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The Tupelo journal., 1917-01-19
The Word "Pester."

When we say we have been pestered
by the bill collector and the political
candidate we are not INDUCING in
American slang. We are using a word
that Is more ancient and aristOcratic
than any of our proudly displayed
coats of arms. And it came from the
same source as most of the worlds
ariStocracy-from the farm! Poster"
is an abbreviation for ''impester," and
a pastorium, in classic Latin, was SIM
ply a pasture. There We're no fences
around the pasture, and to prevent the
horses and cattle from straying too
far In quest of lush grass their feet
We're shackled. You would think you
were being pestered if your feet were
tied-that Is, impestered-so that you
could not run.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
Graf.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-01-19
Widcws' Dolls In Servja.

Talking OF Servia's curious marriage
customs, Mrs. Gordon in her book, "a
Woman In the Balkans speaks Of a
queer looking doll she sometimes saw
hanging up in cottage windows:
TO my astonishment and amuse-
ment was informed that the doll was
the coy evidence a widow shows when
she desires to enter the bonds Of mat
rlmony again. Some of them were
hideous, others of as pretty a kind as
the circumstances or taste of the lone
widow would permit, and it was by
this mute appeal intending suitors
were made ware of her intentions
and invited to inquire within
Wreaths of corn marked the houses Of
a marriageable girl"
The Servians are a singing people.
and h women. who are very poetical.
sing as they spin during the long even
ings. They sometimes compose music
to the Old ballads as they sing them.
The country is called 1.-The poor mans
paradise" and Mrs Gordon thinks the
title appropriate, ''for one rarely sees
the poor or the beggar, and, though
there may be smells. there are no
slums and no unemployed"
The Tupelo journal., 1917-01-19
Audubon and His Hair.

Audubon, the great naturalist, early
in his career wore his hair very long.
He wrote in his diary II day: Il wear
my hair as long as usual. | believe
it does as much for me as my paint
iEgs.' However. in 1927 his friends
succeeded in %persuading him to get his
hair cut according to the prevailing
fashion. On March 10 Of that year
he wrote in his diary: "This day my
hair sacrificed and the will of God
usurped by the wishes of man. AS the
barber clipped my locks rapidly it re-
minded me of the horrible times of the
French revolution when the same OPP
Grafton was performed upon all the
victims murdered by the g%uillotine.
My heart sank low" Further to express
his grief, the margin Of the page on
which this entry vas made he painted
black about three-quarters Of an inch
deep all around.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-01-19
Confession of a Contributor,

l wish might never have to bangle
my profession on a label. | am always
embarrassed when | am forced bla-
family to expose it-for example, to
the frank questions of the doctors sec
rotary or of a customs official. PRO
fession?' they ask, and | cringe before
the admission. Il am a writer" l don't
feel ladylike when | say the words. On
such occasions | could give my entire
remuneration for an Atlantic essay to
be able to say, Il am a laundress."-
Winifred Kirkland in Atlantic.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-01-19
inouieitive Girls,

Bessie almost hate Carrie Over!
She asks such impudent questions, you
know. | was telling her if Frank
Barnes had asked me to marry him
once he had asked me twenty times,
and she had the impertinence to ask
me if he had asked once. Minnie-The
ideal But has he. Bessie?-Exchange
The Tupelo journal., 1917-01-19
Welcome Joy.

Eff you amt got manner ter tell
Joy good mawnin' when you meets
him how does you expect him ter call
roun by de place you live at? You
better be mighty keerful, fer, while
he is allus in a good humor, he sho'
do expect you ter meet him halfway
Atlanta Constitution.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-01-19
Too Much of a Good Thino.

THAT mans laugh is like a tonic"
Il don't deny that it has a cheerful
ring" the cynic said, but hearing the
same loud laugh all day long is like
taking a dose of medicine every hour
it gets to be MISUNDERSTANDING
ham Age Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-01-19
Wronu Font,
Now she

"She married a printer. Now she
wants a divorce
"Ah, see-she made a typograph-
zeal errorr'-Florida Times Union.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-01-19

The opportunity is often lost by de-
lberating.-Syrus.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-01-19
Powers Of the Fireside.

