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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
Moosup.
Protection Viewed by Laborer,s Wife

Editor Social Conceivable we
have many good ideas of saving from
the sisters of the Social Corner" how
many have thought, perhaps, their way
could not be easily adopted by others.
One bent on saving can do it best.
in his or her own way. To be sure
we can all learn every day, something
of value to US.
While Woman at Home" can save
her dimes, 1 find the iceman claims
mine, and in winter the goldman his
share towards coal AS for saving the
dollar a week whatever happens
as Ellen does-that is out of the ques-
ton completely with a laboring man
these times: that is, if he pays his
bills; and. 1 say, all honor 10 the man
and wife who pay their fonest debts.
If they haven't a little tin box" of
dollars, dimes or pennies.
Now for my way of providing for the
many trying times, which often beset
US in this life 1 think, member
ship in a good fraternal organization.
will give one a longer. surer, and safer
protection than the same amount (75
cents per monthly will, in little tin
box"
How much have we at the end of six
months?
ness is of doctor. medicine.
watchers Off necessary, and cash for
&c weeks.
Where's the tin box?
Now for that dark shadow death %
which falls over all at some time:
Can the laboring man, and his faIni-
" from father to child, be any better
protected for 10, 10 or % cents per
week than in small life insurance +?
Instead of sweets. IL necessary. pay
premiums.
For the one who can 1 would say,
carry al, optional life or endowment
of ten or twenty years.
person has the one chance of
drawing 1t all, or part IL needed any
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20

time after a stated period. and a good
protection at ali times
My idea of saving is to protect self
and family. for times of distress. and
can do it any better for the same,
or less money than L haye2
In housekeeping there lis always more
or less waste and wear and tear, but
we can make 1T a point to be careful
OF furniture, clothes bits of food. have
our living expenses consistent with
our wages, thereby in my estimation,
saving at all times, In all things for
the little tin box
Sisters, / also advocate surplus at
all times IL possible, but with prices
so high / find il is small. and always
have a use for it; yet, / feel secure
for our darkest hours, knowing with
time and patience we'll survive the
cloudy ones.
LABORER'S WIFE.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
AS JOB JOLT SEES IT

Some farmers are very particular
not to SOW turnips except when the
moon is right, but when it comes to
taking whiszey, by thunder. they have
no use for the moon
When Bill Bangs gets to clustering
about things you'd think he was some
pumpkins. but he is only small pota-
toes and few in the hill
Samantha Psalter told Sarah she
was going to have one of them new
fashioned two-feathered turbans just
to come right up to style once Sa-
n1antha don't know her face amt
built right for it.
Parson Dawson says: Wisdom is
better than strength" He ought to
know that both are necessary behind
two horses and a pillow.
cy Cymban says Bill Bangs think
box never had anything in it, and
never will have. Cy never eliminates
his piety by pretending to love his
enemies.
When a neighbor comes along on a
busy day and perches on the fence to
talk, it may be trying to the fence but
it is more trying to the worker.
If old Ebenezer Psalter is hard of
hearing he's always first to hear the
dinner horn This is what the quick
cared hired man can't understand
Sariah says that it's easier to keep
the yard picked up as you pass along
than it is to go on purpose to pick
things up. I never practiced that
way. so I don't know if it's So
The city man running a farm is a
picture to me-a comic picture. He
runs it about the same as a farmer
would run machine shop.
God may have made man only
little lower than the angels, but, by
craclxy. he's gone down hill so fast since
that he isn't hardly in sight of them
now
They say one man behind a wheel
hoe is better than three men behind
the hand-hoe. I've noticed some men
get frightened though. when they
think they are doing too much.
1t doesn't make much difference
whether the hawks get the young
turkeys or the wet grass gets them.
go out and look at Dave Bells
sunhower patch. It is a luny looking
sight for farm. and Dave says they
furnish the best kind of hen fodder.
The jays are getting a good deal of it,
After Samantha Psalter had talked
to Sarah for three hours she con-
cluded with this: I'm so busy I can
not stay another minute" She might
have torn herself away sooner.
When a man tries to run a $50
thirst on $50 a month he isn't worth
having on~the farm. for'that takes all
his time.
A careless farmer can give his horse
the collie. and the veterinary five dol
lars without having discovered what
a fool he is.
You can coax a hog two miles while
you are driving him one This applies
to all kinds of hogs
1t is not tickling the earth with
hoe to hoe out the weeds now and
then. He who keeps the hoe going
all the time keeps the crops a-coming.
Letting fruit hang on the tree too
off when stems are brittle ripens best
in dark closet.
The farmer who has a poor memory
is a good deal like a thief with poor
eyesight-if he gets = anything very
fine, it is purely accidental
You'd think there was virtue in
promising right and doing wrong from
the speech and conduct of some men
1t beats all how much better most Of
US can talk than do.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
Starvation Time.

