Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 9, 1912, Page 12

THE FARMER'S TALK] TO FARMERS (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) | moon and they didn’t “Ye-es” said Farmer Corntossell in the famous old story, “John sartinly ie mighty well eddicated: but T dunno as he's any better off fer knowin' so many things 't ain't so.” I've sometimes thought that one pro- lific source of failure among us farm- ers is our aptness to “know things that ain’t s0.” That is, our tendency to think we know things which we don’t know,—for the irrefragable rea- son that the things don’t exist. Somebdy once remarked that it teok a mighty smart man to tell = the truth. I don’t remember who it was maid this, but he was a philosopher. He didn’'t mean that it took a smart than to be willing to tell the truth, or to want to tell the truth. Most of us feel that way. What he meant was that 1t took a clever fellow to know the truth so he could be able to tell it. Have you never looked out through one of the old-fashioned seven by-nine panes in a country window? The glass is apt to be full of bubbles and streaks and crimps and waves, turning what ought to be a plain sheet into a dozen or more utterly frregular and im- perfect len which distort the rays of light into all sorts of queer twists snd crcoke. You see a man approach- ing driving alone in a carriage. Sud- denly, as he passes one of these im- perfections in the glass, his one horse torns inte a monstrosity with three heads and about seven fore-legs. An- other instant, and the horse has only one head again, but several sets of rising and faliing hips, Still ambther step or two and the single driver sud- denly spiits into a baseball nine, with a whole bundle of bats where the soli- tary whip was supposed to be, Now, if you got but one momentary glimpse of the approaching neighbor, and that curinz one of these distor- tions, what kind of a description would you be able to give of the team? You might, perhaps, Be ablé to tell what you saw or thought you saw, but would it be the truth about the actual team which was actually coming down the road? If you should report that you saw a horse with one rather small body and three or four heads, any one of them bigger than the rest of the beast ,prancing sideways down the road, would anybody recognize from that description Deacon Jones' sober old brood mare, who never had but one head in her life and never dream- ed of such a thing as prancing? Yet something of that sort is alto- gether 100 COMMON AMONg Mmen; among farmers as well as other men. We see a thing hastily: only half see it, at the best: see it through some dis- torting medium of prejudice or mental | myopia: see it sometimes through the fog well through a crooked glass. Never ess, we accept our misleading vision as true sight and proceed to build a plan of work or a whole scheme of life around it. Not only that, we expect other people to &ee it as we saw it, and to adopt our methode as deduced from it. If they cam’t see it our way we set them down as stupid: if they won't join in our methods we denounce them as slow- coaches and old fogie: . There’s a great deal of this among us old farmer We are, many of us, wedded (o ideas und practices which started in just this way,—tarough see- ing something wrong. We go potter- ing along from year to year in the way we think we saw indicates as the right way. We don’t seem to afcom- plish much: we don’t get anywhere: things don't pan out as we think they ought to. But we fall back on the fact that we saw what we saw,—and can't we believe our own eyes? No, brethren, we CANNOT always believe our own ey s. If both optics were always and equal- ly nermal-visioned: if neither one was ever either far-sighted or near-sight- ed: if we never looked through any crookal window-glass: if the air was always still and clear and waveless: and if we then took time to look at a thing all over and all around,—top and bottom, both sides and both ends, in the vertical light of noontime and the Jevel rays of sunset,—why then we might In most cases see the truth about it and be able to tell the truth which we saw, But that combination stances seldom happens. of circum- When you add to all the chances for mistaken sight which outside inter- ferences produce the fact that most of have old hobbies and prejudices which affect our mental states, you've got a condition which is almost unequalled for seeing things wrong and for lead- ing us to tell things which aren't so. For instance; there was Old Man Iverson. When he was a young farmer, just beginning to plant