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Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-24

existing conditions he can raise those things cheaper himself than he can buy them, and he can make many substitutes out of the garden and poultry yard if he sets out to do it. He has the material for the crops and he has not the money. It is not good business to run in debt except for essentials of production"
 I think I have already mentioned how practically all the potato-growing spe- cialists in my neighborhood have been driven out of that line of production by the low farm-price of potatoes. They can't afford to grow potatoes even by the carload and sell them for less than they paid their hired men for the work on them. For long time there has a widespread tendency on the part of dairy farmers in this part of the country to work out of that line because again, the returns were not enough to pay wages.
 The simple truth is that the prices of practically all raw materials-and 1t is mainly raw materials which farms pro- duce-have fallen to levels lower than those known before the war. But the ! costs of transportation and of labor and | the profits of distributors have not fallen in any equal degree. The result is such | a state of lopsidedness not to say top | heaviness, as renders old methods im- practicable and old ideals unattainable. With a smooth sea and following
 wind almost any dub of land-lubber
 can steer a. sloop across the Sound. But 1 when the wind veers around and comes 1 from straight ahead and the sea rises in- | to choppy waves. it's a case for close
 hauled sheets and such headway as can
 be won only by constant ratching.
 In normal times it may have been good
 farming for the farmer to put all his l eggs into one basket. Certainly it look | ed so when he could sell his eggs for
 enough to pay for filling the basket with
 other things needed at home and leave
 something over in his purse. But these
 are not normal times. don't know how the average farmer is going to buy feed for his hens at present costs, sell eggs at present prices, and get enough to buy home supplies of one-half the food valut
 of the eggs he sold. He'd better keeI the eggs or eat the hens! Same witl
 other farm products
 There is apparent no way cut of 1t fel
 farmers except a return to the old fash toned idea of country thrift, under whicl every farm produced at least nine-tenth . of all 1t consumed, whether in barns
 pig-styes. poultry-houses or kitchen ' When the clouds roll by-as they doubt less will some time-we can go to spe cializing again. if it shall seem profit able But for the present and the imme
 diately visible future, our only hope 1 to sit tight and Tive at home" as tn saying goes.
 By taking sufficient thought and trou ble there are mighty few of us who can raise enough potk and poultry. enoug fruits and vegetables, enough corn an , oats to carry our families and our stoc . on till better times dawnA
 The wsest among us will be those wh
 recognize this necessity soonest and ac z upon it most judiciously
 THE FARMER.
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'Gets-It" T'iiCkIes
 COrns To Death

First Stops All Pain Then Feels
 the Corn of.
 Don't try 10 fox trot on corn tortured feet. Get rid of your corns. If you have never seen q corn tickled to death, just
Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-24
MUST RETURN TO OLD FASHIONED IDEA OF
 COUNTRY THRIFT
department of axrscurturs.

department of agr4cufture.
 Lots sos; it wao quite Aunaker. of years ago that . bright woman up Tn windhAm county started this thing. ltI was, indeed, So long ago that I've for gotten many of the details but, as it seems to me now, she was stirred up over the disproportionately high prices charged for COW and pig and chicken feed That is the price asked for these was not in due proportion to the price offered for tho animals tho feeds nour- ished. or their products. The farmer who sold beef or pork or milk or butter or eggs had to pay So much money for the grains he bought that he had nothing left over for profit or wages, when he sold those articles. And so this Wind ham woman asked, in effect "Why can't we raise the feed for our animals on our own farms, and thus avoid buying itT'
 The idea was much talked about, at the time. know 1t struck a responsive chord in my own breast and we dis cussed it in this column. don't recall whether told the story of my two pigs, then. or not Even if did, it will bear re-telling, m
 One year, long before the war, I bought two young pigs at what was ASA the pair. It also happened that year,
 that had to buy all the grain. (bran
 and corn -meaD fed those pigs. Having just about that time become interested in farm production costs, kept care 1 ful record of the feed bought for them. | I did not sell any of the pork retaining ! it all for home consumption, but when they were butchered I weighed the dress ed carcasses. and calculated how much the meat had cost me- per pound No i attempt was made to estimate the value of the skim milk they had consumed by ] the bucketfull; nor that of the cul1 fruits 1 and vegetables they had eaten; nor that | of the time required to feed them three | times a day for six months; nor that of | the time and labor involved in butcher Ing. smoking salting and other opera l tions Just the actual feed actually
 bought at the feed-store and paid foI with real money.
 Yet. the day after these pigs had beer | butchered, I could have bought from the 1 retail butchers cart which passed my 1 door twice a week, dressed pork by tht side for just one-half cent a pound less than I had paid for the bran and mea | which went into mine! Tn other words
 had donated a good many barrels O | skim-milll, a good many bushels of smal | potatoes, specied apples. and the like
 and a good many hours of more or les disa greed ble labor to the service of thos
 pigs-and had paid between three ant
 four dollars for the privilege
 Incited by this, to me, rather surpris
Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-24
HUMOR OF THE DAY

