Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 23, 1911, Page 4

ought to do as much or more tet rwich t'tllelin in the world as hot essays do for their | aund Goufief. =g=-;-§==o=m better educated and more refined ®is= o7 G 3 ’ 3 115 RS OLD. ters. : g Writers. sloep ‘o péace, to find the Brice of e e e The women of Montclair, N. J., are 1 ;‘;:' f;';l:h":’ ik ;;:" of the eggzmoat awfully W Silest gt St Xoh & Wetki bie o | crganising this waek & SIS Gt Der only. and number. the pages. | 8long Wi The snow &nd ice and his meonthey L : schools in. the cities of that sfate to|P*P<" pUW Sn¢ tumaes A% FUge own irreparable finish.—Mary A.uhfla train girls in housework. Servants on ,} Short and pointed artic will | Harris, age 11, Norwich. . graduating are to receive diplomas ex- | be given preference. DO not use over pressing thelr individual qualifications. | 250 words. w{l;gl%emfle;: :“ de:m.' Bulletin Business Office, 480. Under present conditions, the homes | 4. Original storles or letters ‘only | it he, Lover Wmg, kobf ki SLOXegs oLy -ulmm Editerial Rooma. 35-2 of the wealthy, decorated with rare and | Will be used. and ad- | must have crdcked his poor old 8 crown, Hn Job 366, fragile china, potteries, and textile|, o tfl:?myg“’ b -] Soxe: Humpty Dumpty is $o good to eat, we W"“-ll"' Office, Reom 3 Murray | ¢yprics, are mauled and torn by rough | “"03 2t the top o f e mications to | would like him everyday in_the week. Busiding. Telephone 310. housemaids, newly arrived from 10w | Uncle J, ed, Bulletin Office. —Alice Leflingwell, age 11, Hast Great Norwich, Thursday, March 23, 1911 social levels of Europe. They treat a Plain, "y 3 S ———— delicate vase or lace drapery as they Humpty Dumpty smooth and mund. [ The Circulation of ' Entered at tho Postotfice at Norwich, Comn., &s wecond-class matter. Telephone Calls: would 8 stons grock. orswaih tub, “Reach up as far as you can, || tumbled off the wall; I think he must All thig i8 to be changed by a course ma God will reach down all the have been quite fresh when he of thorough training which it is calcu- est of the way.” & awful, tall.wlt m\'::‘t lmv:’ be:n v‘ l:n- lated will promote the well being of ous sight see the king’s brave men x ' .2 marching to the rescue to pick him v all concerned. The girl will be more Laullaby " i 1 y of the Iroquois. up again. - But If ‘he had been old or e trustworthy—the wage will be higher. | . Tl g ea In yor i what they call coid storasge, The old, reasonable-priced nurse went m;e’::o o e T ey’ would :tnt tr’:'r %o pick him up; | Weasel.—From Eastern' and Western The Bulletin has the largest eir- || ¢, the wall when the diploma-ed $20 a culation of may paper in Easters | .ok trained nurse came to the front, Cennecticut, and from three to fouF || 13 the new domestic with her diploma they would not have the courage.— | Review. ahan, : forwich, Ruth _is Hebrew, and meahs Beauty. e s it Hnrom, the Champion, is of Saxon ‘Wrapped in your nest, ‘Strapped in your nest, Your straight little cradle board' rocks times larger tham that of may = || ;; her hand will not know how t you to rest. Hummy Dumpty sat on Fairview | origin. Norwieh. It is delivered to over sl: pe:,-, ;:r :;“ ‘,om k::w ;Z,. ?,:1:?; Ifs hands are your neslt&‘ r{lall ’enung afilmoh“:tmm. l‘l.kl: l‘=¢= sgerefllthh Cohle, the Roaring:of the . 3,000 of the 4,083 howses fa Nor- || ;; ¢ % P Its bands are your ne: : at is another n e Moses, a Heb he Afternoons at 2. . Evenings at 8 wich, and read by ninety-three per There appear to' be’ better ‘days It swings from the down-bending| water question, which is an old chest S, ebrew name, ans branch of the oak, nut—Marguerite Copeland, age 12, | Drawn Out. You watch the camp flame and the; Norwich_ Agne of German orlsln. the curling gray smoke; Chaste One. But, O, for your pretty biack eyes| Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, mmlt and Eugenie are Greek, sleep is best. Humpty Dumpty had a great hll. Now | Well Born. Little brown baby of mine, go to rest. ift Humpty Dum?tgyh was utyold and Cotll:tt:mlno 4s Latin, eignifying the strong as some O] e Hum:; Dufll’ Resol Little brown baby bird swinging to| ties ogt today, it would not take all of Roxans is a Persian name, the Day sleep, the horses or men to set Humpty | Dawn. Winging to sleep, Dumpty.up again.