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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07
THE WRONG TAckLE.

The congressman viii soon be home,
sick and tired of the tariff question,
and in no mood to be catechised along
tariff lines. 1t will not be in good
form to engage them in conversation
upon this hot and to them hackneyed
subject. They have had enough of
it. and so has the country. To hail
them upon this subject now is like
asking man when the temperature
is up to s5 degrees in the shade, il
it is hot enough for him! How tariff
talk operates under such conditions
the south: "A gentleman travelling
in South Carolina rode up to an old
farmers house, asked him If he could
stay all night The farmer said yes.
and the boy took the horse to the
barn. and the next morning in the
justice of the peace court, in extenu-
alton of why he had whipped the
stranger, the farmer said The stran-
ger came into my house and the first
thing he did was to go up to the
fireplace and kick my dog that was
lying in front of the fireplace and
make him holler,' and 'Jedge,' he said,
he made that dog get out Of the
house. When my wife told me sup
per was ready he got right up and
took the seat with his back to the
fire, the place my wife has always
used as hers for years. but us North
Caroleenians being so hospitable /
didn't say word. After supper he
tried to kiss the hired girl, but l re-
membered our penchant for hospitality
and, Jedge, / didn't say anything at
that. He made several breaks here
and there | didn't like, but | didn't
say anything, but the next morning,
when | was cutting wood, this stran-
ger comes out and tries to talk tariff
to me, and now, Jedge, say to you
with all kindness and forgiveness that
/ am very hospitable, believe in hos
pitality, it is the characteristic of us
North Caroleenians, but L tell you,
ledge, no man can talk tariff to me,
unless he is better man than am,
and that is why he looks the way he
does.'''
warning word ought to be suffi-
cient. When you tackle your con-
gresham, just see that the subject is
congenial and likely to tell for peace
rather than for war
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07
THE PAGEANT AT GLOUCESTER.

Gloucester, Mass, this week cele-
hrated the 277th anniversary Of the
founding of the place and notwith-
standing the absence Of the president
had a celebration of exceptional splen-
dor. A fleet of naval vessels was
there, and Gloucester had a great mai
ttary. naval and civic parade; but
what will interest Norwich people
most was the historic pageant which
was given at Fort Stage park on a
stage IFS feet long and so feet wide,
representing "the Canterbury Pill
grims." prepared by Percy Mackeye.
and taken part in by about 1000 per-
SONS. The play treated of the Chau-
cerian period. based upon the prologue
OF the Canterbury tales of Godfrey
Chaueer. The many interesting fea-
lures included joust, or tourney Of
medieval knights, armor clad and
mounted. between two expert horse
men, who competed for a splendid
trophy; star vision of the Prioress
Byzantine; an historic procession of
pilgrims to the shrine of Thomas a
Beckett and many characteristic dances
OF that period.
ire music was especially composed
for the occasion by Walter Damrosch,
director Of the New York Symphony
orchestra.
Gloucester is not so large as Nor
witch, but it is fortunate in having a
large colony of wealthy summer resi-
dents, who contributed generously to
the defraying of expenses, and being
so located that the many could take
part. Deweys flagship and the frig-
ate Hartford were there, and the pres
idents yacht Sylph in gala day at
tire
1t was a great day for Gloucester,
which seemed to he unconscious that
the nation was looking at it on the
AL.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07
AS A SUBSCRIBER VIEWS IT.

The names of subscribers are COM
ing in for the Jubilee book of the 250th
anniversary as fast as The Bulletin
anticipated that they would. This book
Is essential to the proper completion
of the event, and its publication was
assumed by The Bulletin as matter
of civic pride rather than as a specu-
lative enterprise. There is no money
in it for the printer. One citizen has
ordered "a copies and one 10, and
these are the only large individual
orders.
An order from New York subscribe
er. who has no other interest than the
interest awakened by a few years Of
residence here, reads:
"Please have my name put down fer
one of the celebration books. J want
il for two reasons: First, ! want to
be able to read the whole thing and
study the pictures at my leisure; sec
ond, IL is an investment-your two
dollar book will be in demand at IS
or better before you and ! get through
selling things. There are people liV-
ing in Norwich now who won't order
and whose children will be begging
for copies at any price in 1925"
This is the truth. If The Bulletin
does not print an edition larger than
500 copies, the book may be in such
demand that it win go to premium
at once.
No agents will be sent out to solicit
orders, because that would add to the
cost Of the edition. Names Of subscribe
ers should be sent in to the business
manager of The Bulletin.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

sunshine and the peace of the starlit
skies. Truly all these things may be
had for almost nothing, for as Lowell
has said:
mo price is set on the lavish
summer"
Our response to the changing phases
of the natural world and its varied
rich provisions for our enjoyment is
proof of our divine origin and destiny.
For II is the fullness OF the summers
life that appeals to us. And this life
both in the tiniest blade and the most
majestic tree of the forest is nothing
other than the life OF God.
Summer is the best of all times for
realizing the presence of God and for
entering into the personal religious
life. How think you about It, friend?
THE PARSON.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

