Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 28, 1912, Page 4

Jnfw::tlx &ulletin and Gourier. E 116 YEARS OLD. = | the diggers. THE CAPE COD CANAL. New England shipping interests have reason to be delighted with the progress already made on the Cape Cod canal. This great private enter- prise will prove the best life saver on the Massachusetts coast, and there is much satisfaction in the advance of The severing of the cape from the mainland will be completed aboui the same time that North and x luh!flkflu price, 12¢c a week; G0c & months; $6.00 a year. South America are rent asunder for the Panama canal. Happy will be the Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, oan., second-class ma! Telephone Oalls: Bujletin Business Office, 430, Bulletin Bditorial Rooms, 86-2. Bulletin Job Office, 35-6. v Otfice, nn’T 2 Murray Norwich, Thursday, March 28, 1912, M!S BROKEN PLEDGE. the 4th of March mnext I shall served three and a half years, and this three and a half years con- stitute my first term. The wise cus- tom which limits the president to two terms regards the substance and not the form, AND UNDER/NO CIR- CUMSTANCES WILL | BE A CAN- DIDATE FOR OR ACCEPT ANOTH- ER NOMINATION.—Theodore Roose- velt, November 8, 1904, | HAVE NOT CHANGED AND ®HALL NOT CHANGE THAT DE- CISION THUS ANNOUNCED.—Theo~ fore Roosevelt, December 11, 1907. I WILL ACCEPT THE NOMINA- YION FOR PRESIDENT IF IT IS TENDERED TO — Theodore wn have Any pretence that Taft Is an enemy the c¢ivil war veterans is a false of pretence; and there is little doubt that a pension bill will be passed by the present session of congress. It can be said with justice that when it comes to regard for the soldiers of the civil war no man can excel Theo- dore Rooseveit, and this is one rea- son why many an old soldier feels sad because he cannot follow him in break- ing down the safeguards which our fathers established, and the people have persisted in sustaining, and ever will The pension bill has been discussed in the senate and today is the day set for aection wupon the revised bill, which shows a good advance from the average pension of 48 ¢ The veterans of the have been pretty nearly all tered out in a few mus- and the pension of $1 a day which was sup- vears, ported by the Grand Army is not a whit more than they are entitled to. mariners, their families and the vessel owners when Cape Cod and its treach- erous reefs ana shcals are overcome. The hardest problems in the project have been solved and but one more winter will the terrors of the cape have to be borne. It is to be hoped that it will require no longer and that finances do pot cause a stumbling block, for the canal is a necessity. Cape Cod is the worst danger point on the entire New England coast, the graveyard of sailors and vessels, and almost every storm adds another wreck 10 its already astonishing num- ber. The amputation of the cape has now progressed to such a point that even the mest skeptical, though he may know the history of the repeated -efforts, believes that the waterway will be finished as planned and the loss of life and property reduced to the minimum there. To the shipping interests it also has the additional at- traction of a shorter route, and with tolls not prohibitive, it will be con- stanly in use, for all coast shipping must pass that point. EDITORIAL NOTES. Happy thought for today: Mar- riage sometimes makes a man better and sometimes worse. A wag says the reason Reosevelt is so pleased with Maine is because ““Me” stands for that state. A classifler of men.says: ‘Roose- velt is neither a democrat nor a re- publican—just a state of mind.” Wages go u creases in price; struck; before. then the output in- then the balance is conditions little better than If Roosevelt does stand with pride upon his Columbus speech, that doesn’t stop most of the citizens from jumping on it. The North Dakota primary would have been good had it boomed Roose- velt. Now it is “a wretched, atrecious, infamous abomination.” Want is sending the English coal miners back to their work. Want is the greatest strike breaker and it cannot be exterminated. The New England conference of the It can be said for a fact that the| Methodist BEpiscopal church has $140,- old soldiers vote from principle, not| 000 of the $200,000 needed for the because pensions are a few dollars | permanent fund pledged. more or a few dollars les The idea the pensioners are jumping from one olitical side to the other to increase Y}‘\Mr pengions is false, for men who risked their lives for principle's sake know how to a ballot and have flemonstrated this ever since the war was over. nse ELECTIONS GOING WRONG. Since the day of the North Dak primaries all the elections of this Bave seemed to go wrong for Roose- velt. Out of ninety delegates in New York, & . Y