Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 22, 1910, Page 11

R FARNERS YThey Boy on the Farm and His Blisters and Tender Feel- ings—Why he Looks for Means of Earning a ‘Living—Too Stern Discipline Repellant to Him—He Shenld be D»alt with Considerately and be Taught ‘the Science of Agriculture. (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) I wonder how many of us twisted, knobby old farmers remember that we, toe, were once boys? I wonder how many of us remember how we used to feel about the chores and the onion- bed and going-after-the-cows? 1 won- Ger how many of us remember how we used to hate the daily task of fill- IS that voraclous ' woodbox and bringing in that basket of chips? I wonder how many of us recall the poignant, darting, ecalding pains that used to torture our tender little hands when farm exigencles compelled us to take the hoe and “help father” in the corn or potato fleld? Father, bless him, didn’t appreciate the agony each movement of that hoe handle cost us. His hands were calloused and tough- ened by long years of hard labor and, even if he did start a blister, now and then, it caused him no such exquisite suffering as a smaller blister on our more sensitive palms brought us. | don’t raise many blisters nowadays. old hands, like those of my father years ago, are getting so tough- ened by long association with plow and hoe and fork and axe handles and are so nearly covered with horny cal- ouses that there isn’t much room left for a real blister. But it chanced last summer, working one day with extra vigor and for unusually long hours on a peskily weedy garden bed, that I did start a_new blister. I really didn't notice it till a particularly energetic yank on the hoe handle “broke” it, and I felt the thin serum wetting my ha Then, as I stood for a minute, catching a breath and looking at it, h uddenly came to me a vision retrospect of that same bit of garden, encumbered with a similar growth of weeds, on & similarly hot summer day, fifty odd years ago, With my father working al it as I now was, and myself, a tle fellow mot so tall as the hoe hendle I was struggling with, straining after him in violent endeavor to “do my stent,” which was to hoe one row whils he hoed two. My little palms hed blisters at the base of every finger. And oh, how they smarted and stung! I would have given everything 1 had dn the world, and everything 1 hoped for, for liberty to throw away that hoe and &ip my hands for the rest of the afternoon in the cool brook, whose rippling tinkle I could hear just sver the fence in the meadow. Now my father wasn't cruel. But he had forgotten how his hands used to feel when he was a little boy. I knew there was mo use to appeal to him for freedom. He would simply heve laughed at me for a “cry-baby” if I had asked to be let off because my hands hurt. And ¥ was enough like other boys to dread the Valley of Hinnom less than the being called a “cry-baby.” But that was the time when I definitely decided that I hated farming; that it was shameful drud- gery and horrible cruelty; that it was the very worst work on earth; and that I was going to run away from it the first chance I got. I even planned my escape for that very night, and was S0 firm about it that I should undoubt- edly have made the start had I not been so dog-tired when at last I got to bed, so utterly played out, so soaked with sleepiness, that, once in hed, I never woke up till it was bright morn- ing again and father's voice was call- ing, under my bedroom window: “Hey, Bub, cows are milked.” That meant that I must get after them in short “order and drive them to pasture, and I simply couldn’t Tun away then till I had had some breakfast. And soon as that was over I was sent to school, and, after school, was allowed to “go in swimmin'” in the pond. So I didn’t run away and didn’t become a locomo- tive engineer. Just then that was my highest ambition in life. So far as T had observed the duties of this busi- ness consisted in sitting on a leather cushioned seat and pulling a stick back and forth. According as you pulled it one way or 'tother you either stopped or went sky-hooting through the world, scaring cows and frightening herses, blowing a whistle when you feit like it and banging a bell when rou got tired of the whistle. This meemed to me a highly satisfactory method of getting a living. As years went on | discovered that Being a locomotive engineer involved 8 few other things than pulling a throttle and blowing a whistle, and that he couldn’t do even these just when and how he wanted to. Also I learned that hoe and fork handles weren’t any harder than wrench and hammer handles; that it wasn't any hotter in the sunny flelds than it was perched over a raging furnace beside a boiler full of superheated steam—in other words, that running a locomotive wasn't all “beer and ekittles,” nor working a farm all slavery and tor- ment. The great truth slowly devel- oped itself in my knowledge that, in this world. you must pay for what you get in some coin or other. and that you nmever get something for nothing. 