Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 21, 1913, Page 12

(Written Specially. for The Bulletin.) “I admire the spirit of the old Dutchman who, when his leg was broken, said he was thankful it was not his neck.” So runs the sentence in an old “Reading-book” which came down to me, more than fifty vears ago, from my father's school days. 1f you- ever read Dickens' story of “Martin Chuzzlewit,” you will remem- ber that “Mark Tapley” was sorely tyoubled because he never got into | auite enough trouble to make it &l credit for him to be “jolly.” He had the idea that it was easy to be happy when things went smoothly, but that there would be some real glory in be- ing hilariously “jolly” when every- thing was going wreni 1 For the satisfaction of his own soul's desire, I wish Mark could live on my ranch, this season. I'm fairly optimistic, but it has taken pretty nervy work for me, thus far, to “keep a sUff upper = I've already teld you how, seduced and over-tempted by the false prom- ige of early spring, 1 violated my own better judgment by putting in_ some garden truck along in March. Of course, that turned out badly. I might have known it would, and can blame nobody but myself. But since then several other things have been happening. Those early seeds came up, feebly and suspiciously, just in time to catch a second winter in April. Still, some of them made a live of it. When real seeding time came along, it was bi terly cold and we had to delay opera- the ground became workable and the veather decently warm. Early in May, the local drouth as- serted itself. The nights were cok nless and chilling: steady jed out the surface, and for weeks, not a drop of rain fell Nor was there any dew visible three mornings out of four. planted seeds lay dormant: »f them rotted: some were ny worms and maggots: only a few suvived to show, later. In the midst of this, the tent-Cater- plilars appeared in hordes. They at- tacked the apple and cherry tree: even the plums and _grape-vines. There wasn't an hour of daylight when it was practicable to spray the trees, because of the incessant high winds which blew the spray out of of the very nozzle. Furthermore, on- such partly protected things as we could reach,—plum trees and vines, the ars- enate of lead spray, which is specially recommended for these pests, seemed to inconvenience them not at all. They thrived on it. So I went back to the old-fashioned ofl-soaked torch, and burned the nests out, after dusk. I spent every evening for fourteen days, going over and over my few trees. One night I burned twentyseven nests off one small Sweet Bough, and the second night after, burned seventeen more which had been rebuilt on the same tree. I rather expected to kill the trees with my torches, but I was eful as one could be, and most of them survived the scorching and, when the weather softened up a bit, blos- somed luxuriantly. nice little freeze, stralght from the North Pole, and ry apple and cherry and plum m was blasted, the young leaves velled up, and the starting foliage the grape-vines utterly killed. So s this year's yleld is concerned, might just as well have let the vorms have the trees. Then came a omon That same freeze—about the middle of May,—killed every stalk on my as- paragus bed. I had been cutting, from two thousand crowns, about 150 pounds a week. In the two Wweeks suceeding this frost, 1 cut less, than ten pounds, all told. It also froze back my early peas, which were just gin to blossom, so that the vines vellowed and dried, and had to rt all over again. It even froze ecet-tops, lettuce, and young cabbage and celery plants in an unprotected seed-frame. Well, we reseeded and reset and generally soldered up the wreck as | well we could, and waited to see what would come next. It came. We got a couple of helpful rains, s of summery warmth. h and 9th, appeared the It froze ice and a few Then, June next polar wave. horse-tub about a guarter of an inch k and killed the foliage even of butternut and white ash trees in woods. My early potatoes had, by s time, got to be about a foot high. They had heen cultivated four times and were nearly ready for the final shovel-plowing. Frozen to -the ‘ground. They may start up again and give me a few bushels of hazel-nuts, But, as the RENDERS THANKS FOR SMALL POTATOES a market crop, they're _gone—gone where Pharaoh’s hosts went and where last summers’ birds-nests are. An acre or two of beans also disappeared. A part of the sweet-corn,—perhaps a third or a half of ‘the hilis,—managed to pull through, just how, I can't for the life of me see. The peas, which had just come into bud again for the second time, got another sorry black- ening. I don't see that it hurt chickweed or burdock any. But, really, I don’t lay much store by those two crops. Out in the grass-lands, the story is about the same. The May drouth seems to have stunted the growth, so that nothing is doing there. A walk this morning across my small mead- ows disclosed no appearance of any- thing like a hay crop. The mowing fields are hardly good pasture. My neighbors, mostly hay, corn and potato farmers, all tell me about the same thing: potatoes frozen off; corn badly injured or killed; hay the poor- est_prospect ever known. Altogether, it's a fine opening_for an agricultural