od a chance under i s President according to reports, Taft received fiflf, ML T . four to one Al DS ) It is not pleasant for Celonel Roose- ¢S 3 73 S III leasar . “_“'" Roose If Senator Stephenson of Wiscon- veit to be beaten out in his own stale, | sin wag all right in spending $100,000 or to see himself knocked out in Mon-{ ¢o" win' it must be admitted he put tana, which is the home state of Sen- | qyopy o barrier in front of abler and ator Dixon, his manager, where the better men. iblican state committee has de- g i - d for Taft, 27 to 1( e { spring does not appear to be T ople of this country are o ingned tnto violating the traditior ¢ sales in Norwich and jonquil suppers g ating the traditions of) go4n in Maine before the frost 1s out | the country or into doing an unjust| @ T S0 0 and discourteous act to President | g . Taft. Mr. Roosevelt should I Bmself aboul the libe Aave concerned fes of the peo ple when he was the executive head of the government and not a darling with the machine, So long as he could win again the machine with the machine he made no complaint; but when he wants place and power under different circumstances he the deception that resorts to the people need to be emancipated. The people are show- ing the Colonel that they OW difference good and false th hetween pretence, government NOT TO BE A CAPTAIN OF IN- DUSTRY. Roo. bottom in t When Theodore gan at the be- pet busi- plt, Jr., car to the t t seemed to be very com mendabie of the young man. who thought he was cut out for a captain of industry, He climbed awa intil he had ob- tained a knowledge of the fabrics and their value, and the was shunted off to the corporation’s sales offices in California, where he 1t been - ing a livin for a year or two Money apparcntly came to him in too small amounts to tisfy his am bition so he looked toward high]| finance as something more promising | will soon hang oni his the scrulf neck peo- about the financiers of Wal when in a perition to invite the suf- s fra the people; but he doesn't be 80 much in Pa's convictions »s he does in Wall street rake-offs, Pa always regards deflant operations ®s being bully if they move along well: and as dee-lightful if the re- sults are satisfactory. He can ex plain how it is he and Theodor differ go, for in explaining he is an adept. Quite likeiy he regards this as an act of a righteous son ven- turing to skow the wicked men Pa has assailed a‘cuz the path of honor. This may be whai Wall street nceds to emancipate it frem its wickedness, What better development could there ba for vemainder of the Mason n to fill it with new in wiil he starting of him elimh | i oung | street, | The Massachusetts legislature has declined to increase the Boston school board from five to nine members. They did not care to make it worse. Should Roosevelt get any solace out of the fact that the Bad Lands are in North Dakota, he must be plumbh couraged with the action in Indi- The mischievo and mary law worked bad Roosevelt although vicious pri- for Colonel he had just as If congress does take to the inves- tigation of the . baseball trust, the Congressional Record may run the scores in full, thus adding a feature to increase readers. When it comes to scenery and at- mosphere, American motorists do not have to go abroad to see the best: but they spend $200,000,000 a year tour- ing foreign countries, Roosevelt says: “A party to 1 to govern must have convictions.” e fit has got all the convictions under the he Sherman act and by this slogan must be the coming man. previous expeditions in s unknown having met with ceess, Captain Amundsen ble to discover where getting his backing. It was Roosevelt who made Taft the nominee, and we ought to thank him for giving the country so good a pres- ident, and support Taft to show we know he is as good as Theodore said he was. His of th marked | might . Reoseve: Bible Question Box Your Bible questions will be an- I swered in these ¢vlumas or by maill i weni 1o our Bible Quesiion Box sditor. Q.—Does the religious wave over the country indicate anything, or is it a “flash in the pan?” (Reader.) Answer.—We believe that it is indi- j cative of much that is important to i the welfare of the entire race of man- | kind. Not that we anticipate that it { will resuit in converting the race to Christianity, or ‘“save the world for | Jesus,” but that it indicates that man- | kind in general are longing after the higher and holier things. All honor to the noble men and women who are striving to Dbetter human conditions, and who are sacrificing much in their efforts! However, the Lord in His Word, the Bible, has pointed out a more excellent way than all of the re- ligious and reformation movements combined. In the first place, the Scriptures foretell that the world will never be converted to Christianity un- til after the Lord Jesus' second coming. (See the following Secriptures and note they relate to the caref day or thew xxiv 13; James v 11 Timothy iii, 1-5, From these state- ed Writers we see menis of \ { t boom Norwick hiad, | that the W will be far from being vl fr dividends will never | converted to Christ at H o { will have very littl b i teachings of the Mast Are not th SRR { facts in harmony with the Scripture Pricce In the cloth market show an | prephecies In spite il th E ¢ t as wages, which | i efdorts put there are . 