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Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10

Why, when ! take Old Badly to the
blseksmith's shop 10 be shod, all the
shoes hanging up on the ceiling sleep
ers look about alike to me. To be
sure I can SEE that some are a little
bigger and heavier than others. but
that's about all. The farrier. however,
knows a whole lot about those shoes
= hich ] never dreamed Of. He'll take
q casual squint at Old Baldy's shoe
lass foot. pick up his hook and walk
under a certain row Of shoes till he
Genes 70 exactly the right one TO fit
the of hind foot. Bless you, ] couldn't
tell when he sticks that shoe into the
FIRE whether its steel or iron, or
whistler it's too long or too short. or
whether IL belongs on 4 fOre-fopt or
hind one. But he knows his business
and his trained eye tells him with abb
sclute certainty. at a glance. what it
would take him an hour to explain to
me Probably | shouldn't be able to
tel thu right shoe for the right foot.
next time. even after he had lectured
inc. II takes skill and practice. as
well as knowledge, even 70 pick out
horseshoe.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10

Bristol.-The annual gathering of the
old Mems association, comprising all
mon Of IS years of age or over in
Southiuston. PlairysNe and Bristol,
will take r-~~@ . Eonpoi7ce next
Monday
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10

Orange and Apple Salad-Cut in
small piece two oranges and one ap-
pie and serve on lettuce leaf with a
dash Of good pecan nuts, and oil or
salad dressing.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10

As an amusement, for those city
DenpIe who can afford it. | confess
that playing at farming seems to me
a vastly more sensible and cTeditable
way of spending money than horse
racing or playing poker or swilling
champagne For men without capital,
gaining their daily bread by daily la
Dor. farming is a trade which must be
learned like any other, before they
can earn their salt at it. 1 take back
no word I have ever said about the
desira bility of the back to the land"
movement But there's reason in all
things. 1 do not believe that the man
who has acquired a fortune by man
ufacturing cotton goods has therefore
necessarily qualified himself to teach
the agricultural millions farming. Nor
do ] believe that the thin muscled
bookkeeper at go per" who has ac-
quired permanent stoOp-shoulders at
his desk, has thereby qualified him
self to earn a living, first-off, on any
little place in the country"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10

But for one such success, if the
truth. tn whole truth ana nothing but
the truth could be established. / fancy
We should hear Of a dozen dismal or
ridiculous failures. Mind YOU. I'm
talking Of farming as a business and
6. means Of livelihood. not as a fad nor
an amusement. Anybody can farm it,
81 he doesn't care how much II costs
nor how much he gets out of 1t. But
when q man is set down on q small
New England farm. without capital
and required to get out OF it enough
rroft to support himself and family
Lsy taxes, educate the children and lay
by something for the rainy day
tnen dearly beloved. he has got to
scratch gravel" He has got to know
how 70 scratch gravel and what gravel
!: viii pay him 20 scratch. And all his
scratching won't raise beans, unless
Re knows his business-Nnows the
technical side of it," 10 use Mr.. Spill
mans phrase.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10

Not many miles from me is farm
which is fenced with solid. huge stone
walls. The owners fancy stock does
not get out Dyer them nor do stray
animals breakvin But how does this
solution of the fence problem help me?
1 must make my farm earn it's fences
before l can build them. This man
paid for his with the profits from his
city banking business. His farm hasn't
actually earned him enough in ten
years. over expenses. to pay Tor ten
rods of his fence. Nearer still is a
city merchants country home. He
goes in for gardening somewhat ex-
tensively. He employs a trained pro
fessional gardener at high wages; he
buys manure and sends it up from
town by the carload; he buys his COM
mercial fertilizers the same way-and
he has a mighty fine garden, now let
me tell you'll But the only effect 1t
has on me is to make me env1ous OF
his financial ability to create a good
garden without caring a straw how
much il costs him, or whether he gets
his money back or not
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10

TNnAV will be the Last Day of the
AVOHA Special Sale of JeweIry
Hundreds Of pieces of JeweIry-resu-
IL for Csc.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10

