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Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02
A WONDERFUL OLD HOUSE

l
 CWritten Specially for the Builetin.)
 The thousands of passengers in the electric cars, and thousands of others
 in automobiles who ride past certain
 house on upper Washington street, year after year, running close to it's
 entrance steps and catching feeting giimpseS of it's ancient door and pleas
 ant grounds, do not realize, unless
 they have been told, that this dwell
 ing has sheltered the uembers of one
 family since tf79.
 In this age of frequent moving, when families fit from home to home and from apartment to apartment, or even city to- city almost as the birds migrate, it is something to have lived under the same roof for 13T years which is the record of tine Harland family.
 Then, too, in an era when the crav- ing for something new," when in- herited lares and penates aIe rslegated
 to the attic or the auction room. there which the substantial furniture of colonial times is daily used. where the table IS set with china which has done
 faithful duty during generations,
 where the quaint flower garden is each
 summer gay with posies from seed planted by dead-and-gone forbears, and where the clock made Ey the
 family founder still ticks in tho wide
 hall, with the Forever. Never; Never,
 Foreveri'' of the timepiece which in
 spired Longfellow to write his "Old
 Clock on the Stairs
 1 saw this quaint clock the past
 summer; went through the rooms and marked The wonderful treasures re- maining from a former day: strolled through the charming grandE1other's s
 garden, the grassy fields of the an of1A di,,cr
 to Miss Perkins Old Houses of Nor
 wich, some time during 17S7.
 Modern comforts have made the quaint house more convenient steam
 heat, and telephones and gas and
 electricity have supplied those essen
 tials of up-eo-date living which even
 the middle class tenant now demands in a home; but they do not take away from the staid and impressive dignity
 of the ancient house as it stands, so
 rich, so simple, so suggestive of gen erations gone, of the sturdy worker who did his part toward the Epbuild- ing of the eariy town and of those of his descendants who perpetuated and bore his name with honor and with usefulness.
 As noted, it was in 177s that Thomas Harland purchased from David Nevins land with a shop there
 on. Tn the following year that of his
 marriage, he built the house past which the tide of modern travel rush. es year ofter year. History refers to | the valuable clock and watch nnanu- | factury' which was burnt to the ground in December; 179o, between l the hours of eleven and twelve at night. The loss was computed at | $1,500; through the spirited exertions of the citizens. the flames were pre- vented from communicating to any of the adjoining buildings"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02
NEED BETTER COLD STORAGE "a LAWS =.

Many of the laws which have been passed in various states regarding the regulations under which the cold stor- age warehouses can do business have resulted from the manner in which advantage has been taken of such fla cilities to deceive the public and to palm off on them, as fresh. articles of food which have been kept for many months and sometimes years. Such supplies have invariably been held until they would command the best prices, that being the object of course in cornering them rather than the idea of regulating the supply in accord ance with the demand
 That the methods of the cold stor- age interests have not been reformed any more than the enforcement of the laws has~ required. and then only to the extent of meeting. the letter of the law is evidenced by the disclosures which have been made by Commis- sioner Hartigan of the department of weights and measures in the state of New York, who declares that it has been found that supplies can be held in storage in one state for period of ten months, then sent to another state for a similar period and even then re- turned or sent to a third for a like time ard it is impossible to reach those responsible for it by any legal procedure.
 Under such conditions it is not sur prising that the commissioner terms the cold storage law a joke and 1t is certain that it calls for additional leg islation to prevent such advantage be- ing taken of the consumer, The cold storage interests are responsible for whatever legislation has been enacted to regulate them thus far, but 1t is evident that they have as yet been dealt with too leniently. and that the time is ripe for more rigid and effec- tive laws.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02
Sunday Morning Talk
THE PERSONAL EoUATioE.

