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Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
uNNArURALIzEp CONNECTS.

There is no good reason why the prisons of this country should be sup porting convicts who have no claim to citizenship whatever, and it is cred itable to the republicans of New York that they are moving for the passage of a law by congress for the purpose of deporting such prisoners immediate ly upon their release from prison.
 In support of such a measure it Is shown that the three state prisons of New York harbor HOO foreign born convicts who have never taken out naturalization papers, are confined. wethersheld about 225 alien prisoners may be found. The prisons of Massa- chusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and various other states house multi tudes of unnaturalized immigrants. The burden which these alien convicts put on the states is as heavy as it is unjust Their support costs scores of thousands of dollars. They force a material enlargement of the penal or- ganization, and constitute a serious problem in prison administration.
 The increase of these convicts has been all out of proportion to a natur- al increase in the past ten years and in some of the prisons onethird of the convicts are unnaturalized aliens. Action by the government and co-op- eration by the states are regarded as the easiest and surest way Of solving the problem and lessening the bur den
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
TRYING TO REFORM.

Rutland, Vt, is one of the New Eng land cities that is trying to reform, and it is meeting with the opposition which characterizes a movement for improved conditions. The endeavor to eliminate inefficient teachers from the corps in the public schools, who have held their positions as a political fa- vor rather than any personal fitness, has led to the bounding of the capa- ble educator who has been selected to visit the schools and make recommen- dations. as "a. spotter," and the hold ing of her in derision by large class of citizens. The Rutland News, de- lending the teacher in this work says:
 '"rhe News protests against the application of the uncomplimentary term 'spotter' to an experienced and capable teacher employed to go from grade to grade throughout the Rutland schools to observe, criticise or com mend, and report on the efficiency of the various teachers. This teacher was really engaged to help the super intendent do work that if entirely competent, he could do. and should have done, himself Let us call this special teacher aid to the superintend- ent, instead of spotter and we shall be nearer the mark
 What the reformers are trying to do is to pay better salaries to those who earn them; and to have the best schools in Vermont. There is a ques- tion whether or not they can get the support of a majority of the voters. In this sort of spirit the Rut1anders are not alone. The road to reform is a hard road to travel.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
HE BULLETINS DAILY STORY
UNLUCKY MAN

under a tree when it was struck by lightning, but he suffered no injury. remarked that he was lucky to have escaped with his life. but he scorned there was such a hard rain immediate Iv afterward that his absolutely new suit was totally ruined by getting wet.
 Another time he was on railroad train when it went into a ditch, over turned and many of the passengers were seriously hurt
 He escaped without a. scratch. There was suffering all about him, but Johnson. thinks nov that he was the unluckiest man on the train. He says the other passengers sued the railroad company because of their injuries and recovered heavy damages
 Last summer a dog stopped at John sons house and after looking over the premises deciced to remain. While Johnson was away the dog developed hydrophobia and was about to bite one of his children when a neighbor shot and killed the rabid animal. Johnson mourned over the dog nearly a week and contemplated a suit against the neighbor. He wanted to make the neighbor prove that the dog had hy- drophobia.
 "An uncle of Johnson's died several years ego and left him a fortune. Everybody in the neighborhood said that now he would admit that he had been lucky for once, but of course we said nothing a5uut it to Johnson
 However, Johnson brought up the subject himself the next time saw him 8declaring that he was the unluck- jest man that ever lived. If his uncle had left him twice as much money, ne said. instead of dividing the rest among other relatives, he would have been able to live in Europe half the time Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE.

Those unaccustomed to ocean life have no idea of life on the Atlantic in midwinter, and it will surprise most readers to learn that "the Red D liner Philadelphia, crossing the Atlantic last week, ran into heavy winter weather just as she struck the Gulf stream There was a difference of Az degrees between the temperatures of sea and air. As the liner was cov- cred with heavy ice, the men were put at washing it off with the warm sea water. The wind would freeze unpro- tected ears in five minutes, but over side there was good bathing. A steam CT from Bermuda travelled from a thunder storm to a blizzard. The passengers who had gone below to escape tropical deluge came up later to have a snowball fight. Thirteen men on the bark Calcium struggled for three days and nights against leaks in the hold and a fire amidships. A tank steamer lowered a lifeboat and rescued the thirteen, though the sea was running high, and the gale was all but rigid wall of fury.''
 Few of us realize that the most mod ern ocean leviathans have elevators, palm gardens, hothouses for growing garden truck, and little daily papers or bulletins, with wireless telegrams and social paragraphs Life on the ocean wave at it's best in the dawn of the twentieth century has never been equalled since ocean navigation and travel were inaugurated.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
WALL STREET GAN soulRM.

