Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 2, 1910, Page 13

L. The Ways of Men—Sometimes Thay Act Wise, Sometimes Otherwise—Little Experiences with Cautious Feople —Foresight and Hindsight—Both of Advantage at ¢ Times—A Long Lock Ahead Eetter Than a Short Gne. (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) A neighbor of mine, dealing in fer- zers. lumber, etc., toid me what I thought a very interesting story, the other day. Among his customers is a big far- wmer who is always building or re- pairing and therefore using a great deal of lumber. One time, szveral wvears ago, he said to the dealer: “Any 1ime you see a chance to save me some monay by buying a carload lot I wish vou'd go ahead and do so.” Six months or so passed, and the dealer suddenly ran up against a chance to buy several car-loads at a phenomen— ally low price. He promptly took all he oould afford to buy for his own self—all he saw any chance of paying for—and then added another car for the farmer-neighbor. When the lum- ber arrived, he said to the latter: “T've bought you a car of lumber at such and such figures. It's on the track now waiting to be unloaded.” “You paid 100 much;” retorted the farmer. *I don’t want it at that price.” So Mr. Dealer had the “fun” of rak- ing the universe with a fine-toothed <omb to scrape together money to pay for the extra car. He did so, however unioaded it in his own yard, and wait- ed. He had bought on what his train- ed business judgment told him was an exceptionally low market: he had bought this particular lot under even that market. And he had offered the car-load to his neighbor at exactly cost, plus his two per cent. cash dis- count. Before the year was up, he had sold to this very farmer naarly two car-loads of lumber, including the very one which had been refused, at a profit of between thirty and forty per cent. Lumber took a suddsn jump: that which the dealer had bought at 330 went up to $40, $45, and even $50. And the deaier, who had been turned down when he madz his first offer to share an unexampled chance with his neighbor, charged the latter regular market price for that which he had to have six months later. Now comas in the most interesting part of the story. When the whole transaction was well passed, the lum- | ber all sold, the bills all paid, the books balanced up, Mr. Dealer told Mr. Farmer just what the latter had actually paid for the lumber, and how much it had been offered him for, at +he outset. When the buyver saw just | #iow much money he had lost, he got mad! What had he to get mad over? Blessed if I know. He had the chance to save money offered him, handed to him on a piatter: but he deliberately refused to take advantage of it. I can see where the Gealer had the right to some indignation, but just how the other fallow could get mad at him, I cannot explain. Nevertheless, he did ao. 1 s'pose he is still unhappy about it and sore over that extra money he had to pay. Probably he is denounc- ing tha “middlemen,” and wailing over the way they victimize farmers. Well, | have no special love for the middleme most of you know that, by this time. And I have, if not a real love for my fellow farmers, at least a very present and sincere sympathy with them in their tasks and burdens. a very real anxiety to do something or say something, in my little way, which shall make those tasks cheerier and those burdens lightar. We shall none of us however take any progress towards those ends solely by banging away at the other fellow; by denounc- ing his faults and complaining of his eed; by abusing him in privats or “resoluting ag’'in him” in public We'll do much more by attending to our own fences and occasionally chastising our own faults. We've got to do our work for ourselves; make our plans for our- =elves; win or lose for ourselves: car- ry our own loads on our own shoulders, We'll “git more forrarder.,” as they say down south. by amputating some of our own faults than by blaming others for theirs. One of the most serious shortcomings T see in the farming community, as a whole is the inability of most of us to take long views of things. We are short-sighted, can’t see much beyond cur hat-brims: narrow-sighted, too: can only lcok along one little line that is mearest to us and just in front of us. People who get ahead in this world are usually people who begin by seeing ahead. They take large and Jong views of things: look beyond their noses ‘and each side as far back