Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 11, 1913, Page 12

(Writen Specially for The Buletin.) One of the besetting sins of Ameri- can character is our tendeney to wor- ship bigness. IT ISN'T THE BIG FARM BUT THE ABLE MAN THAT COUNTS doing as good work, acre for mu, on a thousand acres as on a h They used to sing about “ten acres enough.” It is enough—for some of us,—for really a good many of us. a th, to cure_in all its stages, and Cl.tlrrhgc is s g direct- 00d and Mucous surfaces s thereby destroying Lhe n of the disene. and glving nt stronsth by bullding 4p the utfon -and assisting i-umally. t of testimon.al ress F. J. CHENEY & CO., Tole- o. all Drug; ’s Famj 'F. C. GEER, 7\ Phone 511 Nnrwlch Conn. fists, Toc, y Pills for consti- “The Crater,” See the Collapse of the Burning Bridge Fighting Soldices. See the Explosion of the Big Battle exploited with Astounding Realism. - MATINEE EVERY DAY 5 CENTS beneath the Confederate Batfi"fil-‘ he Homs of Selected Photo-Plays and Clean Vaudeville. FRI DAY and. SATURDAY, EATRE DAVIS TR0 THE THREE WILTONS, Somebody is said to have the biggest Jan. 10th and 11th. SILVER & NORTH, Comedy . Sketch—“The Bashfulest NEW LONDON'S NEW PEQUOT DRIVE But it is absurd to set any particular fortune the country, whereupon e o people unite fo set him a | fiEure as the right one for every fort of altar and bow down before | —Whether ten acres or two hun 5 m: have | It depends somewhat on the lamd but him,—thodkh Tie weslth U more on the man. The proper size for any man's farm is that which he can work to the best advantage. If he can work flve aeres up to the top notch, but has to neglect his sixth, then five acres is enough for him. If he has greater capacity and can get the very best possible out of the last fence-corner in a hundred acres, then let him work the hundred acres. The only rule is that each farmer | should farm to his limit; work as| many acres as he can work best:—and let some other farmer develop the overplus which he would have to ne- glect. In any army, whether war- likke or industrial, there are some men fit to be captains of companies and some to be generals of divisions, but been acquired by means of notorious frauds and utterly contemptible chi- cane. Somebody has the biggest diamond or the longest rope of pearls and- im- mediately her picture runs through all the yellow journals, though she may be practically devoid of brains or beauty. Somebody has the biggest farm, and we promptly send for his autograph or an ear of seed-corn from his fleld. I have heard of a store whick asks people to buy from it because it has ‘the bigges: acreage under one roof of any store in the world.” And so on and on. When | was a youngster the only farmers who were really looked up to in their various communities were the big farmers. If one’s farm was so big that it overlapped the town line. he was called juire:” if by chance it happened to fall in two counties, then people drove out of their way to point out his house to visitors. Farms of 300 acres were common; farms uf 500 or 1,000 not unusual. The little fellow who W ed his fifty acres with his own bhands assisted by one team ‘wasn’t thought to be, and didn’t im- agine himself to be, much of a farm- ér Even today, it is the big ranches of the west which we hear most about;— the great wheat and corn farms of ten or twenty thousand acres, where the: plowing and harrowing and secding are | all done at one operation by mam- moth tools drawn tandem by husge traction engines, and the harvesting, threshing, etc., done in the same way | by a combination machine as big as a house and taking a swath across the field fifty feet wide. We are shown pictures of these monstrosities at work, and photographs of the owners, and riptions of the big y do everything. It makes our eastern eyes stick out, sometimes, when this sort of thing is spread before them. Some of us now and ti®'n wonder whether we really are “in it,” after all; whether we amount to anything much in the world’s work. the most of us are worth more as plain | privates than in any other rank. More- over it is the flghting of the privates which wins, when you get down to real facts. About all the available farms in this country are now taken up. The re- serve of -unopened lanes is getting very small. We aren’t going to be able, much longer, to “go west” to newer farms when the old ones show ex- haustion. As population swells and demand increases, we’ve got to make the old farms do better than they’ve | been doing or supply will fall short and prices soar to even greater hights. In other words, we small farmers have got to make our acres yield more than heretofore. We've got to stand to fill the country’s markets. There is a limit to the amount of land we can own, but there is no limit, —at least none within sight at pres- ent,—to the improvement we can ef- fect upon the land we already own, if we’ll only give it enough brain fod- der and hand work. There