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Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
The Worlds First Sunday School

The centenary OF the establishment
of the first Sunday school on Man
haitian Island, probably the first in the
United States. and possibly the first in
the world, has just been celebrated.
The corner of Division and Eldridgc
streets was where 1t was established.
The Rev. Joseph w. Grifiths, Episco-
palian, and the Rev. Charles @. SOM
ers, Baptist, were the founders.
Though two denominations were thus
represented the teaching was exclu-
sfvely religious. and the teaching was
voluntary. 1t is almost needless to say
that this section of Manhattan and
Division streets has a population alto
gether different from that of 1910 Rus
sian and Roumanian Jews made UP the
greater part of the audience az the
celebration under the auspices OF the
Rev. r.. r. Y. Pierce, but they sang
Christian hymns and did not flnd any
thing to protest against in repeating
the Lords Prayer-Brooklyn Eagle.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
Plainheld.
The Letters Afford Real Pleasure.

Editor Social Corner: 1 confess tina:
I find real pleasure in reading the let
tiers of the Social Corner and 1 have
been much helped by them. 1 have
particularly enjoyed the well written
letters of Hannah Homespun," of
"Arethusa' Experience" The Way
farer" Charity Sweet" Mrs. May
nard," the "Old Boy" u. e. t. and
all the other breezy and practical
writer's. 1t seems to me that the Cor
ner will be of advantage as teacher
in letter writing, as well as in domes-
tic matters and ethics. 1t is to me a
real help as well as a real treat and
wish I was able to lead instead of
follow in this interesting work, for It
appeals to me- IS a work all women
who read The Bulletin and have the
equipment should promote in one way
and another. / believe / shall try to
help in some simple way. other than
commenda ton, by and by.
RUTH AMBURN.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
Yankee Methods of Cooking.

Editor Social Corner: There are
| many people who live in New Eng
land who do not know how to cook
some things. / herewith submit three
grand recipes for trial by readers not
familiar with them:
Boston Brown Bread-Put a cupful
of graham flour with one of white
flour and one of Indian meal and stir
into them a teaspoonful of salt. Dis
solve a small teaspoonful of baking
soda in a cupful of warm milk and
warm this with a cupfuI of molasses.
Mix the flour and meal with a cup
full of boiling water, add the warmed
molasses and milk and beat hard and
long. Put into a creased pudding
mold and after covering this tightly
set ii in another vessel of boiling
water and cook steadily for three
hours. filling up the outer vessel from
the teakettle as the water boils away.
At the end of this time remove the
mold from the water. take off the
cover and set the tin in the oven for
10 minutes. BY this time the bread
should be dry about the edges and can
be removed from the tin and wrapped
in napkin.
Boston Baked Beans-To be the real
thing these must of course, be cooked
in a Boston bean pot. Put a quart of
beans to soak over night in warm
water In the morning put them over
the fire and cook them until. when YOU
skin curls back from it.
When this stage is reached pack the
beans in your earthen bean-pot score
the skin of a piece of salt pork-it
should weigh about a pound-and put
it deep down among the beans, leaving
only the top out.
Pour in a good teaspoonful each of
wire gar ind mol1sses, a satsTHcnfuI
of pepper and a teaspoonful of mixed
mustard. Cover closely and bake all
night, or six hours in a steady oven.
Yankee Fish Pie-Have a pound OF
steak cod boned and cut into pieces.
Roll each piece in slightly sailed
-four; sprinkle with pepper. Spread
over this six or seven large oysters
and add their juice.
Squeeze the juice of half lemon
over this mixture and a slight dredg-
ing of flour. Put in water to just
cover the mixture. Too much would
make it thin. Dot with few bits of
butter.
Let it bake slowly 20 minutes, then
cover with a crust of mashed pota-
toes. Brush this over with sweet milk
to make it brown nicely. Bake until
brown.
The members will find these recipes
all right Strict following of the di-
rections are sure to give satisfactory
results
AUNT HANNAH.
preSfop
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
AS JOB JOLT SEES II