4 tien back that way, with a | than double the imber of ¥ o {h n in toda han the wihlis o R sutd B .“"m"i were a century age, according to wothing in the end, wough Lie Lhinks| | iegt compiled missionary statistics! he dovs, What are the conditions in Christen- A western collecting agency showsd a doctor: collect and kept the money, obarged him 4 dodar or Malowse, It took all his old bills to then dom, so-called? There bleodshed. wars, crimes, graft than in all the heathen lands combined! Christians may well pray “Thy Kingdem come,” for that is the only. hope (o7 10 warld are far greed more and “last | e time of the end:" Mat- | NORWICH BULLETIN, THU RSO RSDAY, MARCH 28, 1912 WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE | Boys and Girls Department 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 50 words. 4. Original stories or letters only will be used. 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story. Address all communications to Un- cle Jed, Bulletin Office. The Truly Brave. Who are the truly brave? The btoylor girl with self con- rol, Who'd scorn to wreng a living | soul! THE MONTHS. January brings the snow, Makes our feet and fingers glow; February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lakes again: March brings breezes loud and shrill, Stirs the dancing daffodil; April brings the primrose sweel, Scalters the daisies at our feet. May brings flocks of little lambs, Skipping by their fleecy dams; June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children’s hands with posies; Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and giliiflowers: August brings the sheaves of corr, Then the harvest hour is born; Warm September brings the fruit; Spertsmen then being to shoot; Fresh October brings the pheas- ant, Then to gather nuts is pleasant. Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast; Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire and Christmas treat. —Sara Coleridge. UNCLE JED'S TALK WITH THE WIDE-AWAKES. The members of the Wide Awake Circle are forming habits and some of their letters show they are forming good, helpful habits which will bless them and make them respected as long as they live. There are twe things which tell for good always— working and saving. The lazy boy, or girl, and those who can spend pennies faster than they can earn them, are preparing the way for trouble of ail kinds. It doesn't pay to be wilful or saucy. “T will” is your friend and “I wor't” is your enemy unless used in the right place; this sentiment is just as true said the other way. “I will” snould always be applied to being good and useful—I won't” to a refusal to do anything mean or wicked. Uncle Jed knows that all work and no play makes a dull boy, but it is better for a boy than all play and no work. Cultivate a good dispogition and be neat and polite and the world will be a2 much more comfortable place for you all LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Hannah Firth of Baltic: 1 thank you very much for the book you sent me. I have nearly read it through and bave found it very interesting. _Mildred Swansen of Baltic: Manv tuaqks for the book you sent me quite a wiile ago. I have read it through quite a few times and have found it quite interesting. Frieda Rethvoski of Norwich: I thank you very much for the book. I am reading it and I think it is very interesting. Mildred Carroll of Norwich: I sup- pose yeu think I am a “slow poke” because I never thank you for my prize books for two or three weeks after I get them., But I guess if you Naughaught. ighaught, the Indian deacon, who{ of old dwelt where the cape strvlches‘ out its shrunk arm to the relentless smiting of the waves, awoke one morn- { ing from a peaceful dream of a good | angel dropping into his hand a bright | gold plece in the name of God. | He rose and went forth with the| | early morn to seek his traps, which were far inland where the sound of the waves mingled and mellowed. | er bird nor beast therein, although he | heard the otter plash in thc¢ pool near- | by and heard the partridge drumming | had such a delightful book as the one 1 won the last time you would neglect everything, too. But I guess it is not too late yet to thank you, so will close with a great big “Thank you!” Harold Vars of Norwich: I thank vou Very much for the book you gave me. 1 hope to win another. Harold Blais of Baltic: Book re- cefved and I thank you very much for it. T have read it all through, anid think it very interesting, THE WINNERS OF BOOKS. 