Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 25, 1912, Page 4

i G R ROOSEVELT IGNORES TARIFF. It is a noticeable fact in the present campaign that Theodore | Roosevelt is carefuily aveiding the one big issue, namely, the tariff. He has taken pains to see that the people are kept in an enthusiastic frame of mind over his past accomplishments and what “I'll do,” but offers them not| the least information as to his stand ! Borwich §1;Ileliu and Courier. "116 YEARS OLD. Subscription price, 13¢ & week; Ge & uihu; $6.00 0 year. on the tariff question, one of the real issues of the campaign. Political ex- pediency governs him now as it has of late and no doubt will continue to do for some time. He is appealing to the people as their champion, advocat- ing only radical reform and expressing no opinion ag to what they can expect from him on any of the big questions. He is, in doing that, playing into the same course which he took as presi- deht. He used the tariff revision ques- tion then as a big stick with which to whip congress into line for his pet scheme, whether it was for a big in- crease in the navy or some other al republican convention have not been s h.""'”flng the expenditure of chosen and several of those will have | MOReY WhiSh. et (s e put 0 made their choice by the end of the | better use. On the strength of his week, President Taft has shown his | thTéat that he would open the whole ptrength in New England and the ac- tarift . revisian f]ueltlfln heA o gion of New Hampshire in going two% 'm _keep e i tollow:p( in l_lne‘ %0 one for him is another instance of I'_hxs Was curFant comment; in political ghe inability of the demagogic pro- C_,m‘les,"l[ the ca:l;;‘\lfa.nd ;;,lnn::. ‘;’:D gressives to pull the wool over the eyes ‘;g:’:e::a: ‘:;‘:n;m :vl::ohmesght ::0“3; 45 S ReaE py, Lhuverior e “‘:“ the ;mmm which Roosevelt wanted. one of the seven little governors who Having used it as a lever then and encouraged the Colonel to throw his| 5 hat into the ring, but his personal; keeping silent on it now, only one con- ot s ¢ R .. | ¢lusion can be reached, and that is opularity failed to carry his folloW-| i o i3 not willing to commit him- g to Roosevelt. Rhode Island came - P, fito ling' ad ‘wap ‘expected, solidly, tar| Tor on this Rotut, ey an ChEtEn 1o B _ Lintered at tho Postoffice at Norwich, Coun.,, as second-class matter. Telcphome Calls: Bulletin Businees Office, 480. Bulletin Editosial Rooms, 35-8. Bull Job Ofiice, 85-6. lephione 210. Norwici!. fhurl}lay, A‘;rilE& 1912, ALL EYES ON MASSACHUSETTS. There now remain less than 20 tates wherein delegates to the nation- ¢ Py iy 7 3 the knowledge that President Taft Faft, these two n Cadawing ) & stands for the sclentific revision felegates to the president. Massachu- A setts is recognized as the important| through the tariff board. Roosevelt is making his fight through grandstanc plays of the little matters and lets the big ones pass unheeded. VICE ACTIVITIES. There seems to be a crusade against vice spreading over the state, and it is being followed up as never before by the authorities. Hartford, a few months ago, had an awakening which resulted in the resorts being cleaned up. The police claim to be in com- mand of the situation and maintain that by their activities there iz no danger of the east side resorts resum- ing business. Since Mayor Smith or- dered the places closed last Decem- ber a plain clothes squadron has been The importance of it is shown by the| maintained and any rumor or appear- attention given by both sides. Presi-| ance of the business being revived is dent Taft in his visit there will have | promptly investigated and a halt call- state just now and it wiil have the campaigning that no other state has received. It is in the manufacturing cenders that Roosevelt will make his fight, but the state will be well cov- ered by advocates of both candidates po the Bay state voters should be in a better position to act than those in| piher states where primaries have been held. Congressman Gardner has in- jected much life into the Taft forces. Big Taft rallies indicate the feeling there is for the administration and the contempt for the misrepresentations by the ex-president in his hunt for the third term, backed by trust represen-! tatlves. Massachusetts will have the eves of the nation for the next week, a vital bearing on the