Norwich bulletin., 1913-08-09

than an express train-going about on it's own axis at the rate of 25,000 miles a day,-going through space, along with the sun and the other planets, a good many miles every second, toward somewhere near the Little Dipper.
 There are a great many things Ha- ble to happen, almost any time Things have happened in the past, are happen ing now, and are going to keep on hap pening- Some of them are pleasant and some of them are unpleasant We are not asked what we would like to have happen We are permitted to stand and take whats passed out to us
 Now, when the big machine of the universe, in it's grinding, passes out to us a dish of strawberry ice cream, we have the right to take it and eat it. just as it comes When the same ma chine in it's grinding, sluices upon us Dayton flood which we can't eat with spoon, the thing to do is to make that flood serve us in providing some thing else.
 Amy man can have bad luck, as it is called. It's no evidence that the Lord especially loves you that you have a plenty of it. He sends His rain on the just and the unjust: also His floods and His earthquakes. Hay ing hard luck is nothing to brag about; nor to whisper about.
 But it's a mighty useful thing in forcing you to look ahead of the pass ing moment and outside of the immedi- ate clouds, to see if there isn't some way you can turn hard luck into ad- ,antag@ aAsaaa1 saz Hl AEszG aaAsaaz
 Why, heaven bless us, it's only diff fculties which are worth doing, any a O1rin n true manhood as Paris Green to potato bugs. Ton can drive q nail into new cheese a good deal easier than into a seasoned white oak plank. But, when you've got that nail full length into that plank you've got something that'n hold, which is more than keg full of spikes in a cheese would do. Supreme success is to make of obSta- cleS stepping stones to accomplish ment
 What the government can do or can't do is one question. But, so far as the individual farmer is concerned, neither you nor l can prevent frosts from freezing our early tomatoes, nor drouths from drying up OUT fields, nor floods from ravagfng our farms. We have got to take them as they come. The wise thing and the only wise thing for us to do is, when Nature has got
 
 gad she's dropped and see if we can't -Whittle a crutch out of it. or at least, use it to boil the kettle with
 These Indiana farmers are finding out that what they regarded as an un- mitigated evil, was really a big bless ing. It hurt for a few days, but is going to help for many years.
 Don't yOTn suppose that a great ma J0TTty of the hard luck we meet in the course of oIn farming experiences could be turned into more or less pre- we only had the eyes to see what to do with it and the energy to carry out the wnTk2
 We farmers boast ourselves that we are practical men. Good enoughi But there's a difference between men and Most machines are eInin- emily practical. They do the same that comes within their capacity and which they are made to dQ- Men are capable of doing the same work, and also of making the machines to do it. ii we think them worth while. F'urth- e1TnoTe, we're capable of making the machines sometimes do work which they weren't originally built to do We're also capable 6f making our mis- takes school masters and of making our bad luck a hired man to work for us. It will take more "gurmption url- dotlbtetlly.. But what is Our @gu1np- ton" for if not to use2
 One of the best farmers I ever knew used to take a "day off" every so often. The only EJhy ssica1fy active thing l ever knew hfan to .eo at such 8 time was to sit on the fence and wHaitt1e But he wasn't idle, fog all that he seemed so. lie had GSbrEGd that he wasn't personally Gapa1ble Of working his muscles and his brains hard st the Same time He had to stop driving the &5ElS if he wanted a good job from the other. When he seemed to be idly splnteFs he was really wcuktnS-
 Next time a flood sweeps down on those Indiana farmers, they won't sit at their attic windows swelling the watfrs with their useless tears They'll be planning how to get the seed and the help to put in about twice as big crOpS as usual, so as to gain the benefit of the free n1anuIing-
 Next lime Old Lzady Nature turns a bag full of bad luck on uS no matter whether it's of the wet or dry variety. Eet's stop sniwelling ab0ut it and see if there isn't something we can get as salvage out of the lott
 THE FARMER.