Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 27, 1912, Page 12

ORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 191z count. He never read a beok because he hadn’t time. He never stopped his plow or his hoe to listen to a bob-o- link, or to watch the little lambs leap- ing about his spring pastures. He may, perhaps, have sometimes been “Orion slowly sloping to the west,’ but he couldn't have told one constellation from another, because there wasn't any money in the Kknowledge and, therefore, it wasn't worth his while. Now, was he a “Successful l*urmar I have my opinion: what's your's? ' forage. He left a whacking big farm ) when he died and a plump bank ac- i 1\ THE FARMERS TALK TO FARMERS A FARMER SHOULD FARM FOR THE JOY harns. Tve heard it rumorsd (hat an AS WELL As THE PROFIT OF lT .x_x urance company once declined to is- $100 policy on the biggest one, building worth that much, But he has | know another farmer whose barns are in even worse shape than his house, And the garret floor of that latter building is almost covered with pails and pans, set there to catch the water which leaks through the ause the agent didmw't think the fire ially for jump into the (Written Spec he Bulletin.) j uncorn e money “out at interest” in all direc- The are farmers—and farmers, | 204 Dbe horribly unhapp) tions. He holds mortgages and notes ‘There are f. rs who farm for the | — 'onuu;:l\ to fill a sarmy-daposithlocken sak> of their or horse s | i So far as money goes, he is rich . who farm for the sake of th i e b"ffi” sort of way, out| “Now, is he a “Successtul Farmer?” its dirt; farmers who farm just for the | goins them, I've atly_enjoy m.‘ Again I have my opinion; what's sake of getting a living, keeping a dok | reading a little letter from a subscrib- | YOur and digging fishworms rmers v printed by a Wisconsin ,HA _ - o o g i want to pass on some of the| Some of you hard headed and in- who farm for the sake of their own you in the e of a few | tensely practical chaps may think I'm souls ; "or instance | a sort of sentimental and transcen- These last farm y have 2 i on 4 farm does not| dental noodle when I talk about a nEes e in inhaling ozone, rolling | farmer farming for the sake of his and t LIeM-tin ol and picking ripe soul. 1 right; think so, if it . p of blisters, | does you any good and makes you ion't want to help themse out of 1c boots, outs, | feel any more satisfied with your own el and droug 11so be ha ted.” | sweet selves. But I believe that a = T n who hasn't| man’s brain and soul, while perhakps . nd the | plenty of pluck in the shop | more noble or holy than his back an post, thisks 1ast ave the only ones T the | OF At his desk, will | his belly, are rather more Important. will | They count more in reckoning up that who re fi -size environment nan 3 hit 1 th vinaictive force total which we call manhood, They »;';l m e soft spot he owns. « | avafl for more, not only when you're 4 « k (o the land is profit-| helping women and children off a pon a farm, 1 pit sinking Titanic, but also when you're v and sp! only hose who care more ‘pend- | plowing a Connecticut hillside, or hoe- ce than for steam heat, or who think | ing Connecticut potatoes. Doubtless 't | more of health than of musical com-| you couldn’t sell your own head at o the rate of two-for-a-cent, if it was infrequen born farm- 5 5 & s ol - Fe i cut off and put in a basket. You can , i ; o 1l & cabbage for from five to fifteen un shut i office and | h sible | 8¢ # S, T el s wos0 el wiokts Ve 55 | Anid ol farinar xiuab( D8R0 | Hien SN, mire b yRRE inkstain on thumb than I do over|bé willing to work till his mu e B S R L A whose soul the Angel of Death carrfed away In a mustard-seed shell in which it rattled, it was so small. I've always suspected that man must, in life, have devoted himself solely to ralsing seven-hundred-pound hogs or sixty- pound cabbages. Coupon for the Bulletin’s Corn-Growing Prize Competition for 1912 The great question is whether we farm it to live, or live just in order to If the latter, why, then, brains might, indeed, be of some service: but 't see where our souls come in s if they were about as use- s an appendix vermiformis. It | suggests the suspicion that God must | have made a mistake. Yet we know that He never did such a thing as make a mistake and never can. No, men and brethren: if there's any mistake to be sought after we'd better look at home, and not into the back- door of Heaven. Mr. Town.. COROY ... 