Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 9, 1909, Page 11

ks - Departure For The South| A FARMER'S Realization that Real Test was Yet to Come. THE START HOMEWARD. Long Marches on First Days with Fair Weather—Dr. Cook Plods Ahead of the Sledges, Tracking the Route to Civilization, Food, Heat and Rest—The One Ob- ject Now is to Make the val at Upernavik. THE CONQUEST OF THE POLE. By Dr. Frederick A. Cook. (CopyTight, 1909, by The New York Twelfth and Final Instaiment. | | | | Registered in Can- | Herald Company. afa in accordance with the Copyright | act. Copyright in Mexico under the | laws of the republic of Mexico. All | rights reserved.) ‘ During the first hour of April 23| backs were turned to the pole and to the sun. Our exploring ambition had | been thoroughly satisfied. There were | few giances backward. | The eagerness to solve the mystery had served its purpose and the me- | ory of the adventure for a time rv-} | | mained xs a reminder of reckless dar- As we now moved along the feeling of elation siowly subsided with the realization of the prospective dif- ficulties of the reurn. Though the mercury was still frozen and the sun's perpetual flush was lost in frigid biu the time was at hand in lower lat tudes for the ice to break and drift scuthward. With correct reasoning all former expeditions had planned to return to land and secure a line of retreat by May 1. We cculd not hope to do so until early in June. It seemed, there- fore, probable that the ice along the outskiris of the polar sea would be much disrupted and that open water, small ice and rapid drifts would se— riously interfere with our return to a sure footing on the shores of Nan- sen Sound. All of this and many oth- | er possibilities were carefully con- eidered before, but the conquest of the pole was mot possible without | risks. We had started . earlier than all other polar aspirants and no thne had Been fost en route. If misfortune vame to us it could not be because of wasted energies or unnecessary delay. In the last days of the onward rush | to success there was neither time nor | (!gpor(unlly to ponder over the bitters of subsequent remorse, but now fac- ing southern skies under which was home and all for which we lived, the | back trail seemed indescribably long. In cold sober thought, freed of the | intoxication of polar enthusiasm, the difficulties darkened in color, We now saw that the crucial stage of the cam- paign was not the taking of the pole. The test of our fitness as boreal con- | querors was to be measured by the outcome of 4 final battle for life against famine and frost. i The first days, however, passed rap- | 1dly. With, fair weather and favor- able ice long marches were made. We aimed ‘to return along the one- | hundredth meridian. There were three fmmportant objects to be gained by a route somewhat west of the north- ward march: /The increasing easterly drift would thus be counterbalanced. We hoped toc/get mear enough to the new lands to explore a part of the coast and a wider bejt would be #wept out of the unknown sea The pack drift proved quite active ana we were quickly carried east- ward beyond our daily drift allow- ances. On April 30 the pedometer registered 121 milas, and by our sys- tem of dead reckoning, which was us— ually correct, we should have been at latitude 87.69, longitude 100. The nau- #ical observations gave latitude 85.1, Iorgitude 37.42. We were therefore drifting eastward with increasing #peed, and to counterbalance this a stlll more westerly course was set | At this time the never-changing | mameness of the daily routine was again felt. The noveity of the success and the passion of the home run were no longer operative. The scenes of shivering blue wearied the eye and there was no inspiration in the mov- ing sea of ice to gladden the heart. The thermometer rose and fell be- tween 30 and 40 below zero Fahren- heit, with a ceaseless wind. It was| still very cold. The first of May was at hand, bringing to mind the bloss- omg and smiles of a kindly world, but there all nature was narrowed to lines of ice. The sun circled the skies In lines of glaring, but its heat was a eham and its light a torment. With weary nerves and compass in %and, my lonely merch ahead of the sleds’ was continued. Progress was satisfactory. We had passed the eigthy-ninth and eighty-eighth par- allels. The eighty-seventh and eighty-sixth would soon be under foot | and the sight of the new lands should compel action. These , hard-fought times were days long 70 he remember- ed, but only the marks of the pencil now remain to tell the story of a sup- pressed existence. Fellow Feeling for Dogs. The long striin of the march had Eiven a brotherly sympathy.for the trio of human strugglers. Under the same jirain was made the descent to canine evels. ogs, though still pos- sessing the savage feraeity of the wolf, bad taken us into thelr ‘community. We now moved among them without hearing a grunt of d@iscord, and their sympathetic eves followed until we were