things he put out his cucumbers in the old of the { the do anything. Next year he put them out in the of the moon and he had a ing crop. Thereupon he adopt- a rule for cucumber-planting that it must be done in the yourg of the moon. He did u of his hfe. He actually thought aii his neighpors were dum fools if they cidn't do the same. Sometimes he haddots of kukes an? sometimes he didn't have eny,— same as other folks,—but he never wavered in his belief that they simply must be planted in the young of the moon. And there was Uncle Ike Shearman. On one particular patch, he used to raise strawberries, big, luscious and by the bushel, years when the rest of us could get nothing but culls and mighty few of those. He declared and believed that it was all due to his free use of wood ashes as a fertilizer. Wood shes didn’t work that way with oth- ; they didn’t with him, when he tried to start a new bed in another field. But that made no difference with his idea. He began by using wood ashes and he had fine luck, so he kept on wood-ashes plot after plot as long as hg lived, and preaching that as the one ‘sure way to get strawberries. Sometimes he had good crops on oth- er plats; sometimes he had failures on these new plats; put, because he never had a failure on the original wood- ashes plat, he stuck to that medicine for all plats, everywhere, till he died. Apparently, that original plat was rich in all the essentials for strawberry growth, except the potash and lime which wood ashes supplied. Other plats had potash and lime enough, but needed some other element of plant- food. Uncle Tke snorted disgust when such an idea was suggested. He didn't hold with none o' them new-fangled notions. He’'d seen what he'd s E he knew what he knew, and th tled it. If wood ashes didn’t produce good berries it was because the wind had blown ’em off, or the rain had leached ’em out, or there hadn’t been enough put on. After all, though, I don’t think we old gies are a bit more likely to see s wrong and get the truth twisted 3 who think their fresh young ey can’t make mis- takes, or the amateurs who reason out that things must happen the way they think things ought to happen. For the very best examples of “sotness” in one’s ideas, 1 think we shall have to go these classes. One year my good old aunt spent the winter with us. She as very fond of apples, and it worried her when, one day, she found a coupie of rotting ones. I explained to her that, with my apples, in my cellar, ex- perience indicated that the they were handled the better they kept: the more they were “looked over” the more they rotted. She pooh-poohed me;: she knew better: such an idea wasn't reasonable: anybody ought to be able to see that one rotten apple tended to infect others, amd ought to be removed. So, to keep peace in the family, I “looked over” her barrel about every other week, as long as the mishandled fruit lasted. She got about a'bushel out of the barrel. Then she went to using from another un-look- ed-over barrel most of the apples in which had kept well. But she never admitted that there was anything wrong in her theory. What happened she declared was simply chance. And we let it go at that. But, ah, dear friends, there are so many, many things in our farm ex- perience which seem to be just hap- pen-chance! 1 don’t say that other farmers should leave their apples alone, once barrelled and celared. Al say is that experience has taught me that it is the wisest thing to do with my particular apples in my particular cellar, which is a little too warm for fruit, anyway. You see, science is simply the knowledge of observed facts. Theory, to be of any earthly value, must be only an attempted explanation of ob- served facts. When you've got ~yoyr facts, got "em straight and got ’em all, then youm are at liberty to build a theory to explain them if you choose. But when you make up a theory out of your own head, out of what you think ought to be the facts, out of par- tial or wrong observation, then you're just trying to build an ai>-castle on a fog-bank. And no matter how cun- ningly you may build such a struct- ure ,it will blow away with the first breath of the morning breeze. Some guns go off at half-cock, and so do some men. In a business like ours, which deals chiefly with ornery dirt and weeds and similar common- place facts there is liable to be a good deal of harm done'by “knowing things that ain’t so” and by acting according- ly. As long ago as when Paul was writing to Timothy there was a “science falsely so-called.” There is, still. It is well for us farmers to be Substitutes