Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 22, 1909, Page 12

TWO SIZES-500, anD $1,00 The Lee & Osgood Co. Special Agents. The Happlness of Effort. The happiest persons in the world ‘They had other financial burdens to ‘earry, the necessary ones caused by :illness, and were never certain that 'bit of land could be met. struggled on with cheerfulness and hope and had a fine time while do- ing it For five years they have been so prosperous that any reasonable wish could be granted with promptness. 'But the keen pleasure of their paorer | years is lacking. They are now ob- jects of envy to a close neighbor who .is doing her best to imitate the family {on an income of little more than half of what that family can afford to spend. Left His Eyes Behind. “Oarefully hide eyes on dressing: table. Destroy all evidence. Burn this message.” When thig telegram was received at the Turin post-office | foul play was suspected, and detect- ives at once set to work to solve the mystery. Their investigations showed that the sender of the telegram was a | man who had lost an eye, which had been replaced by an artificial one. He is engaged to be married, and so far has succeeded in hiding his infirmity from his future bride. - A few days ago he stayed at the house of his pros- pective mother-in-law, and left two re- perve glass eyes lying on the dressing: table. He remembered the eyes after leaving, and also the fact that his| fiancee intended to visit her brother | shortly. Just a Suggestion, “] hear,” sald Mrs. Nexdore, “that that stubborn candidate for president ‘of your club has finally been induced to withdraw in the interest of har- mony.” “Yes,” replied Mrs. Peppery; “by the way, it's a wonder you couldn’t induce your daughter to withdraw from the piano occasionally for the same reason.” By Our Formula o e st e . We produce In Hood’s sangpnrllll a medicine that has an’ unap- roached record of cures of rofula, eczema, eruptions, catarrh, rheumldpm, anemis, nervousness, that tired {eelmg,‘ loss of appetite, etc. The com! ion an rtions of the more than twenty different remedial agents contained in Hood’s Sarsaparilla are known only to ourselves, so there i g medicine makes healthy and strong the ‘‘Little Soldiers’ in’ your blood. ,—those corpuscles that fight the disease germs constantly attacking you. PLUMBING AND GASFITTING. The Vaughn Foundry Co. IRON CASTINGS #urnished §rnmyuy. stock of patterns, . 11 to 25 Ferry Street Jan22d The Best Dollar's Worth is what most people are looking after today, and the fellow who cannot give it 1y working under a strong handlic: That ufpllu to my business—PLUM ING. only ask for a chance te prove my ability to give it to you J. F. TOMPKINS, 67 West Main Street T. F. BURNS, Heating and Plumbing, 92 Franklin Streer, marbd funifd June Brides will find it ¢s their advantage to visit ocur Store this month. We are show- ing a fine ling of high ~rade and medium priced goods. It is hard to give any adequate idea of all we have to offer,»so we issue & weneral invita- tion to come to our store and we will pleased to show you our line. We have furnished over 5000 homes. Let us show you what we can do for your home. Shea E_I—Burke 37-41 Main St. maylsd WHEN ¢ t ve ust- R R BT columns aof & s Action it Prompted. - (Written specially for- The Bulletin,) It is doubtful if there is today in the ornell university, New York. For thirty years he was Dean of the Col- lege of Agriculture in that great uni- versity; is the author of numerous widely used text books on agripulture; is reckoned the foremost authority on matters connected with land fertility; retired fromn ac “professor emeritus,” when in simple appreciation of his work and the rank it holds. The judgment of such a man, of such train and such worth a good deal on any farming ject he feels himself competent to pro- nounce upon. In a short r contributed to & re- cent number of The Outlook, Dean Roberts condenses more solid senseand more truth about the difficulties of rural llving than I have seen in all the voluminous literature called forth by or for the Commission on Country Life. He strikes at the root of the matter in just three words, stating in those three “the one cause which more than all others produces the conditions complained of, That cause s lack of p ” The emphasis is his, not mine. When [ read that, | wanted to take the first train for Ithaca, N.' Y. just to shake hands with the man who could see through the hole in the mill- stone. I didn't go, for the very rea- son he mentions, “lack of profits,” from which