Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 19, 1910, Page 14

FARMER'S TALK TO FARMERS The Cause of the High Prices—Railroad Fresidents’ Opinions and Other Opinions—High Frice of Grain Made Beef Producticn Impossible in [-ew :ngland— How the Local Trade was Killed Out—Who Contri- buted to the Success of the Packers and Why Cld Conditions Cannot be Restored. XWtaten Specially for The Bulletin) At thg risk of being criticised for harping too much on one . X want to talk a little more about these high ‘prices. Everybody else is talk- ing about them, and everybody seems to have an explanation. Some 'people have two or three apiece. There" is room ¥or little doubt that things cost from @ quarter to a half more than they d a few years ago. Whatever difference of opinion thére may be as to the cause, there is none as to this fact. Prices are going up; we can pay them or go without the goods, just as we | The sellers generally. maln- tain an attitude of lordly indifference &s to which we do. We can give up meat and live on beans and ground chestnuts, if we want to—beans and chestnuts are not so cheap as they used to be—but if we're going to eat meat, . there 'tis—and they’ll let us have it in exchange for our greenbacks, at about weight for weight. One big railroad man says it's be- cause the farmers don’t Know their business and aren’'t raising as big crops as they might. Perhaps there’s something in this. But, do you know, =8 & practical farmer, when railroad men understake to tell me how to farm, I feel much as I suspect Mr. J. J. Hill ould feel if I should set out to teach him the fundamentals of the railroad business. It's a durned sight easier to sit on a fence and tell the other fellow Wow to manage either a farm or a rail- road than it is to manage it yourself. 7 don’t know enough about railroading to run a handcar on a gravel track: but I've forgoiten more about real farming than any railroad president in these United States ever knew. So has any other farmer who has been om the job for a generation. P&rhaps we aren't getting out of our farms all the produce and all the profits we might. I can well suspect it; but I'd be surer of it if I heard it from one veal fermer than from seven railroad directors. Another man says it's the _tariff. Again, that may have something to do with it. I am not inclined to be- Heve it, just because Politician Dusen- berry savs so, however. He doesn't really know any more about it than I do—ana that’s very little. They haven't any tariff up in Manitoba to speak of; certainly not our tariff. That stops at the Dominion border. A newspaper out in St. Paul has just been compar- ing prices charged for necessities in Winnipeg. the capital of Manitoba, with those charged for similar goods ; in the two United States cities of Bt. Paul and Detroit. Almost inva- risbly the Canadian prices on un- tariffed things are higher than those | this side of the line. Butter, for in- stance, which runs from 28 to' 36 cents south side the fromtier, is 40 cents in Winnipeg; eggs, which vary from 34 to 40 cents in St. Paul and Detroit, are 45 cents in_Winnipez: potatoes are | from 5 to 15 cenis higher in the Do- minion city; milk is from two to thres cénts a quart dearer; chickens cost from two to six cents a pound more; beef about a cent more; pork from two to six cents more; and so on. The paper states that it is quite | “the thing” for Winnipeggers to. come | over to St Paul to buy clothing, as they can get it enough cheaper to more than pay the railroad fares, while furniture !s admitted by the Winnipes dealers themselves to be “exceptionally bigh as compared with other cities.” Such things as this make me doubtful about finding the high price nigger in the tariff woodpile. Another man says it's the trusts. And. again. there may be something n this. My sympathies are with the “trust-busters” every time, apd Y should rather like to see the trusts convicted of almost any crime which would result in their abolition. But it fsn't only trust-produced stuff which is high and T can’t for the life of me wee how the sugar or lumber trusts cap be held responsible Tor the simply outrageous price of clover, seed. I don’t know what makes all the high prices, nor even most of them, »ut I think I know one thing which hias helped and is helping to make meat high. 