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time and studied everything in sight, and we flew right over my quarters and the barracks looked like little brown dominoes.
 My next thought was, how will we ever get down from this awful height, which I afterwards found vas less than two thousand feet. Then came my first real scare. We had been making the turns with little pitch and sudden ly he did a 180-degree turn with the wings perpendicular, and I thought it was all over Next and worse came the nose dive. He headed her into the wind and shut off the power un- til we began to pancake or just fall out of control; then after falling a way, he pointed her straight for the ground and let her fall without an inch of wing resisting, and l certain ly thought the end had come. Every thing was coming up past us and the earth was hurrying up to meet us, and then he pulled her out in a grace full curve and sweeped down in ser ies of dives and finally landed. It was like going down in a fast eleva- tor, only a thousand times worse. The landing was great and the bump was very slight, and I climbed out and patted the ground with real affection.
 Don't worry. I love part of it, but I am not what you would call crazy about flying. I wanted to have at least one trip, however, and now 1t is hard to get passes; so l won't have another ride.
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ELWELL'S FIRST TRIP
 ABOVE MOTHER EARTH
Former Norwich Boy Writes of His
 First Flight at Ohio Field.

Charles c. Elwell, Jr., a Yale man of the class of 1911, a graduate of the Norwich Free Academy, and a former resident of this city. has the accom- panying letter in the current issue of the Yale Alumni Weekly describing his first flight in an aeroplane at Will bur Wright field at Fairfield Ohio. Mir. Elwell has just been commission ed a second lieutenant in the non-fiy- ing branch of the aviation section, sig nal corps.
 He writes as follows
 I have just landed after my first trip in an airplane and thought I would write you a letter about it.
 The first sensation is a cramped feeling, as the room is so small that you can't move an inch. Next comes the testing of the wires by your pilot, and the engine with it's awful racket. We had to run slowly along the ground like an auto for about two hundred yards, so that we could turn around and start into the wind. Then we turn ed around and he let her have the gas. For a little way you feel the bumps of the ground and then after one of the bumps, when you expect to touch once more, everything is smooth and you are off. The line of IldnSd1S lLdl yOu elI . ulAilllS ct hlANA expect to hit are falling away from you and you clear them by a hundred feet or more.
 It was very windy and there were lots of so-called bumps, which cause the machine suddenly to lose or gain twenty feet in altitude. The gaining feels like sitting in a barber chair and having him push you up with the foot lever, and the losing is worse; it feels as if the thing were taken out from under you and then put back again.
 He was going to take me up as high as the top of a water tower and then around the field and down, and when I first saw the Water Tower it looked like a little toy way down below. Well, he shut down the motor and said, T will take you around the Field again and get some more altitude so that we can see Dayton I said. Hell, can see Dayton fine from here" but 1 lost, and around we went climbing all ! the way until the machine that were flying on the regular cadet route around the Field seemed to be crawl ing on the ground as I looked down on them. The fields looked like little squares of different color just as they do when looking from a mountain. The roads looked like little streaks and a little silver stream was the Miami River. We saw Dayton O. K and every other town anywhere around. I kept looking down all the
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MISS SARA T. KINNEY
 MAYFLoWER GUEST.
Annual Meeting Held With Mrs. Nell son D. Robinson at Norwich Town.

The annual meeting of the May flower club was held on Thursday af- ternoon at the home of Mrs. Nelson ID. Robinson at Norwich Town. At o'clock the members all sat down to bountiful luncheon table which was artistically decorated with pink and white carnations and pink tulips, With covers laid for 27.
 During the luncheon Mrs. Graves, on behalf of the ladies, presented Mrs. Robinson, who is affectionately known as the mother of the club" S5 gold piece as a token of their love and esteem.
 An interesting after luncheon speech along patriotic lines was made by Mrs. Sara T. Kinney of Hartford the hon. ored guest of the occasion, and Mrs. Robinson also spoke in felloltous way on the origin of the Red Cross flag as dating from the time of St. George and the Dragon.
 After the minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted, the usual election of officers took place, all present incumbents agreeing to serve for the ensuing year. They are the following: President, Mrs. Chris topher Morgan of Mystic; secretary, Miss Phoebe Brewster; treasurer, Mrs. Nelson D. Robinson. Mrs. Sara T. Kinney of Hartford was unanimously elected honorary president of the club. Mrs. Main, Miss Larrabee and Miss Rachel Larrabee of Groton were voted in to fill the vacancies caused by deaths of members.
 At the close of the meeting the la dies rose and stood in silence to the memory of Mrs. Waterman R. Burn
 ham, Miss Ada Smith, Miss Ellen Geer and Miss Lucy P. Butler( the latter one of the ineerpopators of the society,", who had all died during the year.
 Those present during this enjoyable luncheon were Mrs. Sara T. Kinney of ] Hartford, the governor of the state society; Mrs. Herbert l.. Crandall, Mrs. Charles B. Jennings, Mrs. Nelson M Keeney, Mrs. Frank s. Greene,
 Mrs. Charles B. Graves, Mrs. Fred
 Smith, Mrs. L. R. Shipman,- Mrs, Seth
 Comstock, and Miss Elizabeth Stark, all of New London.
 l Gales Ferry: Miss Amelia Mathew
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LISBON
Five Stars on Service Flag Dedicated at Newent Church-May Basket Party.