Virtue rarely moS es us till it is em bodied. Excellence must be exhibited in human life before we really be . lieve in it. Philosophers may discuss honesty or purity or courage. as ab- stract propositions and tell how fine they are, put the average man with holds his assent till ne sees thes@ qualities lived before hIS eyes. One honest man in the cor;munity is worth more as a comInenGation of honesty than treatise 0n ethics in six thick volumes.
 Most of us have believed in people before we have understood or assert ed principles. A cause may be eX- p1ained in hooks, fortified with argu- ments and defended with blows even, but, until a human life has arisen to make the cause vivid and compelling, the overwhelming majority of men will pass it by IS a minor issue
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

In 179o, according to Miss cauIk:ns' History of Norwich, Thomas Harland had twelve hands in constant employ, and it was stated that he made an nually two hundred watches and forty clocks. His price for silver watches varied from 94 ID s. to e t0s
 Two of his numerous apprentices were Nathaniel Shipnlan and William Cleveland, the latter grandfather of President Grover Cleveland. The row of eims~ which stood in front of the Harland house was set out by Nathan iel Shipman. Sept fth. 17St, the day that New London was burned by the British.
 THE DICTAGEAPH.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

Carranza is not as yst willing to discuss tho agreement reached by the United States-AexieaR commission in this country. ~Pessibly he, feels that Villa may yet have. something te say about 1t and he deesn't want to usurp his privileges.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

Champ Clark says keep few hens and raise your own eggs. He might also have advised keeping cows and control your own milk and butter SUD- ply, raise cattle and plant a garden and produce your own corned beef and cabbage.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

Germany promises to make repara- tion if the Marina was unjustly sunk. That may be all we'll enough as far as the ship and cargo are concerned but how does 1t propose to restore the lives of the Americans and others lost?
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

A judge in Pennsylvania has decided that the right of way in the street be- longs to the pedestrian. That will never be accepted by certain horn blowing autoists who can frighten him out of 1t.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

The crown prince of Germany knows how to sympathiZe with the crown prince of Rumania in his forced re- treat-or should we say the taking ur of a mere strategic position.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

The report that Villa is in command of several sections of the city of Chi huahua doesn't add anything to Car ranza's prestige.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

There is a chance for some people to remark upon the steadily increas- ing. cost of philanthropy, but the great mass of people must remember that the Red Gross seals are still penny apiece. acs ts H,tg %E 9N-lGf'&
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

It begins to look as if it was a war on low prices which has been doing so much to give us our high cost of living.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The man on the corner says; Most people have thus far made a fu- tile attempt at outliving bother.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

It is a. hard task for a lot of people to persuade themselves that there have not been two Mondays this week.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

The next big event to look forward to in the immediate future is, ot course, the opening of congress.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

What Ia said to be the largest wind- mill in the world. a steel one 50 fest in diameter, has been erected tn HIei- land for draining tract of land.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

Fighting Through consonants. Russia IS slowly approaching the pronounceable parts Of Europe.-Wall Street Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Now the high cost of living has been put up to the farmers from new
 point of view. They just over -e5tl- mated the crop outlook last year. and stopped working so hard like so many others in the country. That is the traders idea of present conditi9ES, and you can take it for what it Is 1 worth and continue to go down ut- tie deeper for farm pFoducts.-Ailddie- town Press.
 In New York investigators learned that while hard coal at the mines wa:; costing only 25s to 50 cents more than formerly. it was costing the consumer dealers were taking heavier toll tf-2n 1 usual, and retailers who are paying S4.50 to s5.75 a ton were selling the | fuel at s7.50 to $12 a ton. The fault isn't all with the retailers. They sim 1 ply fall in with tine prevailing system | of charging all the traffic will bear all along the line. But it's a vicious sys- 1 tenn, and a few more doses of munich pal coal would be good for it--Water- i bury Republican.
 New Britain's fire department has on more than one occasion proven it. self efficient in many respects. It has handled fires that were threatening to the business section and it has effected substantial work in lesser blaZes. Jn cases where the flames were confined to buildings in the heart of congested districts the fire fighters have gone azout their work with zest and zeal that were anna zing, and comparable to the work of men in other cities fire departments. The members of the department here are equipped with nearly all the essentials with which to
 fight fire. There have been instances
 where they worked under difficulty because of prevalent darkness in the
 fire zone One of these occurred last
 night. Because of the conditions ex-
 isting then it was sometimes difficult
 to see just what should be done and
 the men were forced to grope their
 way about a building that had it fall
 en further prey to the fire would have
 threatened the best business part of
 the town. In view of this circum-
 stance, it might be well to consider
 the plausibility of furnishing the fire
 department with>a searchlight that
 can be attached to an-extension lad
 der and thus furnish light for extreme
 ly dark places while the men are at
 work fighting fire.-New Britain Her aid. &
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

