Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 13, 1911, Page 4

The Heat Is d'.ho general topic of Y commanded him to drink, and : conversation, and because Boston has as he was verv thirsty. Z ; had a temperature many degrees higl tumbler and did not take it his Umbrella Tent for Girls er than that of Atlanta or New Or- Hips until he had drunk .‘xl“- €op- | Have you-ever wanted a tent to play leans, some people are prone to think ulnP‘:or little boy,” she said, “I will in and i " ticles surprisingly expensive? A com. “ VAN BIBBER'S EXPERIMENT "—Detecive MISS MINNIE STEEVES, Soprano. A Boys’ and Girls’ Depntmgnt weather before and will again. 8 An eastern editor gives the public to®understand we have been having Bulletin Business Office, 480. Bullet) Rooms, 35 Buiiciin Job Offeer ganit 2% Willimantic Office, Room 3 Murray 1ding. Teiephone 210. " Norwich, Thurs ch, Thursday, July 13, 1911. The Bulletin Gns the Inrgest eir- culation of amy paper im Enstern Commecticut, amd from three to four (imes larger than that of amy is delivered to over 4,053 houses 13 Nor- wieh, and read by mimety-three per cemt. of the prople. In Wimdham it in delivered to over 900 in all of these piaces it in considered the local daily. five postoffice districts, mmd forty- onme rural free delivery routes. L, letin s sold 1o on all of the R. routes in Easters Commecticut. CIRCULATION 1001, aversad ... 1905, average .... v a3 -5.920 Week ending July 8 L.ie.ins PEACHES. he outlook for peaches and ream, with cream at the highest price ts_history, does not make a chee 1l prospect, the heavily laden peach trees of the state of Connecticut do. The fruit crop of this state is con- antly increasing, and it wll be many vears before we sb 1l be a lead- ing state in fruit growing, as we now re in the production of Yankee no- tions. The outlook for peaches is most promising everywhere, and we are told he yield will be a thi f a miltion askets. The Fridg Standard At the rate of increase which Con- necticut is showing in this department of fruit culture we shall soon stand t the head of the northern states, and except in the matter of time be able to compete with all others—so far as the wants of our owns people are concerned, Of course, the New York market rules, and if the people there want the first pick of inec cut peaches at a larger price than our own people will pay, they will get them and we will be left to solace ourselves with the ‘seconds,’ as we do big lot of other things which are eulled over and picked out for the markets of the big cities.” THE USEFUL APPRENTICE. ~The young man who is learning a business shouid be conscious of the fact that the more useful he makes himself, the better his chances will be of eventually becoming a captain of ndustry. There are three things which count cess in the competitions of life are ,a cheery heart, a broad- ening mind and promptness in all fe's activities Efficiency is a good word for an apprentice to have burned into his consclousness in capital letters means accuracy, promptness, depend- abllity and every quality that counts for success. It means eves to see and hands to do things which need be done, instead of ears to hear reproach- ng words becan habits, The apprentice who is alive to every need of the business and is doing all that is expected of him and a little more is the coming man Thinking of shorter hours and big- ser pay is not ap achievement: but doing things which call for higher service id better wages Is an achievement. The boy is the master of the mnan and he should catch on to himself. OUR GREAT BATTLESHIPS. The Utah, of 21,825 tons’ displace- ment, has just M of s equivalen ippec tion had her speed test ¢ has of ne and 23 with ten turbine the usual instalment procating engines. The the turbine as a cor made Xnots per hour, She speed record which miles, en desira- Jlement- in the driving gear of a is a matter of much ers g American naval The working of the driving achinery of the Utah will probabl settle this controversy one way or an- ot though it may uire a goc eal of experience with the werking of e ship under different conditions to etermine it. The Utah is a sister p to the Florida, having the same displacement of 21.825 tons. Only two ttieships under comstruction will be ¢ greater dimensions—the Arkansas nd the Wyoming will each be of 4,000 tons displacement w some of the it English ittleships have proven unseaworthy, he American leviathans have been oroughly tested by long voyages and ove to be as safe and dependable uny ships. The Boston Transeript of Tuesday ening said: “The weather is sin- zularly appropriate for holding t erial Council of the Mystic Shrin- he country, whose sessions Rochester, N. Y., today. The anel will find the city pave as hot in and familiar as though treading ag: gon the hurning sands of Argbia. Kansas has a town in which there is not a smoker or a eurser: and the most sensational thing it has a stom- wh