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Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-05
THE TARIFF AND PRICES

The present stir over the high prices o1 food has walked up the anti-tariff agitators and they are yelling to have many articles produced by American farmers placed upon the free list as if that would make a difference. The bureau of statistics has given them a jolt by showing that half the i'm ports of mechandise now cone in Cuty free and it is noticeable that many of these non-dutlable articles are among the high-priced goods of which they complain.
 All kinds of provender should be freed from the schemes of capital spec ulRtively combined to corner the mar ket and to wrest from the people exA orbitant profits: and it should be made a crime for foreign capital or any other capital to so corner provender in this land of plenty, that when crops are most aundant food is kept short in the market and prices kept high. When the spectators are held in check the farm CT and the tariR and the people can take care of themselves
 It Is evident that it would not be fair to make agricultural products free of duty and all manufactured products dutiable. If there Is to be a tariff it must be made to protect all, not a part of the people. Goods which do nut SO1HPSt= "4lA SOouS produced III this country come in duty free now
 The agitation over present conditions compels congress to take up this mat ter and to deal with it seriously and promptly, but 1t should do nothing in its haste that is unwise or unfair to any class of people in any part of the country.
 The cause of present high prices must be discovered: and if it can be removed t should be, for no conbina- ton Of citizens should be allowed through greed to extort excessive prof its from the people
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
A Proposition.

Mir. Editor: After reading your edi- torial in this mornings Bulletin, in re- lation to equalization of taxation, I thought if you would permit me to use a few lines in your valuable paper l would make a proposition to the board of assessors. which is simply this: I am assessed on my wife's and selfs property to the amount of $7.200. Now I will gladly take within twenty-four hours after this statement is publish ed $800O in cash for said property. If this Is living up to the state law of assessing property for three-fourths of its real value, I would like to know it.
 JAMES A. HENDERSON
 AND WIFE
 565 Boswell avenue. Norwich. Feb 4. 1910.
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Mir. KeneaIy.

Chairman Kenealy of the republican state central committee is not a candi- date for the office of attorney general, does not expect to become a candidate for that position and would not accept the nomination if 1t was offered him.
 That's the way Mir. Kenealy says he feels about 1t and he isn't a man who says one thing and means another; hence 1t is fairly safe to wager that sMr. Kenealy is willing to manage an- other campaign undeFtalxen to elect candidates nominated by the republi- can state convention.
 During a score of years Mir. Kenealy has been in the front of the political battle line and not once has he fought for a candidate who, having won the nomination, failed to be elected at the polls Only twice has he been on the losing side in contests for the nomina- tion-when the late Mir. Fessenden sought the nomination for the senator ship and when Hon. Donald T. Warner sought the gubernatorial nomination.
 As chairman he 1las always fought hard. fair and square. and he has never used his political office for private gain. New Haven Times-Leader.
 The yards of many London schools are kept open after hours as play grounds.
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there who hasn't hardly done a stroke of work in his life. His folks left him booze all he pleases-" Soon we came into a little settlement where most of the families, as 1 saw by the rural de- livery boxes, had the same name live so near together" He picked up my words. "Nicel Guess they don't look at it that way. They all have what we up here call the 'Dingdale girls swear like pirates, and there is a standing feud between a number of the cousins"
 confrant a handsome homestead, evi- dently built for two families. 'TYes, that's a double house." said my com panion, 'fbut the families might as well be on the opposite sides of the globe for all that they care for each other. Call on one and they spend most of the time complaining about the other. Then go to the other folks and you hear a similar story" And now the horse was in front of still another dwelling. in which, was told, the hus- band and wife carried on the tradition al cat-and-dog controversy from morn further particulars; but at the end of that drive I felt as if had had a look into the under world. Yet, mark you, the country through which we were passing WOutd pc CohSlOereu dS idW- abiding. No missionary society would think of sending it's colporteurs and evangelists there. And yet. pride, envy. jealousy, implacability, the un- forgfving spirit, the selfish and fiery temper were to be found in almost every house.
 whether this was an average com nunity, whether these faults are more evident in this country. I do not now stop to consider. Suffice it to draw one conclusion that can hardly be gainsaid. In far too many places men and women are not right with one another. They need something to con- troI their tempers, to lift them out of their narrowness. pettiness and selfish ness. Do you know anything better for the seamy side of life than the Christian Gospel?
 THE PARSON.
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am not referring to the public and widely heralded frauds and cor ruption. The rich malefactors, the holders of predatory wealth and the so-calIed undesirable citizens in all ranks of society are not now my tar get Indeed, I want to turn, attention away from the cities where we see so much of entrenched evil to a. quiet countryside with which am somewhat familiar Nor do intend to emphasize the fragrant vices too often found in remote hamlets. I am simply going to tell about a drive the other morning with an intelligent country lad, IT years old, who had lived all his life in the region and knew well every family and almost every individual along our route. Without any inten- ton of gossiping, he managed to tell me about as somber a story as have listened to for months. Yet there was not a particle of malice in his tale.
 His sense of hunor is strong, and I think he rather enjoyed seeing my spirits sink under this recital of cold facts.
 We passed two pleasant homes on opposite sides of the road "The grown-up people in those houses,' said he, never speak to each other. The trouble came about because one man wanted to carry his drain through the others premises little fur ther on a story and half house loom ed in sight. "An old bachelor lives
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Headed for Baseball.

