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Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28

do and have dcne the vsry utmoSt lnA my power. I can't do s1iytHf5g mefe.'
 s ssSs. os s'ins 9nsx ss z es ssr scs@ cent interest to enlarge operA4ions, wnen for many years hAy6n't netted three per cent. from all my farming for both interest and rer.onal wagss
 "I would gladly put in ten acres more of potatoes. if could feel sure that l. wouldn't loee money on them have figured that, for interest, for seed. for fertilizer and for labor. that patch win stand me in s7o. an acre before die | tuber. In bad seasons have had my yields fall to less than 50 bushels per Acre. Now, I can get them. But ftsre Is no Likelihood to my mind that such q price will hold. I can't afford to invest $700 more on a gamble against an uncertain season and 2 market game in which the cArds ready planned to do all l can with my assurance Of safety"
 Said another;-T would be glad to enlarge my crops in every direction, if way. But competent farm hands are no longer to be had I have already employed ever. one can obtatn, g the year. The supply in exhausted with both volunteer and agency furnished "city help" have no con- fidence in It. would rather have two experienced farm born and bred ea ,ta sn la sra 'oS snsn fra sns ~soft" in hand and muscle, always erassly ignorant as to the details of the work. always slow. It takes so much of the others time to teach him and to help him and to wait for him, that they don't do as much in a day. with him, asstiney would without him. know, for have tried 1t. over
 Said still another:-'If the city people will reform the monstrously inefficient no-systern by which, at present. they make the cost of dis tributing our goods equal double the and return the saving which efficient and economical market management would effect to us. we'll send 'em enough to eat. They needn't worry
 We farmers are just as patriotic as other Americans. We don't want to get rich out of our country's need. nor to make exhorhitant war profits" on our vegetables.
 But we want to make a decent liy- ing and get decent prices for what we raise. war or no war starving
 Whether we shall get that living end that wage depends. not half so much on what we do or on how big crops we raise. as on what prices we can get for our creps. right here on the farms.
 If we can get two-thirds. say, of the actual selling value of our crops, leaving the other third to pay hand ling and distribution expenses, we shall be doing 50 much better than we have been accustomed to that we shall be vastly encouraged to increase productive averages and aggregates.
 That is purely a city problem. It ought to be capable of intelligent handling and effective solution by the hrainy men with whom the cities are crowded. They know those things better than we of the country can. Just as we know how to raise cab bages and carrots better than they.
 # they will kindly take the beam out of their own eyes. first, perhaps thfF may discover. with clearer vision e7 command. that the notes in ours sfen't so binding. after all.
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28
STAFFORDvHLE

Mfr. and Mrs. George Potter moved this week to the house they recently purchased from George Sharp.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Mccarthy re- turned home last Saturday, after spending the winter months in Flor ida.
 Rudolf Lyon has been III the past two weeks.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28
UNION

N A. Marcy of Hartford is spending a few days at the Marcy cottage.
 Mir and Mrs. LemngweH and dattgh- ter have moved from MeIrose to the E. Matthews place.
 Aerricx T. Marcy of Seuthbridgs called on friends in town the first of the week.
 John Buckley of Hartford was home Monday.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28