—Helen ‘Whittaker, Singing to sleep, ago 12, Taftville. [ Your ‘wonder black eyes that so wide W open keep, Humpty Dumpty in his sh: - Shielding their sleep, low and white, and into the cake is tossed feathery and light. For br-k cemt. of the pzeple. ’a Windham it 1s delivered to over 500 houses, ia Putaam aad Danfelsen te over 1,100, and in all of these places it Is comsidered the local daily. Eastern Conmecticnt haa forty- sime towus, ome humdred and sixty- fve posteffice districts, and forty- eme rural free delivery restes. The Bulietin is seld in every town and om all of the R. F. B routes in Eastera Commesticut, CIRCULATION 1901, QVErage .....-- 1905, AVEPAGS cccecetecccsen 5920 dawning for those who go out to do- mestic service and it cannot be nid they have come too soon. MILLIONS TO KEEP TRADE. There is no city in the world that can face a big enterprise with the calmness of New York, who is now talking of meeting modern commercial demands by an expenditure of $200,- 000,000 in harbor improvements, a sum equal to one-quarter the cost of the Unyielding to sleep. Panama canal, The heron is homing, the plover 18 still, | fast he's great—avith ham hes is This is what we learn of future| The night owl ca.lls from his haunt on | grand—so he will help make me a prospects for New York: the hill, muscular man—Octave Morrill, age “Elaborate plans for increasing the fi’t‘z‘t‘l’ !g:ofv‘\’r: g:‘:;! ?f:;,::"m.fi:g’ 13, Norwich. docking facilities of New York harbor = r . o £ 7S are under way. It is proposed to es- ~Chicago Tribune. Sl Dumpty pat onod el The_ Greatest Yet | ALL WEEK, THE POLI PLAYERS IN HALL CAINE'S POWERFUL DRAMA OF THE CHURCH AND SLUMS THE CHRISTIAN THE HIDDEN NAME PUZZLE. To solve this puazzle, cut out the letters and place them on a sheet of . 4413 T T Humpty Dumpty had a splinter in his S i i eig! evices simila: S % you uetl for he st splint- af nesday Matinee. March 18..c....... -0y those of the great modern Kuropean| ' "ioyor & Smow-flake leaves the) FOU fAUC Mheel. 'Ho comes buseing Ll harbors, An investment of $200,000,4 /It turns and turns to say “Good-bye,| around every spring, and he is noth- 000 is involved. An inspection has|Good-bye, dear clouds, so cool and|ing but a troublesome thing.—Edith A CLEAN-UP CRUSADE been made by the mayor dnd dock gray!” Barber, age 9, Moosup, Conn. S commissioner recently of a large tract| Then lightly travels on its way. New Britain has decided to have &| or 1and south of Brooklyn, clean-up crusade, Next Week, “The Two Orphans” Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; And when a snow-flake finds a tree, Humpty Dumpty had a great 1all} . “Two large tracts of land have al-| “Good-day!” it says—"Good-bye to! Humpty Dumpty surely has had a This, of course, is the direct Way 10| reagy- been acquired, and one pler cost- thee! 2 4 great fall, for nearly J ‘winter they ; Spotless Town. ing $1,260,000 has been completed and| Thou art so bare and lonely, dear, cost about 50 cents a dozen and now It is not a confession of dirtiness, as| ; ‘gocond pler is under way. It is|I'll rest and call my comrades here.” | they can be had for a little more than P some sensitive souls are prone to think | ,;.,5050d to equip these plers with the B wh 5 b i hfit that }’;’“‘ EUW. Just wnt;:h il 7 thi % C ON CE RT i oy @ g o bung very much L et St S0 | B ey = smew-io, rave asd| o, 183 o] Bealh omes S6u |l B0 St TR AR B 8] sonaros malden’s cl th back up again.—Anna D. Mc- | ters represent. The truth is that the run-down-at-| fo; rajlroads. 4 e P o W en“ the hidden name has been TIN- 1t says—"“How warm and soft the day! | Dowell, age 9, Stonington, Conn. the-heel appearance of our New Eng- “An importart section of river front- | 'Tis summer!” s land cities has most :" do ;m‘ '::' age on Manhattan island, in the vicin- Hu’mnet; bDuir{xplty Mm an egg; . '-hi Derlulgo SR N L talk about our eonservatism. ur erit- | jty of Fortieth street, is also likely to _— was lov: y little Meg; when Easter prige book at the end of & mon fes meem to be too polite to say any- | be equipped with plers for docking ocean | YUNCLE JED'S CHAT WITH LITTLE ?fi?er&?:d c:!ll;:d him fif"m‘x‘f—’-fi’éfi to two competitors. and it melts away. discovered write a short story about ry Mapes Dodge. SLATERV MEMORIAL HALL ' Wednésday Evening, thing more cutting. liners. In view