Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-01

M -ldnI moment sonly then arrived The peddler closed up one side of his cart, darkening tho glitter within: he started to shut the other door. Then he hesitated a second, looked sharply at me. thrust his long arm far into tEc interior and under the box which mace his seat and brought out either g. rln trumpet gorgeously painted, or fantastic jumping-Jack. Here, sonny" he'd say, you keep this for me till come round again, tnd if you use it careful p'raps I'll trade it back for suthin' else"
 An, brethen, the days that were,- will never be again. I suspect that there are many silvery haired cele- brities in this land, to whom the hard won acclaims of Fames golGS n trum- pet will never sound so thrilling as the first notes blown from that lit tile old tin whistle of the peddlers gift.
 Save the rags" What has all this rigmarole about old days to do with saving rags in 1916?
 We'll, just this:-If the paper-mak- CTS can't get any more of the filthy, ever-infected, plague-spotted rags rags from over-sea and want reason ably clean and decent ones from the rag-bags of their own country, they can get them by the simple expedient
 Paying for them; paying what they're worth in the trouble required 10 save them; paying for them, as they used to do and as they have not Gone for To, these many years.
 The last time the nissus of this farm m-house sold a big bag full of rags .he buyer gave her just ten cents fO- them and then charged her thirty i've cents for pieced tin dipper, the very counterpart and fac simile of which she could have bought in any flve-and-ten-cent store for a dime. When l heard of it with her ac- companying declaration that she'd never save another rag, would burn them Up, day by day, as made. I said 1 Superiorly, Give 'em to me: I'll take care of 'em." So for several months = put all the old rags into two burlaI sacks out in the wagon-shed. WheT another junk-man came around. l in vited proposals. We found they weighed fifty pounds. After long hag-
 sing, he finally offered twenty-five cents for them,-if l would throw il he two bran-bags containing then | which, at that time, my local graiI l dealer was offering six cents apiece | for singly or by the hundred' He al l 90 offered me two cents a pound for {
 pile of old lead, twenty-five cents : ! hundred for some old irOn,-if l would | haul 1t to the city, ten miles away | and refused to take nearly 2 half -tol
 of old paper at any price whatever 1 NOr could I get better offers from an, ! one of them of some half-dozen col l lectors whom I interviewed success l Sively.
 I accordingly authorized them, in | Gividually and Combinedly, to pro reed forthwith to HalifaX,-or an, l other place beginning with Ii, burne l Up the rags and paper, dumped tn Id iron and lead into a swamp am retired from the junk-saving business 1 l have no doubt that this is exactl the reason why other people hay | stopped saving rags. They couldn'
 sell 'em for enough to pay the bothe l If paging them.
 It's to late, now to recover thos
 T-hich have been burned or otherwis destroyed in the immediate past. But if the paper-makers want do ,Hestic rags, they can very soon reviv l he custom of saving them into neI | life,--if only they'll see to it that som | Eay is found by which the housewif l can get a decent price for them. There's no need of starting news
 paper crusades, or appealing to patri | tism, or snivelling around the door ,. government departments.
 People will gladly save rags now a
 ttey used to do, if those who wan | iags vii pay for them,-as they use to do.
 That's all there is to it.
 ] THE FARMER.