Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 21, 1914, Page 12

NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, FEBRUAR A FARMERS WHAT THE SPIRIT OF THE WORKER HAS TO __TO FARMERS DO WITH RESULTS over, out loud, and hoping that you'll | same enthusiasm and abandon as he i thins it over, tee. has shown in his great radish and Jusr at present, I am inclined to!cabbage game. belicve that, for the most of us, a | quarter million dollars wouidn’t be [ As for the Sons of Rest, who are worth the price that Peter Reard paid | simply too lazy to do anything and for his. At the same time, tm in- | actuady have to hire other men to clined te think that mest any of us|play games for them,—why, they eould win real and great suceess for eurselves it we were only able to find eut, lixe Peter Reard, the sort of werk which would be play fer us, se that we should always go at it with the don't count. At least, they aren’ werth eounting. They are merely s many pieecs of useless junk en the human serap-heap. THE FARMER: NEW LONDON'S FIRE DEPARTMENT The Usual Jealousies Crop Qut as is Customary in the Vol- unteer Companies—Niagaras Keep Driver in House at all Times and Go to Most Still Alarms. (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) | perhaps _ week. Maybe y;:'d Hbe Talking about farmers who have | Willing to do it for two. weeks. But o B e el [to do st week after week and keep | Just because there are not so many elght or ten men, and there wero often e, e s ot s Bucatiag, | o deing it right along,—l—don't— |whistle alarms of fire as there used |times when double that number of Ni- T e i etin Rep L | know to be, still alerms being substituted, |agara men were in the house when don't know wiether to hold him up as | & model for others to admire, Money is a mighty handy thin | and the majority of the stills golng to the alarm came in and only a rt of to | the best equipped fire company in the A them could respond with the machine. ndh e Tt sa o | bave. A red and (weniy-five 'city, there is jealousy among some of | In that event Barrihle SXemBle on e sebichis 0l monuca d re big wages for any |the other volunteer fire Gompanies |scene of the n:fi’xrf;“ndn::md‘:o(g: Suppose I pass along the facts first, | SUmer. ments of a quarter of {in New lLondon. Naturally the vol_ |a long distance the firemen were in D as mut sbaat i |8 3 pleasant papers to have unteer fireman [s_desirous of doing no condition to dip In and fght until s T da knd then wallli i it aven| Mr. Reard worked his full share of fire duty and he is |after taking a rest. This difculty is of sort of even terms. or worse o &€l not given the opportunity under the |overcome by the squad wagon. iy o evident lt;hn h*xdg;i’; still alarm system. Some fourteen 5 . or anything exceDt years ago the Nlagara company pur- Oy e oine years 282 | during money-geiting trips. And NOW ratus to be used in active fire service |iN the city have been officially notified e N S e T he can’t do anything |in the United States. In turning the | tNat the squad wagon is at the dispos- e, His mionEyE me Gluniiiare s huad till works sixteen to | apoaie Uien States, In turning the lai of members of any of the companies et e R e hours a day, and doesn’t |RPO“ihe Girection o tne fire chias, | OB the way to a fire and that they will far as his last dollar would carry him. layoffs or picnics.” “Wh; be taken aboard at any time, when and on the same basis as all other ap- S an oL HoHar W i he couldn’t take a rest-if I|par Gl S8 SRS N8 & e d th there are not over fourteen men in Thatjlssc acllx es Mot s o | I don't know how. Two |bopmass (e Nlagatas asked that the |the squad wagon. This wagon, too, onz ‘eity waukiGtnE andl erowine. | on would put me in |menettY, ¢ & U0W e o ]‘”iv’e‘ry_ is subject to the orders of the chief at ahd vory big-headdd endvery. vouste | DO asylum. W ork is what limm for drawing the other apparatus |17 and can be used In going after ing. It coniidently expected to be- | ¥e 80U I keoP. SPHIE, when responding to fire alarms. This | €Xtra hose or other equipment or for come the metropolis of the entire west | in a very short time. It was a “boom” | town with a expected everybody and so everyone was willing to trt Though he hadn’t a doilar of young Reard managed anyone. his _own 1o fins 31 the the suburb left, With Just at that time, more people w selling real estate in Sloux were w. city lo or radi; Peter king hes or some one willing_ to this ent on a patch of seven acre: known in the market than onions or Reard went that was least crowded, and showed | Now the first q oter vengeance. Everybody | else to get rich | ron and a trifle | What do you th: man__with lend him advance in > ‘wor his