Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 9, 1913, Page 12

FARMER'S TALK TO FARMERS (Written Specially for The Bulletin) nhfl an express train—going about on 1 read, the other evening, a news- paper item which interested me. Per- haps it will also prove suggestive to e one else Vau remember that, last spring, they had a lot of big freshets out 1n| Ohjo and Indiana. Dayton, you recall, | was devastated and almost washed Offl the map. All through half a dozen| siates but mainly in the two I have, mentioned the high water inundated town, flooded farms, and destroyed murh property. The itern which I am thinking about tells what Floyd county, Ind, farmers have discovered since the flood They got it bad. Their fields were covered sometimes with several feet of exceedingly nasty water. Many of their fences, pig-pens, chicken-coops, barns, e were carried away. Other farmers’ pig-pens and chicken-coops, etc, from unknown reaches up river were ladged on their fields. Also when the water drained off and the mud dried up, they found that an average of five or six inches of -sediment was gistributed all over their' low lands. At first they Inckad upon this de- posit as a blighting curse. While wet it was just sticky nastiness: even when ary d out in a dead expanse of hopeless barrenness, Stir it with a fark ar a stick and it ex- haled adors which suggested a com- binatian of all the bad’ edors of the whate universe. It smelled of barn yards and of cesg pooks in active eruption; and aof scores of other more or less unpleasant things. B seemed to the farmers, for a time, as if they had not .only bad their farms rumed, but were in for an ont- break of epidemic a.nd pestilence. | At last, however, some few, who had | had experience with fluoded lowlands in ofher places, begam to work the stuff, plowing it under and opening it | to the sweetening agfion of the sun- . The rest gradually followed their example. They ~wanked it the best ‘they could and put in their crops. Of course, they bad no manure anrd they couldi’t deo very wive cultivation. They didn’t expect much, but reasoned that half a loaf would be’better than no bread. Now ’!hsy are having surprise of their lives. For this mud- coveredl, sediment-enricired land is producing such craps as never before were seen ar heard of ‘in ithat vicin Penple there don't know that there’s such 2 thing as a drouth among their neigbhors. The heat wigith is burn- img up our -erops is simply hot-housing theirs imo gigantic groewth. They ared miissimg their mamme, for the floud sediment brougit and spread for them free gratis, for mothing, a larger amount of better compomnded | fertilization than any artificial methods | of manuring bave -ewer yet «developed. the biggest | tn ofhrer words, ‘fhey are finding out that the flood which, at the time, med tv be an unmitissted | evil, 1 did them sabont four times as much good as harm. It drove them wunder cover for week or su, cost fhem same barn fences and pig-pens and the like, and | forced to a few daws’ et dried ayglies apd heminy,. That was tire bad part of it Now, they czn live on Easy Street for the next dozen years, with nothing | to dv b put in their crops, harvest threm, andl carry the money to the sank. That's the other side of it over their heads with a big cluh. To- ; steadl of -whikdh, they were being haost- | e up seven flights of stairs to the top-flowr of fanming swecess. i a | nd | | | “There are a -whole lof of moral les- aols Giits occunrence, -‘which Fm go- ing to tai every fellow draw for him- his own views of | which eme fits best. | Buwt theve's just one practical sug- gestion whiich comes te my mind. “Thet is this —when hehplessthy || fiat on yow pack at midnight you »(:zm{ See mons Sans than when -you're walk- || ng eneetly dowa the raad at noon, { “Grest Copsar’s ghost!™ 1 seem tol ‘hear cne «f pou sxing: “Does this crazy Permer cull that 3 “prastical | el E Yey, that's just what he does. Be- cruse, &8 3 mere matter of practical, | commongilare, every day work, it’s a #ood desll wwre efective to louk up | than te legik down: 1o look ahead than | | to lodk bekind: to lovk ont tham to Jogk in. We fapmers et 1oo ekt of Living in iodays and yester- deys. i wenild be better, all “round, o we thgd a Jittle more for tomorrow and Dee week, This is quite 4 large world. And | there's qu:m 2 Jot of room around if. Amd if's “geing some—going around the sum & few hundred times faster mouch in t'he] i | chine, a Dayton flood which we can’t eat with | of dead fish | and sewage; of rotten egs . and skunks | {machines its own axis at the rate of 25,000 miles a day,—sgoing through space, 'along with the sun and the other planets, a good many miles every second, toward somewhere near the Little Dipper. There are a great many things lia- ble to happen, almost any time. Things ihave happened in the past, are happen- ing