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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-11-25
notice thet the greatest thinkers Of

| notice thst the greatest thinkers of
today find that men need humanizing
more than they need civilizing- Re
gardiesS of the great and true teach
ings of Him who spake as no other
man SPOKE the world has so long
nursed its selfshness and conceit that
even religion as enunciated by Him
cannot penetrate t. The brotherhood
of man has been damned into a pigeon
hole beside the equality OF man, and
other great truths which, had they
been cherished the past two thousand
wears. might e'er this have ushered in
the dawn of the millennium His fol-
lowers do not seem to believe in the
dawn of any millennium unless He re
turns to supervise the establishment
of it Himself The reason the Jewish
rabbi gave why Christianity, in his
opinion. was not failure, is the same
reason the millennium has not dawned
the principles which would have
produced it have not been made prac-
ticai-have not been tried This IS not
Il sufficient reason for some folks,
though. Instead OF singing We Shall
Know Each Other Better By and BY"
We need to know each other better
now That is tine way Of naturalization
the way to better manhood and les
sen vanity.
The trouble with life is that life
requires action, and too many of us
do net know row to act We are al
doing something great, when it would
serve us and the world better to do
something simple. 1t takes Jnorey TO
he a dude; but ii takes mind to be
Ian: and you know without being told
which has the most VOtaries- We do
not act as If we knew what We think
of ourselves is of more Importance TO
us than what others think of US. Many
q villain has led q respectable career
pom the good opinion of others when
he knew he would be- in jail instead of
in their confidence If they knew him
as he knew himself. Under such CIR
cum stances he is sure to fall because
he is like an image off its pedestal
he mas no base upon which to rest
The people who act natural In this
world are the real thing IL they DO
appear to be rather scarce and solue-
what off color. Artificial mamie z amt
good clothes do not make a good man
they make = pretty goo a.
vertisefnent for a clotainS mouse. The
life ruled by ;ile promptings of good
heart and guarded by sensitive con-
science comes pretty near Icing the
ideal life
Every town has a skinfiint or two
IN it, This is what we call men who
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-11-25

And then | began to ask myself how
much our friend was really worth after
all Had he ever earned the money
that stood in his name? Not a cent OF
it. Was he the master of any useful
art or craft whereby the world was be-
ing served through his labor? He did
nothing in his life save to collect his
interest. Was he almOner to the poor.
distributing of his abundance to those
that lacked On the contrary, he was
not only frugal but misery in spirit.
One who had wrested an insignificant
gift from him for a worthy cause ties
titled that, rather than submit to the
exhauSting process again, he would
pay the money himself. I really be-
lieVe that if Dives had been called up
on to exchange worlds that very day
not a. half dozen people would have
continued to wonder how much Dives
was really worth.
The fact is, we judge these matters
after clumsy and untrue standards.
Our point of view is uniformly a coU-
mercia1 one and our estimates are ex-
pressed in terms of dollars. We say
that a man is worth million dollars
when, really as far as his value to So
ciety goes, he may be worth nothing
at all. Or we say that a man is wor n
nothing because the poor fellow has
no balance at the banl) when his life
represents an indispensable blessings TO
the community.
Some day we are going to give up
our present untrue standards and adopt
truer ones. Worth is going to be ex-
pr eSSed in terms, net ~ dollars, but of
ability and willingness to serve. Ask
ing how much q man is worth, we
shall mean by the inquiry, what can he
do? What gift to the worlds need does
he bring How does his life contribute
to human welfare?
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-11-25

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Write for Il today. Mention this paper. Address
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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-11-25
Special Prices in Bottle Goods

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c. r. Shape, full qt............. IS
Monogram, full at. .e5
Paul Jones, per bottle. ........... 80
crystaIIized Rock and Rye, per
bottle .65
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-11-25

