Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-05-01


barrel and potatoes five for five cents
and unfit for food at that. Even
then, this was considered pretty hard
shedding. so they pulled up stakes ana
moved - the Iowa firm. Now let me
quote a few lines from TINS OLD iowa
farmers reco1lections.-
There We're 10 towns no railroads,
no wagon roads. our groceries we got
in Dubuque. 107 miles away. Not an
other soul within twenty miles Then
McGregor sprdng up % miles away
and we had our market nearer. TX
teams only We're in use at the time anu
we drew all our grain by OK team to
McGrego- our hotel was under the
wagon. rain or snow. and We gpt plenty
of both There We're no reapers, no
threshing -machines, all work being
done by hand Let us now
compare prices and wages; We sold
our wheat for from IS to As cents
bsishel our hogs for from 81 to $500
per hundred dressed. My brother and
| worked on the same farm. Being
married h. got IS month: l was
younger and received "a month. We
cut all our hay with the scythe and
all our grain with the cradle.
Wheat IS cents bushel! My yes
terday's paper told of some Iowa
farmers Who, in this year 1903. were
holding their wheat against offers OF
SIPS bushel. expecting t. get Slo0.
Eight dollars month wages Tor q
married man! And last summer the
Kansas wheat-g growers were Offering
$3.50 a day. in vain, for laboI to get
I'm their crop. The other day one of
nv nei2hl.,'s, who had Just been COM
PEELED to pay IS a barrel for flour. de-
clared that he and his family would
have to go TO the poor-house, If the
present COURAGEOUS rObbing of the
4 .ls.fF I'D Iftr~
light him if he could go back 10 the
zine old times Of 1854 when it was
selling at st. Louis for 81 barrel.
don't want to be understood as
preaching a doctrine of self-satistied
content with things as they arc
Saints forbid If Tubal Gain had reen
cortented to use horn spoon, like his
ancestors. he meyer would have origi-
mated the iron and steel industry.
Every time / use my iack-knlt I'm
glad he wasn't willing to stick to horn
and flint as 1901 material. If Watt
| had been content To turn his mothers
mangie he wouldn't have invented the
steam engine. If all the farmers had
| been contented to keep on using the
| old scythe we Should have had no
moving machines. IF every one had
been content to go all his journeys on
| horse back along mere bride paths
we should have had no highways and
no railroads. 1t is discOntent,-cis-
and determination to have them bet
ter which pulls and pushes the world
| forward and upward i'm its Keeling zig
gag toward the growing glories of a
really golden Future
Let's be thankfu! for all the discon-
tent there is,-so long as it acts as a
I IN eahiAv-l.f1oAVr and
nor as a stubborn. back holding an
| chor nrcd in a muddy past. The dis
content which fronts ahead and brave
| ~ determines that tomorrow shall be
better Than today is lie handspring ol
| progress and in its virile, perseverlng
vigor is the only hope Of the ages.
But the discomfort which siumps into
gelatinous dcsuetude which, eitaer
| feebly or fGssetfully but always false
/ Nv sniVels about decadence from Il bet
| ter past and whispers hopelessness of
| the future,-THAT discomfort is ds
pitiful as any other form Of idiocy,
cOngenital or self-dcvelOped.
Doctors tell me there is such a
thine as self induced" sickness. BY
4 which they do not mean believe
| sickness. but the real thing only that
| It is brought on by the patients own
weak or wicked viii. Almost any one
I can OCNelOp Il pam iil MS niger ny
/ thinking its sore. long enough and
| hard enough Some people say YOU
| can abolish an actual pain BY just
| thinking It doesn't exist. However
| that may be. fl is reasonably sure that
| a part of the color Of the world is due
| to the eyes which look at it, And it
is always brighter to the eyes Of hope
than to the eyes of regret; always
SUMMER to those who face the east and
the stn-rising than to those who sadly
! peer into an eternal sunset.
The present is better than the past:
| this newborn May is better than
| spattery April. 1909 is better than
1909: the twentieth century is better
| than the tenth century; today Is better
! than yesterday and tomorrow, thank
| Coo has in it the promise Of some
thing better still. If ii isn't better
all, stop right there and think sober
~ q moment-it it isn't better whose
fault will it be- Whose but our own
What can you do to make it better
Bless YOU. dear heart, how can 7 tell.
But there's an old English saying
| which. in its quaint spelling may sug-
gest thought to-yOu Doe We neXte
Thy Hsze.
TIE FARMER