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(gy the Rev. Thomas Mcerady)

upon the earth wherein there is life
that they may have to feed upon"
Gen. list Chap) Blackstone. refer.
ring to this grant, writes: THAT is
the only true and solid foundation Of
mans domfDon over external things.
The earth, therefore, and all things
therein, are the general property "
mankind" (Com. Book I'd. p. 2O8.)
Again, man has right to life. But
land is necessary to the exercise Of
that right; therefore, man has a. right
to the use of land, and. it cannot be-
come private property. He that owns
the land Is master OF those who live
upon it, and can force them to give
him the product ofTtheir labor for the
privilege of living. If l owned the
entire earth, l could drive every hui
man being into the briny deep. /
could compel the multitude to serve
me under the stroke of the lash, or
crouch as minions at the foot OF my
throne.
Moreover. the only basis of private
property is the right that man has
to the ownership of his person, and
his powers and FACULTIES. An article
belongs to me, because 1 have made
it., But if 1 have a right to the prod.
uct of my labor, have also, right
to the material upon which expend
my labor, and therefore a right to
the land If 1 have no right to the
land, then I have no right to. the
ownership Of my person and the prod
uct of my labor, for these rights are
dependent on the right to the use of
the land.
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=. The Disinherited >.
IBy c. A. WindIe.)

Born of accident and fate, of agony
and dread, of fears and tears, held in
trembling arms with lips upon
shrunken breast, withered by woeful
want-rocked by tired, unwilling feet
and lured to- the painless shores OF
sleep by sad, sweet lullabys sung soft
and low by pale and pulseless lips
ed by Need and Wish, two fairy
Queens of early Dawn and taught by
all the things of love and pain which
soothe or lash the dimpled flesh of
oabes- learning at last to walk erect
to think and utter speech, releasing
imprisoned thoughts from books and
stars and babbling brooks and SO
through years of laughter and tears,
ever stumbling down thorn paved
way which leads from golden lands of
Dreams to Reality's rock-ribbed Realm
where the burden of giant oft rests
upon the shoulders of a child.
Then relentless war for pelf and
place, cursed by poverty and crushed
by despair-driven by necessity's
cruel lash to grinding toll in the pitt
less battle fog bread-hoping always
for higheh better. things, until q sun
beam falls athwart his darksome way
and the one of all the world is wooed
and won. Then sober thoughts of
serious things, driving Fairies from
the brain, while upon the shoulders of
the man there falls the responsibility
of a god Inspired by deathless love,
mated souls soon climb to Pisgah's
highest peak, where forever waits in
carnate Joy, who bids them view the
land of Promise, all bathed in light
and listen to the Siren Queen Success
singing the Harvest Home. Entfanc-
ed by glorious visions, love and laugh
ter follow for a day, then back to
CRIME and fray more fierce than
Jungle beasts of prey, which tear and
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rend their victims in lust of blood and
death.
With meager, sweat-stained wage a
place called home is won-a humble
place to eat and sleep, but under
whose rented roof there is no cham
Der of gladness where welded souls
in sacred dreams divide the beloved
hours of loye-but only days of labor,
nights of worry waiting for life that
love in reckless abandon launched
upon a storm-tossed sea. At last the
port is reached and all is well-a cry,
smile, a tear, and then the cradle
song which tells Of aonther mouth to
feed-another soul to suffer, toll and
bleed.
Disappointment, Failure and Despair
three red-mouthed hounds of hell fol-
low hard upon hating heels, while at
the door forever Turk the gaunt gray
wolves of Want and Woe. Time runs
on in sunless days and starless
nights until Ambition dies-the spirit
breaks-luster fades from fearless
eyes-throbbing temples whiten with
winters SHOWS and the fainting SOUL
naked and wounded, longs for death.
Mills and Marts in which his Drawn
and brain and blood were turned to
gold know him no more, as in his
startled face each open door is closed
by Mammon's ruthless hand. Chance,
Faith, Hope and Fortune fly before
mocking laughter pierce his quivering
pierce his quivering soul as with a
thousand swords. Keeling before
Fates final blow he backward falls
into the arms of his own flesh and
blood, already weak and weary in
life's struggle, which is but the story
of his own. Light fades, night comes,
but the dawn finds him free at last
the peer of kings-a citizen of the
Republic of Dust.
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. Du4i N1tD7 fABRlI1A Me-
The Humble Worker.

