Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 28, 1910, Page 13

'THE FARMER'S TALK) TO FARMERS The Farm and Farmers—1he Ideas and Trials of the In- experienced—Practice Makes Ferfect—Dreams do Not Bring Satisfying Rewa.;rds—Men who Jump Into Farming and What They Leam—'—The Quullty that Counts for Success. (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) | u can’t save anyth on a salary of $30 a month, don’t think about farming—it would be no use whatever vou to do so.” I guote the above from a letter writ- ten by a practical farmer of a western state to his home paper. Perhaps it | wili set you thinking—it has me. The | idea is quite different from that which a good many writers on country sub- jects put forth. It bhas the weight of a rmer’s real experience behind it of the finely written articles | cultural papers are ba: rather by hope and imagination than | by solid facts. Mor I think I | Bave said once or twic too many ! experience ce When a farmer who takes a farm pa- | per regularly and reads every week | ut the doings of his brother farm- | to raise a phenomenal a line about it | Common | ch are based wmre baseq on un rie The big- in the world Yet the news- that happens is the sunrise. ita ; type. 1 the regular | d_therefore not inter- | Likewise, when you | ralse a common, every season crop of | potatoes the fact is not “news.”” But | when you raise eight hundred bushels | to the acre and sei! them for a dollar & bushel in the field—why, that's worth | 2 i papers. And you prob- | You don't mention the! our rye didn’t head and | other factg ¥y vour oats lodged and rotted and your the cutworms got beans rusted and send out for all | But you ire what a big profit Other farmers read it and shake their heads dubiously, while their inner souls row envious. Would-be farmers read and reason that what you have done they can do. They think they can com- every time e luck which has n to you. Editors all over the coun- clip yvour item and republish it, showing what crops Connecticut farmers can raise. White-handed clerks and bookkeepers in city offices and tir- orkmen in city shops read it, and | s like it and begin to hanker after: work and big pay of farming. | he eas live on it and start out to re money on a farm. Once in | ne of thiese succeeds. But too | many times the result is yretchedness | —the life-long misery which follows on | the heels of a stupeadous mistake. | The other day the papess chronicled the shipment of Afty-five tons of | broom-corn from Missouri at the f. o. | b. price of $2256 a ton. This is the highest price paid since the civil war. It means a big profit to the broom- corn growers as well as to the broom merchants. Shall we all, therefore, go into broom-corn raising this season? Common sense forbid! A farmer in exas reports 60 per cent. profit in sixty days on = hog-feeding experi- guent. ¥He lives in the rice belt and anm rough rice at $1.50 per sack of 62 pounds to feed them with. They ikeq it. grew fat on it, and he made the profit stated. Perhaps others could do as well—IF they could buy rice at le than a cent a pound. But how Restful Sleep comes to peevish, wakeful children when bathed with ‘warm water and It lessens irritation —quiets the nerves. Best for skin diseases — invaluable in the nursery. Sold by all druggists. HEY's Mair aod Whisker Dye, black or brows, S0c. | of the pig feeder. | he haq acutually saved $45 | profits from onion growing | a bookkeeper really think h “*A Drop of Ink makes millions think." gets on_your light’ think about the guick way th get ri? =f it. Let us do the thinking and | the worrying. We'll guarantee to take out ali the spots and make the garment look almost as g00d as new inside of 4 day or two. Ana It won't cost you a fortune either. We also do Dselns‘ too, when neces- =ary. Lang’s Dye Works, Telephone. 357 Franklin Sl. mayi2d THE PLANK Mesdquarters for Best Ales, Lagers, Ete., in Town. JAMES O'CONNELL, Propristor. Telephone $07. octza but if the drop it makes you and cheapest I.’leu.