How did Dubbs become a millionaire so quickly?"
 Hes an importer"
 From Europeg"
 Nope from Canada" - American Legion Weekly.
 "DObson is always bragging about his courage. Is he really cool in the face oi danger?''
 Well. his feet are."-New York Sun. You say you left your last mistress without warning?'
 "oi did. Shure. she was that strich' that if oi broke the news Oi was lavin' she'd take it out of me wsges.'-Bosto1 Transcript
 Say, pa~
 Whats on your mind now-
 T see that there is 10 be a unior church service tomorrow. Is that iu. tended especially for labor organiza.- tionss ?'-Detroit News.
 Harrington-St Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. a. Carrington-But wasn't the amend. | nent declared unconstitutional?-Hou ton Post.
 'Dr. Fourthly tells me his congre-s- tion has just had great spiritual awak- ening"
 "'Grear is right"
 "Yes?" They raised his salary S5oo a year -Birmingham Age-Herald.
 Yes, I'm 8 great reader of novels both old and new" l Ever read Ten Thousand a YearT' -.
 Dear me, no! Not more than fifty a; the outside."-Boston Transcript.
 How did you happen to get ints thai bootlegger's establishment without beine | introduced?'
 ''oh, just said 'Tempus fuEit-' and h, let me in" Was that the countersign?'
 T don't know, but he seemed tp m derstand Latin pretty well He served me in jify."-Birmingham AEe-Her- aid.
 Johnny, who had been invited ty hi- teacher to spell window answered widow"
 ''Trongw snapped the teacher. Cant you tell the difference between window and EidosVT' Yes, sir" said oJhnny. You ezn sss through one, but not through the other. I-Toronto Telegram
 Polite Boy Scout Cto old lady1-Msv accompany you across the Et1oet- ma'am?
 old Lady-Certainiy, souny4 Ho- long have you been waiting here fo1 somebody to take you across ?-Detrssa Free Press. . hsnd7
 TOm-NO. when I went to interview, her father he was busy with the fur- mace. He called out 10 me to com,l down, and after watching his struggles si for half an hour, and hearing what hs,. said about coal, I decided not to Een g married.-Bostou Transcript.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-24
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
 HELD AT BALTIC ACAnEM

Thursdays commencement exercises at the Academy of the Holy Family, Ball. tic, were the closing event of a schol- astic year which stands as one of the most successful in the records of a school known as the champion of what savers of progress in education. along the lines of good and useful develop ment. That the friends and patrons of the school appreciate it's work is evil denced by the yearly increase in the number of entrance applications, until the Academy reaching it's capacity, has been compelled. at times. to refuse ad- mission to desirable pupils.
 Commencement exercises as usual at the Academy were carried out with marked impressiveness in the church services, consisting of solemn high mass at 1030 with Rev wm. OrBrien pastor of the Immaculate Conception church at Baltic, as celebrant. Rev Cournoyer. New Haven, deacon Rev John Walsh Norwich. sub-deacon, and Rev. F. R. Nessureault, occum, master of ceremonies.
 Clergy from various cities who art friends or relatives of the students veH present in the sanctuary.
 Sermon te Graduates.
 Rev. James Barrett of Hartford, au thor of the Loyalist and other books delivered an eloquent sermon. during which he congratulated the class of '2- i on their graduation from a Cotholit school of such good standing a s the Aca denny. He told them they owed a larg debt of gratitude to their self-sacrificinr parents and relatives, and to their zeal 1 ous teachers who had made this grea day of their graduation possible; tha 1 they were expected to go forth and t, 1 show to a world. sick with moral decay l how to live urrisht. self-denying, indus i trious lives; that they had been trainet <; in mind and heart to be exemnlars in 1 true woman's sphere, and that if the, put into practice the lessons learned b | word and example at this, their alm 1 mater, they were certain to bring credi upon themselves and satisfaction t 1 their teachers, who were sending ther
Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-24
KALEIDOSCOPE

