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Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-05
HE BULLETINS DAILY STORY
SWEARING OFF

The occasional customer looked at the chemist sternly.
 q don't blame you" he said. "A man in your business-running drug too careful of his health his reputation or his stock You know your own business best, of course, but IT you have any inclination to turn over q be the last one in the world to dis suade you. But what I cannot grasp is why you turned on me the moment came in and suggested that it is time for me to reform,
 Say, don't get huffy" interjected the druggist T told you I was only kidding. Can't you take a joke ?''
 Your ideas of humor," went on the unusual and scattered that you ought to make big success writing musical comedies. You consider it joke to charge a comparative stranger with being a common drunkard, night brawler who neglects his family for barrooms companions-a slave to to- bacco who should in all decency pull up and endeavor to reform with the idea I gather from your suggestion about swearing off, and now you tell me that it's meant as a joke. haven't come to the laugh yet,' he added.
 The embarrassed druggist was great Iy relieved when the telephone bell called him away from the indignant customer and the latter continued to scatter ashes over the tesselated floor until his return.
 q don't suppose you really meant any offense," said the customer, when the druggist began nervously rear ranging his cigar stock, "but you can see how a crack of that kind sounds At the same time,' he went on, walk ing slowly to the door and seizing the latch, sI believe will swear off on that drinking business after New Years, at that."-Chicago News
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Getting ready for the annual stunt, l suppose?" asked the druggist when his fayorite cigar and dropped dime on the showcase.
 How is thatg' countered the spend CT, nipping off the end and reaching for the gas torch.
 The druggist grinned amiably.
 ~Oh. you know-tfle big swear-off thing" he explained, right hand up and never again on the booze and the smokes and all that. All fixed, eh?''
 The occasional customer regarded him rather coldly.
 @mDo you think I look as though needed something of that sort ?' he de- Are my eyes puffy and have you mo- ticed my hands trembling from the effects of debauches ?''
 The druggist gasped hastily. declared, warmly, ..but I didn't know but you were one of these regular res- olution fellows on Jan. 1. I didn't mean to insinuate anything-I should say not"
 '.Then why did you suggest such a thing" pursued the customer, follow ing up his advantage relentlessly- There must have been some reason me coming home on the owl trains of the elevated with my chin in my lap three or four nights week. That might be it. Or possibly you have heard gossip around these corners about my wife complaining to the nefghbors that I beat her up when I go on my prolonged sprees. Those things do get around about some peo- pie. you know"
 seOh, come off," protested the drug gist rather red-faced and uncomfort- able; you're striking me, all right, but a man doesn't have to be a regu- lar soak just because he makes up his mind to cut it out for a while. think myself it's a good thing to do-once a wear or so."
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-05
IS HE A scAPEeoAT7

Charles " Morse has started for Atlanta. Ga, to serve there the fifteen year sentence for financial crookedness imposed upon him in New York He is still hopeful of release and declares that his sentence is the most brutal ever imposed on a man in a civilized country" A victim was called for, he says and he was made the scapegoat. There Is no question that a lot of men more criminal than he have escaped without punishment of any kind, but that does not lessen the weight of his Bridgeport Standard.
 Mir. Morse is not in a position to pass a valid opinion upon the action of the courts in his case. His af1rma- ton that other men even guiltier than he have escaped may be true. but it is also true that one financier has got what he richly merits. It is a pity that the law is not more effective; that in all high crimes against the people as many escape Identification and indict- Enent as are convicted is un- questionably true; but the failure of the law in one respect should not be made the ground for its leniency in other authenticated cases. Convict Morse is a victim of his own greed and brutality, not of the brutality of others
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must perhaps wait years before get ting what is due him.
 Now, I only wish that some of my good Catholic acouaintances had in- vited me to attend church at St. Pat rick's and hear the pastor say these very wordsi I am afraid I might have forgotten where was, and in my sat- isfaction might have jumped up and yelled: That's the line of talk, par soni Sock it to 'eml Come down to the armory and preach like that, and youn have most of the merchants in town for an audience. singing that grand old hymn, This is the Way We Long Have Sought!'"
 How many times have I sat in fifty-cent seat up under the roof in the theater, "rubbering" at the swells in dress suits. down in. the s150 or $2 orchestra seats. or even the boxes, their wives in silks and diamonds, who have owed me for years! When they have money loose in their clothes, they go to New York or Boston or Provi- dence to spend it, because Norwich stores don't offer the variety" or "as- sortment" which they, with their swell tastes, demand; principally be- all the variety they crave since bills are let run year after year, or are never paidI
 ''Whatever you do. keep sweeti" is a good motto: but we poor devils who have to carry the deadbeats most of a little curdled. they skid past our doors in their autos, their wives and children comfortable in fur coats: or when they summer at the shore while we and ours sweat in town. Us poor fellows never get our names in your paper as incidents in Society" along side theirs, and we don't always cut so much ice in the church socials and at whist or chafng dish parties: but we might if they would square with us this blessed New YearI
 I've always heard that Catholics went to church, not to be entertained or amused. or to have their ears tickled with poetry; and I'm thankful
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-05
An Effective and Pleasing Sermon.

