Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 24, 1913, Page 9

Rules for Young Writers. 1. Write plainly on one side of the lcller only and aumber the pages. Use pea and ink, not pencil. 8. Short and pointed articies will be given preference. Do not use over 250 words. 4. Original stories or letiers only will be used, 6 Write ypur name, age and ad- plataly at the bottom of the Address all communications to .Un- cle Jed, Builetin Ofice. oA “Whatever you are—Be that; ‘Whatever you say—Be trus, Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in facg, Be nobody else but youw.™ POETRY. The Wail of the Plundered Thrush. (From “The Revolt of the Birds,” by G. E. Young.) Solo. O gentle little mate of mine, How can I voice our woe? A true torn heart must needs design To ease a cruel blow. 5 1f e’er I gladness can impart, 'Tis now the power T'd choose: love summons every highest art When it must break sad news. Reffaint duet. Weave your sorrows into song, Turn to music even pain: Care is brief, but art is long, Hope restrings love's harp again. Five littie lovely eggs we had, Five pledges of our love: Right proud we were, ad For such gifts from above. Not one is left of all the five, They all are blown or crushed; Our hearts’ joy mever can revive, Our cheerfu! songs are hushed. The cosy nest we built with care, And made so tight and trim, All broken lies, beyond repair, Down by the river’'s brim. How far we flew!—we searched our best: How many hours we toiled! But ruthiess hands have torn our nest; Love's masterpiece is spoiled. “The Revolt of the Birds” is a little play in which the birds ape supposed to turn the tables on the cruel little bors and girls who have ill-treated them. The lesson is that love con- quers all. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. Watch the birds, learn to know them by their plumage and their sonz, and vou will not want to rob their nests or hurt them. Uncle Jed has always liked the birds, and when he was a boy he knew where there was a pewee's nest with four dttle white eggs in it on the edge of a *1iff four miles from where he lived in the woods, and he used to go there and look over the edge to see the eggs. It suilds its nest of mud, like'a swallow, is a little larger than a sparrow, and * has two puplar names—Pewee and Phoebe—both representing its cheery | calls; but Uncle Jed never heard it say “Phoebe!” He was delighted with : its pleasing way of repeating “Pe- wee!” The more you learn about birds the more you find pleasure in their pres- ence in the garden trees and shrub- bery, and when you come to know them by their song it seems like an old friend’s greeting. They are faithful insect destroyers, and they do beneficial work which the hired man cannot do. You know it has been said, “Two toads in the garden are equal to a hired man,” so great is their work in destroying insect pests. When we know that, we are glad to see the toad in the garden, and we take care not to disturb or injure him. The Wider Awake you keep the more you| will enjoy life. It is just play to study nature, and when it becomes a confirmed habit it is a continuous source of delight. To be cruel to the birds, to rob their nests and shoot them, is to in the end hurt ourselves. Without the aid of the birds man could not live on the earth. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Earl Johnson, of Worcester, Mass.: | I received the book and was surprised to get it. I am much obliged for it. | Stanley Dickinson, of Norwich Town: | Thank you very much for the prize | book you sent me. It came just in| time, for I am going camping next week. John F. Barnett, of Jewett City: I thank you very much tor the book that | you sent me. I have read it and found it interesting. | Lillian Brehaut, of East Norwich, N, ¥.: I received the prize book you sent me entitled “Wild Kitty.” It is very nice and 1 thank you very much for it. and wondrous | THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE Boys and Girls Department | ! | | I have read part of it and I think it is very interesting. Natalie Macpherson, of Norwich: When 1 found that I had won a prize book for writing my story 1 was great- ly pleased. 1 have enjoyed it very much, and I thank you again and again. Jonas Bienenstock, of Uncasville: 1 thank you ever so much for the prize book entitied “Pony Riders in the Ozarks,” by Frank Gee Patchen. I was surprised to know I had won the scout book. I have started to read it and find it very interesting. Florence A. Whyte, of Willimantic. I thank you very much for the nice prize book, “Daddy’s Girl.” T think it will be as interesting as the last book I like Mrs, Meade's books very much. Minnie Subofskey, of Norwich. I | have read the book which vou gave me and [ lil you many ke it very much. I thank times for the book. THE PRIZE BOOK WINNERS. 