St. Thomas hospital London vAa
 The worlds consumption of sugzr R estimated at between 14.0o. coo and lE.- O00. .00O tons a year.
 Sweet potatoes are grown in every part of China. and form staple part of the diet of the people. E
 A Persian weaver spends about threa weeks on each square foot of the sar-. face of the best rugs.
 Chinese maidens awaiting husbands wear a scarlet thread entgined in their braided hair.
 The production Of copper in the United States has increased more than % foit since 1Ss9.
 One of the longest submarine cables iH the world is to be laid between Alden and Hong Kong, at cost Of ss.0oe. 900.
 The five warships of the Queen Eliza beth class were the first not only to carry 15-inch guns, but to be driven entirely by fuel oil
 The Panama canal set new high rec ords for traffic last year, 2.ls4 commeT- cial vessels. carrying lI.23s.0Oo tons of cargo, using the waterway.
 As an aid to loveliness, Hindoo women color their teeth black, while in Japan and China they paint their faces white with red on their cheeks and magenta on their lips.
 Direct wireless communication between England and Australia has been success fully effected on the Nsrconi principle The distance covered is between 1900 and 1s,ooo miles. The day of the sg cattle ranches hzs gone and the tendency is now in the d. rection of smaller herds. Tho average size of the present hard is zoo heed | whereas in former times it was many | thousands At the same time the quality | of the cattle is improving and the ami naals bring greater prices. The compul- | sory erection of fences has had some | thing to do with this new condition, for | it is now a difficult matter to move | herd around in search of good crazfrn grounds. as was the custom some year. ago.
 Railroad yards are now being equipped. with a system which dispenses with the necessity of making use of a locomotive G shifting a car or two. An electric e. stan Uzs recently introduced for ius, such a purpose. The car butler. as ths , device is called, consists of a powerful electric motor driving a capstan throu..l low reduction gear. In order to pul one or two cars along the track, one end l of stout rope is made fast to A car while the other end is wrapped around the capstan and pulled by the operated so as to insure a firm hold. A handix protruding through the motor casin. nerveS to start and stop the mntn<.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-24
Charges Against oekford Ffr.men.

About dozen members Of the ockford Hose company of New London are to face charges to be preferred against them by Foreman Robert Burdick at the next regular meeting of the company in July. Mfr. Burdi'k said today that he did not care to make public the names or the charges at this time. but he saws he "has the goods on them" Substan- tiation of the charges will result in their dismissal from the company.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-24

apply a few drops of "Gets-It" to yours. Then watch that corn die-peacefully as if it had gone to sleep. Soon it is nothing but loose piece of dead skin that you can lift right off with your fingers.
 Get after them now. Your druggist has "Gets-It.' Costs but a trif1e-or nothing at all if it fails. Mid. by E. Lawrence & Co.,, Chicago. Sold in Norwich by Chas. Osgood Co.,, H. NJ. Lerou & Go.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-24
GRANDMA'S OLD SONG

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear.
 Long, long ago. long ago; Sing me the songs delighted to hear,
 Long, long ago, long ago. Now you are come all my grief is removed Let me forget that so long you have roved Let me believe that you love as you loved
 Long, long ago, long ago. Do you remember the past where we met
 Long, long ago, long ago. An, yes, you told me you ne'er would forget,
 Long, long ago. long ago. Then to all others my smile you preferred, Love, when you spoke, gave charm to each word Still my heart treasures the praises heard.
 Long, long ago, long ago. Though by your kindness my fond hopes were raised. Long, long ago. long, long ago, You by more eloquent lips have been praised,
 Long, long ago, long ago. Though by long absence your truth has been tried, Still to your accents listen with pride, Blest as was when sat by your side
 Long, long ago, long ago.
 Thomas Haynes Bailey, Kansas City Star.
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written Specially Tor Tho Bunettn.)