-f Market and Water Sta. umnuotnu‘gnmmu " m-“munrh- \ about the rice farmers who had to sell their product at that price—hardly the rate for chaff? Scores of them lost money, failed to get their expenses back. One man made a big thing out of the losses of others. His profit is heraldeq across the continent. You | have to set your own thinkery at wi fact that nobody can get his money back raising rice at $1.50 per sack of 162 pounds. Yet the losses of the num- erous rice growers are just as import- ant a part of the evidence as the profit Because of the co- incidence that rice happens to be ruin- ously low and pork exorbitantly high one man makes easy money But what likelihood is there that such a com- | bination will occur again? If the price of rice on the farm continu as low as at_present in Texas, the rice raisers will speedily stop growing it, and there will be none at less than a cent a ch will end pound on the market. the chance to get rich quick this par- ticular way. Something over two years ago a { young man, working as a | mopthly wages, got into an argument wi some of his fellows. They main- tained that no workingman could save any money at present wages and cost of living. He contended that a work- ingman could save money at present wages and cost of living. They “dar- ed’ him, and he took the “dar n ive $400 in twenty-four months,” he announced. He did it. During the next two years he worked as a day borer for eleven different farmers, he could find them needing help. a H | highest monthly wage, extending over only a short part of the time, was $40. At the end of the twenty-four months Now that young man will succeed as a farmer, it he decides to make that his calling. But the others—those who couldn’t re- ally live, to say nothing of saving mon- ey, on wages just like his own—they kad better not attempt farming on their own hooks. I've a few neighbors who have been bamboozled into buying farms by these exploiters of good luck. They have read story after story of wonderful in Tex: or broiler raising in Rhode Island or potato growing in Maine or melon gardening in Colorado or apple orch— arding in New York. They bave come out to the country, expecting to dupli- cate, right off and all the time, these cometary effulgencies of phenomenal fortune. Some of them have failed disastrously and are really suffering. Some, who have surplus enough to prevent actual need from visiting them, are mildly wondering why things are as they are, and not as the story books made them out. Some with st more capital are steadily sinking it year by year, and endeavoring to teach | us slow going old hayseeds the advan- tages of “modern methods.” But I don't know one of them who is getting what he expected to get and making what he expected to make from his farm. Why in heaven’s name should they? There isn’t one of them who would ex- pect, if he gave up his lifelong work and started in brashly on an utterly new trade, to get rich at it. Would self ca- pable of successful shoemaking without any training or slowly acquired skill? Does the carpenter who can't make big enough wages to suit him at his trade really think he could earn more the first summer he devoted to watch- making? Would you expect a horn handed farmer who doesn't know “do- re-mi” from a door mat to rise to af- fluence in a year as a piano tuner? In regard to most avocations, most men accept the fact that one must learn his trade before he can practice it suc- cessfully. Yet men who don’t know where hen’s teeth are expect to make money from hens, and men who don't know humus from a hole in the ground expect to beat old farmers raising crops, and men who couldn’t tell pig- weed from portulacca, or clover seed from wild mustard, think they can buy a farm in April and begin depositing profits from it in August, Self confidence is a fine thing, but self conceit, especially when accom- panied—as it usually is—by ignorance, is not so admirable. I think I've once mentioned Rankin, the Missouri mil- lionaire farmer. He's the only million aire I ever heard of who made it by farming. His dictum is that “farming Tequires closer figuring and more at- tention than,any other kind of busi- ness.” To 'succeed at farming one must know a tremendous lot of littl things about soils and crops and ma nures and seeds and cultivation; he needs and will have to use every dey a degree of skiill which comes only from long practice; he must be “on the job” and all over the job all the time; he must know his acres summer and winter, in drouth and in deluge, in grass dand in grain; he must have an expert’s delicacy and certainty of knowledge regarding a thousand seem- ingly trifling details; he must join with this microscopic eye for little things a telescopic sweep of vision into the future. I know one or two farm- ers of whom it might be said with the poet that in them “Old experience doth attain “To something of prophetic strain.” Yet many men who would never think of jumping hot-foot from one ac- customed avocation to another un- learned trade think they can make a success at farming without any study or apprenticeship. 