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Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

The court of common council has dlsapproVed the action of Nameaug Engine company, as recommended by the fire committee of the council, in the matter of the expulsion of Former foreman Alderman Thomas E Dono- hue, claiming that MT. Donohue was fully within his rights as a member of the ire committee when he loaned a key of the Nameaug house to the con- tractor of the municipal building, not a member of the company. While the Key trick was an infractfon of one of the obsolete rules of the company it was not the real cause for the expul- sion, but rather was selected as a pre- text, as no tangible reason could be assigned for the action, which 1t is freely alleged was wholly of a personal and political nature. The NameaugS must abide by the decision of the court of common council and as the action taken in the expulsion of MT. DonOhue did not receive the required approval the action is void and Mr Donohue retains his membership. He has been officially Vindicated. Natur- ally he has the good and welfare of an organization of which he has been a member for twenty years at heart and will probably tender his resignation rather than be the cause of friction and demand an honorable discharge from the Nameaugs.
 The council acted wisely in the mat ter as it also did in paying the bills of the health officer in the smallpox cases, and without farther question So the unpleasant incident with Dr Black is probably definitely closed anG the public will continue to have the benefit of the competent health of ficers service. But. in the future. he may not take it wholly upon himself in the matter of mourning unusual ex- pense in the department without con- ference with the health committee o1 the court of common council.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

holder did you couldn't do, and you don't believe anybody else could do, on your farm. Very likely not. Neith- CT is Householder doing what Nord- man does; nor Workman doing what Householder does. The one thing that can be said is that they are both suo- ceeding in taking profits where others before them took only loss.
 They are doing this, not by blindly initiating each other or anybody else, but by taking advantage of their spec ial conditions and working to the full their own special capacities.
 There are farms right here in East ern Connecticut where any attempt at copying either the Workman or the Householder methods would lead straight to the back door of the poor house. Had they been put on one of these farms I don't believe either one would ever have gone into the plan he now follows. But I suspect he would have developed some other system which would have fitted the farm he was on, and woAd-hRve made it pay something, somehow.
 1t isn't likely that the marshes of Cape Cod and New Jersey would ever make either dairy farms or wheat farms. But they make exceedingly profitable cranberry bogs,-for those who are fitted to tend cranberries. You can't grow good corn on sour land But you can raise mammoth blueberries on a soil so sour that it would make the faucet of a vinegar barrel sneeZe. And there's money in blueberries, If you are naturally a blueberry farmer
 There's hardly one of us but has some special aptitude for some special sort of culture. There's hardly a farm in all New England which isn't cap able of doing rather better than the average with some one thing.
 What he can do best; what his farm can d0- most profitably these are two things which every farmer can find out for himself, if he has the gumption. He must find them out if he to hope for pface in the list of successful farmers.
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07
Holland County
BOLTON
Trip-Dance for Benefit of Hall Fund.

Miss Annie NJ. Alvord sailed from Miss Ella Alvord, of TorTington, for Jamaica. where she will spend two or three months They were accompanied by the 1atters' brother, George Alvord, and son of Hartford who are to go to Panama
 Mir. and Mrs. Bert Lyman of Columbia were recent guests of MT. and Mrs. C. NJ Pinney.
 Miss Alice Eaton is in Rockville, where she went to attend the funeral of her great grandfather, John Mon cite. last Sunday. MT. Monette was over go years of age.
 A teachers meeting was held at the Center Tuesday afternoon.
 Dance for Hall Fund.
 John H. Massey gave u benefit dance for the Bolton hall fund at the brick house at the Center Tuesday evening. Through the efforts of Mrs. H. C. Stirling enough money has been raised to reinstall telephone in the Bolton railroad depot for one year This is a great benefit to the public, The Ladies' Aid society met with Mrs. John Johnson Thursday after noon,
 William Sitzy is heme from New | YoFk, where he spent mouth witt | relatives,
 Mrs Henry Fryer of Wiiiimantic was with her mother, Mrs. Jane Fin 1 ley, few days recently. Mrs. Roy Carpenter of Westfield | Mass, spent Sunday with her parents | MT and Mrs. Frank Loomis. l Theodore $ Perry of Lisbon was il town over Sunday
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