he paid in as Greeneville. than | There were T cabbage tomatoes. So into the business | at once the loudest demand and the small supply. He proceeded to Y raise the radishes and onions, etc., which the real estate boomers wanted, | o Dbut either were too b or didn St 1 know how to raise for themselves. | A He's been at it, ever since; is at it =" w8 now . Jus ow worth perhaps ! montt He has made money,—much mon s much he doesn T 1s known that he has 450 acr rents va rom fif e owns in the te Reard $500 an leagt uestion, more? ink? , is whether | Reard has or has hot paid for | quarter of a million all that it is| Come, any like purpose that the chief may desire. This wagon cost the city noth- ing, but its use has been the straw that overburdened the camel of jeal- ousy of just a few of the volunteer | was allowed and with this money the Niaguras hired and paid for the servioce of a_driver of the machine. The sal- ary list of the city was not increased voung | ® cent and the fire service was very D e Ome, YOUS imuch bettered as this hired man was firemen. e A will. | #lways ready at a second’s notice to o ‘Gwenty- |Fespond fo fire alarms with the auto- | Right here it is well, perhaps to say et e chemical and hose wagon, and fout loud that it would be the height w oozes” | But let me quote two sentences more heads That first year, after paying back | : the $i17 of borrowed money he made a thousand dollars clear profit. Next vear he married and his_wife,—w manifestly wasn’t a New : pitched right in with him 5 about his hot-beds and his P che. 'he two of them earned $1.500 Lo et the second year, and $2,000 the third Sl Chen they bouglit an eighty acre farm L Lr a hundred dollars an acre. nd peid cnly gause they Also into a hand a thousand dollars down be- wanted £ould get to put Teenhouse ever e Erum that time on the over fi That first year on the farm nd ad fast ear he hired two more men up more monopoly of Jine and he made the mo They the money they into more hot-beds house,—the first ted in Sioux money &r hired ne man and put up one greenhouse. greennouses. He the trade in his of it. As as the money came he in- vested it, either in improvements on his farm, or 1in_city property on growing sireets. He is doing exactly that now. | ba s { Now, then; as to the question whether Peter R is res a howling success or not. lLet's look at his own story from two sides. He says “I worked from twenty to tw two s a day in those times. I d to, for 1 was cleaning up a day wus the market with prod at 4:30 | confess that | have o'clock in the morning d 1 s m for t marketing « second load at 1 o'clock |1 ¢ at night at stores that kept open late.” “When did you sleep?”’ “Wh 1 the market v from town and then a litt home. Sure, it was hard, it for ten years, and I'm hale hearty and eating three square m | a day yet. Is anybedy doing | better? I 1l work sixteen to | teen jours @ day and no layoffs for |l picnics or parties.” } That's the first side of It. He|all be—how mucn worked from four o'clock in the mern- | Would now ing to one o'clock the next morning because he was “cleaning up $125 a day” Now 3125 a day is big | = a farmer man. Bul den't y | ™M ne earmed it? How many of sa be willing to the boom times. I work from in the morning to one o'clock ef il w next mornin, day after day and week s s.id after week and year after vear, get-| ( » ting sur rest by little “snooz n | erusa end the market wagon while going from wown o how many of us would willing to do that I think I'd be willing to do il | am matier. I for $125 a day? The Food 5 ly Nutritio Rich milk, with malted grain extract, in powder form—dissolves in water—more healthful than tea or coffee. Used in training athietes. The best diet for Infants, Growing Children, Invalids, and the Aged. It agrees with the weakest digestion. | 'S*?—at Hotels, Restaurants, Fountains. n’t travel without it. Also keep it at home. Jn Lunch Tablet form, also, ready to est * Convenient—nutriticus. in the other query d work rides, 1 to pull onions usually with a full working crew. This fact became generally known, and it gradually became the custom, in the event of smail fires, to call the Niaga- s by telephone, instead of sending in a whistle alarm and summon the whole fire department, when the ser- be | ViCe was not necessary and at an ex- W life ex. | pense of about $75 to the city. So for ollars s | Years thousanas of dollars have been saved to this city by that method. of folly to call out on a still alarm any horse-drawn _apparatus with such a modern fire fighting apparatus as the powerful American-LaFrance machine in the city. Here's a case in point. In the unusually severe snow storm of last Monday evening, with the