to pay rallroad fares and the wages of a man to do my work while 1 was gone. But, if there’s anything in “tele; y" and “thought transfer- ence,” Dean Roberts knew, that day, that one lonely and cranky hayseed was just pumping congratulations at him across the Intervening latitude. If you followed the doings before that Count Life Commission, you'll remember it was called upon to In- dorse about as many remedies for farming troubles as there are drugs catalogued in the pharmacopeias for the cure of all human ailments. One man thought good rouds would solve the problem; another wanted better rural schools; a third called for uni- versal co-operation; a fourth thought the whole difficulty lay in lack of so- | clal advantages; a fifth wanted gov- ernment railroads and traction engine trains; a sixth demanded the repeal of the homestead act, and the stoppage of western farm settlement. And so on and on, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. Now, there was some reason in ev- ery one of these diagnoses; each critic had a real grievance behind him. But they were all one sided and one eyed. Each saw just one phase and magnl- fied it into the whole thing. His vis- jon showed him symptoms, but not the real disease. His nostrum wes ad- dressed to the alleviation of symptoms not to the cure of the cause for these symptoms. Doctor = Roberts, on the other hand, has pointed his finger straight to the center and source of the internal disease which manifests itself in differing external symptoms. The cure of that cause would instantly abolish and destroy the whole distress- ing.brood of boils and blains and blotches on the surface. “Lack of profits.” That tells the whole thing in words anyone can understand. Let me quote a few lines from this lucid and enlightening article: ..... “A large number of farmers—I be- lieve a majority of them—are now and for tha last twenty-five years have been selling many of the staple crops at a real loss. By this T mean that if the farmer's time is charged up, to his wheat fiald, for instance, at the wages of common laborers, and if there be added the other items in the cost of production, teams, the hired men and their board, threshing bills, seced and fertilizers, the selling price of the crop will not balance the account. . . . Astonishing as the statement is, it is & fact that many hay and grain farm- ers are working for fifty cents or less a day and boarding themselves. For the last twenty-five years wheat bus sold on an average, on the farm, at scarcely more than a cent a pound. At the present yield the farmer must recefve at least two cents if he makes wages, and two and a half cents if he receives a falr profit.” Dean Rob- erts adds, with sarcasm which ought to bite somebody, somewhere: “We bnast of our mammoth grain crops and cheap bread. and then wonder, ‘What's the matter with the farmer? and the man wha buys his bread ‘at less than cost answers, enthusiastically, He's all right. " The age gross income of the wheat r in the last census year, 1900, was seven dollars and two and a half cents per acre. The rent of land, interest on capital, seed and la- bor come to more than this, What does the farmer get for himse!f? Bear in mind, too, that, since this was the average, there must have heen many who got even less, Nice outlook for those at or under the average, isn't it? Says Dean Roberts: “The baker has just arrived, and I am wondering how - much of my five-cent loaf which weighs twelve ounces, er gets. When it comes back I laboratory where it has been | determrine its moisture content, know. However, I can readil that he gets less than one cent out of my five.” C ' its B-lwol'rnrug sewer the man who pro-| Boswell (aVv ue duces and suppiies all the real value | there is in the loaf of bread gets less than one-fifth of its price! If all the prosecuting attorneys of all the courts should combine their ability and ex- perience, they couldn’t frame so damn- irg an indictment as that mere-state- ment of fact. Nor is wheat the exception. The other day I saw in tabular form a city at ten cents a quart. Of that ten cents, something went to pay the dealer's profits, something went for transportation, something went for “administration’ (Heaven bless us, “administration” to sell a quart of milk!) and something went fn several other ways. The farmer got just two cents and a half! Two cents and a half for the milk in the pitcher and | court seven cents and a half to the man who passes it to you! Do you wonder why the farmer doesn't have pianos and automobiles? Or why