Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 22, 1911, Page 12

THERE IS NO WORSE ROBBER 'I‘HAN A BAD BOOK THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 to first; $1.50 to second; §$1.00 to third. Aws-i1 made the last Saturday in each month. EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. The Builetin wants good home letters, good business letters; ful Jetters of any kind the mind may suggest. Wednesda, y of each week. Write.on good n.gg- should be in hand by dut one side of the paper. e Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDIT OR, Bulletin Office,; Norwich, Conn. SOCIAL CORNER STORY CONTEST We have received about a dozen So- cial Corner storfes, several of which are mnon-competitive, There are two week more. We shall announce the prize winners on Saturday, April 29th, “EDITOR SOCIAL CORNER, MAKE PRETTY FLOWER GARDENS Dear Editor and Sisters of the So- cial Corner:—Now that the beautiful spring is here we should cultivate the grounds outside, well as do our heweecleaning and decorating inside, We take away old draperfes and car- pets an such things as we think have outlived their usefuln a8 far as our purse 11 allow, and replace them with nice new ones. rything is apic and span from attic to cellar; and we should not have the inside laugh- < at the outside, for it takes but a very short time to rake up our door- vards. Take all the old roots and weeds. and dead grass away and plant a few pacl s of flower seeds. The Bulle- tin will tell you through its advertis- ing columns where fresh seeds may. be bought for only a few pennies; and what is more beautiful or restful .to the eye than to gaze on the lovely hiossoms of many hues, when one has . few minutes to spare? . IMorning glories and nasturtiums and wild cucumfer vines make excellent cover- ings for old stone w: sheds. Plant the s a ecouple of inches down and about a foot from whatever they are to cover; water each day, but not while the sun is on them. | have seen old sheds, fences, eic., transformed into things of beauty by these pretty vines. The latter part of April is the. ter time to plant, as we are not & of mueh frost after that. buttons, balsam, calfopsis, 4 four o'clock and marigold no tnubm}wfltfl_l;fl nmt aeu make .: beaut| v e, if a vegetah garden can be Planted in the back- are the panwies, candytoft. give - Of course, there sage and It ing plants peeping in at your window merning, noon and night? this to the outside world the theught that culture and refinement relgns within. Dear sisters, let us all plant a few flowers in honor of Him who puts. evi” erything beautiful within our reach. Norwich. MY-HY. A TENDENCY THAT SHOHLD BE CHECKED . Dear Sisters of the Social Corner:— A reeent magazine article chargir our American girls with a tendenéy to vulgarity in speech attracted my gt- tention. At first it aroused within.-me a feeling of resentment, for I love aur young people, youths and maldens, and 1 felt as the poet says: “Do_not look for wrong and evil; You will find them if you do. As you measure for your neighier He'll measure back to you. = * 1 prefer the next stanza: “Look for gcodness, look for gladness; You will meet them all the while, Tf you bring a smiling visage To the glass, you meet a smile” Yet when shown a possibility that wrong does exist, we must fece. it, that we may correct it. So if thers i8 a tendency among our young people to use the vulgar language in place ot tihe pure, we mothers should give the subject our serjous thought, for spaken words have so much influence, -uot alone on the hearers, but an even stronger reflex influence on the speak- er, and vulgar speech and pure| thoughts, with noble aims, eannot long keep company. ‘That we may correct it if the condi- tion does exist, let us be watchful of our own language that it may be pure and beautiful: let us try to secure a more intimate acduaintance wi? the friends of eur young people, and let ue be very watchful of the books they read, for, dear sisters, we are train- ing the men who must soon be-doii the werld’s work, and the wives Ofi mothers who by and by must take“our places. TLet us try to inculcate a léve for the beautiful and send them forth with pure thoughts and high and noble aims. 4 Colchester GLENWOOT: RAISED DOUGHNUTS. Bditor Social Corner:—=At mash a medium-sized potato inta wealded milk ome cup; add three- fourthe cup sugar, a teaspoonfhl salt, and set the mess up to become luke- warm; then asd one beaten egg, nne- fourth yeast aake disselved right in as little water as possiblc. set m a warm place Lill might, then add meilted Tbuster size of an e a pinch of soda, too, flour to mould; take out on your hoard and mould well a minute or two: return to dish and let rise over night; in the morning rell half an inch thick: cut in rounds not