Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 27, 1911, Page 13

(THE {Written Spaclally for The Bulletin.) One of the most ffequently heard indictments against farfiing 4s a live- lihood is that “there &in’t no money in it.” Certainly, it must be admitted that, if there be money in it, the av age farmer hasn't found it. The most of us farmers—in the east, anvhow — have to scratch gravel pretty con- stantly and vigorously to get where- withal to buy clothes and pay tax As a rule, we live. and maintain our families on smaller incomes than the mine workers and many other persist- ently striking wage earncrs confessedl: receive. When we come to compare our recelpts with those of the “mer- chant princes” and other “captains of industry,” why, we aren’'t even in it Not as a rule, that 1s. T have heard, here and there, of farmers getting fairly rich. But they are exceptions T've even heard of one who made three millions at farming. ie was not merely an exception; he was a sort of agricultural Halley's comzt, coming in range not oftener than once in two generations. i Let's admit the worst af the start- off. It is generally assumed that there arn about seven ‘millions of us farm- ing for a living in thesa United States. Did it ever occur to you what ‘a-sadly unfortunate thing it would be for the other eighty odd millions-if we actual- v should all get rich--we farmers? We et out manure and plow and hoe corn and dig potatoes because we have to, most of us, not because we want fo. With weaith the necessity would cease and the result would be a tremendous shortage in the output of corn and potatoas and the like. Necessity is a hard and driving taskmistress, but sormehow szhe generally gets things done when an easisr boss might fail to make good. If we were all _so rich that we didn't need to work, I'm so rowfully certain that a precious lot of us wouldn't work. This may be' re- greitable, but it nevertheless seems highly probable. Yet the very exist- ence of the raca depends upon our working. Did Kou ever stop to think what would happen if the whole. passel of us hayeeeds, from Maine to Mexico, should decide to “strike” for a season? Heaven knows we've got bétter reason’ for do- ing so than some of the city labor un- foris have for their strikes. Suppose such an improbable thing should hap- pen as that we should all join a mon- #trous Farmers’ unfon -and unanimous- 1 decide to strike for ten cent milk. and dollar potatoes, and. dollar-a- dozen apples, and 80 .on through the list” Eh What? But that isn’t the point I'm aiming at this morning. We are not going to strike, even for our rights.. And we're moL going te get rich, many of v We're going to keep on working to feed ourselves and, incidentally, the rest of ¢ tha world. We're going to keep on working hard for inadequate returns We're in the condition of the nether miilstone, which takes what comes to it and just grinds—grinds—grinds. But, after all, is that nether millstone a wholly pitiable object? it worse off than any othar. possible one, @ny- where? ILooking at things from the large poirt of view, may net sameéthing be sald for that milistone? Tt never moves. True; but it's there- fore in no danger of bursting apart as the whirling brothar above may, if hur- ried too fast. / It has to take what comes to it. True: but it is able to take that in- edible grain which is fed down the core and turn it into useful flour. Even the fixed and-apparently hope- less nether millstons is a' more usefual and—I think-—more honorable object than the inert boulder which lies cefi~ tury after century bduried in the clay balow the scratching of the plowshare: or than ths wandering pebble which is erratically moved along the bed of (he torrent by seasonal freshets and finally worn into a mere fragment of gravel without ever doing anything—except =erve as an obstruction to an otherwise free-flowing stream. other things than money things that are worth more things that money !tself cannot puy. One payment is in our own inneér sense of service rendered: of good work weil done, Tt is vastly better to earn more than we get paid for than to take pay for more than we’'earn. This mady 'no be the axiom of “business.” but it's a foundation ruie of something higher than business—I mean true manhood. To come back to our starting pcint, however, the complaint that farming is, for most of us, a struggle without large pecuniary’ rewatrd. Even as- suming that this. form of reward is the only one worth -considering. are we farmers really -much if any worse off than our brethren In other voca- tions? Today there are thousands of | voung men in all parts of the land | studving for the law. They have heard of the big fees which have been paid to certain lawyers in celebrated cases, and they are after similar fees for themselves. Cerfain flgures recently WHEN the HAIR is BRIT- TLE, DRY, HARSH or THIN, . or WHEN DANDRUFF be- gins to appear on Dress or Ceat Coltar THEN, it's time for COKE. Give the scalp a gener- ous shampoo with COKE LIQUID SHAMPOO— When the hair is dried, ap- ply. rubbing it well into the roots of the HRair, enabling it to reach and destroy the scalp microbes and give the blood vessels a healthy stimulus. Your d: ist will suppl “these two excel- preparations for 75 > FARMER'S TALK] TO FARM | post, 119 feet ERS compiled for the New York County Lawyers’ association suggest an