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Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21
THE BullE1Ia's DAILY STORY
TABLE TALK AT THE HOBSONS

i Did you look at the STEAM B-O-A-T-SY
 Yes. but they wanted too much for them"
 We played toy store at kindergar- ten to day." Mary spoke up. Some of us played that we were toys. and the others played that they were chil- dren. I stood in corner and played that was a wax doll. and when the children came to buy me opened and shut my eyes"
 And made a noise like weeks wages, I suppose" said Robson. Toy prices are higher than Mt Mckinley this year. While was in the toy de partment kindergarten class of lit- tie foreigners marched through, and l questioned whether 1t wasn't cruel to show the poor little chaps those beau tiful. wonderful playthings that they could never own themselves. There were thirty toddlers in the line, none of them any bigger than Willie. here. and you could tell from the way their little eyes stuck out that they thought they were in heaven"
 Probably they were too small to get much of an impression of what they saw" said Mrs. Hobson, "so the trip won't do them much harm. Didn't you wish you had been million aire? ?''
 q surely did As it was. I made up with the teacher and took the whole crowd to the candy counter. Stock ton and Gardner happened to pass while I was dealing out peppermints, and they stopped and cracked jokes about Is there Santa Claus?' and tried to make teacher think I was a professional kidnapper. All the shop pers and clerks around had a good time guying me, but the ragged little kids thought I was all right"
 I'm sure the other people thought so; too, even if they laughed. Mary take your hand out of your cupi"
 Did you bring us some of the can dy?" said Willie.
 "Yes. sir. I did. but you can't have any of it unail you have eaten up all those potatoes"
 "The children and went over to Mrs. Hunters this afternoon to take back her pattern" said Mrs. Hobson. She thinks she has a good joke on us. and don't know but she has. Mary and Willie were over there yesterday and told her that we didn't like the color of her house at all. and that nc one in our family thought her new porch was a bit pretty. They told her that you said that the blue paint on the railing was loud enough to keer the whole neighborhood awake nights
 Children. did you tell Mrs. Hunter al those things?"
 'Yes. papa, but you did say them because brother and both heard you
 Listen, you little raseals. Don't ever again tell anybody what you hear us say at home"
 "All right, papa. But God hears ev. ertthing we say, doesn't he?" Yes Mary"
 ''Then I wish I could have a dol ! piano for Christmas s."-Newark News
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21
EVIDENCES.

The man who advertises must ever remain a foolish spender of money to the man who doesn't believe n Interchangeable has had no evidence that dollars so put out ever return. If, however, he should handle The Bulletins exchanges these days, h. would be surprised to see how the papers of this state bulge with trade and Christmas announcements.
 The Bulletin notes that the Hart ford Times and the Bridgeport Tels- gram have issued 32-page editions, The Herald of New Britain 3s- pal ge edition, The Courant of Hartford q 2s-page edition, The Register and The Evening Union of New Haven, and the Waterbury Republican, eael 24- page editions, not to mention the big papers which are now coming in from other states
 That there is business in printers ink has been so well proven that it is strange that a man can be found anywhere who still honestly thinks that it doesn't pay. Why these great papers carry hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of advertising space and they return large dividneds to the firms they represent.
 The business that gets into prir1= in good shape gets right into the swim of trade.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21
WHAT A TREE pocToR pIo.

The movement to rejuvenate the apple orchards of New England IS backed by men of experience ard faith, men who know standard fruit when they see it. The New England apple barrel has grown into a speckl.,d and dishonest thing. A Boston man. speaking as a buyer, says:
 For several years I have been 5un- coed with New England apples. One fall purchased a supply from a per- sonal friend in Maine, and got pretty poor grade of cider apples. The nes year I bought of a boyhood friend who had the best apple farm in the town I originated in, and got a some what poorer grade of cider apples. The next year I bought apples of q Faneuil Hall market dealer, from a Maine orchard that he knew all about and I got a grade of cider apples in ferior to either of the others, packed in the traditional manner, with a few good ones on top and the center made up from the lot that had been re- jected as too bad to feed to the hogs"
 And this same writer tells story of an apple tree doctor who looked over a New England orchard of 100 trees which had been neglected ani gave the owner an estimate Of ths. necessity for starting it in the rigt. way again. The owner demurred a. the price, and 1t was finally agreed that the tree man should doctor the decadent orchard at his own expense and that he should have all of the first crop after treatment and one-ha'f of each of the next two crops. This year the crop belonged to the doctor, and he marketed 1000 barrels of as fine apples as ever were offered by the Faneuil Hall dealers, and had beside: a large quantity of seconds, and SUD- piled the owner of the orchard and everybody connected with the tree doc tors establishment with all the apples they wanted. For these apples tn- tree man received a sum equal t1 more than three times the fee he pro- posed to charge the owner for puttins the orchard in condition and he has n prospect the half share of the crops of 1910 and 1911"
 This makes it appear that the New England Yankee is losing his shrewd- ness, and if the syndicates organizing to buy up orchard lands at low prices succeed, many of them will lose farms that will pay big dividends.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21
YOUR LAME BACK WILL FEEL FINE
Out-oOrder Kidneys Regulated and Bladder Misery Ends After Taking the First Few Doses-Most Severe
 Backache Simply Vanishes

A real surprise awaits every suf- ferer from kidney or bladder trouble who takes several doses of Pape's Diuretic. Misery in the back, sides or loins, sick headache, nervousness. rheumatism pains, heart palpitations, dizziness, sIeeplessness, infiamed or swollen eyelids, lack of energy and all symptoms of out-of- order kidneys simply vanish.
 Uncomfortable urination (especially at night), smarting, offensive and dis colored water and other bladder mis- cry ends.
 The moment you suspect kidney or urinary disorder. or feel any rheu- matism, begin taking this harmless medicine, with the knowledge that there Is no other remedy, at any price, made anywhere else in the world.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21
Ready for Publicity.

President Taft's recommendation that political candidates and con1- mittees in congressional and national elections be compelled by law to file a sworn statement of their expenses has not made much stir in this part of the country. but the west is receiv- ing it with hearty approval. The Washington correspondents of the Chicago Tribune and the Minneapolis Journal have made poll of the sen ators and representatives from If of the states of the middle west, and found that they are almost unani- n1ously in favor of legislating to se-
 cure publicity of campaign expendi- lures. Of the 25 senators who ex- pressed themselves. 25 were for the plan, while only II of the 136 repre-
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

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 oped in Atlantic blue cotton voile and
 is particularly becoming to the slim
 figure of the growing girl. The body
 portion is made with a wide tuck over
 each shoulder, stitched from shoulder
 to waist line. The middle portion of
 the waist is gathered to the yoke band
 of broad English embroidery insertion.
 or. if desired, this band may be of the
 material, hand embroidered with white
 or deeper blue mercerfzed cotton, simi- lar bands finishing the long or short sleeves whichever are used. The yoke is of a1Iover tucking of white Persian lawn. The short skirt is gathered to the waist the joining being hidden by the marrow belt of the material, a wide tuck being placed midway in it's length. It is finished with a rather narrow hem and fastens at the center-back. The dress is in five sizes-4 to 12 years. For a girl of 10 years the dress requires 4Z yards of material 27 inches wide, 3h yards 36 inches wide or 8 yards AZ inches wide; as illustrated, F yard of tucking IS Inches wide and 1 h yards of insertion
 Price of pattern, 10 cents.
 Order through The Bulletin Company, Pattern Dept, Norwich. Conn. Just Football.
 He stood on the bridge at twilight,
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21
The Attacks on RaIIinusr.

The attacks upon Secretary Ba1lin- ger of the interior department con-
 tinue in various quarters; but the att
 Jacks are now taking on less of an air of anxiety as to public interests and more of a personal tinge. Some of Mir. Ballinger's former critics. ang- cred by the fact that President Taft. after searching examination, found the secretary wholly guiltless of any wrong doing. are now making charges without the offer of shred of proof. simply and plainly through personal spite. The critics do not specifically charge that Secretary Ballinger has done anything dishonest. They are afraid to do that, so long as penal ties for deliberate and malicious libel exist on the statute books. But they are trying. by innuendo or by hysteric emphasis upon facts that have been
 repeatedly explained. 10 make it ap- pear that the service is corrupt. The public, however. is coming to appreci-
 ate the spite that underlies most of this talk, and to estimate the whole
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

"willie,v said Mir. Hobson to his four-year -old son. as the family gath cred at the dinner table. will you please ask tho blessing7"
 Yes" replied the boy. and. rever- ently putting his little face to his plate, he said: ,.
 Dear Lord. we thank thee for all thy good things. We thank thee. for our food, and we thank thee for our clothes. and we thank thee for our long walk up on the mountain last year, and we thank thee for our little short walks. and we thank thee for our food, and for everything all over the world. Amen"
 "That was a fine prayer" said Mrs. Hobson. proudly. That was the kind of prayer that God likes to hear.r
 'sHe thanked God for our food twice" :" Mary commented. Mary is a year and a half older than her brother, and a zeaIous critic of all his actions.
 "The way that food prices are" said Mir. Hobson, as he cut up the beef steak. there would be no harm in thanking the Lord for our food six or eight times at every meal. It seems strange to me, considering the cost of living, that people have so much money left to spend for Christmas presents. BuJ they SuTely nave lotS oI it, for the stores are crowded, and none of the people that I saw today acted as if they were giving up their cash against their will. They were all behaving mighty good -natured about it. Do you want gravy on your potatoes, children"
 "No. butterI" shouted both young Hobsons.
 Do you wonder that we don't get IL T.a4.- she handed the butter dish across the board.
 "Christnas has a cheering effect upon the whole town. Hobson re- sumed. Wherever I went today peo- pie were kinder and more obiiging than I've known them to be before. The girl who waited on me at-in one of the stores where I went
 What store?''
 "Tf I told you, you would know right away what to expect for Christ mas"
 @All right for you, sir I guess we can have Christmas secrets, too, can't we. cf1Jldren?"
 Mamma and I and brother have a fine secret" said Mary. Papa, dear, you don't ever look in the bottom of
 "Or behind the lounge added Willie.
 NO, children" Hobson assured them. Your father wouldn't look in those places for the world. Now eat your dinner and let mamma and papa talk. I had some things sent out for the KIDS, my dear. They ought to be here in the morning. There is a friction AUTO and a HORSE and a DOLL PIANO and a set of DISHES and two or three other things"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

which will effect so thorough and prompt cure as a fifty-cent treat ment of Pape's Diuretic, which any druggist can supply.
 It is needless to feel miserable and worried, because this unusual prepra- ton goes at once to the out-of- order kidneys and urinary system. distribut- ing it's cleansing. healing and strcastrl- ening influence directly upon the or gans and glands affected, and com pletes the cure before you realize it.
 Your physician, pharmacist. banker or any mercantile agency will tell you that Pape. Thompson & Pape, of Cin- cinnati. is a large and responsible medicine concern, thoroughly worthy of your confidence.
 Accept only Pape's Diuretic-fifty- cent treatment-any drug store-any where in the world.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21
THE BANK GUARANTY LAW.

The Oklahoma bank guaranty law. which Colonel Bryan would have had adopted. untested by the people of the whole country, Is not working we'll The failure of bank there has led to some profanity in high places and considerable dlstrust everywhere.
 Governor Haskell is quoted as say ing that there will be no further trouble if mo more of the d--d national banks fall" The governor 5 profanity is entirely beside the ques- ton. What Oklahoma needs most of all is a financial system that be- gets confidence instead Of distrust; which places honesty above wild catting'' in the management of hnan- cial institutions, which puts the bur den of their own mistakes on the loosely managed banks and does not tax sound banking to make up deficits caused by unsound banking.
 Commenting upon the recent practi- cal working of the law, the Kansas City Journal says: '"This is a critical period in the history of the new state. Capital should be attracted by every possible legitimate means, and there is nothing at which capital looks askance more quickly than the fam tastic financial legislative nostrums s1shed out of the ash heaps of popu- Nsm and failure. One bank Is not made sound by the soundness of an other, as a general proposition. One banker Is not made safe custodian of anybody's money merely because the law says that If he proves unsafe, the safe, honest, sane and successful banker will make restitution of the money lost by the unsafety, the un- wisdom, the disaster and possibly the dishonesty of the banker who fails. How many more banks must fail in Oklahoma before this simple, self evident truth is realized and acted unon2D
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

the intended visit of the inquisitors. Tho barbarous modes of punishment, including leaden riveted straps, rings in the walls to which prisoners were suspended for as long as forty min utes in succession. and whipping chairs, were roundIy denounced as in human. The report says that all this is the more inhuman because the pris- oners are sent to the stockade because they are unable to pay a money fine for misdemeanors.
 The southern way of running stock ades was shown at Andersonville a half century ago; and there is little sign of improvement in this picture. Mans inhumanity to man still makes countless thousands mourn
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

sentatives interviewed refused to com init themselves to it. The outlook is thus promising for a statute which will force party committees to do what the democrats did voluntarily last year. When we remember how much was made of this in the cam- paign, and how great are the evils which may be hidden by the secret use of huge sums of money in cleo tions. we cannot but hope that the progressive" west will get its will on this subject written into law.-New York Evening Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

England imported over two billion eggs last year for home consumption, which shows that her henneries nee! to be increased.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

Dr. Cook must realize now that de- lays are just as dangerous as they are reputed to be. The most important thing for him was to have had his credentials properly o. K.'ed early in the game.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

Montreal is having grating ex- perience. and the Canadian papers can no longer point this way with horror at official dishonesty.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

The Richmond Times Despatch says: The more we hear of Captain Loose the less we blame Dr. Cook for going off by himself.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

The woman who is conscious of the play of her smiles never takes any comfort in using the phone for busi- ness purposes.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

Happy thought for today: If you do not know what you are going to do for Christmas, it is the part of wisdom to find out.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

The sagging cotton prices disturb the south, but New England is of the opinion that it is about time for them to do SO.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

The trouble with too many govern ment investigations is that the investi- gators are too often part of the system they are investigating,
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

It Is q fact that the cigarette smoker thinks that it is shame for girl to degrade herself by chewing gum.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Mexfcans who spit upon the American flag may find that danger ous some day when they least expect if
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

T want to get a license to marry the best girl in the world" said the young man. Sure" commented the clerk, that makes thirteen hundred licenses for that. girl this season."- Puck.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

Dr. Cook is not running away from the powers at Copenhagen. He is handy and in readiness to answer any call that may be made for him.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

Money is talking everywhere, just now, but it makes no such babbling as the suffragettes make when they all talk at once.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

King Leopold is getting credit for making a dark spot in the history of his country, and his best subjects re- pudiate rather than praise him.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

It is still possible to gather s4oO
 worth of furs in two months in some parts of Vermont: and $1S,0O0 worth was the output of one town recently.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

Now that Carrie Nation has recent ly had three offers in marriage there appears to be no reason why any woman should despair.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

The Hill railroads have given mo- tice to employees that the drink habit must stop or they must go. Respon- sible men are needed about railroads.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

The only place in which the Bel gian monarch is mourned sincerely is said to be in the jewelry stores of Paris.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

as the game drew near its close. In triumphant mood he steadfastly stood on the bridge of the halfbacks nose Kansas City Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

The supreme court of New York turned out one divorce every nineteen minutes the other day. That Is faster
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21

than the connubial knot is usually tied
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-21
The Circulation of The 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.oss houses in Nor
 wIch. and read b. ninety-three per cent. of <he people. In Windham 1t is delivered to over 800 houses. in Putnam and Danieison to over HOO. ana 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
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-09
Comment on Western Trip

President Taft met a former sweet
heart during his journey in the Far
West who seems TO be more kindly
disposed toward him than those other
former sweethearts. the Progressives in
the Middle West.-New Orleans Tines
Democrat.
Mr.. Tafts public reference on his
Western trip TO a certain lady as ian
old sweetheart OF mine" seems not TO
have been altogether pleasing to the
lady herself. and Mrs. Taft is vet 70 he
heard from. Even frank, free-hearted
President should not tell all his secrets.
Indianapolis Star.
=
II takes a dyed-in-the-wool optimist 70
feel happy when President Taft turns
his perpetual smile in the direction ~
the Observation-Disclosures star.
Just what President Taft will decide
about what is whisky" Il Is unsa ge 10
predict His decision upon what Is 6io6
protectionism is that II is nract i,s7 =
politics.-Louisville Courier journal
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-09

Iowa people what good set OF rules
the House had and assured them that
the country had good tariff bill lie
extolled Representative Hull. chairman
of the House Military Affairs Commit
tee, who has always stood by the
House organization.
Furthermore. the Speaker served
notice that he had no intention of
voluntarily quitting Congress. This
may mean that Mr.. Cannon will try for
another term as Speaker. At least, it
will serve to light the fires of a con-
flict over Cannonism, and one may con
fidently expect to hear a great deal of
Cannon and anti-Cannon arguments in
the next Congressional campaign. The
utteranees of the Speaker at Knoxville
may be looked on as the beginning of
the Cannon and anti-Cannon fight
which will be waged next summer and
until the Congressional elections are
held The Speaker has made it clear
where he stands and that ne does not
propose to alter in any way the course
he has been pursuing as head of the
House.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-09
LOWELL'S STIR
RING INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

President LOwell's inaugural address
at Harvard illustrated the point that
the American college is passing through
transitional period. DR.. Lowell has
his policy all formed TO take advan-
tage Of this transition; TO effect a
greater solidarity which, by improving
the minds and morals of the students,
viii prove beneficial to the country at
large It is broad policy, plainly and
forcibly stated and instinct with the
noblest of purposes and the brightest
optimism.
The early college had a solidarity
which disappeared to a large extent
when subjected to the influence of the
elective system. President Lowell be
lieves that the advantages Of the close
associations o. bygone times can be
revived and fitted to the advantages
resulting from the elective method. The
common ground, by being enlarged,
would increase and stimulate common
interests, and out of this arrangement
would come new mental and moral ef-
fectiveness.
As President Hadley, of Yale, said in
his address at New Haven the other
day, when young men are thrown to-
gether and encouraged to think Tor
themselves, the thoughts OF the better
element will prevail. That is to say,
truth will prevail-intellectual truth
and ethical truth. The right ideals will
rise above the rest; the best standards
of thinking and acting will assume
superior prominence.
The opportunities coming before the
college graduate are growing more
numerous, more important, every year
and work well done in any field re-
bounds to the credit of the whole ma
ton.
President Lowell has at the outset
proved himself a powerful and popular
1 leader.