Wife-The policeman called on the
cook last night. Husband-Ahl A con-
ference of the powers.-Baltimore Sun.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-03-31

on said part OF said street or hishwas
thus sprinkied
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-03-31
FOR NURSES DORMITORY AT BACKUS
Committee Humane Institutions of the House Has Decided
to Recommend Appropriation of $4,000 for That
Purpose-Bil Creating Motor Vehicle Commissioner
Favorably Reported in the Senate-SaIary Would be
$4,000 Year

that all had eaten of speckied apples
ind are still here. AIR. Henderson re-
piled that frozen beef had been eater
and we are still here. He was oo-
posed to the bill as it merely means
an increase in the price of beef
Mr. Peasley of Cheshire said as the
bill carried an appropriation it should
go to the committee on appropriations
under the house rule, and made mo-
ton to that effect.
Mr.. Higgins said that Mr. PeasIey
was misinformed as it carried no spe-
cific appropriation, but he had no OBJ
Mr.. PeaSley withdrew his motion
Mr. Sherwood made amendment that
Mr. Higgins said. took the teeth out
of the bill The amendment prevailed
Mr.. Culver of Seymour offered ar
amendment that others as well as
farmers be permitted to kill cattle
Amendment adopted
Mr.. Rogers Of Manchester said il
given a chance the house would pro-
vide for the funeral of the bill
Mr.. Averill of Washington offered
amendment so that diseased cattle
could not be sold for human consump-
ton. but could be sold for rendering
or other like purposes
Mr. Higgins believed the bill was
in the interests of public health, but
il it did not meet the general require
ments, perhaps a more satisfactory
bill; could be substituted.
Mr.. Fish of Newington. said he was
not a farmer, but had dealt in meats
He told of a fine looking cow that
he purchased, which upon being dress
ed was full of disease The farmer
who sold. the cow. after seeing ii
dressed. buried at his expense. Mr.
Fish favored Inspection.
Mr. Holt of New London said the
amendment would allow animals with
contagious diseases to be sold TO rem
dering plants. He told OF the danger
of transport of these diseased ami
mails.
Mr. AverilTs amendment was car
ried, and the bill was rejected
Military Census.
Concerning military census enum-
Grafton a bill was passed, which pro-
vides that any person who shall re-
fuse TO give information to a military
census enumeration. or who shall him
der or obstruct such enumerator while
in the performance of bis duties shall
be fined not more than $50, or i'm
prisoned not more than six months,
or both.
AR. Rogers OF Manchester offered
amendment, SO as not to include those
who did not speak English, until at
ter they were inteliigentiy advised.
Mr. Rudd of the military committee
approved the amendment, as he did
not want to let the bars down. Mr..
Rogers said that as enumerator he
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tspecial to The Rulletin.l

Hartford, March 30.-.There was an
other rush day in the house Friday
and the calendar was practically
cleared of All business ready for ac-
doubt but The final adjournment will
be reached early in May. In order
that the four days a week plan will
prevail. there viii be a session next
by proclamation of the governor for
fasting and prayer 1t is rumored
about the capitol that on the day of
dnal adjournment, and when the as
sembly is in joint session. that the
governor will then and there call for
an extraordinary session of the gem
eral assembly, and complete organiza-
ton, in order to keep the body alive
gency.
inspection of Meat.
The inspection of meat and meat
food products, is the title of a bill
which provides that the commissioners
of domestic animals shall cause to be
made, by inspectors appointed for tina.
purpose as hereinafter provided, an
examination and inspection of the car
casSes and parts thereof of all cattle,
sheep. swine and goats to be prepared
for human consumption at any
Strengthening establishment. The car
casses and parts thereof found to be
sound, Eealthful, wholesome and fit
for human food shall be marked,
stamped tagged OF laDGfeO,- inspected
and Passed" and said inspectors shall
label, mark, stamp or tag, Inspected
and Condemned" all carcasses and
parts thereof condemned, and no car
casses or parts thereof condemned
shall be sold.
The penalty for violation is $500 or
Imprisonment not more than one year
or both. The bill provided for the
payment of a nominal fee for inspec-
ton.
Mr.. Higgins in explaining the bill
gave statistics of the number of food
animals killed in the state and that
perhaps twenty per cent. are more or
less diseased, and therefore there
should be inspection to decide what
proportion is fit for food. The bill
permits a farmer to butcher for his
own use, or to sell to a neighbor, with
out inspection.
Mr. Curry of Lebanon said the state
could not afford to pay competent in
spectors., and consequently incompe-
tent men are selected. He told of an
instance where an inspector in Massa-
chusetts stamped carcass of a horse,
to be prime beef. He was opposed to
the bill.
Mr.. Henderson of Norwich asked If
any portion of a diseased carcass was
ut to eat. and Mr.. Higgins, chairman,
said there were such cases. and added
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IN THE SENATE.
Bill Creating Motor Vehicle Commits.
sioner FavorabIy Reported.

