Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 6, 1911, Page 13

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) When the farmer's boy .“pipes up” with his ideas about farm-work, it is Wwell to listen, and not too contemptu- ously, either. He may be young and green, he may lack experience, he may strike his elders as a little “brash” and a little too fond of play and a lit- tle to hostile to work, but,—he is the fellow who is to make the farmer of the next generation, if there are .any then. Therefore his way of looking at things, even though it be crude and ill-digested, is worth considering for our own sakes and the sake of the fu- ture, as well as for his. | am moved to these reflections by reading a letter of a real farmer’s boy in a western paper. ‘He begins by saying: “Labor unions in the cities have es- tablished eight-hour working days. ‘Why should the boy and his father on the farm work fourteen hours a day?” There’s the first shot from the boy’'s gun. Has to work too long hours, vou'll notice. Don’t fail to observe, also, the order in which he naively puts things:—"“the boy and his father”, —“boy” first and “fathex” second. Isn’'t this characteristie? A But don't let's be too critical in small matters.. Consider it soberly. Why can't farm-work be limited to elght hours, as well as some work by mechanics in eities? The first and most obvious answer is that it can't be so limited, regularly. and the year ‘round, because Nature has never yet adopted an eight-hour day, and the farmer on his farm has to’reckon with Nature and not with labor unions or sontractors. If Nature, here in New London county, would kindly arrange 50 as to grow corn and potatoes and hay,—and weeds,—for just eight hours a day, every week day for fifty-two weeks in the year, why then I sus- pect it would be possible for farmers to follow her lead and work elight hours a day, six days in the weaek, for fifty-two weeks in the year. Perhaps this might be better than at present. It might be worse. Certainly it would be a vast deal more momnotonous. But Nature doesn’t take that gait. She grows things for us only about flve or six months in the year. The rest of the time she’'s frozen up and winter-bound. Then, -when she does start things moving, hops and skips and jumps and most erratically. The crop-producer, in these latitudes, has got to do all his productive work in the five or six months when Nature will let him. As she is no slouch with her tools when she fairly gets them in hand, and as she works regularly and vigorously, when she works at all,—for twen four hours a day and seven days.in the week, the farmer has simply got to have a hustle on most of the six days a week he can work after her, or he’ll ~et behind the procession,— even at fourteen hours a day of hard digging. Moreover, vou can’t boycott Nature when sha works over time, nor “picket” against her, nor blow her up with dynamite, nor throw her off tha track nmor mash her head with bricks. Nor is there the slightest use “strik- ing” agminst her regulations. To tell the truth, she is a rather more influen- tial personage "‘than any labor wunion, and she cares absolutely nothing about it whether we like her gait or not. We may keep up with her,—if we can,—or fall into the ditch,—if we please. But she'll go on just the same: won't even look behind to see wheth- er or no we're still in the procession. Our lives depend on our ability to keep somewhere within shouting dis- tance of her {trailing skirts: but whether we keep in - sight or- not :oesn‘t matter the least little bit to er. Now this lesson of the inflexible and pitiless hardness of Nature is one which is the very hardest of all for youth to learn. It has to be learned, though, s-oner or laier We who have felt the yoke galling our necks, lo, these many years,—we should not be too snappish with the voungsters who are feeling {ts blistering burden for the first time.. They cant seo ‘the justice of it: no more can we: the main difference between us is that we have discovered our helplessness and have taken our punishment as philo- sophically as possibie, while they are ill chafing under the seeming cruel- ty. We know °that it is hopeless for them to seek to evade the universal natural law; but we needn't be over sharp with them because they will strugizle. A better way is to sympa- thize with them and try to explain by both precept amd.