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Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
HEREDITARY" CRIME.
Confused Seeds of Good and Evil Were
 in the Edwards Family.

To the Editor of the New York Times:
 Had the sterilization of criminals as a cure for crime" advocated by Eugene Smith in your issue ofVNovem Der 2, and by Judge Foster Yin the November Pearson's Magazine been ened forefathers in Connecticut, it would have cut off absolutely al the start the very Edwards family cited by those gentlemen as an example of the persistence through heredity of the good type" in contrast with the per sistence through heredity of the bad type" a seen in the Jukees family.
 For it is well known to those con- versant with the early history of Con- necticut that Jonathan Edwards was the son of the Rev. Timothy Edwards, who was the son of Richard Edwards an eminent citizen of Hartford and the first lawyer ever admitted to practice in the Connecticut courts, and of Eliza beth Futile. Now. Elizabeth Tut tie had a brother, who was hanged for murder and a sister who likewise committed murder, and who escaped the gallows only through the refusal of the people Of Connecticut to rec ognize the courts and government of Sir Edmond Andros. History further records that shortly after the mar riase of Richard Edwards and Eliza beth Futile. She had a child, and MT. Edwards was subjected to ecclesiasti- cal discipline therefor. Though he testified that he was not the father of the child. he was punished. Notwith- standing this, he continued to live with her for many years, and was the father by her of the ancestors of all the bright Edwardses in this country. Her conduct became such. however that in 1891. he was. after repeated refusals. granted a divorce by the CO., lonial assembly at the very time when their son the Rev. Timothy Edwards the father of the Rev. Jonathan Ed wards, was being graduated from liar yard college with such distinguished honors. Richard Edwards then mar ried a daughter of the Hon. John Talcott and had several children by her, none of whose descendants ever amounted to much.
 Had the penologists and criminolo- gists of our day been in power then. Elizabeth Futile could not have es caped them. so as to become. as she did the ancestress of more genius and virtue than any other woman in the history of this country.
 The late Dr. Charles J. Hoadley long the accomplished state librarian of Connecticut. used to cite the case of this family as proof of the tendency through heredity to revert to the orig inal type. For it is a remarkable fact that in every subsequent generation of the Edwards family there have been in special cases reversions to the crim- inal type-among many other in- stances, note that of Aaron Burr, the grandson of Jonathan Edwards.
 DANIEL DAVENPORT.
 Bridgeport, Conn.,, Nov. 2, 1909.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
WHERE rHE oREArEsr NEED is

In the distribution Of hundred mil- lions annually teo much Is designed for'the top and too little for the bot tom of American social and civic life.
 The country has just witnessed the giving of $2s,0oo.o0o by one citizen for all sorts of charities excepting the one which is most Important and most deserving-the charity which will pro- vide fora cleaner, more wholesome and progressive life for the American ju- venile. The boys playgrounds and the boys clubs, with their excellent prac- tical teachings under efficient manage ment are telling for better and more intelligent citizenship
 There is no real good reason why the crime in this great country of ours should cost over a billion a yearl Expert criminologists are of the opinion that 75 per cent. of this crime would be overcome if young America was trained into good habits and taught to cherish high ideals.
 If, John Stewart Kennedy had seen the way to have laid down just ten millions in the interest of better manhood and @ better citizenship, he would have entered a field where n1il- lions are sadly needed to stem the current of ineficiency and crime and to establish a higher standard of cit izenship for this republic.
 Some day man of millions will look after the American boys as the means of making better citizens and firmer- founded republic. 8ryon
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
CORPORATION SALOONS.

There are well-meaning men who believe that a well-regulated saloon will tell for temperance better than prohibition and one or two great cor porations of this country have estab- lished saloons for their own employees
 The Standard oil company took out a saloon license in the name of one of its employees at Elizabeth, N. J., and beer was sold to the hands at what was really the company's saloon, dur ing the noon hour; but not more than two glasses 10 one man. The object was to prevent excessive drinking at the midday recess, and the danger of rendering some employees more or less unfit for work the rest of the day.
 The United States Steel company has undertaken the same experiment, though on a much larger scale, in Fayette county, Pa, where it would regulate the drink of about 25,000 per- sons dependent upon the coke ovens for their living. The steel company is buying up all the breweries in that county, intends to prohibit the sale of beer in bulk, to open it's own saloons and to limit the sale of beer except in bndSSSS- lAiS Wlll II CdTTleu llIO effect successfully. abolish the "growl- err and lessen the number of protract- ed sprees indulged in by some of the men.
 There will be wide and lively in- terest in these experiments by the regular saloon keepers and by those who believe that prohibition is the on- ly method for preventing the drunk enness. crime and want resulting from the excessive use of these beverages.
 This treating of the drink habit from strict business basis is being adopt ed in other parts of the country. It follows directly along the lines of the army canteen, and will find fierce op- position from all who opposed that and finally succeeded in its abolish ment.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
 To Clear Field for Storrow.

