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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-27
The Under PRICE SALE

now at The Boston DRY Goods storA
Danielson, means big bargain prices
to the customer on seasonable goods
Every department In the store bears
the cut price marks.
THE BOSTON DRY GOODS STORE
Main st.. Danie.son.
jun2Td IaAles = Keech. MRr
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-27
STRONG TEAM
To Represent Putnam When Season
Opens.

Few Of the teams in the Eastern
Connecticut league will have many
advantages over Putnam when the
season of 1909 opens, which will prob
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-27
SKIN HURTS.

burns, cuts, bruises, also sores, chatting,
aruptions healed, the skin beautified by
Satin Skin Cream. 25c. Satin Skin
Powder "a tints) gives that glow OF
health. refined, alluring fairness moth
ing else can produce. Csc.
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CAUGHT RiFLlNo cAsHREelsTER

Policeman Grady Gets William Car
peuter in the Act at Giraea & Sons
Store.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-02-27

omly One "BROMO QUINtNE"
That Is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE.
hook for the signature OF E.W. GROVE.
Used the World over to Cure Cold in
One Day. 25e.
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PUTNAM.

Clerk Warner Completes Docket for
March Tern1--Death of Lieut.. VIII
liam {. PhiIlips-Consresational Or
ganist and Choir at Oxford Recital.
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Coats and Sui.S
Al About Half Regular Price.

OF each there rs a good assortment
of fabrics and colorings, garments Of
this seasons style, now offered at de-
cidedly bargain prices.
women's Suits, $3.50, $1,000, 1880
Women's Coats. $500 to $500.
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DENTISTRY
DIR. CHAS. u. LAMB,
VETERINARIAN

once. 227 Main ST.. Franklin squars,
House. Is Town ST. rcleuhone sts-s.
WHEN you wan. 20 put your husl-
ness before the public, there b. no uie-
dum better tnau through tho advertise
Ing columns Of The Bulletin.
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Bargains in Stationery

We are closing out a line
of Box Papers, North I5c to
Csc, for roc per box.
This is fine opportunity
TO get Good Paper at a Nom
inaL Price.
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Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky

keep
md heney
illustrated booklet and fee ADVICE
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14
NostriI Tests for Cigars.

Gee, that's a good cigar." said the
tobacco store loiterer, holding up to
view a half-consumed "perfecto," &C
cording to the Kansas City Star. See
how the ash clings to it,"
Great Scott, is that old notion still
floating around?" the cigar dealer
asked. 81 thought that had persisted
with the man who blew out the gas.
Don't yon know that some of the worst
ropes ever made will hold the ash
until you almost have to knock it of
with a stick? There's absolutely moth
ing to the ash theory as a test of a
good cigar"
But see how evenly this cigar
burns" insisted the smoker. You
can't deny that that shows good to-
bacco."
Nonsense" returned the dealer.
''The finest cigar ever rolled might
burn unevenly. Sometimes the top
row of cigars in box may be dried
out on the upper, exposed side and
moist on the under side. Such cigar
is sure to burn unevenly, the moist
side more slowly than the dry.
There's only one way to test the
quality of a cigar" the dealer con.
cluded. Light it and blow the smoke
through your nose. If you're any judge
of tobacco you'll know mighty quick
whether that particular weed is made
of choice Havana or alfalfa culls.'
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14

eggs in a wooden tub with a lid OF
board nailed on. Rats gnawed a hole
through the top and carried away all
but twenty-eight and a half dozen.
leaving no stains or shells TO show
that any had been broken. Rats are
very destructive to tame pigeons and
young squads, game birds, fruit and
vegetables
1T is generally believed that mice
and rats cause fire by igniting matches
with their teeth. The testimony OF
chiefs of fire departments and insur-
ance adjusters confirms this belief.
Manufacturers of matches often dir
the ends in paraffin to protect the
phosphorus. The paraffin is attractive
to rats and mice and the matches are
often carried behind walls, under
floors and behind partitions where
they are gnawed. Rats nave been
known to gnaw through the lead gas
pipes and cause explosions. Rats often
do smischief by gnawing the insulating
covering of telephone wires to obtain
the paraffin it contains
AT state and national fish hatch
cries the rats cause much trouble BY
burrowing into entertainments and
gnawing holes through wooden tanks.
They have been known to gnaw the
hoofs of horses until they bled They
have been known to kill young lambs
and pigs and to attack very fat hogs
and eat holes in their body causing
death
There is a child buried near the
summit of Pixies Peak that is supposed
to have been killed by rats.
THE most serious charge against
rats grows out of their relation to hui
man health. 1t is now positively
known that rats are chiefly response.
BILE for the spread of the bubonic
plague, a malady which, in spite OF
modern methods of fighting it, has
within the past dozen years destroyed
over 100000 human beings in India
alone
"Bubonic plague in man Is entirely
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14

Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, is
located on the highest point of land
between Lake Michigan and the Des
PLANES River-"on a hill seven feet
high" But how came this COM
handing eminence there? Back in
the frigid heart of the glacial pc
riod about 10000 years ago next De
cember. the northern part of America
was covered over with a great CONT
mental ice sheet. 1t was like the ice
was formed by the impaction of thou
sands of feet of snow, and flowed slow
ly southwark. like the advance OF very
thick molasses candy on the surface of
a plate Finally there came a success
sion of mild winters and the ice sheet
began to recede; its extreme margin,
which had been building up the Val
paraiso hills. which skirt the southern
end of Lake Michigan, retreated with
in the present basin of the lake, and
slowly moved farther and farther
north. It's place was taken by lake
Lake Chicago. The surface of this
lake was sixty feet above the present
level of Lake Michigan.
The extent of Lake Chicago is some
what indefinite, for the edge of the ice
sheet formed its northern boundary
and varied much from year to year as
Old Mother Earth struggled to throw
I'll o,.1 fI1o
lake included the present areas of
Lake Huron and Lake Erie, and COW
cred the region lying between them;
a broad arm extending across south
ern Michigan from the Saginaw Val
ley connected its eastern and western
portions Lake Superior had at this
time its own outlet into the Missis-
sippi; Lake Ontario was still covered
by the ice sheet.
Anything more desolate and awful
than the scenery of Lake Chicago at
this time it is difficult to conceive
a vast stretch of ice cold water, froz-
en- over in the winter and dotted with
icebergs in the summer. Where now
stand the Auditorium icebergs ground
ed in June and great drifting foes
creaked and groaned against each 9th
er through the dark days of the fall
There was no fish in the sea, no bird
flew overhead. no animal walked or
crawled along the desolate shore.
The outlet of Lake Chicago was
southwest through the Des PLANES
and Illinois rivers into the Mississippi
Lemont was in a mile-wide valley
where once rolled the clear, chill wa.
ters which drained a basin extending
from Chicago to Buffalo and from
Green Bay to Georgian Bay.
In view of the comparative tame
ness of the scenery about Chicago il
is enough to make one weep 10 thinh
of this rivera mile wide. with rock
bottom and sides. carrying volume
of water comparable to Niagara as
says William c. Alden, of the United
States Geological Survey, and de-
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14
SIDELIGHTS.

The Salvation Army is established
in fifty-two countries.
The war department paid $94,41S for
artificial limbs last year.
Six out of seven pictures sent to
the Royal Academy every year are re-
jected.
The railroads of this country pay
out S24,000,0O0 year in freight
claims
One-fifth of the country's wealth is
represented in the New York stock
exchange.
An owl with a nest OF young will
gather about forty mice a day for her
offspring.
Some New England bread is still
made from yeast brought ever in the
Mayfiower
For use during military maneuvers
the kaiser has portable house made
of asbestos.
Nearly all the $1,000 inhabitants of
Marchneukirchen. Saxony, are engaged
in violin making
There were fifteen executions of
criminals in Prussia in 1907, all but
one Of them men.
Travelling cooking schools are being
sent out all over the German Empire
by the government
There are thirty different kinds Of
new roses for this year alone in Eng
land, where rose culture abounds
The Swiss government spends more
money, in proportion to it's population,
for the relief of it's poor than any
other country.
At Falun, Sweden, are the head
quarters of mining company with a
history so remote that the date of its
origin cannot be definitely fixed.
King Leopold of Belgium has offer
ed prize of $4,000 for the best work
on the progress of aerial navigation
and the best means to encourage it
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14
CHICAGO 10000 YEARS AC0;}
hfl,bIIsERS THIN TIy Gift PRODUCT ;

