Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 15, 1912, Page 4

SRR RS S Slorwich dullétin and Goufief. = 416 YEARS OLD. price, l&nw«kll‘-. a_Year. . 5 montheg lintered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn, as second-class matter. Telzphone “lhc Builetin Business Office, 43 Buunln ldlto-lll Ro.gn:l. Room Dullding. ’l'-lovlnlu 210. IOy i bt o e bkt B SRR Y Norwich, Thursday, Feb. 15, 1912. -8 Murray THE ENEMIES MA&. It used to be very pleasing to Pres- ident Roosevelt to have the press re- mark that “He deserved to be re- spected for the enemies he had made,” for he recognized in the sentiment not only a truth of which he was can- scious, but most commendable sense, The Bulletin is imptessed that this same sentiment ig due to President Taft, for “he deserves to be respected for the enemies he-has made,” and it seems surprising that Colonel Roose- veit can be unconscious of the fact, Rooseveit was back of Taft, endors- ing him 4s able, honest and fearless, and predicted that he would make a great president. The admirers of Taft think that Colonel Roosevelt spoke well, and that the president has made a record which shows Rooseveit's measure of the man was not a false measure; -and even. his enemies admit | that Taft is the strongest candidate the republicans can put into the field today, Taft is’° not like Roosevelt; he is more like an electric current than an electric battery; he hurrahs less and has & qujeter way of accomplishing his ends. He would not be dominated by Roosevelt with reference to the ar- bitration treaties, and this fact shows his loyalty to his convictions and demonstrates that when he thinks he is right he cannot be swerved from the path by friend or foe. That is a good reputation to go before the country with. Taft showed his confidence in the people when he said: “It is because of my confidence that the republican party can point to defi- nite deeds already accomplished, to laws already in statute books and be- ing enforced and carried to a useful purpose, and to proposed statutes with a clear description of the terms and éffect of such statutes, that I con- fidently rely upon an ultimate verdict by the people in favor of the old re- publican party, the party of Lincoln and Grant, the most progressive party in the history of this country, or any other’ country, the party of achieve- ment, and not of broken promises, the party of liberal, effectlve government in which far-sighted econmomy is the watchword, without that spasmodic penuriousness which ignores great national needs on the score of political emergency, the party that stands by the furidamental principles of free and well-ordered government, preserving the rights and equality of opportunity of the individual, and not interfering with" the omly steady, practical prog- ress that is possible.” THE COASTS WE MUST DEFEND. Those who. wonder why we need a larger. navy do not realize what an extensive coast line America has to defend. It totals a distance more than seven times the circumference of the carth, The United States coast and geo- detic survey, however, has measured the exact length of the national coast line, with its indentations, adding up the real figures at 186,923 miles, or more than seven times the distance around the worid. The table as offi- cially compiled is herewith given and is interesting as a matter of refer- ence: Miles Miles with Coast Inden- Line, tations. Atlantic .. . vesedenas 2,043 36,561 aalt ., .. 1,852 19,143 Pacific ... ..« 1,810 8,900 Alaska .. .. 4,750 26,376 Philippines 11,444 Hawaii .. 1,011 Porto Rico . 397 Guam . . 91 Totals . . 184,923 Lake and r|\flr1n)und¢noi 1,900 1,900 Papama canal......... : 100 100 Grand totals.... . 18,720 186,923 This shows that the country sea- ward is wide open to the enemy and leaves no question but we need all the vessels we can afford to efficiently guard ' thése great coast lines, THE SHILOH YACHT CORONET. The Portland Express, calling at- tention to the Shiloh yacht, which re- | edntly finished a world missionary tour ’ which was not only regarded as a dis- | grace but a crime in its disregard of the needs of the deluded souls who thought they were doing God's work: “How, indeed, have the mighty | fallen! As we looked at the old Shiloh | yaelit: Coronet, lying in the harbor off | the breakwater, dingy, deserted by all | save- a keeper, battered by cakes of | drift ice, sails musty and torn, we ¢ould not help drawing a mental pic- ture of her as she must have been in 1886 when she slid from the launch- ing ways in Soutl® Brooklyn. She was " designed for speed and rough going. She always had the former and has certainly found the latter all through her tempestuous life. Yes, it was the same old Coronet | that lles in Portland harbor that in 1886 made a record run to Queenstown in 14 days, 22 hours and 33 minutes. Phat i8 why