Parson Dawson says it is all right
to build castles in the air and then it
is up to the builder to put foundations
under them. 1 haven't seen him haul
ing stone yet.
Bill Bangs says he has been a no.
body for a good many years just to
give the somebodies something to talk
about.
When mean men can fly they can
bother their fellow men worse than
ever with broader avenues for escape.
1t is curious, but some men who
never lived on a farm can tell how to
run a farm right, just as old maids al
ways know the best way to bring up
children.
A farmer doesn't have to look for
work-work invites his attention
around every corner and sometimes
haunts him after he is in bed.
An oval of limp leather tackled to the
end of stick is a splendid fly swat
larly fatal
Sarah says she used to have doubts
and fears, but now she just hangs them
up and forgets them That seems to
me like wisdom.
One hot wave follows another with
such persistence that we all feel like
a lot of stokers doing duty in front Of
a fiery furnace.
Samantha PsaIter says when yeast
is working slow in dough little gih-
ger added will give it despatch. Sa-
mantha doesn't need any added. for
she has quite bit to spare.
One of my neighbors says when
things press hardest she just stays
her cheerful songs. Her conference
meeting voice indicates that it is just
as we'll that she has no near neigh
bors.
Throwing slops down at the pack
door is a good invitation for the devil
of disease to come inside to find vic
Tins.
The farmer has to do lot of things
to earn three cents, while the store
keeper passes the three-cent agricui-
tural products over the counter with
smile and makes a nickel
Mrs. Parson Dawson says that she
designs all her own clothes. She is a
mighty smart woman, but she never
looks like fashion plate.
The hired man who deserts the farm
when he is most needed. regardless of
his contract, isn't as honorable as a
Digger Injun.
Cy CymbalI says there is always
good profit in we'll grown turnips.
They're easy to grow and easy to sell.
About the only creature that can
keep good-natured when its back is
up is the camel.
The homely toad looks handsome
just as soon as we know what an APP
petite he has for insects and how con-
tinuouSly he works to supply it.
People who try TO grow chickens and
garden truck on the same ground new
er succeed with both. They were not
designed to mature together.
The crowded garden is never robust
ly populated. Slim Jim's family al
ways preempts quarters of this kind.
Wood ashes around trees help to give
the apple a red cheek that puts it
in demand.
1t is said that fence posts cut in
August on the second run of sap make
better posts than winter-cut wood.
God made the days shorter than
some farmers want them, but those
who live to His days do best and live
longest.
JOB JOLT
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
DereIiet Near Bermud. Islands.

According to report received az
the photographic Office of the navy
department the derelict Norwegian
bark Crown, which was abandoned by
her crew last December after she had
lost her rudder, sails and filed with
water, was sighted a few weeks ago
ands. She is loaded with lumber and
has Travelled more than 1000 miles
since being abandoned. IL IL expect
ed that she will drift westward toward
the gulf stream and thence northward
If the derelict drifts into the steam
ship lanes and becomes "A menace to
navigation, Il Is likely that a revenue
cutter will be sent to destroy her.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
Preston.
HouseWork.

Editor Social Corner: Variety is
called THE spice of life" So ! think
homework ought to be set down in the
list of recipes a big spice-cake. Keep
a memoranda of the hours that YOU
are working every day and compare
them with the number that other oc-
equations require. Housework is
healthier than almost any other en-
ployment: but the work does not make
an exhibit like picture. The brush
and broom do lively work in the vari-
Gus art departments of home. The
editor covers the subject of drudgery
in a few WELL chosen words.
When a person has taken carbolic
acid, / have read that If vinegar is
given it will relieve better than
whiskey.
When making a plain cake, bake in
a shallow tin; put in fruit across one
half of the surface, thus making two
kinds of cake in one loaf.
Norwich. BLANCHE.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
Flowers in the Home.

Editor Social Corner: At this sea-
son of the year we love to have cut
flowers in the house, and / have been
surprised how differently people dis
play their taste in this respect The
palmer the vase and the fewer the
flowers the more beautiful the bou-
quet seems to look To some a great
bunch of flowers never looks pretty.
Others are quite positive that a single
rose or dahlia in a vase is enough to
meet the taste and to call forth the
admiration of any spectator. L have
friend who keeps upon her desk all
the year around a tall crystal vase
with a single white rose in it. When
/ admired the custom she explained
it's origin in statement a great art
list had once made to her: that two
things represented absolutely perfect
beauty of line and coloring-a half
opened rose and a perfect violin. She
said she couldn't afford the violin, but
she could the rose, and so she tried
to have it always before her as she
worked.
often as 1 read her poems 1 fancy
can feel the influence of that per-
feet white rose mutelv demanding of
her a replica of it's own perfection and
sweetness.
Mixed and punched up flowers are de-
cried by the artistic. few mixed
flowers of strong contrasts like white
and maroon. or white and yellow, OF
yellow and purple, or red. yellow and
blue. loosely arranged, are always
pretty. The gladiolus is one of the
prettiest of flowers for a vase. for as
soon as the first flower opens il may
be put in vase in the house and it
Will last for ten days. opening very
garden. But what looks prettier than
few pinlls, or a few violets. or just
a few blue gentians in a plain vase?
WHITE POPPY.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
Timely Recipes.

