Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 2, 1914, Page 12

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) ‘we residents get in the folks toward their country cousins. They are often guite complimentary over our cunning little ways of doing things, and take pains to make it clear that_considering our limitations, they think we are really doing quite well. Of course they allow us to see that they themselves are used to something much better, and they generally end up their partial approval by intimat- ing, more or less plainly, how much better they would manage matters if their ill fortune compelled them to live in the country. When they get well enough ac- quainted so as to feel quite free, they almost invariably change from a_tone of polite compliment to one of ex- hortation. They point out how differ- ently things are done in the city, and how much better off we'd be. if we humbly copied city or at least sub- urban ways. For instance, don't we think the front yard would look bet- ter if the fence were taken away and the old stone flags that grandfather laid removed to make room for grav- eled walks, and the old-fashioned lilacs torn up to give place to “Hy- drangea Grand i florum,” and some exoties from J: o South America substituted fo the sweet-scented roses that mother loved so much? Ete., etc. Especially, wouldn’t it be a great im- provement if we all painted our barns “colonial yellow,” and put in electric wiring and laid cement walks every- where? Most especially of all, why dom’t we have bathrooms with running water? Of late, seems to me, there's a special drive being made at the bath- room proposition. “Who needs & bathroom more than a farmer?” asks one. “If you only had a bathroom.” murmurs ‘another, “your home would be per-fect-ly lovely.” “No trouble at all to have one” masterfully asserts a third; “all you've got to do is to pipe water from some spring on the hills, put a tank in the attic—and there you are.” 'Um-hum, er-'r-'r, ya-as, of course. pervious to frost. Just as & matter of sillyy rural con- servatism, though, let’s think it over a. bit. 1 don’t know whether anybody else “needs” a bathroom more than the farmer; I certzinly doubt if any- one wants one more. But before we put one in; It costs money to pipe thit_spring down to the house. In the first place the spring must be dug out and some sort of reservoir cemented up to hold water enough for emergencies in drought time. Then you must get gal- vanized pipe, for exprience has shown you that the common black pipe rusts full or rusts into holes in a mighty short time. and galvanized pipe costs | more money. The ditch for the pipe must be blasted most of the way through rocks, and deep enough to be safe from freezing. If you think that won't cost much, get an estimate, and see how it makes you feel! Of course, every farmer has the loose money that all this will require bulging out of his overalls pocket. If he hasn't, why, he can mortgage the farm, can't he? But then, that “tank in the at- tie.” Certainly water kept in a tank in the attic will run down to a bath- Toom on the next floor, when wanted. It will also run down into the parlor and the and the dining reom and into the flour barrel, when it dis- tinctly is not wanted, but has to, be- cause the tank has frozen and burst. This particular farmer lives in an old farm-house in the hills where the winters attend strictly to business; ‘where the ground freezes from three to four feet deep; where ice fifteen inches thick is a usual winter covering on ponds; and where even the brooks run for weeks at a time under mile-long ice-bridges strong enough to hold up a horse. His attic would be just about as appropriate a place for a water- tank in winter as the kitchen stove for a repository of blasting powder. T don't know which would be likely to do the more damage. In the case of the average farm- heuse it would be cheaper, in the end, to burn it down and build a new one, to put in the tanks and plumbing » steati-heating _necessary to maintain a bathroom of the city style throughout the year. Possibly one could be installed wut less cest which would work well enough during the summer—when our city friends honor us with their visits. But we farmers mostly live in our farm houses during the winter, also. 1 really fear that many of us an- clent hayseeds will have to get along without bathrooms for a while longer; at Jeast until we get a little better than the 38 per cent. of the retail value of our produce which is our present average. Two winters ago | listened, with a few other farmers, to a well-inten- tioned city engineer’s explanation of how we could safely get rid of our ‘slops” by means of a modern septic