every old sea captain iooike at' the foriorn yacht with what cotpes very near io She is sdmired for what , not for what she is today.” The Coronet ws she 4 mysterious craft in the leading ports of the world. It seemed to be impossible to learn her destination or purpose, a’though she wasg fitted out to found a Shiloh col- ony ‘acrogs the sea. The ' Civics llallcun of Norwalk | =AVS “One organization of eleven indred children pledged themselves to work together to make the town & happier place in which to live by do- ing cverything possible to make it more healthful and beautiful. Civie vride aroused in children is an insur- aned, for the best possible future of any community,” Colonel Roosevelt is not likely to gather strength under the political methods of his friends,. He should realize the country is not weeping for him, but just surprised by his atti- tude’ toward his own candidate { @ temptation to idolatry i 1! | 'Their USING THE CHILDREN OF STRIKERS. The taking of the children of the Lawrence strikers to New York and the proposition to take them to Phil- adelphia for sensational purposes, and to Washington to influence legisla- tion, is something new, and it is ex- citing considerable adverse comment. The Fall River News says: “The marvel is that there are in Lawrence or any textile city parents of 119 chil- dren who would consent to allow boys and girls, too young to take care of themselves, to join an expedition of this kind, to enter strange places and mingle with, people whom they do not know and to run risks of moral and physical harm that are awful to con- template, “It is proposed to send other par- ties, numbering 1,000, to New York and Philadelphia later. Before that is done, the condemnation of public sen- timent in Lawrence arld elsewhere in the state ought to make itself heard in no unmistakable voice, and if there are sterner methods under the law they should be employed without de- lay. “Here's a chance for the legislature and state authorities to conduct an investigation that may be productive of some good if it prevents the carry- ing out of the plans announced.” GIRL PIONEERS. America is to have her out-of-door trained girls. as well as boys; and when the Boy Scouts started it was apparent enough that the Girl CGuide movement of England would soon ex- tend to this country. The new Girl Pioneers is an organ- ization that corresponds to the Boy Scouts. So far organization has for open air, honedly, self-reliance and regard for the other fellow's plat- form, promulgated by the now popular Scouts. The open-air training is just as good for the girls as for the boys, and it means a physically better developed race of girls, with better training for despatch and systematic work than hag becn known to young women here- tofore. The Girl Pioneer will develop into the new and more useful woman, just us the Boy Scouts will produce an im- proved and more progressive type of citizens. EDITORIAL NOTES. The trolley conductor who smiles most is not the safest one to offend. as can be learned the new its keynote the Happy thought for toda; 1t does not take a2 mental athlete to raise ob- Jjections, Richeson is being given open-air exercise to keep him in trim for his May exit Justice Harlan's shoes will have to| be set aside. No successor is expected | to fili them. Those poorly pald Lawrence mill | strikers paid at the rate of $8.40 a ton for their coal. Before Horace Fletcher demonstrat- ed the fact it was known that boiled potatoes were sustaining. A Frenchman claims to have discov- ered a heatless, or cold light, similar to the light of the fireflies. If the democratic congress investi- gates the Money trust as it should it is likely to catch a Tartar. Even the governors might be dis- appointed in Roosevelt if they should get him., What do they expect? Knocking down the republican party to win office is equivalent to a good boost to put the democratic party into office. The per capita circulation in !E\e! country is 26 cents more than it was three months ago. Most of us haven't noticed it. The woman whose $500 fur cloak fits well would rather walk ‘round the block than to ride around it in an automobile. The Roosevelt boom is declared by its favorites to be a self-heater and likely to be depressed in no way by cold waves. The streets of Houston, Texas, are unpaved, and The Post calls the place heavenly, It must be when the dust is in the air. If the anti-treating bill passes the Virginia legislature, the old saloon in- vitations to “Name yer pizen” will be heard no more. If there is anything that puts a greater strain on the nerves than the | presidency, it must be in tr)ms to | get a third term. | Telas e U225, | The newspapers are now trying to| liscover the old-fashioned man who | thought the legislature worked for the | welfare of the state. ; o = | Adjutant General Pearson of the Massachusetts militia says Mayor | anlon of Lawrence His position jellyfish. is “spineless.” | was not designed for a| R e e — Bible Question Box Vour Bible questions will be an- wwered In these eslumns or by mall it ment 1o our Bible Question Box ditor, Q.