Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 4, 1913, Page 12

ITHE FARMER'S TALK] TO FARMERS THOROUGHNESS IN LABOR IS A GOOD HABIT (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) ‘We were sawing up our firewood, yesterday—my neighbor and I—when the belt broke. Now, sawing up the winter’'s wood out here in the real country, where the weather is always ‘onsartin,” ‘where hired help is about as hard to get as pearls out of pumpkins, and where you have to recken weeks ahead to make a date with the sawyer and his engine—sawing up the winters wood is something of an event. It requires planning. It involves proper preparation. It calls for rather mice skill in dovetailing dates, so that the day om which the engine can come shall alo be the day on Which you ean get some neighbor to help you. It has taken my neighbor and I since the latter part of November, when our wood was all cut and corded ready for the saw, to achieve an ar- rangement with the sawing outfit for & time when he, I and it could all meet and do business together. Then, when this happy day had st Iast arrived and the stove wood sticks Bad just begun to make a little pile ip the snow behind the saw frame— the Delt broke. Thus did the plans of mice and men “gang agley.” Thus did Providence rough-shape our ends. There was no spara belt. You see this was a per- fectly new one, “guaranteed” for a . There is no place within ten miles where a new bt can be bought and, to secure the fulfilment of the “guarantee,” the broken one must be returned to the factory, which is at least a week away, going and coming. Moreover, the day was already far spent. It had been snowing all the morning and we didn’t begin till after dinper. We hag to stop, right there. Today the sawyer couldn’t come, even if he had a new belt or the old one mended. Tomorrow I have a month- old engagement, which must be kept. Day after tomorrow is another neigh- bor's “pig-killing” day, and my first meighbor is under pledge to help at | this. So on for a weel “If* the new belt arrives, and “if” nobody gets sick, and “if” the weather is propitious, and “if* mothing else happens, why then, perhaps a week from today or tomorrow, we “may” be able to make another try at it. Quite a little botheration for ome small belt to cause, youll agree. But why should a new and apparent- 3y first-quality belt, of ample width and adequate carrying power, break on its second cord of wood? That was the first question which we investigated. The answer was ob- vious, on the most cursory examina- tion. Somebody had slighted his work on a concealed “splice.” The leather FACEFULLF “ED PINPLES And Blackheads. On Both Sides of Nose. Used Cuticura Soap and Qintment. Blackheads Gone. Pim- ples Dried Up and Disappeared. Eendall St.. Boston, Mass. — "My face was full of blackheads and red pimples | which itched. They were on boi sides of my nose. My nose was all sore and a regular | scab came on it because I wos always trying | 0 do something for it, as whon 1 went out everyone would say, ‘Look at your nose. Why don't you do something for 1t2° I | used cold cream and then someon told me to use » but Jothing did me any £ood until a lady told me to try Cutlcura | Soap and Cuticura Ointment. I used the Caticura Olntment at night, and s/hen I got up in the morning I washed my face with | Cauticora Soap and hot water, as hot as I could. bear it. It was only three days when | you could see a great improvement in my face. My blackheads are all gone, and my faceis fine. The pimples just scemed to dry up tnd have all disappeared. “I had some kind of a rash come out ca my arms and all T did was to appy Cuticura Olntment at night and in the morning and it disappeared in about a week.” (Signed) Miss Mary E. Fortune, Dec. 20, 2:11. 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Then he had cov- ered the stitches with some varnishy preparation to hide them from a buy- er's eve—a preparation perhaps made up of stuff calculated still further to weaken the poor thread originally used. As a result of this bad and perhaps dishonest workmanship, the belt had simply “come in two” at the | splice, after haif an hour’s strain in driving the saw. “Behold, how great a matter a small fire kindleth.” Very likely the work- man didn’t want to “waste” the time ; in going to the stock-room for a long- | er piece of leather and some better | thread. “Oh, this'll do,” he may have thought; “It'll pass the boss all right | and after that I don't care.” His willingness to save ten minutes time and two cents wages by slurring his | work has caused three other men the | loss of many hours’ time and of sev- eral dollars, to say nothing of incon- venience and discomfort. That's too often the way with things in this world; the punishment of the guilty is laid on the shoulders of the jnnocent. If that chap who stitched the belt with rotten “waxed ends” had been the only one to suffer when the botched belt broke we should all have borne his