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Connecticut western news., 1911-09-28
What the Other Fellows Say,

Man is the noblest work of God, ex- cept woman. If you doubt it, ask. any woman-Waterbury Republican.
 They call it governors conference, but it looked more like mothers con gress on the care and feeding of infant presidential boomlets.-Hartford Post
 Thanks to the Danish composer, Dr. Cook is made the leading character in a musical comedy There is no limit to the abuse heaped upon the "almost dis coverer" of the north pole.-Bridgepor Post.
 A Des Moines baby recently born is said to be the most perfect child in that state. We always said the commission form of government would do wonders. --Meriden Journal.
 The Australian ballot, amending in the direction of simplicity, has been re- tained in this state and doubtless will in its improved form, be more acceptable to the public than at its first trial. The past experience with it may help out in the future.-Bridgeport Standard.
 Contrary to our usual custom, we have decided not to suspend publication of the Reporter for one week, this year. We ma that the custom, Tn so Tar aS allOW- ing the editor to have vacation, seldom works, as the demands upon the job de partment usually multiply just as the editor plans to start on few days of rest and recreation.-Woodbury Reporter.
 Why do men arrested for over-speed- ing automobiles usually threaten the po- lice with having them "broke" It is probably part of the nature of the man. The sense of strength that goes with the running of powerful motor-car makes him impatient of restraint and contemptu- ous of the police. In the end he is apt to become humble if not penitent con tributor to the fund for the satisfaction of the law he edefed.-Waterbury Ameri- can.
 Those competent to judge state that the fairs thus far held in Connecticut can't hold a candle to Rockville's big show.-Kockviiie Journal.
 "Gifts to Connec ticut senators cause scandal" reads a newspaper headline. We had supposed that mere incident like that wouldn't have caused even a ripple in the Nutmeg state.-Pittsfeld Eagle.
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Letters From the People
MT. GiIlette's Views.
ditOr Of The News.

To the Editor of The News:
 The questio of license or no license Is to be voted on again this year, and the voters are urged to consider some things i'll making their decision i'll the matter.
 Only those who would pervert the facts would deny the vast change in the matter of drunkenness upon the streets of our village. More drunkenness was seen in 8 week under license than in a year under no license-at least that is the honest opinion of the writer. At any rate the arrests for drunkenness in the town have been reduced upwards of seventy-five per cent. The streets of our village have been safe and orderly. Not a drunk was seen on the Fourth of July in spite of the large crowds. Does any one think that that could have been pos sible with bar room in the village There has been marked change in the sobriety of good many men, and they had better think twice before they vote temptation back into their way.
 A new factor i'll the matter is the trolley Should the room be located as before. the trolley would have to un- load practically in front of it. to the great danger of drinkers and to the great annoyance of others, especially women and children. Imagine trolley waiting room next door to bar-room, and so To- cated that every patron of the bar must pass it's door-unless he found some other way in Will the men of Canaan stand for that?
 The men should also consider what the result would be in Canaan if this town went license while any of the sur rounding towns went "no." Suppose, for instance, Millerton so voted, and I am told that there IS strong movement that way, (the "worm will turn" you know). Canaan would invite the dis orderly from other towns hv voting for license. Ask any man around the sta tion to compare conditions there under license and under no license.
 am told that some men are going to vote for license because the law has not been enforced during the past year. l regret any failure in this line, though it hasn'G been altogether the fault of those who are most anxious for no license. But would like to ask any such voter (f any there bel whether he ever did one solitary thing toward getting the law enforced. It is easy enough to say why don't khey do something" Why don't y0H do something? If evidence is so easy to get, why don't you get it ? or if you have it, are you scared of your life to give it?
 Not one bit of evidence that would convict has ever been offered, at least to the writer. Nothing but the merest hearsay. There have been more prosecu- tions for illegal selling during the no license year than during the license, and less beer is sold--else why should the brewers spend so much money for li- cense? No license don't stop drinking or drunkenness and never will (nothing but universal teetotalism wilD, but it greatly reduces it now, and tends most to stop the machine" that takes our boys and turns them out drunkards.
 E. 0. GILLETTE,
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AN OLD-TIME CAMPAIGN.
Mir. Peirce Recalls Quaint Story Told
 on the Stump.