1 came to appreciate the fact, so suc- cinctly stated by Fra Elbert, that “those who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” It was borne in upon me by added years and wider obeervation that the only easy to megotiate a hill is to slide down it. and that this way ‘is open only to those fwho are willing to go down—never to such as want to get up. But the boy doesn’t understand this. There is no reason why he should. It is a hard lesson, taught only by School- master Experience. He hasn’t got far in the three-score and ten years' course of that pedagogue—is only a beginner the kindergarten grade. And it seems hard and unreasonable to him that he should have to blister his hands with the rough hoe handle, or waste his time on the muitiplication table. The trout-brook and the “swimmin’- hole” and the -ball field offer much more attractive opportunities for the investment of his energy. Moreover the farmer's boy—and it is of him that I am chiefly thinking—has few chances for comparing his disadvantages with the disadvantages of those in other lines of work. He knows, to the bot- tom, the last hard, hurting facts about farm work, but he ‘seldom sees or hears the similar side of other avocations. Of them he gets but superficial, surface views. It is small wonder that occu- pations of which he sees only the pleas- ant side attract him, while the voca- tion in_which he finds himself and of whose hardships he has daily experi- ence repels him and drives him to dis- content. When we are bewailing the tendency of young folks to leave the farm, it might be worth our while to consider a little how the situation finds itself in their eyes. Can’t we put ourselves in their places? If that is too big & strain on cur selfishness, can't we, somehow, bring back to our memories our own boyhood experiences and feel- ings? Can’t we recall how things used to seem to us, then, and thereby get at ieast an inkling of how they are prob- ably seeming to the voungster trailing dejectedly and sorely behind us upon some irritating and odious task? It is barely possible, if we could do this, that we might see one reason why so_many lads want to get off the farm. We might also perhaps discover, by taking sufficient thought, how we could make things casier and pleasanter for them, their way. | know some farmers, brought up hardly and sternly, who are so over- loaded with self-conceit and bump- tiousness as to think themselves exact- ly “the stuff:” the training they had exactly the right training for all; hardships they endured exactly the proper fitting to make all boys grow into the same superior sort of men they consider .themselves as being. There's no use talking to such critters. They invariably know it all, or think they do, and are as impervious to reason as a chopping-block. But most of us have some little modesty hidden away in dark corners, anda re not quite so cer- tain (hat we are absolutely and com- pletely all right and patterns for future generations. We love the old farms, even their rocks and stumps; we want the juniors to love 'em, too. We find real satisfaction in the art of farming; we want the juniors to find the same. ‘We have learned a whole lot about the science of agriculture; we want the juniors to start where we leave, off and carry their knowledge farther—into wider fields and towards the solution of deeper mysteries. Therefore we do not want them to get disgusted with the farm before they have learned its boundaries® Yet many of them do. How can we pre- vent it? I think one way is along this line T've been suggesting. They are still callow young things; they haven't found out how rough the world really is; they haven’t our hardened hands nor our developed muscles nor our dulil- ed sensitiveness to pin-pricks: the scratches which we hardly notice are bloody wounds upon them; the little ills we suffer in silence send them into sobbing paroxysms; the wage of sweat and toil we uncomplainingly pay be- cause we know what we are buying with it, they pay because we exact it and they do not know what for. They cannot see_things as our older eyes see them. Yet they are.generally open to -argument—if the argument is one they are able to understand. And they are appreciative of right treatment—if it is really right to their comprehen- sion, which may or may not be like ours. You can drive a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can make the boy stay on the farm and do the work until he is of age. but you can’t make him stay one day longer, if he has been so managed as to hate the farm ahd its work. More flies are caught with molasses than with vine- gar. Boys—and men, too—can some times be led where they can't be driv en. You can call a cosset lamb in any direction by walking ahead and shak- ing the grain measure; vou can steer a pig by getting behind him and pulling his tail in the direction vou don’t want him to go. In one case vou find out the lamb’s disposition and take ad- vantage of it; in the other you do the same with the pig. Aren’t your own youngsters as well worth studyving and humoring as sheep and swine? 