some other peo- ple do have them? One of the best dairymen in a good dairy portion of New York wrote re- cently to his farm paper that, after do- ing business for more than thirty years with an all-the-year-round herd of about thirty cows he was much surprised to he ahove ground.” He hal greatly increased the fertility of his farm, “but as to the happiness and comfort of those conducting the business I cannot say that I would cure to repeat the experiment.” The price of feed is going up; the price of dairy products is not. A few men in the west fix the price of feed; the milk exchange fixes the price cf butter, etc. about either, Another dairyman who hept careful record of his herd from October to April reports that e got just $18.80 per cow during that time and paid out, for grain alone, $18.04 per cow. This left him 76 cents for hay and straw, for labor and inter- est and wages, for six months. Is it any wonder he doesn't paint his barn and curry off his cows twice a day? Some years ago | kept daily accounts | Tem; with. all ' my farm crops for a full year. 1 charged against each -crop the rent of land at, five per cent. of its value, the cost of fertilizer and seed and la- bor, and its pro rata share of the bur- den of taxes and Insurance which the farm must, somehow, pay. Then I credited each crop with the actual market value of the gross roduct. That is, if I sold half my hundred bushels of corn, I credited the crop with the other half which T fed out at the same price, and also with the value cf stalks used for fodder, at the cur- rent rate for such roughage. The re- sult of this liltle excursion into book- keeping was very illuminating. I haven't the record at hand, but T re- member that tome crops 1 was raising éidn’t return ‘'me as much as I spent on them; one crop—oats—paid me wages of just fifteen cents a day for my labor, including the use of two- korse team and tools, some crops paid expenses and gave me wages of from fifty cents to a dollar a day; a few— mostly garden vegetables— not only paid their way, but gave me wages of $2 a day and left something over for profit. That's just the reason I stop- ped general farming and went into market gardening. T'll be blest if I'm going to work for somebody else for nothing—and pay for the privilege of doing 1t! 1f | find that any certain crop now fails to return me all it costs, with fair wages and something for profit, I sim- ply drop it. T keep a rough but suffi- cient record in my salesbook to enable me to know at the end of the season what crops, if any, have fajled to pay. If the reason for the failure is not in seasonal and chance conditions, but Hes in the refusal of my market to pay me profitable prices, then I supply no more of that particmlar thing to that particular market, but substitute something which the market will pay for. People have got to eat. Those who are not producers have ‘got to buy what they eat. If they won’t pay, me more than a cent a pound for the wheat which costa me two cents a pound to raise, T'll stbp raising wheat for them till they get good and ready to pay for it. 1If, on the other hand, eager to payv me a good price and fair wages and- a reasonable profit on as- paragus and green peas, I'll raise as- paragus and green pgas for 'emn—all they’ll take. When they get enough of those things and won't pay for them | receipts of the water department. any longer, then I'll drop the peas and the asparagus and glve 'em carrots and | D1V 8pproved June 13, 1907, the County turnips, if those be the edibles they hanker after. T'll raise, not necessarily | wich were constituted a Board for the what they want, but what they want badly enough to pay for. THE FARMER. Adding to His Collection. If it be true, as asserted, that there | are several newspaper interviewers with that African expedition, Mr. Roosevelt may bring- Home two or three stuffed ° prevaricators.—Provi- dence Tribune. | One of the Essentials of the happy homes of to-day is a vast fund of information as to the best methods of promoting health and happiness and right living and knowledge of the world’s best products, Products of actual - excellence and regsonable claims truthfully presented and which have attained to world-wide acceptance through the approval of the Well-Informed of the World; not of indi- viduals only, but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting and obtain- ing the best the world affords. One of the products of that class, of known component parts, an Ethical remedy, approved by physicians and com- mended by the Well-Informed of the ‘Worldasa valuable and wholesome family laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine, manu- | tion eve: factured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. for husiness In the First Class, statement of where the money went|Salaries for the milk which is sold in New York | Disinfectan| “very | Contingent The dairyman hasn’'t a word to say | Town of Norwie 2,2€0.00 i Departaente sy 34840, -$25,006. , 3.