5o il Enters the competition to grow an acre of corn according to the plans set forth in The Bulletin’'s announcement on Jan, 1st, 1912, the prizes being $100 to first; $50 to second; $25 each to third and fourth; and $10 each to three others; and suject to all the rules and requirements of the contest. A good part of our time, in these im- perfectly organized conditions of hu- man society in which we live, must be devoted to the mere task of presery- ing our existence. We've got to live, in order to keep soul and body togeth- er. But some of us farmers make just 1 then keep on wocking How many numb- | nehow, t s less defiling, to me, than the of an ink bot ¢ < big a blunder when we think that God made the first, and someb or | Y sordid necessity is the sole end and n New Jer compounded the r purpose of life, as any other man does when he puts the means above the end, Let's have the best farms we can; d to m living, nor farm out of no one knows what pois f country essful AI.I, this talk about “back-to-the-| .in in the ci | let's do the best farming we know land” movements is good, so long Y how; let's improve all we may and 1s limited to the ic | more gain all we righteously can; but let's er must he able | and not for of town und | the the sake of the soil—for enrichment of our own manhood til | and not for the benefit of a bank ac- )d | count. open | 5 he For which very reason,—among oth- ers,—it is highly advisable that those and those only should try to farm it 1 who can see the glory of the farm ter keep ou . 4 E ot as possibl him, soaking throus the love of the farm = even in the gloom of a lowering The lenger | mu the more | beceme There is a great deal of talk, winter; who can prophetically smell tbout Successful Farming | the harvest in the strench of the man- eonvinced 1 L T ted in i 00, ut 1 suspect | Ure-heap; who can even find comfort the ache of hardening muscles, and joy in the conquest of difficulties: above all, who can feed their souls | from the farm as well as their cows he phrase dif- ink of me thin s, 1 mean, W n't il Farming in poet. | and their horses. 1mie THE FARMER. And Doesn’t Explain. | knew one farmer, one, who used to doomed to a « In! go to bed wit chickens and get| We like Robert La Follette becaus: er sooner he br his | up with ther house was a lit- |1 s what he esc ) edom, the! tle hir within and for- for himse the worid. But /| hidd th had got so into ee with I s Dean Baile his soil for r own J. H ¥ nec Farm lands in this country, exclu- try and the farm a 3 r ver hef: buildings. more than doubled city-minded. Each had barns ue between the years 1900 and | the frying pan and be I s live stock and|1 The gain was 117.4 per cent. do it for the sake of our own souls | DRINK HABIT RELIABLE HOME TREATMENT The ORRINE treatment for the Drink Habit can be used with absolute confidence. It destroys all desire for whiskey, beer or other alcoholic stimu- lants. - Thousands have successfully used ft and have been restored to lives df sobriety and usefulness. Can be given secretly. ORRINE is prepared in two forms: No, 1, secret txeatment a powder, ab- solutely tasteless and odorlcss, given se«reuv in food or drink; ORRINE No, 2, in pill form, is for those who desire to take voluntary treatment. If vou fall to get results from ORRINE after a trial your money will be refunded. Costs only §1.00 per box. Ask for free booklet telling all about 57 N. D. SEVIN & SON, 118 MAIN. LETTERS FROM TWO STATES Tolland County + HOPKINTON