We like summer because 1t means
for most of US a little let up from
routine duties and perhaps too familiar
surroundings. The pace of American
life is so rapid that unless we had
these "week-ends," these half holidays
or perhaps blessed fortnight or even
month off duty, something within
us would snap and the human ma
chinery in general would break down.
This resting time being one OF the
chief Blooms of vacation, are we sure
that this year we are utilizing our
time in such way that we are really
getting rested? Or are we frittering
our one chance away?
Another delight of the summer time
is the chance to renew old friendships
or make new ones. In term time or In
work time we are often too busy to
follow Henry Drummond's advice:
Keep your friendships in repair"
Now is our chance to get back to the
old home and "see the folks" again,
to write a friendly letter to a former
schoolmate, to be a little more neigh
borly right in our own block or on our
street. Are we doing any OF these
things?
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
"THE GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME"

Why do we like summer? Certainly
most Of us do, though now and then
some one wilted by the heat or tired
of the contest with flies and mosque
GOES declares his preference for some
other season. And yet the poets and
the song makers continue to sound the
praises of the summer solstice above
those OF winter, autumn or even
spring. And the poets are usually
right in discerning what emotions
throb most frequently in the hearts OF
those for whom they write. A year
without a summer would indeed be
unthinkable in advance and unbearable
in its progress. So now that this glo-
rious summer of our content is rap
idly speeding away let's try to find
out in what its charm consists, and
whether we are getting every bit Of
comfort and uplift out of it that we
ought to get.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07
She Knew.

"You will hear a great deal of tall;
about the cruelty of the world" said
the lecturer in the night school, 81
assure you that the world is kind at
heart, and it's gentleness vastly out
weighs its rudeness."
You couldn't convince me of that
in a thousand years" spoke up a
young woman in the front row. I'm
a telephone girl"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

What may have perp1exed congress
for so long was the demand that the
tariff should be revised downward and
still raise bigger revenue. How to
decrease charges and at the same time
increase income Is no easy problem.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

Perhaps without reasoning the mat
ter fully out we love the summer
time because it means more out-of-
doors and more contact with the life
of nature. Just to see things grow is
restful. To be right in the midst of
the budding. blossoming, fruit bearing
trees and shrubs changes the current
Of our thoughts. Oh. what a range of
joyous outdoor activities the summer
provides: the canoe on a lake in the
wilderness. the mountain climb, the
dip in the surf. the pedestrian trip
through leafy lanes. the golden hours
of absolute vacuity of mind as one
stretches himself on a messy bank or
under some giant trees, hearing only
the hum OF the bees in the orchard
and the song of the birds; the lavish
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

A queer-looking package received
from Washington now may look like
an Internal machine, while it turns
out to be only a bunch of tariff
speeches. or a copy of that important
document.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

Revolution kills prosperity and as
soon as prosperity is dead the people
see that restoration isneeded and turn
to industry. Spain and Sweden will
not be exceptions to the rule.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

1t Is alleged that the waiter on the
Pullman who brought Senator Stone
the wrong drink must have been a new
man. since every old waiter between
New York and Washington is familiar
with what his mouth waters for.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

The city of Baltimore is calling for
the International convention Of FIRE
chiefs In August, 1910. The News
says: Baltimore wants the conven-
ton and must get it,"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

The New Haven Journal Courier does
not realize that the old law. as in
terpreted by the new man, is a liberal
law. Everything is wide open, Sun
days, now
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

An Indiana minister who preached
short sermons was rewarded by the
gift Of farm. His parishieners must
have beheld in him man who could
hoe his row.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

The Sutton inquiry at Annapolis
seems to be getting the truth clouded
in the most mysterious way. 1t shows
Annapolis is hard place for a boy,
anyway.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

This is more Of lesson than joke.
IT is self-evident that Addiction never
gets left. 1t has been truly said: Pros
perity is a great teacher, Adversely
is greater. Nothing more fortunate
could have happened to this man, for
1t has opened his third eye, which Mrs.
Besant tells us of, and in future in
instead of following his nose he will
follow his rational senses. He won
more in Addiction than he possibly
could have done on Addiction. What
would $3.50 amount to, compared to
reaching the point where Affiiction is
seen to win every time? Such knowl-
edge is indeed safety.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

The English scientists charge the
bedbug with spreading cholera. The
world has thought that he was spe-
cially created to promote the itch.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

We had a close Sunday law, and
wide open Suudays-now we are to
have Sunday law open to sports,
but closed to soda fountains Gee!
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

What is the use of growing about
the burden of the tariff? We are a
world power and we cannot wear the
diadem without putting out the
dough
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07
AEELIcTIoN.