getting one-half the cost of raising the fruit.
 bors let 5000 baskets of fine peaches rot on the ground. last summer. with in forty miles of New York city. Be- cause the market system of that city demanded and took so much that
 pay rasIs the ~ cost # of % piekins and basket. I've have hundreds and thousands of eastern owners, after repeated vain attempts to rehabilitate sheep-raising in despair or Bankruptcy? Because the city marketing conditions were
 such that, while the cost of lamb and mutton was soaring before the con- sumers' dazed eyes, the prices obtain able by lamb and mutton producers were screwed down and down, till there wasn't enough left to pay the fencing bills.
 Why. in the last ten years have the milk herds of New York state--almost an ideal dairy lAnd,-decreased with deadly certainty every year? Be- cause the market conditions of the suners had to pay double what they ought for milk, the dairy farmer got less than a quarter of it,-less than enough to pay his feed bills, not to consider labor.
 | ne reason why farnerS nave pe- come discouraged, why farming has dropped. why farms have been aban- doned is. not because farmers aren't willing to work, not because they can't longer produce crops. but be-
 cause for many years they haven't been able, as a rule, to get paying prices for their crops.
 Over and over again, statisticians have shown that the eastern farmer and truck raiser has averaged only about B per cent. of the selling price of his products. For the yiands which the consumer paid a dollar for, he averaged 36 cents. The rest went to pay the innumerable handlers along
 the way, every one of whom, as he
 passed the truck along, took out his toll.
 Assure the farmer Of fair pay for his products, convince him that he will now get, what he hasn't got for twenty years or more, not only his money back but a decent wage and a moderate profit on his investment, and he will supply the goods.
 I talked yesterday with a dozen or more farming neigbbors about the situation. Said one of them, in eff fect:-'1 am not going to do anything more. this season, than usual. For the simple reason that every season I
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28

Why did John Burroughs uproot his vineyards and cut down his pear orchards? Because the costs foisted upon his choice crops by hordes of city middlemen prevented him from
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28
ANDOVER

Community Flag Displayed Daily Burial of Mrs. Martha Brevvn-Lot Purchased Probably for Memorial Site
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28
if He1I onIy Let Ua.

The best thing that the country forget hiJn.-New Orleans States.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28
ELLINGTON

Editor ef White Ribbon Banner Ad- drssses ". C. T. u-Granae Re- pe.ts Play at Wappins-FIas Rais- inc.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28
STUER5

illustrated Addrsss-Two Members of Cadet Corps Take Examinations at Fort Wrieht-Book Club Meets.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28
COLUMBIA

Case Against E. 6. Lyman, Charged
 With Fraudulent Voting, Noiied in
 Superior court-Rsd Cross Chapter orsanized-Granss to Witness Play
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28

The Equal Franchise League gave : whist at Yeomar's hall Friday even ing of last week, admission 15 cents Lunch was served Six tables were played
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28

To eompiieate this already unpieas- ant enough situation, come the leaders and representatives of the 'leven thousand different and differing com binations of horne-sprouted prophets, each with its own way of getting somebody else to meet the crisis.
 All full as ticks of taikee- talkee . ness. and all chasing each other round the hen-yard, vociferating frantic ad- jurations to the rest to get out of the way and do something
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28

The air is full of gabbIe and feath- CTS, and the executive aim, which would really be swinging at some thing, at last, is restrained from do- Ing 1t by the placid ciaqnishness of a congress whose prevalent idea of statesmanship is a reverberant mouth, operated by Q set of leather lungs, manipulated by degree of demagogic cunning. and voicing the local preju- dices of the home deestrict" rather than the needs of the whole broad land.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28

Instead Of approaching h deliber- ately. mastsrfuily, in an orderly and efficient attack, we are doing nothing but talk an awful lot about what we are going to door induce others to do.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28

Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch, cfaairr. man of the Holland County branch of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage aS-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-28

(Wrftten Specially for The Bu.ietin.)
 Democracies have their advantages, which are undeniably great and don't need defense or application from you and I.
 But they certainly do not shine in times of crisis, as practical and ac- tualIy ef1icient in accomplishments.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02

During the second week in 0ctob-
er the country will be able to cor
rectly gauge the patriotism of its
women. Every woman in the coun-
try is asked to register during that
week for whatever service she feels
she can render her country in this
great crisis of its history. We have
been used to boasting of the SPLEEN
did loyalty of our women, and we
have. always had whereof to boast.
Thus far in the present conflict
their response to the calls made on
them has been spontaneous and most
gratifying. But greater demands
yet will be made. Their work is in
no sense inferno to that of the man,
although it may differ very materi-
ally from it in the element of
thrill They will be called on to
take up and bear woman's age-old
burden-patient endurance and help
full ministration. That their re-
Spouse will be even more enthusiasts
tic than it has ever been, there are
none who doubt.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02
IF PROPERLY MANAGED,
SUCCESS SURE

