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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15
WELLINGTON

Mrs. Brown went Thursday to New
York for a visit.
Miss Alice w. Pratt spent Sunday
in Boston with Miss Edna Bubgee.
There were nineteen at Sunday
school including the pastor and
superintendent, Miss Copeland and
the Amidon young people and the
faithful Parker children from the
four corners. There was no church
service.
Rev. Mr.. Parker's second son, Addi-
son, has been suffering from appen-
dicitis, during the week, but is now
better.
Miss Pratt arranged an excellent
program for the grange Friday eve-
ming.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15

Written Specially for The Bulletin.
While the dictionary definitions OF
agriculture" and farming are very
much alike, there is a shade OF diner
ence, and that shade is highly signih:..
cant. Webster defines Agriculture
as ''the art or science of cultivating the
ground" He defines farming" as the
business OF cultivating land"
Observer One is an art or science;
the other Is a business"
That's Just about what we common
critters have always suspected When
we have heard the Majoribankses talk
ing about their agriculture and the Bill
Snookses talking about their farming.
Most of us are in the Bill Shocks
class. We are cultivating our land as
a business, hardly as an art or science.
As a rule, we are not very intimate
with either art or science, nor at all
handy in using their lingo. We are
after potatoes or corn or hay or oats
or cabbages or calves or most any
thing that we can sell for a dollar
more than 1t costs us. We want that
dollar.
Most of US would be exceedingly
glad If we could make it Two Dollars
instead of just One. Or even Three.
And right there comes in a question::
Dye s'pose we could, perhaps, make
1t Two or even Three if we were a
little bit more "agriculturists" and no
less "farmers?"
Heaven forbid that should only and
right out in meetin'" say one word
against the paramount pre- eminence OF
business! To do so would be perilous-
ly close to irreverence towards our
national shibboleth.
But, treading softly and speaking
low in the presence of the supreme
fetish. may it not be limited, neverthe-
less, that perhaps little wider and
longer outlook than just for the single
dollar which we see in our dirt might
now and then, reveal the lurking places
Of other dollars?
Small things, near by, sometime.
serve to hide bigger things a little
farther away. An o1d-fashioned PEN
ny which is less than an inch across
4 held close before the eye, will hide
the sun which is over 100000 miles in
diameter. A muddied roadway rut ir
which ones carriage wheel jounces
seems bigger, at the moment, than the
faint seam along the distant mountain
side, which may be. nevertheless, 6
deep-cut gorge with veins of outcrop-
ping ore.
Sometimes it pays farmer better
70 sit on the fence and white thar
o do anything else" runs an old say.
ng in my part of the country. II
other words, it's better to do nothing
than TO do the wrong thing at the
wrong time.
But it's only by taking long looks
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15
RIPLEY HILL

Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Sherman OF
STANFORD were guests of Mr.. Sher-
mans parents over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wood are to move next
week to Manchester, where Mr.. Wood
has taken the contract of tearning.
Several f1ocks OF wild geese have
been flying over the hill this week.
Mr.. Flint entertained the Green
family last Sunday.
Frank Day will take William
Wolfe's place carrying the mail aftel
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morrell and little
daughter Ruth, of Hanover were
recent guests of Mrs. MorrelPs par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Freeman.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15

Ocean View w. c. T. U. Meets-Test-
ing OF Cows at HillandaIe Farm.
The Ocean View w. c. T. U. met
at tho home of its president. Mrs. z.
r. Browning, Wednesday afternoon,
with a good number in attendance.
A new garage is being erected at
one of the cottages on the Hillandale
farm.
Surprised on Birthday.
A number of the young people gave
a surprise party to Raymond Pendle-
ton, Wednesday evening, it being his
fifteenth birthday Music and games
were enjoyed and refreshments were
served during the evening.
Mrs. H. y. Macomber and Mrs. G. T.
Collins spent Friday with Mr.. and Mrs
w. c. Rathbone.
Testing Cows.
a man from Kingston college is al
the COWS as TO the quality and guam
the Hillandale farm this week testing
tity Of milk given by each COW during
the week
Miss Eleanor Browning, who is at
tending school in Providence. is
spending the spring vacation at her
home here.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15
NORTH STERLING

Richard Fortune was called to wor-
cester, Friday, to attend the funeral
of a relative.
George c. Spooner caught a string
of ten trout one day recently.
Some have began to put IN early
peas.
Frank o. Plummer attended the
funeral Of his father in Worcester
last week Thursday.
An unusually large number OF wild
geese are passing over here this
spring.
Mrs. Abby HiIlery, of Rockland, Is
visiting former neighbors and friends
here.
There has been a few forest fires.
The peep frogs are late this spring
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15
To Work for Clay COMPANY
RICHMOND
Visitor from Wyoming Taken seri.
ously III.

