Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 9, 1911, Page 13

NEW LONDON LABOR DAY PICNICS What is Required to Feed 250 Hale and ~ Hearty Men . THE FIREMEN DO THINGS UP BROWN The Groton Celebration on September 6th a Grand Suc- cess—George S. Palmer’s Public Spirit and Civic Liberality—The Way of a Policeman—Senator Ma- han Persistent For New London’s Advancement. FARMING WITH BACK, LEGS AND BRAINS (Written Specially For the Bulletin.) | comprehend the purpose of the gray Farming with chemicals has its ad- [ matter inside his- skull, either. He vocates. Farming with the aid of the|farms with his back. It's tug and experiment_ stations finds some fol- | Strain with him, the year 'round. He lower: Farming with gasoline en-| Works hard and long. Don't doubt gines and automobiles seems as if | that. But his work is all done by main it might have advantages. A good | Strength and not with judgment. He 7y of us,—perhaps the majority,—, has bent his poor old back almost still stick to farming with horses and | into a bow and aged himself prema- hand-tools and stable manure. There’s! turely by his abuse of it. The last something to be said for each sort,, thing I know he was going all over and something to be said against each | his big potato field, row by row, pull- sort. There is only one sort of farm-'ing out the ‘“red-root” which has ing which is always and everywhere Sprung up-of late. Perhaps yvou know adapted to all sorts of conditions. this weed by some other name; per- That is,—Farming with Brains. haps vou don't have it, But in this pends 7.7 neighborhood it has become the pest of the year. It's a tall, sprangly weed with a sort of scratéhy top, and a reddish root sometimes suggesting the garden radish. It has come on with One of the largest events of Labor [beautified the mill property in Union day in New London, and certain sure | street in the rear of the post office and the most pleasurable, was the annual | is always ready to assist in the gen- picnic of the Niagara Engine company | eral beautification of the city. He is held at/the old-time picnic ground at|also an advocate of park improvement Alewife cove. There was an at-|and with his brothers donated ad- tendance of two hundred and fifty | ditional tract of land to Riverside which included the active and honary | park. Mr. Palmer is a member of the members and invited guests among | park commission board and one of the which were the members of the court | most active members of the municopal of common council and other promin- | art society. Therefore he could con- ent in the affairs of the city and a | sistently appear at the meeting of the delegation of friends of the company | court of common. council and urge from ‘Westerly. There was music all | greater appropriations for the parks, through the day and their were field | which includes Ocean beach, and a Anty Drudge posts Mrs. Youngbride. Mrs. Youngbride—‘‘I tell you, Anty Drudge, my hands are not white and smooth like they were before I f { was married. I'm happy with Jack, but it’s not 80 nice to do one’s own housework. It’s the putting them in hot water that makes them red and breaks the nails.”” When | say that this is adapted to all sorts of conditions, 1 don't mean exactly to all sorts of men. I think,— mind you, I don't say it right out loud as a demonstrated fact,—but I think | US. since the last cultivation of corn|Sports galore including a hose reel|special appropriation of $20,000 for nty Drudge—‘* Qui rue, my dear, and the way to that there 'a“, sede people trying to | and potatoes, and has &b’o}utely taken | contest that was a reminder of the|the construction of a modern and 4 T tha _the t‘F i&Ny i 2 lork kewy farm it who are mighty short of|DPossession of the ground. I .saw a/|0ld firemen days when horses and au- | thoroughly sanitary bathing pavilion remedy that is to useFel ap! , 1N COO! Fll v arm brains, T seem to remember having | corn-pateh, the other day, in which the | tomobiles were no part of the fire| to replace the present rows of wooden water for all your housework—for washmg dmhes’ met one or two who impressed me] Stuff stood between the rows as high| department. Everybody was there for|and indecent bath houses. He de- = h 1 . d hi that way. But they don’t really count.|as the corn-stalks averaged, and so|a good time and they had it to the|clared that New London does not WlndOWS, floors, all house-cleaning, an ‘was! l}z They don’t count as farmers; they | thick that one could not walk through | limit. SDEJa er DHk oy ve LAl Smnp et clothes. It will save your hands and the work will wouldn't count anywhere élse as any- thing else. They don't know enough to know their own ignorance. en a man has risen to that hight of in- tellectual attainmen{ where he knows he doesn’t know much, there’s hope and a future for him. TIt's really about the most valuable bit of knowledge which years bring to the wisest men., But when 4 man doesn't know any~ thing,—doesn’'t even know that ha doesn't but thinks he does,—thene’s scant hope for him. 