made comfortable on the cheer— less snows. If sur dogs happened to be placed near engugh they edged up wnd encircled us, giving the benefit of | their ankmel fires. To remind us of | thelr presence frost-covered noses were frequently pushed under the bag, and ecoasionally ‘a cold snout touched our warm skin With a rude awaken- ing. We loved the creatures, howev- er, and admired thelr superb brute strensth. Their adaptability was a frequent topic of conversation. With & pelt that was a guarantee against all weasher conditions, they (hrew themsslves down to the sweep of winds ~—in open deflance of death-dealing storms. They willingly did a prodig- fous amount of work each day, and then as bedfellows they offered their fur as shelter and bones as head rests to their twofooted companions. We had learned to appreciate the ad- vantage of their beating breasts. The boud of :nimal fellowship had drawn tighter and tighter in a long run of successive adventures. And now there was a stronger reason than ever to wppreciate power, for altogether we were seeking an escape from a world ich was never intended for creat- ures with thumping hearts. Mueh very heavy fce was crossed neir the eighty-eighth, but the end- less unbroken flelds of the northward tralls were not again seen. The weather changed considerably. The Yight cutting winds from the west m- created in force and the stna<modic squalls came at shorter intervals. The c¢lear purple and blue of the seas w'? gradually changed to light gray, and & rush of fresty needles came over *he pack for several hours each Provisions Hold Out—Arri- Could Brook No Delay. inducement to seek shelter in cemented walls of snow and wait for better weather was very great. But such delay forestalled certain starva— tion. Under fair conditions there was barely food enough to reach land, while even shore delays might easily jeopdardize our return. We could not, therefore, do otherwise than to force ourselves against the wind and drift with all possible speed, closing the eye to unavoidable suffering. With no alternative, we tried to per- suade o Ives that conditions might be_worse. The eighty-seventh was crossed, the eighty-sixth was neared, but there came a time when -both mind and body wearied of the whole problem of forced resolution. The hard work of igloo building was now a thing of the past—only one had been built since leaving the pole, and in it a precious day was lost, while the atmospheric fury changed the face of the endless expanse of lation. The little silk tent now ed us sufficiently from the icy There were still fifty degrees of frost, but with hardened skins and in- sensible nerve filaments the torture was not so keenly felt. The steady diet of pemmican and and biscuits was now entirely sat- actory. We longed for enough to e a real filling sense, but the ra- tion was slightly reduced rather than increased. The change in life from winter (¢ sumnmer, which should take place at about this time of the vear, was in our case marked only by a te: | change in shelter, from the snow | house to the tent, and our bed was moved from the soft snow shelf of the igloo to the hard, wind-swept crust. Trivialities Food for Thought. In my wakeful watches to get a | peep of the sun at just the right mo- ment I was kept awake during much of the resting period, and for pastime my eyes wandered from snorting dogs 1o snoring men. During one of these idle moments there came a solution of the utility of the dog’s tail, & topic with which I had been at play for several days. It is quoted here at the ri-k of censure, because it is a typical phase of our lives which cannot be illustrated otherwise. Seeming trivial- ities were seized upon as food for thought. Why has the dog a tail at all? The bear, the musk ox, the cari- bou and the hare, each in hi$ own way succeeds very well with but a dwarfed atub. Why does nature in the dog expend {ts best effort in growing the finest fur over a seemingly useless line of tail bones? The thing is dis- tinctive, and one could hardly con- ceive of the creature without this ac- cessory, but nature in the Arctic does not often waste energy to display beauties and temperament. This tail nrust have an important use, otherwise it would soon fail under the knife of frost and time. Yes! It was imported into the Arctic by the wolf progenitor of the dog from warmer lands, where jts swing served a useful purpose in fiy time. A nose made to breathe arm air requires some protection in the Far North. No animal feeis this ehortcoming as much as man. The dog supplied the need with his tail. At the time when I made this discov— ery a cold wind charged with cut- ting crysta?s brushed the pack. Bach dog had his back arched to the wind and ils face veiled with an effective curl of his tail. He was comfortably shizlded from icy torment by an ap- peadage adapted to that very purpose, A Heavy Snowstorm. On May 6 we were stopped at 6 a. m. by the coming of the gloom of an unusual gale. The wind had been steady and strong all