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Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26
THE BULLETINS DAILY SIons
NOT so MUCH

some unmfstakable manifestation of his genius At that age Macaulay had written majestic verses in Greek and Latin, to the astonishment of men of eruditiou. Fancy. if you can. Macau- lay writing pittful gfngles about pius be competent horse doctor in few years, but as a poet he is bound to be a four fiusher, and it is your duty as parent to divert his mind from frtvo- lous things.
 My son, Theodore Charlemagne, who by a curious coincidence, is the same age as your Willie. gave me a heart ache some time ago by writing An Ode to the Firmament,' in which he said: T like to watch the planets play along the gleaming milky way. You must admit that /this is better poetry than your sons concerning sqmlls. The theme is loftier, showing that Theodore Charlemagne scars to greater heights than does Willie in his imagfnfngs. It was a great shock to me, for I want my son to be a grocer when he grows up.
 .4I took Theodore into the cellar and explained to him that a man who writes poetry is never capable of doing anything else that he becomes a by word and a missing in the busy haunts of men. and finally lands in the poor house. Then forced the meaning of my remarks upon his inner conscious ness with a piece of fenceboard, and he has been a different boy ever since. He spends his spare time in the corner grocery learning how to make fourteen ounces of cheese look like a pound.
 Take my word for it, MT. Foxwor-- thy-or Gooseworthy. ratller-now is the time to use the iron hand of re- pression. Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26
Senator AIdrich.

The declaration of Senator Aldrich that he will retire at the end of his present term~ one year hence, ends a career and closes an epoch. When the senior senator from Rhode Island en- tered congress. thirty years ago, in 1881, southern reconstruction was over. He took his seat in a senate in which every seat from the south was full. War questions were past. Financial and corporate issues were opening. Specie payments had been resumed two years before. The first silver legisla- ton had been placed on the statute book. The first revision of the tariff was to come two years later.
 Material interests in all their various forms were about to take the place of the issues that centered about the civil war. Senator AIdrich was a bus mess man and a man Of business. He has proved, as many another man of like experience has demonstrated, that his training gave him a mastery over public business possessed by few. He early came to have a great influence over the votes on appropriations, be- cause he has known as few other men ever have every detail of every ap- propriation. On all fiscal, financial and banking legislation he is an author ity, and his force, his acumen, his mas tery of detail and grip on principle at many a crisis saved sound legisla- ton from defeat and secured the de- feat of unsound proposals No man in the senate did more in the long se- ries of compromises over silver and gold to bring triumph to the gold standard.-Philade1p Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26
Plea of the sIavs.

The census bureau ought. if 1t if not too late for the issue of the census schedules to act on the plea of the Slav people, already recognized last week by congress that each of their divisions be considered in this years census.
 For half century and more this has been done for the different divis- ions of those who speak English. The census volumes give in separate co., urnns the share of our foreign-boIn population which is by origin English, Welsh, Scotch and Irish No one of these desires to be blended and num- bered with the rest.
 The Slav peoples and tongues have even a better claim, as their lan- guages, history and racial divisions are more apparent and record a wider difference. The Poles of Prussia, Rus sia and Austria ought not to be num- bered as coming from these lands Czech, Croat, Moravian. Ruthenlan, Slovak are lost when all are number : ed in the census as Austrians. Many Roumanians and Croats come from Hungary. Their identity should not be lost under that designation. Rus sia has engulfed many nationa1itfes, which demand a separate enumeration here. Our census already recognizes Armenians, Syrians and Greeks who come from Turkey. If they came from Austria, their identity would be los..- Philadelphia Press.
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Jewett City. Conn. April 2s. ls1
Peace and Disarmament.

