Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 3, 1911, Page 4

Enterad a1 the Pouratics ay Telephone Calls: Building. 'l'tldlhn'::l‘ Narwichy Thu, g, 3, 191 The Circulation ol The Bulletin. The Bulletin Ros the fargest el culation of mmy paper fu Kasters Commecticut, and from thrée to four times larger tham thaet of amy I Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,053 homses I8 Nor- wich, and read by mimety-three pir cent. of the people. Ta Windhan 1s delivered te over 500 houses, In Puinam asd Daaicisen to ever 1,100, aad in ail of these places it Is comsidered the loeal daily. Eastern Comameeticut has forty- aime towns, ome humdred and sixty- five posteffice districts, #ad forty- ome pural free delivety routes. The Belletin 1s sold im every town and om all of the . ¥, D. i CIRCULATION 1901, average 19035, average ... Waeek endi July 29. A CHANCE FOR THEM. The postal savings banks are invit- ing to people who de not understand our savings bank system and whe have more gonfidence in thé govern- ment, and who have been hoarding and hiding considerable sums of mon- ey in the past which better be in use. Buch a bank was opened in Boston on August 1 and considerable money was deposited. A Boston paper says: “There is no doubt the postal sav- ings bank will score a siuccess here as elsewhere. Moreover, it cannot be regarded as interfering with our ad- mirable system of savings banks un- der state supervision. The minimum deposit 18 ten cents; the maximum cannot exceed $100. These provisions restrict the operation of the system to that part of our citizenship that needs to know how to save in small sums and does not seek the greater incré- ment of interest which those can se- cure who are posits state institutions pay. “There are a million and a quarter people in the postal district of Boston, Of these a great number are depos- itors in our savings banks and other financial institutious. It is for others that the postal savings system is es- tablished.” NEW ENGLAND FOR TAFT. The Vermont papers are giving President Taft assurance that he is strong in the Green Mountain state and need have no misgivings with regard to the public .confidence and respect for him there. The St. Albans Messenger says: “We already know what Mr, Taft is and what he is capable of doing. Both these aspects of the man have gained the confidence of the American people. He, can be re-elected for four vears more without violating a sensi- ble precedent of American politics. Common sense, therefore, suggests plainly enough the reasonable policy and the wise one, “After Mr. Taft we shall have to make a2 new decision and take a new risk. With Mr. Taft four years longer there Will be no need of a new decis- jon and still less possibility of any risk.” z ‘ ‘There are no diseordant sounds in the republican camps of the six New England states, and not the slight- est indicatien that he will not be the popular candidate for re-election im every one of them. He i8 standing true to the welfare of the people; and his policies are calculated to benefit all the people. The man who works cannot be deceived as to Taft's char- acter or purpose. SENATOR M'LEAN AGAINST CREASE. Senator McLean of thts state i with the minority of the census pommnilttee and against increasing the humber of representatives upon the present sys- tem of apportionment: . - “Senator McLean iz opposed to fur- ther enlargement of the membership of the house of representatives,” Says a Washington despatch. “He went on record in signing a minority report from the census committee opposing the reapportionment bill of the houke, increasing its membership from 381 to 435, Mr. McLean's reasons for this position, as set forth in the report, are that a very large membership makes the house unwieldy, increases the danger of domination by a clique, affords opportunity for avoidanee of responsibility, causes’ additional ex- pense to the government of $1,000,000 annually, ete, Mr. McLean helds that there i8 nothing in the argument that a house large in numbers brings rep- resentation closer to the people.. Sev- eral of the makers of the constitution are cited in refutation of that atrgu- ment.” The people of the state