There is no such word as failure
in the modern art of advertising in
newspapers, where a campaign is
carried out in full detail and is prop
erly managed and financed. The
medicine manufacturers have long
known and appreciated these facts
and even the largest corporations Of
the country have found the power of
the daily and weekly press their
most able assistant.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02
OUR STRENGTH IN CROPS

OF the worlds principal agricul-
tural crops the United States pro-
duces:
Three fourths of the corn.
One fifth of the wheat.
One-fourth of the oats.
One eighth of the barley.
One -fiftieth of the rye.
One sixteenth of the potatoes.
Three fifths of the cotton.
One fourth of the faxseed.
One-third of the tobacco.
One-tenth of the sugar.
One-fourth of the hops.
The United States ranks first in
the production of corn, wheat, oats,
cotton, tobacco, second for barley
and flax; fourth for sugar, and fifth
for rye and potatoes.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02
SET ON THE MORNING AFTER

The whole ofIicfIi Aft eetaoin
The whole oflic may ha a crouch
but if YOU smile and keep on smil-
Wife won't etaoin shrd lmupyc
ing the rest won't feel so grushy.
Wife may be out o. sorts, and the
Hypocrisy may be rampant on
this earth, but if YOU are honest
and straightforward your example
will set them going your way.
brighten A shrdlu oinlm
Al together, now
Brighten thrdlu aomfwyp ugyp
WHERE ARE Y0Up- Gushing
(Okla.) Citizen.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02
The Tabb Theatre, Monday Night, Oct. 8

About the meanest fellow we
know of is the one who sleeps all
through the sermon and then re-
fuses to see the collection plate as it
passes by.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02

reward of fifty dollars is offered
for the apprehension of each de-
serter. Many counties and States
have also offered rewards.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02

1t is unity that makes the happi-
ness of Il home. One discontinued,
disloyal member can spoil the peace
of a household and make a place
of torment where paradise should be.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02
WILL ROUND UP ALL SLACKERs

A roundup of all persons who
failed to respond to the draft will
be begun at once, on order of the
Provost Marshal General E. H.
Crowder. General Crowder has tele-
graphed to all State Governors, and
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02

Mr.. E. r. Little, of this county,
sold 2l0 head of Western ewes at
Winchester courtday Monday to
unknown parties for SIG per head.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02

Some people are so crooked they
would put of dying just for a
chance 10 cheat the undertaken out
of a job.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02

Any one can wave a flag and
but it takes nerve
and grit to go out and get shot into
for it.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02
VINOL MAKES
GOOD BLOOD
Positive-Convincing Proof

Notwithstanding Proof
Many so-called remedies for amaze
mia are only so in name. Their max
ers are afraid to prove their claims by
telling what their medicines contain.
The only way to be honest with the
people is to let them know what they
are paying for. Here is the Vinol
formula. When the doctor knows
what a medicine contains, it ceases
to be patent" medicine.
= Cod Liver and Beef Peptones, Iron and
= Manganese Peptonates, Iron and Am
monium Citrate, Lime and Soda Glycero-
phosphates, Cascarin.
Any doctor will tell you that the in
gradients of Vinol, as named above,
will enrich the blood and Danish amaze
mia and create strength. When the
blood is pure and rich and red, the
body is strong and robust.
You can prove this at our expense
because your money will be returned
if Vinol does not improve your health.
w. S. Lloyd, Druggist, Mt. Sterling, KY
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02
DRAFT REsIsTERs