now, and are going to keep on hap- pening. Some of them are pleasant and some of them are unpleasant. We are not asked what we would like to have happen. We are permitted to stand and take what's passed out to us. Now, when the big machine of the universe, in its grinding, passes out to | us a dish of strawberry ice cream, we have the right to take it and eat it, just as it comes. When the same ma- in its grinding, sluices upon us a spoon, the thing to do is to make that flood serve us in providing some- thing else. Any man can have bad luck, as it |rain on the just and the unjust: also | His floods and His earthquakes. Hav- ing hard luck is nothing te brag about; —mnor to whisper about. But it a mighty useful thing in forcing you to look ahead of the pass- ing moment and outside of the immedi- ate clouds, to see if there isn’t some {way vou can turn hard luck into ad- antage. Bises i Sl Why, heaven bless us, if’s only ‘dif- {ficulties which are werth doing, any- |way. “BEasy snaps” are as toxic to | truoe manhood as Paris Green to potato bugs. You can drive nail into new cheese a good deal easier than into a |seasoned white oak plank. Bat, when you've got that nail full length into | that plank, you've got something |that'll hold, which is mare than a keg {full of spikes in a cheese would do. | Supreme success is to make of obsta- | | | cles siepping stones to accomplish- ment. What the government can do or can’t do is one question. Buf, so far as the individual farmer neither you nor /I can prevent frosts {from freezing our early tomatoes, nor | drouths from drying up our fields, nor floods from ravaging eur farms. We have got to take them as they come, |"The wise thing and the only wise thing for us to do is, when Nature has got |through whaling us, te pick up the gad she's dropped and see if we can't whittle a crutch out of it, or, at least, |use it to boil the kettle with. ‘These Indiana farmers are finding out that what they regarded as an un- mitigated evil, was really a big bless- |ing. It hurt for a few days, bot is |'going to help for many years. Dor’'t yon suppose. that a great ma- | jority of the hard luck we meet in the course of our = farmimg experiences {conld be tmrned into more or less pro- {fit,—if we only had the eyes to see what to do with it and the energy to carry out the work ‘We farmers boast ourselves that we are practical men. Good enough! But s ad hu_u»‘:. Mwost machimes ently “practical” They @o work over and over again, are emin- the same the work |that comes within their capacity and {which they are made to da Men are pable of doing the same work, and so of making the machines to do it, we think them worth while. Furth- © is called. It's no evidence that the Lord especially loves you that you |have a plenty of it. He sends His! is concerned, | | [ | | ermare, we're capable of making the | sometimes do work which |they weren't ovigmally built to da We're also capable @f making our mis- takes school masters and of making our bad luck a hired man to work for us. It will take more “gumption,” un- doubtedly. But what is our “gump- tion” for if not to use? One of the best farmers 1 ever knew used to take a “day off” every so often. The only physically active thing I ever knew him te do ai sudh a time jwas teo sit om the fence amd whittle. But he -wasw'y idle, for all that he | scemed so. He had fownd that he wasn't personally ecapaile working | | his mewscies and his brains hard ai the | same He bhad the © time, » if he to stop driving ‘the otk v he seemed to be idly ,Whittling splinters he was really | & onicboe. Next hm a flnnd 'dbwn on at their attic w mdaws swelling ‘waters with their useless tears. They'll be planning how to get the seed and the help to put in about twice as big Ccrops as usnal, so as to gain the benefit of the free mamuring. Next tfime Old Lady Nature turns a bag foll of bad lnck on us no matter Whether it’s of the wet or dry variety, ’s stop snivelling abont it and see If there isn’t something we can get as salvage out of the lot! THE FARMER, WHAT AGITATES NEW LONDON Gow, Baldwin's Independence—The High Price of Ice Prompts to Miunicipal ice Plant—The Houseless Pequot Site— The Colgate Going to Pieces and is an Eye-Sore That | Shsuid be Remeoved e g Fhers ars come gentlemen ia New vaub ~€ fwflrkew\l peFsuasion wiw e | BusinGes. fhai ter importante than al [ e Wes the cholce of the demeerats. Both aapanis bwr:rus and yyell gualified for jo R, Then th tier of DROWMLMEE s | democrats feis md(.—eufs 1h would he appointed, but jus Soit of @ Strensthenss 8 d by eyery member of w ing £o3 Dis appointaient, e g ; anted a good job from | the | to the govewnor ths | i { 1 | { | | {be no change in the officials | court. | the required appropriation is made. to | and » water they drink and mse for do- |there's a difference betweem men znd | Lgaater (he¥ | mose desirable locations for a summer ORIGINAL QENUINE HORLICK’ Aveid lmnafloni—-‘l'ako No Substitute Matince Every BREED Rich milk, malied graiz, in md" form. More %fln e coffee. 