Taft, in his Lincoln day New York address. just gave Wall street to un- derstand that if the honest policy of the government made it sQuirm, it could continue to squirm. Wall street does not represent the spinal cord or the honor of the nation, and it has not the influence to stay needed and wholesome legislation This is what President Taft is reported to have said:
 '.No one has a motive as strong as the administration in power to culti- vate and strengthen business conf dence and business prosperity. But ft does rest with the national govern ment to enforce the law, and if the enforcement of the law is not con- -sistent with the present method of car rying on business, then 1t does not speak we'll for the present methods of conducting business, and they must be changed to conform to the law.
 There was no promise on the part of the republican party to change the antitrust law except to strengthen 1t. or to authorize monopoly and a suppression of competition and the control of prices, and those who look forward to such change cannot now visit the responsibility for their mis- take on innocent persons.
 "Of course, the government at Washington can be counted on to en- force the law in the way best cal culated to prevent a destruction of public confidence in business, but that it must enforce the law goes without saying
 This is we'll said, and the president will have the support of every rational citizen. The live policies of Roose- walt ara to be carried out, and Taft
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
A commendahIs Resolu.;on.

The deadly cigarette gets a jolt s->m an unexpected source. A committee of the New Haven Master Plumbers ss- sociation recommends that apprentices be prohibited from smoking cigare+-es during work hours. If that rule is adopted and enforced it will be 2 g,od thing for the plumbers, better ore for the customers and. best of all for the boys. It would be a blessed thing for the youth of America if it could re permanently separated from the cigar : cite. Such a separation woIid raake for manliness, and result in lnccc ,sed health, energy and ambition The master plumbers know this and they will score in popular estimation if they succeed in keeping apprentices and cigarettes apart.--BristoI Press
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
WINTER BIRDS AT WINDOW.
How to Feed the Birds and to Observe
 Their Habits.

A good deal of amusement may be had at home by feeding and gaining the confidence of the winter olrds. Even the English sparrow is hefp, as flock of them feeding near our win dows gives confidence to other kinds Of birds to come and feed, too For a number of years I have fed the plrds at my sitting room window. have piece of suet tied to a rose bush against the house and near the win dow. so can see the birds that come to eat. There is a shelf lacked to the sill outside to hold pieces of bread, cake or any food I feel like putting out. There are nails driven in the board to press the bread on to keep the wind from blowing it off.
 chickadees, happy little mites. They will stand there and eat and sing chickadee dee dee dee dee. in the most cheerful manner possible.
 Then the nuthatches come walking, head downwards on the window frame and take bit of suet, or come down on the shelf and pound out a crumb of bread If they get a good big piece they fly off to a tree and wedge it in some crevice and back they come for more. Sometimes I put out corn from the hens pail They take kernel to branch and wedge 1t in and come back for more. The chickadees will do the same.
 The iuncos visit my shelf at times, but they love to feed from the ground best The suet is also visited by the downy woodpecker. The other birds leave when the woodpeckers come | After a snow storm it is nice to watch the tree sparrows flutter around. They seem to enjoy waIlowing in the snow, as though they were taking a sand bath. They like the grain and crumbs I throw out on the ground. They come in large focks-as many twenty or more. have seen them in the yard eating after long storm; all the birds are hungry then and there will be English, tree and song spar rows, juncos and bluejays, only the other birds fly away as soon as the bluejay appears. One day a crow came to help out the number.
 Hairy woodpeckers and hickers come on the apple tree near the house. I saw a ruby-crowned knight light on the wistaria near the window one morning this winter.
 It is amusing to watch the bluejays est. ' They crowd as many Kernels of corn down their neczs as they can hold and then fly to some tree and dis gorge, only to come back again and repeat the performance as long; as the corn lasts. I have counted seventeen kernels of sweet corn taken at one time. wonder if the other birds and squirrels do not get share.
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Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
Beef Trust Prices.

The beef trust has issued a state ment to the effect that prices are as low as they possibly can be under ex- isting conditions.
 This statement is followed by the explanation that the beef supply does not equal the demand and that prices are high because it is necessary to pay a higher rate than ever before for live animals fit for slaughter. During the height of the present agitation concerning high rates, beef was selling in New York and London as follows:
 London. New York. L1oins ...... 15-19 23-2S Round steak ...... 1920 20-24 Chuck steak .....-. 12-16 14-1S
 Why is it that the beef trust can sell at lower prices in London than it can in the United States? That ques- tion has never yet been answered.
 For the year ending Oct. 2, 1909, Swift & Co. showed a net earning of 13.6 per cent. on the capitalization of sixty millions, which capitalization has been increased forty millions within the last ten years
 The statement made by Armour * Co. last year revealed net earnings of 35-6 per cent. on a. capitalization of twenty millions. It doesn't look as If the beef trust had been treating people of the United States fairly. If the indications do not correspond with the facts. the beef trust should see to it that their side of the case is more fully and accurately present eo than it yet has been.--New Haven Times-Ileader.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
SHOULD NOT BE DILAToRY.