of this enlargement of FOLKS. ‘Aber; 7, Taftville Conn. The New Britain Herald, in referring | the city’s docks, the Hamburg-Ameri-| 3 . o Nursery Rhyme Revived: March 29th, to this commendable crusade, says: can line has applied for pier space in do not wonder the members of the| 1,1ty Dumpty was king of Harold is now quite a chunk of a boy —BY— Social Corner think they will have to oEgs, o 1 advice as to throw- | thi devels nt. Th and always laughed at thnse ‘who,beg; | and_his mother often tells this story ‘A little judicial advice this new developme: e proposed| 3o gomething more to keep up with ¥ 8] 0. beg; °{. ing sweepings and handbills into the| docks will make it possible to land| th, SGOr- R G- it but learned a lesson from the wall, |on him when was learning to say atrests may hot be amiss. Using the| passengers on Manhattan isiand more| we are vers much Awaker fome some. | iBat Pride gosth before a fall; for a | Over nursery rhymes. One day he was streets for such a purpose is a viola-| convenient to the hotel and railroad|thing .learning something, and having a?lnnlf\:t ’gx‘,’: c:dmil;n ov‘:t&;? fen | Which nearly every boy and girl knows tion of the city ordinances and is pun-| certers than at present.” lots of fun every week wall Al get him didegvod x:“?.hla ina, fisna ishable by a fine in the police court. For two weeks we have had thirty e EDITORIAL NOTES. world, made a supper for Dick and e Harold got nearly As long as the city is taking up the ;“uly'};f:‘:u “ijl;ec?? ;:g »}\l-leddhe:vewr?;g Pearl: but poor old Humpty could do |to the end of the verse without having work of making New Eritain cleaner An exchange says if spring does not| but one wron et 5 t | nothing but bawl—Miss Lilmene Ri- to stop; in fact, he reached the point this ordinance ought to be enforced. It| come pretty soon these pony coats will wetekx it has ‘Ee;\nrunnin:. the elght| oux, age 12, Jewett City, Conn. Where you repeat the firat line when would mot be a bad idea, however, t0| have to be curried. We have three little stories this| g4 Dumpty fell from a wall. As ::.ol;:::.n.d Sl'.fitdc:?;i :w;nr;fd msl:rk.l Josef Hofmann THE GREATEST LIVING PIANIST. Admission, including Reserved Seat, $2.00. Tickets are now on sale at the store of Geo. A. Davis. give some notice of the existence of C e week; and one little girl ventures to z spread over his baby face, and he fin- ; such & law, for a great many people| The gurgling brook is beating the|finish “Lena of the Mountains,” which ;tu‘vu:snga‘: :‘:&wm&’b';";: tux::‘;: ished the line this Jay “Cateh & nig- Ddors open at 7.30. Concert may not know anything about it.” robins as a sign of spring, but it will .hangln:..'levdefi;amlnxl?de{it feels as i¢| he would die, for the want of a drink | 8eF by the toe; if he hollers let him begins at 8. mar21TuThSW. We all know how this is and we| not for a great while. 2 know & little compulsion along such e e Henry, Norwich, age 11. of Bog Meadow mnear by.—Martha w. if he don’t holler, let him go any- o ize. way.” s lines would be good for every New With westerly winds for the major THE HIDDEN WORD PUZZLE. FTT: ST music. England eity within our knowledge. | part of the coming six months an by ds OTHER CORRECT ANSWERS OF Eskimo Candy. The city that cleans up not only | over-abundance of water is not prob- Humpty Dumpty. HIDDEN WORD PUZZLE. Instead of candy Eskimo children improves the looks and the health of | able. —_— eat reindeer tallow. They consider it ®. C. GEER _—_— Humpty Dumpty was an egg, so the| Ruth B. Williams, age 8, Leonard’s | @ §reat delicacy. This candy is put T UNER first-class advertisement for activity| The gentlemen who succeed in spoil- | Story goes. I often wonder if Humpty | Bridge, Conn. up for the children in bright red d to-daie-iVends ing the schemes of spoilsmen never | DUmpty had such a fragrant odor as| Ruth Heap, Taftville. packages that are made out of the 122 Proapsct 8t .