Apropos of political campaigns, political oratory, argument, etc, MT. D. L. Peirce recalls a national cam paign, something over a half-century ago, when an orator of national prominence came to Great Harrington to deliver political address on "the issues" {" He attracted the people from all the re- zion for miles around, and many went from Canaan and vicinity, including MT. Peirce.
 The orator was Whig In politics, and just naturally "threw it" into the ranks of the democrats in the most approved style of that early period of our history, and expounded the gospel of Whiggery to the queens taste. As was common in those days, the speaker employed anec- dote and illustration to clinch and em- phasize his points-in fact it was, to a very great extent, the stories and jokes propounded at the political rallies that attracted and interested the multitude, more than the arguments themselves, or the desire to be enlightened on the is- sues of the campaign.
 It happened that during the campaign in question the country was agitated over what was known as the "sub-treasury scheme" proposition put forward for remedying certain defects in the nations financial system-a perennial and ever lasting problem that has descended even to the statesmen of the present day, and doubtless will, like Tennyson's Brook, go on forever.
 The Wings were strongly opposed to this sub-treaSury scheme, and the orator at Burlington devoted to it much of his most vehement eloquence. The scheme might work effectively and satisfactorily in the old countries of Europe, he said, but it was not adapted for our system of government, especially in its present stage of development; and to illustrate that point he told a story.
 MT. Jones, a big brawny blacksmith, who was desperately ill, sent for Dr. Brown. Immediately on the doctors ar rival he saw that Jones was in bad way, and made haste to open his medicine case, took out the first little vial his fin gers came into contract with, and with out noticing what it was, gave Jones a dose. It was powerful stuff, and the afflicted blacksmith got well, where upon the doctor inscribed on the label of the little vial, "Will cure a blacksmith" |"
 Shortly afterward, MT. Smith, a tailor, frail and slim, was taken sick and sent for the doctor Smiths case resembled that of Jones in its symptoms, so the doc tor gave him dose of the same remedy. Smith swallowed it and immediately went into spasms and died, and the dooe tor forthwith revised the label on the lit tie vial, to read, "Will cure a blacksmith, but kill a tailor"
 Which made a very apt clincher to the orators argument that while the sub treasury scheme might be a good thing for the effete monarchies of the Old World, it might be a bad thing for Uncle Sam's government.
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Importance of a Vote

One of the strongest arguments in favor of every man voting when there is question to be decided of great im- portance to municipality, state OF na- tion, is in the vote on the repeal of the law which prohibits the sale of intoxi- eating liquors in the state of Maine. Over 100000 votes were cast on the question and the result is still i'll doubt, with the possibility that the majority for either side will not amount to more than fifty. In all probability, if those who failed to cast a ballot could have forseen such a result. a more decisive vote, either on one side or the other, would have been cast.-South Norwalk Sentinel
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THEToWN BALLOTS.

With the exercise of average intelli- gence on the part of the voter there should be no need of invalidating a slngle ballot on the ground of blunder in the preparation of the ballot, through misunderstanding or confusion. Sam ples of the ballots for next Mondays s election are to be had at the office of Town Clerk Norton, giving opportunity for the voter to familiarize himself with it in every detail, especially as they con- tain printed instructions for his inform ation, as follows
 This ballot shall be marked with a pencil having black lead,
 To vote straight ticket, make a cross mark TX" within the circle above one of the party columns.
 If the colume so marked in the circle for a straight ticket does not contain the names of candidates for all offices for which you are entitled to vote or the number of names of candidates for any office equal to the number for whom you JOu oIO 0hOAVA0Nt UO 'OUO' JOu AAc'y "AAVO' in the space in said column designated for such office and containing the words ''no nomination, the name of any per son for whom you desire to vote for such office, or may place 8 cross-mark TX" in the voting space at the left of the name of any candidate for such office appear ino in any other party column
 < To vote for a portion only of the can didates whose names appear i'll any one
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Deacon Stevens Asks Questions.

To the Editor of The News:
 l have seen nothing pro or con in your columns on the license question and per- haps there is no use, as most of our voters have probably made up their minds how they will vote. have been asking myself some questions on thls subject, and have settled the question in my own mind, and shall answer them at the polls next Monday, and I would like to ask few plain questions of every voter in town.
 . Do we want license to sell intoxicating liquors in this town? If so, why?
 Will it make better husbands and wives?
 Will it make better children, or better young men and women?
 In short, will it make better and hap pier homes? Will it improve in any way the manners and morals of any class of our citizens?
 But oR the contrary will it not have a demoralizing effect on the children and youth, and also on some who have passed these stages? Icannot see how any sane, honest, conscientious voter can answer these questions excepting the last, in the affirmative, when they consider condi- tiOns under license and no license, espec- tally for the past three years.
 Now, fellow electors, let us answer these questions in the light of reason and conscience by our votes at the polls next Monday. H. B. STEVENS.
 Canaan, Sept. 26.
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Very truly yours,
DAVID c. WHITTLESEY Canaan, Sept. 23, 1911.
"Temperance" Reasons.