in- teresting and informative reflection. These figures show that there are about 16,000 lawyers in New York city —about one to every 275 inhabitants, counting men, women, children and Indians not taxed. One out of every ten is maki money; five out of ev- ery ten are making a living; four out of every ten are living from hand to mouth, and finding every day a des- perate struggie for mere existence. That is, on about as well as they would have done if they had stuck to the farm; four- tenths of them are not doing so well; one-tenth of them are doing better. Now, in betting, ten to one against a man is not desirable odds. If the young farmer who is thinking of aban- donirg farm work for law could be made to appreciate that he has just an even chance of doing as well; four chances out of ten of losing; only one chance in ten of doing better, would the farm seem to him, then, so gloomy and the law office 8o itidescent? “Most of these young fellows don't under- stand that they would do much bet- ter to go into trades or dy scientific farming,” says Secretary Lewinson of the Lawyers’ association. It is probable that about the same ratio of success to failure holds in other professions beside the law. In them all the few grow rich: the many find life a daily fight for mere exist- ence. But it is with this as with the rainbow; there are countless millions of raindrops falling unseen from the clouds; but the few which happen to catch the breaking sun’s rays at just the right angle gleam and glitter in a gorgeous striping of glory. We ad- mire the rainbow and wonder at it; but fail to appreciate what a very small part it is of the whole shower. As a solemn matter of fact, the un- countable drops which fail to catch the sun’'s prismatic advertising are doing, each one, exactly as much good to the thirsty earth and the growing crops as those which briefly shine in tinted magnificence. But the rainbow chaser will continue to chase rainbows despite all that can be said to him. or all that he ought to be able to“reason out for himself. That fairy pot of gold at the end of the bow has attracted the greed of children for untold generations and will continue so to attract them. Not ornly <children in years, but also grown- up children who have developed into ‘men and women, phys:cally, but have not attained the mental balance and poise which should accompany matur- We farmers may, when the shower comes, sit on the piazza and enjoy the rainbow. But, we can also enjo, larger pleasure of understanding that shower is jloing more than paint a, gay arch acposs the sky. We can appreciate the way in which it is bringing new life to the grains and the grasses; how it is plumping the kernels and swelling the tubers: how it is carrying, hidden in its drops, some tintings of rosy beauty to redden the cheeks of the apples by and by; how it is filling the brooks and re- nawing the springs. We are not tempt- ed by old. wives’ tales to stumble idhrough: swamps and briars after an elusive pot of gold, because we know that the rain is scattering all over our fields something worth more than gold to us and to the world, e., the nur- tures of new and varied and immeas- urable life. ’m not ;the least little: bit inclined to minimize the evils of the situation, nor the injustices to which we are subjected. I'm not disposed to gloss over as a small thing the deplorable fact that the money rewards of the world are going to those who haven't earned them and not to those who de- serve them. I'm not pretending that we can abolish war simply by crying “Peace, PedCs” when there is no peace. But I'm suggesting that perhaps, when we look things all over, on both sides and under the bottom as well, we shall find that we are better off than our grouches have intimated. It may be thatwe could fare farther and do no better. It may be no improve- ment for us to jump from the frying- pan into the fire THE FARMER. PATRIOTS HONORED, Clinton’s Woman’s Relief Corps Un- veils Monument to Soldiers and Sailors. The monument to the soldier and and the citizens of the town, was un- sajlor dead of the town of Clinton, the gift of Chapman Woman’'s Rélief corps veiled the other d on the lower green —DMaster Merrill Kelsey Platt, Fand- son of a union soldier, releasing the draperies covering the memorial. Law- ver Charles A. Pelton presented the statue to the town, First Selectman Z. Sjlas Weilman accepting it. The oration was ered by Rev. Dr. Watson L. of New Haven, whose subject was 'The Meaning of the Monument. ] Preceding the exercises dinner was served at the town hall for the guests, after which there was a procession frem the hail to the green in which the Woma Relief corps. Chapman G. A, R, Horatio G. Wright amp, Sons of Veterans, and the school children took part. The statue, which is high, with a uare, and is crowned ize figure of a soldier in uniform, tanding wirh his musket at parade st, On a hronze tablet is the fol- ing inscrintion: “Erected by the Woman's Relief corps and the citizens of Clinton in of granite, is base six feet with the life- memory of the soldiers and sailors who fought to préserve the wunion, 1861-1865. TFor the aead a tribute; for the living a memory; for poster. ity an emblem of loyvalty to the flag of their country.” : —— Commends State Library. Prof. E. C. Richardson, librarian of Princeton university, was a recent vis- itor at the mew State library