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Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05
AccUMULATlNe DEFICITS.

The city of Lynn, Mass, Is just now furnishing an example of how New England cities are being politi- eally run. The tax collectors have not done their duty for many years and the authorities have expended the tax money whether 1t was paid or not. The taxes have not beeh cleanly collected for over thirty years, and the floating indebtedness is now dis covered to be S175,0OO. As a local paper states it: At the close of each year, there remained the inevitable lhe evil fourished. With failure to collect all the taxes, there has been the unvarying spending of every cent of the tax levy, in, anticipation of it's collection. Administration after ad- ministratlon has beef content for year after year not only to tolerate this mischievous state of affairs, but in some instances mayors have also sought to turn 1t to personal advan- tage, by trying to make the fact ap- pear that the tax rate was being kept down"
 How natural this is How quietly city indebtedness is increased with out the consent. or knowledge of the taxpayers in most New England cities. Lynn is not an exception but really represents the fashion which is there just now being called a rot ten system"
 And the people who neglect to pay their taxes, to say nothing of those who play the part of deliberate cheats, what do they care about the burdens they place upon their fellow towns men. There Is no law which makes them pay for taxes lodged. Success ful evasion, seems to be no crime.
 It is not surprising that Lynn is getting where 1t is thinking that gov- ernment by commission Is better and more desirable than the present sys- tenn Should it prove to be the pres e : methods ot city government will 1s on the wane Less politics and better business policies are looking more and m. e inviting to all intelH- gent citizens.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05
MonarehiaI?

Among the reviewers of the Roose- welt regime, which nearly all of the hustling March magazines contain, is Prof. Harry Thurston Peck's. He is thankful there Is not to be a third term for. he observes;
 Had Mir. Roosevelt been elected again. instead of Mir. Taft, we should see, at the end of another four years something very like a regal court in Washington. Already there have been introduced forms and usages which were unknown before. but which are essentially monarchical. Many other changes have been effected of a social character which have not been publicly commented upon, but which in private conversation have been noted throughout the country"
 Why was not Professor Peck more specific? He has aroused ones curi- osity only to hide behind a curtain of discretion and reserve. Monarchical? '? InL some ways, perhaps. Yet Jack Abernathy of Oklahoma, who catches
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05
THE PEOPLES WASTED MIL
 LIONS,

The waste of public. money through the naval channel is a living theme and 1t certainly Calls for reform. The naval department has come to be re- garded as the department Of greatest deficiency and greatest Ieakages. The New York Evening Post says upon this subject:
 "The navy department has long been the Cinderella of the official family Others secure and retain the services If able men. The navy on the con- trary, either never gets men of first rate capacity, or if it does get them loses them in a brief time. During the past seven years it has had six secretaries, and is about to have a seventh. How long the latter may stay in office is problematic. The prece- dents point to his more or less speedy change to another post in the govern ment service. Yet at no time has the administration of the navy been so much the object of public criti- clsm. An article in McClure's charges that the waste of public funds through the naval budget is some $4O00O, 900 per annum- Granted that the writer is wrong by 75 per cent, there would yet remain waste of ten million of dollars through faulty distribution of
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05
WOULD HOLD UP POLITICAL
 FREEDOM.

The men who seek public offices and are anxious to get and to hold them in all parts of the country are careless of tradition and history and the feelings of their constituents, and in their role of good fellows they are too ready to change the name of streets and parks as a means of pop ularity and preferment regardless of what is being lost by their conduct.
 This is especially true in Massa- chusetts and New York. There is be- fore the Massachusetts legislature a bill to restrain the city fathers in that state from abandoning old names of streets, parks and places, for new names. The reason for this bill the Salem News says is because of cer- tain schemes in Boston engineered by cheap politicians to change honored names. in order that a common coun- cilman or an alderman might be rec ognized, in street or square or park nomenclature, or so cheap honor. can be conferred upon cheap men.
 Recognizing the importance of this Massachusetts measure the New York Sun Mys:
 "In Boston and other Massachusetts cities, as in this town, there are poli- ticians in city office who, profoundly ignorant of the historical meaning and value of old names of streets, squares parks and so on, are always trying to change them to compliment or oblige, somebody. A law for that protection of street names and against the bar barism and ignorance of aldermen Is needed in this state"
 The Bulletin feels thankful that Connecticut aldermen and councilmen have not yet shown up in this polt- ical realm of ignorance, selhshness and barbarism, but to be forewarned is to be forearmed, and perhaps a law of this kind would be an approveble measure In every state of the union.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05
eRIpeINe THE coNNEcTIcuT.