night, but we did not heed its threatening increase of force until too Jate. It came from the west, as usual, driving coarse snow with needie points The ice about was old and hummocky, offering a difficu't lin> of march, buf some shelter. In the strongest blasts we threw our- selves over the sled behind hummocks and gathered new breath to force a few miles ore. Fioally, when mno longer able to force the dogs through the blinding drift, we sought the lee of an uplifted block of ice. Here suitable snow was found for a snmow house and a few blocks were cut and set, but the wind swept them away like chips. The tent was tried, but it could not be made to stand In the rush of the roaring tumult. In sheer despair we crept in— to the tent without erecting the pole. Creeping into the bags, we then al- lowed the flapping silk to be buried by the drifting snow. Soon the noise and discomfort of the storm were lost and we enjoyed the comfort of an icy grave. An efficlent breathing hole was kept open and the wind was strong enough to sweep off the weight of a dangerous drift. A new losson was thus learned in fighting the bat- tle of life which was afterward use- ful, Several days of icy despair now fol- lowed each other in rapid succession. The wind did not rise to the full force of a storm, but it was too strong and too cold to travel. The food supply was noticeably decreasing. The daily advance was reduced. With such weather starvation seemed Inevitable. Camp was moved nearly every day, but ambition sank to the lowest ebb. To the atmospheric unrest was added the instability of broken ice and the depressing mystery of an unknown po- sition. For many days no observa- tions had been possible and our loca- tion could only be guessed at. The maddening struggle was daily forced, while the sprits were pressed to the' verge of extinction. Now that the ohjcct of onr trip had been ac- complished, much of the incentive was gone, At times I seemed as if our life's work had been accomplished, and to have lain down for the final sleep would have b:en easy, but the feeble fires of the homing passion kept the eye open. At the Eighty-fourth Parallel. On May 24 the sky cleared long enough to give us & set of observa- tions. We were on the eighty-fourth paralle], near the ninety-seventh mer- idian. The new lands were hidden be- hind a low mist. The ice was much crevassed and drifted eastward. Many open spaces of water were noted in the west by patches of water sky. The pack was sufficlently active ta give us considerable anxlety, though pressure lines and open water did not at the time seriously impede our pro- gress. ‘There remained on the sleds scarce- ly food enough to reach our caches, unless we averaged fifteen miles daily. On the return from the pole to here we bad only.bean able Lo make twelve TALK TO FARMERS Why Farmers Do Not Get On—Ignorance of Science of Agriculture and Lack of Skill the Cause—The Reck- less Ways of the Middle Class—Careful Farming Gives Good Returns. (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) I once used to wonder why so many farmers didn’t “get on;” why they were always hard up; why they had to live 0 poorly and have,so few of the extra comforts of life. Now that I've had about years to study them as neighbors and co-workers, close at hand, I've lost that wonder. What astonishes me now is that more of them dcn't bring up in the poorhouse. That they don't—that they manage to get along from winter to winter—that they keep from actual need, is, in the case of some of them, due rather to the mercy of Providence than to their own deserts. Of ocourse, thers are farmers and farmers—just as there are bankers and bankers. ‘Some are good and some are bad and some are indifferent. And, seems to me, the indifferent lot is the least use of all, whether in a money- bank or on a sand-bank. We are go- ing to assume that you and I are in the first class; we're going to ignore the third class; we're going to make a few feeble remarks abbut the second class, which we can pick out from among our fellow farmers according to cur own judgment. Ignorance of the science of agricul- ture and lack. of skill in the art of farming are prolific causes of farmers’ failures. Please note the great differ- ence between the “science of agricul- ture” and the “art of farming.” Science is knowledge; art is knowledge applied to practical use. You may know the last letter in agricultural science and yet not be able to raise good corn be- cause you are not skilled in the prac- tical art of corn growing. Don't get the absurd idea that science means just astronomy and electricity and a few such things. The man who knows how and why his corn grows, how and what it feeds on, how it breathes, what the roots do and what the rootlets do, what the leaves are for and how they werk, the meaning of the tassels and the mystery of the “silks”—that man possesses a science as honorable and as valuable as he who knows the d tance of Orion or the weight of Polaris. Likewise avoid the silly notion