~—In Jude, Sth verse, is described a contention and dispute between Mi- | chae!, the Archangel, and the Devil over the body of Moses. Why this dis- pute? (C, W. W,) Answer.—We quote from an eminent althority an expianation as 1o the rea- son for the contention between Michael and . the Devil: The Lord H buried Moses, hiding the sepulchre. The primary reason for this probably was to hinder the Israelites from-carrying his corpse #s a mummy, which in after time might have become The passage Jude 9 which mentions Michael contending with tan concerning the pody of Mcses is 4 hint along this line that Satan desired to have the corpse to use it Iy he further misieading of the peopie, but that the Lord through Michael the Archangel hindered, pre- vented this, and kept the burial place a secret from the Israelites. But there is another view of this matter which i interesting because it relates to Spiritual Israelites. Jesus and the h unitedly constitute the anti- or greater Moses—the Spiritual. inheritance is not to he earthly but heavenly, and a grave is a symbol of hope as respects an early resur- rection. Hence it was appropriate that the type should not show an earthly grave since the anti-type has no hepe in that connection. | its first anniversary. Rules for Young Writers, 1. Write plainly on one side of the paper only and number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, not pelm"- 3. Short and polnted articles will be given preference. Do not use over 250 words, 4. Origln-l storles or letters only will be used. 5. Write y.wr name, age and ad- dress at the top of the first page. Address aill communications Uncle Jed, BLulletin Office. to - S8 SRS U AU TR Ty R R el S, The Truly Brave. Who are the truly brave The boy or giri with self con- trol, Who'd scorn to wrong a living soul! POETRY. A Little Girl's Work. I am not very old, I know, Nor vet so wise as some of you, But even now, before we grow To women, we've some work to do. We have to go to school and learn, And if you had our sums to work, I really do believe you'd turn And run away, or try to shirk. There is so much the grown-up folk Think they must cram into ous heads! . Tili lessons bind us like a yoke, And haunt us even in our beds Don't think thal I'm complaining though! Of course w2 wan. to grow up wise, I'm just exrlaining things, you know, Cause we look lazy in your eyes. And then, besides our lessons, we Have heaps to do, to help our friends; And errands! There! Why, look at me! My errand running never ends. It's “Minne, you must just do this,” And “Minnie, you must just there,” Until 1 count the games I miss, And feel it really isn’t fair. go But “Black Jack's Place,” I've often heard, Is just the worst place that:can be; So I won't say one grumbling word, But do the work that's meant for me. T'll learn my lessons, sew my seams, And run my errands cheerfully; And then, 'fore anybody dreams, A grown-up woman I shall be. B. B 8 UNCLE JED'S TALK TO THE CIRCLE. The Wide Awake Circle has passed and the interest in the department is more intense than ever. Uncle Jed does not dare to count the number of letters on hand, and there are lots of good ones waiting. You will notice a letter from a little girl in Maine, and it may be pleasant for some one of our girls to correspond with her. We have several Lincoln stories this week, a nice Valentine story, and an up-to-date letter from Master Dick Tobin, Jr. Uncle Jed thanks Dorothy Pendleton for a pretty card valentine—‘pansies for thoughts.” The Wide-Awakes can write to one another in their letters to the Circle whenever they like to. Remember that the shorter the let- ters are, the more can be got into the department, and the faster they will be used. WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Velma G. Frink of Scotland, a book entitled “The Water Babies,” by Charles Kingsley. 2—Margaret O'Connell of Norwich, a book entitled “The House of Surprises,” by L. T. Meade. 3—Lucy Jane Place of Moosup, a book entitled “Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard,” by Helen and Elizabeth Kirby. 4—Harry Baton of Oneco, a book en- titled “A Child’s Garden of Verses,” by Robert L. Stevenson. 5—Luella Medbury of South Coven try, a book entitled “The Lone Prince, by Miss Mulock. 6—Madeline Merrill of Augusta, Me., a book entitled ‘‘Animal Stories,” by Hartwell Jones. 7—Richard Moran of Norwich, a book entitled “The Wild Man of the West,” by Winston. §—Frieda Kethovake of Norwich, a THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE Boys and Girls Department book entitled “Rosy,” by Mrs. Moles- worth. Winner may ce:.]