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Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-22
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'Twould be a pity if in our workday world there were no time for play. We all love Christmas We pray that we may carry the Christmas spirit with us throughout the year, and ere glad when we can honestly feel that we succeed even in some small measure The long, long year without the Christmas spirit of loving and giving der if you all feel, dear friends and neighbors mine, as I often do, as though I was engaged in a hand-to- hand grapple with old Father Time, viction that he is sure to get the bet ter of me eventually, as he does of us all. May I confess that oftentimes I feel like giving up the fight and drift ing with the Iotos eaters into the land where it seems always afternoon. Think of daring to make such con- fession here, in the very heart of New England, here where the teaching used to be, Put tired to tired, and go at 1t again." where even now 1t is, Crap ple for your life;" here, where ice and snow and s1eet and the grip make of our lives veritable warwhoop dance for existence Having dared once, let us dare still more, and confess that everybody gets tired of being goody- goody, and longs of aL Saturday after noon to step aside and play awhile.
 One of the qualities we love best in Robert Louis Stevenson is his indom- itable courage, his almost feminine quality of fortitude, which is than courage so much more steadfast and enduring. Doubtless he had his sea- sons of heart sinking. Such a sensi- tive soul as his must have sounded the depths. Indeed, reading between the lines, it is not difficult to trace in everything he writes an underfiowing current of sadness, a passion of ques- tioning, and what, in any other than he, might seem hopelessness. But like the doughty Scot he is, he waves his T.Hx z14 4x1 AF f1A he not brave at heart, is bound to make us think him so, and shows the world how a high hearted man can work and play and live--and die. So. then, friends and neighbors mine, let us too take heart again.
 Sings Robert Louis:
 "The world is so full of a number of
 things,
 I'm sure we, should all be as happy as
 kings"
 which brings us back to our question, Why is not all life one grand anthem of joy? Strange as it may seem. the storm about my ears. My neighbors seem to resent it. One or two have even said that to grind away in work shop. factory or kitchen, every day and delightful, not even endurable, and can never be made to be. They more than hint, too, that am talking on paper of what have not proved. Now tell you what of all things I should like best. It would be to live in a Christ mas world, in a world where everybody holds everybody else in loving kindli- ness of thought, where everybody works and everybody plays, where no one is ever overworker nor underfed, where strong men and true do not break down in middle life, where wonn-
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for service there. They are not "goody goOdy'' fellows, either, who go out to China, India and Japara as mis- stonaries. Many of them could con1- fnand large salaries at home, but the glitter of gold is no attraction com pared to the chance to help build a new national life.
 And look at the way in which lay men in this country and Canada are arousing to carry their share of the financial loadl Such meetings as are being held in 50 cities of the country, in which many laymen pledge them selves to double and treble their gifts, tell the story of the way in which hard business unen view the proposition. Then. too. we have such Statesmen as President Taft and Am bassador Bryce committed heart and soul to the foreign missionary propo- sition.
 This is a good time, brother, to wake up if you never have before, to the joy and privilege of sharing in the 'fbiggest work in the world
 THE PARSON.
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DEEP DISAPPOINTMENT.