for is an Kpworth league conven- tion. Maxim's invention of a gun that can fired without making a is nothing sto what the invention of a good flat-wheel mufiler would be. A Michigan bride baving been de- scribed as having been married in a Ening-away suit” an editor inquires wgat she'll wear coming back. o Colo face. This ix what he says of August weather on the flat lands of Colorado For 18 days the thermometer ranged between 115 and 120 in the shade. In the sun nobody knew what it registered because the thermome- ters always showed the mercury at the top notch and goodness knows how much higher it would have gone had the glass been extended. Standing on one of the sand dynes and looking out across the prairie the tenderfoot would have sworn he was looking out on a great ocean with the big waves rolling aiong unceasingly. They were waves, | all right, but waves of heat, and after one had ridden through them for forty | miles before coming to an oasis a fair- | Iv good idea of hot weather was ob- tained. The ranchmen were tanned to a leathery brown and they looked 4s gaunt as starving covotes. The superfluous fat or flesh was in reality tried out of them and they were down | to pretty nearly skin and bones. The water-holes, few and far between, con- tained so much alkali that it was al- most | le to drink it, but it was that or nothing” This picture of sweltering heat does not 0 west this season. pos inspire us to THE YOUNG ARE BRAVE. It has been recognized for ages that | the voung are brave and beautiful; and it is constantly being demonstrat- in all countries The other a $9-a-week errand boy eloped with a 16-year-old girl friend and they distressed their rela- tives by marryirg on slender resources. ed day They do not regard the matter in that ni. Charley Long of St. ce mar- ried on a capital of $17.40, and now that there is a social furore over it and attempts are being made to an- nul the marriage, Charlie says: I loved Helen and she loved me; got married. ‘That's all there it. This wedding zoing to is stick.” Charlie’s right. He knows the relation going to last regardless of the weak financial foun- we all style dation of it. The spirit of the juve- nile bridegroom indicates that he is prepared to meet every contingency like a man. It is not so easy to decide these days whether one would prefer to be an kimo or a Hottentot. The discomforts of the summer re- sort tend to make all vacationists feel that there's no place like home, Do mot worry about dogdays, but just have a care that every dog has cool water to quench his thirst. Those who are engaged in keeping weak presidential booms alive are feeling the hot weather fearfully. Happy thought for toda; it is only ten weeks to a killing frost; and that seems too long a time to wait. It is an able Jawyer who can make a technicality look like the second cousin of a constitutional safeguard. The against doubtle paper. new organized movement tobacco smokers will prove s to be most formidable upon Vice President Sherman’s declaration that he will not be a candidate for re-election has not called forth any. regrets. The Maine is getting to be such an unpleasant memory that it is recom- mended that we let the Cubans re- member her. The sees poetry. who hayfield is not the one who swings the man in the but the one fence and sings seythe; who sits on the The man who eats too much in hot weather prepares himself for misfor- tune. The meal never «alls for light doctor's fees. When Admiral Togo learns of our hero, subsequent h tor should not blame the admiral if he regards him as a joke. Hobson, and his we Governor Foss of Massachusetts sent in six veto messages to the leg- islature one day this week: and the | total number is top-notchy. Cabbage and Candy. A Pennsylvania woman claims to have discovered a process for making candies ut of vegetables. If the { discovery proves to be of practical lue we shall doubtless soon become familiar with the product, though the P may remain a secret. Long cooking, she says is am essential part of the programme, after which the pas tv vegetible mass is molded into at- tractive form Potato caramels, carrot nouzats, turnip fudge, beef marsimallows and bean toffy are among ihe confectionery triumphs an- nounced. It is even solemnly stated that a tempting confection has been nade of parsnips, If this all proves true, the good ladv will have accomplished two de- irable resuits at one blow. She will Ve been the i that garden first to e truck nvince chil- s acceptable for internal use, at the same time providing strong competition for sul- phur-bleached marshmallows, fudge colored with iron rust, furniture pol- ish bonbons—in fact, for all the glit- ing_con ons of chemicals and that a child with a penny has at his command. A boon to juvenile humanity sure- {1y: we would credit the entire story gladly if it were not for the parsmips. From Success Magazine. Need of Vacations. Vacation coes some persons