Mark Tapley to shine in. Don’'t vou think so? For, of course, while your experi- ence hasen’t been the same as mine in details, I have no doubt it has been about as bad in general. The government crop reports, such as I have seen, indicate that the s on has been a bad one, thus far, over most of the east. On the other hand, they_assert that conditions west of the Mississippi are unusually Ropeful. The farmers out. that way have had a fine spring and their crop prospects are above the aVerage. Right there is where the old Dutch- man’s optimism, as related in the an- cient reading-book, comes in. Let's be thankful that this is a big country, extending over so many de- grees of latitude and across o many meridians of longitude that even the devils of bad weather can’t cover it all at the same time. When they give steady and undi- vided attention to us of the east, they have got to skip the west, because their Dlasting wings aren't broad enough to cover the whole shooting- match. Really, we of the east haven't been able for a good many years to raise all our own supplies. We've had to draw on the west and the south to fill up our measure. We shall have to do it again, this year, a little more than usual, that’s all. But there’s no reason to expect a famine. There is going to be enough to go 'round, if we're reasonably careful and don’t waste too much. In such lands as China and India, when crops fail, they fail all over and every locality is hit about as badly as any other. *No one section plethora from which to supply needs of another. A serious crop f ure, there, means .horrid famine, with year-long misery to millions, and ac- tual starvation to many tHousands. With us, it means simply got to buy a little more from the west and the south. But we aren’'t going to starve, and we aren’t going to have to call on the world for charity. the Furthermore, we are,—the most of us,—going to “take our medicine and look pleasan ant, then as pleasant as we can. Also, we're going to make the best of the bad job. One neighbor, who had a dozen or so acres of fine potatoes ruined, has already bought enough buckwheat to sow the patch with. If he can't have potatoes to eat, he will at least make a try for a few flapjacks, and per- haps something over to feed the chickens. Buckwheat cal and for breakfast chicken for dinner;—if a fellow never gets any worse living than that, he'll manage to scrape through! Even those of us who leave the vines to sprout again, in the hope of a crop of little things,—even we aren’t wholly without compensation. Said a neighbor's wife to me yesterday: “There are worse things than little potatoes. Take ’em and scrub 'em and scrape 'em and boil 'em like peas with a cream sauce and they're better than sawdust pudding. If you don't believe it, come to dinner some day next win- ter and Il show you.” I have known men who, from choice, took little po- tatoes for baking, first rubbing off some of tough outer skin, of course, on the ground that they were sweeter and more nutritious. No doubt there are other ways o use them. If it's going to be a year of small potatoss and few in the hill, why, all we have to do is to eat small pota- toes and thank our stars that we have got 'em to eat, The only absolutely sure weapon Ja— V_\ ’ Against Substitutes GettheWell-Known Round Package water. Agains Imitations HORLICK'S MALTED MILK de In the largest, best ed and sanitary Malted ul| B lx’l'k plant in the world We do not make “milk products*— Skim Milk, Condensed Milk, etc. Baut the Original-Genuine HORLICK’S MALTED MILK - Made from pure, full-cream milk and the extract of select malted grain, reduced to powder form, soluble .in Best food-drink for ail agec. P ASK FOR HORLICK'S Uged all over the Globe - & Home o Soda Jowntais| that we've | Or, if not real pleas- | ‘ness mayor of the city. hand him"a nickel and get a magic package direct from Ginger Snap Land. Sofresh they ¥ crack with a snap. To look «at them makesyou hungry.%' So tender they mels 'in your mouth. { with which to meet bad luck is l.lcome: grin;—a genuine one if possible; a | which won't come o firstclass imitation, if the other won't NEW LONDON LOSES FAGTORY Hopson and Chapin Factory Closed and Work Will Be Got- ten Out Elsewhere—Need of Tenement Houses—No Action Taken Towards Accepting Privileges Granted By Legisla.ture. but, anyway, a grin,—and one fE! THE FARMER. A month ago a For Sale or To Rent !sign was placed on the Hopson and | Chapin piant and this was taken as in- dication of the settlement of the estate |of John Hopson, deceased, but it was believed that it would not seriously ef- fect this long established manufactur- ing industry. A week ago the seventy- | Ifive or more employes were told that they could seek work elsewhere, and | this was taken to mean that inventory zens through the court of common council. The Montauk avenue man ! continued to build and now he has .a brick dwelling about one-quarter com- pleted and the work is going right along regardless of consequence. Claim is made that the property -owner is within his rights as there is no estab- lished building line, and, perhaps, in anticipation of trouble, is building brick instead of a wooden building. Should a line be established in the | |was to be taken and that there would Ibe shut