1 am not arguing for a course of cod- dling. That is a mistake which is likely to be quite as disastrous as a too Spar- tan sternness. All T am tryving to sus- gest is that vou and the boy are un- like: the same arguments and motives which are compelling to you don't even touch him—any more than they touch- ed you when you were a boy of his age. If you want to get hold of and keep hold of him. vou've ot to find out where the knobs are on him that you can grasp. A mighty good way {0 ef- fect this is By trying to recall how you used to feel and what you used to think at his age, under similar conditions. Then treat him as vour memory tells vou wisdom would have treated vou. If he’s a born misfit on the farm, nothing you can do for him or with him will make him a farmer. But, for heav- en’s sake, don’t be gyilty, in your adult blindness and self-eSteem, of the folly of making him a misfit when he wasn't born so! THE FARMER. LETTERS FROM TWO STATES. TOLLAND CQUNTY. BOLTON Death of Miss Julia S. Williams, 76, at Graduate of Mt. Holyoke. Miss Jufia S. Williams, born i= Zeston 76 years ago, died at ther home in Windsor Tuesday. Miss ‘Willlams began her career as teacher in Bolton and Ellington, after gradu- ating from Mt. Holyoke = seminary, opened (with her niece, Miss Eliza- ®eth Frances) the Young Ladies’ in- eotitute in Windsor, which was con- tinued until 1902. The body was brought here for bur- Sal in the Center eemetery Friday aft- erneon. | EAST WILLINGTON Mr. and Mrs. Loujs Ingails are in Norwich at George Ingalls’, on busi- ness Much rain has cleared the fields pret- ty_well of snow. Loaded teams l'j‘..’w Lhel.u.t;:l after being ped by bad traveling who was are now daily en stop- to the TUpton lot. Mr. Copeland does the sawing for Louis Ingalls. Dr. Henry Osborn of Bayonne, N. J., has been visiting his parents, WASHINGTON COUNTY, R. I. - ARCADIA o0 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tefft of Pine Hill have moved temporarily to the Austin farm in order to be convenient to Mr. Tefft's sawmill. Joseph Ashe is ill, requiring the ser- vices of a physician. Mrs. L. S. Himes health, being under care. Benjamin Sheldon was the guest of Leander Himes of Slocumville, R. I., Sunday and Monday. Joseph Ashe lost a horse last Sun- in good physician’s is not the day. It was kicked By another horse, receiving a brokem leg STAT s ROCKVILLe Mrs. J. F. Palmer has been indis- posed for a few weeks. A number of cases of measles are orted in the village. TR anox Anstin aud Mes Joba Wdenly near the | ‘Wednesday. Miss Lottie Burdick was in' Hope Valley on Wednesday. - No_church services were held here last Saturday on account of the storm. |, HOPKINTON - Discomforts of the Storm—Death of George S. Newton. Last week on Saturday the town was in the grip of the blizzard. There was no mail on that day. Services were suspended in the Seventh-day church on Saturday and in the First-day church on Sunday. On Monday Eu- gene D. Wheeler, the mail driver, ar- rived about a half hour late with a well stuffed mail bag, out of which nearly everybody had a share. Lewis O, Chapman of Versailles vis- ited over Sunday at the home of his father-in-law, Thomas F. Champlin. George S. Newton, who died sud- Wakefield last week and was buried Friday, was a blacksmith for A. L. Wells & Co. twenty years ago and was well known.here. NEW RAILROAD PLANNED. Gate From Westchester Across Hell and Through Queens. The New York Sunday World said: Progress on plans for construction of the railroad from Westchester across Hell Gate and through Queens by the New York Connecting Railroad company, was shown by the transfer last week of 80 lots at Terminal Heights, Woodside. _The tract was sold for $150,000 by Terminal Heights Development company to Stuyvesant Real Estate company, which acts for the railroad, The purchase was made in order to provide for switches, turnouts and a yard through which connections will be established with the Pennsylvania- Long Island system at the east end of the Sunn yards. The Connect- ing railroad also secured permission to cross Lenox, Polk, Worthington, and Roosevelt avenues and Thirteenth street by means of steel bridges. Along the six miles of Queens territory to be traversed by the railroad no thorough- fares will be crossed at grade, By the recent mcquisition of land on twenty-five thoroughfares, from the Astoria shore to Cabinet street, the Connecting Railroad _company has a clear right of way in width from 80 to 150 feet for five miles at a total outlay of $5,200,000. : On_ the Westchester side. land for the connection of the projected rail- road with the New Haven and Hart- ford system has been purchased by the New Haven interests. When plans for the bridge across Wards island shall have been approved by the