as their ears; try to forecast the future at least to the middle of next week. Why, there are lots of farmers in my wn town who don’t know how much ed they use in a vear, or how much costs them. or whether they get 1 or only 89 cents back for ¥ ollar's worth they buy. Three or four | vears ago 1 had the chance to buy a carfoad of bran at $17.80 per ton, on the tracks at miy station. It was then retalling at $22. I couldn’t handle the whole carload, but I have neigh- bors who use it and I tried to make a neighboshood combination to buy that ecarload and divide it up. T put in a whole day in hunting up bran-users and explaining and arguing with them. At night T had found place for just seven tons and a half. That left ten tons for me to look after, and as I use less than a hundred a meath, the year 'round, 1 had to give the whole thing up. nating fact Two of these Here is the most about that defeated hope neighoors, both dairying farmers, told ; used very little bran—“not a ar,” both said, and they were to take the risk of buying and storing a large quantity. Yet one of those two bought and paid for s2av- en tons of bran in the year following my the carload, and the aid for over five I know, for I saw the charges against them on the dealer’s books. Moreover, they paid prices run- ning from: 0 a ton to $26.30. Those two men simply threw away about $75 that year on the one item of bran, which they could have saved had they used more hindsight and foresight. They are both economical, hard work- ing chaps. But they have got into a sort of “hand to mouth” style of living, which takes account only of immedi- ate and pressing needs, and cannot dis- count the future's uncertain demands. When bran went up to $26.30 one of them drove five miles to another town to get five hundred weight at five cents a hundred less. He could gee that twenty-five cer he saved, but he couldn’t see the chance he had missed to save more than as many dollars. When, later, he was told that he used five tons and a half of bran the year before. he indignantly denied it as im- possible. He knew better. He wouldn't even believe the dealer’s books till he had hunted up his own receipts. “Well, I wouldn’t never ’a thought it,” was all he had to say when his own ac- counts told the true story. He's got so near to taking a long view now that he is buying his bran by the ton, in- stead of by the five hundred, as he used to. But he can’t even yet screw up his courage to tmke five tons at a time, and eliminate all middlemen’s profits by j hg with others and buy- ing by the carload If there is any bWsiness on earth which demands of its adherents pre- vision and look-ahead-ativeness it is ours of farming. Every spring, when we break up the soil for our crops, we are panking on the summer for grow- ing them and the fall for harvesting them. We are discounting the future every time we pull a weed or shake a hoe-handle. You planted corn on the freshly turned sward, last spring, with a definite plan for next vear’s oats, and the following year's clover and the suceeding timothy or red-top. When you began hauling manure on the patch in March, 1810, you had a clear vision of the oats of 1911, and the clover of 1912, and the timothy of| 1913. Way back on that cold, blow-y day of last spring vou were working for a crop you expected to cut in July, 1812; you were working for that hay as much as this year's morn. There's nothing speculat or dreamy about that sort of foresight or longheaded- ness. Why not carry the same thing over into other details of your life and work? Why not look ahead and make fairly accurate forecasts of what lum- ber and bran and nails and sugar and machine oil and the like you're going to use in the future—and then watch yvour chances and buy them on a low market? There's the barn roof. Say it will “do” a little while longer; you're not compelled to reshingle it right away. But you’ll have to before long; the olq affair won't shed rain much longer. It's as certain as the coming of tomorrow that you'll have to shingle it in this or the coming season. Then why not keep vour eve lifting towards the shingle market? If you wait till the last minute—till the rotten shingles wash off in some hard shower—then you'll have to bt new ones at what- | ever price the dealer sees fit to ask. You'll be between the devil and the deep sea, and absolutely at the mercy of one or the other. But, between now and that time, if you have the proba- bilities