is a limit to the area we can spread curselves over, but there is no practicable limit to the perfection we can attain in treat- ing the surface we do cover. Not “How much can we farm,” but “How well can we farm” must be the motto of future farming. A blade of grass is a small thing, Will Be Considered in Special City Meeting—Future Care of | Now I'm assuming that you who read | but he is a better farmer who makes this are a small farmer, as am I who|two blades grow where but one grew write it before,—a better farmer than he who And I want to say that neither one|cuts only nine hundred and ninety- of us is called upon to take any backl!nine tons where a thousand tons grew | seat behind Ten-Thousand-Acre Jones or Traction-Engine Gang-Plow Smith. The test of a good farmer is not how much he farms but how well he farms. is mere bigness is a youth: it is not a mark of adult m tality. The soon- er we grow out of it, the sooner we grow from boyishness to manhood. It isn't because the pyramids are so big that thoughtful travellers admire them. Why, there are a thousand hills . in Connecticut bigger than the biggest pyramid, and nobody travels across an ocean to see them. Admiration trait of extreme Despite all that we still hear about big farms, it is an encouraging ngn of the agricultural times to know tha: the average size of farms in the Lpned States is steadily decreasing. In' 1850 the average farm contained 202 acre: in 1910 it contained 318 acres. So the census figures report. When one reflects that all those huge western farms, each with its tens of thousands of acres, have to be included to make up the average, it is manifest that there must be a tremendous lot of farms of even less than 138 acres to bring that average figure to what it is. One is the broad, general consider- ation that in democracy like ours it is vas safer to have things on ai broad foundation than to have a few insecurely based high spires. It is better than the mass of people should spread on the level of prosperity than that a few should climb to useless af- fluence above a slough of general des- pond. As farming is and always must be the occupation of the larger propor- tion of our population, it is especially needful that the farm industry should be widely prosperous, rather than widely poverty-stricken, with only oc- casional outerops of wealth. There- fore it is clearly for our safety, as a nation, that there should be the larg- est possible number of industries but contented farmers. It is better to have ten thousand such on ten thousand small farms than to have ten thousand “peasants” and tenants, working for hire on Dives’ million-acre ranch. Another reason for reo icing over the decrease in the size the average is that the emafl rarm is usual- i ly better managed than the big L)ne.l There are mighty few men capabie ot before. The first man Is going ahead; the other man is slumping backwards. | You needn’t call it “intensive farm- g” if you have a prejudice against the phrase but better farming is some- thing which nobody, ought to object to, if we're going to keep this country self-supporting: And thé avérage farmer can do bet- ter farmfng o6n 2 small farm than on a big one. It doesn’'t need a uni- versity education to see a thing which is as plain as that. No man need feel any more ashamed of being a small farmer than he need feel ashamed of being five foot ten instead of six foot two. But any one of us has the right— and the duty,—to feel ashamed if he isn’'t doing the very best farming he knows how. It’s better farming to get four tons off ten acres than to get two tons of poor hay to the acre of twenty. THE FARMER. New Questions of law. In the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies the jurists of the world poured forth learned treaties on the freedom of the seas, and in those days English- men were the great champions of the doctrine of mare liberum, while the | Contintal scholars upheld the ,notion of mare clausum. Today the jurists of the world are -29J] 91 JO UOIENOSIP 9y} YM Asng busy with the discussion of the free- dof of the air, and the rules are re- versed. English professors almostu- nanimously maintain the doctrine of sovereignty over the air, while theer colleagues abroad hold that the State hes.no dominfon. The need for the assertion of State sovercignty is implicitly recognized in our aerial ngvigation act of 1911, which empowers the Covernment to interdict flying over any area when it chooses. At the same time the principle of State soverelgnty does not interfere with the right of innocent passage through thealr, which the comityand intercourse of mnations require. Subject only to precautions néces- saryforthe safety ofthe subjacent pop- ulation and the public security, liber- tv to fly over the land willdoubtless be | Against Substitutes - GettheWell-Enown Round Paekage We do But the water. products™— Skim Milk, Condensed Milk, ete. Made from -ndthomofn , ‘ Againu; . . Imitations HORLICK'S MALTED MILK Made In the T best and san! Maited plant In the world not make “milk Genuine Original- HORLICK’S MALTED MILK pure, full-cream milk "‘*.':i’..