mu- nicipal art commission, work will be- gin on the $25000,000 improvement which will_furnish facilities for res- idents of Jamaica, Flushing, Whit: stone and eastern Long Island points to reach all places on the Pennsylvania and New Haven roads. After passenger connections be- tween the two systems shall have been effected the freight road will be con- structed to Bay Ridge. DIVINITY SERMONS. The subject will Second Course to be Given at Middle- town by Dr. Waterman. The second course of Divinity Ser- s of Lectures on the Mary Fitch at Middletown, will Page foundation be given by the Rev. Lucius Water- man, D.D,, of the class of 1876, rec- tor of St. Thomas’ church, Hanover, N. H. on Monday, January 31, 1910, and the three following days, in the chapel of St. Luke, after eveniug pray- er at five o'clock. e God’s Special Balance of Faith and Freedom. The special topics will b Lecture I. (1) The Balance, a Key to the Meaning of Church History. (2) How the Balance Fared First Three Centuries. Lecture II. The Claim that We Have a Fixed Faith, not inconsistent with the true history of the church’s begin- nings. Lecture TII. The Keeping of the Bal- ance in the Period of the General Councils; where the church succeeded and where the church began to fail. Lecture IV. A View of the Third Period, in which dogmatism rules un- d; and of the fourth period; in free thought strays unguided. in the APPARENTLY DEAD Middletown Child Was Revived by Physician—Parents Being Overjoyed. The Middletown Press says: A startling case in which the apparently dead was restored to life happened in the practice of a local physician on Tuesday It was the case of a two years old infant, who was thought to have died suddenly and was So pronounced aft- er being examined by competent au- thority. As the death was sudden the medical examiner was notified. Dr. Calef was at the house within 10 min- utes after the case was reported to him. He was not satisfied that death had supervened, although the child lay still and white and there was no perceptible heart action and no signs of breathing. Dr. Calef gave the in- fant a hypodermie injection over the heart and started massage and artifi- cial respiration with such good results that within two minutes of the time he began work tie child set up a feeble cry and wihhin a few minutes after- ward was fully restored. The child is vet alive and bids fair to remain so. The parents were overjoyed. SCHOOL MEDICAL INSPECTOR. Appointed in Waterbury—To Take the Place of Four. With the appropriation as adopted by the Waterbury board of aldermen sliced so low that little or no money is available for repairs to the crema- tory and for other purposes, the board of health last week appointed a medi- cal inspector for the schools and fixed his salary at $1,200 a year. It was said that enough money could be tak- en from other items to provide this salary for the new official. Dr. E. W. Goodenough was elected to the berth, which takes the placé of the four med- ical inspectors formerly employed. The four inspectors employed last vear received $30.50 per menth each, and the sum of $1,500 was apnropri- ated in 1908 to meet their salaries, zer for I. P, P. and A. Union. Piatt State Orga Benjamin S. of Waterbury has been elected state organizer of Connecticut for the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ union. The appointment was made by President George H. Berry of Cin- cinnati. There were several applica- tions for the position, as every local in Connecticut was allowed to send in a name. Mr. Piatt has charge of the press at the Waterbury Democrat of- fice. Appointed to Edinburgh Conference. The Rev. D. D. Munro, pastor of Calvary Baptist church, New Haven, has received word of his appointment as a delegate to the international mis- sion_conference, to be held in Edin- wurgh, Scotland. commencing June 14 next. ' There are 1,100 delegates to attend the conference from all parts of the world and of this number thir- ty are from the United States. Think of the Advertising. It Mr. Morse had taken his. med!- cine at the time when first it was prescribed he might be comsiderably better off now. both in the matter of cash and “good time."—Chicago Trib- % . The New York Review states that Ann Workman as Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet,” opened the - Opk !A;un at Hamilton, Berm Sig. Romeo, director of the bailet at the Hippodrome, has been in Boston arranging the Ballet of ‘which has been an added feature/ of “Dick ‘Whittington.” H. B. ITrving Is to try “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” in London. He has at- tempted many of his father’s famous roles and is now evidently going to try those of Richard Mansfield. ' Albert Spalding, the young erican violinist, made his Russian but _in and made a phenomenal success. He appeared with the Warsaw Symphony orchestra. The Greet Players began a two weeks' engagement at the Garden theater, New York, this week, the of- fering being Katring