Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 29, 1912, Page 12

TO FARMERS WHAT TRUE SUCCESS IS ON THE FARM (Written Specialty for The Bulletin.) I don't suppose you very often hear or read baccalaureate sermons. 1 don't anyway. But President Hadley’s, de- livered at Yale's recent commencement, so perfectly hit off one of my pet ideas that 1 couldn’'t help reading it—so much of it, that is, as I could find in any of the papers. One of the current objections to sending a lad to college is the , as- sertion that college training doesn’t fit him to be successful. President Hadley took up this assertion and pro- ceeded to give it fits. It wasn't so much his defense of the college that, impres: out, fa | said President Hadle tion Nine times out of ten, he remarked, | the man who talks of success means in making money. “He s of the | whole world as playing a game in| which money 18 the prize and the man | who makes the most money the win- | ner.” If this assumption were correct | he intimated, though he didn’t say so | {m those words, the colleges might have | * a hard job to justify their existe “But,” he went on, “it is an essential- iy wrong way to look at life and the | nation which takes this view of things does so at its peril.” And then he add- | | | ed this definition of “success, which 1 want vou to think over for a minute: “The true measure of a man's suc- cess is the service which he renders, not the pay which he exacts for it.” We farmers are apt to plume our- selves on being 1" men, with no durn frills We have to be practical in order to live at all. For that very reason, there isn't a class of | men in all the world who so much need to have the dust of daily drudge: oceasionally blown out of their eyes by | some blast from the cool northwest hills of verity. al in order to live, but we make the biggest mistake of our days when we turn that proposition 'tother end to, and insist upon living just to be practi- cal. The end $han the means We have to be practi- is always more and life important itself worth | gnore than the methods by which we | I®8 | mecure and preserve it. What farmer would be thought suc- cessful who should accumulate a doz- en first-quality hoes, and then leave them to rust on the back-garden fence, without ever doing anything with them, or getting any service from them? Yet exactly that thing is meant when CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signatu.e of PLUMBING AND STEAMFITTING “Everybody’s Doing It” Doing What? Why having their roofs, gutters and conductor pipes repaired of course. And they are having it done by A. J. WHOLEY & (O, 12 Ferry Strest Telephone TAKE A LOC™Z IN | A. H. BREED'S Plumbing Shop | And See What He Has Got To Sell. If you have any plumbing work, or if you have burned a whole lat of coal, and have not been able to keep com- fortable let us talk it over. | have helped others, perhaps | can help you. | A peep Into an up to date bathroom 18 only less refreshiLg than the baih itse.t. During the summer you will the more look to the bath for bodily comfort. I will show you samples and plans of the poicelain and other tuba and glve you estimates for the work of putting them iu In the best manner from a sanitary standpoint—and guar. antee the entire job J. E. TOMPKINS, 67 West Main Street E. L. BURNAP Plumbing, Sieam and Gas Prices and work satisf2~lor) 130 Platt Ave. S. E. GIBSON Tin and Sheet Metal Worker Agent for Richardson and Boynton Furnaces. 65 West Main Street. Norwich, Cann. Tel ROBERT J.COCHRANE| Gas Fitting, Pl 10 West M . Stewm Filting, Conn, aprid | Agent N. B. 6. | ot Packing. 1. F. BURNS, Heating and Plumbing, 92 Franklin Stresi | | a few Ame mere accumulation of money is call- ed “success.” Money, like hoes and cabbages, one of the various means towards cess. But it is not success, in itself: never was and never will be. is uc- President Hadley called attention to the fact that Yale wasn't founded and isn't carried on for the purpose of training men to make money. Nor is any other college which is worthy of the charter it holds. By the terms of its original foundation, Yale was de- signed to be a school whereby men “may be fitted for public employment, both in church and civil state.” This, ‘was the avow- ed object of American education.” Not to fit men for money-making: not merely to fit them for professional suc-, cess in the law, the ministry or medi- cine: but to fit them to be of service and value to the world of their fellows and the world of the future, It doesn’t take much thought for us to discover that, in the list of the world’s successful men, mon making is a mighty small consideration. Take ‘Washington vas never a rich man: but he was a rather successful one, nevertheless. Our other great president, Lincoln, was never anything of a monéy-maker: didn’t take to that sort of thing. But his name will be remembered when those of Rockefeller and Carnegie and Morgan are forgotten. Edison has made some money, but no one ever thinks of that as his success. We