Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-23
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1 I know the bee will surely sting dc l not feel like trying to make partner l of him.
 Bill Bangs says Efmira would dc more with her hands if she did less with her mouth. Bill is brutally frank. 1 Cy Cyrmbai says that if his wife ha<
 not been a good farmer he couldn'' have saved his bacon. She works b, | the calendar, regardless af how thu l wind blows.
 | It is true every garden ought to pro l duce two crops of some kind The sec ond crop in many lots is weeds 1 Jake Jones makes eight hour days | but he recognizes that they are a mis- fit on the farm.
 | A deep furrow and lame back arc derned reliable signs of spring. The man who doesn't like to butter l is allus slack about the little details on the farm or in the factory. A city man who grows crop of let farmer who grows a good crop of on- ious.
 Sari-ah likes to have her city cousins come on visit if they don't come without giving notice and show signs of leaving when her patience is worn out. If the women who raise turkeys for pin money got as many dollars for 'em as they chase 'em miles, they would be mighty sight more profitable.
 Ben Berry says his boy has the spring full of handsome trout. which will sell to city men with $40 rods at good prices soon.
 The country papers carry just as good recipes as the high-toned maga- zines. Miranda Moses serves maitre de hotel butter to Herman Fridays for his fish and then brags about it.
 Cy Cymbafs year old boy has been crying for week for a baseball plate. Cy cannot make him understand that it Is something the player stands on, not eats from.
 If the farmers kept their fences up like these smart politicians they would nit find themselves in the doldrums quite so often.
 The farmers wife who insists on
 
 the yard gives the place a becoming style.
 Everybody wants high prices for short hours and full price for short weight, and we all wonder what the matter is.
 The gardener who starts his squashes or cucumbers in an old sod under cover has them well advanced when it is time to set them out
 I notice Bill Stiles is aIlus telling what he is going to do. If he had a habit of telling what he has done, things would look different up to his place.
 Among hens the Rhode Island Reds look like the laboring class; and their fine brown eggs keep them in public favor. Their works do praise them.
 Good Roads.
 Connecticut is not the "oniy pebble on the beach" as regards a "eood roads" difficulty. Out in the big and great windy city, they are also hay Ing a time" over this question and to bring intd clear light, says MT Lang. secretary of the states good E. of the present extravagant and hap hazard regime, the committee proposes to investigate the methods of the high way commissioners of every county in in the state.
 MT: Lang says enough money for road making and bridge building is levied by the state to give it the best and most comprehensive system of public highways in the union, were the funds but legitimately and economical ly expended. The vast sum of eight million dollars was levied in taxes last year for road and bridge purposes and the claim is made that through the incompetence and lack of co-ordi- nation fostered by the existing obso- lete method of procedure nearly three quarters of this big stack of money is wasted.
 Illinois. it appears, is 'up against it." in two particulars as regards having good roads. The soil is unfavorable and stone is scarce. The scarcity of stone out west is somewhat amazing to New Englanders. who happen to take a journey through some of the western states, and the westerner from those states who comes east is at once struck and astonishedto see stone In tremen- dous abundance as here in Connecticut, for example. where a farmers crop of stone is immense. The stone fences around farm lands here in New Eng land and the myriads of stones and rocks on the farms are curiosities to But to return to Illinois and her roads. It appears, as we learn from the Chicago Record Herald, that that big and unusally up-tc-date state of Illinois has had in vogue and in operation for years, the old, old, plan of working out the good roads tax. That plan once was widely prevalent but is now discredited, but it appears that now in control of the states roads and highways there are four thousand, eight hundred and thirty-nine comnis- sioners. N wonder Illinois is discon- tented. The good roads movement calls for standardization of power.-New Haven Journal Courier
 Efficiency in Govsrnnent.
 Armies have their shirks, their cof- e-coolers, their stragglers, their hangers-on; but these are not a whit more detestible than the voter who makes merchandise of his citizenship or the one who is found doing business with such patrons. Both are exeres- censes on the body politic, and should be no more tolerated than the man spotted with leprosy or with smallpox on the streets and public highways of the country. With men in of1ce and such constituency behind them, f6Ni iar1f v1f -ie ft,Tz I