The need of a bridge across the Connecticut river between Old Say brook and Old Lyme is so apparent that no argument is necessary to make the claim clear or the movement for such a public convenience tenable.
 The old ferry there is wholly in- adequate for the /business and is as obsolete as the "one-hoss shay and it does not speak well for the enter prise and progress of the state.
 While the pressure being brought te bear for this bridge is mostly from residents east of the river, this is far from being a sectional question, for it is something which concerns all tho people of the state, and there is enterprise in 1t.
 The fact that the regular travel Is small there, and that the inadequacy of the present ferry is shown only on special occasions. should not be wrongly interpreted. for that along shore route is one of the most at tractive and pleasant lines of traffic eight months in the year that there is in New England, and with the faeili- ties for making good time assured the travel would be increased imme- diately without doubt tenfoid.
 The commission appointed by Gov ernor Woodruff has reported to the general assembly in favor of building a bridge at this point, and the time has come when there should be no barriers to travel between states and more particularly between sections of a state. The present facilities for vehicle and foot travel across the river at this point are deplorably made. quats, there being only an antiquated ferry that runs internationally from sunrise to sundown during the open. season. The receipts from this ferry running only a part of the year and notwithstanding its inadequacy and the fact that large part of the trav cling public purposely avoid it, amounted last year to $5,326.90. A bridge with a reasonable toll, which the travelling public would willingly pay, and which could be used at all seasons of the year and all hours of the day, 1t is conservatively estimated, would more than treble these receipts and provide a sufficient income to op- crate the bridge and pay Interest charges on the investment which 1t is estimated by the engineers who made the plans for the commission would be about S400, OOo.
 There Is not a river in the shore territory from the New York state line to the Thames river, with the exception of the Connecticut river, that Is not provided with an adequate bridge, and 1t should be noted that in the shore territory from New Haven 4o Rhode Island there ie a ronI1Iatfor of over 100000. It should also be not ed that there is not a highway bridge to the Connecticut river nearer to this section than Middletown which is 27 miles above
 This is an all-state matter, as well as an enterprise of interstate Inter- est and welfare. and it would be for the business advantage and credit of the state to build a bridge there as the commission has recommended.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

yards, their unnecessary muItiplica- ton and their hitherto extravagant internal organization. Today, if ever, the navy stands in need of firm and experienced hand in charge of it's af- fairs Yet the present helmsman, who has shown himself particularly wise, experienced and courageous. is to be replaced By a gentleman whose chief recommendation, rumor hints, is that he must have place in the cab met, in order that the senior senator from Massachusetts may not lose in political prestige"
 The friends of Governor Lilley hope that this agitation will be kept up until the naval affairs are canducted right and he is fully vindicated.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05
HAD QUIT WORK READY TO GIVE UP HI DESPAIR Rna%o~aTg %o HaoIAL Rx TYi~oJ