GettheWell-Known Round Package Imitations HORLICK'S MALTED MILK Made in the largest, best sanitary Malted ilk plant in the world We do not make "milk products— Skim Milk, Condensed Milk, ete. But the Ori Genuine Original- HORLICK’S MALTED MILK pl;re.fnll-creimmflk o Made from and the extract celeotmdtet‘lflgnin. reduced to powder form, soluble in water. Best food-drink for all ages. SW°ASK FOR HORLICK'S Used all over the Globe No Alum No Lime Phosphates practical. But it is essential that we practice in alliance with the truth, or ‘we shall get no forrarder than a gee- hawing team with a blind driver. It is well for us to be as scientific as we know how,—provided 11 be sure to keep well inside that “know how.” Above all, seems to me we ought to be open-minded, all the while and on all sides; ready to receive and adopt truth from any quarter, whether it is truth that we expect or truth that seems to knock our preconceived ideas silly. el It isn’t things as they might be or as we think they should be that we need to know, but things exactly as they are, THE FARMER. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Theodore Roosevelt. Mr, Editor: The career of Theodore Roceevelt, ex-president of the United States, is ended in disgrace and dis- honor, through his own folly and mad ambition, There is a very strikin~ -aralle! to his case in the history of the children of Israel. It is that of Samson, who Judged Isreal for 20 vears, which was the highest honor that man could have in that day Israel because of their wickedness had been in bondage to the Philistines for 40 years, and it was a hard and cruel bondage. At the end of 40 years he angel of the Lord” appeared to the wife of Manoah and informed her that she should become the mother of a son. This son would be an unusual man, a genius, and the promise was that “He should begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.” The child was born, according to the promise, and he was indeed an unusual man, a genius, wonderfully endowed with talents which no other man be- fore him had ever possessed. A great career and opportunity was before him, but he miserabiy failed. There was a flaw in his character which he cultivated instead of s pressed. He early in life deveioped a lust for strange women. The law of the Israelites forbade them to marry outside of their own nation. Samson w a Philistine woman and he de- sired to have her for his wife, con- trary to the law of his people, and he desired his father and mother to ob- tain her for him. They remonstrated with him, but he was determined, and he secured the strange woman, com- trary to the law of Moses. - Very soon he was in troubie through strange woman, azd he sought for Then he took a harlot, who caused h more trouble, -and after that he took for his wife Delilah, an- other Philistine woman, and she com- passed his ruin, and he became pris- oner to the Philistines, who put out his eyes. Then came the time for re- venge. With his great strength he destroved the bullding that sheltered him and the people, and with the Philistines he went down to his death. Samson was dead. Thus came Samson | to the end of his career, disgraced, | dishonored, ruined, dead. The build- | ing that he destroyed in order to have his revenge could be rebuilt, but Sam- | son was dead. Theodore Roosevelt was bern witl unusual talents and was an unu person, a genius. But, like Samsor he had a fi in his character, that flaw was personal, selfish am tion, and it became his destruction, for instead of curbing and controlling it, he allowed it to become his ruling passion. Early in life he assoclated himself with the republican party, and they| honored him almost continuously, but ! when he could not have his own way, when it was for his own agsrandise- | ment, then he would sulk, oppose, or | bolt. After he had been offered the | nomination of governor of New York | by the independents, he accepted the nomination from Boss Platt and turn- | ed down the independents. When Boss | Platt desired him to be a candidate | for vice president on the ticket with McKinley, ke refused. He stated that “under no circumstances will 1 ac- cept a nomination for vice president.” The bdoss controlled him, and he ac- cepted. He was honored by his party with the very highest honmors that man could have in this nation, or in any other, but he was notsatisfied. He was ambitious to have what Washing- ton, the father of his coumt with his clear wisdom, would not take, and ‘which the nation denied to Grant, who, with Lincoln, was the savior of his country. 