Editor Social Corner;-One Of my
neighbors says. from April till October
is starvation time with nothing but
garden sass and baked apples. | did
not feel that way this noon. | had
old fashioned succotash. Took about
one-half pound rather lean salt pork.
two quarts OF water. two coffee cups
green shelled beans. a handful young
tender string beans. and while they
ere boiling nicely cut some green
corn through the centre with sharp
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
OUR SPECIAL COMPETITIVE LETTERS.

their do not
how
ative
is guard
in
We
of on the
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20

Without doubt accidents have in
creased and are incree sing. From
$4,000 to 10000 fatal. and from 700 :
900 to 500, 900 non-fatal industrial ac-
according to the estimate ~
a careful statistician, occur in the
United States every year a ma jori-
ty of the victims are. supporting fam
lilies.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
Ccunterfeits.

An impudent fellow may counter
felt modesty; but I'll be hanged if
modest man can ever counterfeit i'm
pudence.-From She Stoops to Con-
Quer."
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
All in the Name.

This is the real name of the dalai
lama of Thibet. A-wang lo-pu tsang.
tu-pu-tanchia-c ho-chi chai-wang-chu-
chio-le-langc hieh-
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
Peace and War.

A man should be as ready to fight
for the best interests of his country
in time of peace as in time of war
Theodore Roosevelt.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20

He-'1f you accept me it will make
another man of me, but If you refuse
me l shall never be the same man
again.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20

another mans failures will never
save you" says the old hymn. But
your steadfastness and brotherIiness
and zeal for righteousness and con-
slant use of this wise foresight which
ought to be common sense-these may
help to save the other man. as well a 8
to elevate yourself.
THE FARMER
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
Ready for ANY Possibility.

Hcady TOT Any Possibility.
There is nothing like providing for
all eventualities. A London woman in
formed the magistrates that when her
husband struck her she sent for the
police, the doctor and the vicar.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
Result Of Atmospheric Pressure

High atmospheric pressure in the
case of persons not doing manual la
Dor has been found to act as a mental
stimulus. increasing the impulse to
talk
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
. Queer Reason for Divorce.

Woman wants to divorce her hus-
band because he shutters. Most mar
ried men don't even get a chance to
do that.-New York Herald.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
It's Born In Them

Some men keep on being cyclists,
even after their love letters are pub
lshed
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
Best Let AIone.

A lie is best left alone: to dfsprove
It often gives 1t new hfe.--A. Brink
mann
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
A Word Of Encouraoem.,t

a Word OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
If the timber supply runs out entire
ly why not use for building in future
the tables that came over in the May
f1ower-LouisviIle Courier-Journal.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
Horses Small Stomach.

The horse has a smaller stomach in
proportion to its size than any other
quadruped.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20

Every one of us is meeting, and is
going to keep on meeting that sort of
thing. We're also going to keen on
having toothache and rheumatism ami
taxes to pay. But we don't have to
live all our lives in a dentists chair,
nor wear an eternal plaster. Nor are
all our fellow farmers pig headed and
sea bly, hearted There are a whole lot
of 'em just as bright and just as we'll
meaning as We are ourselves. We
of that sort can get together and work
together and grow together. We can't
abolish all sin and wrong nor even all
ignorance and meanness in day But
in union there is strength,-strengt
for virtue and progress as well as for
vice and backwardness. Furthermore,
no coalition of retrogression ever act
uany held the world back while every
com bination for advancement surely
produces some progress. We've got the
cool end of the poker; let's keep it
and keep cool ourselves. mot what
we would but what we may, makes up
the sum of living men have been
getting better for several thousand
years; they're going to keep on improv-
ing for a good many years to come.
Let others drag behind in the process
ion if they will: it's pIeasanter-for US
who know which way it is heading to
keep we'll in front where the going is
freshest and let the other fellows take
our dust.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
Special Values