}l at any ho! day. ° of books living in the city t The Bulletin business office ur after 10 a. m. on Thurs- LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Mary Duhaime of Norwich: I want to thank you for your nice book. I am reading it and thea shall let my friend read it. The book is very interesting. Hazel Rourke of Willimantic: When I got home Thursday noon I found the book. I think T shall find it very in- teresting. Thank you very much. Mary Nolan of Taftville: Many thanks for the nice book I received. It is very interesting. Richard Tobin, Jr., of Norwich: thank you very much for the hook gave me entitled “The Oregon Trai I should not like the experience and hardsmpq the traders and explorers }lmd in reaching the Golden Gate m 84€, Mildred Carroli of Norwich: 1 do not know how to thanik yvou for my lovely 1 prize book. It is the nicest one I have won. I have read it and found it so interesting that I think I shall read it again. Philip M. Johnson of Wauregan: I thank you very much for the Child's Reader in Verse. J have read it through “and think it is v= nice. 1 am reading King Arthur and His Knights of the Royund Table, and I wiil write again about some knights. LITTLE ORI3INAL STORIES. How | Doubied My First Money. Dear Uncle Je I am going to tell you a true story about the first Sunday I went to Sunday school. I was about four y=ars old. My two brothers had been going to Sunuay school for a long time with one of our neighbors. Every Sunday 1 used to usk to go. Finally the neighbor told my mother to let me go. So I was dressed up and given a peany by my mother to put into the contribution box. I felt very proud with the penny. I dGid not understand what it was for, but I kept it clutched tightly in my hand I had beon tzught by my mother that when anything was passed to me, as candy, nuts, etc, not to take but one. S0 when they took up the collection, instead of putting in the penny that 1 carried for that purpose, I simpiy took one out of the box and proudly bore two pennies home to show my mother. The next Sunday I had to carry them back, together with another penny, and this time I made out to put them all into the contribution box. I will add that I never made same mistake again. VELMA G. FRINK, Age 11. Scotland. the Her Match, Little Anna was five vears old. She had a little brother Henry who was two and a half years old. They were playing party. Anna had eaten all her goodies. See- ing Henry's spread out before him in a most tempting way, she raised her large blue eyes and said: “Henry, play you said, ‘Sister, won't you have some o' my goodies? ™ Little Henry, looking very grave, re- “Anna, play I said, ‘I shan’t do Anna dropped her head, feeling she had met her match. MARGARET O'CONNELL. An Honest Boy. One day, going down one of the principal streets of New York, a little ragged boy picked up a string of beads. He was very happy indeed at having found them, because it was a_ver good Christmas present for baby Molly But a sad thought came in his mind. “Who lost them?” Well, he knew that it wouldn't be right to keep them without trying to find the owner. On he trudged until he came to a dingy little room. As he entered the door he said: “Oh, look- mamma! See what I've found.” The mother looked in surprise. “Why, those are diamonds, chila! There is one hundred dollars offered to the finder of them.” So up got Jamie and away he went till he stopped at a fashionable house. He was struck when just goon as he rang the bell a lovely girl with swollen eyes stood before him. “Have you found them? sobbing. “Oh, 'm so glad,” as he gave them to her. “An1 this is for “he finder, * she asked, she said, she said, putting a hundred dollar® bill in his hand NNIE M'SHEFFERY, Age 12, T'xftnllo Abraham Lincoln’s Kindness. Abraham: Lincoln was one of our best beloved presidents. We celebrate Selected For Circle Reading THE IMPRISONED SEA GULL. Here is a story the boys and girls will enjoy, because it shows how kind the birds are to each other. It hap- pened in Boston harbor one day this week: A cake of ice was drifting slowly down past the end of T wharf with the ebb tide. Upon it was a gul® Overhead a flock of perhaps 50 gulls wheeled, swirled, volplaned. and gy- rated, adding their of the one on the ice cake, Now and then a single bird or a pair would alight on the passenger-carrying and poke an inquisitive bill at occupant of the {floating island ice the rise again with added cries. As the xus;) hinge-like cries of the fiock the numbers grew until several hundred of the g over the spot. ommotion attracted T wharves and were glasses ined on the animated | scene in the rbor. One of the big bird's legs med to be caught in a :k in the ice, and it was unable the imprisoned foot. slowly Over on the Hast Boston side frac The cake rbor. T e long whis i ihe narrow ysuh.ng out of her was drifiin by