“0.:: —a e 180.60 1,150.00 Gas and Electrical Departmentes Operating and gen- eral expenses .. $95,000.00 Fixed charges (in- terest on bond 20,000.00 Finance Department— Salaries and ¢ 115,000.00 5,000.00 milulagl o $4,500.00 0 penses 7,000.00 Sinking g eral- (34 mill 6,299.12 Sinking fund, gas and electric profits .. .. 13,165.15 Reserve fund, gas and electric de- partment . ,14,250.38 Interest .. .. FElection expenses, To repay 0. (current year). e x u,oso.oo 675.00 60,000.00 .. 8,866.46 ———$160,756.11 $433,706.11 May 16th, 1910. Tl ™ May |, ©$7,823.64 42,000.06 ESTIMATED May 17th 1909, to Cash on hand 1909 .. ‘Water Works ........... 00.00 18,000.00 - . $21,300.00 $5,000.00° 1,300.00 Department of Ordinary recelpts , Trust fund interest $6,3€0.00 Police Department— City Court $4,300.00 )Llcensel ¥ ete. 500.00 Gas and Electrical Depart. $4,800.00 155.020.00 gorary loans in anticipation of meen .My . $60,000.60 Court house . 3,000.00 Sewers .. 3,600.00 Bank and insur- ance taxes ...... 4,000.0¢ To be raised tax ..... e 7 $106,482.47 $483,706.11 | A, D. 190 To meet the expenditures called for by their estimates, a of 10 mills on e required, said the last City list will list being $12,598,247. In addition to the above estimated expenses for ordinary purposes of the government, the Committee on Finance have been requeste bg Potlmm. com- mittee reports, etc., to bring before the next annpal meeting for its action es- timates of the cost of the” followin improvements and expenditures praye: for, to wit: Celebration of the 250th An- niversary of incorporation of Salary and expenses of Mil INSPeCtOr ..e.oecseaesns e Public comfort accommoda. tONS . .i.cesidiisensonsnoe For macadamizing BSachem street . wid, Main WRBE " 5 Lo ap v b uis Rows 2 d's s For Cliff street improvement For new steam fire engine.. $2,000.00 1,800.00 1,050.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 1,000.00 5,250.60 $15,100.00 The sum of these estimates is to about 13 mills on the grand list. The Committee recommend that the warning for the next annual City Meet- ing include the last named estimates and a call for action thereon. At a City Meeting held March 26, 1909, the Court of Common Council was authorized to appropriate from the City Treasury such an amount not exceeding $20,000 as may be necessary to pay the expenses for erecting a new dam and appurtenances at Meadow Brook an of acquiring lands, rights and other property necessary for conservation of the water lu?gly. but the resolution adopted at sa meetlnr di4 not pro- vide the method of raising the sums necessary for such expenditure. Your Committee recommend that In- asmuch as sald appropriation is made for a permanent improvement and ad- dition to the water supply, the expen: thereof should not be included in the ordinary e: !or! ening West thorizing the borrowing of & upon the notes of the City payable four equal annual Ins iments and that the same be liqui d from the Under an act of the General Assem- Commissioners, the Mayor of the City and the Selectmen of the Town of Nor- erection of the addition to the Court House in Norwich and were authorized to borrow such sum as might be neces- sury for the erection of such addition and to execute notes for the sum so 'borrowed, which no shall be binding and obligatory upon the County of New Waterbury is in the same class with | kondon, the Town of Norwich and the Bristol. That town has a new auto chemical fire engine. It was put in commission a few days ago. Rristol's machine arrived on Monday. So far as we are able to learn these machines vherever used are giving a good ac- count of themselves. * It is a long jour- ney from the old hand engine to the maodern chemical. But the fire destruc- ywhere continues in spite ot the best apparatus yet devised. Evi- dently it is necessary to build so as to safeguard against fire as well as to have suitable apparatus to extinguish it when it does occur. Some timely figures In regard to the national ash heap are given on another page.