Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 3, 1913, Page 12

(Written Specially for The Bulletin) “Do you keep cows?” asked the city | gent, as he talked across the fence | with Old Uncle Ike, one morning, | some years back. Uncle lke looked at him for a sec- ond; then slowly turned his eves to ward the herd of forty milkers that were feeding in plain sight in the next pasture. “N-no,” he answered . with studied deltberation: “1 don't keep no cows; but them cows out there keep me.” How is it with you, brother farmer? Do you keep cows; work for them: pamper them: sweat over them: board and lodge them: become their valet and nurse and chambermaid: —or do | your cows keep you? Are they the | object of your life, or are you the ob- | ject and purpos and explan: of | their lives? Are you thelr ser or | are they your: E How is it with you, brother farmer, | in the still larger view which takes in | your whole vocation? Do you own | your farm, or does )your farm own | you? ] Are vou the master of your acres, | or are you their tied and haltered bond-servant, shackled to them as securely as ever was galley-slave- shackled to his bench Do veu use your farm for your own Penefit, or does it use you according to its own every-season varying whims? Are you wes yourself out ch ring g a farm across the hilly year have you got that farm under r you? rds, which do you con- vider of higher rank and most yortance, the farmer or his farm? nan er his fields? In still other ~—vou or your busines: “ there is great to-do| of better ‘“business | yethods” among farmers Nor do I| much wonder at it. 1 know farmers | who, if they saved f of what thev ow waste, might have plump bank ooks. 1 know farmers who, if they | better judgment in buying, | g pure-bloods imstead | know farmers who, | if they would only farm for their markets, instead of expecting their I | im- i | tion, where you can make it \\‘lvrkE | the t words: which is Boss, Nowadays, about the need of ox-teams. I markets to take what they chose to raise, might be able to pay up their back taxes and put new roofs on the | old barns. There is no doublt that some farm- ers are shiftless and thriftless and | slack: no doubt that they might be better off if they would only be a bit | | more business-like. | 1 But—there are at least two ideas| sbout that term “busin 1 been reading, lately, various art by self-confessed successful business men. Whether they eay so in plain | words or not, the intimation which is | i 1 conveyed in every anecdote and every fllustration and every suggestion in their writing is that, to succeed in business; one must make every thing | else secondary ‘to that business. He must eat, drink, and sleep businese he must think, dream and live busi- | and ness: he must butter his rolls | syrup his waffles with business: he| must work business and play busi- | ness; he must make business his best god and dearest devil; he must bow | down before it and worship it That is the idea which all these | writings and interviews of successful business men tend to convey as bein their idea of what is meant by “busi- ness-like.™ How does it strike you? 1 confess that, for one, 1 am disgusted with it and ashamed of it. If being “business like” means one thing, namely being honest, and fair-minded sighted, and energetic, and industrious, and ana capable~—why, then there’s need of it among us farmers. But means the other thing, that which these seif- appointed advocates and self-erected exemplars seem to make it out as meaning, then I should say that it is| about as wicked waste of life as war or yellow fever. Have they who preach it really succeeded? To be; sure we others may have to take the| dust of their automobiles. But it is better in every way to be men, walk- | ing erect and unafraid along the high- | ways of God's good world, than to be | mere ‘“husine: machines in human similitude, even t vou be honk ed smokingly acro face of the offended landscape in another ma- chine of steel and rubber and ill- smelling gas Moreover, | should class it as one | of the greatest privileges and bless- ings of our calling that we farmers den't have to be “business-lik in | that sense of the term. We have the oppertunity to live, as well as the| cempulsion to do business I'm not | going to say a word in derogation of | jit { aim | once wrote | ends | himseilf, to buy | keeping | branches o ters who are coining their ! to support their farms, those who call on us to open our eves and train our minds to the better see- ing and the wiser utilization of our opportunities for profit. I guess not! We're not now getting half the in- comes we might, could and should have if we were keener traders. Qur acres are not now returning half the profits they might, ‘could and should return if we were better managers. No, indeed; I have no criticism for those who urge us to make better use of our oppertunities and our capacities But, after all has been said aleng | that line, the fact remains that a raan is more than a maehine,—even though be a money- making machine. Uncle Ike had a great truth securely denied that he that his by the tail when he kept cows, for the reason cows kept him. He the higher order should always pre- | cede the lower. Cows and