A New York man thinks there must
be some significance in name. He
has been losing money betting at races
He decided a while ago to wait until
he got a sure tip, recover his fallen
fortunes and then quit the game. His
tip came, a sure enough tip, that he
should bet his money on a horse
named Affiiction. He started for
Saratoga with 1920 in his pocket, but
before he got to the Grand Central
station, he had lost his roll. Affiic-
ton won. both at the race and in the
poor sports mind. If he had reached
Saratoga with his money IN time, he
would have changed his 1920 for ST.
$50. and now he feels as il 1t is safe
for him to bet on Addiction every
time.-An Exchange.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

The New Yorker whose life was
saved by his fountain pen has DEM
onstrated that it is better to have
ones underclothes despatched with ink
than with blood.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

The country heaves a sigh of relief
The menace to business has been re-
moved, and Gen. Prosperity will now
marshal his forces.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

An American girl has stood upon
the peak Of Mont Blanc. The Ameri-
can girl is in the habit of standing
upon anything in sight.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

DR.. Eliot did not expect that new
religion would get him into hot wa
ter. 1t has ever been thus.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

Perhaps Mrs. Besant thinks that the
worlds high flyers have actually
flown in the past They have only
had the name OF il!
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

The republican senators who did not
vote for the tariff bill pleased the
states they represented.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

What is the use of talking of party
organization now? When one looks
at the tariff vote and the voters il
seems as if old party lines had dis
appeared.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

When the general assembly gets to-
gether these days it is a leaner look
ing body than it was in its earlier
career.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

An Ohio girl has died from tight
lacing, which shows that she was too
ambitious to be what she was not.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Happy thought for today: The
person who means we'll does not al
ways do we'll
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07
What and Where TO Buy In Norwich
SPECIAL SALE

Mems Calf and vici Kid oxfords, reg.
ular $500. at 98c.
Ladies High and Low Shoes, regular
$3.50 and $500. at CSC.
p. CUMMINGS,
Telephone. So Central Avenue
Investigate cur premium system
jy22d
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

There were nestlings on June 10, per-
haps a day earlier. The appetites OF
the young are enormous. At first the
food consisted of brown worms as
large around as small lead pencil and
about an inch long; later there were
green worms and a variety OF bugs,
millers and grasshoppers.
On June Is three nestlings came out
of the box. For three days they had
surveyed the world from the doorway.
The first one few directly into a tree
about dozen feet away. Another took
the place in the doorway, but seemed
afraid to venture. 1t was finally push
ed so vigorously by the third that ii
lost its footing and chung to the fasten~
ing of the box Number three imme-
diately few to the tree without any
difficulty, The timid one then dropped
to the window sill and tried to follow
the others, but did not succeed. II fiut-
tered into the high grass; no doubt 1t
was soon found and cared for-by the
old birds until ii was a little stronger
and Drawer. After an hour or so all
disappeared. Very likely there were
at least as many more which went out
before the three mentioned. They diff
fer a little in looks from the adults.
The breasts are somewhat striped, the
yellow lining of the mouth shows a lit
tie on each side of the bill, and like
other young birds the tail feathers are
short The wrens in the squash shell
raised a family. A third pair which
built in long unused wooden sink
pipe are now busy feeding their second
family.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

could check it's song. 1t is said that
this tiny bird by his life taught a
priest this lesson: Everyone can be
happy, even the weakest can have his
song of thanksl" and he composed a
song of the wren and sang it, and the
song lived after him and made the
hearts of the people glad. The song of
the little wren is the song of good
cheer, 1t makes him good company, and
the human heart feels glad that he is
near. We never think of him for a
cage-he is too small. 1t does not
seem as If any cage could hold him.
He gives us his song, and many a
human heart has held that as an abid-
ing, pleasant memory, for many a year.
What a part of the world needs more
of today than it is possessed of is a
full supply of Walt Mason's Magic
Mirrors which he describes as fol-
lows: Il looked and looked in the
shining glass, and wondered, and
looked some more. My own reflection
did not appear, but there where it
should have been, 1 saw the form of
a cringing bum all crumpled and
soaked with gin. His nose was red
and his eyes were dim; unshorn was
his swollen face, and l thought it queer
such a seedy DO would come to so
smooth place. I turned around for
a better look at this effigy of despair,
and nearly fell in a little heap, for
the effigy wasn't therel The bar
keep laughed. It's the Magic Glass,
he said, with a careless yawn; it
shows a man how he's apt to look
years hence when his roll is gonel'' -
There are many people who need have
their career foreshadowed in such a
brilliant way as this, so that they may
become self witnesses of the possibili-
ties of their excuses, and be led to
grab their dilemma by both horns and
bring it to a standstill. Every man
should be above making hard shedding
for himself in life and increasing the
discomfort of his family and friends.
II takes some time to realize that
the more one puts into life the more
he takes out of it, and some real good
folks never come to know that the
more a person puts himself into his
religion the more religion he will give
to his fellow men. Too MANY people
prefer to remove mountains by prayer
than by the use of a pickaxe; and for
that reason they never see a mountain
removed. There may be roads to
heaven on which you have nothing to
do but to admire the scenery, but the
road of greatest activity and good
deeds is the straightest and surest
way. A long face and a sigh in the
presence of suffering must look to an
angel as a well conceived cartoon looks
to you. Some peoples religious meth
DDS are very simple and eccentric, YOU
know. The clock that isn't wound UP
never strikes H. and the boy who gets
no falls on the ice never cuts a figure
s. The man gets there in religion just
as he gets there in business-by his
achievements.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

