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Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

"The eternal paradox holds true,' she went on. What we seek. we lose: what we surrender, for truths sake, we find again. If men and women could learn this, ours would be a hap pier world. All about us. we see our fellow men losing what they care for most merely because of clutching at it and holding it too fast. We do not know how to give up- We are too ca ger, too ipportunate. We are jeal- ously self-seeking, where we need to be self1essly indifferent. We devour the loaves and fishes, and struggle to obtain more that we may continue to devour when, all the while we might be kneeling to kiss the hem of truths garment in gratitude for wisdom and light"
 From the personal to the universal" ]" I intervened. From the self to the supreme. Is this a law of life?''
 This is a gleam from the sunlit wing of truth" answered Lady Great heart You and I have set out to follow the gleam. As we seek truth for truths sake only, we shall find the life that was in the lost dreams of youth; the life, and the love. and the joy. THE RECLUSE.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

We shan't need your services any longer ?'
 When our cares and responsif5ilfties' seem heavy let us be thankful that we are necessary to other lives, big or lit tie. to the church, to the community. When we seem to have become or to be unnecessary to anybody, or any good cause, let us create a need for ourselves by being the kind of people of which the idle rich has too many.
 THE PARSON.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30
WHAT IS THE PRINcIRLE7

The letters Of committal to the in quiry made of prospective candidates if they would support the public utfIi- ties bill of the Connecticut Business Mems association have been evasive upon the specific measure while per- feciy satisfactory as to a committal to the principle which is involved Norwich Bulletin
 But what Is the principle as The Bulletin understands it?
 The commission originally ap- p0irted to investigate and report pre- scented an able and careful considera- ton of the problem, including much valuable evidence. It added a carefully drawn bill The commission bill and that recently presented by the State Business Mems association, and to a large degree the Whiton- Chandler bill all agree in principle that there should be a commission clothed with power to prevent the issue of charters ex- cept for value invested. to examine fully into the financial condition of public corpora tions. and to compel the adequate performance of the pub bile service for which the corporations re- ceive their large privileges.
 There was also during the last ses- sion the so-called Barnum bill. The principle of that was to give the con- mission very little power. It was fairly described when it appeared as a bill to protect the corporations against the public.
 There has been a great deal of idle and futile talk about approving the principle of a public utilities bill It means nothing unless the principle is described and it can lead to nothing but confusion Power to compel the corporations to do what the law con templates is the vital thing in any public utilities bill worth having
 That Is the test question to which all the rest comes back. Is that the kind The Bulletin means? Is it the kind the cardidates rnean2 Is it the kind the average loea politician means?
 it certainly is the kind of bill that a large number Of Connecticut cit izens do mean when they ask for a public utilities aet.--Hartford Times
 The Times appears to set forth the principles of a public utility bill very we'll indeea-they include strfcter sur Nefllance of corporate methods, re- striotiens which will protect the cit izens from being neeced and provfs- Ions which will give assurance of mere
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30
CWritten for The Bulletin.) ,

.Our mistake is," continued Lady Greatheart, that too often we seek thing else. We hunger for loaves and fishes. We rebel against untoward conditions Perhaps everything seems to have gone wrong The high hopes of youth have faded to nothing. We have tried and failed. Now, at last, we are sick, heartsfck and dishearten- ed. At this moment, a friend tells us -of little helps that have helped others; gleams of truth, which, in following, have lifted them higher, and made all life brighter. 'Ah, we say to our selves, what helps others ought to help me. I, too will follow the gleam.' must seek it for truths own sake; that he must keep the single eye; that truth the peerless. is distant star that opens it's heart only to him who loves it."
 For my own part she went on, T think it matters nothing from what motive one turns to truth. The point is that one should turn and should seek-even though it be at hrst merely for the loaves and fishes.
 How can we help it?" I objected Here we are in this workaday world with the struggle for existence cruelty keen, and the margin of happiness Ios- ingly narrow How can we help de- string what are called the good things of this life? Are they not what all the world is seeking ?''
 NO" answered Lady Greatheart. sThese are only what they think they are seeking. The world feels a great need. and tries to satisfy it in all sorts of ways. The world is famished. and naked and ashamed. Yet to seek truth that we may be housed and fed and clothed. is not seeking truth These things are not ends in themsel- yes; they are added as we learn to live in obedience to the laws of right thinking. right doing. and right hv-' ing"
 "You preachers make life terribly high thing to live up to-, l sighed: why cannot we all take things easy. and just live along prosperously, With out so much serious thinling?"
 Most people do take things easy. smiled Lady Greatheart- For one who thinks out his problems. there Is you say. prosperously-or Wretchedly. You are picturing the world as it is"
 While you and your sort" cried, ''are preaching about what 1t ought 10 be, and forever giving it what 1t does not want
 Mere preaching does little good" she assented. "The less we have of it, the better. It is the doing right and the being kind, that is helpful. There was One who had compassion on the multitude. Perhaps this is what the world most needs-compass ssion- It IS safe to be sorry for everybody Every heart conceals its own burden. fou know. if we were sorry for everybody, we should love and shield them; never censure or condemn"
 If we were never to gossip about our neighbors," I put in, hippantly, nor islander them a bit, Crampton would have to go out of commission"
 My lady laughed. Evidently you are not in a serious mood today" she said. Shall We talk about something eIse?''
 "Oh.'' I exc imed, "it is such a beautiful world. Why is it not good enough as it is? Why must you and I be always trying to think out a way to make things better2 Why can we not be comfy and happy"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