Blockade, full OF. .......S 80
jefferson County, full ct. .... go
Sam Clay, full at. .... go
Six year old Roxbury Rye, full qt. 100
Three Star Hennesseey Brandy, per
bottle ..-..-...-.. -...-.... S1.5O
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-11-25
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
HOW MUCH ARE you WORTHY

THAT man is worth S2O0,0e0." said
Brown to me as a rather forid individ
uai bit striking as to waistcoat, APP
preached us on the street / happened
to know something of the mans his
tory and realized that Brown spoke
the truth save in probably setting his
estimates too low. We bowed respect
fully as Dives passed, with that Amer
lean Difference TO wealth which the
Old World gives to aristocratic lineage
Who would not bow in the presence of
one who was worth $20O,000
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-11-25

Every town has a skinfilnt Two
in it, This is what we call men who
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-11-25

It has been we'll said: Life is
riddle; and every human soul must
work his own riddle ont for himself.
By no possibility can any one live his
life for hint can only be what he
makes it. There is no foundation for
it in books outside of those which
contzin The Divine truths which en-
fure; and these are as firm and inn
movable as mountains They are uni
versal and are within the grasp of
most human souls. The boy who rec
ognizes ire worth CT honesty and vir--
tue and. love and endeavcr and per-
sistence is founding his character up
on a rock, ana preparing the way for
a life which must be a benefit to 9TH
ers as well blessing to himself
The building of any other kind of a
life ens;s usually in an awful example.
1t is Just as easy to be habitually we'll
behaved as to be constantly tricky and
unreliable A great many things REX
ened as being shrewd and smart in
this life are a libel upon manhood.
Perhaps life would not be worth living
We're it not for its large liberties and
its Inconsistencies. If there are to be
any excuses it is better that they
should be toward tolerance than in
tolerance. Manhood IS simply good
mastery of self; and that is what
solves the riddle of life and gives to
men supremacy
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-11-25
The MAN WHO TALKS

am inclined to think that every
body dreams more or less; and what
is dreaming but seeking a little COM
fort In the realm of hope Some time
in life we catch ourselves thinking OF
the leisure and the pleasure which is
to be ours by and by-not in the sweet
~ and by, but in the mundane by
and hy-and to very few people does
IL ever come; but no one can be rob-
bed OF the pleasure found in thinking
of it; and those VINO have had the
experience and the disappointment of
It know that it was something fine in
thought When the disappointment
comes most people are old enough and
sensible enough to realize that it real
~ makes little difference whether such
fire dreams come true or not, for the
person who has been busy through
long life never takes to leisure kindly.
The comforts of .idIeEess are very
much more in our dreams than in
reality In age we find habitual in
Gustry has made leisure ,rEsome On
ly painted angels appear to enjoy sit
ting with folded hands. But the
dreamers are dreaming the same
dreams now they have dreamed for
thousand generations: and will go on
dreaming for a thousand generations
to come. What the heart of man
yearns for is not always what. ne most
needs
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-11-25
Speaking Well of the Dead.

Hartford, October %.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-16
DECISION OF The
SUPREME COURT

In the supreme court, state OF
North Dakota, April. 1911 term
James T. Morrison. respondent. w.
Peter p. Lee, appellant.
In an action based on the statutory
liability of defendant under Section
1928 r. c. 1905 by a person who has
sustained injuries as the result OF an
explosion Of oil sold in violation OF
law.
Held, constituting said statute, that
the legislature did not intend 10 abro-
gate the defense of the contributory
negligence Of the person injured where
such contributory negligence was the
proximate and efficient cause Of such
explosion.
syllabus by the court
Appeal from district court, Ward
county; Leighton, j.
Action by James I. Morrison against
Peter p. Lee.
From an order sustaining a demur--
rer to the answer OF the defendant,
he appeals.
Reversed.
James Johnson and Guy C. II. Cor
hss, for appellant.
Arthur LeSueur, Bangs, Cooley and
Hamilton, for respondent
Opinion by Fisk, j. Justice Gose,
being disqualified, did not participate,
Hon. w. c. Crawford OF the Tenth
Judicial district sitting in hia place
by request
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-16
LIVE QUESTIONS Of COMING CAMPAIGN
DISCUSSED BY SENATOR MCUMBER