&""' Mfood-dmk ST ASK FOR uonm('s Used all over the Globe i v and which we've all got to come to| Patients Placed in Padded Cell at Almshouse—Scarcity That long-time agitation for what is termeq the straight drive to the | ! Pequot, which includes the connection | {of Washington with Reed street, has received the approval of the court of | common council upon recommendation of the joint committee of the council and park commissioners. This pro- Ject with annual modifications or addi- tions has been in the public light for the past quarter of a century but never before was put in tangible shape for intelligent action. The members of the court of common council do not propose to assume the responsibility of making this proposed straight-drive as it means the expenditure of quite & sum of money. While the councft favors, as do a great many citizens, it has been decided to put the whole matter up to the citizens and a call for a special city meeting has been issued fer action upon the petition for the drive by James D. Lynch and others. Mr. Lynch was at one time the larg. est owner of property in the Pequot section, below the site of the old Pe- quot house, his holding included the old Osprey beach property and 2ll the | property in the vicinity of the light- house, Mr. Lynch’'s summer home be- ing within the shadow of the light- house. While he kas done much to- wards the upbuilding of that section of the city, making it one of the beauty spots of New England, it is but natural that he should suggest a more suitable approach from the cen- tre of the city than at present obtains, not only for the benefit of property owners in the Pequot section, but for the whole ,people. This proposed change in the route to the Pequot has [ years that the plan is well understood and there will be but little need for ex- planation when the matter is in city meeting for consideration. result of the two deaths from the padded cell where a man suffering from delirlum tremens was confined and left alone, without a keeper with- (ln call, no more such patients wiil be received by the charity department from the police department to be con- |fined in the padded cell unless accom- | panifed by an attendant and provisions jmade for a keeper of the patient dur- ing the night season. There is no padded cell at the poliee station and in consequence the one at the almshouse has been occasionally utilized by the police department leaving the care of the patient entirely in the care of the overworked regular force at the alms- house. Claim is made that the po- lce take deranged and sometimes dan. gerous persons to the charity institu- tion when there is no real need for the change, simply to get rid of the more undesirable prisoners and ~'ace all re- sponsibility for the care ¢ such per- sons with the almshouse management. been before the public for =0 manv | of Tenements a Serious Question. Prentis has { Charity Commissioner against th made formal complaint custom to the c mitiee on charities, and the ukase has gone forth that in the future the | police must care for all patients placed in the padded cell that are committed { by that department and assume all re- sponsibility for proper care. So far as can be learned the pad- ded cell in the almshouse was never intended to be for the use of the po- lice department, but to be in readiness for the unfortunate inmates in the event of emergency. It is set forth {that the almshouse is not a jail or refuge for deranged persons picked up by the police ang is not in any sense an auxiliary for the police station. Un- til proper place is provided in the police station for delirious patients or insane persons, the padded cell may be utilized on .condition that a guard is sent with the patient to care for same. The scarcity of tenements in New London is developing into a serious question; unless a remedy is applied the city cannot continue in progress beyond the presfent limit. Industrial establishments already established complain they are kept from increas- ing business as there are no availlable tenements to house the workmen and their families. An officer of thé New London Ship and Engine company says that just at this time the company would be glad to add at least fifty skilled workmen to the large force at present emploved, but cannot make the increase on account of the lack of tenements. There is business enough in sight to add at least fifty more to |the force in a month, making a total of one hundred men. It is fair to presume that more than one-half of skilled workmen of this class are men of families. All of which means that New London is losing an opportunity to progress and one of its' important business industries is seriously erip- pled. What is true of this concern is applicable to others and