The Humble Worker.
Robert Herrick, the we'll known
novelist, was talking, at dinner IN
Chicago, about the hard lot OF the
Wonkingman.
'sThe workingman," he said, has a
IA time of it. He can't be said to
live The beauty of life is lost-to him.
There's a story, not without a
grain of truth in it, about the humble
workingman.
"A poor casual laborer, working on
a scafroiding fell i've stories to the
ground. As his Mortified mates rush
ed down pell-mell to his aid, he PICK
ed himself up, unintured. from a great
soft pile of sand.
a.say fellers. he murmured anx-
iously Is the boss angry? Tell him
i had 10 come down anyway for ball
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To Those Killed In The Year 1910
By 1. Saint.

people. At the very least we ouht.
to erect a tablet every year for the
dead Of that year.
The Director of the Census re-
Gently published figures which in
spire this suggestion. His figures
covered only So and fraction per
cent of the total for this nation; as
given below they should be doubled
to be correct. They are for the year
Of Our Lord, 1910. This is what
should be inscribed on this monu-
ment:
TO THOSE, KILLED IN 1910
In Memoriam
From poisoned foods .'.....157 souls
From mine and quarry acct.
dents ....... ........2 ,484 souls
From machine accidents 1929 souls
From railroad accidents 1871 souls
From street car accidents 1,949 souls
From starvation =. ...... 80 souls
And so on to- the total Of 45,41s
souls, which, multiplied by two, gives
US 90,832 souls. gone down in death
needlessly, ruthlessly, brutally. A
cautious statistician, to be sure,
might put the figure lower. Others
have put it higher. The Conserva-
ton Commission says there are 95,-
600 annually dying from preyentable
causes. 1t would take, in any event,
several score Titanics to equal the
list
Yet these people go down to death
unnoticed and unknown. No Presi-
dents wife lends money so that their
fate may be remembered as warn
ing to the nation and no women's
press agency fills the press with
news. The reason is plain: it is not
considered meet to indict this ter
rible murderous System which forces
the happening of these things.
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" AAo NAGkzIkesX

Writing in the Twentieth Century
Magazine for June, George French, an
advertising and magazine man of
established reputation, throws pow
erful searchlight on modern maya
zines. It needs only a realization of
the enormous amount of money in
volved in advertising to make clear
the dependence of the general maya
zines on thi sbusiness. Small wonder
the wishes of the advertiser are su-
preme when the loss of contract so
easily runs into thousands.
Mr. French says:
"The fact that nothing definite is
known about magazine advertising in
it's economic aspects, as it relates it.
self to known and fixed principles of
profit and loss, is the cause of most
of the troubles experienced by the
magazines. They do not know what
it is they are offering for sale, and
accordingly are not able to place
value upon their advertising wares.
They can only invite business men to
gamble in their pages on the chance
that certain Systems" that have
brought profit to other men may
bring like profit to them. This form
of advertising assay is neither strange
nor ediscreditable. Advertising is in
the experimental stage. Only few
men know much about it; the great
majority who have to do with 1t have
just little enough knowledge to prove
the adage about that being danger
GUS thing. This condition makes Of
the business of getting advertising for
magazines such an underlined and un
certain propaganda as to give full play
to about all of the forces that tend to-
ward discord and disorganized effort
And if the promotive work of the adj
vertising solicitor does not rest upon
clearly ascertained fundamentals,
neither can there be claimed for it
any certainty as to results The sue
cessful agent, therefore, is not bust
ness man but -hypnotist."
"The magazines exist because of
the advertisements they print That
is the sum of the magazine question;
the details come from the elaboration
of that statement. The amount of adj
vertising carried by any magazine, the
rate received for 1t. and the expense
of getting and caring for it, indicate
that magazines financial condition.
Circulation is not directly fiscal fac
tor. For many of the magazines there
is little or no profit in circulation; the
cost of manufacture more than claims |
the receipts for sales and subscrip
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The Poets Corner
OooOOOOOOOOO0

"UNTO ALL THEIR DUE"
Not for money pray the Judge
Wherever His Bench may be;
l ask for justice, keen, concise,
The justice coming to me.
What have done the Judge will know
If His eyes all-seeing be;
He's bound to grant me the honor due
The Justice coming to me.
No fire will scorch, no crown delight,
If His heart all-noble be;
He'll stand up like man and mete
The justice coming to me.
It may burn deeper than fire,
AS a hearted Judge can see,
But he's no right to tamper with
The justice coming to me.
# the gods saw fit to let me live
In a world they still let be,
They owe me, straight, without excuse
The Justice coming to me.
No gods worth while win deny me this
.Whatever gods may be-
To let my pride. unbrokens bear
The Justice coming to me.
-H, RHa WoDdman.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-05-23
An Insane RrickIayer.

