Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 26, 1910, Page 13

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) There’s one habit many of us farm- ers have—in common with most of the rest of the world—which tends in some cises to increasp our discomfort. As diecontent is not a desirable state of mind ar habit which tends to in- erease it is not a desirable bhabit. Therefore, it seems to me, this par- ticular habit is an undesirable i There, if that isn't a logical syllo gism, with,a major premise and a mi- nor premise, and a ‘conclusion, then T'm going to be sent to the foot of the class! The particufiar habit | have in mind, Just is the habit of taking the exception for the rule That's a kind of a sort of a general statement, @xnd may not strike you very forcibly, put in that form. Let's take an illustration or two: When 1 was a little boy, it ‘'was the custom of the school commiBsioners or school visitors whenever tliey came on thefr annual rounds to the little red school- bouse where I was confined with my fellows, to wind up their visit with speeches in which they told us that each one of us might become presi- dent. As I rocall those far-away effus- foms of superior wisdom, it is borne in upon me that this chance for be- eoming presi@ent was usually contin- '(rnt on eur being able correctly to "bound” New York from the map, to spell “peaple” with one “o” instead of thres “e's,” or to state off-hand a clear answer to one of Colburn’s sim- ple questions, such as, How many ap- ples would George have left if he gave Henrietta some and Alongo some and Benjamin some and himself half of the existing remainder? But the idea, whatever is variations and con- ditions might have been, was clearly #riven home to us that each one of us had a chance of becoming president. I #'pose the same sort of talkee-talkee made to the present generation, in oither red or white schoolhouses. Now there are about twenty millions of American oitizens in this country, ewch one of whom is legally eligible to the resiflency. A presidential term s four vears so, if & man lives sixty ears after attaining his legal m #, he will bhave just fifteen fhances—im poit of time alone—of Lecomirg president. Of course, every one of ihe twenty millions will also hawve fliteen chences. ¥ fifteen goes info 20,606,000 about 1,333,383 times, it would seem to follow that, while every one f The ki@s had a single chance of becomimg president, he had one [ n three mundred and thirty-three thousayd three humdred and thirty- e <hances of not becoming presi- . This is certainly rather big odds to bet cu, or to prohpecy on. But I that this one chance always bulked lorger ir our minds when I was one of the b , than the million ehances 'tother way. We heard more about i7; we thought more about it; in truth 1 fancy we came rather to @xpsct it. Yet not a single one of e “possible presidemts” with whom I used to go to sohool has thus far ac- tually got to be president. I am be- giuning to suspeet that none of us ever will. T'd he wililng, indeed, to Beg three or four to one that we won't. MNow suppose that llttle Billy Taylor, fifty years age, had refused to learn the carpenter’s trade to which hs was 'prenticed in due tume, because he ex- Poctefl to be preaident. And suppose thot Johnny Jones had refused to lsa’n unything abowrt the bricks apd mortar which were his gather's business—and re now hLis—because he wasn't going :c do work when he became g—&-m. x:d that Adoniram ref) to learn the art of 52:: and cabbages and cucum- m he was going to be presi- dent and have somebody else raise them jor hdn. Why. don't you see that RBilly Tavler, instedd of now having a nice Mitle homé and a nice little wife end a nice little family of children and randchildren—and more expected, hank you—instead of having these things Billy would have nothing but a pore head and a big grouch due to his Isappointment about the Whité House, o on. with the others and all the rest of us. Perhaps I'm wrong (I'm absolutely rertain of very few things, any more), wt I think, perhe; it mrght have been just as well m a practical giandpoint If we had been told that no @ue of us had one chance in a milllon of ever becoming president; that it was ® milion to.one that we should all Pave to worry along az farmers and Serpenters and blacksmiths and post- Suasters. and that we should all be hap- ier amd more useful if we just took 3 at was coming to us as resignedly ms possible, and proceeded to put in 1ves making the very dbest use of ke time and the tools and the oppor- unities at our hande, instead of trying ko bottie mooubeams or make Mother Toose tales come true. Byt that