1 know one man who thinks he can live in Florida dur- ing the cold weather, drift up to New England along in May and make enough off a farm he never saw till two years ago to pay his Florida hotel bills the following winter! And he has been a lifelong lawyer, who doesn’t know today that gpple trees ought to De set before June. He doesn't know a Shorthorn from a Jersey, and has no idea of a “balanced” or any other kind of ration. But he is sure there must be money in producing milk and selling it at three cents a quart—be- cause on his railroad journeys he has noted that the fences on dairy farms are always well kept up! As has frequently been observed by most of us, it is the childless spinster who always knows just how to bring up a baby. We ail know how to run a newspaper better than the editor. T am beginning to think that farming must go into that same category with baby raising and newspaper making— those who have never tackled it seem to know so much more about it than we farmers, % N L \ m‘m 4 laborer at ! | | ana ork | business for the doctors and the hos- to develop the collateral unmentioned | Parson Dawson says learning is not a happy-fier, but that it lifts the masses up and pulls the classes down. Deacon Sproedor thinks his way of farming is the only way, but Bill Bangs savs he knows 29 other ways which seem to produce just as good results. Caroline Caswell says the man who does a great deal and says little is the model man. Caroline may be crusty, but usually she is sensible. The farmer whe always wants to o to town when it’s pleasant, and who can’t work out when it is foul weath- er, needs a conservator. A man’'s shortcomings call out long lectures in the quiet hours. Such men are usually nearly talked to death. A good hater is a bad man to him- self. He always keeps himself on tenterhooks. Cy Cymbat®s no saint, but when he says some of his pious neighbors do things that tickle the devil, he doesn't tell a lie. Worry and Fret are partners in wear tear, and they carry on a lively pitals. The farmer who cannot tell whether his cows pay for their keep or mot, would not believe a professor who could it. I like a dog that can tell a meigh- bor from a tramp; but Sam Psalter's dog acts as if all other men were vil- lains to him. The men who feed the world do mnot complain of the high price of living. They are praying that everybody may live high The more & prove daughter who knows s the piano than she urn is out of farmer’s bout playir the rural matrimonial race. who derns the cut them, wins his crops. The agriculturist worms tead of their gratitude an® los I have known a few felt proud to think that they ‘em. ir poisor men who just married Some women who could port folks said it was hame, but such fellows never reali a cheerful giver, he has any spe- :llows who give The Lord may love but dern if I believe :ial respect for these fe | other folks’ money away Miss Potts gets just as drunk on gossip as old Potts does on whiskey, and life at the Potts’ house is a merry-go-round. How much smarter is the human who gets scared at the comet, than the horse that gets scared at an auto- mobile? It does beat all find joy in a fallin, eggs and pork—there it for me. s consumers market on butter, no pleasure in The old hen turkey is strutting around same as she did last s pe when she hatched 16 turkeys and ra ed three of ’em. Some folks who have done no better step just as high! I dreamed old Brindie had triplet ousand dol- s about to up. Such is calves and that I g lars for them. Just clasp the money, I life. If people in this country today are voting as they pray, all I've got to say is, there is a very large opportunity for the improvement of their prayers as well as their votes woke JOB JOLTS. MUSIC AND DRAMA adopted last theater man- enthu- The open door D week by the southe created T ughout the south. —Junius Brutus, Ed- win and John Wil ypeared at the Winter Garden theater, New Y. No- vember 1864, in “Julius C R The three Bootl es; 1s been engaged by » part of “Dan- Winchell Smith's new Burnit,” which opens New York, on George W uzht Henry E. Ha iel Johnson™ comedy, “Bo at the Republic theater, August 22 ingers and ived here from \a"a“’\l—u Japan, have been en- opening attrac- Roof Garden, May 30. as one of the ein’s son which beings its s daughter of the late made Florence Reed. Roland Ree® who h. the psychic girl abandoned a star season to remai Kemper, who wi Broadway product Wagenhals & Kemper have post- poned the London production of “Sev- en Days” until next season, when the Rinehart-Hopwood comedy will be done there with an all-American cast, including some of those now at the Astor theater in New York. Of these will be Georgia O’'Ramey. obtained, manager Mare Signor alchi n opera kb i -year comntra his pupil, W. W. Hinshaw. beginning the first of next November. As basso his will sing the first rol Mephisto in French, Xothner Meistersinger” in German, angd the re- mainder of the pari in Ttalian, Poliare, the French dancer. cll!mi “the vgliest woman in