drainage system, which implied and ning water as a flushing agent. And every farmer who listened depended for his water supply on a pump! Some years ago there was a crusade fer “warm barms.”” It struck some of that dumb animals should be stabled during the winter in barns which, barring the wind, were just about as cold inside as outside. So we were our barns, but to build them so they would keep themselves warm by the simple device of double-boarding, with an air-space between, We were i- emnly assured that, so potent was this air-space, it would amply suffice to keep any stable above freezing, no matter what the weather outside. happened to be building a new one fust at that time, and so I determined to make it frost-proof. I double-boarded it, leaving a six inch air-space. I also papered between the boardings, to make assurance doubly sure, since pa- pervious to frost. And the first real winter night we had a wooden pail which I had left half filled with water in this “frost- proof” structure froze solid, broke two hoops and burst its own bottom out! It used to be said that nine news- paper readers out of ten felt sure they could run the paper better than the editor. The chances really were that any one of them, planted in the ed- itor's chair at 6 p. m. would have been under the desk a helpless heap by midnight, when the editor's real wor- ries were getting ready to begin. People who wouldn’t know whether to sow clover seed in October or April and who don't know “gee” from ‘“liaw” generally think they could manage al- mest any old farm better than its own- er. They seem imbued with the no- learned; that it is not in any se trade with tricks of its own Wl must be studied; that it isn't rounded with any conditions can’t be controlied by the farmer as easily as a steering wheel controls an automobile. e a Which is just where they don't show so much good sense as the sim- ple seeming farmers they patronizing- 1y assume to instruct. It is a curious fact that the very best farmers of a community are, usu- ally, the hardest to get any sort of ad- vice or suggestion from. They are apt to be men who have studied their own conditions so closely and so carefully that they have some sort of control over them. In that very process they have learned humility. They have learned that no two farms are just alike, no two farmers just alike, no environments just alike. Therefore they see at the outset that the methods which may be wise for them might be supreme folly for a neighbor on another farm. Of how they manage their own lands and stock they will talk freely. But you can’t hire them to tell you what to do with your different lands and differ- ent_stock. They don’t know. And they know they don’t know. And they have sense enough to keep still when talking would simply display their ignorance. _ There’s often real wisdom involved in silence, and real folly in garrulous suggestions born of ignorance or im- perfect knowledge. THE FARMER. e e said the Influencing Alicia “It is perfectly terribl fluffy woman, “how dependent some people are on extraneous influences! Did I ever tell you about Alicia and the pickles? She— “I had an uncle once,” broke in the large eyed woman, meditativ, ho never could talk unless there the head of a pin sticking out of the low- er edge of his vest for him to full with. He'd rub one finger back and forth across that pin_and eloquence would flow from him like a mountain torrent. The night when he had to accept the nomination alderman some person with an awful dispo- sition abstracted the pin and—" 'm_sure I never told you about Alicla,” went on the fluffy woman, brightly. “She—" “I remember a girl at school” said the young woman in the plaid suit, “She never could think unless she could take out her side comb and run it through her front hair from forehead to crown. It seemed to help her somechow and she could answer almost any question askedl her in class providing she could hypnotize her brain by the regular motion of the comd through her front hair, “It took her quite a long time to tell anything,” continued the young woman in the plaid suit, “so that usually when she had made her point all her hair was standing straight up in the air Iike & tower of some sort and the ends were dripping around in the breege. Once an absent-minded professor -who looked at her suddenly asked who it was that had brougit into the room that war mask of the Fiji islanders that he supposed was not to be taken out of the college library. He wa looking at the girl 1 am telling about. He asked her to marry afterward, but she never quite got over the Fiji islander incident. She said that if he had been a Mormon and had asked her to be each of his dozen than tea