good, and others harm. It might be the saving of lives, the conservation of healih, the relief of which would malke the whole vear go well, if it were hiy used. But S0 many persons misconceive the rcharacter and re- quircments of a vacation, and abuse instead of use the much or little time ziven them of cessation from work. vorse off at nd of their long quarter of a r of relief from regular work than were at its beginning. There are others who manage tc et a scant week substantial good to last them 1l the vear, Vacation adviee h: the barrel. ed as There are those who are the as been wasted by It generally is as unheed- unsought. . Bach has hi own vacation, and his own vacation problems. But it is obvious that the purpose of a vacation is to make the work of the vear casier and more vai- siable, There are too many, it is to be feared, who rezard the means as the end, and are perpetually unsaiisfied because the vication is su short.— New Haven Register weather compared with what the ado ranchers are called upon to Rules for Young Writers. 1. Write plainly on one side of the paper only and number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil 3. Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do not use over 250 words. 4. Original will be used. 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress at the top of the first page. Address all communications Uncle Jed, Bulletin Office. stories or letters only to “Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the| rest of the way.” Among my tender vines 1 spy A little fox named By and By. Then set upon him quick, I say, The swift young hunter—Right Away. Around each tender vine, I plant, I fina the little fox—I Can't. Then, fast as ever hunter ran, Chase him with bold and brave—I Can. No Use in trying—lags and whines This fox among my tender vines. and drive him Then drive him low, high With this good hunter, named—II'l Ly Among the vines in my small lot Creeps in the young fox—I Forgot. Then hunt him out and to his pea With—I Will Not Forget Again. A little fox is hidden there Among my vines, named—I Don't Care. Then let I'm Sorry—Hunter true— Chase him afar from vines and you. —Union Gospel News. “Be Fair.” Make this your motto for the year: Be fail No matter what reports you hear, | Be fai It doesn’t help you up the hill To make some other's pathway hard. You can’t expect my speaking ill, Of men to win the world’s regard— Be fair. You have a chance to help along, Be fair; No man is absolutely wrong, Be fair; You don't increase vour merit when You cast slurs on another's worth; Why turn against your fellow men Or place one sorrow more on earth Be fair. —Chicago Record-Herald. UNCLE JED'S TALK WITH LITTLE FOLKS. TUncle Jed is very much pleased with the bright little letters the children are writing this department. All the little boys and girls who do not feel equal to writing a story can become active members by writing lit- tle letters to Uncle Jed. If they have nothing else to write about they can tell Uncle Jed and the boys and girls who do write stories how much they enjoy them, and which they like best; or how well they like the selected story; or they may ex- change compliments with one another. Such letters make pleasant reading; and, also, may make agreeable ac- quaintances. We have several ambitious stories this week which are creditable to the ability and genius of the girls and boys who wrote them. Occasionally we have to omit a let- ter, or a story, that is very carelessly written. 1t pains Uncle Jed to have to disappoint these little writers. They should write plainer and with greater care. The printer cannot set in type letters that are not plainly and neatly written. THE PRIZE-BOOK WINNERS. First prize to Lucy Clarke, of Nor- wich, book entltled “The Twins fn Ceylon,” by Belle Sidney Woolf. Second prize to hard C. Moran, of Norwich,book entitled “Black Beau- ty,” by Anna Sewell. SPECIAL PRIZES. To Mary Bromley, of Stonington, book entitled “A Child’s Garden of Verses,” by Robert Louis Sevenson. To Morgan Palmer, of Norwich, book entitled “Nature Studies on the Farm: Solls ard Plants,” by Charles H. Kef- fer. The little book-winners who have not received their books by mail should inform Uncle Jed within three days after they see the announcement; and they should also be prompt to notify him when the books are finally receiv- ed. These books may be called for any hour after 10 a, m. Thursday. LITTLE ORIGINAL STORIES, A Trip Down the Hudson. Each vacation the family took a trip down the Hudson. They were going on the 3d of July in 1907. The day came apd the trip bezan. The family had to go to Albany from Rome. which took three hours of patient riding on the train: but Albany was reached at last. It was the night boat they were going on, and it did not start until 8 o'clock. It was only 7 now, so there was plenty of time. When the boat started most of the people were on deck, where a band was playing. The searchlight shone on a camp among the mountains which had been decorated for the Fourth, and some boys came out and rang a cowbell. At another place there was a log cabin in the woods. A man and a woman were standing in the doorway and two boys were romping in the woods with some dogs. 1 began to get sleepy, so I went to bed. The next morning I got up ear- Iy and went out. The Palisades were on each side of the river and looked like a picture. But the picture was soon gone. As 1 discovered we were near New York I had to hurry and get ready to go ashore.