situation,|ed. Hartford seems determined in the though Roosevelt will have the last| matter. word. Other cities about the state have = at different times tried such meas- WATERBURY’S FIREBUGS. ures. but it has never proved so suc- That was a trying experience which | cessful as Hartford's report seems to Waterbury had this week with fire- | indicate. Conditions in other cities bugs, and an unusual and persistent| may be as bad as those were in Hart- one. The great regret is that they ! ford, but there they were brought to were not caught and properly pun- | light in a manner which required pos- ished for their anarchistic tendencies. No reason is assigned for such a de- termined effort to give the city another such a conflagration as it had ten years ago. It was premeditated, with- out a doubt, but the situation was ad- mirably handled By all civic officials. It was a test for the fire department which it measured up to in capital style, and handled the 13 alarms like a metropolitan city with only one big loss, that being the destruction of the city hall, entailing a loss of $200,000. The itive action, and it offers the example for every other city. New London has been cleaning up its resorts gradually, there certainly being less brazem activity there and the latest move has been made here by the state police. What the effect will be remains with the people to say. They have it in their power to do as Hartford has done or to wink at such vice and continue the periodical raid | for revenue plan. In both New Lon- calling out of the militia undoubtedly | don and Norwich a number of cases put a check on the pyromaniacs, for | have reached the superior criminal the fires soon ceased after the guards| Ccourt because of such resorts and the had been placed throughout the busi- | State attorney is understood to be the ness gection. It was timely action and | moving spirit in the clean up. relieved the citizens, who were prepar- YA AT, ing for a night of terror, after the EDITORIAL NOTES. burning of the city hall and the de- The popularity of the Teddy bear molishing of the fire alarm system. | has given way this spring to the Teddy The city knows well what a confls barrel. gration is, from past experience, and ————e it is to be congratulated that it es- The trial of the Virginia Allens caped from another such calamity,| isn't exciting so much interest as their though it was evidently the intention! of the firebugs to do the town. ‘Judicial recall” did. It will take more than one coat of paint to make black art in politics look worthy of the old masters. GETTING OUT THE FACTS. Each day brings out some new con- dition concerning the state of affairs on the steamer Titanic, before the in- vestigation committee representing the government. The situation out there on the Atlanic, with no help in sight, was enough to give peculiar opinions after those who went through the un- usual amnd exciting experiences were able to collect their thoughts. Ma impressions were gained upon the same incident and Waterbury is troubled with that old but rare parasite—the firebug. When captured he ought to be vaccinated. Happy thought for teday: The man who is old enough to know better is not the one who usually does better. Governor Bass of New Hampshire was only speaking for himself when | many conclusions have | N . - H undoubtedly been drawn wjthout a true 1 HHRUEHL We. e SgPaciis fe0 i knowledge of affairs, with the result| PeoPle: that there is a great difference in the| mp. mY¥anic disaster demonstrates | testimony of witnesses. This is ex most conclusively that women dom't plainable by the size of the ship, and . o have to depend on the ballot for pro- it would be impo: le to all sec- 3 my b see all se tection. tons at once. The chances are that most everyone looked alike that fate- ful night and some allowance must be made for identification. If as Ismay said there was no one else to take aboard when his boat left, in which a fellow passenger corroborates him, he had a right to the seat. The conduct| of officers and employes even on most trivial occasions is always the cause| for complaint. The lack of binoculars for the look- Richeson’'s counsel appear to have become evangels of mercy all at once. This shows how money will make some men talk. It's dollars to doughnuts that the English wreck investigation will beat the one this side of