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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14
TO OPPOSE STATE TAXES.

The state tax was imposed with the
hope that it would prove to be a re-
straint upon the legislative extrava.
well. The Mayors association of
Connecticut is for compelling the
state to live upon it's revenues. The
Bridgeport Telegram says upon this
subject:
Mayor Buckingham is taking ac-
tive part to oppose the laying of a
state tax such as towns and cities
have been obliged to pay during the
last two years in order to atone for
undue extravaganza in the manage
ment of Connecticut affairs. Its i'm
position was resented from the first
ana now that the victimixed COM
munities realize how much it adds to
their taxes, the feeling is daily grow
ing stronger. Bridgeport's share of
the state tax was ss7, 900 last year, and
"A trifle over a mill was added to the
tax rate in order to raise it. This
has brought the necessity OF retrench-
ment upon the part OF the state, home
to everybody; and perhaps the object
lesson has been worth the money"
1t will be a healthy condition of
things when the legislators cease to
schemes i'll the name of the state
which would not find favor with them
as private individuals. The states in
come is large enough to meet every
requirement..
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14
NUMERALS ANo ApveRslTy.

A southern paper, the Fort Mills
Times, has yentured to call attention
to the figure one as an ill-omened digit
when it is the last figure of date
This editor recalls that for the last
fifty years every GEAR ending with the
figure 1 had proved disastrous to- the
country, especially to the south. The
year 1861 the opening year of the war
between the most states. was the most
disastrous of all for this section. Ten
years later. or in 1871, President Grant
suspended the writ of habeas corpus
in many states Of the south, in which
he used United States troops to hound
down and prosecute the Ku Klux clans
and their sympathizers, forcing many
of the best citizens Of this section to
flee from their homes, at the same
time placing the negroes one rung
higher on the ladder Of political as
tendency which they presently climb
ed to the top. Poor crops were the
rule in 1871, many negroes refusing
to work the fields as they had
formerly done Eighteen eighty one
was a VIGOROUSLY dry year, no rain
Of consequence falling from May to
September. Very poor crops were
harvested as result of the drought.
Less than 100000 bales of cotton
were grown in the south in 1891. Nine
teen one was another short crop year,
the rainfall OF the entire spring and
summer being so excessive that farm
ers were able to give their fields lit
tie attention"
The Charleston News and Courier
predicts prosperous year notwith-
standing the record and repudiates
the figure 1 as a bad omen even when
placed before it makes 13.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

friendship of some person. Perhaps
you as a young man had conceived a
fondneSS for a young wOman-a per-
fectly legitimate and honorable pas
sion. but one that in all probability
cannot find satisfaction unless you, to
one WHO ought t.. be reasonably ex-
acting. So begin with the effort 20
tone up your own life, perhaps to be
more careful about personal appear
ance, maybe to fight the bad habit
that is growing on you, to quiet down
if you are sluggish and indolent. Only
that kind of a fellow ought to attain
the felicity arising from the bestowal
Of a true girls love.
So, too, in our life in the family,
the community, the church, we need
definite objects far enough be-
fore us and high enough up
to spur us on. But we need also the
power to take one step at a time, to
make a path if none already exists, or
to improve and widen the path, " one
about big tasks. like the real improve
ment of a city, either in its artistic
it's commercial or its moral side, will
succeed in proportion as they are
willing to take time enough to pro-
coed carefully enough, and be salts
Ieo Will d lltie pTOEItsS liOfii ue1s ~
day and month to month This all
means willingness and capacity to
gra.ople with an infinite number o.
small details, but thoroughness and
patience at this point will bring the
far-away goal a little nearer.
You want to be a. better man. Who
does not. here at the years beginning
And though You have resolved. and
re-resolved, and failed and failed
again, you are not quite willing to give
up the fight. Clarity, then, your vision
of the man you may be. but spend
some time also in thinking about ways
and means. Are you willing to walk
in the paths others have taken to-
ward winning the heights? That as
cending path in most cases leads
through the church, through compan
ionship with persons definitely COM
mitted to the moral and spiritual life
through the daily use of the Bible
and of that mighty force known as
prayer. Consider these well-worn but
never oaltworn ways of growth. Sc
as you go on in the path prescribed
you will be a year hence closer to the
goal of pure and high character.
THE PARSON.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