- i seem to get as much out of it as they | 20Me Of them donow. When eggs were| Alfred H. Pratt, age 13, Moosup, | feet of water fowl. The women cut SEe e ted fifty cents a dozen my papa bought| Conn, off the red feet of this bird, draw the Tel. 811. Norwleh, Cu THE UNDERWRITERS HEARD | expected. some-at a local store. . They were sup- Katherine Desmond, age 10, Norwich. | bones out, blow up the skin, making | S ———————d, FROM. Carnegie has given a million dol-| ma broke one to use she did not try Susan Lappie, Colchester, Conn. posed to be fresh. Pugh! When mam- Esther Erickson, 13, Norwich. little pouches of them, and these they i ? - fill with reindeer tallow for the chil- | $% Cpraer”, as T call it as much as The national board of fire under-| lars to a college in Tokio. That is a|to put it together again; (it was too| Leois Kinney, Norwich. dren. RA8 PRATIHG anawors e puzzles writers’ committes on fire prevention substantial movement in the interest| fragrant.)—Richard Tobin, Jr, age 9. Elsie M. Maine, age 7, Norwich, 2 have had engimeers in Norwich for | of Peace. Norwich, Conn. ook Ak (eSeeidye, S 11 many weeks during our shortage of TR e rewster’s Neck, Conn. the community, but it gives itself a ‘Thi g s LENA OF THE MOUNTAIN. i s isimy first story to The Bull I think “Lena of the Mountains” is Warm weather and green-pea Humpty Dumpty was an egg, Hump- Lois Kinney, age 11, Norwich. Oh, if all you little people who read | the nicest story inted in The water, and after making an exhaustive ty Dumpty I found in a keg, Humpt; Bessie Bushnell, age 13, Norwich |ithi y ever printed in Th examination of the city have made a| trenches ought to be in order now, if| Bumpniv" T put on the wa?lg..' Humfit;I' Ty 1, age 2 this little story could have but known | Bulletin. Sincerely vours, little Lena. She was just the sweet- est little girl in the whole world and u}:'ingd‘t;eri{nmyiuv in: ‘the heart“ of the y Mountains, she seemed like some beautiful flower that had been ORIGINAL LITTLE STORIES. dropped right down from some sky A Boy's Troubles EMMA E. DURYEA, age 12, comprelensive report, with a series of | (1@ government weather bureau does| Dumpty had a fall. On this egg did| Raymond Whitaker, age 9, Norwich. Willimantic, Conn. recommendations which must awaken | MOt Prohpesy it. }T‘:i sttary &!eaeAr;:l %"Hm.ih!m“hl,‘st C&MssCYvonne Pigeon, age 11, Jewett J e s ad to end.—Allen eath, age ¥, Conn. :.h.l::u::n:.tl: :;t::taetd t?:;i:lzfl;":l: The Taft reciprocity treaty with| Norwich Town. Gertrude E. Thorne, age 12, Norwich. e W Dacve AR ad { Canada is spoken of in England as e — John Hanson, age 9, Norwich '] > 4 ys supposed. “g red herring drawn up to block the If dear old Humpty Dumpty had not Troy 1. Mnln, age 11, Norwich. flower garden. The changes recommended by the| p...o navy- bilL” sat to rest upon the wall, little boys| Ellen M. Connelly, age 7, Norwich.| Her home was a rough cabin made| Just because I brought home three unaderwriters’ committes will call for and girls could not write The Bulletin —— of heavy logs, and months and|Mmice my sister was mad. The first a large outlay of money and cannot about his dreadful fall. Doras Moran, Courtesy in the Street. months often went by without her | one I let out was tame as a kitten all be carried out immediately, but it age 10, Norwich. Salute your ministers, teachers and | seeing a living person aside from her | but the second was most wild and is te be hoped that the recommenda- TR acquaintances when you meet them,|father He was a trapper and he had | made 6ne leap out of the box, and Sue tiomg Will be promptly honored so far Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,| who will salute you in return. moved to that lonely country soon aft- [ made a leap through the air and land &5 pessible, and & movement be made Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; ali] Do not push or run against people. | er Lena's mother's death, when the|ed up in an easy chair with her dress 1o do what is required that insurance| Kansag City has a municipal reign the king's horses and all the king’s| Do not chalk on the walls, doors or | Child was hardly more than a baby. | Pinched like a hobble skirt. Oh, how men could not put Humpty Dumpty | gates. Just like the pretty green growing|I did laugh, but the look on Sue's facc rates may be made more reasonable. | drawing to an end which shows a|together again. There he lay stretch-| Do not annoy shopkeepers by loiter- | things of the mountains, she had |told me I'd better stop, and T looked They furaish & fine map of the city | geficit of $400,000, according to The | €d on the ground while all the compa- | ing at their shop doors or gates. grown up to a little