the Atlantic as an endurance contest. From the way the Colonel now out showed a negligence which the| boasts of his fighting ability, who company operating such a well equip- | Would suspect he had ever won the ped ship has no excuse for. It was the | Nobel peace prize! little expense which the company | would have been put to in providing | such glasses, sufficient lifeboats, a re- | cause show that if he should win out, duction in speed, or a deviation from | the machine he would bring in would the course to avoid the ice, which | DOt be a survival of the fittest. makes the Titanic's loss so unconsola- E ble. It leaves the feeling that e precaution was not taken, The investigation committee will en- The men enlisted in Roosevelt's Roosevelt says: “We are all splendid Abraham Lincoln republicans; and all in favor of a third term.” As a Lin- coln counterfeit, will this pass? counter a tangle when it attempts to sift the evidence with the conflicting| 14,10 ought to remember when Se testimony, but it will provide suffi e AL e e cient material to frame a revision of gLl Bomah cojes o fop r"*@fie“tlofl' less operators will be on duty at all| oo PR i ) times, lifcboat provisions will be made | Fugena V. Debs is the latest advo- or all pa gors. stea s equi 5 3 7 L.r:.fl K|Mlp‘:n ._|<” ‘(tun TS equipped | c5ta of the recall of judges and judi- | i B 8s shall have It in opera-] cia] decisions. Can he be looking fer tion constantly, steamship routes shall| vice presldent on the Roosevelt ticket? | avoid ice fields, or in going through ——— o them steamers shall proceed at re- Roosevelt turned a clever trick whe duced speed. he released his Towa delegates, know- e = o ing he had no show, and that they John Burroughs says: “Roosevelt | would go to Cummins as opposed to {2 my friend. I hope he knows what | Taft. he is doing.” This is the same feel- ST RS ing that many of the former friends| Mr. Ismay should recognize that the of the ex-president have had for some ! American people applaud the work of time; they can see nothing consistent | the senate investigating committee. or warranted in his actions. His survival and plans make him ap- v pear ignominious. As a pure patriot whom the presi- dJdentiai office is really seeking the Col- > » A number of Cornell students have -ithout precedent in his reso- | taken up the task of forming a new | Iteion that the office shall ind him it | religion. This is an easy task so long ' he ca Jlv get in ils path, as the new religion amounts to no ——— —r—— more than many of recent date. There was uo surprise that the Dub- ==y I = Mn zathering favored the home rule President Taft doesn’'t have to tell bill, nor did they take any chances| the people what he is going to do, for he can point with confldence to what he has done In the past three years as| a commendation of his-administration. [ when they left it to Redmond to get all the amendments he can. The feeling against Ismay in the people’s mind is that he Is the type of i manager who s willing to sacrifies the | d6°ided to erect a big standnipe n | lives of passengers to gain advertising | order to aqualize preasure. It will have _and pay dividenda, & capacity of 600,600 gallons. he water company has NORWICH BULLETIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 25 THE 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 250 words. 4. Original stories or letters only will be used, 5. Writ.e your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of story. Address all communications to Un- cle Jed, Bulletin Office. The Truly Bravi Who are the truly bra: The b:rylor girl with self con- rol, Vho'd scorn to wrong a living soul! POETRY. Fishing Time. Brighten up the reel and rod, Straighten out your line, Don't you know the law is off And this is fishing time? Take the spade, we'll dig some bait, I inow where the peauties swish: We sat and froze for half a aay, But not a slgn of fish. Never mind, warm days will come, When there will be no school; Then we can look for a lot of them From some shady pool. So I will try now to be patient, For I know the time will come When my chum will say in earnest: “Well, no I call that -catching ONTERHAUT, Age 12. Mansfield Depot. The Wide Awake Circle. The Wide Awake Circle are children so dear, Some live In Norwich, with Uncle Jed near, While others are winning his prize books the same, 1t they do live away up in cold, frozen Maine. We try to write good, and we try to spell wall, But who are the winners, it's quite hard to tell: But dear Uncle Jed tries to treat us alike, And whatever he 53ys must always be right. I think we Wide Awakes ought o be glad, To think there are such lovely books to be had, And thank Uncle Jed for the trouble he takes In pianning se much for the Wide Awakes' sakes. MYRTLE SWAIN. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE. Perhaps the Wide Awakes do not know that the mind and imagination work well together, and it is this which produces beautiful works of art and classic literature and 21! thes inventions which bave marked the progress of clvilization. A very ancient writer had a mind which pictured the imagination as the workshop in which the mind worked to produce all the wonderful man-made things about us—the houses we live in, tne clothes which become us and the things we enjoy. It wag the minds of the ancients which seeing the ants and other burrowing little crea- tures worke! out of their imaginations the little old men who are supposed to be the keepers of the mines and io dwell underground and called them gnomes; and if they had not observed the bee and his work and taken it into the mind's workshop there would have been no brownles; and !t was the light and airy butterflies which prompted the intellect of men to fashion the pretty fairies with butterflies’ wings, about which so many interesting children’s books Lave been written. Of course, the | the mind can take cvil thoughts into its vorkshop and create bugaboos and all sorts of untruths which do harm, but it is not right to let it do this, and it cannot without our aid. We should be ashamed to have it work for anything but good. If you all will re- memb2r ‘that the imagination is the mind’s’ workshop and let the mind work there, it will help you o write more interesting stories and to create pictures of life which you can cherish in yoIr hearts'and that will ever bless you. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Alice Driscoll of Norwich—I thank you very much for the book. It is very interesting. Thomas Bell of Baltic—I read the book you sent me. It is a good one and very instructive. Annie Johnson of Baltic—I send you many thanks for the book I received. Harriet Ellison of Willimantic—I was very much surprised but pleased when I received my second prize book. T am now reading it and enjoy lt.very much, I thank you heartily for it. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Charles Henry Tirreil of Norwich— “Northern Lights," stories trans- lated from Swedish and Finnish Bources. 2—Loretta Gregory of Taftville—"Ani- mal Stories for Little People.” 3—Lolita M. Gay of Norwich—"Adven- tures of a Brownie,” by Miss Mu- loch. 4—Jessie Brehant of Willimantic—"A Young Mutineer,” by L. T. Meade. 5—Hilda Driscoll of Montville—"“The Lame Prince,” by Miss Muloch. 6—Alfreda Timayensis of Norwich— “The Adventures of Robinson Cru- soe,” by Daniel DeFore. 7—Harold P. Onterhaut of Mansfieid Depot—“Life of Crockett,” by Ed- ward Ellis. S. §—Nellie Colburn of South Canterbury Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard,” by Miss Muloch, ‘Winners of books, living in Norwich, may call at The Bulletin business of- fice at any hour after 10 a. m. Thurs- day for them. LITTLE ORIGINAL STORIES. A Stalk of Corn. The first thing I remember I was Iying in the ground. It was damp and cold there. I crept up nearer to the sun, every day. One morning when I woke T saw the sun shining upon me and I felt warm, I grew taller every day, and warm rains fell upon me. I was happy all summer. The birds would often stop to talk to me. One day a little girl came out where I was. She said: “What lovely sweet corn! I must have some for my supper,” so she picked off all my ears and took them home, and put them into a kettle with some more ears of corn, When they were done she ate them up. The hired man came and cut me down. He gave me to the cow, who ate me up. NELIIE COLBURN, Age 13. South Canterbury. A Happy Evening. After the children were home from school Harriet said: “Let’s pop corn and make candy this evening.” Harry joined in and said: “Oh, yes, we'll have a real nice time. Papa and Mamma are going to Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook's house.” After all the work was done and