lence is appreciated. Silence may be
as precious as gold under some cir
cumstances; but silence where the
wise word or the kindly word are
needed is about as contemptuous as
anything can be. The whole beauty
and worth of silence rests upon ones
ability to know when and where to
keep silent. A craven image-the
Egyptian Sphinx-represents concret-
ed silence, and man may, If he wants
to. This kind of silence would he
good for a divorce; and promptly held
as contempt of court. 1t is not cour-
teous for a man to remain silent when
it were better for him to speak, or
cl1ivalric for him to be silent when adj
dressed by lady. Silence has already
been lauded as being precious, but
this depends upon the relation of ST
lence to conditions. Silence where
praise is due comes near producing
the meanest man.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14
EXTENSION OF COTTON GROWING

Peru is getting to DO a promising
cotton growing country, and has 1885,
600 acres Of land under cultivation
which turned out $4,000, geo pounds in
1910, at 81 valuation of seven millions
The cost of producing native cotton
Is placed at 2 1-2 cents a pound OF
the crop. So per cent. is American
uplands. and 1-2 per cent. Sea Is
land and Matahh.
Consul Miller Of Tampico writes
from Mexico to the state depart
ment:
In the vicinity of Columbus. Ia
Inaulipas, cotton has this season been
grown for the first time. During the
last two years a resident of that place
the results were such that not only he.
but his neighbors also, became enthus-
iastic over the prospects.
Special seed was imported from
Georgia and the first planting made in
June Several hundred acres were
planted and the results are proving
very satisfactory. The plants grow
large and tall and the production was
one bale and more per acre. The
planters state that they have had no
trouble from the boil weevil, but some
damage was done by the army worm.
Already plans are being made for
planting q much larger acreage next
year, and more seed Will be imported
from the United States Experienced
cotton planters from Oklahoma and
other states express great faith in
the prospects for the successful culti-
bAiion OF cotton in this district
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14
THE PROMOTION OF SENATOR
BRANpEeEE.

The advancement of Senator Bran
degee to the front-rOw seat in the
senate, formerly held by Senator Elk
ms of West Virginia, leaves no doubt
as to how he stands among his sena-
torial associates. or how he is regard
ed by them. There is no question as
30 his proficiency as senator. or that
he deserved the commentator of the
late OrviIie ii. Platt, who is today 90
sxtosled by the faction who have
bounded Senator Brandegee for the
past three years, and propose to keep
it up for two years more.
1t is due to this faction-the Hill
faction-that there is democrat in
the governors chair today, and it Is
because Of their hish-handed methods
that this long senatorial campaign,
with hundreds of thousands under it,
has been pronounced by observing
critics as the most demoraIizing cam
pafgn Connecticut or New England
has ever Witnessed; but they are still
unabashed and are shouting, Let the
merry war go on!'
A republican letter writer to the
Hartford Times gives them notice that
they should not in their present Ella
ton be too sure of their power to put
Hil in the place of Brandsgee, since
two years is quite a while to wait, and
as this faction is making good DEM
ocrats Of good republicans every day,
they may succeed in making a demo-
crat the successor of Senator Brande-
gee.
II the republican party has any de-
sire to carry Connecticut in 1912, it
wants to work for organization in
stead OF disorga nization, or the $4,000
republicans. who stayed away from
the polls last November may go to the
polls two years from now and vote
the straight democratic ticket.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14
4 CASE TRIED IN SHORT TINE.