Mrs. Edwin Smith and Marie De-
veil were visitors in Providence, Tues
day.
William Moore of Willow valle- s=-
been assisting George G. Palmer in
farm work.
Ralph and Philip Moore were, at
Slocum the first Of the week.
John w. Smith is working for Sam
uel Reynolds.
JosehpDunn and r. H. Moore were
In WEXFORD the first of the week.
Mr.. and Ms. John Beverly of Wyorn-
ing came for a visit to the home of
Amy S. Weaver. A short time after
their arrival Mr.. Beverly was taken
very ill. At the present he is reported
somewhat better.
Most of the roads have greatly i'm
proved in the last few days, as the
frost is out of the ground
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15
Washington County, R. !.
ROCKVILLE
Woodland Fire Does Damage Men
Serve Chowder Supper.

A forest fire south of Ulysses Gardi-
ner's, on the Hope Valley road, Tues
day morning, burned over considerable
ground before being subdued.
A. s. Ba.bcock arrived home Tues
day morning from a three weeks trip
to Bermuda.
George i. Barber Of Waltham, Mass,
was a guest of his sister, Mrs Emory
c. Kenyon, recently.
Wildwood circle met with Mrs
Jared G. Barber Thursday of last
week.
Men Serve Supper.
A chowder supper was served Sat
urday night by the men, for the ben
eft of the parish house fund.
Mrs. George r. Collins of Westerly
was the guest Of relatives here Satur-
day.
Miss Annie Stillman of Providence
was the guest of friends here over
Sunday.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND FARMING AS
BUSINESS
A BUSINESS

ahead and behind and above and below
and all around, that we stand any
chance of avoiding those wrong things
and wrong times. Short-sighted at
the ignoring of larger interests that
happen to be farther away, is-wef
it is short sightedness, to say nothing
harsher. What's the use, as we grow
older, of buying spectacles to aid our
physical eye-weakness if we spend all
our lives actually encouraging and
fostering business short-sightedness?
Major Maioribanks is Engaged in
agricultural pursuits" That is, he has
a fine barn and selected herd of pedi-
greed COWS and concrete stables and
improved stanchions and manure pits
and manure spreaders, etc.
And then he hires somebody else to
fill the barns and feed the COWS and
clean the stables and draw out the
manure.
Wherefore, he buys grain to feed
them and butter to feed himself.
Bill Shocks barn has tight roof
and that's the only complimentary
thing that can be said about it. 1t is
! old and it is battered and the cow
stalls are made of old slabs and the
| manure is thrown out into heap and
| put on the fields in the spring when it
thaws out enough to be handled.
| But Bill feeds and milks his cows
| himself and cleans their stables and
| spreads his own fields with the manure
| from his own wagon and with his own
| fork in his own hands.
| Wherefore, he sells corn and butter
| to the Majoribankses and other neigh
boring "agriculturists."
| But-suppose Bill Shocks had as
| good a barn and as high bred cows and
i as good a manure pit and as good a
| spreader q don't say "as expensive
| but las good') and as good other
! facilities as Maioribanks and then,
with these advantages, added to them
his own personal labor and technical
skill and lifelong experience-isn't it
possible, isn't it probable that he would
| be able to produce even more corn and
more as well as better butter?
| Wouldn't he be an even better
from the books of the mere "agricul-
| turist?"
Bill Shocks will say that he can't
! afford all Majoribanks' fancy friIls
| That's another question. Perhaps he
can't and perhaps he only thinks he
can't. He doesn't want or need the
fancy frills," anyway. But that's nc
reason why he should sneer at reaI
conveniences and improvements. Thai
| I may be one-1egged man gives me
no cause for sneering at men with two
| legs. Rather, such a condition should
lead to envy OF my two pronged neigh
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15

bors and to an attempt at least to ap-
proximate their more effective locomo-
ton.
All want is to get Bill Shocks to
admit that he'd be glad to adopt some
Of the MaJoribanks betterments, If he
could afford them.
II he had them, he'd make vastly
more effective and successful business
use OF them. TIL be bound.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15
No Reaann Enr AIarnn