'm going to offer it as my indi- vidual contribution to the continent- wide controversy. Tyenty-five years ago a good many of the farmers in this vicinity were raising beef as well as mutton for the market. Tt was a regular line of busi- mess with them and paid fairly well, as farming pays in other diréctions. They would raise or buy up stock of the meat-making breeds, fatten them, and sell them alive to the butchers. Right here comes In the illuminating fact: they used to get, then, about as much per hundred weight for their beef ans mutton on the hoof &s they can get for it today. It cost them.Yor the gram and labor needed hardly half as much a= it costs today. The fatted anfmal which, twenty-five years ago, represented a profit to the feeder, now represents a loss to him. Therefore, getting tired of paying out good money for the sake of producing beef for somebody else to eat, these farmers bave stopped raising beef. The lands which once made pasturage are grow- ing up to woods again, and, local com- petition thus out of the way, the west- ern meat men are enabled to charge what. they please in the serene confi- dence that people must pay or go meatless. For this state of things the western packérs are directly and deliberately responsible. When they invaded the Eastern markets they set to work to drive the local butchers, doing local business with home-grown meats, out of the race. They went at it cunning- 1y, by bamboozling the consumers, SO far as possible, into the belief that Western was better than New England beef. They were cunning, too, in ap— pealing to the universal love of a bar- gein. They were as unscrupulous and ruthless in their attacks on the busi- ness of the local dealers as they were cunning in their appeals to customers. They resorted to all the tricks of un- derselling and _cut-throat competition in which their larger capital gave them the advantage. Then, having destroyed the native production of beef, and hav- ing driven the local dealers in home- grown meats from business, thus se- curing a free hand, they proceeded to do just what -the. had evidently in- tended from the outset, vi to boost prices. Now, | don’t want to be understood as saying that this is the only caus® for the high cost of meats. But it certainly is one cause, and a mighty effective one, too. So far as it a the only remedy for it is in a renewal of the local meat-raising Industry. And how is that going to be possible, hen the packers’ club is still in com- mission, swinging high over the head of any man who shall presume to sell eastern meats, and the packers’ bot- T tomless purses are open to buy, bribe ¥ or bully customers away from him? The consumers have their own share in the responsibility, which ought not to be ignored. They have allowed themselves to be duped into making a “fad” of western beef. That the best Chicago beef is better than the poorest Eastern beef nobody need question. That heifer or steer beef from animals of meaty-build and habit is better than beef from old, worn—out, discarded dairy cows of the Jer tyle of arch- itecture nobody need question. That properly kept and ripened beef sweeter and tenderer than meat which was on the hoof yesterday and is on the table todey nobody need question. But it is not true, never was true, and is mever going to be true that any western beef is better than that from quickly fattened ng animals of a good beef breed, raised, butchered and properly ripened right here in New [England. If meat consumers would sustain local meat producers, one step would be taken towards the reinvigor- ation of a local industry which would at least tend to reduce the shortage in the meat supply. The big meat men say they have to charge higher prices for dressed meats because they have to pay the farmers more for stock on the hoof. How true this may be in the matter of beef I don’t personally know, but, so far as mutton and lamb are concerned I do know that it is absolutely false. I've been for a number of years in the business—as one side-line—of selling Jive lamb and mutton. I've sold when the price for the dressed meat charged by my mneat-dealers was about one- half what it is now, and I was not o fergd one cent a hundred more for my live sheep and lambs, last winter, by dealers. than 1 was during that era of low-priced cuts. What's going on else- where 1 don't know, I sp for local con with me. The sheep &rs won’t offer me any more for flock during these high pri n they used to pay me when they sold the dressed meat for little over half the money. To say that I am sponsible for the high cost of mut- ton and lamb is ridiculous. So far as I hear from others, I am inclined to belicve that it is just the same with beef, personal knowledge. Hogs are as well as pork, and the hog-r: farmer seems to be getting a res ble share of the gain. I'm glad of it The man who has to raise hogs for a living ought to get good money. It's worth it, But when the meat men undertake to tell the public that they’re not a bit guilty 'and that it's the farmer from Wayback orners who is really responsible for all the altitude in the meat prices, then I get right up on my agricultural ear. “’Tain’t no such’ thing!” THE FARMER. but I can't speak of that from high, e LAW REGULATING BUSH FIRES The farmers of eastern Connmecticut will be interested in this forest law which directly affects them: Section 3 of Chapter 128, Public penalty of two hundred dollars fine, or that occasions injury to another. Section 4 provides that fires for the purpose of burning ‘weeds, grass, rubbish of any kind b and the first day of June