building in Hartford and expressed his deep approval of the Ccnnecticut structure, which contains so many valuable rec- ords and is & monument to the present administration of stavc affairs. Pro- fessor Richardson said, “Connecticut has what in my judgment is the most conveniently arranged, harmonious, substantially bullt library 1 have ever visited.” = Professor Richardson was | at one time president of the American Library association. He has just re- turned from a trip to Egypt. They Won't Pa The law of compensation is at work, according to the report that Penrose bas concinded to. support reciprocity because LaFollette is opposed to it. Pittsburg Despatch, The Strahger MR. PALMER’S of the Marines. There was a mighty peculiar shoot- up in'a Bank street saloon at dusk, in which one man was shot in the thizh and the others in the place, including the proprietor, managed to get out of harm’s way. According to the story, the offender was a stranger, who whip- Ped a revolver from his pocket and told all in the saloon to get out, and all but one escaped the flying bullets Then the fellow with the gun left th2 saloon and hasn't been seen since. The story seems incredible, but the saloon man declares it to be absolutzly true. There certainly was a man shot in that particular saloon and at the particular time denoted, but how the shootec could escape without detection is just a bit mystifying. The saloon is locat- ed in a populous section of the street and where persons are passing at all times, and in large numbers at the time the shooting took place, but at that hour there is no policeman on that beat. Just why some of those who were in the saloon did not trail the fel- low and locate him so that he could be taken by the police is not explained, but it is evident that they are not be- lievers in the old maxim that says something of let no guilty man escapz. The man came from no man knows where, and went to some place that the police cannot find on the map, an.d this happened on busy Bank street, at dusk, in progressive Naw London. Some who have given the matter sober thought are beginning to think that there is something in connection with this shooting that has not yet come fo the surface, and perhaps that when some kinks the police are endeavoring to straighten out are more clearly ex- plained the shoot-up wiil not be quiie so mystifying as it is at this writing. Although burglaries occur in large and fully protected cities, and the bur- glars escape undetected with their loot, i ble reason why the police force of New London should not be increasad and the protection made even more efficient. The local police are no: entirely at fault just because thieving jobs are done successfully and with- out molestation, for sueh things 4o happen in even batter police regulated cities than New London. To those un- familiar with the regular duties of the police officers and with the large amount of territory ea officer is sup- posed to cover, the expression of surprise at the possibility of doing such a job as was done in a State street store one night this week. It is claimed that entrance was ef- fected by raising a rear window, and once inside the burglars moved the safe quite a distance in the store, back from its regular position, into an al- cove, and did then and there throw the safe over and with jimmy and sledge. or some other hand forced power, braak open said safe, and did purloin and taks therefrom and carry away nearly $300 in legal tenders of the Unitea States, the denominations and numbers of which are not to the deponent known. There are circumstances con- nected with this burglary that are pe- culiar and it is no wonder that somc ara surprised that such a thing cou.d take vlace without detection. So far Who Started 1l PRACTICAL EXAMPLE He Believes in a City Beautiful—A Disturbing Burglary —The Painting of the Old Mill—The Annual Cruise as known there is no trace of this burglar, and it may ba that he is the same chap who shot vp the Bank street saloon, or he may have been a brother or a firat cousin or something of that sort. Perhaps both mysteries will ha explained in due time. Don't fully score th> poor policemen, at least un- til after thorough and satisfactory in- vestigation is made. Several societies have been organizea in New London whose prime motive was proclaimed to be the beautification of the city and inculcating the princi ples of civic pride in the people. To farther the project, experts in civie prile were engagad to lecture on the subject and it was supposed that con- siderable intgrest was created in the work. Committees were appointed for differant sections of the city to carry on this work of municipal improve- ment, bnt up to date there are no ap- parent signs of activity on the part of tha organized bodies. Perhaps by their works they will be known later in the season, but not quite yet. There is at least one gentleman, however, who is practicing what he preaches in that special and praiseworthy line, and the initials of his name are George S Palmer. Hea has ornamented the spa- cious grounds around his mansion in the Pequot colony, and on specifind cdays of last season the grounds wera open for the admiration of the public, and this privilege will be renewed for the pr2sent summer.