-practice the real character of the proposition we're ail up against. Just in passing though, it might be well to call the attention of these young peovle who think anything but an eight-hour day is the exception amonx all workers off the farms,— to call their attehtion to the fact that @ large part of the workers, even in cities, labor for more than eight hours day. Ten end eleven and twelve deys are common in many manu- CoKE DAN RUFF RF AND L will rid the scalp of hair- destroying. germs, -and invigorate and keep your hair in prime condition. - cleanses the hair and scalp. Delightfally Re- 25¢. : At all Druggists. THE KELIS COMPANY 1 Johnes St NEWBURGN, K V. Boys Will Be Boys; But They Sometimes Talk Like Men they go with| } | the lettcr of their inttructions among factories: very few clerks in. stores are able to limit their labors to eight! hours: not infrequently they have to| be on duty from early morning till nine or ten o'clock at night: while practically all such servants of the!' public as livery men, street-car em- ploves, newspaper workers, railroad men, steamboat people, etc, ete, have| to work irregular and sometime very long hours. Still another fact that may not be wholly without interest,—the fact that mighty few men ever really succeea ! who are not willing and eager to work fourteen hours or even twenty if the work demands it. Napoleon is still almost every boy’s hero. And Napo- leon’s regular work day was twenty hours. He was able to recuperate on | as Ifttle as four hours’ sleep, and the rest of the time he was the busiest man in all his empire. In most busi- nesses, if the manager rises to suc- cess and wealth, it will be found to have been because he worked harder and longer hours than any of his sub- ordinates. There is only one ‘“easy” way to riches; and that is by stealing them from somebody else,—a method which is indeed, sometimes, quite successful { but, other times, concludes with a term in the penitentiary. It is risky and not to be recommended. Again says our western farm lad: “The mother could well afford to | give the boy a room of his own and not make him keep his ball and bat out in the barn.” Amen to that! - The boy has a right to a place he can call his own, a com- fortable and handy place, too, a cita- ! del to which he can retire when possi- ble and which he can “fix up” in his own way. according to his own tastes: where he can keep his ball and bat or his books or his collection of col- yored pebbles or his book of pressed | lowers or his box of toads,—if his ‘likings run in that way. But, again, notice that reference to ball and bat. Now no boy is ever asked or compelled to do harder work with hoe or hatchet on the farm than| the work he eagerly does in a game of | haseball. He calls the latter intense, straining, tiring labor “play,” ;\m]K | makes it an object of life. But thr;) less wearing and less strenuous tasks| of the farm and garden he considers “work” and hates them. Well, we are none of 'us so equally balanced and impeceably reasonable that we need { ind over-much fault with this boyish | inconsistency. It's worth just a pass- ing thought, that's all. Now comes a paragraph in the west- ern farm boy’s letter which is wholly admirable,—"“all wool and a yard wide”: “When a boy sees nothing but back- breaking, brute methods ahead of him he gets out; maybe he does worse in the city, but the farm loses him. In- terest him in raising stock by giving him a percentage of the proceeds from his efforts and you have started the principle which wili keep him on the Give him a field of corn or e him a junior partner in the business. Then you have started some- thing. By scme such methods and treatment the farm might have been made a oy to him and helds him through life.” Seems to me that's mighty seund and sensible talk, I don't care if it does come from a boy. “Out of the mouth of babes and suckiings,” remember. Things are certainly get- ting better in this direction. The present on-coming generation is being treated much more wisely and consid- erately than we others were in the lhe,vda.y of our hot youth. Unquestion- ably the first thing to do in creating a “stay-on-the-farm’ sentiment is to make the young folks want to stay there. At certain ages it is the “want- to” or the “don’t-want-to” which counts for more than the “ought-to.” We must take things as they are and boys and girls as we find them. When a lad sees that he is expected to do a hired man's work without the hired man’s wages, he feels that there is something wrong about it. When he is expected to “take an interest in the farm” without being allowed any in- teresting share in the control of it or the returns from it, he finds the de- ‘rlnand unreasonable. Why shouldn't o2 you When he plays ball he has an object which, to his mind, is a really import- ant one. He wants to “beat” the oth- er nine, apd beat 'em bad. If he sue- ceeds, he gets a real reward and a pungent pleasure. But he might, per- haps, be made to feel some slight share of that same jovr in hoeing corn or weeding onions or milking cows if he foresaw something real and substan- tial coming to him in the immediate future.