Looking over the political field at Boston there is no doubt that there is deep disappointment over the result to both HT5bard and Storrow.
 That ex-Mayer Hibbard should have been supported in his petition by 5000 voters and then have received far less than that number of votes, severely tested the tension of his nerve and Ii cannot be said that he stood the strain well since he openly declares that he does not regard the public "zs being upon the level" whatever that may mean It unquestionab1y means more to him than to anyone else. and 1t certainly indicates that he is taking his defeat very seriously.
 That the republican candidate, James J. Storrow. spent s103.250 to De mayor Of Boston and failed, shows how sadIy he desired the honor, as well as how easy he was with those who make expenses. and how little the voters really cared for him, although he had the support of most of the papers Of the city.
 IL Is estimated that the four can sidates for mayor of Boston spent in the campaign a quarter of a million dollars, and this seems to indicate that the nayora1ty may be a prize Is well as an honor
 Mir. Fitzgerald knows how to win out tn the most economical way, and in the face of the criticisms he has been subjected to. and the new reforms, which have increased the power of the mayor. as we'll as doubled his term Of service he may so conduct the af fairs of the office as to surprise all his opponents. He is a most success ful politician and his triumph with every paper against him in the city Is an achievement he has no reason ao be ashamed Of
 Boston can now settle down to four years of undisturbed business, so far ns local politics are concerned, and under the exposition spirit these are likely to be four notable years for s-rhe Hub"
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prejudice is entertaining devils t111- aware. Unwho1esome broods never produce wholesome conditions. The nurser of wrath is in misery, not the object of his wrath. Conscious dis ttirbance is the only thing wrath can put its foot upon and stand up. It feeds on misery. Prejudice is the pre- cocious child of ignorance, and it is a bright child only to Satan. Both lead to evil conduct-contemplat dark deeds. Neither in this world were ever known to do a kindly act. The pre- judiced speak i'll of those who have never harmed them-the haters plot to make life uncomfortable for their enemies, not realizing they are making it hotter for themselves. The heart that Abides in peace with all mankind finds compensation and joy.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
In a Quandsry.

Mir Editor: As I read the doings of the Board of Trade my thoughts car ried me back to my boyhood days, when I used to go down to the old rolling mill and see the hot iron go through the rolls, then go to the ship yard and watch the ship carpenters at work fastening the blanks to the frames to make the complete ship, step over to the boiler and machine shop and see the men at work on the boil CTS and engines that would make the ship go. From there, looked into what is now the cutlery works and watched the workmen assemble the huge cast ings that went to make the big water wheel complete. A little further on we came to the new rolling mill; leaving the new mill, the next manufactory on our journey was the Richmond Stove foundry, whose products were sent to all parts of the world. Then came c. B. Rogers & Co.,, where the manage ment furnished Christmas entertain ment for their employees and their families. It was there as boy heard Clara Louise Kellogg sing and re- ceived a years subscription to the Scientific American as a Christmas now days? Next was the ropewalk, Deacon Bromley: then the Bethel building, headquarters of Daniel W. Perkins & O., and Wi1loughby & Co.,: next the Pequot Iron foundry, where I used to watch the men pour the hot iron into moulds.
 How many times I have watched the old blacksmith make horseshoe nails in Breeds blacksmith shop and gone from there to the blaming mill and tumbled in the shavings; then upstairs to see them make sash, blinds and doors in Bottoms shop; step across the stair way and have a look at Henry Peale's men at work; then go over to the steamboat dock and watch the deck hands unload the freight; from there go to Huntington wharf and see the hogsheads of molasses, go aboard the schooner Quickstep and visit the genial John Kelly, the cook, at the same time stick made for that purpose; from there to the Vaughn foundry, where used to carry dinner to one of the workmen, but would stay little while after o'clock to watch Jep Lamb and
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Under the pnn Star.


 The Dog Star ragesI nay, 'tis past a
 doubt,
 All Bedlam. or Parnassus, is let out
 Pope. It is fortunate for Fair Haven that it has within it's borders man wise in the lore of the skies. Otherwise that delightful portion of the earth might have gone clean daft, and had all its necks bent backward at 8 right angle, scanning the heavens for the ported to be soaring by night over the Quinnipiack meadows. A few nights ago 1t was reported again. this time flying low over the East Haven hills. Then did the wise astronomer come along. When he scoffed, they said: There it is. Don't you see that light bobbing up and down off there in the direction of Lake Saltonstall?, p, He looked. What he saw was easily tIn- derstood, by him. It was Sirius, the Dog Star, which often. when it is near the horizon, shines with an uncertain, wabbly light.
 So the mystery is explained; also the reason why the wonderful airship ap- pears only at night. The Dog Star, for generations responsible for many Of our summer woes. is seeking to extend it's baleful influence over the winter also. This, in the classic orthogra phy of the homemade philosopher, is 's2 rnutch.' But how fortunate that the culprit has been detected and convict ed before summer comes. For what he might have done to our airship- warped imagination then is terrible to contem- plate.-New Haven Register.
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Little Soldiers

