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Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15
SENSIBLE coMMENcEMENrs.

1t is quite as difficult to bring
about rational commencement as it
is to inaugurate a sane and safe
Fourth of July.
This day of mental triumph and
new clothes-this graduation day
has been made very expensive through
competition in dress and fine suits
of clothes for the boys and girls will
soon be in the works; but it is not
the boy or girl in the best clothes who
always cuts the most important figure.
To excel in brains is creditable-to
excel in dress is vulgar. These are
matters parents should regulate them
selves and if they will not they might
be regulated by governing committees
or trustees.
It has been well said that "as far
as the boys are concerned they can
be disposed of without much trouble.
They do not have to be decked out in
laces, ribbons, etc. Their apparel may
be costly but not snowy they are
young men. But the girls demand
much more consideration, and it is
a very serious question how they
Should be dressed for commencement
exercises. Left to themselves. par
ents are not always wise in selecting
apparel. Some who are wealthy Wani
very costly dress, and some who are
poor want just as fine gowns as the
rich. To prevent the pride and pair
incident to displays that can or cannot
be afforded, some boards of education
have recommended that all graduates
wear dresses of the. same material,
plain, neat, pretty and made as nearly
alike as is in good taste This is an
excellent rule and has never caused
bitter tears and painful heartburn
ings.
The day Of graduation is but few
weeks away, and 1t is time to con-
slider these things Why should there
be such efforts made to outdress those
who mentally cannot be outclassed?
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15
CIRCULATION
MIGRATORY MOVEMENTS OF CIT
IZENS,

The migratory tables Of the census
Of 1909 disclose queer facts concern
ing loss and gain of population, and
those who think that the development
of new states does not draw hard up
on the old are mistaken.
Connecticut. Massachusetts and
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
have lost about $4,000. The old
states, which have showed gains have
increased their industries. while those
which have lost have depended upon
agriculture.
The figures show that the inter-
change of native white population
with other states left Virginia in 1900
with net loss Of 237,077 persons; that
out of fifty states and territories, only
five states actually lost more popula-
ton than Virginia, namely Kentucky,
New York. Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Tennessee; and that in proportion to
population this so-called migratory
tendency cost Virginia more heavily
than any state or territory in the I'M
ion with the single exception of the
state of Maine whose losses, though
a~NAoAAAy oAAlcAlNA IMAM v II AAtAG >. ny
10000, amounted to 20 per cent. Of
her population.
Looking the field over. the Richmond
Times-Despatch says:
These facts show that balancing
of the books in the year 1900 found
Virginia with an uncompensated loss
of nearly a quarter of a million of her
own native-born, while it found an
other old eastern state, Massachusetts,
with clean gain Of nearly 100, 900.
They show that Virginia is losing pop
ulation out of all proportion to her
gains, out Of all proportion to her ac-
tuai population, out of all proportion
to the experience of other states.
ITO ignore the condition or seek to
explain away It's meaning is equally
unavailing The one thing to do with
a situation such as this is to face it
frankly and honestly and set resolute-
~ to work to remedy it.
The only remedy seems to be to
make life more inviting and more SCI
cure. The winning states are the states
Of best repute as states for thrift
among the working classes.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

so begun on a national holiday. Feb
ruary %. At present the foliage was
never finer, and the nuptial plumage
never brighter, and the field-goer can
now find every belated stra ggler on the
scene of it's summer activities. The
whippoorwills which came to US up
here May 18th, were calling On four
sides of us May 18th, and on Bird day
you should hear them in all their
,haunts. A hardy nuthatch is already
laying a large complement of eggs in
it's last years cavity near the cottage.
A chickadee, downy. bluebird, and tree
swallow are fighting for another low
swung hollow in our strawberry apple
tree.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15
The QUAIL TRAP.
State Flowers and State BirdsState Warblers-oliday
Corners and Breeders-The Faconer Departs-The
Quarry Rejoice.