over two inches in diameter by the yard stick: Jay them out on the board a full inch apart: set the board in a warm place till neon, when they should be rigen all puffy and light and ready to fry woon. Be sure and not have the lard 100 hot; take the cake the board with care, put the upper side down' in the lard and fry them then and there.. It right, they will be as round as a ball and as Hght as a feather, I guess. Roll in powdered sugar as wanted to use. This makes forty, mere or less; and if your family is like mine, they will beg for another mess. [ find the most economical and sat- istactory way to sugar doughnuts is to ,put a smsdl quantity of powdered sugar in a paper bag: put a few don, at & time in bag and sh. L Neorwich. MRS. E. C. JEWBETT. SOCIAL CHAT—A WAY TO COOK EGGS. Social Corner:—T want te thank all whe responded so wel to my request for ire rream and sponge cake recipes. These 1_have have beem moon i hear from Ethel of North Stonington. | 1 suppose you are all into house- Try doing one room at a d see how much better it is than te upset several at once. I was glad to see-a recipe for vine- gar dumplings, but wish the writer had stated how long to cook them. I remember eating some when I was a child and they were “so good!” I am sending a way to cook eggs whieh perhaps some of you have never jtried. ' When you have only a few eggs, break them into & bowl: add to them some grated hread crumbs, two or _three tablespoons ot milk or cream, a Httle salt and pepper. Stir weil and pour into a& hot frying pan in which Vou. have soms meited butter, and 1 1 was rather disappointed not to, i Westerly. RECIPES FOR PIES. Editor Social Corner: I send two recipes for pies: Dalicious Cream Pie—Separate the whites and yolks of 4 eggs, add to the volks 1 cup sugar, 2 cups milk, 1 tabl mful flour made smooth in a little: milk; flavor with lemon. Beat all together and cook in double boiler. ‘When this is like custard, pour into pie crust, already baked. Beat whites of egg with 1 cup sugar. Apple - Meringue—Pare, slice and stew ‘sweeten, ripe, juicy apples; mash h, season with nutmeg or lemon Fill a deep pie plate with an undercrust, until done. Whip whites of 3 eggs for each pie, with 1 tablespoon sugar. Boiled Pudding—One cup molasses, 1 eup suet, 1 cup water, 1 teaspoon salt, 3 cups flour, 1 cup raisins and currants, 1 tesspoon cilnnamon, 1-2 teaspoon nutmeg. Secald cloth and flour it; leave room to swell. Boil 3 hours. Serve with any kind of sauce. LOUISE OF NORWICH. HOW TO CARE FOR CHICKENS. Editor Social Corner: I see the re- cipe in Saturday’s paper for ice cream read two cups and one half of milk; it should have beem two quarts and one-half. ‘Where you have only a few hens, or run an incubator, try the plan I am trying this year. Take a cheese- box, cut a place for air, also one for them to. run out, then cut out round of cotton batting, tie as in a flnflk lace chicks in cheese-box and y padding over them and they will be happy. At night close air holes Best wishes MOTHER-IN-LAW’S FRIEND, LACE PATTERN—ICE QREA_M. Editor Social Corner: Let me give & pretty lace pattern quickly made and Ch. eight, st..of chain, turn ch. 3 shells in shell ch, too, deuble in between space of last row, chain too, shell ‘in shell, ch. (5, turn shell in. shell, ch. too, double between the spaces of last row, shell in_shell. Anyotie can put a scallop on if liked. A Raised Cake Recipe—One yeast cake; let rise as for bread; then add two ‘eggs, one cup butter, one cup sugar, a little salt, one-half cup of | raisins, id a little lemon; put in enough flour to make a stiff dough; | let rise over night, then.make into loaves, let rise, bake. As there has been a call for ice| fxfi‘c‘fi" I _give a recipe we like very | Coffee lge Cream—One-half pound sugar, two one pint boiling milk, one Etnt -cream, one cup strong coffee, one-half cup flour; let all boil, cool and freeze. Hope this will not reach the wanto! basket, : I not, and any one would like directions for pretty Irish lace collar, I-will gladly send them. Columbia. . THINGS GOOD TO EAT. Editor Social Corner: I am sending a few odd recipea that I is- Sors Toite u—y. 1P hope the Sis: “ 3 Salmon Soramble—Melt one-half cu, buttar g :.] dd two-thirds cup chippe!p!