in your blood are the millions Of corpuscles that defend you against disease.
 To make and keep these little soldiers healthy and strong, is simply to make and keep the blood of the right quality and quantity.
 This is just what Hoods Sarsaparilla does it helps the little soldiers in your blood to fight disease for you.
 It cures scrofula, eczema, eruptions, catarrh, rheumatism, anemia, nervous ness, dyspepsia, general debility, and builds up the whole system.
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THE BEEF QUESTION.

The beef question is a serious ques- Non in all sections of the country and bome Of them are moving to find the fezedy- Speaking for the south, a Georgia paper says that "one of the greatest needs of the south today is agricultural section come into its own and make substantial progress in the Requirement. of wealth while the ma Dor part of its meat and bread comes Eom another section, the consumer paying cost of transportation and the ncc-uing profits incident to the hand ling of these commodities by a chain of middlemen and dealers
 The south should not only produce Pli the meat it consumes, but 1t should De cured and handled here"
 This is just as true of other sections Of the country-is just as true of New England
 There are two factors which are bringing distress to the people, the control and distribution of meat prod ucts and the fixing of prices at Chi cago; and the commercial policy which decreases the milch COW herdi of New England in one year by 14,OOO head in order to keep the prices of milk and dairy products up. The pol 1cy which keeps grain so dear when the country Is producing banner crops in some sections that pigs and dairy animals and hens cannot be grown at n profit. is against the people and REzinst every interest of the state, and the government and should be exploit sd and made an end of by the govern rnent at whatever cost.
 This central control of commercial Ism should be broken up and centers sf supply be so located that cattle and stock-raisinE of every kind will he encouraged and prices of meats and sairy products be made cheaper to the people
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Fo1ey's Kidney Remedy will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach of medicine It invigorates the entire system and strengthens the kidneys so they eiim- mate the impurities from the blood
 Backache, rheumatism. kidney and bladder troubles are all cured by this great medicine. Commence taking at once and avoid Brfght's Disease and
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DISTORTED PArERNALIsM.

It was to have been expected that freak legislation would at last result in something extraordinary. Of late years legislatures have essayed to regulate everything from the length of hotel sheets to the price of butter nuts, and from the length of hatpins to the style of millinery. The time was when dead bird meant much to setter dog. but now it means more to the detectives of a hupane society. Congressman Coudry has presented a bill in congress for old age pen sions, due to every man who has att tained the Biblical limit of threescore and ten, with the hopes that 1t will become the law of the land. Under this law, if the septuagenarian enjoys the plethoric stipend of $40 a. year-which figures out s11.75 a month or 40 cents a day in round numbers-he is to re- ceive a pension of not quite two bits" week, while if he draws down s102 every year he shall receive SIS year, or s125 a month, 80 cents week. or 5 cents a day, not counting Sundays and excluding those botherson1e frac- tions which might illuminate the beau ties of this triumph of financial sociol- ogy, but would only befuddle the ay craze mind.
 Now. this is what is denominated by the Kansas City Journal as distorted paternalism, and who can say that it deserves a better name.
 A pension system which would give one worthy citizen five cents a day and another forty cents a day could not be regarded as a square deal. It is not so much to help the deserving poor that these measures are present. ed as to gain public favor for men who are both incapable and undeserving.
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State q, Ohio. cIty Of roIedo. "a Inc,