been just a little coin wasted with the construction of that building
 Some time, some day. there will be perhaps, a detailed report of the act ual cost of that building, in itemized form, and for general distribution. Then. and not till then, should the ep- itaph be written.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

gling farmers who are making mess
 of it by industriously following other
 peoples methods into the idea of de-
 yeloping themselves and their farms
 along the lines on which they are 1n-
 dividually strongest, it will be all l hope to do
 MT. Householder, to begin with. is a Kansas farmer, and Kansas farming
 doesn't follow the same furrows as Connecticut's. But what he did. in Kansas under Kansas conditions, may suggest to some one something which might be done in Connecticut under Connecticut conditions.
 Twenty years ago Mir. Householder took an eighty-acre farm near Mer- rfan. Kan, which had been skinned to it's bones by renters They had taken from it all they could and put back nothing they didn't have to- It had got so that the owner couldn't rent It any more, nor get anything off 1t himself So he sold it to the first bidder and thought himself lucky that he had found buyer fool enough to take it off his hands There wasn't an | improvement of any sort on the land; /; no fences: no house; not even barn 1 that was fit to keep a WoOdchuck In Now the place has modern house with modern conVenienceS: me cement foored barn; other needed i outbuldings; is wholly fenced with woven wire: yields corn at the rate ot l fifty bushels an acre: keeps twenty cows produces all the butter, eggs l by family of eight. and brings ir ] over $2,000 year. fully half of which ] is clear profit.
 i How did he do it?
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

THERE IS no adverr.=ing medium h Eastern Connecticut equal 10 The Bul. lstin for business resultz
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

The moment he had made these dis coVeries, he gave up all thought or reverting to the corn wheat habit of
 his neighbors Let them grow such
 things. He would grow clover and sell milk, cream and butter. While
 they were slowly wearing out their
 soils and taking big risks of crop fail ure or low prices, he would constantly improve his soil with clover and sell products for which there was a daily and vociferous demand at high prices. He put his farm, outside the house, garden, and an alfalfa lot. in seven fields and uses a seven-year rotation.
 Each year one field is planted to corn
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07
Protect Yourself
 Ask foP
 ORIGINAL. GENUINE

The Food Drink For All Ages-ghy Nutritious and Convenient Rich milk with matted grain extract powder form dissoves heahfu than tea coffee Used in training athletes The diet for Infants Growing Children nvads and the Aged. It agrees with the weakest digestion. Ask Hotels, ResfaApanfs, Fountains. 1t. home A lunch
 In Lunch Tablet forr ready
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

and kept at that crop for three years.
 Oats are sown the fourth year; wheat
 with the usual t-inoeny and clover
 seeding, the fifth year. Glover is then
 cut for two years. after which it is
 turned under, and the rotation begins
 again He also has one ten acre field
 in alfalfa, all the time. This enables
 him to keep about twenty cows and
 enough hogs as a sideline to bring in
 an extra S400 a year. He also keeps
 five horses. He and his nephew do all
 the work, except in the three months
 of summer when one extra hand Is
 employed.
 His barn is ent floored. Not only are the stables cleaned out daily but they are also flushed out and all I,the manure, liquid and solid, drawn at once and spread on the clover fields as
 a top dressing This, for two reasons: first. because the weed seeds have | small chance to gain Judgement in a | field already fully. occupied with clover; ;
 second because it. gives him a simply | priceless sward to blow under, 1 wherewith to feed his corn. His herd l is composed of mixed Jerseys and Holsteins. His milk grades above the city standard, and he gets lots of it. His cows bring him in from 1,500 to i $1 500 a year; his hogs about S400; calves, wheat, etc, two or three hun dred more. The income is steady and as certain as any farm income can be. There is something to do every day, but TO season of rush and overwork. l The farm has already fully paid for itself and for all the improvements on l it. beside netting MT Householder something like thousand dollars a | year clear profit.
 Sixty acres are enough for any 1 dairy farm. The more land he has 1 over sixty acres the worse off a man ! is" So says Nordman of Wisconsin. ! "A farmer who can't make money off | eighty acres couldn't make it off a 1 hundred and sixty acres" says MT Householder of Kansas.
 I wonder how about Connecticut ? 1 1 fancy l hear some of you making l the usual nbieCtion that Mhat Hnuse-
Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-07

