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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
THRIVING ON VICE.

Some people do not think that the
use of tobacco temperately or intern
perately is vice, and some who use
IT admit that it is a little one-just a
respectable vice-bI1t few of the vic
Tins of the habit realize how they
are annually being done out of their
good money by the Tobacco trust,
which has just announced that in 1909
its earnings We're thirty millions, of
which $4,000, 900 was paid in dividends
upon its common stock, or SO per cent.
of it's value.
This trust started out with a mo-
nopoly of the cigarette trade and
quickly added the snuff monopoly and
plug and smoking tobacco industry.
Only the cigar trade is left, and the
trust is manifesting its usual diligence
in that direction. Excluding cigars,
four-ifths of the tobacco trade of the
country is in the hands of the trust
In the last few years 200 independent
tobacco factories have gone into the
hands of the combine, more than half
of the total
It Is not strange that congress is
largely responsible for these ILL gotten
profits. The size of tobacco packages
was reduced in 1898, when the Spanish
war tax was laid by authority of con-
gress, SO that the old package prices
could be maintained.
In 1901 and 1902, when the war tax
was removed, nothing was done about
enlarging packages again and the
trust continued to delve deep into the
pockets of the tobacco consumer for
Hhe wonted tax which went into the
tobacco treasury to the tune of $780,
100000 a year, or about 5000, ZOO, 900
sn aggregate since the trust was form
ed.
The result of all this is that the
Tobacco trust has a surplus of S42-
100000, or S102 for each share of stock
which sells on the New York curb for
erore than $500, as well it might, with
dividends OF 80 to 40 per cent. of it's
Hnr value.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
Why MEAT PRICES ADVANCED.

Attention has been called to the fact
rs [ the increase Of the population by
100000 and the decrease of the
5sef stock by 100000 head is the
asnse of the present condition OF the
Heat market. The last advance in
March is now explained by the Feb
Fsaary receipts of livestock. At the
eszen primary interior markets, across
from Chicago to Omaha these re-
eeipts were only 2,7s3. 204 head. This
d. 10 per cent. below 1908 and 25 per
rent below 1908. Receipts of hogs
were a fifth below the average of the
last FIVE years Shipments of packing
house products for two months were a
fifth below the five years average, and
canned meats, shipped in two months.
were 6,o1o.5o0 pounds, when in 1906
they were 3O,15s,40 pounds. and no
one thought them large then.
Shipments as small as these cut off
the supply of meat at its source. The
United States is producing more peo-
pie and less meat, and meat naturally
rises.
The price of meat will not be any
lower until the supply and demand
are properly adjusted There has got
10 be a great increase in stock before
beef can be cheaper; and if present
prices of milk and butter are to be
maintained the decrease of milch cows
in New England at the rate of Il, 900
a year or an average of 40 day, must
be stopped. These adverse conditions
give no future good promise.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
PRETTY GOOD NEGROES.

The old soldiers have never proven
false to the negroes of the country,
for they know their true worth; but
there are prejudiced white men who
are always ready to declare: Il
haven't a blamed bit of use for
niggeri-none of emf This was
said in the presence of an old soldier
in Kansas the, other day and he de-
Tended the blacks as follows:
Il was captured at Charlestown and
was in the fort there with other pris-
oners. We officers were to ourselves;
the white privates in a quarter to
themselves; the negroes off in a little
shack. The union fleet was planning
to shell Charleston and earthworks
were necessary. So one day a con-
federate officer came in and climbed
on q big box In his hand he held a
rope, made into a hangman's moose.
He called the negroes to him. Now,
you d--n niggers.' he exclaimed, we
need earthworks out in front here. We
need them badly. You fellows are go
ing to be given u chance to build
them. If you refuse, every one of you
will be hung tomorrow morning. If
you work, you can have your freedom
THE negroes dropped back and
talked among themselves for a while,
and then a spokesman came forward.
gu KIN Wnup US, an you KIN StarVe
us; an you kin hang us if yo' got to,
but yo' cain't git us to fight ag'in the
union
"They didn't build the earthworks,
and they were not hanged, either
Our colored fellow citizens have a
proud record. Our colored men have
proved loyal whenever and wherever
they have been trusted from the days
of Lexington to the fray at San Juan
hill, when they saved the day Men
who have fought with them respect
them for their yalOr and Iovalfv
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

u Kentucky minister says: 1.-THE
devil has his own pulpit" He is right;
here are devils pulpits in various
Iarts of New England. They are US
uafiy SUCCESSFULLY shaped poulders.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

1t is reported that Robert Lorraine is
to be Gertrude Eldott,s leading man
when she appears in 1.-The Dawn of
Tomorrow" in London.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