T AL Local Delegates to Republican Con- EAST WILLINGTON vention—Supper and Entertainment. T 3 Mrs. M. Cushman and son Morris attended the auction of the late Sam Rockwell's property. Miss Edith Cushman is improving in health. The Italians that lived in the San- ford Niles place moved away this week. An abundance of rain has kept the farmers late in getting in their oats. Charles 1. Langworthy and family | are getting settled in their new some, Senator Silas R. Richmond, Repre- | ntative Charles W, Clark, Hon. John Cole and Clarence D. Wood repre- sented this town as delegates at the republi state convention in Provi- dence Wednesday, for the purpose of electing the Rhode Island delegates to Washington coul’lty, R. I- the national convention in June. Netted Over $22. The ladies of the Seventh-Day Bap- USQUEPAUGH tist church in Ashaway gave a fine | novelty supper and entertainment in Pastor Bases Address on Titanic Dis- | th¢ parish house Tuesday evening. | The profits were over § aster—Personals. | Charles 1. Blake, cook on the fish- | : T 2 3 ing vessel of Captain Babcock, was at (pServices in the church Sunday morn- | hig home here over Monday ‘mient. | ing and in e eve ? & kl e tir Miss Sue Kingston of Carolina has tended; in the morning the pastor|peen visiting friends in town for a based his talk on the Titanic disaster. ” i Mrs. Meta Fuller is visiting her brother, Charles Bagley and family of few days. Many from the south part of the this village. Joe Bagley, { At Republican Convention. ! | | | town attended the exercises of laying | the cornerstone of the town hall and been courthouse in Westerly Monday after- who h visiting friends at Worcester, has returned home, | R . At Republican Convention. f . Kenyon is ill Dr. E, E. Kenyon was in Providence | ROCKVIU_E rednesday as delegate to the repub- lican convention. C. Cahoone of Wakefield was a sitor here Sunday. Amos Kenyon of Pawtucket visited his home here over Sunday. Fifth Anniversary of Wedding Cele- brated by Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Cro- foot. visiting her sister, Mrs. Sarah Frank- recently of Mrs. Emory lin, returned Sunday to her home at| Kenyon, Est:oheag £ 2 | _ Miss Lottie Burdick visited at Charles Franklin was Wyoming | 3 Charles O, Crandall's recently. Sunday. | i Mrs. Harold Crandall is visiting her Mrs. Moliy B. Kenyon is spending a 0 Har former home in West Virginia. | friends at their home Wednesday eve- ning. RICHMOND Crandall was a caller in West- J. Dawley of West Kings- | ton was calling recently on friends in | !Bc:;n: River valley. | WEEKAPAUG George Jame: unnuck. . G. W, Kinney of East Provi- dence was entertained at Cliffmore on Sunday. Miss Alice Ayres her home in Mystic Alonzo Kenyon has been attending| Dr. L. C court at Kingston as juror. | rented th Church Roll Call. t The roll call and reunion of the Hope Valley have moved to the Gav- itt cottage for the summer, while Mr, Howard has charge of the engines for pumping water for the cottages at Sunday at | the beach. spent Leases Cottage. Sanford of New Haven has Robinson cottage, on Wheat the summer. Ayers and ! Hobart mother, Mrs. Baptist church at Shannock is to be Monday on the farm of | held Saturday evening, May 4 s at Weekapaug. Carlton Tucker of Kenyon is em- and Mrs, Henry Parker and lit- | ployed by W. J. Daw! at West King- |tle daughter, Ruth, who have been nests of M on Parker's parents for | Orrin ¥. Kenyon of Carolina has pur- | the past two weeks, have returned to | chased a new runabout. Hartford. | Robert Browning of Charlestown P ’, alled on B. B, Moore Tuesday. FLOODS ON THE MISSISSIPPI. . and Mrs | favette were guests | J. Dawley and family Mrs. B. B. Moore epent | with friends at Kingston. ohn Sherman of lLa- =i Thursday of W.|The Excitement and “Peril of High Water in Seven States. Thursd: water time is one of the most THE BULLETIN'S CORN GROWING CONTEST FOR 1912 B B $230.00 in Prizes for Competing Farmers IN SEVEN PRIZES—$100. te fs!; $50. to 2nd; $25. 