MT. Editor: I was so interested in your papers report of Rev. Hugh Treanor's sermon on living "soberly, justly. godIy,' that I inquired of one of my Catholic clerks exactly what the pastor of St. Patricl<'s said on the point of the duty of people to pay their just debts. As far as my clerk re- members the preacher spoke as fol- lows;
 While most Christians would not ac- tually steal, it is no better to delay paying debts when one is able to pay. to run up bills when there is no pres ent or future prospect of paying them. to take for the theater and other pleasures money which by right be- longs to the butcher or grocer. who
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The taking of the census out Of pol itics appears te be a bully way of get ting the census into politics, for who knows the people better or gets closer to them than the politicians? Who is doing the business2
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The Pennsylvania road is about to put ID seven hundred and twenty model tenements for it's zvorkmen at Long Island City This Is the largest enterprise of the kind ever undertaken by . railroad
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IT Is alleged now that the war de- partment need not have denied that S1o.0Oe was put upon the head of Col ouel Gordon. the new senator from Mississippi, since he is himself show ing that it was never worth it.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-05

A western man who was negligent of his sidewalk received for a New Years present from some unknown friend snow shovel tagged: Good resolution No. 1.
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The reporters have been guilty of saying more about pr. Cook that was not so than they ever said about Dr. Osler. and they are still fabricating stories about him.
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The man who draws a big salary for bossing others often cannot boss him self well enough to command the re- spect of the hunlblest workman under his charge.
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The unfinished strikes that came over from 1909 must surprise the kid who is compelled to take charge of affairs, if the artists picture him cor rect1Y.
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Many a woman thinks that the man who has no use for a. nightkey and is always able to find the keyhole when necessary, is a model husband
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It took fifty million barrels of Port land cement 10 meet the demand last year, which is fifty times the amount required ten years ago.
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The farms of this country are worth thirty billions. and there is no danger of their being gobbled up by one great trust right away.
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The small boy cannot withhold his admiration from a man who can pick a snowfall from his ear without get ting mad about it.
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Vermont has enough mountain whites to set up a Christmas tree and a. banquet for. Are these descendants of the Green Mountain boys?
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The man who has a subconscious self has two to manage now where he before had one Perhaps the resolu- tions do not suit both.
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Happy thought for today: Citizens who are renewing their subscriptions do not forget to say nice words of The Bulletin.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-05

The men who loved Gaynor during the campaign and shouted for him are now humping him as an ingrate. Such is success.
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The snow has covered up the gar bage piles, but when it goes they will be a greater menace to health than ever.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The New. York custom house officials are having a hard time to find honest scales and plenty of them
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The Boost ting club of the NorwaIks has dues ef two cents a day. If all are deers why should there be dues9
Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-05

Meriden-Eibert Hubbard will lec- ture Jan. 12 under the auspices of the Humane society.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-01-20
Study the Needs Of Your Soil.


Or. T. r. G., Rome, Ca, has a
farm on Coosa River and expects to
move on 1t. Believes In home mixing
of fertilizers and wants me to figure
out a formula for a fertilizer. He
thinks that his soil needs potash in
large percentage.
1t savors great deal of agricultu-
raj quackery to advise man of fer
tilizer for land of which | know moth
ing except that its owner supposes
that 1t needs potash. As a physician,
you would not think much of another
physician who would make prescrip-
ton as a cure-all for every man and
every disease. Doubtless on a large
farm you will have soils of very diff
ferent character on various parts OF
the land, and a fertilizer that would
suit one part would not be so well
adapted to the other. The way to as
certain what the land needs is to
study the soil itself, and the only one
who can ascertain the needs of a soil
is the man who cultivates it. No
chemical analysis will give the infor-
nation as to what is needed, for 1t
would only show that the soil con-
tains certain elements in certain
forms, and whether any Of them are
available to crops the analysis would
not show
| have long ago given as my opin-
ion from a long experience in the cul-
tivation Of the soil, and It has proved
correct in the experience Of thousands
Of others, that where a man farms
right, grows plenty of forage and
feeds cattle, he will never need to
buy ammonia or nitrogen in any form
unless a trucker where early pushing
of the crops is essential. With a good
rotation in which cowpeas come often
on the land and crimson clover as a
winter cover, the farmer will need to
buy only phosphoric acid and potash.
This is especially true with a cotton
farmer who can exchange his cotton
seed meal for meal and bulls and can
feed the meal with the roughage of
the farm to cattle. And II he does
not grow forage in abundance and
feed stock he is not farming right.
Now, II you want a high grade
fertilizer that in a general way will
suit most crops you grow, I would
mix 1000 pounds of acid phosphate,
700 pounds Of cottonseed meal and
800 pounds of muriate Of potash to
make a ton, On land to go into cot
ton, where no peas have preceded 1t,
this can be used at rate Of 800 to 400
pounds per acre. But observe what
have said so many times in regard
to a rotation, With a suitable and
systematic rotation and most of the
cottonseed meal fed to stock with
good roughage, you would soon be-
come independent of a high-grade fer
tilizer and would need only the phos-
phoric acid and potash. -Professo
Massey.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-01-20
Preparing Land For Alfalfa.

