Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 14, 1920, Page 2

(Weitten Specially For The Bulletin.) to ome poet—Mr. Tennyson, 1 *a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remambering happler things." Contrariwise and ‘tother-end-to, ¥ perhaps & sorrow's cure of SOrrow consist In recalling unhappier (thing=. If mot, why not? Anyway, the l.-h'- of that observation lies in the it, as Captain Cuttle's Cautlous Clara was wont 48 remark. And one bearin' lies in the Abeetion of our ever-present problem, /the H-C-L. gmall use trying to get away away from that engrossing topic Jength of time. Indeed, why ' one seribbler up here in the to keep away from it? it the chief gubject of discussion mnd diatribe wherever two or three hap- Peh to meet? Whether in country or in ¥ Hamn't it largely taken prece- Sf the weather as the subject of eomment in casual street meet- “Goin' to rain?’ used to be query to fall back on “What's you payin' fer : \engar; pow?" Or, “Had yer rent raised agh, yet? Or, “Get that last jump in ahT" #aid my neighbor as e two-pound bag of common, -day sugar in and carefully depos- it om the kitchen table. “There's cents” wath of sweetenin' for ve. the love o' Mike go easy with it there an’t no more at the store and it'll probably be a dollar when another bag ! 1 i in. *“Huh" snorted the new voter from the pantry, “twenty-five cents a pound what we used to git for six cents!” | with sudden and ominous empha- EVEN IF OUTLOOK IS BAD, CONDITIONS BEEN WORSE as it sis: “What d'je get for them potatoes “Four dollars 'nd a half, you sold?” by erikey,” responded John. -“And ought to a' heard 'em kick when they paid it” This gives you both sides of the sit- mation, as seen hy the man behind the Bverything he has'to buy is high, scarce, and of poor quality. Wherefore he is mad most of the time. ‘THe pota- toes he has to sell are also high,’ scarce according’ to rumior, bf poor qual- Wherefore the other fellow. is mad plow. and, the time. And there you have.it. wonder the matter i the- main sub of interest and conversation. The war has been over for almost two years, people say, and yet there seems | HAVE ing®and more than susgestive mo matter. from what markets they were drawn. For instance, it appears that, in those years between 1865 and 1888, he paid for flour $23.50 @ barrel; for sugar 37 cents a pound; for tea $2.10 a pound; for calico 50 cents a yard. He sold po- tatoes for 35 a bushel; wool for $1.70 a pound; hogs for $15.60 a hundred; butter for 70 cents a pound, and. cotfon, if he happened to raise that ,for $1.64 a pound. 1 do not remember much about the prices acourately very charged here- abouts for similar- supplies at that time. But T do remember that on this farm and those of near;by nelghbors tea.and coffee cost so much that their use was temporarily abandoned and all sorts of substitutes, from parched corn to sweet fern leaves, pressed into service. And that sugar was so dear no one thought of buying anything but the sticky, brown sort, nor of using thdt except gkimping- |1y and seldom. Also, that my mother and sister used to fish patching material for their kitchen aprons out of the rag bag, because new gingham or even cali- co was so high they couldn't afford to buy. Especially do I recall that my'partic- ular Stars and Stripes Which floated de- fiantly from the summit of our highest “knoll” ‘was made of old blue cambric, discarded white sheeting and an aban- dohed red flannel petticoats, rescued from that same rag-bag and sewed into some semblance .of a flag, because we couldn’t find at the country store either bunting or other material out of which o make it at any price we could afford. I also recall that, one of those same high-price years, my father raised, ¥ No. ect phenomenal crop of watermelons. This is not ordinarily a Watermelon country. to be no lowering in high priges. In-|py¢ that year a dozen or two hills rip- stead, the evident’ tendency s stfll up- | snsq wagon-loads of the melons—huge ward., Where'll ‘it all end? What's go- i its, as much superior to the in' o become of us, anyWay?, And the | e, IS A5 i a incontinent public is getting very hot in its_Dbearinge, Well, in this state ‘of widespread dis- content there may be some sort of leviation found for our discemfort in fact that things have been worse even vapid southern things you buy at mar- ket as a tree-ripened Glastonbury peach is supérior to a California apple ‘of So- dom. And the governor couldn’t sell ‘em at any price! We ate and ate ahd ate, till we came near bursting; we gave ‘em away to any who would come after al- the | than they are now. “Don't believe it,” | them: we oven carried two or three some ove ejacilates. “Couldn’t have | joady’ 1o the village and donated them been worse. The whole country would i have blown up if .they had been.” more by accident than design, a simply | Nevertheless, it old account books tell | the truth, they have been worse, and yet the country has managed = to survive without any serious fracture. A writer in Better Farming has been hunting up some of the prices his records show were charged for necessaries of life in 1865- 68, after the close of the Civil war. I infer that the figures he quotes were for the middle west, and they doubtless varied somewhat in other parts of the country. But they are highly illuminat- Always bzars the Signature of CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years | ATz A Major Sport. A% Sounds rather queer that Yale *i<a- ognition of rifle shoot'ng as a mi~ = sport” . Five years of watching it cr participating in it convinced sev «z! | hundred. " toote bright, well dié of _something more m.b't'g than the hook-worm, even if Worst comes to worst. 