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Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-12
THE BULLETINS DAILY STORY
WHEN PIERRE AWOKE

would let him enter and stand behind the wings on the stage! Then he would appeal to the boy for help Either the boy or his father must con- tinue to send him the money that his raging thirst demanded. if they feared a scandal.
 was admitted to the rear of the stage on his promise to remain perfectly quiet. Once again his eyes drank in the old, familiar and beautiful scene of softened lights. f1ower-like women with diamonds sparkling like dew in a gar den, their escorts, dark and straight, looking to him, in the blur of the vista,
 much as hardy twigs which serve to hold some garden flowers up. Then he caught his breath, for a lit tie boy was coming to the front of the stage-a little, slim boy whose large eyes looked out from pallid face to
 nervously focus on the friendly audi ence.
 Only for moment old Pierre looked. forgetful of his wasted years, unmind-
 full as well of the cannonade of ap-
 plause which was unconsciously warm
 ing his own blood and vitalizing his old
 ambitions. A rage against the boy
 seized him. He looked upon him as a
 rightful king may scrutinize the pre-
 tender to a throne; but Mon seer
 Pierre's passion was of primitive man
 robbed of his prey by a weakling.
 He clenched his hands and tried to
 spring toward the boy with the violin
 A command stopped him. The youth
 full fingers had drawn the bow across
 a rare old instrument and the first
 lovely sound was question to old
 Pierre.
 Relaxed, he leaned forward. while
 over him and around him the spirit of
 music entreated and commanded until
 Pierre knew at last that not he had
 been king of his concert world but a something rare and fine whose voice he had given to the people A beauti- full, satisfying voice it had been would it ever speak through him again?
 HumbIy he looked down at his shak- ing hands and his empty pockets; reverently he looked for the last time on the little boys rapt face. and softly | he crept away that he might not dis | turb. by the slightest sound, the pres ent Pierre. privileged to give a mes sage of the entrancing voice of music t-BoSton Post.
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Anainst Reneal of Tax.

It is understood in Washington that most of the New England congressman will do all they can to prevent the re- peal of that part of the oleomargarine law which relates to the tax on colored oleo. The New England farmers are largely interested in dairy products and are said to be reaping a golden harvest by reason of the present high price of butter. They do not want to risk los- ing this prosperity through legislation reducing the tax on oleomargarine that is sold in competition with butter.
 Advocates of the proposed repeal charge that the high price of butter is due to the fact that oleomargarine colored in imitation of butter is taxed ten cents a round and cannot be sold cheapIy enough to be an inducement to many consumers who formerly used oleo. Therefore, it is said. the price of butter is mounting higher.
 The present agitation directed against the increased cost of living is stated to be responsible to a considerable de-
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Everyone in the ward had grown used to "Mon'seer'' Pierre. Neighbors who used to discuss him over the stringing out of the wash from the windows, or the taking of a glass at the corner-according to the sex of the gossiper-had long since accepted him and forgotten the old days when he first came among them and talked so grandly of what had been in his life; of the nights when his old violin had charmed throngs gathered in opera houses just to hear him.
 Few remembered that he had never spoken of his own people, but only that; while his money lasted he had been a jovial spender, never despising their manifestly coarser clay. Not one could have credited the storm that was now slumbering in old Pierre's breast as, with little Swagger that would always remain with him, he walked
 this night out of the alley.
 For ten years Pierre had buried his
 past. With occasional money sent by
 his people he had lived and slept Now
 he was awake again; awake to shame
 and fury. For two months the money
 had not come. At first "Mon'seer''
 Pierre's credit had been good at the
 corner, so that his daily dependence
 on liquor had been satisfied, but lately there had been a change of feeling
 shown.
 He had heard muttered "OId bum;
 always soaked" from the men. Better
 get a job" spoken more clearly by the
 women. Tine sneers had aroused the
 manhood which their good fellowship
 had never brought forth, and Pierre
 was thinking again.
 As he walked along Broadway,
 jostleS by the prosperous, the strong,
 the happy and the busy throng, his
 weak old eyes blinked at a flashing,
 twinkling sign that announced the first
 American appearance of the boy won- der, Pierre Gatier, who was to play that night at the opera house.
 Old Pierre tried to stop while the amazing intelligence forced itself into
 his vacillating mind that here must be an announcement of his own grandson, a child of his own son, from whom he had cut loose ten years before. Then a purpose was slowly formed that exhilarated him and gave strength to his steps. He would renew ac- quaintance with the doorkeeper of the stage entrance to the opera house Surely for old times sake the man
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trolley riding would not prove popular for many years, and also because of the statement that the height of the fever was reached two years ago. The new figures give evidence, however, that 'the poor mans automobile" con- tinues to fill a real demand, and that a clean, smolSeless and scenic service IS preferred to one of dust and smoke, notwithstanding that the latter is the swifter of the two People stop fewer tin1ee to count the nicSels when given out one by one, than they do when compelled to lump them in the pur- chase of a long trip ticket. Moreover, the handy, pick me up service is the convenient one. It not only makes travelling easy, but rendehs it entic1ng. The trolley lures one from his very threshold, with the assurance that 1t will bring him back to it in due time. It catches the business mans fare and that of the tourist as we'll; it invites saving of legs on short hauls--Anso- mia Sentinel.
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DOUBLING ITS PACE