The Quail Trap, Arbor or Bird Day,
1909.-After the pleasant romancing
in the public schools about choosing
a state flower there may be poetic
justice In. also balloting for a state
bird. While great nations salute their
war eagles with loud acclaim, let Cali
fornia emblazon ON her flag the con-
dor, Utah the pelican, Colorado the
magpie, Texas the cardinal, Oregon
the ring-neck pheasant Louisiana the
Ibis, Florida the fianingo, Georgia
the knocking bird, Carolina the rail,
Pennsylvania the wild turkey, Jersey
the snipe, Delaware the fishhawk, Con-
necticut the ruffed grouse, Massachu-
sets the heath hen, Maine the cross
bill. Vermont the junco, New Hamp-
shire the spruce partridge, Arkansas
the kingbird, with the prairie chicken,
burrowingowl, sage grouse, raven, jay,
and road runner appropriate emblems
for other states in the great west. We
already have a number of warblers
named statewise, like the well known
Kentucky, the Tennessee, the Con-
uecticut Virginia, Cape May and
Maryland yellow throat
Our old chat about "hoIiday birds"
is not quite so fanciful as it at first
appears. OF course. on holidays we
have more time to observe the move
ments of birds. But ON looking over
old dates and records, / really find
that certain birds adhere to certain
days on their movements with fixed
insistence, arriving on holidays breed
ing on holidays. and sometimes bidding
us farewell on a state, church or ma
tional anniversary.
Redwlngs, grackles and woodcock
were first seen this year on Washing
toms birthday. On February % this
season two sets of great horned owl
were taken not far from this city. For
many seasons east and west eggs have
been secured from this earliest of To-,
cal breeding reptores on this holiday.
OspreyS, as usual came again this year
on st. Patrick's day. On the Jersey
shore the saying was again verified
this season, "Ospreys return on March
18th" On Easter Sunday this year a
Norwich collector took q set of barred
owl, four sets of redtailed hawk (three
OF three and one Of two), and one set
of four red shouldered hawk. On a
previous Easter one Of my collectors
took thirty eight eggs of birls of prey.
My own very first record of barred
OWLS eggs was from Hell Gate, in
Preston. on st. Patrick's day. On
Washington's birthday we always used
to find yellow crocuses in flower I'M
der the bay WINDOWS Of 1913 Broadway.
On Fast day, with the pioneer fisher
man Of this city, I took forty-four
pounds of trout from Pachaug river,
Voluntowns following this piece Of
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15
NOT AN EMPTY PHRASE.

"Oh! Forget itl' stiil sounds to
some like an empty and meaningless
phrase. but it is not.
There are thousands OF things in life
which were better forgotten than re-
membered.
What is more ridiculous than a
middle-aged man or woman nursing
an old grudge?
There is nothing to be gained by
cherishing a spirit Of hatred-it is
ness.
There is nothing in remembrances
for the purpose of retaliation excepting
harm to the one so doing. 1t has been
well said that revenge doubles a griev-
ance-it spreads i'll will.
If you know person who is full of
jealousy, prejudices and grudges just
lcok and notice that there is no be-
nign countenance there. When ugli-
ness sits where good will should. good
viii departs.
Forgetting wrong is best described
as refined revenge. 1t puts one in the
way OF being charitable to the unchar-
tablet lifts one above the level of
common, everyday meannesses.
To be so lifted is to be greatly bene-
flied and blessed You haven't time
to discuss alleged wrongs, for you will
he engaged in making things right
in making life as agreeable as possi-
Bile.
The mean man has no power to hurt
you by despicable conduct and there
is no better way of curing him than
Z \;
demeanor he Is injuring himself more
than anyone else.
Forget the disappointments and
differences and grievances and just
cling to the things which are sweet
and CHEEKY. It is a waste of energy
and time to do anything else
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

But what Of the crack faleoner who
last year earned his spurs with the
unrivaled series of eggs of birds Of
prey which we were privileged to see.
envy and exploit Mr.. Richards has
obeyed a business cali to Chicago. in
the very middle Of the breeding season
of his well-marlSed down quarry. Still
he took a hundred eggs of the larger
owls and buteos before he hung up
his ereepers to rust.
II should be joyous holiday for the
hig birds since they can now go on
with the second sets without further
trouble from their relentless follower.
Mr. Ri.har2s' special pets, the broad
wings and sharp shins, being late
breeders, Will escape scot-free this
season. So, on the whole. all the local
owls and hawks, IN the absence of
their trained enemy, should make high
holiday on this Arbor and Bird day.
1909. G. L. r.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15
, SUNDAY MORNING TALK
ZONE WORLD AT A TIME"