or coffee. Used in training Growing Children, Invalids, w'i‘t'h the vgeakest digestion. Fountains. A lunch in a’minute. Convenient — nutritious, necessitated a copious supply of run- | our town friends as close to cruelty | exhorted mot to put furnace heat into | per was declared to be practically im- | tion that farming doesn’t have to be | GRY | NEW LONDON' NEEDS IND! MMW«&&S&Q“@M:M —Maintenance of Fire Companiss—Work of the State — Gl Better to care for the industries we | demand for the pay of drivers, aside have than to fly to others we know usual allowance for such not of would not be a bad idea to in- m dis- stall into the workings of the progres- familiar the sive New London Business Men's as- | circumstances. Therefore ‘it was & sociation and kindred organizations. |surpise to those om the inner circle Some local industries have been per- the company. had actu- to learn that mitted to slip away and locate eise- |ally voted to make demand fof a sum where while others have passed out sufficient to pay the drivers a speci- of existence, by reason of lack of local | fled salary to be received monthly ai- suport, and revised and located in ci- |rect from the city and for the pur- ties even more progressive than New | pose specified. s was London, where all industries are sure | made direct to the fire department to receive the moral and the financial [ committee and, it is understood is not support, and revised and located in ci- [sanctioned by 'the commiftee, on the sa One of the leading manufactur- | ground that no provision was made ing industries in the city recently | for such payment when the appro- went out of the actual manufacturing business on account of lack of local financial support that i brought profit to the investors. fire department was made in annual been notified to that effect. There are four fire companies in the city supplied with motor-driven appa ratus and the Northwest is the only one that has asked the city to pay salaries direct to drivers. The Niaga- ras and the Pequots are satisfied with the present plan, a specified sum for responding to fire alarms, the same as is paid lieverymen who furmish the motive power for horse-drawn fire ap- paratus, but these companies do mot object to any plan that the city may make with the Northwests, or the Thomas hose company, either, for it is understood that the Thomas com- pany is in readiness to fall in line and reach out for city coin to pay for the drivers. The Niagaras have possess- ed a motor-driven apparatus for four- teen vears and the Pequots for five years and they, do mot want change from the present plan so far as they are concerned. These companies have had experience in modern fire-fight- ing apparatus maintenance and are be- lievers in the old and rusty saw: “Let well enough alone.” Not so many months ago the Con- necticut Turbine company, facturers of a turbine enaine that had been pronounced an engineering suc- cess, was formed in New London and it was propesed to build the engines at the Hopson and Chapin plant, re- cently closed. Some local capital was linvested in the company, but when ! there came a need of more money to {put the engines on the market it was { not forthcoming and in consequence the :plant was closed and the engines were not manufactured. The engine for the {the compdny is pronounceddto be the ivery best of its type, too good to be lout” of operation, and capital outside jof New London has been secured, so !it is said_ and the turbine engines are {to be manufactured, but not in New {London. An office has been estab- {lished in New York and the engines are to be made in Bridgeport. Foreman William A. Holt, of the { Northwest Hose company, is a pro- gressive business man, a respected eit- izen and certainly interested in fire department matters, éspecially in so faf as the company he represents is {concerned. He is the mainstay of that new and active organization and i to_push the Northwests | well towards the efficiency lime. {was instrumental in securing for the company the converted motor-driven apparatus and is now -making a bid for {the coin to pay the salaries of a cou- iple of drivers for the ' apparatus. | When, upon the application of Fore- !man Holt, an appropriation of $1000 | was made by the city to pay for the { making over of a touring car into a | chemical and hose wagon, Mr. Holt i given to understand that, he must | make provision for the driving and ! lcare of the apparatus, just as has | been done for several years by the { Niagaras and Pequots, as there was {no money in the fire department ap- | propriation that was available for {such purpose. Recent devolooments indicate that the stay of the state police in New London was