and the fi fiReenth day of nission from fire wardens of the dis shall be fined not more than two h more than six months, or both. for the person or his agent who kindles a fire in the oper a November shall not ’, - Acts of 1909, provides a maximum or imprisonment for six month bushes, etween the fifteenth day of March fteenth day of September and the be kindled without written per- - trict. Any person violating this ufidred dollars, or imprisoned not Section & provides that whenever the state fire warden deems that the public safety of the town does by Section 4, and the town so votes, notices to thet effect. Towns so a operation of this section until March not require the protection provided he may have the town warden post ffected are then exempt from the h fifteenth of the succeeding year. STONINGTON Coilege Girls Won 24 to 22—Repair Shop Equipment Being Sent to Newport—Dr. J. D. Spratt’s Lecture. The Boston College girls were the opponents of the C. A. C. basketball team Thursday evening in Borough hall. The score was 4 to 22 in favor of the former team. A small crowd at- tended the game. Mr. Helmevich, who has been ill all winter, has returned to his work at the velvet mill. 4 Sylvia Tisanni has left the employ of the Atwood Machine company, and is to work in Lynn, Mass. Mrs. Jerome Anderson, Jr., leaves town today for a visit in Providence. Capt. and Mrs. Theodore F. Sco- Sester Snd amughter; Miss Susic fer er, usie vester of Newgrk N. J. Eleceted President. Bihel Dennison of Hartford, r home #s in Stonington, has been clected president of the Alice Freeman Palmer "Literary society of that city. Miss Dennison read an article before that organization and received great commendation for the work Frank Mayne left for Southbridge, Mass. Gilbert C. Chesebro is in New York, where- his sister, Mrs. Oliver C, Pen- dleton, on Friday, underwent an oper- ation in a private sanitarium for ap- pendicitis. Commodore Richmond Wallace ar- | rived here Friday after spending the winter in Roxbury, Mass. The Easter vacation in the borough | schools 25. - The spring term opens Moses A. Pendleton has been ap- pointed administrator of the estate of the -late Charles H. Stanton, with the will annexed. Capt. Manuel Mello has launched his smack preparatory to spring fishing. Frederick and William Ostman with their fishing smack Etta and Lena have been setting pound poles for the spring catch. Jamnes Gilmore and daukhter have will begin on Friday, March April 4. | Some farmers have a jog like(an old horse—they are forever g g no- where and are always on the way. T don’t know what these fellows who are shouting “Stick tion of the family I've stuck and am zoing down the stream of life leaner than any on ’‘em. I like to read “How to Do Things” in the papers, but when I undertake ! to follow the directions it is always | an uncertain job. | culture by mall are not the kind that | make two blades of grass grow where; | The chemical stump remover adver- | | tised in the papers stumps the farmer | who buys it, and that is about all it | does do. The men who teach mogern agri- there was only one before. They sim- ply show you how to work the ground by working you, I notice when I read about the acre that turned out $1,000 worth of on- ions that it, was a great ways from home. Some one has discovered that the seed corn of 1910 is of low vitality, It is not’likely that he has any seed corn for sale. Cy Cymbal is talking about getting his farm work started early this sea- son; and he'll being plowing, as usval, about the first of June. I've got done trying to raise a croo of grass and a crop of -eaches on the same ground. Peaches do mnot like to be parked. The only comfort there is in rais- ing terkeys is to have a wife who will run after ’em. As Mrs. Jolt gives notice she has got done stepping quick in that direction, I have got to go out of the busiress. The farmer who keeps his stock clean—keeps them healthy. It is the other fellow who calls the "cterinw. Old Hard Cider says temperance people are all fuss and feathers, It takes fermenation to put color into life. Some women will marry a man who would make & worrisome partner for a bear. dn the springtime man and horse must work up their muscles slowly together. Some things cannot be done in a burry. It is the early pullet that makes the profitable hen. The winter layer bids for big prices. The farmer who knows so much that is not so is the very man who says farming is a fool's occupation. The work of finding a hired man in the spring is no ordinary stunt. Hired men nowadays fix all the conditions of the contract ard they are most favor- able to themselves. ilas Simms says keeping, a farm diary is a good thing for the man who can keep his fingers limber enoush to handle a lead pencil. The farmer’s son who can’t get mon- ey enough to buy & red necktie and a tie-pin will never be content upon the farm There ain’'t a boy anywhere who wouldn't rather attend a moving picture show than to stay on the farm- and learn to file a crosscut saw. Manure mulched about the roots of mall fruits now show in better fruit Iater on; but don't do it if it makes vou tired. A careful farmer makes np dividends. 