Editor Social Corner: herewith
submit few timely recipes:
Huckleberry Pudding-One pint OF
molasses, one Tablespoonful of CHINA
mon, one teaspoonful of cloves. three
pints of berries, a little salt, one tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in hot
water stir into the molasses and ber-
ries till IL is very light. then add -four
enough to make a very stiff batter;
afterwards add the other ingredients
and steam three hours.
Raspberry and Currant Preserves
Two pounds of raspberries, three
pounds of sugar, one pint of currant
juice; cook 20 minutes
Put currants in kettle mash with
potato masher, using one pint of water
to cool currants In.
Currant Jelly-Do not stem currants.
five pints currant juice. two pints OF
water; boil five minutes; after 1t be-
gins to boil skim well and add one
pound OF sugar to each pint, including
water; boil three minutes. Do not
cook more than this amount at once.
MRS. L. MAYNARD.
Mystic.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
Wauregan.
Walnut-Mix caffes.

Editor Social Corner: Laugh and
grow fat" l think OF a time when
coming into the house I found father
searching the pantry for tea or cof-
fee and he could md none 1 sale:
You want some bad Dad 2" and he
replied: YES" / told him / was an
expert on good drinks, like himself,
but of another kind. and would do
some compromising in his favor.
cracked a cup of pig walnuts as some
call them. put shell meat and all into
the coffee pot, added some brown
bread crust and cut an acorn in three
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23

children who think it is cute to
fool father or mother should be made
to know that in the end they may fool
themselves-may destroy their fond
est hopes. The girl who thinks it is
smart to fool mother may carry the
practice to her husband and create
trouble enough for both. The boy who
plays his father for a guy is very like
ly to play his wife for fool and by
his receptions make a hell of home;
and both may breed a lot of tricksters
for children. There are not two quail
ties that stand for more all through
life than honor and honesty-there is
nothing in them to destroy self-respect
or to bring distrust or dishonor to dis
turb the peace of the family. Beware
of deception of every kind, for there is
nothing that is doing more mischief in
the world today than this. To be true
is to be successful in all the ways OF
life.
ONE WHO KNOWS.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
One little happening within a week

One little happening within a week
las given me cause for soma wonder
ment and much thought About ten
gays ago l found that the woodchucks
ia got into my patch of string beans
and eaten all but parts of two short
rows clean to the stalk. The pesky
varmints had come twenty rods our
from neighbor's rye field, and I
didn't want to go trapseing ali through
his rye, trampling it down, to find and
poison their holes. So / hurried to
the cabbage seed bed. wherein still
stood some rank plants, left over after
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23

pieces and toasted Il and put that I'm
for the bitter part, with a good pinch
of salt; added cold water, covered the
pot tight and put new cork in the
spout. When brewed / tried a little
cautiously, and, behold, IL was good.
Got a large. pretty cup and served
father and myself Dad drank and
smiled, then said: TT is first-rate,
Silk" That was his pet name for me
when pleased; but / can still laugh.
thinking about it. We had IL many
times after. together.
Yantic. j. e. r..
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23

In all such crops as ! can cultivate
| have come to dread a wet sea son
much more than a dTouth. don't
know of any substitute for sunlight
and warmth. If they are deficient
things will not grow well. Nor can
do much to help out in too wet time
Cultivating mud is neither plea Mt
nor profitable. It does more harm
than good. But cold, wet summers are
not so frequent with us in the east a s
summers with intervals of drouth. We
don't have drouth every year. but W.
have one often enough so that we
ought to be prepared to do what we
can. when it comes, to save our crops
Just look into this theory of cultiva-
ton and tillage as a possible aHevia-
ton. Experiment with it in a small
way and see whether it works witk
you or not. Don't take my word for
anything about it, nor accept some
neiRhbor's dictum that there amt
nothin' to it." Try it for yourself
Only bear in mind that cultivation. be-
gun after a drouth has developed is
much like giving whiskey to a man the
day after the snake bit him Prompt
and early treatment may be of use
where the same dose, delayed too long.
will be wholly ineffective.
THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
Not FORGOTTEN,