The other day the superior court
at Boston put a criminal case tried to
jury through in one hour forty five
minutes, making record case. 1t
was the trial Of a Chinese charged
with assaulting another Celestial with
intent to kill. The case was called
for trial at 3.45 and at 4.15 all the
evidence was in and Justice Stevens
had addressed the jury. Inside of an
hour they had returned verdict Of
assault with a dangerous weapon, and
at $40 the Chinese had received q
sentence of three years in the house
Of correction.
1t was noted that throughout the
trial the face of the convicted China
man never changed-that he exhibited
no signs of emotion.
1t is not likely that he will take his
punishment very seriously since good
behavior assures him kind treatment
and free board in China is noe OBJ
tanned in this way. He is likely to
end his term fat and jolly
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
GOALS AND PATHS.

Goals are excellent things, particu-
larly at the years beginning, but
paths are important. too There is the
high mountain. What a lovely view
from the summit My willing soul
would soar tfllither, but ] am encum-
bered with hands, feet and body and
my spirit must drag them along while I
stay in this mortal tenement of, clay.
50 it becomes me to use my common
sense and find a path which, perhaps,
others have trodden before me- and
which, even if it be steep and circuit
Gus, affords far better chance to
scale the height than any heroic but
foolish attemp to break through the
wilderness alone would furnich.
Tolstoi saw the goal, but he was not
IN adept In path making or path find
ing. His one passion was to cut loose
from all the trammels of civilization
and go where he could, by himself,
live the simple, and what was to him,
the only rational life. But other men
with equally high ideals have felt
compelled to adjust themselves more
or less to the existing order, and they
have gone along paths that revealed
themselves as they went, only in part.
Sufficient was it for them to see the
track ahead for a single days march.
so these two types of men--called the
fdealist and the acknowledgements
in all periods of history, and we need
hoth--men like Francis of Assist and
Tolstoi On the one hand, and men Nike
Booker T. Washington on the other
hand. II we have bul one type we
could more easily dispense with the
former, for it is better to have goal
without any apparent path to it, than
to lraSe q path leading nowhere 1t is
forever true that man lives not by
bread alone. but by his visions and
ideals, his hopes and strivings for the
ideal
But why be limited to one or the
other exclusively? Have your goals,
Keep them in view always, but be
willing to take the time necessary in
mich to find path You want the
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14
Dancing and Good LEGISLATION.

Governor-elect Johnson of CALIFORNIA;
seems to be a bit of a Puritan. He has
refused to allow an inaugural ball and
explains the refusal by saying: MY
administration is going to be a direct
one and one for business and l eouldn t
see that a social affair would help par
ticulariy to make the laws of the land
and to aid me in governing the state"
We are supposed to be the defenders
of Puritanism but we cannot see any
casual connection between the restraint
of, dancing and good legislation The
young people of California will be
quite justified in asking Sir Toby
Belch's question of their new governor
Because thou art virtuous. shall there
be no cakes and ale?'-The Congrega :
tionalist.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

An appointment which comes to a
man as the result of a deal is never
quite as satisfactory as the honor
which comes unsolicited in recogni-
ton of merit
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

Watertown.-TheD D. A. r. has made
its annual offer to the high school pu-
pills of the Baldwin school for the best
essay of unlimited words on any Revo-
1utionary subject. The prize will be IS
for the best PAPER.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

When they talk of recalling Fitz-
gerald under the Boston charter, so
many citizens laugh that the matter
is smothered before it can be born.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

The importation of diamonds last
year amounted to forty eight millions.
But, then, diamonds were selling
cheaper.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

Even the Portland Express gives
notice that people are beginning to
worry about the outlook for ice and
what it will sell for next season"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

The Boston Transcript gives notice
that the Yale eight are in the water
IL will not be SO very long before
they will be on the Thames
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

The honest milk jar is considered
the noblest work of the Massachu-
sets dairy commissioner, and this
seems to label him as the noblest
work of God
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

,The members who jumped over the
Mclean fence now say without even
winking an eye: Wise men change
their minds, but fools never do"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

When we read that the thermometer
| is marking "a degrees below zero in
Montana, 1t seems as if Connecticut
was a warm country.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

Happy thought for today. Have
you realized that the things We once
thought the most important to our
welfare, and could not get, were really
of no account at ALL
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