OF course. there are city men who
come 20 the country and actually make
splendid successes at farming. I've
read or several such, though I own up
that ] never happened TO rub elbows
with one. ] should like to see one in
fhe flesh and talk with him and learn
how he has done IL from his own lips
end the set Of his own jib. But in de
fault Of this personal touch, ! am will
snR 20 credit some part OF the stories
Z read. While 7 don't religiously be-
iisve everything / see Tin print the
fact remains that a great deal of
truth a really tremendous lot of il.
does get into print. and there are gen
erally more or less clear strata OF
truth in all the newspaper stories We
read. Too many are "embellished'
opsrmuch with the flowers OF the re-
porteI>s fancy. or the weeds of his ig-
torance but they are seldom pure fic-
tion. all he way through. So ] arr
constrained to believe that some city
bred immigrants 10 the country have
Rctuallv made good in their new vo-
cations Such a famous case as that
~ Terry. he Ohio potato grower. can't
fe pooh pooiled out Of court. The ev-
fdenca Is too voluminous
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10

But, really, It is no great heIp 70 me
to be shown how much better and cas-
Ter ! could do things if / had larger
capital to work with. These people
generally start off by sinking more
money. i'm getting ready to begin, than
| have. or could beg, borrow, or steal.
They build barns / couldn't pay for,
and buy tested and certified COWS
that l couldn't afford to associate
with and like my old friend of the
model dairy of whom 1 once wrote,
produce bang-up, good milk, at a cost
of four cents a quart more than they
can get for it. This, of course, is very
nice. but 1t isn't farming, as we ordi-
nary hayseeds must farm. AS was
once said of a certain piece of QuiXot-
ic chivalry, It's magnificent. but it
isn't war"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10
The City Tackle Doesn't Fit Farm Work

'em. Especially those who do not
undertake to tell me where you farm
ers make your big mistake" had
one once who, having made a success
of his city business, seemed to think
himself invested with authority to
teach Us how to farm it. He has been
promoted since and is now, l pre-
sumo, teaching the seraphs how 10
sing "Hallelujahs." Thus far, he mas
had no successor in my bishoprlc
Most of them come to the country Tor
pleasure and not for profit. ana don
undertake to reform all our Woilteu
agricultural methods the first sea
SON But there are others VINO 90
more or less farming, of the sort usu-
ally described as fancy l know IL
is customary to speak of these people
as if we working farmers owed them
a debt for putting us next to varl-
Gus improved methods. And l pre-
sumo we have learned some things
from their experimentations-s
things TO do as well as some things
to avoid.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10

SUPPOSE that by ''the technical side
Of farming" is meant just knowing
Y, hat 10 do when 10 do Il. how 10 do
a. and what 10 do il with. II you'll
remember some weeks ago I talked
little about this general subject. and
a. pressed an opinion that the technical
side OF farming called for more know
ledgs and skill and practice than most
people seem willing TO give ii credit
e.. I'm a bit licked 10 find this de-
Tsrtn1en. authority substantiating my
argument.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10
The Porteous & Mitchell Co.

Commencing Today we will have a
seven day sale cf Notions and Small
Wares. This is not an offering Of a
few odds and ends-buE involves a
broad and comprehensive sale Of every
day needfuis-and it is offered at a
time when these needs are greatest
Don't miss this Sale-iE means sure
and substantial savings for all who
take advantage of it,
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-10

written Specially for The Bulletin)
ds,pa lch from Washington in some
o. asst Saturday mornings papers in
tsrested me not little. Perhaps it
will also prove suggestive to some Of
NY hard handed fellows of the variety
known as working farmers" Here
IL Is.
The department of agriculture ex-
perts have concluded that the city man
may make a living as a farmer, but
that FOR several reasons he is more
likely 70 fail W. j. Spillman. of the
department Of farm manag sment. says
that the city man who tries farming
confronts a hard proposition and
though Z is possible for him to make
81 q success the result is a failure III
the majority of cases.
The city man. says Mr.. Spllllnan-
is being hard pressed To- make both
ends meet II is but natural then that
he should look toward the country. Blu,
IS a rule he tackles a job that il too
hard for him. and usually ends in fail
IRE. because Of Inability 10 grasp the
farhuft.al side Of farming.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19
SCORNED IN HOUSE OF DADDY
Port Rates, Pet Hobby of Atlanta
Freight Bureau, Was not Mem
toned at Big Eat.