1 fancy hear some of you making the usual objection that what House.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31
SAYS COMPULSORY VACCINATION
IS NOT LIBERTY INFRINGEMENT

year. Today the majority of cases
of smallpox are in adults, whereas
today the majority of cases of measles
remains in the same age of children.
One disease has changed its age and
the other has not.
There is only one reason for this
change in the age of smallpox, and
that Is vaccination. We have no vac.
cination against measles, therefore IL
remains in the same age.
I'VE cannot explain this less La
bility of children to smallpox by any
other reason than vaccination. The
other childish diseases, like whooping
cough and measles and chicken pox,
as shown in our figures, are still pres
ent diseases of childhood"
Discussing the assertion by mem
bers of the Vaccination Society
that vaccination should be left until
smallpox appears on the patient, DR..
Worl said: people do not realize
there are several fatal forms of small
pox. The mildest apparent form may
give very fatal form.
"Can an unvaccinated person be
sure which of these forms he Is going
to get? Tho objection to allowing
children to go unvaccinated until
smallpox appears Is that they may be
susceptible to q fatal form. We are
not sure which form they are going
to get, and where vaccination was
performed with smallpox already in
the home there was always a certain
percentage of mortality"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31
neWBookS
in Review

love and make himself a power for
good
a girl comes into his life, who wins
his love, but for a time he feels that
a barrier exists. That prevents him
from declaring himself. He tries his
best to appear mean in her eyes.
This nearly breaks her heart. but she
maintains her confidence in him,
through learning the story of the
supposed act that overshadowed his
life. When 1t is learned that he had
not committed the act charged against
him, but was seeking to sacrifice him
self to shield another, the tense situa-
ton that these conditions create
throughout the story. changes to one
of recognition of the real character of
the man. The whole story is whole
some and tribute to the supremacy
of right over wrong, moral courage
and high spirit over petty and belit-
Ting experiences and circumstances Of
life. In developing the story the
author has created some interesting
situations and touches them with a
delicacy of appreciation and adrolt-
ness OF description that add much
TO the attractiveness of the story In
sustaining the attention OF the reader
The book is published by Little,
Brown & Co, Boston
The writer of this story, Miss Marie
Van Worst, Is now with the Red Cross
service in England, and is a member
of the staff OF nurses of the Bedford
College detachment.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31
Story Of Pioneer
Woman S Experience

DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, president
of the National Women's Suffrage AS
ISOLATION. in her autobiography In the
Metropolitan for November, gives the
following moving account of the
pioneer woman's experience fifty
years ago. DR.. Shaw was born In
England, and came to this country
when she was O child OF four. When
twelve years old her parents removed
to what was then the wilderness of
Michigan. OF their arrival there she
writes:
The next morning we made the last
stage of our Journey. our hearts filled
with the joy of nearing our new home.
We all had an idea that we were 60
ing to a farm, and we expected some
resemblance at least to the prosperous
farms we had seen In New England.
My mothers mental picture was, nat
urally, of an English farm. Possibly
she had visions of red barns and deep
meadows, sunny skies and daisies.
What we found awaiting us were
the four walls and the roof Of a good
sized log house, standing in small
cleared strip of the wilderness, It's
doors and windows represented by
square holes. it's floor also thing of
the future, its whole effect achingly
loTlOTu anu ueSOldL6. II was laL6 IN
the afternoon when we drove up to
the opening that was it's front en-
trance, and shall never forget the
look my mother turned upon the place.
Without a word she crossed the
threshold and, standing very still,
looked slowly around her.
Then something within her seemed
to give way and she sank upon tho
ground. She could not realize even
then, I think, that this was really the
place father had prepared for us, that
here he expected us to live. When she
finally took 1t in she buried her face In
her hands, and in that way she sat
for hours, without moving or speak
ing. For the first time in her life she
had forgotten us; and we, for our
part. dared not speak to her. We
stood around her in frightened
group, talking to each other In whis-
pers. Our little world had crumbled
under our feet. Never before had we
seen our mother give way to despair"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31
Making Plans for the New
MOrristown High School