speedy responses to reasonable de- mands from the public. The press of Connecticut believes in a practical measure and it's enforcement. but what will the next legislature stand for :? Vested interests will try to have the bill framed to suit them and a eompro- mise measure is very likely to result
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

gently 'The hungry. the naked. the stranger. the sick and imprisoned"
 There you go again." I demurred- You will never let it alone
 It was the hottest day of July. All nature was breathless. The song birds had hidden themselves within the thickest clusters of leaves. Even the meadow grasses were silent; even the meadow brook was wasting away. As for us, we were taking a vacation from work, not by seashore nor mountain, but in our own home, clad in the lightest of linen, curled into the coolest corner of the vine-hung piazza. lux uriously indolett and idle.
 "All preaching places are closed in summer" I suggested, wickedly. Then. as Lady Greatheart smiled, ''Go on," begged as she knew I would.
 Truth is approached" she began, "only by paradox. What we reach out for seems unattainable. What we seize and hug to our hearts. eludes us. That which we love and clutch at, is never really ours. You see this rule of inversion running through every for we miss of mostly or else it turns to dust and ashes in our hands. The friends we cling to, tire of us and turn away. On the other hand, what we value least is always at our service All that we are indifferent to- is heap ped about us in plenty. The com panionship we are sure we could enjoy is not for us; yet ours is for those who desire and can enjoy it. Even the deepest and truest and tenderest love finds it's reward not so much in the love it wins in return, as in its own increased capacity for loving. I have heard it said that we are attracted by those that can help us, and attract those whom we can help When we go to others, it is because we feel the need of heart-1ift: when others come to us, it is because they need some thing that we have to give. In the degree that we voluntarily visit our friends or they visit us is the meas ure of our giving and receiving. Only the rare few are they who can stay at home in their own hearts, and be at rest"
 "Yet we are here to give and take, |" offered.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

This Is what was added, to a recipe for an invalid: 4.The addition of fried prunes will make a mixture fit to con- crete a chicken coop with-the hens will not eat ft.''
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30
The Better Way.

If MT Pinchot is going to devote his energies to factional politics his use fitness as a protagonist of the con- servation policy is sure to suffer He would be better engaged in helping cause for which his sepcial qualifica- tions desigPate>f hion as a 1eader.-N. Y., World
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

The Williamsport. Pa. board of trade punches up the compliments of the press and prints them in attrac- tive form. They recognize that this is q splendid way to boom the town.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth of Wash ington rode PIP miles on horseback in "A hours. She could qualify for a commissioned officer of cavalry.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

A Massa chusetts judge rules that ice men are obliged to sell fve-cent pieces at the cart, the buyer to take the ice from place of purchase to his home
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

Five six-ma sted schooners sailed in to Casco bay within ten minutes of each other Tuesday morning. Port land regards this as 9 noble fleet
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

The aummer vacation that has to be paid for after it is over can never be a pleasant memory.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

Washington is to have the first pos tai savings bank. That's all right, since the system is to radiate from that city.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

When Taft is on the golf links no one ever thinks of taking him for a mollycoddlel
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

The bride who covered her mother in-law's mouth with a strip of fly paper was a little fly herself.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

million immigrants do not look so tremendous upon paper, but in a pa rade it is different
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

The Ohio delegates were standpat- ters and now if the voters stand pat all will be we'll
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

Dr. Crippen and his stenographer did not realize that they were on the way to prison.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

July cannot come back and anyone can see that it is wise provision of nature to give it only one chance
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

The new pink blanket ballot of Con necticut annuls the secret balloting in this state. The box tender can give a tip how every man votes.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

The man who invented the straw hat and the man who invented the hammock may be memorialized by monuments. yet.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

Happy thought for today: Where the excuse seems adequate. the cur tain lecture is tempered with mercy.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