G.. NJ. H., Shenandoah, writes:
have five acres Of land that is bor-
dered on three sides of two creeks
that | wish to sow in alfalfa. have
put in several underground bitches so
it is well drained. ! want to SOW the
alfalfa in August. Would you advise
inoculating the seed? | have enough
sheep manure to cover the ground.
Do you think it should be put on and
plowed under or narrowed In? | see
two kinds Of alfalfa advertised, alfal-
ia or lucern and Turkestan alfalfa.
Which would you advise me to get
Answer: 1t is rather hard to give
an opinion as to the advsability Of
sowing alfalfa on the land mentioned
in your letter. Alfalfa will certainly
not give satisfaction on low, wet land
where the water comes too close to
the surface. Alfalfa is a very deep
feeding plant, sending out vigorous
tap root. The roots of plants will
not grow deeper in the soil than the
permanent water level and IL this APP
proaches near to the surface as in the
case Of poorly drained land, alfalfa
will not obtain a sufficient foothold
to make a satisfactory yield. II the
land is only temporarily wet, that is
a different proposition. Alfalfa can
be seeded any time from August Is
to September Is to advantage. It is
we'll to sow 1t early so as to give 1t
chance to become well established
before cold weather. AS a result 1t is
advisable to use artificial cultures for
inoculating the seed of alfalfa. The
seed Of many Of our leguminous
plants do not need to be so treated,
but 1t seems rather difficult to secure
stand Of alfalfa in many locations
at best.
Sheep manure will make an excel
lent top dressing for alfalfa, After
the plants have come up nicely, give
coating at the rate of ten to twenty
loads per acre, but do not work into
the ground. OF course, the manure
might be put on as a top dressing be-
fore seeding the alfalfa and worked
in with a harrow, but in no instance
should It be plowed down. Turkestan
alfalfa is said to be particularly hardy
and has been used with more success
in the Northwestern States than in
other parts Of the country The ordi-
nary alfalfa or lucern is the best vari-
ETY. for you to use, and IL you can get
seed grown in the United States it
will likely prove more satisfactory.
Kansas or Nebraska grown seed will
| meet your requirement very well.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-01-20
A canny Congressman.

Comparing notes on physical exer-
else, some one asked Congressman
Paul Rowland what he did in that di.
rection.
who me?" he exclaimed with n
good deal of warmth. Il have li't,c
need Of any artificial form Of exercise,
live on the sunset side Of the r..er.
you know, on West 57th street, oaf
my exercise consists in building Hn
fire every morning"
The answer quite convinced al
hands but one a professional skeptic,
who wanted to know, you know. "Wha.
sort Of fire do you build?" he inquired
Wood or coalY"
Neither" replied the congressman
I'VE use gas, and have to scratch
a match every time | light the fire.
Cleveland Leader.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-01-20
TUE TURN IN THE LANE.

of.en we picture the possible day
nov sp fortunes will camp on our trail
w, we irr. with enough, we can rest from
p. sage from adversity's gale.
DC 9st,re a future of roseate hue,
We I' sEies never dampened with rain,
~ ,reat is our scheming of what we
When SIV we get to the turn in the lane.
AZ, bright are the dreams as we sit at our
,,S ea me leaves of the future unfold,
when our ship comes a'salling from over
an treicbted with coveted gold
phai fances go dancing on shimmering
rLrongh the intricate halls of the brain,
M ;oys of existence unspeakably sweet,
When we get to the turn of the lane.
~. ,oze far away through the vistas of
To he beacon of hope on the hill,
AID vow to ourselves we will ceaselessly
climb 81.
With firm resolution we'll do and well
viii laugh at privations and pain,
rben reyel in ease that's awaiting us there,
When we get to the turn Of the lane,
Rm fancy is tickle and fortune is shy,
INA leads Us merry old chase;
ne grapple at chances and from us
they fly,
Too deyilishly swift for our pace.
Oar souls in the sangine pursuit may be
brave,
Our muscles we painfully strain.
Perhaps but TO sink with our hopes IN the
grave
Thai waits at the end of the lane.
james Barton Adams.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-01-20
WISE WORDS.