State of Ohio. City of Toledo. ss. Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senIor partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney Co.,. doing business in the City of Toledo. County and State aforesaid and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh cannot be cured by the use of Halls Catarh Cure FRANK ]. CHENEY. Sworn to before and subscribed in my pres ence. this 9th day of December. A. D. 1886.
 A. ". GLEASON. (Seall Notary PbuIic. Halrs Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. and acts directly the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. send for testimonials free. r. J. CHENEY & CO.,. Toledo, O, Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
 Take HaII's Family Pins for constipation.
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So the constitutionality of the cor poration tax law is to be threshed out in fold varmount." We shah be look ing for it when it leaves the machine
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The United States appraisers having fecided that COW cannot be properly listed among family effects, a. bright Rditor suggests that she belongs among the family jewels
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The president of the New York Central railroad is quoted as saying that Wages must go upi" If he will please press the lever, the working world will thank him.
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Now Secretary Ballinger is charged with not forgetting his relatives in the distribution of political plufns. What else is there?
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Perhaps the man who wrote a poem and then shot himself awoke there from to adverse conditions. Fate fol- lows the man who rhymes.
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Twins in any family are always pleasing, but the double permanent ex- pense that comes with them staggers the workingman.
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Caiifornia's orange crop is said to have suffered to the extent of one mill lion. and this means that the navel ofanEes are going to bring fancier prices than ever.
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With the opening of the legislature at Trenton, the Jersey papers an- nounee that "the smothering season is on once more.
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The higher-ups in the Sugar trust enjoyed the big dividends, and did not ask how they were obtained. There Is nothing like being a blind tiger.
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Hartford.-The new Morgan Memo- rial will be open daily from 10 a. m. to D. m., but not on Sundays. The Morgan tapestries will remain on exhi- biticn for thirty days.
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Happy thought for today: A great many benedicts who think that they do as they please are constantly pleas ing some one else by what they do.
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The Toledo Blade thinks that the only hope a man can have of getting legal advice for nothing is by marry ing woman lawyer.
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The spectators have not cornered food for thought, yet; but no one can tell just how long it can keep free field.
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Emma Goldman says that 'twoman's suffrage is all boshl" The women of the anti suffrage association ought to get her to talk for them.
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Since pr. Cook is said not to have paid his typer. there is a desire to hear from his Eskimo dog that we may learn if he was not stolen by him
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His Only Fault.

We have admired a certain woman 25 years. except when she puts on her company manners. Then she acts foolish and unnatural. Atkinson Globe.
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The governor of New York gets a salary of s1o.oo0. but it costs sz0 900 to maintain the dignity of this office
 so it is no longer a poor mans job.
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A prisoner in a New Jersey jail has gained twenty-five pounds in five months in spite of the high price of food
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Taft Should Send for Her.

An Oyster Bay woman recently put to flight three highwaymen and knock ed the fourth senseless. She must be the keeper of Teddy's big stick.-At- Ianta Georgian.
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Some folks find as much pleasure in talking about their sorrows as others do in lodging their poor relations. recall an old admonition which ran your sorrows before the world; but bury them as dogs do their bones; and then growl if anybody offers to dig them up." This always seemed to me to be pretty good advice. It should be borne in mind that while Joy never lacks company, Sorrow spreads noth- ing but gloom. Laugh and the world laughs with you-snore, and you sleep alone" There is mastery in putting the best foot forward. there Is tact in putting the best side out, there is art in wearing a smile instead of a frown, there is success in saying good day to woe and welcome to every good thing.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Black Hand suspects are able to employ nine of the ablest lawyers of Ohio in their defence at Toledo.
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SUNDAY MORNING TALK
THE BIGGEST THING IN THE
 WORLD.