N 0S dig AAetl'
ATLANTA, Ga.-The annual meet
ing and banquet of the Atlanta
Freight Bureau held at the Kimball
House last night was as notable an
affair for the subjects it did not dis
cuss as for the matters discussed.
There were only two after dinner
speakers, Railroad Commissioner
Murphy Gambler and William A.
Wimbish, general counsel of the bu-
Teau
Ex-Governor Hoke Smith was pres
ent and an interested listener, but
his voice was not heard
In all that was said there was not
a word about the so-called port
rate" which has been the pet hobby
of the bureau for years, and which
has engendered so much political
strife in the past.
There was no word of criticism
for the present state administration.
whose chief was, for his adverse vote
upon port rates" dismissed from
one office and subsequently elevated
to the one he now holds
The apparent desertion of the
port rate" in the house of it's friends
would seem to indicate that even
here the famous boyle is recognizes
Jas a dead one," and that no effort
will soon be made to resuscitate it
as an issue in Georgia politics. Con-
siderable surprise was felt that i'm
none of the reports of officers. nor
in the speeches, was any reference
made to a question, to the agitatiom
.of which the bureau owed it's origin
and the attainment Of which it has
sought so actively for years.
Mr.. Gamblers speech was a very
able resume of the work which the
railroad commission has accom-
plished during the last year. He
showed how the act of 1907 had in
creased the duties of the commission
and vastly added to the burden of
work imposed upon it's members.
When the speaker had finished hM
formidable array of figures showing
the work done there was no doubt
left in the minds of any one present
that the commissioners have been
earning their salaries. Mr.. Gambler
concluded with some recommends
ton to still further extension of
the commissions powers along GER
tain lines. These, he said, were his
own individual suggestions, and he
did not undertake to speak in any
sense for the whole board
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19
POTATOES TO BURN.
The Sweet Variety May Yet Furnish
Fuel in Southern States.

The Sweet Variety May Yet Furnish
Fuel in Southern States.
The department of agriculture has
come along with some good news
for those citizens in southern Indi-
ana who, when arrested last fall for
conducting blind tigers" set up as a
defense that they had become intoxi-
Gated from eating Watermelons. The
department has not yet analysed the
Indiana brand of melons, but it as
serts that there is a Jag" in the
Georgia melons.
OF course it is carefully concealed,
and much care and labor is required
to extract it, but it is there Just the
same. The department has proved
this beyond doubt. Out of 100
pounds of watermelons experts in
chemistry made one-tenth of a gal
lon of alcohol. They also have con-
victed the humble sweet potato of
possessing another spree. Secretary
Wilson announces that the depart
ment has been experimenting with
every sort of fruit and vegetable con-
tanning sugar, the purpose being to
develop the cheapest kind of dena-
tured alcohol for use as fuel. OF
course, it is impossible to extract this
alcohol in paying quantities from
melons, but it is hoped to do so from
sweet potatoes.
The experiments have been made
to benefit the seacoast portion of the
south, from Virginia down the At
lantic and Florida and along the gulf.
Sweet potatoes can be grown cheapIy
in the sand of these sections. One
bushel of sweet potatoes will make
a gallon of alcohol. The product is
a better and cheaper fuel than ben
zine
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19
GOLDEN SPOON IN MOUTH.
Washington Baby Heir to Estates
Valued at Seventy Five Million.

Washington Baby Heir to Estates
Valued at Seventy-Five Million.
Although only a few weeks old
there is in Washington city a baby
boy, connected with many prominent
families and prospective heir to a
couple of fortunes aggregating $75,-
600, 700, who is attracting a great
deal of attention. The infant is a
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Beale
Mclean and a grandson of John r.
Mclean and Thomas F. Walsh.
The mite of humanity is too great
ly occupied with his own little baby
affairs to take any pride in the fact
that he has SO many distinguished
relatives, and many months will
elapse before he realizes that his sur
roundings in the palatia! home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walsh are more law
ishly beautiful than fall to the lot
of most infants. A corps of skilled
attendants supply his wants, and
many inquiries as to his welfare are
made every day, for the hopes of two
Of the most prominent families in the
country are united in him, and al
ready plans are being laid for his
future
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19
SLAP AT WILLIE HARDWICK
Back-Handed Compliments in Con-
nection With His John Jacob
AStOr Resolution.