the cities and enormously increases
the value of city property. If BUSH
ness property, stores, warehouses.
ETC., in our cities cost 1--WE times as
much as they should. rents must be
five times higher than they should be-
and those rents must be paid by the
consumer of the products housed in
or sold from such business places.
II the Iaborer or other person must
pay an exorbitant and excessive rent
for place to lay his head, he must
have his earnings correspond with the
demands upon him. And thus is main
tanned a standard of high prices which
must always ultimately be paid by
the consuming public.
5. Advertising. Few people seem
to appreciate the fact that there is
spent annually for advertising alone
about $1,000, 100000, for which the
consumers of the things advertised
must pay. That means $50 per year
for the average family.
6. The growing extrayagances in
city life made possible only because
Of the Increasing profits OF city vo-
cations Here are the costs OF few
Of these extravagances for the last
year
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-16

For 80 years Lydia ~. pimhhannss Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy for
female 1Ila. NO sick woman does Justice 70
herself who VIII not try this fanaOus medicine.
Made exclusively from roots and herbss ard
has thousands ct cures 10 tt credits
10 write her for advice. She has
guided Thousands TO health free Of charge.
Address DLrss Pinkhams Lynn, Mass
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-16

think ia the best medicine in Cecilia M Bauer,
116l Lawrence St, Appleton, Wis
THIS GIRL SAYS IN IS WOMAN's BEST FRIEND:
Chicago, u.Your Compound cured all my troubles and
feeling strong and happy and able to work now Wherever go
shall praise Lydia Pnhas Vegetable Compound think it
Woman best friend have told all friends the good has done
Maggie Ishauer 2418 Whippe Street, Chicago Illinois
Lomor heavy cold la spring and got all
irregular had strength bad bearing down
pains sides and back and excabe
took Lydia Pnkhams Vegetable Compound and am all right
again. stronger than before Miss Williams, IOmOT
Is it not reasonable suppose that medicine that did
much for these girls will benefit any other girl who Il
suffering with the same Toubes1
Does the only sensible thing to give such
medicine at least a1 You may be that it do
you no HARM and there lots Of proof that It will Do
rrra rnsrnh 4rnnd
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-16

Canadian northwest. our northwestern
markets would easily have been glut-
ted In case the reciprocal arrangement
had been carried into effect
On Oct 81. this year, the difference
In the price OIL grain between Fors
Williams and Duluth, one as favor
ably situated as to worlds market as
the other, was wheat. IA cents; barley,
average about so cents: oats, cents
fax, Is cents. Had we full reciprocal
arrangements today at points equally
distant from consuming centers. these
products would command the same
price whether in Canada or the states.
The Canadian market price is the
Liverpool market price, less cost OF
transportation, commission, insurance.
etc. with free intercourse our prices
would, Of course, find the same level.
Without that free intercourse. the
home demand makes our prices so
much higher that we do not expect
any of our best milling wheat from
the border states.
Meager as are our crops this year.
the loss that would follow free trade
arrangement In wheat. barley, fax, and
oats will be manifest when we COM
pute this difference in prices on the
1911 crops of two border states alone.
North Dakota and Minnesota; thus:
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-16
shouId Be wrItten into the repubIlOan

should be written into the republican
platform of 1912. @
If placed there 1t must be done by
the representatives Of the agricultural
states in the next republican conven-
ton. And 1t must be placed there by
men who have the ability to do so.
And here we approach most inn
portant matter. the selection OF dele
gates from not only North Dakota,
but from all the northwestern states,
The question Is not how these dele
gates shall be selected, but. who shall
be selected. 1t Is not 30 much a
question OF stalwart or insurgent as
1t Is a question, who can accomplish.
We want men as delegates to that
convention who are workers, who will
be able to work with their party ASSOC
ciates and will see to II that we have
the right kind of a plank in our plat
form
Let US not deIude ourselves with
the idea that il makes no difference
whom we send. / repeat. the plat
form is more important to US than
the question of who shall be the next
republican nominee for president. The
platform win guide and control both
the president and the republican
representatives in congress.
p. J. McCumber.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-16
THE Remedy.