down for a few weeks, and, | future the damage by reason of re- perhaps longer, with a possibility . of|moval would be. greater to the_city reorganization of the concern. But | than if the building were of wood. now comes positive statement that S . A - the plant is to suspend operations the| In anticipation of the erection of new dwelling houses for the increas- ing population it would seem wise for the council to adopt the ordinance un- der the amendment which will spec- ify just the kind and under what con- dition new streets will be accepted by the city, or provided with water and sewer accomodations. This will. put an end to streets being laid out in such a way that will put on the market the most_building lots and without regard to street lines, and will prevent in the future such ram-hor shaped streets as Darrow and Orchard and several others. Then again it would perhaps be well to begin this summer work for the winter that will show wel- come results next summer and all summers _thereafter. Reference is made to the right given to the city to engage in the ice business and ordin- ance making all provisions should be i drafted and adopted before the frost gets Into the ground and prevents the building of the necessary ice ‘houses or the establishment of all that ig re- quired in a municipal ice plant. Then there is that little joker in the charter amendment that gives the city authori- ty to abate the smoke nuisance from any cause, whether from locomotive or manufacturing industries. jend of the month, and the employes lare given no hope for future employ- ment in the concern they have served Iso long. It is understood that the Hop- on and Chapin system of heating will be continued and that the material | used in the installation of the system | will be manufactured elsewhere. ~ This {concern has been in operation in New London for more than twenty-five |years and is among the largest ma- chine and foundry plants ia the city. has a | This plant was established before |the civil war and at that time was | known as Naylor's foundry. Since then the plant has been greatly enlarged and improved and has been occupied in {whole or part by varied industries and t one time it was the plant of the Brown Cottol Gin company. The property is too valuable to remain idle {and there is no doubt but that there will be sale or lease in the near fu- ture. Of late years the chief business |of the Hopson and Chapin company {has been foudry work, with engine cylinders as a specialt; The casting |for the Lathrop engines were done | here and much casting for' the New | London Ship and Engine company and |other manufacturing industries. The | passage of the Hopson .and Chapin ! company will be regretted by the whole |people of New London, as it was of |the kind that will be missed even in a ‘growing and progressive city. | With such a successful and grow- ing industry as the New London Ship and Engine company running to capa- | city it is but natural that kindred con- |cerns should seek location here, some {of the product being what is needed by |the ship and engine company or Kin- ! that dred thereto. ~Already the Lapoint company has érected a new plant and {is working to capacity. - The Hatch | Engine company has located in a part {of the plant abandoned by the W. D. Forbes company, and now the Sterling Machine company is being installed in For the first time since permits were necessary for the moving of buildings from one location to another in the city of New London the court of com- mon council has refused to grant such permit, or rather has recalled a per- mit previously issued. The reason given is that in streets which the bullding would travel itswould be nec- essary to lop of a branch of a tree here and there. This reason never was it should be seleéted as reason’ This action gives rise to | the cause resorted to and it is queer ; just at this particular time, when ex- | Mayor Armstrong is the petitioner for the permit. ‘the tran- on on the part of some of the council who are not the closest poll friends of the former busi- | been moved- through o Feots oV mlo m tw kh" vy ht’t‘l‘v‘m’ d‘fm o make e TAry obstructor, despite strong protest and threat of law suit. Bad blood was ralsed between the parties in interest ‘which has not been improved as time fm on, but the ‘house was moved, ust the same. The house that former Mayor Arm. strong desires to move is not an old rookery, but a really first-class dwell- Ing house, which he wants removed to other land owned by him in order to make room for the beautification of his home surroundings, and greatly improving the general appearance of the already beautiful Granite street. In the opinion of those who are dis- interested, and who have investigated, the trees that would be trimmed to admit the passage of the house would be improved by the trimming, but they do believe the present action of the council shows a desire to trim the ex- mayor and not give him the privilege that has always been granted to oth- ers and without question. There is a feeling that this house be moved with- out further interference, and then frame an ordinance that would pro- hibit the moving of houses through the streets in the future. MUSICAL ACT XANDE JACK—PRI ot Foi The Corking RAY AND IRVING, | Feature