3 rj;lm'nml tg their home in Nashua, N. H. Shipping Equipment to Newport. Men have been packing the spare material at the repair shops and ship- ping it to Newport. St. Patrick’s Night Music. On Thursday evening the choir at St. Mary’s church rendeerd the fol- lowing programme: Organ prelude, Sounds from Ire- transcription, Come Back to quartette; O Salutaris, Tantum go. The solo, Killarney, was sung by Mrs. Stanton with great expression howing her well-trained voice gt its best. Rev. Neilson Poe Carey Preached. On Friday evening at the special Lenten service, Rev. Neilson Poe Ca- rey of Christ church, Norwich, gave the address, which was most inter- esting. The choir, in charge of Miss Grandy, rendered an excellent pro- gramme. A large number attended the service. ;- Tomorrow, Palm Sunday, there will be the usual distribution of palms in the church. The Rhode Island-Connecticut base- pall league has scheduled a game for Sttonington at Westerly on May 30. W. A. Pendleton of the insurance firm of Pendleton & Pendelton of Brooklyn, was voted at the regular i meeting of the Nassau Trust company Lecture by Dr. Spratt. The third lecture was given in the Congregational church parlors Friday | evening by Dr. J. Duncan Spratt. Dr. Spratt took for his subject The Anglo- Saxons, Their *Customs and Religion. His address was both interesting and educating. Dr, Spratt is a member of the English faculty of Princeton -uni- versity and for 4 —ears delievered lec- tures in the centers of society. A large number attended and enjoyed the- lecture. —_— One’s First Duty. There is an idea abroad moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good; myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by =aying that I have to make him happy—if I may.—Robert Louis Stevenson. Learn When to Say “No.” It is good to be unselfish and gen- erous, but don’t carry that too far. It will not do to give yourseif to be melt- ed down for the benefit of the tallow trade; you must know *where to find yourself.—George Eliot. Various Mourning Customs. When mourning for their dead the Israelites neither washed nor anointed themselves. Greeks and Romansfasted. Th Europe they wear black, in China white, in Turkey violet and in Ethiopia brown. among | i i ¥ to the farm!” | know about it. As the fifth ‘genera- ' ond; $1:00 sestio W Short afid gossipy letters upon Hints and Home Remedies, How to Address SOGIAL ‘practical. Helps. Editor Social Corner: I submit helps for the Social Corner: Olive oil or soapsuds poured around the roots of rubber plants or house ferns stimu- late their growth most noticeably. Sponge Cake—Three eggs, beat light, 1 cup of sugar, 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar, 1-2 teaspoonful soda, a little salt, 1-2 cup of hot water, 1 cup of flour; put the water in last. MRS. L. MAYNARD. Mystic. Household Tools. Editor Social = Corues many delightful subjects, seems as though all may be suited. One of the domestic difficulties and perplexities is household tools. If you have use for a tack get a Stone or even a knife handle to do duty for a hammer. If a nail, the potato masher is conveni- ent. If you have canned goods of any kind to open, the butcher knife and once more that potato masher. If a cork in the bottle is immovable, a fork or nail to get it out. If no small shovel for ashes, use the dust pan. Another problem, and a very serious one, is the wood and water. Many farmers’ wive have walked miles and grown old bringing in wood and wa- ter, when a few dollars would bring it into the house, and father and the boys could bring in the wood more oft- en than they do. . Isn’t there more than one dear housekeeper can find among these some one thing she has had te con- tend with? 1 was readine a short time ago where a boy made his moth- er a birthday gift of a tool chest for kitchen use; and to be her own, not to_be loaned to father and the boys. I'm sure we mothers would ail like such a gift, even if it was not our birthday. Many fathers and sons do not real- ize the difficulties that mother and the girls labor under. It is more thoughtlessness than anything else, I hope this will cause the head of the house to think and do. ‘Wishing this corner all kinds of good luck, I am, an interested reader. MADAM. ‘Windham. A Way to Prevent Dust. Editor Soclal Corner: I've seen lots of rules for sweeping so as not to raise a dust. Here's one 1 was taught by a neighbort Always draw the broom towards you, keeping the han- dle at an angle as if trailing it, and never finishing the sweeping stroke with the flirt forward which is sure to send dust into the ai Stop the stroke before the broom-part on the floor has got as near you as the top of the handle. This will not absolute- ly prevent all