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Rules for Young Writers. L Wrlie plainly on sne side of the Cmn s L ¢ the pages. doepest tlg: Ty |Papepipnly. and Sumbyr he Poge” uznh 36 tiave & Dolice falos | - & Laorl e botntad aniicles will 18 in connivance with be given preference. Do mot use over v n seeks to thwart the st 280 s, 55 i to guarantee Wl Ty m;fin& An’ shootin’ crap An an’ never Car PR e ' following the uil ows the bold, bad man lling power than a dull The statement that Penrose, Arch- Ibold and others afre crooks does not make the Colonel's reputation any more shiny! 1 The Mexican resolution to kill off | t the Americans may result in more de- funct “greasers” than Mexico ever | PUl :flrumad of. ing." "&; ; A aaded Jane. The progressive platform and the al soclalist. platform are enough alike to | elge, be twins; but the socialist platform | will ruw Was born first. table out here on LaFollette is quietly waiting to have his questions answered.. Who contrip- ‘uted to the Roosevelt campaigns’ of 1904 and 19127 “The leader of the progressive party {8 being more effectively contradicted than any public speaker who ever took the stump. v we'll see what we can do that's nice” nent of many or are en- was intend- r attention away, and in two minutes they wer all back and seated around the littls open the red box. three boxes of colored pencils, som The epidemic which is sweeping horses out of existence in'Kanwas by the hundred must make eastern horse buyers feel nervous. The dernocrats are not hoping to win the November election because of thelr party virtue but because of re- publican foolishness, blue, pink, lavender, orange, brown and red, some blg, amooth sheets paper. % “What are We goll pasked Jane and Polly and Nancy, a together, just_shone. “Rainbow pellet green, and, of said mother. dren. lets?" The Arkansas farmer has put an abrupt check to the high cost of living by marrying off his four daughters all on the same evening. k would not be difficult, involve a careful com- original amendments as ith the final dratt of the bill. bl forces seam. fnefficlent, b, and their work should be The cost would d with the tle girl a sheet of paper and a pa ells, pleces. You can fold it and cut evenly If you are careful.” The “progressive” who desires to stay with the republican party has no standing with the Colonel. “Be a bull moose!” is his eommand. e went three pairg of shining sciss Roosevelt was the most extravagant of litigation arl: 2 % fun, . You know hew cheerful a bright nt slipahd system,” | 2ron G0, the country ever had, ané[\qiiiow comes tn the mky on a dgrk siders ‘which | wer ants o third term 50 88 10 | gay, 1 think Tainbew pellets’ that i show the people what economy ls, tle glrls can make will 6. fmportant bills (his sufiolent evidence of nesd _ THE RAINBOW PELLETS {(By Emily Rose Burt.) of playing dolls," ‘es; and we don't feol like read- then,” said mother, brightly, e and bring the little sewing | penci the piazza, and Nancy will go to my desk and get that red box on the left hand side, Jane and Polly and Nancy hurried brown sewing table, watching mother Out of it first came three pairs of shining, blunt-pointed scissors; next, scraps of baby ribbon, all colors— vellow, lastly, ‘white to make?" so excited that their eyes “Rainbow pellets!” cried the chil- “Whatever are rainbow pel- “That's just what I'm going to tell you,” laughed mother, giving each lit- of scissors and a box of colored pen- “First, cut your paper into equal Fold, crackle and crease, rattled the erlsp paper, and then snip, snip, sni . “Now," said mother, "comes the real please dear grandma, whe's shut in, just the same well as the ends, so the edges which resemble the teeth of a saw are called serrate, and those which seem dented are called dentate, and those which are slightly scalloped are called undulate, and those more deeply curved sinuate, ete. The study of flowers, you see, can never become duil to a person who is wide awake. Bvery plant seems to adapt itself to its relation to light and air, for its leaves have to have both, and the leaf system and root system are the co-operating -systems which make wood and produce fruit. Perhaps you have nmever thought that this year's tree is Dreparing next year's foliage. If trees did not make their buds with folded leaves in them, this year, there would be no foliage to clothe the trees next spring. All plants work for the glory of next year while they are the glory of this, There would be no continuous beauty if plants were not designed to do this, and perhaps this {8 a hint to'us that to sustain beautiful lives we must so conduct our- selves this year as to maintain the beauty of our character for next year. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. e e V [ Reuters FURNISH ———uy PALMS FOR ALL SOCIAL OCCASIONS EE| | Dorothy had the names on them and put each in & separate box. Some- how or other they got mixed and went to_the wrong house. Next day the woman came and Dorothy knew something was the matter. The woman spoke very kind- 1y and related to Dorothy the mistake. Dorothy: was sorry, but could do noth- "ot wory long afterward thd woman took llck‘r:nd Dorothy received a mes- e to come and take care of her. When she got better she adopted Dor- othy and her crippled sister was sent away fo- treatment, GERTRUDE KAMINSKI, Age 13. Norwivh. — Peggy’s Dream. Monday morning and school w:: ‘z'e“m on Tuesday when Peg- "'-'; mtherm to school tomorrow.” gty said fothing, but taking her doll went out in the woods to “think it over,” ag she told her doll. When they arrived in the woods she sat down on & mossy stone and began t0 talk to her doll 1 “f won't to ' school - tomorrow! Juet wow't!” she explained to the doll.“Why, Dorothy,” they will make you learn how much five and five are, and I never conld learn that. 1 would a great deal rather stay at home and < Sigs | Ratoiof Copaiuar- 1 Gmns " teach me how to kait ‘which I recelved. I was v!‘y’ pleased to win a prize. ! il ot Norwich: T Mildred 1, orw! o been long time, and 1 ‘you very much for granting my, oflum of Mansfield De- Ruth B. MoC ’9 fldm What tunay o veny” ohioh. for Dok very much the ;.ou :w-”r?d g It was lovely. Rose A, Demuth of Baltic ed book and ol § e little people’ he met. ) you | ! 1 like it very much. dollar for five cents' and expect two dollars they all went on explaining the s e would do until ust then she heard raing to see who e had been sleep- night. ' She ran home, and she ouldn’t go to school Victor G Durham. ' ., 3—Ada Marriottt of Oneco—"T) wgrm- Fugitives,” by Edward 5—Leon “Mother’s Stor 6—Anna E. “Up the Farked ‘Eliis. : “Goody, goody! what I'm going “Or,” continued mother, “Nancy draw a yellow butterfly, and tie pellet up with yellow ‘maybe Polly will want to draw of blllll ribbon.’ gan to look around for four things choo e e | on. timore oriole, all orange and black. e kitten, and robin's eggshell which she found. pellets were pictures of 1l | tled green and pipk pebble. Séme of the m?e‘u read like this: he piazza,” n oriole I saw in our elm tr Part of a robin's eggshell that bush.” . “Sunbeam, our little yellow kitty. ir tree. pebble from the front walk. it den.” When the supper bell rang, were just a_ dozen tied with all th D, and blue and purple, brewn and white, “Oh, wasn't it funi” | Polly nd Nancy happil b | nk’ “ . hl may her ribbon, And tch pal ky, so she will use the biue d tle up the pellet with biue “Oh-g-ee, what fun!” squealed Polly, and Nancy and Jane, and they all be- Then, such drawing and col- | oring and rolling and tying up as went Jane drew a purple pansy face, and & green feathery fern, and & pink and ‘white honeysuckle blossom, and a Bal- Nancy had a goldenglow, and a red- wingedq blackbird, and the little yellow part of a cunning blue Polly frisky striped squirrel, a red poppy, the white birch tree and a pretty mot- “A pansy from the little round bed found on the grass by the syringa “A squirrel that lives in our maple poppy from Polly’s flower gar- there little white rolls eolors of the rain- bow, red and oranga and yellow, green and pink and 1d Jane and a8 they be- | an'te put eway the scissors and pen- 1 o you,” he _he them day some X come, put. op his 2 : Histary of a Knife and Sharpener. E ‘was in one division a show case #harpener the knife. “In Sheffield,” the sharpener repll, b 0] 1 W‘l:u there, tool”. TI = “is your number? same place I was. It i 90: He sald this about the about Sheffield. made in Sheffeld! The idea! talked to it.” and to school. er for 10 cents, dull, 0} was care 1 of it. wanted, so they traded. better than it was before, kept clean and sharp. George’s sharpener soon a traded for a sharpener. time, but out. HATTIE KING, Age 13. Lebanon. 1 The Thres Kingdoms. Once there was a king who visited village school. cheeked apple. The king said: belong?” Up spoke a little girl and said: kingdom. # this belongs?" belongs to the mineral kingdom.” Then the king sald: ‘To what kingdom do I belong?" 