Trask's play of the Nativity, “The Little Town of Bethlehem. Herr Richard Hageman, the emi- nent Dutch pianist and conductor, who accompanied Francis Macmillen on his two tours in America, is now one of the leaging conductors of the Metropolitan opera house. “Madame X,” the impressive drama by Alexandra Bisson that so thrilled all Paris, will be given its metropoli- tan.premiere at the New Amsterdam theater, New York, on Wednesday evening, Feb. 2. Henry W. Savage is the producing manager. Miss Maud Allen’s first appearance in New York was at Carnegie hall on Thursday afternoon, Her programme included TschaiKowski's Arablan Dance, Mendelssohn's Sprin Song, Grieg’'s Peer Gynt Suite, Rubenstein’s Melody in F, and Valse Caprice. Guiseppe Creatore, the bandmaster, asked Supreme Court Justice Gerard in New York this week for an injunc- tion restraining Francesco Creatore from advertising himself and his or- chestra as “Creatore and his famous Italian orchestra,” with the word “Francesco” appearing in small type. Literary Pure Food Label. All who use libraries are familiar with the index expurgations and the “three-starred book” kept in the In- ferno of the Public library. It is re- cognized that libraries must exercise some sort of censorship over the books which are permitted to go into the hands of readers. Literary poison must be labelled. Now comes the suggestion from the picturesque Charles F. Lummis of the Los Angeles Public library that libra- rians should go even farther. He has been sounding sentiment all over the country and has found that while they nearly all agree with him, no one is doing what he proposes—that there should be a literary pure-food law for readers of other than works of fiction, ‘The reader should be protected against what may properly be denominated “ptomaine history. Every librarian recognizes some _responsiblity, and knows that many historical works are full of errors. It is also known that the average reader takes for gospel what he finds in a reference book, and consults neither librarian nor other authorities. Every library should pos- sess Prescott's “Conquest of Mexico’ and “Conquest of Peru,” even though they should be read for their charm, rather than for reliable information about the civilizations of “lost races.” Anybody who has read the works of Lewis H. Morgan or A F. Bandeller knows that Prescott’'s picture is as misleading as it is fascinating. In- stances of a similar character might be_multiplied. - The position taken by Mr. Lummis is that libraries are not merely conser- vers and ditributors of books, but ed- ucators, and that education is the dis- semination of truth. And it is part of the duty of the library to wean its readers from the slavish superstition of the iInfalllibility of type. The safe way is to warn the rTeader that the printed book of information is not in- fallible. The librarian to whom the reader comes will tell him where the other side of the question may be feund, where he may derive later and more reliable information, what is the view generally accepted by critics, or what other books treat of the sul ject in 2 different light. The trouble is that the average reader does not consult the librarian. He takes the book and others reading It returns it with the conviction that it is the law and the gospel. The remedy proposed is worthy of consideration. Let the book itself tell the reader these things by a“series of labels. The Boston athenaeum to a tertain extent does this by occasional- 1y inserting in text books expert re- views from critical sources or a note of reference to collateral or more mod- ern authorities, and thus stops the end- less chain of error. It is a system which may be extended to reference works by a series of labels suggesting other books. The obvious objection is a lack of time and means, but surely the resources of the li ought to e ample to allow it to fulfil the wider educational function of checking the promulgation of error. Co-operation between all libraries would greatly simplify the task, and make a literary pure-food act effective.—Boston Tran- seript. The Seal of Connecticut. A report of a lecture in The Times of January § as to the great seal of Connecticut is interesting, but not al- together in accordance with facts. Prior to 1876, I know nothing about the history of the seal. In that year I came ‘in, by proxy, control of it. It was a bronze on copper concern and the only way you could make an im- pression with ‘it was with a screw press with arms about three feet long that endangered anyone’s head in the near vicinity. As the secretary’s office had to put this seal on all commissions, and the number of notary commissions amounted to some hundreds, I asked the secretary, the late David Torrance, chief justice of the supreme court, if T might get something more modern. He agreed, and had a seal made as near like the old one as possible that would work with a lever instead of the old | screw. After the new seal had been