Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 20, 1911, Page 13

‘When Hank and I are sweating and filling our fingers with slivers putting up a new barn-yard fence, we hear an occasional roar up the road, and along comes ah automeobile with a very pros- perous looking party aboard, sky-hoot- ing through the sunny afternoon at the rate of thirty miles an hour,—or more. > It certainly Io6Ks %s If they must have more money,thgn Hank and I, for our united earnings for a year wouldn't buy anosher such car. More- over, it looks as if they were having an easier job than ours. - Still fur- ther, it seems as if they must be en- joving life more than we. To be sure, there is worse work than building a *barn-yard fence from. splintery chest- ‘nut posts and boards, but all the same, it looks at the outset as if it were harder and mor: disagreeable, for the time being. than kieking up dust in a bubble-wagon. Now, this being the situation, the anestion arises whether Hank and I shall “get a grouch on” and turn an- archis or drop “the hammer and mails and start for town to earn our ‘own automobiles. It's a question which comes to all our minds, in one form' or another at one time or another: The eld way to treat it was to “Squelch” it.—to cail it to order it out of our minds,—to dismiss it from court. The more mod- ern and, I think: the—wiser- way with all such questions is to meet them squarely face to face and have it out with them. There are a whole lot of really fundamenta] questions.in life—- questions which go -daringly at the ve foundations of things. It is not =ensible,—even though it may have long been usual,—to refuse these ques- tions any hearing in court through fear of gocial or other conventions, or through doubt as to the “precedents.” It is more manly to meet them face THE PHILOSOPHY OF BEING CONTENTED (Written Spechllf for The Bulletin.) | the lady slippers are already sticking i ! to face and let them ask and be asked’ in return. Not only is it more maniw but I think it is more satisfactory. poor farming which plows for- around a loose stump in the cen- ter of the best fleld, because it has been there ever since we can remem- ber and turni around it seems easier and quicker than digging it out. Easier and quicker it doubtless is for one plowing. But not for hal a-dozen plowings—not for the plo ings of a life-time. There’s good dirt under and around that old stump it we could get at it and use it. Adso, we waste more time, eventually, in dodging_ it than we should require to eliminate it. And—if it be a pitch- pine stump,—there are a lot of grand kindlings for future kitchen fires in those gnarled roots. So it is with the barn-yard fence and the automobile problem. Shall we push it ene side as an impertinent Shall we refuse to con- ? Shall we figuratively punch it down te the bottom of a npost-hole =nd set a post on it and tamp them in hard and solid? Or shall we iook it right in the eve and say: “Well, what do vou really mean? and what are you really after? Take this particular auto. It was an impesing looking critter of much brass and glass and rubber and glitter and honk and stink,—to the rearward. It had as passengers a stolid-looking driver, a thin and haggard-faced ola man, a very stout and masterful look- ing lady, presumably his wife, and two much veiled and scarfed and ribbon- ed younger women, probably the daughters. All of them, except the shauffeur, who was intent upon the manipulation of his steering-wheeland his numerous levers and treads, seem- ed to be absorbed in road-dust. They were either trying to keep it out of their eyes or staring at the gray road- ribbon ahead of threm. When I looked up frem my work I could see on one side of me old Doug- lass Knob, heaving massive shoulders against the sky-line and gently wav- ing tree-plumed- e¢empanonship to- wards me. On the other.side Perry's Peak loomed, higher though more dis- tant, with the snew at last all off its rounded ridge, and a few adventurous sheep already rambling over its grassed summit, picking at the just =pringing herbage. If I.turned around, half-a-dozen pine covered knolls closed in the mear distance and 'gave temptingjsuggestions of the cosy novks beiind wnd among them. In -another directien extended the level intervale with its spreading meadows whose grass is already begimning to wave in lttle ripples of green gladness as the May breezes flutter by. Al this was open te me and free to me, and I was able to take it all in and enjoy it all. Moreover,. there was much mecre to it than just this open vishan of & landscape. /When I looked up, from my werk, I not only saw the pidture, but I also -saw some little ways into that picture. I saw things inder the ecanvas as well as upon it. For instance, as I looked towards one little white-birch marked dimple in the hillside, I could fairly hear the gurgle of the Celd-Spring, as its de- licieus waters leaped out /frem the rocks. W I could almost taste them, in‘imaginatien! Just to the right on a certain shady slope in the woods, I knew where the earliest arbutus in two counties has been blooming