ther- mometer below zero, during the preva- lence of a blizzard, it would have been a clear case of foolishness and cruelty to animals as well, to have called out a horse-drawn apparatus and expect ithout ept one what on a mar- | ar ou to Realizing the benefit that was ac- L ; the horses to do the impossible. There this | STUing fo'the Cflty- the Niagaras, at their | was a still alarm to the Niagaras for up | 2wn expense, urnished sleeping quart- |g fire in Mahan sreet. The snow o of | TS in the house for a full working | was nearly two feet along Ocean av- crew of firemen, so that service equal i ara machine sped |to any paid department could be rend- | fhrengr s the Muns: g through it for the whole distance and ered in the night season, and at no gt no time was the speed less than additional expense to the city. This thirty-five miles an hour. That was onion and | Progressiveness started a feeling | going some, but the speed could have an play a 200N a few members of the other fire | peen greatly increased if the limit had inere's | OTganizations and there gradually {pot been placed at thirty-five miles . real SreW trumped up charges of favort- |py the department officials. Still there watch ism inst the Niagaras. When the |are firemen in New London who are new American-LaFrance combination | jealous of the achievement of that ma- of d apparatus was purchased by the city, |chine and the Nlagaras, and actually it was naturally turned over to the | geclare that it is due to favoritism, company that deserved it by the lib the chairman of the fire committee o |€ral spirit in furnishing to the city a member of the 1 agaras, and has ‘Why iginal motor apparatus, that had been for a quarter of a century. outlived its usefulness. | the jealous firemen go 8o far as to say |in public print that Alderman Brockett | | pra e work I | Nearly every company in the de- |Who has been repeatedly appointed | 4 | partment made a try for that mew ap- | chairman of the fire committee by intolerable | paratus, but the mayor and court of | Mayor Mahan by reason of his ef- enjoyment have con- recreation. ficiency and general fitness for the po- sition, that he is unfit to be the chair- man, and even go so far as to declare that they will get him should he be a candidate for alderman from the fourth ward for a third term. Should Alder- man Brockett desire common council voted it to the Ni- |agaras, With this modern machine in service, equipped for any emergency in which chemical, hydrant or pumping service was required it became in de- mand. This machine is valued at $9,000, and of this sum the Niagaras turned in their old machine for $1,000. With this machine even better service fun S to rais- be held up as | than before was naturally expected.|Dy & greater majority than was ever > out the (It therefore necessary to have an |accorded an alderman from the Fourth to which |additional driver, in order that at no | ward. He made of [time would the machine be without ——— isiasm and an in- |a driver available, not even for a f i FROL T Cabbazes Ian't|ominuts ‘aay lor mibE: Then iHe Ni- | DS Hisghiniis the SHENRE fiee pany in the city and needs no defender as its records of sixty-four speaks for itself and is clearly known to all unprejudiced citizens. True, the as pl real asked that instead of receiving ) for answering each alarm that the im be increased to $15. This was done and with this income the Niag- rove more own cab- | chance whether the amount received n Ve~ hings ja suMcient, and standing ready to |Of it 18 sxpended towards the improve happier me m A lunch in a minute. North, South, East, West ment of the efficlency of the fire de- up the deficit. is refore by reason of the cemplete pment, the Niagaras, still continue partment, and every time response made to a still alarm the eity is saved about $50. In private business S Do Bn h danad AR S S °f | would be classed as goed management, kb, but in fire department matters in New | . London, in the opinion of one veteran But there always have been, and |officer, and a sprinkling of disaffected, there probably always will be jealous- | jealous firemen, it is classed as bad ies among some of the competing com- | management. panies of volunteer fire department, and | In this conneeti it can be sald New London is not the exception.