th refused to come to Americ PD at Hammerstein's Rodf Garden this summer. She was to have sailed on the K. elm 1L last Tuesday, but Wednesday Mr. Ham- merstein received a cablegram which, translated, sa “Break contract of America. Leave not Kaiser. I mn- derstand have cattle and sheep where am to appear. Refuse play in garden.” Among the big new things at Dream- land, Coney Island, is a Borneo vill- age, Joe’s Alligator and ocodile farm, a reproduction of Florida’s ever- glades, with 1,500 living specimens: “The Devil's Thumb,” a black art show; and Alias Kid Allen, a specta- cle of events in the life of a convict, The Glaciers and *“Trip to the Pole,” the new ride in Dreamland, is the lar est and most picturesque on the Island. Bostok's Arena hus 200 wild beasts and 100 tamers; r “Creation” "he Canals of and the “Great diving Venuses, “Ocean Waves” and the “Rigmarole,” countless othere 'Felt Perfectly at Home. A man who traveled in a small dry ‘goods box says he experienced 1o great inconvenience. He had prebably been used to traveling in the upper Bl 2 s THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: third. Award made the last Saturday $2.50 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to in each maonth. EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin \fllll(. good home letters, good business letters; good help- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They should be in hand by ‘Wednesday of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. THE PRIZES FOR MAY. The Social Corner has received a lot of bright letters during May and it has been no easy matter to award the the editor and the readers of the Social a prize. The prizes for Ma ¥irst prize—J. E. T., Yanti Second prize—M. E. N Third prize—A Mother, North Stonington, Country,” $1. prizes. There are lots of these letters Corner prize, if the writers do not get are awarded to the following letter-writers: “Contrivance in Hard Times,” $2.50. . Dainty Tidbits for Little Folks, $1.50. “Room for Little Ones in God’s The winners of first and second prizes will please send ‘ull address so checks may be mailled to them. A Man’s Opinion of Home. Editor Social Corner: I'm a man, and I wish to remark for the benefit of all concerned that a house cannot be a woman's pride and a man’s com- fort at the same time. A sensible woman has written what “too much broom, too much hard wood, too much order, and home-life is spoiled for the average man.” Home cannot be too clean or too cozy. It can be too prim —it can be made a burning issue; but when it is it is time to take down the motto, Home, Sweet Home! Some women by a’ series of discomforts at- | tempt to make home comfortable, but they never succeed. e man who finds home an inviting leafing place and his wife a real comrade never be- comes a club man or a cracker-barrel philosopher at the corner gro It is natural to man to invite “soul to loaf, and he wife invite hers to loaf too, and to do it at home during respite m labor. A man who has to sacrifice himself to business one part of the day and sacrifice himself to his wife the other half yearns for the freedom he dreams of but must break away to experience. | Norwich. FRANK. | his iilkes to have his A Common Pest. Editor Social Corner: If there i one pest worse than another it is the ants which outnumber all other in- truders ten to onme and whether small or large are always a nuisance. There | are man methods for freeing the | house of them, some of which do not | work. This is the way [ have man- | aged to make the ants seek a living | elsewhere: Put a large piece of alum | into a pan; set on the back of the stove until it has all dissolved. Then take a feather—and after scalding and cleaning the shelves well with the feather, put the hot alum on the table | legs, where the fruit is on, the edge of the pantry shelves and on the door | sill so the ants will not enter. | This is worth trying: and I think it will everywhere be found effective. It is a joy to feel that one has tri- umphed over such a plague. MERRY MARTHA. Norwich. Dainty Sweet Bits for Little Folks. ditor Social Corne I wonder if there are any of the s who have little olks clamoring for a birthday i part, The following is delicious and i very pleasing to children. It is called the MarshmaHow Basket—Beat one-half cup butter until creamy, gradually add one cup sugar., two eggs, two table- spoonstul of milk, flour to roll, which will be about two and one-half cups- ful, one-half teaspoonful vanilla. First of all roli out the dough very thin and cut it in diamond shaped pleces which should measure about four inches between the opposite long ends. Now in the center of each of these I place a marshmallow, then fold