A service flag was dedicated at Newent church Sunday morning, the five stars being for John Kendall, Walter Corbett, Clarence Whitaker, Harry Foote and Harry Remmick. A United States flag was also placed in the church at the same time. Rev. W. J. Reynolds theme was Stones of Memorial,
 Mrs. Alice Knight and son of Plain field have come to make their homo with MT. and Mrs. Frank Knight.
 Home from the West.
 Paul Budeit, who has been in the west for several months, it at his fa- ther's, Charles Budeit's
 Michael Cornell of Bridgeport has been a visitor at Duncan McKay's the past week.
 Milton Souter of Hanover and Wal ter Wibberiey Of Norwich attended church at Newent Sunday. MT. Souter gave the bugle call during the dedi- cation service.
 Nearly twenty of Miss Mabel Kama hans friends from Jewett City gave her a May basket party Friday even ing.
 A public meeting and exhibition O. school work was given by the schools of the town Friday afternoon at the church. There were songs and reef tations and an exhibit of Red Cross work done in the schools and bread made by the pupils
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BAPTIST WOMEN IN
 MISSIONARY MEETING.
Churches of New London Association Hold Their Annual Meeting.

The annual convention of the Wom- ems American Baptist Home Mission ary society of the New London asso- citation was held at the Huntington street Baptist church in New London on Thursday and was attended by delegates from 25 churches, represent ing organizations in this city, New London, Mantle, Waterford, East Lyme, Montville, Salem, Colchester and Quaker Hill.
 The morning session, which began at Il o'clock. was devoted largely to the reports of the various delegates.
 Mrs. Charlotte French, state home missionary, gave a short address on the work of the society in the Italian districts of New Haven, and then the encouraging results from her work among the poorer classes of people in the same district and the gratifying appreciation shown for all that has been done for them.
 Reports were read, including that of Mrs. George Ellis of Bozrah, who is senior director of the home missionary work of the state association.
 A report of the work done by the junior members of the society was made by Miss Gustava Greene of New LOnQOn, junior director.
 Luncheon was served to the mem bers at 12.S0 in the church vestry by the Ladies' Aid society.
 The result of the annual election of officers was as follows:
 President = Mrs. Nathan Belcher cl, New London.
 First Vice President-Mrs. F. F. Richards, New London.
 Second Vice President-Mrs. William Gilchrist, Norwich.
 Recording Secretary - Mrs. Herbert Peckham.
 Treasurer-Mrs. Simon L. Ewald, New London.
 Corresponding Seeretary-Mrs. Ellis Advisory Board-Bozrah, Mrs. Jesse Rogers; Colchester, Mrs. B. B. Rem ington; Fitchville, Mrs Phoebe Rob inson; Lakes Pond. Mrs. Comstock; i; i Lyme, Mrs. w ". Reynolds; North l Lyme. Mrs. William Sisson: Old Lyme Mrs. E. B. -Caullins; Montville, Mrs Thomas Church; Moodus, Mrs P. J. Emmons; New London-First, Miss Nettie J. Bishop; Huntington street Mrs. Joseph A, Elder; Montauk ave- nue, Miss Aida Fitch; Shiloh, Mrs Howard Mantle Miss Grace Com 1 stock; Salem, Mrs. Loren Rathbun: Waterford Mrs. Cruttenden; Second, Mrs. Donald Fletcher; Nor l wich-Central. Mrs. John Post; First Mrs. John Parsons; Third, Mrs. Will liam Turner; Mt Calvary, Mrs. Drury The loving cup presented by the ! Woman's American Baptist Home Missionary society was awarded to thu l New London association society thi. l year and it was presented in the after
 noon by Mrs ". J. Sly of Hartford.
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BOLTON
Annual Meeting of Red Cross-Scouts Provide 72-Foot Pole to Fly Three Flags.