not time wasted, as much was accomplished along the line of keeping the sale of intoxicating lig- or within the legal limits. It was common knowledge that liquor was being dispensed by illegitimate déal- ers, at all hours, and that even some of the licensed dealers are contin- uing in the business at hours prohib- ited by law. “This illicit business had become quite general and to the detri- ment of the law-abiding liquor deal- ers who pay a big price for the privi- lege of carrying on and conducting a legal business. Some of the jlleged places are so closely picketed that lo- cal police would have difficulty in ob- taining evidence sufficient to convict. Therefore. those interested in the en- forcement of law and order, called in the regular state police and their as- sistants, and required much sleuth work to get some of the Quite a number ve already paid the penalty of, violating the“liquor law which~ was inflicted by the police court, and the end is not yet. Ever .since the machine has been i reported as being in commission and | ready for duty there have been rumors | that” the Northwests were to make office and started to burst into sobs. Then he remembered something. Af- ter pausing at the general store long enough to make a purchase he gal loped over to Alicia’s. He burst into her presence carrying a large glass jar, which he pressed into her hand. The cover was already loosened, “As Alicia mechanically began to eat pickles he said: ‘Alicia, T love vou. Will you marry me? And, without pausing or hlinking, she purred: “(Ye Win, darling, I will’ That shows | wives he wouldn’t have soothed her a Ibit. She—" { “About Alicia,” broke in the fluffy woman, determinedly. “I never saw a girl who liked pickles the way she did, There seemed to be some Sort of a ! weird affinity between Alicia | pickles. She purred over them with | the same delight that other girls dis- iplay over candy. When she read or i s had a jar of pickles and a hatpin handy and would eat as e read or worked. It seemed abso- lutely impossible for her to compel her mind to work unless she had her favorite food at hand. _If Alicia had to decide on_of7dress samples d feverishly for the wver heard such a * protested the large eyed woman. “I don’t believe it. There's no point to it.” laybe not,” mused the fluffy wo- man. “But wouldn’t it have been aw- ful to have had our two lives wrecked {if that general store had bad no pickles? You see, I was Alicia!”"— Chicago News. 2 Habeas Corpus. Habeas corpus is a writ directed to a person detaining another and com- manding him to produce the bedy of the prisomer to do, submit to and re- ceive whatsoever the court or judge issuing the writ shall decree. It is applicable in all cases {n which a per- son in custody claims to be illegally detalned or wrongtully refused bail, or wishes to be removed from one court to another. she ‘was trying to make up her mind whether to go to the Hegells' dance or the Swartz card party she ate pickles during the making up pro- cess. She said her thoughts simply would not get into running order un- less she stimulated them with pickles. | “That was why when Win Gibbons proposed to her she didn’t know what {to say. Win says that she sat looking at him with widening eyes, her hand | absent-mindedly reaching foward the {little table beside her, as if clutching for assistance. But it wasn't that— { she was feeling for the pickle jar, hSe told Win he'd have to wait, that she'd v This occurred when she at her brother's ranch Win lived in-the next township. hat evening she got her paper and ink and pen and spread them out lin her room and then slipped down the back stairway for a bottle of pickles. All of them had been eaten up and the ranch was many miles from supplies. Alicia took along an | orange and some cookles and sat down !g;:;r FUSCL EospURRIdEE Win: dB S e { The victor, a private named Grabam, | “One bite of cooky—no result ;qf the Argylls, beat the train by two | “Two sections of orange — even |minutes. The disiznce was covered in worse: ’ one hour and thirty minutes by con- wi.She began to feel faintly trritated Joriiel rountod. Gitnan wiiied i “Second’ bite of cooky—she recalled | 4ays before from Ghoom to Kurseong how queer his nose looked at certain jand back, 31 miles in six and ome- | ansles. iy | “Another plece of orange—his way onith o 2 {of using his evebrows was exasperat- ing, and how he smoked! | “By the time she had finished her { eats Alicia s d a pen and wrote Win that, while she esteemed him as a friend, her feelings never would rise above that level, and she remained his v trul 5 ‘Win read that letter in the post- . Beat Train In Speeding. 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