aud where, in a rocky crevive, nature has planted a wonderful little garden of hepaticas and sanguinarfa. Way off in a secluded ratine; i-know where —_— . behcate;? ¢ ormed #nd gently reared, women will find in ull the se: s of their lives, as maid- ens, wives and methers, that the one simple, wholesome laxative remedy, which acts geatly amd pleasantly and naturaily and which may be.taken at any time, when the system needs a laxative, with perfect safety and real- Iy benmeficial effccts, is Syt‘p of Figs sad Elixir of Senna. It has that true deli which is so refreshing’ that warming and grat the stemack which ably to its action a - fect which is so_ iem The genuine, always bearis mame of the Califérnia Fig_'yfup Co., may be purchased from all leading druggists in eriginal packages of ome size only, price ffty cénts’ pe e e e e e ————— up their stalks, almost ready to de- velop on the ends of their strange flowers. Just a little further on I know of still another marvellous lit- tle spring, coming clearly out of the mountain side, never sliowing the least sign of mcrease in spring freshets or of decrease in summer droughts, bub- dling vp under a flint rock, which marks the beginming of a real flint “dike” through limestone. It's where the Indians, centuries ago, used to get the material for their arrow-heads and their stone “kmives”, etc. So I could go on for pages, numbering over the secrets of the mountains and fields which™ Nature and T have hunted out together and which belongs to me every time I lift my eyes from my work. Now what were those automol getting of all this? They were ing” their fifty or their hundred miles of road—one mile about the same as any otker mile; more or less rutty and stony; more or less dusty or muii- dy; more or less hilly and erooked; bordered by more or iess dilapidated fences and punctuated with more or less “motor trouble.” They didn't know the little bank against the fenca bevond the old apple tree which is to- day blue with big violets; nor the swampy bit beside the trout brook which is goldsn yellow with cowslips. They were more interested in the kinc of gravel the road was made of, and the doub* whether their gasoline wouid holé out to the next garage, and tbc question of how their hair looked. It isn’t soecially pleasant to set fence posts and the like. But I don't ‘thirk, after all, I woul my yesterday’s jo! vith its compen- sations—for their job, with its com- pensations. It takes all kinds to mak a world, and perhaps they were suited ‘with their “fun.” But it really wouldn't seem much pleasure to me to be bounced through a strange country in the face of an endless thirty miles an hour wind and dust sterm, just be- cause that happens to be “the thing’ to do in “our set. There is re: lly— to me—more pleasure te be got from knowing two square miles of God's great garder which lizs right around me—from knowing it lengthwise and crosswise and cornerwise and up and down, than from experiencing s hun- dred miles of narrow and monoctonous highway, without ever coming really to know a single acre of the beauty and glory which lurk hidden to right ang left. It's our own fault we farmers . make our lives dull grinds and soraid monotonies. Of course, we have got to work and work hard. But don't you suppose these fellows who tootle about in automobiles have had to work, too, and work hard? They surely have—if tney haven’'t stolen their money or had it given them by =omeone else who earned it hardly. The appearancz of that old man in that automobile haunts me even vet. He was better dressed than I; he undoubtedly had a bet “front,” but, if therz any meaning in the drawn lines of the face and the listless hang of the hands and gen- eral worn-out look, they indicated that he had been through some hard mills in his Lfe. He had probably worked as hard if not hardsr and at more grinding tasks than my fence making. He se=med to have lost the capacity for earning real enjoyment, and was now trying to bu: which can never be done in this v No, call me Pharisee if you please, sneer at my rurality of mind if you feel that way; but the fact remains that I don’t want to change place: with that old maz He may keep touring car and I'll stick to my f and my gardens. He ma hundrad miles a day of fr the estatlished automobile route, I'll take my hal® day off. now and th to gloat over the pinxters flushing ti rocks by the Wild-cat den. hunt down the elusive orchid Spectabilis which grows—I know where, but I'm not geoing to t2ll. It's one of the se- crets . I'm keeping, for my own sake as well as the sake of the orchid. If I read him aright, he has spent h fe denied himself the p might have taken i went along, for whole hogsheads of h And now his stomach for so long dznied and starved, i pepcically shr lled and 1ncompatent to iake care of the viands he is trying to.shovel into it. Money is a mighty handy thing —t get better things with. But mighty poor sert of stuff to ter things for. K Such as youth. hope. And lova. And loyalty. neighboriiness. And life itsel such a thing as payving too nigh a for even gold and