 The corporations should be prompt to observe the new tax law if they would save themselves trouble Our Washington correspondent writes that ..ss the time for making returns un- der the corporation law is drawing near, manufacturers and corporations of Connecticut are appealing strenu- ousfy to the Connecticut members to do something to relieve them or the hardships of the tax. Primarily those interested want the tax repealed, but failing to get this they would like to have the time for making returns postponed.
 ssrrhere is not much sympathy with either proposition in congress. and the chances are that the law will re- main in force, unless the supreme court declares it unconstitutional Con- eress does not care to open up the subject again. If an amendment Wre to be reported to either house to post pone the time for making returns. oth- CT amendments would be sure to be proposed, and the entire subject open ed up- The chances would be that the amendments could not be settled until after March 1st, the date the returns must be in.
 saThe manufacturers claim that they have not had sufficient time to get up their returns, but to this the an- sxer is down here that they have known since last August that this tax should be enforced, and they should have been prepared for it. The prin- cfpaI objection to the tax seems to be the publicly. and yet corporations are assured that the facts and figures giv- en to the government will not be dis closed to anyone, and cannot become public property.
 '-Those who are liable to the tax had better get their returns ready and avoid all complications"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
More for Flows, Less for Guns.

Moro for Flows, Less for Guns.
 A 4O-acre farm of irrigated land will comfortably support a family or five. It costs $55.G00 to make lz- inch gun. The money that goes to pay for this gun would reclaim 1,531 acres of land providing homes for 1s6 peo- pie. When all the guns on all the battIeships are shot one time, the gov ernment blows in noise and smoke $150, GOO. This would reclaim 4,ooo acres of land, giving homes to more than 500 farmers and families. The money consumed in powder is lost to all future. The farmer who buys the reclaimed land must pay the govern ment back in ten years, so # does not cost the government anything to build up the country by helping the farmer. We should make more homes ana not so many fighting machines. We nave numberIess instances where the con struction of a railroad has advanced $50 per acre. We also have many In stances where the improvement or the public roads has increased farm values from $10 to $50 per acre. Therefore, saying nothing about the relative com forts of good road over bad one, good roads are a splendid investment for the farmer. The laws of the coun- try should so protect and encourage investments in railroad construction as to prevent the necessity of citizens 2 having to contribute to help build them. If I were asked to name the most effective way to check this country's g-owth, would say, stop railroad construction for e. few years and our country will become a nation of industrial decadence-Secretary or Agriculture Wilson, in Leslie's.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
The Liahtheuse Service.

There is a bill before congress trans ferring the lighthouse service from what is known as the lighthouse board to a special service under the depart ment of commerce and labor. Hereto fore the maintenance of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and other aids to nav igatfon has been under the control of Ia joint board of army engineers and navy officers. The system 41as worked well for a long time, and no sound ar gument has been advanced in suppors of the proposed change. Engineer of ficers of the army are certainly com potent to supervise the location of lighthouses, and the naval officers de- tailed to the service are surely the most skilled men that can be found for keeping the service in proper dis cipline. and the day-and-night aids to navigation in their place.
 The people most interested in light houses and day aids to navigation are masters of ships and the owners o1 vessels, as well as their insurers All of these interested people should have something to say in discussing the pro posed change from the existing sys- tenn, which is believed to be eff1cient to a new one, the success of which iz problematical.-New Orleans Plea
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
Of Interest to Connectinut.

The Springfield Board of Trade has voted to start concerted action foi the passage of the Weeks bill estao- fishing a White mountain forest resar- vation. Connecticut, too, should gel into line and work for this end New England is entitled to this much Ci consideration from Uncle Samuel an6 1t is matter which concerns many oi the industries of tilis state, its clinla-e and the holiday pastimes of sonae ci its people.-Ansonia Sentinel.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
To Succeed sperry.

