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Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
oLD-FAsHIoNED 1s-oUNcE HON.
 ESTY.

The overhauling of weights and measures once in awhile ought to be the rule and find favor with both the dealer and the consumer.
 The inspection of weights and meas ures recently in New York and Bos- ton left no doubt that the time was ripe for such public service and- that a closer guard should be kept over trade
 The Vermont legislature passed a law for the official inspection of weights and measures and the press is urging the enforcement of the law.
 The St. Albans Messenger says.
 "A false balance Is an abomination today. just as it ever was. and plain simple. old-fashioned. 16-ounches- in the-pound honesty is merely another complication of the square deal The law should he enforced to the letter, and the public can help in its enforce mcnt by refusing to accept purchases from men or dealers whose scales or -1essures have not passed official in- sprction."
 And tho Rutland News says: 'It is, of course. up to the inspectors to con denn scales that have been cheating the dealers just ss much as it is to condemn scales that have been giving the purchasers the short end"
 Such conditions as these ought to mAko dealer and consumer anxious to nave the balances made true.
 \ square deal for all is a good motto md worth living up to.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16


 might be construed as 15 letters and a souvenir postal card.
 If you don't think the letter carriers earn their salt, just paste this in your hat-they delivered I,57o.233 pieces of mail at Bridgeport houses and offices in the month of May, and collected 614733 pieces. They had to trudge a total of a good many miles to do it. toe.
 During the month of May, which is fair average month. the local de- partment received 2.35e ,OS7 pieces of incoming mail and sent out 1,3eI .21Z pieces of outgoing mail.
 The department not only kept track of the number of pieces of mail, but the number of ilandlings each received asserting. cancel1ing, delivering, etc. If is figured (roughly) that the incoming mail receives an average of 4.3 hand iings per piece, and the outgoing ar average of about 3 handlings, which would make total of over 10000, 00( handlings for the incoming mail and a little less than e.o60. .0e0 for the out going.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
THE sulLETlNs DAILY STORY
THAT SUMMER HOME

shunted off at my own dock with my luggage. This is particularly good for the irsrsxorI< on sewing machines and stoves and is fine for the contents of trunks The cottage seems oddly veil ed and investigation shows the yelling to censistt of unbrolzen spider webs and sheddings from the beech trees. It does not seem possible that there are so many spiders in the world.
 The strong armed scrubwoman who was to meet me is beautifully absent, but the full tragedy of this grows slowly as l raise window shades and see the thick dust on every inch of ey- erything. There are more cobWebs inside than outside and at the sight of the pantry l shed tears. Spiders rush from everything that I touch. In a sort of despera ton I open the box couch to find work dress, wlereup on rattle of beech nuts and cherry pits follows the hauling forth of the top layer. Then something furry and agitated darts out and 1 sit down on the floor and sflriek- It was a chip munk routed from his winter lodgings, and he now darts nervously and ma lignantIy under a bookcase. I would just as soon live in the same house with a man eating tiger as with a chipmunk.
 No said the men who brought up my soaked belongings from the pier. Mary won't be here. She moved away No. there ain't nobody kelse you can get to scrub. No. we don't know any man you can get to clean the yard and fix the pump-everYbody busy plant ing the crops. No, there ain't no one in town who wants a job No, you can't get no lettuce nor berries nor garden truck-tfley aint ripe yet, don't you know that 2
 This when people back in Chicago are rioting in asparagus and strawber- ries and head lettuce and cucumbeFs.
 There may be hundreds of birds outside amid the lovely graenery of June, but I don't know it, for I am wrestling with unaccustomed back breaking tasks inside the house. By o'clock that night l eat some store bread and butter and cheese and a ba,- mana and tumble into bed more dead than alive There is dust m the air and it is pitch dark and outside the tree frogs are dolorously singing.
 Back in Chicago my brutal friends who envied me are dining on 1uxuries and just starting out for an evenings spin down the scented bouleyards through the parks.
 Something drops kerplunk on the counterpane. and I know it is a large fat spider. There is mouse gnawing busiIy somewhere in the room. Then I pull the sheet up over my head and nervously shudder myself to sleep.
 This is the real truth about the way in which you start off summer resort ingl Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
BRIDGEPORT POST OFFICE Millions of Letters Received and Sent Out - 16,O0o, 900 HandIines Each Month In Local Department.

On an average of sixteen million separate operations are required every month in the Bridgeport postoffice to handle the mail that passes through N. says the Bridgeport Farmer. The colossal amount of detail work in- volved in this may be readily. app preciated. The figures are authentic. being derived from the report of the office for the month of May. bas- ed upon an accurate postal census taken under the order of the na- tional postoffice department.
 Did You send a dozen letters to your friends and business associates last month? If not, then you were slow : for the figures show that every man. woman and child in Bridgeport sent an average of t2s1 letters out of the city. On thr other hand you We're en- titled to receive 1895 letters, which
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
THE RECENT RAINS.