Written Specially For Tho Buriettn.)
 It takes tin1o but sooner or later, a certain amount of common sense is al- most certain to scep into even official circles
 Living at home" which means not only living on the farm but also living of the products of the farm, so far as possible. Is at last made slogan of the
Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-24

Winsted-Mrs. Sophie L. Gillette of 55 Hubbard street was bequeathed s1 900 according 10 the will of Eliza B. Chat field, cousin of.Mrs. Gillette. who died in Waterbury, March 22, 1920.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-24
WOMEN'S AND CHILDRENS SUMMER WEIGHT UNDERWEAR
Manufacturers Sample Stocks At Very Special Prices

One case of Infants Lightweight Ribbed Vests sizes
 10 G. regular value 5OC--Special price ........ 39c One case of Infants Wool Vests, splendid quality, former price Sl,OO-Special price @..,..... 69c An odd lot of Chldren'S Summer-weight Pants, all sizes, regular 29C Vaue at .,.......,...... 15c One case of Chldren's Ribbed Vests, low neck,
 sleeveless all sizes regular 25c value-Specal price 19c Boys Summer-weight Union Suits, plain and open work, sizes A to 34-eXra good value at.. Soc One case of Wonen's Extra Size Ribbed Vests low neck sleeveless, regular 29c vaue at .......... 19c Women'S Summer-weight Ribbed Vests, low neck, sleeveless, in variety of SyleS-Special price 25c Women's Sumner-Weight Bodice Vests excellent quaity-Special price 25c One lot of "Kayser' Ribbed Vests for Women, in pink only regular 59c value, at t...............2 29c One case of Womens Ribbed Vests, with lace yoke
 low neck SeeveleSS-Specia price a. <. .s. . 29c Women'S Silk-Striped Ribbed Vests low neck and
 bodice styles regular Soc value, at 39c One case of WomenS extra large size Vests sizes So and 5, regular 59c value, at t...............4 45c Two cases of Women's Ribbed Pants, Extra Size,
 both cuff and lace knee, regular 6oc value at . 48c Two cases of Womens Union Suits bodice top, shell knee-ow neck cuff knee-Special price .. 69c One case of Women'S Union Suts band top and lace
 knee, regular S1O0 value at ....r 79c One case of Women's Extra Size Union Suits band
 top cuff knee, regular S1. .OO value, at . 79c
The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1921-04-21
Advance Guard Of Tremors.

In the theory that the movements OF
the earth's crust constituting an earth
quake begin on a very small scale, to
be followed later by the greater ad-
Justments that do the damage, Drills
l.. Kennedy Of San Bernardlno, Cal,
believes that he can give earthquake
warnings by observing the cracks in
layers of cement, put down in certain
California districts. II Is asserted
that In this way Mr.. Kennedy pre-
dlcted the quake that destroyed part
OF Helmet and San Jacinlo, CAL, some
thing more than year ago. He Is
now planning to construct ribbon
of cement about foot thick and
1000 feet long for laboratory pur.
poses.
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No Cherries Without Birds.

or course. there wouldn't be any
cherries If there were no song birds.
The bird puts the cherries on the tree.
why shouldn't he eat his own cherry?
The farmer only holds second mort
gage on that cherry. He may think
otherwise and kill the bird; then the
bird won't get the cherry and neither
will the farmer. The worm will get
the cherry; the aphis, the slug, the
mite, the blight, will get the cherry,
and the farmers second mortgage will,
according to John Burroughs, shrink
to nothing.
In other words, were the millions
Of bushels of bugs which the song
birds consume for food In one season
released, the forests and croI/ would
be presently wiped out, and with them
the life OF the people.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
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BE sure you're right, then stay right
there.
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Milton Lover OF Liberty.

Milton was no democrat; equality
and fraternity were not his trade.
though liberty was his passion. Lib
erty he defended against the tyranny
u: The mob, as Of the king. He pre-
ferred a republic to a monarchy. since
he thought It less likely to interfere
with the independence Of the pri 'ate
citizen. Political liberty, liberty Of
worship and belief. freedom of the
press, freedom OF divorce, he asserted
them all In turn with unsurpassed
el0quence. 1.-THE Connecticut Wits"
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Arithmetic.

Arithmetic.
'Father," said the small boy. what
is an improper fractionT
"An improper fraction, my son. 10
the portion a CRATER insists on taking
before he will let contract 60
through"
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SPOKE out LOUD
Presidential Language Emphatic
in the Extreme.
Under the Circumstances, However, II
Will Be Understood, Not Intended
for Publication.