the long points over it and press them together. Bake .in a moderate oven. It is in the baking that the transfor- mation takes place that makes a bas- ket of your work. The marshmallow will swell under the heat. In cooling off it contr: Bread Stic bread dough, hands until ke some of it out between thickness of a your the lead fry dough- to- vy rib- each roll the pencil, cut off in three-inch pieces, just in the same nuts. 1d tie three of th gether with different colored bat bon and place on a napkin at plate. Cocoanut Drop Cakes—Take one cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one cupful of milk, one cupful shredded cocoanut, hot lard, two cupsful of flour, two two teaspoonsful of baking powder. Place the cocoanut in the milk and let it soak one hour, then rub the butter and sugar together and add the beaten egss, the milk and cocoanut and lastly the flour, into which has been stirred the baking powder. Bake in well but- tered patty pans, frost nicely and the center of each place a small Amer- ican flag. This the children prize as a souvenir, appropriate for Memorial day. M E. M Use for Stale Bread. Editor Social Corner: What to do with end’s and stale peices of bread is a constant worry with the busy housekeeper. The bread pudding and perhaps the dréssing for meats do not take the whole of it. I have tried the following plan and found it very suc- cessful. For white bread cut the out- side or brown part from the pieces which may be saved for the graham or 'brown bread. From wsix medium loaves I take enough pieces to fill a three quart pan or pail, put in mixer with water to cover, let stand until soft, beat until there are no lumps in i When it is ready to mix, I then added one quart of the water saved from the hoiled potatoes, one table- spoon of lard, one half cup white sugar, | two tablespoons of salt, one yeast cake dissolved in water, have all warm, and add flour enough to knead thoroughly. Never keep stale pejcés in a stone jar as they keep moist and get mouldy. Keep them in a paper flour bag. or any paper bag in a very dry piace. I set mine on the high shelf of the stove until dry. P. H. Norwich, City and Country Life. Social Corner Editor: The man with the hoe is looked upon by many as a hayseed or muddigger. The people who make these remarks forget that the farmer feeds the world. No man enjoys more comforts of life than the farmer who breathes the beautiful country air and drinks the pure well water from the old oaken bucket, which cannot be found in the cit The farmer sits at The First Table” where you will not find wilted sweet dried up cucumbers, peas and aiso poor eggs and n which has been robbed of the cream and poor butter-the farmers will not u Experience is a good teacher, and as we have lived in the city and the country we know the difference. The city has many attractions which costs money and shortens life, while the country has many good things to prolong life namely fresh vegetables fromn the s-.rdm. pure air, one of God's good rest. greatest D) ood ter, | bitts | tell The toils on the farm are many times quite hard, so it is with the many average business man at his desk w works many hours when the farmer is reading his daily paper. More and more farms here are be- ing taken by .Gty peoplé every year. who enjoy the. coyntry life with the fresh morning air® from the western which needs no straining to the smoke which they find There was a time when it seemed that everybody was going to the city to live. Many are tired of city life and are returning every vear to the old New England farms for a quiet, independent life, where they have good gardens and can go out and pick strawberries which are not cover- ed with dust from carting and vege- tables fresh from the vines. These kind of people know that the farmers get out in the city. have a good living and do not call him a “hayseed.” RURAL DELIVERY. Danielson. Salemite on Children and Jelly Rolls. Editor Social Corn To say that T was pleased to hear from “A Mother's Heart” again is expressing it very mild indeed and I was also pleased and surprised to know that she is a native of Salem. I agree with her, too. in the matter of deceiving the children. There never can be an excuse for tell- ing e children an untruth. It is just as easy to coax them with pleasure that we can give as it is to make promises that we know we cannot fulfill. We must be careful, though, and not bribe too much, or our chil- dren will lose the power and desire to obey mother’s wishes. If we would have our children happy, vet at the same time well behaved, we must study them continually. The punishment we administer to one will not do for the oth Some children may need spank- ing oc jonally, but I believe