1—Myrtle Swain, of North Stoning- ton, Mother'Animal Stories. 2—William Cushman, of Stonington, “The Submarine Boys and the Spies,” by Victor G. Durham. 3—Adele Demuth, of Baltic, “A World of Girls,” by Mrs. L. T. Meade. —Lillian J, Brewster, of Norwich: “A Girl from America,” by Mrs. L. T. Meade. 5—Catherine Desmond, of Norwich “The School of Queens,” by Mrs. L. T. Meade. 6—Asa Hyman, “Wattchers at the Charles D. Roberts. 7—Helen “Nichols, of Montvile: “A Child’s Garden of Verses,” R. L. Stev- enson. 8—Edward G. Moran, of “The Iron Boys in James R. Mears. of Camp Norwich: Fire,” by Norwich: the Mines,” by ‘Winners of books living in the city may call at The Bulletin business office for them any hour after 10 a. m. Thurs- day. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. Abraham Lincoin. Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, on a lonely little farm in Ken- tucky. Abraham never went to school but a few weeks, as his father wanted his help at home. His first teacher was his mother, who taught him to read and write. Lincoln had but a few bool were ‘“Robinson Cruso,” Progress,” “Aesop’s Fabl “The Life of Washington, history of the United States. Abraham read these books over and over until he knew them by heart. Nights after his mother and father had gone to bed Abraham would sit in the light of the fireplace and work problems on a snow shovel with a piece of charcoal. When the side of the shovel was covered he would shave them off and begin over again. When Abraham’s father would com- plain of the shovel being too .thin Abe would go out in the woods and make amnother. By the_time Abraham was 17 he could write a good hand, do hard ex- amples and spell better than anybody in the country. At 19 Abe had reached his full height. He stood nearly 6 feet 4 inches, bare- footed. No one in the neighborhood had his strength. He could lift a bar- rel of flour into a wasgon without help. After awhile Abraham began study- ing law and afterwards became a law- yer. At last Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States. While he was president he freed all the slaves in the Union. Lincoln was killed by a half-crazed actor by the name of Booth. MYRTLE FRANCES SWAIN, Age 11. North Stonington. Polly Wants to Go to Detroit. Poll Parrot belonged to a lady Detroit. She lived in a great ho on Woodward avenue. e Polly was a favorite. All the nice little children on the avenue knew and loved Polly. On their way to school they would stop to say: “Good morning, Mistress Polly,” to offer her a bit of cake, or a crack- er from ‘thelr lunch baskets. For these friendly offices they were amply repaid by the quaint savings which were sure to follow from the glib tongue of Polly Sometimes in iswer to a cheer ful “Good morni Mistress Polly! the bird would draw “G=0-0-d m-0-T Polly’s | sleepy!” For the next it “Good morning, don’t bother a bird! Polly’s mistress lost the bulk of her fortune and went to live in another city. When she was ready to move a chan came over Pu She grew moody and silent To her little friends’ greetings she would scarce deign a reply. At her new home her moed ehanged, but alas! not for the better. She now complained all the time, and den of her cry was ever the same: “Polly wants to go to Detroi Polly wants to g0 to Detroit! So sad was the bird’'s moan lady who lived across the street had to close the front doc and windows of her house and retire to the rear, that 8he might not hear it. For fourteen days the poor creature The June paper read before the members of the ‘of a London “Daily Chronicle’ 14th gives an extract from Royal Colonial Institute on the pre- ceding evening by Mr. James Buck- land, in which some notable state- ments were' made as to the danger to plant life throughout the world by the wanton destruction of birds for the sake of their plumage, The speaker said that few people | know how enormously fast the des- tructive insects increase in number, and what almost unthinkable damage they would do to all plant life ‘if it was not for the birds who are living on them, and who devour enormous quantities of them. Here are some ex- | first as to the muiltiplication | “The hop vine aphis, for instance, produced 13 generations in one year,” and each female of them produced on the average 100 young onee, which would