The man who has to eat his own words generally declines to Fletcher ize. He doesn't. care to chew them fine.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

-Foraker is popular in Ohio but the nation at large has almost forgotten him.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30
THE MAN WHO TALKS

There are men and women who can talk without ceaSing and they get the credit of being fluent in the use of language although they never make point and do not seem to say anything
 A musical flow of high sounding words
 seldom has any sense in it, and al- though agreeable enough for a while 1t will finally bore one The art of talk
 ing long without saying anything in
 particular is in society called being
 agreeable. This is one of the few dis
 agreeable performances in life which
 usually wears a fake label with the approval of a select few. Some people really become authors of some repute by writing in the same empty style.
 The thinking man is really afraid to say what he thinks, and in the use Of sentiments he doesn't think, and sweet little nothings he keeps the good will of those he addresses or associates about what you think-in important things it just wants man tossconform and he does-it saves friction
 The human face is an interesting study to many well informed and thoughtful people, and it never ceases to excite their wonder for it is only occasionally that a face is seen that reminds one of relative friend. or neighbor. It may perhaps, be truth fully said that no two faces in this world are exactly alike. Faces have stories to tell but the stories are not
 
 the power to interpret them- But the face that tells a story. whatever it may be, is better face than the one that is mute. Perhaps you have never thought of dividing faces into those that talk and those that smile and those that do neither. Bacon wrote: "A crowd is not company, and faces are but gallery of pictures. He had not conceived that a gallery of Efelike pictures might be company and reveal character to the men of the twentieth century. The faces which are inex- pressive which look like blank book to be written upon, and there are few such, are never interesting.
 It looks as if the day might come when the man in jail will be envied n obiIes rushing along the roads at from 25 to 1 , miles an hour and aero planes rushing across the sky at the rate of a mile a minute-with perils multiplying above and below, it seems as if the era hao dawned when the man of greatest security in life will be the man who is locked up. It seems a S if the peace of the world being disturbed in a new way might have it's peace in Mans ambition leads him to desire the power of flight and speed of bird and he may get it. The conder can seize upon and carry up a horse to secluded place to feed upon and he can soar over the highest mountains, but the aeEoplane still has less lifting power than the condar and scientists in the upper rarified air carry itself over the highest mountains of earth. to say nothing of taking freight or pas SengerS.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The man-bird has not ventured to compare himself to the eagle yet
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
NOT NEEDED.

''TIe doesn't seem to need me" This was the rather pathetic way in which a man referred to another person whom he admired and with whom he was closely associated, but to whose happiness he knew that he was not himself essential. Moreover" he con- tined, ''he is one of those men who does not seem to really need any of his friends"
 We all know the type. Certain per- sons seem to move through life as if they lived in a different realm from common, mortals. They are refined, courteous good tempered, high minded. Often they are persons of large ca pacities and of tested chara cter. They seem to subsist on books or music or pictures, or business, or travel or possibly on one or two persons to whom and to whom alone the gates of their hearts are unIbarred.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

Without assuming the judicial func- tion. We may say that rule some thing is not quite right with the man who does not need other persons and a considerable number of them who is willing to receive, the admiration of the crowd, but who will never take single man among them even into the ante-chambers of his heart. Such thing as a sided friendship is al- most impossible. Your friend may be a good deal richer, and wiser than you; he may hav.. ten s fits to your one, but unless there is some little need of his life which you and you alone can sup ply. you are at best only a faWning parasite on him, tolerated rather than really valued.
 To prove this we have only to cite one of the classic examples of friend ship, that between Jesus of Nazareth and his followers. If anyone eould have dispensed with the ordinary val ues of friendship. if anyone could have completed his life apart from men. through the rare communion which he had with his Father in Heaven, 1t was He. But he invited iis disciples into the sacred places of his own experi- ence, not simply because of what he could do for them but because of what they could do for him. And there were occasion when his longing for what they had to offer became intensely
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