The Bristol Press henceforth is to be printed twice a week because the growth of the place calls for better advertising facilities and more of a
 good home paper. The Press has served the field in which it has made a name as a permanent fixture for forty years, and it is a paper so wide awake, clean and wholesome, that in- 7'ites perusal as much oh the ex- change table of it's contemporaries as upon the tables of it's patrons in it's well covered and we'll served field. It is to be issued every Monday and Thursday in future and to be deliv- cred by carriers instead of sent through the mails. The Bulletin con- graduates the people of Bristol upon having such a fine representative paper and the publishers upon the outlook which warrants the assump- tion of double the work and greater business risks with a promise of sat- isfactory profits. May The Press find greater success in the new venture and eventually take it's place among the giIt-edged dailieS of the state. It deserves to prosper and it's progress tells for the advancement of the town,
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NEw YoRKs GAIN IN WEALTH.

The grand list of New York is trav- cling upward at a rate of speed which enables 1t to look forward with con adence to the greatest enterprises and with faith in it's ability to meet them without trouble.
 The little island of Manhattan which the Dutch traders bought from the Indians for SPA has a real estate valu- alton of sz.450. s53,o61, and a real es- tate valuation of S6.5Ss, ,137, ,S04, a gain of sze7.o0e,51s over last year.
 Not MT Carnegie and his millions in steel. but woman. with millions left her by her husband, heads the list of personal tax assess unents made public in New York today. She is Mrs Emma B. Kennedy, widow of the late John s. Kennedy, who left S46.Oe0.0oO to charity when he died re- gently; and she must pay taxes on per- souaI property valued at ss.000.o0O. Mir. Carnegie, who topped the list last year, Is tied this year for second place with Mrs Russell Sage at s5.o0O ooo
 John D. Rockefeller comes third with personal property assessed at s2,5oO,- 0oe. and in fourth place are Florence -arusinick and Bessie Mcleod Leggett, each assessed for s1.000 900. William K Vanderbilt is listed for a similar sum. William K Vanderbilt, Jr., for half that amount
 Colonel John J. Astor and J. P. Nor gan must pay on personal property as- sessed at s4oo.0oo. Charles NJ. Schwab Is down for s25o.O0O. Jacob H Schif for Soeo, 900. and August Belmont and Thomas F. Ryan for S1oo.ooo each.
 New York gains approximately $27,- GOO 600 on it's legal debt limit as indi- cated by the increased values now an- nounced-
 The metropolis does not claim to be taxed upon a T5 per cent. basis. The wealth Of New York city is many times the size of the grand list and must eTer 50 remain.
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AN IMPORTANT LEGAL DEclsloN.


 That was unexpected doctrine handed down from the bench of the court of appeals of New York the other day to the public service commission limiting the powers of the latter body. The court in a unanimous opinion said that the management of a railroad is too much outside the province of the com mission to permit the latter to exercise such control.
 The Delaware and Hudson Railway company had requested permission to fund some of it's outstanding notes and obligations that were incurred in pur- chase of coal lands and trolley roads. and the commission said that the com pany had p.id too much and the di- rectors had gone into an unprofitable venture. But the directors practically said we owe the money and we should pay; and the law as we understand it permits us to issue the bonds we ask to have you authorize. The commits sion refused. hence the appeal.
 Now comes the court of appeals and says that the right to own property means also the right to control and manage it subject to certain general laws; and that any attempts from the outside to manage or control the prop erty is illegal. Moreover, it Is not in- cumbent upon the public service com- mission to do more than review and investigate the work of the directors to see that no fraud has been perpe- trated upon the public, but not to di- rect or manage corporations; that is the nub of the decision. It will prove a milestone in the decisions of courts on the matter of proper regulation of corporation activities
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The Criminal Arm.