affiiction with patience, not to say hilarity. It would have served him right. But, bless you, he’ll never know anything about jt. He got his pay as much as if he had done a good job: it is we three strangers, whom he never heard of and never will hear of, who lose money and time and stove-wood;—which is more import- ant on a zero morning than either time or money. Now, I'm not inclined to denounce that workman too severely as a greater sinner than any who dwell ,even in our farm Jerusalems. Very likely he didn’t half appreciate the possible con- sequences of his slurred job. It was only a short belt, anyway, and he may have excused the inadequate lap- | ping and the poor waxed ends by sav- ing to himself that they “might do for quite a while, considering. In the meantime, his own rent had to be paid out.of his earnings and the gro- cer’s bills were getting bigger and big- | ger, every month, and he must make every minute count, if he was to earn enough for his own home demands. I'm more inclined to think he idii't appreciate the trouble he was prepar- ing for us poor hayseeds; that he was | just hurrying and thoughtless. Anyway, we'l let it go at that, for the tife being. | wonder if any of us farmers ever slight the little things of our work, ' when we think we can do 8o without being found out? I wonder if any of us ever put cider apples into the middle "of the barrel, or scrape a lot of barn- | floor aust and dirt into the center of what is to be the hay-bale? Ah. bretheren, when it comes to stone-throwing, there would be mighty ' few in the air if we all waited for somebody who was without sin to chuck up the first one! | i Even on our own farms and with our own property, does it never happen | that we slur our work because to slur | easy thing to do, just at that | moment? was all good; the lacings were strong | | the building. We do not make"milk products” Skim Milk, Condensed Milk, et But the Genuine HORLICK’S MALTED MILK Made from pure, full-cream milk and the extract of select malted grain, reduced to powder form, soluble in water. The Food-drink for All Ages. | 2WTASK FOR “HORLICK’S” Used all over the Globe m”twulmliahtm Mexican ?'vuyue, ; MONDAY AND TUESDAY ONLY The Irish Masterpiece, “KERRY GOW,” 3 Reels. Each Scene Made in Ireland by the Kalem Co. 'NEW LONDON'S MUNICIPAL BUILDING Remodelled $112,000 City Hall Fast Replacing Old, Brown Stone Structure MORE APPARATUS FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT Fire Commissioners Go Ahead Without Recommendations of Chief Stanners—Equipment Needs Improving—Fire at Almshouse Well Handled—One Man Burned to Death. As the work on the new munmicipal building progresses the eventual gran- deur and massiveness of the structure | becomes more apparent. and it will add materially to the civic center of the city, which seems to be located right on State street, at the corner of Un- ion, with the postoffice. the Crocker house, the First Church of Christ and the municipal building occupying the corners. There has long been need for just such a building as is being erected, where the several city of- fices, modernly 2quipped and roomy, will be adequate for the accommoda- tion of the business of Greater New London for many years, perhaps fully as long as did the old brownstone city hall serve the purpose, At first it was planned to make a brownstone addition to the old structure and $60,- 000 was appropriated for that Jirpose, but after careful consideration that plan was deemed inexpedient, and it was decided to erect a new building of limestone, and $112,000 was made available for that purpose and it is believed the work can be completed within the appropriation. This appropriation does not include the furnishing of the building, and it is the general cesire of the people that the furniture be in keeping with If this is done, an ad- ditional appropriztion of perhaps $25,- 000 will be required, and it is fair fo presume that the coat of the building, fully furnished and ready for occu- pancy, will be at least $150,000. This is a whole lot of money, eveg for pro- gressive New London, to expend in addition to the many other heavy ex- One day, last summer, mending an old worm rail fence, Hank and 1! found, when we came to put in the | | stakes at one corner, that there was no dirt to drive them into, just roots and stones. Now it wasn't { essential that this particular corner should have been on that particular square foot. It was only a woods fence, | and of no importance where the cor- ner fell. But the day was hot, the gnats were plentiful and bite-y, there was a half-a-mile of fence ahead of us to Soldier up. We managed, at last, to catch about an inch of the stake under a root. “Oh, let ’er go, the cows'll think it's a fence, and won't | ever find out the difference.” Less than a week afterwards we had to hunt those cows out of a neigh- bor's field, because they had chosen that one identical corner to push | against, reaching after twigs on the | trees, over-fence! Next time, we took the whole corner down, moved it to where it ought to have been, at first, and drove two new, strong stakes about a foot into the ground. It took us fully two hours to hunt up the cows and re-align the | fence. It,would have taken us just| about five minutes to have done it | right, the first time. | No, friends, it doesnt “pay to slur! ! work, even when it is our own work land done solely for ourselves. Indeed, it often makes all the difference be- { tween a profit and a loss on some job, ! whether we do it in the right way or just in the easiest way. One may i sily think, at the moment, that it is a waste of time and labor and | tronble to do the very best job possi- {ble on an old fence or an old barn Toof or an- old ‘wagon. Probably it would be rather siily to spend tims | putting a coat of spar varnish on the | old wood-shod sled. But it would ba | quite silly and less excusable to pin | | the shoes on with punky basswood, be- ' cause that happened to be a little handier by than good pin-oak, and whittled easier into shape. Tho old folks used to say that a thing which was worth doing at ail was worth doing well. I wish the fel- low who stitched that beit had felt that way! But he’s out of my reach. You and I, however, have consider- abie Influence with ourselves. We can, usually, prevent ourselves from slur- iring our jobs and doing bad work, i if we'll only make up our minds to it. i It may not be just easy at the } moment to be thorough in our werk, jbuc it's a deal more - fand, I think, apt to 1 {in the end today to thl *emorraw large number e five cemts or. ten minute at ihe expense of ten cent ninutes on any | one of ti is not economy, | 1t isn’t cven S i Moreov the habit of theroughness tin little ings is very likely to lead ! 1o Success in bigger things. Somchow, ! thoroughness seems to lead up to suc- icess and success to be dependent on thoroughress. Perhaps a few of us who are finding | that “Jordan am a hard read to trah- bel,” might make 1t easier by picking some of even the small pebbles out of | New i in rese | in reserve two hose reels, penditures, but tne general opinion is that the improvement will worth the price. The architect of the new building is James Sweeney, a native Londoner, who is responsible for the architecture of the $100,000 Harbor schoolhouse, the Union bank and other prominent buildings. Joseph Dolan, the contractor, is also a New Londoner. So the new structure is being built by Jocal talent, and the money expended will be eventually spent right in New London. Chief John Stanners of the New London department will never be charged with extravagance in his { recommendations for fire equipment, for, as a matter of fact, the greater part of the improvements in fire- fighting material came without the chief’s recommendations. He leaves all such matters with the fire com- mittee and the company membership, preferring to attend to his own knit- ing. In his annual report he simply recommends a fire alarm bell in the Northwest section two additional fire alarm boxes and a small building for storage purposes. Without even con- sulting the chief, the fire committee by authority of the court of common council and with appropriation made in city meeting, has ordered a mod- ern chemical, hose and pumping au- tomobile apparatus and has appro- priation for a second horseless fire- fighting machine. neither of which was recommended by the chief. It is therefore plain that the chief's posi- tion would not be endangered if he made known at the proper time the actual neceds of the department, but rather that his recommendations would be well received and given care- ful conmsideration. Chief Stanners is a good fireman, there is none better, but he should not be backward in coming forward and explaining the needs of the department and in using his office In getting what was needed. Chief Stanners, in opposition to the decision of the fire committes in get- ting appropriation for a new automo- bile wagon, reports all the apparatus in good condition except the Niagara chemical, which is to be replaced by an up-to-the-minute machine. Just the same, at least one plece of fire apparatus is considered to be in such poor condition that members of the company, as a matter of personal safe- ty, hesitate to ride to fires in the wagon for fear of fatality. Either the ; ¢laim of this fire company 1e not true r the chief has no real knowledse of ke actual conditien of the wagon. Chief Stanmers reports that he has © one steam fire engine, which 3 # matter of fuct, has been com- emned for over five vears and 18 ab- solutely unserviceable, AlSo one hook and ladder truek; but this apparatus is without ladders, He also reports and ne doubt he has, but not equipped for service in case there was call upon the reserve equipment of the depart- ment, Better for the good- of the department that the apparatus re- ported as in reserve be recommended for sale to the highest