— Bristol Press. Sometimes It's Expensive. “Laugh and reach out your hands among the stars”. sighs Edwin Mark- ham in a new poem. But every man isn’t a Pittsburg milionaire, that he can go reaching out his hands among the stars. Tt costs money to fool with actresses.—Lebanon News. \ Diminishing Democracy. Mr. Bryan having discovered that ex- Governor Jolk has assumed an atti tude of willingness toward a certain presidential nomination, will now pro- ceed to discover that Mr. Polk is not a democrat.—Pittsburg Dispatch, Modesty of Murphy. Acoarding to Lewis Nixon “Tam- many Hall has one of the greatest democratic leaders in the whole Unit- ed States in Charles F. Murphy.” So far even Mr. Murphy has not denied it—New York World. Enough to Make Him Sick. It is reported that 500 pianos belong- ing to the sultan were found:in the Yildiz Kiosk. ' Now we understand just what it was that made ths Siek Man of Kurope sick.—Detreil Free Preas | City of Norwich. Pursuant to law, such Board has ex- ecuted its note for the sum of $50,000 expended in the erection of such addi- tion and it is desirable that the joint obligation so created should be re- placed by aef:rsto obligations for the proportion of the expense which each interest is to bear. The City’s propor- tion thereof has been determined as provided in the Act to be the sum of $10,060. Your Committes therefore mend that there shall be included in the warning of the next annual City Meeting a proposition to authorize the execution and delivery of the obligation of the City for $10,000 for its propor- tion of the expense of Court House ad- dition upon the retirement of the joint obligation now outstanding. Your Committee further recommend that there bhe included in the warning of the next annual City Meeting & proposition to authorize the sale of the fire station propert; situa est Main street and of the fire ion property situate on Boswell ave- nue, the same being no lon; requirad for the purgoses of the fire department, and that the moneys realized therefrom be appropriated for the fitting up of the Thamesville fire station, to vid for. the installation of a steam fire en gine and chemlcal engine for the pr tection of that section of the City in accordance with the recommendations of _the Committee on Fire Departmen Your Committee further recommend the adoption by the Court of Common Council of the following resolution: Resolved, That the report and esti- mates of the Committee on Finance be accepted and approved:; that the Clerk cause_the same to be published as re- quired by the amended chart a that the Mayor, or in his absence the Senior Alderman present, be directed behalf of the Court of Common Council to submit the estimates em- braced in this report to the next City Meeting to be held on the first Monday of June next and to recommend that a tax of 10 mills be laid on the last per- fected grand list of the City. COSTELLO LIP] TT, FRANK A. ROBINSON, LESLIE HOPKJINS, ommittee on Finance. recom- ed 'l.loni 'y leaye to report th A gy sage ot the follow o 0! ved, That t:t‘ :‘o lution Lt e e land of %vlllfi:.n terly face of eald Ci nd running westerly a line which, if cut a point In f said rough westerly man’ outherly from e jouse and 6 southwesterly corner of the brick- rk thereof; thence deflecting 3 de- mxulu to the right and run- fe 3 ideration of Toin‘ resolutions relative to establishment of the northerly line of Main street be postponed to the next meeti; the Court of Common Coun- cil to held at the Council Chamber t] 28th day of M 190! 3 D-‘IF.. and that given to all persons inte pear, if they see cause, and heard In relation thereto. All of which s respectfully submit- VINE 8. STETSON, W, F. L JOHN F. SU! AN, Committee on Public Works. Norwich, May 21, 1969. The above and foregoing is a true copy of record. Attest: ARTHUR G. CROWELIL, City Clerk and Clerk of the Court of Common Counell. may22d ALICE BENNETT VS. JOHN F.BEN- NETT. lem. ' Supp! ler of Notice. State of Connecticut, County of New London, Superior Court, A. D. 1909, y 21st, Upon the complaint of the sald Allce Bennett, clalming for reasons therein set forth a divorce, now pending before this Court, having been returned there- {t;"on the first Tuesday of November, It appearing to and being found by this Court that John F. Bennett, the said defendant, is absent from this State and gone to parts unknown, and that notiee of the pendency of the complun} was glven as rrqnlred by order of ‘notice heretofors lssued, and now the plaintiff asks for a further order of notlce in the premises. Therefore, Ordered, That notice of endency of said complaint be giv- publishing this order in The Norwich Morning