the ferryboat on its way to Rowe's | wharf. When the sound of the whistle crossed the harbor, as many of the big gulls «s could find footing on the ice cake that held the imprisoned bird fluttered dowr to its side, and formed a ring about the prisoner, and began to peck away at the ice surrounding the jammed foot, They worked like a trained gang of pick and shovel artists for fuily five minutes, and then sud- denly all rose in the air, the unwilling ?msnger freed from the grip of the ce. Hardly had they taken wing when the port paddlewheel of the Newtown passed over the cake. . gau slip. squawks to Lhul! and | t drifted out into the le of the Newtown mul’ toward the lane traveled ; OLD TIME GAMES. Most motners will recall .the tun | to these ola game songs, and t { will delight little children who gen erally enjoy playing the same things | that mother used to. For “Here we go { berry bush” form a ci er in the center and ing: | Here we go ’'round the muilberry bush, The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush. Here we go 'round the mulb v bush, So early in the morning, All stop and rub faces with | and sing: Th H is 'round the mul- cle, with a lead- ng the follow- hands the way 1 wash my face, Chis is the brush m wash my way I come from school” Children love action plays and | 2 general favorite ' . letter to my love” is an- liked game, A handker- like an envelope, the | o a child, who wal de ring ng y my lov rold. then Ilustrating by velope behind anc her. Looking wonderingly ].le the player sings: the en- front of ? | around the cir- Who will take my letter, my letter, my _letter, Who wilt take my letter to my love from me? Choosing a boy, she approaches him, singing. Dropping the handkerchief at his feet, she runs across the other side of the ring, the boy runs and breaks through the ring after her. If he can touch her with the letter before she gets into his place, she must send the letter back again: !f not, the boy aends it, eto.—~Detroit Free Press, | | | { | sing the | | Asia. { | { i | mbmm‘t:-u.m 2 ' He was very kind. was out walking and came man chopping wood. '!'ha 1d cold, but did not want to take time £0 n to get warm, as he wished tb finish his work before dark. Mr, Lincoln told him. to go in and warm himself and he would split wood while he was getting warm. After a while the old man came out, and to his surprise all the wood was split. He thanked Mr. Lincoln for his Kind- ness and each went their way. Your niece, ALICE. The Rabbit That Was Foxy. One day a rabbit came out of his home to look for food. When he came out he saw a man standing by holding food in his hand that was tempting. But the rabbit knew he was up to some mirchief so he crept slyly back into his house. In a few minutes he heard the report of a rifle. He peeped out and saw the same man carrying one of his friends away—dead. This taught the rabbit a lesson. He sdid: “The man was trying to tempt me because he wanted to kill me.” AGNES MARRIOTT, Age 11. | day he | to an old | man was to ' Abraham Lincoln’s Life. Abraham’ Lincoln was born in a log cabin in the stote of Kentucky k('b 2, 1809. His fathef was lazy and h:ued to 5 her died when he was only eight years old. Abraham was very fond of and borrowed many books. spoken of as “Honest Abe.” Abraham kept store for a while, and then grew to be a lawye He served several terms in the le Because Abrzham wa speech and action he r mous orator and statesman. not like slavery. elected president of the When Lincoln was president a war broke out between th north and south. When the war w over Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg ad- dress. When the war was ended Abraham Lincoln was shot by a cruel man. On the morning of April 15th, in the year 1865, Abraliam Lincoln died. He saw what was right and did it; he knew what was true, and said it; he felt what was just, and he kept to it, Your friend LILLIAN reading He is often 80 honest in to be a fta- RKUTT, Age 11 Our Attic, One day it began to raig and I could not go out. Seeing I had nothing to do, I went up to the attic to see what I could find. 1 saw a little windew which did nct let much light in. Th were cobwebs hanging from the mite and in the middle of the room was a roughly built brick chimney. Under the eaves were all mms furniture, three coests and way sk was a spinning whe2i, an cld fs ‘nonm- clock, a three legged stopl and #n old gun which was usel in the Civil war, On the chestday a picture of my great- aunt who was killed by the Indians many years ago. Then I opened one of the chests and there was an old farhioned doil (about 35 inches high). 