1t was al- Was 1o spring or summer. ways winter and autumn. One morning in late winter, a lovely, blue-eyed, golden-haired girl awoke from where she had been sleeping be- neath an apple tree. Her was of pale green and looked like a mist. In her hair were twined flowers of afl colors, and in her hand she carried a great horn filled with flowers, too. She rubbed her eyes, sleepily, for a moment and then sprang to her feet and swiftly flew over the: hills. A white rabbit cagie out to see how the beautiful vision was. As she flew by she threw a pink anemone on his head and since then all white rabbits P Scorue. bo.the pring!” eried “Welcome 0 ” the white rabbit and hwrfllfi on to tell the new. A white bird flew by her and she hit him with a violet, and since then the bluebird is the first bird to come back and meet the Spring, “Welcome to the Spring!” trilled the bluebird g5 he flew on. She touched the fromen rivers and threw her flowers at the white flahes and 0 it is that the trout and salmon have such lovely colors. On and on went the I girl, and whereever her feet. to green grass and flowers sprang y She kissed the trees and they burst into bloom and rejoiced in her com- But all the flowers and animals did not welcome the Spring, and so the mountains are still cold and foy, and the trees never bloom and the an- imals must have warm furs to keep warm. y MINNIE MAGEL, Age 11 EBaltic, LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. 7, M‘y Trip to Rocky Point. ar Uncle Jed: My family and 1 atariad for the depot ‘sbout 5 otock |® of & Thursday morning, The train came about half past 00l We all got on the train, w'clock, 1t was a Sunday sch ‘When we got to Riverpoint a tralley ‘you can't wait for said. mwm of his pets and {friends invited his had go fishing at a place five fed hq t. J* they gaid. t:-:'ny:_xuu my ducks,” he said tather. only one thing for One day @ knife met a pencil .!m-no-t large store and the was As no one was near, they went up to the glass that separated them and began to talk, gan ¥ “Where were you made?” inquired ed, 4 he a different tone, be- e cause he thought 1f anything was made {:ere it was of some account. Then |jhiY. reas Mine a1 “Pil tell you, but T wouldn't tell any- one else unless they were made In the me ag the knife had said: “O! I was made there, t00-” because he had the same ides Just then a newsboy came in and paid 10 cents for the pencil sharpener and went out. The kulfe sighed and ALy “To think it was only 10 cents, and Soon he was bought by a rich man ‘who pald $1 for him. He was glven to the man's son, George, who took him In that school he saw the newsboy who had bought the sharpen- knife was used for a long time and so roughly he at last grew very ‘The newsboy, whose name wa: Jack, kept his gharpener sharp and George wanted to trade his dull knife for something that was sharp. He saw the gharpener and it was just what he Jack sharpened the knife and it was No. 6,805 liked Jack much better than ha did George, because he was always got dull and he got a new one. The only thing that troubled the knife was he had been Jack always had good things all the 'ge's were always worn On the teacher's desk was a rosy- “To what kingdom does this apple “The apple belongs to the vegetable -"l;l?a king held up 2 gold medal and “Who can tell me to what kingdom The same girl sald: “The gold medal curslon. o Waiting for us. It was a spe. ‘When we arrived at Rock- Point it Was about half past 9. I went on the boats, had & dish of ice cream and a glass of s0da, Then my mother, fa~ ther and two sisters went in bathin, o S e Then i | 3 c] up a lot of pretty ghells. m”‘“ When I came out T went on the boats n, d' (it was time for dinmer. We chowder, clams, ¢ fish, swe '&&.fi;m sweet corn dy and kmathmnnnw and T ean: atart. lome at 7 o'cl about 9§ o'clock at night. - - ADA MARRIOTT, Age 11 Onece. T — Lucy Has Found Pienty to De. jyUncle Jed and Wide Awakes: It 1a out the end of our vacation arne for school. I havu”?ot -T: { nce to B0 away, but have stayed Health and B. Sister: It Is right that 1l it “beauty parlors” .flwfi, 4 gmn 008 from on kL d 3 géfl'fig *_ifi!’ ifl&‘.‘& ul of cgn Fox i " Favices the most Satistactory Ensn:" 00 imnnuiu fi‘ oaves no mm 15 lathers. splendidly and and most thor scalp-cl have ever seen, It reliev tation and leaves the hair flufry and fo,do up, Thls ham ¥oo0_paris! Baiy to dry aulckly, | ad mast. Shampocears ety 2ty & 1 fade do. Mrs, L. G.: It is not necessary that your face reflect your age. You could easily ‘have @ much fner, X smoother and more youthful complex!i if sou quit using powder snd fried o good lotion, olve four ounces spurmax in a hl!