of Connecti-, cut will approve of this stand made by the senator, because it tells both for economy and efficiency. IN- Some of -the. democratic papers of New England refer to Taft as being #phinx-like -because he acts before he speaks. The sphinx never surprises any one this way. Vice President Sherman can do something more useful than smiling On Sunday last he assisted in getting ) fallen horse out of a ditch, He had /& pull, too! The young lady who asked her milk- man for the cream of..cucumbers. must have been surprised w he said he bad no fachities for - mifking them. 3 Harvard shows signs of nérvousnesa over the determination of Yale to came up to e in athletics, They- P ebmu?lll!' & window to get ft'into the station. 3,804.77 miles over There were 58,947 lo- 1910, number of locomotives, classified de passenger and 34,992 as freight, S i The ‘total number of cars of all classes was 2,200,331, or 72,051, more than on June 3@, 1909. . This equipment was thus assigned: - Pasgenger serv- iee 47,095 cars; freight Service, 2,135,- 121; and compahy service, - 108,115, The flgures given do not include se= called private cars of commercial firms or cerporations, The total number of persons’ ém- ployed by the steam roads of the United States on June 30, 1910, was 1,699,420, or an ayerage of 706 per 100 miles of line. As compared with re- turns for June 30, 1909, there was an increase of 196,597 in the total number of railway employes. There were 64,691 enginemen, 68,321 firemen, 48,682 con- ductors, 136,938 other trainmen, and 44,682 switch tenders, crossing tenders and watchmen, - On: June 30, 1910, the par value of the amount of railway capital out- standing, according te the returns of the companies filing reports with the commission was $18,417,132,238. Of this amotnt ' $14,338,675,940 was out- standing in the hands of the public. The number of passengers carried Dby railroads of the United States dur- ing the year ended June 30, 1910, was 683,199, an increase of 80,210, The number of tons of freight shown as carried (included freight received from connections) for the year ending June-30, 1910, was 1,849,- 900,101, while the corresponding figure for the previous year was 1,556,539,741, the Increase heing 293,540,360 tons. DOCTORED WAT.EH; Wherever water is short in the country the people are being treated to doctored water and there Seems to be no question from the complaints made by the people to the press that there is more or .less carelessness shown in the work, . It is generally considered to be healthy, but this clipping from the Ottawa Citizen con- taining a hint te its readers may con- tain a valuable hint for readers here and elsewhere: “If cut flowers are put in a vase with water treated with hypochlorite they wor't last twenty-four hours, If they are put in water that has not Deen treated with hypoehlorite they will last several days. Even vegeta- bles steeped in water treated with hypochlorite Lecome disé¢olored and unfit for use. People who drink water treated with hypochlorite— but this is as far as amateur research has gone up to date. CROQUET'S STEP-FATHER. Some one who was unaware of the origin and age of the game of croquet or rogue ventured to announce that “the father of croquet was summer- ing at Easthampton,” whereupon the Boston Herald said: “The father of croyuet is summer- ing in Basthampton.' ®or father read step-father. - The game was 'born in England before it came to the United States, and one of its spomsors in baptism was pt. Mayne Reid, whose treatise on_the game may be remembered by the older generation. But elements of the game were found in other countries before the English claimed it as thefr own. Croquet, or. roquet, is now severely scientific, but it is doubtful whether the players have as much fun as when hoops and balls were biz, and some had mallets made of handsome woods for their private usc and did -not strike more accurately therefor.” EDITORIAL NOTES. The foghorns along the coast make the summer resorters wish they were at the mountains. It is not easy to determine whether John Bull will consider Astor or John- son his best American exhibit. New [ondon rises up and ‘makes its wants known with a confiderce which does not brook disappointment. How pecple differ in thought and taste is illustrated in every town by the varieties of dogs and cats they keep. Happy thouzht for today: John Barleycorn can make a man feel like a sage, but he cannot make him talk llk: one, Boston has discovered that the ram- pant Christian virtue among the adv.