that arc has solely to do with painting pic- tures or carving marbles, Those things are but phases of art. The man who hes taken an abandoned swamp and by drainage and cultivation and fer- ti n and careful skill made it produce f.od enough for the season’s supply ¢{ a village has won a triumph in the application of knowled which is art. Lots of us farmers are not scientific. We den’t know and we don't want to know—at least not enough to take the trouble to find outf. (Let it be said in russing that those who know the least are usually the most contemptibly self conce’ted about the things they don't kiow.)» Lots of us, too, are unskilful in_applying our knowledge—lack the art of uriLg to best advantage what we know. But there's always hope for an igro.ant man who really wants to learn, or.d the awkward workman who sincerely strives to attain skill will alvays succeed in some measure. I e knew a mighty good ball player o was called “Butterfingers” to the of los death because, when he be- tn iry 1o play ball, that phrase ac- \iely described his clumsy inept 3 a: bull and bal. His art eame by practics snd perseverance. I don't feel like shying stones at the farmer who doesn't know all there is to the scienco of agricuiture. Nor am 1 at all inclined to scold the clumsy fellow who blunders in his sttempts at the art of farming. My own house has glass windows. But there are miles daily. Now our strength, even under fair conditions, did not seem to be equal to more than ten miles. The outlook was far from hopeful to me, though the sight of the cleared s infused new courage into Btukhistuk and Ahewelah Trying to make the best of our hard lot, a straight course was set for the musk ox lands of the inner crossing. At the eighty-third parallel we found ourselves to the west of a large tract extending southward. The ice changed to small fields. The tempera- ture rose to zero and a persistent mist obscured the heavens. With a few lines on paper to regis- ter the life 1of suffering, the food for man and Nog was reduced to a three- quarter ration, while the difficulties of ice travel rose to disheartening heights. At the end of a struggle of twenty days through thick fog the sky clear- ed and we found ourselves far down in Crown Prince Gustav Sea, with open water und impossible ice as a hurrier between us and Helberg Island. With the return to Annootolk ren- dered impossible by the unfortunate westerly drift, our only alternative was to g south with the ice. We hoped in this course to find game for food and fuel. The Scottsh whalers enter Lancaster Sound and touch at Port Leopold. The distance to this point was shorter than that to Greenland, and by this route I hoped that I could return to Europe during the same year, 1908. Passing through Hassel Seund be- tween the Ringnes Lands bears and seals were secured, and slowly we moved southward over Norwegian Bay into Wellington Channel. The ice was emall, there was much open water and progress, was slow, but the drift car- ried us along, At Pioneer Bay we were stopped by a jam of small fce over which sledding was_impossible. Unable to wait for the ice o move because no large game was here secured, we crossed in early July to Jones Sound. Here again no big game was found. There was mucli open water and the folding canvas boat was spread for use. Unable to feed the dogs, they were given the freeiom of their wild pro- genitors, the wolves. Ono sled was left here, the other was taken apart and placed in the boat. Then followed a long and per: ous adventure by boat and sled, dur- ing which our last ammunition wa expended in securing birds for food. After that, by looped lines and sling- shots birds were still captured. Parly in September we were beset on the shores of Baffin Bay with nei- ther food, fuel nor ammunition. New smplements were shaped, and we re- turnei westward to Cape Sparbo to seek a place to nitch a winter camp. An. underground den was built stones, bones and turf, and with our primitive weapons we fought the wal- rus, the bear, the musk ox and other animals. Thus food, fuel and skins were sccured and death by famine was averted. The winter and the night of 1908- 1909 were spent preparing food and equipment for the return. On February 18, 1909, we started with a remodelled sled ‘and reached our camp at Annootok in_the middle of April. Here I met Mr. Harry Whit- ney and told him of our conquest of the pole. Because o ship was to come after Mr. Whitney to take him direct to heme shores, most of my Instruments were intrusted to his care. Anxious to galn a few months In the return home, I proceeded by sied over land and dea southward to Upernavik and om there onwars ‘openhagen by Danish steamers. twenty | farmers who are simply careless— reckless—hit-or-miss chaps. _They're bright enough, mentally; they're clever enough with their hands. But theyre heedless, negligent, improvident, slov- enly in method, disregardful of detalls, They're either so long-sighted that they can't see anything short of the middle