HE IL one of those fellows who be-
lieves in only one world at a time"
commented a sagacious, elderly man
upon a youth of marked ability, who Is,
nevertheless, an out and out agnostic.
No Epicurian Of old ever took more
pains to tickle his palate or to please
his aesthetic sensibilities. His concep-
ton of this world where he will prob
ably stay few years longer is that
OF an or1nge from which ne should
extract all possible savory nutriment,
and to which he is under no obligation
to contribute anything that makes for
its uplift.
There are a good many of them
these one-world- at-tine fellows, and
on the surface there is much to justify
them in the attitude they take. This
is q very good world, vital, rich,
throbbing world which responds in a
wonderful number Of ways to our crav-
ing for sensuous qualification. Science
and invention are multiplying con-
stantIy the devices that add to our ease
and comfort. We have but to press the
button and clever mechanisms do the
rest. Moreover, we have outgrown the
old -fashioned notion that we have no
right to the wholesome pleasures
which this world yields. We have
ceased to tell young people that they
are not to delight themselves in ordi-
nary recreations lest their souls should
be in danger of perdition. In the first
place, young people wouldn't believe
1t if we told them so, and In the Sec
ond place, it isn't true. The Bible it
self says: He hath made everything
beautiful in it's season. God giveth
to us all things richly to enjoy"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

The day we celebrate was first called
Arbor day, since changed to Arbor and
Bird day, and all in good time when
the. cart gets before the horse may
be known as Bird and Arbor day.
This holiday properly marks the end of
the long northern migration season, al
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15
The Circulation OF
fhe Bulletin.

The Bulletin has the 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
5000 Of the 4.O53 houses in Nor
wich, and read b.. ninety three per
cent. Of the people. In Windham
It is delivered to over 900 houses.
in Putnam and DanieIson to over
LOO, ara in al Of these places It
is considered the local daily.
Eastern Connecticut has forty
nine towns. one hundred and Sixty
I'VE 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., 1909-05-15
Teddy Sets the Fashions.

Just how much real change is in
volved in the deposition of the old
sultan and the enforcement of a new
one remains to be seen, but surely
times have altered when Mel1med ".
goes to pareyrs in a khaki uniform
Providence Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

Orioles kept up the innmsmoriaI
habit of returning on May 7th. and on
driving from Norwich to Woodstock,
May 9th, by the Quinebaug valley
route, we counted forty-one orioles,
forty three bobolinks and eighteen
thrashers, but heard not a single
quail. But We saw an exquisite group
bird scouts. Tanaeers and grosbeaks
were seen at long intervals, and there
was a right smart sprinkling of larks
and wacups.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

President Taft is looking at con-
gress and saying nothing. 1t appears
as if the senate was disposed to keep
the old Dingleg law in force.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

The wife of a Montana game war
den who was killed by the Indians last
year has been appointed his successor.
She feels capable Of avenging his
death.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

Baltimore is preparing for a good
roads convention and expects the
president to be present. No good
roads convention is perfect without
Cannecticuts commissioner.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

The discovery of gold in the Adiron-
dacks reminds us that every New
England state has thus been honored,
and it's people fleeced.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

A New York man went crazy be-
cause the worshippers of Billiken were
bowling down to false god and going
to the devil.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

The jury that does not look upon
expert testimony in these days as be-
ing worthless is below the average in
intelligence.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

No mayor of Norwich in the past
ten years could look at the streets of
the city without seeing what he could
not do.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

1t is not strange that an Austrian
archduke could not earn more than
$15 week in this country. AS the
nobility is bred its members are not
worth more than that anywhere.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

Barre, Mass, is little place, but
it thinks that it can stand up under
tax of $1,000 for band concerts this
summer
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

The men who are always complain
ing that they cannot get a job are the
men who never do a job as their en-
ployers want it done.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

Speaker Cannon, who is familiar
with conditions, is Of the opinion that
hot weather is the only thing which
will hasten the tariff.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