always in mind, there may, per- haps, come a drop in the shingle mar- ket which will enable you to save a few nickels by buying a stock in an- ticipation of future need. The man who waits till he's hungry before he plants his potatoes will have to fast a long time before he gets any of that crop for dinner. The man who uses his last fence nail before he or- ders a new supply may have to take the clothe: e to tie things together with, while waiting for the fresh keg. The man who, in working or playing, in buying or selling, thinks only of the | present is and alwz will be at the| mercy of the man w in terms of tomorrow. TI ARMER. OUR FOOLISH RICH. Of all the fools, when it comes to matrimor the Ame in men and wo- men of hereditary w th easily take the lead. Here, now, is Alfred G. Van- derbilt, unmindful of the experiences of sundry of his millionaire contempo- | ravies, dangling after an actress and | bestowing upon her without stint in | rare flowers and jewels, the wealth that is his share of the fortune found- ed by old Cornelius Vanderbilt and S thrifty wife in the ferry and boardi house business. While it is not proba- The I mport&ni Probiem confronting anyone in need of a laxa- tive is not a question of a single ac- tion only, but of permanently bene- ficial effects, which will follow proper efforts to live in a healthful way, with the assistance of Syrup of Figs and Blixir of Senna, whenever it is re- quired, as it cleanses the system gently yet promptly, without irritation and will therefore always have the preference of all who wish the best of family laxatives. The combination has the approval of physicians because it is known to be truly beneficial, and because it has given satisfaction to the millions of well-informed families who have used it for many years past. To get its beneficial effects, always W the genuine manufactured hy the ble that the advice of some of the sons of Jay Gould would be worth a farth- ing upon ony other subject, they sure- Iy are competent to zive some points worth while on this subject. However, men of this type are not scrupulous when it comes to shifting matrimonial | bonds, nqr are certain actresses super- | sensitive] in such matters, Since | children are seldom born of such mar- | riages, they are not so very mischievous | after all. They are not taken serious- | ly enough. either by the public or the\ participants, to constitute a mockery : to the sacred institi which | homes and families founded. —Portland Oregonian. on upon are ¢make a tour of Cannon Will Be There. “God wiiling.” piously observes Mr. Cannon, “I'll be here next session, and it is for the republican magjority to peaker.” This leaves the incubi of nnonism on the republican party in the coming campaign, and ought to be worth thousands of votes to the demo Providence Journal. Vogue of CQIIArIau Gawng. The vogue of the collarless gown for little folks, as well as grown upfs, has made it possible to obtain some real bargains in the shops in high necked frocks. Many of these may be chang- ed to the collariess with only a little work on the part of the skilful needle: Wonman. & ats. Sam@ntha Psalter says Parson Daw- son was too personal when he said from the pulpit, looking straight at her: *“To stop the tongue of siander, stop your own.” Bill Bangs says he doesn’t see why every good plant has a bad bug to] destroy it. It is in the divine plan to make man work for everything he gets. The way to drive a pig is to head him in the oppesite direction from which you want him to go and he will do the rest. In cur pious, God-fearing community there is no sentiment that finds more general endorsement than when Deacon Danforth says in the conference meet- ing: “We're all poor critters.” There was a time when the farmer got all the cream and the hired man got skim-milk; but in these days the hired man takes the cream and doesn’t care what the farmer gets. Cy Cymbal's wife is in the field most of the time, and Cy says there's no hired man problem at his house. Sariah tells me some masterly writer says: “When you lose vour temper don’t look for it!” Yer can't, I told her, for that's about the time you lose your head. Parson Dawson told wus that the house in which there is enmity, ex- travagance, contempt, wrath, strife, envy, and opposition, has seven devils for its guests. According to that most families entertain a few little ones most of the time. I should have known Parson Daw- son’s boy had just graduated