Some men say you cannot make men moral uy law; and this, to G. cer- tain extent. is true; but the law. helps to make all men a little more re- spectible than they are ever likely to
 become without it. The law to a
 large extent is the fruit of moral con
 cepts. If the law cannot make men
 moral, moral men can demand laws
 which suppress certain social evils, and give their weaker fellow citizens
 little better chance for respectabil- ity; and also, for redemption. The moral force of man cannot be
 ignored. A mans scif-control is hot wholly attributable to his will for the
 inaccessipiliiy of things evil lessens his desire, or It least, removes the opportunity for indulgence. We can conceive of the primal man awed by superstition and gIided py fear; but he was inferior ta the moral or the religious man who is moved by his concept of Love and its power; and who realizes evil suppressed is evil handicapped. -
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02
Personal royalties hold men as doe

Personal royalties hold men as does
 nothing else in the worl.! The records
 of our human willingness to work and
 to sacrifice through this moEive arc full of interest and significance. What
 men could not be prevailed On to do through any abstract peTsuasionS they have done gladly for persona King David was a mon Cf grieEous faults but withal, one of such beauty and charm that his common soldiers would any day put their lives in jeopardy for his sake. Consider, for instance, the occasion when a handful of his bow men broke through the lines of the Philistines merely to get their leader a cup of water from a particular well that his fancy clung to. The later Stuart kings were hard rulers in many ways, yet low many British mothers gave their sons to die for Bonnie Prince CharIiei"
 In Westminster Abbey one looks on a tablet over the spot where Robert Livingstone lies buried. How did 1t happen that England could finally re- ceive her hero, this Christian weaver boy who died in the heart of an un- trodden continent? It was because two black lads had carried nis body for 40 weeks on their shoulders. Through jungle and over plain across river and mountain they had journeyed, endur- ing untold peril and privation. till the | had guarded the body till the long voyage was over and the heroic mis- sionary was at last laid 10 rest under meath English skies
 Two black boys from the Jungle, Susi and Chuma were barely out of their ancestral pa aganisn. Of Christian | theology they knew little or nothing. I They had perhaps never seen a church except one rude mission hut in the wilds. But they had seen Christianity | lived. They had been with Living l stone, and the spirit Of their master | It was personal loyalty that accom- plished what looked like an iynpessi- l ble task.
 | The supreme example Of personal power is the Son of Man Himself. He 1 to system of thought or to code of | ethics, or to form of organization, l but to his own person. He believed ! that the ages would respond to that l call and He has not been disappointed. 1 Come to me" He said: Believe in
 of cold water in my name" The call
 has been heard from the apostolic years until now. It sustained the martyrs as they saw tEn flames kin l dle around them or as they faced wild
 beasts in the aInphitheatre. It is to- 1 day the spring of the finest sacrifice I and service. Whatever changes in
 human society the coming years may l bring, we cannot think of time when the call shall net be heard obedientiy 1 and with love.
 Each one of us has the privilege in his own time snd way of making righteousness concrete and attractive l for some others Of the sons of men. Do we talk about purity? eet us give
 an example of purity? Do We extel generosity? Le us show 1t forth in practise. The yirtta that wins the
 world is that exhibited in human lives, THE PARSoN.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02
Advertisements of the HarIsnd shop