of next week, or so short- sighted that they can't see beyond their nosés. They waste the whole rope by neglecting to tie up the loose ends; they lose most of their profits by slurring little details, Why, I find, reckoning all my flelds together and year by year, that it takes fully 76 per cent. of the ‘crops to pay for the cost of producing them. If I waste 20 per cent. by careless handling or neglect of small savings here and there, or disregard of my opportunities in culti- vation and marketing, I'm losing four- fifths of my. proper profit. It seems to me bad judgment to raise crops just to get back one's outlay, It certainly is beastly poor farming. And yet my observation leads me to think that the farmer who loses most of his possible gains through sheer recklessness and slovenliness is a very common sort. We've all heen preach- ed to for years about our carelessness in the storing of our tools. Many of us deserve castigation for that bad habit. But there are a thousand oth- er ways In which improvidence mani- fests itsc]f. Some years ago a neigi- bor came with his engine and thresher to eleas up some oats for me. 1 was away when he began work. The handi- t place to set up kLis engine had seemed to be under ‘a thrifty apple tree. 5o he put it there. When I ar— rived I found the smoke and heated air beiching snortingly through the en- tire top of the tree. “Oh, "twon't hurt it none,” was the reply to my re- monstrance, “may jest scorch a few twigs a little” Result, next spring, one-half of the three dead and the other half so discouraged it's borne nothing but cider apples since, Now that man wasn't any more careless with my orchard than he would have be:n with his own. I don’t wonder any more that he doesn't make farming pay. Another time another neighbor and myself “swapped work” at haying time, He broke his mowing machine within &n hour after peginning work by a piece of open-eyed recklessness, and lost a full dey in securing and adjust- ing the necessary repairs. He broke a good pitchfork, next day, by throw- ing it off the load on to a rock. He lost & good half load of hay by refus- ing to mow close to thickets and in fence corners. He borrowed a mon- key wrench to tighten up a bolt and 1 found it, two years later, when I broke a section in my own machine by striking it where he had thrown it into the mown grass and forgotten it. He was just as indifferent in his own felds as in_mine. I don't wonder any more that his farm is mortgaged and the interest overdue. One neighbor came to me, the other day, to borrow a crowbar. “Min'es lost,” he explained. When he return- ed the tool, T asked him whose bar was lying under*a choke-cherry bush by the bars of his corner lot. “By gum, that's mine,” he answered; “left it there last spring when I was settin’ a new post” And I actually believe he would have ccntinued Lo leave it there, if T hadn’t suggested that right then ‘was a good time to take it home, 0 he could know where it was. Ane other farmer near me spent several days, last fall, with three helpers, hunting down 'a_small herd of young stock which had escaped from his swamp pasture and were running wild in the woods. One of them got killed; two others evaded capture till snow came, andhe then gave one of the two to a hunter for “tolling” them to a hay parn and “corralling” them. All because he ‘“couldn’t bother” with a bit of what he knew to be poor fence. And so on, case after case, loss and iujury resulling from sheer improvi- dence and recklessness. Is it any wonder that such men can’t make farming “pay?” Is it any wonder that they are sour and discontented? Is it any wonder that they are always “on the offside’ always growling, always obstacles to local improvement and stumbling blocks in the path of prog- ress? 1t would be a wonder if they were anything else! It isn't true that we are always what we make ourselves. We owe some of our kussedness as well as some of our graces to our father and grandfathers, our mothers and grandmothers. And we owe 80 much to what the philoso- phers call our environment. A sheep is a sheep because its father and moth- er were sheep; and it's a fat sheep or a poor one according to whether or no its environment is good pasture and plenty of grain or a course in starvation But men are, in some ways, different from sheep, and they can, if they will, measurably overcome the taints of he- redity and measurably influence the warpings of emvironment. All the taking thought in the world won’t add a cublt to a man's stature; but the taking of a little thought, now and then, will add & good many dollars to hi r's income. Seems to me a man is just a bit of a sneak, whether he be a farmer or o lawyer, when he understaffes to shuck off his own shoulders upon his father's memory the Tesponsibility for his own ghortcomings. And isn’t he a Httle bit weak if he lays all the blame for his losses and failure on ecircumstances, when some, at least, of the circum- stances are of his own making or rul- ing? THE FARMER. TOLLAND