if he hadn’t told of it. Says he to me: “Mr. Joit, what becomes of all the tomor- rows?” I looked at him in sorrow, T know I did, and said: “You derned fool; we never had one!” Jerusha Jones says she can't see why women praise living husbands so little and dead ones so much. You see, Jerusha never married. An hour's work on the farm in the early morning is as good as two in the afternoon. Perhaps this is why farm help are calling for shorter days. Bill Bangs' wife says he must have been designed for a fourth-class post- master, he enjoys doing nothing so. Those editors who tell us, “Swat the fly” are the bald-headed fellows who are always swatting but mever hitting him. They say the windows of heaven do not open any more to shower the crops, for science has discovered that there are mo heavens above us—it's just endless space and airless vacuum. Who cares if milk is populated! The Russians believe there is no luck in a new house unless there are bugs in it, so they take them in their hats. A hungry tramp as merry as a cricket called the other day and T ask- ed him what made life so joyful to him, and he exclaimed: “Hope paints the future fair!” I said to him: “If the ghost walked it might be different with thee!” Then I noticed he winked at Sariah. Red Rodman doesn’t look like a dreamer, but I think he is. He says “No man is alone who is accompanied with noble thoughts.” That may be so, said I, but it makes this a derned lonely “'Orld for most of us. MUSIC AND DRAMA Austin Story is maklng a new ver- sion of “Rip Van Winkle” which Cyril Maude is tc use in London in the fall. Henry Miller is soon to go to Lon- don to appear in his present big New York success, “Her Husband's Wife.” going Andrew Maeck is to T.ondon { next month, and it is reporlr‘d that he wants to make lans to appear there next spring in some of his Irish plays. Tt is announced in Paris that Mlle. Marie Kounsnietzoff of the Imperial opera at St. Petersburg is to sing at the Metropolitan opera house in New York during January. According to The New York Review, the Messrs. Shubert have engaged Miss Bertha Waltzinger for the role of Mme. Poquelin with Frank Daniels in “The Belle of Brittany” next season. Miss Billie Burke has closed her long season in “Mrs. Dot” and gone to Cornwall, Eng., for the summer. She wTll play “Mrs. Dot” for a while in the fall before trying a new comedy. Lehar is not a one-operetta com- poser, after all. While his “Merry Widow” is by no means a back num- ber yet, his “Prince’s Child” passed its 200th performance in Vienna some weeks ago. Daniel Sully, the actor, died Satur- day afternoon at his farm at Wood- stock, Ulster county, N. Y.. of dropsy, after several months' illness. Mr. Sully was also known in his day as a circus performer and as 2 playwright. Anton Witek, the new concertmaster of the Boston Symphony orchestra)| who is to assume his post at the bhe- ginning of mext season, is engaged for a period of five vears. His salary is reported by The New Music Review at $8.000 a year. and this is conceded to be the high record for an orchestral player. He has the reputation of be- ing a soloist of artistic ability and also has had expefien('e as a conductor. John Phl"‘p Sousa and his band will the world, leaving | New York for London, the first city on the itinerary, January 2, of next year. All the prin ipal cities of Burope will be visited by the famous bandmaster and his organization. The Antipodes will then be visited, and the return to the United States will be made by way of China and Japan, thence to t"he Paeific coast. The time consumed will be about one year. The Deacon’s Parable. A self-conscious and egotistical young clergyman was supplying the pulpit of a country church. After the service he asked one of the deacons, a grizzled, plain-spoken man, what he thought of his morning effort. Waal,” answered the old man, slow ‘Il tell ye in a kind of a parable. 1 remember Tunk Weatherbee's fust deer hunt, when he was green. He fol- lered the deer’s tracks all right, but he follered em all day in the wrong di- rection.”—Housekeeper. The New Plan. “Own up, now. Who's the head of vour family?” My wife used to be,” admitted Mr. Enpeck. “but since my daughters are 1RSI S . NI I o ARSI i third. Award made the last Saturday THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $2.50 to first; The Bulletin wants zood home letters, ful letters of any kind the mind may ‘Wednesday of each week. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, DO NOT DEF The object of the Social opportunity for the many. every week and there is n spirit prompts you to write the Corner will get some good things out of the adding a few good things to it. The number of bright and able writers, and celled anything The Bulletin had sources are dependable and first-class. New danger of a Corner will all enjoy a pleasureable and memorable, safe, Fourth.—EDITOR SOCIAL COR Editor Social Corner: I have a hus- bamd who always scolds because it takes women so long to dress. And [, may tell you, although I should not dare tell him, that he sometimes seems to nve as the most unreasonable brute. | When we are getting ready to go any- where he calls out, “Eliza, where is this and where is that,” and I cannot make much progress until his duds are placed before him: and then he is very likely to ask me if I have seen his safery razor, or can I imagine where he left his dress-boots. Then he scolds because I am so siow. He isn't a rdre bird, for he is just like some other ‘husbands in my circle of acquaintance. I should like to know of one man who is self-reliant, keeps track of his| personal belongings and needs no waiting upon when dressing to go out with or without his wife. Is there any way to make such a husband pa- tient and reasonable? l ELIZA JANE. Central Village. [You must have one of those h bands charitable wives speak of apol- ogetically as meaning well but rarely doing well. The adult stage is not| of easy reform. The church charges us to take one another for better or for worse and often it is worse than either side thought. The way t0 get the best of such a husband it to ignore his gibes. Keep him hunting for his things and hurry on your own and you soon will have him beaten. It must be tactfully done—back talk does not work as well as silence. Most people when excited say too much—wise folks keep stil It is his business to keep track of hi raiment and accessories, not vou and if he has any reason in him he will recognize this point. The only way to teach patience is by practicing it. One good example of patience is worth ten tirades upon the subject. If all could do as well as they can ad- vise there woulld be no question wheth- er life is worth living. Life is worth tving when lived worthily. Remember this, Eliza Jane, and operate from your inward self outward and vou may accomplish all you desire.—Ed. Social Corner.] Whetting the Appetite. Editor Social Corner: Whetting the appetite takes quite a little planning ana thought in these days and at this time of the year, especially when the purse : is lean. I had a friend who was Il and in a poor condition come to call | on me, and in the conversation it came out that nothing eaten tasted good— it was sickening to see so much on the table. Well, oftef there is more than half too much, and too poor, and not well cooked. Serving is over half of the battle. I put a medium-sized pep- per into a coffee cup covered with hot salted vinegar and let stand half an hour while I peeled two potatoes and made them into little pieces the size of a lima bean; after washing | them, dried in a clean linen towel so as ' to abstract the water, fried them in hot fat, skimmed out into brown or | buttered paper, cut a thin slice of boiled ham and placed on pretty plate; removed pepper from vinegar, took out | seeds, frimmed stem a little, filled with | warm fried potatoes, replaced top on Pepper, set the .filled pepper in middle of slice of ham and placed three fresh warm biscuit the size of a silver dol- lar and less than two inches thick on | one side and a piece of butter cut in | fancy shape, on the other side, a tall, pretty glass not quite full of cold | strained tea. with very little sugar, | wvas all. T felt well repaid for my trou- | ble. There were no crumbs left tol throw away. Doesn’t some one feelj hungry? . E Yantic. The First Reading of Letters. Editor Social Corner: T thought T should like to ask you If it is right for my parents to open my letters. 