AT 5oc-Women's White Lawn Waists,
with open front and long sleeves.
fronts of wide Hamburg and
. pleated-Value $1.00.
AT S2.98-Women's and Misses one
piece Dresses of pure linen, ging-
ham and chambray, in all the
newest. effects and fashionable
colorings-value $500.
AT S3.o8-Women's and Misses Tailor
made Wash Suits. a big variety
. of STYLES in white. tan, rose and
. lavender - comprising our entire
stock that sold up to $3.50.
sAt 99c-Children's Chambray Dresses
in plain navy and cadet-some
with white polka dots-skirts are
full pIeated and dress is finished
with fancy piping-value $3.50.
AT 50c-Womeh's Striped Bingham
Wash Petticoats, in blue and
white only, made with deep
founce and two ruffies.
AT 69c-Womens Black Underskirts of
good quality cotton taffeta. made
. with two rows of wide shirring
and cording and with deep
foUnce.
AT eSc-Women's Chambray House
with border I'm white also OF
. percale In white grounds with
. white figures.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
EVERY woMAN's OPPORTUNITY.


in
Address, ONCE Norwich Conn
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20

Thsre are farmers and farmers
There are some SO stupid or so stub
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
The Iuciier Mach Of Neishborhoed- Gossip

second; s1oo
bird
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20

born that there's no doing anything
with them. There are some so rotten
mean that they would infect the odor
of pigsty by leaning over the fence.
And there are some who are as amen
able to reason and as quick to see
through a milestone as any man. There
are some who hate meanness as they
hate rattlesnakes, and avoid it as they
would avoid skunk Probably there
isn't much hope from the first sort
not much hope from them nor for them
nor of them But there IS hope in and
from the latter and they are the ones
to work on and work with.
Do you suppose | don't have to meet
meet the scalawags? Can you imag
inc truck farmer running a garden
sass route without finding any of them
ever stealing his trade or lying about
his goods or purposely undersellfnS
him, or in some other way trying 10
cut his throat? l can't. / have one
competitor who has deliberately
changed his route three times this very
me. l have known him, when a GUS
toner indicated his intention to wait
for me, to intimate that I probably
wouldn't be around that mornin'. as
he'd heard / had a horse sick. One of
my standard crops is sweet corn. It's
been tough corn year hereabouts, and
good corn has cost money and labor 70
produce. It's worth twenty-five cents
a dozen. And won't sell it for less,
by the single Dozen But a farmer
neighbor who happens to plant in what
turned out to be the right sort of
soil for the queer season and who has
an Unexpectedly big supply, is selling
1t all over one end of the town for
ten cents a dozen. He's losing some
money he might get but he's just that
mean that he enjoys the annoyance
and loss he's causing me more than
he is hurt by his own. Some years
ago, another farmer who set out a lot
of cabbage" plants found later, that
they wee all cauliflowers. Now we
gardeners know that good big. scurdy,
creamy, solid caulifiower is worth from
twenty cents up But this Mr.. Smarty
knew nothing about them. except that
they weren't cabbages, and he sold
several hundred heads to my custom
ers for five cents a head. To be sure
they weren't very good.-he knew moth
ing about blanching them-but it wa;
enough to knock my caulif1ower trade
into a cooked hat for that season.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20

"HcId on, right there says 1; I've
seen spun glass that you could twist
into a rope or weave into a cloth. ana
It vas melted out of sand: I'm using
every year emulsion MADE py
churning oil and soapy water together
till they do exactly mix: If the mill
merry people can't make peacocks
plumes out of hens feathers its pc
cause the men who make the Siberian
lynx out of American tom-cats nave
lost their cunning. and you can tram a
horse to work on the nigh side as Wen
as the off side-if you begin When
he's young enough"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20

AT FINAL CLEARANCE PRICES
At 1oc-Boys' Elton Caps. value Csc.
At 19c-Boys' Beach Hats value 25c.
At sso-Boys' Crash Hats. yaiue zoe.
At 3ec- Boys Coli Caps. value Soc.
At 1se-Boys' Blouse Waists. value 25c
At sse-Boys' Bathing Suits. value 75c
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20
Special Values from Several Other
Departments on Sale