- men now in national convention there is Hope! 1t is a fact that the motor-boat men in all parts of New England have their troubles when revenue officers are asleep. It looks as if cranberries are in- clined to keep step with eggs. The announcement is made that the crop will be short. 4 4 1t 1s apparent enough to all the peo- ple that President Taft rather honor his conscience than to Hush it for a second term. s If the thirty-three little Stamdard Ofl trusts are trained right they may be depended upon to form a straight line and keep it. T A Georgla weman is the widow of five soldier -husbands -and now she cannot see ,why she is not entitled to dtaw five pénsions, Gk A great masy’ persons who thought théy would flever be seen in an auto- mobile have been, and some of them how own touring cars. kit i i The Boston Transcript is willing “to bet dollars to doughnuts that the Texans who cut up 8o in Boston play picture puzzles at heme” ‘The finest mountain, resort in, New England ‘was sold for $100; and the man who old it is alive and says he had lots of fun with the money. Womal Hat Big As Cartwheel. Waterbury, Aug. 1.—There's a lady's untrimmed straw hat at police head- quarters awaiting a claimant. The hat was picked up by the polide while they were retursing from one of their many calls to izine ‘Corner. It is probably one of the largest piecés of headgear that has found its way to th police statipn in a .lopg tim hes in diameter and was Tt i Aznut 2 inch a 86 big that it had to be pused through Original stosles or letters only dress at the top of the firat page. Address all communications Uncle Jed, Bulletin Office. - “Reach up 4s far as you can, and God will reach down all the o rest of the way.r ; “DON'T GIVE UP, BUT TRY.” (An Tncident in the Life of Dr. Adam & Glarke). The sound of children’s voices near Had reached a kindly stranger's ear, And soon he found himself before A school-house with an open door. He stepped inside, and noted well, As many a lad was called to spell, How one small pupil stood apart, With clouded face and troubled heart. “Why stands heé there?” the stranger asks, “He's good for nothing at his tasks* Replics the teacher, fough and stern; “He's stupid, and will never learn.” / Poor child! his heart was sore, but now Upon his sad and gentle brow The visitor's kind hand wag laid, And with his tender touch, he said, f “Nay, don’t give up, my boy, but try; You'll be a scholar by and by.” And as the cheery words were spoke Young Adamr’s sleeping mind awoke. A purpose in his heart was born: And such was his desire to learn, That tasks he used to try in vain Seemed easy to him now, and plain. He Tearned to think, to write, to teach; Long vears h- lived to pray and preach, And in his writings left behind . The harvest of a fruitful mind. “Nay. don't give up,” ut try, What time ‘the hill seems steep and high. The willing feet that dare to climb Will surely gain the top in time. The Toothbrush Speaks. Look at me well, dear childfen I measure only a span, But yet am a mighty giant, Whose name is the Toothbrush Man. young hearts, 1 go to war with the dentist, ‘With only one little brush; Thoush he has great big forceps, That pull, and gtird, and crush. 1 flourish my little bristles, And drive old Toothache out, With his swollen jaw, and old file and saw, To make you shiver and shout. The rude little boy who neglects me May laugh, but his teeth will not; And the vain )ttle girl who forgets me ‘Will never forget she forgot. But speak'to ma every morning, And speak to me every night, And 1. in return for your courtesy, ‘Will keep your teeth sound and white. —Pearl River In “Fauling’s Medical Journal” UNCLE JED'S TALK TO LITTLE FOLKS. Tkis department presents a Iot of fine stories from the little folks again this week; and Uncle Jed would like to send a prize fo every one of the writers; but we