have always thought of the mullein as a solitary plant because I have sell dom seen 1t growing together in com munities but where the soil is right, it appears to like a coarse graveHy we'll drained soil, it grows in patches and so rank that it's main flower stalk is .from seven to nine feet high. and then it sends up lateral flower stalks to the number of half a dozen. each two or three feet long. giving it a candelab bra effect-in fact looking like the pictures of some of the desert cac- u which we see illustrated in scienti- fic works; and a score or two in one patch give them majestic appear ance which l never imagined they could have. The mullein. like the wild rose and the wild geranium be- longs to the holding flowers and mods at night as the sun goes down. The ox-eyed daisy looks prettiest in little communities of a. half-dozen or more plants in the new ground swaying in the wind. Thus seen, it does not ap- pear strange that men of the long ago called the daisy the eye of the day"
 The other day lad brought me 2 sphinx moth for identification-an old acquaintance. Sphinx Myron of Ora mer-the grapevine moth-which Ina said he had found upon a pansy and not till then had I noticed that Myron's wings were pansy- -green-the deep and the light green patterns matching young and old greens which are con stant to every pansy plant: and two days later I also found Myron in my pansies, just hiding Myron has a true eye for color and he recognizes the greens which match his plumage and the spots where he may lose him ser and abide in assurance. hid from his rapacious enemies. Myron may gather nectar from the pansies. and may be instrum ental in hybridizing them and giving their faces new stripes and blotches of beauty Mrs Myron lays her eggs orr the grapevine leaves, and her progeny wear a bead on the caudal extremity which would be crown if it was upon their heads and they are ugly looking. perhaps to make them unattractive to the birds: and they live nine months in the year without a mOrseI of food@they are great fasters, and because their health IS so good ls perhaps the reason the ichnuemon fly makes their live bodies the abode or it's young. who feed upon them and emerge by the hundred while they still live.
 regard the poppiss my humored pets-among the dahlias I have grown between 800 and 900 this season. measuring 3 inches in diameter, and the plants starting from a microscopic seed become three and four feet high and bear from seven to fourteen flow CTS each EverK plant is really pret- ty bouquet Thsse bea utifui plants say to those who know them, Touch me
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

Those who hold in esteem beauty and purity have found it of late in the nov ing pictures of the sunsets. There may. be sunsets of more brilliancy and kaleidOsecOpic effects somewhere on earth, but one can not imagine how they can excel the silver and golden and mauve, the yellow and gray and purple combinations of our western horizon. How these co1ors shift from liShtest pink to the most brilliant crim- son. from softest yellow to the most radiant, from feecy gray to the densest as the clouds in the magic wind cur rents change their forms in their voy age from somewhere to nowhere in the sky above Us. or fade from sight like a lot of wraiths. The beauty of the sunsets seems to foreshadow the glory of the homeland where human souls find peace and abide in love.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30

hardly ever see a new bird in the garden from January to January, but they all seem like old friends visiting old relatives. The fly catchers on the dahlia stakes have come and gone for many summers now, but they know the hour and the place to intercept the small insects coursing through the air in search of food and rest and happi- ness-sWeet mOrsels to them. and in several ways plaques to men-express- ing their part in the drama of life as faithfully as we demonstrate our part, and governed by the law of their be- ing, which like the law of our being, is divine. Life feeds upon life from the least to the greatest and life of which man is the most intelligent expression is and always promises to be to him a riddle. The gOldhnch visits the centauri family when the seeds are ripe and the sunf1ower later, when it's seeds are meaty and sweet, just as if it remem- bered the day and the hour, and it ap- pears to find as much pleasure in seed hunting as the boys do in nutting; and so, one after another, the birds come for a purpose-and to time as regularly as if they carried a time piece.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-30
A CLEAN FROM THE WING OF TRUTH
And forget" she interrupted.

A1Iu IOrBGt, sIIt IHItfTupttu-
 Forget what 2' I asked.
 "The multitude" she reminded me, gently "The hungry. the naked the stranger. the sick and imprisoned"
 There you go again. I demurred You will never let it alone"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-16
GIT COMMITTEE
ADMITS NEW WARD.
Five Democrats From southside
Received by Unanimous
Vote.
READY NOW FOR PRIMARY
Nr,d;so, Ward n;e,r-oe,,e,,.
READY NOW FOR PRIMARY
Madison Ward Disagreement
Settled by Dropping Palnore.
Election Officers.

BY unanimous rising vote, the Cit.
ed to membership five Democrats nam.
ed by the City Committee of Man
chester to represent Washington
Ward. 1t being impossible for tina,
ward to nominate candidates for the
Board of Aldermen and City Council
in next Thursdays primary, the Wash
insto Ward delegation will meet
later and suggest to the City Commit.
tee some method of naming list of
candidates.
Final preparations were made at
last nights meeting for the primary.
\ full list of election officers and
polling places was named, upon re-
commentator of the different ward
in the Second Precinct of Madison
Ward was averted by mutual conces,
sons. All other ward superintendent
recommendation were adopted with.
out question.
The Madison Ward situation was all
Interesting one. The superintendent
presented his list, explaining that he
had promised the men that he would
recommend them. Three members from
that ward, constituting a majority OF
the delegation. presented list which
differed in several respects.
Agreement Reached.
Analysis of the situation, however,
showed that the real dispute was over
one man only--E. r. Palmore, whom
the superintendent wanted selected a.