The word "droming'' will have to be introduced in baseball during the com- ing season For instane: "Tn the ninth, with nobody out, Hickman dromed to center and Freeman scored on the throw-in, thus winning the fourth con- secutive game from Columbus.-Tole- do Blade.
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May tell you what comforts me? It is that I do firmly believe that not one loving thought, not one kindly word, not one helpful deed can go to waste; that somewhere, into some vast treasury, they must all be garnered- Out of my own experience, too, tell you that during the years of my own heaviest struggles, if no kindly helps been beaten to earth and trampled un- der foot. and the life of my heart would have failed Surely, all that you have done for the boys and girls must have been done from single motive deep love for your fellow men, de- sire to see them lifted up, longing to stand in your own place and serve. Knowing you as well as I do, know than stretch out your helpful hands as far as they would reach. 'Twould be @ pity to regret it. I beg of you not to be sorry. Those who seem unap- and make your heart glad by living useful lives. And if not? At least your name will be written as one who loves his fellow men
 think my good, kind-hearted friend is making a grave mistake. Because of what seems to him ingratitude. he has withdrawn his help, turned his heart in upon dtself. closed his eyes and ears to the needs of his fellow men, and is narrowing his soul. Tell me what would our human existence be worth without the mutual give and take? The poorest and 1oneliest and saddeSt of us have something to give. while the loftiest in his own conceit has dire need to take and to learn. Better to be disappointed a. thousand times, yet keep the ready smile, and the out stretched hand, and the glow ing heart. After all, why should he look for gratitude? Tt is more blessed to give than to receive" and his has been the greater blessing.
 We all know what we would do if we should suddenly inherit a million: we have thought it all out innumerable times. We know just how generous we would be; we even carry list or those whom we would gladly help. Naturally, I have my own pet projects and dreams. would help individuals. First of all, my heart would go out to the widowed mothers of children; then to the boys and girls who need a helping hand to give them their first boost; then to struggling families thar are doing their best and utmost, but can never quite make ends meet; and for the rest, well, there are some peo- pie I know, the elderly. and the not over-strong, and others, oh yes, know them well, to whom I should give a living income straight out. Of one thing I am sure. I would not be held back in my efforts to help the indi viduaIs I know and love and trust by that selfish and smug and cowardly excuse for not helping-the fear of pauperizing.
 THE RECLUSE.
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Happy thought for today: The per- son who cuItivates speaking in all the ways of life, discovers more lions in the path than the more dis erect
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Ralph Delmore, who plays Capt. CIin- ton in Company A of '"The Third De- gree" was in the original production of MT. Barnes of New York" when 1t was produced at the Broadway theater. New York, October IS. 1889.
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A sneak adrnires a brave man if he cannot stomach his own kind MT. Anonymous has no standing among men-he does not care to be known is always afraid that he will be.
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Moving pictures under school man. agement would be educational; but under the average sensational manage ment they are a fright, and something
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Surgeons do not hesitate to say that bad children can be made better under the knife. Mothers are considerably cut up by this discovery.
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Nobody is denied counsel in the Bal finger investigation case. The same rule should have applied to the sub marine inquiry, but it did not.
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Robert M. Baker of Boston has com pleted his characterization of John Fox's novel. "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and 1t is to be produced soon after Easter.
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Raymond Duncan and his Greek wife Penelope had a more curious re- ception in England than in cynical New York for their exposition of Greek music.
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When we depend upon our expecta- tions for pleasure we get disappointed The approving conscience is the only old reliable for continuous joy.
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SUNDAY MORNING TALK
THE sEAMY SIDE.