Cleveland was not q master OF
vigorous cpigraiu, like Roosevelt; yet
on occasion he could be fluent and on
occasion witty. OF the two anecdotes
that follow the first shows his iluency,
the second his wit.
Mr.. Jefferson Winter namcsakc OF
the famous actor, Joseph jefferson,
who was Clcveland's intimate friend
and fellow angler, tells the first story
--Gray Gables. the Cleveland home.
and Crows nest, the home Of the JEFF
Persons, were not far apart. While MIR.
Winter was visiting at Crows Nest
the men went fishing.
Toward shutdown, he says, we went
from the bass grounds where we had
been fishing to little lake hidden In
woods. owned by jefferson and stocked
by him with trout. There we were
Joined by John @. Carlisle, Cleye-
lands secretary of the treasury: tall,
lank, palc.faced, saturnine, CARRIED In
black, wearing plug hat" and en-
ergcticully chewing tobacco-the very
picture of an old-time country lawyer.
Cleveland and jefferson put out upon
the lake In small boat, while Mr..
Carlisle and | remained on the bank.
Cleveland, as Is well known, was an
colossal Cap'n Cutie, he appeared to
me. He and Jefferson stood In the
boat. almost back to back, and while
both were casting ut the same mo-
ment they came violently into col
lisiOn, stern on. The result was that
jefferson plunged overheard on one
side, and Cleveland. making vain eff
fort to seize and save him, lost his
own balance and toppled over on the
other. have heard some striklngly
q iglnal, graphic and vigorous Ian
guage first and last but have never
heard anything to equal the imprOmp-
III dialogue between those two really
affectionate cronies, clinglng to oppo-
site sides of the half-submerged fiat
boat.
Carlisle observed the aquatic dlsas-
ter with exemplary calm and listened
to the interlocutiOn with attentive and
manifest admiration. Then he turned
a twinkling eye upon me and blandly
remarked: Most eloquent, but wholly
idle -
So much for Cleveland's fuency !;
now for his wit. Not eloquent, but by
no means idle, was Cleveland's brief
answer to n telegram that he re-
ceived while visiting at Crows Nest
during the fight for the Democratic
nomination In 1892.
1t was from senator, himself an
aspirant for the presidency, who had
Of personal impertinence, to tele-
graph to the leading candidate: 1.-The
time has now come for you, in the in
terest of your party, to withdraw from
this contest" Cleveland showed the
message to his host.
what answer shall you make" JEFF
ferson asked.
Without word Cleveland took the
telegraph blank, turned 1t over and
wrote the reply on the back and be-
fore giving it to the waiting messenger
handed ii again to Jefferson. This
was his message
somebody has been taking an I'M
pardonable liberty with your name,
G.. Cleveland"
1t was tie neatest Of rebukcs, and
Youths Companion.
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IT,

They had already celebrated the
fact that the mistletoe hung in the
hall, and now they were sitting on
the sofa In the drawing room.
could you love me, darling" he
murmured as the thought of the sprlg
of mistletoe came to him again, "lf I
possessed only one coat In the wide,
wide world?"
She looked up trustfully.
II could" she said, "if I knew you
had sacrificed the others to buy me
a new dress. Ideas.
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TObacco-Direct to user by mail Leaf an
manufactured. Chewing or smoking Prize
list free. Randolph Tob. Farm. Paducah, k!
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Incidental Discussions.

-Hiram," said Mrs. Cornt,ssel, "you
don't take as much interest In politics
as you did last summer"
"Yes, do" replied her husband.
'But the new hired man is such fine
talker I'm afraid to say anything that
might start him for fear he'll demand
the salary Of Q lecturer"
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Catarrh Con Be Cured

Catarrh is a local disease greatly infiu-
enced by constitutional conditions. II
ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
Is taken internally and acts through
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of
the System. HALLS CATAR II
MEDICINE destroys the foundation Of
the disease, gives the patient strength by
improving the general health and assists
nature in doing Its work.
All Druggists. Circulars free.
7. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo Ohio.
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Reward OF Merit.

Mrs. Borem-Elsle. why isn't your
brother, Robert, at the party. too2
Elsle-Please'em. Bobby's been a
good boy oil week, and mother said
he needn't come.
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Continuous RejUn.

A lecturer says that women will be
ruling this country twenty years from
now. or course why should she abdi-
cate?-Boston Transcript.
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Most OF the backbiting Is harmless,
because the people who hear 1t don't
care.