The oil can was used to advantage at the republican conference In New Haven Saturday so that so far as lfr. Tilson is concerned Andrew F. :5he5- ard is to have a clear field sor the nomination for onsress in the Second district, to succeed MT. Sperry, ard that MT. TiIson will again be d cail- didate for congressman at large. :Le position he now holds. Mir Tfis 1n is well thought of in Connecticut and has established z reQutzfton Tor 4rirn-
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

gives notice to that effect It appears to be difficult for the rogues and petty tyrants of the country to understand that the people are of more account with the administration than they.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

The woman whose face is her for tune eventually discovers that it is not quite equal to an inexhaustible bank account.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

Those who intend to aviate next summer are a little ahead of those who anticipate making automobile tours.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

There were twice as many immi-' grants entered the country in 1909 as in 1908, and they heroica1ly face the high prices.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

Mayor Gaynor is teaching the po- lice of New York that they are pro tectors of the people, not assailers of them.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

President Taft doesn't make his speeches as scorching as were Roose- velt's. but their tensile strength is the same.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Since brooms have doubled in price they will have to be used with more care.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

With a percentage on deposits would not every postmaster of the country be a hustler to bring deposits to postal savings banks? It would seem so.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

American money has brushed up a great many old estates abroad, and now the Drexel millions are booked to put a. few old English castles in re- pair
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

The British Columbia Indian is a good farmer, and the housekeeping | of his squaw in a six-room house is
 | said to be creditable.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

self in Washington, something which has seldom been accomplished by 2 member of congress during hrs first term. Oven Uncle Joe" likes hi1l, and has called him to preside over the house. which he did with ability alid cleverness, showing that he had not forgotten his experience as speaker sf the lower branch of the Connecticut legislature. Many people will be glad to have an opportunity to vote for him Iagain-NeW Britain Record.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

Scientists say that there isn't gas enough in the tail of the comet to disturb a beetle, and yet grown folks are feeling alarmed about the possi- bilitieS of it.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

It was twelve years Tuesday since the Maine was blown up in Ha- vana harbor, and she is still there.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

Harry Whitney's stories about hunt ing big game in the Arctics leave nc doubt that man must be game tc enjoy it.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

this proposed haIo-ing of MT. Peary- t1e-North- pole?
 JUST-WHY. Norwich, Feb. 15. 1910.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

Peary is now getting back little of the vituperation which he passed out so freely against Dr. Cook.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

From the way trouble keeps breaking out in Barcelona it begins to look as if they should move 1t east and make 1t the capital of the Balkans.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

It is a fact that cold-storage plants are not to blame for the stale eggs found in their nidsti
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16
eLEANINes AND GOSSIP.

The Young Turks have executed g muck raker. They have evidently de- cided to do things in the governuiena way in stye.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

Recent wireless rescues have brought out that $. O. s. has been substituted for C. D. O., and the exper- imenting amateurs will soon again be fooling with serious things.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

Now 25,O00 bad eggs have been found in Pittsburg. They ought to be able to find a use for every one of them there.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

Even Massachusetts men who are aspiring for congressional nominations have to give out that they are anti Cannon.
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Happy thought for today: When money talks there is often peril in listening.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

Alabama is planning to put 400 of her convicts at work in her mines. Some people didn't know she had mines enough to make room for 400 men.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

Now they say that the light whicf fl1uminates the tail of Halleys come comes from the third Cyanogen band Another mlystery solved to the satis- faction of everyone.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

There is a great rosebush at F'rei- burg, Germany, which is said to have had -1a.0Ao hlnSsauls at one Hrne.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

Someone turned several hundred ca naries loose at ball in Philadelphia recently to make a sensation. A pair of good fat turkeys would have made a much larger one.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

The oldest active sailing vessel in the world is thought to be the Constanz. which sails the Baltic and North seas. She Is used as a freighter, and can carry a two-ton cargo. She was built in 1723, and has never had any exten- sive repairs made on her. Her owner says that she is good for her third century unless she is Slipwrecked.
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count 1,000,000 grains of wheat recent ly. They've got him TOW where lot more people are busy on equally im- portant tasks, and are never disturbed in their work by the keepers.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

The American people spend s1.200, 100000 a year for electricity. and ye not one of them can tell what 1t is where it comes from or where it goei when they get through using it.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

William Waldorf Astor has left Rome | and gone back to help his son in his | English political campaign Imagine l the effect the support of W. W. Astor would have on the chances of a politd- cal candidate in this country.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-16

The west is far more strenuous than the east. and there is no use in try ing to get around it. San Francisco has a. woman instructor at one of her public p1aygrounds who teaches the boys how to play football
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The Chicago Record-Herald says with some show o6 truth, that many a man who would hunt all day in vain for the family Bible could put his hand on the family corlzscrew in the dark.