bring ten sextillions of these insects into the world in one year, if not checked by the birds! A !lnlle. pair of the gypsy moth, If undisturb- ed, could produce caterplllars enough in eight years to eat up every green leaf, every bit of follage in the United States that {s, you must remember, in a c untry nearly twenty-five times as large as the tish Iles! And again “A single pair of Colorado beetles with- out check, lnum”, in one geason to - 60,000,000 A THE GOOD THE BIRDS DO | creatures eat? turer a caterpillar’s daily ration in leaves is equal to twice the weight of the caterpiller. feed at the same rate he would have to eat a ton of hay every four hours.. As to .our friends and allies, birds, whose chief diet is insects, we read: “Tit-mice have been seen to make 4 0to 60 trius an hour to their hests with their beaks filled with all kinds of insects. Other birds will consume 10,000 tree-lice in a day, others again have been seen to eat 35 gypsy moths a minute, for 18 minutes at a time, while 30 grass- hoppers and 250 caterpillars have been found in the crop of a single cuckoo.” When we hear things like these we realige anew how valuable and how absolutely indispensable are the birds |in the great plan of Nature; and we rejoice that even Congress Is taking steps for their protection in the Bird Protection Bill now before them. Every reader of The Wide Awake Circle should do everything he or she can do to prevent the killing of birds, be it for the sake of their beautiful plumage or for the even more cruel purpose of eating their dear little bodies, for the punishment for such wicked deeds will have to be borne by us all through an enormous increase of destructive insects to the harm of our gardents, flelds and woods and thus of ourselves, in | Poor | that a “If a horse were to | | and | ; te bur- | According to the lec- | twenty- | the | sent forth her pitiful wall. She re- fused food, and died with the half- finished petition upon her tongue: “Poor Polly wants to zo—" ADELE DEMUTH, Age 13. Baltic. = The Child Saved from Death. “Throw all the little baby boys be- longing to the Israelites into the river,” ordered the cruel king. One mo hid her baby bov until he was three months old. Then she could hide him no longer. She thought & “What can I do to save my baby?” At last she thought of ja plai. She made a little basket boat, laid the baby carefully in it, carried him to the river and hid him among the tall grasses that grew in the river near the shore. Then she went away. But God was taking care of the baby. Bye and bye the king's daughter came to the river to bathe. She saw the basket and ordered it brought to her. When she saw the little baby she wanted him for her own. The baby's sister had been watch- ing nearby. When the baby cried she said to the princess: / “Shall 1 get someone to take care of the baby for you?” The princess said: “Yes. go!” and the little sister ran to get the baby's mother. Then the mother came and took her baby home. She knew because the king’s daughter loved the baby no one would harm him. The princess named the baby Moses, ; When he was old enough the princess sent for him and he went to live in the king's palace. HAROLD W. BLAIS. Baltic. How “Dad” Won the Race. The day had come at last. Public school was to have its nual races that afternoon. At two sharp the runners appeared ready for the contest. At the creck of the starter’s pistol the runners sprang forward. ‘Walter Sommers and Carl Williams took the lead Williams was well known and had run in races before; but Sommers was a new pupil and not very well known. These two runners kept will in the lead. Many cheers were given for Will- iams, but hardly any for Sommers. ‘Walter noticed this and determined all the more to win. In the last hundred yards these two runners were side by side. All was quiet when suddenly a man arose in the stand and said: “Sprint, soon! Sprint and win, Walt- The an- er. Hearing this Walter sprinted for all that was in him, breaking the tape a few feet ahead of his opponent. The man who had cheered him on came up to Walter and said: o “Well, son, you did it, didn’t you?” “I sure did, dad,” the boy replied. “But if you hadn’t spoken I doube if T would. though.” . Talking earnestly to one another they returned to their little home. WM. CUSHMAN, Age 13. Stonington. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Her Visit to the Country. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write you a story about the good time I had in the country. 