COUNTY. BOLTON Annual Town Meeting—License Wins by 13 Majority—Personal Notes and Briefs. The following were elected at the an- nual town meeting Monday: Town clerk—J. White Sumner d. Selectmen—M. W. Howard d, F. H. Strong 4, W. H. Loomis d. Treasurer—Charles N. Loomis d. Collector of taxes—Frederick Finley d. Assessors—W. E. Howe 3 years d, J. ‘W. Phelps two ars r, Calvin Hutch- inson one year Grand jurors—W. E. Howe d, J. D. Bailey d, W. C. White d, J. W. Phelps T, W. H. Loomis r, John Johnson r. Board of relief—T. Richards d, C. N. Loomis d, A. M. Bidwell r. v Registrars of voters—Walter E. Howe r. G. F. Hellberg . Auditors—Lorin Maine d, Roy T. Car- penter r. Schaol committee—Fred Finley d, W. R. French 1, A. E, Maneggia r. Constables—Charles M. Pinney d, Ralph Eaton d, A. W. Cowles r, A. E. Maneggia r, Charles Warner r. Tree warden—Paul E. Clement, For liconse 43 votes were cast and 30 agatust. The town went no license last year by a small majority. Mrs. Louis H. Sevey has returned to her home in Indianapolis.) Miss Emma Dletz is with Charles F. Sumner’s family. A party of four Irom Colchesier spent Sunday = afterncon in town, while their automobile was coaxed in to & running condition. Balloon Passed Over. Much interest was shown in watch- ing the balloon with three people that passed over the center about 9 o'clock Sunday morning. Marriage Announced. Friends of Miss Clara Snow of South Manchester have recelved announce- ments of her marriage Monday after- nioon to Frank Eastman of Montpelier, Vt. & James Conners has returned from the Hudson-Fulton celebration in New York. Mrs, Frank H. Falen has been in a‘aflmd a ‘week, the guest of her sis- TS Mrs. J. A. Conklin of Hartford was & recent guest of her daughter, Mrs. C._F. Sumner. Miss Verna Green of South Coventry is living with Mrs. J. N. Sumner. STORRS. Master C. A. Wheeler Entertains the Grange—Ecclesiastical Society Will Discuss Moving Parsonage. The grange mot at the horne of the master, C. A. Wheeler, ow Monday evening. The lecturer’s hour consist- ed of music by C. J. Grant on the vio- lin, acm)mpan(efl by Mrs. C. A. Wheel- er, and singing my Prof. C. A. Wheel- er. An interesting account was given by Dr. C. D. Jarvis of the meeting of the American Horticultural _society held at St. Catherine, Ont. Mrs. J. M. Freeman read extracts from a bul- letin on the whipping of cream, follow- ed by a discussion of the subject. Trustees Met. The board of trustees met at the col- lege Tuesday to consider building plans for new cottages and other business Jf the college. Student Preacher from Hartford. . Mr. Condoit of the Hartford Theo- logical ~ Seminary préached at the norning servics on Sunday on Faith, aud made a short address to the stu dents at the evening serviec in the college chapel. About Moving the Parsonag A meeting of the Eccleslastical so- clety of the Second Coongregational church, Mansfield, will be held next Monday evening to consider a proposi- tion to move the parsonage to a more desirable locatior Students Entertained at Social. On Friday everung a soclal was giv- en to the students of the college by the ladies of the church. There were vo- cal solos by Miss Hicks, Prof. Stone- burn and Miss Fisher of New York. A part of the programme which was well received” was illustrated songs, Ice cream and cake were served. Briefs. ldalene Dawley of Colchester unday with Miss Abby Hicks. avage has been very success- exhibitor of fine fruit, taking premiums at all the fairs where he has exhibited. H. L. Garrigus spent several days in New York recently. EAGLEVILLE. Sixteen and One-Half Pound Coon Shot—Hungarian Partridges Not So Gamey as Natives. Miss A gang of Italian laborers employ- ed in clearing a path for the electr pole line, are camped in a large tent on the land of John Thompson Shot 16 1-2-Pound Coon. Jesse Thompson, a young man in the village, captured a sixteen and one- half pound coon Thursday morning. Mr. Thompson was out hunting squir- rels when his dog discovered the coon in a tree. Mr. Thompson fired and the coon fell to the ground, where, after putting up a plucky fight, the dog finished him. Hunters who have encountered flocks of the Hungarian partridges say that they are not as gamey as bird to hunt as the native partridges as they are slow to rise and fly. Whooping cough is prevalent in the village, many children having it, a number of adults having contracted it also. Infant's Death. The six months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Angus Thompson died Wed- nesday morning of cholera infantum. Burial was in the cemetery at Storrs on Thursday STAFFORDVILLE Miss Jones of Hartford to Occupy Congregational Pulpit. Mrs, Herbert Barlow of South Cov- entry has been spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Frank Belcher. rs. Robert T. Waibridge of Wales, 5., is spending several weeks with . Frederick M. Sanger. Mrs. Dana Jaquith of Turnerville was the guest of local relatives last week, Mir. and Mrs, H. A. Bosworth were guests of Mr. and Mrs, F. N. Bosworth