At the annual meeting of the Bolton Red Cross held in Bolton hall last week Thursday afternoon officers were elected as follows: Chairman, Mrs. Henry J. Thompson; vice chairman, Mrs. c. M. Pinney; secretary, Mrs. Charles F. Sumner; treasurer, Miss AdeIia N Loomis; directors, Miss An nie M. Alvord, Mrs. J. w. Phelps, Mrs. Frank K Abbott; Mrs. Frank H. Strong, Miss L. Reichard. Mrs. John Witman, Mrs. H. B. DeWolf. It was voted to meet at Bolton hall the sec ond and fourth Thursdays for work.
 Flying Three Flags.
 Flag raising exercises were held at the Center Sunday morning. The 72- foot pole which the Boy Scouts cut and set, with the help of friends, now has the U. S., the service and the honor flags. The service flag has Il stars.
 Tried to Enlist.
 Michael Daily left Wednesday for the army Mir Daily has previously tried to tnIist but was refused on account of slight physical disability but was taken on a draft.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry Dildine of Binghamton, N. Y, and F. J. Mathein of Johnstone City, 'N, r., are at the Bolton home of MT. Mathein for a week. The trip was made in MT. Dil- dine's automobile.
 Mrs. Julius L. Strong and small son of Danielson are guests at MT. and Mrs. Frank H. Strong's.
 Charles Fl. Pinney's fine pair of horses drew the Bolton float in the Red Cross parade in Manchester Sat- urday.
 Elmer J. Finley of New York has been spending a few days at his mothers. Mrs. Jane Finleys.
 Mrs. Ellen Clark of Glastonbury is visiting at Mrs. Jane Finley's this week.
 Mrs Charles M. Lee has returned home from her daughters, Mrs. Will liam H. Atkins in Hartford
 Miss Clara Post of Hartford recently visited at Miss Anna Posts.
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Rising beyond the inorganic, think of the number of plants which grow on any hundred acres. I have little col lection of over ninety distinct varie- ties of wood which I have gathered in twenty years, from my own place.
 In the way of grasses and weeds, the list is almost endless. Not a season passes that I do not discover at least one new kind of vegetable life. Gen orally it is "weed,n that is, plant which, in my colossal ignorance, I don't know the use of. But there is always an interest attached to it. nevertheless. Beyond the need of pulling it up for the sake of the planted crop am raising, I can't help won dering where it came from, how it got here, what it's properties are, and whether some wiser man by and by will discover that it is the long, sought
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The other day I set out to "harden" number of trays of seeding plants taken from the hot-bed. The old cat, finding the dirt in these trays light and soft and just to her taste, got into a couple and scratched, clawed, wallow- ed two hundred and fifty promising young plants into shreds and rags. She never did such thing before, and had been regarded as not only house broke" but thoroughly "cold frame broke" too.
 Next day, coming back from a trip to the village with some early vege- tables, l found a neiShbor's COW wan dering about my sown gardens in search for the fringes of rank green grass which grow close beside the heavily fertilized plants. She had roam ed back and forth across carrot and beet and onion beds, poaching them deeply with her tracks and seeming to pick out the rows with special care to walk in.
 Only a little while later, my own COW failed to appear at milking time, and search for her developed the fact that she had entangled her horns in a mesh wire fence so that she couldn't free them.
 Nor could I, either, till after a return iAAR tO tAiC OAOP oAAu tAlC of pair of pliers to cut the wire.
 Next thing I discovered was that the turnip flea beetles had attacked my cabbage plants, which were pricking the ground, and were chewing the leaves of them recklessly. The Pyrox can was empty, so I had to pestle- and : mortar up some soot and sift over them as a makeshift. Next day came a veritahie cloud-burst which not only washed the soot off, but gullied some parts of the gardens, flooded a couple of lowlying plats, washed out some seeds and so saturated the soil as to make working of 1t impracticable for at least ten days
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STAFFORD SPRINGS
Two SwindIers Secure Money, Claim ing to Represent Red Cross Twenty-one Young Patriots Leave to Join National Army.