—Lucy Cfarke, age 10, Norwich, Conn. He Wanted to Be an Elk. A great flock of fat eik were feed- ing upon the mountain side enjoying the rich grass and cool mountain streams, when a poor, weary, footsore Indian saw them and watched them with envy. He saw they had plenty so_he wished to become one of them. He hid his bow and arrows and approached them, asking to be made one of them. They finally consented to admit him and he was made chief, as he wished to be. ‘They first warned him of the danger he would run, telling him his eyes must be always on the watch and his ears on guard. He must be able to smell an_enemy before he is in sight. He led the flock proudly, finally 1y- ing down to take a nap. Suddenly he cried; “Fly, fly, I am struck!"” The ' elks all ran of, but nothing, returned, saving: “It was only a stick that fell from atr They all lay down again to sleep, but were soon aroused. The second time they were quite anery, saying: “Jt was only an acorn that fell upon him while he slept.” The third time thev lay down: but this time the elks scented danger and stole away, leaving the chief elk sleep- ing. ° When the hunter came, he found on- Iy the chief elk sleeping and shot him with an arrow, making him suffer great fear and pain. The Indian then wished he had been content with his life as it had been, as no life i from hardship and danger.— W. Main, Norwich. » THE FAIRY KINDNESS. seeing Inder the shade of a large oak tree a little boy threw himself down to rest one hot summer afternoon. He had not been there very long when a beautiful lady all clothed in ite appeared to him and said: Little boy, you are very tired, are you not? Here is a soft green velvet cushion for vou to rest your head on, and 1 will bring you something nice and cool to drink.’ The beautiful lady disappeared and in a few moments returned with a olden tray on which was a glass of THE HANDLESS LITTLE BOY By Annie H. Dennell “I wish I didn’t havi snapped Clem. “Then nobody’d ‘Won't you please pick some ingheans for dinner? and ‘Wont’ vou please to pick some currants for tea? an’ ‘Won't you please to pick some— | som. any hands, so | hickens for Thanksgivin'!” finish- | ed Denny, gleefully. Clem laughed, and then, of course, she felt bettes “But you couldn't make those lovely urrant buns o mud ‘thout any ands,” little Doris remarked, grave- {1y She smacked her lips as if her mouth watered for a bun. “Then I'd make ‘em with my feet!” laughed Clem. She had put on her “broad-brimmer” and picked up her | baskets, ready for the currant pick- ing. The litile rain cloud had quite blown over. Aunt Jeannette was writing a let- ter to her soldier. The children thought she was away off in the Phil- ippine Islands, and it almost startled them when her sweet voice sounded suddenly in their ears. “T saw a little boy making mud pies with his feet,” said Aunt Jeannette. “Aunty! With feet?” “Yes, with his two little feet, and he did it in a very wockmanlike way, too. “0 aunty, don’t stop! Tell us the Test!” pleaded the three children, eagerly. “But I'm afraid to keep Clem wait- ing—it will be so hot in the currant patch soon,” Aunt Jeannette objectedh “Hot! d rather pick currants in —in Vanilla, aunty, than not hear that ! story!” Clem cried. So aunty slipped her soldier’s letter in her portfolio and told them the sto “I think he must have been on his way home from school. He was a bright-faced little fellow about as old as Clem, and he had on a little blue cape 1ike & soldier boy. It hung round him in loose folds. There was a naw house going up on the street, and he was making his pies out of a little | heap of sand beside the great box the | men were mixing mortar in. 1 wish you could have seen the neat way he made them!” g ) aunty, with his feet!” breathed Clem. | “With his feet. Fe drew the moist sand toward him.into a little pile with one foot, and worked it and stirred it and patted it with the other. He was o busy he didn't notice anybody watching him until I said. ‘How much | do vou ask for vour pies” and then | he looked up into my face and smiled. | w\'s_rr‘-‘-u quite acquainted then.” “Then I s'pose you shook hands,” lit- tp Dosis said l | pened every day.: Aunt Jeannette's sweet face sobered. “No, but we both smiled. That's a beautiful way to get acquainted. They are beautiful pies,’ I said, but do you make them with your feet? such a funny way.’ “Oh, if T hadn't said that! I am sorry for it still, and I said it years ago. For gravely I knew all at once why he stood there patting his little sand pies with his feet! He need not have told me. There were no hands under his little blue soldier cape.” “O_aunty! “Oh, no, please no, aunty!” The' tears were in Aunt Jeannette's ey But T don't mind—huh!" the little fellow said cheerfully. “There’'s heaps o’ things a feliow can do with his feet. There's run an’ walk an’ skip an'— this. And he went back to his pies again, whistling. I bought a dozen pies, and went away and left him there. Whenever I think of him now, it’s standing there still, whistling and molding his littie round, wet pi There was silence in the big. bright nursery for a minute. Danny broke it with a soft whistle that had quivery- quavery notes in it. Clam was shuf- fling her stout little boots about, as if she were trying to make imaginary sand pies on the carpet. They were clumsy little feet at that work. “I couldn’t do it, aunty—I couldn’t!” she said, soberly. “Is that all of the story, little Doris asked. “Why, no, not quite. T used to see the little fellow often after that, and 1 found out some other things he could do. He could print and add sums on the blackboard. aunty?” ow, aunty “Now, aunty! But it was true that he could. Wait till I tell you how., His brother went to schoel with him every morning and took the shoes and stockings off from his little pink- and-white feet. Then the teacher lift— ed him on a high stool and let him take the chalk in his bits of toes and 80 to work. That is truly what hap- And they told me he was a real little scholar. Thal's all, little Doris. Clem picked up her baskets again and started across the room. At the door she stopped. “I'm going to pick the currants first | and then the string beans,” she said. An’ then. aunty. don’t you want me to pick those red clovers to dry? You needn’t say, ‘Won't you, please.’” she added, soffly, looking down at her little brown hands, “because I feel just exactly like picking things.” awhile, for I am the fairy Kindness, and I love 1o do Tor little chil- dren., Would you like to have me tell vou something about the fairics”” Just theh the wind blew hard and the little boy felt someone shaking him and he opened his eyes and looking up saw his father, who had been look- ing for him and found him asleep un- er the old oak tree. WHITE WINGS. Norwich. 3 3 [ Birds. Older people say there are not as many birds now as there used to be years ago, but there are quite a few near my home. The barn swallows are quite plenti- ful around here. There were as many as four or five nests in our barn this Yyear. There are also many blue birds and wrens. 1 put boxes in the trees for them to build in. There is an oriole who builds her nest in an elm tree near our house every r. It seems as though their nest would come down when the wind blows, it is built in such a funny way on the very end of the limb. 3 ‘There are also many game birds around here. The partridge, quail and woodcock, Quail are the most plenti- ful We hardly ever go out into the fleld but what we see a flock of quail. —Troy L Main, age 11, Norwich, Ct. LET"I'ERS"I"O UNCLE JED. A Little Gardener. Dear Uncle Jed: I have four good | uncles and yon are another. I like lo read the letters that the boys write to you. 1 have a small garden and the care of it. I planted turnips, lima beans, string beans, scarlet runners, crease-back ‘bean: dwarf beans, peas, potatoes, radishes, tomatoes, lettuce, sweet corn, watermelons, muskmelons and nastur- tiums. I have a dog whose name is Shep. 1 hitch him up and drive him. He is a good dog and I have lots of fun with him—Earle Morgan Palmer, age 9, Norwich. A “take all On the Farm. Dear Uncle Jed: This is my story of down on the farm. We have ten goslings, 13 ducks, ard about 200 hens. We have five cows and three calves. One calf is brown and white; the other black and white, and the other brown. I enjoy watching them play. The little brown calf came last night. It is awfully cute. 1 iove to watch the chicks and gos- lings. They were hatched this sum- mer. Most of the ducks are brown and white. The goslings are a grayish color. The cows' names are Alice, Daisy, Bessie, Nellie and Brownie. The hens lay eggs to pay for the grain for the cattle. We have different kincs of chickens. They are awfully cute. They were hatched this summer. We have about 34 or 25 of them. Some banties, Some Plymouth Rocks, some black ones. We have four pigs. The master of the farm lets the big Pigs out to root while the little ones stay in the pen so_that they could get more to eat. We have four geese. The two big ones had seven iittle ones. Every one died. They swim back and forth across the cove. We have a boat. The name is Myr- tle. We go out crabbing. I go out in the boat alone sometimes. The master of the farm caught nearly a half-bush- el of crabs. This is all, Your little niece, MARY