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(Written Specially For The Bulletin.) There are some things—eight or ten of a dozen—about :life on a farm in the country which I don't like. .Especially in the winter. F'instance. I don’t like getting out of bed in a co-0-1d room long before sun-up, dressing myself in :wf the sweaters and overcoats and muifiers I can lay my hands on, a la Esgimaux, and wading out through srnow-driftsto the barn to feed a bupch of cows and clean out their stables and milk ‘em. Nor do I enjoy lugging in from four to six huge armfulis of wood and at a time to set two or three stoves roar- ing a¢ they must roar if they are to keep the inside of a far from wind- P old farmhouse comfortably warm. 3 Ner do I really hanker after hitching “fi' either in a driving rain, or @ driffing snow, or just a plain zero morning; and driving two or three miles over rough roads to get an ounce of nutmeg or a spool of No. 60 white is it a wholly desirable task to wallow up the steep mountain-side thtough clogging snow to cut and get down the fifteen or twenty cords of firéwood afnually consumed. At times, too, there is something de- pressing to even the lifelong farmer in the sense of isolation which comes over him of a winter day, when he is shut in from all-but telephone commu- nication and knows that his neigh- bors are, likewise. And so om, and so on. The c¢ity dweller can't begin to match me in the number and mess of the criti life. ivid- isms I can make on in the country discomforts ye_of short sight and Rhadr) pans! Obeying Solomo ond thought, (Prov. r sec- 26:5), let me an- ONE WAY TO CUBE A GROUCH ! .| Of |ete.; se, though there are a doz ngs about farm life which are dis 41 e tw iczen bout either quite as bad ight worse! | That's why! We've often lau and I, over the st of what is called hed * tegether, .yeu ge whi h human nat | | % and g1 banker, (Oh, whnts to be a “country gentlemar and the shop=worker aches fo get a little place where hecan keen ol ens, and the ehicken-breeder 1w e he'd gone into everybody, man, w 1 dxan not taxed, wis oading, | hat's human natura as she 4 tured. And it's all wrone: all wrong; from inning fo end. Tt s unreasonable to begin with. T £ unwor- cal- | It s nossessor more o less unhappy all h everybod: about /him uncomforta- ble all their lives. There is an old adage advising trav sllers fiot to cross a bBridge till thes jlife ahd to make some to it. Uncle Tke used to say that he never worried about tomor- roW Hed ftved through seventy | vears of three hundred and days eac®, every day of whict een a tomerrow before it hecame foday. And he'd zenerally found t} tombrrow wasn't half so had. when it came, as it Tooked to be when it was still twenty-four hours off, but on’its way. At the best, whether in Labrador or In Sicily, in California or in New ¥ngland, or Fitth Avenus or under Hardserabblé Hill, life fsn't atways onr often bubblifig écstacy. It's generally MioFé Or Tess of what Mr. Mantalini ealls a “dem’d ‘horrid grind If intelligence were universal; if reason really rules; if “common sense” were indeed common, we should all of usy instead of whimpering and #lvélling over otr hardshins, spend | our | Hvea h-;gzlngfland magnifying our bléssings. Instead of crying over our 168888, we shouMl chirrup and carol over our gains. Instead of sighing for the moon, we should snigger right OWE: 1648 becatise We were on the warmer and much mere liveahle earth. Instead of wanting to be Rockefellers with $400,000,000 apiece and the dys- pepsia we should just cackle d: to Lh: !:gbuk;ec gver ouf ability to eat corned beef and cabbage—and get away ‘ém. Instead of fnrflger | pail and lessen egg-production. dwelling on our lacks we should come out strong for our compensations. In other words, we should make the best of it, whatever it is. The other