of_ Westford Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur West, Henry Lirgess and Miss Maud Chamberlin Fave been spending a few days this week in_Brockton, Mass. he Epworth league will hold a grayer meeting next Sunday evening. The topic will be The Forgiven Un- foipiving. Leader, Allen West. GURLEYVILLE Peach Social Drew Large Attendance —Personal Mention. Mrs. Buell from New Haven has been visiting at O. H. Conant's Mrs. George Allen and daughter, Dorothy, from Willimantic pumping station, ‘were euests at Charles Hob- by's Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chapman at- tended the funeral of Mr. Chapman’s sister in Brooklyn, Conn., on Tues- day. There was a good altendance at the peach social held at the conference room Wednesday evening. Miss Eliza Langer entertained the company with selections on her graph- aphone. Mr. and Mrs. Delos Conant from Willimantic were recent guests at O. H. Conant’s. TURNERVILLE. , Mrs. D. F. Jaquith has returned from a week's visit with raltives in Staf- fordville and_ South Coventry. Mrs. Louis Helm of Stafford Springs spent the week end with her daugh- ter, Mrs. T. R. Prentice. A. E. Jaquith, who is employed at a blacksmith shop in South Coventry, has now moved his family to that vil- lage. Rev. J. Herald of Gilead was in this village Thursday, making pastoral visits, STAFFORD. Mrs. Emily Goodell left on Monday for a two weeks' visit with friends in WasLington, D. C- Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Ray and daugh- ters ‘Alice and Ruth of Springfield were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rollinson Sunday. Miss Ftta Wilber has returned to NMew London after spending a week with friends in town. EAST WILLINGTON Mrs, Philo Church expects to be at their home in Rockville soon. George Wilson is talking of buying the Gilbert Ide place. Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Hodgson and grandchild called on Mrs. Baldwin this woek, 2 “UNION. Mrs. Fred Johnson spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. W. Richards. George Taylor of Worcester visited in_town the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. W. Gy Howard of West Woodstock -attended the - Cougrega- tional church last Sunday. WASHINGTON COUNTY, R 1. HOPKINTON Quarterly Meeting School Committee v —Probate Court Meets—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ross Observe Fifth - Anniversary. The quarterly meeting of the school committee was held jn the town ball Monday morning with Chairman Ev- erett P. Mhewson and Supt. Paul M. Barber present. Bills were ordered paid, to ‘the amount of $54.60. The quarterly report of the superintend- ent was read and accepted, One school has not opened as it has b fm- possible to secure a teacher with a Rhode Island state certificate as yel. The probate court met in the town hall Monday afternoon. The accounts of Charles F. Berry, administrator on the estate of Ethan C. Crandall, de- ceased, and of Laura M. Baggs, guard- fan of Walter D. Baggs, were allowed and ordered recorded. | A petition for appointment of an ad- | ministrator on the estate of Jond Rey- nolds, deceased was referred to No- vember 1, with order of notice The will of Susan C. Nichols, de- ceased, was referred to November 2, with order of notice. ~ The Inventory of the estate of Fran ces M. Kenyon, deceased, was received and ordered recorded. The town council Monday afternoon appointed John Jerue an auctidneer. They also appointed as supervisors of election to serve #t the general elec- tion on November 2 next, in voting district, No. 1, republicz Edwin R Allen, Henry J. Wheeler; democrats, Edward Murray, Calvin Davis; in vot- ing district No.'2, republican¥, George P E. Allen, Blmer E. Kenyon: demo- {s, Gardner G. Burton, Mallory O. s were ordered paid to the amount_of $2,133.08. Au_allotment from the appronria- tion for the maintenance of highways of $130 to each of the supervisors of districts 1, 3, and 4 was made. Miss Essie I Kenyon has resigned her position as a teacher In the Ston- ington schools on account of ill hegith and is sojourning for a time in Maine. As October 1 was the fifth anniyer- sary of the marriage of Charles Ross Kenyon and Bessie B. Kenyon, sever- al of their friends visited them and passed a pleasant evening Thursday September 30, which date was more convenient for the gathering. Mrs. George K. Thayer, who has been bdarding during the summer with her daughter, Mrs. B. Sterry Holdredge, at Hope Valley, arrived here Tuesday to spend the winter at the home of her son-in-law, Hon' E. R._Allen. Forty-four thunters’ 1kenses have been issued to residents of this town this year. A letter of dismission was granted last Sunday to Mrs. Ruth Etta Hold- redge, wife of Myron S. Holdredge from the First Hopkinton ptist church, to join the Morningside Bap- tist church in Pittsfleld, Mass. Mr Holdredge is intending to be baptized and join the same church ARCADIA Result of Republican Caucus—Person- al Briefs. Mrs. James Hood and little son, Wil- lie, have been visiting friends at Paw- tuxet, R. L, during the week. Amos F: Whitford received the nom- ination for semator and Charles C. Swett for representative at the repub- lican caucus held at t Town hall last Saturday. Election Tuesday, Nov. 22 Tt fs rumored that Deacon John Straight and family will soon move to Hope Valley Mrs. Jane Hadfield is visitl rela tives and friends in Provic e and Pawtuxet valley villages. " RICHMOND Interesting Session of W. C. T." U.