BROMLEY, Stoningten, Conn., July 8, 1911 Five Red Squirrels. Dear Uncle Jed: 'There is a %arge elm tree opposite my house, in which there are five squirrels. They are red and have beautiful tails and are also quite tame. very day they can be seen run- ning along the fence in search of something to eat. I put corn on the fence and enjoy ‘watching the squirrels eat it. They will also eat the tall grass. They run up and down the trees as if they were playing tag. Your little niece, MYRTLE M'CORD. Norwich Town, July 10, 1911. He Drove the Cows and Went Barefoot Dear Urcle Jed: I spent two weeks of my vacaticn at my grandfather's farm in the country. I got up at six o'clock in thé morn- ing to see the cows milked. Then I would drive them to pasture. In the evening at five o'clock I would bring them home again. I went barefcoted all Gay long and would wade into the brook and catch tiny :ish in a dipper. T had a good time and just loved the country. Your nephew, . 8. M. Norwich, July 10, 1911. Wants to Join. Dear Tncle Jed: I have read the Boys and Girls Department every week since it started, and I felt that T would like to join it. so I am send- ing you a poem that I made up. We take The Courier and think it is very nice. I hope that my poem will be worth accepting. It is true. even the places spoken of. With all success to the Boys and Girls' Department, T am, Your friend, HENRIETTA ALLEN. Marsfield Depot, Conn., July 10, 1911. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT, A Very Pretty sook. Dear Uncle Jed: I thank you very much for the flower book I received. It is very pretty and also very inter- esting. 1 will be very careful of it. Your little friend, MYRTLE MAE M'CORD. Norwich, July 8, 1911, Liked All the Books. Dear Uncls Jed: T hope you re- ceived my leiter thanking You for my flower book. I like all the books you have given me. Yours, .KENNETH W. MAIN. Norwich, July 8, 1911. BACKYARD GAMES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS Pitching Quoits. There is no reason why this game should not be played in every vard, for it is good sport. It develops musele, and it may be constructed for nothing, if a blacksmith will give you four old horseshoes. At the opposite ends of the yard and on a line with each other spikes made of oid broom handles should be driven into the ground so that each spike is left at least an inch above the ground. There may be two players, using two horseshoes or quoits each, or four players, each playing with one quoit. The contestants stand at one end of the field and aim their Qquoits in turn at the spike in the op- posite end. Ringing the spike with the horscshoe counts two points; the pin nearest the spike counts one; if a plaver has both his quolts nearest the spike he scores two points. Measure- ments may be made Ly a string looped around the pin or spike. When the points at the first goal are decided upon, the players pick up their quoits and play toward the opposite goal. The winning of a game consists ir | fortable tent ma; material y in the house—an um- brella, a broom handle, clothespins, cord and newspapers are needed. The Prodm bondle Is drivets fn thesasth —sope_older_person will help you do this. The S™me strong older person will next bind" the handle of the um- brella to the broom handle, If. this latter has worn too smooth for secure binding, grooves may be cut with a penknife and a couple of nails may be driven in as a support for the ym- breila handle. The umbrella may now be opened. In each projeeting rib a piece of cord is tied which is long enough to reach the ground at a dis- tance of about three feet from the Cen- ter post. The loose ends of the cords may now be tied to sharpened clothes- pins, which may be thrust into the ground, thereby making the - string taut, Care must be taken to cut all the “cords of equal length. Doublg lengths of newspaper pasted to other dbuble lengihs or thick cloth may be plaited and pinned around the edge of the umbrella 8o that either stuff hangs in a drapery effect to the ground. THE PROCESSION OF THE DOLLS. Dear Children: 1 am going to teli you about a quaint and curious festival which takes place in the old French town of Douai the first Sunday after July 6 every year. It is really a pro- cession of dolls, but grown people are as much delighted by it as the children are. At 11 o'clock in the morning, to the ringing of chimes, the Gayant fam- ily leave their home in tha town mu- seum and march through the main streets of the place, to the delight of an enthusiastic audience of citizens and visitors, The Gayant family are an extraordi- nary group. Monsieur Gayant is 22 fzet high and is in knight's dress cap- ped by a helmet with white plumes. He is carried along by men who are concealed in the wicker framework of his legs. Behind him marches his wife, Marie Cagenon, whosz tall figure, 20 feet high, is dressed in an ancient cos- tume, that of the court of Marguerite de Valois. Then