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Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12
HAVING A CARE.

Carelessness is the cause of the waste of millions every year in cor porative and business employment outside of accidental fires. There is not corporation, or shop, store, that would not greatly benefit by more Carefulness on the part of employees which simply means the stoppage of small leaks.
 The general manager of the Chi cago Great Western railroad, acting upon the suggestions of Lawyer Bran deis. has discovered that care on the part of men tells for efficiency and economy. After d careful inspection of the way things were being done on his line he made the following report of results:
 Twelve dozen hand lamps were col lected, which. when sent to the gen eral storekeeper's department, were found to need possibly an average of five cents worth of repairs to make them again as good as new. It will not be necessary to replace them with new lamps. In ten days four carloads of surplus material were reclaimed" :"
 He follows up this concrete ex- ample with a general request that every employe join in what is aptly termed a. conservation movement Make it personal matter" he says to make a systematic inspection of material on hand-tools' stationery. ink bottles, etc. Anything that is of no immediate use in your department tag, and send to the general store keeper. or deliver to the supply car when t reaches your station. Tools when worn out have a certain value and should be turned in"
 There is being too much wasted in every line of business; and more careful supervision of the slack ends of trade and employment would mean better times to everybody concerned. There is not the least doubt that care 1ulness in this respect on the part of employees would save some concerns from b9nkruptcv
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THE CAUSE OF AN ACCIDENT.

There is no telling how little a thing will upset the calculations of men and make what appear to be safe devices of no account whatever. An accident occurred in the west lately just at nightfall at switch at which the engineer was expected to stop because the purple light signal was in it's place.
 The engineer did not stop because he said he saw no purple light, that it appeared to be white until he was near it and it was too late to stop; and he believed that his powerful elec- tric headlight shining upon the switch entirely subdued the warning color, as he could not account for the de- captive appearance of the signal in any other way. A strong electric head light was tried upon the signal light to test this theory and it was found that the purple light seemed to be white until it came within two hundred feet of the switch and that the engi- neer was right.
 This statement of fact is taken from the report of the interstate commits sion of commerce. and is reliable, so it discloSeS for certainty reasons for such an accident which exonerates the
 
 engineer has lost his job, or gone to his death, because of it, when he was not at all to blame
 This shows that some of the devices to increase safety are not what they are reputed to be; and that this relia- ble block system may have defects which are still to be discovered.
 There is nothing perfect in this world; and it is not likely that there will ever be a railroad protective sys- tenn that is.
 Despa tchers will make mistakes, trainmen will forget orders or take chances. switchmen will forget to see the switch is set right, searchlights will deceive engineers, engineers over worked will fall asleep at their post or men that are color blind will be unable to identify signals. Safety is dependent upon so many things that it has to be admitted, all things con- sidered, accidents are few.
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of the soul; and that we are all endow- ed with garden to cultivate; and the fact that the earth cannot be eulti- vated without cultivating the mind to some extent. indicates that this figure is not far-fetched. It is profitable to work in the garden of the mind.
 Most people arc dwelling in grumpy
 mood most of the time although few will accept such statement without having some proof of it offered. Fur ~nishing the proof is not half the task it is supposed to be when the reader calls to mind that most people think they are not getting the happiness out of life they are entitled to. It is ap- parent enough to a clear thinking person that we are only entitled to the happiness we can get out of life. Our happiness does not depend upon Tom, Dick and Harry, but upon our selves; and we are sitting on the lawn of Neighbor Grump the moment we let our minds cogitate in this way. No man can be happy who is thinking he isn't. It is not what We have: but what we enjoy that creates happiness. One great author declares, mo person is so happy or miserable as he imagines he is' In other words we are prone ness is not an aim in life; but the building of 8 character which produces happiness is. It should be always re- nembered that happiness is run ming stream, not a stagnant pool.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