YOUNGSTOWN, Oct. 31.-Progress
was reported by the committee OF
the Board of Education at the regu-
lar October meeting last night on the
question of plans for the new high
school building. President Joseph
Hinchman announced that former
Judge Willard w. Cutler, counsel of
the board, had prepared the appli-
cation for the appointment of con-
domination commissioners. 1t is to
be signed by John N. Conkling, of
the board.
A number of architects had been
heard from, 1t was reported, and
sketches submitted. The meeting
was adjourned until November Is to
talk over the issue of bonds for the
purchase of the land. Commissioner
Todd reported the installation of a
fire alarm system in the schools, at
cost of $40S.S5, by the Pierson
Plumbing Company. The president
and clerk were authorized to exc
cute note for $4,000 in anticipation
of taxes. A communication from the
Globe Indemnity Company stated
that J. l.. Turnbull, representing that
company, had inspected the boilers
in the Maple avenue building and
found everything in working order.
All members were present except
Commissioner Wilson.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31

That compulsory vaccination is not
an infringement of personal liberty
is the statement of DR.. Edward f..
Worl, superintendent of the bureau
of contagious diseases of the Board of
Health. Personal liberty does not
entail a right to endanger the health
of Others" said DR.. Worl. THE Board
Of Health of Newark bases its figures
on its actual experience here with the
epidemics among our people,"
DIR. Worl quoted statement by DR..
James C. Corlies, of the Anti-Vaccina-
ton Society, that "our own statistics
as we'll as those of other cities show
that in the age ranging between FIVE
and nineteen years (the school age)
the case rate and also the mortality
is ten times less than in the other
three-fourths Of the population.
ut seems to me- said DIR. Worl,
that DIR. Corlies has killed his own
case by that statement. We can say
that down to the days of Jenner, the
originator of vaccination as an ex-
tensive practice, smallpox was mostly
a disease of children, the same as
measles is today, and that the adult
population consisted of the survivors
from an attack in childhood who were
protected from the disease, then con-
sidered almost universal.
"Dr. Lettsom, a leading physician
in London In the eighteenth century,
states that most children at that time
had smallpox before their seventh
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31
Senator MARITIME Tells of
First Visit to Madison
special 10 the Evening star.

Special 10 the Evening star.
MADISON. Oct. 31.-Speaking at
the Democratic mass meeting held in
James Hall last evening Senator
James f. MARITIME recalled to the
minds of the people his first visit
there. On that first visit, forty
seven years ago, he said, and every
subsequent visit he had been made
the object of the most generous hos
pitality. He spoke of former Mayor
James r. Albright and Fred 3. Bar
don as having entertained him many
times.
James j. Ryan presided, and seated
with him on the stage were George
f. Weber, Samuel Brant, Fred Yea
der and Daniel Dunn. ST. Vincent's
boys fife and drum corps played on
the street and afterward In the
hall
Mr.. MARITIME spoke Of the present
administration, and urged all Demo-
Gratis to put in representatives that
would support Woodrow Wilson. He
stated that the new tariff had made
some things cheaper, but that the
European war had caused many
household articles to raise in price,
He stated that Charles Fowler,
Mr.. Tuttle's opponent, was only at
Congress one-third of the time he
served as o. representative of this
district, while Mr.. futile has an
swered the roll uniformly.
Incidentally, the Senator stated
that he is very much In favor OF
government ownership. He called
attention to how well parcel post is
working out.
Congressman William p. Tuttle
also spoke. Other speakers were
Joseph Budd and Charles Scribner,
candidates for the General Assembly,
and Leonard Elliott, candidate for
sheriff.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31

