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Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-29
BRIEF STATE NEWS

 st.rtford-NeM Saturday the Hous- atomic Yacht club will hold it's July festivities. Christian association. is now being ganized in this city BristoI.-Miss Ellen P. HubbelI has | resigned as supervisor of music in the local public schools. Nevvtoyvn,-D C. Bacon at the age of s2 enjoyed an auto trip to Bridgeport Friday. attending the circus New Haven-Business is so good that the shops in town will only shut down over the Fourth this year. Ansonia.-Mrs. Mary A. Jackson who died here this week, was 97 years old daughters.
 Danbury.-The Danbury jewelry stores have started movement for closing on Friday afternoons during July and August
 joiners celebrated the 18th anniver- sary of the organization Saturday aft ernoon with a sheep roast. dor announces the safe arrival of Miss Child at the station where she is to spend the summer as trained nurse among the Esl1imos.
 Derby.-The report of the superin- tendent upon the result of the school savings bank system for the five months it has been tried shows that during this time 450 pupils have saved S1,221.36.
 
 Naugatuck.-Special Game and Fish Commissioner George Hosford reports hat &<I- brooks in this vicinity by the means of gill net and that several of those caught were under the prescribed length.
 Hartford.-The police have no clue to the missing gems stolen from the trunk of Mrs. Charles R. Pagan, wife Of the late Senator Pagan of Middle town, a guest at the Allyn house. Mrs. Pagan offers a reward of S1,000 for the recovery of the jewels
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-29
At the Seaside.

Jonah emerged from the whale
 Yes" he cried the room was small and dark, but it was really on the beach"
 Thus he felt that he had found an honest summer resort advertiser=N Y. Sun.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-29
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Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-29
RARE BOOKS.

Beattie's "Minstrel' Bought by Wa terbury Man for IS Cents-Oncs Owned by Mrs. L. H. Sisourney of Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-29

Men sn an average weigh % pounds more than women.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-21
THE DEAD AND THE living.

Not all the warrior dead who sleep
In unmarked graves lie on the battle-
grounds of the Civil War. Not all the
splendid courage and sacrifice and pa
triotism which that memorable conflict
engendored came to flower on those
fields The sea az we'll as the soil was
Redeemed by tho blood of heroes"
That is taken from the editorial
article IN the Memorial Day number Of
the Youths Companion. and 1t Is we'll
said. We wish the Companion would
take up now the case Of the survivors
and show them how they are dishonor-
ing the dead by their assaults upon the
Treasury at Washington. What an
everlasting shame 1t is to them that
the Government is still paying them for
the services they are alleged to have
performed fortyflve years ago 1t is
almost worth being dead to be free
from association with the living merce-
naries, who. under the cover of patri-
otism degrade the cause for which
they fought.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-21

tho country is not entirely safe from
n possibility, ut which all conservative
men and interests fairly shudder. "On
the way In which he exercises his pow
err says the Weekly, depends in large
measure the composition OF the next
Republican national convention and its
choice for the Presidency" 1t should
not require further comment to ac-
quaint the Weekly with our innermost
thought Manifestly. Hitchcock has
his uses. Almost anybody Of sound
and disposng mind would prefer Taft
to Roosevelt.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-21
HOW BOOSTING PAYS.

Des Molnes, Iowa, probably gets more
free advertising than any town of
the same size, or Of anything IKE
the same size, in the country 1t Is
always before the footlights, so to-
speak. and holds the centre of the
stage with amazing frequency to play
so small part in the national drama.
When Des Moines is not making new
discoveries about It's local government,
it is entertaining a convention, and
when it has no convention assembled
or assembling, 1t invites some one to
come and make a speech that will give
Des Moines mention in the papers the
next day.
This is naturally profitable to Des
Moincs, and, like everything else of
value, it came after long effort ana
at no little expense. Some five years
ago, Des Moines decided that the
country as a whole knew too little
about It, The town was satisfied that
it was the finest place in Christendom.
and 1t was sadly disappointed because
the rest of the world did not think so.
1t began to boost itself, and 1t did not
have to wait long for results, 1t has
found that the longer the band plays
before the big tent, the larger the
crowd.
The method employed to boost Des
nj
Club, which corresponds to our Cham
Der of Commerce, raises 100000 the
wear, which it divides into three equal
funds-one for the maintenance of a
bureau of railroad rates, another for
municipal advertising and third for
the entertainment of conventions, The
railroad bureau will furnish anybody
anywhere with information regarding
transportation, provided, Of course
that Des Moines figures in the deal; the
municipal advertising is under the
direction of trained men, and the con-
vention fund is used to pay the eX-
penses of inviting and entertaining
great bodies of visitors. Des Moines
| finds that this plan works better than
| the irregular assessment of business
men for special causes, and it does not
j.think a dollar is wasted
our Chamber of Commerce can
! probably learn no lessons from the
| Des Moines club, but our citizens can
| gather moral from the story of It's
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-21
HiTCliCOCK.