the children's parents were gone they be- gan to get the things they needed. They made a very hot fire. The dog and cat came into the room to keep them from getting lonesome. They had a very jolly time that evening at home alone. They talked and laughed and gave conundrums for each other to guess. When their parents came home they By the side of a beautiful lake there grew a lily of the valley plant, Though every vear the leaves came up bright and green there were no flowers, and the plant feit sad. She worked hard avery year in the hope that she might have a string of beautiful white bell- shaped flowers waving abeve her, but every year as the young buds came up they withered and died. One day as the plant was spreading her leaves in the sunshine she heard a patter of tiny feet and saw a wee elf come limping through the woods with a broken wing and an injured foot. The elf was limping along as fast as he could, and no wonder! Be- hind him hopped a great ugly toad. The lily plant was grieved when she | saw the elf hard pressed and she called out: “Oh, come, and I'll hide ou, you poor little thing!” The elf eard the lily's volce and ran and climbed in among the leaves of the plant, which - iminediately wrapped them around him go that he was con- cealed from view, Up came the toad, hoppety-clump, looking much amazed and wondering where the elf had gone. He searched the woods for vards around, but was not able to find his victim, and at last he gave it up and hopped away. en the lily plant opened her Jeaves and the elf lay there in the sunshine til! his wing was healed and his foot was hurt no longer. At last, when he wae well enough to go home, he bade farwell to his kind friend and protec- tor and asked the lily plant if there was anvthing he could do. Then the Hly plant told him that every year, to her sorrow, her blossoms were 'blighted, and the elf said: “Oh, that's easily arranged. I'll give you not only blossoms but magic blossoms.” With that he skipped three times around the lly plant singing magic words, When the song was finished he sperad his wings, sald good-bye and flew away. You can imagine how eageriy the lily plant tended her buds the next sea- son and how joyful she was as the stalk grew tall and straight and the little white bells began to develop. At last they were ready, and the lily plant could hardly sleep, she was so eager to see how they would look In the sun- Hght. When the next day came and the first ray of the sun touched them there ecane n sound like the ringing of gilver pells, for each blossom was provided with a magic clapper that swayed to and fro and made music. With evening came a stlll more wonderful thing. At moonrise six tiny fairy childrén ran out from the dark- ness of the woods. Each one seized a | lily bell and put it on her head for : hat. Then all jained hands and danc- ed In a circle around the lily plant, laughing and shizing, with voices like the tones of i{ly bells. Sonn they wers joined by a company of elves who ran A LILY OF THE VALLEY out from among the trees, and they danced and sang and feasted on honey till the sinking moon showed that day was near. Then the party broke up. The fairy children hung their flower hats on the li talk and they all said, ‘l‘ggod morning,” and went home to Seven nights the fairies and elves danced in the moonlight, and no harm came, but on the eighth night who should come hopping but the great toad that had chased the elf long before. He came up s) softly that the fairies did not hear him, and when he saw how many of them ‘there were he smiled to himself and hopped softly away with the night. Soon he came to a dark tunnel in the ground, down which he made his way. It led by winding routes to a great cave in the earth, where the king of all the toads held his court. The cave was nearly fuli of toads—old toads and young toads, large toads and small toads— but all of them wrinkled and cross looking. Into the midst of this assembly the toad pushed bhis way and from the steps ot the throne he told of what he had seen. When the toads heard what a beautiful dance the elves and fairy children were having they croaked all together as with one voice: “Quick, let us go catch them!” The toads had always wished to catch fairies and elves to keep in their | slow and lazy and wanted some one to wait on them. So far they had not been able to catch a