dust, but it will come very near it. But you want a good | broom, and a reasonable amount of patience to work with. SUSAN NIPPER. Uses for Tea-Chest Matting. Editor Social Corner: Pretty table- | mats are so cheap nowvgdays, that it may seem like a waste of time to make them as grandmother did. Bat | some of us women like to make things for the home-nest with our own hands. They mean so much more, then, Last fall I begged the matting from an empty tea-chest of our gro- cer. It was somewhat torn and sofled a little on one side. But enough re mained to enable me to cut out five | mats of ‘different sizes and shapes. A binding of braid finished the raw edges, and was very casily sewed on. The cost was practically nothing out- side the time occupied in cutting and binding. This I found a pleasant ex- ercise, and so was not disposed to make any charge for it! I remember that grandmother used, also, to make sun honuets for herself out of that same mattin~ Some time, when I'm sure nobody's lookinz. I'm going- to try that, too. But I won't promise to show my first attempt. GRANDDAUGHTER. Nothing Queer About It. Editor Social Corner: Mrs. P. H. W. asks if it isn’t queer that the farming people are set off in a class by them- selves; no more so than that mill op- eratives and laborers and skilled me- chanics are three distinct classes. There is not a more thrifty or useful class_than the farm folks, or a class that T like better. We city folks refer to them as our Country Cousfns not in a spirit of derision, but with a feeling of regard. I'm not a farmer’s wife or daughter, but I believe there is room for me in The Bulletin’s Social Corner. Mrs. P. H. W.'s letter pleased me, and 1 hope she will often contribute some- thing to the Corner. Yours for socia- bility. HANNAH, The Helping Husband. Editor Social Corner: What a help in | the house the husband is who hangs things up instead of throwing them down. If the husband is orderly in his home habits, the children readly be- come so. If every one in the family expects mother to pick up and hang up and put away things, it greatly in- . creases her work. A mother who would save herself should see that she makes young children useful. The younger they are taught to do little things for themselves and to help mother, the more naturally and joyfully they will | take to it. A mother who sings more : than she complains canmot raise| grouches. } GRAY MATRON. Home Remed: ‘Editor Social €orne I will take great pleasure in giving a few hints to those who need some old fashioned | remedy for a tickling cough or sore ' throat, and will answer any kind of | questions _asked through your paper | for remedies for cattle, fowl, and old fashioned home remedies for people. A cough syrup for a cold, Ingredi to be bought of your druggist: Pare- goric 11-2 oz, tincture of capsicum 1 dr., tincture of tolu 3 oz.; mix well to- gether and shake well before using. - Dose: A teaspoonful every three hours, in a little water. Remedy for sore throat: Take 1 me. dium red pepper or 1-4 os. of common red or black pepper. add 1-2 pint of hot water 1-4 pt. of good vinegar, 1 Among so third. Open to -all Eastern Con- hold, Domestic Perplexities- and Difficulties, Family Problems, How to Avoid the Annoying Features of Housework, Social Questions, Health Baby, How to Manage Husband and Children, Animals, Birds, Recipes, Kitchen Economy, Furnishings, Gardening, Btc., are all eligible topics. (grih only on one side of paper) Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. TO THE WRITERS OF LETTERS: . Among the Social Corner letters this week are two very complimentary to The Bulletin, and we appreciate their king sords; but we hope our con- tributors will forget to write of the good qualities of The Bulletin in this department and just praise the good contributions Social Corner knows no limit when it comes to house helps or elevating so- clal comments of any sort. Let us make this Cor Let “Help One Another” be the motto and let us s practice here as well @s we can preach.—Editor Social Corner. ‘as ever were caught who the affairs of Home and House- | Keep Young and Well, Care of Fowls or Home Arts, Flowers, GORNER EDITOR, of one another. The as well as if we cannot er gossipy | and Use as heapin, pulverized alum. often 2s needed. I hope this will be of some ‘use to your readers, as I have found it very valuable to me. teaspoonful each of s: Directions: A READER. Make It Agreeable to Others. Editor Social Corner: Of all the news- papers T have fead, I think T tin the newsiest, | been my pleasure : ally, I don't know but that this de- scription of The Bulletin seems rather similar to an advertisement ,yet this was not my intention when I began this letter; but I must confess that, every part of the newspaper is ex- tremely interesting, especially so is the column “The Man Who Talks,” and the various subjects hit up through this column are educational and inspiring. The little daily