 One of my neighbors remarked this morning: Another picket broken in
 this fence! Those children" It brought to my remembrance a similar episode
 of some years ago and it's results. l Miss Eunice Miller lived by herself the outskirts of a quaint village in northern New England. One afternoon as she bade good-by to a caller he4. friend remarked: You ought to have married years ago, Eunice; it isn't right for you to live here alone. You are getting along in years. and you need a man on the place, too. 'Mafried!" exclaimed Miss Eunice. What do want of man? I can manage my own affairs yet. if. I was 40 on my last birthday. I don't want any men around here.'' Just then Harry Miller, her nephew, who was spending his summer vacation with her, passed by them and called out: Sour grapes, Aunt Eunice; sour gfapesI" Then he rushed out of the yard, leaving the gate wide open. Eu- nice followed her guest to the gate to close it, but to her dismay found the hinge broken.
 "There.'' she exclaimed, now the gate is broken. I'll never have that
 sauce-box up here again. I've done nothing all summer but mend and clean up after him.; pantry window broken saw dulled, cellar window smashed, and now the gate!s No, sir. no men or boys on the place, if I know Inyself.'
 Miss Eunice was attractive and kind hearted, as we'll as capable, but even her friends admitted ..Euniee has a tongue of her own" and she had fallen into the habit of talking to herself, as she was now doing without noticing the stranger approaching the house. T am sorry to hear you say that. said he, for I lave been advised to apply here for board for the next two months. Cannot you change your mind I would pay you liberaily.' Then, aft
 CT a pause: The view is delightful here.''
 Now, Miss Eunice loved to hear praise of her home, and, like all thrift ty New Englanders, hated to refuse a chance of making money. and she he's itated a moment to consider the mat ter.
 What is your business?" she ques- toned. "You don't look like an inva- lid.'
 ..No,' he smiled. T am well, but 1 have some writing to do, for which this locality is convenient, and the quiet of your home is an additional inducement. I hope you will favor me- We'll concluded Miss Eunice, come tonight and I'll give you an answer. l must think it over.''
 She immediately began to think it over.
 He said his name was Johnson. De- cent looking person, and writing ism noisy work. The money would pay the taxes, and they get bigger every year. These authors don't eat much, they say, and my gardens prime now, if I do say it, who shouldn't But mercy! what if he should write book and put me in iti I've heard Of such things. No, l
 won't have him here at any price, and I'll tell him so .onight.' Supper time brought Harry home and recalled the broken hinge. You broke the front gate, Harry, when you went out You must get MT. Jones to fix 1t tomorrow. Can't you tie it up with a bit of string to keep it in place
 tonight?' ?''
 Why, yes,'' replied the boy. I'm awfully sorry I broke it. I'll fix it right after supper
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12
NO ARIsTocRAcY IN AMERICA.

A western editor feels sure there is no place for an aristocraey in this country's democracy although the idle rich and some others have a manifest ambition to create and be identified with such a class.
 The reason. he affirms this is, be- cause an aristocracy to exist must have people to respect it, and there are in this land no such people. This is the way he presents his views:
 Money alone cannot make gentle men and gentIewomen. It cannot sup ply good breeding. where the instinct for it is absent. It can and does give prominence, a position of aloofness more or less worth while. When mon keys are entertained at dinner the rich obtain a publicity denied to the organ grinder who divides his crust with his penny collector. The family skeleton of the Astorbilts is not to be kept in a closet, but to be hung from an upper window and it's Lclattering bones shaken that all may hear. If this is an advantage it is denied the poor. Should a girl in her teens sell herself for millions, the fact is re- corded in the daily papers. Not so in the case of the poor girl who goes wrong. It is just as well, since the prized advertising in one instance con- StituteS shame in the other.
 The rich in this country form class the democracy recognizes as benefl- cial because of their ability to bleed them in every ina gina ble way. They cannot be made to regard them with honor, only to look upon them as people who have money and should be made to spend it: and labor organiza tiors succeed admirably in making them do it. which the rich are pain fully aware of
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12
THE RED CROSS REPORT OF
 WORK

It is now two years since the Red Cross agents ceased to disburse funds in San Francisco, and five years since the money was donated to succor the people there who survived the earth quake and by it were impoverished and made dependent This organization did great and good work there and the millions sent for relief were suffici to build a small city
 The New York Evening Post has made an interesting study of the fig ures; and in it's disclosures Connecti- cut stands well among the states for generous impulse and comparative gifts. The Post says:
 What We have found as interesting as anything in the report is the de- tailed enumeration of relief contribu- tons by states. towns and villages. If any social philosopher is anxious to draw a humanitarian map of the Unit ed States. here are the materials In comparing the following figures. one must take into account, of course. the general level of wealth as well as the population With that reservation in mind We figure it out that the people of New York state. in contributing the, sum of s2,S40,060. gave approximately A in the following ratio: Massachusetts g cents. Connecticut 15 cents; Penn sylvania 13 cents; Arizona Il cents: Maryland 10 cents; Missouri cents. Illinois 1-2 cents; New Jersey 8 cents. The south. an agricultural and poorer region. naturally gave less. Vir- sinia gave 1-2 cents; Texas ? cents. and Mississippi still less. But what was the matter with Kansas when. in the face of such dire need it could spare only 12 cent per ca pita? Where were those rolling plains of alfalfa and those farmers rolling in automobiles in whom the heart of Mir. Allen White takes delight? Florida, a state with only half the population of Kansas. gave more than three times as much The city of Jacksonville alone gave s4.0o0 more than Kansas Jacksonville gained the place of honor among the smaller cities. with a per capita rate of 22 cents. Chicago gave p cents head: Philadelphia and St. Louis 40 cents; New York city 60 cents. Boston gave more than a dollar for everyone of it's inhabita
 New England usually shows up wei, on all such occasions as that: and ii is not surprising that Boston led the big cities of the country in it's liberal- ity. It is rather surprising that Kan has was SO slow in such a case of necessity.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

