at best is a senseless fusser and
it exposes itself to danger and it's
young brood to harm by it's inability
to keep still. Compared with the cum
ming of the partridge, how silly and
weak it appears to be. We love robin
redbreast because he is domestic-he
builds in our trees. exploits the newly
dug ground in the garden for worms
and sings up and sings down the sun;
but he has many natural enemies, and
he exposes himself to harm by his
ceaseless cries.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19
saw the first swallow this year on

saw the first swallow this year on
Flag day, June 14th. Others may nave
seen it sooner. 1t is the best emblem
of industry that wings it's way across
the sky. 1t often seems to be at play
when it is at work. Perhaps it under
stands the philosophy of making play
of work. 1t is great insect catcher
and 1t destroys more mosquitoes than
any other bird l know of. 1t makes a
noise with its wings while in fight
which resembles the twang of violin
string, and the closest observers at
tributed this strange sound to It's
mouth, and UP to the day of Auuupon
it was not realized that it produced it
with its wings, as the locusts produce
sounds with their wings, but in a diff
ferent way. They have a graceful
swing in the air and for cutting curves
and gliding have no peers on the wing.
They are masters of flight and are
always pretty on theswing.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19
How the aged like to dwell in the

How the aged like. to dwell in the
past. 1t is a fact that the reminis-
eencing of old age is the joke of youth;
and youth finally changes places with
old age and neither lessons its garru-
lousness or improves its "reminiscences.
Youth does not understand how the
cemeteries-the silent cities of popu-
lous centers-become a book Of the
past to men who. as some have de-
clared of themselves, were born too
long ago" or have lived too long,
The boys they played with and the
girls they loved with the parents who
trained them, are lying there beneath
the grass in the shade of the elms and
the birds have been singing above
them 10, these many years. They are
not of what is, but of what was; and
none of them can tell when this
change took place-just when they woke
to find that the world was behind them
not before. 1t is a change every per-
son becomes conscious of some day, but
no one knows exactly when. They are
in the sunset of life and pity 1t is that
the sky does not always look rosy to
them all as the sun goes down.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

heard a little fellow asking his
companions one day this week What
is the greatest exercise in the world %
That was quite a question for a seven
year old boy to ask of a company of
infants. Only one of them ventured to
say "What?" Had his auditors been
adults it is questionable If they could
have done much better. He replied:
Sitting still for fifteen minutes with
out moving a hair-sitting silent!"
This was not an original thought, but
it showed that he had a mind to grasp
it, if not to understand. He did not
know there was a cult that processes
to gain bodily strength and mental
equilibrium by going into the silence
by obeying the command: BE still and
know that / am God" The intuitive
conclusion is that it cannot be done,
and so few ever try it. 1t is simply
the way to -control-the way to
greatness. Out of it grew the affirma-
ton HE who conquers his own shirt
is greater than he who ruleth a city"
We have many precious things we do
not prize.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19
SHAMPOOS
Daily with Cuticura Soap
and Weekly Dressings
with Cuticura

At once stop falling hair, remove crusts,
scales, and dandruff, destroy hair para
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19
/ Am often IMPRESSED by the unc

am often impressed by the uncon-
scious service of the insects to plants
and indirectly to man. AS hybridizer
of flowers the best man is a fool COM
pared to the insect worker. In the field
of flowers the work of bug and man
stand forth, and the bug wins. Taking
the dahlia, flower which forty years
ago was an oldfashioned flower that
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

How we view one another depends
largely upon our experience and this
is what often makes the judgment of
one class look like humor to another
class.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19

When it comes to regulating the des-
smart enough to do it. A great many
parents have tried and failed, and a
great many parents have had to en-
dure the woeful results of meddlesome-
ness who meant well but did mot
know. That phrase covers a multitude
of parents and don't you think that 1t
doesn't. The pair in this world who
know that they mismated themselves
enjoy it the nost-don't forget this.
and those who cannot forget the well
intentioned regulator have hard work
ever to forgive him or her. Everybody
has his own life to live-his own way
to make-this is the inexorable law of
nature, and no one else can live it for
him. The quicker parents become con-
scious of this the better it is for all
concerned.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-19
THE MAN WHO TALKS

Some one has said: There are no
common people but they who think
commonly and without imagination or
beauty such are dull enough. If we
are without freshness or originality in
our thought and are mastered by no
IDEALS we are of the common people.
This is true. 1t is not of money or
learning or conceit, but of the mind
and its aspirations. "As man think
eth in his heart, so is he" declared the
prophet, and this is true. The truest
of men do lot live to themselves alone,
for that is the narrowest concept to
which life can be devoted, and it is
dwarfing. 1t is the mind that finds
love and learns how to abide in love
toward it's fellows which has become
amancipated. The hog must always be
eliminated before the man can truly
assert himself The man who can
sense his relation to all things is the
one who can become conscious of truth
There is a great deal Of talk about
the average man, but who ever met
him? | mistrust that there is more
than one average man. According to
statistics the average wage is $10.0S a
week, and the men who get the aver
age wage must come very near peing
one kind of average men. And
there are men who earn less than the
average wage, and others who earn no
wages but are willing to take their
maintenance out of the average mans
wages. Beheld from the lowest view
point, the average man must be a bene
factor There must be somewhere a
mental average, and somewhere else
an average of skill and the average
man must be in BOTH The average
man is not quite as hard to locate as
the magnetic pole, but the last aver
ages are not as easy to locate as the
first.