isn't the way of the world. [ In a while there's a rain- the horizon. Promptly i e're all of us more v chasers. Yet the evan- gscent ralnbow isnit anywhaere near as important tw f us as the regular &nd everydey suniight which is commoh and so free to all that gcldom st ®ne thing eoven Mve an once 50 we | 1 suppose you've heard of Josephine {of Missouri? She's the Holstein- | Friesian cow which has just finished a | six monuths’ milk test by producing in |that time an average of 93.4 pounds of | milk.daily. This is figured to be the |equivalent of 11.6 gallons daily. That is “going som eh? Apparently it means that sho'd fill four ordinary milk paile every day-——ill 'em so full that | the hired man'd be reasonably sure to spill come getting it to the strainer. | She’s a mighty good cow, that's sartin sure. But she's an exception—indeed, she's the one exception. No other cow in the world ever came within fourteen hundred pounds as much milk in Six months. So the records say. | Wouldna't it be very much like rain- |bow chasing for us to demand. each Jone of us, that all his cows should yhence forth give eleven and a half gal- lons of milk a day? What good would it do us to expect it and to get mad at them because they didn't do it? As a matter of fact, I suppose most of us will have to be satisfled with cows that don’'t average five gallons of milk a day for six monshs. For one, I shall have no kick coming if Old Brindle does as well as that. I'll bet that there are cows in the same herd with Jo- sephine which don’t do that—don't and won't and can’'t be made to. But we | hear all about Josephine—and we don’t hear anything about the several milion others who are the rule to which she is an exception. It's the some with lots of other things about farming. The institute speakers and the agricultural college professors and the farm papers are all the time full of storfes of wonderful crops or wonderful critters—some of which are probably true. Well, what of it? These rainbow-hued yarns are told just because they are rainbow- hued and. therefore, not usual. Most colts are born with four legs and their arrival on earth is not heralded | in the papers. When one is born with six or seven legs, he gets “written up” and we all read about him. Neverthe- less, most colts will continue to be born with four legs and, considering all things in their order, it seems to me a mighty good thing that they should be. Personally, I should prefer ls coit with four legs to one with half a dogzen. mixed up with the traces, plowin, more would be “two, two mut Artemas Ward used to say. And there are hens; the number angd size of hen stories, these days, are calculated to put ordinary fish storles out of com- petition. There's the girl whose father gave her ane chicken from the newly hatch- ed brood for her own, and she nursed it and took care of it, and it began to lay in the fall, and laid nine dozen eggs that winter with eggs at forty- five cents a dozen and next spring it hatched out sixteen broilers which sold at a dollar a pair, and that made a net profit of $12.05 from the fowl which didn't cost her anything and which the father bought the feed for. “Well, why can’'t every other girl do the same,” that's the question. Because she CAN'T, that's the first answer and it's enough for the pres- ent. That much advertised chicken was an exception and a freak. If all hens were like her and did the samea work, eggs wouldn't be worth forty- five cents a hundred nor broilers over a nickel a pair. We should all go to raising eggs and brollers and glut the market. Why, one year my white Leghorns laid_handsomely all through the winter. The very next winter a like number of similar pullets, same | age, same breed, same strain, in the same hen house, with the same feed and the same care didn’t give me an }sz from the time they began moult- ing in November til] the next March. If I'd been editor of a poultry jour- nal, T might have told of that first winter. but I should have kept mighty still about the second one. That's the way it coes all through the farmer’s year. There are some ten millions of us digging dirt and raising crops and animais. Some of us are going to be exceptions to all rules. Some one of us may be sent to congress, sometime, though 1 don't think that's likely to happemn right away; some one of us may be hanged for murder; some one of us may raise a cow that’ll give eieven gallons of milk a day, and someone a chicken that'll give him more eggs in the win- ter than ull the rest of the year. But we are, the most of us, going to keep out of congress and jail and are go- ing to have to get along with cows which fill the pali only twice a day and with hens that lay best when eggs are cheap. It's our duty as well as our privilege to do what we can to increage the average yield of eggs and milk. 