How can the ice barons Of New Lon
don afford to sell ice to families ten
cents a hundred pounds less than it is
sold in Norwich?
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15
Sometimes even the one-worId- at a

Sometimes even the ne-worId- at a.
time men may wake UP and find them
selves wofully mistaken. We are not
forecasting their plight then, but It is
folly to try to wall out here and now
the world of spiritual realities. The
e-world-at-a-time people may not
suffer hereafter In Just the way the
stiff theologies have affirmed they
would. but how strange that country
must seem to them, when they reach It
having made no preparation for IL
while here. Certainly If one were 60
ing to Europe sometime he would if
possible, make some preparation for
IL. He would occasionally read a book
that tells about it, or talk with some.
body who had been there, or let his
mind in imagination some quiet Sun
day evening roam toward that defect
able country which he hoped to see
some day. Then. when he went, he
would not be altogether dazed to find
the atmosphere too rare for him, OF
show himself at every turn in the
journey a novice or an ignoramus.
THE PARSON,
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

At such times the theory that there
Is only one world for us becomes a.
most intolerable. We look around and
see those who have succeeded in dwell
ing in both worlds. to whom one is al
most as real as the other, who while
taking the true delight in books, mu-
sic, painting, travel, human fellowship
and even in good things to eat and
good things to wear, find also an even
higher satisfaction in the things which
the eye does not see or the hand touch.
They honestly believe that they are
denizens of two worlds and that they
lose a great deal out Of their lives
when they conf1ne themselves to one.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Cipriano Castro has bought him
self home in the Canary islands. He
is a yellow bird, all right.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

Happy thought for today: The
spirit Of Norwich is the spirit Of the
anniversary-there is no such word as
fail
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

Captain Hams realizes now that a
very little deviltry puts a man in an
'-zarviable place to stay,
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

~NPfUSN wv NIIGW dTTyUWC
who will live forever There are many
folks who think they will live forever.
but you have never yet known one to.
If you were acquainted with Little
Tommy Toady' you would be aware of
the fact that he will never die. If I
remember correctly. it was Thackeray
who spoke most endearingly of him in
the days Of Becky Sharp, and he and
Vanity Fair never die, although the
players on the stage have all passed
away. Little Tommy Toady was born
before the dark age, and he has the
verve of youth still. He isn't strang-
er to Norwich. and If you are a keen
observer. you cannot fail to notice that
he meets with considerable favor in
"the Rose of New England"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

Greenwieh.-The principal streets in
town have been oiled for the first time
thin season.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15
4 few Of our citizens remember when

William B. Coffee and conrade left
Norwich in the early SOS for the far
west. to establish themselves in bust
ness and grow up with the country.
They settled in Tacoma, which is now
spoken of as the future New York of
the Pacific slope. We have constant
evidence that they know how to do
things at Tacoma, so we were not sur
prised to find in the Tacoma New
Herald Annual for 1909 a picture of
Mr.. Coffee's summer home. one of the
prettiest places on the shore of Quar-
termaster harbor. known as Bucking-
ham Lodge. in honor of our famous
and venerated war governor. Mr. Cof-
fee is one of the leading citizens of
Tacoma, and his material success is
highly creditable to his industry and
his genius.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

American shipping to Buenos Ayres
was represented by four small sailing
vessels with an aggregate Of 4.o7A tons,
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

At the same time that theory Of life
which would limit to interest in
things seen and tangible breaks down
at certain points. 1t does not help us
In the moral struggle when our better
natures assert themselves and would
rise above the things that drag us
down to earth. Furthermore, we tire
at times of incessant rounds of pleas
ure. Even brownstone mansions and
$4,000 touring cars cannot satisfy GER
tain moods Of our minds.
Again, we cannot shut out the 9TH
er world if we would. AS the poet
says, ut lies around us like cloud"
Something happens to bring 1t very
near. There is a death in the family,
or on the street, or our own physical
powers begin to decline:
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