5 Cents i ; O . . gfifi?&x&ffidfif&evfiw&bo@. Ke;p_lt mfl ndebo-(: :thnme- 2,000 Ft. A S ta tue Of F | Invigorates nursing mothers and the e Sensational Story of the Love of the Sculptor's Dnu.hhr “THE MISTAKE,”—Powerful aph Western Drama “THE MOULBING, - vienrul B gom'!y Offering “THE LOST DIAMOND,"——Kajem Detockive Story wanted to take a day off. Mr. Belcher declined. New as a last resort, when the governor could get no democrat to accept the sop his excellency, re- appointed Lewis W. Crandall, the present incumbent and who was can- didate for reappointment. The gov- ernor’s action in reappeinting Judge Coit was free of all strings and the judge was free to make appointments to suit himself. As a result there will of the | So it is no surprise that the judgment of the governor is commen- ed by the gentlemen who are benefici- aries of that most excellent judgment. 1 Never before since the water was | known to freeze has \ice been so high in price as at the present time, not- withstanding the fact that last winter was not a real bad ice producing sea- son, even if it was noet of the very best. As there was not much ice cut for public use in the immediate vicinity of New London, the artificial ice was put in operation and intimation made that if would be possible for people of moderate means to be served with ice during the warm months. But it was only an intimation, for the big ice company of the city immediately con- tracted to take all the product of the artificial plant. This big ice company never relied upon the local product but harvested ice in the vicinity of | Willington and had it brought to New LondAn by rail. This is being done this summer just as it has been in the sum- Thers that have passed on. The only changed conditions are the increased ice rates 1 | Mayor Mahan declares that such con- ditions ought not to prevail and de- clares that if feasible the city will take advantage of its vested charter rights and go inte the ice business be- fore the present season end In any event at the first city meeting an ap- propriation will be asked for to start the local enterprise. At the last ses- sion of the general assembly the efty was given authority te harvest, par- chase, manufacture ard sell ice, and in fact given all the privileges that are necessary to engage in the ice business in any manner desired. No ice can be harvested this summer, that's suve, and if's also sure that.ne artificial ice plant can be built and operated before it is time for the natural ice to put in an appearance. But there is time for the city to buy ice and sell it without loss to the city to the people, the rich and the poor zlike: and if the may- or's plan prevails this we= be done. It is the mayor’s intention, provided have ice houses built near the borders | of Lake Konomoc, for the source of the city’s supply, with the necessary equipment for harvesting and storing the icé, a plant large enough to handle all the ice required for public use, and sell it at the actual cost of production delivery. Though Lake Konamoc is eight miles from the city, that di tance is short nowadays, made so by | modern automobile trucks. The cost | of production would be no greater at | Lake K,nomoc than at Willington and the transportation would be less So | the people could have ice at a price very mmch lower than has been usual. In addition the people wonid be sure they were receiving the pure | article, just as clear and as clean as { | mestic purposes. 1f the city is to engage in_the ice ‘business, the mayor believes in going at it right and prepare to furnish ice even though the winter be so mild that ice harvesting .is impossidle. To do this an artificial ice plamt would be necessary and that is all figured in the general plan. While at the ouiset the expenditure might look big. it would be coin well invested and in a business which every resident, except the few now in the ice busmess, would bé ben- eficiaries. This ice business is a se- rious question and has been given the most careful attention by the mayor. Thai’s the reason why petition was made to the general assembly of the present vear to so amend the city charter that would permit of a munic- ipal ice plant or permit the city to en- gage im the jce business on any plan that is considered feasible, | Seasons come and seasons go but the site of the old Pequot house remains houseless, although if is one of the hotel on the Atlantic coast, Sixty {a lower price than for any other use. jactive organization of boosters known | summer resort without a summer ho- { trestle in Winthrop’s cove, took pride | New London whaling vessels and work | progress of New London since the old i black-eye to progress. The