5 Alexander conquered the world and wept for more worlds to congquer. Roosevelt, llke Alexander, having had all the honors that a nation could bestow, desired more. His mad ambi- tion made him desire to have greater power than did Ceasar and blinded his moral- perception and caused him to separate from his friends of a lifetime and choose other associates, and his | party o greater power and greater usefulness friends of a lifetime were those who Were instrumental in giving him the high position that he occupied beforel the world. With a determination for revenge proceeding from his mad am- bition, and ‘worthy of a better cause, he determined to wreck the party that had given him the honorable place in the nation and in the world. He has, like _Samson, succeeded in pulling down the structure, but in do- ing so he has disastrously and dishon- orably énded his career. The building that he has pulled down can be re- bullt, but the cdreer of Theodore Roosevelt is ended. In 1837, 75 years age, Abraham Lin- coln, in making a speech in Spring- field, I, eaid: “Is it unreasonable te suspect that some men possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with the ambition to push it to its utmest stretch, will at some time spring up amongst us? And ‘when one does it will require the' peo- ple to be attached te the government and laws and generally intelligent to frustrate his designs.” Abraham Lincoln was & seer and & prophet, and i told this day, doore Roosevelt is the f llment this prophecy. He has wrecked tem porarily the republican pariy, but wis dom may guide the honest men this nation to rebuild it, so that will have greater streng! these in the service of ma strument of greater bl nation and to the worl been in the past. Theodore ers have claimed that d be an sine to than it ha in the mantie him, but his life compared wi coln’s shows that he has not fo the example of Lincoln, but has fol- lowed the example of Samson. The press reports that received with laughter the news of wreck of the republican party, whicl was his work. This reminds us Nero fiddling while Rome burned. C.H. C Norwich, Nov, 1912, Need of Caution. Mr, Editor; Are we as a city and in public places as careful in regard to as we should f¢ the health of the public be? 1 mean, of course, those whose bus ness it is to look after such things. Yesterday morning I passed a num- ber of children going to school. Among them was a little girl with a high, as she slowly passed by I had a chance to see that her neck was swollen and h a way as large collar around her neck, and she turned her head in st to give the impression that she had sore throat. If her throat is sore, should she be in wit the other children? One thing more. s, that fresh air s through e continually gathering. Steres are particularly concerned. have heen going into a store for iwo and each time I have years or more, had to come out quickly on ac: the foul air; it make times all kinds of peopl are packed in there and all the air one Such if there is any among heir breath, are all can get is each other's breath. rlaces as thi them diseased, hands it over to scared when an enidemic br: The fre: I doctors or ertakers. buildings bi: thoroughly mes a day, and som day and Saturday PR through After a woman has to reform him and su times happens that another comes along and spoils all work with asmile. floating specis, blurred vision, pains in the eyeball, heaviness of the lids, soreness, yellow tinge to white of eyes, all originate in liver or stomach disorder, SCHENCKS MANDRAKE . PILLS efford almost instant relief and fortify the system against recur- rence of these distressing ailments. They tone the liver, purify the stomach, regulate the bowels, cool the blood. ‘Wholly vegetable : absolutely harmless, M everywhere, plain or sugar coated, a box. Send for our free medical book. Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia =zrds he fore- and the career of Thfln: of .|y WINTER 15 NEAR our oosevelt and his fnilnwr o the immortal Lincoln has fallen upon h of a I know, and so do should be s y public ich a large number are woman the good BREED THEATER SPECIAL WESTERN FEATURE o Dutlaw's Sacrifics, tsm Nov. 14 and 15 WORLD'S CHAMP.ONSHIP BASEBALL SERIES PREPARATIONS for Thanksgiving Day could be easily attended to, if you were to do your work by electricity. We have all kinds of THINGS ELECTRICAL from cooking utensils, to the small electrical supplies. If you want to view some time and money saving devices, you would do well to visit our store, Norwich Electric Co. Telephone 674 100 Franklin Street DO YOU KNOW the best place in Norwich to have your shoes tapped ard heeled? If you don't give us one trial, then you will know for sure. Gosodyear Shoe Repairing A. VALLIN, Prop. Tel 517 86 Franklin Street Why not place your - order now before the | quarries stop work-{ g ing? We offer a SPECIAL DISCOUNT on WINTER WORK Roosevelt ' and can give better service than during the spring rush. | 39 and 41 Franklin Street, j |Telephone. near Franklin Sq. sl TheContinental House Furnishing Co. Sells from factory to con- sumer ornly, apply to our local Rep. M. A. BOTWICK || BOOKLETS, | A for information | ppone 524 BROADWAY SEATS NOW SELLING Liok 7OM OFBLRR AND LUULEMAND. 