day I came down from the mountain woodlot, tired to the tips of my toes. My back ached and my legs ached and my fingers ached and my ears stung with the cold and my feet were wet and clammy from work- ing hours in the snow. ‘It was already darkening into a stormy night, and there were the cows and the <horses and the hens and fhe pig te he fed, before I could get into dry clothes and eat my own supper and sit down by the stove. Wow! I began wonder- ing to myself what:fit of temporary idioey had ever led me to choose such surroundings and such away of liv- ing. Well, the first thing was t6 go down cellar and .get some ‘roots for - the cows. Right over the bin where the carrots are stored runs a wide shelf. As I was filling the carrot basket, 1 couldn’t help seeing it in the lantern light. And right there my grouch began to weaken and waver. On that shelf were some dozens of cans of corn; other dozens of toma- toes; other dozens of peas; other doz- ens of beans; a lot of pears and peach- es and blackberries and blueberries and raspberries and sweet pickles; all except the peaches from home-grown fruits a@d vegetables, canned at home and calined to eat—not just to sell. Right behind me was the well-filled potato-bin. - Just beyond were the ap- ple barrels. The other side of the stairs were oniens and beets and tur- nips and ruta-bagas and celery. In the barrel were thirty gallons of home-made cider vinegar, with a cask last fall’s cider souring to remew it as used. On one low bench stood con- tainers with mess. pork and lard and ver-kraut and cucumber pickles, on another, jar after jar of butter and water-glassed eggs, put down when at their best for use when the cold weather should stint the milk- As T e up with my roots for the cows I passed through the woodshed in which. snug under cover, ‘were piled or more cords of sawed, split, cea- , dried,hard wood for fuel, with en cords more stacked just outside and other loads coming every day to be ready for the saw the following week, And the butcher has sent word that he’d be 'round to dress that pig, day. after tomorrow. In the store-house was the crib of corn, bags of wheat and other grains, |and the barrels of white flour, entire- wheat flour and “canaille”—that last the best griddle- cakg material yet dis- covered. Up at the-barn was a-mew-full of hay, a floor congested with sweet- corn stalks, a dcaffold of yet —un- threshed oats, and a bin of ground feed. If all-the.’coal miners in the coun- try should- strike, I should still have plenty of the best possible fuel. If all the railroad men should strike and stop the ‘transpbrtation of foods, 1 :hould still have enough to eat. As I contrasted this situation with that the average city dweller, dependent every day’s supplies on the corner ocer and the coal man and the nan, my grouch vanishes com- and 1 began, figuratively to hug myself in self-grat- The farm looked pretty good to me, now let me tell you. It had cost hard work, to be sure, to getTthese things ready; hard work for the good man to raise and gather them, hard work for the good wife to can and preserve me of them, but—there they were. , if the mining and manufactur- mg and transportation worlds chose to go mad and bite off their own nosés in the endeavor to -spite sémebody else’s face, why, we could pull through and at least make a Iive of it from our own-reserves. Later, when the chores are all done and the supper of Home-produced pork and bgans and brown bread and mince pie put where it would do the most good, and the old “chunk” stove roar- ing rrily, and the big lamp shin- ing brilliantly, and my Wet boots off and my yarm slippers on, I picked up my paper and strétched out my toes toward the stove and' read, first thing, that sixteen handred families in Oma- ha were without even a pound of coal, and that even more in Chicago were without food ‘because of the withdraw- a) of freight trains, and that New York had only four days’ supply of certain necessities on hand with none in sight geing that way—why, then, 1 took off my glasses and wiped them carefully, and laid them on the arm of chair and lifted up both hands throat irrita- B neia and steps the _tickle. Xou will enjoy the inz effect of eough drops BEwminent ph 135 WATER STREET NORWICH Phone 1250 . 