scending seventy-siX feet in a distance
of ten miles. Through uncounted GEN.
turtles that glory and grandeur went
utterly to waste. so far as human be-
ings are concerned; and now Chi
cagoans pay out thousands of dollars
annually to go to see the rapids Of
the st. Lawrence and the Niagara
In course of time this period of the
lakes history came to an end The
rapids in the Chicago outlet cut
back to the limestone lip at which
they started and loweEed the level of
the lake some twenty feet Here 1t
was stationary once more through GEN.
turtles of time. The waters were as
lifeless and the scenery as desolate
as ever, but the icebergs which drifted
down Michigan boulevard were small
er, for the water was shallower 1t
was at this period that a large sand
bar more than mile wide formed in
the shallow water
Why is Chicago where she is? 1t
has often been said that the great city
of the lakes might just as we'll have
been built on the site of Milwaukee,
and that only the superior enterprise
and commercial genius of Chicago's
business men turned the scale. This
is putting the cart before the horse;
it was the superior advantage of Chi
Cages site that attracted these far
United States. Throughout a region
extending from Joliet to Texas and
from Denver to Nashville. the nearest
point on the great lakes, with their
cheap water transportation, is Chi
cago; the grain must come here. But
this great region is poor in timber,
though rich agriculturally. The near.
est point to which the southwark
moving lumber of the North can be
brought by water is Chicago Look at
the map again. The great lakes ex-
tend far to the south of their outlet
through the st. Lawrence, and the
railroads which run from New York
and Boston to Wisconsin, Minnesota,
hOl iHClil lOWd. the DdhOldS,
Oregon and the Puget Sound region
not to speak of the imperial domain of
western Canada-must be gathered to-
gether like a sheaf at some point on
the shore of Lake Michigan, where its
waters block the direct path to the
Northwest. There was but one point
where this could occur-where the
Chicago River furnished harbor for
the boats. and the Des PLANES water
shed, with its fifteen-foot divide, af-
forded easy access to the ''hinterland"
for canoes. railroads. ship canals, etc.
The jobbing trade of Chicago has been
built up subject to strict geographic
and topographic conditions. And Chi
cagos great strategic advantage of po-
sition is seen in this: That no matter
what the form of transportation,
whether by rail or by water, her posi-
ton is equally advantageous and equal
ly commanding.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14

Rats, The expression is generally
one of contempt, but if a person would
pause for a moment and consider that
the damage done by these rodents in
the United States alone amounts to
over $20,0000OO year the tone would
be changed to that of fear. Occupying
only small part of the Old World at
one time, through the continued
spread of commerce these animals
have been furnished free transporta-
ton to the most distant parts of the
earth. Traps, poisons. gases and re-
Gently cultures supposed to spread ia
tai diseases have been resorted to to
drive out the pest. In spite of all
these the animals continue to prosper
and multiply and their numbers and
destructiyeness keep pace with the ad-
vance OF modern civilization. Though
thousands and thousands have been
killed il is only a short time before
thousands and thousands more replace
the slain. Unless some new method of
determination is devised the war
David E. Lantz, assistant. biological
survey, has prepared an article on
the brown rat that is highly interest
ing to all and instructive to those who
are bothered by the pest. His ideas of
the suppression of the reproduction of
the rodent are the enactment and the
rigid enforcement of municipal ordi-
nances providing for the disposal of
garbage and the protection of food
supplies. He says:
Every effort should be made to in
struct as to the necessity for care in
the disposition of refuse and the pro-
lection of food material. Tightly
closed garbage cans, frequently
emptied, will go far toward limiting
the food available for rats. Grain
bins in thousands of private and pub
lie stables now afford food and harbor
age for thousands of rats; public mar
kets and feed, provision and grocery
stores, VIGOROUSLY lacking in protec-
tion from rats, should have their con-
tents safeguarded from these animals.
THE advantages of cement in the
cellars and foundations Of public and
private buildings are now so well I'M
derstoOd that the rat-proofing of build
ings by cement construction and other
necessary measures should no longer
be left to individual inclination and
Judgment. but should be incorporated
in building regulations and these
strictly enforced. The additional ex-
pense, compared with the advantage.
Is trivial.
1.-The early history of the brown rat
is practically unknown. The species
is generally supposed to be of Asiatic
origin, but there is no positive knowl-
edge as to its native country. The
brown rat differs from the other two
species in America in larger size,
shorter head. more obtuse muzzle,
smaller ears and relatively shorter
tail. The general color is grayish
brown above and whitish below. The
overhairs Of the upper part have black
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14
ATCHISoN GLOBE SIGHTS.