Not often am I disposed to dwell up on the seamy side of human exist ence. Life seems to me on the whole so good, so full of promise and actual achievement that no other attitude than that represented by the word optimism seems reasonable or even possible. Things are bettering all the time. Those who are privileged to round out another half century of life on this globe are to be congratulated, for they will see abundant evidences of the fact that this world is not a failure or the men and women in it fools, dupes or knaves.
 And yet now and then even an op- timist has his faith in the future se- verely strained. Revelations come to him of the weakness and wickedness of his fellows, and stunned for the moment, he asks, What is the trouble with this old world, anyway? Why will men behave as they do?"
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The Toledo Blade calls attention to the fact that Governor Haskell of Ok lahoma is a man who never has to borrow trouble.
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Everything else is so short herea- bouts just now that the fact is being overlooked that February is a short month.
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Be sure and read what Congressman Cole says in a special despatch to The Bulletin concerning the naisrepresen- tations of his address before the Mo- Kinley association in this city.
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The New York woman who found a burglar asleep in her bed was up against the unexpected. He should have been found under it.
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William Faversham has secured th' American rights of Conan Doyle's pla, The House of TemperIey," which il now running in London
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The cold-storage revelations are all right Intelligent people can govern themselves accordingly. Buying food is not compulsory in that direction.
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The boys Of Chicago snowfall the letter carriers so consistently that they have to appeal to parents to forbid this kind of sport
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Belfast consumes during the season about 5000 barrels of apples per week, of which 1000 barrels come from the United States and 1000 barrels from Canada
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Speak Gently to the Bring Cow.

The Dutchess county, N. Y., milk commission has ordered that farmers must not swear at their COWS while milking them. There is some sense to that. Speak gently to the errring cow makes a fine farm motto.-Toledo
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The American Express company has swallowed up the Well-Fargo company, which shows that there is nothing the matter with it's swallowing capacity.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Even a divorced woman is found now and then telling number two what a comforting star number one was
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There is no denying that the comet A1910 plays the part of an astronomi- cal freak. As soon as it is observed from earth it turns tail and disap- pears.
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The public state of mind is such just now that it would be safe to issue a denial that Mary ever had a little lamb.
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It is now alleged that pr. Cook at tached a union label to the North pole, which is something Peary did not know goes with the flag.
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MUSIC AND DRAMA

William Norris has made plans to go to Berlin next summer and appear with a German company in several English plays.
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"The Barricade," a new play by Bourget. which was produced in Paris early in the month, has been secured for the New theater. The story is about the rivalry of an employer and his foreman for the love of a working girl.
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If Theodore Roosevelt knows the con- dit1ous of this country he must real ire that Bill faces a situation which calls for a fsw straight hloRs from khe rhanidm~
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AS ONE WHO LOVES HIS FELLOW MEN

little, makes up for the many who take my time without a thank you, and go away careless and forgetful.
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Theodore Kehrwald. who plays Jul- fus, the colored porter in the western company of James Forbes comedy success, "The Travelling Salesman" is a native of New Orleans. and before going on the stage was connected with a New Orleans newspaper.
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I think we ought to know more about radiant energy than we do. This is said by the astronomers to be the force which gives comets speed in space; and, if I mistake not. it is what gave radi- urn it's name; and don't you think that suns2 Isn't it the radiant energy of the soul of Rakes that is represented in the Sunday schools; of Williams represented in the r. M. c. A.; of Clark represented in the world encircling Christian Endeavor; of Clara Barton seen in the Red Cross; of Angel glow ing through the ever increasing Bands of Mercy; of Vincent making greater souls through the operation of the Chautauquan camps and circles. Ra- diant energy is not only the energy of speed but of development.
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A Cold Exposition.