493 SOUTH MAIN STREET PROVIDENCE Phone Union 3842 MOTOR FREIGHT SERVICE (All Goods Covered by Insurance During Transit) NORWICH—PROVIDENCE—NEW LONDON—PUTNAM FALL RIVER—NEW BEDFORD and Connecting Points "EQUIPMENT—NINTEEN PIERCE-ARROW TRUC (S E. P. WINWARD & SON . . 17 WILLIAM .STREET NEV/ BEDFORD Phone 3337 138-142 DURFEE STRIET ‘ALL RIVER _ Phone 3619 {2 b .9 Q)ci turpiture moving a-speciadty. | Tel. 357 5 LOOK AT TONGUE! msmV: POISONS FROM STOMACH, . LIVER AND BOWELS. _PIAN dpsio very prompily and at reasunable THE MUAL EC(}NOMY SALE OF omen's and Misses’ Apparel] ~ Great Reductions In Wearing Apparel of All Kinds vauthehmetobuythewarm,wmtergumenu,fmnowthemh'ew& lowest levels. Next season’s prices will be higher than this, so the prudent buger will § take advantage of this chance to buy for this winter and for a year to come. Consider it an investment, notmexpum,md get busy. C. D, vy, tes,mmg. Feat and Tohg J Emm LY & seN. DONG .)ISTA\CL HOVING BROWN & HARTLEY, 3 etucket St. Phone 607, AND mmmTURE MOVING, ¢ TEAMING AND TRUCKING prices. ¢ ‘ARTHUR H, LATHROP, : Shetucket St. Phone 175. IR.ON CASTINGS THE VAUGHN FOUNDRY CO. CAS‘I'INGS $ FURNISHED PROMPTLY BY C 0 A T S Dresses ) Etc. | $52.50 Suits For Only 335-“ Nos. 11 to 25 Ferry Street Accept “California” Syrup of Figs only—look for the name California on the package, then you aré sufe your child is having the best and most harm- less laxative or physic for the little stomach, liver and bowels. Children ove its delicidus fruify taste. Eun directions for child’s dese. on each bottle. Give it without fear. S other! You m say “California.” First-class Garage Service Connected. Phone $35.00 Coats Now Only §22.50 Pretty Coats in Velour and Polo Cloth. All the desirable colormgs and designs. There’s a yaried assqrtment for your selection. Silvertones, Cheviots, Vel- ours, Sarges and Checks, a splendid variety, up to the minute in style, and running in value to $52.50. Rare $35.00 HOTELS \ American House D. MORRISSEY, Prop. | $22.50 Shatucket Street | and opened my mouth full width and said for the information of any con- cerned—said it hilariously . and -ex-I ultingly ‘but, I hope devoutly, too? Thank God I'm a farmer Brethren and sisteren: “It’s just ex-! actly as easy to say “Thank the Lord,” as it is to say “Dum the luck;” J easy to shout “Hurrah” as it'is blubber “Boo-hoo.” And it’s one hundred per cent. more satisfactory to one’s -self as well as Del-Hoff Hotel Telephone 1227 bargains. Women’s and Misses’ Dreudt A splendid collection of at- - tractive frocks, in Tricotine, Jersey, Velvet and Silks. - A good selection of very recent models is offered in this sale. $49.50 Coats For Only $35.00 Very handsome models in Sil- vertone and Velour, in the best colorings. There are several styles, some trimmed ,EUROPEAN PLAN HAYES BROS, Props. 26-23 Broadway $35.00 tith fur. Values to $49.50. Values as high as $35.00, $25.00 PIANC TUNERS two hundred -per cent. more cheerful for the bystanders. “Bad weather?” said once:. “There isn't any ‘bad weather” There are different kinds of good weather, that’s all.” THE FARMER. a wise man, such thing as DEVELOPMENTS OF RAILWAYS coiEmOne The Newest Short Coats Handsome Georgette Phone 833:2 FREDERICK T. BUNCE The Piano Tuner Blouses Sheer Georgette of “beautiful “quality was used in these Sporty little short Ooats: néw and fetching in style. Silver- b TS AL tone and Polo Cloth, in NEARLY AT A STANDSTILL Chicago, Jan. 1.