According to Dr. Lombroso, the criminal is a creature whose charac- teristics approach those of the anthro- poid ape. One of the chief points in
 the chimpanzee, the gorilla, and the rest. is the enormous length of their arms, all of them having arms which reach below the knee. Therefore we should expect the criminal to be dis tfnguished by the length of his arm, and the question becomes one of some interest. pr. Charles Perier. a French medical man, undertook to examine it. He conducted his investigations in the provincial prison at Mines, and has just published some very curious results. He discovered that the great majority of prisoners have arms which are rather shorter than those of the rest of the population 9. fact which seems completely to upset the theory of Dr. Lombroso. But the objection
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THE EAGLES FASCINATION.
Men Have Always Taken Him as
 Symbol of Power.

However much the eagle may be in awe of man, there seems to have been no age in which man has not accepted the playmate of the storm" as the symbol of kingship or power. Its sovereignty among the birds
 Sailing with supreme dominion
 Through the azure deeps of air is more indiSputab1e than that of the nation-Assyria, Persia, Rome, France, Germany. Russia Austria, Italy, Po- land and the United States-has used it either as the royal crest or as it's military standard No great man but has been an eagle to his eulogists, and, cleaning from the poets at ran dom, we find Napoleon, Pindar, Otho, Madoc, Duguesclin, Lochiel. Wolsey, Prince Hubert the duke of York, Ba- con Terminus, Coriolanus and many another equipped with equal quali- ties. The proud lift of the hair from the brow of the capitoline love is said to have been studied from the forehead of a lion
 Certain more than one sculptor Of the head of a Roman emperor an1 more than one painter of imaginary portraits of Napoleon, have borrowed from the eagle the straight line of round, unlidded eye, which gives the bird even in captivity it's wild majesty of appearance. Every emotion. every attribute or tragic circumstance of life raised to it's highest power is compared in verse or by the essayists to the royal bird; so fame ambition, science. reason, danger. pride, hatred art" "ea- gle eyed" or "eagle taloned." No mountain is so high as those which are ''eagle baff1lng." Even the skies. are "eagle skies Greatness itself be- comes ''eagle greatness success is "eagle gripped,' and the true victory has eagles wings. What dignity, then, is lacking to the bird which builds among the stars,'' which scars swim the sun itself on equal terms Lon don Times.
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All Physicians

Must prescribe some of the ir- gredients that are contained In Hoods SarsaPariIIa for all trou. bles of the blood, stomach, kid neys and liver.
 They include sarsaparilla, stillingia, yellow dock, gentian, wild cherry bark, mandrake, dandeion, juniper berries, pipsissewa, etc.
 The combination and proportions are our own formula and give power to cure beyond the reach of any other prescrip- tion or substitute. That's why it is wise to get Hoods and only Hood s.
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was made that criminals are of all sorts and kinds. and that some dis tinction must be made between them Therefore Dr. Perrier classified his subjects and found that the ordinary criminal, whose offenses against the state are those of cunning, usually has short arms, but that murderers and those who commit crimes with violence, have arms which approxi- mate to those of the ordinary man. Il would seem, therefore, that the crirni- nal is a short armed, and not a long armed man. It is a curious fact that coiners have remarkably short arms London Globe.
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The Lure of the TroIIeys.

One suggestive thing in the annual report of the railroad commissioners is that during the past fiscal year almost twice as many people rode on electric roads as on steam lines in Connecticut The trolley passengers numbered 143,- 2S6, ,515, and the steam passengers IT, 56435G. The expansion of the volume of trolley traffic in Connecticut during the past decade has been striking and stupendous.
 The above facts are the more sur prising because of the prediction that
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gree for the sentiment in favor or re- pealing the oleo tax. The demand for the repeal of the law is said to come principally from the cities where labor ing people want a cheap substitute for butter. but are unwilling to accept un- colored argarine.-Meriden Jour nal.
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THE NEeRosExPosITIoN.