stories, the general | news, editorial notes, news of sur- rounding towns, poetry, “Woman in Life and the Kitchen,” and many items | of interes I really should not feel| ay was begun if I had not com- it by looking over my friend, wich Bulletin. It has grown immensely popular and consequently has a very large circulation; and now it has another interesting feature, v The Editor’s Social Corner, in wh we may each and all have a small part in trying to make it agreeable to oth- ers. NORWICHITE. o peruse. A Remedy for Emergencies. Editor Social Corner:—Ther: no commoner trouble than eczema, an there is not a more annoying skin dis ease. There are all kinds of reme for it, and those who have tried of them know how worthless they be. An old German woman recommended red clover tea to a sufferer from this complaint, and she was cured in a week. Another person by drinking this tea three weeks was cured. She used a five cent package a day for a we and t ¢ ot is This i nt drink and is a dard purifier. The afflicted should try i CLOVER BLOSSOM. An Expry Eaitor Social ¢ much interested in the So of The Bulletin and believe it will prove of great benefit to-all readers, as it gives an opportunity for an e change of 4 The F mer told of his experience with hc Wwhich dently was not profitable to him. live in where he has the advantages of haps he does not 3 being and able to sell to both the retailer wholesaler—the same as the farmers of | eastern Connecticut. There are ers in this vicinity who number of hogs each sold to either the d or am families in the village: it is doubt- ful if a better price i, time and cost of labor co i, than if they were sold to wholesalers or packers., There is o com- pany in® Norwich. Many ds of hogs come to eastern Comnecticut ev-— ery week, the cost price going to Chi- cago, when the s here ought to da the selling the money in circulation nearer home. It is well ries for the enough to talk about but the development of lo. product of the farm is a nccessity and %reat help to the community. We hope the Social Corner will 0 encour- | age the farmers that they will sit up and n to produce and take notice foodstuffs that now come from the west. We'd like to ride to town in an automobile, and very farmer will do his part in raising the things that come from the distantistates the con ditions will char so that__ever farmer will be able to do . W. B, Gates Ferry, Conn, Husbands. Editor Social Corner:—We just did smile out loud when w ‘Smiling Jennie’s” letter ;,in the Social Corner of her idea of husbands, and we fully agree with her in every respect. We would not recommend a man who must be kept full as a sausage to keep him good natured and soften his temper so his wife can live with him to make a model husband; but if some poor un- fortunate woman has such a man we think it would be much better to keep him full from the good things of the table than to have him flll up at the hotel bar. “Smiling Jennie” is right. Kind words from the husband to his wife and _children never fails to make a happy home, providing the wife will do _the same in return. How many times people ride. past a fine looking place and remark this man has a fine home and it is paid for, and money in the bank. What a syccess this man has had since he was mar- ried. How often there is nothing said of the faithful wife who is teiling in the kitchen, who helped the husband earn every dollar to pay off the mort- gage of the home and to make a good showing in _the bank book which 1s in his name. Much credit is due the wife for such a home and how to keep it. We would not have “Smiling Jennie” think for the world that all husbands must_be made over new at the table by filling their stomachs full as = sausage, for there are some good men can give their wives a smile and pleasant words when he is as hunery as a shark and he looks as thin as a Florida cracker. RURAL DELIVERY. Problems to Solve. Editor Social Corner:—Several topics are given for discusgion. Health we all consider foremost. *Every physician prescribes plenty of fresh air and urges one to sleep with windows wpen. What Denefit can one derive from so doing if living within a stone's throw of a parcel of land termed “The Dump,” where all conceivable garbage ®is ai- lowed? This would be a deed of chari- ty should the health officer prohibit it immediately. ANXIOUS OBSERVER. Norwich. Give the Children Attention. Editor Social Corner:—Through this corner 1 want to enireat mothers to keep their girls and boys near to them- maydid ‘and Evergreen as to whic) | you that one of m; good thing to keep the stove shining l;ld eV Bluld.l' dusted, but these are of secol mportince. FROM A MOTHER'S HEART. The Fruits of Orie Little Garden. Editor Social Corner:—Having had a delightful experience iast summer in gardening in a small way, I wish to tell your readers about it. Living in the neighboriwod of large and beauti- ful gardens (cared for bv experis), I became possessed with the