—not too far off, for yvouth is not long-sighted, — as a reward for work. - | really feel somewhat flattered! that my own elderly reasonings, here- tofore casually referred to in this col- umn, should be corroborated and re- inforced by this genuine letter from a real farm boy, voicing his honest sen- timents. THE FARMER. Dead from a Sense of Duty. The brave baggageman on the Cen- trali Railroad of New Jersey who lost his life in an attempt to save the lives of others did only what policemen and firemeén are constantly doing. But trainmen are not employed with a view to their fitness for such rescue work. It is not in their line of duty and the fact gives added heroism to a deed of self-sacrificz which is to the credit of the service- There is more of this quality of courageous devotion to duty beyond ! railroad employes than is commonly recognized. An exampie of it was fur- nished by thz statien agent at Croton Laxe, on the New York Central, who gave his life to protect the company's property from robbers. The pension granted to his widow testifies to the road’s appreciation of conspicuous fidelity in the employe. Tt is present in every engineer who sticks te his post when his locomotive leaves the rails, and in firemen, telegraph operators and dbrakemen. It was possessad by the Buffalo flagman who was killed while trying o drag a woman from the tracks. 3 I the sense of responsibility among the rank and file of the service were always matcéhed by an equal efficiency ! in zxecutive offices titere would be few- er occasions .for its exercise at the coBt of life. It sught not to be neces- sary for baggagemen to leap (rom their cars to give warninz of danger or possfble for passengers to be killed on the tracks bafore a station.—New York World. PR L RIS E AR An American consul in China says it 'is not true that hair is taken from dead Cjgesmen for sal- Rev. W. E. B. Moore left Wednes- day for a visit with relatives in Bos- ton. While there he will attend the world’s missionary conference. Miss Edith Alen is in Norwich Town this week. the guest of relatives and friends, , & Miss Lucy Webb of Danielson spent the week end at the home of her par- ents, Mr..and Mrs. John Webb. George Perry has purchased the York farm for his own occupancy, but will remain on tae Pavey plac: for a while.. Mr. York and family leave soon to locate in the town of Plainfield. Rev. Mr. Smith of Westminster preached in exchange with the loecal pastor on Sunday. His subject was The Lord's Day, and was well pre- sented. Mrs. R, . Wright of Warrenville was a recent guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jared Fuller. Mrs. George Bates has returned from a visit with relatives in Put- nam. She was accompanied by her son, Arthur Gould, wno will remain here a few days. Mrs. Fred Willoughby and Mrs. &v- erett Kimball spent Sunday in Col- chester. 5 Mrs, David Witter of Danielson is spending the week with Mrs, Willlam Moore. Annual Meeting and Election of Offi- cers. The Viliage Improvement society held its annual meeting in the chapel Tuesday evening. After election of officers, it was voted to expend $35 in repairing the sidewalks. Kicked by Horse. Mr. Cotter, was kicked Wednesday by his horse, making an ugly gash over his eve and rendering him insen- sible.” A doctor was summoned and it was found necessary to take several stitches in the deepest cuts. Mr. Cot- ter remained unconscious for some time, but on Thursday seemed on the road to recovery. SOUTH WINDHAM Social Held by Junior C. E, Seciety —Personals. Mrs, Harry: Grimes of Windham led the Y. P. 8. C. E. meeting Sunday eve- ning. The subject was Missions in Hawaii and the Philippines. Miss Mabel Clinton was a Sunday visitor with her uncle, Professor Clinton, at Storrs. Mr. and Mrs. Cassius Barstow re- turned from South Willlamstown on Monday. Mrs, William Cady Fitch and infant daughter are visiting Mrs. Fitch’'s fa ther, E. Harlow Holmes. Eugene Binns and sister, Miss Ber- tha Binns, left on Wednesday for Ten- nessee, where they expect to remain for several months. The Junior C. E. society held a so- cial for its members Friday afternoon. Games were plaved and refreshments served. Mrs, Willis Slate, the junior superintendent, had the affair in charge. Timothy Watts, who is setting up a paper machine for the Smith, Win- chester company in Michigan, was in town for several days this week, Mrs. Willis Slate leaves. on Mon- day for a trip to Boston and vicinity. ‘Mre. Nellie Tubbs has been enter- taining friends from Washington. Mrs. W. C. Backus left on Friday for a few days’ stay in Hartford. Mrs. Lesley Clark has been enter- taining Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ains- worth of New Haven, Personal Items—District Superintend- ent to Visit Local Church. Gilbert Luther is visiting his sis- ter, Mrs, D. S. Kenyon. O. W. Bates was in Providence Sat- urday ‘Miss Carrie Bfack spent Friday night in Central Village. Mre, 1 S. Kenyon was in Provi- dence Thursday. Mrs, Susan Rathbun returned to her home Monday night after visiting her daughter, Mrs. Charles Tyler. 