The food producer may well say to
them: Stop paying excessive prices
for your Iuxuries. and then even those
prices will become more reasonable;
those prices are maintained because
you seem willing to pay them. stop
paying 50 to SIS for your theatre seat
and the price win drop to a reason
able sum- Don't pay fancy prices for
what you can well pass up, and two
results will follow: First. those pric-
es will come down to a reasonable
basis, and second, you will then save
sufficient from your earnings to pay
the farmer living prices for hts pro-
ducts.
Therefore, the first remedial step is
to boycott the excessive prices we
pay for Injuries and not the barely
living prices we pay for our food ne
cessities.
Another remedy is that OF cooper
alton between producer and consum-
err. Get these two closer together and
dispense with the great army OF mid
die men who must make excessive
profits in order to pay excessive rents
on excessively high priced city prop
erty.
1t is travesty ON the enIighten-
ment Of this country that nearly all
products, food and Manufactured ar
ticles. increase in cost from 100 to
5000 per cent over the producers
charges before they reach the con-
sumner. But as long as the city meat
retailer must pay $500 q month for a
room sufficient to keep stock of
$500 worth of meat. he must make
1900 per cent on his principal a year
to pay for rent alone. and as much
more to pay his other expenses and
still make a living for himself and
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-16
PLANT More Trees.

Cakes Journal: One thing that
would be of great benefit to this sec
ton is to have a. law In this state
whereby people could plant trees and
get q refund from their taxes. The
trees would help this section and in
time there would not be anything
known here as a crop peing blown out.
This tree planting has been worked
to success in. Minnesota and Nebras-
ka, and why not In North Dakota1
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-16

Continued From Page one.
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You can easily double this total for
other like Injuries demanded by the
present city gait. 1t is safe TO say
that more than 80 per cent Of these
enormous sums Is to satisfy the high
living habits Of our cities. Very little
indeed can be charged to the farming
population.
The supreme injustice OF the de-
mand that food products be cheapen-
ed at the expense OF the producer is
made more glaring when we stop to
consider that 1t comes from that por-
ton OF our population who have be-
come dissipated in their expensive
habits and are asking that the food
producers shall not have their COM
pensation increased to correspond
with the increased capital which they
must employ, because to do so would
compel them to curtail some of their
extravagances.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-16

- Ar Ayers Pills liver pills. All vegetable
@0R Al sugar-coAed. A gentle laxative for all the
va @A4 family Consult your doctor freely about
hese pills and about ell medical matters Follow hi advice He
certainly knows best. 1 oceshfs ' hcss
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-16
Read What This Girl Saws:

Appleton, Wis. 81 take pleasure in writing you
an account of my sickness. told friend of mine
how felt and she said had female trouble and
advised me to use Lydia f. Pinkhams Vegetable
Compound, as she had taken it herself for the same
trouble with wonderful results. had been sickly
for two years and overworked myself, and had such
bad feelings every month that could hardly walk
for pain. / was very nervous and easily tired out
and could not sleep nights / had dizzy spells and
pimples came on my face. But have taken your
VARatahla CnmnnIlnd and i am antirelY carad.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