If any man living can bring peace and disarmament near. ex-President Roosevelt can. The one obstacle to a mutual international agreement to check the growth of naval ornaments is Kaiser Wilhelm and the militarist forces he represents. It is one of the open secrets of international relations that the kaiser and Colonel Roose- welt enjoy a mutual admiration, if anything, stronger in Berlin than in Washington, when both were rulers. This took shape. in an active corre- spondence and in much mutual action in which, as in Ambassador. Hilps se- lection, the president refused to be all ways guided by the kaiser.
 This did not in the least diminish Kaiser Wilhslm's respect and admira- tion for Theodore Roosevelt, and his policy in securing peace between Jap- an and Russia and in beginning the second Hague conference. if it did not wholly win the kaiser's approval, had his deep respect. But for President Roosevelt's known personal weight and influence at Berlin, the second Hague conference would have ended in the first step toward a permanent international court-instead of one or- ganized for each case-and only Pres ident Roosevelt's vigorous action won the English government to consenting to the change creating a permanent court for admiralty cases on captures in war on lines which Berlin would accept.-Philadelphia Press.
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JeujsIative EoIIias.

State legislatures have their silly seasons. Perhaps they are less objec- tionable than eras of corruption. but the acts of folly do not make edifying reading. In New Jersey the closing session at Trenton has been described as disgraceful orgy. There was not merely the lack of decorum which may be a merry incident to lax enforcement of parliamentary rules during the clos ing hours, but the misconduct it is alleged, included open drunkenness and the presence on the floor and in the committee rooms of women whose garb is fguratively scarlet. It is not sur prising that denunciation followed from many righteously indignant pulpits in the state.
 The scandals in the New York legis- lature are current news, and Governor Hughes essays bravely the huge task of cleansing the capitol at Albany. He will need cooperation for that pur- pose. He asks the aid of the legisIa- ture in it's self purifcation. Whether he will ask in vain must depend upon public opinion in the state, which is at least temporarily aroused and may not be content to let those guilty by their own confession escape by the route of resignation. Charges following the
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26
LETTERS 10 THE EDITOR
Was Infamons-1aow oansnabIs.

Mir. Editor: By monologue stunt, recently pulled oH at a public exhibi- ton here. 1t was fully deu1oustrated, beyond the existence of reasonable doubt, that 3 throat explosion can be used to enbelligh an argument in . criminal action without the danger of even scorching tissue paper, fading away into space, with a rocl<aW0y mo- tion, like the sttale" of Hal1ey.s comet, lost to sight but to memory dear, like many other vapory vaqueries tied to a cross-section of the post
 Meek sugary. and soothing argu- ments ara used to meet the technical objections to matters where the "crooe1. crooe1' public seek to blight the hopes and ingl0rio1sly end the il- legitimate business career of those who. knowingly, wittingIy, w1lfu1ly and ha- bitually violate the law, with full warming of the penalty" who have withstood the efforts of the moral, re- ligious and temperate elements, to rid the community of the demon rum, all these years. All self respecting cfti- zens of all moral, social or religious faith unite in the fervent prayer that if possible, the 'sapproximate cause" may be removed and the much desired result effected thus ending the liquor traffic. with it's attendant vices, that is so degrading to the town of Griswold. Tn former years it was infamous; now it is damnable.
 J. w. MILLER.
 Jewett City, Conn.,, April g. 1s10
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The Old Soldiers.

It looks as if we had turned the tide in pensions Last year the pension bill was for $160. ,o00; this year it is $155,674,o00, a very con- siderable reduction, and one that IS likely to be repeated for a number of years, as the old soldiers pass out of sight, but not out of memory. In the pension bill they seem numerous, but they look few on Decoration day. Those that are left we should make the most of. Many an old man TOW wishes that when he was a child he had sat and talked with a soldier of the revolution; but his parents did not appreciate how dearly he would re- member it. We suggest this for our churches at the period of Decoration day. that they gather the children, and the smaller children, of the Sunday school and require the few old sol- diers that finger to tell them stories of their experience in the war. They do not care to talk about it except in their own local camps. but they could be questioned or kindly per suaded to talk little about them selves, and what they did and saw, and what is the meaning of the button they wear, and how they saw Abraham Lincoln and General Grant and Gen. eraI Sherman. The time is short for such opportunities. Only the other day General Howard was buried. The pension list grows shorter every year, and it shortens faster and faster. Give the children something to remember.- New York Independent
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HE GARDEN OF EDEN CLUB.