7. Brown spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Agnes Brown of Phenix, A Rev, Samuel Thatcher was in Hope Valley recently, visiting Elisha Bit- good. District Superintendent Coming. Rev. J. H. Newland is expected for Sunday, May 7. As Miss Morse is confincd to the house by illness, Miss Little of Willi- mantic is substituting for her this week. Mrs, Harry Sherman was in Provi- dence Wednesday. Mrs. E. L. Kenyon was in Moosup Tuesday. Mrs. William U. Kenyon and Miss Hilda Kenyon are visiting in Provi- dence and Westerly. Fred Whitford and family and C. D, ‘Whitford took an automobile ride te Taunton, Mass. Sunday and saw the herring run. RAWSON Rapid Unloading of Grain—Everett Kimball Badly Injured by Horse's Kick. ‘Week-end visitors to Willimantic in- cluded Green Huling, Miss Clara Hul- ing, Mrs. Edward Berggren, Arnold Kent and L. C. Stocking. G. H. Robkertson of South Coventry was a caller in town Wednesday. Frank Phillips and Joseph Dietschild broke the record on unloading grain on Frids when they unloaded 1,500 bushels of oats in 52 3-4 minutes. Miss IEdith Clapp of Elliott was the guest Saturday of Mrs. Dwight Phil- lips. Everett Kimball is at the Day-Kim- ball hospital in Putnam for injuries received by being kicked by one. of his father’s horses STERLING Miss Laura Bowen spent the week end at Brooklyn with relatives. Mrs. Myra Hawes remains critically ill. Mrs. James Miller is entertaining her sister, Mary Sherman. The Epworth gue prayer meeting was held on Fridav evening. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Vaughn enter- tained relatives Sunday Mrs. A. F. Wentworth and daughter Ruth are visiting Mrs. Charles Ander- son at Voluntown. -ATTAWAUGAN. Mrs. Mary Wheeler moved to Hart- ford this week. John Watson has bought from Em- ma Weaver the house which he moved into. Joseph Blanchard was famnily to PBreakneck. moved his v held a bus- - meeting in v evening, Mrs. Eliza Chase reécently burnt her hand badly with hot water. Mrs. Henry Davis of Quadic spent several days this week with her moth- er. X Miss Susie Pray visited her par- ents a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Harvey and child . and Earl Weeks of Webster & i A 4 m Sunday with Charles Weeks and —_—_— 2 - X Mr, and Mrs, Frank Fellows of Portland, Oregon, relatives of Deaco: Geoarge Lyons’ family, are guests a their home. -~ Henry- Allen of Pomfret was a caller | in town this week. 2 Many friends are:glad to know that John Burleson is able to get out a ‘little after his recent illness. The day set to rally for work in the church grounds is next Thursday, and if stormy, Friday. . B __John Buck of New Haven and Flor- ;da. was a caller in the village recent- . Edgar and Gilbert Storrs and -Miss May Storrs of Mansfield Center and Miss ~Helen Jaeobs of Hartford were callers at the parsonage on Monday. The Ladies’ .Aid society met with Mrs. W. W, ‘Sheldcn on Wednesday afternoon. CLARK’S CORNERS ' Miss Mattie Plunley has beern in town a few days. . Ray Palmer of Springfici. is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Jewett, Dr. W. Blaine Oliver of Manchester was at home over Sunday. Mrs. John Navin is getting along well. % Mrs. R. E. Clarke has returned from Orient, N. Y., after visiting her daugh- TOLLAND COUNTY: COLUMBIA Successful Play Given for Public- Spirited Ladies’ Club—Two Hundred Apple Tres for Hutchins’ Farm, The Andover Dramatic club gave an entertainment at Yeoman’s hall Friday evening, under the auspices ol the West Street Social Eight—the ladies’ club of this place. The play, Tomkins’ Hired Man, was given to an apprecia- tive audience. Cake and ice cream were on sale. The proceeds of the en- tertainment are to be used for the im- provement of Utley Hill. This ladies’ club some time since improved the West Street cemetery by furnishing iron gates, and now they .wish to im- prove one of the worst hills in town and are working to that end. Planting Apple Trees. Lester J. Hutchins is setting two hundred apple treces on his farm at Chestnut Hill. Mr. Strong and Miss Squier of Long Island have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Giegoris on Chestnut Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Hunt recently returned from a visit with Mrs. Hunt's parents in Johnston, R. L E. P. Lyman, J