Two strangers were in Stafford Springs Monday and under pretense of collecting money for the Red Cross succeeded in separating several per sons from the coin of the realm They made believe that they were author ized by the finance committee of the
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local war bureau. They collected amounts varying from $1 to $5 and disappeared after having done a good days work. They were unauthorized to collect any money and their game appears to be a swindle pure and sim pie. The local war bureau warns all persons against giving money to strangers for any purpose.
 Young Patriots Off for Camp.
 Twenty-o one Stafford boys left town on the o'clock car Wednesday after noon for Camp Upton. They stayed in Rockville Wednesday night and left for camp at o'clock Thursday morn ing All the boys were given the GUS tomary outfits by the local Red Cross. Judgment Against Wilmington Debtor.
 l. F. Wilcox was given a judgment of $55.99 against Charles Wodhome of Willington in the borough court We'd nesday morning. Matthew Soukup se- cured judgment against the same de- fendant for $500. MT. Wilcox's claim was for grain and flour and MT. Sou kup's for money loaned.
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son.
 Jewett City: Mrs. George N. Has

kell.
 Mystic: Mrs. Christopher Morgan.
 Norwich: Mrs. Nelson D. Robinson, Miss Lucy Geer, Mrs. E. F. Lewis, Miss Sarah Mccall Spafford, Mrs. B. P. Bishop, Miss Phoebe Brewster.
 Plainfield Mrs. Waldo TillinShast, Miss Annie Tillinghast
 Groten: Mrs. Sanford Meech
 New Haven: Mrs. Clarence B. Bol- mer.
 The next meeting of the club will take place at the summer home of Mrs. Crandall and Mrs. Graves at Ocean Beach, New London.
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And soiIs;-in my few acres there are gravels, which were left there by the swirling streams of nobody knows how-many- m illion-years ago: and there are sand deposits, of similar origin: and there are beds of glacial clay: and there are areas s-of loam, mostly the result of vegetable decom- position: and there are wet lowlands of simple mud, underneath one of which, however lies small deposit of true peat:-with a score of variations from all these general classes
 There are enough puzzles in the dirt of my gardens to keep me guessing half the year!
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Hartford.-An Italian flag to fly over the capitol on Italy day. Friday, May 24, has been presented. the state by. Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge of Simsbury.
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cure for cancer or hydrophobia ( lockjaW.

The beasts and the birds; don't they count for anything in the way of company?
 The other day, planting winter squashes, little warbler-the editor of The Bulletin told me it's name a year ago, but I've forgotten it,-fol- lowed me around as confidently and trustfully as if he really knew I had a soft spot in my heart for him. My hoe occasionally brought up grub, which he promptly took charge of, to our mutual satisfaction. Almost every night a whip oor-will comes down from her ground-nest up on the noun tain to my woodward and gives me serenade. As to thrushes.-miscalled robins, "-and finches and sparrows and bobolinks,-Why, the bushes are simply full of them.
 There are the chickens, too. I have just got new coop-fuH of little peepers. No pathological garden in America holds a prettier sight than old Biddy, clucking around with her brood of week -old chicks.
 Also, Ballyhooly, the heifer, who comes dancing up to me every time set foot in the pasture, either to get the apple which I might happen to bring, or to have her neck scratched, underneath, way down near the cud- stomach, please.
 And Peter. the faithful old horse, who never hears my step, whether he is in stable or paddock, without a friendly whinny. which is either the indication of his readiness to eat a carrott if I brought one, or to be har- | messed up for cultivating job if that is on the books
 Or course, these animal friends can't talk,--in my language, that is,-but they can understand much that I say Nor do I have great difficulty in translating good deal that is in their l loyal hearts and which they earnestly | try to make plain to me. Nor can I imagine any man, with ! any sort of appreciation in his make up, who could fail to find a real so- 1 lace, at times, in the almost passion ate affection of Major, the collie, who will even leave a bone, any time to rub against me or follow me for a frolic across the fields, coming up at in- tervals to lick my hand and wag his hushy tail and say, in perfectly in telligible dog-language. Ant we two great old pals?'
 