‘ smoked on; cook for six minutes. | Beat five eggs into one-third cup of thick cream-and add to it; then serve on triangular pieces of toast. - Scotch Eggs—Make a paste of one- half of a’cup stale bread crumbs cook- ed until seft in one-third cup milk; { } | teaspoonfuls Parsnip Fritters—Boil, peel and mash four or five parsnips; add one table- spoonful of flour, one well beaten egg, butter the size of an egg, pepper and salt to taste. Form Into thin cakes, dredge with flour, and fry brown. Beef Croquetts—Two cups of fine- 1y chopped roast beef, one good si onion, one-half cup bread crumbs, and one egg lightly beaten. Mix well to- gether, add salt and pepper. Form in- to small cakes. Fry in deep fat. Doughnuts—One cup of white su- gar three tablespoonfuls melted, one cup of sour milk, one egg( one tea- spoonful soda, and nutmeg to flavor, and a little salt. RS. LEVI MAYNARD. Mystic, Conn. TESTED RECIPES FOR CAKE. Editor Social Corner: I herewith send a few recipes to the sisters of the Soeial Corner and all’ who read The Bulletin, in hopes they will help them in their daily duty: R One Egyg Cake—One-third cup cotto- lene, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful vanilla, half teaspoonful soda, 1 tea- spoonful cream tartar, 2 cups flour, 1 cup milk. Rub cottolene and sugar to a light cream; add the wwell beaten yolk of egg and vanilla; mix soda, cream tar- tar and flour and stir into the sugar mixture alternately with the milk; add the well beaten white of egg last. Bak™ in a shallow pan in a moderate oven about half an hour. Two teaspoonfuls of baking powder may be used insteaa of soda and cream tartar. Gilt Edge Cake—One cup sugar, 2 cups flour, 3-4 cup water, 3 teaspoon- fuls cottolene, 1 teaspoonful soda, 2 cream tartar, 2 yolks eggs. Bake in three layers. For filing, take three-quarters cup sugar in enough water to melt. Let boil up; add whites of two eggs, beaten stiff. Mix well: add one-half teaspoonful each vanilla and lemon. Put between and on top. White Mountain Cake—Scant half cup cottolene, 2 cups sugar, 3 cup flour, 1 cup milk, 2 eggs, 2 t fuls cream tartar, 1 teaspoo Stir together without separating the eggs. Put frosting between the lay- ers. Honey Cake—One pint flour, 2 tea- spoonfuls baking powder, 2 eggs, 3 ounces cottolene, 1 cup sugar, 1 .cup honey, 1 tablespoonful caraway seed. Bake in moderate oven. Ten Minute Cake—Two-thirds cup cottolene, 21-2 cups flour, I teaspoon- ful baking powder, 4 eggs, 2 cups su- gar, 1 cup cream; flavor with len.on extract. Cup, or 1, 2, 3, 4, Cake—One scant cup cottolene, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups as pound cake. [all well . togethe mix with one cup minced ham highly seasoned with cayenne and mustard | and one raw egg;.chop fine six hard- | boiled eggs and stir into the mixture; | mould ‘inte ‘balls, roll in fine bread | crumbs and fry in hot fat to a nice | o g Satdine Croquettes—After drawing | all oil (off, fill & cup of sardines froes | which skin and bones have been re- | moved; cook half a cup grated stale | s in—one-half cup milk, adding | the beaten Folk of one egg, two table- spoons of “butter, a. teaspoon lemon ! juice, the eooked volks of- three eggs | (sifted), and a dash of paprika with | the sardine juice; mix theroughly, | shape into ovals, dip in' heaten egz and sifted crumbs gnd fry in deep Escalloped Ham—Mix three cups of finely chopped ham with the same amount of toasted bread crumbs, add | two eggs and one-half cup milk; pack | in a baking pan, cover the top with gracker crumbs and bake ome-half | our. Vegetable Pie—Pour two cups boil- In“v’lfir into a granite saucepan. Put in & layer of beefsteak cut fine, sea- son with salt and pepper, and add a [layer each of potatoes cut in cubes, turni] cut up, and onions sliced; | sprin| each lightly with salt, add carrots if 1 , and cover with a lay- er of tomatoes. Pour over the whole a batter made as fellows: One cup! sour milk, one egg, beaten, one-half | teaspoon soda, pinch of salt and umn;Jl flour to thicken, Cover tight- ly until dene, adding hot water poured around the edge of batter as needed. LOUISE. RECIPES AND EVERY DAY HELP. Jditer Social Corner: I send for the sisters the following recipes: used wite: T many a toothsome dainty gained its .fi.l .(“’llto:;v‘n‘a relish from lh:.’ addition of to _up in a 80 if a hen retuurtwfl!?onflxm- in the day time I go {! out the ugliest one—the one thal set on the floor; but if it is at I can usually find one on thé nests the hen house. g 3 Tho reason so many break cause they are lousy. If you that I sent a recipe.for it may help. many people think A good esgs are spojled and throw them away. I have known people who have had eggs get cold several times, and tried as many hens, and still the eggs hatched. A good healthy germ will stand a.good of abuse. | A young, man who worked of the big often after chickens. They may have a hen before shipping. ‘Waterford. MA; A LITTLE INVENTION. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner: I have invented such a useful lttle article that I thought I must write and My family (and I do not think it is different from many others) come to thelr meals at differ- ent times; not long enough betwesn to cook a separate meal I tried putting It was not very satisfactory, as it would sometimes dry 1 then tried the stea: , -which ther, lnlfl""mll‘: sometimes mingle together, ng. thnm“t tell you about it- the food in the oven. up. was an improvement, but fec unsightly; so ene day 2. came to me and I took my a tinsmith and had three tmai compartments made that it closely in- side the cover. The handle to take them out. Now I put meats and gravy in one, potataes in another, a vegetable or 4 and find that it essert in the flour, 4 eggs. Mix and bake the same | P! i fills the bill to the letter and is worth many times its cost. JANE T. Norgich, Ct. HINTS. Dear Sisters of the Social Corne Sister Roena in her ‘nunsfln‘thfi: st; Easter Sunday spread its white mantle ‘the winter birds were around my door; and they told us that the winter was over New England and all had on old style bonnets. I was very much interested in the remedy for burning feet, for I am troubled with them in warm weather. I think Rural Delivery has a gift It was more than good for the blues—for a good laugh for story telling. uts on fat. guesser, Kindness is a language the dumb can speak, and the deaf can understand.—Bovee. A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. ; Whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, . will never find what he seeks.—Cyrus. That friendship will not continue till the end which is begun for an end.—Quarles. : —W ashington Irving. pint flour, 1 teacupful milk, nutmeg ann rose water to taste; 1-2 teaspoon- ful soda, 1 teaspoonful cream tartar. Dissolve’ the soda in the milk,; into the flour sift the cream tartar. Beat ? and lastly add the flour. Bake as soon as mixed in small tins, dropping on top of each cake one seeded raisin; sift powdered sugar over when baked. Never Fail Sponge Cake.—Two eggs, beat five minutes with egg beater; add cup sugar, beat two minutes; one level cup flour, one level teaspoontul bak- ing powder, pinch salt; lastly add one- half cup boiling milk; flavor with one- half teaspoonful each vanilla and lem- en. Beat ull together with egg beat- er. Bake in moderate oven 20 min- utes. A WILLING HELPER. A FEW NICE DECIPES. Editor Social Corner—I am sending you some recipes that are very nice: German Scallop—Boil a cabbage, then drain and chop fine. Make a white sauce by stirring into three ta- blespoonfuls of butter two of flour, and adding one cupful of milk. Season with pepper and salt. Butter a baking dish, put in a layer of cabbage; turn some of the sauce over it, a few drops of lemon juice,and some grated cheese. Fill the dish in this manner, cover with a layer of cracker crumbs, and | drop on bits of butter and a sprinkle of cayenne. Bake until nice and brown. Mock Oysters—To the contents of a can of corn add one-half cupful of milk, two egg! one-half teaspoonful salt, and flour enough to make a stifi batter. Drop by spoonfuls into hot lard and fry a nice brown. Macaroni Croquettes — Two table- spoonfuls of butter, four tablespoon- fuls of flour, one cupful of milk, yolk of one egg, two cupfuls chopped mac- aroni, two tablespoonfuls cheese, pep- per and salt. (If the macaroni is a left over from a_dish of tomato and maca- roni, or well seasoned cheese dish, it will be the more tasty.) Make a sauce from the flour, butter and milk, beat in the egg and cheese; mix thoroughly; spread to cool. Shape then flour, egg, crumb and fry. Serve very hot with tomato sauce. Rice and Meat Groguetts—One cup- ful of boiled rice, one cupful of finely chopped cooked meat, any kind; two tablespoonfuls butter. Put the milk on to boil, and add meat, rice and sea- soning. When this boils add egg, well beaten; stir one minute. -After cool- ing, shape, dip in egg and crumbs and . LOUISE. Lebanon. AN EXCEPTION TAKEN. Dear Sisters of the Social Corner—I noticed that one of our sisters, w ing of friendship, called our atteniiva to the necessity for combatting thore who slander or deride our friends, ns an evidence of our loyalty to them. I must confess I do not like tha: word combat. When my friends are il'v spoken of through prejudice or iw- ance, or misrepiesented, in sy ence, I correct the matter as if 1 was a mistake, without any exciteneat or show of special interest. can cosrect a falsshasd ‘Whenever I|* auietly erewned in Judw.'