are sending out nice beoks and they are worth earning. There is a prize all win in this depart- ment, and that is the ability which comes of petsistent striving, and this in the end is sure to win a book. ~ Uncle Jed must caution the little folks to send him their correct post- cffice addresses il they live out of town; and if they have a post-office box to be sure and give the number; and if they are on a Free Rural De- livery ryute to be sure and give the number, and the number or letter on box, if they have one. " Inaccurate addresses cause unneces- sary delays and sometimes loss of book. for the book to The Bulletin office, it will please us, if they so write. WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS THIS WEEK. < First prize to Ruth B. McCollum, of Mansfleld. a book entitled: “Tom Thatcher’s Fortune,” by Horatio Alger, ar. Second prize to Edward G. Moran, of "Norwich, a book entitled: “A ‘had If_they prefer to call or send | SPECIAL PRIZES 70 e _LETTER WAT' | Frank ant! . E llaar St of Yent illustrations). . Marry Davis, Norwich, & book en- titled: *“Anima1 Stoties for Little Peos ple” (70 illusirations). Harristte E. o Willimantié, a Donk et s STt ‘White House,” by Wayre Whipple., / Emily C. Babeosk, of Old Mystic, & book entitled: »m;' Van Winkle,” by MWashington Irving (46 illustrations). LITTLE ORIGINAL STORIES. 2 The Friendly Pigeon.: Once e pigeon came to my door every day and I fed him with crumbs. Each day he brought a chum with him “until he had a flock of about fif- teen. I think He was trying to tell me he was thankful for his meals, and was_not selfish.—Frank Powers, age 10, Yantic, A ‘Little Indian Boy. 5 Once upon a time in am Indian village a little Indian boy was born. He was very brown and not at. all pretiy, His name was Sunshine. As soon e was born his grand- mother made him e little Indian cradle, in swhich he wasput and cafried on his mother's back. If Siinshine had been a little girl his grandmother would have placed a bit of moss between his heels, and would have bound his toés together inat they would turn in like a s. X All of the squaws werée made “pig- eon-toed,” in this way. their babies The Indians called papooses. As moon as Sunshine was seven years old he had a little quiver full of arrows and a little bow of his own. ‘When he shot his first bird or squir- rel all the neighkoring chiets were in- vited to_feast with Sunshine and his father, Big Cloud.” He grew up to be a great warrior like his father.—Fanny | Brown, age 12, Norwich, [Every little Indian child is given a name when it is a-baby, or papoose. The person who does the naming is usually a native medicine man or some such functionary. When he begins his task he lets the first thought that comes to his mind or the first thing that he sees suggest the name. One saw a man having a sfruggle with _a horse, in which the animal had the bettér of it. The child got the name Man-Afraid-of-his-Horse. An- other, looking out of a wigwam, saw clouds reddened by the setting sun, and named the child Red Cloud, An- iother, it is probable, put his head out of the door of the wigwam, felt some drops of rain on.JQjis face, and named the child Rain-in-the-Face. These names, however, lose the pleasing sourd and some of the mean- ing which they carry in the native tongue when translated into English. Hungry Be “Ther@imother, what do you think of that?’ asked Harold as he put his pail of berries down on the table near where his miothes was sewing. “You said we would not get a pint but you see we have managéd to fill our pails.” W won’'t you please make us some huckleberry pies?” The funniest thing happened te us out In the field. We those a large trec to eat our lunch under and when we were hungry we spread out & couple of paper napkins and ate our lunches off of them. We had some left and thought we would go back and finish it later; and when we went back a lot of bees were eating up the crumbs that lay on the ground. We tried to arive the bees away but the harder we tried the more bees | seemed to come; and after fighting them for a while we decided that\thev must be pretty hungry, so we left them there and came away.