single fairy or eif, and they had been obliged to wait on themselves, which cross. So when they heard that a whole company of elves and fairy chil- dren were alone and unprotected they at once sallied forth to the capture. Quietly they moved through the dark forest ond formed a great circle around { the dancers, who kept on with their | merrymaking, for they did not know that the tcads were there. The fairies had just decided to have !a game of tag and had hung all the lilybells back on the stalk, when, with harsh crcaks, the toads made a rush at them from all directions. The falries were in terror. In whichever direction they tried to run a great toad barred thelr path. They might all have been caught and talken down tothe dark cave where | the toads lived If it had not been for the lily plant, which trembled so when she saw thelr danger that she set all the lily bells ringing. When the birds for the forest héord the bells ring they { thought it must be sunrise and time to get up, and when they found it was still dark thev flocked around the liy ! plart 1o see what was the matter. | They saen found eut, and in two min- utes the toads were scrambling home a8 fast as they eould hop, So the fai- iries and elves were savei, and danced 'happlly ever afterward dark underground cave, for they were | had made them | were surprised to see candy and pop- corn balls on the table. Then the chil- dren told them of their happy time that evening. The-next day when the children were leaving the house their mother gave them each a dime to spend for what- ever they weshed. Now, these children were saving, | and both Harriet and Harry saved all their money. ‘When Harriet had grown to be 2 woman and Harry a man they both remembered the happy evening at home when they were children. BERNICE L. STEWART, Age 12. North Franklin. My Visit to Grandpa's. One morning very early, before the sun was up, I sterted on the train with my cousin for Grandpa's farm in Mas- sachusetts. I took by doll with me, and she seemed to like riding on the train, We saw the sun peeping its little bright red face over the hills as we rushed by on the train. Grandpa met us at the train with the team, and we had a fine ride down to the farm. We were so lively and made g0 much noise that Grandpa wrote back to mother, who was anxious to hear from us, that the two cyclones had arrived safe. We had a pleasant vacation. were sorry when the time came leave the farm. ALFREDA TIMAYENIS, Age 8. Norwich. We to A Moving Sermon. Once upon a time there was a parish- ioner who was a miser, and one Sun- day an English clergyman, for this man’s benefit, preached a strong ser- mon on the duty and joy of giving. The miser, at whom the clergyman often gazed, seemed impressed. Next day the clergyman met the miser on the street and said: “Well, John, what do you think of yesterday’'s sermon?’ “It moved me deeply, sir,” the miser replied. “It brought home to me so strongly the necessity of giving alms that, honestly, sir, I've a great mind to turn beggar myself. EVERETT TALBOT, Age 12, Ashaway, R. I, _An Old Man and His Sons. Once upon a time there was an old man who had three sons. The two older seemed to be réspect- able young men; but the younges E an idiot (8o his hrothers said). ‘When the youngest was about eigh- teen years old his father became ill, and, thinking he was to die, made his will. | “To my oldest son,” he said, “I give| five oxen and ome-half my property.” “Father,” eves, “I pray God you may live long to he said, with tears in his I LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. My School. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to teil you aboul my school. 1 like to go to school. There are fourteen scholars in our school. 1 am seven years old. Our siudies are geogravhy, reaqing, arith- metic, . history, spelling, grammar, physiology, singing and penmanship. 1 like to sing. I have a brother and sister, and their names are Lucy and Curtis. I am the smallest. Curtis is next, Lucy is the biggest. Lucy is 12 yvears old. There are five boys and nine girls in our school. We have to walk home and to walk to school; and on very cold mornings and cold nights we have to face the wind all the time. Our school has six blackboards. 