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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24
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Sorrows crown of sorrow

SORROW crown OF sorrow
Is remembering happier things"
Nor was it original with him, for Chau
Ger and Dante had said it before his
day and they learned it from an an
Gent classic. However, | think their
view is whong. Remem bering hap
pier things should bring back to us in
later life the pleasure experienced
when those things occurred, and such
remembrance should be the crown of
happiness and not of sorrow.
A recent letter from an old friend
recalls to me the delightful place and
time when | first met her. and formed
the friendship which has lasted all
these years.
The place was a quiet New Hamp-
shire town, where in summer time we
spent weeks of rest. An old colonial
mansion a half-mile UP the hill from
the village was filled each summer
with people from the city. the group
varying from year to year, but every
year containing some of the same ones
tired school teachers glad to forget
duty and dignity and to enjoy a life
of fun and frolic.
The house was study of itself
with it's reminders of former times
The rooms were low and wainscotted
with panelled woodwork, finished with
elaborate carving, and doors of the
same style. Corner posts and cross
beams attested to the age of the old
L lie lIidnuSLS were high anu
narrow and built around the corners
of the chimneys. Open freplaces
with their quaint furnishings of and
irons or, what is more unusual to us
the Franklin stove with it's fittings for
warmth on chilly August days It al
ways smoked, but what of that A
steep stairway with narrow, high
steps, always threatening breakneck
falls and seldom bestowing them
tempted us to climb up and down
though an easier flight of stairs led
UP from the front hall. The small
PANIED windows were another delight
where the panes were of gTeenish
unnatural forms. Surely never were
more delightful house opened for
summer guests.
The outside attractions were equally
great. Looming up at the east rose
Mt Monadnock showing it's clean cut
outline whenever cit was not obscured
by fog. What a jolly day we spent
nit! At the rear of the house was
granite quarry. from which the stone
had been removed leaving a perpen-
dicular descent of a hundred feet from
cur premises to the street below. The
barn was unoccupied and open for our
8 studio and received much gratuit GUS
advice from those of us who knew less
Of art than she did.
The front lawn was divided by
walk to the entrance of the house. A
large elm shaded 1t, and threw it's
roots to the surface, making it very
uneven. Here we had our croouet
ground, and a skilful shot was needed
TO send the bali from one side of the
ground to the other, ieaping the walk
and tree-roots on the way, but rare
sport we had there.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24
CANDIDATE HUBBARO'S ANSWER
FINAL

All endeavors to get the democratic
candidate for state treasurer, E. Kent
Hubbard, Jr.. of Middletown, to ac-
cept the nomination have failed. He
has been earnestly urged by Judge
Baldwin and Chairman Comstock of
the democratic state central committee
70 reconsider his decision, but he
holds Arm to his declination. In re-
rly 20 the urgent letters and tele-
grams received, Mr.. Hubbard on
Thursday said:
in the orieI time since l announced my
inability 70 accept the nomination is
extremely gratifying to me. l deeply
appreciate the sentiment and good Will
OF my friends and party associates. If
] could see that ii was possible to ac-
cept the honor conferred l would GER
tainly have done so. But my decision
Of yesterday was made after due con-
sideration OF the matter and with the
knowledge that it would be absolutely
impossible for me in consequence Of
the many other interests which de-
mand my attention to give up the time
necessary for the proper discharge of
the important duties Of treasurer of
the state. 1t is unfortunate and I
deeply regret that the nomination was
obliged to stand so long, but this. in
view of my absence, which prevented
me getting any knowledge of the nom
nation until my return seems to have
been unavoidable"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24
A MODEL LETTER.

II Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston is not
? model mayor. he certainly knows
how to write a model letter. a letter
as applicable to this city as to the
Hub" and one that would doubtless
1T any city In the country. 1t was
addressed to the 100000 school
children OF Boston. and if they CO.
operate with the authorities there is
no question that Boston will at once
become cleaner and healthier and hap
pier. This is what Mayor Fitzgerald
wrote to the children
To the schoolboys and Schoolgirls of
Boston:
Il wonder If you know how much
it cost last year to keep the streets
OF Boston clean. The amount was
over $500, 0oO-almost d dollar for ev-
cry man, woman and child in the city
In ten years this would make about
$4,000. eco, and still the streets are not
As clean as they ought to be. Whose
fault is this? Nearly everybody's
more or less. So many persons seem
10 think the street, " hich is properly
the opening between the houses
through which we walk or ride. is also
intended as a great receptacle or
dumping place for rubbish Walk
along and notice, especially in the
channel near the curbstone the torn
fragments Of paper. blowing about. the
apples cores, banana skins. corn
husks. peanut shells and house refuse.
and then notice the same street after
IL has been swept. How smooth and
clean and almost new it looks Doc
tors tell Us that ali this rubbish lying
in the dust carries germs Of disease
and makes people sick A good doc
tor wants to keep people well. He
tries to prevent sickness even it, when
he has done so. fewer patients come
q seek his services. So all The doc
tors are asking for cleaner streets and
the city government is also eager to
have them because it cost so much
last year TO collect and remove rub
bish. What can the doctor do and
what can the city government do if
rho people themselves continue to treat
the open street as il it we're a dump
ing ground?
We are told that the people i'm
Europe do not use the streets in this
way In Germany for example. they
would regard some of our habits as
most uncleanly, and when you come
70 think of it. are they not quite right?
The street is in one sense the floor Of
well brought up would throw soiIed
papers or decayed fruit on the floor
Of his home or a schoolroom. The
waste baskets are there for Just that
purpose. So why not let us all agree
for the next year. when we are tempt
ed to use the streets in this way, to
refrain from doing so, and to hunt up
q suitable barrel or receptacle in which
the rubbish may be placed. This may
cost US a little trou bic but most things
that art valuable have to paid for.
Il wish The pupils ia the schools
might be the leaders IN movement
u tins kind They are doing it In
other cities and Boston ought not 10
be behind in so excellent d work.
There are more than one hundred
thousand of you studying in the
schools and II all the litter you cast
uaS were heaped up in some open
rId next Fourth Of July morning,
ssink II would make the biggest and
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Old Tree and the Young.

Mr.. Editor: AS much as the Water
bury Republican may spray its young
tree with commentator, it looks as if
the 70-year- old Baldwin would show
a greater fruitage, when the harvest is
gathered.
Apples of gold in pictures of silver"
may be very pretty. but, under the
circumstances, not exactly adapted to
please the stomach of republicanism,
which for SO many years has treated
it's stomach as tenderly as if it were
the apple of the eye"
A political body, which is made up
of human bodies, needs good food for
proper digestion, because it is that
more than anything else on which de-
Ponds healthy and vigorous growth.
Some things in politics are very
much like inferior cider apples-more
or less rotten, gnarly and wormy but
at the mill of the gods through which
the worm goes, the worm is often
ground exceedingly fine.
G. H. TALCOTT.
Norwich, Sept. %, 1910.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

1t is when our interests are menaced
by Jack Frost that We sit up and take
notice. He fingered late in the spring
of 1910 and began to hover around
September in a suspicious way soon
after she had waved an adieu to Au-
gust September, you know. has quite
a reputation as a flirt, and Jack Frost
just hugs her ruinously ten times
where he embraces October with kill
ing effect once. The black frost line
oscillates here in southern New Eng
land between September 18th and Oc-
tober 21st, and 40 miles northeast Of
Norwich he blasts beauty on the aver
age fortnight later, and so miles to
the eastward, in the vicinity of New
Bedford six weeks later, regularly. He
will pass through a field and destroy
everything in one portion without dis
turbing another little more elevated,
and he will make his black marks
across the country as if he was get
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24
TIE Important
Problem

confronting anyone in need of laxa-
tive is not question of a single &C.
ton only, but of permanently bene-
fetal effects, which will follow proper
efforts to live in a healthful way, with
the assistance of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of Sienna, whenever it is re-
CURED, as it cleanses the system
gently yet promptly, without irritation
and will therefore always have the
preference of all who wish the best Of
family laxatives.
The combination has the approval
of physicians because it is known to
be truly beneficial, and because it has
given satisfaction to the millions of
well-informed families who have used
it for many years past.
To get its beneficial effects, always
buy the genuine manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
NOT THE END.