At 3ee-Boys' Knee Trousers, vallae
soc.
At Gee Boys Wash Suits, value $500
At Sf.95-Boys' Two piece Suits, fazee
8 to Is, value $3.50.
At S3.e5-Boys' Two-piece Suits, sizes
to II, value $3.50.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-08-20

(Written Specially for The Bulletin)
A friend who honors me by reading
these desultory talks and who fatters
me quite as much by his occasional
Czssidence by his usual Good boy,
Jonn-r-this friend tells me frankly
that he thinks l am wasting time,
zeal and printers ink in preaching CO.
operation to farmers What's the
use2" he asks. You can't twist a rope
of sand: you can't make oil and
water mix; you can't pick peacock
feathers or barnyard hens you can't
make a good plow-team with any num-
Der of Off-horSes''
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
ORDERED FROM FILTHY HOMES.
Families Living In Squa'or on
Wjnder-st. Must Move.

Louis Zoenger, his invalid wife am
three children, must move from thelr
vile quarters In a barn in the rear OF
No 232 Winder-st.; Frank Volsom,
Toe Rottenberg and Solomon Jafnn'
with their families, must leave the
ramshackle house at the same adj
dress: William Taylor and Harry
Jacobson and their families have been
ordered out Of similar quarters at NO.
244 Winder.st., and William Lansky
of Ann Arbor, will lose little rent
money.
Lansky owns the two houses and
the barn, condemned last November,
by Sanitary Officer Henry Schneider
representing the board OF health.
Schneider says that the sanitary con-
ditlons in the two houses make them
unfit for human habitation, but, he
says, the barn home Of the Zoengers
Is a veritable cesspool.
The family lives on the second floor
OF the barn. and the lower floor is In
terrible condition. Judge Phelan gave
the tenants Of the places just week
10 find other quarters, with workhouse
sentences facing the heads OF the
households, II the order is not COM
piled with. Lansky will not be allow
ed to rent the places again, until the
oft-prcmised sanitary repairs are
made.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
NURSE INSISTS
BABE ISN'T HERS
Ida Butzlaff Says She Knows Moth
ing Of Corpse Found in Furnace
Physicians Question Her.

Ida Butzlaf, 20.year-old nurse,
who came here from Bay City early
In February, is locked up in police
headquarters, while detectives are in
vestigating the discovery OF baby's
charred body. In a furnace at No. 10
Orchard-st.
Early Monday morning, Miss Butt
Ian sent for Chief OF Detectives Nc
Donnell, who hurried to the matron's
room In expectation OF having the
mystery explained. but the young wo-
man simply told rambling story
about herself. protesting her limo
cence, insisting that she was a pure
ghl, and declaring that she knew
nothing about the dead baby.
Mrs. Mary Brown. who leases the
rooming house at No 10 Orchard-st.
rented a room 10 Miss Butzlaff, early
In February. The girl said that she
had been III OF typhoid fever. She
has not been In the rooming house for
some time.
a suit case which she carried was
placed In the cellar, and when Mrs.
Brown detected an odor from the suit
case, Miss Butzlaff explained that the
clothing il contained had become per-
meated with an odor peculiar to ty-
phoid patients.
Miss Butzlaff left the house few
days later, leaving the suit case In the
cellar. Feb. %. while Mrs. Brown was
absent, the nurse returned 10 the house
and took the suit case away.
Sunday afternoon, when Mrs. Brown
prepared TO build fire In the furnace
she found the babes charred body.
Mrs. Brown says that there has been
no fire In the furnace since the day
that Miss Butzlaff left.
Miss Butzlaff was found by Detec-
tives Steinhebel and McCarty In a
residence where she was attending
woman who is in serious condition.
and whose name and address is with
held. She took her arrest calmly. She
admitted that she had thrown the
clothing In her suit case into Mrs.
Browns furnace, but denied that there
was baby's body amongst the cloth
ing.
She said that il a body was found In
the furnace she knew nothing about II.
County Physician Forbes asked the
young woman TO furnish corroborativs
evidence in connection with hei
statement that she was not the mother
" a child. but she Is said TO have re
fused. DR.. Forbes and DR.. Morgan
Parker will put the matter up to her
again Monday.
After a careful examination Of the
. babys remains, Monday morning,
County Physicians Forbes and Parker
reported to Chief Mcdonnell that the
child was not several days old at the
time of death. as reported. They
were of the opinion that the babe hal
died al birth. and were positive that
II was dead when placed In the fur
mace.
Chief Mcdonnell is still anxious 10
clear up the mystery, however, and
Miss Butzlaff is still held.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
FATE OF SALOON TO BE
DECIDED TODAY IN SO COUNTIES