A committee of 25 representative cit izens of Boston. with Richard Olney at their head. will endeavor to per suade other candidates for mayor to give a clear field to Richard J. Stor- row. It will be wise for those who do not desire to see John F. Fitzgerald placed at the head of the city's reform departure to agree upon a candidate for mayor, and MT. Storrow is the man. Here is his platform:
 l don't want to pose as a reformer, nor do I want to run as a "business mems candidate. I am an ordinary citizen. have made many mistakes in the course of my life. If I should be elected mayor I shall make some more only want it understood that would try to treat everyone fairly, work hard and do by level best.
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and made me feel like a new person, and it shall always have my praise." Mrs. W. P. VALENTINE, 902 Lincoln Avenue, Camden, N. J.
 Gardiner, Me. "I was a great suf- ferer from female disease. The doc tor said I would have to go to the hospital for an operation, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound con- pletely cured me in three months. "- MRS s. A. WILLIAMS, R. F. D. No. IA, Box 39, Gardiner Me.
 Because your case is difficult one, doctors having done you no good, do not continue to suffer without giving Lydia K. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound trial It surely has cured many cases of female ills, such as in- flammation, ulceration, displacements. fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, indigestion, dizziness, and ner- vous prostration. It costs but trife to try it, and the result is worth mil lions to many suffering women.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
TIE BULLETINS DAILY STORY
HER HAPPY HOUR

When Sarah Morak went out for Q little walk at the noon hour after sht had bolted her two sandwiches and piece of cheese in a secluded corner she found a $10 bill.
 Sarah usually walked along witt her eyes moodily on the ground, and that was how she happened to see the gleam of green snuggled up under the overhanging edge of the sidewalk as she stepped up from the alley crossing.
 Even the touch of the money as her unbelieving fingers closed around il in little breathless clutch did mol illumine her face, for it takes more than one chance piece of good luck to overcome the settled habits of a lifetime, and Sarah's habit was glum- ness. To be sure, her life covered only the span of eighteen years, but in Sarah's vernacular those eighteen years had been a plenty.
 As she crumbled the bill in her hands some obscure process of asso- citation brought to her the thought that never in her whole existence had she had what she wanted, never had she done what she wished.
 1t was just outside the big depart ment store where Sarah sold tack pullers. wire egg-beaters and 10-cent hammers in the basement that she had found the money right under the feet of hundreds.
 Realization that the money was hers that she had $10 to spend all at once-made Sarah a little dizzy, so she stopped before a gayly dressed window and gazed in unseeingly. The bill was wadded up in the palm of her hand. She noticed that four fingers ,.-nro ehaxr-fre~ tbrnuOh fha N0Fn cYOfg in her glove, which was all roughed up and gray-b black from age. Well, there were some beautifully soft brown street gloves in the window before her, on beyond that a group or pale grays. and whites and ecruS, long and almost silky. such was the deli cacy of the kid. She might go in and buy any Of these now, instead of get ting illhtting gloves at the 50-cent glove counter in the basement.
 Almost like connoiSseur Sarah studied the gloves, then she moved on critically. She was enjoying a brand new sensation-she was shop pingl Heretofore she had gone and grudgingly bought things when they were absolutely necessary and had wasted no time in doing it, for she had not bothered to look around. She simply walked to the cheapest count CT and made her purchases and hated them ever after. Her heart began to thump at the change.
 She entered the store and walked by the long counters shimmering with silks and laces and ribbons aud gazed at the pretty jewelry novelties with almost sense of ownership. Those glittering rhinestone hatpins-she re membered looking at some in the hat of a woman who had stopped at Sa- rahs own counter and seeing them sparkle in the artificial light of the basement. She had coveted then duly. Now she could buy one ol two-more if she liked.
 Once she stepped into a corner be- hind a radiator and smoothed out the crumpled bill. It was really a $1l
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
NEWSPAPER cENTENARIANs.

There are S4 newspapers in this country over century old. among which the St. Louis Republic is one of the most enterprising and they are grouped as "The Century Club of Newspapers" and of these the Nor wich Courier is among the 30 oldest. The oldest papers in Connecticut in their order are the Connecticut Cour- ant of Hartford, the Connecticut Her. aid and Weekly Journal of New Ha- ven, the Republican Farmer of Bridge port, and The Courier of Norwich. The oldest paper in New England is The Mercury of Newport R. l., started in 175S, and the oldest paper in the coun- try is The News and Courier of the New England states there are twenty of these newspaper centenari- ans. of which Massachusetts has seven and New Hampshire five.
 Of this Century club of S4 papers all but 29 were founded in the 17th century and they all represent IS states, Pennsylvania leading with IS of them to New York's 15. Old Vir- ginia and Connecticut stand balanced with four each.
 George Knapp & Co., publishers of the St. Louis Republic, issue in con- nection with the passage of that paper across the>century line a 36-page book with an illustrated history of The Re- public and short sketches of the other S3 members of this newspaper Cen tury club; and a Chronology of the Origin of Newspapers" In complete ness and tVnOpran nhv this sorver,ir book is work of reference and work of art.
 The oldest newspaper was founded at Pekin, China, 1.400 years ago and was called The News, and suspended publication this year. Among western nations Germany stands first for news paper enterprise. The first Courant was printed at London in 1702, and the first Courier at Charleston, $. C., in 1732.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
WHO STARTS THE oRcHARos7

