Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 19, 1911, Page 13

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) It is said to be the part of the pessimist to point out deploradle tendencies. Homer tells how Cassan- dra, prophetess of evil, went up and down the streets of ancient Troy, fore- telling the city's doom. It was Jesus of Nazareth who predicted woes un- speakable to the eminently smug and Tespectable leaders of society in or about 33 A. D. Jesus was crucified; Cassandra was first~laughed at and then hooted; the present day pessimist is regarded and frankly spoken of as a nuisance. Yet it would have been better for both Jerusalem and Troy it the warnings had been heeded. It would be better for the coming gen- eration if the one now on the stage would simply look ahead to see whither its steps are tendins. Unquestionably the world is getting better. It is growing kinder. It is gaining wisdom. It is attaining to higher levels. But don’t forget that this general trend forward and upward is not a constant-one. It has often been interrupted. Mankind and the world are not steadily climbing on an unvarying grade towards the summit. There have been many down-hill bits in the long road behind wus. From hight after hight of attainment we have been suddenly and disastrously flung down many a stzep decline, los- ing much of what we had painfully gained, and compelled to begin the weary struggle over again. On the whole, looking at world-life by cen- turies and ages, we are manifestly higher up than our dead and long for- gottan progenitors. But we are mno- where near as high—nowhere near as close to the ultimate summit—nowhere near as neighboring to the peaks of perfection, as we should have bean had we met with no setbacks along the six-thousand-years road we have been travelling. It has many times taken many long years to recover the ground we have lost by our tumbledowns. The pity of it has been and is that every one of these setbacks we ha met, every onz of these falls we have had, has been directly and wholly due to our own shortsightedness and folly. The prophets of evil, the pessimists, the seers of disaster are never populax They annoy us, or they enrage us, or— if we are small-souled enough and weak-brained enough—they arouse our ridicule. Woa either banish them or crucify them or laugh them down. And then, later om, we or our child- dren weep bitter tears and wouldn’t, wouldn’t, wouldn’t see things as they are, face facts fearlessly, and avoid the pitfalls which we might hava seen and i\’ppl out of but for our blindness and olly. Now I, for one, find it pleasanter as a rule to look at the world's advance and to glory in it and imagine its con- tinuance, than I do to keep looking be- hind me all the time, half scared io death by forebodings of disaster; and afraid to put my foot down real hard lest it be in a trap or a pitfall. Most all of us do find that state of mind pleasanter. But, unfortunately, it isn't always nor often the merely pleasant thing which is the right thing. Per- haps the universe wasn't started proo- erly, and perhaps it isn’t being run as it should be. That is a matter which I shall really have to leave you to set- tle for vourselves with the said uni- verse. I've lived with it long enough to find out that it doesn’t make a picayune’'s differsnce what JI think about it—it's going on just the same, regardless of my opinions. When .I can’t possibly change the conditions it seems to me wiser to accept them as they are and try to fit myself to the coat, since I am to havas no say about the cutting of it. And one of the ir- repealable laws of this particular part of the universe seems to be that we must generally do ths hard thing, the thing we don't like, the thing we don't ‘want to do. It's taken me a long time to get round to what I have in mind this morning; but now I think I've got ther This age has a number of sad- ly d eartening things about it; a Whole lot of tendancies which can't help but cause foreboding; which we may want to shut our eyes to, but ought rather to face and fight. One of them has been suggested to me by | versities,” says the newspaper. JHair trouble points te some by alsordens et 1o readi;- ewsceptible to exter- nal treatmerft. All hair gurtnrnions claim to cure, t why experiment when the accuracy of the COKE Jormula has been proven by over 30 years’ use. Coke Cure ir Tonic furpishes nourishment for " the ‘hair follicles, creates a luxuriant gro and im~; parts a beautiful lustre, To obtain the best results, keep scalp thoroughly clean. COKE LIQUID SHAMPOO thoroughly cleanses and dis- infects. Your dr will surply you with two uxcellent Ppreparations for 75 cents, THE KELLS COMPANY 1 JOMNES ST. NEWBURGH, Clear Brains and good spirits