union, arrived In Rochester In a spe-
cial car Sunday afternoon TO wind up
the local option campaign In that city.
The party walked 10 the corner OF
Fourth and Main-sts.. where the speak
ers we're introduced by Herbert L..
Freeman, OF Flushing. and Bert AK
ford, OF Orion.
Police Justice Torrey spoke In
favor OF local option. saying Flint has
improved since the saloon was driven
out. He admitted there were DRINKS
In the Geneseel capital, out said the
number compared with the time when
the saloon held forth Is small
Sunday school children formed and
marched through the streets OF Lans.
ing Sunday. They stopped at the
large green lawn In front OF the CAP
itol where addresses were made and
songs were sung. The drys claim
Ingham county by 1900. The vets
expect to poll majority large enough
in Lansing to overcome the dry vote
In the rural districts.
The local option forces closed their
campaign In Pontiac Sunday with a
street parade and a general roundup
on the street corners. Two special
cars bearing 1875 drys from Flint ar
rived there shortly after noon. Fully
$500 persons listened to addresses.
The pulpits were filled with Flint
speakers Sunday night.
Prosecutor Brown. of Grand RAPIDS,
refused TO issue warrants against nine
men, on q charge OF illegal registra-
ton. Assistant Superintendent Hol-
saple and Pliny w. Marsh, attorney
fo- the anti-Saloon league, submitted
names to the prosecutor and demand
ed that warrants be issued Mr..
Brown said the accused men were
found TO be legal voters. but wrong
addresses had been given through
clerical errors.
The drys OF Owosso threatened Sun
day night TO ask for 10 arrests for
alleged colonization by the vets. The
local option forces and the vets both
claim a majority of 400 In that Sec
ton
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
NEW BANK TO OPEN IN FALL.
Promoters Now Say Metropolitan VIII
Start Business In September.

start Business In September.
II will be Sept. /. IL Is now an
nounced, before the newly organized
Metropolitan State bank will open
it's doors for business. Articles OF In
corporation have been filed In Lans
Ing, The banks charter having been
approved by the banking commits
sioner, and will be filed in Detroit al
50. There is talk now of a merger
with an old established bank. in
which case the new bank will take
tho quarters now occupied by the
former. This is a matter that Is still
In the air, however, according to the
promoters of the institution.
George III. Sweet. one of the organ
iZers. says that the board of directors
Will be surprise to Detroiters. II
will comprise some of the best-knowE
men In the local business world, he
says.
Mr.. Walsh. the promoter. Is now
in New York." said Mr. Sweet, land
when he returns | think he will be
president. He will either be a New
York man or Boston man"
The incorporators, besides Mr..
Sweet, who is cashier of the agency
department of the Michigan State
Life Insurance Co. are: DR.. Hugh
Cary, school inspector from the Eigh-
teenth ward Peter b. Lennon. a for.
mer Detroit attorney now living In
Lennon. Mich: James r. Sammer.
hardware dealer at No. 2s77 Wood.
ward-ave.. and S. Francis Walsh All
hold 10 shares except Mr.. Walsh, who
holds $3.50 as trustee.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
ATTACKS AFFTNITY's HUBBY.
Andrew Kish Whacks Alex. Sey OF
Head With Bottle; Fined $50.

Andrew Kish, who has habit of hit
ting folks over the head with beer
tottles, was fined $50. Monday, with
the alternative OF serving 90 days, for
using a beer bottle on the head OF his
afnnity's husband.
Alex Sey and his wife recently
Parted when Kish became the star
bcarder at the Sey home
Sey left the house, Kish remained.
Sey returned TO his home to bid good.
bye TO his little daughter. and to take
his clothes away. and was met at the
door by Kish. who hit Sey over the
head with the bottle. cutting a deep
cash Ia Alexander's head.
Justice Jeffries advised Sey TO make
hay while the sun shone. and 10 try
to win back his wife. while Kish was
doing time in the workhouse.