Hartford. March 50.-The COMMITTEES
on interpretations reported favorab1y
on the following bills IN tllessenate
today: Bill authorizing the ! Clinton
Electric Light and Power company to
issue bonds to the amount OF 500. 900
and authorizing the issuing of $50, 900
worth of the bonds to reimburse the
treasury of the county. for expendi-
lures; authorizing the Bristol Brass
company to Increase its capital stock
to 81. 900, 900; authorizing the United
Electric Light and Water company to
change its place of business from
Hartford TO such place within the state
as the directors may designate and to
Fccrease its capital stock from 500, 900
10 $4,000, 900. Calendar.
The committee on railroads reported
anfavorabiy on the bill for enclosed
vestibu1e trolley cars from Oct. 10 to
May 1. Bill rejected.
Refiectors on Motors.
The committee on roads, bridges and
rivers reported favorabfy on a bill con-
corning the use of ref1ectors on COM
mercial motor vehicles. 1t provides
that the reflector on the rear of the
vehicle shall give the operator clear
view Of the highway. The operator
shall drive to the right to allow a car
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-03-31

An act concerning the solicitation of
orders for liquors in no-license towns
was rejected. This matter was un-
favorably reported by the excise com
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corning the shipment OF meats amend
ing tenement house law; and 70 pre-
vent damage from the operation or
steam boilers. Bills rejected.
bill was passed under suspension
OF rules 10 provide that the state cen
sus returns and Inventories snail bf
placed In the state library In charge %
the librarian, who shall permit persons
20 examine them when authorized b.
the governor. The bin was explained
by Senator KIett. Il was transmitted
to the house.
For Cleansing Rivers.
The committee on public health and
safety reported a substitute bill au-
thorlzing the Etate board Of health 90
investigate the discharge OF industrial
wastes into the waters OF the state. and
to employ such expert assistance az
may be necessary to carry out the
provisions of section Q, chapter 28l, OF
$4,000 IS appropriated for the carry
ing out OF the act. The bill. on the
J accommodation OF the committee. was
referred 20 the committee on appro-
Marketing Of Mir.
A bill was passed creatine the dairy
commissioner. the attorney general. the
secretary of the state board Of health.
The secretary Of the state board or
agriculture and the secretary Of tho
Connecticut Dairymen'a association q
70 regulate the mariSetinE
of milk. The bill has been pubiighed
in full in The Bulletin.
For Troop s's Property,
Senator Boyd explained the bill ap-
propriating 0,416.77 for cOmpietiug
the purchase OF the property Of the
Troop B association and the bill was
Adjournment.
The senate adjourned to Monday Ct
1Ls0.
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WHERE THE SHOE PINcHEs THE FARMER