farms are useful to their owners when they conduce to the con- venience, comfort and profit of those owners. But they're neither useful nor wholesome when they become the and object of life. Then they're simply bullying .nuisances. that “Things are in the saddle and ride mankind.” Perhaps; ngvertheless, that isn't the natural nor the proper relation of the two. It isn't pleasant to think of Neighbor Hoskins’ big Percheron bringing out | the saddle and putting it on Hoskins’ shoulders preparatory to mounting the old gentleman for a day’'s work. Yet something of that sort is happen- ing on too many farms, to too many farmers. Instead of using horses for | their own - comfort, they're sacrificing comfort te the supposed needs of their horses. Instead of letting their cows keep them, they're breaking their own backs to keep cows. Instead of treat- ing the farm as a means toward their own growth, they're stunting their own lives to keep up the farm. They are putting the cart before the farm. They are putting the cart before the horse, in that they are accepting of life things which should be simply means for life. .Neighbor Hoskins, for example, after taking a ride in my rubbef- tired carriage, some years ago, admijt- ted that it certainly did ride easier than a steel-tired wagon. But he felt sure that it was “a leetle harder on the hoss”” And so, when he had, a new carriage, he stuck to steel tires, because they would be, he thought a trifler easier on the horse. You observe that he put the comparative comfort of the beast between the thills ahead of his wn on the cushions. Instead of mak- ! ing the horse and the carriage sub- sidary to his own use, he sacrificed himself for the lower animal. That’s the kind of (hing I can’t see any sense in. If I'm to choose be- tween a carriage which rides easier for. me and one which draws easier for the horse, them Mr. Horse will have to do #he extra pulling. the horse but for my ser- vice, and, whenever it is a mere choice between his ease and my com- fort, he will be considered second, as he ought to be. The analogy holds good in all f tarming. . 1 don't think at number of farm- own blooed but some are. there are any g More than would be suspected, at first thought, are working hard them- selves to support a bunch of cows as vensioners. 1 know of some who spend more time and money on their horses than those horses ever save them of their time or money. As_Josh Bil not to know so What's the use? said, it's better much than it is to know a lot that isn't | en cows that | so. It's better to have are paying their own way and payirg yYou wages, too, than to have twenty cows, half of which are costing more to keep than the other half bring in Why should we live for the sake of farming? 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Convenient— nutritious. not know T eyes, s Pills have cleared 1 recognized that | ln 'l‘ab}eaux ACCOMPANYING LECTURE BY CARROLL BECKWITH : SLATER HALL, Wednesday Evening, May 14tH, at 8 p. m. PRICE, 50 CENTS Seats on sale at George A. Davis’ on and after May 8th. SPRING MILLINERY 4 FINE ASSORTMENT OF LATEST STYLES. MRS. G. P. STANTON, 52 Shetucket St. Emersorn: | as ! T'm not | Those having in charge the hearing | in the state capitol on Twuesday in the interest of , the acceptance by the! state of the rallroad bridge across the | Thames river at New- lLondon did not intend to have any speakers from New London or Groton in order to demonstrate to the committee on | roads, bridges and rivers, and by them the members of the general assembly, that the project was not purely one of local interest but was a measure in which the whole stdte of Connecticut had an interest. So New London and Groton made no special demonstration though naturally interested in having | the bridge become a public highway. It so happened that Former Governor | Waller was at the capitol on the day in many years appeared hefore a leg- islative committee favorable to a matter in which New London was in- | terested. By reason of the gentleman’s prominence he was called upon to speak at the hearing, and he certainly did. He gave a short talk, but there was lack of that old-time forcefulness | and viger that was alwayvs a feature in his public talks. There was a lack of that magnetism that made Gov- ernor Waller famous as a publie! speaker, but he spoke directly to the point on the matter under considera- | tion and there is mo doubt but it had | its effect, He truthfully said at the outset that he did not attend the hear- ing as representing New London but the whole state as the taking over of the bridge was greater than a local matter, and that he would not have the nerve to ask the legislature to do any more for New London just at the present time. The governor. treated the subject conservatively and well and did not stray in the least from the matter at issue to draw his bow and let drive his arrow of sarcasm in any direction. His popularity throughout the state has not waned and was it generally known that he was to speak there would not have been an empty seat in the hall of the house of representa- tives where the hearing was held. It | was plain that the governor had no desire to outshine the other speakers and so shaped hig oratory that