girl of nine but|Solemn, quick. The third mouse wa upon which they chart with clearness| Journal of that city. ny gathered around; when he valiant- Do not throw stones or destroy prop- the water supply system and the 1y stified his tears he sadly addressed | erty. An Ohio village of 605 people has 45 widows; and because of this it is re- garded as an extra-hazardous place for bachelors to visit. she was far more beautiful than any [ nOwhere to be found. I knew it was growing thing and her songs were [ no use to try and keep the wild one. them with quavering tones: “Friends,” Do not throw orange peels or make | Sweeter than the birds who loved her | so I gave it to my chum, and went ou :.I:n::lcl:t;l:; rset::mo;‘a::rvlcc pipes, The_ fire losses of Chicago amounted | said Humgty D—umpgty wi‘plng‘tuse:yes. slides on tthe Davemef‘flt: x;m! often ra? and came each morning to awaken|to play, but when I came home an 3 2 to seven and a half millions last year; | “this sudden descent was an awful | sults in dangerous accidents. her. hour later there sat Sue upon the iron e B e e et and the loss per capita has been $3.24 | surprise; it inclines me ‘to think—, Do not make fun of old or crippled Some dnys her father would go off | ing board, and her face looked mad WILL DO THEIR WORST. for the past five years. you may laugh at my views,—that a | people. to visit his traps to be gone the whole | 2gain, gnd she said that my dogs ran 1t looks as #f the majority of the se:[t thatdislhumble is safest to choose.” [ Be particularly courteous to stran- |day lon'gil but Ifi:nl v;u ]nelslel'edlo:e- i;:o‘:‘:: %afil:r:huzzntr}wov;nglalv’: m\: los s do an Sixty-second congress was bent upon Milwaukee is trying to feel elated Sbgling, “ge_& DNy Ich, UL e o toreign_____ers. :on?e\‘mm:id"xey:v::‘llgu:‘.:m:vcloseet‘; try and mounted the board to wait doing #ts worst, and that is why its|over the fact that 500 citizens can be| Humpty Dumpty and bacon taste Meaning of Names. the cabin and be fed with crumbs from | for me to come, and she would tell my prospects for 1912 will not be im-| got together who take an interest in| mighty good for breakfast these morn- Daniel is Hebrew, ‘meaning God is|the little cabin table. If any of the | father as soon as he came home. She proved. spending the tax funds. ings —Elsie Beard, age 13, Norwich. Judge. larger animals came out into ‘th ll!d she was sure that the dogs hax_l In view of what has been intimated —_— James is of Hebrew origin, the Be- n:nflhna‘r Il;:a wgmld m"::’h m(lfi t}\e ht(;‘u\s “u}-l;e(‘r;] ':\pwml‘er:h:n ,éxl(:u] :’:)‘rr supper, by those in the confidence of the pres-| The boy who wanted the grocer to| o, ilmPtY Dumpty, may his tribe in-f guiler. the door and wait for them 7 o # v. Even then, she was not ! shelf. . 'Wel, as soon as she got ident, Champ Clark of Missourl, the|gtamp a cow on the oleomargarine crease, awoke one spring from a long| Huldah, from the Hebrew, means a ;0 ‘oe::;:‘ o | cooled down T set to work and with prospective speaker, is reported to have sald the other day at Lincolnm, Neb., while visiting Colonel Bryan: “Some republicans have begun an effort to coerce congress into acting on reciprocity, and that alone by as- serting that the president has a right to adjourn congress, if the two houses cannot agree on a date for adjourn- ment. “No president has ever adjourned congress, and the chances are 10 to 1 that if President Taft adjourns con- gress to prevemt our curing the out- rages in- the Payne-Aldrich-Smoot tariff bill, he will not be able to com- mand one-third of the votes in the electoral college, and there will hardly be enough republicans in the house of the Sixty-third congress to call the ayes and nays.” It 48 not at all likely that President Taft has any idea of attempting to usurp power, or to play the part of @ czar. He will make rational rec- ommendation to these men, who ap- pear to be intoxicated even by the prospect of power, and he will leave the responsibility of their acts upon them. If Champ Clark’s programme is to be carried out, it is probable that the bottom will be knocked out of busi- ness and the country will be burdened oy two dull years—that hard times will juickly respond to democratic felly. There is no surer road to democratic iefeat in 1912 than this. The most captivating dream of life