, many places they were not dug, but
left to rot in the ground. has anything
to do with their present high price
or the fact that when the price OF
of producing it the result is thai
sooner or later the price OF that arti-
Gle must so far above its real worth
Il am an ur-river farmer, and Tor
years have been shipping supplies OF
fruit and vegetables to New York, and
many is the time 1 have been badly
'stung' in fact, prices have been
so low that 7 have been forced nut OF
the business. and have OF late turned
to other things. What has happened
in my case has happened in thousands
of others; in short, New York and
New England are fun OF abandoned
farms. and even many of the best are
but half cultivated. Farming does
not pay has been the cry, and the
boys have left the farm. To speak
of some instances:
1.-The last time / shipped Bartlett
pears to New York they cleared me
just 15 cents a barrel; as q result
cut down most of the trees and sold
the others locally. have not shipped a
pear since, and never will. In 1914
my grape crop brought me In debt;
80 cents was the top-notch price for
the very choicest Niagara grapes,
crate. etc, was taken out. left the
grower just d-2 cents for twenty
pounds of the best fruit that grows
out OF doors.
mot since 1905 have my vineyards
paid expenses, that is, overhead costs.
figured at 81 a day, and per cent.
on the money invested In them-they
have been a loss every year. I felt I
was lucky If I got barely enough to
pay the operating expenses. las a re-
suit, I pulled the vines up by the
roots. In 1915 a neighbor of mine let
about 5000 baskets of peaches go to
waste, the few he shipped-and they
were choice ones at that-brought him
in debt.
Lettuce, is cents a barrel; toma-
hundred; milk Ia cents quart
these are some of the prices we far
mers have been getting, and from
these prices have to come the cost of
shipping, selling, and package. Even
this year you could ride anywhere IN
Ulster County and see apples going to
waste, and two of my friends who
raise potatoes In large amounts got
20 and rs cents a bushel for them.
The commission men with whom L
deal tell me that many times they
have sold potatoes on the dock at New
York for just enough to pay the
freight. The grower got nothing. To
use slang phrase, he got it in the
neck And now people wonder why
potatoes are high in pricei
Turn about is fair play Is all well
enough, were It not for the fact that
in this case the innocent and helpless
suffer, and also for the fact that our
to invite flood OF European labor
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$500. 600 for Bridseport.

A bill was passed authorizing the
city OF Bridgeport to issue bonds and
other certificates of Indebtedness to the
amount OF $500, 900.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-03-31
Wood Alcohol.

An act was passed which provides
:or the sale and delivery of wood a5co-
1 hoi. which requires that it be plainly
! labeled Wood AlcohoI-Poison."
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~
er yet 10 get mad. it is perfectly evil
dent that a great many besides MT
Burroughs and myself have after
years of patient endurance OF con-
certed and organized robbery, gradn-
ally lost hope OF any ADEQUATE and
immediate remedy. and have stopped
working ourselves to skin and bones
in order to fatten q gang of grafters IN
between US ard those who consume
our goods.
And in that very fact is to be found
one explanation for present high
prices Curses, like chickens. some
times come home to ruost. The worm
it is said, win turn when stepped on
Even the farmer who has found him
self invariably stopped and pillaged on
the road to his natural market will, al
last, decide to go another road in an
other direction or else-stay at nome
and go nowhere.
Dear friends of the city: If you now
find it hard to live because of the high
prices of farm foods, please reflect
how for many, many years back, the
a slaves wages for raising those foods
for you. Please consider how, by the
wretched greed or pitiabie incompe-
tence OF those buyers and niddlemen
whom you have allowed to interviews
between You and him, you have been
charged anywhere from fifty to five
hundred per cent more for your foods
than the foods actually sold for at the
farm.
If now, when the fruit of that sow
ing is bitter in your own mouths, you
are moved to indignation, please front
your cFearest and biggest mirror and
address your remarks to the person
you see therein.
For it is really YOU who are most
responsible: ard 1t is you who can
remedy the evil, If you have wisdom
enough and energy enough and fair
ness enough to carry through of the
job. No one of you can do it alone
But. combined, your power is simply
irresistible.
The eastern farmer has got about
tired of being ground between the
upper and the neither nilistones. He's
had quite enough OF raising vegetables
and fruits for you and Juggling them TO
your agents without getting enough
pay for them even to renew his worn
shoe leather.
If you want return of normal sup
plies at normal prices, the sooner you
get together and march out to meet
him, half way. the sooner you'lI at
tain desirable result.
But if you expect to have everything
done for you while You do nothing
for yourselves.-why, then, theren be
nothing doin...'-
And your present difficulties may
perhaps turn out to be "on1y a patch
on what are yet to come.
THE FARMER.
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approaching from the rear to pass.
Calendar.