Photo-Play——A SLAV L] ANOTHER MUSICAL COMEDY THE DANCING NYMPHS Pretty Girls, Handsome Costumes, Funny Comedians THE SMUGGLER’S DAUGHTER T\;ro-Reel Rex Feature The Brainerd and Armstrong com- pany took the pick of the striking weavers last Monday morning and with the addition of others began work in the weaving department und without the slightest sign of violence on the part of those who were re-- jected by reason of their prominence during the strike period and who were belleved to be among the instigators of the trouble. Now the department is being worked almost to capacity and trom surface indications the labor’ trouble is at an end. But it cannot al- ‘ways be told in advance of what may happen even in well-regulated com- munities_or manufacturing establish- ments. While all is going on smooth- 1y in the mill, Mr. Golden, the presi- dent of the. National Textile un- fon and an organizer arrfved in the city on Thursday, perhaps to take in the Yale-Harvard race, and perhaps to do just a little organizing on the side. These gentlemen are not much given to sport and do not generally quit a fight after the first round. President Golden has had a long ex- perience in matters pertaining to un- ionizing textile workers, and is for- ever at work in the interest of the organization he represents and is ag- gressive when othreatened attack Is hinted at by the Industrial Workers of the World. There is talk of this | latter organization tampering with the employes of the silk mill, and incident- ally another mill located.in New Lon- | don. It may be possible that President ] Golden does not propose to permit the ! opposing labor organization to get a’| foothold in New London and he is here to hold what he has and strengthen it | beyond the influence of the No God | No Flag gang. He will probably en- deavor ‘to have the mill people co- operate in this work and choose what he may term to be the better of two evils. Commercial_travelers are compelled to take out official permits before they can transact business in Switzerland. DAVIS THEATRE One Day Only FRIDAY, JUNE 27 THOMAS A. EDISON Genuine TALKING PICTURES IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR BIG VAUDEVILLE SHOW Matinee, 2.30—15¢c, 25¢c. Evening, 8.15—26c, 36c, 50c. ALL SEATS RESERVED FOR EVENING SHOW BUSINESS MEN WINESS, .. Breed Theatre S §iihe SENSATIONAL TWO REEL FEATURE TODAY (200 i) “THE OPEN SECRET’ (20 it.) An Incomparable Domestic Patheplay “AN UNWILLING SEPARATION;”.. “A DANGEROUS FOE,” . “BRAVEST GIRL IN CALIFORNIA,” . HOTEL ST. 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Success Does Not Come Without Good Reason Better facilities, more complete equipment, and a superior method and my personal guarantee of perfect results, are but a few of the reasons why I have been so successful in this city. My aim is to give my patients absolutely Painless Dentistry at a mod- erate charge. Come in and talk over your:tooth troubles and you wl!l he agreeably surprised at the small amount it will take to put your mouti in perfect condition. Full Set Teeth $5.00 up Gold Fillinge . $1.00 up “Silver Fillings 50c un pos (=) Pure. Gold Growns. $5 ‘NATURAL GUM Bridgework ..... it Whether the business with which you are associated carries its account here or elsewhere, The Uncas National Bank invites your personal account assuring you of appreciative at- tention from employes and the balance of the same plant. Other |concerns are contemplating coming to {New London and there will be room | for some of them in the present Hop- {son and Chapin plant. It would seem | that the only real bar to'the manu- {facturing growth of the city was the {lack of suitable tenements for well- | paid mechanics and the other class of tenements required by the unskilled |laborers and their families. This is a |problem that must be solved or New +London will remain at a standstill in the line of manufacture and growth. { No business can locate in a city where the employes cannot be properly housed. You Need to use Glenn’s Sulphur Soap to prevent and relieve rashes, pimples, itching, and excessive perspiration. Glenn’s Sulphur Soap Contains 30% Pure Sulphur It disinfects, sweetens, whitens and purifies the skin. Belightful and beneficial for toilet, bath and shampoo. At all druggists. Pt g b A ‘W. Wiley, Director. Will's Hale and Whisker Dye, Black or Brewn, 50s. The committee of the New London Business Men’s association are making earnest endeavors to provide the ways and means for the building of tenement houses, they find that there are alto- gether too many Missourians in. New London who have to be shown before they invest any of their surplus cash in real estate. With short work days| growing shorter in almost every line of the building trades and wages go- ing higher, carrying with it increased cost in building material, causes delay and deliberate consideration on the part of those with money to spare to invest in tenement houses. The cost of construction has increased largely, but it is difficult to rent at increased rental to meet the increased cost of construction. If there Is a way out of these local conditions the committee will find that way. MISS M. C. AI)i.ES Hair,Scalp and Face Specialist SAVE TIME AND TROUBLE. 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