Senator Root should feel at home at Medicine Hat. He registers below zero all the year round.--St. Paul Dispatch.
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do not see why so many people want to be remembered after they are gone. great many people appear to be more anxious to exist in the minds of men than in Heaven after death. I see no special pleasure in the contem- plation of that kind of existence in the sweet by and by. A true joker has furnished a recipe for being kept in mind after death. It is this: Bor- row money of your friends and never pay it, and they can never forget you. shouldn't think of endorsing it; and, yet. such an impression is deeper than that which can be produced by a kind ness and seems to last longer. If we put joy into life it will never get lost if we do, and joy is a good enough for any one.
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The captain of industry who only re- gards man as bundle of energy to help him attain his ends at the market price of his labor is not improving all of his opportunities, for by his thought and practice he is degrading his fellow men; and 1t is impossible for any man to degrade his fellow men without de- grading himself. The spirit he is show ing in business is the spirit of Cain. He would not confess to being his brothers keeper-he is his brothers master-he buys him at the market price. works him to the limit, casts him out to poverty and want if mis- fortune overtakes him, and buys an- other at the same price. Men and brethrenl He bahs at that. He doesn't seem to know that souls crushed down will rise to eternally condemn him.
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Professor Leschetizky, the eminent pianist, still teaches at his home in LSAa0a. +haalxk saa as naarlxz20
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HIS LOfeIlal TOT the 4oVe or a WOrk1ng girl.
 Theodore Kehrwald. who plays Jul- fus, the colored porter in the western success, "The Travelling Salesman" is native of New Orleans. and before going on the stage was connected with a New Orleans newspaper.
 New York--or so rr1Ech of it as crowded into the Manhattan opera house Tuesday night-has seen and heard "Elektra," |" the Richard Strauss opera which had already stirred Ger
 many. The critics agree that the pro- duction was splendidly made.
 In 1890 Albert ChevaIier was one of a dozen young men who were known in London as clever comedians who appeared in the smart West End thea ters of that city and in the legitimate drama as represented by the comedies of Pinero and in adaptation from the French stage.
 Miss Ethel Barrymore appeared be- fore a New York audience Monday night for the first time since she has become Mrs. Russell c. Colt. The play she chose was Sir Arthur Wing Pin failed largely on account of its gloom. Here it received critical acclaim
 "The Witch" by H. wiers-Jenssen, dQaptc0 Dy PrO1. hermann Aage0Ofn of Harvard university, which is to be produced by the New theater, New York on February 14, will. it is be- Heved prove more realistic than "The Nfgger." It is similar to it only in the fact that in the first act of each play a person is hanged just off the stage. Tn '@rhe Niger 1t was a man. In 'aThe Witch" it is a woman.
 An adjunct unique in the annals of the theater has been installed in the Casino theater New York, by Fred c. Whitney and to it's agency may be traced the fact that the great strain on the voices of the chorus men and women of "The Chocolate Soldier has had no appreciable effect on their voices which continue as fresh and strong in spite of the six months wear and tear on them as when the opera was first produced early in the sea- son. This innovation is the installa- ton of a thoroughly equipped throat hospital inhalatorium, under the di- rection of a throat specialist and a trained nurse working under his di- rection in which the chorus girls par ticularly, are treated every night be- fore the second act in which, in the finale. there is such a tremendous strain on their singing powers.
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How unexpectedly speech will some times open the door of sadness where we see no signs of grief Sometimes words sink deep and stir up smothered memories. Recently a friend stirred by such a penetrating word, said: 'Im glad I am no younger. Every day is a day nearer home-the end is not so far.' There was no moodiness. but l was amazed by the depth of the grief which prompted that confidence to me. ] confess that I felt pained by it. and I could find no words which imagined could assuage it. It was love assert ing itself in the form of devotion longing to follow into the invisible sphere-to have hope realized or to have fate forever settle the whole matter. There are hearts and hearts who carry the burden and utter this sentiment ferVently
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New York--or so rarch of it as crowded into the Manhattan opera house Tuesday night-flas seen and heard "Elektra," the Richard Strauss opera which had already stirred Ger many The critics agree that the pro- duction was splendidly made.
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It was an American philosopher who said: ''Thundering long words aint wisdom, and stopping a creature's mouth is more apt to improve his mind than his understanding" and also: 'Conceit grows as natural as the hair on ones head, but it is longer in com Ing outi" These sayIngs sIO so pat that they do not need much explana- tion Long words and vain cOnceit have always been travelling compan- ions, and their victims are never con sidered to be wise. An exhibit of van ity not an exhibit of sense is usually made in big words. It Is simple lan- guage that has force, and the greatest carrying power. Love ye one another" means as much as any four words that can be put together in the English language; and Abide in peace" has force and value that is inestimable.
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"What good wife needs to make perfect home," is a pretty good theme, but not an easy one to handle. She has to have a first class husband If she has to -11t up with a second class dwelling place. I suppose it is possi- ble to have a perfect home in such place. She must be sunshiny with out being silly, firm without being fierce accomplished without being vain. She must know her husband just as well as she knows her prayer book; and her recipe book better than she knows the rules of bridge whist. She must know the balances of perfection as well as an acrobat knows the cen ter Of gravity of a straw and keep them whirling as a juggler whirls his gilt balls. A good wife of this kind needs to know as much as a doc tor, more than a good nurse and td have more suavity and tact than the governor of a state; and then I'm afraid she would fail.