1 went to the country last Friday af- ternoon. Saturday morning I played around the house and had a good time, Sunday Rover, the dog, kept looking in the wall. After awhile we saw a little woodchuck. The dog barked loudly and papa made a long wire hook which was awful sharp. He saw the woodchuck in the wall and he got hold of him and pulled him out. The dog grabbed it and shook it until it was dead. He ate a little and then buried the rest. He ate that an- other day. Next door they keep a (great many turkeys and geese. I was afraid of them at first, but not now. These tur- keys are tame. You can pick them up, even. When you whistle they will all come running tg you, thinking you have something for them to eat. They had a good many chickens around, too. Where T was stayving they had three cows which were named Blacky, Reddy and Spot. I went huckleberrying one afternoon and got two quarts. One night, after supper, my cousin took her bicycle to have me learn to ride. I can ride quite well now. I had a lovely time in the country. LILLIAN J. BREWSTER, Age 11. Norwich. The Child Was Saved. Dear Uncle Jed. One cold winter's night a fire broke out in a tenement house near the railroad station.. An alarm was sounded and the firemen shed to the place. A little girl w. sleeping on a couch in the parlor. When she awoke she was nea suffocated with smoke. A fireman was standing at the foot of the ladder. He heard the child scream and he rushed up the ladder. he caught her in his arms and brought her down to the ground. The house was burned but the child ‘was saved. The fireman received a large sum of money from the child's parents. Don't vou think it was a brave act? MARY NOLAN, Age 12. Taftville. Haying Time. Dear Uncle Jed: It is haying time and the farmers are taking in the hay. not so much hay this vear it was so dry. I think the houid take in all they can. and cows want something to cat. Don't vou and the Wide- ales think, I wouid like some of Wide-Aw s to tell us re down there. The early apples are getting-ripe and too our southern how crops heas been womanly diseases. drugs. | for my | cherries—blueberri one Now everybody Uneeda Biscuit ery to you. A food to live on. ers. ' Until a short time ago, scarcely person in’'a thousand had ever tasted a really good soda cracker—as it came fresh and crisp from the oven. enjoy the crisp goodness of fresh baked soda crackers with- out going to the baker’s oven. Stamina for work- Strength for the delicate. them to the little folks. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY can know and bring the bak- ) Give Five cents. so are huckleberries, blackberries, wild | have gone by. We Wide-Awakes must write good | stories and letters to Uncle Jed so we | will have a good name. Everybody will eall us Wide-Awakes, not Half- Asleeps. JONAS BIENENSTOCK, Age 12. Uncasville. What She Saw at the Circus. Dear Uncle Jed: Last Tuesday I went to the circus. I think it was very good for so small a circus. Before going into the large tent I saw the animals. There were seven elephants, five big ones and two little ones. One of the big elephants said “Papa.’ In one of the cages was a leopard with two little cubs. They looked liked kittens. g Tn other cages were mgnkeys, polar bears, llons, tigers, cockaloos, reindeer and a zebra. ! ‘The animals outside the cages were the elephants, camels and kangaroos. After looking at the animals I went inside the big tent and saw all the funny clowns and the acrobats. Also the bareback riders. Five of the elephants did lots af tricks. Then came the cowboys and Indians.’ The cowboys showed the way mail was carried in '49, and what the cowboys would do to ‘a horsethief. There were lots of other things too. After the circus was over I went to a side show. “There were two freak animals. One was an animal with five legs. He walked on four and the other hung off his shoulder. The other freak was a pig. The man who showed it to the people sald it was born so and lived ten days, and had been taking a long alcoholic bath ever since. ' It was kept in a jar of alcohol and it had two bodies, six legs and a perfect head. I had a very good time and expect to go to thé mext circus. CATHERINE DESMOND, Age 12. Norwich: Helen’s Puppies. Dear Uncle Jed: I am now visiting my grandma’s, but I live in Portland, Conn. At home I have nine little puppies. They are pretty, active, and cute. Some are Dblack and_ white and others are black and tap. I have pick- ed out one which is black and white and is blind one eye. but he is very | odd, for he has hair that is fluffy. I wish the people of the Wide Awake Circle could see them playing. HELEN NICHOLS. Aged 12. Montville. Making Dresses For Her Doll. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write and tell you and the Wide Awakes what I've been doing for my dolls. Mother showed me how to make hems and to do feather stitching | go I have made quite a few dresses dolls, and I feather-stitched a petticoate with canary colored silk for my best doll This morning I am going to finish a rag doll. As one of my friends is coming to see me and play awhole this afternoon. 1 am going to pick | berries and have some cake and sur- | prise her. | My sister and I have a real nice! playhouse and we fixed it nearly all| ourselves with u litile help from our | prother; and we have some good times in it. I guess we will have a party in it. FLORENCE WHYTE, Age 9. Willimantic. The Black Cat Got the Birds. Dear Uncle Jed: I thank you for! nice book. T think the Tom hooks are 1 think you would happened to our nest full of little speckled eggs. Well. a few days after I wrote to' you there was a nest full of little birdies and they e very cunning. Every morning we would leave food Woman’s Relief De Kmgers Viburp-O-Gm Compound, the womanm's comely, know fer years as “Woman's it has positively provem its great viles Im the trestment of Relief” sinca R will help you, if yeu avre a Sufferer from any eof the s pecallar to women, which can be reached by medicine, It has helped thousands of other sick women, as grateful istters from them claariy describe. It eontaing 2o poisedums and water near where the mother bird could get all she wanted. One morning when we were dress- ing we heard a great deal of noise among the birds, and going to see what was the matter, saw a large blaek cat only about a foot from the nest. My brother and I each got a broom and chased her away and we thought we would never see her again, but evening just at dusk who did we see coming but the same black cat. This time we gave her a cold’ water bath and two or three of them. For almost a week we saw no more of her, but Fourth of July morning we got up only to find the nest torn to pieces and our little birdies gone. I suppose the black cat had them for her breakfast and we have not seen her since—good thing for her, If we don’t catch her. EDWARD G. MORAN. Norwich. How He Helps. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought T would write you ahout my home. My father hag three horses and one cow. We have also twenty or thirty chickens and have six little chicks. This week an old bantam hatched six little ones and I am glad to say that none has died. 1 drive in the cow to be milked. In our gardens we have planted tomatoes and cucumbers. I like to chop wood, and also to water the garden at night. My father gave me a large box. I turned this into a fort with a door and some lnopholeg in it. We_ also have five kitten ASA HYMAI Age 11, Norwich . A Boy’s Ride. Dear Uncle Jed: During my.exam- inations at school 1 had 'to write sev- eral stories, but was given the title and an outline, and had to make up As my teacher thought this story was very good, I am going to write it for vou. A’ Boy’s Ride—During the winter of 1876 in Montana a messenger boy was sent on horseback to General Custer, who was fighting Indlans near the Big Horn river. The boy was warmly clad as the wind was cold and the snow was fall- ing fast. The horse had a beautiful silken coat. The letter which the boy carried was in a sealed envelope. The night was dark and cold and the moon was not to be seen. The woods were full of wild animals. The groan of Custer’s men and the fighting Indians filled the air. At last the boy met General Custer and gave him the letter; Custer gave black | and LARGE ACREAGE RESTORED TO PUBLIC DOMAIN. Six Millions Acres of Withdrawn Land Classified by United States Geological Survey and Restored to Entry. Six_ millions acres of withdrawn public lands were restored to entry during the months of May and June upon approval by the Secretary of the Intetior of the recommendations of the United States Geological Survey. This action was the result of examin- iation and classification of the lands | by the Survey, those restored either 1 having been found not to be valuable | for power sites, reservoirs, coal, phos- phate, or potash deposits or having been definitely valued as coal lands, and rendered available for purchase under the coal-land law. Of these lands relieved from cos withdrawal nearly 21-2 milllon acres were in the State of Colorado. Five and a half thousand acres were also withdrawn in Colorado as water-pow- er sites. In Idaho 1,100,000 acres of coal and phosphate withdrawal were classified restored, and for water-power sites approximately 10,000 acres were withdrawn and about the same acre- age restored. B In Montaha 250,000 acres were re- stored as being noncoal-bearing and about 1,000 acres as not valuable for water-power sites, while about 150 acres were withdrawn for that pur- pose. In North Dakota nearly 1,400,00 13(‘!