If there is anything specifically bene- Hctai about the high school societies of the country it has never been brought to light; but every now and then these secret societies are discov- cred to be demoralizing to the mem bers and 9 disgrace to the school with which they are connected
 The city of Auburn, N. Y is wrought up just at present over the evil nature of these fraternities in that city. The boys fraternity of Auburn high school has been discovered to be "a gambling and drinking resort The Garden of Eden club, comprising the self-styled elite of the school girls, turns out to be a rendezvous for bridge
 whist and cigarettes, behind closed doors under the secret society excuse.
 You are not surprised that the Chris tfan poption of that community Is moving in ses body; that the church fed eratfon Of Auburn has demanded the eboition of fraterniues and sororities. and the restoration of the afternoon term of high school in order to keep boys and girls from idle filtration about the streets. The city police judge has also entered a vigorous pro- test against existing conditions
 We all have to admit that it would have been more to the credit of Au- burn had this spirit of protection for youth been active enough to have pre- vented a co1dition which must now be promptly cured
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The hotellxeeper, who had been look ing out of the window. turned around with moan of pain
 said, and I know by the smile he's wearing that he's loaded with some new story about his little Willie.''
 'Who is Gooseworthy D. asked the in- surance adjuster.
 Hes one of the finest men in this town, and also the greatest bore. He it forever telling tiresome yarns about the wonderful things said and done by his eight-year old son. He's such a good old fellow that nobody has ythe heart to hand him a refrigerating plant when he starts.
 And he's coming here, is he? Well, just watch me squelch him in work manlike and artistic naanner''
 The door of the hotel office opened, and tfooseworthy stepped in, beaming.
 T never knew until today he gur- gled, that my Willie is gifted as a poet. l was fairly fabbergasted when came across the manuscript of a poem on The Death and Burial of Grandpa Chesewax' It's really a fine bit of sentiment for lad of eight years. We could not save him from his fate; we gave him capsules by the crate; we gave him sassafras and squiils and half a peck of wormwood pills'-that's the way it opens, and I sparing efforts of the old mans friends to save him.
 Do I understand,' asked the insur- ance adjuster, that the writer of those tawdry lines has reached the mature age of eight years? If so, his educa- ton has been sadly neglected. At eight years the true poet should give
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26

greSsTnen the free use of the mails is unwise and that they are as well able as others to pay postage on whatever they may wish to send through the mails. and that a correction of this evil would assist in making up the de- fcit in the postal department. We re- spectful1y ask you as our elected rep resentatiye to use all means in your power for the early establishInent of a system of parcels post and postal savings bank"
 Some of the Maine newspapers are inclined ao laugh at this peremptory reproof from a country grange to a statesman But why not? The free seed business has been held in con tempt by citizens generally for some time even serving as a butt of ridicule for newspaper humorists. If everybody who received free seeds against their desire or approval would express their views on the subject to their congress- men as frankly and unequivocally as did the Lisbon grange, the waste of money in that direction would un- doubtedly soon cease.
 It would be better for the country if all the people realized more prac- tically than they do that their repre- sentatives at Washington are meant to serve the needs and desires of the people and not of themselves; and that to admonish them as to their actions is not only a plain right, but a duty of intelligent men.-New Eng land Farmer.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26
IN CITY GOVERN.
 MENT.