1 took it down to my mother ard she sail that she had that @oll ever since she wvag four years old and played with it every day. She had put it away and forgot where she put {i. So I asked my mother if 1 could have if. She said “Yes” and I have be=n playing with 1t ever since. FRIEDA %ETVOSKE, Age 10. Norwich. LETTERS TJ UNCLE JED. Where Madeline Lives. Dear Uncle Jed: Im a little girl ten years old, and live on a farm near Augusta, the capital of Maine. I have lots of fun in the summer, playing dolls; and in the winter sliding on the hill in our yard. I have a little playmate—a girl 8 vears old—who chums with me. I g0 to school, and am in the eighth grade. We have a blueberry patch in our pasture that we get lots of money from. Now I have told you where I live, I would like to hear from some little girl, telling me what she does; and where she lives. MADELINE MERRILL. Maine. Doing My Chores. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought T would write .and tell you about doing my chores. I have to do chores in the moruing and at night. I have to clean out the stables and bed down the horses. We have three hors: I have a pair of steer One night I drove them spring down to the barn. I have to feed the cows. ‘We have three horses. Their names are Dollie, Dewey and Fannie The steers’ names are Bo% and Bill We have two cows, and their names are Beauty and P2achy. Sometimes when I let the cows out to get a drink they fall down upon the ice. Some nights it am doing chores. Your nephew, CURTIS C. Something Not Often Heard Of. Dear Uncle Jed: T am going to teil vou what happened a while ago. It isn't very often you hear of selling cats, but my pet cat is so pretty and uncom mon lcoking 1 was offered $2+for him: from the is very cold when T PLACE. {tut I refused. I ‘old the offeret 1 | wouldn't take $10 1 went away on a visit 2 week ago, and if you could see how pleased the at was to see me when 1 came back If he could talk [ am quite sure he would tell me so. He put his paws upon my shoulders as if to Hello!™ He had his pictures a few { times with me. But the thing he most enjoys is to be wheeled in my doil | carriage. Weil, I gucss I will close 1 the present. Your loving niece, ELEANOR B. MORIARTY, Willimantic, Age 10, Lemon Culture. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought that I would write to you about lemon cul- ture. Weo ar untries of Bu- rope i ou d it tells aubout lemon apd so BEurope; and my grandmother has a lemon I thought I would write, and that rest of the cousing would like to hear how titey grow. The lemon belonsg to the same fam- ily as the orange, citron and shaddock. The lemon gro wild in southern The tree is the orange tree grown in the same w emons are and 1 1 south- wn Eur vn in Cali- fornia anc The tree is of prett) on il now Should Do as Good Old Norwich Does. Dear Uncie Jed: We take a number of daily papers. One of them which I take an interest in is the Boston P R It seemed to me very strange why those on strike were allowed to take little bovs and girls off the street cars and throw them down and their school lunches into the snow. Those school children were doing nothing to those big men. I am very glad 1 do not live in Lawrence, although the Boston G -‘of Saturday stated that Lawrence wa§ not the worst city in the world. The bankers state the mill workers have on doposit In the six banks of wrence 000 me‘«tawwhodm 1o h‘umh I wish those people would letm to live as the people in * old Nor- wich” do, instead of*knocking beys and girls down on the street, they put their hands down into their pockets and gave their money to bring in new factories, like the Thermos, to give work to their boys and girls. RICHARD W. TOBIN, Jr., Aged 10. Norwich. Father Valentine. _ Dear Uncle Jed: I wonder how many of the children of the Wide Awake Circle keep Valentine day. At my school we have a valentine box to put the valentines in. I have read that many years ago there lived a kind man. He was called Father Valentine. He spent most of his time in visiting the sick, Every- body loved him, even the squirrels would come and eat out of his hand. By and by he grew so old that he could no longer go about visiting his people and so he began writing let- ters to them. After a time Father Valentine died, but we still keep his birthday—February fourteénth. RUTH KINGSLEY, Age 10, Scotland, Conn. My Coldest Winter. Dear Uncle Jed: I am a boy thir- teen years old and live on a farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres. I think this is the coldest winter I ever saw. I get up at four o'clock in the morn- ing and help the hired man milk. We are milking twelve cows. Wken we have done the milki: g0 in and eat our breakfast, a,nld“% my father goes with the milk to depot. At about eeight o'clock I start fwe school. Tt is about one mile and three-quarterg to school, I am in the eighth grade. There are fourteen scholars in my school, We study Smith's Advanced Arith- metic and are in the highest history and geography used in grammar school, so my teacher says. We study at home every night. T am very fond of hunting and fish- ing. I also like to take pictures. a Brownie No. Your nephew, HARRY BATON. 