—Little Boy ‘Biue. / The Tame Squirrels. A boy once found a squirrel .as he was walking along in the woods, and brought it home. T His mother told him to make a house for it and put it in the laundry so that it could be watched. The boy did 86 and ihe squirrel séon three little baby squirrels. The squirrels never wefit outside of the i yard for two or three months. One day the little boy saw ,the mother of the little squirreis looking for something and he thought it must be for the little ones. Fe went to their house, but he could not find them. There was a lane about a hundred yards awey from the house. He took the squirrel in his arms and went there. -In the bushes he began to look for/ them. There were a few bushes together and there he found tie squir- rele. Two were dead and the other almost dead. The little squirrel soon got well, and was tamed so that it would eat out of anyone’s hand. o It liked peanuts the best of any- THE SPARROWS A True Bird Story One warm spring day two little sparfows flew .into a busy London square and lighted on a tree which stood in its fresh green-dress among the tall houses, and gave, with all its I'ttle dancing leaves, a glad welconie to the smali brown strangers. They were looking for a gcod place in which to build a nest and set up housekeep- ing. One would think they might have liked hetter the country, with its great stretca of blue sky and its miles of green grass. But they were contented little birds, and did not think of leav- ing the great, noisy city. Fhere " they sat among the leaves chattering and glancing here and there and everywhere. In the middle of the square stood a grand statuc of the Duke of Welling- ton. Quietly he sat on his fine horse, and calmly he looked down on the rows of houses, the waving trees and the people streaming by Day and night, winter and summer, there he sat, always the same and very magnificent 1n his plumed hat and fine military dress. He seemed to say, “Here I am above every one and nothing can affect me.” The sparrows cocked their little, quick, bright eves at him and won- dered why he remained So still. “He can't be a live man on a live hotse, or he would move a little,” said Mr, Sparrow. “I mean to go over here and have a good leok at him.” O, don’t, my dear!” said Mrs, Sparrow, “he might shoot you, you “Pooh,” said Mr. Sparrow, and flew right across the street and on to the pedestal of the statue. . He shook his wings, and chattered, and made liitle dives at the great man who towered above Him; but his lord- =hip looked straight ahead, and never even peeped out of the corner of one eye at the bold little fellow. AND. THE DUKE /| Then ‘what should this impertinent little spartow do but fiy directly on to the fine cocked hat with its long plumes. Mrs. Sparrow finding that her little mate hopped, undisturbed, all over his lordship’s head, took courage and skimmed across the street too; and soon they both were peeping and peeping and chattering harder than ever. They grew bolder every ginute and at last diseovered a small opening un- der one of the drooping plumes; afd in_they darted, full of curiosity. The poor grand duke and his horse wera quite hollow and empty; and the little birds at once decided that there was the finest place imaginable for their home, warm and dry, - and far from prowling cats. So there they lived, and reared their young ones. 3 By and by more birds came thére and built their nests and 'a family of starlings settled there very com- fortably; and the 6ld duke’s body was full of the little, darting, nofsy crea- tures. 2 But still he kept a dignified silence, and sat his horse as grandly as eve “Nothing ever moves me,” he seemed to say in the old fashion; and no one dreamed, down in the square of the busy life going on in the fine statue at which they glanced with pride. At last, one day. some men came tg take the great duke and his ltorse away, 1le was to be plaved in another part of the cily, where they thought he would 100k even finer. ‘What was their surprize when a large number of birds came out from under. the duke’s large, plumed hat. The birds flew away into the tree- tops, scolding noisily. For they really had come to thinik that the t man, in all his splendor, belonged to them, and