1—~Mary Holi gsworth of Norwich, “Fairy Tales,” by the Brotuers Grimm, 2—Ruth B. McCollum of Mansfield “Nora’'s Love Test,” by Cecil Hay. —Robert Kirchner of South Wind- ham, “The Lame Prince,” by Miss Muloch, +—Mildred Carroll of Norwich, Hunting,” by C. A. Stephens. 5—Kathleen Nisbet 5f Oneco, “Animal Steries for Little People.” 6-—Etnel M. Davis of Wauregan, “Up the Forked River,” by Edward S. Ellis. 7—Gladys Flint of South Canterbury, “Black Beauty,” by Anna Sewall, §—Bessie Corcoran of Taftville, “Black Beauty,” by Avna Sewall. “Fox Winners of books living in Nor- wich may call at The Bulletin busi- ness office for them at any hour after 10 2. m. on Thursday. LITTLE ORIGINAL STORIES. Prince Albert. Once upen a time there lived a prince and his name was Albert. Now it happened that Prince Albert was fond of hunting and 5o one day he i\\'em to an enchanted forest and he saw a beautiful white deer, and kept riding after 1t until it got out of his sight; then the prince did not go any farther after it, but got off his horse and sat under a tree and made a fire. Prince Albert heard a veice and laoking up into the tre:z he saw an old lady who was saying, ‘It is cotd up here.” So Prince Albert took her down from the tree and saw she was a witch. LORETTA DOWD, Age 12. ‘Willimantie, My Doll. I have a big doll and her name is Florence. Florence and I play and I get her to sleep and then 1 wake her up and we play again. I got Florence for Christmas, and I have her dressed in white. I sew for her.myself. When I get home from school I play with Florence; and I like to sew for her nights. I take her to bed with me, and I get up in the mcrning and put her away. KATHLEEN NISBET, Age 6. Oneco, Conn. Eli Whitney. Eli Whitney was born in Massachu- setts in 1765. He was a bright boy, saved his money and entered Yale college when twenty-three years old. After graduating he went to Geor- gia to teach. While there he noticed how difficult it was to separate the seed from the cotton, He began think- ing it over and in a short time in- vented the cotton gin. This machine could do the work of meny hands, and it made cotton the most important product of the south- ern states. Nearly all the income from his in- vention was used in defending his rights in the courts against unprinei- rled men, who cluimed his patents. He died at New Haven, Conn., Jan- uary, 1825, BESSIE CORCORAN. Taftville. The Relief. Last summer two little birds built a nest on our piazza. The mother bird fed the little ones every day, and they were growing as big as the mother bird. The nest was getting too small. The young birds’ mouths were open TWO STORIES BY WIDE AWAKES | The Autobiography of a Violet. Moily was playing out in the shade vith her dolls. It was dreadful hot that morning so she hardly felt like doing anything. Mother had told her she needn't do the dishes, so she had rTun out with her dolly under the trees, After she had been playing quite a He sought his traps, but found neith- | " 11% $he had become tired and want- ed to do something else. As she be- gan puckering up her lips, ready to L cry, a bluish fiower met " eye. S in the pines. | 1 a = g 1_”’ rhex ey‘e, ‘ih.e His thoughts ther went back to his|J/U™Ped up quick and found that it s wife. What wonder the poor man | Was a violet. elt his faith too weak to bear the| “What a lovely flower!” said she, | burden of his thoughts. HE wonder how it S | “Even now, oh, God,” he prayed, | ~"° it came here. Some- “gend me the angel of my dream.|DPody must have dropped it. It looks .\‘a:xghuught e poor. He cannot|droopy. 1 will give it some water, wait.” Just then she hex roice: Even as he spoke he heard a low D Arptm okl o metallic clink and looking down be- *ee little girl, please get me some held a silken purse containing ten|water. I am very thirsty.” golden discs. He held it before his eyes a few moments and then said: “The angel only brought one gold piece. Should he take them all Who would be the wiser in the blind dumb woods " | Turning around, he saw lying not far off a black Crow. He saw the tempter in the black snake and the sidelong eye of the crow, He then heard the roar away ocean. It made him think of the voice of God in the Gardem of Eden. “Oh, God!” he prayed, “take away man, look out with honest eyves on all men. 1 am a baptized, praying Indian, and should 1 take this, the bark knots on the old trees would turn to eves and the birds in the trees would sing: “‘Naughaught is a thief.’” He rose and went forth towards the village tnn and stepped in front of the { door, and asked: l “Has anybody lost aught today?” “1," answered a voice. He looked, and, behold! he saw a man in a coat of frieze and glazed hat | like that of a sea-faring man, but with | no trace of wings. ! “7Ten golden discs in a silken purse Lot ught=r's handiwork.” | 7 ght gave him the purse and bout to leave when he was ix yours ™ said the it to you in wonest 1 said man’s name [ ta poor God's ght, “with a vent te his home happily, and when u Welllieet skipper would ceme to the tewn and hear the story Naug- Tiaught weulG éay: ‘1 see an angel where they see a man.” MARY HOLLINGWORTH. Agy 13, snake, iying in coil. | Looking up, he saw in a tree a black | of the far | this base thought. Naughaught be a | Starve if need be, but'let me Molly turned, but ag she did not see anyone behind her, she said: “It n'ust have been my imagina tion.” Bul in a few minutes the voice was heard again. Molly was frightened, and dropping her doll and the violet she ran screaming into the house, Very soon gho came back and picked up her doll. As she was golng away, tha violet said ‘Why don’t you pick me take me with you? fall* “You up, and I am very beauti- are,” said Moelly; “but if you will not tell me how you came here, I will tear you to pieces.” “All right,” said the violet; s,” said Molly, “Well, to begin with, | was a tiny seed trampled into the ground hy #ome rough beys. There I stayed near- ly a year, Cne day 1 saw a little worm who | told me 1 was going to see sunshine. I was very happy. ‘n one bright morning I saw light, but there was not one speck of beauty +in me. 1 grew and grew, until one day in May I felt a little bud bursting out of my side. Soon another and another until there was not a place in me that was net beautiful. One {day a little girl came and picked me, | In a s I was withered, and am net nuch wood new; only do please give me some wadier.” Mclly, hearing this, wards the hevse, | turned the vielet smelt me and threw me away. ew ds hastened te- ut when she re- was nowhere to bhe aboot | Seen: but in the same place | was tie cow, chewing ils cud. So | that was the end of the violet. RUTH Magpneid Depob B, MUoLLtM, ‘ready | | 1 | | | | { | { | | | | farmer gave him a few dollars. all the time. The mother bird could not feed them enough to the At last I noticed the mother was uneasy, Then I took a little twig to see if they could fly. touched the nest, with one whirr al the young birds flew out of the nest, and fouynd they could fly, and pro- vide for themselves. ROBERT KIRCHNHR, Age 11, Seuth Windham. Golden Eagle, the King of Birds. The Golden Eagle is common through TWurope, Asia and northern Africa. It measures over six feet from tip to tip of the wings, and three feet from the beak to the end of the tail The body is brownish, the feathers of the head and neck pointed, and of a golden hue. The national emblem of the United States is the bald cagle. The eagie was on the standard of the old Ro- mans, and now appears in the nation- al ensigns of the United States, Ger- many, Russia and other nations, The eagle of Ruseia today is double-head- ed, and is the national military sym- bol. The eagies of Prussia and of the United States are single-headed. EL V. J. ERICKS8ON, Age 12, Mansfield Center. An Arti Once upon a time there was a poor family which consisted of three chil- dren, Gustayus, Johanna and Marie, and their grandma. Gustavus was the artist. When Gus- tavus was home from school one day he began to draw his grandmother's picture on the door. Grandma was standing in back/of him, watching him all the time. She geemed pleased with her portrait. She had her hands in back of her, with a spoon in her hand, just as if she was making some pud- ding. HENRY GLADU, Age 10. Taftvilie, A Match Girl. There was once & poor girl who was selling matches. It was the night be- fore Christmas. She had her mother's slippers on and she lost them on her way. No one bought matches from her. She arrived at a house and looked in the window; saw there many people around a table having a merry time; but the match girl wasn’t, and she was lonesome and cold. She sat down and struck a match on the wall and there came a light just ke a little stove before her. The match went out, and the stove was gone. She went home very sorry. YVONNE GLADU, Age 12. Taftville. Two Fence Rails. We once were large hickory trees and were very happy all alone in a forest until a young man called Abe Lincoln came and cut us down. Then he made us into fence rails. We were very comfortable, but were happier as trees. Abe went away and we were left alone for several vears. Ther someone came and took us to a large hall in a city. A placard was put over us, saying “These rails split by Abe Lincoln.” Abe came in and looked at us for a long titme. Then he said: “I might have split those