A briclayer, named Sam Kennedy.
was charged under the Vagrancy Act,
with having no fixed place Of abode.
Magistrate-What age are you.
Sam?
Prisoner-Fifty-two, your honor.
Magistrate-Yo are a bricklayer
to trade?
Prisoner-Yes, yer Honor.
Magistrate How long were you
employed at your trade?
Prisoner-Nearly forty years, yer
Honor.
Magistrate-You must have built
large number of houses during that
time?
Prisoner-Yes, hundreds. yer Hon.
or.
Magistrate-How many houses do
you own?
Prisoner don't own any yer
Honor.
Magistrate-But you've already adj
mitted that you have built hundreds
of houses.
Prisoner-Yes, yer Honor, for 9TH
er people.
Magistrate-You don't mean to tell
me that you have. built hundreds OF
houses for others and have not one
for your own use?
Prisoner-Yes, sir.
Magistrate (aside)-This Is clearly
a case for lunatic asylum This man
should /l1ave been sent there forty
years ago,-Glasgow Forwards.
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Leap Year Proposal.


Miss Ethel Barrymore, apropos of
leap year, told story at the Colony
Club in New York.
"A girl" she said, Cooked calmly
at caller one evening and remarked:
George, as it is leap year
.'The caller turned rather pale.
GAS it is leap year. she continued,
and you have been calling regularly
now for four nights a week for long
long time, George, propose
"I'm not in a position to marry
on my salary George broke in hur-
riedly. vi.
az know that well, George the girl
pursued, and SO, as it is leap year
l thought I'd propose that you lay of
and give some Of the more eligible
boys a chance New York Tribune
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-05-23
The Difference.

We'll, George" said the president
OF the company to old George, chow
goes it?"
Fair to middlin' sir" George an
swered. And he continued to curry
comb bay horse. me an this here
boss" George said, suddenly, has
worked for your firm sixteen years.
well. we'll" said the president
thinking little guiltily of Georges
81 salary. "And 1 suppose you are
both pretty highly valued, George
eh?"
HIM" said George, "the both Of
us was took sick last week, and they
got doctor for the boss, but they
just locked my pay" Exchange.
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C)SSORE 80
.xSCQ'|!nnEhES'
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CAUSE OF INDUSTRIAL CARNAGE
There are many minor and techni-
cal causes of industrial accidents,
which no doubt any scientific expert
can point out. But the fundamental
cause of the frightful carnage in in
dustry is the private ownership OF
the means of production.-N National
Socialist.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-05-23
n APITAL does not support labor,

capital. A shoe manufacturer
and wages is not drawn from
opens his establishment on Monday
morning He has capital in building,
machinery, leather and money. On
Saturday night he pays his operatives,
but this does not diminish his capital.
He has the same building, the same
machinery, less leather and less
money; but he has more shoes. He
has simply transformed capital of one
kind into capital Of another. The
operatives have increased the wealth
of the proprietor before they receive
their compensation, and the money
got in payment for their services is
draught on the worlds wealth. !.
Capital depends on labor, but the
latter does not depend on capital. If
all the laborers would vanish from
the world today, capitalists would
perish in less than six months, for
production would cease, and famine
would reign from one end of the earth
to the other. But if all the capital
lists would pass down into the grave,
and bury their wealth in their tombs,
laborers would not only survive, but
grow rich, for then they would get
the full amount of the wealth pro-
duced by their exertions.= 1t is true
that they would be without money
and without machinery, but they
would soon create these as they have
created the wealth of the world
Labor has brought the blessing of
civilization to the wilderness. 1t in
vaded the mighty primeval forests,
felled the pine and the oak, the beech
and the elm, adorned the streams with
the hamlet, and the village, the town
and the city Labor has made our
streets and mills and factories and
palaces. 1t has plowed the furrow
and raised the corn and reaped the
grain. 1t has covered our fields with
flocks. and transformed the unBroken
woodland into smiling meads and
leas. 1t has threaded our land with
railroads, and built those magnificent
iron-clad ships that carry the prod
ucts of one elm eto the shores of
another. 1t has established our
schools and colleges, and universities
T. S-,DDor+c oi1r Drofoccorc and coioD
fist and has enabled them TO pear
the sun of civilization over Land and
wave, from the icebound regions of
the North to the foaming pillows of
the South. Since labor produces all
wealth, it should own all wealth.
Capital is stored-up labor, and
hence the latter precedes and creates
capital Capital. is the child of labor,
and has no right to labors products.
Capital is that part of wealth de-
voted to the aid of production. If we
had no capital in money, labor would
be compelled to make it's own ex-
changes at great loss Of time and
inconvenience. II we had no capital
in machinery, labor could not operate
with the same facility. Away back in
the primeval- ages of time all men
obeyed the scriptural' Injunction and
earned their living in the sweat of
their brow,
when Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman"
God gave to mankind the earth, |
which was common heritage. 81
have given you every herb-bearing
seed upon earth, and all trees that
have in themselves seed Of their own
kind, to be your meat And to all |
he beasts of the earth, and to every
ioWl Of the air. and to all that move
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-05-23
sHoEMAKERs ASK INCREASE