come the children, Monsieur Jacquot, 12 feet high, and wearing a velvet hat and Spanish cloak, and Mademoiselle Fillon, 10 feet high, and dressed in the same fashion as her mother. Last comas little Binbin, eight feet high, dressed like an infant, with cap and rattle. After the distinguished Gayant fam- ily comes a chariot carrying a figure of Fortune in it, and in front of it vn a revolving platform a Spanish gentle. man, a lady, a Swiss soldier, a banker, a peasant carrying chicken, and a lawyer, with his pocket full of doc ments. As the platform revolves first one figure is elevated before Fortune and then another. Thus. as the song of the Gayants explains, changes for every one; all, from the Peasant to the gentleman, have vicis- situdes. ‘The people of Douai love their mam- moth dolls, and make the fete one of great rejoicing, with an ehthusiasm which suggests belated carnival. They receive with fresh delight each year the Gayant family and the wheel of fortune and sing their song with an enthusiasm as great as that inspired by the “Marseillaise” in Paris. Towns- people who are away from home re- possible. History tells how in 1745 a company of gunners from Douai encamped at Tournai suddenly deserted’in a body. but their captain, who knew his men. simply smiled and said to the excited sergeant: “Keep cool. I know where they are. They had to go and see their Grandfather Gayant at Douai. They will come back.” And come back they certainly did, when the fete was over, bringing back with them a number >t recruits who had been charmed by their military _bedring.—Cora Roche Howland, in Chicago Tribune. MASS CHORAL WORK. Litchfield Singers Prepare for Gigantic Musical Chorus. Tn order to prove the value of mass choral work in church services, as op- possed to individual or other classifi- cation of re'igious singing, the Litch- field County Choral union prepared last week to arrange a hymn book of 100 hymns and give a gigantic praise service in the Music shed, Norfolk. The decision was reached at a meeting of the committees, representing the Sal- isbury choir, the Canaan chorus, the Norfolk glee club, the Winsted choral union and the Torrington musical as- sociation, which was held at the resi- derce of Mr, and Mrs. Stoeckel. The organization plans to select 100 of the best hymns that can be found for choral work, issue and print a book of them, so that they may be used for mass singing in any Chris- tian church. The committee will be assisted in this work by George W. Chadwick of Boston, Dr. Horatio Parker of New Haven, and Arthur Mees of New York. With this hymnal book as a foundation, a series of praise services will be held in fortane | each of the five towns, the chorus of cach society to form the nucleus of the gathering and to lead the singing as the chorus choir might be expected 10 do in any church where mass sing- ing is used. As soon as the 100 hymns and tunes have heen compiled, the work will be inaugurated with a gigantic Ppraise service as the opening meeting of one of the future festivals in the Music shed. The entire chorus of 600 voices will be erlisted for this service, and it /is figured that such a praisec service would forever convince every rightly tuned mar and woman of the superiority, grandeur and true religious feeling found in mass singing, as com- pared to other petty and personal modes of vocal servic ALFRED F. RHODES, Arrives at Bridgeport After Strange | Adventure—Pardoned by Preside: Taft. Bearing on his body the marks of | the terrible mutilations inflicted on | wounded 7. S, soldiers by the Phil- | ipinos. Alfred Field Rhodes, formerly quartermaster serseant in Co, F, teenth U. S. infantry. who was wound- | ed at the Catdelogan massacre, June 7th, 1800, arrived in Bridgeport Mon- day, says The Farmer, searching for his 15 year old sen, who lives’in this city. | Rhodes was zentenced to 50 vears imprisonment for killing a _Filipino. Last March he was pardoned by Pre dent Taft, the federal authorities ha ing taken tary cognizance of the ex- traordinary malevolance on the part of high officials which resulted in Rhodes sentence. Since his pardon he has been beat- ing way across this country in an of- fort to reach Bridgeport, his former where his wife and son are liv- wife obtained a divorce when | was wounded. | imole language Rhodes tell an | amazing story of the horrors of “civil- | ized” warfare in the Philippines. Rhodes is now fighting to have his standing as a soldier restored, which will give him his pension rights. His wounds incapacitate him from work: it was the of the surgeons who attended him that he lived. | On_his trial, for murder, the court | martial found him not guilty, but Gen Frederick Dent Grant, who Rhodes claims has previously shown evidences of personal animosity against Rhodes reversed the decision of the court mar- | tial and sentenced him to 50 years' imprisonment. 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