‘05 in coal withdrawal were classi- fled and restored. In Oregon! approximately fi5 000 acres were restored as nonoll-bearing lands and about 12,000 acres were ~with- drawn T water-power or Teservoir sites. In South’ Dakota over 330,000 acres were relieved from the coal with- drawal. In Utah about 1.500 acres were with- drawn for water-power sites. In Wyoming over 47,000 acres of coal withdrawals were reopened to entry and purchase; approximately 87,000 acres were withdrawn for clas- sification as to whether they are oil- bearing lands, and about 304,000 acres were restored as nonphosphate lands. For all States the total withdrawal during the months of May and June were over 116,000 acres, and the total restorations were over 6,000,000 acres. The total outstanding withdrawals on July 1, in all the public-land States ‘amolmted to 68,609,289 acres, of which more than 58 million acres arein coal- land withdrawals. These lands are heid pending elas- sification by the Geological Survey and as rapidly as they are found to be mineral bearing they are either valued and placed on sale (as in the case of coal lands), definitely reserved pending appropriate legisiation by Congress to provide for their dispo- sition (as in the case of potash or phosphate lands), or held subject to development under departmental reg- ulations (as in the case of water pow- er or reservoir reservations); or if they are found to be nommineral in character they are restored to public entry. This work of classification {and valuation is being prosecuted by | the Geological Survey asrapidly agthe appropriatibns provided by Congress | will permit. FIRST COAL -DISCOVERY. Richmond Basin in Virginia Prodwoed Fuel Century and a Half Age. The presence of coal in the Rich- mond Basin of Virginia was known as far back as 1700 and mines were opened and worked at as early a date as 1750. In 1780 shipments were made to some of the Northern States. In 1822, according to R. C. Taylor, in his “Statistics of Coal,” the production amounted to 54,000 short tons. For nearly a centnry the Richmond Basin maintajned some prominence as a coal producer, but in 1882, when the Poca- hontas district was opened, followed shortly afterwards by the development of the New River fleld in West Vir- ginia, the mines in the Richmond Ba- sin were put at a disadvantage operations were for many years prac- tically suspended. During the last four years, how- ever, new life has been introduced inte the Richmond Basin areas by the re- iopening of the old Gayton mines in Henrico County. For many vears jafter the opening of the southwestern Virginia and the southern West Vir- ginia coals the mines of the Richmond Basin lay idle or were worked only | for a restricted local market. The ! Richmond Basin is the only area pro- 4 | ducing free-burning, coal. which lies Shaifed t6 o e At aiehil 'y | PRI 0 o o storm came up and the boy grew frightened as he passed a_cave full of | Confiding World. d mals. g s 4 | That this is a confiding world 1s The horse was given to him when He named de. BREHAUT, he arrived at Montana. Custer in memory of hi; JESSIE Norwich, N. Y. it A grenn fruit law amendment by the | i still proved by the sale of hair restor- atives by bald-headed men, and the peddling of books on “How 'to Be Rich” by youthtul peddlers warking a$ $2 a day. Florida legislature preseribes that | e oranges shall not show more than 1.30 | The tinplate production of ' the per cent. of acld and grapefrult not | United States last year—1,750,000,000 over 1.75 per cent. when shipped before | pounds—was 10 nes as great as it November 5. | was in 1899 Protect IV Horlicks g ORIGINAL For nervousmazs, irflt:.bfll&. eannet gpraiwe it strens encugh. medicine on earth.” Franco-German Drug Co., 106 West 129th Street, New York- AND ALL DRUGGISTS. r. Krugers Viburn-0O-Gin @Gows pains, and ether I,;mvtonn of general femalo ' weakness, this comapound has been found quick and safe. . 1 think Viburn-O-Gin s the best remedy for weak/ women, It @oes me more good then any medicine 5 have ever'taken. 3 Fouwll feel ltke writing o simfian lotter If you &y $1.25 a bottle with directions. 1 think t is ths bestiwomand®