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Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

I'd like to see 'em all closed up"
said the oldest resident. you can't
never make me believe that drinkin's
drinks the more he wants to drink, an
the less he wants to work an take care
of his family"
What would the worxin man do
with himself evenin's if he didn't have
the saloon to go to ?" asked the Gus
toner who was buying herring.
He'd go home an stay with his fam
~ like he ought to-" said the oldest
resident, severely. "Drinkin' amt nee
s'ry. A mans better without it. Where
do you s'pose l went evenins when
there wasn't a saloon within a mile of
here? That's what I'm telhn' you.
lived here when there wasn't a saloon
nearer than Dutch Jake's, an that was
where GrenShaw avenue is now-Gren-
shaw an Pepperell. If that amt over
mile l miss my guess. If l wanted
70 go to a saloon I had to wolk over
there. Well, want to tell you I didn't
often want it bad enough to walk so
far"
Il guess you kept a dimmyjohn in
the house, didn't you, Mr.. Wickers ?"
asked the corner grocer.
Il did, said the oldest resident, def
antly. Il amt goin to lie about it. l
KEEP dimmyjohn, an if friend come
to see me 1 got her out. 1t was good
stuff, too; not like the whiskey they
sell nowadays. But l wouldn't do that
now-not even to be sosherble an
neighborly. I'm sorry I done it. I'd
have been better off if I hadn't"
We'll 4 can take a dHink or l can let
it alone" said the herring customer.
IF feel I need it%
You don't never need It," said the
Oldest resident That's all a notion
You're a young man compared to me.
an if anybody ever needed it 1 would
My blood's gettin' sorter thin an l feel
the cold more't you do, but I don't
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
BEWARE or FRAUDS!
Duffy's FuFs Malt Whlskey

is sold in sealed bottles only-never in bulk.
A fac-simile of the genuine bottle is printed
here so that you may easily recognize it. 1t is
our own patented Battle-Ground, amber colored
and with the name 'Duffy Malt Whiskey
Company blown in the glass. The trade
mark-the Old Chemists Heads on the label,
and over the cork there is an engraved paper
seal. Be certain this seal is not broken.
1t is the only whiskey recognized by doctors
everywhere as a family medicine. At all drug
gists, grocers, dealers, or direct. 81 bottle.
Write Consulting Physician, Duffy Malt
Whiskey Co., Rochester, N. Y, for free illus
trated medical booklet and free advice.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Another certainty is that human sym
pathy, the best thing that passes be-
TWEEN man and man, would never ex-
list We're it not for trouble and sorrow
The spectacle Of the warships of vari-
Gus nations hurrying toward the Ital-
ian waters on errands Of relief has
Eeen one of the relieving sights in
connection with the awful earthquake
Such a. tragedy may do more than in
ternational peace conventions to bring
about friendly understandings that
shall make armed conflict forever i'm
possible. So. too, when trouble comes
to an Individual. how quickly others
signify their appreciation Of his suf-
fering. and their desire to do their lit
tie best toward making it bearable.
One more thing is certain-trouble
works out beneffcent results in the field
of chara cter, provided one does not
rebel and complain The world Is ed
ucated and disciplined by world TRACE
dies. The individual is purified and en-
nobled by bitter experiences. So long
as the most perfect character that has
ever walked this earth was called upon
to endure the tragedy Of the cross, not
only at the end of his life, but all the
way through, we who were cast in a
lesser world who own ourselves far
from perfection ought not to complain
when the knife cuts into our flesh or
the scourge is laid upon our backs.
The reason can give no answer to
the question, why" but faith, instead
of being discomforted and vanauished,
is braced and made more robust by
every encounter with mystery, for faith
takes into account two great factors
God and the future life. And because
It rests profoundly on these realities,
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
A Hiqh Compliment.