—Statistics compiled by the Railway A show that the ear 1920 begins th the : develops ment of the railways of the United State: arer a complete standstill than at time since. the first rail was laid in America. “In the year 1919.” s ¢ Age, “the total mi built 'in the United States was Rafl» the | Copenhagen, Reindeer, and charming Blouses, both white Brown. Values to $35.00. and colored. A .variety of very pretty models is offered, in values to $7.00. $25.00 Coats For Children For childrenfrom 8 to 14, we show a con- siderable number of very attractive coats, TUNER BYRON A, WIGHTMAN it 11 Alice Sireet $5.00 All of our handsome Dress Skirts Have 686 miles. This is the smallest fig- ure which has ever been recorded. hy this paper. Furthermore, it does-not in sturdy weaves and good colorings: The [}. been reduced in price for this Economy SOOKBINDING represent a net increase.in mileage. During the year 689 miles of main railway were - abandoned for opera- tion “The statistics regarding the num- s and cars ordered some striking new low records. Blank Books iade and Ruled to Order «Sale. - In the lot you will find novelty | plaids, checks, and serges, with all the lat- | est style features. Reduced 25 Per Cent. young miss would be proud to own one of them. Reduced _25 Per CénL BOOKBINDER JOSEPH BRADFORD 108 Broadway this r the smallest -number vear for liams ‘were the guests Christmas Ofi the railways of the United States since|3i. and Mrs. Herbert Bosworth. 1951 wag €360, this being the mum. | ait ana " Mre Are, west ot § HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF EINE, SHEER VOILE BLOUSES IN her ordered in 1802 In the year 1919 [ Springfield, Mass.. and- Mr. and Mrf. the nnmber by private car lines as is shown. that by the fact that 14,895 of the ‘total ordeérs were for tank cars.” MAN AND WIFE MADE SUICIDE DOUBLY SURE mas. Mr. and Mrs, H. L. Lec of Boiton | s eagles s Jan. 1. — Thelcenter were gu ristmas of Rev. ! hodies ‘of Georgs ‘B. Sincinir, 61, in- | oon Srrn oy ventor of musical instruients, and his| s watSh night ¢ { i n'| wife, Margaret Sinclair, 55, were found | 1o Mothodist. church, | New Year's| in the breakfast room of their home] cye. { Apparently they had died from | fumes emitted by a gas hedt- er tn an adjoining room. BOLTON NOTCH i Sinclair came here about six monthis Tirgro was a. Christmas tree at the ago from Boston, where wor vears heil . M. ¥, church Wednesday| was vice president of the Choral Cel- | piSi™ e & dt o The . Sunday | 1o Manufacturing Company.” The house was tightly closed and every room was filled with the deadly. mixture of gas and. air, Food was found on the table and police said an anaylsis of this would be.made to determine whether poisen other than gas had not heen first.-em- ployed by a possible murderer. PRESIDENT CARRANZA MAKES CHANGES IN THE ARMY Jan, 1- Newspapers received here from Saltillo, Mexico, say that President Carr—mm of Mex- lco has ordered the removal of Gen- eral Francisco I\Iargula from command of the federal troobs in Coahuila and has sent General Manuel Uquizo to relieve /him. The remoyal was order- ed, it is said, because Murgyia failed to “engage Villa in battle after the Muzquiz raid. Those who khow Mur- guia say that he will not relinquish his command at Carranza’s order and point to the fact that he is very close to Espinosa Mireles, governor of Coa- huila, who recently broke with Car- ranza. No definite information to that effect has been received here, how- WARRENVILLE Mr. and Mrs. Jack Arnold and broffier spent the week-end with Mrs. Arnold’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A: M. Bassett. Earl E. James. returned Susday to his work in Boston after spending Christmas ang the week-end with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. B. L. James. Carpline