we should have a perfect unanimity
of sentiment in this country on the
question of prosecuting the war,
certain misguided persons should
persist in REASONABLE resistance to
the selective draft. Even some
preachers, who of all others should
both practice and teach answering
loyalty to the country, have advised
their hearers to resist the law.
1t is hard to believe these people
are deliberately disloyal. We would
much prefer to believe that they sin
through ignorance. One must be low
indeed in the scale of creation when
he can deliberately betray his coun-
try and his pepole.
Even that beatifc designation of
our country as "the land of the
free has grown to mean, in many
ignorant minds, something entirely
different from its meaning to the
person who sees life as it is.
The man Of normal intelligence
sees freedom as purely relative. He
knows there can be no absolutely
freedom. As long as there remain
two human beings on this earth,
neither can possibly be entirely
free. The welfare of either must of
necessity circumscribe the freedom
of the other.
1t is just this fundamental fact,
however, that many ignorant minds
fail to grasp. To them freedom has
no other meaning save license. Once
assured they are free men, any
force that interferes with their con-
ccption of freedom is to them tyran-
ny and not to be tolerated.
1t is high time we revised the pop
ular conception of freedom. 1t is
time the basic truth were stressed
that there can, be no freedom with
out absolute obedience to law. Dis
regard of law tends toward anarchy,
and anarchy is the very antithesis
of freedom.
Again, many minds fail to appre-
ciate the fact that without the law
and its fostering care there would
be no such thing as freedom, even
safety. And without stable govern
ment there can be no effective law.
Law, reduced to its essence, is but
the crystalizcd will of those affecte-
ed. Laws for the protection of life
and property depend entirely on the
will of the various individuals. 1t
is simply the public will reduced to
a code.
These same malcontents are
standing monuments of the efficacy
of laws and governments. Without
the fostering care of civilized gov
eminent, it would have been i'm
possible for their forebears to have
evolved anything like as creditabIe
specimens of humanity as even their
unworthy selves. Their lives have
been guarded and shielded by the
protecting power of this same force
called law, which force they now in
their ignorance and stupidity mag
inc they can set aside at their
pleasure.
We as a people have goe too fan
afeld after freedom. We have made
of it a fetch. We have distorted
and stretched its meaning until The
national conception Of freedom
bears very little resemblance to the
genuine article.
We must get back to the old
paths. We must stamp indelibly on
the public mind the eternal fact that
perfect freedom can come only in
no other way than through perfect
obedience to law.
1t may take a few firing squads
to make this impress, and if so, the
sooner they are called out the better.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-10-02

Bring your job work to the Advo-
ate Office.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-31
WASHINGTON PARK.
Editor II Paso Herald:

Editor FL PasO Herald;
sunday I took my family for a trip
90 Washington park. and wish to say
that after We finally arrived there 1
was most surprised at the lovely ap-
pearance which We had confronting Us.
from our first step at the entrance
I have never before seen this park look
as nice At this time of the year. and,
as one moves onward. the appearance
gets better.
1 wish also to add that now the
women and children are safe without
the men folks being along This con-
Gition has only been brought on by
some ones hard work and close watch
in the past year or so. and credit should
Ice given TO the man in charge Of this
park. I Will say that ] have never met
2 more consenial custodian in any pub
lie park
II is 8 shame that the public must
suffer as we do in the transportation
OF passengers from town TO this lovely
spot The street cars would in any
other town be put on a scrap heap.
Also. the employees on these cars are
very lmpolite in their contact with the
public The conductor on the car l
was on. said in a very harsh voice to u
woman who had forgotten 10 wait for
her change Here. lady, we are not in
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-31