'The rest of us had better let him alone “to gang his ain gait” to his own!' ultimate in- dividual scrap-heap. Nor do | mean to * intimate that farming iwith "any quanfity or quali- ty of brains will always bring great financial rewards. Indeed, ome im- portant function of brains is to inform their possessor that there are several things about farming,—as about = all] other methods of life,—more import- an than money-getting. At the same time they do help amazingly in the way of securing adequate returms. They do not furnish a guaranteed fin- surance policy against failure, but they tend powerfully to minimize the hances of failure. After you've put 1!l the brains vou can supply into yvour vear's programme the season may turn nasty and negative all your plans and nullify all your hopes. But, even in face of such elemental and irresis- tible antagonism, a judicious use of brains helps to mitigate the damage. There’s Neighbor Hoeskins, for - | ample. He has a fair stock of brains | ust as he has an appendix vermiferm- is. But he newver uses either one, ap- parently. He's never had appendicitis, and probably does not suspect the ex- istence of that latter mysterious use- lesz jigamaree in his private sinsides. Sometimes he acts to me if he didn't ‘ ’ i | 1 DANDRUFF \ % L aids®.nature By putting new dife in the hair fol- licles and freeing the scalp from Dandruff. Tt adds a beautifulflustrey too!t Test one bottle: and{let the result prowey its uperior beneficial powers. 50c..and $1.00. Coke. Liquid Shampoo cleanses the hair and scalp. Delightfully Re- freshing — large bottle, 25¢. &t all Druggists., ¥ THE KELLS COMPANY - § 1JOHNESST. NEWSURGH, . Y. r Our business is growing and‘l we are proud of the faet. Tt shows Hhat our hon=st and business-like- meth ods are being appreciated. We havey always tried to please our customsrs] and the increase in our business sh(fws their appreciation. When in the nkarket for Hay, Grain or Feed we woildd like to have vou give us a trial. CHAS. SLOSB&RG, 11-13 Cove (St. PICKLES Ready for Use Fine Vaneues,—illm Prices People’s Market 6 Frankliln St. IUBPN H])m it, except as he first pushed ahead with his foot and broke it over, as one breaks over blackberry vines in a berry-pasture tangle, to make a path. _ Well, Hoskins -is out in his potato field, pulling this stuff up by nd, plant by plant. Some of the bigge* weeds have stalks an inch in diameter at the butt, are five or six feet high, and their roots clinch on to a peck of sticky soil which has to be pulled up with them. To pull a dozen plants at a time makes me puff and twists a very unpleasant kiuk into my verta. bral column. But Hoskins has start ed to go over a Your acre field that He has an old mowing machine vhich is too worn to be good at grass any more, bot which would chop off these weeds well enough. He could g0 over the whole patch in half a day Wwith that, cut the tops off the weeds SO as to prevent seeding, expose his potato rows so he could find them to dig, and leave the land in much bet- ter shape for the turning over which ought to be done this fall. But,—he's more given to pulling than to think- ing, to using his back rather than his brains. He's uncovering a lot of po- tatoes as he pulls the weeds, too, and will have a good many green and sun- scalded tubers when he comes to har- vest them. But don't suspect that I'm going to ssug}l;lzj t anything to him. I've neighbored him long enough to know just how: big a flea I should bring back in my ear if 1 tried that. Neighbor Waterhouse farms it most- Vv with hig legs, I think. He also has a very tolerable supply of brains but he’s exceedingly awkward about using them. His legs are long and limber and he seems to find them better tools. il start out to mend a fence With the ax on his shoulder. About the second stroke the head will fly off. He 'had forgotten that the wedge was out. Back to the shop he'll go and carefully make a new hickory wedge. Then once more at the fence. Fifteen inutes later he comes to a bit of Darbed wire. It needs a few staples, He has forgotten them, so back oncs more for a dozen which he uses, only ta find at the last length that a wire has broken and he must have the nip- pers to twist the ends together. Which means still another trip. T've fre- quently known him_to spend more time chasing back and forth after tools Wwhose need a little thought would have suggested to him at the outset, than all' the time he was able to put on the real job between breakfast and dinner time. z Now, the farmer who uses his brains 1o save his back and legs isn't lazy,— he’s just wise. You may cut that out and paste it in your hat. It isn’t orig- inal with me. It's been said before and by bigger men than I. So you needntt take my word for it. Too many of us are overworking our backs and legs: there is no immediate danger that any of us will unduly harden our brdins. They will stand ‘4 greater strain than we are likely to Pput on them. They don’t tire easily. Tve read of “brain fag.” But the only cases I've personally seen seemed to me to suggest “beer fag’ rather than than the other thing. And the beer- shop isn’t handy enough to most farmers to cause them serious danger that way. It's another cause for self-congratu- lation among ourselves,—the fact that our vocation demands and rewards both brain-work and muscle-work. There are many callings which are one-sided. In some the workman hard- ly has to think twice in a year. He does with his hands the work which is set before him, in the way he is told. He does it day after day and all the day. His hands become eventually 8o trained to their task that they go through it almost automatically and with automatic perfection. Such a workman is apt to be an expert,—in his line. Other men work solely with their heads, and almost lose the use of their bodies from lack of exercise. They have to hunt up forms of work, outside their