had been put there merely for a bird-house—Christian Register bit b1 by the village. some to o reakfast and went to give something to eat. - ‘When she came to the pla the uz,,lglg ‘was she saw him ihe d She Tfl After a while she burled it. In a short time » haa for a Christmas present a doll. She ;:‘.m:ry glad—Mary Davis, age 11, A Difference in Boats. | , and 5o he t he wou Mmake one. He took a little boat he d, put some runners on it, and tried t0 sail it on the pond, which was close But it would mot go, for some reason, and he wWas very much vexed with it. The mnext ‘day, as he was going_to school, he met Lizzie Brent, who called out to him as they passed: i O, Charlie, 1 hear you haye an ice- boat!” “I haven’t a nice boat” said he, crossly, and added to himself, in an undertone, “It's & very poor one. The next day Lizzie was going by the pond when she saw Charlie work- ing at his boat. “Why, Charlie,” said she, “I thought you told me yesterday you hadn't an ice-boat!” =/ “Well, I haven't a nice boat,” said he, and went on with his work, with- out taking any more notice of her. She went off, thinking to herself, do believe Chatlie i getting queer. I wonder what he means!” They did not have much to say to each other for some time. *The teacher noticed it. and asked Lizzie what was the matter, and she told her. Then the kind teacher drew Lizzte up close to her and said: “Lizzie rdear, don’t you know an ice- boat is not always a nice boat; and a nice boat is seldom an ice-boat.” * Lizzie laughed at her mistake and made friends with Charlie at once, for she saw _the difference between an ice-boat and a nice boat.—Myrtle Mc- Cord, age 11, Norwich Town. A Brave Dog. There livéd long ago a good woman :lvho had three girls and a very brave oF. 'he girls' names were Edith, Flor- ence and Grace, the oldest girl. One day the youngest girl, Edith, went to see the Nantasket come in. The Nantasket was the largest boat on the water. Hdith’s, father .was the captain cf this large boat, S0 évery night she would watch for the Nan- tasket. This was the first time that she had ever been down to the water alone. Still she had Helen, her doll with her. Just then she saw the boat and started to wave to her father, and her doll fell in the water: she stooped to get it, but lost her balance and fell in; but Nello rushed in and save her. That js why they love him so. Edith w?.h‘sixA—Luc(nda Brown, age 11, Nor- wie The Tiger and the Man. Z Once upon a time a man was riding through a woofls. As he was riding he met a tiger; but the tiger was caught in & net. So the tiger asked the man if he would let him out. The man let him out. The tiger was o0 hungry that he seized the man and ate him up.— Harry Davis, age 10 year : Stories of the Sea. Way up in the northeast cormer of Maine the sea flows free and fast. There a family lives, the father was a sea captain. \One day he was telling us of a wreck they had on the sea. He said, “It was an awful wreck. There was a crew of one hundred and fifty, 6f which only fifty were saved. We Wers three miles from any shore. The life boats came thick =nd fast” Again he told us of a wreck on the mea. He said: “One time we were out.| in mid-ocean for 1wo weeks. Any- body didn't know where we were, or what we were doing. We didn't move at all for two weeks. The engine broke down, we couldn’t decide what to do, we didn’t have hardly enough to eat. ‘We saw a-ship coming, we gave it the signal to stop to take us on board.” “Oh, papa, wasn't you scaded?” said ar old Dorothy. we knew some ship would “But, papa, we were scaded, I gess.” “@Well, we got wrecked on that steamer. The pirates were after us. We had t; fight. - They sunk that ship. We got into row boats and went ashore. Then we rowed home.” “Come, Dorethy, it’s time, to go to bed. Kiss papa and go to bed. “Good-night papa.” “Good-night baby.”