"I was sick, rundown and finally had to give up work After trying a number of remedies and several phy- sicians, l was just about ready to give up in despair. saw Vinol ad- Vertised and decided to try It, and 1t has done more good for me than all other means combined. It has built me up and restored my strength until I now feel twenty years younger, and am able to attend to my work again as usual" Job Jeayons, l036 Lind street, Wheeling, W. Va.
 The reason Vinol is so successful in such cases is because it contains tonic iron and all of the strengthening blood-making and bodybuilding ele- ments of cod liver oil, but no oil.
 Vinol is unexcelled as a strength creator for old people, delicate children, weak, rundown persons, and after sickness-and Is the best known rem edy for coughs. colds and bronchitis.
 We return your money if Vinol fails to give satisfaction.
 N. Q. SENkN & aOA, NonANIeh,
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

What Dr. Shively pronounces a model tenement will be repudiated by the we'll 10 do class of tenants. What style is there to an outside stairway They may be healthy, so are bare floors and lower temperatures and simpler food. but with surprisingly large number of people health has to take second place to style, both in dress and in house building and fur nishing. There is no doubt that a tent is healthier than a wooden house, or the log cabin with It's airy spaces healthier than the average wooden house, but there is no probability that the race will ever go back to them. What the people are looking for are evidences of gentility and style, and they let health take care of itself.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05
TIE MODEL TENEMENT.

A feature of the model tenements which Mrs. Vanderbilt qs to provide for tuberculosis sufferers in New York vii. be the outside stairways. These will eliminate the common halls, which, with their dirt and darkness, are most fertile breeding places for disease. pr. Shively believes that such stairways will eventually come into general use in New York. They have long been popular in southern coun- tries and he holds that the climate of New York is really semi tropical-- Waterbury American.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05
ExpensIveness of War.

Some conception of the expensive ness of war may be gathered when 1t is known that 1t costs as much money to fire a 12-inch gun as an editor makes in two years.-Newark News
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

wild wolves with his bare hands, dined at the White house yesterday Springfield Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05
As EIiot Calls It.

Some call it insufferable snobbish- ness. President Eliot, with fine tact. calls 1t the segregation of the rich."-- Boston Transcript.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

The long municipal campaigns in western cities are now being referred to as political marathons."
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Happy thought for today: The clown burnt -corked his eyebrows first but not for beauty.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

A man with two appendices has been discovered by the doctors. That balances, the man with two hearts.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

It is about time for the small boys pocket to be full of marbles and his mind more on the game than on his books.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

Some of the rankest democratic papers now pipe up and say that the country has lost great president.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

The man who does not get more ad- vice at. home than he can find use for is ready to act upon advice offered elsewhere.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

Senator Bailey of Texas, one of the dependables of the Standard Oil com pany, gave a kick at Roosevelt as he retired.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

Six -sevenths of the new foreign business houses established in China last year represent Japan, and they numbered 677.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

If President Taft doesn't care what the unjust critics say of him. it is more than probable hat the regular Anauiases will make him sit up and take notice.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

It is decided that President Taft will spend his summers in connecti- cut by the Sound It is handler for himpt than the north shore of Massa-- chusetts'
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

One of these days the telephone cen- tral exchanges may invent a pleasant substitute for that old counter-i -irritant -'The lines busy"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

There is no one fin this country de- nyins that Theodore Roosevelt has been the real president through the entire seven years of his admins tratio.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

The auditorium in Kansas City was not big enough to hold the people who wanted to hear Gypsy Smith, the greatest evangelist of the present age.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

The queen of Siah has a thirty-s thousand dollar thimble all bejiggered with precious stones, but the thimble that sells two for a, nickel is most practical and profitable.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

It is not likely that President Taft thinks that he is worth any more to the country than was Roosevelt, if he does get S25,0O0 more a year salary.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

Poultney Bigelow has again shown' that he does not know when to open and when to shut" and in this re- spect he would prove to be failure as a clam.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

There will be no paper famine if good newspaper can be made out of cornstalks, but the future product of the press must not be left where the cows can get at it.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

 house, but there is no probability that the race will ever go back to them. What the people are looking for are evidences of gentility and style, and they let health take care of itself.
 EDITORIAL NOTES.
 Happy thought for today: The clown burnt-corked his eyebrows first but not for beauty.
 The long municipal campaigns in western cities are now being referred to as political marathons."
 