The fact that experiments are being entered upon by cities in all parts of the land for a better and more eco nomical administration of affairs shows that the old style of doing things is generally regarded as a fail ure-
 While several attempts have been made to draw up uniform charter Tor all the cities of a state, each one aras failed because all the commi ssion- CTS have decided that "the perfectly fitting. read-to-wear city charter is a dream no one is able to materia1ize-"
 We have the Galveston, and the Los Angeles. and Des Moines plans being tried in different parts of the country; and now St Joseph. Neb- has put in to operation a city charter which is de- scribed as a hallway station between she commission plan and the old meth cd of mayor and council. Its former city council of nine members chosen by wards gives way to a council of five members chosen by the city at large, and the powers of the mayor are also emphasized and extended. The priDcxple of the commission plan of city government in SO far as it con- centx8tee authority in fewer mum bGr e officials is adopted, but the sep arok3on between the executive, admin fstrative and legislative branches is re- tained-
 As we progress the uniform city charter doesn't appear to be within the realms of hope The consensus of opinion seems to be that it devoIves upon each city to devise the plan which is best suited to it's needs.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26
SOMETHING INcomPREHENslsLe

The Japanese ambassador at Wash = fnston. Baron Ucbida, has this to say concerning the war talk in this coun- try:
 It Is quite fncomprehensible how war stories about my country start in the United States No reason justifies such talk It would seem that you would have to gs to q place other than here for the discussion of fighting =umors. for we know nothing about @1herni There appears te be an entirely wrong impression Japan does not want war with any country, least of zu with her steadfast friend, the Unit ed States We owe a great Aiebt to Commodore Perry and to the Gnited States fer the modernization of 1apan- Your country has taken a sin- csre intesest in our progress and we beg to recipFocate this feeling"
 It fs not to those who know the fngoes. for their occupation is to talk Htbout things that are not soto image .peri1s which appear to be impossible 10 an ezcept them They are not sol- diers and no one ever expects jingo to become a patriot and defend the flag unless he can be assured that he can have a eommissary clerks position some nj11es frem the scene of action; and. get ehese fementers make a geod deal o< trouble fer all nations
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26
M-. TwicheII and Mark Twain.

The word which came that the strug- gle at Bedding, which we all had been watching with tated breath. was over was not unexpected; yet was not with out the effect of a shock, as such word never is. We had not been able to make it seem real that Mark Twain was dy- ing. With me it brought the tide of memories that had been rising ever since I heard how desperately sick he was, to the food
 I first met him in the winter of 1S67- 8, when-lateiy come from California he was in Hartford overseeing the pub Abroad, from the issue of which dates his emergence as an author. Of the shining worldwide fame he was deS- tined to attain, no one then dreamed young men, and the acquaintance so begun soon grew into a friendship which continued unbrolzen ever after, and went on strengthening with the flight of years I cannot say that at that period we were wholly sympathet- ic in either thought or feeling. Our antecedent conditions and experience in life had been very different, and, in some ways, contrasted. But while orig inaaly attracted to him by the bright ness of his mind, the incomparable charm of his talk, and his rare com panionableness, l was not long in find- ing out that he had a big, warm and tender heart. He bore, indeed marks of the rude society of the frontier and the mining camp in which his youth was passed. He was enf1rently man with the bark on.' He was compounded of elements strangely mixed-in this and that respect to all appearance contra dictory- Exterior roughness he had; also, underneath them, exquisite re- fnenlents of taste and sentiment
 Along with his penetrating insight of the weaknesses of humanity went an equally keen appreciation of it's nobler aspects and capabilities. What was honorable he most heartily hon Ored. He was not wanting in gener- ous alterations. high adrnirations, deep reverences, yes, and deep humilities. No one could be much in his com pany without perceiving that he was of a singularly affectiOpate nature. He was quickly responsive to any appeal to his sympathy, especially to his pity. l have seldom known a person so cas- fly moved to tears He could some times be of an uns paFingIy hostile temper toward a fellow man, but he could never bear to see an animal in pain.
 Tn the retrospect of the more than 40 years in which I shared his friend- ship, and during which in a wide di- yersity of scenes and circumstances he and l spent much time together. I find that nothing about him is more deeply graven in my memory than that which illustrates the kindly side of his character, which from first to last made him to me above every thing else, lovable.
 His home life, as all who were ob- servant of it will bear witness, was happy beyond measure. He was the most devoted of hus bands and fathers His fireside was the dearest place to him in all the world. His desolation by successive domestic bereavements was pathetic in the extreme. With all his brilliant prosperities he had lived to be a lonely, weary hearted man, and the thought of his departure hence lxyrat- T1T ca<.r,,, tl Tf D seph H. TWic1ell in the Hartford Cou- rant.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26
River and Harbor System.