1 am in the Kourth grade. There are four in my class, three girls and one poy. In geography, history and phys!. ology another boy is with us. Our teacher is a good teacher. name 1s Irving A. Sunderland. him all right. Your little niece, ETHEL E. PLACE, Age 7. Moogup. His I like Has a Good Time Going te Schoel. Dear Uncle Jed: T thought [ would write and tell you about my home in Scotland. We have two horses, two cows, four cats, about thirty hens, and a pet bird doz named Rover. When I come home from Rover comes out to meet me. We had his imother but she now lives in Groton. Rover was eight vears old the 4th of December My father drives the school team and there are fourteen of us. We hawg about threc miles to ride. We somgs { times take a sled T hope all the boys and giris of our (lircie have as good a time as we do | going back and forth to school Your friend, ELZANOR SPENCE Scotland. school 'R, Age 11, Lolita's Dells. Dear Uncle Jed I diphtheria but i am have not got all my vet " When I was able to sit up T read The Bulletin every day and enjoyed reading the letters the chlldren wrote was sick with better now 4 strength back {to you: so I thought T would write one, 1 will start golng to school in two more weeks. 1 will be glad to get | back to school. I was not able to be up around on Washington's birthday, so [ dressed one of my dolls like Martha Wash- ington. 1 put a white wig on her made of cotton and T played with her ali day. have three dolls, the largest one I call Redwing, because she is dressed enjoy and use it.” in red: the other one T call Pocahon- “To my next oldest 1 give the other|tas; and I have a little boy doll I half of my property and care over his| call Hiawatha b vounger brother.” p LOLITA M, GAY. Age 8. “Father.” he said, in a husky voice Norwich, that people use on such occasions, “I hope you may live leng to enjoy and There Is One Who Knows. use it.” i e i Theie lit= youngest som, Sald: S0n I it | pretty little girl, but had a bad habit B e e aatd, with much. soi- | Of teliing untrutas. Bhe went to epend g R oo Ny o >0~ !a week with her aunt on the farm a 5 : . Ve 1Y 9 nice book to read in the garden. Eva ,:”LD‘A DRISCOLL, Age 12. | " 0 play and left the book on the Moo seat. Rain came on and the bool was spoiled. When her aunt showed it to her, she said I hav ft;:{ :fo: F:!‘h:‘ie:'blu‘k andi “I did not leave it in the garden o y : | someone else must have had it’ "1"‘;": II‘j"":dh;“_":‘;“:'";"’a;';l’]":"‘“fl and| “For aunt looked very sad and semt n 7 ) ¢ + 2 e 3 her to her room, saying Bometimes 1 give her oats. :‘3"’ lr"\!’ “Fva, there is One above Who knows M st e‘Snthre el el S!what you do, if nobody on earth can oS every day. t en vou speak the truth’” S8y ik teother runs-‘ont -and| WL WheR Yo sbesR Ehg SuERD o catches her and brings her in Hu-‘ Taftville . house. She flies on his shoulder and | picks at his eyes. 8 WILLIAM GUILLOTTE, Age 11. Neither Absent Nor Tardy. Ligbon. Dear Uncle Jed: T live on a farm in Ledyard Center, near the church The Camel Driver. and Bill library. I have mot bleen | absent or tardy Hassan was a camel driver Who| "y, v o dear little sister who zoes lived neax: fhe demect. < camel he. | to school with me, and a dear litds : H“}?:"sx‘?l“x water his eamel ert,| brother who stays at home with mam- ore ross > desert. | 7o The camels drink enough water tolast| g 0y urgday when 1 get home them a week. : ie | from school I read the Wide Awake g gf Dyl g ‘,lm” "‘”l“ ot - tters and just enjoy them, m«:x“rnnlnng !';l:’h :!l:i::‘;":‘ ‘:“: ;“"'h ! There is quite a number from some of - o Vstaseiart ; cousins. was surprised to find his son, el Bcan ELSIE M. MAIN, Age 8. Suez with a party on his camel’s Norwich Hassan hadn’'t seen him for aboi p ” . four years. They both were glad to s | each other. They could not stay long Our Summer Home. ] | because Ali had anothed party to bring| My Dear Uncle Jed: Our fgm“l’. down. { goes to Cape Cod every summer. When the parted Hassan went in a quaint, old place The Pillgrime one direction and Ali went in another. | landed at Provincetown. They afterwards met each other car-| Where we go is Harw It h rying people on their camels | a_population of nd persons, MILDRED BURBANK | There is a 1 where the Oneco. boats come in. a good camp- A ing place over by an old mill, A Good Customer. | Last year we Jl;a.l“.