'But it's worse than silly to pay over-much heed to these phenomenal exceptions which make up so unfair a proportion of the storfes printed about farming and farm products. THE FARMER. Why She Sues. In Pittsburg a woman is suing for divorce because her hushand has not Had a bath for six months. Pittsburg is a particularly bad place in which to go unbathed for so long.—Chicago Record- Herald ‘Ambassador Kerens, at Vienna, re- ports that the next international con- gress on refrigeration will be held in the United States. If You Care To Be Healthy Read the little book “The Road to Wellville” In packages of Grape-Nuis The food pays in good digestion and the rich Red Blood that makes for rosy health. “There’s a Reason” j 20 stumi Cereal Company, Ltd., Battle Creek, Michigan. Four are enough to get | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Councilman Haviland’s View of Water Conditions. Mr. Fditor: Now that our water supply is so limited, when disease and unprotected property threaten us with disaster, isn't it high time for action? This is no new condition. Some eight or nine years ago the court of com- mon council accepted and adopted the recommendation of the water commis- sioners when they approved of Pease brook, which the firm of Hill, Quick & Allen reported could be had with its large watershed and abundant water for $300,000, and when Chandler & Palmer were sent to make a more defl- nite estimate of cost they figured the cost $655,000, not including cost of land, moving of cemeteries, changing highway and paying damages to Six mills for water diverted from them, bringing total cost to say one million dollars. The majority of the council, .feeling that they were not elected to spend that amount when the city had only appropriated $300,000, and feeling that they had been imposed upon by Hill, Quick & Allen by their making a wrong statement as to cost, the council, against the wishes of the mayor, re- considered their former vote recom- mending Peas2 brook. This threw the matter again to the water board, who unanimously adopt- ed the Stony brook project, which had been recommended by most of the en- gineers who had at different times been employed by the city to look the matter up. The city council approved the action of the water board. The mayor re- fused to sign the bonds and on the grounds that a man has the right to change his mind withdrew from thinking it proper to spend one million dollars for additional water supply to recommending that it was only neces- sary to spend $75,000 on improving Fairview reservoir to make it ample for twenty-five years. Work was delayed on the action of the council by injunction proceedings and ascertaining the judgment of the court until after another city election, when tne citizens upheld the mayor. One hundred thousand dollars or more has heen spent on Fairview reservoir and Meadow brook. We are in a worse condition than ever. Whose fault? ‘The citizens and the mayor seem to have erred. There is a saying that “a man may be excused for being fooled by another once, but the second time there is no excuse.” The responsibility for our present poor water supply is en one man. You pick him out! Personally I am willing to spend a million or 2ven two million dollars, taking in both Pease brook and Gard- ner lake, if that amount is necessary to supply us with plenty of water, but I do not think it necessary. ‘Chandler & Palmer and other engi neers have told us that a reservoir at Stony brook, where the city now owns about 100 acres of land and water, would give us water the same -amount as Falrview. That being the case, and we have good authority for saying that it is, then the two reservoire should supply a population of 35,000. T would use the Stony breok resarvoir as a stepping stone to Gardner lake. When we need still more water a pipe line of about one and a half miles to Gard- ner lake could be easily put in. Gard- ner lake will be just where it iz now when we want it, but I fear it will be many years before it will be necessary to tap it. The Stoay brook nroposi- tion can b2 built for about $300,000, as per report of engineers. The saving to the city to the time when we hope to count 35.000, at four per cent. simple interest. on the dif- ference estimated cost of Pease brook and Stony brook, would be $28,000 per year. Do we need and can we afford to spend one million dollars for additional . ‘This is no matter to make a political issue of. Tt 1s a simple matter of