—Ruth B. Mec- Collum, age 12, Mansfield Depot, Conn. Beauty, My Dog. A dear little child was sitting one day, Under an old walnut try Playing and passing the time away, Until mother should call her to tea. By her side sat her/only playmate and guand. = A beautiful large collie dog Guiding bher little feet in ways long and hard, Now over a stone, new o'er a log. Guarding her always, the . cost; & ‘Watching her by day and by night; Seeking her the moment he thought she was lost,— ‘Which meant to be out of his sight. Frisking about till she laughs, with de- light! o whatever Bounding to her when she calls! Watching and listning the livelong night, ! To hear her run through the halls, Guarding her ever o'er life's stony way, Aiways & playmate and guide, Until he is grown so old and so gray, He no longer can run by her side. Another has taken Beauty’s place long ago Tn life, but not in the child’'s heart, For who could forget one who loved her so, E'en when death rends their livcs apart. And to this day the walnut tree sways, O'er 'a mound and a Mttle white stone, That reads, “Beauty, Chum of child- days, , faithfullest dog —Harriette . Allen. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. py Ones. Dear Uncw Jed! I am one of the happy children who went down with Capt. Dougless to Pleasant View; and 1 had a very'good time all day, 1 have d lots of miy playmates making fun of me for going down with Capt. Douglass. But mama -said, “God ever loves ~poor So all I want to say is: “Thanks to Capt. Douglass: and may God blésx him, so Lhe will be able to take us down. next vear. ' [The 10-year-old who wrote this let- ~ ter forgot to send Uncle Jed her name CARDWELL'S from Northfield Butter R o R - | Noon. |P. § < 7 *Daily, except Sui _ xSundays only. . 2% MOURS AT BLOCK ISLAND SUNDAYS. NORWICH TO WHITE m?]n nd return, weekdaye and Sundays, Tickets 40 cents, including trolley service froim New London to Beach. 4 0 . Mondays, Wednesdeys and Fridays to September 2. / AN AND WATCH BILL oc50Rn BLOCK ISLAND .382, B0c Adulfs, Children 250 756 Adults, Children 40c 4% HOURS AT WATCH HILL 1% HOURS AT BLOCK ISLAND Shote Dinnsr Houses and Batning Beach 'near landings at Watch Hill and Block Island. * For further informatlon, party rates, apply at office of company near landing, Norwich. NEW, ENGLAND NAVIGATION 00, . 0. JEWETT, Agent, and address. He hopes she will write MUsIe. him another nice letter and send it, = not to be printed but that he may 1e *. C. GEER know her.] " TUNER A True Btery of Two Birds. | Deat Undlg Jed: ‘thig yebr T have S, m”‘"“‘ ot seen many birds of which I did not - Norwiely Co kpow the name. i E One day when I was looking for my A ducklings T saw a speckled breasted |'F YOU WANT A bird of which I could never find the FIRST CLASS PIANO. name. get a SHONINGER through Two years ago 1 picked up a bird WHITE, THE TUNER, that was red-breastgd having a tint 48 South A St, Taftviile. of vellow now and fhen. It also had a yellow tail and a tinted vellow and = red top-Knot. It was a young one, an COA as a cat had devoured its parents I L AND LUMBER took it. 4 We got guite a large box and put it in our kitchen. Dickle, for that is what We named ths bird, became very com- fortable in his new home. We coverad over his box every night: s b 5 but the room being warm one night 3 my mother, atter I had gonie to bed, en You are Buying Basoline removed the cover. When I got up ’ found that Dickie was dead, Don’t Forget to Order Coal 1 felt very badly’ because he was get- ting so he could fly.—Ruth B. MeCol- | For when the days come that the 1lum, age 12, Mansfield Depot, Conn. “Boor 14 shut Tn the street” it will oI e TR N give vou m?mtnrc and. warmth that Dear Uncle Jed: I live on a farm. | 8asolene never could, x My father has twelve cows, a great| - S 1 many hens and chickens, three horses, and a little. calf. My Aunt has a great many hens, CHAPPELL CO. fifty chickens; and she also has a pony | whose name is Daisy. I ¢an drive her. | Central Wharf and 150 Main Strest She is very kind. My father also has over a hundred _Telephones. peach trees. He goes on a milk route & and has 50 or 60 customers. Fe has been on this route over thirty-five vears. I have a cat, dog and a kitten. My cat’s name is Foxie, my dog’s name is” Sport and my Kitfen’s name . Snippy. I planied a vegetable, also planted a flower garden. My flow- ers are blossoming very nicel Oh! what fun I have tal the parrot. She says a sreat many “ ¥ ts!;.ings ;l‘nd Says Th5 Agme ¥ory tplalnl' Fmfl |llllll|llg Killls and lfll"fl' e calls