Harper's Weekly evidently thinks
that Postmaster General Hitchcock has
too much power in his hands, and re-
marks that "thc country knows no
more about Mr.. Hitchcock's own views
and animus than it does about those
of the obscurest postmaster under him.
Mr.. Hitchcock" the Weekly adds. has
never been submitted to tho country
or any part of it for it's approval, He
is a product of the departmental life OF
Washington, d. c.
That is not quite correct. Hitchcock
was submitted to the whole country in
the last Presidential campaign. There
was some question about his ability to
|, deliver the goods" when he was first
! talked of as manager of the Repubi-
can machine. we believe. and, II our
recollection is not at fault, the Colonel
| had some questionings in his own mind
as to whether or not he could make
| good. Hitchcock, however, ran the
machine in his own way and got
| there, After the furry was over,
| President Taft. thinking that he could
be depended upon, took him into his
! official family, and there he has stayed,
with oft-recurrins rumors of his dis
1nissal, until the present time,
What the Weekly says about the
! immense power with which he has been
| entrusted is true; but the fault is i'll
| the system rather than in the man.
4 Hitchcocks views and animus" are
| not Of the first Importance. In our
/ opinion he is a very likable sort OF
fellow, excusing the many infrmities
from which he suffers along with all
the people of his political party, but
/ he Is doing, with all the conscience he
has had TO do in every administration
since the much lamented Andrew Jack
son, of South Carolina, laid down the
principle that ITO the victors belong
pie, but Ii appears to have been ac-
copied by both of the great political
parties and If Hitchcock is little more
brutal in his sense of political duty
= which we do moi believe. he must de
II pend for his acquittal upon the sue
1 eess of his work rather than upon the
r favor of those of the opposition who
y do not like him and his ways
III This leads US to the reflection tha
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-21
Sketch Of General II. s. Colston, Etc.

Sketch OF General w. ". SOistOHS rue
1. Please give mo some account OF
General n. f. Colston.
2. would like also to have sketch
of General Samuel Garland. ! am max
ing this request because I wish to pre-
pare paper for our chapter OF tho
United Daughters of the Confederasfey.
The following sketch Of General Col
ston appears in the Confederate Mill
tary History:
i. Brigadier- General Raleigh Edward re-
Virginia parentage. October 81. 1879.
When seventeen years old he came 10
America with passport, as citlzeh
of the United States, Issued by M,n Tl,
ter Carr. and entering tne sIrsi ~, h 1sis
He remained at the institute as pro
fessor until April. 1851. when he march
ed to Richmond In command OF lne
corps OF cadets. In May he was com
missioncd colonel of the Sixteenth VII
ginia Regiment of Infantry at Norfolk,
and was later assigned to command OF
a brigade and district on the south
side of the James River, with head
noted brigadier- general December ~;
1851. In the spring OF 1852 he moved
HIS brigade. composed of the Ihir :
tenth and Fourteenth North Carolina
and Third Virginia regiments to, York
town and participated in the defense
of that post. and after the retreat to
Williamsburg in the battle there OF
Seven Pines He was then disabled
by illness until December, 1852. when
he was assigned to command OF
brigade in the Department OF Southern
Virginia and North Carolina, ana from
January TO March. 1863. was In com
mand at Petersburg. After the battle
of Fredericksburg he was assigned at
stonewall Jackson's request to the
Third Brigade of Jackson's old divi..
sion, and previous TO the battle or
Charlottesville was given command OF
the division, which was distinguished
for heroism on the End and Bird OF
May, participating under his command
in the onslaught made in the eVening
of Saturday. and lighting desperately
during the storm of battle which sway :
ed to and fro over the Federal works
| on Sunday morning. On Sunday after
| noon he made an advance toward the
United States Ford, in which his divi-
sion suffered severely. His division
lost at chancellorsville 1850 men out
| OF about 5000. including brigade
commanders, 3 of whom were killed
General Colston rendered especially val
liable services in rallytng the men un-
der severe fire OF the enemy's artis.ers
after Jackson fell. and again on sun
| day morning after the Federal forces
| had reoccupied their intrenchments
In the latter part of May on accoun,
| of the objection of the colonies OF
North Carolina regiments 10 service
under a Virginia brigade commander
General Lee put a Marylander. George
H. Steuart, in command. and General
| Colston was ordered to report to Gen
he was assigned to command at Sa-
vannah Ga In April 1854 he return
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-21
a NICE LITTLE PETAnD.