just at present is the dream of peace. Some people may think, however, that it 1s the dream of the possibilities of the Boy Sceu Tt is surprising that nothing seems easler than for a woman to get a di- vorce from Nat Goodwin; and what man can seeln to get another wife \ \ are, cannot be charged with having a ‘cause Ma had company, must have been a 20th century lad. The price of the smaller sized coal is going to be higher this spring be- cause of the greatly increasing demand for it in steam-making. A Chicago doctor would make the removal of the vermiform appendix compulsory; and Connecticut has not a law on this matter yet. Where the family 1s large there is no time to think of divorce. This is now recommended as & means of re- ducing the number of divorces. Happy thought for today: The man who says he is just as good as you large amount of conceit, perhaps. Conserve the Power, The manufacturing concerns on the Farmington river will have to con- sider the possibility of getting more power out of the water of the river as it flows naturally along., In these modern days when electricity has been harnessed and power is trans- mitted a long distance with but little loss, it becomes possible to raise low dams across rivers, where a few feet of fall can be secured and a water wheel be installed to drive a dynamo to store electricity, to be transferred miles away where it can be used to drive the machinery of industrial plants. It is understood that there are places between Collinsville and New Hartford where a low dam erected and a ditch dug for a few rods along the side of the river could be made to drive wheels which would generate much electricity.—Bristol Press. Nothing Dangerous AI;ut 1t Charles Michael Schwab, the iron- master, should not be disturbed by what he calls the Japanese war cloud. It may be only Pittsburg smoke.—N, X. Werla JERRY AND BOCO’S FISHING TRIP A Night-Cap Story for Little Folks. ' (Copyrighted) Boco ,and Jerry started for the brook where the minnows play in shoal water and brave cats can wade in. It was a good 'ways back to the home of the dragon-flies and the tur- tles, and whenever the cats passed over wet ground Jerry would, upon get- ting his feet wet have a greattime all did not see how Boco was going to catch fish; but Boco had learned the way and was sure he could supply enough for a good meal for both. It was just a pleasant-day-stroll to the brook, and the creatures the cats were most interested in were most afraid of them; and the ground-birds flew from their nests in fear, and the field mice hid up till the cats were out of the way. The. minnows were having a playful time in the pool when Jerry and Boco arrived; and Boco walked deliberately into the water, much to the conster- nation of Jerry, and began to sweep his paw through the water just as he would play with a cat-nip ball on a floor, and 'to toss the little fish out upon the bank; but Jerry was of little help, for he did not wish to get his feet wet, and because of his timidity some of the fish rolled into the water and swam away; but the catch was sufficient, and the cats had a real treat and a chat about the hardships of life, for Boco had een so situated that he must fish¥or starve, and he waded into the water to ‘try his paws on the minnows, which he saw must e thrown ashore, as cats cannot dive under water like seals 'and catch the |- fish in their mouths. He found it about as' pleasant ®s playing with a catnip ball in the heuse, and the anmoyance of wet feet passéd forever away. Later in the day the cats came up- on a lot of girls picnicking beneath a grove of trees; and Jerry thougtkt it would be nice to acquaintance; g0 and make their but Boco had learned that it was best to give strangers a Jerry could not be made to believe it was unsafe to approach the party, and he Boco advised him to keep clear of good little girls, because there might be roguish ones among them. Jerry ‘went among ‘them and made friendly overtures by rubbing up against rheir dresses and purring, and they fed aulplclnlul rom a safe distance and refused to bg into any confidences with did so, although by himself shaking the water off He! Jerry was fully convinced how am Boco's fears were a roguish little girl took Jerry up tenderly and after mak- ing a hole in the bottom of a paper bag slipped it