business. Tha city 1s the firm and we are the stock- holders. J. D. HAVILAND. Norwich, Nov. 23, 1910 The Dismal Swamp Relics. Mr. Editor: Has it occurred to you that in the time past there has been relegated to the so-called ‘“Dismal Swamp” a great amount of important matter that would be interesting to the citizens, so far as it refers to the present situation of the city water sup- ply. Has it occurred to you also that we have elected to represent us in the city council six men who have been relegated to the same “Dismal Swamp”? If you should have over- looked this fact, I would refer you to the Council Journal, dated June 15, 1910, and to that portion of the same devoted to the mayor’s speech, from which I will quote: “and it is but fair to say to the mindrity members before action on the proposed rules, that if they shall be adopted no mem- ber of the minority in the council will be nominated for this executive com- mittee. This action will be taken through no discourtesy to the minor- ity, but to carry to a trial the com- mission plan (?). To place the whole responsibility for failure, if it falls, upon those whom the electors have chosen to effect a change in the ad- ministration, and to make each new member of the council a sharer in the responsibility of the administration under the new form.” If I remember rightly, these rules were passed (vote € to 6, with the mayor's vote deciding), and we must therefore have six duly elected rep- resentatives in the “Dismal Swamp.” ‘Would it be too much to ask of these representatives while they are handy to the Archives of the Dismal Swamp, that they look up these matters of in- terest. For instance, who was it pre- vented Norwich from having a water supply six or eight years ago by plac- ing an injunction on the movement? No, no; I don’t mean who allowed his name to be used, but who was really back of it? Why was it that the report of Mr. C. E. Chandler on the Pease brook supply, giving the cost approximately 66g, wthout damages to mill own- ers, was never printed, and is not considered in the present controversy? Why is it, that when at a joint meet- ing of the board of water commis- sioners and the executive committee, with the distinct agreement to place before the vpeople the different forms of water supply by first bringing up in regular form the Pease brook pro- ject before a city meeting which was promised to be called in fifteen days (this matter was before the council in August), and if this was defeated, to bring each of the different schemes in like manner until an agreeable sys- tem was found, we have not as yet, with nearly four months passed, had a chance to settle the question, and the vote of the board of water commis- sioners advertised as “unanimous,” when it is a well known fact that the board are not unanimous as to Pease brook. Why is it that the reports of the four or five eminent experts on the water guestion have been relegated to the “Dismal Swamp” library, instead of being used in the present crisis and a “little scheme” of all our own, given preference at the expense and discomfort of the citizens generally? All this, and more, worthy of at- tention. may be found in “Dismal Swamp.” but [ have water to luz. HO! FOR THE SHETUCKET RIVER A Taxpayer who thinks the republican half of the court of common council has shown as much intelligence on the water question as the so-called government by commission, and believes, if the question, had been left to the sugges- tions of Alderman Ely and Council- man Woodworth, we should have had a supply of water at the present time and not have to take a solution of chloride of lime in our tea and sof- fee. A. H. BREED. Norwichn, Now. 25 1310 - NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1910 'LETTERS FROM TWO STATES TOLLAND COUNTY STAFFORDVILLE Brief Notes of Local Interest. Rev. Robet Williams is the guest of relatives in Chaplin. Rev, Marion H. Jones, pastor of the Congregational church, spent Thanks- giving with relatives in Hartford. Mrs. Lina Booth entertained as Thanksgiving guests Mr. and Mrs. A. S. West and children of Bennington, t. Mrs. Effie Clark and daughter of Terryvifie are guests of Mrs. H. G. Dunham. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Miller and Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Bosworth and son Her- bert spent Thanksgiving at the home of Mrs. F. H. Ballou in Union. Mrs. Jennie Chandler and children and Mrs. Minnie Belcher and family were Thanksgiving guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor of South Coven- try. Rev. Dr. Isaac P. Booth of Stafford will occupy the pulpit in the Metho- dist church Sunday morning and eve- ning. Mrs. Lina Bosworth led the M. E. church prayer meeting Friday eve- ning. The topic was The Messenger nnéi the Saviour, Mal,, iii:1-4, Matt. iii: 1-3. . COLUMBIA Preacher Coming—Pupils Give Successful Entertainment. Yale ‘The pulpit was occupied last Sunday by Rev. Newton L Jones of South Had- ley, Mass. Next Sunday C. H. Plopper of Yale is expected to preach here. ‘The pupils of the Center =school, Miss Godard teacher, gave an enter- tainment at Yeomans' hall last Tues- day evening. The programme consist- ed of dialogues, recitations, etc. The proceeds are to be used for school purposes. ‘Mrs. Wealthy Parker is spending the Thanksgiving season with her grand- daughter, Mrs. Walter N. Battey, of South Windsor. Charles Palmer has been spending a few days with friends near Provi- dence. UNION. J F. Gage of Westville called on lo- cal friends last Thursday. Mrs. Luther Gardner fell last Satur- day, injuring her wrist. WASHINGTON COUNTY, R. 1. ROCKVILLE C. E. Society Carries Out Special Pro- gramme at Seventh-Day Church. At the Seventh-day Baptist church last Saturday at the regular hour the services were conducted by the C. E. society. The following programme was rendered: Song, The King's Busine: scripture reading, Phil. 2: 1-12; T John, 4: 7-¥, by Carlton Irish, president; song, Countless Mercies; prayer. D. Alva Crandall; prayer song, Sweet Hour of Prayer; collection: paper, How I Can Help This Society Serve Christ Better, by G. Carlton Irish; song, Where He Leads Me I Will Fol- y Can Better Its Service, Rev. 2. Sutton; song, O That Will Be Glor, paper on Missions, Harold R. Crandall; paper, The Recorder, Our Young People's Duty to Read It. How to Increase Ite Subscription, Mrs. Annie Kenyon; paper, Our Educational Interests, . Alva Crandall; sentence prayer for a A Model Trial. British institutions in recent have found many and severe crit but no one who studies the proceedings at the Old Bailey in the case of Dr. Crippen will deny that English justice affords a pattern to the world. In the words of the lord chief justice, who presided with s firmness, a decision. & capacity to go straight to the vital points, worthy of the supreme names in the annals of English judiciary, “the conduct of the case was a model.” Counsel for the prosecution and de- ferise alike discharged their painful and difficult duty with a skill and tact above all praise. There were no de- lays; there were no irrelevant pas- sages: mot a moment of time wasted. Technicalities were brushed aside. Swiftly, inexorably, with not an otfose word, right was done. An “extraordinary man”—to use Lord Al- vérstone’s phrase—who had “commit- ted a ghastly crime, covered it a ghastly w and behaved with bru- tal callousness,” was called to his last terrible account. Such a trial with such a result is a great service ren- dered to public morality and to the safety of the state, which must ulti- mately rest upon the prompt vindi tion of justice and tha sure and taln punishment of the trans hide his crime though he may. The press of the United State its comment on the trial veste (8 draws a signal contrast between the “gplendid” conduct of the proceedings in England, and criminal justice the United States. The Thaw trial is the natural example chosen for this comparison. In that instance eight- een months passed between the killing of Mr. White and the acquittal of Thaw on the ground of insanity, the first trial occupring no less than three months and eight days. Every kind of trivial hairsplitting was permitted In the New York court. If we turn to the Crippen case it was only on July 8 that the suspicions of Scotland Yard were first seriously aroused.— London Daily Mail. Murder in Tennessee. Murder has long been a minor of- fense in Tennessee. In accordance with this theory, the courts now de- clare that Robin Cooper is not guilty of the murder of former Senator Ca mack. Killing one’s fellow-man in that state is not even a misdameanor. particularly if politics be involved in the case. Cooper and his father killed Car- mack. Both were convicted. Their cases were taken bafore the state su- preme court for review. This court refused to take any action in relief of the elder Cooper®and Gov. Patterson immediately pardoned him. son escapes all punisment for what would be considered a capital offense in_most other states. The pardon of Cooper led to the complete undoing of Patterson: and in his fall ha dragged down his party in thai state. For Tennessee last we. elected a republican governor. Politi- cal events sometimes move swiftly when some act of peculiar flagrance incites a people to righteous indigna- tion. Thus ends the Carmack incident. so far as the courts are concerned. This primal right of a Tennessean to mur- der is established beyond <cavil— Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Secret of Cheaper Living. Wew farmers hope to rival the suc- cess of Perley G. Davls of Granby who has made a new world's record in corn growing, raising more than 103 bush- els on a single acre. but theyv can find in it a plenty of encouragement for better work in their own cornfields. If thay do, it will mean a lot to the foodstuffs Citlzen. industry. —Lowell Courier- Of the 16,000.000 tons of salt pro- duced in the world each year, the Brit. 1sh empire -provides $500.000 tens.