Billie" Hardwick is getting some
vigorous back-handed compliments
paid him in connection with his res
olution of inquiry into the course of
the government in using the revenue
cutters to search for John Jacob AS
tor and his party when they were re-
ported lost in the tropical hurricane
some time ago The Boston Herald
hands Congressman Hardwick the
following:
No more striking example of dem
agogic effort to excite prejudice
against wealth and to attack the gov
eminent as the ally of wealth against
the masses of people has been af-
forded that the insinuation by a
Georgia congressman that the treas
ury department showed extraordinary
favor to Col. j. j. Astor in the search
for the yacht Nourmahal, reported
missing. The revenue cutter service
needs no defense. 1t is always ready
for the work of rescue on the coastal
seas, does not recognize perils, never
hesitates for an estimate of cost and
makes no distinction between the
common sailor and the millionaire
yachtman. In the last fiscal year
searches were made for 1856 ships,
1874 persons were taken from ship
wrecked vessels by the revenue ser
vice The battle for the rights of
the many against the undue privi-
leges of the few does not require nor
justify aspersions on the heroic work
Of the revenue cutter service"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19
GEv. WEAVER DIVINE HEALER
Former Greenback Candidate For
President to Devote the Rest of
His Days to the Cause.
DIES MONIES canoro1 ror,os

DIES MOINES.- General James B.
Weaver, once presidential candidate
of the Greenbackers, and twice of the
pOpulists, has turned divine healer.
He is now in his seventy-seventh
year
The General consented to head a
movement for a national convention
of divine healers to meet here next
spring, and he announced that he
proposed to devote the remainder of
his days to the cause. He asserted
that his own health has been re-
stored through prayer, and that he
only regrets his eyes were not opened
sooner to the faith. He has been
giving series of lectures on the
subject at local church
General Weaver was born in Day.
ton, o. When the civil war broke
out he enlisted as private and rose
to be brevetted brigadier-general for
gallantry on the field.
His political career began in 1878
when he was elected to congress on
the Greenback ticket, and two years
later he was made the party candi-
date for president, receiving 307,30
votes.
In 1884 he was again elected to
congress by a coalition or Green
hackers and democrats, but was de-
feated in 1888 by the colored miners
who had settled in his district.
On leaving congress he devoted his
attention to journalism, working
with eX-COngressman E. II. Gillette,
the editor of the Iowa Tribune, a
weekly organ of the Farmers Ali
anCe.
Then in 1892 he became the popu-
list candidate for president. General
Weaver ran again in 1896, but four
years later campaigned through the
middle west for Bryan.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19
PENSIONS 500 MEN.
Old Employees of the New York Gen.
trail on the Retired List.

Some weeks ago the New York
Central railroad management an
nounced that soon it would inaugur-
ate a pension system by which old
and incapacitated employees would be
retired. On Monday OF last week it
began the new year on it's main and
affiliated lines by retiring from ac-
tive service some 500 employees. The
new rule provides that all employees
shall be retired at the age of 70, and
those who have been ten years con-
tinuously in it's service Immediately
preceding retirement shall be PEN
stoned. The pensions depend as to
the amount of salary and length of
continuous service. For each year of
continuous service the retired en-
ploye is to receive one per cent. of
his salary. Thus an employe who
had been only ten years in service
would retire on a pension of 10 per
cent. of his yearly wages, while, for
example, a conductor who had
worked 40 years and whose average
pay was $1,000 would draw 40 per
cent, or $500 a year for the rest of
his life.
The new order also provides that
any employee who is not 70, but who
has been 20 years in continuous SER
vice, and who may be considered as
having become unified for the ser
vice may be retired and pensioned
The new plan means that about
$3.50 will be distributed annual
ly in pensions.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19

Mrs. Baker Says Most of the Little
Ones Are "Human Culls." Quail
ity, Not Quantity, Is Needed.