We are glad to see that John r..
Thayer of Worcester continues to be
mentioned" 1t is a mighty slow sum
mer campaign in which the man who
is closest to the heart of the common
wealth is forgotten as a possible can
didate,-Boston Journal
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
OPEN HOUSE FOR ALL.

OF o the to
for writer's to advise special discussions This is home circle in
mat viii
a
spirit pen n Ind
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
Preston.
Happy to Have a Husband to Do For.

Editor Social Corner; / have read
with so much interest the letters to
this Corner and so many answers sent.
Eliza James letter com plaining of her
hubble, and the answers from The
Widow: also Charity Sweet" I am
very happy to think l have a husband
to do for. and know Aunt Eliza Jane
is too; but there is a great difference
in both sides. / am only going to
peek in this time; and if l do not
crowd the table will come again with
something worth while. / have lots
of recipes, too. that might interest
Louise" as well as others of the
Social Corner.
SWEET LAVENDER.
Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23

Where irrigation is practicable and
cheap, it is probably more effective
than anything else against drouth
But irriga ton, to be Of any great
value, must be on a bigger scale than
most eastern farmers and gardeners
appreciate. This attempt to water
crops with a sprinkling pot or a hose
may be all right for hundred feet
square of garden or lawn. But when
We must consider acres the hose and
the sprinkler are just about as effective
and sensible as Mrs. Partingtons
broom against the Atlantic ocean
For irrigation on any commercial
scale we must have brooks or small
rivers of water. We must apply it.
not by the gallon. but by the hundreds
of barrels. We must put on enough
to drench our dirt from surface soil to
water table-wherever that may chance
to be. Most of us will find such irri-
CATION impracticable for the occasional
dry season which calls for it. So we
must resort to other devices. This of
frequent tillage seems to be the hand
lest and most practical 1t has its lin
itations. like everything else. Within
those limits, however, it seems to me-
of real value.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
ALI is Soon Ready in an Orderly House
THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $3.50 $50 70
third Award made Saturday n
EVERY woMAN's OPPORTUNITY.



Wednesday
Address ONCE Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23

The laying OF the new cable between
Nagaaski, Japan. and Tan1eui, For
mosa, 10 cost ssss.0o0. viii be began
at once by the japanese Governmaps.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23
Tricks May Come Home to Roost.

Editor Social Corner: When chill
dren are getting to the age of judg-
ment and responsibility they should
have their attention called to some of
their smart tricks. that they may
themselves be saved from the con-
sequences Of them. The half grown
Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-23

! setting, tore up two cIunps, carried
them to the bean patch, and set them
in the ground deep enough to keep
them upright. Then 1 sprinkled the
leaves with little water and busted
them with paris green, so Messrs.
Woodchucks might find a indicated
meal of cabbage all handy for them,
if they came back for late supper.
Now the ground of this bean patch is
the very driest and stoniest in my
gardens. 1t is on the side of a gravel
ridge. The ground is porous sieve
of gravel at least eight or ten feet
deep. And dry-why, when 1 dug into
it to set those cabbages L found moth
ing but drouth and dryness to the bot
tom of the travelled hole Nor did the
little water l sprinkled on the leaves
wet in the soil a fraction of an inch.
Yet those overgrown cabbage plants,
simply stamped into that apparently
dried up gravel. have rooted and are
today growing as well as any set with
proper care and duly "'watered in"
'If you'd wanted 'en1 to grow there,
you couldn't have made EN-, said
neighbor. Perhaps not; but why did
they grow, whether | wanted them to
or not? The only explanation l can
see is that this ground had been con-
stantly cultivated. 1t has been kept
stirred and dust mulched" from the
time the beans came up All the mois
ture that comes to it from dews and
occasional dinky little showers has
been conserved by t1ilage- 1t isn't
enough to be noticeable by the eye or
the touch. But it simply must be there.
There must have been some water in
that dry looking gravel or even a
cabbage would have died in it.
On some of the arid farms of the
west where irrigation is impossible
and where the rainfall for an entire
summer doesn't equal our average for
a single month. they are raising good
crops of first class quality, simply by
a course of biennial following and
constant cultivation. 1t isn't so much
the water that falls on land that makes
crops grow as it is the water which
stays in the land. Our summer thun-
der showers seldom do much good The
rain falls for a few minutes in sheets
and bursts. It comes so fast that not
even drought baked soil can absorb
it. 1t runs off into the brooks and
ponds. The little that has got down
an inch or two into the dirt dries out
in few hours of hot sunshine And
then things are worse than ever. Even
summers night is worth more to the
for the crops-keep it where the
crops can get at it and use it. Guilt
walton makes the soil porous and
spongy SO that all the dampneSs soaks
in. Moreover. the dust-mulch which
is thus kept on the surface tends to
hinder evapora tiOn-helps to imprison
the moisture where plant roots can get
to it.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-02-25