There is no real ground for op- position to the celebration of the jul bilee year of the emancipated negroes of the country with an industrial ex- position in 1913, the purpose of which is to show how the race has ad- vanced in fifty years
 The New York Times, while looking favorably upon the general proposi- tion, has some misgivings lest the movement meet with such antagon- ism from the people of the south as to jeopardize the success of the un- dertaking.
 The Atlanta Constitution. whose opinions are always worthy of re- spectful consideration, does not be- lieve that the southern people would take a hostile attitude. It says that such an exposition should be given affirmative aid by southerners and that it should point the way clearly and uneQuivocally to the destiny that waits the negro in the south as soon as he abandons unproitable political aspirations, and addresses himself to those tasks that beckon natural lean- ings and abilities in abundance"
 The southern papers generally favor the scheme, recognizing that it will be educatiye to both races, and espe- cially inspiring to the colored people.
 The attempt to have it managed by a board of white men cannot be re- garded as a friendly movement. The colored men are capable of doing the whole business and should be given free rein to make it a good success and to reap the whole credit for the enterprise
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The only object there seems to be in making the workday of women in Massachusetts two hours shorter than the mems day, is to keep them poor.
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Since an insane man won the prize Tor an essay upon the way of pro- vlding most wholesome milk, it Is recommended that the subject be re- fsrred in future to the insane asylums instead Of to the legislatures.
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It is now suggested that if the weather bureau man would just get to making two contrary predictions
 l each day he might strike nearer the
 truth.
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When it comes to oleomargarine, it has a wicked way of sneaking around the country marked as butter and as cheese. It should travel on it's own face.
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In a month or so the migrating birds will begin to return to this section of the country, that they may get set- tied by warm weather.
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New York is threatened with a fresh egg famine. and parts of the west with a coal famine, but here we se- renely enjoy these things in suffi- ciency
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Happy thought for today: The man who is down and out finds that he must make the heaviest charges against himself
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May the three cornered contest to reach the South pole not result in such brainstorm of jealousy and spite as characterized the other con- test.
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Now that 1t Is shown that Dr. Cook forgot to pay his typewriter. it does look as if his memory of the North pole and how it looked is too treach- erous to be depended on.
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5Tayor Gaynor of New York believes in his daily walk, and some of his aDpointess like the trolleys better than municipal automobiles Well. some one can find a use for the city's 125 motor cars
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The iceman's prayer now is: Zero, Lord. and a good excuse for keeping prices encouragi
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ion that the only safe highwayman is the dead one. This is it's effective way of stopping this crime.
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St. Albans notes that it has just
 passed the 21st anniversary of the distribution of letters in that place by carriers
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Congressman F. J. Hill told the bus inezs men of Danbury that the sena- tors should be chosen directly by the people Would his chance then be better7
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The writer who says the devil has gone out of fashion must have mis- conception of his taste in hats for the women
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Boston had a long municipal cam paign. but time does not appear to be of any especial advantage when re- suits are viewed.
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There is one thing certain. the gov ernment does not find it an easy thing to smoke out the tobacco trust.
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The Circulation Of The Bulletin.

The Bulletin has the largest cir culatfon of any paper in Eastern Connecticut, and from three to four dimes larger than that of any fin Norwich. It is delivered to over 5000 of the 4,o5S houses in Nor uich, and read by ninety-fhree per cent. of the people, In Windham ft is delivered to over 800 houses, in Putnam and DanieIson to over HOO. and in all of these places it is considered the local daily.
 Eastern Connecticut has forty nine towns, enc hundred and sixty Ave Dostofnce districts, and forty one rural free delivery routes.
 The Bulletin is EoId i'm every town and on all of the R. F. D. routes fin Eastern Connecticut.
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Norwalk has a subscription cam paign on foot for the purpose oi building a $a5.o00 theater May ii succeed.
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A RECORD BREAKING TRANSAC-
 TON.

When Treasurer Lee McClung last Saturday afternoon passed his receipt to ex-Treasurer Treat of the United States treasury for s1.2s0, ,134,946.Ss66. he figured in the biggest money tram saction ever consummated in the world. The triplicate receipt to which MT. Treat put his name represented more money than was ever transferred over a single signature.
 This great volume of precious met al and coin cannot be used by the government except for specific pur- poses. There is included in this great total the piles of gold and silver in the various sub-treasuries $s15, ,905. 499 held as collateral for the gold cer- tificates. In the same way, another big slice belongs to the reserve for the silver certificates now in circu- lation- A third portion includes the bonds held by the government to cover the s655, 5,53s. S06 of bank notes now in use throughout the country.
 One is not surprised that it took a great army of clerks six weeks to count this coin and weigh and value the bullion, which was represented up- on the little receipt the retiring treasurer slipped into the wallet which he carried in his inside pocket.
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Fitchvi11e, OhiO.-"M daughter was all run
 down, suffered from pains in her side, head and limbs, and could walk but 8 short distance at a
 time. She came very near having nervous Iprostration, had begun to cough a good deal,
 land seemed melancholy by spells. She tried two doctors but got little help. Since taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
 Blood Purifier and Liver Pills she has im- proved much that she feels and looks like another gir1.''-Mrs. O. Cole, Fitchville, Ohio.
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Chicago has come to the conclus-
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When shown positive and reliable proof that certa remedy had cured of female ills wouldn any sensible conclude that the remedy wou also benefit her if suffering with the same trouble?
 Here are two letters which prove the efficiency of Lyd E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.