me morhings a great many times—Emily C. Babcock, age 11, Old ALWAYE IN. STOCK. Mystic, Conn. J g A. D. LATHROP, ML fl""“"' e Office—cor Market and Shetucket Sts. ear “Uncle Jel I have read some 12, of the stories written by the bovs and TRNDiE et girls and I thought I would write you a true ofie about my father when he was a little boy: Father lived on a farm where there was a large orchard: and a grgat mahy pirds built their nests. in fhe trees. e - Some of the birds were quite tame, e: t burns up clean. pecially the robins. They never were " s w afraid of m\ father for they scemed | | d d o know e woild ot hurt ther. ell seasoned woo One day while walking in the or- chard he found a robin that had fallen from jts nest. He brought it home C. H. HASKELL and fed worms to it he dug from the . garden. The robin became quite tame 402 — 'Phones — 489 and grew to know my father's voice. Days when he went out I search of - food for himself. My father woul just have to whistle and he would fly nw to him and light on his shoulders. 30 A. MORGAN & SON, My grandmother had & flock ~of c d I_ turkeys. Usually the robin _joine: b them in their meals. =They had curds oal an umber and meal; of which they all were very [ .. fond. One morning while they twere | Téiephones 384, Central Whar? eating the old mother turkey picked the little robin' up on her bill and broke his little neck. My father crled over him; but my father still is very fond of pets. We have a very tame squirrel now.—Kath- erine, age 10. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Thanks for Books. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 thank you very much for Tony the Hero. It Is a love- b 1y book. But like Indian stories the best. YUK Rt INDA A, BROWN Norwich, July 30, 1911 NEED T0 BE FIXED. Dear Uncle Jed: Just recelved my WHY SUFFER PAIN OR prize hook for which I thank you. Yours, PAY LARGE PRICES? KENNETH W. MAIN. A L] Without the least particle of pain you can have the most sea- sitive teeth removed by our GURED HER BABY OF EGZEMA || = Wa fill teeth with silver or T can’t tell In words how happy the word enamel for 50 cents and gold “Cuticura’ sounds to me, for it cured my for $1.00, or solid gold crowns baby of itching, torturing eczema. It first for §$5.00. came when she was between three and four 4 A Weeks old, appearing on her head. I used |f o Dr I D. Sydleman is o mem.- everything imaginable and had one doctor’s gy P Atutestiew o bill after another but nothing cured it, et T ERtal teat He Bes B0 ‘Then the eczema broke out 8o badly behind OUE S - A . - het ear that I really muuf;m her ear would equal in this branch of dentistry, come off. For months doctored it but By ordering of us you receive to no avi Then it began at her nose and th> benefit of his yvears of ex- her Ezts were nothing but sores. 1 had to perience. keep her in a dark room fot two weeks. The loctor did no good, so I stopped him coming. Work guaranteed ten vyears, sur ll’anuthtwe \v:ek; I hfl: usled (;‘ullc:rl and as we lease our offices and S e e e e have been established here t iticy Oint; t and be 1 that. T & Week there was Mafked Jmprovement, years, our guarantee is of Im- 3 1In all I used two cakes of Cuticura Seap and disputable value. one box of Cuticura Ointment and my baby We will be pleased any tims was cured of the sores. This was last Novemic to examine yeur teeth withett ber; now het hair is growing out nicely -nfl charge. shehl‘.‘lnu!lsuronlhcr, lcnn&k:m_vc}fll X N, re an are amal 0 see her " Ninous & sare. " Flom ‘the time sho was four || Open from 9 a..m. &ill 8 . m. weeks old untll she ‘was throe years, she was WAL never without the terrible eruption, but now, thanks te Cutjcura, have a well child.” . {Simety Segs 5 8 stolioiter Kin entalP rl im St., Baltimore, ., May '10, 1910.” Sold_everywhere. d to Voter Drug & Chem, Corp., Boston, f0r free book of the skin. DR. JACKSOX, Mgr. Franklin Square, Nerwich, Conn. GEO. E. PITCHER / Civil Engineer, wishes to announce to his patros.. and the public that he has moved to 65 A"mm“ stn’ Broadway, Chapman bullding, epposite ¢ the Y. M. C. A. Farieil P SPECTAL RA 0 Theatre Troupes, Travéling Men, ete. Livery connected bR SHETUCKET STREET.