Bulletin, A newspaper rinted in Norwlch, ce By ordsr of Court. BBERD R. NORMAN, Assistant Clerk of the Superior Court for New London County. may228 AT A COURT OF PROBATE HELD at Norwich, within and for the District of Norwich, on the 20th day of May, D, 1908, nt—] J. AYLING, Judge. Estate of Lockie Harris, late of Preston, In said District, deceased. The ecutor exhibited his adminis- tration account with said estate (o the Court for allowance; it is therefore Ordered, That the 31st day of May, A. D. 1909, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon. at the Probate Court Room in the City of Norwich, In said District, be, and the same is, appointed for hearing the same, and the sald Executor is directed to give notice thereof by publishing this order once in some newspaper having a eirculation in sald District, at least six days prior to the date of said hearing, and make return to the NELSON J. AYLING, Judge. The above and foregoing Is a true copy of record. Attest: FANNIE C. CHURCH, may224 Clerk. DONT WORRY; It Makes Wrinkles. {ll-health does your good, and merely causes wrinkles, that make you look older than you are. If you gre sick, don't wrrfi, but sbout it to make ycurself well. To S: this we repeat the words 57 thousands of other former sufferers from woman. ly ills, similar to yours, when we say, Take Viburn-0. It 1s a wonderful female remedy, as you will admit it ’&n oy 2 Dirvecttons for uee are printed In #'x languages with every bottle. Price $1.25 at druggists. FRANCO-GERMAN CHEMICAL CO, 108 West 120th Street, New York mar3ld LadiesTravel Miles to come to our store for the bargains in DRESS GOODS., The fact that we buy direct from the manufacturer, saving the middleman’s profit, is being appreclated more every day. Our cus- tomers get the benefit. May we add your name to our increasing list T BRADY & SAXTON, Telephone 306-2. MORWICH TOWN, auglsd General Contractor All orders recelye prompt and careful attention. Give me a trial order. Sat. {sfaction gusranteed. THOS. J. DODD, Norwich Telephone 349-2. Norwich, SPECIAL at the Mill Remnant Store, 201 West Main Street, a lot of Fancy Silks for evening and wedding dresses, all colors, at low &rlcu also Latest Stvie Dres Goods, uslins and Cotton Goods a half price. Come and see them. ‘ MILL REMNANT STORE, 201 West Main St., ~ feb274 JOSEPH niunrimn, Book Binder. Blank Books Made and Ruled to Order, 108 BROADWAY, Telephone 252. oct10d . Woatch Repairing done at Friswell's speaks for itself. WM. FRISWELL, 25-27 Franklin Shoe Store NORWICH, CONN. We are compelled to turn out our stock into cash at ence in order to pay our creditors. We will sell our entire stock, con- sisting of Clothing, Hats, Shoes and Gents’ Furnishings AT PRICES SO LOW AS TO ASTON- ISH ALL COMERS. BUY NOW AND SAVE MONEY. You owe it to yourself to take ad- vantage of this, the greatest buying opportunity that has ocourred in many years In this vicinty, Remember—Nothing Reserved, Everylhing Must Be Sold. Sale opens Saturday, May 22nd, AT THE Blue Front Clothing and Shoe Store, 56 Main Street, Norwich, Conn. Between Dunn’s Drug Store and Stan- ton & Tyler's Tea Store. may2Zld Trunks Suit Cases Traveling Bags IN A LARGE VARIETY. Prices reasonable at The Shetucket Harmess Co. 283 Main Streel. Telephone 321-3. 6. E. HODGE, Hack, Livery, Boarding and Feed STABLES Up-to-date Equipment and Guaranteed Satisfactory Service. 14 to 20 BATH STREET. (Formerty Chapman’s.) Telephone 14 All Seftled In our new and ocomfortable etore, Our extensive and, varied stock is all placed. We can offer the best goods, greatest assortment and largest stook in Connecticut at extrmely low prices. L L. CHAPMAN, 18-20 Bath Streel. The Horse Center of Norwioh. mayidaw maylbd orid 0 mistake wlfi be made in selecting THIS school .-as the one to attend. THE NEW DONDON, Business gl}s;e RABrubeck, frm, NewLon: ana Catalogue for thie asking. DO IT NOW 18 the best thing any preperty owwmer can do. Don't watt until cold, bad weather comes before making neces- sary fall repairs. If you have new work begin today by getting our fig- STETSON & YOUNG. A Card. This 1s to certify that all druggist are authorized to refund your money if Foley's Honey and Tar falis to cure your cough or cold. It stops the cough, heals the lungd and prevents pneumo- nia and consumption. Contains ne oplates. The genuine 18 in a yellow package. Lee & Osgood Co. WHEN you Wunt 1o DUt FOur pusi- m-mm. pupiie. (here is no me« m Detter tnan torzugh the advertis« e columns of “Tne uulletin. or m";’.fi"%fl':”f “0 OUR LOSS IS YOUR GAIN. \