A good woman of my acquaintance had depressing effect on those who called upon her because she insisted on talking always of her physical trou- atmosphere. There was no doubt of her genuine diScomforts but one wished she might have kept them bit in the background. Some courageous re- strainte along this line would actually nave benefited her health. She needed that stirring word of Emerson, "One topic is peremptorily forbidden to all rational mortals, namely, their dis tempers. If you have not slept, if you have the headache or leprosy or a thunder stroke, I beseech you by all the angels to hold your peace and not pollutc the morning. Come into the azure and love the day.
 In the case of some people our powers of sympathy are severely taxed. We have listened many times to the story of their misfortunes. We hear their trials almost every time we meet them. As loyal friends We are glad that the very act of this un- burdening may bring them relief. But we wish we might see them sometimes in the attitude of courage and of cheer. It seems almost the abuse of friend ship to make it merely the occasion for pouring forth ones woes.
 
 simistic notions about the great facts of faith or the worth of human nature are doing society an injury. Even if we have inner questionings ourselves it is not always necessary to parade them openly. Tell me of your be- liefs, l have doubts enough of my own,'' said one who needed all the impulse that a genuine faith could give him. The cry is re-echoed by thousands of Gods children bearing the burden and heat of the day. We all need encouragement, cheer radiant and hopeful convictions. Scatter these gifts, then, so far as it is in your power to do so. Be unwilling to cloud the sky of another with gloomy fore- bodings. Let your light shine rather than your darkness and men shall call you blessed.
 There are people, like the Apostle Paul, whose lives have been battered and twisted but whose spirits are radiant as the. sun. You will listen in vain for wai1ings or complaints. These are the visitors ill life and filters of the common load that humanity car rfes: THE PARSON.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12
BURGLAR GETS JEWELRY
 AT BAR HARBOR COTTAGE
Mistress>of House Was Asleep on the
 Balcony.

Bar Ha rbor, .Me.,-August 11-Flashes of light in the house aroused Mrs. w. S. Kuhn wife of a Pittsburg banker, while she wa sleeping on d balcony of her cottage here early today, and she entered her bedroom just in time to see burglar going out of a door on the opposite side of the room. The man escaped ard a search revealed the fact that hei had taken with him jew eIry valued at S150 The burglar had entered by the cellar door. He over Hooked a case containing a larger amount of 3ewelry in the same room.
 The provisional census returns for British India indicate "a population of 315 ,000,000, an increase fo about 2e.- 800 900 as compared with 1901.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

The people who have hay-fever in dog days are qualified to sympathize with the dogs that are expected to run mad. Perhaps they'd like to.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

Vermont is beginning to regard her mountains and her large lakes as good assets for summer business When they are made accessible to the people they will pay.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

Baseball is popularly regarded as a sport; but the promoters of the game are right in regarding it as a business, as well as it's salaried men.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12
Maybe He Meant Pittsburo.

Mayor Gaynor says there is much wiekeder city than New York. Watch Chicago trying not to look self con- scious-Pittsburg Gazette Times
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To see the difference between a mu- nicipal job being done by the day and by the contract. all one has to notice is the progress made in the trenches in city limits and outside
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Three summer guests, each of whom requires a different diet. must be the delight of the housekeeper who feels obliged to stay at home.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

The Chicago father of nine children who wants divorce should remember if he behaves the children may give him a home by and by.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

The aViating laws in England and Germany do not allow flying over set tied communities The birdmen must steer clear of them.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

In Vermont there have been men enough talked of for lieutenant gov ernor to make a full senate. In these days there is never a scarcity of as pirants to office.
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The single men who think too many women go into business ought to know the quickest way to prevent at least one of them.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

Uncle Joe Cannon has pretty effec- tually taken himself out of the lime light and as he is among the stand patters, perhaps his old heart is break ing.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

Hurrah for the Kansas bride who prosecuted the sixteen men who seized the groom on the wedding night and bore him away as joke. She showed she had nlanaSement at the start
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One-half the world does not know the other half. and does not want to: but when it is feeling welt it will mur- mur. We are all brethrenf'
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New Britain instruction: Do not throw banana skins on the walk. Horses love them and in a horses stomach a banana skin is not danger Ous to pedestrians,
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The small boy is thinking of Sep tember and the opening of the schools with anything but delight.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

Governor Dix of New York has ve- toed 234 bills. and saved the people several million dollars; and that ought to put the people in his favor, if the machine is against him.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12
Another Think comina.