The Illinois man who sees all kinds
of catastrophes in 1911 may have a
clear vision, but let us hope they are
not to be our part.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

The Hartman lines have ordered
four million dollars worth of 1ocomo-
tives and regard it as a regular ex-
pense.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

In this age. men in politics come
forward and tell what they want, and
get it. Those who wait to be selected
just get the remnants.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

These warm January days make
body feel as if he might meet a lee
die German band" around the next
corner.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

The preparatory legislative move
ments look so much like unnecessary
delay that the uninitiated think they
really are
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14
Would Make II . Ron.rza

4 IL Postmaster Hitchcock could only
collect postage on the Congressional
Record it would lelp reduce the postal
deficit still remaining Boston
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

When congress votes $4,000 to in
vestigate rural ignorance it looks as
il it did not view this broad field with
hope.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

The Ohio man who swallowed a
hundred dollars rather than give it to
his wife. deserves to be an unlocka-
BILE cash register the rest of his DAYS.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

There is no denying that January
warns up to us in way to assure
us that 1911 is making fair promises.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

within a mile of the North pole, is
likely to be humored with the cake
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

1t is said that only ten tainted votes
were discovered back of Lorimer. Just
what was the necessity of having one.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

Silence is q virtue only where 81
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-14

Some people think that Ananias was
the worlds most famous liar and some
people think Muncha usen was. but I
have my doubts. There have been
liars ever since the day when Cain
tried to beat the Lord by asking him:
Am my brothers keeper and the
classic imaginings of men are to be
found in the myths of past ages.
am inclined to think that the finished
liar is just as natural to this age as
any that ever preceded it. I read of
a deacon whose grandson. after having
curiously eyed his bald pate for years.
Nentured to ask him how he lost his
hair. and he assumed a very devout
look and said. My child, your grand
pa was made bald by his dear mother,
who. because of his good behavior,
patted him on the head until the hair
was all worn off, Munchausen never
excelied that; and Ananias hadn'r
mind enough to frame a story to so
| impress a child mind
Silence is 4 virtue only where Il.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-31
ROOSEVELT PROGRAM AT
SEATTLE ALL MAPPED OUT

Seattle, March APPROXIMATIONS for
the reception of Col. Theodore Roose-
welt in Seattle April 6 are nearing
completion.
President J. w. Maxwell, of the Sc
attic Commercial Club, announced yes
terday that the 800 seats for the S.
dinner to be given the former presi
dent by that organization at the Hotel
Washington had all been taken.
c. ] France, president of the NUM-
cipal League, under the auspices OF
which the Dreamland rink meeting at
which Col. Roosevelt is to speak, will
be held, says all the reserved seats
have been taken and that it now looks
as though the former president will be
compelled to address an overflow
meeting.
Col. Roosevelt will be met at Port
land by United States Senator Miles
Poindexter, who will accompany him
on his trip through the state OF Wash
ington.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-31
WIND WORKS GREAT
HAVOC AT PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia, March ga severe
electrical storm, accompanied by
wind which at times blew with
cyclonic force, swept over the north
ern section of this city shortly after
6 o'clock last night, leaving destruc
ton in its wake.
Buildings were demolished, houses
unroofed and the New York division
of the Pennsylvania railroad was put
out of commission by the demolition
of it's tower at Holmesburg and it's sta
ton at Tacony. New York trains are
being routed via the Trenton cutoff,
which was not in the path of the high
winds.
Tacony, the section where the great
est damage was done, was completely
cut ffefrom the rest of the city. Tele-
graph. telephone and trolley wires
were blown to the ground. The police
station was demolished. At the Ia
cony station of the Pennsylvania an
unidentified man was killed. Many
houses in this section were unroofed
or demolished.
In the manufacturing section OF
Kensington, in the northeast, toward
Tacony, several factories were de-
stroyed, trolley wires were blown
down and roofs of houses were hurled
to the center of the streets.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-31
NOTABLE WORK DONE BY
CALIFORNIA LEG'SLAio