To the Editor of The News
 Dear Sir: Last year I voted the No License ticket to give the temperance men a chance to show what they could do, Now what have they done? The liquor business has shifted to other parts of the town, and other kinds of business have gone to other towns. If there are not so many drunks in the center there are more in the outlying districts, and altogether more intoxicating stuff is drank here, and more of it is bought and more men are selling it here than ever before. The business of the town has suffered, and because we will soon have the trolley it will suffer a great deal more if the town stays no license another year. Temperance.
 Canaan, Sept. 27
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Where the Laugh Comes In
"Love thou thy neighbor as myself" But if you'd keep from strife You'd better draw it rather mild AS to your neighbor's wife.
 -Rnctntn Drn I, rcrirf

Dub II NOu u h6Sp HUH h4 You'd better draw it rather mild
 AS to your neighbor's wife.
 Boston Transcript.
 Yeast-What's the matter with your finger?
 Orimsonbeak-O burned it on the fireless cooker Yonkers Statesman.
 Has your family been of much assist ance to you in running the place ?"
 Il should say so, replied Farmer Corntossel. Food has been SO high that the summer board season would have been a failure if it hadn't been fur mother and our son Josh"
 "They saved the expenses of helpr" "No, sir. But Josh is a right good hand in poker game, an the way mother picked up bridge was somethin' amazin'. "-Washington Star,
 Cant you assume little more pleas ing expression of countenance? ?" asked the photographer.
 "Y.yes, sir," hesitatingly answered the sitter. "Wait minute and I'll take off these new shoes. ."-Chicago Tribune. Pavlowa and Mordlxin are at it again. These dancers might make bigger hit if they gave an exhibition in a 24-foot ring, hitting in the clinches barred { Philadelphia Inquirer.
 La Toilette, according to a learned phrenologist, has the jaw of a general. President Taft may wonder if it wouIN not better fit a wife.-Chicago News. "Why did Dobbs buy a motor boat?" Whenever he left the house hls wife insisted on knowing exactly when he would be back. Now he can't possibly tell her. ."-St. Louis Times.
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The Bristol Press is not far wrong when it says "The efforts of the bird men to fly across the continent are not meeting with conspicuous success. So far the trials are more of an exhibition of engine defects than anything else When the dependable motor is found a three thousand mile flight on the hop along principle will not be particularly ance''
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BE TRUE.
BY EMMA RoDEMEYER WATT

Be true There's nothing needs a lie, And truth must ever win; IL always gains the mastery
 Over deceit and sin. Though sometimes evil seems to lead, It cannot last for long, For there's no power can withhold Truths triumph over wrong. Be true Gods hand is at the helm, And He will guide you through. We're safe in trusting all to Him, So heart, be brave, be true.
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NORTH CANAAN HAS

A population of 2,171, Census of 1910) Two railroads.
 National and Savings Banks. Trolley railroad entending through the Berkshires to Pittsfield and beyond. Up-to-date High School and first-class school system.
 Five churches.
 First-class hotel
 Fire department. including chemical en- zine.
 Six miles of State Roads. Electric light and power plant, Complete Sewer System. Never-failing water supply and the best water in the state.
 Wide-awalxe Business Mems Association. Extensive lime and iron industries. Fraternal and benefit societies. Brass band.
 Up-to-date department stores. Pure air and wholesome climate.
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It is impossible for one who has never been aboard one of the modern steam ships to form anything like an adequate idea of the appropriateness of such a craft as the Olympic, for instance, which was rammed and disabled by British warship last week. No picture or printed discrip tion can do justice to it though few statis tics borught out, incl dent to the collision are striking and impressive At the time she was rammed she had on board more than 2,000 pass engers bound for New York. These passengers, with the crew, made up a multitude equal to the entire population of the, town of North Canaan, in- cluding East Canaan and Canaan Valley and still it was not near the capacity of the ship. Of these, 732 were first class cabin passengers quartered in commod- ious and luxurious state-rooms for which they paid upward of $25O, ,OO0 for the trip. Thirty of the passengers were million aires, and it is estimated that the aggre- gate wealth of the saloon passengers was $500, 100000.
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Mir. WhittIeseY Explains
ditor of The News

To the Editor of The News
 l find that it is the sense of quite a number of my friends, who have spoken to me on the subject, that by my sign ing my name to the license petition 1 have put myself forward as an advocate of license. I wish to say that am not ill favor of license and never have been, I signed the petition at the request of friend. thoughtlessly, but knowing that my refusing to sign would not pre- vent @ vote being taken on the question. Recognizing also the right of the re- quired number. of voters desiring it to have vote taken, but not stopping to reflect that by signing the petition I should create the impression that fav- ored hcense..
 Very truly yours,
 DAVID c. WHITTLESEY,
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Mrs. ch-To-Do-"Tell me, Maggie, what you servants fud to talk about down in the kitchen" Maggie-"Oh, we mostly talks about the visitors up the drawin' room. And, beggin' your par don ma'am what do you mostly talk about upstairs?' "Oh, we talk mostly about the servants. Life.
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THE NEWS AGENTS