with the majority of children a quiet talk with mother is best. She can help them to overcome tendencies to do wrong and greatly encourage them to do right. Do not let us make the mis- take of expecting too much of our children, or try to make grown ups of v because all too soon they will have to bear their part of the burdens of life. We should endeavor to fil their young lives with sunshine and love, striving to make the most of our surroundings and the things at our command to make life for the whole family happy and complete. recipe for jelly roll is eo good and economical I am going to send it to the Social Corner sisters: Two eggs well beaten, one small cup of sugar, four tablespoonsful of cold water, one teaspoonful of baking pow- der sifted in one cupful of flour. Bake in a quick oven and turn upside down on a clean towel, spread with jelly and roll, keeping the towel folded about it to hold in place until cold. SALEMITE. Colchester. Difference in Folks. Editor Social <Corner: So many little things fill our lives and either make us better, or the reverse. I recall one rainy - Monday forenocon having done a large washing and cleaned the floor 1 had three callers, two came to- gether the other a few minutes later. A and B tapped lightly, then walked in. Their rubbers were very muddy, but they did not offer to remove them. Seeing a plant in another room they went into that room, distributing the mud freely. At this time C came; she rapped and waited till I came to the door, then with her rubbers in her hand stepped inside, took out a sheet of newspaper from her jacket pocket, placed it on the floor near the stove and placed her contribution of mud thereon. When she left she folded the paper up carefully and took her rubbers and the paper to the door; not one spot, or speck, dig she make. I noticed the sheet of paper was a part of e Bulletin. I spent more than five minutes cleaning after the other two. It ie the little things we over- ook and forget, or don't consider worth while that makes trouble. The large ones are more visible, and we are more apt to notice them, but remember what makes the builders bricks—little grains of sand. Courtesy costs but a thought, and is our duty to others; as well as example. Let us try it, and see the effects. I B T Yantie. The Wonderful Value of Leav. Editor Socjal Corner; Wishing to add all the interest to the social cor- ner that I possible can, I wish to all the brothers and sisters the rful value in saving leav It is as good as money in the poc of the home-gardener. If properly cared for this fall, these leaves will be valu- able in the spring. They contain a great deal of nitrogenous matter, in fact a given weight of pear leaves is more than twice as valuable as the same weight of manure. Peach leaves almost as good as those of the pear. The leaves of such trees as poplar, locust. elm, or beech are ali, pound for pound more than equal to manure. The forests are real treasure houses for the man who is ready to go out and get there the loads of leaves that have gone to waste. The custom of using leaves for bedding for the horses, and cattle, and so getting them mixed with the manure, is a useful, and a profitable one. MISS MARY CHAPEL. we Rockville. The Vacuum, Cleaner. Editor Social Corner: I have kept house for fifty years. Every spring, in the good old fashioned way, carpets, mattings, etc, have been taken up thoroughly beaten and cleaned. T will confess, I looked forward this spring with dread to the usual up- heaval. My daughter suggested that I have the vacuum cleaner do the work and thus aveid all hard work and confusion. 1 thought about it a couple of days, aud then consented. Two men came bearing this new machine. They commenced in the chamberse and worked down to the dining room. After I had watched them work a while, I questioned whether that ap- paratus was really taking the dirt up as it claimed to do, or not. When the wenoucotll‘hlotthopm!n- paired to my chambers my th boards, looking for dirt. To my .n;prllel I could find ':onc. Now I'm not advert cleaner, but I ‘will say it is :!G‘W-m labor saving device, and I am wllun¢ and ready to drop old way new. SARAH EHZA.BE'!'H. Danlelson, Conn. Room for Little Ones In God’s Country Editor Social Corner: Going into my garden this morning and seeing the leaves just coming up into the light, it made me think of the poor little babies in some of the large cities. How those deu little ones would like to be out here in God's country with the flowers and birds! What a joy it would be for them, whose only play- ground is the city's streets. And who never see a flower wunless it is in one of the city’s parks, and those they must not pick. But the buttercups and