Advertisements of the HarIand shop appear frequently in the Norwich Courier Of these early times.
 In one paper Goodman Earland returns thanks to his friends for their kind encoura cement, ,"-this -i is in No- .vembcr, 1774, f42 years ago and about a year after his arrival in Norwich- and begs leave to inform them, and the public in general. that he has now complicated an Assortment of War ranted Watches, viz: Horizontal, Showing Seconds from the Centre, Day of Month, Skeleton and Eight Day Watches, in gilt, TortoisesheIl and piain Silver Cases; Eight Day Clocks, in Mahogany and Cherry Tree Cases. He also keeps Worknen in the Jewelry Business, and has for sale Brilliant, Garnet and plain Gold Rings Gold Necklaces, Garnet and Brilliant Breaches, and Hair -Sprigs in Gold and Silver: a Variety of Pearl, Brilliant and Cypher Ear Jewels; c! paer and Brilliant Buttons and Studds: d large Silver Tca-Pot, Sugar Basket, Crem- ieure, Tea-Tongs, Spoons. etc. Chrys- tai, Silver, Plated and Pinchbeck lsucklesssef the nearest patterns, 4s:iI se3ss Gilt and Steel Watch esffaif1s variety Of Seals, Keys, etc The above will be sold cheap for Cash or Country Produce"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

Every man may De entitled to his century, but few get it excepf in an ephemeral sense. It IS a fact tha- the world over not more than eight or ten persons in one hundred thousand live their full century. No reason can be discovered why man should not live as long as the eagle O. the elephant; but his average life IS not much in excess of the life of the baboCn. The man who thinks he ;s living like a prince isusually living like a fool. Those who are qualified to speak declare that the chemical mixtures of mans diet are life-destroying- Those who do not eat too much suffer from a health destroying com 3ination of food. Fletcher has proved to the world that man doesn't even know how to eat properly; and thoss who Fletcherize, who persist in masticating their food until it becomes fluid, are tine ones who abate= disease and live long. Some say the length of life is nothing the quality of it is ail. But this is a sentiment which has never made a deep impression upon the human race.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

conditions confronting the nation al this time, West Stafford Ct. Nov. 30 1916.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

In his first advertisement tte Har- land ancestor calls himself, "a watch ana ciock-maker from London, and
 pegs leave to acquairt the puhlic that he has opened a shop near the store of Christopher Leffir swell, Egg. where he makes in the neastest man. ner, and on the most approved prin- ciples, horizontal, repeating. and plain watches, in gcid, silver, metal CT GOV cred cases, spring, musical, and plain clocks, church clocks, regulators, etc He also ensraves and finishes clock faces for the trade, and cuts and fin ishes watch wheels and fuzees of al sorts and dimensions"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

This Is believed to have been the original shop of Thomas Harla1ld; for Miss Perkins notes that after the fire he must have moved into the Nevins shop, which he was occupying at the time of his death, in 1897.
 Thomas Harland came from Ena- land to America in one of the ships which brought the tea to Boston in ITS. HIS intention had been TO set tie in Boston; but finding that city in such an excited and unsettled state, he decided to go at once to some more remote place in the country, and so came to Norwich
 He was an experienced goldsmith, having served a long apprenticeship in England, and, as was the custom of those times, after his term of appren- ticeship, he had journeyed from place to place, even wandering as far east as Warsaw, probably exercising his craft, and incidentally learning for eign. ways of working.
 Always the Harland house has been famous for its books: we are re- minded of that in Miss Margaret Fuler's charming biography of Ed mund Clarence Stedman, "A New England Childhood in which some of the most interesting chapters describe young Stednlan's delight at being free to enter the Harland homestead at will, and to read any of the books which climbed up the stairway, in row upon row.
 There is proof from the first that the Harland pioneer must have heen a man of education: for the inventory of his library, which was a large one for those days, shows in the variety and the selection nf its books fannil- larlty with the best historical and philosophical writers and poets of that period, while the large number of French books imply a thorough knowl- edge of that language, which was then not common
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

It beats all how many people like to
 talk music who do not know much
 about it. They make highfaluten of
 all the Italian terms they can repeat
 and it never does to request them
 to put those musical terms into Eng
 fish for they do not know how; and
 the request is very embarrassins to them. There arc thrice as many peo- pie in America pretending to have an appreciabie knowledge of common music than really have it; and the
 producers of classical music estimate that half a dozen persons in an audi ence of twelve hundred may be able to wholly appreciate II. There are few subjects about which the public know less than about music: and there is not another science in the world which produces more fake pretenders. To be accomplished in music Is to be an artist: and 70 pretend to have an ap- preoiatiye kneyladse of classical
 music is to be an aas,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-02