diamonds. thai cos: much less are often much mcre. We farmers have portunity, we choosz to accer Jive more fruitful and useful and happier lives than almost class of workers in til not live up to our opportunities while we have them—stop co i selves as slaves, give a good-hy hes, and take the happinesses ch come to us, as they come, with- oui slapping them in the face hecanse we are so husy getting for them on somsz tomorrow? THE FARMER. leasure which hz driblets as he of gettin later on o bet- Aud An Toned it Down. “King Edward,” said an English vis- itor in New York, “hated snobbish- ness. To show how ridiculous snob- bishness was he used often to tell about an alphabet book of his child- hood. 4 “This book had alliterative sentences arranged under each letter, thus: “ ‘Callous Caroline caned a cur cruel- L “‘Henry hated the heat of heavy hats.” “Under the letter V came the face tious sentence: ““Villiam Vilkins viped his veskit. “But the yeung prince’'s snobbisk tutors theught this sentence too vulga: and low for their charge snd accord- ingly they substituted for it the more refined and genteel line: “‘Viacent Vining viewed a vacant villa.’ " A Luxury. Professor. Merriman's unsuceessful campaign for mavor of Chic cost the sum of $130.000-0dd. Wh virtue so confounded expensive?—N. Y. Sun. have swapped | and | working like a stevedore at labor which paid him nothing money, in order at I to be a to | give up work for pleasure. He has kept at it so long that he has atrophied capacity for enjoyment. He has pensive After twenty-five vears of persisti- ent effort that was crowned with suc- cess, Professor Robert A. Brubeck, who has established the New London business college as a recognized in- stitution of learning in the city, with legislative authority to issue degree, the professor retires, leaving it to others to carry on the good work he has brought to a successful issu He has worked hard from a vel small beginning and is now to take rest from continuous night and day work of cuarter of a century. His energetic work is appreciated by all the people and to such an extent that the public school government consid- ered Professor Brubeck's school com- petent to instruct in all that pertain- ed to a business life and therefore never antagonized his earnest and efficient efforts. His personality per- vaded the school and had its influence with the townspeople, who saw living nesses of the business training given by Frofessor Brubeck and were ever ready to give encouragement to his prais ofrthy work. the severe and constant strain of painstaking efforts with stu- dents his health was undermined and he will now devote cuperation before X other business. After arranging his affairs in New London, he will spend a season in New York city under the direct care of a noted specialist and 1l go south to Virginia or West &l . where he will make his home in the future, in the section where he spent his boyvhood day nd where he i engaged in engaging in any work before coming to New London, employed in the claim ! department of the Central Vermon railroad in this v. Professor Bru- c as made a great many friends London and vic v and his departure is generally T tted, and he carries with him the very best wish of ail who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Just because there happens to be a aang of toughs in East New London, as there always has been, does not signify that other sectjons of the eity are free from its bands of bad voung men, fellows who would rather do something that is not in strict com- pliance to law than to live to the let- ter of thels No, there are gangs of these fellows in the nerth, south, w and center of the city, and even the fashionable northwest section, s called hus it is and thus it probably always be. If there i doubt, ask the police. They v vou of the time they have in keeping the ehs in the localities they patrol under reasonzble restraint. One of the latest a of th oung fellows in of a falsealarm of fire at ling the volunteer ! the farr firemen from their beds, eager to speed | poeler or or to the call for w sed to | ing There be the saving of the pr of oth-|ing" proclivities in the city, ers, only to find that they were made | ang J,w grade. that it i the victims of some brainless s+ difficult to fastén who has no more conception of a joke | ¢ion on any than a br monkey. There. %re Already suspicion points to several | i, young men en in tha |y neighborhood ox just be-| jov wiil not be ‘the only fore the false alarm <was Sent in.