 Don't talk to me about the "nonot ony" or the Loneliness" of the farm If you want, can rattle off to you 1 just about forty seven bad things about farming, most of which the non farmer doesn't comprehension ever know that they exist. Any working farmer can do as much and some, per haps, more.
 | But "monotony" and Loneliness l L.
 by any real farmer, that is to say;-a farmer with farm blood in his veins and farm love in lis heart and the true farm spirit informing his. soul. l Which sort of farmer is the only true sort. There are others, we'll admit
 But they're not genuine farmers 1 They're just stop gaps, misfits square pegs in round holes.
 THE FARMER 4
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There are a whole lot of things on a farm to keep a thoughtful mans in terest awake.
 In the inorganic kingdom, for in stance, my own little place has at least three or four dozen varieties of rocks and stones, some native, some water posit some the result of pre- historic cataclysms, which have tipped whole mountain ranges topsy turvy and whipped ancient Silurian strata right over on top of rocks laid down millions limestone "knolls,'' exposed surfaces of stone are deeply channeled with waterWorn grooves which must have been made by strong streams, run ming for untold years when they were in an utterly different position and not, as now, a hundred feet above any ex- isting brook or any possibility of one. Great lodges of this rock are exposed in places, some of the strata twenty feet thick-and how many of them there are hidden below no one knows,- all made up originally of the infinitely slow deposit, on some unimaginably ancient ea-bottom of the shells of lime e-secreting mollusks, later to be pressed and baked and hardened into rock and then heaved up in all sorts of tilted angles to make hills and moun- tains
 Why, I can spend half my spare time,-which isn't so common with me either,-in trying to refashion in my mind the story of these hills and knolls.
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Thsre surely wasn't much "nonot- eny- about that week on that par ticular ranch, was there?
 But. someone will say: "Oh, yes, thats all right Do you want us to
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LONELINESS NO PART OF THE FARMERS LIFE

Cwritten Specially for The Bulletin) 4 kindly disposed friend, one not in Inc least inclined to be carping or critical. the other day remarked that he sometimes wondered how I could stand the monotony of farm life"
 This was in very much the same line as those take who speak of the lone liness" of farmers
 Likewise, 1t suggests the one time explanation of certain not over-pro- found physicians for the rather large ratio of insanity among farmers. viz: that it Is due to their isolation and lack oe outside interests.
 'Wa'al, now" as Uncle Ike would have said, the longer you live the mere you learn. and the more people you talk with the more you hear"
 It Is quite doubtful if many people who hold this feeling about -monotony" and the Loneliness" of farm life have ever shared the changes and chances of a years work on a real farm.
 For one. should consider those two words about the last in the whole 400,- poo of the dictionary to be applicable 10 farming, especially to farming "as she Is farmed" in New England.
 The other night barn belonging to sns Of my neighbors burned down Neither he nor any Of his help had been in it for several hours No one ever Smoked in it. No tramp had been seen In the vicinity for fortnight. He has ao enemies, so far as he knows or any one else. The fire remains an insolu- ble mystery.
 Next day. he discovered an outbreak of disease among his sheep. That. too was mysterious in Its coming and Sd blindly masked in its diagnosis that I ion't think he, even yet, knows just what was the matter. They were sick that was sure enough; and the con- lequent care necessitated kept him Jumping for some time.
 Only two days later one of his best sows while drinking from the barn yard tub in some unheard-of fashion got the end of the supply pipe down her .hroat-and broke 1t of therei Be- lore the veterinary could arrive, her struggles had resulted in such lacera- ton of the throat and neck that his best advice was to kill her, right then and there.
 Said this neighbor to me, when met him. that afternoon: Why, yes, things have been happening on the farm lately" .ai-.-.t. as.-ea.
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should of. classifying German 'kulture' as civilization!

And "IoneIiness." That's another thing we are sometimes pitied for hav- ing to endure.
 As to which there are various things to be said and various angles from which tc view the situation.
 frankly recognize the existence of the ancient and honorable order of Gabblers, whose only idea of com panionship is a constant wagging of loosely -pivoted tongues. We'll grant that members of that order might find some days on the ordinary farm a little dull. But, fortunately, not all the rural. any more than all the urban population is enrolled in that society. There are a great many who still prefer to use their brains more than their tongues. No danger exists of any such finding farm life lonely
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understand that every farmers barn burns every week and that he loses his best COW by utterly unprecedented accident?
 Not exactly. thank heaven But if one thing doesn't happen, another does
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wasn't seriously troubled with anv

wasn't seriously troubled with any "monotony" during that week, though not one of my mishaps was to be class ed as really serious nor even as re- markable. They were just bothers of the sort which are all the time hap pening on every farm. They were the one shape or another and which he regularly takes as part of the days work ~