10 3rd and 4ih; and $10. each to next three in order lumber is shipped to build bulkheads o ; | and prevent the caving away of the To Promote Corn Growing in New London and Windham Counties The Bulletin makes this offer for the best acres of corn grown | dir Trains bring in thousands of by | man, sacks to be filled with earth and raise THE RULES OF THE CONTEST: { the top of the levees above the flood. Steamboats carry lumber, wheelbar- Who N'ay Compete— a n New London or Windham Counties may compete. No contestant will be awarded more than one rows, ekiffs, sacks, and materials of m entry can be r om @ farm, which can be made by the owner, his son or lessee. every kind up and down the river to Date of Enmfi\“ ice of intention to compete should be sent to The Bulletin Company on or before May 1, 1912 ¥ ”.::[mf‘.fl ?.]‘”(?;,g tri‘n\-‘ir}\gn}?;:‘:?a}:: It will be better to enter now, even if you decide to withdraw later. It s almost a time of martial law. ? [’:‘hu danger 18 too great to allow the Amount of Land—Any amou be planted, provided it is actu one acre or over in extent. The awards will be made ordinary force of the local authorities | upon the yield of one acre only. I must be one piece, and may be selected by the contestant at harvest or before, but must to suffice for the protection of the le- come within and be a part of the pie n the contest. vee. Up and down the bank of dirt i which must be held, walk armed g Survey—The acre must be me d off rested parties not in the family of the contestant or in his empl guards, sworn in as the levee patrol, The quantity of lund within the | tly 4 quar No-allowance will be made for bowlders, walls, fences, trees, | Their ‘horses are hitched at a tree swampy poor land or natural artificial, or for imissing hil All boundary stakes must remain in | the bank, saddled and ready. original position until aft and announced, hd night these men patro 1 orn will be decided by a free laboratory test : 2 and down, thelr rifles unslung, | i t be decid by a free laboratory test made by the Storrs College expert from one quart of selected corn. | haps one man will guard a half-mile | will require fifty names to warrant the competition. | of Tevee, rarely more: und when there ights that the Mississippt Boat bring protected ads of refugees from planta- affords. towns lo; tlons which are outside of levee pro- in to tection. Negroes leave their cabins on float out chickens, hog all sorts of plunder. The) walting for a hem off. Planters send ¢ to safer pasturage, if they are able. The river swarms with craft. Men are brought to the levee in speclal trains for emergency work; boat to take thelir stock a’ 8 danger of some one cutting the bank Whats A Few Dollars compared with kitchen comfort Get a It matters not whether your kitchen is large or small there is a Plain Glenwood Range made to fit it at a price to suit your purse. C. 0, Murphy, Norwich | crest of the stream, | eems a pitiful weak defense against the river floods. { A emall boy might a smail trough | across the top and start the crevasse | that would destroy property over miles | of country. Agaln, there have been | cases where men rowed across and cut the levee on the other side, to save the bank on their own. A half- dozen strokes of the spade and tha damage might bhe done, which none tould stop. Timer thieves, too, might find it profitable to flood the swamps and steal the rafts there while the owners were (rying to =ave other property. Because of all this, the armed guard shoots and shoots to kill. His idea of his task Is to make a job for the coro- ner and not for the doctor, It is enough to ask questions afterward of the man who comes with a spade to the levee, Besides this danger there is another that the waves may begin to overlap the top. Steamboat captains are warned to keep away from the shore when they are standing up or down | the river at full speed. A guard will | with watchful along x\‘(h‘ sat. If it threatens the