regular occupations, and devote much time to them solely as gymnastics, if they want to keep their physical condition sound. But the farmer can and should use, every day, every faculty of his mind and every muscle of s body in his regular work. The conditions of his occupation are such as to call for an all ‘round use of all that’s in him. If he is going to get from his farm all it owes him, he must use his arms and his legs and his back and use ‘em vigorously. He won't need to have a gymnasium nor to join an athletic club to keep himself physically fit. At the same time, if he is bound to have all that is coming to him, he will keep his brains well stirred up all the, time. | have a farmer neighbor who works as ily and as hard with his hands as any man ought to work. This very season he has sold $84 worth of hay off one acre which, a few years ago, was a neglected pasture of golden-rod and five-finger, and which he bought for $7.74. To accomplish this, he had to do a lot of hard physical work. But all the work he ever did in all his life wouldn’t have brought about the re- sult if he hadn't, also, used his brains to tell him how to work and what work te do. A few farmers that | have known have appreciated the importance of this division of work between the head and the hands, but have been unduly doubtful of their own mental capacity, and have rather got into the habit of relying on the brains in their state experiment stations. Nor is there any question that some have been much helped in this way. But the ideal farmer is not one who will surrender either part of his work to another. In emergencies and in cases involving expert training or scientific analysis, he may well accept and even call for outside help. But for ordinary farm- ing his own head is the best counsellor| ard his own hands his best workmen. - THE FARMER. e | sausage, one bushel of sweet potatoes, ! Of course an important feature of the picnic was the feed and the drink as ne picnic and especially a firemen’s picnic would %e complete without an abundance of each. As for the drink of that which cheers and ine- briates and that which does not flowed all the day long and was as free as the waters of Alewife. Just to give an idea of what two hundred and fifty men can eat at a picnic, besides drink- ing their fill, a few accurate statis- tics are here given. To begin with they ate just after the noon hour thirty-five gallons of clam chowder and thirty gallons of fish chowder and topped off with twelve gallons of ice cream and Roman punch. A few hours later the clam bake was served. Tt was not an open bake where the steam is generated from | heated stones, but the bake, so-called, was built in a mammoth hogshead, the steam being supplied from the boiler of the auto-chemical hose wagon. Here is a correct list of the feed that was placed in that hogshead and was thoroughly cooked by steam, the several ingredients being cut for serv- ice and wrapped in cheese cloth and placed in wire serving trays. First in went the rock weed and on this was tenderly placed 90 pounds of ChiCken.! 8 pounds of fresh pork chops, 95| pounds of bluefish, 45 pounds of small one bushel of white potatocs, three ! bushels of clams, and all covered with | rock weed. Then a taurpolin vas placed over the hogshead and made fast and the steam turned on until all in the hogshead was thoroughly cooked. In the meantime two long tables had been set and decorated and containing besides the brown and the white bread, the pilot bread, the pickles, the grapes, peaches and ba- nanas, 15 large watermelons cut in points and five dozen of quartered | musehmelons, and a hushel of sliced tomatoes. With the steaming food | from the bake, came 260 soft-shell; crabs, 260 clam fritters, 260 cold boil- ed lobsters, 260 biscuits. A souveni bottle of cocktails was at each plat and coffee, or almost anything else in the line of drink was generously served. It would seem to be 'a feed ample for a regiment of soldiers after a.,day’s hike, yet it was all devoured by the fire laddies and their friends at the Nigara picnic on Labor day. For the first time the Konomoc Hose company and friends enjoyed a picnic on Labor day the event being held at Richard’s grove and that, too, was a big success, A feature of the picnic | wae a concert by the Eleventh Artil-| lery band from Fort Wright. Fish and '; i clam chowders were served and also steamed clams and lobsters, but the big bake was omitted owing to laclk of steam facilities and the danger of failure of an open bake, which is al too frequent on occasions of this character. There were athletic games for prizes and the stuff that makes men appear very happy and seems to drive away dull care was on draught from the opening of the picnic to the close thereof. The Konomoes, too, had citizens of prominence as guests of honor and if every individual| present did not have a bang up time it was not the fault of the Konomoes. As these picnics were not mone making affairs the holding of two firemen's picnics on the same day in little New TLondon was in no way an- tagonistic and did nit intérfere with the usually large attendance at the Niagaras, which was in fact larger than on any previous occasion. Now these firemen's picnics are not held for the purpose of enriching the com- pany treasury, for the opposite is the result. At the Niagara picnic the members were assessed $1.50 and members who invited a personal guest were required to pay the same amount in