think, instead, of the electric light and the trolley and the other inventions by which he has served the world. There is a certain mining engineer who is said to have an income of a million a year, paid by big business grafters because of his service to their private greed. How many know his name? Or care a straw whether they know it or not? There is another engineeer, one Goethals by name, who is sepal ing two continents down at Panam: can names, turning South America into an island | and opening a new way for ocean com- merce right the isthmus. He isn't getting millions for his work: he is receiving just his lar pay as an army engineer. But which of these two is the successful man? We farmers ,as a rule, aren’t in im- minent danger of getting a million a year for our work, nor of accumulating two or three hundred millions from sales of farm produce. But it is still the fact that we do,—too many of t hold the idea that farm success, affer all, means just making money. We guage our neighbors’ success or failure by the size of their farms or the big- ness of their barns or the rumors of their bank accounts. Isn't it too often £0? We generally consider him the most successful farmer who is the “best fixer,” and devote our own chief thought to schemes and possibilities whereby we, too, can make money, Yet the farm,—which is Nature's great University—should no more be judged by this narrow rule of cash re- ceipts than should the college by capacity for training men into and grafters. When Dean Bailey, the foremost agricultural thinker of Amer ica ,was once asked to tell what were the attributes of a good farmer, he wrote: “The abifity to make a good and comfortable living on the land. o rear a family carefully and weill To | be of good service to the community. To leave the farm more productive than when taken. To be a good farm- er in this sense will be much more to one's credit than merely to be a mil- lionaire. We need a great number of good farmers much more than a mul- tiplicity of miilionaires.” Of course we must make a living. Of course we must care for our fam- ilies. Those are fundamentals. Bu when we have done those things we haven't attained success, We have just done our daily, drudging duty Nor have we achieved any we make two livings. Or stuff into the bank enough to support three families It is a real success in farming to leave the farm, each year, a little h ter than it was the year before. It a real success to be of good service the communit to The whole is always greater than a part: the. world is worth more than any individual I have known farm- ers to sneer that as “stuff’ and “talkee-talkee, T hev to look out for myself all the time” said one such once to me; “the world an't wastin' no time lookin’ arter my potato-bin, nor my store bills.” And he plainly inti mated that all the rest of the world | might go hang before he'd waste the edge of a pocket-knife in cutting it | down. A good many of us, while not quite so brutally blunt in our expr sion, share some degree of that feeli But, men and brethren, worthy idea of life, that man suggested. It isn't even a worthy idea of farming. It seldom leads to success, even in money getting. Why, the only millionaire farmer 1 heard of,—the late David Rankin of Missouri,—didn't make mere money getting the chief aim of his farming. He had a big and a profiitable farm He kept all the time increasing its size, but his principal interest lay in improving its value. He was all over it, day by day, looking at the crops and nosing around the feed-bins, examin- ing the animals and making sure that there was plenty of fodder and plenty of manure and that everything was kept up in good shape. He: left the care of his money and his banker, it isn't a which this It was the farm that 3 |er, at Wester he was interested in—not the amount | \rs. Emory C. Kenvon went to of money the farm brought in. HIS |providence Monday, returning home one ambltion was to make his farm | Tycsday s i better, every year, “When I get| pros O, ily of through with it I want it to be more | oL B lnnliskoand Sty productive than when I took as virgin praiMe.” That was his own statement of his ideal, He accom- plished that purpose. Incidently, he 1t also amassed the most meney I ever | heard of & plain farmer collecting. But, to the last day of his life, when visit- ors attracted by tales of his succes came to sees him ,it was 1o his great n-fields or his thrifty stoek that he led them,—net te any inspe | streng box or his bunk aecount never prided himself his wealth but did e s magnificient farm and, ineident on t college h founded and endowed near his heme tewn, 1t was in his service in the world and the future that he found his true success. Perhaps,—1 threw this eut mereiy as ! a stop to the unmsanctified—perhaps, if we all regarded our farming in that | same light, we might, some of us, act- ually get more money than we now get from being so mighty tight-fisted and short-sighted! THHE FARMBR, through the backbone of | more | surers | true