The Newtown bee., 1894-05-25
WARREN.
A MAN WHO MAKES FARMING PAY

A MAN WHO MAKES FARMING PAY.
 Among the young men who have not deserted the Warren farms, is Finley P. Knapp. who carries on the farm of his father, the late A. c. Knapp He has dairy of 20 cows, and is now sending three cans day. His milk brought him in $70 last month. The largest amouny he has received any one month was year ago in January, when his milk check amounted to $19S.75. MT Knapp IS an energetic worker, and succeeds in making farming pay.
 Jay Elwell will paint the house of Patrick Duggan. Mir Duggan made many improvements about his place dur ing the fall and early winter.
 Patrick Duggan visited his daughter in Kent, last week Saturday.
 Notwithstanding the unfavorable price received for tobacco, William Breen will raise an acre and half, this year. Rain. Rain.t Rain.!! The rain has come. It is welcomed. The response of nature is universal, clear and trans parent as crystal. The rain touches Sabbath had a marvellous effect upon Sabbath worship, not positively but negatively, yet we fail to hear the man or woman to complain, except in rare instances. Ten or eleven acres of corn right here in the Center. were planted | ,ust as the rain began. This will facili- tate it's sprouting. The corn fields are l more numerous in town than in many l long years, which is good token. Corn ! will grow here and corn is always useful | for fowl, the barn creatures, and even those who dwell in houses. It furnishes | backbone, nerve and muscle. We never ! cf1lnan n if Whpthpr if iC uCpH fF produce with rye, the old New England l brown bread, or the more delicate and ! refined corn starch pudding, or hominy | or occasionally hulled, and whole.
 The blind piano tuner was in town oI
 Saturday and did good work at the par | sonage, somewhat prolonged as in many things, owing to his blindness, he k
 obliged to work through an assistant 1 but honestly and faithfully he tries to dc
 a good jOD, and so earn an honest living | When we read about John Metcalf, com
 monly known as ''Blnd Jack of Knares ! borough. He was a successful competi l tor with other surveyors in projecting roads and contracting for them over dis tricts presenting numerous impedimeuts As contractor he carried roads across
 morasses and over mountains. He acted | as guide in hunting, racing, buying anc selling horses. John Cough was an
 other. He was an accomplished botan | ist.- He examined, discriminated, anC
 arranged his plants with the greatest ac
 curacy. Ordinary plants were knowr by him by the touch of his fingers l Those that were new he examined il 1 their various parts, by the tip of hi tongue. He was a voluminous writer chiefly on the subject of natural philoso
 phy. Think of Laura Bridgman. Sure ly some of the blind put to blush those that have perfect sight. Our sense O sight is not half educated. Sir Johr Gower is famed as one of the early Eng fish poets. Henry the minstrel, record ed the exploit of Sir William Wallace
 Dr Saunderson held the office of Lucasi
 an professor at Cambridge, England
 Such was the vigor of his mind tha
 when young man all he wanted was { book and a reader, on any subject t. l which he desired to devote himself Dr Blacklock was another. We'll wha of it? You say I'm farmer, what car'
 I for this? Or I'm a mechanic wha good will that do me? Or I'm a mer
 chant, or teacher and what profit vii it be to me? You have hit the nail ol the head. What is the use of knowin
 any thing? Why not be an ignoramu and sit down in it. It is the privilege 0 every man or woman born, to make hi or her mark in the world, and leave tn l world better and wiser because the
 have had part in it. Leaving foot
 prints on the sands of time, that ma
 give heart and nerve and impulse t
 some forlorn and shipwrecked brother
 man. Seeing which he may take hear II again.