Lynn, Mass, May PA strike
of between $4,000 and 10000 shoe
makers in the near future is not i'm
probable. A demand has been made
Off new price list, granting an in
crease Of "a C per pair, which the
manufacturers claim would destroy
their profits.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-17
OBITUARY.
Georoe A. AshIeY.

Word was received here Thursday of the death of George A. Ashley, @. which occurred Wednesday night at his home in Nashua, N. H. Death was caused by pneumonia, following an ill., ness of only a week. The news of his death was a surprise to many in this city who knew him as it was not gen erally known that he was sick. Mr Ashley was well known in this city, having resided here many years, com ing here when a young man from Springfield Mass. He went into the meat business n this city with the late George Tiffany and later conducted the meat market on Church street, now run by Trumoull Burnham, after pur- chasing Mir. Tiffany's interest in the business.
 He remained in the Church street market until 20 years ago April 1, last when he sold out to Mr. Burn ham, and after remaining here a few months, enjoying a rest, he moved with his family to Nashua, where he had charge of the wholesale beef house of Cudahy & Co., and he was manager of that business up to the time of his death
 Mr. Ashley married Miss Cora Tiff fany a sister of Mrs. J. C. Brown of this city who survives him, with a son, Walter Tiffany Ashley, and a daughter Ruth Tiffany Ashley. He also leaves a brother and sister who reside in Springfield.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-17
n., the formation of parade win be as

m., the formation of parade will be as follows:
 Col c. A. Potter. marshal; St. James band; pupils of high and grade schools will lead the parade; Anderson camp. Sons of Veterans, William Keech com- manding; McGregor post No. 27, de- pertinent of Connecticut, c. A. R., A. A. Perkins commanding; Spanish War Veterans and invited guests.
 March will be taken up for town hall, where the following programme will be rendered:
 Music by St. James band; reading of department orders by post adjutant: reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg ad- dress by Miss Hester Johnstone of Killingly high school invocation by Chaplain A. c. Green; Memorial day address by Rev 0. l.. Griswold; music by St. James band.
 At 313 p. m., parade will be reform ed in front of Town hall and march to soldiers monument at Davis park.
 our honored dead Invocation by Rev. J. H. George.
 Line of march will be taken up by
 St James band. Thirteenth company, coast artillery. c. N. G.. and Ander-
 son camp. Sons of Veterans, for West | field and St. James cemeteries, Mo | Gregor post taking teams. After dec orating the graves of our honored dead ] salute and taps will be given. The l line of march will then be taken to | G. A. R. hall where refreshments will
 be served by the w. R. c. l Per, order Memorial day committee | Comrades Perkins, Arnold, Baker, Pot | ter, Pond, Eranke and Rapp.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-17
IN No-LIcENsE TOWNS.
Railroads and Express Companies For bid Shipments of sprituous and h. toxicating Liquors.