bidder. Chief Stanmers’ true werth as a firoman would not be im the least dimmed if he asserted 'Nl indepen- dence, took the publig imto his con- fidence and was not backwarg in Fecommending What 15 esiontial te the general efficiency of the department. The chlef has the knowledge, but he seems to lack the courage to make the real wants of the department known, fearing perhaps the charge of extrava- gance and perhaps partiality. He is too good a fireman to hide his knowl- edge under a bushel. Though one man, John H. Cronas- berry, was burned to death early Thursday merning, when the New London almshouse was ablaze, it was proven beyond doubt that the fire department of New Londen, a volun- teer organization, that the valuable work rendered could not be,equaled by any pald department that a city of its size could malntain The depart- ment responded just as promptly as were the members on the city payroil and in large numbers, so large that Chief Stanners civided the fire fighters, using a part in saving the building from destruction, and the balance in rescuing the over sixty persons that were in the burning building, many of whom were old and feeble women, The firemen worked heroically and with characteristic bravery. Though tance from the business center, the firemen made quick response and suc- ceeded in subduing the fire before any serious financial damage was done. It is believed that the loss by fire will not exceed $1,000. This, coupled with the many thrilling rescues by the vol- unteers, was justification of the high praise given by Chief Stanners to his subordinates in the department, which was joined in by the whole people. The unfortunate man who was reasted alive in the padded cell of the institution was placed there about twelve hours before the fire, suffering from delirlum tremens, and, though search was made for him be fore being placed in the cell, it is believed that he had matches in his possession and accidentally started the fire that resulted in his death and endangered the lives of many others. All the inmates rescued were taken to the Memorial hospital, nearby, and nearly all of them have since been returned to the almshouse, as only one portion of the building was dam- aged beyond occupancy. The almshouse is a large, three- story brick building located in Jef- ferson avenue, and in one of the most sightly positions in the city, is kept in good condition and most excel- lently managed. Still. the building was erected many years ago, and is therefore not as weil equipped as are the modern buildings of today. The surrounding property that was once used as the town farm, has been gradually encroached upon by hos- pital buildings, and there is no oppor- tunity for farming or to keep the men who are able te work busy in the flields during the growing season. Therefore it has been planned tc have a new almshouse in the not very dis- tant future and ome that will con- nect with a farm large enough to supply the inmates with the products sides, to furnish to the outside poor. The late Sebastian D. Lawrence made provision for the erection of a new almshouse, and the fund for that purpose is now about $54,000. Repairs will be made in the present building without any delay and within two weeks it will be in just as good con- dition as before the fire. BIRD LIFE IN THE OPEN. A Nuthatch That Has Been Tame Five Years—The Difference Betwsen the Nuthatch and Woodpecker—The Ex- perience of a Preston Woman With Wild Birds. “Nuttie” s a male white breasted nuthatch. After many- attempts he ventured on March 1, 1967, to walk down a tree and take a bit of food I offered him. He soon became tame enough to fiy to my hand when I stood jat a little distance from the tree and { to come to a window sill where a sup- { ply of food was kept. It has not been | ancommon for him to be absent several : wéeks at a time, after the mating sea- i son, and for six months in 1909 he did not'come for food. Yet I am sure that ithe same bird comes to me at the i present time, for when he first became itame I taught him to take food from {my hand in a way which he still re- ,members. A way that I have never taught any other male nuthateh and something a wild bird would be afraid jto try, . | “Some peeple think that the nut- ihatch is a kind of woodpecker, but this is net so, although some of their habits are similar. It is not quite so large as the “Dunwy,” which is the smallest woodpecker we have. = The latter are black and white, with a scar- let spot on the nape in the male. When woodpeckers descend a tree trunk they ck down, The nuthaich goes do h‘ Savemnent an Pasdlly ae - A% welks the almshouse is located quite a dis- | of the soil and, perhaps, enough he- | : GODS,” Vitagraph, : OF % GODS,” Sensational, Reel No. 2. Feature Indian ANSWERED,” Reel No. 3. Knights of Columbus Ball January 10th, 1913, —IN THE— ARMORY CADILLAC ORCHESTRA, 12 Pieces. CONCERT 8 TO 8. Admission (Lady and Gentleman), $1. CONCERT by the Young People’s