- was | up in | Now the | better society; song, Il Go Where You Want Me to Go; C. E. benediction. Personal Items: ‘Mr. and Mrs. Elisha C. Furdick of Westerly were guests Saturday of Miss Lottie Burdick. Eleanor Clark and Mary Burdick of Hope Valley were guests of Miss Ella Palmer Saturday. Henry A. Saunders is attending the superior court at Kingston this week as one of the petit jurors. USQUEPAUGH Family Dinner Parties on Thanksgiv- ing—Po_anll Notes. There was a family gathering at A. W. Kenyon’s Thanksgiving day. J. C. Cahoone of Wakefield and Joel M. Kenyon of Midway were callers at Dr. Kenyon’s on Thanksgiving. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Kenyon enter- tained Mrs. Kenyon’s mother, brother and two sisters Thanksgiving day. The family of Eugene Handell met at_his home Thanksgiving day. Mrs. Anna Wells has sold her pony and outfit to Miss Bertha Harris. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Webster kad the pleasure of entertaining their children on ‘Thanksgiving day and all partook of a fine turkey dinner. Mr. and Mrs. John Briggs have gone to Glenrock to care for Miss Sarab E. Barber. Mrs. George S. James and Bertha Harris were guests at A. W. Kenyon's Thanksgiving day. At the Pier. Hattie Potter and her sister, Kelly, are visiting their sister, Mrs, Mrs. ers. Franklin, here. All spent Thanks- giving with their niece at Narragan- sett Pier. Mrs. Harry Wells is spending this week at Shannock Hill. Mrs. Caroline Palmer and daughter are in Westerly. HOPKINTON. Visitors and Travelers During Holiday Week. Mr. and Mrs. Jason P. S. Brown were guests of friends in Mystic over Sun- day. Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Swan of Preston visited at the home of Jason P S. Brown last week. The family of John E. Wells are spending several days in Perryville, where George A. Carpenter, father of Mrs. Wells, had an auction sale of per- sonal property this week. Attorney S. H. Davis of Westerly was a business caller in town Tuesday evening. . Miss Fannie Avery, who is staying with her grandmother in TPlainfield, was home with her parents over Thanksgiving. Fred A. Gardiner and family have moved into a tenement on Taurel street, Ashaway, for the winter. ARCADIA George H, Greene of Canterbury to Start Mill and Manufacture Mast Hoops. James Tyler has gone to Mystic to stay with his family. ‘Mrs. Jane Hadfield. who has been ill some ti does not make much im- provem in health. W. E. Briggs of Newport, R. L, is the guast of O. P. Bates and family. Job Rogers, Elmer Briggs of Appo- naug and Walter Covelle and Allan Covelle of River Point, R. I, were the guests of Benjamin Sheldon last Sat- urday and Sunday. George H. Greene and family moved from Canterbury, Ct, to Millville the past week. Mr. Greene will start the lmm here and manufacture mast hoops for sailing vessels. ne, What One Lynching May Do. For a murder so brutal that leeal punishment was certain, Antonio Rod- stake in Rock Springs, Texas. There have resulted anti-American riots in Mexico, the stoning of the houses of our consuls and other citizens and | insults to our flag. Because of pos- sible disorders the Sunday bullfight in Mexico City has been prohibited and there talk of a trade boycott of American goods. { President Diaz will not permit either rioting or the open organizing of trade tonight may mean suffering to- morrow, but not if your stomach, liver, and bowels are helped to do' their natural work by BEECHAM'S PILLS Sold Everywhere. In boxes 10¢. and 28e. boycotts. But without organization or | government complicity, such a boycott as China, in retaliation for abusive treatment of Chinese travelers at San Francisco, not long ago cost Ameri- { ean merchants millions of dollars. Our trade with Mexico is double that with China The most rapidly growing Mexican towns have risen where the railroads cross the boundary, so that Texas more than any other state would suffer by a break in friendly relations. Such material considerations might be ignored