In lowering a record a man must
rise to the occasion.
Many a bachelor has had narrow
escape from Cupid's bow.
Any poet can get inspiration. The
trouble is to get postage stamps.
If you are going to pin, your faith
to woman, use a diamond pin.
The more time a woman has to
think the, less time she has to talk.
1t is possible for an orator to be
long winded without, being cyclonic.
There are a few dishonest men
who are neither in jail nor in poll
tics .-.. ...t .-.' D.,
The man who is satisfied to make a
good living is the happiest man in the
world. f,.. A. ~ o. 3D.
Procrastination is the thief Of time,
and most Of us are receivers of stolen
goods.
The skate is a saltwater fish, but
many fresh-water fisherman gets
one, Just the same.
~ Taking off your hat to the flag
isn't such a convincing proof of pa
triotism as paying your taxes.
Il would be a good bit better for
some women If they showed less fear
of mouse and more OF man.
It doesn't bother the average mar
ried man so much to keep his wife
indoors as It does to keep her in hats.
From "Dyspeptic Philosophy" In
the New York Times.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-01-20
Southern Agricultural Topics.
Modern Methods That Are Helpful to
Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman.

Third-Of the impoverished condi-
ton Of the soil in which attempts
were made to grow them, and
Fourth-Of their inability to COM
pete with the farmers of the North
west in the growing of these crops.
This is not now such an important
factor and will be one Of less moment
in the future because the virgin
prairies no longer yield as in the
flush days" Of bonanza farming, and
in fact the centre of cheap cereal pro-
duction seems destined to move into
the Canadian northwest.
Then, too, the great centres of pop
ulntion in proximity to the north
western cereal belt will call for a
larger consumption Of the grain in
the making Of animal products for
home consumption, while excessive
freight rates will always be an eff
fective protection to the Southern
grain grower.
AS but little work has ever been
done at the Southern experiment sta
lions to show either the value or the
possibilities of growing winter cereals
and legumes, the condition is not a
surprising one, though the task of
overcoming the long-establlshcd pref
udice of the people with regard to
the culture Of these crops will be a
very difficult one. This is but natural
since so many failures with these
crops have been recorded,
Can Winter Cereals and Lcgumes BE
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-01-20
HER WINNING WAYS,

met her down by the seashore
on u sunny day In June;
We sat together on the beach,
Where the wavelets played a tune.
She spoke about her mansion
And her country place so fair;
About her string Of servants
And conservatory there.
she said she kept three motor cars,
HAD fortune In the banks,
And Kept champagne always on tap
In gold and ivory tanks.
Then she limited she was single
And my heart just throbbed with bliss,
And II ia been worth n million
ia have handed her kiss.
suspected l could win her
Twas the one best chance Of life
And If had not been busted
ia have surely COPIED wife.
But / could not linger longer
BY he snd, romantic shore;
| knew my ticket would expire
And my dream would soon be DER;
so ! packed my bag and baggage,
Started for my home next day
Leit my mllion-horcss weeping
Where the wavelets gayly play
Twas last June that all this happened,
But don't think that | am sore.
For today / saw that maiden
Clerking in ten-cent store.
Milwaukee Journal.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-01-20
Can the South Compete With the
West in Grain and Beef Growing?

The rapid exhaustion OF the West
ern ranges means the production Of
more beef on the small farms of the
country, II the needs Of our rapidly
increasing population are to be ade-
quately supplied and the demand for
our meats In foreign markets main
tanned. The price Of beef is likely to
continue satisfactory because beef
cannot be produced so cheaply on the
small farm as under range conditions,
so the Southern farmer has now the
best opportunity for engaging in stock
husbandry that. mas ever offered for
very obvious reasons. II he is to
grow beef economically, he must have
a plentiful supply of cheap grain
which will call. for the growing of
cereals on a larger scale than has
ever been deemed profitable in the
history of Southern agriculture pre-
vious to this time. Only a compare
lively small amount Of the winter
cereals, as compared with the quanti-
ty produced in the whole country, has
been raised in the South, due chiefly
to the belief of many farmers that
these crops corid not be grown, be-
cause,
First-The winter killed.
Seeor5-Of the lack Of varieties
"a spted to Southern conditions.
The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-01-20

is a chain 2 feet Ions, with a grab
hook attached inches from the
pole; fig. is a stout wire nailed to
the rest, which serves to hold the
rest in place.
In pulling posts the chain is
hooked loosely the post, which
permits it to slide down the post,
when the pole is raised, allowing to
get another hold when the post is
raised a little.--Frank Lacina, Cam
by, MINI.