| .f the thefs of the & The police have them er surveil- | the Gavitt farm to the pulle lance and are endeav: the individual who bro unlocked the door nd the lever that c the alarm. i arrest was g alarm of fire, i fellow be fo he ill undoubted zet the 3 of the offen If the ma it may be If the mat- law. thoroughly ferreted mitted by law. London tough. There are so many projects in hand just at present, larae and small, and all tended to advance en would and p ns W proclaimed at least a t 1 | the 10,090 k. 16 be 2 $2,000,000 ige er ed across another $1,900,600 leveloping normal work, th the oper: the il not of edu- s been s d to v the » be located to the elevation arbor: overiook- the side Mahan, who things, and come to pass and genera some mcre, surely and all within this day And there are other: 1. James W. Miller, a former resident of New Londen and Groton. perhaps the last of the old line of ship car- rs in this sec- son Olin, in Jewett City, most every resident New county whose hair is tinged with Mr, his sevent congratulaticns of the friends who hac knowledge of the ¢ i of th vent Mr, M is of 1 ¢ ars been subjects and hereahouts. His, are noted for rinted ari and intense interesi, and appreciatel by readers. Nearly halfl a centiary agd, Mr. Miller was a frequent con- tributor te New Lendon newspagers and always on timely local topiecs, and never shirked the responsibility aled the identity of the w er,. f is autograph always accom- panied his communication, not as an evidence of good faith alone, but for pubdlication as well. YEARS REQUIRED F The Tough'is Not Sectional—Mr. James W. Miller Passes His 79th Birt]’xday—Petererlley Suspected of Taking Game Cocks—The Will of Morris W. Bacon a Quarter of a Century as an Edufator. some time in re- | newspaper | the | These little | is sure to be some- ! thing deir the harbor and along water to which that_once a who ~laim they we There is really so the hoom line that the fact that there is to be a « 10 next month is forgotten, i- though in the ple of decades this annual beat was considered the biggest event of the vear nnd was | the tilk of the town for months prior to the actnal race. Things have | changed since Ma Mahan took the wheel of s i old ship Boomer. known to al- | London | Mr. Miller not only built vessels for others, but built them for himself, and it 'used fo be saiG of him that he had no superior in the practical shipbuild- ing from the broad-axe to moulding, planning ani designing. He was cer- tainly a master builder and consider- | ing his long period of real hardy work, he bears his nearly fourscore of years lightly. He began voluntary com- munications to newspapers when vet a young man and- as years pass en, like whiskey in the wood, improves by age. Peter Kelley, formerly the proprietor of the shady resort known as the Park City hotel, in New London, is now aceused of being a-¢ ken thief. Sev- eral weeks ago the farm of Fred Gav- iit in Waterford was visited by thieves and about forty choice gamecocks i were stolen, They are said to have | been the choicest stock of a Hartford | fancier and were farmed out to be { in readiness tor the pit. The fizhting qualities of chis stock was well known throughout New England. as th re | the winners in several cocking mains, | if all -reports be true. Thissdespite | the fact that cockfighting is not legal- ized. But the assemblage.of so many pit birds on a single farm would lead to the opinion that there was an oceasional viclation of law, although it is t as lawful to keep game stock as it is to keep Wyandottes, Orping | tons or any other breed of poult | But ithe gamecocks were at the Gavitt | farm” at night, and the next morning | many of them were missing, while | others were freed- and fought and Killed ecach cther. Sheriff Tubbs e and he finally ds on the prem- in the common Mr. Kel ge of larc n pape Little Deput; to the couple of the of Peter Kelley alth sachu was arrested on the chs and beld until requisitio secured. fe was then & brought Connecticut and tp the town of terford, where the alleged crime tted, and then and there he bonds gf $1.020 for appearance Monday for trial. was gave next E sion and was known to have heen in New lLondon just befor the birds were stolen, there are so who do not believe that he is the f low who actually went into the coops tock thre birds 1 then went awa with them in an automobile. He may | been famiiiar with e nsactior, put there are others im- ated and every effort is being i to locate the other fellows. thisse wanted may be in Mu h | not far from the Kelley home, but is believed that the real chi n thie the feliow who visited the | who must nave been well z - The wiii of the late Morris W. Bacon has been preserited for probate and held on all ne and ate, the along te hased f or the not of old for the i the the is endowed and the hing school -parted have The Art of Carpentry. How many common figurative ex- pressions in our lang «re bor- rowed from the art of carpentry may be seen from the following sentence: “The lawyer who filed the bill, shaved | the note, cut an acquaintance, split a Lair, made an entry, got up a case, { framed an indictment, impaneled a { jury, put them a box, nailed a witness, bammered a judge and bored a -whole court, all in one day, has since laid down law d turned carpenter. e The in government has appro- priated 000, United States gold, to cover the expenses of the immigration propaganda during 1911, BABY'S HAIR ALL CAME 0UT “When my fitst baby was six months old he broke out on his head with little bumps. They would dry up and leave a scale. Then it would break out again and it spread all over his head. All the hair came