success if | ever | to his bookkeeper | " Tolland County UNION Attend Mrs. Herbert Chil- Local Friends Newell's Funeral—Plans for dren's Day Concert. «Willlam P. Marcey returned to Hart- ford Saturday. Mra. Edith Bogue is with friends in Hartford. Mrg. Mary Dodge is spending a few days with Mrs. Forest Marcy at West Woodsteck. Mrs. Myers and daughter Grace of Woodstock are visiting the former's daughter, Mrs. H. Q. Graham, at the parsonage. Charles Richards, who has been spending the winter at Noroton Sol- dlers’ home, spent a few days the past week with Willlam Scranton. _ Albert Slade of Southbridge Is with his daughter, Mrs. L. Miller. At Clark Commencement. Mr. and Mrs. George Towne and son Edmond attended the graduating exer- cises of Raiph.V. Swan at Clark col- lege, Worcester, last Tuesda. Mrs. E. H. Barber is visiting friends in Maine. Mlss Florence Marcy and Mrs. Hoff- man and little daughter are at the Marcy homestead. Several from this place attended the funeral of Mrs. Herbert Newell at her home in Springfield. Rev. Mr. H. Lawson preached at the Congregational church last Sunday for Rev. Mr. H, Graham, who was in Cole- brook Sunday. Children’s Day Concert. There will be a Children’s day con- cert at the Congregational church next Sunday at 11 o'clock. Willard Richards visited friends in Westville last Saturday. John Buckley was home the first of the week. Winifred Lemro is working for the matron in the Johnson Memorial hos- pital, Stafford Spring: HEBRON Local Young Men Graduated from Ba- con Academy. Mrs. Charles Douglas of Boston is in town for a visit, Mr. and Mrs. Birdsey of Meriden are at their summer home in this village. Benjamin Bissell of Worcester is at his old home in Hebron. Dr. Cyrus Pendleton, with his family, is at his.father’s, on Hebron Green. He resides in New Haven. Going to Canada. Miss Clara Pendleton goes soon to Canada for the summer. C. J. Strand has gone to his home in Brattleboro, Vt., for the summer vaca- tion. Miss Christine Frink, who has been ill the past week, is convalescent. Several from Hebron attended com- mencement exercises at Bacon Acad- emy, Colchester. Sydney Hewitt ana Daniel Horton, both of this place, were among the graduates. Mr. and Mrs. Hayden and two daughters, of Boston, are guests of Mrs. Charles Douglass at her cottage on the Green. Dwight Kelsey of Montville, with his family, spent last Sunday at Jared | Tennant's, coming in his touring car. | Horace Porter, who is ill, is more comfortable at present. Wood Turning Shop, Destroyed by Fire, to Be Rebuilt. Last Thursday evening fire destroy- ed E. W. Buell's wod turning shop. The loss was heavy, the property be- ing covered by a light insurance. Mr. Buell intends to rebuild soon. Mrs. Mary Gilbert is entertaining Mrs. Severance and daughter, Leta, of Greenfield, Mass., Mr. and Mrs. Chas, | Gilbert, daughter and granddaughter, | of Hartford. | Miss Alice Warren of East Hartford and Miss Inez Miiton of Hartford are | visiting relatives in town. | yme of the children held a picnic | in John Ellis’ woods Wednesday after- | noon. M ‘ ited her Bertha uncle Jones of Hartford vis- Jones, recent Prof. Sarah Taylor of Talladega colle Alabama, spoke at the Congre- gational church Sunday. RIPLEY HILL JMeetmg of Hilltop Home Club—Train I Service Condemned. The Hilitop Home club met with { Mrs. George Freeman June | stitution was adopted, and ling officers elected: Presiden | E. Peterson; vice president, 1 |George Freeman; secretary and treas- urer, Miss Mary Green. Miss Maud Brigham killed a_ black {snake, measuring 5 feet 6 1-2 inches, last week, Obnoxious train service. change in postal service is not s to t subscribers of The Bulle who live on the R. F. D. {route, and are obliged to have their {papers served a day late i Beautiful Rose Garden. The rose garden of Robert Sher- man is making a magnificent display e very choice specimens are noted. One Paul Neyron has several blooms six inches across MANSFIELD DEPOT Dr. delicions Johnson is pieking quantities of | strawberries, which are somewhat scarce in this vicinity. He ine cherries. ngton County, R. 1. ROCKVILLE Summer Visitors from Stamford Arrive at Rockville. o Rev. and Mrs,_ A. G. Crofut and Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Crandall attended the ordination of deacons at the Sev- enth-day Baptist church at Westerly aturday | Mrs. Henry True of Uneo, Virginia, and daughter, Mrs. Samuel Avery of | Hope Valley, were calling on friends here Sunday | Miss Jennie Burdick was a recent egt of her sister, Mrs, Charles Palm- |Stamford, Conn., arrived Wednesday at Rockhaven, the home of their sis. |ters, for their summer vacation. USQUEPAUGH Rev. C. A. Paimer Moves to New Farm —The Week’s Events. | Wililam Palmer of Providence spent | |Sunday with his mother, His son Wes- ley fs spending his summer vacation with his grandmether. Clara Webster has finished her | school in Providence and is home for the summer. | Mrs. Saran | daughter, Mrs. | Providence. | The surgical operatien Mrs, Hattle | Potter