‘l\r pic n'“ “i:‘ r»‘:m:: | Bruce was a Scottish dog that lived | o ""‘:{. s g e o g i\n }‘kiltnhurgh. His master kept a s“"ihu:“ ik s mail 15 it 1 keep It in Cery Klore. ed to pass almost every day | the harbor in summer time. with meat pies to sell. He carried x; harbor has fishing bab bell and rang it now and then, to let i fhines: s | people know he was coming ples, but they swvere small, and an Eng- bloom. i ming the second side of her napkin hemming the third side of her nap kin. finlsh your napkin before the dinne bell rings>” minutes. Just then the dinner hel rang and Amy had finished her napkin but Lizay had not finished hers. JRSRIE BREHANT. Age 15, Willimantie. He only asked a penny apiece for his lish penny is worth about two of our | When Lizzy returned Amy was hem- Although Amy longed for the fresh air, she knew that If she kept at her work she would be finished all the quicker. Lizzy said that she would have time Amy said to Lizzy: “Why don't vou But Lizzy did not listen to what Amy sald. She wanted to read a story. She said she could finish her napkin in two 1z for perc We caught Tittle cents. ‘ IRRE One day DBruce was sitilng at the door of the store when the pieman | 5 came along. He saw the dog's wistlul | Our Farm. look and gave him a pie. \ " jed: 1 thought 1 would Jruce wagged his tail for “Thank | a oui about our farm. you!"” and put the pie into his “dinner | . twenty acres ¢ and, two basket” in a hurr_\'. ‘r‘nv\\ and one horse, w hich are very Ting-a-ling, Ting-a-ling, went tne | gentie | bell the next day. Bruce bounded out | o outdoass My beothes of the store, caught the pieman’'s coat | it is fun to help papa i in his teeth and would not let go. He | di@ not tear the coat, but showed very | e 1 SRBaoA to Mu¥d a plainly that he meant to keep the man | - 0 . I am eleven years old there till he had a pie. The dog's, nd go to school every &y, T heve ! master stood in the doorway. i?m, missed a day since school began The pieman took a penny out of his | /it “cliomier [ have recefved two pocket, showed 1t to the dog and point- | ertifichtas fdr perfect attendance for ed it to his master. Bruce understood. | “M'FF He bounded to his master's side, put| "y 'y, ve' twenty-three pupils and I I his forepaws on him, wagged his tail. | . 0 0 oo hal very mueh and logked up m his face with eager | MY have two petss o dog and a et eves. The penny was given and Bruce g b b oo e bt took it In his mouth to the man and | MY dog's mame s Shop and my cat bought his pie. N S o 5 HAROLD VARS. Age 12. N IR WP Norwich. " g Speedy and Steady. My _Home arjd School Life. Once upon & time there were two| Dear Uncle Jed: T enjor redding little girls named Speedy and Steady. | the letters of the Wide Awake (fircis One day they thought they would like | Yery much, and thought T wou d like | to sew. They took some cloth and | !0 join the circle, and teil of my home started hemming a napkin each. | and school life y Speedy’s real name was Lizzy. ' 7.1 was ten years old the day before Steady's was Amy. Both started at | Christmas. : the same time and Amy was st!ll hem- I have two brothers and one sister, ming the first side of her napkin when vears old the first das Lizsy was on the fourth side of hers. of February, and she is lots of com ! Lizzy laughed at amy because she pany. was 80 slow. But Amy did not care; I have a sled and some skates, she still kept sewing away. After school 1 run errands or go to Lizzy said that she was sure she|meet my father. | would have her nepkin finished by In the summer I go tlo gel milk | dinner time, so she threw her work ' every night for a neighbor carelessly on a chair and ran to the We have a big yard, and In the i garden to see if the roses were in | summer my sister Alisson and 1 play croquet, { Iam in the fifth grade in school. go to the Ransom building My teacher's hame is Miss McDer- mott, who has taught school for over thirty years, and she is a prelty goud one. I | to hang the new picture on the wall| There are thirty-three pupils in my i in her room, so off she ran. When | room. | Lizgy returned this time Amy was My studies are dictation, arithmetic, history, reading, writing, music, draw- ing, grammar, geography and civics. Yours truly, r JESSE FRANKLIN BAILEY. Meriden.—-Stanley Williams, son of Supt. (. M. Willlams of the state | | school for boys, is sailing on the .| Olympic. sister ship of the Titanic, for home this week. ~|1e has hean traveling | for 1he past few months = France, German) and England