Several weeks ago a passenger on
fe Southern Railway from Atlanta to
alumbus complained to the Georgia
,ailroad Commission that one Of the
irving wheels of the locomotive en-
inc which drew the train by which
ne was travelling had seven spokes out
7of fourteen cracked thus endangering
the life of every person on the train.
The commission cited the railroad to
appear and explain such negligence.
( The railroad put new driving wheel
on the locomotive engine and there
was no investigation. The Atlanta
4 Constitution is nor satisfied with this
disposition OF the matter. 1t says in
spital letters:
What the commission ought to have
ne was to have refused to call off
e investigation al the request of
se railroad. II should have nsti-
ed a searching and unsparing in
&tgation, touching not only how
my potentially deadly cracked driv-
wheels are turning in Georgia. but
well how much other dangerous
lipment is in use.
We have no doubt that there are a
eat many ''potentially-deadl cracked
irving wheels turning in Georgia;
lut they are not all confined to the
railroads by any means They are
be found in some Of the newspaper
ces in that state and in the political
dership OF the State, The practical
4 su that Il ra yelrrs would he iustlllcC
taking is that Georgia Is not a
70 in which they can travel with
ri considerable risk We would lik'
"a say that there are no actual o.
. potential cracked wheels on the en-
reines OF the railroads in grand oil
Virginia, and that the travel to oul
plendid summer resorts in the noun
AAns and BY the sea IS particulars
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-21
THE nEAL ruTunE RULERS.

Ten thousand Christian men marched
the streets of Washington last eve
ming, filed past the Capitol and
thronged the great Convention Hall
where the representatives of tifty-one
nations arc gathered in the Worlds
sunday School Convention. 1t was an
inspiring sight. Hindus walked with
Hollanders. and Japanese marched in
the same file with Germans Men from
every land where Christianity has been
planted and hundreds from our grea.
American cities sang sther hymns ana
waved their banners in the same Name
and in the same Cause.
Those who witnessed the gathering
last night could not fail to be i'm
pressed with its great possibilities and
its tremendous significance for the
future of Christianity. Most of the
men were young, and most of them
were laymen. There We're great lead
ers like DIR. r. B. Meyer and Bishop
Hartzell, Of Africa-men who have
grown old in the service of the
church-but there We're hundreds or
young men, leaders in the sunday
school movement throughout the
world, teachers and superintendent
and whole souled evangelists. Be
tween them they have more power to
shape the future course of the world
than all the Governors and all the
Kings and ali the potentates. high and
low Inspired by a lofty enthusiasm
and heartened by a common love for
their fellow-men, theirs is the King
dom of the Future,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-21

button to Harpers Magazine for June
on the subject OF plural Subjects with
Singular Verbs" He says that "the
principal difficulty with the rule that
two singular nouns united by the con-
junction and must have the verb in
the plural is that there Is no such
rule; that is to say, there Is no rule
which In such circumstances impera-
lively requires the verb to be in the
plural Tho number employed must
be determined by the writer, and not
by the critic; there is no abstract cut
and-dried rule"
We think Loundsbury is right--he Is
generally right except on some OF the
questions touchin' on and appertainin'
to the Colonel--but we are almost sorry
that he has given his consent publicly
to the abuses of our polyglot, so prone
are the people who write for the news
papers and the magazines to defy all
the better rules of composition, until
1t has become the habit in Texas to
say II done It," or II seen It. or Il
,, knowed it, and a hundred or more
other idioms which are regarded as
entirely correct in both the written
and spoken language of that country
The object of language being to convey
thought, the Texans are wholly within
their rights, grammar or no grammar,
in using such forms of expression.
| Lacking. as they unquestionably do.
"the senstiveness to idiom which comes
from the possession of genius or from
| intimate familiarity with the best
usage Dr. Loundsbury will perceive
how difficult 1t is ito make universal
and indiscriminate application of a
rule" SO far as these people are con-
cerned, which is not subject to man
fold exceptions"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-21
.,rA,Y ANY, AND THE OTHERS.