— Personal Notes. Mrs. S. R. Dawley and Mrs. E. B Earnshaw attending the _annnal mesting of the Woman's Christian Temperance union in Providence Mr: . I. Dawley fg the guest of Mrs. Lucy Rice in Westerly The regular meeting of the Clark’s Mills W. C. T. U. was held Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. William Kimber, at Kenyon. Mrs, B. Barnshaw, the vice president, presided. The meeting opened with singing. scripture reading and prayer. The roll call was respond— ed to by reading newspaper clippings Frightful Fate Averted. “I would have been & crippl from a terrible cut on my for 1if kneecap, writes Frank Disberry, Kelliher, Minn., “without Bucklen's Arnica Salve,which soon cured me.” Infallible for wounds, cuts and brulses, it Soon cures burns. scalds, old sores, boils, skin eruptions. World's best for piles. 25c, at The Lee & Osgood Co.'s. C. R. Kluge 1080 Vir- ginia ave, Indianapolis, Jnd. writes “I was so weak from!kfdney trouble that I could hardly walk a hundred feet. Four bottles of Foley's Kidney Remedy cleared my complexion, cured my backache and the irregularities dis- appeared, and I can now attend to business every day and recommend Foley's Kidney Remedy to ail sufferers, as it cured me after the dottors and ana Bible verses. Several readings on temperance were given. - Selections were read by Mrs. Albert Hovle and Mrs. W. J. Dawley. A collection was taken and the meeting closed. WEEKAPAUG. The Ocean View W. C. T. U, met at the home of Mrs. O. B. Macomber on Wednesday afternoon to hold their regular meeting, which comes in two weeks. - Mr. and Mrs. Menry C. Nichols of Hope Valley and Mrs, Sarah Griffith of Providence were callers at Mrs. G..T. Colling’ Wednesday afternoon. » W Cliven has the contract to pamt four of the Gladwin cottages this fall. George H. Noyes is assisting him. The Club of Ten held a regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Oliver Gavitt. A very pelasant time was 5 USED PIANOS 145 Main Street You will be astounded at the low prices ‘and easy terms on such fine planos. . It you have been waiting for a chance to secure & fine piano at a bargain this is your chance. People have anticipated plano needs two and three years and bought before they were ready in order to secure one of these bargains. In fact, several people have bought to sell over aguin at a profit to themselves, Hurry Up Time. o those who intend to buy at all v this is “hurry up time.” Don't a minute—there is something to suit you at a price you can easily afford. We will accept any terms that are reasonable — another great feature of this sale—make your own terms. Nothing is ever accom- plished by thinking about it—*de it now” is the motto. You have pictured to yourself a piano in the parlor many, many times. Obey that impulse. Now is the time—the piano you want for other remedies had failed.” The Lee & Osgood Co. the price you want to pay apent after the business part of po gramme was oier, and n bo o aoliation wae served by Mrs. Gavit The next meeting is 10 be with Joseph Hoxle at her home i Qi chontaug. ROCKVILLE Moscow MIIl Running Only Part Time Miss Lucretts Crandall has return- ed from a lengthy visit in Westerly, Niantic and Ashaway. D. Alva Crandall has returned from Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Grant of Westerly were guests of Miss Lena Saunders Sunday. Moscow mill is running only & part of the time at present. It is hoped that LAST CHANGE AT GREAT PIANO SALE Today Marks the Close of the “Greatest Piano Sale inthe Entire History of Norwich 10 FINE NEW PIANOS At Sacrifice Prices NO MORE OF THIS STOCK AFTER THIS WEEK New Pianos as Low as $137 $10 DOWN AND $6 A MONTH Last Chance to Buy Come Today or Tonight it will be running on full time again soon, . 2 PLAYERS Easy Terms Fine Makes Léft. There are some fine makes left — | Hallet&Davis, Conway, Ivers & Pond, Wasserman, Ete. $300 and $325 Uprights now $167 to | $197; $400 to 3500 Uprights now $263 1o $340; $275 to $300 Uprights mow | | | | | “ . | 5145 to s217. These are first-class | planos. Also several mecond-hand pianos in fine condition. Make us an offer on them. Last Chance. Remember this is your last chance. After this week you will have lost & chance to save $76 to $200 on your | piano. Come 1n this evening if it is more convenient. Our store is open until 10 p. m. Do not delay. This is your greatest opportunity save & large sum of money and get a fine | plano at a price lower than asked fpr cheap pianos, The Plaut-Cadden Co., :1‘5 Main Street, Norwich, Conn,