The automobile has put the whole
country on the move and it is increas-
ing the fraternal feelings between the
different sections of the country. We
have reached the season now when we
see automobiles that have run far
from home. The past week we have
noted touring cars hereabout from
Cleveland, o., from Maryland and
from Alabama, and be it said to their
credit that these cars were leading no
mad career They were moving within
the speed limit-with the order and
decorum which said plain enough that
they were in charge of rational beings
who were out for a good time and a
safe time and were having it. 1t is
home funkies who do the high speed
and defy acts-who do not appear to
care for the rights of others or their
own safety-who disrespect law and
invite the police--who delight in giving
trolley passengers their mud and dust
and hal ha! which excites popular
prejudice against them and makes
their every misfortune a source of
popular satisfaction.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

do not think that we should be too
hard upon the iceman. We all have
our opinion of him, and he has his
opinion of us. He has got to live on
his ice whether we skated upon it or
not. We curse him for bringing thin
ice or snow ice when it Is the best God
furnished him with. He says that he
should like to use US better. but we
do not believe him. We buy the least
amount possible and then blame him
because it melts too fast At the price
asked he ought to be able to guaranty
short ice to last long. His men work
from sunup till shutdown and several
hours after, daily. and he gets mad
because we want him to have his team
harnesseG up to bring us ten cent
piece of a. Sunday because we ordered
too little, and we get mad because he
will not be obliging-as we would not
be if We were in his place. There
does not seem to be any smooth road
between US. We never saw so mean
an iceman, and he never knew so mean
patron. l suspect that the trouble
is not in the ice, but all in US.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

A shoal. of herrirgs is sometimes five
or six miles lon and two or three
miles broad
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

The robins on the cornice and in the
apple tree have gone. Also the yellow
warblers and the kingbirds. Last year
the warblers built in a bush about FIVE
feet from the ground; this year in the
top of a very high apple tree. The
kingbirds were obliged to continually
guard their nestlings for several days.
as red squirrel seemed determined to
rob them. Word was sent to a neigh
Dor. who came with his gun. and the
squirrels career was seen ended, there
being no hindrance because of chicka-
dees lighting on the gun, as they did
two winters ago.
The little swifts in two chimneys
twitter loudly when the old birds bring
food. One family live about two feet
from the first floor in a house of two
stories. 1t is probably twenty-five feet
from the top of the chimney to the
nest, which is in the pipe hole, there
being ONLY a thickness OF two OF paper
between the birds and the family sit
ting room. 1t must be weary work for
the adults to catch enough insects
while on the wing not only for them
selves but for from four to six nest
lings and then to carry it so far down
in small chimney. This is the first
time that / have ever konwn them to
build below the attic
Besides the dozen nests which have
seen on the half acre around my home
there have probably been many more,
as 1 have seen a black billed cuckoo,
black and white warbler, cedar wax
wing. English sparrow. least fly catch
.er and red eyed vireo feeding young
ones.
All birds are interesting in some
way. the majority in many ways, but
in my experience none equals the
chickadee. with its beautiful plumage
and CHEEKY notes, its fearless and
amusing ways. One entomologist says:
There is no bird that compares with
1t in destroying the female canker-
worm moths and their eggs"
c. z. II.
Preston City. Conn.,, July 81, 1909.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-07

The Man Who Talks found this in
his mail from an esteemed friend the
other day: Tell An Old Timer from
me that he has been elected perpetual
chairman of The Bulletins Amen Cor
ner.'" Not many of you can tell what
that means, but the sender OF it knows
that it is one of the choice honors OF
the sanctum sanctorum. "Old Timer"
will know that this is a response from
heart in accord with his own. All of
this makes the Man Who Talks blush,
although you do not see him. His
business partly is to stir up "the amen
corner" but he is always surprised
when it speaks out loud. But it can't
be helped. and he is enough of a Meth
odist TO know it is not whispering
gallery. When one, rings true, it rings.
too! Let her go. brethren, for only
endorsing words come from that cor
ner.