When it comes to comets, the scien-
lists do not agree upon them any more
than the doctors do upon certain rare
and rochety diseases
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

Row it is expected that Colonel
Roosevelt will be asked to explain why
he said General Castleman was a.
trump for sending him three gallons of
30-z ear-old whiskey.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

Virginia Harmed is to appear as
leading woman in a San Francisco
stock company for five weeks early in
the summer.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

Professor Williams of the Univer-
szty of Missouri regards Moses as a
bold chronicler of criminal news, far
more fearless than news publishers of
to-day.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

People who worry about the posi-
RHties of the comet do not worry
SPOUT the peril of the long hatpin, al
though it represents the greater dan
80
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

The New York woman who deplores
Nat no wife can make a suit of clothes
for her husband in these days, doesn't
realize that the GOTH century husband
might decline to wear them, if she
cessld
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

A Chicago judge has discharged a
woman who subdued her husband with
a rolling pin, because the psychologist
Ell moment for him to be subdued had
ARR we'd.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

Lieutenant Shackleton says the pen
gums near the South pole showed
great interest in the music of the
phOnograph.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

Mime. Sembrich IS to sing Sunday.
April II, in Boston at the second of
the two concerts for the pension fund
of the Boston symphony orchestTa-
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

Gustav AIahler's admirers are con-
cerned over a rumor enanating from
Germany that he is writing an opera
a la Richard Strauss. to be called
'"Theseus,'' with the sinful love OF
Phaedra for Hippolytus as theme.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

Tully Marshall, who has scored a big
personal hit in 1.-THE City" is to have
a stock company Of his own in Cleve-
land this summer.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

The husbands opinion of the wo-
mans page corresponds with the
wife's opinion of the sporting page.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

A New York actress wishes to be
separated from Joy, who is her hus-
band. Married joy is not wholly I'M
alleged.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
The End

When there is nothing left for a
man to be enthusiastic over he might
as well be dead.-Chicago Record Her
aid.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

The fact that the editor of the
Houston Post has bought a Bible has
been noticed by hundred newspapers.
1t is seldom a Bible is sold in Texas.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

There are quite as many elope-
ments as divorces in this country, so
sensations are never likely to end.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

The reason Andrew Carnegie's phil
osophy takes is because he has the
millions to back it up.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

If the Princess de Sagan was going
to live her life over, she would see
that she didn't wed the whole family.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
Teddy Giving Away Elephants.

Benefactions of Messrs Carnegie
and Rockefeller are already inducing
others to follow Suit-N. Y. Telegram.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

Commander Peary is now claiming
that his records are too bulky to be
handled comfortably.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

The open trolley car is nearing the
season when it does not fear being
nipped in the bud.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
Teddy Back to His Own.

Mr. Taft might as well make up his
mind to be satisfied with the second
page as soon the Colonel gets things
to going real good.-Rocheste Herald
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
MUSIC AND DRAMA

Frederick Kerr is to be Maxine EN-
otis leading man next season.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
A Growinn susnicion.

There seems to be a. growing sus-
picion. in some quarters that nobody
has discovered the North Pole.-Prov-
idence Journal.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Happy thought for today: That
which we yearn for most might not
serve US best.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
GIVING AS you GO ALONG.

We folks with modest purses stand
in awe today in the presence of some
of the mighty benefactors OF our time.
To be able to give million dollars at
a clip and not feel it or $4,000 900 or
$50, 900, 00O to be able to pension a. lot
of aging college professors; to plant
libraries all over the land, to subsidize
on a royal scale a host of struggling
educational institutions, and last, but
by no means least, to do an unprece-
dented thing in the annals of benevo-
lence, namely. to make over prospec-
lively the hugest fortune in the coun-
try for the ends of human relief and
betterment-ah. what would we not
give to be able to pour out money like
that! Such lavish giving makes the
half dollar we put into the contribu-
ton box last Sunday look like 80 cents
or less.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

Maude Know1ton. who plays a prom
inent part in James Forbes new COM
edy, "rhe Commuters" was the origi-
nal Sylvia Simpson in The Chorus
Lady"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

The Metropolitan opera house COM
pany of New York is at the Boston
opera house this week, with this rep
ertory: Monday night, Aida" with
Caruso and Louise Homer: Tuesday
evening, mime. Butterfly" with Ger
aIdine Farrar and Ricardo Martin:
Wednesday afternoon, Marta" with
Elvira di Hidalgo, Louise Homer and
Bonci: Wednesday evening. ia Bo-
heme," with Caruso and Frances Aida:
Saturday afternoon, La Tosca," with
Geraldine Farar, Ricardo Martin and
Scott; Saturday evening. die Meist-
ersinger'' with Nine Gadski and the
giant tenor. Leo Seiztc-
This is the year for Oberammer gau.
The Batavian peasants, remembering
the vow their fathers made in the year
of the great plague, 1888, will enact
the story of the passion I'M requital OF
deliverance from the scourge. The
last season in which the play was
given was in 1900, and It won't be
given again until 1920. The villagers
of 1888 vowed its performance every
ten years, and the villagers of 1910 do
not exceed their ancestors promises
for fear that the sacred drama might
assume an aspect of the commonplace
1t will be given 80 times, beginning
May Is. There will be three perform
ances in May, six in June, seven in
July. nine in August and five in Sep
TENDER.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
But wait bit. Do you realize that