rotting old \huolk is now a disgrace, an eye-sore, T " ” years ago when the Pequot house was THE MERMAID,"—Comeday- Dnm. of the Sea erected its promoters realized that it was an ideal site and that the build- ing of a hotel there would mean the development of New London into a summer resort that would rivel New- port and Saratoga. A good start was made and the result is the now world- famous Pequot colony, which has con- tinued to grow and prosper while the 1 Pequot house was licked by the ure fiend several years ago. A sum- mer resort, however, without a sum- DAILY SERVICE Steamer Block lSlal\d Until Sept. 2, to WATCH BILL and BLOCK ISLAND mer hotel is like unto the play written A M. AM A-M. AM by the immeortal William who said Norwich ..... Lv. *9:00 **9:15 Block Island 2,15 **3.15 something of Hamlet but which would New London 10.30 10.49 | Watch Hill 3.45 4.40 be no play without the leading charac- Watch Hill - . 1145 12,00 | New London . 505 6.00 ter. Bleck Island Due 115 129 § Norwich ..... 7.00 7.30 True there is a magnificent hotel on P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. the opposite side of the harbor in the town of Groton, but that is quite a dis- tance from New London. It's a pity there is none, and greater the pity that the site of the old Pequot house is not utflized for a hotel before it becomes too late, and no site is available for the great summer hotel of the future. The site is owned by Senator Brande- gee and he has been quoted as saying that it could be secured for a hotel at * Daily, except Sundays. ** Sundays only. SPECIAL EXCURSION TICKETS Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, July 7 to August 29. Watch Hill <&V IBlock Island = ETURN Adults, 50; Children, 25c. Adults, 75¢; AND ETURN Children, 40c. The senator does not desire to engage in the hotel business, but it would seem if some body of enterprising men would get together and take advantage of what seems to be a very bright op- purtunity. Shore Dinner Houses and Bathing Beach near landings at Watch Hill and Block Island. For further information, party rates, apply at office of company on Shetucket Street, Norwich. NEW ENGLAND STEAMSHIP CO,, C. J. ISBISTER, Norwich, Agent. The conditions at the. Pequot. L] much better at the present time than when the old Pequot house was built and men of that time foresaw a bright- er future for the place. All around the place were pasture lands mow covered Excursion Boats AT md STy oW ork fo B with magnificent residences, beauti- . ful gardens and close cropped lawns, five to nineteen day tours, all of which serves as an encourageing ' surrounding for a hotel with success Between Norwich and New Lendon. .ll expenm A boat leaves either city 9 and 11 a .m. 1, 3 and 5 p. m. dally. Fares— 15 ceants one way; 25 cents round trip. Norwich Pier, Franklin Square; New Lenden Pier, foot State St. Thames Navigation Co., Norwich, Conn. practically guaranteed. It is strange that this matter of a summer hotel does not attract the attention of that from $27.50 up JOHN A. DUNN, Agen 50 Main Street FULL SET & TEETH My reputation for making the most Iife-like, finest fitting and best wearing plates is' well known. No set ever leaves my office until the patient is fully satisfled. This rule iz never broken. 'In addition on get is the nat- ural gum, the use of which makes it impossible to detect false teeth in the mouth. This wonderful invention is only to be had in my office. My sole aim is to give the best at tho leut possible cost. I give my as the New London Business Men's association and the kindred organiza- tions. A hotel I8 much more than ex- ploiting the manufacture and sale of a motor-driven typewriter which requires as a starter about $500,000 and as much more to make good, provided the in- vention should prove to be just what it is represented or even more. A city cannot be a city of consequence with- out its full quota of manufacturing in- dustries, nor can a eity be a successful tel. Both are beneficial to the business public and both should be encouraged. New London has some industries but it has no summer hotel. It would be well to reach out and get something we have not, thgugh it s within reach, before adding to what we have just for the sake of getting just a little bit more. The time was when residents of New London, passengers on New Haven railroad trains, in passing over the guarantee for 10 years with uu m THE NEW; su in calling attention of the seat-mate to the hull of the schooner Charies Colgate as the last of the big fleet of Dr. Jackson’s “Naztural Gum” sets of teeth abso- lutely defy detection. GOLD FILLINGS $1.00 UP, OTHERS 50c. Dr. JACKSON, Dentist $5. in a word or two on the side of the | whaling times. But that was in the 3 long ago. The New Londoner no long- er call sttention of seat-mate to what This is the omly effice In Norwich Wwhere goid erowns and teeth without is left of the Coleate, bui is content plates (undetectabls from at with telling of t1 Yale-Harvard boat Successor to aneu) are inserted poa{tl:ely vl:u::v:i Taces as the tram crosses the big THE KING DENTAL CO. pain. bridge. 