Orchestra, Sun- day, Jan. 5th, in Davis Theatre. E. E. Baker, Director. Soloist, Mr. Charles D. Geer. Doors open at 2 p. m. Con- cert at 2.30. No tickets sold at the door, and must be procured before Sunday of Mr, E. E. Baker, Room 41 Central Building, or of members of the or- chostra. g e down a window pane. Its legs and claws are so strong that one can see between its body and the tree trunk as it descends. Frequently one sits for some time to rest or meditate with head downward. The color on the upper part of the body is a bluish gray with black markings, the throat and | breast are white shading to rufous un- |derneath. The crown and the back and the sides of the neck are shining black in the male. In the female the black on the crown is more or less veiled with bluish. Sometimes a mere tinge, again a decided blue gray. The name was formerly “nuthack,” from their habit of hacking nuts,which they wedge into a crevice in the bark of a tree and pound with the -oint of the bill until the shell is broken. It would be impossible for them to open any kind harder than beech nuts or chestnuts. They readily pound open the squash and pumpkin seeds for the meat. Even when the seeds are wet they will thrust them into any con- venient crevice in a tree or in a crack in a building and open them. On sev- eral occasions when a vigorous blow had dislodged a seed I have seen a bord drop down and catch it in the air. They are not singers, but when a pair or a. number of immature ones are to- gether they keep up a conversational twitter if friendly. Occasionally there is a scolding note when one wishes to drive another from the food suppiy. Their note of alarm is a loud “quank, quank.” They have at least two other notes, both of which are difficult to represent by words. In less than three weeks after Nut- tle first ventured to come to me for food he brouvht a mate to the trees in the yard. ‘“Lady” soon learned to jcome to the window sill for food, but did not have courage to eat from my hand until July of the next year. The following winter she became very tame, but in the latter part of January, 1909, she was sick and disappeared. | Nuttie soon went away and when he | returned, in about six weeks, brought |a new mate, which was much darker ! colored than the first one and of course not at all tame. This one soon learned to come to the window sill, but did not eat from my hand until the following January, ten months from her first iappearance. In April I moved a very short distance and they did not find {the food I put out untll August. By the next summer they had become so tame that their four babies came to | the window shelf. They were very in- | teresting and 1 believe it was a very | unusual experience. A few months {later, in November, 1911, the second Lady disappeared. After the loss of this mate Nuttie continued to come to the window and occasionally ate from my hand both at |the window and in the yard. In the {latter part of February of the present year T saw him in a tree In the vard with a third mate. She ventured to the window in a week, and in a few days became fearless emouzh so that |she was a frequent visitor until April | From that time Nuttie usuaily came !alone until nearly the middie of May, | when Lady besan to come more often, jand on May 30th, a little over three {months from the day I first saw her; { twice took a bit of food from my hand. |In a week both began to carry away 00d, probably to nestlings, and In & | few days Lady again ate a bit from my 1 hand and came six or elght other times land carried some away. By the mid- dle of June the demand for food was | so great that she waited on the win- {dow shelf while I raised the screen | and held out food, then came and took a piece. Another time the same day she ate eleven bites from my hand and for eight days she carried food from my hand to the nest, which was not far away. On the 30th of June I saw an adult feeding a baby on the roof of the ell, {not far from the second story window, where the bird shelf is located. After five days a female baby came to the window sill. Later there was a male and I think another female. The fe- males only came for about a week; the male, although not a daily visitor, came quite often through July, but did not Jearn to eat from my hand as did the four during the previous summer. I think this was partly -because these Jast ones were older when they were brought to the window and o had learned to be fearful. Also the mother bird was less tame than the other Lady. During the last half of July and the greater part of August the plumage of the adults was so worn from the cares of the family and so changed by oulting that T was seldom able to teil them apart. They did not often come for food and usually not together. In September there were two, mere fre- quently, but lack of time, the change in plumage, and the fact that Lady | had not eaten from my hand since the latter part of June, made identifieation of the female uncertain, when a little later there was a ‘better opportunity for study. 