—N. ¥! Am ‘Who could not tell who Who was, for that would spoil the charm. A few hints for the Corner: ‘When anything is spilled on a hot stove which gives out a disagreeable odor, sprinkle salt upen it. ‘Wheat flour is the best thing to throw over fat on fire, or kerosene. A roomy bag with a of wire holding the top open is handy attach- ed to the sewing machine frame to catch the snips and scyaps while work- ing.” This saves picking up litter. I have one mu)ie of straw matting, fun- nel-shaped, with red braid areund the top and down the seams. It is.a con- venient and pretty receptacle. How . many ways old newspapers may be used to save work- Spread-on the kitchen table when any work is being done by which the table may be soiled, for windoWv cleaning and for polishing a stove, they save brushes and raise less dust. FRANK, Moosup. o ODD TESTED RECIPES. Dear Editor of the Social Corner: Herewith I send recipes for odd things: Rye Pancakes—One egg, one heaping teaspoon saleratus, one pint sweet milk, one cup of flour, two cups rye meal, salt, cinnamon, one tsaspoon of cream tartar, one large baking spoon of molasses. Dip spoon-in deep hot fat and then in dough, to have them drop easily into deep. hot fat to fry. Gingerbread—One cup of lard or butter, two esggs. three cups of molas 828, one cup of cream, two teaespoons ginger and lastly six cups of flour that 'ha; been sifted with one teaspoen -of soda. Cocoanut Pie—One and one-half cups grated cocoanut and twe eggs -beaten slightly; add ome cup of sugar, one- half teaspoon salt, one cup of cream, one cup of milk. Bake with one crust about forty minutes in quite a quick oven. Very nice. Rice Mush—One teacupful of rice, half a teacupful of fine cornmeal and a little salt, well cooked in a pint and a half of sweet milk or water; when cold, cut it into thin slices and fry or bake it with sufficient butter to pre- vent sticking to the griddle; serve hot with maple syrup. Cake—Take three reserving the white of one to make icing, one cup of sugar, one-third of a cup of water, the juice of one orange, one cup of flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder and a pinch of salt. i CLARA OF CANTERBURY. South Canterbury. A’ Hopeful Sign. This week we had the pleasure of entertaining a family that came all the way from a far western state to ‘take up a farm in Connecticut. They have come to lecate in. our state sot becanse the west is too full of farm- ers, but becai the westerner is at a disadvan or want of home markets. e home markeis of New England, especially southern New England, are the Best in the rvqud. and western farmers are beginning to realize it. This man. was a sheep “Going te the coronation in June?” No, but I'm x‘bl'l.’lt to have iwo teeth it will night in ‘18 be- 1 dust the uests and hens with the powder for one packing houses told me that unloading e€gs, be- ing shut in a warm car, he had found under Jittle rim that finishes them at the top answers for a A LITTLE GOSSIP AND USEFUL Dear Faye Verna may be a good but she will have to guess Children’s Cake—Two eggs, 1 table- |again Who's Who? I should be prond spoonful cottolene, 11-2 cups sugar, 1|to be Who, but if she guessed right popular 0 that same maple sugar. i t° uasgn found mmu‘ dm':‘:s ime of making sugar. e anmd“:h had been one of deep snows, 8 SNOW Was _ Scr: away around the trees T ‘where the caine a sudden thaw, and the pails were almost too high to be easily taken down when filled with sap. The final sugaring off was done at the house that year, and very interesting it was to me to watch’ the process. How much care was taken that the flavor should have no touch of over- heating, and that the stirring to “make it in” should begin and end at iu‘ the proper time. Every farm had its outfit for sugar-making, and much rivalry existed among those who ‘worked at it. To be the best sugar- maker meant as much in that locality as it did to be the ‘best butter or cheeso maker. Before the sugar began to grain was the time for waxing it, and if you have never tasted waxed maple sugar You have missed a sweet experience from your life. At a certain point in the process, how determined I never knew, spoonfuls of the sugar were placed on saucers of clean snow, and the re- sult outdid all taffy and lollipops com- bined. Evyen the dogs whined for more, though their jaws were comi- cally stuck together with each at. tempt at chewing the soft mass placed in their mouths. ‘When the tubs of sugar were filled and put away for future use, an end came to the work which had seemed more frolic than toil, and ths pails and other utensils were stacked in the sugar-house till the next season— unless there should be a funeral in the neighborhood. Did you ever go te a funeral in such a retired corner of New England? If so, you probably noted the absence of the undertaker and hi mervice of such sort. Lov- ing hands and willing hearts of neigh- bors attended to all such duties, and the sugar pails with boardsiaid upon them took the place of the regulation folding-chairs in frequent use now-s- days. All this is changed now. There are no retired corners in most sec- tions of New England, and as the fame of maple sugar has spread through the land, most of the sugar is #old in the liquid form to buyers from city markets, and the old sugar-camp is a thing of the past in those re- gions. The sugar orchard was not the highest part of the farm in gquestion. That was hed by going up