Put the question to group of aver age men. What is the biggest work being done in the world today ?' and very likely one would say, ''the digging the construction of railway through Africa from Cairo to the Cape" and perhaps a third would instance the reclamation of great deserts through The greatest work. gentlemen, that is going on today is that under the ban ners of what is known as foreign mis- sions.
 A totally new and a much fairer es- tifnate of the enterprise is gradually taking possession of the public mind. A generation ago the popular concep- ton of a missionary was of a solemn, white -beared individual in a frock coat, with a Bagster Bible in his hand standing under a palm tree preaching to a group of naked heather. Today preaching is but one of the many phases of modern missionary work, which includes all sorts of ministra- tions to human need.
 These later developments have been forced upon the missionary. First he looks about him, and sees a multitude of diseased folk, and he reasons. Whats the use of trying to save their souls and ignoring the pitiable condi- ton of their bodies? ?" So he writes back word to his board, Send us out some good doctors" And thus medical missions were born, and they are now blessing the Orient, through hospitals, dispensaries and house-to- o-house min- istration.
 Then the missionary looks farther and sees 8 vast amount of ignorance and exclaims, 'eWhy. we can't let these children grow up unable to read and writer" So back again he sends this time for Christian teachers. and soon schools, colleges and theological semi ri ara fr~n q a fn hA do Of Asia and Africa. In due time Chris tian literature becomes necessary, and so printing plants have to be estab- lished, and often, too, trained agricul- turists and manual teachers are de- manded, in order to help the natives to self-support and to a mastery of some trade.
 The outcome of these varied ap- brooches to far-off nations is such a ferment as we are now witnessing in China. or such an upheaval as that through which Turkey has recently passed. Foreign missions do not di- rectly produce revolutions, but they inculcate the principles of democracy and constitutional government, and in due time sultan, czar and every other embodiment of medievalism and tyr amy must go down before the onward sweep of knowledge and virtue. So this business of carrying to other nations the best that we know of God and the ideals of human life presented in the Gospel looms up as vital and virile undertaking No wonder that some of the brightest young men and women in the land are investing their lives in the foreign work The see a rare chance to mold these far-off na- tions which are throwing off the letters of old customs and beliefs and reaching after the light and hope that are found only in Christianity. A splendid host of such young people came together at Rochester N. Y., recently, 5000 strong, from over TOO institutions to consider the various fields of the Ori- ent, and many of them to volunteer
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Under present conditions, the posi- ton of the vice president appears to be $ most comfortable and enjoyable snh-
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was acquainted with a well-to-do bachelor and once upon a time he con- fided to me what his ideal of a wife was. He used to sit and dream about that ideal of his because she was his sister. Now few men find their ideal in their own family: and when they do they do not realize that there are no duplicates. He married later a woman whose history I had known for twenty years-she captivated him and he thought there was not another such woman in six states; but she was near to his ideal in physical beauty and mental accomplishments as a grasshopper is to a kangaroo. I never said a word, but smiled. have smiled for years; and he has gone beyond the smiling and the weeping while she has wed another, and smiles as if she had nothing to weep about. This is the way of the world.
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SKIN GAM Es.


 Everything in fur is not what it seems to be--nor everything in art. Art and trickery have long been mixed up by the commercial sharpers, and so mixed that new fidd1es have been sold as Cremonas, and imitation art sold for the old masters. The skin game Is quite likely as old as the days of barter, and, yet, it is doubtful if the fur of the rabbit and the nusquasn ever until this century pafaded as seal skin, and were palmed off upon inno- cent customers when pulled and dyed and artistically made, at sealskin prices, the prices being the only ap- proach to sealskin about them. This is what is being done in Great Brit ain and the American consul calls at- tention to the fact in his reports that women who think they are wearing French sabfe, ermine and chinchil1a are simply wearing rabbit skin gar ments which have been given the color and responsibility of these more desir- able furs in trade by art. The skin of the opoEsurn does duty as beaver and otter, and American sable as the skin of the Russian silver skin fox, so deft1y have the white hairs been ar tificially inserted. When 'possum goods are sealskin and goat goods bear in the fur market, I1iuskrat and woodchuck may be also met in dis guise. Anybody can get into a skin- game in these days who goes to mar ket, without the employment of con- federates.