—flnt hot water ‘:’ wlich Bazel and’ 8dd’ two teaspoontu glycerin, Apply this to your face, neck d arm it will I‘Rnrovc your ully, 1t will seften and kin and remove ry ben ng treckies and sk and is a_wonderful skin _beau You can get anything I recommend at almost any drug stor Wearlog gl elp your weak, Ay od eac surprised how soon relief. It will not smart or burn the eyes and s a perfectly reliable tonic for anyone 'to use who has eye- troubles. It is splendid for treating watery, expressionless eyes or granu- Jated Tias. "1t makes the eyes bright, strong and sparklin 1 R K.: T would advise heaith first, before beauty, You sa you are not gick, but that you feel tir always, look sailow and have pimples 4nd eruptions. Try fthis home-made blood-purifier and system-tonic: from your drugglst one ounce of Kar- dene, ‘dissolve it in ome-half pint of alcohol (not whiskey), and add ope- half cupful of sugar, then enough hot water to make a full quart. Take a tablespoonful flbegnr« each meal. ‘his one you to remedy shoul up your oo up your strenath. It a gestion, arouses a torpld liver an purifies the blood. When your blo: is pure, your sallowness and pimple: will disappear and you will have more strength and energy. a Styles of Men’s Men's FALL and The muskrat is impertant in the fur | way that a rainobw lights up a dull | pils et : The little girl er N0 pass them over cares | haif million of thess skins in the mar- But hew de yeu de it " a Yes," said mether, “she will surely | Then the king “Can't | Cprobably (rus that many | ket, What the fur is when made up |Jane and Polly and Nancy eageriy, | be delighted,” swer me, Titie' one | never knew of ‘their pres- | depen 3 “This way,” said mother, smiling,| And se she was, for when she wrete 6 ralsed her head and sal peads opon; the tastion, - “Each ef you' may pick out fous things | te thank her little gramddaughters | belong to the kingdom of heaven The Norwieh float for the New Ha- | g iour outdeer ven parade is proviag as unmanage- | vou mey try (o draw (hos . : P 3 . 5 v try to © things in | just as if I were eut of doers myself 88 Boriptures | able « proposition as the city’s Fourth | the right colors. Suppese Jane s |every time 1 take ome, Yeu are The Wakenina of Spring. he Cb\lltm‘lnl July fund of 1911, It ceuld be bet- | put .the big maple tree. If she likes, | three dear, theughtful little girls."— Once upon a time, many, many vears up, ter used towards anether firg engine, | she may draw ii with her green pencil, | Sunduy Sehool Times things that you like, | she said; Fhen én your four litile slips of paper “The rainsew pellets make me feel BDWARD JACKSON, Age 11 Mansfleld Conter. ago. before you or I were born, there ! ! ' TODAY’'S WESTERN FEA “The Ranger's Thrilling Story of the Cattle Thisves. AND HI8 ioks 5 T 2 s, took 1 u.‘*.’. ! & d E‘E’L deal As good as Alfredo. at home, as n,vf-!ould utey“t:a o Tz-m\\u. hile he has mln 0 hay fields. Sometime g0l TALKING VIOLIN, we live on a farm I " {hp Tens and P 0. ; Por your hollow cheel uo:‘:r yo An Goft oream for trea and roughness your face of Mary B. int Qov | W B. D. [ rubbing’ pyr Be very ci JOHN MARSA Says HERE IS ANOTHER OF THE BIG VALUES THAT 1 AM OFFERING FOR THE Grand Opening of My New Store at 145-Main Street--145, Norwich, Conn. opposite Plaut-Cadden Co. o SUITS, all new models, at These Suits cannot be duplicated anywhere for less 18.00 1 own and operate 5 Stores in New York and Brooklyn. Headquarters 671 Broadway, Brooklyn. I carry a full line of Union Made Clothing. CAR FARE RETURNED TO OUT OF TOWN PURCHASERS S T wdered delato: Your ¢ mmend lr'?fl\ul:‘r i gL re| !." ‘ G P o B an ot he Shih and Wil Tid those very lur pores, delatone su r two or remove every trace of hair skin. \ xf'kell.uhu l'w Brow lali T oxin on wi ul and don't get pyroxin ir is wanted. Martyn's book, “Beauty.” $12.0 e s Single tickets ... Children under 12 Automobiles and teams . NOTICE ! § The New Londen County Fair has been moved forward ome day. Tuss- day, Sept. 3, will be the cpening dey, and the programme as anneunced fer Monday will be given intact for Tuss: - day. Labor union tickets will be geed any day. Everything will bs on the grounds Tussday merning, se thers will be plenty to see for all whe seme. e DR C R CHAMBERLAIN . Dental Surgeon In eharge of Dr. 8. L. Geer's practies a his last (liness WeGrory. Bllding, Norwish, Cont - 7 ¥ v ik Belivered to Any Part of Norwieh the best on the RLESS. A telephons order recelve prompt attentiem.