on the problem OF knowledge the more
recent points of view, both psychology
ical and philosophical, aims chiefly at
helping the reader in the culture and
practical uses of the mental life. Thus
it considers not only the nature and
guarantees of knowledge, but especi-
ally how knowledge may be used to
attain its most important ends. These
are the ideals and the behavior that
have value. Without being contro-
versial. it furnishes material for crit
icism of the errors and half truths of
Pragmatism and other current theo-
ries as to the meaning and worth of
truth. Its conclusions lie In the H1id-
die of the road" between the extremes
Of intellectual over confidence or
easy RIGHTEOUSNESS and excessive
skepticism or agnostic despair. mas
much as all knowledge involves the
higher sentiments and the activities
of free WILL" its attainment and cul-
ture becomes a matter of personal OBJ
legation and moral concernment. In
this way this treatise serves as an in
PRODUCTION for those which are to fol-
low. and which will treat OF duty,
faith and hope in further defense of
q consistent system of rationalism in
opinion and In conduct. Longmans.
Green g. Co., New York. are the pub
fishers.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31
Baltimore Man President OF
National Hardware Men
special 20 enc Eyenins Star.

Special so the Evening star.
ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 3i.-w. H.
Matthai. OF Baltimore, was yesterday
elected president of the American
Manufacturers Hardware Association.
other officers chosen We're: F. d.
Mitchell, of New York, secretary and
treasurer. and Charles J. Graham. OF
Pittsburg; Frank Baker, of Chicago,
and Frederick H. Payne, of Greenville,
Mass, vice. presidents. A silver SER
vice was presented to w. ID. Taylor,
of Cleveland, retiring presided of
the National Hardware Association.
The jobbers elected the following:
A. j. Bihler, of Pittsburg, president:
Brace Hayden. of San Francisco, and
G. A. Knapp. of Sioux City, Ia.
vice. presidents, and James T. Fern
ley. of Philadelphia, secretary-treas-
urer.
The manufacturers directed their
new executive committee to exert all
the influence to have the new Fed
eraI Trade Commission composed
solely Of thoroughly practical
men"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-31
New Author S Story
American in Theme

In THE River" by Ednah Aiken,
appears a work by new author. The
| frontispiece in full color is by Sidney
Rosenberg The publishers of the
book are the Dobbs- Merrill Company,
indianapolis.
Thoroughly American in scheme,
ambitious, many-sided and yet uni
fled. 1.-THE River stands out from
among current books as a novel that
has q right to be heard. The author
has taken for her subject the truly
great idea Of the reclamation OF the
American desert, which In large de-
gree depends on the control of the
savage and dragon-like Colorado.
Mrs. Aiken has siezed a great dra-
matte situation at its most dramatic
point when much has happened and
more remains.
The pages present a stirring MARIA
tive of achievement, of danger from
the tumultous river which threatens
the very existence of the Twin Towns,
introduces the San Francisco earth
quake, gives us glimpses of Mexican
and Indian laborers and of the many
frontier types, and paints the beauty
OF the New Mexican scene. There is
steadily to the fore an absorbing plot,
In which one strong man is set against
another, the Wlfe or one OF them Is
shown in her restless vanity and
scheming. and q fine young girl comes
to her own in the love OF a worthy
man.
The book tells a big story. There
are plots and counter-plots. Love and
labor are intermingled with startling
skill. It reads like the work of man
who HAD experienced 1t all himself
where it deals with the enormous en-
terprise of bridling the great river,
but IL is the romance of deep-feeling
woman--a woman of strong emotions,
of insight into human nature, where
the love interest enters in.
Though 1.-THE River" Is her first
novel, II gives Mrs. Aiken a place in
| the field of American fiction. There
are no loose ends to be hurriedly gath
cred up as the narrative closes. Every
incident is complete. every sub-plot
worked out to it's ultimate, natural
conclusion.
Her study Of men and women makes
the story worth while for that alone,
so absorbingly has she handled human
lives, human motives. human desires,
and for the knowledge that the book
offers OF what has been and is to this
day going on out there in the so-called
bad lands" 1t Is doubly valuable.