grees at any time of the year Frosts
are unheard of, except i'll the mountains
and there is bathing every day of the
year. Her swimmers are the most skill
full in the world. There are beautiful
mountain drives, the scenery is striking
and the mountains are impressive. pre-
cipitous and rugged. The only pests on
the island are those brought by white
men.
Yacht races are the general source of
scientific amusement The waters
TEEN with fish and the hunting is ex-
cellent.
At Waikiki we went bathing in the
surf. Man eating sharks are kept at
bay by the coral reefs, thus protecting
the bathers.
The islands bear neither coal nor met
ais, therefore manufacturing can never
be developed.
We will leave for Yokohoma Febru-
airy 18th. .,
Yours truly,
Geo. H. Greenfield.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-02-25
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1910
IS BALLINGER FIT OR UNFIT?

Steward Edward White has some
thing to say in the March American
Magazine in regard to the Ballinger
affair. He raises very pertinent point
and question which will prove inter
esting to everyone. The following is
the way Mr.. White expresses it:
"Ballinger's connection with certain
Alaska coal lands was strongly objected
to by CLAWS. CLAWS failed absolutely
to get satisfaction in his own depart
ment-that of which Ballinger was the
head-so appealed outside it direct to
the president. The president, investi-
eating the matter, finds that Ballinger
has done nothing illegal. Since that is
50, then CLAWS is guilty of a technical
INSTRUMENTATION. On that ground he is
summarily dismissed. Attorney Gen
erel WickerSham subsequently goes
over the papers and makes the same
report-that Ballinger has done nothing
illegal, and therefore his record is
clear.
Now the publics blind instincts is
such matters are likely to be correct.
1t has felt that the broad results of
these mems activities has not justified
the outcome. The fact remains that
had CLAWS not interviewed to the extent
OF INSTRUMENTATION, title to millions and
millions of dollars worth of public land
would have passed forever Further
more, this transfer would have taken
place directly under Ballinger. Given
the element Bellinger we lose our coal.
Inject the element CLAWS and we save
it. Yet Ballinger is approved and
CLAWS dismissed. You cannot get
away from that.
But when the public has attempted
to go below the instructive feeling of
these broader ethics, it has found itself
involved in complicated detail of as
servation and denial and explanation.
Excuses are the easiest thing in the
world to make convincing. IF for a
moment that statement does not carry
conviction, reflect on your experience,
with the incompetent chauffeur. fac
tory man, house servant, the recalci-
trant Office boy. You cannot refute or
deny; you simply fire him! Those
interested have gone over the records
line by line. Line by line the friends
of Ballinger, have explained. The
puzzled, unsatisfactory verdict at the
end is that nothing illegal has been
done.
Very well, let us boldly admit that.
The insistence on the Importance of the
point has misled us into thinking it
means something. Ballinger has done
nothing illegal; CLAWS has been insub.
ordinate; Taft is right in saying that
against the secretary are only 'shreds
Of suspicion from u legalist's stand
point. What of it2
THAT Is beside the question. The
arurden Of proof is not to us, the people.
WE. do not have to prove a man a
criminal in order to make up our minds
that no is unfit for office. As to what
legitimte surmise may be. that is a
matter for'the great and solid common
sense of the people" .....,