But wait a bit. Do you realize that
there are some great disadvantages
in such tremendous benfactions? In
the first place your motives are like
ly to be misunderstood. He's doing
it, people say, because he wants to
affix his own name forever to some
school building or library" Another
set of critics cynically remark that no
matter how much Mr.. Money Bags
gives away he is sure to reserve an
ample supply for himself and his heirs
and these critics unfeelingly declare
that it won't make a particle of differ
ence with him personally He will
have just as many estates in this coun-
try and Scotland as he had before and
he won't have to forego a single golf
stick.
Even more heartless comment is
passed to the effect that all this money
really belongs to the public, having
been filched from them in one way and
another and that Mr.. Money Bags is
only making tardy restitution to the
people or the heirs of the people
whom he himself has mercilessly and
systematically squeezed.
/ am stating these various criticisms
not to justify them, but to emphasize
the point that the wisest and most eff
fective kind of benevolence is that
which waits not for great accumula-
tons but utilizes the opportunity af-
forded by today. This is the kind on
which our great missionary and philan-
thropic enterprises have relied chiefly
in the past They have done their
splendid work in this and other lands
largely because they were made the
almoners of a vast multitude of small
gifts, and they were all the more pre-
cious gifts because so large a proper
ton represented toll and sacrifice. They
were the sort of gift and represented
the kind of giving which the Saviour
commended when one day he saw a
plainly dressed widow step shyly up to
the treasury and put in her mite, for
said he: '-She hath given out of her
poverty even all that she had"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

Life is a conundrum all of us like to
keep guessing and never like to give
up. We may say that life isn't worth
living, but we would not if we knew
we should surely die if we said it. We
are queer; and if some of us don't get
any more out of life than we put into
it, we shall not get much. We act as
when we are contributing parings. We
expect a great deal more of life than
we think life ought to expect of us;
and we don't mind our equifibriums
any better than we do our p's and as
Lift makes us tired. but few of us
really tire of life, although many of US
think that we do.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

TuEHE u no Advertising msdium A.
Eaetsrn CDnneaticut EQual 70 TAG 1&N4@
letin for hnninasa r&Rmlk& -
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

THERE Is no advertising medium In
Eastern Connecticut equal to The Bull
lettn for business results.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

When a boy is getting out of the
Juvenile period he shows it by saving
the pennies he has always spent for
candy to get enough to buy a baseball,
bat and mitt. He is leaving TIE way
of whimpers and sweets for the more
strenuous way of life He is for put
ting strength into his muscles, instead
of confectioner's paste into his mouth
His tadpole days are behind him and
he sees the home run looming up in
front. 1t is a manly ambition which
possesses the soul of boy and takes
him from babyhood and sets him in
the way to meet an umpire. 1t is the
opening I'D of play s,1d the beginning
of trouble-this is just what life is as
played along different lines.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
We make a great mistake when we

We make great mistake when we
hold our generous impulses in leash
until we have a big pile of money to
dispose of. That day may never come
and even if it should we must not lose,
as we go along, the education and the
joy that arise from giving out of even
slender resources
In his wide kingdom God has innu-
merable uses for just such little gifts
the fruit of thought and love and sac
rifice. A thousand pities il would be
if the world should become so full of
generous millionafres tunlbling over
one another in their haste to give away
money that the day laborer who loves
God and his fellowmen. or the seam
stress who, as she stitches away is
cheered by the thought of her little
investments in home and foreign mis-
sionS, should come to feel that their
little offerings were not needed or were
overlooked by their Father in heaven
In the long march of the years the
Kingdom of God could get along bet
ter without the millionaire than with
out them THE PARSON.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

Someone has said: Invite some men
to take a drink and they measure out
in. This is clothed as a joke, but it
really is the mask of a hog Some
men cannot stand generosity any bet
ter than some others can stand pros
perity. They act fmmodeFately where
it would be better to do otherwise
Politeness never mistakes generosity
for lice2se-only sel1shness is caught
doing that. The man who measures up
keep his head level. There are too
many heavy drinkers of this type
they are reader to drown themselves
in liquor at the expense of a friend
than at their own cost Such compli-
mentary guzzling is no compliment to
the guZZler.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02