We get all sorts at this office, from
men who sign their names and from
women who do not--letters about The
Colonel" letters about Prohibition, for
1t and against 1t, with sundry reflec-
tions upon this renegade preacher"
who has abandoned his pulpit to speak
against prohibition, bad cess to him!
and letters expressing very great pleas
ure or much serious speculation about
this. that or the other expression in
these devoted columns on questions of
theology or politics or sanitation. They
are nll interesting, in way. Day
before yesterday lady, "the lost Lee
nore," probably wrote that she wanted
us to understand that old Tom Plat
never did better thing than when he
kicked the Colonel upstairs, and that
we could speak for ourselves. but not
for her and her house. Bless her in
cognito soul! there are millions of other
people in Africa. Asia, France and Ger
many and the United States who share
with her in her loyalty to the Man on
| Horseback Seth Bullock and Clifford
| Pinchot and James a. Garfield and
Kerby and Mike Donovan and Billy
Muldoon and ever so many other flow
ers in our political meadows are with
| him, and SO are we. in a sense: with
him until the people of these United
| States learn to know him and appre-
ciate him for what he really is.
Then, yesterday morning, by the first
mail, we received another letter from
a very lovely woman. We do not know
her real name, for she signs 1t in this
way: 'Since you are stranger in
Richmond my name would make you
none the wiser, so 1 am merely Mary
Ann" That is disappointing for two
reasons: because she insists that we
are "a stranger" which has a bad
sound, and because she is so clever
that it would be pleasing even to "a
stranger" to know that she is just like
ones own people, God bless them and
ourselves Says MARY Ann: II must
tell you how much l enjoy your edito-
/.
rials in The Times-Dispatch. l do not
suppose that womans opinion gives
you much concern. good or bad; but
believe in giving the Devil his due.
/ have keen sense of humor. and those
articles on the Colonel just touch the
: spot. Please continue to write
: as you have begun. for ! eagerly seek
your page Weldo not understand ex-
: actly the rather close and intimate
comparison with the devil, and we are
almost shocked into a state of col
lapse when it is suggested that we, O.
all men. do not have any concern fol
: a woman's opinion, after all that w
> have done and said; but MARY Ann
must be a very bright and intelliEen
woman just the same, and we woul'
= bet pocket of South Carolina rice
9 If it were not against the law, that sh
Z lie beantifu1 a.. a dream
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-21
WHY THE PRESIDENT IS WONG.

President Taft told a newspaper
man the other day that the corporation
tax passed last year by Congress was
a good measure and that it would do
much to aid the Federal Government In
its control of corporations. The Pres
ident doubtless meant this. and he was
perfectly honest in this and in all that
he says, but his remarks show that the
wool which Aldrich pulled over his eyes
last spring is still there. He looks at
this tax from his own point of view
and forgets that the tax is to be meas
ured. not by the standard of his party
or the standard of expediency, but by
the standard of justice to all.
| The tax has been in force now for
more than four months. All the re-
turns which it requires should nave
been deposited before this time with
| the Federal Commissioner of Internal
| Revenue, and the people should Know
| how the matter stands: but the real
legality of the tax and the meaning of
its terms are still in doubt. The coun-
| try as whole knows no more about
the law than when 1t was rushed
through Congress as a sop for the ini-
uuities of the tariff.
The publicity feature of the law Is
still in doubt. No corporation which
| files its return can yet be sure that the
report of it's capital, its profits, its
| ife ctan inc
| is not open to the scrutiny of every
competitor. and none will know until
the Supreme Court, some year or SO
hence, passes on the meaning of this
clause This is bad enough in itself,
and is sufficient to condemn the law IL
1T had compromising merits; but this
/! feature of the law is still worse in
| that 1t shows the real spirit which
prompted the enactment of the law.
Mr.. Taft was doubtless sincere In APP
proving the law. but some of the men
who framed it were not. They could
not have been and then framed clause
in the law which is SO manifestly am
biguous as to be practically inopera'
tive and so confused as to be men
ace to all business until its real mean
ing is determined.
Yet this is but one count in the in
: dictment against the tax which Mr.. TAT
defends AS we have already said, an
l. as we pointed out at the time the bill
e was passed, the tax on corporations !
class legislation of the worst sort an
is contrary to the spirit of the Con
e stitution, If not to the letter. 1t is
Z tax upon business eXpediency-incorpo
ration-and 1t Is doubly pernicious !
that it exempts one business man froi
the tax while burdening another.
We have confidence in Mr.. Taft an
we want to give him credit for every
thing that he does for the good of tn
: country, but we wish that he could sc
: away from his counselors for fe'
weeks and see things as the people VIII
pay the taxes see them.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-21

vested in boosting their town. Tho
same thing holds good for Richmond.
The more literally our people support
the Chamber of Commerce, the more
effective the chamber will be, and the
more effective the chamber, tho more
prosporous Richmond.