How hoarse little steamboat can
whistle,
Until the fire, every man feels that
the insurance agents are robbiRg him.
Pull" can never carry a man far.
1t is hard work and application that
count.
One way not to have a good time is
to spend most of your time looking
for it.
If you are able to take advantage of
the present, you need not worry about
the past
What" the women folks all say
when Father scolds, lis he grumbling
about NOW?"
Are you familiar with a vegetable
known as Okra? Ever know anyone
who liked it?
When a man really intends to do a
thing, he does not talk much about
1t, but goes to work.
The spiritualist medium finds no
hidden treasure except in the pockets
OF the credulouS living.
If an actor amounts to anything, 1t
will not hurt him to meet a cross
eyed man or a black cat
Which gives you the greater enjoy
ment: To hear your friends praised
or your enemies roasted?
If you are on confidential terms
with almost any family, you discover
they are terribly hard up.
The man who always tries to lug in
cheerful word, when he meets you,
finally gets on your nerves.
In telling your troubles you are apt
to enlarge them. Besides, no one else
is much interested in them
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14

tips. The tail is usually shorter than
the head and body combined, while in
the other two species it is generally
longer
During the plague of rats on the
island of Jamaica, in 1888 the num-
Der killed on single plantation was
$4,000 The injury to sugar cane on
the island by the animals was esti-
mated at that time to be 100000 a
year. Over 100000 were killed in
India during a year. Observations
show that climate and food supply
greatly affect the rate of multiplied
ton of rodents. The rat is no excep-
ton. 1t increases, more rapidly in a
moderately warm climate with an
abundant supply of food.
THE destruction of feedstuffs by
rats is a serious loss not only on the
farm but in almost every city and vii
lage in the whole country Often
through the carelessness or indiffer-
ence of servants the bin or barrel in
which feed is kept is left uncovered,
and the rats fairly swarm to the night
Il feast. In cases investigated in
Washington, ID. c., the loss was equal
to . or 10 per cent of the grain bought
A grocer was buying feed for two
horses and several hundred rats; the
horses were fed at regular intervals
and the rats nearly all OF the time
In the case of an establishment feed
ing from fifty to hundred horses the
loss of feed in the course of a year
often amounts to large item.
Rats are very fond of malt and
in malt houses and breweries con-
slant watchfulness is necessary to pre-
vent losses. Mills, elevators and ware
houses in which grain is stored are
likewise subject to the invasion of the
animals. Also the destruction of sacks,
barrels and bins is a large item of
loss.
THE rodents are very fond of poul-
try and eggs. A commission mer-
chant of Washington relates that he
once stored in his warehouse 100 dozen
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14

Little by little We depart from the
terrible and reach the ridiculous
L0nginus.
Who, then, is unconquerable? He
whom the inevitable cannot overcome.
-Epictitus.
In every profession the daily and
the common duties are the most use
ful.-Robertson.
Never take a mean advantage of
anyone in any transaction, and never
be hard upon people who are in your
power.-Dickens.
AS the rose breatheth sweetness
from it's own nature, so the heart of
benevolent man produceth good
works.-Dodsley.
A good word is an easy obligation;
but not to speak i'll requires only our
silence, which costs us nothing.-Til-
lotson
That is the best obedience that is
cheerful. as that is the sweetest honey
which drops out of the comb.-Wat-
son.
If aught seems wrong below,
Then wrong it is of thee TO leave it
so.-Zangu-"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14