addition, but the total sum re- ceived is only sufficient to pay about two-thirds of the cost of the picnic and the deficiency is made good from the company treasury. This will be readily understood when mental cal- culation is made of the probable ex- pense. The firemen insist on this an- nual picnic for themselves and friends and there are glad to pay the freight. That Groton has progressed in the past thirty vears was shown on Wed- nesday of this week when there was suitable celebration of the Sixth of! September and all that it represents without the solicitation of assistance from New London where equal inter- est is manifested in the memorable event of September Sixth when Ar- nold burned the town. But, come to think it over, the celebration of the i samctioned by th and suggested more equal taxation tc raise all the money necessary and at the same time there would be a re- duction of the rate of taxation, es- pecially if all property were taxed at cash valuation. Dr. John G. Stanton, president of the board of school visitors, and Rev. J. Romeyn Danforth, pastor of the First Church of Christ, were also at the meeting with Mr. Palmer as repre- senting the Municipal Art society and the Public Playground association in advocacy of an appropriation for play- grounds in place of the present meth- od, where the permanency depends entirely upon the voluntary subscrip- tions of individuals. It was urged that with city support the grounds would be under official management and su- pervision and become permanent in their nature and therefore more bene- ficial to the boys and the girls of the city. These grounds have proven to be beneficial and apprecitited by the children, and parents, too, for the physical development of the children could not obtain in any other way. Messrs. Palmer, Stanton and Dan- forth united in urging appropriation for the continuance of this work. The reason for the gentlemen appearing before the council just at this time was that the budget of recommenda- tions for the ensuing year was about to be made up and they wanted the appropriations included in the annual budget so that the people could vote thereon at the annual financial city meeting. There is at least one resident of New London of the human hog srecies, if such there be, and who in one in- stance at least was encouraged in his bhoggishness and utter indifference for the welfare of others by a uniformed member of the police force, who act. ually did what the selfish chap should have been compelled to do or be haled ! into the police court. This fellow while delivering bottled goods to a saloon not. mary miles from the railway sta- ion dropped one of the bottles on the sideivalk and showed no indication of removing the broken glass, Alderman James F. O'Leary happened along and suigzested to the stubborn chap the re- | moval of the glass from the walk, as perhaps some barefooted little fellow might receive a severe cut. Out came a grunt with a to hell with the bare- feets. Then the fellow kicked some of the broken glass into the street, and the alderman suggested that there w liability of damage to automobile tires and the result was a to hell with the automobile grunt. By this time several had congregated and the alderman’s temper was just a trifle ruffled. He told the fellow that if he did not pick up the glass and remove it where it would do no harm that a policeman would be called, and then came anoth- er grunt of to hell with the policeman. Alderman O'Leary then summoned a policeman and the fellow was ordered to remove the broken glass and he emphatically refused. Did the police- man take him in? Ask the alderman, The policeman did mot molest the fel- low, but went into a saloon, borrowed a broom and swept the glass together, picked it up and deposited it in a garbage can. Picture the policeman doing the street sweeping act and why some policemeen do not command respect is partially explained. as is al- So the lack of power in dealing with the unlawful. Mayor-Senator Mahan has done much for his native city and is evi- dently planning to do more for Kis make-up is such that he is not satis- fied with the adoption of mcasurcs that he proposed but insists upon their com- plete and -successful finish, so no rest will come to by reason of the ad- journment of the senate of the state of Connecticut. Most of his measures, and some were big ones, have been state legislature and by the city and the mayor will see to it that their objects are realized. If there is one man more than another that has more than earned the measely three hundred dollars paid by the state for the services of representative men, that man is Brvan F. Mahan who represented the district including New London as it was never represeuted before. - To do this as Senator Mahan did it meant legitimate expenditure of a large sum_of money, more than the senator was really able to expend, for Mayor Mahan, while the largest in- dividual property owner in the city is far from being a rich man, as wealth Groton centennial, so-termed, which wae the biggest event of the kind ever held in this section of the state and couid not be crowded into a single day, | was managed by a joint committee of | arrangements of citizens of New Lon- | don and Groton, but the chalrman of | the commitiee and géneral manager of | the mammoth celebration was a resi- dent’ of Groton. Pay Director J. George Harris, United States Navy. With Frederick Bill and a few Groton citizens, he