come naturally when the stomach is up to its work, the liver and bowels active and the blood pure. Better con- ditions always follow the use of BEECHAMS Raising the Individual Standard Raises the Standard of the Mass thejcomment of a New York paper »n a récent baccalaureate of President Schurman of Cornell. He was plead- ing for the individual as against the crowd. “Would you abolish poverty, would you advance civilization?” he asked. “Then educats individuals onc by one to be more virtuous, more in- telligent, more skillful, more indus- trious.” The comment of the mnews- paper upon this appeal follows: “Upon the soundness of the plea there will be general agreement. But it is a creed that has been taught much more successfully on loncly farms and pastures than in universi- ties. Still, the creed is a good ome to teach. It can never be taught too often. Better than all laws against vice and crime and folly is an impulse toward self-reform. And perhaps such an impulse was never more needed than now, for naver was the voice of the crowd more clamorous, nor the in- fluence of the crowd more potent. He who can make sure of his own' thougat amid its noises is a philosopher. Ha who can-stand against its power is a hero.” deplorable, it is pitiful, the w. ich men and women of today are losing their individual backbones ana becoming invertebrate supernumaries in the mob. They have organization preached at them so universally and insistentl; that many have come to make it a sort of fatich. They have forgotten that organization is merely a means to an end, and have come o accept it as the end itself. Of course we must have organization—just us we must have dung-forks to get out manure with. But who er heard of a sensible farmer spending all his life collecting and preserving and worship- ping dung-forks? He uses them be- cause he has to for the sake of the corn and potatoes by and by. Wh:n he’s through with them he sticks them up in some corner and forge them, till they’'re needed again. Organization is simply a tool to work with—not a life to live. Yet things have come ‘o such a pass that millions of pzople think they can’t work or live unless in a crowd where they can forever be tumbling up against someone else whe: their own spinelessness makes thzm incapable of standing alone, Half the people in the cities today Lare suffering from lack of the very es- sentials of real life. Their condition is pitiable and we pity them in fact. But, when we try to get them out into tha open country where a chance for renewing manhood awaits them, the attempt is «almost invariably a failure. Their onp and loud wail is that the countr; so “lonesome.” You remem- her Casca’s description of the ‘‘foolery™ at Rom2 when they offered Caesar a crown which he put by, whereupon the rabblement shouted “and threw up their sweaty nightcaps, and uttered such a deal of stinking breath that it had almost choked Caesar: for he swooned and fell down at it.” It doesn’t affect everybody that way, any more. Millions and millions of people have got so they must live in the press and smell of the crowd. or they think they cannot live at all. They have ceased to be upstanding individuals, and have become mere atoms in a sweltering mass, hardly responsible for their own souls—except as they, late-, may sadly learn that they have mnot been able to scurf off that responsi- bility. We are told that “when we are at Rome we must do as the Romans do;” we are urged to sanctify the “social instincts;” we are desired to worship humanity in the mass as something vastly higher and better than humani- ty in the individual. Oh, bosh! The river can never rise higher than its source, no matter how many clear, trickling mountain springs unite to swell its muddied volume. The aggre- gate worth of humanity is just the average worth of the individuals who compose it. The only earthly way to raise the average of that aggregate is to raise the standard of the individuals who make it up, one by one, as Presi- dent Schurman said. You can’t pull up the Atlantic ocean by the roots. It's too big—and too sloppy. But you can pull up a bucket full a time. You can't elevate “humanity” with any sort of social jack-screws. But you can lift yourself and help to lift some other fellow—a little, if he's wiil- ing and his boot-straps hold. Right along that line is where we farmers have the most fortunate posi- tion assigned us of any in the whole battle array. “It is a creed that has been taught much more successfully on lonely farms and pastures thanin uni- Ver s0. There is something in the life cf the open lands which tends. not only to individuality, but to a sturdier and more effective individuality than any other which can be named. Dilettante essayists may object to