One would think that history would show that young men start our or chards, but MT. J. H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, is authority for the state- nent that most all the productive or chards of New England have been es- abolished by men past the half-century mark. It takes ten years for an or chard to become productive and the young men look upon a decade as too long a time to await results, that ten years seem shorter to a man of 50, and they do not hesitate to start new orchards. MT. Hale, who does things upon a broad scale, bought a lot of abandoned farms and started 100 acres of apples, and he is able to show apples from this orchard that for size, firmness and quality excel the best fruit marketed from the west. And in connection with age and ap- ples and enterprise he said: q saw a man the other day who was S3 years of age and he had just planted an apple orchard in New Hampshire. He said to me: Hale come up the sum- mer when I am 100 years old and we will have a devil of time.'" The vim and the optimism of such open-air oc- togenarisns Is as inspiring as it is wonderful
 And Mir. Hale gives notice that if New Englanders do not improve the grandest apple-belt of the world that the westerners will come east and settle down near the great fruit mar kets and make this $50-an-acre land worth more per acre than any acre of apple-land to be found in this country today.
 This is why New England farmers should get a move on and gather to themselves fame and wealth by de- veloping the resources of this lex hauetedn rnriou -of scnnnfrr
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
HOW to save Time washing Dishes.

Very few housewives realize the amount of time they spend in the year just dishwashing, although they do ap- preciate it's tiresome routine. However. if handled in a systematic way this task would not take one-half as long or be one-half as disagreeable. Have plenty of towels and hot water. Scrape the dishes clean as possible ana tnose water before putting in the dish pan. White of egg, gelatine and similar suo- stances, should be removed from dishes with cold water. Greasy foods require hot water. Cover the dishes with hot water. in which tablespoonful of Gold Dust washing powder has been dis solved. This is more convenient and effective than soap. Wash. rinse in clean. warm Watei and dry.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
Just . Small Lumber Order.

A telephone message. occupying per- haps five minutes, conveyed an torder for 12,000.000 fet of lumber, and fhard- ware sufficient to build 10000 houses in Italy. to be shipped within Is days. The recipients at the other end of the wire rerlied that the bill would be fill- ed. The United States government forwarded this large consignment with as little display as though the order had been for the janitor to put on more heat, instead of for material to re- build 10000 homes for the sugerers in the Messina earthquake. Fifty trains of 50 cars were needed to convey the lumber. which would make six inch walk from San Francisco to New
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i, bill. sine saw again Then she folded it carefully into a little square and clutched it firmly once more
 She paused beside the counter laden with handbags. She never had own ed one-what money she ever pos sessed found plenty of room in the shabby little leather purse her mother had let her take when she first went downtown to work. Sarah did not think of new things for the dingy iit- tie home when furniture anu aang- ings greeted her eye. 1t was not home, anyhow, only place to sleep and start away from, The nstinct cultivated, but that for personal adorn- ment is irborn in every girl.
 Even when she saw that she must hurry to get back to her counter to keep from being late, Sarah felt no sudden alarm. In her hand she held more than two weeks wages. She was tasting the power of money. The sum that was paid her every week she had to turn over to her mother anyhow. When there are six small children in a house, money goes. Sarah's father had gone year ago, leaving to his wife and oldest daughter the burden of supporting the family. Coarse things to eat, ugly things to wear, ob- curity, the neglect that comes to BlTl WnO IS nOIlely anu dHhWdlu dAu sullen and who in return hates back these had been hers.
 