The recent heavy rains have done some damage. but have proven to be much more beneficial than injurious
 They have relieved the mind of the people of New York city by filling the reservoirs and removing the menace of water famine, but they did not come soon enough to save the grass or the berry crops. and in districts where straw berries were booming and out-of- door flowers were making a good show they knocked them down and made an end of them
 The water herssbouts has penetra ted the soil quite deep and hammered down the olayey- -l0aH gardens as if a haif-ton roller had passed over them Seeds that have lain dormant in the ground for eight weeks have started and the bow of promise is shining for those who cultivate the land for prod uce or flowers.
 The reinforcement of the reservoirs makes the rule prohibiting the use of hose for window washing and lawn wetting look to the people as both un- reasonable and unnecessary.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

if said the girl who likes to talk you happen to own a two by twice plot of ground outside of town with anything standing on it in the way of a shack with roof over it your friends who don't possess such a piece of propeFfy regard you feproacffully as spring comes on. At inopportunr : times they thrust at you remarks like these: Well, l suppose you'll be leav- ing soon for your place-lueiSy crea- ture, If we only felt that we. too, could idle in the country all summeF, {,
 You feel horribly apoiogetic- You know that your efssious friends could buy a hHRdred places such as yours and dump them into the lake just to hear the splash and hREer miss the money. SC il is q surprise to find your self regarded as a wreteiled Pintoerat when the overwhelming reason that led you t9 flee from town was that the bill collector doesn't come around so ofen in the woods.
 Two days before I am taking the boat for Michigan I always get inyi- tations to the opening dinner at the country club, an automobile ride and q theatef. party. all to take place the week after I am gone. As 1 wad tissue paper into the sleeves of the new gown 1 am packing and which I won't have a chance to wear again all summer, remember what it cost and seethe with anguish.
 Tt is dark when the boat pulls away from Chicago and if it doesn't rain seggily when I start I rest assured that 1t will be raining when II arrive iE Michigan. It has to rain at one or the other of these times, because I am wear ring my best flower trimmed hat that is too huge to pack, and I have just had my suit pressed. There seem to be acres of nay luggage on the Mich igan dock the next morning-trunks, new porch rugs. a sewing machine and a kitchen stove-and besides have to wade around town in the sand, buying groceries and nails and meps and matches, before plunging into the calm country ten miles from any where
 The bea tman who comes for me does not seem exactly overwhelmed with the joy I rather expected him to show on seeing me again. Huhi he greans. Have you lead in these here trunks%
 Some time I am going to make an exhaustive study of the psychoicgical causes leading baggagemen invariably to be overcome with surprise because packed trunks cannot be waited about on one finger. They always are so rigiifeously annoyed at this discovery.
 Tt is raining as usual when l am
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. and did. Today am we'll and strong and do all my own housework. I owe my health to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and advise my friends who are afflicted with any female complaint to try it.''-Mrs. ORyILLE Rock, K. R. No 5. Paw Paw. Michigan.
 If you are ill do not drag along until an operation is necessary. but at once take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
 For thirty years it has been the stan dard remedy for womeH's S ills, and has positively restored the health of thou. sands of women. Why don't you try it?
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

The Chicago News says: "A com rllnity which permits it's municipal officers to license crooks to sell liquor nus no reason to complain when crime. fiourishes Put the crooks out of the s4lnon business and by that act vice md crime will be reduced enormous
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
Education and Farming.

What college education will do even for farmers boys is shown by the re- cent vote of 1.i0o of them at the Mich igan agricultural college in favor of ciprocity.-Washingto Herald
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Must Mean Woodrow.

An. ha. The 17-year Iocusts have the initial~"N on their wings. Maybe this won't give friends of Harmon Clark & Co. chilli ashington Post
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Miaht Be So.

A number of Elidshipmen funked in final examinations at Annapolis. Could it be possible that they were the ones who objected to the young woman nurse attending one of their society functions ?-Omaha Bee.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

placement. l could
 not be on my feet for
 "a long time. My
 physician t re a t e d
 me for seven months
 without much relief and at last sent me to Ann Arbor for an operation. Twas there four weeks and came home suffering worse than before. My mother advised |mR to try vdio
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

The labor laws which prevent wo- men and children from working over 5i hours a week, do not apply to the woman who darns stockings or has tn ironing to finish.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
And Sunny Jim a Fan.