No Reason For Alarm.
So far only 107 have enlisted from
this city and only 149 in the state.
Those who fear that America will
have too big an army may take cour-
age.-New York World.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15

In recent editorial on the business
of farming The Wisconsin Agricul-
turist, after saying that the success
of any farm home is based on the sue
cess of the farm business, adds these
golden words:
What farmers need most to know Is
how to make the science of agriculture
boost the business of farming"
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15

Nearly 100 of Iowa's 900 dangerous
railroad grade crossings will be made
safer for travel this year.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15

her scientists to squeezing It out OF
potato-parings and htchen-slop
We self -admiring Yanks who want
the world to wonder at our practical
efficiency, can't even manage two-per-
cent potash In our fertilizers nor dyes
| to color our women's gowns, though
the raw materials for both are more
plentiful to our hands than in Ger
many, Just because the German sup
ply is cut off and, and were to dern
practical to waste money on the
scientists who could find US adequate
substitutes!
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15

A substitute for imported edible
gelatin is made in the Philippines
from seaweed.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15

The aim of the business farmer is
success at his business OF farming.
He certainly can get some help to-
wards that result from the boost
ings offered by science. Why, In the
name of common sense, should he
sneer at a would-be friend, or refuse
the assistance of a would-be helper?
THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15

It's too late along in the worlds life
for any OF US to cast scorn on science
or to refuse the aid which science can
offer us, whether in the making OF
picric acid or the growing OF profit
able crops.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15

That's neatly and effectively put.
When the farmers of America wed all
that scientific agriculture can teach
them to their own mastery Of the prac-
teal business Of farming, they'll be
more successful than they are.
When they hitch science and prac-
tice together they'll have something a
good deal better than any one-horse
team.
One long step will be taken in that
direction when both sides stop sheer
ing at each other and begin to appre-
ciate the primary fact that each could
learn some mighty useful things OF
the other, If he were a little more
humble and less opinionated.
Truth is invariable'', said the wise
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, "but
the Brown-ate of ttruth always differs
somewhat from the Smith Pate OF
TRUTH It's only by melting the two
"ates'' together that you get the real
thing.
Why is il that Germany, hemmed
in by more numerous armies and de-
prived of almost all help from the
outside world, is yet able to put up
such a tight? Simply and solely be-
cause she has been for forty years
and is now applying all that science
can teach to the horribly practical
business of war. Does she want nj
trogen for her bombs and mines and
torpedoes, nitrogen which she is for
hidden to obtain from the Gillian
nitre beds? Then she sets her scien-
lists to the task of extracting it from
the air, which no blockade or embar-
go can deprive her of. Does she want
alcohol in manufacturing while shoTt
Of grain to make it from? She gets
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15

Successful farming will never be
done by men in kid gloves and patent
leather shoes following rules in books
or blind1y initiating experiments in
laboratories.
Nor, on the other hand, viii It often
be done by men who. however indus
trious and faithful, scorn to learn ev-
erything they possibly can about their
business, no matter whether their
teacher is a hop-toad, warning them
of change in the weather, OF a test
tube, showing the exact capacities and
probable needs Of their soil.
Why refuse help in q time Of need.
because we may not wholly approve
the barbering of the helpers hatr7
What odds to us the source II the as
sistance be real and efficient?
Even the stars in their courses
fought against Sisera- I don't profess
to know how much they may have had
to do with the result, but Sisera got
licked and had a tent-pin driven
through his head. II I'd been Barak
1 Nigh not have thought Of asking the
stars to take any hand in the scrim-
mage but / certainly shouldn't have
refused to let them fight with me in
their courses against an enemy with
either 900 chariots of iron or 5000, 00C
potato-bugs!
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-04-15
LETTERS FROM TWO STATES
WEEKAPAUG