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It picked feebly at the sill although there was no food there. After a little it managed to come up on the sill. It seemed 50 nearly helpless that I was afraid it might fall, or be pushed off when the others came, so 1 carefully raised the window a little, picked it up and put it under a wire screen. It could scarcely stand and held its head so far back that its bill pointed upward, its eves were mearly closed, and part of the time its bill was wide open. Thinking it might be chilled, 1 wrapped it in flannel and put it in a basket in the sun. Then puiting one drop of brandy in a half-teaspoon- ful of warm milk, I gave two or three drops at intervals. At the end of four hours it seemed improved and pieked uneasily at anything within reach. So, drawing the shades, lest it fly against the glass and hurt itself, as a tame chickadee once did when it be- came frightened, I took off the screen. It walked around on the table, and, not seeming to realize when it came to the edge, walked off. As it went over it spread its wings and_dropped to the floor, where it walked around in a d@azed way and seemed unable to fly even as high as a chair round, which it could touch with its head. I then put it in a large box, with a low perch, and a supply of food. Late in_the afternoon it was able to stand eréct on the perch and tried to fly up the sides of the box, so I drew one shade, put a screen in the bird's win- dow, set the box on thet loor, and uncovered it. It flew to the window and clung to lhe netting, and when I stepped forward to raise the screen, hopped fearlessly on my thumb, then flew to the floor and walked about. When the screen was removed it flew out and away. It showed fear only when I took it in my hand, then gave a frightened cry and struggled. 1 did not hold it when I gave the medicine but let two or three drops fall into its mouth, as it stood with open biil It usually swallowed nicely and only rejected it when the drops came a little too fast. When it was on the floor it would hop toward a foot or hand moved in fromt of it. The next day I did not see it, but the day after it came to the food shelf. It seemed a little weak and stood on the shelf insteaq of clinging to the perch as usual. It soon appeared en- tirely recovered but it would not eat from my hand for over two weeks. Whether the cure was due to the efficacy of the medicine, and the nurs- ing, or because the bird exercised its will power in self-defense, because of its treatment, I am unable to say. On November 22, a fourth nut- hatch ared. It was a female with only a light biuish tinge on the crown, €0 quite easy to distinguish from the others. The next day when the win- dow was raised on a 8&pool male, while a tiny gravish grot on the pape seemed to indicate a female, The mext day there was & new: fe- was holding out a handful of food she came on the sil, but did not take anything from my hand. In three and I} or four days, Nuttie began to come with her instead of the dark-headed one, which for nearly two months I had thought was his mate. The lat- ter now ate from my hand, as it did before its sickness. Only ten days after her first appearance, this last female, which I now call Lady, came fo my hand three different times. The last time she stayed to eat a bit and then took another piece and flew away. In four days she would eat from my hand when the window was wide open. Although there is no way to prove it, I believe that she is Nut- tie's mate of the past summer and that being so recently tamed at the time of moulting she went away for a time, as Nuttie and his other mates frequently used to after the nesting | season. Nuttie is now so thoroughly domesticated that he does not go away. The dark-headed ome, Wwhich for a time I thought was Nuttie's mate, probably is one of the babies that came back soon after Lady went away, and Nuttie being alone did mot quarrel with it. The blue-headed one, which came a little later, is very Hkely another one. The fact of their be- coming tame so much quicker than the adults of the past makes this view reasonable. Then when the real Lady (No. 3) came back, she took her old position, but did not resent the others being around because of their immaturity. Aiter Lady returned to Nuttie, the other two became friendly and have usually been together. I am afraiq that something has happened to the dark-hcaded ome, as it has been absent a week. The other thres come many times every day and eat readily from my ‘hand. A C. E H Preston City, Conn., Dec. 26, 1912, CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have. Always Bought Bears the Signatu.e of > Making a New - Home Is not such a difficult or expensive proposition ai often seoms if you will let us suggest and quote prices on complete home outfits from par- for to kitchen. 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