had to undergo Tuesday was successful and she is expected to fully {recover her health. | Moves te Farm. Rev, C. A, Palmer has finished mev- ing from West Kingsten and is ver- manently locatad on the famm whieh he Frankl n is visiting her| sha Webster of NORWICH BULLETIN. SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1912 Anty Drudge Lectures to the Woman’s Club. “My dear women, these pictures speak for them- selves. Mrs. A uses Fels-Naptha soap in her washing. Mrs. B still sticks to the old, hard-rubbing, boiling, back- breaking way. Which do you want to look like when Monday’s work is done? Think it over.” Why did your grandmother boil dirty clothes? To soften and loosen the dirt. That’s the only way she knew. Now Fels-Naptha soap will do the loosening better in cold or lukewarm water. Fels-Naptha is an invention, same as the telephone or sewing machine. The upto-date woman uses Fels-Naptha because it saves her the trouble of boiling clothes or heating water and makes hard-rubbing unnecessary. Then her clothes are fresher and cleaner than if washed in the old-fashioned, boiling way. Here'’s the way to do your white things with Fels-Naptha: Soap, roll and let spak a short time in cold or lukewarm water, | then rub lightly, rinse and hang on the | line. Try it once. Be sure to follow directions on the red and green wrapper. No need of adding ammenia to the water for washing dighgu or housecleaning—just make a suds of Fels-Naptha. sed of G. D. Ha recently purch; Second Seventh-day Baptist heirs. - | was given at the home of Al- Avis Proctor and a friend from Kenyon Tuesday evening. Hamilton were visitors at Dr, Kenyon's E. P. Mathew! <ited friends Sunday. |in Warrenville this week and attended Erroll Wilcox of Norwich Town vis- | the Ashford F st Sunday school ited his cousins here last Saturd: e \v\'rdnl’sda} John C. James attended the Balti s is very ill at more convention son, Deacon Roger Lamond spent S with rel Miss Helen L. urday and Sunday Providence. Mrs. Melissa D. Palmer has returne from a couple of weeks' visit wit 1. Kenyon is staying e home of Walter D. which promised so sister, Mrs. J. C. Cahoone of Wake : is being shortened fleld. by the Master Harold Holgate spent s mother at Wyoming. | Fat Wives. \ ¥ of Providence spent| mpo peopie in portions of Africa have Sunday at Rest cottage With is fam- ious_CUBtoms ShA SUDSPRE- ily, the former may be hion of having fat "RICHMOND | \ 3 introduced to a great chief's Providence Preacher to Speak at Bap- . o e tist Church—Personal ltems. { ETan e Bl ind so large were her flesh between the joints | could not ank C. Tucker is visiting rel- arms that t Mrs. ¥ atives in Lebanon, Conn. Mrs. Chapman and daughter, Co Wi, chief, pointin to of Wakefield, and George Whitford Eals 0 25 p Perrvville were guests Sunday at Ri s the product of our milk- Warren Dawley's. > mearly vouth upward we| Miss Ruth Brigss gone to Matu- pots to their mouths, as it nuck Beach for the summer shion at court to have very fat Mr. and Mrs. Silas Barber of Hope |W! X Valley called on the latter's parents A sister-in-law. of the king was a Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Handell, Sun- wonder of hypertrophy. Shel inable to stand except on all . Joseph Babcock of Providence : 3 - 2 and Mrs, Mary H. James were Sunday | nb v requested permission visitors at Matunuck to measure This is the result: Johnson Hoyle visited brother, { Round the arm, 23 inches; chest, 52 George H. Greene, of Providence, over inche ,_Inches; half, = 20 the week end h feet § inches. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Dawley of these are exact except the were Sunday callers at Cliffmore and I believe I could have ob- Shiigy s more accurately if I could Providence Preacher Coming. 1aid hec on the Boons RDEIR oY+ Rev. John A. Hainer of the Pearl t difficulties 1 should have to Street Baptist church, Providence, wi occupy the pulpit of the Second Rich mond Baptist church at Shannock next Sunday morning. A special meeting of the Richmeond in such a piece of engi ied to get her height by finite exertions on the | part oth, was accomplished, town council was held at Kenyon on|when she sank down again fajnting, Tuesday. | for the blood had rushed into her Py head. L4 | “Meanwhile, the daughter had sat « HOPKINTON |before us sucking at a milk-pot, on [ which the father kept her at work by Strawberry Supper—Dry Weather Af- !} 1ding the rod in his hand; for, as fattening is the first duty of fashion- able female life,. it must be duly en- The graduating exercises of the Hop- | forced by the rod if found necessary.” fects Hay Crop. kinton high school were held in the L i Seventh-day Baptist church, Askaway,| An electric railway is planned to run Thursday evening, when five young | between of Mexico, Pueblo the sleeping voleano which is 15,500 feet e ladies and five ceived diplomas. A strawberry supper for the benef voung gentiemen " AMERICA’S SWITZERLAND” LAKE TOXAWAY, N, c. 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