1 am in my teens and I feel as if letters ad- dressed to me are as exclusively n as letters addressed to my parents. I do not like it, but I cannot seem to heip myself.” LYDIA. Norwich. Your parents are creating for you an atmosphere of suspicion which is not healthy and are clearly invading vour rights. Perhaps your father reads your mother's letters before she does. | and that personal rights and privileges | are not held sacred in your home. | The home in which a wife's or daugh- ter's letters are not considered private property has in it the ecle of tyranm Suspieion and . di lurk there and it is not the kind of mosphere in which pure, healthy, sclf- respecting children can grow up. Your parents have just as much right to breas the seal of your letters and read them as they have to read mine. 2d. Social Corner. A Handy Bug-Killer. Editor Social Corner: There are many inexpensive ways of keeping the bugs ' down in a_house. It is said that vigi- Jlance is the price of liberty. I have found that under some circumstances | that it is the price of comfort. Just | procure an oil can with a long spoyt, such as is used for oiling an engine. Fill with gasoline, then add 20 to 30 drops of carbolic acid, according to strength of acid. Squirt the mixture anywhere and everywhere—it will not hurt bed or bedding or wall paper or vaint. . Squirt behind pictures molding, pic- tures, baseboard in closets, all arouna door frames or any place where there is liable to be a nest. What a correspondent savs about her experience is we ing in the Corn Read thi wili keep at the bugs every few weeks wyou will get rl bug. ne matter how many 1 lived in New York aj know -nmllhh!& alhout to me d of every you have. tments and T ugs. T am an hlhn\o is myi experiment and £ Corner is {ers,ana jof $1.50 to second; $1.00 to in each month, EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. good business letters; good help- suggest. They should be in hand by Write on but one side of the paper. Norwich, Conn. ER WRITING. not to tax the faw, but to afford contributors are coming to the Corner there being too many. When the do not say: “l,et Ann do it!” You Corner and should find pleasure in Corner has been favored by quite a the practical contributions have ex- right to expect, which shows our re- We hope:the members of the Social as well as a sane and ER. there is no doubt as to ness. SALLY its effective- LUNN. Loneliness. Editor Social Corner: Persons who have no habits of self-entertainment suffer intensely from lonesomeness and very few of them ever tell of their dis. tress or their methods of pvercoming it. Home building in a strange city is a hard experience for a young woman who had abundance of friends and so- ciety at home. 1 have had a taste of it myself, and T could find no relief, but a friend confides to me that she was 8o downright blue and lonesome of a recent dmy that she simply could not read or sew, and there sat those chairs just staring at me and not even moving or saying a thing. She tells it in this way: “Well, I just put my feelings in- to words and upbraided those poor dumb articles of furniture for being so thoroughly unsympathetic “Did it relteve my feelings? It most certainly did. Before 1 had finished talking the humor of the situation struck me, and I found myself laugh- ing outright at my own ridiculous con- duct. That of itself proved to me that tions had not been without fruit. since, when 1 just have had to I've addressed the furniture. I have lived in the city long »ugh to have a circle of friends, the furniture may not get so much atten- tion—at least conversation-wise, she concluded with a smile.” This is a queer remedy; but the quaintness of the cure is of no ac- count so long as it works well. Tt is no worse to talk direct to one's furni- ture than it is to talk to one’s self. The way out is what a lonesome per- son seeks, and this is one way. LONE FLOWER. Cheap Talk. Editor Social Corner: Although gos- #ip is not confined to any sex, when there istalk of gossipsitis usually in- terpreted as referring to women. 1 do not think that the women are more ad- dicted to gossip than the men. There appears to me to be as many good converszationists among the women as the men. Cheap talk is the every-day k of both sc The human mind take to light rather than E There is no real good \\'!!)’ yvoung men and women yuld talk about “sweet little noth- ings" when re in one another's society,” but have done it for un- numbered generations, doubtless, be- cause it is more agreeable than argu- to the point. There are lines of intellectuality that call for no argu- ments. Conversation that is edifying is food to a hungry mind. Those who talk sense are too rare; but what a pleasure it is to meet such a person. A WOMAN. Better Manners. Editor Social Corner: I am opinion that when grown-ups are ter-mannered the children will Ride out in an automobile and one is surprised by the lack of courtesy of of the bet- those who drive in the middle of the road and will not turn out. If there were not so many of them we might in charity think that some of them were deaf, but we have to conclude that most of them are stubborn. Then | we ride in a carriage and witness the speed and tooting of horns, and the general cussedness of automobile driv- while they appear to think that they are autocrats, we are inclined to think that they are lunatics and ought to be shut up in an asylum. I have trotted with both crowds and had my patience tried in both ways. Better- mannered people would be courteous and manifest a more obliging spirit. Prejudices and antagonisms grow out ill manners and serious accidents result. When the mule and the hog are combined in the human he is a tough proposition, and there is too many of his kind. BILL. To Put Up Berries. Editor Social Corner: [ wish to contribute a few heips about preserv- ing strawberries. Hull and wash your berries, place in a granite kettle in proportion of one cup of sugar to each quart of berries; let stand over night; in the morning there will be juice enough to cook them in—Ilet boil up three minutes. Berries canned this way will keep their color and flavor much better. Always have your jars thoroughly heated and use new rub- bers. Blackberries and Raspberries—Make a syrup of 5 quarts of water and six pounds sugar. (You know a pint of sugar weighs a pound). Boil it down to a mallon. Stem your berries and drop in your cans, shake the can from time to time to get in as many as you can, When the cans are full pour the syrup boiling hot over them, the rubbers and fasten tops put on tight. Put the cans into a kettle of boiling water and remove from fire. (I have the water come nearly to the tops of cans.) Cover closely and let stand until cold. ~Remove, and see that all tops are tight. Wrap in paper bags, place in cold, dark closet or cel- Any small fruits are equally de- lar. licious and satisfactory put up this way. You will be surprised how much they taste llke fresh berries, If you haven’t much faith in it, just try one can this year and next vear vou will do them all this way. When I do only two or three at a time I use an ordi- nary kettle, but if you wish to do a lot at once use the wash boiler, it is =0 much easier than cooking them ai®l and cooler, too, dishes to clean then filling lhv can stic 1 suppose many of vou have put up grape juice, but did you ever try bar- berry L it full as well, wash, cook In water to cover until soft: drain through a cloth. 1 make two grades—the first that drains through reawl clear, the next I squeeze is not so clear but tastes as good. Heat your strained juice boiling hot, fill your bot- tles, press in corks and seal with par- afine, T use small bottles—extract bottles, and such: because it does not Xiaas lone aster being ) A DOLLIE INTO & pitcher, Gl and sweeten to taste. well - lemonade; fruit, 5 lebrrry Juice ig very good to give in fevers. I use it in makin, - tine instead of a lemon. Pre in the usual way. adding juice o flavor. Mould plain or with fruits. If you have a bottle of bar Juice aever mind if you are “ten miles from a lemon.” 1 do hope the readers will give these recipes a trial. I have tried some of the recipes that have been contributed and they were fine. Wester! BEE. WASHINGTON COUNTY, R. 1. USQUEPAUGH Children’'s Day Observed—Summer Guests. Rev. Mr. Loftus preached Sunda morning. In the evening a Children’ concert was held which proved a @ cided success. The vestry was pret- tily decorated Much credit is due Mrs. Eva Franklin, Miss Grace Con- nell and Miss Christine l.oftus, by whom children had been well- drilled. Miss Annie'E. Kenyon of this vil- lage and lola Wilson of Westerly are attending the Y. W, C. T, U. at Silver Bay as delegates, Clara Webster, who has been teach- ing in Providence, is at ner home hers the for vacation, Helen Lamond visited in Providence last week. Sunday, R. Carpenter was the .t of John Lamond, who is at his home here from Yale. Mrs, A. C. Kenyon and two childran are visiting Mrs., Fred Crandall at Waesterly. Amos H. Kenyon was in Exeter Mon- day. There are three canoes in the village pond. Amos H. Kenyon and Mrs, Fanny Bicknell made a trip to Hamilton on Wednesday. Mrs. Kenyon is slowly improving af- ter a long iliness. Mr. and Mre. William Bagiey of Westerly have been ving at the Bagley homestead, as has the former's brother, Charles Bagley. Mrs, Sarah