Extra copies of The News are on sale at the oficeof publication and at
 Dempseys Drug Store, Canaan, Egglestor's Drug Store, Sharon, Post Office, East Canaan. D. H. Oakes' Store. Lakeville, Post Office. Falls Village. George T. Johnson's Store, Norfolk, F. H. Smith & Co.'S Store Ashley Falls. w D, French, Sheffield, Mass. A. l.. Dickinson, Salisbury:
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TELEPHONE CANAAN t2a RING 3
AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM

The News should appeal with special force to the sagacious business man.
 It has an extensive circulation in Western Connecticut and especially throughout Lltch- field County and Southern Berkshire
 It has competent staff of wide-awake cor respondents in the various towns to report the and is perused by the entire families of the thrifty, intelligent, reading class of people whom the long headed advertiser most desires to reacn
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They do some things different, to the north of us, in the way of precautionary measures, and nobody has contended that it isn't the better. The Lee Cleaner says:
 "A new lot of forty Italians came Sat urday to work on the trolley out east. They were taken to the sub station, by the local officers and examined for con- cealed weapons. Only one man was found with weapon, a revolver, and he was arrested. His name is Francesca di Principle and he was fined $75 in court Monday"
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Just as soon as cars are running to the village Ill the Litchfeld hills, we'll all go down regularly to attend the meet ings of the Wurra Wurra club.-Pitts- field Eagle. Goodl Bring the Dope Clubsters along, and amalgamate.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-28

Cient-Before we decide on the house, my husband asked me to inquire if the district is at all unhealthy.
 House Agent-Er-what is your hus- bands profession, madame?
 Client-He is a physician.
 House Agent-Hum-er- well, I'm afraid truth cOmpels me to admit that the district is not too healthy.-Londou Opinion.
 Now, don't let any one spoil it all by nominating Dr. Wiley for President on a pure flood ticket.-Atlanta Constitution
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This week Canaan has welcomed the conference of ministers, who teach us how to take care of our souls. Next week come the doctors, who teach us how to take care of our bodies. Each organization is a blessing to the race that IS prone to worry too much over the problem of keeping soul and body together
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. 1911
SUCCESS

He who aims only at the lowest is sure never to attain to the highest, but is not unlike to miss even the lowest, ,-Brownson. Aa..
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-28

Now that the legislature has really adjourned the members should have time to explain why they didn't do it months ago.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-28

Subscribers are requested to notify the pub lisb CT promptly of any failure to receive papers regularly, changes of residence etc.
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WRITE ALErTER ABOUT

Communications on subjects of general lnter- est to The News readers are invited, put no attention will be paid to anonymous letters-
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-28

Uncle Horace Johnson promises snow by October IS and ice by November 12. And Uncle Horace guesses right-some- times.
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Get Together. Pull Together. That. what keeps the ball a a'rolling.
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Now is as good time as any to sub- scribe.
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WANTED

COOPERS wANTED--We want several coopeTs to make apple barrels. We pay good wages, and have a long job. Samuel Deuel, Pine Plains, N. Y. Both phones.
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FOR SALE-At a bargain, fine s-room cottage with all improvements, situated on Main St. Canaan, Conn., Inquire H. Leach, or at The News Ofiice.
Connecticut western news., 1911-09-28

Maine is still wondering whether the long drouth is really over.
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WILL SELL CHEAP-Nine shoats, months old; well bred young sows, good breeders; SOW and pigs. Geo. w. Hall, Falls Village.
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FOR SALE-A few barrels of Baldwin and Greening apples Si. .25 bbl. Seek-No-Further apples, 75c bu. hickory nuts, S200: Sckal pears S1.00 Concord grapes Si.o0. No charge for delivering. Harry k. Dean, Falls Village, Conn.
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OSTRICH PLUMES-French and willow plumes at the lowest price, quality considered. Moth ing but the finest African wild bird stock used in our plumes, Write for descriptive circluar, or send $500 for our Special French Feather, or S9 50 for our Special Willow Plume, Money cheerfully refunded if not satisfactory,
 CHATTERTON PLUMB. co,
 New Milford Com.
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|. When in doubt sleep on it before de- ciding.
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FOR SALE-English Beages. Just the right age to train for this falls rabbit hunting. Thoroughbreds and bred to hunt
 John L. Thurlough.
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half years old. Win sell or exchange, because he is related to my stock. H. P. Morse, Falls Village.
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Sunrise and sunset are drawing nearer the noon mark.