Lawton is employed at the American Thread company's board- ing house in Willimantic. The body 6f Charles Clark of West Ashford was laid to rest in the Snow cemetery Tuesday. i Ashford Grange, No. 90, gave -thej third and fourth degrees to a class of | seven Saturda yevening last, I Mildred Ban Antonio, a: Miss Julia Baker, Anna Wrikht and Roy A, James of W. H. S. spent their Christmas recess with their parents in this village. Misses Alice F. Burrill and Bertha Burrill were guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. James during the holidays. The Babapck Cornet band is now holding its meeting in the club room of the Who-Dos, Miss Minnie Powell is spending the vacation with her parents in Sher- wman, Conn. Walter Carpenter of ‘New Haven made a business trip- to this village Monday. Mrs, Lizzie Noel entertaineq Mrs. Ellen Mathewson at dinner Christ- mas. | Saes SHES STAFFORDVILLE JThere.wis a Christmag tree and en- tertainment held in me M. . church CI ‘Eve. N ”‘Mhis Mtaréo!;l s’}t‘;l;‘n:r ufhl:ston was 6 gues i of paren Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Turner. " o Mrs, Sarah Smith is ill with pneu- monia .and has been taken to the Johnson. hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bnnou and Mn!. F. H..Ballou, o! H: and _Mrs. G. Miller, - d Mrs. A 8, Goodell, Mr. an and auughter. ‘Ethel -‘IH-G. and Mrs. Philadelp] Mrs. Philo West over Christmas. Mr. and rs. Harold Tallman - of Worcester, Mass.. were gu of Mr. and Mrs. John Rishton over Christ- school anad the scl hnol children recit-} ing and singing. the Sunday school and school children ROUND OR SQUARE.COLLAR - DESlGNS WHICH ARE WORTH EYBRYCENTE $905 7 s ibits Herbert West and som, off @, Wweré‘guests=of “Mr. dnd| $L75 FURS AND FUR COATS AT SMASHING REDUCTIONS All the members of ed gifts. V\du‘ Howard from New Yotk M h McPherson D in Manches- | village. ter over Sunday. A, P. Rich. Several from this vieinity attended | Ice on the ponds is mearly thick B with het| Mrs. M. E. Howard and Miss Ma- | the party at the home of Mr. and Mrs.| enough to be harvested. . ; Howard, returnediye] Howarq were Hartford visiting|D- S. Guile, last Friday evening. | James Smith was in Boston Men- e Monday. Monday. Mrs, ‘Clara Blanchard . spent | gay, Chrigtmas with friends. in\Taftville. Ice -houses about here- are ,being. , icke = wyer ang son HAk- | M vand Mre: Cllbence Daily-and little son from Plymouth, visited at Loren_Maine's” over Christmas, Clar- ence Daily is Mrs. Maine's grandson. Mrs. Sanford Pratt is ill, Miss Gladys Andrews, of Danielsen, spent Christmag and the- week-end with_her 1)urents Mr, and Mre Oliver Andritws, filled with ice of good thickmess. R. Button and family attended} ¢ Maine / at. E. Benjamin’s. Wednes- were at’ Cla guests at . Mrs. s Corner, on GLASGO Miss Mabel' Blanchard returned home Sunday after spending Christ- mas and the remainder of the week Brookfield.— A despatch received Woodward was a from Minneapolis announces thé res- s Corners _Bernice Smith, visitor EAST KILLINGLY i - V3 ignation of Marion L: Burton as preg- ville, ig| M2 R S, John S. Chase recently lost a hog|'8N& ing at M. W. jwith relatives in North Stonington. |5t weighed nemrly Kve hundred | ident of the University of Minnesota Mrs. Loren Maine visited.her sls-| The winter term of school will open|pounds. to accept the presidency of the Uni- ter, Carl:Cooley in Forestville Tues-!in Glasgo scheol Monday, Jan. 5. Mr. and Mrs. Luther G. Andrews,|versity of Michigan. Mr. Burton was ay. 8 Miss Ddith Tift is spending two|of Occum, were guests Christmas of | pastor of the Congregational chureh in ‘Willlam Skinner visited his cousin, | weeks’ vacation at her home in the|Mrs. Andrews’ parents, Mr. and Mrs.| Brookfield Center a few years ago. 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