rails, but I could make better ones now.” We heard someone say Abe was president. My! but we were proud to think we had been lylit by the presi- dent, even {f he wasn't president when he split us. HATTIE M. KING, Age 12 Lebanon. How a Kind Bey Found His Father. One hot day a sailer who had but one leg was going along the road; his crutch broke, and he fell to the ground. He lay on the ground for a long while, wondering if anybody would be kind enough to give him a ride. Soon after the sailor fell fast asleep. A blg storm came up and the sailor slept on, for sailors, when on board their ships, have to bear all sorts of weather. Soon after a boy coming home from school saw the poor sailor asleep on the ground and teok off his coat to put over him. When the sailor awoke he saw the boy mending his crutch that had broken when he fell. The sailor said: “YWhen 1 went to sea I left a little boy that would be about your age now, if he is still allve. I hope if 1 ever find him that he will be as kind and good as you are.” “What is vour som's name?”’ asked the boy. “Thomas White; and my John White,” said the sailor. The boy jumped for joy as he said: “My dear father, I am Thomas White, your own son.” Then the boy asked his father to go te his uncle’'s house across the road, and the sailor lived happily all the rest of his life. VERONICA ROCHELEAU, Age 10. North Franklin. name is A Winter's Night. It was a cold night in winter. The farmer’s children were sitting around a cheerful fire. They were joking and chatting when a tapping was lLeard outside. Opening the door, the farmer saw an aged man, clothed in rags and shiver- ing with the cold, who begged to be admitted. So the man let bim in and gave him sornething to eat. He let hhm stay there a few months. While he was ihere he helped the man work on his farm, and when he got ready to go t’_l;e e went away, and the farmer never saw { him again for quite a number of years afterward, and then he came and stayed there the rest of his life. LENA KENNISON, Age 13. Mansfield Center. ldle Frank. Frank thinke evervbody is against him, but farmers don't care to hire lazy boye. 1 am sorry to say Frank does not like to work. If a man takes pity on him and gives him a little work to do, he will slight it all he can, espe clally if the day is warm; then he will lie upon the grass under the trees or lounge against the fence. TFor thie reason they all dielike to hire him. Frank thinks the people are all sel- fish and unkind, when the whole trou- ble is with himself. If he wishes to | get a good place to work, he must rize early in the morning and be at the place promptly; then whatever work is given him must be done quickly and faithfully. It is always best to do your work well, whether the person you work for eve: knows it or not. Anything worth doing at all is worth doing well. GLADYS FLINT, Age 13 South Canterbury. The Mysterious Box. One day while Mary was in her playhouse playing there came a rap at her door and there stood a little man about six inches high who handed her a cunning little box. Then she laid it on the shelf and forgot all about it until the next morning. She came in to open it. took it from the shelf and looked at it. 1t was a gmall box covered with pink silk. On one side hung a lttle tassel, on the other side hung 2 little key fastened with a pink ribbon to the box. She opened it with the little kev and when she opened It on top was a little slip on it which sald: “Phis is from your dear mamma.' Under the paper was a $10 gold piece, and Mary has been happy ever since. FRIEDA RETVOSKE, Age 11, Narwich Mae's Wender Ball. “ine day Mae's mother asked her fo 20 la the store 2nd gel two skeins of red varn. When she came boek with the varn e mother told her she Was ¥OIDK W Now Mae had been wanting some nllprers, but hed not that she could make them herself and she thought it would be great nBuft*itflv‘r.u not so mach after all, for yarn would tangled and she had to ravel it nll‘o‘n seversl : was about ready to cry hecause her ball had fallen from her lap an! rolled across, and the Kkitlen, seel it, began to play with it und tangie it up, she caught sight of a small package was in the ball and as it unwound hed fallen out. Bhe opened it and there found the cutest little doll all dressed in pink silk. , Ancther time it was a little thim- ‘l:le; and then again it was a halr rib- on. When she nad finished tire slippers she had quite a number of gifts. BTHEL M. DAVTS, Age 13, ‘Wauregan, The Five Little Girls. One day five little girls went inte the woods. Their mother packed them a Hotle lunch.. In it she put some memt, bread, oranges, apples and pears. The five little girls had a very nice time. They played games and watoh- ed the birde and squirrels. The next day the five little giels decided to tzke a