daisies! Did you ever see a child who did not love them? Making daisy chains and holding the buttercup un- der the chin to see who likes butter? To think of so many little boys and girls who are negleoted—little children who get their food where they ecan, huddled together and sleep in alleys and cellars, they do not seem to be- long to any one. ‘What a great good it would be if we could only take them from the streets. How many criminals do you think could be saved in that way? Just think of those little babies who live in dark tenements in dark alleys, who never have what we would call pure milk, and what a blessing it would be if there were more fresh-air homes Hke beautiful Mount Lawn that was found- ed by the late Dr. Klopsch here in the state of Connecticut, There is enough land and plenty of empty farm houses lying idle that could be used for such a good cause, if some of our rich men would only share their gifts of money with the fresh-air homes, instead of giving all to colleges. I am sure that those very bables would, when grown to men and wom always bless them. How those little boys and girls who went to Mount Lawn used to lowe Dr. Klopsch! How sad they will be when the home opens in the summer and they do not see his face! T wish we had more such good men as Dr. Klopsch. As Jesus said: “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is ti > kingdom of God.” A MOTHER. Stonington, Conn WASHINGTON COUNTY, R, I, HOPKINTON. Business Transacted in Probate Cour( —Voting List Prepared. North e probate court held at the town iday afternoon the will of Mary Cundall, deceased, was admitted t probate. Her husband was confirme 4s_executor. Clifford E. Perrin was appointed ad« ministrator on the estate of the lat William D. Perrin. Frank Hill, Blishg C. Stillman and John A. Slocum werd appointed appraisers. The inventory of Allura J. Crandal{ was allowed and ordered recorded. The town council at the same meet. ing, as a board of canvassers, prepared the voting list to be used at the an- nual financial town meeting on the af- ternoon of May 26th. 3ills were ordered paid to the amoun{ of § E. Witter of Adams Center, egate from his association t the Seventh-day Baptist association te be held at Rockville this week, is 8§ guest at the home of Deacon Roge¥ W. Lewis. Albert Clark and family and .om Carpenter of Perryville wei auto t the home of John E. Welle Sunday afternoon. The annual financial town meeting was held at the town hall Thureday afternoon at 1 o’clock. "~ WEEKAPAUG. W. C. T. U. Session—Flower Miseion Day—Telephone Men Busy. The Ocean View W. C. T. U. met Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs, Sidney Chapman. In the ab- sence of the president, Mrs. G. T. Col- lins, Mrs. Clara Ennis of Niantic acted as president pro tem. The meeting was opened by reading from Matthew 5th chapter, Lord’s prayer in concert. A report from medal contest was given showing that $6.20 was cleared. new name was given in for member- ship, that of Miss Bessie Kenyon of Niantic. A poem, Nothing to Do, was read by Mrs. Ennss. The next meeting is to be held with Dr. Anne L. Waite at her home in Avondale, June 8th. Flower Mission day will be observed and all are requested to bring flowers that they may be sent to hospitals and places where flowers are seldom seeén. A fine collation was served by Mrs, Chapman and a pleasant time en- joyed. There will be no services Dunn’s Corner church Saturday that can are expected to attend the association at Rockville at that time. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rathbone are both suffering with severe colds. The telephone men of Westerly have been working all the past week in this vicinity, repairing and tightening the lines that were so badly torn dowm during tha blizzard last winter, ARCADIA l-ung Their Planting. A. callers Farmers Fi Farmers hereabouts have nearly fis- ished their planting. Mrs. J. R. Perkins is dn feeble health. Mrs, Celia Kenyon is ill, requiring the services of a physician. Mrs. Jane Hadfield, who has been ill for a long thme, is gradually im- proving. Clarence Babcock of South Kingston is making his annual call on friends in town. Mr. and Mrs, William T. Barber have gone on a lengthy visit with relatives and friends in Providence. ROCKVILLE Miss Phebe Crlndnll bhas returned from a lengthy visit in Niaatie and Westerly. The seventy-fourth session of the Seventh-day Baptist eastern associa- tion is being held with the church here this weel The meetings began on Thursday morning and will close Sun- day evening. The programme was given in Thke Bulletin on Friday. The Wretchedness of Constipation Caa quickly be overcome by Small Pill. Small Dose. ‘Small Prica. GENUINE must bear signature: