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Norwich bulletin., 1912-09-14
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
studIsy an Excellent Choice.


 MT. Editor: Have you heard from Maine? Of course you have, and the cry of Remember the Maine that fired the Spanish American soldier in 1898 can be used equally as successful now in facing the arch enemy of American progress-the democratic party.
 There was move made in Maine some weeks ago to first defeat a com mon enemy and then devide as in- dividuals saw flt;. and any man who lives in Connecticut who has d desire to continue and advance in progressive politics can take Maine for an example and do likewise. When the republican party at Hartford nominated such an up-to-date genuinely progressive ticket as the one headed by Judge John P. Studley there comes a chance at once for all who are opposed to stepping backward to unite on that ticket; endorse it in the progressive conven- ton and defeat the Baldwin ticket from top to bottom. Baldwin is op- posed to progressive policies and if elected will without doubt join tn ! southern wing of the democratic party in its blow to American industries.
 l A1C AouA0NllA tAChCb Ndl ldllbOQ DJ lI1c bosses months .ago) Is in direct opposi- tion to everything that progression stands for.
 The repu blican ticket was the hon. est choice. of the honestly elected dele gates, all selected at one t1fae, without any boss handling whatever. It looks to me ae If there was no choice for the progressives burt to endorse the ticket that will insure the defeat of Cum nings, Baldwin, Constock, etc. On the other hand, the rcpubifcans in this Congressional district do not appear to be anxious to run for con- gross. Then why not join the pro- gressives in tho nomination of such a man as Hon. G, Warren Davis? With Studley for governor and Dav- Is for congressman, the democraNs ot the eastern half of Connecticut would sure enough get theirs, L Remember the Maine" election and get busy. It is the progressive chance c. B. MONTGOMERY. Packer, Ct.
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pANoERs To RE AVOIDED.

Though the recall, as advocated by the third-term seeker, on the face of 1t refers to state courts and institu- tions, how 1t is being interpreted to apply to the country and the consti- tuition of the United States, with view to breaking the instrument which has stood for long period. was brought out in the address of Tracy c. Becker of California, here, this week, when he said: To-day we stand the only country in the world in which nine men can declare unconstitutional a measure which the great majority of the people have said is for the public welfare.
 This is, of course. an attack on the supreme court of the United States and the constitution. He would re- move the safety valve on boiler with untrained hands engaged in its manin- ulation. He would urge on to the coup- try mob rule in preference to judicial control and the maintenance of the law. He would disturb the foundation and safety of the country to alter a portion of the superstructure
 9t&~Ho anu Lae HdLAOH navy cndSLcu laws which have at different times been found constitutional-not in accord with the fundamental laws of the land-but that need not end it, if there Is merit in the cause and the people want them. Frequently are state constitutions amended, it being no diff fcult task, and at the present time there are in the process of adoption two amendments to the constitution of the United States. sonhewhat harder proposition It is possible to effect changes in sane and sensible
 manner, and on the side of caution rather than. danger. There is a vast difference between calm interpreta- tion of the law and adjustments to meet such Interpretations and the qualification of such decisions by popular vote There Is grave danger in such an idea. It would mean the overthrow of stable government and the placing of the maintenance of justice and right in the hands of sym pathetic judgment and thoughtless im- pulse.
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The Greatest Study of Man, is Man

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 Don't you think it possible for a per- son to have a good opinion of himself without danger of losing his balance?
 If we do not think well of ourselves, who will think well of us?
 This matter of ones relation to self is an important matter, for to know ones self is to attain the greatest power; but is it possible to know ones self without conffict-a conflict with selfishness and habit and prejudices in herited and acquired?
 4 Many excellent people in this world are victims of appetite, and eat them selves into inyalidism with no idea that they are the slaves of habit in- stead of free beings.
 When we say vigilance is the price of liberty" do we comprehend that this warning phrase applies more forcefully to our relation to ourselves than to our relation to others? We cannot know what liberty is and be subject to any personal habit what ever. The man must be master of his mind-fnaster of his appetites-to be free-free from fear and disease.
 To know myself" is to know that manhood means supremacy over every thing which in the least degree is de- generating.
 s Manhood knows it's own mind stands upon it's own pedestal; but counterfeit manhood leans upon most anything that will give it support.
 While in popular parlance it is said 'No man should take himself too seri- ously," it is up to every man to take himself seriously enough to become conscious that he is son of God, and is heir to all the power and blessings which such an heirship implies.
 It was never intended that man should be struggling in darkness in- stead of abiding in light-that he should be declaring that he is a wor1n of the dust when he is son of God. Too many men have been deceived by false conceptions and negative ideas of their own worth.
 It is up to every human soul to love itself intensely-self-l is a Chris tan virtue, not a fault We are com manded to rlove our neighbor as our selves, and the Lord our God with all our hearts" This would not be in the great commandment if loving self was not a Christian virtue. This love of self is the love which prompts you to honor self and the laws of selfhood, just as love of God requires you to honor Him, by observing His com mandments
 It is not self-love, or taking ones self seriously, that makes men appear ridiculous, but the pride and false pretense and hoggishness which marks the selfish person. Self-love and selflshness are not one and the A
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same thing. Self-love is ennobling and elevating, and selfshness is degrading and destructive.
 There have been strange definitions given of man by the intellectual:
 Edmund Burke said: Man is an animal that cooks his victuals!"
 Charming said: Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.
 Aristotle: Man is the most terrible of all animals when he lives without law and without justice"
 Byron depicts man as: Half dust, half deity, alike unfit to sink or soar!' and again he addresses him thus: Man! thou pendulum betwixt smile and tear!''
 Our own Whittier declared: When faith is lost and honor dies, the man is dead.'' the noblest work of God"
 Man sees man in his own soul mirror; he colors him with the color of his own spirit.
 We all must confess the truth of l the statement that Man to his brother man may appear as a wolf or as a godi'" This expresses the sweep of l his power for good or for evil. The man who takes himself serious 1 ly is likely in time to kill the wolf, to l subdue the savage that is within him, and to make himself strong upon the deif1c side.
 The danger side of life Is the dark 1 side-the side of ignorance which leads ] to misinterpretation of law and to i tyranny.
 1 Man has been endowed with many ! talents and he has been blessed with | high aspirations, and has blazed a wonderful path down the ages, but when we look back upon his work 1 there is no light that shines like the l light from the Mount of Olives. 1 It has been truly said: Mans | greatest study is man, and the mas i tery is not in achievements which de- stroy but in works which bless.
 It was Queen Victoria who said she l could never tell anyone how insignifi- | cant she felt in the presence of such a
 man as the late General Booth of the 1 Salvation Army. Her greatness rested | upon temporary strength-his upon
 Love, upon which rests the eternities
 It was. not long since. decided by a mothers congress that the greatest woman was she who made an attrac-
 tive home, led her children in the path l of light and knowledge, and made ui 1 them citizens who added fame ianj 1 glory to the state; and presumably we l can all agree that the greatest man Is not the man of war, but the man ol I action whose beneficence commands
 the attention and the respect of the l nations. l THE SUBSTITUTE.
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feet off the table. At 70 he confessed that "all exercise is loathsome."
 Laziness Is not good in itself; but when joined to conscientiousnesB and a sense of responsibility. as 1t often is, it is the very best worker.
 The worlds work Is done by those who do not like 1t. Nine persons out of ten would quit what they are doing. if they could. lftl Bennettls novel. @Hiida Lessways," 10 a luminous bit of philosophy
 "Hilda hated domestic work and because she hated 1t she often did it passionately and thoroughly"
 Mark Twain hated to write.
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IDEAS OF APLAIN MAN
rHE EFFICIENCY oF rHE LAzY

The best work is done by the lazy people, who want to get through and rest
 The industrious, astive body, busy as a bee, and always at 1t, is very liable to become mere putterer.
 Mark Twain called attention to the fact that the ant, to whom uhe sage recommended the sluggard to O., spends most of his energy in running around like drunken Indian.
 The great huinorist hated to move, he used to give the boy in the printing office nickel to sweep around him. so that he would not have to take his
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FLouRlsHEp UNDER THE TARIFF

Woodrow Wilson in his argument Ill behalf of free trade for this country and the abolition of the protective tar if maintains that it would be beneht to the country and to the Worklhg- man. How any action which will tend to induce foreign and cheap -laeor goods to flood the country, check, Il not close the factories in this country and reduce the pay of the working man to the starvation wage, to meet the competition, is going to be a oen- eft to the workingman, is dlmcult to see. Free trade countries are points ed to as examples. but who is the worhingrnan in this country who would change places with his Great Britain neighbor?
 Since this country has adopted the principle 'of protection, period Of about sixty years. the per capita wealth has increased from SS0I to $1310, the per capita circulation from sig to $34, savings bank deposits have increased from fourteen million to 4,2f2 million, farm land has increased from four billion to forty-one billion, and farm products from two billion to forty billion. In the cotton goods industry alone, there has been an in crease from S50,0OO bales in 1860 to 4,50O,O00 in 1910. the number of em- pIoyes having more than doubled in the past thirty years. or five times the English gain.
 It is quite evident that under these conditions, with prosperity at It's height, that the American working man is not going to throw a bright future over his shoulder. The repub- lican administration has worked for his interest and his appreciation of it will be manifested in the ballot.
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STIMULATES TREE PLANTING.

In booking to the future, Ro greater work is being done than that which the conservation commissions are en- gagged in, wherever they are at work or whatever line they are working on. It is the force which is providing help ts meet the drain on natural re- sources. It will be some time before the benefit will be derived, but time is required for development and a good start is being gained for that. In the state of New York the state commission on conservation is devot- ing much attention to the planting of trees. For the first time in the fall 1t has announced that it has five mil- lion trees ready for distribution in lots of 800 or more. These are open to public demand at amounts varying from s150 to s4 thousand. incltd- ing white pine, Norway spruce and Carolina poplar.
 This is an example which deserves to be generally adopted by other states. There is no more commendable work for increasing the natural wealth than the planting of trees, and it is worthy of being encouraged. Not only the benefit which is to be de- rived from the future forests, but the benefit which forests are to the land and the water supplies, are considera- tions which are well recognized in this work. Each state must take up the work for itself and here in Connecticut much has already been attempted in the way of forestry work. though the importance of it cannot be too often urged. The barred hills point to the path of the sawmill and nature left to herself to replace the trees. Much of the untillable land of the state would make excellent woodland.
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Tn. Prosrsssiv. Party Watch.

MT. Editor: One of your editorial notes contained the inquiry What would happen to this new party if the handspring should get wound up to the bursting point?' I think, MT. Editor, it would wind up business on time and wait for an- other spring.
 When next spring comes it may get the party watch running again, if the handspring should get broken by frost in November.
 As the head of the party must have hairspring to give motion to the bal ance wheel, an injury to it would make the watch as useless as a hat without a head in it, like the hat in the ring.
 c. H. TALCOTT. . Norwich, Sept F, 1912.
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grass. He did not tRrry long. for when the sun broke through the clouds he departed
 The August cold spell appears to have been too much for the wrens in the Sheldon pear tree, and the song which gave a charm to the morning and evening of every day for weeks has ceased. The departure of the wrens seems to me to be the most signal evidence that summer is rapid iy drawing to close. We cannot for get the sweet spirited, companionable little fellow, and shall expect him to again arrive in the spring of 1913. do not think would exchange him for the blue wren of Australia or the golden crested wren of Europe. Fine plumage does not always make fine bird. Our wren is star-singer and doesn't have to play second as a scold- The wren is all quality, for when it comes to trays it is capable of putting the cowbird or the noisy bluejay to flight, although they are five times its size. They are now winging their way toward Texas, where they will spend the winter
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Those keeping score In the political game note that Taft has done much scoring with but few errors: Wilson is theorizing on a cross-handed style at batting; while Roosevelt is eoh- tributtng to the error column, and get ting Into trouble with the umpire.
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lse men have acquired little fame falkers. The man who makes [ aatX speeches a day is likely to get hls foot in his mouth instead of get ting wisdom out of it.
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The possibility of the tThaw case being revived again, as it will, is not surprising If every other prisoner had as much money, courts could be In session steadily night and day.
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Half the. world doesn't know how the other half lives; but all the peo- pie know when the wrong party has got into power
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The kind of friends who take to the
 woods when trouble shows up, are the kind no sensible man has use for.
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Rainfall i IA Innhas

The heavy storm of late Wednesday gave a rainfall of 1 1-4 inches. making a total so for September of 2.15 inches. Fairview reservoir is now down 99 inches from fuFl pond
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Would Be Soma Inh.

As an addition to the 1920 census we suggest complete tabulated. an alyzed and card -indexed list of all the men whom Colonel Roosevelt has call ed liars.-St. Louis Republic.
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Governor-e elect Haines of Maine Is being touted as a bull moose supporter because Roosevelt says so. Governor Haines, speaking for himself. says he will remain neutral.
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As a man of simple diet Candidate Wilson appears to be a front ranker. Who was it who said: ''Tell me what a man eats and I will tell you what he is%'
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Ohio still considers the death pen atty a necessary part of the state con- stitution Society in general is evil dently no better there than elsewhere
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The balance of power in Connecticut this is in the hands of the 28,o0o men who didn't vote two years ago.
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It Is surprising how much more a mistake can queer man in this world than grand achievement can ad- vance him.
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The Jewish New Year was favored with cool weather, only little more of which would have made it seem like January first
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Happy thought for today: The man who makes political shots at random seldom hits the mark.
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In Same Box.

The Congressional Record output this year is 19,67S456 words. some of which were not knocks on Colonel Roosevelt Washington Post.
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( The men who also ran" might or ganize and hold reunions. They are in a class all their own.
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The man who plans to beat his liv- ing out of his fellow men is never caught advocating short days.
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Time will tell whether Charles AIur- phy or Woodrow Wilson was the more popular at the Syracuse fair.
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If Woodrow Wilson should ignore Colonel Bryan now, Champ Clark s "houn' dawg" might stop barking at him. E
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If the bun moossrs took the same 7terest in the ColonePs reign of seven CTS they do in Taft's rule of four, would get contrasts that would
 their enthusiasm.
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Perhaps it is better that boy should be wild than wooden; but why should we in mind thus associate him? The boy who appears to be wild needs to be interested in something which will turn his energies to some useful pur- pose; and the boy who seems to be wooden needs to be walked up by something which interests him. We mortals are, too prone to deal with ef- fects without ever attempting to in- quire into causes Get the confidence of the children and study them. and they are very likely to reveal a way by which a new aspect of life may be pre- sented to them. It never makes bet ter man to tell the boy he Is a fool, or that he is unusually bright. Preco- cious children seldom have brilliant careers. It certainly spells the eem- ing man to attempt to make something of him he doesn't want te be. Parent al mistakes and pigheadedness spoil more developing mortals than anything else. Real we1l-meaning people wreck lives in their keeping by their eompul- sorry metheds-their tyrahniacal con ception of their relation to or author ity over a child When things are go- ing wrong it is well enough to ask our- selves what we are doing.
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Little surprise was occasioned by the resignation of Commissioner Val entine; the real surprise was that it was delayed so long.
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And Mik. thn M,,n

Jake the Dip now bobs up in the po- lice news along with Gyp the Blood. But where is Larry the Lush ?-New I ork World
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Plants growing in the garden and desired for house plants. should be potted immediately and cut back to produce a strong growth of new wood.
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There are few men in the world like the Colonel, It takes a rare bird to always speak of himself superlatively.
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EDITORIAL NorEs.

sThe chief argument that the women have for yfavoring Roosevelt is that they like to be fooled
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SUNDAY MORNING TALK.
NO PROXY.

Life issues perpetual summons to each man to stand on his own feet. Each one has his duties that no one else can do for him and responsibili. {. ties that cannot be laid on other shoulders. No substitute can take one's place in those crises of which human experience is full.
 It is important to realize oneself as a being separate and distinct from all others. We are all called to use the capital at times, and with full realization of what the pronoun means. We must share tho experi- ence of the philosopher Descartes who. musing by tho Danube river one night. made the eroch-rnaking dis- covery, Ich bin 1eh--I am myself. The clear sensing of personality is q first requisite for right thought on any subject whatever
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When we see ring meek blower run ming over the sands of the seashore we do not call to mind the fact that he is one of the little birds that fly half around the globe every year. A ring necked blower may have been born in Siberia and when seen on the beach, or Hitting in; front of the breaking surf, may be on his way to Argentina These little sand birds take long flights and make better speed than the aero planes. Some of these birds which breed within the Arctic circle are seen on the New England coast on the way to Patagonia, making a migratory flight of 14,OO0 miles. Talking or plov- CTS, the Virginia blower which breeds in Labrador, winters in northern Bra gil, and 1t makes the journey in a day with an estimated flight of PIP miles an hour We mortals know but little about speed when the rapidity of the flight of birds is taken into &C., count. Some of the birds make no more of a 1000 mile journey than man does of going to nearby market for goods.
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 Good housskeepers are natural fly swatters and have been for generations and will be for generations to come, whether the slogan Swat the fyi" is kept up or not. It Is not agreeable to have any Kind of an insect crawling over food, or falling in the milk. The ignorance concerning flies is dense- there may be 10000 varieties, and some of them are parasitic-reducers of other pests. The true househy is the most respectable of the three varieties which haunt the house, the two others being the bluebottle and the feshf1S. It can be said of the housetiy that he prefers sugar or molasses, sweet sauces and cake crumbs for food to anything dirty or fermenting. The househy, like some other pests. lives all winter in the house and lays its eggs in horse dune in the spring. How industriously it cleans itself anyone may discover by watching it, but we cannot tell whether 1t is wiping germs off its geet, grease off it's face or dust off it's feet, grease off it's face or dust 1t goes through whenever it takes d
 rest. The other flies eat decaying meats and fermenting matter and are really scavengers or filth cleaners, not spreaders. No cleanly person will
 
 vented. There Is nothing to be said against swatting the fly, but thers
 might be much said against being alarmed unnecessarily about it.
 l was surprised to see a tree toad sitting in the dew upon a blade of 1 my, late September corn the other | morning-a corn which seems to be l spindling without Showing an ear. The ! little fellow looked soft and mellow as tree toads usually do, and had appar- | ently fed upon the tiny vegetable flies
 which hover around the shady corners ] of the garden. The disks upon his 1 toes by which he climbs trees or tall | plants of any kind makeI him look | different from any other toad, and his | general color is lawn, or soft red i dish yellow, which is blotched with
 brown, with the jeweled eye which | Notwithstanding the remark which | their croaking calls forth: Its go- | ing to rain!" they have proven to be ! no weather prophets a all. Abbott put i this matter to test in 1880, and while l they crooked every day for 65 days it i rained only on six days, and in two other years experiments showed that
 their call has little to do with weather
 prognostications. This however, is an
 old Superstition which will not down. l The bird-like note of the hyla attracs 1 much attention, but he is not true tree toad, and likes 10 peep in the