d Ci land have secured work farms in East Hartford. William Wolff of Scotland made his parents, Mr. and ‘Mrs. Fred Wolff, a brief visit last Saturda William Sauier spent several days on Long Isiand recently. Setback to Planting. The recent cold wave was another setback to the approach of summer, as well as a warning to farmers not to hurry their planting. BOLTON NOTCH Lighted Match Causes Woodland Fire Over 1,000 Acres—John Shea Held for Causing It. inton Love- on tobacco | There was a large forest fire on B Mountain last Saturday, caused by lighted match being thrown into the brush near the roadside by John Shea of Vernon It was the worst fire around here in years. Over 1,000 acres of woodland were burned over. The fire started about 11.30 a. m. and was not out uatil 11.3¢ p. m. About 200 men were on hand to fight it, coming from Bolton, Vernon, Manchester and railroad men from Hartford and Wil- limantic. John Shea was arrested at his home in Vernon by Constable Woodard of Bolton Monday for setling fire on land of Carey D, Carpenter in Bolton. He was tried before Justice of the Peace M. W, Howard Monday afternoon and bound cover for the June term of the superior court. Not being able to find a bondsman, he was taken to Tolland jail Monday night. Inspecting Highways. State Highway Inspector F. W. Pratt was looking the roads over in this section Mondas. Miss Emma Brown has moved from Manchester to the old homesteid on the Andover road Dr. F. D. Maine of Springfield has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Loren S. Maine the past two days. Mrs. R. L. Warren of Manchester spent Thursday of last week with her mother, Mrs. M. ,E. Howard. BOLTON Apple Trees Pl_lnted; Professor Al- vord’s Farm—Flag Raising. Prof. Samel M. Alvord of Hartford has set out 100 apple trees on his farm at the Center. The flag raising exercises at the Cen- ter schoool last week were enjoyed by the company present. Elmer J. Finley is having the Bishop house, which he purchased last fall, built over and made into an attractive summer home for himself and family. Mr. Finley is a native of Bolton, but resides in New York at present. Miss Emma_S. Brown has moved from South Manchester to her place in town, which she moved from sev- eral years ago. Carlos Ruggles and family of Spring- field have spent the past week®with Mr. Ruggles’ mother, Mrs. Frances E. Ruggles. John Conklin of Hartford was a re- cent guest of his daughter, Mrs. C. F. Sumner. Elmer Loomis of Westfleld. Mass., is visiting at William Loomis’. Mrs. Jane Finley is recovering from a recent attack of grip. MANSFIELD DEPOT Card Party at Heme:f Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Dr. Johnson and wife attended the funeral of a friend in New London Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Stedman and daughter of Hartford, called on Mrs. George Stedman Saturday. Miss Pease of Windsor is visiting a the home of Mrs. George Baker. Entertairied at Cards. NMr. and Mrs. Hansen, Mr, and Mrs. Botham, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Ousterhout were pleasantly entertain- ed at a card party given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Peter Garvey was in Williman- tic Thursday. MOUNT HOPE Teander Shumway, the new owner of the Hooker mills, is repairing his house and improving the looks around the premises. Mrs. F. A. Youngs and children of Wew York are gpending a few days here. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Copeland have moved back into their own tenement and expect to remain for the summer s . Just-tu rn one screw and the large cutting knife is brought to any desired anglé with the bottom ‘cutter. We guarantee every “Coldwell Lawn Mower. The experiencegainedin forty years of lawn-mower-making goes into its manufacture. A “*Coldwell”’ keeps out of the scrap heap—it’s a mower without a “kick.” Preston Bros. FRANKLIN SQUARE For cli Worl Statisticians say $60,000,000 is spent - an Representative Victor Berger, the so- st terms finds pretty effective uses.—N. Y. 4 Still On the Job. solete” constitution, Too Much to Ask. as member from Milwaukee it, a fossilized supreme court bune. e Adopting a Candidate. Sounds That Way. The presumably overwhelming ma- jority that gave President Diaz his last re-election does not seem to be in the field fighting for him.—Chicago Tri- The south, which is claiming Woode row Wilson for its very own son, by sitors” in New England every | booming him for president. The 8o summer. Isn’t that phrase, “by visit- | has had no candidates gince the war. ors,” superfluous.—N, Y. Herald. —Washington Herald. Juvenile smoking is said to have in- creaged rapidly abroad in the last few years. 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