Ocean View w. c. r. U. Meets-Test.
ing OF Cows at HillandaIe Farm.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-11
MILES ON PREPAREDNESS.
Like Winfield Scott in Another Crisis
He Is Not Q Safe Guide.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: II
IL reported that General Nelson A. Miles
disapproves OF all the proposed plans
for safeguarding the country, and. In
fact. can see no reason why II needs to
be am better protected tina 1t already
is with the regular soldiers we have.
General Miles gained some distinction
IN the civil war In a subordinate capac-
ity. II learned afterward TO fight
Indians successfully. but these achieve
ments are hardly sufficient to qualify
him as a safe guide to-day.
Rather we should classify him with
General Winfield Scott. who At the open
ing OF the civil war was found to be
hopelessly unable TO give advice and
failed utterly to comprehend the gravity
OF the situation.
General Miles was not educated at
West Point. IND II the civil war proved
any one thing more conclusively han
another Il was the superiority OF West
Point graduates over civilian Generals
Nearly all the Generals on either side
who emerged from that great conflict
with distinction we're West Pointers.
This Is not TO say that West Point Gen
erals Ike Mcclellan. Burnside and
Hooker were found o. tria. 30 BE com
retent 10 command al army
NEW YORK. February q NJ T. II.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-11

how to play checkers; possibly n Of
them feels himself man enough to
take up the honors Mr.. DAVIS has
left open.
In surroundings rich and ornamental.
But the renl SAVIOR of the game must
be lost when It is transferred from
the comfortable %obscurity of the gen.
eral store or the baggage room ut
the deepot. Nor can it exercise its
full spell when the board Is new. the
checkers free from-wc cannot say
CRIME. hut certain evidences Of con-
templative handling.
There is n suggestion of heavy boots
about the group of Onlookers, each
burning to contribute his advice TO
the contestants. and chatting under the
restraint Of etiquette and n whole
some respect for the sharp tongue Of
reproof. Here are Cncles, and Old
Bills and Young Bills; n neighbor-
hood congregation with It's we'll de-
fined class distinctions scrupulously
| recognized and w~holcsomely pre-
served. in which full liberty Is not
translated into demoralizing license.
The tobacco is strong; not all Of It Is
burned SNUFF survives and the store
keeper calculates to n nicely the In
| roads that are made on cracker bar
| rels and raisin box. The stove, n
noble instrument. sits reassuringly In
n huge tray Of sand the light comes
from coal oil lamps, with dingy tin
refectors surrounding their chin
| neys; there Is a flavor Of Goldfish, mo-
lasses aud other potent comestibles
In the air. and the door Is tight shut.
The team Is hitched under the shed
behind the meeting house; we shall
see the road TO the king row. which
some call crown head. opened pres
entity. 1t may be that Il piece will he
huffed II so. 1t will be an event, long
to he remembered.
we ASK lot no portrait VI NV
DAVIS. We know how ne looked. We
have a picture Of a shrewd, dcliber'
ntc. calculating man. whose moves
were made without haste, but without
delay unnecessary: whose victories
we're properly emphasized, whose de
feats were accepted philosophically
and turned to good account In equip
ping him for the next encounter. \
man Of stability. good sense, anc
standing; who to-day wears the man.
tie Of fame that was his?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-11
The Three Departments Of Our
Government.

There j. force in the proposition
that the greater the danger of ILL"
invasion of tn" Suprem" Court by
men of tempe>tuuus minds and radi-
cal opinions the greater the need on
that bench of iuri>tS of the type OF
CHARLES EVANS HrGHEs as safe
guards of our institutions.
On the other hand, this j. to he
said:
]. II the supreme Court is Ia con
tinue lis policy Of avoiding decisions
adverse Ia revolutionary projects of
legislation 10y throwing the entire re-
sponsibility ON the political depart
ments of the Government {: and
=. If Congress is In continue in its
practice of depending more and more
upon the President ~ party leader
for the initiative: and
3. II the shaping of the legislation
of change and reconstruction Is To
become more AMI more tn" function
Of the Executive;
Then for the salvation of III insti'
tutions the need of II .jurist Of sane
conservatism and eQuable intellect
and we'll grounded knowledge of con
stitutional principles is likely To he
not less Imperative SOM" day in the
White House than on the bench OF
the Supreme Court.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-11
here in the Senate" To which the
unaba shed BoRAH replied:

"1f the Senator from Missouri wants
10 assume that that is a reflection upon
his party ] have nothing to say as 70
that. If he is going to rise here when
ever anything OF that kind is put in the
record without any Offence to the Ad-
ininistration and assume that 1t Is a re-
Election upon the Administration that is
the business of tho Senator from Mis-
souri,
Truly IL is the business of the
Senator from Missouri. Never was
sarcasm richer. As chairman Of the
great Foreign Relations Committee
he acts as Mr.. WILSON'S personal rep
rcscntativc ON the floor of the Senate,
Is keeper of the conscience and guar
dian of the Administrations fortunes,
rnpping refractory Senators over the
knuckles with his ferrule and iectur-
ing them upon their shortcomings.
The bad boys of the Senate are learn.
ing who their master is. WILLIAM
EDGAR l'oIAH seems to he the worst
of them. He j. in~corrigiblc. failing
In understand that any symptom OF
partisauship In tho Senate will be in
Stantly detected and summary pun.
ished by the Senator from Missouri,
who has reformed pnrtisanship out
Of his " system.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-11

President WILLIAM G.. WlII,ON of
the Board Of Education will Justify
the votes of those who supported his
candidacy ii he translates into imme-
diate action his progrnmm" of har-
mOniou> cooperation between the tie
partmcnt owe which he presidc> and
the Board If Estimate. In neither
body is there "A member who does not
want the public schools 10 endure.
expand and improve, The taxpayers
have un open pocket for the schools,
and they expect in return for their
freely given money nothing that II
well constructed system should not
be able In supply.
The public dissatisfaction with the
system il not caused by the expense
Of maintaining il. heavy though that
cost Is. II il generally felt that the
results achieved ar" not as good aS
they should he; that the schooling
given IN the elementary grades does
not train the children rs they should
he trained. If Mr.. WILCOX can cor
rect the conditions that give rise Ia
this sentiment. he will be- II successful
president of the board, and he need
have no fear of being hamIrred by
the Mayor. the Comptroller. the Pres
ident of the Aldermen or any Of the
Borough Presidents.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-11

In the bright lexicon Of kultur
fortified applies as well to STRAIT
ford-on-Ayon us to "A dozen or SO other
places in England on which devastat-
Ing bombs have been showere,l. More
over. there are dramatic possibilities
in the demolition of the Shakespeare
church in that gcntlest and best be-
loved of WarwickShirc villages which
kultur. If true TO itself, could i'll af-
ford Ia overlook.
suppose, for instance. the graceful
attention from a Zeppelin bomb were
timed for April % next. That would
10 the Booth anniversary of SHAKE
SPARES death. the anniversary. more
over. "f his birth ns well. for it seems
he died on his iifty.second birthday.
BESIDES. April - happens to he Easter
Day. That fact would give II practi-
cal as we'll as II sentimental value to
the sudden humiliation of the little
Strntford church. \ we'll timed bomb
dropped through the roof on that day
would doubtless yield n fine bag Of
MANNED. manglcd and murdered wo.
men and children.
But above all there would be the
laceration To the feelings of English
speaking peoples ver all the wide
world were the tomb and sacred dust
of u SHAKESPEARE blasted out of
existence. \ rude awakening. too,
for our poor Will from his 300 years
of peaceful slumher. And then the
delicious irony OF those words Of his
which for 81 many kulturless ccntu.
ric> have kept vnndal hands from hi,
grave:
GOOD friend for JESUS sake forbear
To dig the dust iu"losed here.
Blessed be he that spares these stones
And curst be he that moves my bones.
What n vastly amusing headline, Il
bc sure. those pathetic words Of ap
peal and vain thrcatcnings woult
make for Il kultur newspaper descrip
tion Of how bones and stones and dus'
and the whole church edifce which
sheltered them had been wiped off th'
face of the earth in great crash
ing, SCATTERING roar. One can imag
Inc the GarCantuan shouts Of laugh
ter that would go up owe all kultur
dom at these glad Easter tidings o
great joy.