walk with their dolls. One little girl said: “Let mupasmruthemdmdvdz the ducks swim.” And se they walkied up as far as the pond and watched the ducks swim. ANNA MAY MARSHALL, Age % Norwich, The Old Clock. It was a very old clock, indeed, Peo- ter knew that it was older than he and older than his father; and as old as_his grandfather, Ever since Petsr could remember, the old clock had stood in the hall with its long gold pendulum swinging, and its voice saying always “Tick- tock, tick-tock.” But as Jong as Peter had watched the clock and as often as he had huiried by it he never knmew it was a real person until New Year's eve. It had been a cold dey and the ice had been thick. Peter had been wkat- ing all the afternoon and he durst into the hall with his skates over nis shoul- ders. He was about 1o run past the vl(}dclock when a queer, husky volce sald: “Peter, you're late for tea!” Peter looked up; the hall was a little dim and there in the corner he saW a queer figure in a brown cloak with a shiny face. “You make me feel bLadly, Peter,” the voice said, “T heve tedd you when to get up, when to do ocheres and everything, but always vou are late. It was never so in your grandfather's time, He always obeyed me.” “Who are you?’ said Peter. “I will tell you in the morning,” #aid the voice; but when Peter looked in the morning he saw onmly the old clock ticking the way it had done for years. But Peter always was on time after thaet. MILORED CARROLA, 13, Norwich. Pl LETTERS TO UNCLE JED, Katherine Likes to Play Scheol. Dear Uncle Jed: I am a little girl seven years old. I go to school and am in the second grade. I Nve in Ver- sailles. 1 like to go to school. In school 1 study spelling, reading amd arithmetic. I have a playmate seven years oM. I have curls. I am in the second read- er. Our school begins ai nine o'clock. 1 had a doll Christmas. My little sister broke it. I like to play with dolls. I Mke te play school with my Your niece, KATHERINE GORMAN, Age 7. Versailles. Likes the Country, Dear Uncle Jed: I thought 1 would write you a letter. 1 see other girls and boys have written letters. I live on & farm in the country. We have two pigs, one horse, and one cow, one pair of o and some chickens. We have one dog, and his name 8 Bruce; and two Kkittens. I help with the chickens and drive up the cows in the summer. 1t is nice to llve in the country,where all the pretty flowers are. In the winter we go skating and stidm ing. I will have to go to bed soon, s shall have to close. ETHEL MORGAN, Age %, Norwich. Her Pet Cat. Dear Uncie Jed: I have a pet cat which I like very much. He follows everywhere 1 go. At noon he is always at the gate waiting for me, At night he m@ne- times follows me to the hemcoop. He knows there are mice there, and one day he followed me to the hencoop and found a big mouse with her n\-fi ones. He km:‘d them n{l but M“:, an that was the big one. Yours e APTISTE PARADIS, Agy 1h... Taftville. Lena’s Country Lifes Dear Uncle Jed: T have a pet desl and his name is Cobie, and he liled me very much. I have to feed him. ev- ery morning and noon and night, He is_very nice, ‘We have twenty-ons hens. One day in summer I went fishi | with my father and David Ballou, we each caught a little fish. T came ran ning.as fast as my legs would carr’ me, ] am in the sixth grade. My temeh- er's name is Miss Scott. T like hen very much. Good-bye. Your LENA BECHARD, Age 10. Jewett City William Visits the Seashore, Dear Uncle Jed: In the summer of 1911 1 had a very fine time. The first three weeks | spent swimming in the river. Thé rest of my vacation T worked for a man I knew. I had a pleasant time, picking peaé and beans. When I had worked a few weeks our family went to the beach. After a long ride on the cars we got out and walked down to the meashore. I went in swimming. There was a large raft 1 swam out to it. After jumping off a few times I went on shore and got dressed in a bath house. T came out and got & shore dinmer. T had a very full stomach when [ got through. I had some watermeion which I Ik- ed very much. When I got through dinner J treat- ed my sisters to some sods and pes- nuts. After that we wallted around and saw the cute little fishes swim- ming in the water. We saw large boats, and little ciil- dren pluying in the sand. Then we had a plate of ice cream and sode. We took the next car and when we had gome a lilile way we saw & - bit run up the walk. We got home at nine o'clock. Your friend, WILLIAM SHAW, Nerwich. Windser.—The trustees of the Wind sor Creamery association announce that the property owned by that asso- ciation, consising of iz ereamery and dwelling houxe adjoining, and located Age 11 lat what js knewn as ory Hill, in lower Broad street, was sold Mom day tn the _Leomis institute The ) creamary aswoclation abaut x voled lo