out and his head was scaly all over. Then his face broke out all over in red bumps and it kept spread- ing until it was on his hands and arms. bought several boxes of ointment, gave him biood medicine, and had two doctors to Ch treat bim, but he ot worse all the time. He had it about six mon hen a friend iold me about Cuticura. nt and got a bottle of Cu Resolvent, a of Cuticura Soap and 2 box of Cuticura Of . In fhree days after. using them he began to improve He began 1o take Jong naps and 0 stop seratchi two boitles of R ment and_ thre and well, and 1 any kind. i 1 all gyer his head. I don’t think anything elsé would have cured him except Cuticura, 1 haye bought Cuticura Ointment and Soap several times since to use for cuts and gores and have never known them to fail to cure what I put_them on. Cuticura Soap is the best that I have ever used for foilet urposes.”” (Signed) Mrs. F.. E. Harmon, k . D. 2, Atoka, Tenn., Sept. 10, 1910. ° Cuticura Remedies are sold everywhere. head. After taking . two boxes of Oint- kes of Soap he was sound ver had any breaking eut of OR DEVELOPMENT thouzh XKelley had the stolen birds | His hair came out in little curls | 'Anty Drudge’s Vision. Anty Drudge had finished her weekly wash befors noon and she sat in her comfortable rocking chair and dozed. . And in a dream, she saw an unhappy woman bound with fetters, her right arm chained to a washboiler, her left arm to a washboard. And'the sun was setting and it was growing dark. And she dreamed that she touched the shackles on each wrist of the woman with a bar of Fels-Naptha soap. dreamed was true. Wwrapper. | thought necessary. And they fell off, and the woman arose glad and free— free from washday drudgery for evermore. Drudge, arousing from her slumber, knew that what she And Anty The greatest emancipation proclama- tion since Lincoln’s is printed on the back of the red and green Fels-Naptha soap It is the directions for using Fels-Naptha in washing clothes. It is also a different way of washing. It has freed millions of women from wash- day drudgery for all time to come—from slavery to the old back-breaking, health wrecking methods which used to be Are you still a slave to these old-fash- ioned methods, drudging away every wash- day, wasting your time and your work and wearing out clothes before their time? Then stop. Use Fels-Naptha. clothes in the new and easy way in cool or lukewarm water, summer or winter, with- | outboiling or hard rubbing. Easy directions on the back of the Fels-Naptha wrapper. Wash your enius and Mediocrity. Corneille did not speak correctiy the language of which he was such a mas- ter. Descartes was silent in mixed society. Themistocles, when asked to play on a lute, d, “I cannot fiddle, but t can ke a little village into a great cit, Addison was unable tc converse in company. Virgil was heavy colloguially. La Fontaine was coarse and stupid when surrounded by men. The Countess of Pembroke had been often heard to say of Chaucer that his silence was more “agreeable to her than his conversation. Socrates, cele- brated for his written orations, was so id that he never ventured to speak den said that he was unfit for company. Hence it has been remarked, “Medioc: can talk; it is s to observe. A Reproof. . “Oh, children, you are so noisy to- day. Can't you be a little quieter?” ¢ "Now. grandma. you imust be more considerate aud not sco!d us. You see, if it wasn't for us you youldn't be a grandma at al Wisdom { Detroit 5 it lost the “champic st vear by losing not want to re- hicago News. i 1 | Always a Harvest Somewhers. There is a harvest every month dur- ing the year, as follows: January— Australia. New Zealand, Argentine, Chile: February—India: March—India. upper Egypt: April—Mexico, Cuba. lower Egypt. Syria, Persia. Asia Minor: May—North Africa. China. Japan and the southern United States of Ameri- ca; June—Mediterranean and southern France, central and east United States of America south of 40 degrees: July —France, Austria, Hungary. southern Russia, northern United States of America. Ontario and Quebec; August —England, Belgium, Netherlands, Ger- many, east Canada; September—Scot- land., Sweden., Norway, Russia: Octo- ber—Finland and northern Russia; No- vember—Peru, South Africa: Decem- ber—Burma, South Australia. It is a complete table and shows how the wheat supply pours into England dur- ing every montb of the year.—English Agricultural Journal. Enough to Give Him Ennui. say that Woodrow Wilson's renuous work is pushing presi- dential nominations out of his way. Atlanta Constitution. Same Appetites. # The insurgent senators seem to have the sam~ vigorous appetite for choice committee assignments as the mere rezulars.—Des Moines Capital. AN i i CUTLER BUILDING, What You Wish to Know About a Typawriter. ISIT A VISIBLE WRITER INTERCHANGEABLE TYPE MACHINE ? PERFECT AND PERMANENT IN ALIGNMENT ? UNIFORM IN IMPRESSION ? SIMPLE OF CONSTRUCTION ? UP TO DATE IN DEVICES ? DURABLE 7 MECHANICALLY PERFECT ? The Hammeond Possesses These Qualities. We want Local Representatives The Hammond Typewriter Co., IN COLORS ? NEW HAVEN, CONN.