One of the commonest of mistakes is
to think that thing is over, when
in reality we cannot see the real end
of the matter. Nature is constantly
fooling us in this respect. We imagine
In ch1ld1lke reliance on the calendar
only, that a given season has run it's
course. But 10 and behold, winter
fingers in the lap of spring. Just
after we have packed away our sum
ner clothing and are in a mood for
the bracing air Of autumn an I'M
eeasonably hot day in late September
or early October tells US that Dame
Nature is a coQuettish old damsel and
that we must learn not to consider one
season entirely gone even when for
the moment appearances would favor
that hypothesis.
In the realm of pleasure we often
err in thinking that a past delight
Is an added delight. Prone we are
after an exceptionally fine time,
charming house party, for example, or
a trip to Europe, to say: We'll that's
Now I've got to come down from the
clouds and live in the old ruts again"
But wait; you have not mastered the
science of happiness if you have not
learned to hold on to your sources of
joy even though detached from them
Here is memory, for example, ready
TO store away the sensations that are
worth keeping and to repeat them
for you, as faithful photograph
would, provided you will only call up
on your various recoIlections to come
out into the open and allow you to
live over those golden days on the
Rhine or in the Adirondack camp that
charming afternoon with the friend
you had not seen for years. that
morning when you visited a historic
shrine associated with heroes of other
times.
Are we going to be SO foolish as to
go into the future unenriched by what
we have learned and enjoyed already :?
Or are we sensible and shrewd enough
to incorporate into the very fibers of
cur natures the experiences which
from day to day make life sweet and
interesting and worth while A man
ought to so link his years together
that neither disaster nor the fight of
time or the event of death shall rob
him of what he has already had.
A similar attitude ought to be cul-
tivated toward the opportunities of
life Middle-aged people need to re-
mind themselves that not all the
prizes bangle before the eyes of youth
To be sure, it is not pleasant to reach
40 or so without having arrived. to
quote the language of the street. But
non achievement may not always be
due to shiftlessness or wrongdo ding.
AT any rate, never say, my middle
aged and somewhat unsuccessful
friend, that the end of the road has
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

For Governor,
CHARLES A. GOODWIN
of Hartford.
For Lieutenant Governor,
DENNIS A. BLAKESLEE
of New Haven.
For Secretary of State,
MATTHEW II. ROGERS
of Bridgeport.
For state Treasurer,
COSTELLO IIPPITT
of Norwich.
For State Comptroller.
THOMAS d. BRADSTREET
of ThomaStOn.
For Attorney General,
JOHN II. LIGHT
of NOrwaIk.
ConEressmeB.
First District,
e STEVENS HENRY
Of vernon.
Second District.
ANDREW y. SHEPARD
of Portland.
Third District.
EDWIN W. HIGGINS
of Norwich.
Fourth District.
EBENEzER J. HILL
of NorY~aIk.
for Repressntstiv--Rt-L in Con
gresS,
JOHN Q. TILSON
of New Haven.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

The so-called Hungarian wine act
of 1908, one of the most radical and
stringent laws governing the manu-
facture and sale of wine and spirits
to be found in Europe, defines wine as
the fermented juice of the wine-grape
and nothing else.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

Birch trees in all parts of the state
are being eaten by this worm. 1t is
not likely that it is a new pest The
birch has 105 varieties of identified in
sects which feed upon it, and this is
not supposed to represent one-half,
since the European entomologists
have recognized 270 different species
of insects which find food and shelter
in birch trees. They assail the bark,
the trunk and the foliage, and repre-
sent big and little beetles. big and
little moths big and little butterflies,
to say nothing of several species of
plant lice. This is probably the lar
vac of some ineid-leaf turnover or
feeder-which has multiplied as such
creatures do, because their enemies
have decreased and the season has
been unusually favorable to their in
crease. Protecting the birds is the
surest and most economic way of deal
ing with the pest problem.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

Nor need we think that we have ex-
hausted the good will and forbearance
of Others however much we may have
tried them. A little girl the other day
helping in the kitchen, dropped some
dishes and ran weeping upstairs TO
her mother, sobbing out as she went.
oh mamma. I've broken all your
best china and 1 guess you are through
with me-" But plying look and
reassuring word from that same pa
tient mother put her at ease again.
There is no end to the stores OF ten
derness and compassion laid up in the
heart of true parent. There is no
limit to a real friends consideration
and love. Never think you have reach
ed the vanishing point so long as there
is a spark of mapliness left in you.
In the sphare of religious faith we
sometimes think we have arrived at
the end of the way. The opponents
OF righteousness have more than once
thought that they had disposed not
only of its opponents, but of the thing
itself. Many a Herod has exclaimed
in surprise: John L beheaded, but who
is this?" Even the friends of religion
in dark days have despaired of it's
ultimate conquests Peter sat down in
deep gloom in the judgment hall 'to
see the end" His betrayed and ar
rested Master, had, in Peters judg-
ment, come to the end of his career
and of his influence. Peter lived to
see that same Master a potent force
in the Roman world and Christianity
a crescent religion.
Let us never think the way of good
ness, of aspiration, of human useful
ness is arrested by an impossible bar
rier. 1t must go through and over
ii into a everbroadening thoroughfare.
THE PARSON.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

Thomaston.-The state road work
from Thomaston to Reynolds Bridge is
progressing rather slowly. The drill
ers have found very hard granite. and
it is with great difficulty that the road
is broken.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