into the back lot. ‘This was woodland of about one hundred acres, whose culminating point was a group of rocks cropping out on the western edge of the farm. From this point an extended view was obtained of higher peaks of the moun- tains to the west, the symmetrical Ascutney, and the ru Camel's Hump, and others, while to the south and east stretched out the valley of the Connecticut. Beyond that, on very clear days, appeared Mt. Monadnock YANKEE VERSUS BRITTON Connecuq-tflim the k had neve? till that time seen anything of the sort. ‘Where the trees had been cut away, the ground in open spaces was white ‘with immortelles, large and beautiful, and many a bunch have I brought home to furnish winter bouquets and keep the old back lot in memory. Red raspberry bushes sprang up in, pro- fusion in other spots, where the a had been cleared, and the luscious red berries were worth the climb to obtain. ~Their fragrance greeted us long before they were in sight, and whetted our appetite for the feast in prospect. { My ramblings in the old wood lot were nscessuiily in summer, and at my last visit I dared not go, because the deer were so carefully protected by Vermont laws that they felt them- selves owners of the woods, and hu- man_ kind were unwelcome intruders in their domain. They, themselves, did not hesitate to bound over the fence and feast on the choicest ap- ples in the adjoining orchard, or om the corn of a nearby field. A doe and her fawn make a pretty ht, T ad- mit, but they cause the farmer much loss of produce and patience, neither of which he can afford to cast away. They had a very discriminating taste, and knew exactly the whereabouts o1 the finest flavored apples and the best developed ears of corn. Many another proof does the farm life furnish of the accuracy of instinct in the lower forms of creation. One amusing one comes into my mind at this moment, I once was staying at a farmhouse, which had below it a po- tato field and above it, in a larger plot of cultivated land, another field of potatoes. The 'beetles, though bravely fought, had feasted on the lower patch, and made up their minds, if they have any, to better feed in pastures new, and determined to mi- grate. And migrate they did, and in a straight line, too. 'he ome-story shed of the farmhouse was between the two fields, but bravely they went at the enterprise, up one side, over the roof, down the other side. They met their Waterloo, however, and few lived to feast on the potato vines for mh they had planned their attack. t told them where to find more potato vines to their liking, and how did they choose their leaders for the Journey? People living on these hack farms sometimes feel themselves shut out from the busy world, and they are so accustomed to their surroundings that they do not realize the delight of be- ing so near to Nature’s heart. Remove them from the farm to a bustling, hustling city life, and they miss some- thing from their experience, they hardly know what, and as soon as the noveity palls, they often droop and pine from ‘want of the broadening, uplifting influ- ences of their previous life. AN IDLER. (Written Specially for The Bulletin.- The British fleet was very much in evidence in Long Island Sound during the war of 1812, as the old-timers termed it, and many and varied were the experiences whick came to those who attempted to do business along the shores of this much harrassed coast, where British tars kept their watch by day and night. In May, 1814, my father, John Hyde of Mystic, Conn. (now Old Mystic, from whose lips I had this narrativz), started from home to make a voyage to New York city by way of the Sound. He sailed in the sloop Hero, which while crowding sail in order to run by the British fleet, was dismasted and ran into Saybrook to make repairs. * _Mr. Hyde here toek stags for New Haven, reaching there safely. While at a hotel the captain of the packat sloop Maria called to leok up passen- gers, and said that the wind wes fair and he should start for New York- Mr. Hyde took passage in the vessel and going on board in the evening enter- ed the cabin and retired. He <was awakened in the night by hearing the voice of the mate saying he thought he heard oars and believed they were pursued by.a barge. Just as he sprang frem his berth the o came to Mr. Hyde's ears: 5 British ship is right aboard of us. Starting for the companion-way Mr. Hyde was met by the command from on deck, given by a sturdy British tar: “Go below or I will shoot you!” ‘Turning back to the cabin and en- tering a stateroom Mr. Hyde cut the stitches of the lining of the waistband of his trousers and those at the arm- holes of his vest and ‘carefully slipped in nearly five thousand dollars in pa- per money; but he left in his pockets thirty-nine dollars in bills and four