1 have Oneco, Conn. The Old Grandfather’s Corner. Dear Uncle Jed: Once there was a very old man who lived with his son and daughter-in-law. His eyes were dim, his knees tottered under hin: when he walked and he was very deaf, As he sat at table his hands shook sc that he would often spill the soup over the table cloth or on his clothes; and sometimes even he could not keep it in his mouth when it got there. His son and daughter-in- law were so annoyed to see his con- duct at the table that at last they placed a chair for him in a corner behind the scrcen and gave him his meal in an earthenware basin, quite away from the rest. He would often look sorrowfully at the table with tears in his eyes, but he did not com- plain. One day, thinking sadly of the past, the earthernware basin which he covld scarcely hold in his trembiing hands, fell to the ground and was broken. The young wife scolded him well for being so careless, but he did not reply, only sighed deeply. Then she bought him a wooden bowl for a penny and gave him his meal in it. Some days afterward his son and daughter saw their little boy, who was about four years old, sitting omn the ground and trying to fastem to- gether some pieces of wood. “What are you making, my boy?” asked his father. “I am making a little bowl for papa and mamma to eat their food in ‘when I grow up,” he replied. The husband and w looked at each other with- out speaking for some minutes. At last they began to shed tears, and went and brought their old father back to the table, and from that day he always took his meals with them and was ' never again treated unkindly. LUELLA MEDBURY, Age 14. South Canterbury. How Abraham Lincoln Paid for a Book. Dear Uncle Jed: This month we celebrate the birth of two great states- men, Washington and Lincoln. This week I will write about Lincoln, and next time about Washington. My ‘hild's History of Lincoln™” says that he was born on the: south fork of Nolin creek, February 12, 1809, 3 years ago. He was born of ts in a miserable shanty, Abe,” as he was called, was old, they moved to a better hom still, it was nothing but a log house with no floor, and one room be- low and a loft above. There were no schools for him to go to. One day a man who could not write himself opened what he called a school in his own cabin. He could read pretty well and taught this to the few children he had; but at the end of five or six weeks the school closed be- cauge he had taught them all he knew. Abraham Lincoln, as a boy, loved books, and his father would often scold him when he found him reading when he should be doing his farm work. One of the first books he read was “Pilgrim’s Progresg.” He always want- ed to read the “Life of Washington,” so, knowing a friend of his father's had a volume of it, he went and asked { him if he would let him read it, and promised thyt he would be very care- ful of it, four year: Abe was very happy when he sat down that night with his book and { read until it was very late. On going to bed he laid it down un- der a ck between the logs. A driv- ing st came up, the book was wet from cover to cover, and Abe could scarcely kecp the tears back; hut he went at once to the owner with the yrapped up in a cotton handker- d told him what had hap- pened. e man scolded him. He had no money to pay for it, but was will ing to do any work he wanted. The man told him he could work in his cornfield and cut several acres of corn in return for the book, Abe was glad to do this, and happy to think the bhook would be his, | Abraham Lincoln became president | of the United Staies March 4, 1861, | Norwich, RICHARD. | My Pet Dog. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought | would tell you about my pet dog. He would do many tricks. He would jump over a stick, and it you threw a stick inte the water he would go and get it. His lnalpn: is Rover. He has long, shaggy na Wkhen 1 went to the store he would £0 with me. When 1 went into the woods he would go with me. { Ome Sunday I went on some ice and | Rover went with me. v hen Rover got on tha ice he began to slip When 1 ) skate Rover run 2 I ice guite v After » my brothe n the i v me. M r said that Rover could run \ t on i ! Another Sunday when | had com- | pany they said that they weuld like to skate. I told them to wait a minute and I would get my dog. They did not think that he could run on ice. T told them'that he could run very fast. I said that 1 had him on the ice before. When a stranger came around he would bark very loud. He would not run out and bark at teams. T liked him vory much, and he liked me, too. Yours truly, EMMA HAWKINS, Oneco. Age 11, Waterbury.—Rev. James Broderick, curate at the Immaculate Conception church, is spenduu a few weeks 1 Cuba, At present he is-in Havana,