-HAT night III December. lSss.
when Seth Burrows played a
lively engagement with the po-
lice Of Juarez is still discussed IN
whispers by the old timers OF the an
cient pueblo on the southern banks
Of the Rio Grande: and they tell Of
how the daring young Texan scored
with every bullet in his gun.
Seth Burrows was 4 Texas COWBOY.
who loved adventure and was not
afraid OF anything on earth. in the
waters on the earth OF in the fires
supposed by all orthodox Christians 10
he burning far down in the bowels of
the earth. While Burrows was q quiet.
unsssuming young man who never
hunted trouble. neither was he ever
known 10 run from trouble started 5y
someone else.
The fiesta was in full blast in Juarez
No the con men and gamblers whJ
hung around fiesta plaza were reaping
a harvest from unsophisticated tourists
from New York. Boston and other cen
ters of wisdom in the effete east;
I;ubc Burrows had been attending
the fiesta and been ensnared 10y a
pretty dark-eyed senorits- Or this
particular night Burrows met the
Dung woman in the plaza and the
strolied away together and slipped into
q little cafe near the bullriug.
Jealous KuraIe Interfere~.
II happened that dashing youne
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-31
Short Snatches
From Everywhere

Congress is capable OF providing its
own vaudeville without assistance from
Thomas W Lawson.-New York World
We wish Mr. Bryan would stop say
ing that the president has done just
right. It makes US nervous-Charles-
ton News and Courier
Gen. Pershing is coming out OF Mex
ico, and our guess is that ne is
whole lot madden than when he went
in.-Detroit Free Press.
How the German commerce raiders
get by the British blockade seems 10
be a good deal OF a mystery. but maybe
the British crews were at tea at the
tine.-Indianapol News.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-31
HOROSCOPE.
thursday. February /. I9I..

A CCORDING 10 astroIogers the
u hours after noon today should
L - be fairly fortunate. but the
morning rule Of the stars Is unfavor-
able. The Sun is strongly benefic in
influence. while Venus. Mercury. sat
urn and Jupiter are all slightly ad-
verse.
The sun in the major cycle Of Jupi-
ter and the minor cycle OF Mars. gives
hope of peace far off. but also warns
the world that it must change its men
tai attitude and blot out. as far as
possible. greed Of gold and thirst for
power.
This month probably will be marked
by nothing decisive in European af-
fairs, the seers announce
As the winter sOltice is not promiS-
ing for naval affairs. there should be
extreme caution in all plans for trans
Atlantic transportation There may be
an accident either at sea or in har-
Dor that will cause heavy loss of life
Mercury rising in opposition TO Sat
urn is read as denOting much poverty
in America as well as European cities
depression of trade and great mortality.
On this day whatever depends on
the favor Of men and women in posi-
ton Of influence should prosper. II
is an suspicious rule under which 10
seek employment or to assure pOliti-
cal preferment-
Washington. d. Q. continues under
a planetary direction read as foreshad-
owing scandal in official life. Both
congress and presidents cabinet viii
be affected.
The seers point out that never be-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-31
Battle
Rurale

shoot and Kill Burrows. This officer
was very proud OF his feat and boosted
loudly about It.
\ week later, Bill Durham. Bur
rOws's uncle. arrived in T. PasO to in
VestigaIe the killing of his nephew.
He went across the river and had Bur
rOws's slayer pointed out 10 him Then
Durham returned 10 Fl PasO and
waited.
Uncle Kills slayer.
About SIX weeks later the JuareZ
officer who killed Burrows came 70
FL Paso and Bill Durham managed TO
meet him down on Broadway. near a
dance hall. When within 10 or l.
feet Of the Mexican, Durham halted
and called on the Mexican to defend
himself. You killed my boy when he
was helpless. but I'm going 10 give
YOU q chance" said Durham
The two men drew at the same time
but Durham shot from his hip and
the Mexican plunged forward on his
face. shot through the heart
Before ne was killed. Burrows had
scored with every one of the five bull
lets in his s.. He killed one officer.
seriously wounded three others and
killed horse from under another.
That was regarded as some shooting
in All uncertain torchlight-
After his gun was empty and he WaS
out of ammunition, Burrows stood at
lay. with clubbed gun refusing TO ask
Tor quarter
After Bill Durham had avenged his
hepheW's death. he remained in ~
pasO lonG enough 10 stand trial and
he acquitted. and then no returned TO
the ranch