The decision to have no president pro tenn of the senate looks like a reactlonary move to keep Sherman on the job all the time.-PhiIadeiph Inquirer.
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miuht Do Worse,

Why not boom for AIr Justice John Marshall Harlan for vice presi- dent2 He is only 7S. which is ten years younger than Henry Gassoway Dayis,-Kansas City Star
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

West Point has graduating class of oighty-three this year. an indication that there will not long be a dearth of commissioned officers in the regular army
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

new record has been made for the first bale of cotton. This shows that the south has been favored this sea son more than some sections of the country
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

: tfThe Moody schools at East North
 field, Vt, are to have a donation of $l50,O00 at this commencement to help forward the good work.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

When hot wave comes, it is wiser to strike out for a hotel than to visit a relative who may take notion to take a vacation herself.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

The boy who thinks his father is going wrong should be sure of his premises or he may wake up to find himself on the wrong course
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

It is expected that the Lorimer wit nesses will become celebrated for their poor memories after they have ap- peared in Washington.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

Happy thought for today: If We had the money that is sduandered on schemes that will not work we should be pretty well fixed.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

The successful automobile racers are inclined to do something else as soon as the receipts warrant quitting. Few live, however. to do it.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

We are told that Memorial day eel ebrated on Sunday would be regarded with more reXerence; and still golf and baseball insist upon breaking in upon that day
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

What is a tough saloon? master piece of viciousness. says the Chicago News, created by a tough saloon keeper.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
| Sars sapanlIa

Cures all humors, catarrh and rheumatism, relieves that tired feeling, restores the appetite, cures paleness, nervousness. builds up the whole system.
 Get it today in usual liquid form or ehocoiated tablets called 9aFsatabss
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

It has been discovered that the op- timists are the ones who make multi millionaires of the sellers of hair-re- newer
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

sira ble: but we hate to say good bye to the faithful old tWo-cent stamp.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

The boy who is bent upon learning to swim this season is not so likely to be drowned next season, if he sur wives.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

Uncle Sam sends his biggest battle ship to the coronation, and it is big ger than anything in the British navy
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The person who slops over while trying to be agreeable never fails to make a very poor impression.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

Those who favor swatting flies paint hem black; but most of them are as .srettily pIumaged as hummin8 bird.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
chanoino a Name.

It seems that one of the best sing CTS in New York is named Alice Tells. Orange blossoms will change it, Charleston News and Courier.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16

through the trees. and a man, and she will lead him home engaged.-NeW York Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
Irish GaIIantry.

Irish Gallantry is not dead. Ehe lord mayor of Dublin wants the Brit ish parliament to give women the
 Washington Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
WOMEN
 MAY AVOID 
By taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

The following letter from Mrs. Oryille Rock will prove how unwise It is for women to submit to the dangers of a surgical operation when it may be avoided by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She was fOurweeks in the hospital and came home suffering worse than before.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-06-16
Here is her own statement.

Paw Paw, Mich.-"Two years ago l suffered very severely with a dis
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1911-01-26
ORDINANCE NO.

Be it ordained by the Mayor
and Board of Alderman, in
Franklinton, Louisiana, in special
session assembled, that . special
license is hereby LEVIED on all
persons, firms. corportion or
partnerships engaged in the
business of selling fresh meats
forall kinds in quantaties less
than the whole animal.
Be it further ordained that the
amount of said license is hereby
fixed at the sum of Ten Dollars
per year for each individual,
partnership or corporation pur.
suing said business or occupa'
ton, same to be collected by the
Marshall Of the Town, whenever
such business is started in said
Town.
Be it further ordained that halt
year license may issue upon the
payment Of Five Dollars after
the first day Of July OF each
year.
Be it further ordained that all
ordinances or part of ordinances
in conflict herewith be repealed
and that this ordinance 20 into
effect immediately upon promul.
cation, this January 9Th, 1911.
D. E. BRANCH, Mayor.
]. K. JOHNSON, Clerk.
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1911-01-26
achieved during the two or three

achieved during the two or three
past years.
And with the correct principle
Of advanced and profitable farm.
ling they might DO taught as
cheaply the important branches
of farming mechanics. such as
black smithine, wagon making,
carpentering, working in leather
pipe fitting, and engine driving,
industries which are almost as
important q part Of profitable
farm life as are guiding the pillow
aud handling the hoe. Our Louis
Llama Corn Club boys have not
learned that it degrades a boy or
lowers his self.esteem to any ex'
tent to guide pillow the and handle
the hoe.
Every year every State of this
country is paying more attention
to the industrial training of cou1''
try boys and young and even
|middle.aged men through agri-
cultural universities, Theological
Schools and Experimental Sta
lions, and through more indus
trial training in the public
schools.
Our good Did State of Louisiana
has been Leading her sisters OF
the South in this line for some
time. We have long had our
great State University with it's
valuable industrial branches OF
learning. Our Sugar Experiment
Statiourand connected school has
been for almost q human Rener'
alton training scientists OF sugar
agriculture and manufacture and
aendinQ them to the cane coun'
tries entirely around the world
to teach them the advanced and
progressive methods learned
| in Louisiana. We have our North
and South Louisiana Experiment
Stations, and have already intro
duced industrial training into
several of our public schools. 1t
would pay well to introduce
| it in every high grade country
school in the State.
Modern. progressive American
farming with the proper indus
trial training, at public cost ii
need be, to make it profitable is
the plainest smoothest road that
LEADS to individual good living
general prosperity, competen
means aud financial independece
for an immence majority of our
American people. Such farming
must ultimately check the drift
lof our country people to the
cities.-Louisiana Planter and
Sugar Manufacturer
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1911-01-26
Industrial
~
Education