it helped to equalize the efforts of the several gentlemen from all parte of the state who spoke in faver of the | proposition. | ' The committee came to New London Friday afternoon and made thorough inspection and inquiry concerning the bridge and its approaches in order to prepare for intelligent action, It is probable that the committee will make favorable report for the acceptance uf the bridge from the New York, N Haven and Hartford Railread c pany, especially there wag ro pearance of oppesition at the hearing. While it is desiro and perhaps nec- ry to vote acceptance of the dge by the present legislature, there ill be no necessity to make provision the appropriation of $250,000 to make the bridge over into a highway bridge, with a lift draw and’ fully fit- | ted for highway purposes including | the approaches. It is estimated that state will receive in actual value | | the i | | about $800,000 worth of property but Washmgton County, R I , ROCKVILLE Herbert C. Burdiok \ Visits Home—General News. Former Benjamin Kenyen was out to church last Saturday for the first time since his long-illness. He was accompanied | by his sister, Mrs. Mary Sunderland, | of Wickford, Mrs, Maria Chester ig visiting her daughter in New York. | Mrs, Emery C. Kenyon has heen confined to her home by a severe sore throat. Wayland A. Boss is attending the su- perior court at Kingston as juror. Mr. and Mrs. Jared G. Barber were recent guests of their daughter, Mrs. William Hammond, of Wickford. Motored te Providence, Mrs. W, H. Church and Mrs. Jehn F. Palmer and daughter, Miss Evelyn, went to Providence by auto Tuesday for the day. Miss Jennie Burdick has returned home frem Westerly, where she has been caring for her gsister, Mrs. Charles Palmer, who has been ill. Returns from California. Herbert C. Burdick of Gridley, Cal, is visiting his former home here as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Saun- ders. Fred Burdick started Monday for Block Island to get his motorbeat, which he left over there last fall. Miss Ethel Kenyon of Hope Valley attended church here Saturday HOPKINTON Funeral of Mrp. Hannah E. Clarke, With Burial in Nerth Stoningten. The peach orchard of George H. Sprague, in full Dbloom, presents a beautiful sight this week. i Mrs. John 8. Cole is a eurvnmg sigter of Renssalear Barber, who was buried last Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. William 8. Mellen are setting out a large. number of fruit trees on their farm at Hopkinton City. The funeral of -~ Mrs. Hannah E. Clarke, aged 85. was conducted at the home of her daughter, Mrs.. John E. Perry, by Rev. E. P. Mathewson Wed- nesday afternoon. Burial was in a family let in North Steningtom. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander C. Kenvon attended church in Westerly Saturday morning. Deacon Edwin A. Kenyon'is snon to break up farming on the premises of his late father, H. Gillette Kenven, His plans for the future are not yet xemuutod. NEW LONDON BRIDGE HEARING Ex-Governor Waller Advocated Acceptance of Gift in Behalf of the State—Will Get $800,000 Worth of Property-—j New Steamboat Company. of the hearing and for the first Hmel 3 { 1y cleanse the stomach, | poisons in the intestines and bowels. which cotld not be duplicated, should the state desire to build a new bridge, ! for $1,500,000, and then the new struc- ture would not equal in strength and durability the present strutture which was built for heavier traffie than will ever be used on a highway bridge. It is expected that the present leg- islature will vote to accept the bridge and appoint a committee of investiga- tion and examination and report to the next session of the general as- sembly and it will be time enough then to consider the matter of appro- priation for the neceéssary changes in construction to conform to the new purposes of the bridge. 1 T | Hartford capitalis are interested in the formation of a steamboat com- | Pany to establish a route between | Hartford and New London, stopping | at the river landings, to be opperated | in the good old summer time, the | steamboat trips to be made daily. The | time was when this route was the| most popular steamboat sail' in this section and the wonder is that it was ever abandoned. For many years the steamer Sunshine plied on that route, but that was many years ago, and perhaps the abandonment may have had ‘some connection with the change in ownership of the Hartford and New York Steamship line that event- ually passed into the control of the New England Navigation compan s an auxiliary of the New York, Haven and Hartford Railroad com- pany. Then the traffic accommodations between the two cities were so much improved that perhaps the summer steamboat service was not considered | a necessity and not classed as a pub- lic_convenience. Since the passage of the Sunshine, or perhaps since that steamer discon- tinued the passage of the summer trips, the public has had no opportun- ity to enjoy that delightful Connecti cut river sail, which wotld be entirely ! new to the rising generation and to | even people of middle age who never knew of the delightfwl sails their predecessors _enjoyed on ,the old | steamer. Sunshine. 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