 A man with two appendices has been discovered by the doctors. That balances, the man with two hearts. Some of the rankest democratic papers now pipe up and say that the county has lost a great president. It is about time for the small boy's pocket to be full of marbles and his mind more on the game than on his books.
 Senator Bailey of Texas, one of the dependables of the Standard oil com pany, gave a kick at Roosevelt as he retired.
 The man who does not get more ad- vice at home than he can find use for is ready to act upon advice offered elsewhere.
 -sevenths of the new foreign business houses established in China last year. represent Japan. and they numbered 677. One of these days the telephone cen- tral exchanges may invent a pleasant substitute for that old counter-irritant -"The lines busy"
 It is not likely that President Taft thinks that he is worth any more to the country than was Roosevelt. if he does get s25,OOO more a year salary. The auditorium in Kansas City was not big enough to hold the people who wanted to hear Gypsy Smith, the greatest evangelist of the present age.
 
 It is decided that President Taft will spend his summers in connecti- cut by the Sound It is handler for himethan the north shore of Massa- chusetts."
 If President Taft doesn't care what the unjust critics say of him. it is more than probable hat the regular Ananiases will make him sit up and take notice.
 Poultney Bigelow has again shown that he does not know when to open and when to shut" and in this re- spect he would prove to be failure as q clam.
 There will be no paper famine if good newspaper can, be made out of cornstalks, but the future product of the press must not be left where the cows can get ct it.
 The queen of Siah has a thirty. thousand dollar thimble all bejiggered with precious stones, but the thimble that sells two for a, nickel is most practical and profitable.
 There is no one in this country de- nying that Theodore Roosevelt has been the real president through the entire seven years of his admins tratio
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05
Mrs. Vinton's Letter.

ItdII5VUII5 ApIH lUt IobA.
 My Dear Bro. Walker: It gives me great pleasure and satisfaction to see that I am still remembered by the deai Ashford association. That association was formed the year that ! was con verted. The delegates-Dea. Corbin and Col. Crawford-stopped at our house on their way, and prayed for me, then under deep conviction. Never tili my latest day shall I forget that sea
Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-05-17
Great Farn Bargain.

Here is the greatest farm bargain we
have ever had. The farm ii located 10
minutes walk from the station on the
|B. & NJ mile from station on the
Maine Central, four miles from White
field, NJ FL, about one mile from the
Connecticut river. This farm contains
about $50 acres, nearly 100 acres IN tin
age land with not stone in the now
ing, about 100 acres Is heavy growth
OF white birch, about Is acres second
growth pine, balance pasture. The farm
cuts about 100 tons Of hay, will pas
ture 70 cows, running water at four
places, house and barns; buildings are
extra good large house. painted white
with green blinds, partly finished in
hard We / barn is n feet long, clap
boarded end painted red two silos, large
hen-house, creamery with running wa
ter, long she'd for storing machinery
and tools The buildings could not be
built for less than the price for farm,
which is 5000. Inquire Of the F. 81.
Cate Real Estate Agency, Barre, VT.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-05-17
CORRECTED NOTICE.
Administrative Sale.
There WI be sold at public auction
Wednesday, May &c, 1909.
at 4 o'clock p. M,