conceived the idea of the centennial celebration and realized that | it was too big a jodb for Groton to tackle and the result was that New London gladly accepted an invitation to aid in making the celebration what it was, the biggest ever, even greater than the celebration of the two hun- dred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of New London. ‘While the celebration of the Battle of Groton Heights last Wednesday was infitesimal in comparision with the centennial celebration of thirty years ago, when even the blue sky assumed a decided yellowish tint and added Yellow Day to loeal history, still it is' creditable to the people of Groton and to the members of the patriotic societies who planned and managed the successful event. George S. Palmer is of the kind that what he preaches, for he has ane 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 and 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 effects, buy the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and for sale by 4ll leading druggists. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Sgnna is never clasgsed by the well-informed with medicines which make extravagant ‘Property in the Pequot celony a veritable place of beauty and the public i8 not wholly deprived of epjoying the benefits. He has also and unfounded claims to cure habitual constipation without personal. co-op- aras” % be much easier.”’ A soap that spoils hands and temper can’t be good for clothes. You need a soap that won’t hurt any one of the three! How many racking hours you’ve spent at the wash-tub! And while you were wearing away your strength, you were wearing out the clothes! That’s the KILLING way of washing clothes. But now the Fels-Naptha soap way: Soap the clothes with Fels-Naptha, let them stand for 30 minutes in cool or luke- warm water. Rub lightly, rinse and hang out to dry. You’ll find that Fels-Naptha soap has done the work. Try it next Monday. Best for colored clothes as for white things. Follow the simple directions on the red and green wrapper, and you will be con- vinced. : bound to respect, and they certainly have the right to reimburse Mr. Mahan for every cent he has spent for the public good. That is an expense that he has no mioral right to determine belongs to him and to him alone. Therefore it should not take the com- mittee on Mahan day very long to de- termine as to the nature of the testi- monial that would be most satisfying to the public and would be the most beneficial if not the most acceptable to Mr. Mahan. goes now-a-days, He dined and wined many of the legislators in his home city as well in the capital city and closed by giving a swell banquet to his | fellow senators and a few frienas. Do all these things and do them right, as Mayor-Senator Mahan did, cost big money, and it was spent by Mayor Mahan in the advancement of the in- terests of Groton and New London, and the people of these places should have the fact impressed stréngly up- on the tablet of their memory. Mr. Mahan has done well, remark- ably well, and will do more, but in so Deafness Cannot be Cured doing will be at a personal sacrifice. But this should not be permitted evenl!, ;...1 applicati . = e St e e iby - pplications, as they cannot if Mahan is willing. The city of New | .cach the diseased portion of the ear. London and the town of Groton, and all the citizens thereof have a full supply of that little matter called pride and are now nerving up to the point that it was about time something There is only one way to cure deafne; and that is by constitutional remedie Deafness is caused by an inflamed con- dition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or was done to relieve the self-im-}imperfect’ hearing. and when it is en- posed and willing strain upon theltirely closed, deafness is the result, private parse of Mr, Mahan. The leg-|and "unless the inflammation can be itimate expenses in advancing the |taken out and this tube restored te its normal condition, hearing will be de- stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is noth- ing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars matters introduced into the senate by Mr. Mahan are for the public good and the public should insist upon pay- ing the freight. So suggestion is made | that the proposed Mahan Day be aban- At b i Z case of Deafness (caused b doned, especlally ag any public demon- | (o1 fTh) thatscanmot be cured by Hall’ stration would not rec e AP~ Catarrh Cure. Send for proval of the mayor-senator, who e CCHENEY & CO. willing to do all that he can do for| sold by Druggists, 75c. New London but does not want Ne: Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- London to do anything in the public | pation. celebration line on his account. | TIHERE s no advertising medium In Still the people have some ern Connecticut equal to The Bul- that even the senator and mayor for husiness results. Need Printing ? 35-6 The BULLETIN Co. 64-66 Franklin Street Sole Agents for MICORIS Grapholastic Paint Sold on six years’ guarantee. Acid and Fire Proof. Impervious to water. Used on roofs, whether metal, wood or prepared roofings, it makes them ab- solutely waterproof and preserves them indefinitely. When applied to' ¢ld warped shingles, Kemicoris cements them to each other, rendering the ,rnu! Grapholastic Paint Equally serviceable on Steel Bridges, Tanks, Piles, Iron Fences, Britiges, Gutters, Smokestacks, etc. THE HOUSEHOLD, Bulletin Building 74 Franklin Street