Eliot received liberal reward for his
bravery. He was made a Knight OF the
Bath, and In 1857 advanced to the peerage
as Lord Heathiield. Baron Of Gibraltar.
Still "A third English Eliot who worked
for the cause he believed in was Ebenezer
Elliott who was born in 1881. This Elliott
was "A poet. and instead OF the sword he
used his rugged verse TO win his victories
At the beginning OF Queen Victoria's 5
reign England had very high tariff, im-
posed under the so-called corn laws on
breadstuns. The idea was In this way 10
keep up the price Of grain and encourage
English farmers. The poor. however,
found the price of bread rising and re-
belled. Under the leadership OF such men
as John Bright and Richard Golden the
Anti-Corn Law League was founded. and
in 1881 Elliott, who was much interested
in the plight OF the poor. published his
Corn Law Rhymes. In these he presented
the condition OF the poor as wretched. and
did much to arouse public sympathy in
their behalf Between the years 1916 and
1879 when terrible famine I'm Ireland had
added its plea To Elliott's verses. the corn
laws were gradually abolished. Import
taxes on other staples were also aban-
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

years said that her chief remembrance or
those early schooldays was her desire to
get a seat near fireplace when the weather
was cold.
She became unusually fond of reading
and although books were few In that rural
district Of England at the time. she got
hold Of a copy Of Ksop's Fables, Scotts
"Wayerly.' "Pilgrim's Progress" Defoes
History OF the Deyil' and Samuel john
sons "Rasselas" Although she was not
considered a prodigy in her childhood, she
was looked upon as unusually intelligent,
and her themes and compositions were con-
sidered promising
George Eliot's first pretentious work APP
peared when she was thirty-six years old.
Before that time she had acted as assistant
editor Of "The Westminster Review" made
several noteworthy translauons and had
written criticisms and essays. But although
she had what she deemed vague dream OF
some day writing novel, she was diffident
and underrated her own ability Her first
novel. Scenes of Clerical Life" published
fist as "A series Of sketches, met with such
attention that its modest author set herself
seriously 10 the task Of being a novelist.
and in this spirit produced adam Bede,"
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

"The Mil on the Floss" "Middlemarch. a"
"Romola," Daniel Deronda" ana the otner
books which made her the most famous
Eliot.
A good many men contend with this
woman for the first place among the Ellots
who have made their name famous in his
tory. They were men OF strong conyic-
items. loyalty to the cause they believed in,
and bravery in defending II.
One Of the first OF these IN Sir John Eliot.
who was born In Cornwall. England. in
1892 He spent three years at oxford.
where, however. he did not take n degree
Later he studied law When he was twen-
ty-two years old he entered Parliament,
and began his struggle against Charles |.
When Eliot was twenty-seven-in l6ls-he
was made vice-admiral OF Devon. and was
very active in performing the duties con-
nected with his office He made a sensa-
tion when he captured Mutt. bold pirate
who was barassing the southern coast Of
England Mutt escaped by bribing his
prison keepers. and Eliot was Imprisoned
on false charge OF completely in Nuts
escape The Imprisonment was ended by
popular sympathy after four months In the
Marshalsea prison; but It was only one Of
many prison terms Sir John suffered The
New-York tribune., 1911-12-17

III in Scotland. He studied in Holland
and then went TO military college in
France. Then he entered the army. He
served In the Seven Years War as colonel
OF a regiment OF light horse. From this
time up to the gerat achievement OF his
life in 1852 his rise in the army was regu-
lar.
In l775 the British government decided
that France or Spain would probably take
advantage of the fact that England was
weakened by her warfare with the Ameri-
can colonies and would. therefore. one or
both, attack the English stronghold at
Gibraltar So. thinking that George Au-
gustus Eliot was the best soldier for the
place. they put him in charge at Gibraltar
In 1882 force OF both Spanish and
French laid siege to Gibraltar They found
Eliot ready for them. Among them were
some OF the most daring aghters and most
successful engineers In the world, but al
though they kept the forts under terrific
cannonade and carried the siege on FOR
long time, Eliot and his men bravely held
their position. They We're almost starved
To death when finally aid reached them In
the person of Lord Howe. who managed
To break through the Spanish and French
lines