in use for a year or so.and the commissions of most of the judges of.the state bore | its impression, Dr. Hoadley, then state librarian, found out about it, and he stoutly asserted that the seal was not the state seal but “Hinman’s Seal” However, as there were so many com- missions’ dependent for validity on “Hinman’s Seal” it stood, and_stands yet. The original seal that I found in the office and used for a time with the old ‘“cider press” sortnewhare in the secretariy’s office yet. ing the "“hold over” term of Gov. Bulkeley, At that time, owing to a little talik and some doubt in my ow mind, I put the ‘original and genuine’ seal where it would not be likely to be found by any one that presumed to be secretary while I thought differently. As everything passed off pleasantly the old seal was guietly put back in its pigeon hole and I presume that “Hin- man’s “Seal” still ‘puts ils genuine im- i - is, I presume, | The only time that it was ever put away, so far as I know, was dur- | tain Island, N. Y., Jan. 6, 1910. |ed The Masculine Limit. ; Men have not objected to doing cer- in work ord! regarded as the :s;hl employment of women. Indeed, do it better. They are the choice tailors, for-instance, to whom fashion- able women go; they are the high- priced chefs at the big hotels. And yet the masculine sense revolts at the usurpation of the feminine function. It seems no more manly for a wan to do womanly things than It seems wom- anly for a woman to be doing a man's work. It has remained for a Frenah woman to put husband and wife bn a parity so far as work Is concerned. Mme. Le Verrier, now in New York, has this to ay: ‘i here is no reazon why a woman should be expected to sew, ook, scrub and darn socks any more than a man. I think that boys should be taught these useful occurations just the same as_girls. So there you are. The women hav- ing routed us out of the superior pur- suits in life, having invaded most of ! the professions and all the trades, would j now like men to darn their own socks. We do not take Mme. Le Verrier se- riously, however. She is a most kindly and benign lady. We might suggest to her that if her own country paid less attention to the cultivation of the “cordon bleu” and more to the famous policy advocated by Theodore Roose- velt her health and birthrate would be greatly enhanced.—Philadelphia Press. s | of Far Too Many. “Vermont has enough mountain whites to set up a Christmas tree and | a banguet for. 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Gon!haull’c Gaustic Balsam Has Imitators But No Compelitors. A Sate, Speedy and Positive Cure for int. Sweeny, Ca Hoe! Soratuek Tendons, i'“rh_‘i Wis Puffs, and all . wflfinflm‘a 'nnnb.bl.m.-l-u- prasin, ars “rhvoat. ed e ToIVERSIET: oy g g WO R TR Couclimonials, oo, Address o T The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0, CHAS. 0SGOOD & CO., p— 4 r——— e The best cook in the world cannot get good results from a cheap, poorly mad: range of unknown manufacturz, On the other hand a good, reliable make of stove likz the RIGHMORND greatly aids the young housek:eper in having her cooking come out just right. The RIGHMOND has bzen made for by th: Barstow Stove Co. of Providence, R. I, and we actually believe they make better ranges of. J. P. BARSTOW & CO. Norwich, Conn. up and let us tell you about our stock. H. F. & A. J. DAWLEY, novisd . | COAL P | Free Burning Kinds and Lebigh ALWAYS IN STOCK. A. D. LATHROP, Office—cor. Market and Shetucket Sta Telephone 168-12. " oct29d Y | CALAMITE COAL Well Seasoned Wood C. H. HASKELL 489 *Phones 02 37 Franklin St Thames 8t mayéd would you have saved in 1909 by trading here? Just about half your money on our line right throughe Is It Worth While ? All Best Teas 25¢1b. regular price 60c 1b Best Coffee 20¢ Ih. regular price 35c Ib. United Tea Impfirters Co,, up one flight, over Somers Br: $2.50 and We ¥urnish Tailors’ Trimmings Free. We warrant Entire Satisfaction Any sorts of Woolens you may wish for at Cut Prices. PURSHASBING MARSHALL’S ZGERCY, 164 Main Street, with the Norwich Circulating Library. Franklin Square, dec28TuThS SKIRTS MADE TO FIT FOR ONLY Dyers and Agency for LeWando's janilTThS Cleaners. Model Ranges Have all the improvements for light- Distributers for Eactern Connectiout:] ening kitchen labor and lessening the fuel bl They are fully endorsed by cooking schools and progressive house- keeper: Sold Oniy By ANDREW J. WHOLEY, Telephone. 12 Ferry Street. Plumbing and Tinning. auglla 1647 Adam’s Tavern 4 1861 offer to the public the finest standarA brands of Beer of Burope a:d America, Bohemian, Piisner, Culmbath Bavarias | Beer, Bass’ Pale and Buiton, Muelrs EBcotch Ale, Guinness' Dublin _Stout. C. & C. Imported Ginger Ale, Bunker Hill P. B Ale, Frank Jon ourish- ing Ale, Sterling Bitter Ale, Anheussr Budweiser, S-hlitz and Pabst. A. A. ADAM. Norwich Town. Telepione 447~ iyia JOSEPH BRADFORD, - Book Binder. Blank Bovke N and Ruled to Ord 108 BROADWAY, Telephons 363 B - the shaw, soroue]