over his head for -pon. just to see him turn somersaul frightened Jerry when released mced away into the bushes, turning somers saults and yowling like a wildéat, with Bocp following to assist him, if possi- He soon tore the paper off, but he kept on in his wild run until he was far away from the sight of his little tormenters. ‘When Boco overtook him he was too polite to say: “I told you s0,” lapped Jerry's fur and calmed him down as a good friend or nurse should. Then Jerry and Boco talked over what they should do next day, and Jerry suggested that they go back to the what Pepo would do about it, for Pepo was the cat Jerry had punished the morning he left ths when the old farmer Pee-po, and his daughter calied Pep-a t6 the cat who was the master of an the cats on the farm. This was agreed Boce started off full of cu- riosity to see the cat Jerry had pun: UNCLE JED. farm and see But there was one night that little Lena was frightened. Her father had kissed her good-bye in the early morn- | ing to visit some of his traps. It was one of those same quiet, beautitui mountain days, and Lena sang as be- fore and busied herself here and there, sweeping and dusting the inside of the cabin, and doing other little things. A rabbit or two came to see her as usual, and she fed them, singing them & funny little song thoe while. ~And then, slowly the sun began to dip be- neath the highest mountain peak. “Father will come soon, -now,” the child sajd to herself It grew darker. Finally the sun sank out of sight alto- gether. It was now very dark and still her father did not come. Conclusion written by Anna E. Dur- yea, age 12, of Willimantic. Little Lena sat up long that night waiting for the father who would never come again. Iinally she went to bed still saying, “Father will comé soon.” When she awoke the next motn(ng her father had not come yet. She busied herself u.b;aut thg co:: utt dustis and sweeping and put- thlnnnt‘o order, thinking that her rgu- had been Ml}{“‘ aigt:lcme :nh-l er trapper's cottage. er e animal friends came to see her, but still her father didn’t come home. About noon a friend came to the @oor and told her that an Indian had shot her father. At first she was blank with amaze- ment, as though she could not under- stand it; then, bursting into tears, she rushed into her friend’s arms, ex- claiming, “Oh! my dear fnherl This: cannot be true!” ‘Then her friend ;old w):r 'I'A':)v: ha.‘n Indian, hiding behind a e, T father through the heart He had found him before he died and his last wish was for him to take little Lena to his home, So Lena went to her new home and parents. Letters to Uncle Jed. I hope all the lit. enjoy “Uncla Jad’ another . struggle - I caught the lost mouse and I put it with the other. Then I went up to bed and told Sue I wo not wait to eat with pa feeling well_ A MOU E STUDENT. The Story of a Cat. T am an Angora cat. My name is Rex. [ am a' pet to all the i My mistress’ name is Miss Smith. T am black and white. » day -as I -was in the house a ame to see my mistress. brought me a.large.ribbon and m: & how and put it on my neck. It was ! white. One day as I was in the garden a girl came and took my bow, which I thought was very naughty. In the spring, in the month of April, the last part of the month, my mistress went to the White Mountaing for her health 1 was left in the cara of the ladv. I was fed very good. She put anbther bow, which was white, on my neck. There was a dog there, but I did not bother with him, nor he with me. His name was Beauty. This lady and her gister took me in their laps and would pet me. Tn June, one day the last in the month, my mistress returned. T was very glad to see hér. She took me home, and we live, happy together.— Mildred Penruon, age 11, Norwich. A Pine Tree. I was once a little pine tree. I grew to be many vears old. One day a man came with a saw.and axe<and cut me down with a few of my rela- tives, . Then T was drawn to a sawmill and sawed into boards. A man took me on a wagon and carried me to his house: He packed me and my rela- tives ‘in a pile to season. Then I was sold to another man. He made me into a house. . The man who owned me had me ins . One night the chimmey got fire and burned down. The man put the insurance mot in the bank, and L am now still in 3 %nt _the RQ!e of New d l!'i. Moosup, Cotim, _