by a rich and proud nation conscious of being in the right. But the Texan unwillingness to punish the murderers of Rodriguez puts us in the wrong; it will be small comfort { to have to explain, with profuse apol- ogies and money indemnity, as we did in the case of the Italians lynched in New Orleans, that the nation is power- less to enforce justice in a refractory state. So many, so widespread in their ef- fect and so grave are the consequences which maz follow rne act of cruel mob lawlessness. Not By Corn Only. If it is the big corn crop that is ! bringing down the price of meats, how is it that its influence Is felt before it is out of the shock, and why have pro- ons grown steadily higher since 1906, when the corn crop was almost as large as it is this year? The beef trust says that abundant corn and high prices for meats have stimulated the growing of live stock. Cheap corn appeared only recently and it takass more than a month to turn corn into pork or beef. Bumper crops ought to have a depressing ef- fect upon the food market, but as they have not always exerted that influence, it Is to be presumed that other causes have baen at work. ortion in food has been co-inci- with stand-pattism in politics. B dental It began when the stand-patters won their first great victory. It has In- | creased steadily through all the years of their ascendancy, and the turning point was reached only when they met |at the hands of both democrats and republicans an overwhelming reverse. The trusts and combines stood pat as long as the people did, and no longer. —N. Y. World. | Tolstoi. IFeebly battling ’gainst the storm Comes a worn and weary form:; ' Limbs that totter, eyes that blear— Just another broken Lear! —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Rheumatism Is A Constitutional Disease. It manifests itself in local aches and pains,—inflamed joints and stiff mus- cles,—but it cannot be cured by local applications. It requires constitutional treatment, and the best is a course of the great blood purifying and tonic medicine Hood’s Sarsaparilla which corrects the acid condition of the blood and builds up the system. Get it today in usual liquid form or chocolated -tablets called Sarsatabs. Judge Baldwin and the New York Tribune. Our neighbor will pandon us, per- haps, if we quote from another au- thority an admirable passage on the importance of “preserving thomse idtas of individual freedom of contraet in- herited from the fathers.” The cita- tion is not the less interesting and pertinent to the general subject be- cause the werkman's contracts to which it immediately relates are not exactly the same in purpose as those which the Cennecticut court of errors was considering. The constitutionai question of individual freedom of con- tracts, however, is the same: “If we wish to preserve individual freedom, let us go on to force the¢ great industrial corporations to re- spect the law and give their small rivals a fair chance. Then, on the other hand, let us insist that labor unions, while presenting as strongly as they may the advantages of asso- ciation, shall respect the right of every man to make his own contracts, if he chooses, and earn his living in his own way."” Our neighbor will find this broad statement of the principle of individual freedom of contract not in any mere judicial decision, but in the editorial columns of the New York Tribune of June 25, 1905. No political campaign was then in progress.—New York Sun. Due to a Sand Fly. A recent issue of The London Times contains a report made by a British physician who has spent several months investigating pellagra in Italy. TLast winter this scientist suggested that the disease was carried by an insect, which he believed to be a sand fly found in the parts of Italy where the discase is common. He went to Ttaly last ‘March and made careful observa- tions of individuals and families. He found, he says, that corn, either bad or good, was in no way responsible for the disease. But he did find that the appearance of the disease, whether early or late, corresponded with the appearance of the sand fly and that the disease was not found where the fly was ahsent. This discovery opens. an_entirely new field for investigation. It recalls the discovery that the spread of vel- low fever and certain other fevers was due to mosquitoes carrying the germs from infected persons. The sand fly to which this investigator traces pel- lagra is of the genus Simulium. Im the larval stage the Simulidae are aquatic They live, as a rule, in swift- ly flowing streams, attached to stones or stems of water plants. 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