One Of the most interesting
lessons learned from the recently
taken census Of 1910 Is that the
movement of rural population to.
ward ~ cities Of more thar
twenty i've thousand inhabitants
which VA noted on q larger
scale thaatit was . decade Stree.
Howevers The very much higher
percentage Of increase Of popu.
alation ii the cities than that Of
The country is partly accounted
Tor By the fact that several Of
The lal9er.sesport cities have had
&. their ratio Of increase very aug.
,nented ~ the tide Of foreign
simmigrstion flowing into then,
and remaining therein Of such
!
immigrants. 8
But. even without that outside
urban increase, the city popula-
zion has saiped ov or that Of the
country atlarge because = con-
3 sideraales part. OF the normal in.
crease Of the rural population
has moved tito the cities. This
is appareU.tly already causing
i conResti -. d people in the cities;
ssand If the rural tide drifting caty
ward for the three or four dec
Il ades, - It has done in the past
two or three, grave consequences
4 a1Oqcar IN our industrial con-
ditions.
Already, owing to this city
eoneestisa. vel grounded com,
ulaint6 - N that In The cities
~ profeasions IRE becoming
svercsoyded, the earnings q
( lerical ls'bor are reduced % I
oht coe qnsf Of inferior to those
q Uanu1I labor spfoparti'onste Il
The Era-leader. [volume] (Franklinton, La.) 1910-current, 1911-01-26

100000 PEOPLE IN THE
SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF
LOUISIANA ON MAR.
5th, 1911.
The Louisiana Sunday School
Association has designated March
18th, 1911 q state wide home visi.
tation day and March 9Th, as
universal rally day. Every
Sunday school worker through.
out the state is urged to cooperate
in this campaign. All communi.
ties are urged to have . home
visitation canvass on Saturday,
March 4th, and have Rally Day
Sunday, March 5th. For further
information write Rev. E. F.
sohuessler, 1000 s. Franklin
Street, New Orleans, La, or The
Louisiana Sunday School
Association, 916 Maison Blanche
Bldg, New Orleans, La.
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fering.

fering.
Several of our most prominent
land well known, il not most re.
liable political economists have
repeatedly proclaimed within the
past year or two that this in.
creasing congestion of the rural
population in the cities was large.
| " responsible for the increase Of
prices in food products, because
Iof so much of the productive
labor being or having been re-
moved from the farms.
In this line we have . strong
object lesson in the unreasonable
congestion Of our former colored
population Of the fields in our
own city Of New Orleans, where
ninety odd thousand negroes
live and subsist, by hook or
crood. on labor that could more
easily and profitable be perform.
ed by fifty or sixty thousand, or
the wage earners Of the colored
population Of the lower figure.
The Louisiana Planter has re-
pestedly called attention to this
latter evil and showed how in
furious it was to the agricultural
interests of the Stste, and
especially to our local sugar in.
dustry.
AS We have stated, some our Of
political economists Of national
repute are claiming that already
the DRIFT Of farming people to the
has begun to increase the cost Of
living because thus the normal
producers are are converted into
abnormal consumers. But how
do they propose to stem and turn
this unnatural tide from the fur.
rows Of the farms to the streets
|of the cities?
II this movement continue they
claim that before very long this
great country must be an i'm.
porter instead Of an exporter Of
food products, as it now is to the
extent Of hundreds OF millions Of
Dollars annually: and that then
indigenous food products must
soar even far above their present
exalted prices.
Probably more thorough and
general industrial education in
the country might serve to keen
ito agricultural population more
closely at home and MAINTAIN an
even ratio in the comparative in
crease Of ruaal and urban popu'
lation.
Through the medium Of spoken
or written words . thousand
youths who wish to make their
own way in the world mdy be told
time and again that the city pro
tessions IRE overcrowded, 90
that not oue out Of . hundred Of
them will ever reach the front
rank Of the regular professions
that the store clerks receive less
average pay than the lsborina
longshoremen, and that the cost
of lodging add living IN the larger
cities are 30 comparatively high
that the most Of them must live
long in abodes Of squalor and sub
sist on meagre, cheap aud coarse
fare before they could gain even
= good foothold in city life; and
such words would be only vast
ed on uniearped yet ambitious
youth.
But take another thousand
boys just bordering on or enter
Ing their tee sand attending the