|without fear of contradiction ,that b ¢ of jealousy came, and was | every fire house in the city is not so | statement in the public | well conducted as is the agara. officers and members of the | The personnel no better or wo! - rtment, when the Niagaras |than the membership of any other fire | WOrK 18 lyhade another dash of progressiveness, | company j in the city. = Within the > B re ympany's expense, pur- | memery of the oldest members, and | one of the them has been active with the Niagaras for nearly half a century, red automobile and modern squad wag- r to the city to be | there has never been gambling of any - fire duty. ‘Fhe | description carried on in the house, the good of the | nor has there ever been a card or pool no idea that it wou me commenced In the heuse on Sun and print the de- wanted here That is more tuan can be said of some of the firemen in other companies, and ameng those who at present time have their hammers out against the Niagaras. The public attack in news- | papers against the chairman of the fire dditional remark olde jealousy, in publi officers in Niagara part 3 juad wagon. we - would we It was frequently demonstrated that is backed only by jealousy, pura ive fi simple, and the newspapers pui- ¢ all the active firemen of the company | |l ing the attacks are being imposed ; ' as it was strlot- |upon. It is abeut time, for the good ehine and mnot a|of the fire department, that these un- lar | pa D inped to carry | justifiable attacks came to an end. CONFUSED N IS SR b G Sl o O r T e Everything was confusion in tho | here” mid Profeesor Chaubert, with : a deep bow. great chateau. The young man of the | ® S0, "U00 come with mo tmmeds ately, Professor. and see the Count said the Counte: Her voice was slightly impatient, for the Professor | appeared to be in no great hurry. “He is very sick,” she added. “I know,” said the Professor, and followed her upstairs, where the fam- ily doctor had arranged an operating | room in one of the bath rooms. When he entered the bedroom where the young Count lay still he slammed the door noisily behind him. “But you must get all these dogs out of here,” he said “But there are no dogs here, the Counteas, surprised death. His horse had bolted, thrown house was hovering between life a.nd\ him and kicked him the abdomen. | An operation was absolutely necessary % in Ixf his life were to be saved, and the | chances of his survival were exceed- | ingly siim_and now his young wife and the old family doctor were stand- ing at his bedside waiting for the famous Paris specialist, who had been | telegraphed for and who was on his . fast as his 60-horse-power | ould c: him. » never come?” moaned | ging her hands. “Armand ¢ get here soon. dear Countess, cried m, | G| | i Chaubert-will be here in a very few | roared. moments.” | | g:eg afndwomelil are stlxgect.toth? numerous ailments caused i She stared at him, but just then the efective or irregular action of the organs of digestion and | “But he ought to have been here| joctor came in and began to talk of mi 2 B . . ala long ago,” she cried and looked at her | tion of the patient, and the efimms.tmn. Headaches, lazy feelings, depression of spirits | husband's pale face. “Bvery moment's b i il B s e o are first consequences,and then worse sickness followsif the | delay lessens Armand’s ;;hu;\reu.”n;\d fessional self once more. ; i = o x I heard you say yourself that he He examined Count Armand very Froublemnfll:m» éw thousands have discovered that were not operated upon before 6 he | carefully and gave his opinion clearly would die before midnight.” [ und without hesitation. Having done P 4 The doctor had no ldea that she hAd | (hat he assisted the valet to place the | overhear these uncautlous Wwords | Csunt on the operating iable and made ’ | spoken over the telephone to Paris, aud | many objeetions before he finally con- | found no nniwexr' x:m]{ j sented to the (euntess’ presence dur There is Professor Chaubert now.” | ing the operation (The Larges. Sap of Acy Medicine tn the World) ke sald in & tone of great relief as he '?u..w.,.wne Was abeul 16 start, he are the most reiiable copwr#i e and the best preventive of these com- heard an awtomobile rushing up the | once mere began to talk about the mon ailments. Better Al mora restful sleep, greater strength, long avenue and stopping in front of | de brighterspirits, clear < emsare given tothose who use occasion.. the main entrance of the house | ““Wiy did yeu let them in here,” he ally this thne-tested iem': *a=edy. Beecham’s Pills will no deubt help Wi CHRahart “entired o oo haaked) sugetty RAdinnio st his' face ou—it i frrte £ o | ment later. He was a tall and very | hecame unrecognizable with amger an T rest to try them—for all over the world they | thin mun of about 35, and in his hand | he beat wildly abaut him with the |3 | he carried his case of surgical instru- | scalpel re Yonounce. est | men “Good lLord, what dess this mean " | Oh, 1T am so glad you have come,| whispered the Countess to the old everywhere. lm boxes, 10c., 28c. ! Professor,” said the voung Countess. | doctor ,gvery bos ave very valuable -especislly to wemen. taking hik hard He las gone mad.” the doctor re “l put everything aside Lo come ' plied |n a whisper; “we moust get him renomination, | and this matter may be an issue, it is | a safe bet that he would be returned | years | that | o | ety : | ommittee and the Niagara com- | At her words the Professor's expres- | said old doctor. “I wish I dared | sion changed completely. His face was | | operate on the count, but I_am un- | convuised with pain. fortunately no surgeon. Professor | -wThe whole hall is full of them,” he Try it for pasal and dry catarrh, sneszing, cold I the Leaq, bay fever or any complication resulting from chronic catarrh. Keeps the breathing passages :ri, thus EMu So re: ug-loe and snoriing. Soot! amed emprages. Get epdon’s. atarrh- elfg, at a¥ . in Sanitary o KON DON \TARRHAL JELLY ’ out of here immediatel But the Countess was calm once more. “And who will then operate on my husband?” she asked. “You don’t mean that you will r the life of the Count by letting & mad- man operate on him?’ sald the doc- tor. “I must,” she said, with the deter- mination of despair. “It is a quarter past five now. The operation cannot be postponed any longer. “I will chase those dogs out” she said to the Professor, and she opened the door. “They are all gone now,” she “They follow me everywhere, surgeon wailed. “That is why wanted to send me to the asylum They were just about to come for me when your case came, and of course, an operation goes before everything. I love to operate, if only these doss would leave me alone. There they again.” Once more the Countess pretended | to drive them out. The Professor | thanked her warmiy and began to op- erate, forgetting everything else The operation took about half an hour and the patient was carried back to hig bed. Nobody could tell whether he would live or not, but he was evi- dently free from pain and sleeping | soundl. | The Countess was on the poin fainting from the terrible tension of d excitement and the doctor was tending her. | Prof. Chaubert stood in the 1 complaining about the dogs, when a | tail man entered, accompanied by two | assistants. He asked to e Countess and introduced hims: Dr. Regnier, owner of the famous private asylum T rushed down here to get hold of poor Prof. Chaubert befo he could do any harm. He has gone mad ve suddenly. 1 hope you did not let him operate.”’ The Countess in a few moment t him what had happened, and Dr. Reg- nier, examined the Count, was still’ asleep. w “In spite of his madness, Prof. Chau- bert has performed a wonderful opera- tion, which few surgeons in Par would dare undertake outside of a hos- pital. Your husband's life is saved.’ London News. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. In trying to find uses killed chestnut it has been f it cannot be utilized for cr: quarry owners say that che leaves an indelible stain ble or granite it wo nut wooc the mar- | ined to hav Two North Dakota is deter; better rural schools. training schools have been ¢ to give instruction in domestic sclence, manua and pedagogy. The new schools have as one of their special training of teachers for rural schools | What 1s declared to be the first| training school for “dental nurses” is now in sucessful eperation in Bridge- port, Conn. Thirty-two youn women ~—teachers, dental assistants, and others—are recelving special training prac- under yniversity professors and tical dentists in the Fones School about half the class will ady to enter dental hygiene wo J 1914, Movable tables tead | of the conventic | used in the Was New York Cit i tion received | ington acording to Bureau of tion found that the plan m school rooms and more work. Another adv. with this type of schoolrooms can readily to soclal and commt Cornell’ offered t attended cons the | munity schools, recreation, | tion, poverty, crime, | housing pelitics, t planning, and is under ment of polit credit is coi is vear f by over healt California definitely tk her citizens Committee sisting ha playgro | and priv | “to study, invest | recommendations | | both young and | port to the Go 1914 Something To Worry Abo | The suffragists will have it th | snubbed President Wilson. i then, is to be turned pasa the dictionary.—New ¥ ing Sun ! How Was He Overlooked. | In ail its s hings _for a | commissioner, New York has | raised & clamor for the 1 | Theodore Roosevelt.—Washingto | Fly in the Ointment. | | . Champ Clark seems as plea: tr { the Wilson administration as said, and tha sum’ of ONE HU? | each and every ca cannot be cured by t CATARRH CURE ANK J. C before me and is 6th day Sworn to in my presenc ber, A, D. 1386. 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