When people do not enjoy doing the
things We do, we are t to think they
do not have a good time.
When two old ladies and an old
man walk down the street, the man
generally pokes along behind.
Most people are forgetful. Most
people think children used to be more
obedient than they are to-day.
How tender and devoted a young
man is to an old lady. when a pretty
young girl is looking at him!
Somc people think if they could Only
live in the house across me street,
they would be perfectly happy.
Married men have great contemp.
for the man who commits suicide be-
cause his girl would not have him.
There is always plenty to quarrel
about: We heard two men quarreling
to-day as to the best breakfast food.
Every barber seems to have differ.
ent notion about the proper stuff to
put on mans face after shaving him.
Country husbands are better trained
than town husbands. Ever see a town
husband carry baby on the street?
When there are little children in the
family, the floor is apt to look as if
it had been swept with a hasty glance.
If We were to be granted a wish
for happiness, we wouldn't be salts
fed with being boy again; we would
also ask for dog.
Many a man tells a mean story, and
justifies it by saying: We'll, heard
It." But he does not believe it, al
though he retails it.
There are two things that menace
the prosperity of this Countrywide
money and idle labor. The one is as
mischievous as the other
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14
WITH THE SAGES.

Character is perfectly educated will.
Strand.
We live truly for ourselves only
when we live for others.-Seneca.
1t is not the gift, but the giving
which is most precious and helpful
Wenn.
There is a proper dignity and pro
portion to be observed in the perform
ance of every act of life.-Marcus Au-
relius.
Thoroughness is one of the priceless
qualities of character and work.
Dickens.
The greatest evils are from within
us. and from ourselves also We must
look for our greatest good.-Jeremy
Taylor.
Conquer your foe by force, and you
increase his enmity; conquer by love,
and you reap no after sorrow
Buddha-
We are generally too low in our
aims. more anxious for safety than
sancfity. for place than purity
George Eliot
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14


Mary Firth, better known as Moll
Cutpurse. was a notable figure in old
time London life. She had the reputa-
ton of being the first woman to smoke
tobacco in England.
The length of her days is a disputed
point, says the Mitigate Monthly. but
it seems certain in that she attained
the age Of over threescore years and
ten. 1t is asserted that constant smok-
ing prolonged her life. A portrait rep
resenting her in the act of smoking
forms the frontispiece of Middleton's
comedy of the Roaring Girl" She
also figures in other plays of the per-
iod.
Mary was the daughter OF shoe
n lker living in the Barbican. and Ma
birth She early took to wicked ways
and became a noted 'highwayman."
Among her familiar friends were the
notorious Captain Hind and Richard
Hannah. She was an expert swords
woman. Single handed she robbed on
Hounslow Heath General Fairfax Of
200 gold Jacobuses, shooting him
through the arm and killing two OF
his horses on which his servants were
riding. For the offense she was COM
m;tted to Newgate, but on paying the
general $4,000 she obtained her lib
erty.
At one time Mary had 5000 of her
own, but by giving money to distressed
cavaliers she died comparatively poor.
Her death took place in July. 1863,
and she was laid to rest in st. Bird
gets
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14
Made Him sick.

7'he Chevy Chase caddies are still
chuckling over story about President
Taft The President. one afternoon.
played rather badly. He turned to his
caddy, after he had fooled a drive
and said in his genial way:
This isn't a pleasant spectacle for
you. I'm as bad as a Scotch laird at
st. Andrews. The st. Andrews caddies
are all old men; and one day when
this laird was in especially bad form,
his caddie, after nine holes of missed
shots and puts. shook his old grey
head. surrendered the laird's bag OF
clubs to another caddie, and said:
"FYe'll no mind. laird? 1 made but
a poor breakfast this mornin' and I'm
no in a condition to stand any MAR
OF"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14

sediment. There were puffy spots be-
meath my eyes and my head panied
terribly. l was miserable in every
way and often wished death might re-
lieve me. When l began taking Doan's
Kidney Pills my condition was so Sc
rious that they had little effect, but
l persisted, getting gradually better,
and it was not great while before
| was cured. The effect has been last
ing"
Remember the name-Doan's. Sold
by all dealers so cents box. Foster
Milburn Co.. Buffalo N. Y.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-14


Protection smaller predatory
masthe o
2-Graer cleanliness stables
tightly
Care buildings provide
old
4The of FARMS,
shall
5Removal outlying
harbor the fields
6Ratpofng
provisions a. dfeedst
7-Keeping effective
SThe possible
by a) trapping, (b poisoning.
9The organization
warfare against