Tefft of Exeter is visit- ing at Mrs, Caroline Palmer's, Mrs. Esther Kenyon is visiting her brother, Samuel Hoxie of Exeter, ROCKVILLE Kenyon Recovering from Sur- gical Operation. Les! Master Leslie Kenyon, who was op- erated upon for appendicitis last week while not thought out of danger, is comfortable. A number from this place attended the supper Wednesday night given by the Wood River Aid soclety at the home of Mrs. Mary E. Barber at White Oak farm, Miss Lottie Burdick and Mrs., Charles (‘randall vised at Pious HIill on Thursday, Miss Florence Barber i the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Charles Stone at Clark’s Falls. Mr, and Mrs. Abel B, Kenyon have returned from Wickford where they spent the past week, Miss Alice Barber is the guest of her sister, Mrs, Emory Kenyon. HOPKINTON. The strawberry supper given Satur- day evening at the home of Wiliam S, C. Raymond, by the ladies’ of the Seventh Day Baptist church, was & success socially and financially. Carpenters began work Monday morning upon the house at Ashawa which is being erected for Rev. B. Mathewson, Oliver A. Clark, of Rockville, was hera Monday morning. A few farmers have commenced hay- ing. Example of Citizenship. That is a fine theory of good citi- enship on which Ex-Mayor Jay H. ff works, He went to the eity hall the other day and planked down a check for something llke 81, the taxes due on his versonal property He might have evaded payment of svery cent of this amount’ gince, as» he explained, the documenti proofs of his possession of the property on which fhe tax is due are where thery could be concealed from the taxing authorities. But Mr. “I belleve every thing to pay taxes them I owe my neighbors this money and here it is.” Not very many men of wealth re- their fellow citizens as ne rs, to whom Is due the just share the bearing of the public burdem. Neff goes on this theory: man who has any- on should pay of { The disposition far more prevalent is the fellow citizen as a to look upon possible bearer of both his own bur- den and the other fellow Men who uld scorn to steal from their not scruple to thieve from thes city, state and nation By the evasion of their taxes and Iif there is any form of theft more des- picable than another, it is that prae- n. »d by men who are amply able to bear their sharc of the public tax burden, but shift it to the shoulders of others, many of whom are far less able to bear it. Mr. Neft's cgde_of citizenship ethies is one which commends itself as an exalted ideal of the relations ist- ing between the eitizen and the pub- lle. It is one of the tritest of aphor- isms that if every man did his fun duty in his relations toward the com- munity nobody's burden would be as heavy as it is. The payment of taxes is a distasteful duty, as humen ture is constituted, but such an exam- ple a= that furnished by Mr. Neff re- flects some of the credit on human nature that is in danger of being lost In the Might of other less inspir- ing examples —Kans; City Times, neighbors do No More Insane Fourth. Toledo has had five safe and sane Fourths. It has been as happy in t possession of the denatured celebra- tion as it has been proud of achisving the apparently impossible and proud of being the municipality to prove to the country how it could be done. The bedlam that once was the Fourth in Toledo ig searce conceivable to uw under the present resasonable regima of quict and safety. We can look back to that day., with its week or twe of ‘warming up,” as a nightmare walen from and never to be experienced again. The fire department mesd no longer dread those twenty-four hours of swift and continuous labor. The family doctors are the losers by many fees, but they would be among the last to complain or wish for the more pros- perous Fourth. After five of those safe and sane hol- idays there 8 no desire In Toledo to nourish any of the unsafe and insane celebrations with which some of our néighboring cities are still unfortu- nately affiicted.—Toledo Blade. ‘Utterly Wretched Nervous Prostration Lon‘lndun‘ R ound Upper Ber: Pa, write al years 1 n’; nervous prostration, and was utter!, wretched. 1 lived on bresd and beef tea because my stomach would not re tain ,mylnm‘ wlie, 100k many rew edies, but talued no reltet untd [ took Hood's Sarsaparilia, when 1 n’-n to gain at once. Am now ] the Pure, rich blood makes ...a nerves, and this Is why Hood's rnu, which purifies and en lood, cures 50 many nervous usunl