Those disturbed members Of con-
gress who are so exercised about Gov
ernor Liiley's technical retention of his
seat In that body for a few weeks are
paying Connecticut a high compliment
in insisting that the services of our
congressman-at-l Large are worth $500
per day. If the vacancy existed it
would cost about $4,000 to fill it and
the term would expire in March. Con-
necticut can use the money to better
adYantage.-Bristol Press
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
An Abundance oP LAW.

In the congress of the United Statel
and the state legislatures two years
ago over $4,000 bills were passed
That exceeds by something Ike 1000
the number of measures which went
through the British parliament in
the entire nineteenth century. A writer
in the Atlantic reaches the conclusion
that the figures show clearly why we
have so many more fool laws than the
Britons, why we have so many laws
which are never enforced and why we
never have time to consider much prop
er and necessary legislation.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
A strainht charne.

By way of paying its respects to Mr..
Roosevelt. no opportunity for which it
omits now. the New York Sun prints
the 1908 majorities Of the republican
states in comparison with the MAORI
ties of 1904, to show how serious on
Mr.. Taft was the effect of the Roose-
Welt handicap. Finding it necessary
to explain an exception in Connecti-
cut, The Sun says: Connecticut
gave its increased Taft vote as re-
buke to Lilley and his machinists."
The powers which did the most to de-
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

But the fact is there Is no answer
at least none thai solves entirely the
mystery or satisfies both the demands
OF the reason and the instincts of the
heart Better for us is 1t to admit
that we are in a world for whose beha-
vior we are not expected to give to-
tally satisfactory accounting. We did
did not make the world and there are
limit sto our responsibility for It; and
yet we may be sure of at least three
things: First. that It Is, on the whole,
good world. Otherwise the number
of suicides would exceed the number
of those who dies a natural death. The
way in which men cling to life, even
though they know little but poverty
and trouble, is proof tina the great ma
iority of mankind regard life as a
boon.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
Norwich, Saturday, Jan. 10, 1909.
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 1858 houses in Nor
witch. and read b. ninety three per
cent. of the people. In Windham
1t is delivered to over 900 houses
in Putnam and Danlelson to over
100, ara in all Of these places t
is considered the local daily.
Eastern Connecticut has forty
nine towns. one hundred and sixty
Eve 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., 1909-01-16

strength and beauty is work; the price
of every achievement is work; the
price of freedom is work: the price of
mastery is work. The song of the uni
verse is work. Work is life-inertia is
death. The vital forces are always
working forces. All that is and all
that is to be is the fruit of work. We
are of the work which has made life
what 1t is-we are in the work which
is to make life better.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
How Much Better.

Samuel Gompers told the executive
council Of the American Federation of
Labor on Monday that the legal ex-
penses incurred by him and his asso-
ciates in the Buck Stove and Range
boycott would amount to $4,000 or
more, and that assessments on the
members of the federation would have
to be levied in order to meet these
expenses. How much better it would
have been-how much less costly-if
Mr.. Gompers had obeyed the law as
other people do.-Hartford Courant.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Politics is wonderful study when
pursued in a club or Y. M. c. A. class
and very much resembles journalism
as studied through college instruc-
ton or a correspondence course. Ev-
cry practical business has an open and
a hidden side. The first principles can
be taught or learned in any old way,
but the maze underlying politics-the
art Of manipulating the wires is a
personal study under secret and sin
gular circumstances usually. A super
fetal knowledge Of politics is hardly
worth the having-the political grip
is the thing and that comes by prac-
tice only. 1t may be a good thing for
the women to study politics, but they
should be careful not to get in too
deep. 1t is a different game from
bridge!
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
A Satisfactory Appointment.

While it was expected that Governor
Lilley would name Judge Charles B.
Waller of the common pleas court to
succeed himself, the nomination is none
the less gratifying to the friends Of
the judge and the members Of the New
London county bar. AS a judge, Mr..
Waller has been industrious, dignified,
impartial. He has also developer d
judicial temperament, all of which has
raised him in esteem in this county
and won him the respect of the people.
As one good term deserves another, his
retention on the common pleas bench
is most satisfactory both to.sthe prac-
ticing lawyers and to th@Naaymen.-
New London Telegraph.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Possibly there are more brilliant"
men in congress than z. Stevens
Henry, but if there are any who to a
greater degree possess that excellent
quality known as el-headedness. for
which he is noted, their names have
escaped US. Mr. Henry certainly met
expectations when he took his place
among those dignified members who
voted against censuring the president.
Bristol Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
ROderick Theatre

SILVA & BRowNELL, Lessees,
will open Saturday, January 18th, 1909,
with HIGH GLASS MOVING PIC
TUREs and ILLUSTRATED SONGS.
Change Of programme every Mon
day and Thursday.
Continuous performance from 2 to
and to 10 p. m.
ADMISSION 5 CENTS.
327 Main Street, opp. Post Office.
jan14d
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
THE PROPER ORDER

New Haven women-some of them
have formed a club with a view to
studying politics. That is beginning
at the foundation Of political activity.
Men, generally, vote first and study
politics afterwards, or not at ALL
Ansonia Sentinel.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

There are lots of people who think
that they are living according to the
Golden Rule, who when they do wrong
speak Of it in whispers, and when their
neighbor happens to do anything wrong
talk right out loud about it. You have
noticed folks of this sort, of course, for
they are not rare. Sometimes 1 think
I am apt to speak with a little more
freedom and voice about the other fell
lows meanness than 1 dare to about
my own. When it comes to guarding
ourselves, we are, too many of US; like
sentries asleep at their post When
we ara most satisfied with ourselves
our weaknesses are most apparent to
others. We are all human and need
to have care.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
The Virtuous Unpire.

Virtuous baseball umpires, They
not only spurned the bride, but they are
prepared to expose the names of the
would-be bribers. 1t is a fine card for
the incorruptibility of the game
Boston Herald
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Honesty may be the best policy, but
the clerks who wish to live Ike Christ
say it is impossible to do so under
present-day commercial regulations
and pretenses.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

William, am not surprised to find
that you are anxious to know how to
IuunDunc9 chauffeur" Pollteness re-
quires that you should pronounce it
as the other fellow does unless you
get a chance to say shooter first In
my belated and polite moments 1 have
called it sho-fur and shutter and sho-
fure and shower and show-fer and
chof-fer AMI choW-fer and chaw-fer
and shif-fer and sho-fur and sho-foor
and sho-feer I have boxed the com
pass on that word once, sure; and
seem destined to box it backwards IN
less something interreres. 1 tell you
William. some of these foreign words
which get upon the American tongue
have a great deal to answer for. Do
the best you can. If you can lead off
it is all right. but where you have to
follow it is difficult.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Word comes from Florida that Rich
ard Croker has caught shark: He
knows the ways of sharks so well that
this does not appear to be strange.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Congress is acting like an old-fash-
toned school under the lead of few
recalcitrant boys who hated the teach
or because he insisted on his rights.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

The suggestion of Minnesota con-
gresham that the secret service be
used to teach Washington children
leap-frog on the city play grounds
was very dignifed.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Congress is SO absorbed with its
Interpretation of the presidents mes
sage that it is not likely to pass the
$4,000 bills now before it, this ses-
sion.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
Resentfni ~ Rehuke.

No man is fit to be a reformer or
leader of men who cannot give and
take plain speech on the subject near
est to his heart without losing his
temper
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

The shoemen have held a confer
ence and decided that the number
must be put in plain figures upon wo-
mems shoes. What an indignity this
is.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

A granite capitol for the state Of
New Hampshire seems to be the prop
er thing. 1t ought to sit like a halo on
a saint
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

| do not know so much about skates
as 1 used to. The old fancy, curl toed
skate, with its leather straps, has no
standing with the club skates and
hockey skates Of today. The old skat-
ers could cut any figure on the ice,
from a figure to a Digeon's wing,
but the hockey skate is not built for
curves and fourishes-it is a straight
runnered business affair, and is design
ed for speed-just for hockey. 1t is
built along strenuous lines and Is not
adapted to any fancy work An old
skater on a pair of hockey skates for
the first time feels like an eastern
horseman on a western broncho. He
is very apt to run abunk or to sit down
hard most Unexpectedly. 1t is wonder
full how the youngsters of today viii
race on them, and what fun they have
in their play on the ice.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

outside the bucksaw, the snow
shovel has as much heath in IT to the
square inch, as any everyday imple-
ment
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Attorney General Bonaparte did
look up from his work long enough
to tell Senator Tillman that he was
mistaken.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

crease the vote of Mr.. Lilley weren't
working chiefly for an increased Taft
vote, and nobody knows that fact bet
ter than the New York Sun.-The
Ra0iSter
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
HAM AND CHEESE.

The best place In Norwich to buy
Pressed or Minced Ham or any kind
OF Cheese is at Mrs. Thumm's. rs
Franklin Street Others nave learned
to buy OF no ore else. A trial order
will make you a permanent customer.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
Good Definitior.

born diplomat is a person who can
always appear interested in other
peoples roubles.-Biddeford Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Castro is a skyscraper when it
comes to making international trou-
BILE; but a boys suit of clothing fits
him.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Indiana did not think John W. Kern
of senatorial size, and declined to give
him seat in the United States SEN
ate
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Tillman has thriven on personal at
tacks upon public men, but how ten
der he seems to be when he is touch
ed.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
!: SUNDAY MORNING TALK
The Question Whv,

In one or his sweetest poems, James
Russell Lowell describes his pitiable
loneliness when darling child was
taken from him. One of the verses in
which he voices his dissatisfaction with
the ordinary explanation Of trouble is
this:
Your logic, my friends, is perfect
Your moral most drearily true;
But since the earth clashed on her cof-
fin,
l keep hearing that and not you"
One has some such feeling as this
when he reads many of the sermons
and articles that have sought to in
terpret the meaning of the terrible ca
tastrophe in Sicily. Most of them
leave you still asking why, why, why?
In a group of distinguished scholars
a conversation once turned upon this
question Of mystery connected with the
divine rulership Of the world. One man
after another sought to contribute
what light he could, until It became
the turn of the Oldest and most revered
among them, the president of a leading
theological seminary, to speak All he
SAID was Gentlemen, we might as well
confess that God does a great many
things that man could not consci-
entiously do" He meant that If a man
were in charge of the universe. and mad
all power committed to him, he would
not permit abe things to happen that
are allowed to happen every day.
s--
For mystery is ar every day affair.
The terrible upheaval on the other side
of the sea is simply an exhibition on a
tremendously large scale of what is
happening on a small scale almost
every mon ent somewhere. Indeed, if
we can endure and rise above the
mysterious dispensations that touch our
own lives from time to time, we can
probably summon up enough philoso-
ply to meet the great public cala1nittes
concerning which the newspapers scat
ter particulars far and wide. We do not
put the question why" for the first
time when we read Of devastating con-
f1agrations. of engulfng whirlwinds and
~1erciless earthquakes. We put the
question, why" whenever we hear Of
a fair, innocent, promising child taken
suddenly or by the slow working Of
disease, from life; or whenever q young
man just through his studies, on the
verge of great usefulness in the world.
goes insane; or whenever the father
and wage Garner in a large family de-
pendent upon him suffers a manning
accident; or whenever sickness or
death strikes as it seems to love to do
a shining mark; or whenever tragedy
stalks in one form or another into a
familiar and beloved circle of dear
ones. We are saving why nearly all
the time, If we have any degree of
constituencies to the sorrows, the woe
and despair of our fellow men; and
If we can give an answer to the ques-
tion in one case, we probably can in
all
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
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Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Carrie Nation says THE devil is
loose in Scotland" He is not tied
up on this side of the water.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

faith sings GU, even thought the storm
may roar without.
THE PARSON.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Denver has a three-weeks- old baby
girl that can talk; but sh cannot
match Carrie Nation, yet
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

This week, as once before, the heav-
lest snow was in the states south
west of Connecticut.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

President Roosevelt rode the army
officers objections to the new re-
quirements out Of sight.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Common councils such as Pittsburg
had have to be addressed as "your hon
orable body"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
RRANDEGEE's ELECTION,
A Brilliant Victory.