Passed: That taxes due the state
from towns shall bear interest al the
rate. of 9 per cent. per anuu1n when
not paid within 90 days: that blank
forms for tax lists and abstract books
shall be in accordance with the form
prescribed by the state board of equal
ization; to prohibit fsiing through ito
ice in Lake Hoibro0k, Bolton, until
Jan. /. 1877: that superior court rec
ords in Waterbury shall be kept in
that city; concerning terms of court
OF common pleas in Litchfeld county;
10 increase the capital stock OF the r..
Ingraham company to 32,O0O,OO0; that
savings banks shall not be required to
furnish lists of unused deposits for 20
years when the depositors are living or
in the case of deposits OF so aud less;
establishing building and veranda
commission ard creating the office OF
building inspector in Newington; OK
tending the time for the organization
of the Pequabuck Water company; Civ
ing the board of control the power to
abate uncouectible taxes: validating
printing and typewritipg in public rec
ords; that bank returns to commits
sioner shall be as of Oct. 1 and that
banks shall furnish ali information re-
quired by the commissioner; SuthoriZ-
ing the Wethersfield FIRE district to
make ordinances relating to the re-
nioyal of snow and ice, and that the
expense Of constructing sidewalks shall
be assessed on property specially bene-
flied etc. that tax lists shall be com
pIeteds by Jan. 81 and then open for
inspection; that fire warden bills shall
be paid quarterly: establishing build
ing lines in PIainyilie: extending the
Boundaries of the Mystic fire district;
establishing building lines in Sey-
nnour; erecting a town plan commits
sion in wetnersfield: repeating 1916
of the general statutes as amended by
section 80 Of the pubic acts Of 1903
feIatinS to returns of express COM
panies: Including those who served in
the Spanish American war the Philip
pine insurrecuon and the Chinese re-
lief expedition in the law which gives
preference in public appointments.
On License Voting.
The Committee on excise reported
favorabIy on a bill providing that the
list of those who ask for a vote on IL
cense shall contain their addresses and
that the town clerk shall examine the
list to see that It contains the requi-
site number of voters. Calendar.
UnfavorabIe.
The committed on public health and
safety reported unfavorably on the
matters: Concerning sewage
in the Connecticut river, Thames river,
Housatonic and Naugatuck river; con-
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written Specially for The Bulletin.)
The other day, hearing that certain
potato growers up in Aroostook coun-
~. Maine, were holding their potatoes
for an ever better than $S-as ousnel
price the New York Times intimated
that such greediness on the part of
the farmers tended TO make New
York sore at them
This view OF the situation is quite
characteristics of city papers and city
preston OF it moved John Burroughs
at his farm in West Park. up the
Hudson, to gentle rebuke and
terse statement of certain facts with
in his own experience or his own per-
sonal knowledge.
There is nothing In his letter which
is really new to US experienced far
mers and truckmen; nothing which
we haven't often run up against. In
quality IL not in exact similarity. But
John Burroughs, while working far
mer is also the best known natural
ist of the United States As such,
his many books have q vogue among
city readers and he himself a repu-
tation among them which is exceeding
high. Especially by that large class
of city residents who have any touch
of the "back-to-the-Iand" fever is he
read and re-read and believed in
Now, I happen TO have been told (by
themseives) that a few city residents
read these deSultory Talks, even
though they are not farmers and
have no present probability OF becom-
ing such.
As the old farmer said in the old
story: They're the chaps Tn after,
this time. If you real farmers don't
feel like reading John Burroughs, this
evening, just skip this. But 1 hope
every man and woman in the cities
where it circulates will take interest
enough in the statements of John o.
Birds, as his admirers tenderly cali
The famous naturalist, to read them.
He, at least. as they will admit. is no
mere greedy hunks of an ignorant
hayseed. What they might pass over
as one-sided and unfair pleading, If
said by such common farmers as you
and J. they may be able to find both
instructive and reformative, when
coming from his pen Anyway, I'm
going to exchange pulpits."-as the
dominfes say, - with John Burroughs,
this morning. You'll thank me for
doing so, before you get through,
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