203 Main St. next te Boston Store Dental Nurse in Attendance. 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Phone 1282-3 Painless Extraction. Cy For years the remnants of the Col- gate have been partially subme; od and is coming to pieces md plank by plank. Now it serves asa and should be removed. The natural progress of detoriation is all too slow. For the honor and glory of the form- er owner of the old hulk, and to make more pleasant the memory of Sebast- tian Lawrence, he who gave the Sol- diers’ and Sailors’ and the Firemen's monuments, the Tawrence hospital, provided for a new almshouse, and who did many other generous acts for the public good, it is suggested that those representing his estate, or who have been substantial beneficiaries, give this subject consideration and cause the removel of the disgraceful disfigurment from the waters of Win- throp’s cove. There are other articles of a more enduring nature that will perpetuate the name of Lawrence and the good old whaling days in New London. Great Variety Rough and Dressed LUMBER Windows, Window Frames, LETTERS FROM Washington County, R. 1.| USQUEPAUGH Websur-Kenynn W:ddmg——7 Quarts of Berries from One Bush. On July 30 at 4.30 at the residence of | the bride’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. E. E Keyon, Annie Eliza Kenyon became | the bride of Samuel C. Webster, Jr., of' Boston. Rev. J. H. Trenberth of Valley ; Falls was the officiating clergyman. | The bride was prettily atiired in white satin with tunic of marguisette, trim- | med with a broad band of insertion. | The long veil was fastened with while rosebuds. She carried a bouquet of white roses. Miss Corinne Andrews of Slocum, B. I, who was bridemaid, wore pink satin with tunic of pink chiffon. Bhe carried pink roses. Frank Harker | of l’mflryivnnm was best man. The | double ring service was used. There! were eighty relatives and friends pres- | ent, A number were kept away by the! electrical storm, My, and Mrs, Web- ster Jefi on the 920 train from Kings ston feor their hom At Readyille, Mass, ail wishing them a long, happy | life, | | At Rest Cottage. s, €. 1, Garbuii and daughter, Do- othy, of Providence, have arrived at Resi Cotiage. This is thelr third sea- | son in the village, Chicken Dinner, | nicken dinner | f&w | S her pareat 1 Tamily hers, 3 ; mst past giz to ¥ | famii: ;- g h | pounds, ou: a.nd sub for .hmp whm»er pg A:r:me R.uik, whe is drawing wood. landing {he fish, Cased Drawers, Shelves, Doors, Etc. Also Pole and Light and Heavy Extension ers TWO STATES for Joseph Girad, is boarding at Rest Cottage. Camin Andrews of Slocum spent a part of last week at Dr. Kenyon's. Emma Wells of Attleboro visited her mother, Mrs. Anna Wells, last week. Archie Kenyon was at Wakefleld on Tuesday. Mrs. Hattie Holgate is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Knight. Mrs. Hattie Potter was a visitor at «iharleb Franklin's Sunday and Mon- day. rs. Fannie Bicknell has returned to Hamilton. WEEKAPAUG Winners of Medais in R—aoont Contest— Dr. Sanford Catches 32 Pound Sal- mon, 0. AGENTS FOR Heath & Milligan Mfg. Co.’s Prepared Paint, Railroad White Etc. VEHICLE LAMPS, FISHING TACKLE, FRUIT JARS. Howard Butcher, Jr., who has been spending a few weeks with his family At Birds' Nest camp. returned to Ard- more Wednesday evening, George Marshall of Bayfield cottage ;ne-:an seyveral days last week in Hart- ot My, Scott of Philadelphia hae joined big family at Eastcote for a few days. Leon W, Bliven has been appointed police constable for the village of Hayersham, The battlesaips have been making | beautiful display of searchiights vhfle smylng along the shore, At the medal contesi held Tuesda; .-flmg af the Dunn’s Corner churc 3553 Bleanor Browning won the ora- iorieal medal and Miss Marie Barnes the musieal medsi, Miss Adiaide Neunlan, whe has been ide guest of Miss Marguret Buteher foy % Weeks, returned Tuesday fiadelphis Alice J. Ogden of New FHaven Bas beey the guest of Dr, L, rd and fam. has gens to vyisit in U«Fflflgfl, N, J. Caught 32 Pound Baimen, €. Banfsrd, whe speat July in Newioundiand, has recurmed fo his whe are speading the summer a: N¥yneole. While away Ds, Slnjq-d eaugnt .a karman “that aeigfied 32 He was nearly {we hours ifl THE HOUSEHOLD, ALBERT BOARDMAN, Prop. 47 Franklin Street ORDER IT NOW opkins & Co.'s Light Dinner Als, Téc per dozen. ¥o¢mu’- Ril:nu. 60c e r dozen. rommer's er‘reen. T6c per " . Free delivery - all parts d"-'m Ty, Telephcue 136-5. H. JACKEL & Co. Bulletin Bidg. The Vaughn Foundry Co. Xes. 11 to 25 Ferry i, MILL, CASTINGS o @peciaity, + Orders Receive Promot Altention i |