There is no doubt that dress is an
index of character, but lots of folks
never appear to find it out A girl who
dresses in the morning so that she
looks like anything but a belle does not
think that her younger evening ap-
pearance is not sufficient to carry her
through. The same thing be said
of q young man. It is general average
of appearance which counts, not the
occa sional makeup. If you were going
to guess the age of some women as
they look in the morning you would
have to divide the age they looked up
to by two and then subtract ten from
the remainder and you would hit it
about right. A wonaans youthful look
is not wholly natural
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-04-02
lie are awful careless how they

People are awful careless how they
pay compliments. It may be a well in
tended remark to say that a kid looks
like his father, but he may always be
set down as good natured who can lis
ten to that and not break into a ut of
bad temper. How does he know how
mis- father looked; and If he looks like
his father how can he look like a kid?
DO not you think there is something
offensive in the remark, anyway? A
nice little kid cannot look like a. nice
parent and be natural We should not
say things because they sound good,
but because they are good.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-09-03
SPEND PLEASANT TIME.

Miss Georgia DeWeese gave very
enjoyable party last evening at her
home in Rimbach avenue to which the
girls of the J. f. f. Club were invited.
It was the regular weekly club meet
ing and all the members were pres
ent with the exception of one or two
who are away on their vacations. There
were games and contests arranged for
the entertainment of the guests and
at late hour the guests were invited
into the dining room and served with
a daintily arranged course luncheon.
The next party will be given Friday
evening of next week at the home of
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-09-03
PERSONAL.

Miss Veda Hemstock will spend Sum
day in Valpa raise visiting her mother
and sister. Mrs Mary Hemstock and
Miss Lola Hemstock.
The Misses Alice and Caroline Moron
of Chicago have been spending the
week with Mrs. Johanna Schneider at
her home in Plummer avenue. They
will return home tomorrow.
Mrs. Ruth Williams who has been
very i'll at her home in North Holman
street for the past few weeks is i'm
proving slowly and Is able to be UP
now, news which her friends will be
glad to learn.
Mrs. H. c. Groman and Mrs Callie
Klingensmith WIFI attend the matinee
in Chicago this afternoon.
There will be a picnic at st. John
Labor Day. lat
Mrs. c. NJ. Pore of 2sssConkey avenue
accompanied by her niece, Miss Mar.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-09-03

A very delightful social function oc-
Cured Yesterday afternoon when Mrs.
f. Kahn entertained small company
of friends a her residence in Doty
street. Mrs. Kahn will move from
Hammond In the near future and make
her home in Kirksville, Mo. The guests
were received informally in the par
lors of the home where the afternoon
was spent very pleasantly with en-
broidery work and music At four
o'clock the guests were invited into
the dining room and served with a
daintiiy arranged three course lunch
con. The colors in the dining room
were daintily carried out in yellow and
white and punches of garden flowers
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-09-03
A LAWN PARTY.

Mr.. aod Mrs. Erick Lund were host
and hostess last evening at a lawn
party given at their pretty Homewood
residence Their invited guests includ-
ed the members of the Hammond
Chapter of Eastern Stars of which
they are both members. The guests
were received on the lawn which was
prettily decorated with Japanese liant
erns. Garden seats and swings had
been arranged for the guests and they
met informally for conversation. Sew
eral social games were also provided
for the guests entertainment. Miss
Esther Lund presided at the punch
bowl and later served the guests with
dainty refreshments. There were about
twenty five guests in attendance and
everyone spent an enjoyable time.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-09-03

KEEP THE CHILDREN BUSY.

The one infaIIibIe receipt to
prevent children from becoming
a worry can be given In three
words. 1t is this: Keep them
occupied.
1t IL the idle children whose
lives are a misery to themselves
and q nuisance to their elders.
The nursery "loafer'' Is the tor
ment of his brothers and sis
tiers, and the torture of his nurse
and mother, Don't let your chill
dren form the ssloafinE habit 1t
L., of course, much more easily
acquired by some children than
by others.
There nre some boys and girlss
high-spirited md energetic,
whom ron could not make into
lonfers, even IL you tried with
all your powers to do SO. There
are others who take TO the habit
all too easily. We should do
our utmost to prevent 1T; and
this we can most easily do by
providing the child with some
interesting occupation.
1t lis by no means easy to
hnd interesting occupation for
children occupation that will
not undu1y tire them, and that
will nmuse for n considerable
time. but work which produces
something is more Iastingiy In
teresting TO children than any
other.
Toys amuse for a time; then
they are broken up or thrown
aside, NO matter how costly they
may he.
If, however, child learns to
make something itself, the in
terest of the work Will abide for
a much longer time,