~ y N*NAAA ~ oAet
one-fourtb interest in quarry near
the W. 2. Pratt farm, located as follows.
Being about six acres Of land, be the
same more or hess, and bounded as fol-
lows: commencing ut the southeast corr
uer Of land owned BY James Il. Langdon,
which land said Lanpdon purchased 81
George w. Abbott, thence northefEy on
said Langdons easterly line to land
owned by CarriclS Brothers Granite com.
pany, thence eaEterly on said Carrici
Brothers Granite oompany's south line
TO their southeast corner and 10 the stone
wall, thence southeriy parallel with said
stone wall 10 a point parallel with Allen
Bates's north line, thence westerly to
land owned By Allen Bates, thence west
cry on Allen Bates's north line to the
first mentioned bound Excepting and
always reserving one undivided one
fourth part Of above described land, and
also reserving right of way which |
have heretofore decided To Collins Valley
and Williams.
This auction win take place on the
above described property.
CLARA L. LYNDE, Adm'x.
C. NJ BARBER, Auctioneer.
WilIiamstown VT, May 8, 1909.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-05-17
LEASES 20 ACRES.
OF Land Which is Supposed to Contain
Marble DEPOSIT.

Rutland May 17s--James D. Pratt,
who lives in the southern part Of the
town Of Clarendon, has leased 20 acres
of his farm for term Of years to ".
o. Weeks Of New York, representing
New York capitalists, who have been
prospecting for about year IN the vi
entity Of Mr.. Pratts farm and they be-
lieve that they have found rich de-
posit Of marble. The surface samples
show three colors; Silver grey, water
tint and pure white. Several samples
were polished in New York and they
gave such good results that the parties
Interested determined to lease the
property with the option Of purchasing
It.
Mr.. Pratt stated that borings would
be made at once to determine more de-
fnitely the extent Of the vain and
quality Of the marble under the SUR
face. II fair results are obtained ma.
win be shipped TO the farm and
operations begun during the summer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-05-17
ABOUT THE STATE
SEX SHARE ZOE pAuPER.
Brandon Poormaster VIII Try to Get
Part Of Bartlett's Hoard.

bloAuVA EVothnASttf WIN Aiy 70 Vet
Part Of Bartlett's Hoard.
Brandon, May t7.--FoIlowing the re-
cent discovery Chat George NJ. Bartlett
who died at his farm on Birch hill, left
s2,o64 currency IN cigar box and bank
books showing deposits Of $1,000, ef-
forts are being made BY w, b. Avery,
the poormaster, to obtain share Of the
property for one Of the mans sisters,
who has been a town charge here for
many years, and thus enable her 70
pass her remaining years in comfort.
George BARTLETT and his brother, Frank
who also Is q bachelor, lived with one
OF their sisters, who actede az house
keeper for the family. They ptacticed
the strictest snonon1y and claimed To be
IN very moderate financial circumstances
"A few years ACC the town authorities
attempted to make the family contribute
TO the support OF their pauper sister.
The BartIett brothers then went into
court and testified that they were too
poor 70 do anything in the woman's be-
half and the case was thrown out Of
court.
There has been considerable unfav0r
able comment here over the action Of
the brothers toard their unfortunate Sis
ter When the appraisers met at the
Bartlett farm 10 make an inventory Of
the property, developments came which
was generally understood that George
owned a half interest in the farm, stock
and tools. The appraisers, keenly in
terested, however, when they were
shown AN old cigar box containing ST.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-05-17
FoR NEw rRTAL ZOE KENr.
To Be Urged Before The Supreme
Court.

Court.
Rutland, May 1.-THE bin Of ex-
oeptlons in the case Of the State against
Elroy Kent, recently convicted Of muir
der in the first degree, has been filed
with County Clerk H A. Hartman and
it is expected that the case win be
argued al the November term Of the
supreme court. There are two princi.
pal exceptions, namely--to the intro
duction by the state a. exhibits Of the
initials on the door OF the Congdon
barn and that Of the door Of the Buiiam
farm. on which initials were also cut
and to the atatement OF the attorney
general in his closing argument al 10
Che counsel for the respondents at
tempting to fool the Jury
Attorney General Sargent in his
closing argument said that Kent had
succeeded IN deceiving the officers &C
Windsor and Waterbury and that Ne
and his eouueel were now trying TO
decisive the Jury. Attorney Spellmsn
objected 70 the statement at the time
and that the court disaiiow II. Mr.
sargens refused to withdraw the state.
ment.