Again the thirsty citizens of no-li- cense towns in this section are hard hit In Danielson, as elsewhere on the New Haven system. the agents of the railroad and of the Adams Express Co. are refusing to accept shipments to these towns of spiritueus and intoxi- eating liquors, beer ale etc, provided transportation is wholly within Con necticut. This in accordance with the state law.
 Thursday, one local liquor dealer delivered four kegs of beer at the local freight station for transportation to a nearby no-license town. The dealer was told that the consignment could not be accepted. All right he said, 'Tll send it by express; but he didn't; for he again met with a refusal to make the shipment.
 The towns in Windham, New Lon don and Holland counties that are af- fected by this rule because they are without a license are Andoyer, Ash ford, Bolton. Brooklyn, Canterbury. Co., lumbia, Chaplin, Coventry. Eastford, East Lyme, Franklin, GrotOn. Hamp ton, Lebanon, Ledyard Lisbon, Lyme Montville, North Stonington, Old Lyme. Plainfeld, Pomfret Preston, Scotland. Thompson, Union, Voluntown, Water
 
 In Windham county the sources of supply for no-license towns have been Danielson, Putnam, Willimantic, Ster- ling, with some from the New London county town of Norwich. For all of these places this trade from the no license towns has been both heavy and profitable The dealers do not relish losing it, nor do the buyers feel elated over the increased difficulty of getting their supplies.
 Just how the trade can be held is a matter, of course, that is giving the dealers considerable concern. If by themselves or their agents they under take to make deliveries in no-license territory, they must be careful to avoid even the technical breaking of the law that prohibits the sale of intoxicants in restricted areas. It has been held that should some person in no-lcense Plainfeld, for example, order a keg of i beer from Danielson dealer, and such | dealer or an agent of his should de- l liver 1t and accept pay in Plainheld upon delivery of the keg and it's con | tents or accept pay at any time within i the limits of that town, the dealer or his agent. would be liable for making ! a sale in no-license territory.
 | Similar notices received from off e | cials by agents of the railroad and agents of the express company in | towns in this section have been sent | to other parts of the state and the ruling applies everywhere in Connecti- | cut. The notices contain a list of no- l license towns.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-17
Met Mil Ms. B. !. WiIbur.
FUNERAL.
Nathan ". Ecoleston.

The funeral services of Nathan W Eccleston were held at his residence in Glasgo at l o'clock on Tuesday af- ternoon. Rev. John Thompson. pastor ot the Bethel Methodist church. con- ducted the service. He read comfort ing passages of Scripture and spoke m the warmest terms of commendatiCn ot the Christian life of the deceased. Byron Young, accompanied by Mrs Walter Burdick, sang as solos Face To Face and Death Is only a Dream The burial was in the Pachaug ceme- tery, the bearers being two sons, Har- .ris O. and Frank D. Eccleston, two grandsons, Nathaniel c. and Harry Eccleston, and two brothers, John D. and H. Clinton Eccleston.
 The house was filled with sympa- thizins relatives and friends from Charlestown. Mass. South Windham. Norwich, Old Mystic. Stonington. Ash wiliet Preston, Branford, R. l.. Gris- Wold, and Clark's Falls. There was a profusion of beautiful flowers. silent tokens of the esteem in which MT. Ec- clestOn was held.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-17
SUPERIOR COURT.
Short Calendar and Argument of Cases
 at WIlmantic Friday

The Windham county superior court. coming in Friday May r. at WiIli- mantle at 10 o'clock a. m for short calendar and assignment of cases. Hon. William <. Case, judge has the follow ing assignments:
 Short calendar-Stefan Bundek ct al. ys. Joseph Dvorszy ct al: George Ferris Vs. Mildred Ferris: Chauncey tdorse Vs. John J. Russell ct aL: John O. Fox & Co. vs. John J. Russell ct al: ~. N. and E. B. Kent vs. John J. Rus sell ct al; Angenette Taught ys. John Hopkins: Alfred Garceau vs. Dalvina Iarceau; Lincoln & Boss Lumber and Coal Co. vs William Cahill. Edward Rhodes vs. William p. Segar.
 Trial list to iUry-The Williamsvflle Mig Co. vs. The Killingly Mfg Co.,: Marshall J. F'rink. Cons. vs Caroline ". Tonneson; Frank II. Upton vs. Charles T. Crane; Zofa Zwiercka vs. John Tuckie; Josephine Delude vs. Max Markoff; Charles H. Baker vs. The Windham Mfg. Co.,; Aldege Beau lieu, admr, vs. The American Thread C.; FaNette l.. Wright vs. \. Y. \. H. & II. R. R. Co.,; Mary A. Niehols. ex. et aL vs. same; Joseph l. Martin vs, The Central Vermont Railway Co.
 To cOurt-Abel k. and Mary l.. Burn ham vs. Charles F. White; Helen Fer riday Vs. Benjamin Grosvenor: Uncas Power Co. vs. Frederick E. Shaw ct al; Angenette Taught vs John Hopkins; Lenore Little appeal from probate.