The defect of the system of the river and harbor legislation which the two houses are now only gradually out growing was that appropriations were looked upon too much as gratuities to be shared among the states and sec- tions. In order to keep the balance even much work was authorized which had no justification. It Is time to shake off the traditions of that sys- tenn entirely and to look at river and harbor enterprises as investments made with an eye to national rather than local benefit. If they help the country as a whole, they are worthy; ernment money into local circulation. they are survival of roaring Kshf : netas" days and ought to be barred out under a statute of hmitations.- N. Y. Tribune.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26
Good sense of Maine Granae.

Down in Maine there is a grange named Lisbon whose members have a settled conviction about things done IS far away as Washington and who are not timid in raising their voices "aAn' the government when they think that government is not being properly administered. At recent me eting this grange voted to return the free package of seeds sent them hE Con sressman John P. Swasey with the following adnonitory letter to their congressional representative:
 .Erofn the postmaster here it is learned that a package of seeds is consigned to this grange. We return these seeds to you, as we believe this method of free distribution of seeds is not for the good of the people: that the expense incurred is not good -busi- ness on the part of the authorities; that the seeds are inferior in quality and money so used is wasted. We be- neve the custom of allowing our con-
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26

election of a United States senator in Mississippi eliminated in a rough and tumble fight on the floor between a representative and a state official, whose title of director or archives and history sounds more pacific than com- bative. The practice of triennia1 ses- sions would seem to invite encourage ment.-Washington Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26

RocIvilIe.-First Selectman P. B. Leonard has received word from High way Commissioner Macdonald to the effect that dhe state roads in the town of Vernon will be among the first to be oiled this spring when the work is stanted.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26
Why Do You Suffer

with headache. bilisusnsss. constipa- tion and the ills if entails when Foley's Ortno LAxRtive will relieve and cure you. It tonas up all the digestive Or gans, carries off the waste matter and sfinn tcs the bowels to their normal actSxity. lt Is spsenSid spring medi- ctus- Les q osgood C.
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The man who speaks his mind with out fear or favor must never expect to be popular enough to run a Sunday school
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26

A Missouri court has found that the stranger who goes near enough to mule to get kicked has been guilty of contsibutery negligence.
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Happy thought for today: Do not spend too much time getting even if you are desirous of getting ahead.
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There is no use of asking who the tosa of A1drich is to fall upon. The man fast enough to succeed him will miss that old relic.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26

Jack Johnson says his mother is the only person who ever licked him. He furnishes the evidence that she did not do it half enough.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26

The man who expects the whole fam fly to make time by his schedule never finds family life satisfactory.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26

The resident of Washington, D. C.. who hept c cigar going s4 1-2 minutes wss slew s0me Norwich men smoke three ten~ccnters in that time.
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Attention is being called to the fact that women appear to be much more successful keeping out of the peniten- tiary than men.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-26

The executors of the H. H. Rogers estate of thirty-four and a half mill lions receive for their work $1, 800 900.
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The census enumerators are sur prised by the number of women who knew they are just 35-or whereabouts.
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Everybody may be drunk in Maine; but the fact that potatoes are selling five bushels for a dollar makes it i'm viting just now.
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Colonel Bryan shows signs of having had an eye-opener. He now admits that there are a few good republicans
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If the health officers get much more particular they will order the flies barred from the baseball grounds.