 She almost held up her head as she neared her own store. Girls who open ly disliked and ignored her or made fun Of her would give good deal to have what she held in her handi To- ward not one person she knew in the basement did Sarah harbor any feel th,,n aff1,a atof nd Gn like.
 As she went In at the side entrance and toward the cloak room she met Jimmy Jones. He was the most inn pudent of all the errand boys and Sa- rah extended to him an extra feeling of hatred, for he openly tormented and annoyed her. He was homely boy, too, and he was loud- -mouthed and swaggering. At present, how ever. he was crying and his swollen face did not add to his beauty. He glared at Sarah through his tears.
 "What's the matter?' she asked in surprise.
 "Old Phillips fired me-" the boy got out. He blinked his eyes fast. Sent me out this mornin' on an errand with ten plunks an lost 'em. Hadn't got a block before I missed the money: An he fired me. Gee! What'll the old woman do to me?"
 Sarah stared at Jimmie's convulsed countenance and for the instant she hated him worse than ever. Of course, it was the lost money that wonderful S10 bill She might have known some body would claim it. She didn't feel sorry for Jimmie. The loss paid him back for his meanness.
 She stared a long while and her throat was very dry. The boy started on toward the door, trying gamely to swagger as he had done at other times.
 Sarah put out her hand in it's rag ged glove. Here" she said hoarsely, it must be the one you dropped. found it just outslde.-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

the following gentlemen have been nominated for governor: Everett Lake of Hartford, Stiles Judson of Stratford Donald T. Warner of Salisbury and Representative Chandler of Rocky Hill Senator Barnum seems to have retired from the race.-New Haven Journal Courier.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

this valuable medi- cine, Lydia E. Pink hams Ve ge tai ble
 Compound. I suf- fered from terrible headaches, pain in my back and right side, was tired and nervous, and so
 weakIcould hardly 8 ta md. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta- ble Compound re- stored me to health
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
The oriain of It.

"Senator,' said the interviewer, "it is rumored that you intend to retire from politics"
 ''Well. we'll" replied the senator, tits queer how rumors start. l sup pose this one grew out of the fact that attended church wEh my wife last Sunday."--Catholic Standard and Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

York and half way back again, or would reach across the Atlantic to the heart of the stricken district. This vast mass of material was assembled within the Brooklyn navy yard and was loaded on vessels, which were at
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The Circulation of
 The Bulletin.

The Bulletin has tho largest cir culation of any paper in Eastern Connecticut. and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich It is delivered to over a0oo of the 4.o5s houses in Nor wich. and read b.. ninety three per cent of the people. In windham It Is delivered to over 800 houses. in Putnam and Danielson Co over HOO. ard in ar of these places :t is considered the local daily.
 Eastern Connecticut has forty nine towns. one hundred and sixty Ave post office districts and forty one rural free delivery routes.
 The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of the R. F. D routes in Eastern Connecticut
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

A New York judge informed two bankers sentenced to prison for talk ing the money of depositors for their personal use that they were plain thieves.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

Mrs. Peary thinks, now that the Commander has found the North pole that he may have time to become ac- Quainted with his family
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

A New York man who had to tend the children and make the family beds at night has sued for a divorce. This shows that the worm will turn if given time.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

A Kansas man mortgaged his cem- etery lot in order to buy an automo- bile. Considering the freakishness of the machine, this is extra hazardous
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Boston has just passed the thirtieth anniDersary of its great fire. but mo- body would know that Boston ever had big fire did she not tell of it.
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There's a Rea.on.

pr. Jenks of Cornell says that sick ness costs the people of the United States a billion dollars a year. No wonder the doctors are riding in auto mobiles Schenectady Union.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

. The November elections did not show that an indelible mark of un- popularity had been set upon the re- publican .party's policies.
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Bacon-Where is your son now Egbert-Oh, he is attending a college preparatory school. (Which college yell is he studying ?"-Yonkers States man.
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The 4nan who banks his bills in the chimney does not see so much differ ence between hot smoke and cold blooded burglars.
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The west does not seem to be ap- preciative of the endeavor being made for its enlightenment by Senator AL drich.
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EDITORIAL NOTES,

What lot of pious people there are who do not believe that card playing is as bad as it is painted.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

A scat in court to hear the Stein hell murder case at Paris has brought s20o. Grand opera does not do bet ter than that.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10
MORE PINKHAM
 CURES
Added to the Long List due to This Famous Remedy.

Camden, N.J.- '1t is with pleasure that I add my testimonial to your already long list hoping that it may induce others to avail themselves of
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

When China attains to modern methods the rest of the world must have care. A reused tiger is always dangerous.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

Many a politician who is today standing on his record has not con- ceived that 1t Is not broad enough to run on
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

The Vardamans of the south could not prevail upon Maryland to dishonor herself by voting to disfranohise the negro.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

Happy thought for today: Where there's a will there is way, but 1t is not of necessity the right way.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

The minority that does not know that a question settled by ayH1@5erity is settled right, is a mean miFfority.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

We are in the midst of Indian sum- mer now, and not a squaw will ven ture to dispute the assertion.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

President Taft declined the mint ju- lep of fhe south. He still finds Ad- ans ale good enough for his palate.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-10

Danbury.-The Sunday night train. which has been leaving this city for New York at 739 o'clock, has made its last trip for the season
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Dr. Cook happily and good-natured- ly meets Admiral Chester's voluntary assaults upon his character.
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WouId. |. Be Governors.

The preliminary republican state convention is in daily session. Thus far