About $50, 900 in gold in transit from
Alaska to Seattle has been stolen. Any
Pacific coast politicians returning from
their vacations on that boat Louis
vile Courier Journal
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

Chicago has begun the work of turn
ing out husbands who can sew but
tons on their trousers This is one
advantage of having a woman super
intendent of schools,
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

eye upon the picture of g young girls
enjoyment and pleasure, for the Amer
lean girl is the real autocrat of this
great republic, and what interests her
interests everybody"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

Thomas jefferson once said: IF
could not go TO heaven but with q
party, | would not go there at all
He had no use for democracy over in
the borderland
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

come. that you never can amount to
anything, that younger men are crowd
ing you off the stage. Read the in
MIGRATING story fmen who compare
lively late in life have recouped their
fortunes or done something else of real
worth to themselves and others.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24
THE BIRCHES' TURN.

over in Manchester, this state acres
of large birch trees are being strip
ped of their leaves by a tiny green
worm. Thus far the birches, unlike
the elms and the chestnuts, have
very generally escaped pestiferous at
tacks but this news from the east
ern part of the state indicates that
there is to be more trouble of the kind
before there is less, more work for
tree Wardens, more expense for the
owners of growing timber.-Ansonia
Sentinel.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24
Impossible to Capitalize.

About the only thing they have not
stolen from the Indian is his summer
Washington Herald
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

The evening schools of London are
not well attended. because the moving
picture shows furnish a pleasanter
method of learning things
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

a New York man has resigned his
office because there was not enough
work iii it to earn his salary This
is the kind Of a man to keep in pub
lie service
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

President Taft told the Cincinnatians
the other day that he should make
that city his home when he retired
from office Taft is a good asset for
any city.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

An exchange says: do not be afraid
to ask questions" 1t is a sure way
of finding the swapping turtles among
men.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

Those who are devoted to their stom-
achs can see cranberry pie in the near
future. for the crop has been good
and is pretty well harvested
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

New Haven is pleased to note that
its grand list has been increased five
and d half millions the past year
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

DR.. Wiley has no doubt that he
could fetch a squad through on apple
pie without doing them any physical
harm.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

The man who likes to talk of what
he is going to do tomorrow is usually
better at talking than he is at doing.
He has an aptitude for deferring things
which not only gives his schemes away
but which smacks of laziness. Laziness
always wants to do things on the NOR
row. and is always rejoicing that to-
morrow never comes. The man of &C
corrIIishments gets to work and to
duty now He knows if he makes the
most of today that tomorrow will take
care Of itself. Tomorrow doesn't call
for any attention at all. We promise
to do things tomorrow, but we always
do them today. Tomorrow is just a
little ahead always, but we need not be
TOO conscious of it. What we did yes
terday and what we may do today set
ties our affairs in life. Tomorrow will
not even follow a fellow to the grave
it lis too late.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

The searchlight is being turned on
to political methods in this state and
it is apparent that something besides
sermons is needed to make them heal
thy.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

1t is proposed at Chicago to have
the women's hats inspected, for it is
suspected that they do not hold a
bushel
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

When Uncle Sam gets his airfleet
ready for service. Canada will have
its sky gazing pose on all the time.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

Fields Point on the Providence river
has given way to enterprise, and the
ciambake will never again be its chief
attraction.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

The cheerful fool must be the poIiti-
cal delegate who sells himself for a
price and then openly boasts of it.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

1t is perlous to pretend to be we'll
Informed upon subjects of which one
knows but little. This is risk it is
feolhardy for us to take
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

The deer hunting season of one week
opens in Massac husetts on September
Il. The tame deer will then be shot
in the name of sport
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

Passaic, y. j., is one of the fastest
growing cities in the country and it
appears to grow on it's merits, too.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that the
sorriest thing in this life will be
grandest in the next" VIII she please
be a little more specific.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

Miss Taft is going to assist her
mother in doing the honors at the
White house and an exchange thinks
the nation viii turn from its politi-
cal wrangles and business complex
tiss lons enough to fix an approving
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

The ex-emperor of Korea is more of
burden to the mikado of Japan than
the queen Of the Sandwich Islands is
to Unclc Sam.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

Dear Aunt Maria appears to be
bent upon proving that Theodore is
unreliable, and perhaps an "undesira-
BILE citizen"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24
EDITORIAL NOTES,

. Happy thought for today: There is
no real reason why folks should be
poor in thanks, but many are.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-24

When the men who make bad ac-
counts fly IT is probable that a lot Of
collectors viii be flying after them
The collector cannot be kept down