Saddest Of all possible fatss has
been that Of the woodcock. On Christ
mas night he has been slaughtered by
thousands by southern sportsmen. both
black and white. fire lighting in the
Mississippi swamps, and here at the
nerth in ante-game law days, we had
reason to bemoan the awful slaughter;
the law was Off on woodcock Fourth
OF July, because the gunners who then
controlled legislation believed that 9TH
erwise they would not get full bags
of the homegrown birds before moult-
ing and joining the fall flight. On
July 4th the crack shots, Sam Hun
toon and Luther Rawson, shot forty
four woodcock in the East Lyme
kirches. Later, also on July 4th,
George Bard and cunning mate shot
over forty woodcock in the Caswell
swamp in Ledyard.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

May 9th, four quail were calling on
Woodstock Hill, and May 9Th and 7th
three bobwhites were whistling all day
at the doors of the Quail Trap. On
the same date these game birds were
noisy at the city reservoir, at Bates
pond, on the Commons, Preston. and
or Rose Hill, Ledyard, on Poquonnoc
Plains, and on Bushy Point. Our red
ruff, with a trio of setting" hens, is
often flushed in our woods. A Plain
Hill farmer while driving fence posts
started a grouse from the extreme set
of eighteen eggs on May day. A very
early covey of young cartridges were
surprised by Academy students on the
north slope of Woodstock Hill in the
road May 18th, and on May 18th a
guest from the bungalow saw the same
covey still in the public road. Surely
an extra early lot Of chicks when we
recall the fact that as late as Memo
rial day Mr.. Trumbull and myself
knew Of IL ''biddies" covering their
clutches.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

luck with forty-two pounds from the
same stream Memorial day.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

I'VE long for household faces gone,
For vanished smile we long"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

But far and away the greatest OF all
holiday birds Is the bluebird, who was
seen on Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Years this open winter, and OF
course on all other holidays of the
year And, as has been said before,
with his coat of red, white and blue,
his call to be our national holiday bird
Is second to none.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

On Monday barn swallows came to
the neighborhood, and the bulk Of the
republican swallows came on the same
day, little way south of us. The pro-
tected colony Of cliff swallows at Lii
libridge's, which had increased to nine
ty-three pairs last year, so early this
season number over one hundred pairs.
On May day morning Mr.. Thurston
LilHbridge saw robin bring the first
dab of mud for her nest. and at night
fall the entire structure was. built and
finished off in every particular The
female did all the work. though the
male industriously piped away with
his contra-t treble all day long.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-05-15

Though we had an open winter, and
most of the featlnered residents win
tered well, yet the Iong ice-storms
caused fatalities; and on one Sunday
woodcock, American crossbills and
fox-colored sparrows, found dead in
the road, were brought to me by re-
turning church goers. How many dead
birds were lying in the woods and
bush we have no way of knowing.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-04-12

on him. Here, | was. actually mem
Der of the kaisers family, with four
square meals day, and feather bed
to sleep on. and another one to cover
me, preparing the kaiser's son for col
lego. tutor. as 1t were, on a toot
every hour OF the day. and the kaiser
looking upon me as the foremost
American citizen. except Roosevelt.
and just as we were getting to know
each other, Pa comes butting in and
spolls the whole business.
Gosh, but could have looked on and
seen Pa bastinadoed, or whatever is
the worst punishment. and never
turned hair. or shown human sympa-
thy.
had given the prince new degree
every day, until he walked on crutches
and they had to wheel me in a wheel
barrow | took him out one day in
boat on the little lake In the palace
grounds, to teach him water polo, and
stood him up on the seat, and rocked
the boat, and he split hole IN the
water, and tried to catch hold of the
boat, and | rowed away from him, and
he had to swim half a mile before
let him catch on. and after let him
get in the boat. and he got so he
could breathe and emptied the water
out of his system and clothes, and
told him he was prepared to enter a
water polo game when he got to the
American college, he said all right.
and then he tipped me out of the boat
and never let me get In until We got
near the shore, where a lot OF swans
took me. for a new kind Of duck and
they surrounded ma and picked out
my eyes with their bills, and swatted
me with their wings. and when we
got ashore and told him to run
around pony track to dry his
clothes, he picked up club and told
me to start first, and he chased me
around until we were both dry.
This hazing is all right enough when
you do the hazing but thought he
was real mean to hit me on the pants,
and make me run and set the pace.
He wanted to learn how to play foot
ball, 20 I got cricket ball, his
cousins. the English princes had