an early solution of the tenement problem is of the utmost importance. There was a public hearing on_this subject at a meeting of the New Lon- don Business Men's association and a committee was appointed to make investigation and report at a special | meeting. This committee will go over | the whole situation thoroughly, en- | deavoring to as ain just why more | tenement houses and cottages are not in course of construction when there is already demanq for same and with positive assurance that the industries located here and which has caused the demand for an increased number of tenements are here to stay. There is plenty of available land convenient- ly located and there is ample money { within reach to invest in the much- {needed buildings. Therefore the re- port of the committee will be likely to be of more than ordinary interest. | well as nationals. The position will be similar to that taken up inregard to territorial wat- ers, says the London ,Law Journal through which there is a right of in- nocent passage to all vessels, they are sugject to the dominion of the neighboring State. In fact, the air judicially resembles, not the open ocean, but the marginal sea. Washmgton County, R. L RICHMOND Second Baptist Church Holds Annual Mesting—Plans Made for Roll Call. The annual business meeting of the Second RBaptist church of Richmond was held in the church Monday eve- ning. The meeting was called to or- der by the president, William F. Kim- ber. Various reports of the year were read and accepted. The treasurer report snowed receipts of $322.89; ex- penditure: $331.05, with one bill of 1 $166.10 unpaid. - | The officers and committees were | electeg for the ensuing year: Presi- i dent, Wililam F, Kimber; clerk, Brad- S. ford R. Moore; treasurer, Charles Weaver; auditor, Joseph E. Lanphear; Willlam Hopkins, Willial trustees, William Hopkins, iCharles S, Weaver, Bradford B. Moore: Pulpit committee—W. F. Kimber, C. S. Weaver, B. B. Moore. Visiting committee—Mr. and Mrs. . F. Kimber, Wiiliam L. Hobpkins, Mrs, C. S. Weaver, Mrs. Phebe Spicer, Miss Mary L. Hoxie. Advisory committee—W. F. Kimber, W. Y. Hopkins, C. S. Weaver, B. B. Moore. Ushers—Clarence Hopkins, William Muncey; substitute, Andrew W. Moore. Organist, Mrs. William G. Kenyon; as- sistant, Mrs. W. L. Hopkins, Mrs. W. F. Kimber. It was voted to held the roll call | January 18th. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Kimber, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Weaver, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Moore were appointed a committee to arrange for the same. News in General. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bliss of Mat- unuck spent Sunday with Mrs. E. K. James. Miss Elizabeth C. Greene of Wester- | 1y was the guest of friends in town re- | cently, Johnson Hoyle is visiting Providence relatives. Nathaniel G. Hendrick of Wickford | Junction is the guest of his brother- i in-law, George E. James. Miss Nellie Lanphear nas returned to her school near Boston after spend- ing the Christmas recess with her aunt, Mrs. Willlam G, Xenyon, at Shannock. ROCKVILLE Guests at Silver Wedding—Funeral of Jehn H. Mer. Rev. E. D. Saunden of Ashaway preached at tM S. D, B. church here | tast Iaf Sapurdar tbmoeo!fl:e mm mm B! accorded by the State to foreignersas | though | spending the holidays in New York state. Palmer, local postmas- Deagon J. F. ter, who has been ill with pneumonia, | is reported to be gaining. Mrs. Osmas Edwards, who has been for several weeks, is still confined d most of the time. Barber and famil ilver wedding of Mr. Horace Bliven at the White New Year’s night. Miss Lottie Burdick visited friends Ho: alley one day last week. The Yu'fl‘ a] of John Henry Chester, vho d)rfi E was held at his home h burial at Ashaway. Eighteenth Century Caddies. is delightful to the average citi- to discover Th”.t the golf player attended Oak farm at It zen strict rules of “royal and ”. and it is cheering to note t that flood is just now pouring out toward the caddie. This constant sub- ject for the cy 1 speech and caustie + is bly provided for.and ed Lyttleton, that accomplished | zolfer, pleads with tears ink k k kk | Bolfer, pleads almost with tears in hos | voice, that “caddies’ 'are identified with the one pleasure which helips el- gentlemen to feel young.” The he ms aven of the well preseryed mid- ed can not but be touched by nnn appeal; and yet tnerc lingers haunting memory that name of caddie {s suffused UGH! HOw ChlLDRE"J HATE CASTOR OlL. To Clean the Little One’s Stomach Liver and Waste-Clogged Bowels Give Gentle “Syrup of Figs.” Loook back at your childhood days. Remember the physic that mother in- sted on—castor oll, calomel, cathar- tics. How vou hated them, how you fought against taking them. ‘With our children it's different. The day of harsh physic is over. We don’t force the liver and 20 feet of bowels now; we coax them. We have no dreaded after effects. Mothers who | Siinerto the qaitork of physic simply | The chil- | don’t realize wha they do. dren’s revolt is well-founded. Their injured by them. If your child is fretful, peevish, half | its little system full of cold; has diar- ! rhoea, sore throat, stomach-ache: doesn’t eat or rest well—remember— look at the tongue, if coated, give a { teaspoonful of Syrup of Figs, then | den't worry, because you surely will have a well, smiling child in a few | hours. Syrup of Figs belng composed en- i tirely of luscious figs, senna and aro- matics simply cannot be harmful. It sweetens the stomach, makes the liver active and thoroughly cleanses thé lit- tle one's waste-clogzed bowels. In a few hours all sour bile, undigested fermenting food and constipated waste matter gently moves on and qut of the system without griping or nausea. Directions for children of all ages, also for grown-ups, plainly printed on the package. By all means get the genuine. Ask vour drugglst for the full name “Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna” prepared by the California Fig Syrup Co. “. cept nothing else, ommon council com- | and Mrs. i sentiment | little stomachs and tender bowels are sick, stomach sour, breath feverish and ! Bounding Trampoline _— “The Best as is. Man”—4“A hit of the bill” act —A TWO REEL FEATURE— «“THE DEAD PAYS” A Masterpiece of Military Sensationalism “A. Will and a Way”"—Foolshead’s Xmas"—' HUseful roaring comedy, entitled “Mabel’s Adventure. Mon., Tues., Wed. Au DITOH'U January 13,14, 15 DAVETT & DUVALL Present the Comedy Success Holding Out COFFMAN & CARROLL The Mulatto and the Coon FRED & ANRIE PELOT \ The Juggling Jokers Today—Two Reels Old Mademoiselle’s Secret Fine Picture Program for Monday "TUESDAY, JANUARY 14th, 8 p. m, BENJAMIN CHAPIN IN HIS FOUR-ACT HISTORICAL DRAMA Z- ABRAHAM LINCOLN b TICKETS 50¢ I5iisios i, o0 A. and G. A. Dav is’ store THE ADELE MARGULIES TRID ADELE MARGULIES LEQCPOLD LICHTENBERG LEO SCHULZ In Slater Memorial Hall, Tuesday Evening, January 14th. Tickets $2.00 All seats reserved Tickets are now on sale at the store of Geo. A. Davis For sale at Y. M. C. strange fashion with a shade of ne-ei -do-well. The earliest known use of the ap- pellation, and then as “caddie” is to be found in the London Morning Penn) Post, when Georgell was still on the throne, and “The Forty-Five” was in | very immediate popular rememb: News from Scotland had it that e Duncan Grant a discharged soldier who has passed in Edinburgh some- times as a street caddie* had mcuhhed a heavy penaliy for a rather trivial swindle in a transaction over herrings. | He was to be taken from the Tolbooth and “put in the pillory, to stand for the space of an hcur, with a half a dozeu herrings about his neck, and thereafter to be banished to the City of Liberties forever.” | It was a rough sort of making the punishment fit ithe crime ‘which some irate golfers wold desire to revive for their caddies en in this humane age. —Westminster Gazette. | cawP mohe edoteorMp8o honmnat vua | i sc -f..eneul yoet itr lei H were 100,969 children’ In 1910 lhere | born in Ohio. \\ hen You're i Urrd O-At 5 v after a hard, nerve-wrecking day, and come home comoletely e | hausted, rest is impsrative. Your bcdy demands sieep. Do you gk it — or do you toss about through a restiess night? If so, take a cup of BORDEN'S Malted Milk IN THE SQUARE PACKAGE hot before you “turn in” It will saothe your ting. ling nerves, mildly stimulats your aching body and induce sound, refreshing siumber. it is free from that objectionable sweet taste and “tang” supposed- ly peculiar to all Malted Milks. Try it and be con- vinced. Get Free Trial Package and Unusual Recipe Book } from Your Druggist, or Malted Milk Department BORDEN’S CONDENSED MILK CO. Manufacturers of Borden's Evaperated Milk and Eagie Brand Conden: Milk. Geo. Wm. Bentley Co., N. B. Selling Agents, State St., Beston, Mass. Tel. Richmond 336. 192 iliousness is Bad Enough in itself with its headaches, sour stomacn, unpleasant breath and nervous depression—but nervousness brings a bad train of worse ills if it is not soon cotrected. But if you will clear your system of poisoncus bile you. will be Trid of present troubles and’ be secure against others which may be worse. EECHAM'S PILLS act quickly and surely—they regulate the bowels, stimulate the liver and kidneys—tone the stomach. Then your blood will be purer and richer and your nerves won’t bother you. The whole world over Beecham’s Pills are known as a most efficient family rcmedy, harmless but sure in action. For all disorders of the digesiive organs they are regarded as the Best Preventive and Corrective The directions with every hox are valuabia—. e ™STIa v irares T b Vo fee Ly fer o COAT SWEATERS from 98¢ to $8.00 ~ Best yaiues ior your money C. V. PENDLETON, Jr. 10 BROADWAY J. F. CONANT 11 Pr-nklin 8t Whflestone bc and the J. C. the best on the T2y them AWNINGS. Lot me save your order bow. ADy sise and any color. Prompi J. W flm“' b