it that it tends also to roughness and angularity and stubborness. Possibly this is so. But even stubborness is better than phHant weakness; even angularity better than impotent shapelessnzss: even rough- ness better than slimy lubricity. The tree that cannot stand alone will never make timber—nor even decent cord- wood. ‘The bipad who cannot stand alone—and walk alone—and grow alone —will never be a real man, or woman, despite seeming and outward re- semblances. Herring and shad and mackerel <o in schools, which makas it -anuch handier for the sharks and seiners who prey upon them. Sheep and geese always go in flocks. For which reason —among others—they will forever re- main shezp and geese. But men are supposed to be of a higher order than herring or geese. though the condu of some crowds at some times makes the philosophic mind hesitate to afirm the truth as universal. At any®ra‘e, they may be and ought to be. . We farmers have the right to reckon it as one of our blessings and not the least of our oppertunities that our vo cation enables us to live our own live to their natural ends, without being or becoming dependent for our air on the ‘oreath of the crowd. If present tendencies continue unchecked, the time will com2 when we shall need all the strength and endurance whicn come from our single-handed struggles Wwith nature to claw our own way up the sides of the pitfall into which the ‘|rag-tag and bobtail are preparing 1o slump, dragging us temporarily with them, THE FARMER. A Futile Effort. . With all the legislatures working overtime they cannot make laws fast enough to fence in sin or fence out sinners.—The Universalist Leader. " Hard on Hobson. Admirak Toge's visit to this country will be a source of delight to all ex- ce . those who have the yellow peril Detroit Free Press. ; Fof the Woman’ 1 In addition to the large tract of land donated by the Allen estate to be utilized in connecticn with the Ccn- necticut Women’s College, the trustees have acquired two tracts at Riverside adjoining, comprising fifty-six acres with one thousand feet of waterfront on the Thames river. This property was purchased at a fair price, $28,000, and the college trustees were not re- quired to exercisé the right of eminent domain that was granted to the cor- poration at the present session of the legislature. This purchase is in addi- tion to what was contemplated in the original plan and gives an idea of the magnitude of the proposed institution: The trustees are holding regular meet- ings and arranging the preliminary de- tails for the ecollege as rapidly as is consistent with careful judgment and studied forethought. It is proposed to have this a model institution of learning in the minutest details and at least the equal in every particular of any college for girls that is at present in existences, and even ‘better if that be possible. It will be an institution that will be alike creditable to the state and city and if the plans of the trustees carry the college will have no superior in its educationai ad- vantages or healthful location. Just when the actual building operations will begin, or just what portion of the contemplated plan will be first com- pleted has not as yet been definitely determined. The several contractors who are to buiid new sidewalks in the different sections of the city have commenced the work of construction and it is ex- pected that before the frost comes there will have been laid about thirty miles of uniform granolithic sidewalk, such as now improve State and Bank streets. It is planned to gradually extend this work so that in due time every street in the ciw will have granolithic¢ side- walks the full length, thus converting New London from the worst to the best sidewalked city in New England. Nat- urally there comes to the surface the chronic kickers who do not want to understand why every street in the city is not included in the present con- tracts, but shout aloud that all are taxed at the same rate and that there- fore all property owners should re- ceive like treatment in the matter of new sidewalks, and that there is no reason why any taxpayer should have any advantage over another taxpayer. Every hamlet, village, town and city hag this unreasonable class of citizens and New London certainly has her full quota. Then there is another class of conservative citizens whose spectacles are so darkened by the methods of long ago that they cannot discern anything that reads like progress even with a big P. PBut they can look beneath or over their glasses and see something that is prejudicial to anything that pretends to a radical change of methods in keeping with the Drogressiveness of the times These gbod citizens, like the unfortunate poor, we will always have with us, for