* Mr. Palmer has also made a beauty spot on the Palmer Brothers’ propert; in Union street adjoining the post- office property, the site of the Nathaa Hale schoolhouse and the oid Third Baptist chufch. Sinca the former building was removed fo the perma- nent site in the Antienest Burying ground and the latter bullding razed, the property has been utilized as a sort of storage for old building material and was far ramoved from the beauti- ful. Mr. Palmer has caused this prop- eriy to be graded. seeded with grass. and has already placed therein orna- mental trees and shrubbery, and is planning to place flowering plants as the s2ason advances. When completed it-will b> a miniature vark unexcelled for beauty znd a fine sample of expart landscap> gardening. Action not words applies to civic pride work just as much as to anything elge. Ten years ago an artist painted a picture of the Old Town Mill and its surroundings, in keeping with its ap- pearance when the old men of New London of today were boys, and under the lead of school teachers visitad the even then ancient place and listened to the history of the old structure as part of school instruction. The artist spent a long time on the picture, baing as- sured by men of prominence that the city of New Londen would be glad of the opportunity to purchase the pic- ture and place it in the city hall er court house, as it was easily one of th= main points of interest in New ILondon and was overflowing with city and stdtal sentiment. Well, the picture was finally finished and conceded to na a rk of art and a faithful repre- seiltation of the historic and interes:- ing subject. It is a large picture, per- haps eight by four feet in dimensions, and enclosed in an appropriate messive golden frame and ready for a perma- nent location. It has been on exhibi- tion of lat> in the county commission- ers’ room in the court house and in the show window of a New Lordon store and generally admired. But up to the present minute neither the city or any of the citizens have made any move towards its purchase. The artist has had several offers for the work, but he painted the pictu.e for the city of New London, and his desire is that it becomz the properiy of the city, and has only placed a fair valuation upon his work. Now he is inclined to believe that he has held tha valuable painting for the city al- most to tne limit and when the paint- l the -Excitement ing is wanted for ths city or county ‘building, later on, it may not be ob- tainable. It was stated this week that a jrom:inent saloon keeper was serious. 1y considering its purchase as an at- traction for his place of business, purely from a money making stand- point, aside from its ornamentation to his saloon. He believes it would be- come as famous as were the pictures in the Hoffinan house barroom and just as profitable. That picture should never be utilized for such a purpose, but it is now getting to be a matter of business with- the artist. In a short time the cadets at the revenue marine school at Fort Trum- bull will depart on the annual cruis2 on board the schoolship Itasca, which has been lying at the fort wharf all winter and used in connection with the training of the cadets. Since the com- ing of the school to New- London the people have endeavored to show all courtesy to all connected with the school, from: the mess boy to the co: mander, . and gpach according to his station. Soclezg events have been fre- quznt with thé officers and cadets as the guests of honor and in return so- cia! functions have pe>n keld at tiae gebool with prominent people of the city as guests. Aside from the sociai features, the school has added mate- rially in the advancement of ibe busi- ness interests of the city and its gen- eral progressiveness. The city. proper has done very little in return for what the school has done for the city, and it has been suggest- ed that while the Itasca is off on cruise would be dn opportune time 'to do something that would not only be a priciated by every man in ‘the service but by the general public as well. The street leading to the reservation is poorly lighted and is in the mos:i wretehed condi‘ion, makingz vehicular traffic risky even by daylight and pe- destrianism exceedingly dangerous at night. The court of ccmmon council hzs been petitioned to improve the & jsting conditions and the time to do i is just about now, so that it will be cogmplete when the Itasca returns io port. There should be morz electric street lighits between the railroad bridge a the fort and the road an- proaches to the fort should be rebt and placed in as good cendition a averags street of the cit LT i DORMITORY FUND COMPLETE. | Sufficient Subscribed to Erect Wright Memorial. nnouncement is ht Memerial co that sufficient funds e be: to assure the erection of th dormitory and the work tion of the new building dertaken. as scon as prac This is the first time tha tory or building on the camp been erected by popular subsc and the success of the enterprise ha provided convineing proof of the loy- alty and liberali of the rank and flle of Yale alumni Y by at made ittee Uncle Joe as a Humorist, Uncle Joe Cannon is alleged to be! behind a movement to nominate Sunny | Jim Sherman for the cle Joe n presiden s o lesire | silly sea- Chicago Record-Herald. TRAVELERS®’ DIRECTORY. T0 NEW YORK NORWICH LINE The water way — the comfortabis way of traveling. Steamers City of Lowell and Ches- ter W. 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