The victory of the senator was the
more brilliant because of the tremen-
dous fight put up by Mr.. Hill-Ncw
Haven Leader.
ConsoIitary.
There is some consolation for Mr.
Hill in the republican legislative eau
Gus. Mr.. Brardegee may have wrested
the laurels from him, but he won
three times consecutively. just the
same. He obtained Ill ballots.-New
Haven Register.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

Theodore means the gift of God. and
congress cannot understand. 1t will
in the course Of time.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
EDITORIAL NOTES

Happy thought for today: Keep the
heart glad and the mind cannot go
mad.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

A writer in the New York Times
calls the family tree a Pigment of the
imagination and Classics it as horti-
culture Of the mind. He says that "a
real genealogical tree would not be
a tree at ali. but an inextricable mass
of. lines spreading outward over the
whole earth and not inward to a sin
gle trunk. And yet people will claim
to find in themselves resemb lances of
body and mind to somebody who lived
100, 200, 500 years ago, and they will
actually pay money for aborescent
fancies drawn on a bit of parchment
or stiff paper!" There are people who
take real comfort in tracing the fam
lily line back to some noble Individual
l suppose The Man Who Talks start
ed with Adam, his forbears were in
the ark with Noah--ton good to be
wiped out-and came over in the May.
flower. 1t seems a pity to load one"
more on the Mayflower, but necessity
takes no note of the fact that the
good ship has been fearfully overload
ed. have stood on Plymouth Rock.
myself, and know that the Pilgrims
must have landed on it one at time.
and not lingered-in fact they never
realized what a rock it was going to
be in history. As to the family tree
it is easier imagined than described
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
1t has been we'll said, "once we

1t has been we'll said, "Once we
thought work was a curse; then it
came to US that it was a necessary
evil; and yesterday it dawned upon
us that it is blessed privilege"
This shows how truth forces its wav
through error. We know today that
work is develOpment-that work is
progress-that work is attainment.
Man is glorifed by his work as truly
as God is by His. The price Of physical
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16
THE MAN WHO LALAS

There is no consciousness that is
doing more for man today than the
consciousness of the presence of God
"a realization of the fact that he is
omnipotent and omnipresent-to really
feel that all life is one, that we are
brothers and sisters to the birds and
f1owers-that the universe was plan
ned for good and that nothing can do
us harm. 1t is so much more consist
ent than to profess to love God while
we hold in contempt the least of his
creatures. There are men and wo-
men today who recognize God as an
ever-present force and who have evil
dence of his power to helm and they
are living in an atmosphere of love
and good will-of peace and joy. They
abide with Him and He abides with
them. This is the condition which
viii completely redeem the earth
which win establish the peace which
abides.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-16

These good words from an apprecia-
tive friend A. j. c., Of Southbridge,
Mass. are an inspiration. / may
have helped him-sO has he helped me.
He writes: The wise man said: GAS
a well of water, in dry and thirsty
land, where no water is, so Is good
news from a far country" AS my pa
per comes to me, turn at once to The
Man Who Talks" I have had another
year Of blessed and helpful comrade-
ship with him; and have learned many
q helpful lesson and received many a
good word. that has added light and
directing influence to my life and way.
There are sermons in those talks; SER
mons, if they were read by the whole
world, would change many a down
ward path into one Of right and useful
ness. They are laden with the old
time message: Peace on earth, good
will tO men" Across the distance be-
tween US hold out my hand Of fellow
ship. In its clasp are my best wishes
to you. Let the good words go on, and
may the blessed spirit guide you, and
the year be full of the best and good
things of our Heavenly Father" This
friend and brother has my most cor
dial thanks for his helpful words and
kindly wishes.