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I PLUMBING AND STEAMFITTING Any Leaks in That Roof or Gutter Pipe ? If there is, It Is the very best {ima H right now to have them repaired and | don't wait or put it off. Call us up at once and let us put your roof and | conductor pipos in first-class orde: tqr the winter. A. J. Wholey & Co., Telephone. 12 Ferry Street TuThS TAKE A LOOK 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 lot of coal, and have. not been able to keep com- fortable, let us talk it over. I have | helped o~ -=, perhaps I can help you. STORAGE Largest capacity in the A K. CARPENTER 23 Commerce St. All kinds of Mason Build- ing Materials, Small Trap Rock for driveways and walks. CONTRACTOR FOR EVERYTHING MISS M. C. ADLES Hair, Sealp and FaceSpecialist MUST LOOK NATURAL, Fashion now forbids the use of puffs Sanitary Plumbing A peep into an up-to-date bathroom 18 only less refreshing than the bath jtself. During the summer you will the more look to the bath for bodily | comfort. 1 will show you samples and plans of the porcelain and other tubs and give you estimates for.the work | of putting them in in the best mammer | from a sanitary standpoint—and guar- antee the entire job. J. E. TOMPKINS, 67 West Main Street S. E. GIBSON Tin and Sheet Metal Worker Agen: for Richardson add Boyniun Furnaces. 5 West Main Strest. Norwich, Tonn 1. F. BURNS, Heating and Plumbing, 92 Franklin Streat and piles of cheap hair. Elegant sim- plicity is the ruls, so that the hair must be healthy, glossy, abundant and arranged to suit the individual feat- ROBERT J.COCHRANE No one can fit ith such 308 Main St, next to Cheisea Bank Telephons 652-3 Gus Fitting, Plumbiaz. Steam Flutlag 10 ‘West Main St., Norwieh, Conn. Agent N. B, Q. Sheot Packing. apria Hon. HOMER B. HULBERT Central Baptist Church, mark-down sale on &ll of my new and second-hand Diplomat s Traveler . For 20 Years Personal Adviser of Emperor of Korea Address “THE ORIENTAL CHESSBOARD” Tuesday Nov. 12, 8 p. m. Auspices Y. M. C. A. Admission 50c Tickets on sale at G. A. Davis' store Nursing Mothers are SOMETIMES deficient in the quantity, SOMETIMES in ths qual- ity, of their milk and are, therefore, unable to supply the proper nour- |.Lunt for the baby. In all such cases BORDEN'S Malted Milk IN THE SQUARE PACKAGE can be used to make up ths deficiency, as its analysis is_almost identical with the best grade of mother's milk, and when used by tho mother herself, her milk will 'be snriched and the supply increased, owing to the stimulation of the lacteal glands by the (non- alcoholic) malt, which is a part of the food. Send for free trial package and special booklet on Infant-feeding. Malted Milk Department BORDEN’S CONDENSED MILK CO. Manufacturers of Borden's Evaporated Milk and Eagle Brand Condensed Milk. Geo. Wm. Bentley Co, N. E. State St., Boston, Mass. Tel BORDENS :Malted Milk Belling Agents, 1 Richmond 336 BELL'S ' SEASONING Used by your Grandmother and every Generation since to deliciously £&= flavor Dressings for Turkey, Chicken, Game, Meats, Fish. | y shin beef, L S PRESSED BEEF. Takea 6-pound cut shin bee Choreazhly oubin ssaall pieces,placein kettle, half cover with cold wat Snd oosk slowly for & hours. Kemove fat, gristie and bone. Chop fine, 244 2even teaspoons of Bell's Seasoning, heaping teaspoon salt, and enoughof theliquor tomoisten well, Place in deep dish with heary weig on Wand cool. AR onion cooked with the meat will add tothe favor. R <AUSAGE. 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N ich, Conn. lorwich, Col apri8TuThS a McGrory STEP 0 ithia Cash St where you ore, £ e el g e “o“ ol‘ ‘;xuvln until you esm rom your general store. X e same :({: ‘o8, o n° owe! ity ‘“-l, Al}rnrd Jromp y Norwleh Town, t. 11th, TBFFT, Manager, TUNER f. C. GEER, Phone 511 122 Prospect 8t WHEN you want to put your bus nees befors the public, there is no m dium better than through the advertis- ing columns of The Bulletin. turtevant