they have a certain following among the less aged element who are ready o step into the vacated brogans and tell how things were done in the old-fashioned days when muni- cipal -affairs were managed by such men as the progressive men of today refer to as old fossils and stumbling blocks to the progress of the city. The detail of state policemen who came to New London to enforce the automobile laws certainly did great werk and succeeded in regulating the operation of automobiles to the full satisfaction of the general public and their excellent work received merited praise. But it is now several weeks since the police departed to other fields of laber and their absence is known to every man and woman, too. Some, not all, have taken advantage of their ab- sence, for the laws are Row being Vvio- lated by many every day and every night of the week, and the local police do not seem to take the slightest no- tice of the violations. Ocean avenue seems to have been selected for the sp2edway and the avenue has not only become an avenue of danger to those that cross the avenue but also to the careful drivers of automobiles and other vehicles to keep out of the way of the reckless fellows who drive au- tomobiles at top speed and in open vio- lation of law. Cars are not only speeded with open mufflers but there are actual races between automobiles on that pubiic driveway that would not be permitted in any other place out- side of a reguiar racing speedway es- pecially for automobiles, Last Wednesday night there was a race between three automobiles, evi- dently containing joy riders, and at times the racers occupied nearly the entire width of the road, regardless of the rights and safety of others. They ran so close to each other at times that there was imminent danger of colli- sion that would have been serious in result at the pace the automobiles were traveling. But they did rot happen to come together and the automobiles coming in the opposite direction were able to get out of the way of the trio of racers. If it is not the intention of the local police to give attention to these law-breaking automobilists, per- haps it would be well for the local po- lice authorities to make declaration that they are not competent to cope with that species of law-breakers, and to then recall the detail of young state policemen of the motorcyele squad. There is not a night but there is viola- tion of the automobile laws in Ocean avenrue, if not for exceeding the speed limit into the reckless driving feature, for the absence of the required lights, driving with open cut out or some other flagrant violation. Arrangements are completed for the Beach day celebration at Ocean beach next Tuesday and, weather favoring, it expected that the’ events arranged for by the committze will be witnessed by a greater crowd than on any prev- ious similar occasion. Besides the aquatic events the automobile parade, the band concert and the fireworks, there is to be an added feature of more than ordinary interest, when Clarence ‘W. Thompson, a local aviator will at- tempt his initial -public flight in his airship that has been christened Miss New Tondon. Mr. Thompson has taken several lessons at Mineola park and from now until Beach day he will be practicing to become perfectly fa- miliar with the working of his airship. Mr. Thompson is a thorough ime- ‘chanie, expert automobile operator and has _enthusiastic and earnest ambition to become a birdman, and believes that his first public flight at Ocean beach will be a success. It is his present plan to make at least two and perhaps three fligshts during the afternoon. He says the motor works nicely and se far as he can observe everything is in per- fect order to insure satisfactory. flights. S : Colleé_e -on the : Thames River - ~ EMINENT DOMAIN RIGHT NOT NEEDED The Kickers and the Conservatives Alive—Joy Riders Still Make New London Streets Perilous— Great Preparations Being Made For Beach Da}——_A New Hotel Probable—Mrs. Billings P. Learned’s Humane Acts—Major Spittle in a Serious Condition. ' i | | 1 | functions. As Mr. Thompson formerly resided in Norwich the interest is divided between the two cities in the success of his un- dertaking and among the throng will be many of his intimate friends who do not doubtghis succes: B The report that there is to be a hotel built on the site of the old Pequot house, the finest location on the coast, will not down, but on the contrary strengthens as time goes on. It s self-evident that with the Kirkland family moving to their new home from the residence located on the site of the old Pequot casino, the Pequot house company’s property is much enlarged, for with the recent purchase of th. Gilbert property the hotel company's land now-extends from