Sacramento March 28.-The Tnlr'y,
ninth California legislature ia' o7e
eighty-fve days. In that time 1'o'a
hills were introduced, about SUI pass.
both houses and about 225 were slsneu
nv the governor before adjournment
In addition 105 constitutional ahel =.
ments were introduced, OF winch IN ~,
teen were adopted by both houses anu
will he voted upon by the people d. q
special election to be held OCTOBER l0'
1911. ,ohr
The legislature elected Judge John
II. Works. of Los Angeles, to be Unlteu
states senator, succeeding Senator
Frank P. Flint, who was not canu''
date.
Railroad Legislation.
nv general consent railroad leglsla-
ton which in the fall campaign Was
embodied in the catch phrase 'klckih :,
the Southern Pacific out OF politics.
was the largest issue before the legs
lature. Along this line one Dig DILL
comforting upon the railroad comniis
sion what were believed to be the WIZ
est powers possible under the constllu'
ton. was passed, and series or con
stitutional amendments making possi
BILE further extension of these powers
were adopted.
New Taxing System.
Machinery for an entirely new TAX
ing system by which the state Will de
rive it's income from gross earnings OF
corporations was worked out and &C
cepted.
Of subjects talked over at pre-
legislative conference at San Fran
cisco legislation was enacted on con
servation of water power, revision OF
election laws, county home rule, re,
vision of criminal procedure, equal SUI
frage and employers liability.
Measures That Failed.
Reapportionment of the state undeI
the new federal census failed, appar
emily because a majority failed tt
agree upon strictly mathematical ap
portionment in the larger cities ant
apportionment on any other basis was
equally unacceptable.
Civil service legislation also failed
of enactment.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-31
BY Force Of
Cheek
~ CARL JENKINS
tcopsriaht. 1910. By Assoc;.ted Literary p ess.

tSopyrisht. 1870 By A,soc;a4ed r.;.er.rv p ss.
MAJOR Bingham, OF the artillery, re-
'lrso Ior these last ten years, was just
setling settled in his big rocking chair
On the veranda for an afternoon
snooze, when Mrs. Bingham appeared
with her sewing and settled down
near at hand to say:
onn. Helen went into the city this
morning"
Didn't | see her go." he almost
shouted.
Helen was twenty-one years old
last Saturday."
Don't know it? Didn't it cost me
hundred dollars!''
Helen is a queer girl"
What's that got to do with my
nap" Hang that ny!"
I'm afraid Helen won't get mar
RED, continued the wife in placid
tones.
Let her stay single them"
She's 80 curious. Several eligible
mcn nave Deon atlEacCeu, anu
then"and then
And then distracted"
Yes, you might say so. She holds
them at distance. She makes them
AFRAID OF her. / have hoped that q
young man with a little more conf
cence in himself would come along,
but fear Helen will live and die an
old maid"
And ! don't fear any such thing
She's too much like her father for
that And don't you fear that the
right man won't come along in due
time. In war you must first re
connoiter the enemy's position-the
carry it with a rush. She'll be car
ried with rush. That settles that
and now you can leave me to my
| nap"
The obedient Mrs. Bingham retired
on tip-toe, and the sleepy Major Johr
Bingham drove away the pesky fly fol
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-31
No Black on Nature's Palette.

Nature uses no black In any part Of
her work. will not except the black
berry and the so-called black pansy.
On q bright. clear day. shadows on the
snow are pale ultramarine blue; I'M
der Z blue sky in midsummer the color
OF the placid lake Is cobalt blue and
the shadows Of the grass are lilac; on
q weathered gray boardwalk they are
nearly as blue as the sky itself. The
palpitating atmosphere OF warm
July day lifts the coloring Of the land
scape to higher but softer key. IN
stead Of reducing It with gray; ana
in the autumn when the sugar naples
leaves are turned to gold. the shadows
on the trunk. and every gray rock IN
the vicinity, are tinged with strong
lilac. In fine. when the sun Shines
everything. even the shadow which
we are prone to believe Il gray. = re-
,plete with COLOR. Schuyler Matn-
ews.