5 : _THE FARME Who 1 quite as much as the humans. Apparently, then, those years of & half 480 a i ced blug as- _Weils Reclgim Desert Things looked just as :q as—well, as| I Wells Reclgim Degert. wets marked by about as | they do how, we'll say, . | has Déen Fe-Efided of re-paved or fe-| How the farmers of southern Utah |major sport—bu T remarkable pj as anything we now Yet, 0w, . the snarls untangled | pridged or made pract for the ' ape R experience. ¥ certainly weré tough themiselves in course of time, clouds | gpeedy passage of high-por ana uxe arfg’ conguering the Escanlante desert 3 ¥ and cjuhvum‘Ib{: into a region of fer- | Every mam krows $oo many thi ¥ tility, Js now belng told e trayeler buginess. vears for farmer men. . Yet we . lived |blew over, the sun came out, aad We fuflous “probbly ubout that are none of his. through them. Prices eventually began |Ofce more regained capacity to sit up | the same old trail And we who try ® | riging 4o California as he-looks from to climb down. They droppéd faster and | and take our nourishment, ravel it, Or We who hunt up shomt-cutk | the w; w af his Pullman. faster tifl, twenty-five or thirty years| The same kind Providence Which is|end byways, afe afl going (o find either Bleven years ago a settlement was later, they struck botfom. Feputed to temper the winds to the shorn | one a hard road to negotiate. e 2 it -eighteen milés east of Here are some, also western; quota- |12mb has, thus far, looked out for chil- Being the case, don't let's be- Ente: dren, fools—and the Unifed Staies. Per- 'n when we hear the as Enterprisc. The tions for supplies bought in 1895-97: Ov- stufdy farfers establishéd themselves eralls, 45 cents; Shaes $1.50; coftee 20 | Baps it will continue to do so. e e o e |t the milith of a great cagon. doing cents a pound; sugar 5 cents 2 pound;{ §# there's any living man or woman SHL Dl - |so use they could build there, a fihe flour $6.50 a barrel; flannel shirts|among my readers who can say worse Cemity oHiies to J tew miles from their toyn, a large 25 cents apiece. And here are prices at | things than T-can think about the com- | gyt (hayive Déen licked to a fraszle sev- éatch-Basin réservoir de: to im- Which farm products sold in Iowa, about | bination of governmental incapacity| eral times and—what man has done man | POund the flood-water drdinage from that simie time: Egas, two dozen for 15| profiteering greed, and mobocfatie un- | con do, - the mountains above. cents; butter 10 cents a pound; beef on reason (which has brought us to our present condition I'd like to mest him and enlarge my veeabulary. But, land sakes, what's the use of snivelling over spilt milk? Or how will it-expedite our journey to stand beside the broken bridge and swear at the road commis- sioner? In the one ease, we'd ~bettér hustle round for more milk to fill the can. In the other, we'll do ourselves more good by hunting up two or three planks and patching the bridge Into temporarily passable shape. It “we could all be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease the pilgrimage to the Happy Hunting Grounds would he more popular than it is, There Would be many more headed that way. But the one immortal Pilgrim Whose Dros- Tess thitherward has been narrated for Following the completion of the res- mu.: they put under :uccusfu:dcum; val 5,000 acres on the edge of Bt Bcalanic. Bcacrt. Phe ooll " was very rich, and today shade and fruit trees and great alfalfa fields bear si- lent but eloquent testimony of success; But always a cloud upon the prospeet the hoof $2 to $4 a hundred; hogs $2.50 a hundred; potatoes 12 cents a bushel; wool 11 cents a pound; wieat 40 cents 2 bushel, and corn 15 cents a bushel. In- deed, corn fell lower than even that at some places, where farmers who were offered only 4 cents a bushel for it, shelled, deliberately burned thousands of bushels for fuel, because it Was cheaper than either Wood or. coal There are ssme of us still cumbering the earth with our presenee Who lived through those earlier days of sky-rock- eting prices in the 1860's. There must be many of us who lived through the starvation prices of the 1880's. it sure does take a good deal to kill us when we've once got into the habit of living! But life wasn't one grand, sweet song The #ime for good seamanvhiy to show itself i3’ when the séa T8 highest and the storm most furious. The fimeé for good eltizenship to manifest itself is when the old ship of state is in seem- ingly sorest straits, Pulliig through will depend “chiefly on thee things a godt skipper ahd & good crew and £ood Jubk. | was the fear of a year of drought. W?';v‘i:'*m“hg;: ;:;'e"znm“mv; “Fulg Tear materiaiiied Tast year, with se % 3 For the Jast we can cantipue to trust in r‘ JBlpeuniy dey - sopme: and grestly 2 g diminished crops. Late in the summer Providence, Which has never falled us, |tne farmers determined to prospect for ok an “u 4 water flow, with the There is certainly such growad for fii’:“ that a'dogen successful wells pessimisnt. - No “sane man will hem,uf have been bored disclosing the exist- to admit that thingé look bad. My only [ence of a wonderful water supply ly- point, this mornifg, Is that they've |Ing upon some inpervious stratum deep “looked bad” sévefal tiffies béfore, with-|in the soil along the edge of the desert. out the evil prospect terminating in a|—Popular Méchanies. for thie skin that the new-born ‘baby can be safely bathed with it. ‘Every cake carefully wrapped in Foil. TRY A 3-CAKE BOX to us either time. It couldn’t have been. |y hag, it 1 remember rightly, to wallow | smash-up. 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