Ocean to Mon- tauk avenues with Chapel street and Glenwood avenue on either side. While the owners of the property,K will not state definitely that a hotel is to be built on the premises they will nog deny with any emphasis that such is not the fact. Senator Frank Brand- egee is the principal owner and. ac- cording to the report, Morton F. Plant is interested with the senator in the new hotel project. Mr. Plant is the owner of the magnificent Griswold ho- tel on the opposite side of the harbor and it is planned to have the hotels in unison and not in any way antagonis- tic to each other. It is understood that the plan is to have the new hotel modern in the minutest detail with the idea in view of having it so equipped that it will be a hotel strictly for wealthy peopie and catering only to people of weaith and social influence. The new hotel will not be as large as the Griswold but will be morz exclusive. It is argu- ed that the social surroundings of the Pequot colony will be more attractive than at Eastern Point where many of the cottages are owned by people of moderate means and are en over 1o home comfort rather than to societ: For this reason the Gr wold would not be so attractive would be the new Peguot to th ciety people of N York, W: ton and other of like soc standing. The rates would be even higher than at the Griswold, which are high enough to exclude many who spend the summer months at some popular sea sore re- sorts. - Tha projectors are confident that there is need of such a hotel on the site of the once famous Pequot house and, so goes the story. Plans are now being perfected for the new hotel and the work of construction will bs com- menced in the early fall with the ex- pectation that the new hotel will be ready for occupancy at the opening of the next season. e cities Mrs. Billings P. Learned is a con- sistent official of the Connecticut Hu- mane society and is a member of the directorate. This lady is a resident of the Pequot coblony and never hesitates by act and deed to aid in the sup- pression of cruelity to animals. She is ever on the alert to see that humane treatment is given to animals that come under her observation and during the warm days of the present summer sha has given practical evidence of h=r humane work. She has caused buckets of water to be placed in front of her residence on Pequot avenue, with a placard asking drivers to water their horses as they pass, and the invitation hasg bzen generally accepted. She has the bucket kept under the shade of the trees and sees to it that they are kept full of cool water for the con- venience of the horse and the dog. This action on the part of this hu- mane lady should serve as a hint .to the city authorities that there is need for a drinking fountain in the Pequoi section, the nearest bezing in Howard street about .three miles from Mrs. Learned’s home. ‘While there are several fountains at convenient points about tha city where the horses can drink there is not a place where man can step up to a public fountain and get a drink of pure Konomoc. So when the proper officials are considering the location of a drinking fountain in the Pequot section it might be well to in- clude bubbling fountains in ths more,] populous centers where the thirst can be slacked without assisting in paving the expenses of the drug store or the saloon. Years ago, before the scare of conta- gion by drinking from a public cup, ths Woman's Christian Temperance Union placed a barrel with a faucet and a tin cup at the corner of Bank and State streets, had the same filled with water at all times, and William H. Bentley furnished the ice to keev tha water cool. Since that time there has been no out-of-door place in the city where a thirsty person could get a drink of water. William Spittle, one of the first New Londoners to respond to President Lincoln’s call to arms, and who was prominent at the recent celebration in commemoration of the first com- pany to go to the front in the civil war from New London, on the fiftieth anniversary, suffered a stroke of paralysis at his home in Forestvilie during the present week and it is not believed he will recover from the stroke. He enlisted as a private and after serving for three months with the first company and being honorably dis- charged, he went out to the front in the Twenty-First Connecticut Infantry as captain of the New London company and was promoted to be major of the regiment and had the respect of every man of tha command. Mr. Spittle when in New London liv- ed in Blackhali street his former home being' now ewned by Mayor Mahan and was among the first of his ex- tensive real estate holdings. Mr. Spit- tle was employed as a machinist in tha Wilson works, the site of the present Palmer Brothers’ quiit mill in Metho- dist, Washington and Union streets. Major Spittle was also a memper of the volunteer fire department and at that time was among the most popu- lar yvoung men of the city. He s well-known to many of the old-time residents \and they will learn with re- gret of his serious condition. SHORT PARAGRAPHS. A Halstead (Kas.) man has some Scotch collie pups for sale and adver- iises in the Inedependent: “Guaran- teed’to bite or money refunded.” The census of 1900 shows that there are nearly two. million more males than females in the United States. To be exact, the excess of males is 1,815,087 Black copper, valued at $276,638, was the. principal item of iuvoice from Belgrade, Servia. to the United States S5 Anty Drudge’s Sunda;—' Evening Sermon. | Mrs. Housekeeper—‘‘ How 1 dread wash-day! Thinking i of Monday drudgery spoils my Sunday evening.”” | Anty Drudge—*‘ You are foolish, my dear, to dread a thing that can be made a pleasure. Use Fels-Naptha soap and your washing will be so much easier that Monday will no longer be a Sunday night-mare. And you will have much better looking clothes!” Is this the kind of a wash-day in your home? .Hours of boiling over a hot stove? Hours of rub-drudgery to get out the-dirt? Sore hands? Aching bones? A dingy wash when it goes to the line? Here’s the new wash-day: Fels-Naptha soap in cool or luke-warm water. Dirt dissolved as if by magic. Cheerful disposition. White hands. White ‘clothes. Fels-Naptha has done more to bright- en home life than any other one thing. "Think of it! A soap that fairly lifts the dirt for you; that cuts wash-day labor in two. " It saves your hands; protects your health; prolongs the life of the clothes. And 1t’s the best for every kind of house- hold cleaning. Follow the directions on ~ the red and green wrapper. more than 100 feet long, with a cem- tral span of over 60 feet, entirely of | bamhoo. The road bed is composed of bamboo matting which will be cov- ered with a layer of dry earth. In profile the bridge resembles a steel during the three months ended June 30, 1911, In addition to 1,255 gas undertakings in Engiand, there were last year 20 British companies owning gas Works on the European continent and in |strnciure; but all the members are other parts of the world. bamboo rods. It is estimated that a bridge should be good for 10 or 15 The smallest young woman in New | years. York or in the United States is in b= Chambers, the daughtér of the Rev. J. | he productic. i 3 n the da : producticn of radium is depend L. Cole. She is 2 feet 11 inches tall {.nt (5 a great extent upon the produc- weighs 371-2 pounds and will be 13 tion of uranium, and as the present output of the latter meatal is still need- ed to meet the demand for uranium- color manufacture, an early increase in the production of radium seems un- likely. One May Overcome constipation permanently by proper personal co-operation with the bene- ficial effects of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, when required. The forming of regular habits is most im- portant ard wnile endeavoring to form them the assistance of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is most val- uable, as it is the only laxative which acts without disturbing the natural functions and without debilitating and it is the one laxative which leaves the internal organs in a naturally healthy condition, thereby really aiding one in that way. To get its beneficial effacts, buy the genuine manufactured by the s cld in October. P The newspapers report the formaticn at Winnipeg. Manitoba, of a syndicate of bakers with $5,000,000 capital. The combined plants, when completed, are stated to contemplate a weekly output cf 1,000,000 loaves. Canada, through the preferential surtax on printing paper, which went into effect in April, 1904, has taken ifrom the Urnited States aimost the en- tire business of supplying printing paver for the newspapers of New Zea- land. Incubators are used to a considera- ble extent in Germary. Poultry rais- ers are divided as to the merits of nat- ural and artificial hatching. While the mujority prefer leaving the eggs to the hens, incubators find a good de- mand. The oil paint spray has been so per- fected that it is now possible to ad- just the stream from a fine point to a swide spray covering many inches. This | apparatus is now coming into [avor for decoration, and the finest effects are secured by its use. The work of laying out the suburbs of Bangkok is now being carried on with commendable erergy, and the . £ general aspect of the surroundings | California Fig Syrup Co. only, snd for shows a regular transformation. Old | sale by all leading druggists. Syrup Bangkok is fast disappearing. 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