Homer Mckee's prayer was a prayer which ought to be of general service to man. It doesn't make any differ enee who Homer Mckee was. since he prayed right. He asked the Lord to help him tG so live that he could lie down at night with clear con- science, without . gun under his pol low and free from being haunted by the faces of those to whom he had brought pain; l.; blind him to the
 | faults of the other fellow and reveal to him his own; and keep him young enough to laugh with fns children an1
 I to lose himself in their play. If we 1 do not know who he was this shows what he was; for he was clear vision ed and knew what was best for bim; /;
 and we recognize that he was so just
 and broad that what was good for
 | him was good encugi; for all of us If
 man prayed better he would do bitter
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-12
GOOD ROADS MEETING
ATTENDED BY ESQ
Delegates From Roanoke. I.ynchburE
and Other Places Hear Adj
dresses mt Lexington.
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Especial to The Times Dispatch
NINGTON. VA. November IA
monster good roads meeting was held
in Lexington to-day with 80 delegates
present from Roanoke. Augusta and
Botctourt Counties. and Lynchbur@.
The Roanoke delegates came on Spe-
cial train and were met at the station
by the Washington and Ice band. and
the students and escorted to the court
house. where the meeting was held.
Former Attorney General William a.
Anderson was made chairman Of the
meeting. with John Wood. secretary of
the Roanoke Chamber Of Commerce. rs
secretary. The convention was adj
dressed by General Anderson, Mr.. Wood
Colonel browning and Joseph \. Turn
or. of Roanoke; Professor -. G. Iiunph-
rcyS. of Lexington, president of the
RockbridGc Good Roads ASsoca' ion
Professor Jordan, Of Staunton; j II
calliSon and c. w Williams. n Au-
Gusta: Supervisor Wiclinc. Of Bot.tourt
MIR. Scott, secretary Of the board Of
trade of l.vnchburg; H. ST. George
Tucker, of Lexington, and Charles r.
Scott Of the state Highway Commits
sion. The following resolution was
adopted.
Resolved. That this meeting in
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-12
Volume of Trading Falls ON Slightly
Duc.to Holiday During
Week
MANY NEW BUILDING PERMITS
Two Large Sales Arc Recorded. Eacl,
transferring Property Valued mt
d5.0O0-Schcdulc Of Court Cases
for This Week.
The Weeks Record

Trading in ihc local realty market
during tho pasi wcck was inactive in
comparison with the week previous.
The lull ia business can DO attributed
10 the fact thai election day was Il
holiday, aud that business was un
settled for tn" remainder of the week..
The amount of money involved in
property transfers WAS small. cSccp, in
one or two Instances. aud til" property
transferred were. for the most part
small lots OF land.
In only two transactions recorded
ala the amounts. reach <i5,uoG. These
transactions We're recorded on We'd
ncsday and rhursday
jonathan BrNan-aud others on We'd
nssday sold 10 Virginia Apple Lands
Corporation tract containing nearly
seven acres for S4b.oUo Tn. propcrty
is situated a; tho intyrsection Of west
wood ATcnn" and hermitage Road
The transfer which caused most com
mcnt liza local really circles was thnt
recorded On Thursday. when ". T. cat
lett "ecaTl" the owner of til. stuart
Apartments for the-sum Of $4,000. The
east corner 81 i.ombardy Street and
West Avenue
BUILDING rI:Is,ilrs INCREASE
~ NJ MIsER AND VALUE
building permits Increased both in
hummer and value during the past
week. The permits cdr the week totaled
over 100000. and several large build
inEs Will he crcctod,.
r. y. Saunders, .lr..-sctur.d the larg-
est permit when 'lc- was given per
mission 10 erect n -four story brick
storage building on East cary street.
According to tho specifications filed in
the Building Inspectors Office the new
building VIII cost $4,000
Another large p.rmiI was that issued
on Wednesday 10 the Davis Land Com
pany, Inc. L" erect :: tirc"-stury brick
and Siurco dwciln.: at-@71l Grove Ave
huc. Til" estimated cost Of the .struc-
turc was placed at Sl5,0u"