Senator La Toilette may think that President Taft has dropped the Roose- Welt policies, put the big trusts are not generally of that opinion.-Chicag go News
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A Peripatetjc P.daoooue.

Hon. Woodrow Wilson seems to re- gard the governorship of New Jersey a travelling seholarship.-New York Sun
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

Happy thought for today. In the school of experience, the things we un- Searn are of exceeding value to us.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12
The man who thinks of himself as a

The man who thinks of himself as a success seldom becomes a failure. Failures usually represent lack of knowledge. Too many men appear to be willing to succeed upon the other fellows ability if they are permitted to do so; but where money is put up against knowledge or experience the investor of it gets the experience and the other partner the money This is a little game in life that is going on all the time and as it has continued gen eration after generation it is safe to presume that it will. Just why men essay to carry on a business they know nothing about is not apparent. all though it is a splendid expression of confidence in the man who knows what he is about. It has, however. proven in many instances to have been a case of misplaced confidence. Lack of knowledge is always an impeachment to business success, and is likely always to be. This is a direction in which men take chance with the chance of success against them. It doesn't t pay when awake to weakness to put it up against strength. Any one who does this need not be surprised that they did not succeed.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

Perhaps you have not noticed that the bird d-soGgs are growing less and are wholly unaware that in q week or two now the early migrating birds will be flocking in the fields and preparing to leave for their winter homes. I miss the sweet songs of the wrens which used to fill the air with music at in- tervals from sun-up tin sundown: and the robins are not giving their lively early morning and evening concerts. The real song season of 1911 has closed for these parts and will not again open until 1912. Flora's procession is nov ing along, and the phalanxes of golden rod show that the center of the line has been reached-the magnificent peonies and roses have gone by but the asters and mallows and dahlias and chry san themums are still to come How like a song thefloral season opens and closes with blue violets in the spring and the blue gentian after the frosts have de- stroyed the tenderer flowers. giving a sort of heavenly blue. farewell to flower lovers What a moving panorama Ma ture is to those who have eyes to see; and why should not all see and admire the beauties set before them daily by their creator?
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
BURN YOUR OWN SMOKE.

One wishes that the rule might be enforced in many of our American cities. Murky fumes from hundreds or chimneys darken the air even at mid day What avails it to ornament the tops of buildings with beautiful architectural forms if these are to be lost to view in a cloud of unconsumed carbon? Builders may well save the cost of decorative cornices and gar goyles if they are never to be seen or only darkly, through mist.
 Health and comfort. moreover, are endangered by this admitted nuisance An atmosphere so polluted is not good to breathe or to live i'm Ones collar becomes disreputable before half the day is done. Fame and fortune await the inventor of a successful and eco nomical smoke consumer.
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A half dozen bosses over a dozen and q half of men on public works shows how the world is advancing. There was a time when one boss could
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If we cannot yet install such devices in the factories of the land we can, each of us. install one nearer home. Each can refrain from making a moral smudge in his own immediate vicinity. We can be careful not to darken the air with the smoke of our complaints, our doubts and our fears.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-12

There are conditions under which kindness is fatal. You may have heard the remark that some one killed his dog with kindness;" that is, he had such solfcitude for his welfare that he gave him a mixed and unnatural diet which produced conditions that created disease and ended in an unnatural and untimely death. Such things happen to birds and pets of every descriptions; and pet children are no exception. The truth is, through indulgence we kill ourselves because of an unwholesome diet. The human race need not fool itself by thinking It is dying the death of the just, for it is dying the death of indulgence which results in an un- balanced and non nutritious diet. MetSchnikoff, after years of study. af- firms that the human race is not dying from natural causes but from unnat- ura1 causes-that we die from poison resulting from internal fermentation of mixed foods. We are so responsive to our tastes and capacities that we feed without considering health for a mo- ment and die before our time. Along these important lines the world is still in dense ignorance. and is likely long to continue to be.
 It is impossible for man of nteII- gence to cultivate a garden and not cultivate his mind The garden inn parts knowledge as an endless variety of books testify. Tn fact in it's need and capacity for cultivation the mind resembles the garden very much. The first man began fife in q garden. and most men yearn to be the possessors of one. It was Abra ham CowIey who opened one of his essays upon -sAari- culture with the statement: T never had any other desire so strong and so like to coVetousnesS, as that one which I have had always that I might be master al last of small house and large garden. This was two and half centuries ago: and since then the ambition of man has seemed to have changed for d large house and sma II garden. As in Chaucers day. so now the garden that is full of flowers is full of loves There are many men who feel that the mind is the garden