SPOKANE, Wash There are al
aeady too many children in the world.
What we want now is quality and not
quantity. Parents should be taught
Che responsibility of bringing chill
#ren into the world, and then when
hey have been taught that nine
#enths of the babies born every year
Ire nothing more or less than human
Aulls l believe the birth rate will de-
crease and we shall have a better
md stronger race"
This is from Mrs. Helen La Refine
Baker, wealthiest woman in Spokane,
Also suffragist, reformer, philanthro-
list, humanitarian and apostle of
Arotherly love, known throughout
ne northwest as "the Little Mother
20 Unfortunate Children"
Mrs. Baker is anything but con-
entional. She is young and at
active, is highly educated and
#idely travelled, and has plenty of
honey to crafty every whim. She
poks upon Thomas Paine as her
atron saint and believes Bernard
haw, Ebert Hubbard, Moses Har-
non and Luther Burbank the four
8reatest men in the world.
"Eugenics is the technical term
pr the work | am engaged in" she
bid. ut relates to the propagation
mankind, and / mean to devote
my time to teaching children the
ght way of living. You cannot
ould character after the child is
%enty years old
My studies of children all over
lie world have convinced me that not
Rore than ten per cent. of them are
hildren of love. The other ninety
Ger cent, are not wanted, and this
Aads me to believe than ten years
Hence to be father of family OF
N or twelve children will be as
nuch of a disgrace as being a con
Hrmed drunkard is at the present
inc
Within the next decade we shall
I'D able to teach these things to chill
sen, and the result will be a new
ice of men and women"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19
A LIVING DINOSAUR.
Fascinating Animal, According to
Report, Is Somewhere in Rhodesia.

Fascinating Animal, According to
Report, Is Somewhere in Rhodesia.
Somewhere in the North of Rho
desia (if statements of the natives
are reliable) a mighty dinosaur lives,
moves and has his being, rivalling
in his proportions and terrifying ap-
pearances anything that palaeonto-
loglsts have as yet brought to light.
South African biologists, it seems,
dismissed as beneath their notice the
account of this reptile which Herr
Hagenbach recently gave to the
world; but the definite statement
made on the subject by the Bula-
wayo Chronicle corroborates Herr
Hagenbeck in a remarkable manner.
A representative of that journal has
Intercepted natives on the spot, and
has shown them sketches of the dino
saur, drawn from Herr Hagenbeck's
description, which they affirm in a
most positive manner is a very close
representation of the creature they
have seen disporting himself in a
lake near the river Lunga. Until
this living dinosaur came along the
geological horizon it was a fairly well
established fact that the last of the
race was gathered TO his fathers not
more recently than the year 100000
b. c., and hitherto our only knowl-
edge of the fascinating animal has
been based on his fossilized remains.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19
KNIFE RESTORES SANITY.

/. Louis Policeman Now Peaceable,
Following Operation on Skull.
Patrolman Thomas F. Cuddihee Of
Louis, who by a blow on the
pad was changed from an officer of
ae law with a gold medal for
rayery into man who sought to
III his wife and children, has re-
lrned to his home with his sanity
STORED to him. For three weeks
had been at the city hospital,
here part of his skull had been re-
oved. Two years ago he was hit
the head with a club by negro,
pd had been treated at the state
sane asylum. From the asylum the
pliceman had been discharged, but
again sought to harm his family
was then decided that an opera
pm would be necessary. This was
pne and a bone which had pressed
his brain was removed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19
RESTA URANTS SERVING SPARROWS;
OMAHA HEARS OF "REED" BIRDS

OMAHA, Neb.-Eating reed"
birds is fad that has struck Omaha
and all OF the fashionable and high
priced cafes and restaurants have
placed the toothsome delicacies upon
the menus, where they are served in
the most dainty manner and at
prices that only the rich can afford.
While these little morsels are
served as reed" birds, they are not
reed birds of the south, known as
bobolinks in the north in summer,
but are the despised English spar
rows that infest every locality in the
United States.
Where the custom originated Of
serving sparrows and calling them
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19
A HUGE THERMOMETER.

Biggest in the World. Figures Can
BE Read a Block Away.
The largest thermometer in the
world, 20 feet high, with figures big
enough to read a block away, was
made in Rochester for a Boston drug
gist. The glass tube was 16 feet
long, and 10 tubes were broken in
the process of making before a per-
feet one was secured. The instru-
ment is very accurate, and registers
from 35 degrees below zero to us
degrees above.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19

freed" birds is not known. 1t struck
this town a couple of months ago
and spread like wildfre. The little
birds are not only eaten here, but
they are shipped away by thousands,
going east and west and north and
south. Killing them has become an
infant industry that promises to
grow to full size within a short time.
At present the killing is mostly done
by boys. but men are engaging in
the business, as they see that the
boys are earning good money.
Commission houses are buying the
sparrows and the market price is held
around is cents per dozen, but even
at this price good wages can be
earned.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-01-19
SEA WILL EVAPORATE.

According to government experts,
the great SaltOn sea, although in
places Is miles wide and 40 miles
long, will disappear by evaporation
by 1925.