banks and mes within the prescribed limit he tries to plok off the pilot, These are not times for a shot across the bows. After the flood waters have been in the river for some days, lapping against the levee, water will begin to seep through the earthen bank on the land side. If the water that comes there Is clear there need be no fean, ev are posted every two hundred | vards or less. | |~ Standing on the levee by the side of | —~ e guard, the t rth, per- | | haps only a above the | | SN couple of weeks with friends in Mas- | D. Alva Crandall made a business suxhusellf. trip to Wauregan, Conn., Tuesday. as that indic is onl el J. C. Webster was at Matunuch, on J. K. 8. Crandall is spending seve seepage, but [ throug n »\a]turda.\, 5 a4 | 3 | ook at his home here. a mu flow, t mu Benjamin Bray of Lafayette visited | Wedding: Aani quic d effecti : he | ed at S. S. Locke's Sunday. edding Anniversary. leaking. A muddy flow yws - théfe | o Rev. and Mrs. A. G. Crofoot ob-|ig a break in ik a try Thursday evening. ,| served the fifth anniversary of their | water is strong enough i« | marriage by entertaining a number of | material. Men and mules and lumber | ¢ and spot, In Large Catch of T AUDITORIUM "Nea'beet” Original T“E nEMAcos Daring SENSATIONAL RING ARTISTS CLARA ROGERS Refined Cello Artist Always the Best In Motion Pictures DAN BRUCE and MAGNO DUFFET In a Musical Mishap BREED THEATER FEATURE PICTURE TO-DAY The Silver Fox Thrilling Drama of the Canadian Woods. Edward Meehan, Lyric Tenor. Mae La Jess, Contralto. Cortlandt Barker Lessee and Manager, IN TOWN POLI'S BROADWAY THEATRE LARGEST HOUSE TODAY—NEW PICTURES. TOM CASEY, Tenor. MATINEE—SI PERKINS ENTERTAINS THE CHILDREN NIGHT—BUCK AND WING CONTEST, BASS-CLEF CONCERT FRIDAY, MAY 24th, SLATER HALL R. S, Knlght went to Providence on | ) velyn Palmer and Gladys W Elizabeth Tudor, Soprano | 1u"£5detl)e1,‘x‘“h A. W. Kenyon, who is | Bdwards have returned from a visit Safer |l | New Yok 'quite feeble. rith in S: £ o | 4 g I ew Mrs. Hattie Potter, who has been e || Reinald Werrenrath, Baritone || v Bk there is only one - - wir-grg that is by adding mate T Matters Chisfly Personal—Church Re- | °4 Werines: G. Barber made a brief | or side, 1o stop up 1 kb 45 will union and Roll Call. | pistt with her daughter at Wickford | point e aTiow n agair ears hen 0- this week mbia S W. S. Sloan, Saving ‘the Country. Mrs. E. K. James, who has lwnn the | Wirth took day ¢ T s ng to be saved all guest of her daur:h!ur Mrs. C. C. Bliss, | Ernest Howard ” Have Charge of brlmk withint a few f I t W ¢ rar of all i Mysnes ""‘“\*‘1“}:‘ me. e| Pumping Engines—Robinson Cottage | e ‘kiring of trout sten in I ge Greene, in| Leased. aturday. o ————— = e nday at Mat. | Mr. and Mrs, Ernest of Anty Drudge on Teaching 'Rithmetic. Teacher (in arithmetic class)—“Now, Mary, if your mother spent two hours boiling the clothes, three hours in rubbing them, and an hour to hang them out, how many hours would that altogether 7"’ Little Mary—"Y but my mama doesn’t boil the clothes. She shes them with Fels-Naptha in coo! or lukewarm water, and she doesn’t have to rub them hard, eithe: Anty Drudge—Y Y make the time shorter, Mistress Schoolteache give an addition question like that to a little gir! whose mother knows the advantage of washing with Fels-Naptha.” 'd better when you Fasy on the woman and easy on the clothes. That's why progressive women are washing their clothes with Fels-Naptha in cool or lukewarm water, in summer or winter. It's easy on the woman because it does away with fires for heating water, makes hard rubbing unnecessary and takes less than half the time of the old way of washing. It's easy on the clothes because there is no boiling to make the clothes tender, and no hard rubbing to wear them into holes before their time Save yourself; save your clothes—use els-Naptha. Costs little'money for a big cake,and lasts longer than ordinary soaps. In using it follow directions printed on the red and green wrapper.