desire to have a garden all my own, but Lo! all I could control was a smiull backyard say 20 by 25 feet In size; but wha possibilities were in that small patch of land. First, sweet pease were plant- ed; then lettuce and radishes, followed by beets, cucumbers, eight tomato plants, lima beans and sweet corn enough to grow 100 ears. All bordered with balsam and nasturtium. How | watched for those plants to appear. How we enjoyed the tender lettuce “fresh from the garden.” How those lima beans grew! It reminded me of the stoxvy of childhood day of Jack's heans growing “up to the sky,” for they ran to the top of the poles and down again and up again and across, festooning from pole to pole, hanging full of tbe large pods; and later, joining forces with the green corn, formed a most delectable dish— and such green corn. There seemed to be rivalry between Country Gentleman should win t here let me tell ¢ neighbors, owner of a most complete garden, but who fail- ed to have corn planted. was presented with some fi~om our little garden— enough for a good dinner. Yes, it was given in a manner most proud, and the lady said: ow wonderful that you could raise suc and other things, 0 plenti uch a small patch of land. It was my ¢ and pl ach morning 10 tak look in the garden and dig up weeds and loosen the dirt, before the sun got hot. Many SONS wers arned, and how my heart went out to God for his wonder- ful love and care. How I realized that pride, and then the beautiful flowers of love will blossom, ylelding Jjoy, pa~ tience, charity. AMNNA LAURA. l Henry E. Dixey is having a few changes made in “The Beloved Vagm- | bond” and intends starring in it late in the spring. Worth a Dollar a Drop. Fred Patchen, Manlius, N, Y., writes “For a long time I was affested with kidney trouble which caused an almost constant pain In my back and iaflam- mation in my bladder. Other remedies 4id not_even relieve me, but twe ffty cent hottles of Foley's Kidney Remody completely cured me and 1 have pot had any symptoms of kidney trewble for over two years” The Lee & Os- go0d Co. my praise, and rl Pittshurg and Atlantic Cfty Tests. Tests made umder the wupervisiom of the painters’ assoclation proved fthat paint made with metal Zine Oxide combined with White Lead was supe rior in lasting quality to hand made pure Whige Lead Paint, This won great victory for scientific-machinery made L. & M. Paint. Every color Is bright and lasting and won't need re newal for 12 to 16 years. It wears and ntest duty in our garden o' mind (our con- |covers like gold. Bold by L. W. Carroil sciousness) we must root out the!& Son, Norwieh; J. P, Kingsley & Son, weeds of selfish.ness, malice, envy, | Plainfleld. L] eresot Flour Ceresota. Bread for the nnaine sta.y of the meal. - The Passing of Artificial Teeth THE DAY OF THE ARTIFICIAL PLATE WITH ITS TELL-TALE APPEARANCE IS PAST. THE NATURAL RESTORATION METHOD DOES AWAY With the 014 Siy.e Ealse Teeth D n get scien less. TISTRY. SUrge fully 1] although publicity of surgery, b ch is a branch advanced won- few years Dentistry does not given “the g its wonders are 1 pl. nt one atural growth r pluce—such iren lose their baby teeth. The lost teeth adult can pow be restored b nce of dentistry in such a r yssible to detect the t rigin Resto rtificial pla e of de fact, th the past ones Lo take t ns when chl lost teeth would of s THOMAS JEFFERSON KING, 0. D, §. Originator of Dr. King's Res toration Method for the nat ural restoration of teeth-- originator of the King Safe System of Pafnless Dentistry, and inventor of the “Natural Gum” set of teeth, etc., o) st or the is not one of bridges—that undesirable artificiality is All rights reserved. done awe 1 there is no no- able the dentist’s work restored teeth seems to grow owt of your gums just as th., It i= a wonderful Improvement over the old method th with false ones. Dr, King:does his Restoration work at a consistently low price. Before having any teeth extracted, see Dr. King about naturally and painlessly restoring your teeth. It Pays. OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF DENTISTRY : Full set teeth with the “Natural Gums,” $8, $5. painless pure nold filling$1 up, other fillings when sets are ordered. All work guaranteed. KING DENTAL PARLORS, Franklin Square, Norwich, Conn. 10 a. m. to 2 p. m Telephona in your do ‘your natural ic of replacing lost tec c, painless extraction fres Hours 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Sundays, What and Where to Buy In Norwich $3.50-BOSTONIANS-$4.00 | Joseph F. Smith, Most men concede that Bostonians rank among the best made Shoes in FLORIST 200 Main Street, Norwich. the world,- ivia Special Agency, P. CUMMINGS, (Premiums) 52 Central Ave. Sweet California Navel Oranges 15¢ doz.. QUALITY Custom Grinding TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS at YANTIC ELEVATOR, A. R. MANNING, Yantle, Conn. reiephiont. OTTO FERRY, Tel. 703. 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