silver dolars.. All the passengers were sz2arched, Mr. Hyde among them, and in various places money was found on many of them. The rule of their captor was take nothing below fifty dollars, and In consequence this Yankee prisoner saved all his funds, for the balance of his meney was not discovered. . Taken on board the frigate Nimrod, Captain Burdette, Mr. Hyde was close- ly watched and specially guarded by 2 young midshipman. His captors ev- idently thought that their captive should have proved a richer prize. During his stay en the Nimrod, cattle taken from shore-people, or sold by the “Blue lighter fraternity” to the emissaries of the British were slaugh - tered on the frigate's deck and were hoisted up to the tune of Yankee Doodle: Mr. Hyde took special note of their work and after the beeves were dressed, the cream-white frocks of the butchers did not show a drop of blood. After a faw days several pasengers, including Mr. Hyde, were given an old boat and three oars and were permit- ted to go ashore. Landing near Lyme, Conn., our Yankee secured the loan of an old white horse, rodz to New Leon- don, crossed the Thames and taking the old post road to Providence, went on seven miles to Mystic. Riding up to the store of Mr. Enech Burrows (his father-in-law) he was met by the salutation: ,From tho British fleet” was the re- ply. “Then the money I “No; I have it al rejoinder. Once more Yankee brains had out- witted the Britons. The money thus saved from the enemy was owned by Mr. Burrows, Mr. Hyde and_others, who were sending it to New York for investment. all gone!" ,” was the glad EDWARD L. HYDE. The E: r Hat. Rev. Dr. Myers, at Tremont temple, in Boston, last evening, paid his re- spects to the Easter hat and voiced his opposition to it in no uncertain terms. He said: “I was once admiring the beauty of a cherry, tree, laden with luscious- Jooking, ripe fruit, but disfigured by a lot of rags tied to the branches. I asked what they were for, and was told they were to frighten away the enzmies of the cherries. That is what your Easter hat is for. It scares peo- ple away from the real Easter life. What has your big Easter hat to do with Easter 2ay? hat is your spirit- ual and practical attitude toward the day?” Ao The doctor was a little harsh in his arraignment, for he attacked one of the time honerzd customs. It is the most natural thing in the world that the woman who has consistently kept Lent sheuld throw off the sack cloth for the brighter garments that indicate the time for rejoicing is at hand. We decorate our churches with flowers and yet this man objects because the women put their flowers on their hats. It is a fine healthy sign. this Easter decoration, and in spite of the depun- ciation of Dr. Myess the Baster hats add as much to the ooservance of the day as do the flowers in_ his church. A Chance to Expi The movement for a legislative in- vestigation of fire insurance rates seems to have originatad in Waterbury, .where there is a preity general feeling that the rates are too high. The point is also raised there publicly, that has been ofian Jiscnssed privately in many other places, that the fact of a first class fire department does not appear to receive the practical recognition of lower insurance rates that it should. Perhaps the insurance people can sat- isfactorily explain this anomaly. At any rate they will have a chance to do it—Bristol Press. n. An Awful Fall. The small American boy will mourn if Buffalo Bill descends from the re- gion of romance to a seat in the Ari- zona senate.~—St. Paul Dispatch. “Why, John, where are vou from?” | Don't delay! Use a cial kidney Doan’s N, ills cure - ney: .'Mk;m:ho”m urinary :’uekwdko’f-. Norwich ‘evidence proves this state- ment; 3 Mrs. H. A. Simonds, 117 Franiis St., Norwich, Conn., says: “For kidney trouble, I think there is no medicine equal to Doan's Kidney Pills. The um- doubted benefit they have brought te my friends warrapts me in recom- mending them highly. 1 shall cheerful- ly give the facts that lead em to testify in favor of Doan's Kidney Pills, pro- cured from N. D. Sevin & Son’s Drug Store, to anyone desirous of knowing them for his or her dwn good.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50c. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’'s—and take no other. One Conductor Helped Back to Werk. Mr. Wilford Adams is his name, and he writes: “I was confined to my bed with ehronic rheumatism and used two bottles of FDl?'l Kidney Remedy with good effect. The third bottle put me on my feet and I resumed work conductor on the Lexington, Ky street railway. It will do all you claim in cases of rheumatism.” It clears the blood of uric acid. Lee & Osgood Co. AUTOMOBILE LAWS. Somé Points on Which Drivers Shouid Refresh ' Their Memories at the Opening of the Season. The improvément in the weather ha brought out the automobiles in good shape, and in connection with their ap- pearance it seems necessary to call at- tention to tho present laws of which drivers of autonobiles need reminding, at least until the logislature gets through with its work in drafting an- other, says the Ansonia Sentinel. The first of these is the speed pro- vision, which simply states that “no persen shall operate a motor vehicle on the public highways of this stai recklessly or at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and prop- er, having regard to the width, traf- fic and use of the highway, or so as to ‘endanger the property or the lifa or limb of any person.” In some places a rate of specd of one mile would be in violatfon of this section, and’ in other places it is believed b: some that a man may travel as fast as his machine can be made to go without such violation, aithough thers is another section which other peopls consider makes 25 miles an hour or over a violation. . If the speed at points where the view of the road and trafle is “obstructed, or when approaching s crossing or intersecting highway, os when traversing a bridge, a sharp tu or a steep descent or a curve, ex 10 miles an hour, it is a violation. the rate in passing a street ay car that is stationary or about to stop, on the side upen which passengers are about to alight, excesds three miles an_hour, there is a violation. Besides the speed provisions, the au- tomobile law requires on the part of drivers great care in passing pedestri- ans or horses and wehiclas on the high- ways. Speed must be , (] given, and if necessary the au L must be stopped. The vehicle must bl slowed down in taking curves, round- ing corners or approaching intersect- ing streets or highways, must pass to the right of the center point of streets i% turning, and must give a reasonabln signal on horn or bell. Opening the muffler within city limits is absolutely | prohibited. These are somz of the automobile laws as they stand today. Old drivers ought to refresh their memories on the { various points, and new drivers, of whom there are a_good many, ought to get the coripiled laws and make a | study of them. Thay are not very long and they may be quickly learned. This will be time well spent, for tre word has gone forth that this year the auto | mobile laws must be enforced more strictly than last year The Doath of General Goodrich. | _The death of Gen. Arthur L. Good- | rich, treasurer of the Hartford Courant company, which occurred Sunday, calls |out th: heartfelt sympathy of th newspaper men of the entire countr Only those who knew (ieneral Goodrich well can fully appreciate the loss tho | Courant has sustained. We speak es- pecially of his loss to his newspaper because that is the inetitution to which he gave the best that was in him, and |it was in this field that he was recox- nized everywhere as a strong, genuine, helpful character. But h2 was a man of affairs and a logal citizen as well 4 an energetic business man. His was a splendid personality, and it will be sadly misecd. Many a young man w recall the kindly greeting, the hear handshake, the word of good chesr that meant so much when the way looked dark and forbidding. The friendships that he made were of the enduring. kind, for the man was thos oughiy genuine, and his memory will be cherished as long as one of his ac- quaintances remains on earth.—Bristol Press- A Claim to Distinctien. Sheridan was once asked by a gen- tleman: “How is it that your name has not an O prefixed to it” Your family is Irish, and no doubt illustri- ous."” “No family,” replied Sheridan, “has a better right to an O than our in truth, we owe averybody.'- “Sparks from Old Anvils.” Question of the Heur. 1f Attorney Brandeis can show the baseball pitchers how they can econo- { mize on wild pitches, another big foe | will be placed at his disposal.—Denver. | Republican. ‘Without them Easter wouid not be as important an occasion and there would be less people in his church.—Meriden Journal. Baldwin Cannot Come. A. Hollapnd Forbes ef Bridgaport, pregident of the Aero club of Connacti- cut, has learned with regret that Capt. Thomas Baldwin, the noted aeronaut, will not be able to attend the first an- mual dinner of the club at the Strat- field on Avril 20. He has entered into a contract with the Mexioan govern- ment for flying demenstrations and wil] leave this country in two weeks. is hungry and cold.” . “Stranger. think yourself lucky. You're only cold in one les: I'm cold in hoth.”—Pele Mala “Have pity on a poor lame man 'Nhol Hood’s Sarsaparilla America’s Createst Medicine— Take It This Spring - Thoroughly cleanses the improves the appetite, relieves that tired today, in usual liquid form or tablets blood, cures all eruptions, ; Getit