Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 31, 1913, Page 4

- Sorwich Zu iletin mud Vgcsén (XN 117 YEARS OLD, price, 12¢ a week; 60c a menth; $6.00 a - Norwich, Thursday, July 81, 1913, e RN S T T The Circulation of The Bulletin - The Bulictin has the Inrgest oir- culation of amy paper in Eastera Cemmecdicut, and from three to four Gimes larger tham that of amy ta Nerwich, It fa delivered to over 3,000 of the 4653 houses ia Ner- and read oy mimety-three per of the people. Im Windhum delivered te over D00 houscs, Putnam amd Damiclson to eve: mad in all ef thewe places if red the local dally. era Commecticut has forty- towss, onc humdred amd sixiy~ postatfice districts, and sixty free delivery reutes. Bulletin fs sold fm every and om all of the R. K. b. tre in Easters Coamceticats CIRCULATION 1801, average. freth | H HFPH . 4412 ----5,920 1905, avarage Week ending July 26 8.508 {that bt —_— Have The Bulletin Follow You Readers of the Bulletin leaving the city for the seashore, mountains, rural resorts or Europe can have the Bulletin follow them daily and keep in touch with home affairs. Orders should be placed with The Bulletin Business Office. THE HORSE MUST GO. There which horses d be human One of the most ruel of has always the fire depa n in which horseflesh has never been spared. The au 1 engine is becoming so common mow that cities are finding it diMcult to get rid of the horse-drawn how good condltion the i a report from a Ma “Before Brockton begar apparatus in its fire depa never mind are in. Here ity aity using motor nt there were 42 Norses in use ! + depa ment, at a cost for maintena of $11130 a year. A the city gets its four mew pieces of motor apparat September there will be but at & cost 24 horses, for maintenance of $5: stoy tus w thinks P n so man drawn fire apparatus now.” Those who tarry ine will have more junk heyl! know will move nd than wise AN INSTANTANEOUS CENSUS. No wonder you want to know what that is. It is an hour's count of New York's city children to see what they wers doing in the found of the 158,636 childrer streets, and it 127.000 wers engaged in playing some. sort of game and 30,000 were “just doin* nuthin’ ” but listening and 1o ing and learning a thousand and one things which would them more harm tha~ goo0d. ere were 904 reling and boys were enguged in some chamce game, like pitching pen- nies, ete The games played | h ar favorites as % clen follow the Ie in the corner. Jumping rope where and all the girls took a tie interest While over 1600 chance plays of some were finding loafing agreeat clusion drawn fr organizers of People $s that In the 1 f unhe nd dangerous conditior do their_best to pla healthful game AN ECHO OF GETTYSBURG. dres: President W a " tysburg is still the talk in the sc The people of the country do not agree wpon the merits the president’s able, meutral address, and 26 Bot "strange that the perfer: listener thought it lacked . of, the flag and the recognicio of trus heroes which they deserved was a difficult position for 1o ocoupy, for the object mote perpet an man of antagonistic forces and a bett knowledge of one another. That gre Gettysburg peace mecting E world-wide wonder from view. In rih here w freedom of criticism and in they do nct. The Richmond s prompted by o the president’s speech at Geptysburs to ns “With the batile fifty vears behind e with a southern man in the pres- fdential chair, and with a southern chief justice, what sort of speech should the president have mado? A tion he flag’ doubtiess. & denial of his own heritags ns a goutherner and a Virginian, an Insult $5 {he Confederate veierans who wero t There was ro necessity for an of- fensive word or act, and the presi- dent's @peech may be worthy a place Beside Lincoln's great orutlon; but it will not be admired for what it con talned so much as for the caution wiiich prevents it from baing entaus- = patriotic, The president have sald much more than he ‘with oredit to himeel? and with. offending anyons pro- | al pezce by fraternization | KNOCKING DOWN BUSINESS. of paralyzing it free list products the old tariff biil did. than is over 2 per cen out of employment. ‘The tural products and pro- Visions there has been an increase in Imports of .about $75,000,000, and yet this bill places nearly all the agricul- tural produets of the nerth on the free list, There can be only ome ré- sult, and that will be a Sweeping re- duction of wases and a vast loss to producers in general” Of course, a few dunderheaded parti- sans will call Senator Smoot an alarm- ist, but It this tariff bill is passed as 1909, Tn agri the results will st is tr SUBSOIL PULVERIZING. is not strange that the roots of room, but it is queer that the means of breaking up the subsoil for orchard trees was not sooner found out. A North Carolinan who set out cres to fruit trees tells an inter- story of his s with dyna- < & deep Pulverizer of the sub- He put one-half a stick of 40 dvnamite Into a 30 inch hole per cent bored with a dirt auger, and found the sub-soil pulverized for 2 feet on either the hole. He writes the Conn Farmer that “not ome of the twelve hundred and fifty trees was killed by the dry weather, though. T it twenty-five that m other causes. This to me is in light of the fact ) per cent. of trees planted during spring of 1911 n fairly good ground even in the old to replan a the n hile mine flourished prominent nurseryman who se- from my Delicious trees growth was extraordinary red scions h n. One of my neigh- s he voung trees thriving old roadbed that dry season, Fe's some horticulturist!’ € T know of the art, however, s gathered from observation and from reading such literature on the subject of fruit growing as I could ure. The real cause of the thrifti- those voung trees lay, not in any specidl care of mine, but fn the d condition of the soil under- m, which was thereby en bled to hold in suspension sufficlen moisture to keep the trees in excellent »ndition during the dry weather | “I feel that T have already been more than repaid both in satisfaction nd in a financial way for the expen- diture of six cents per tree that T made |t dvnamite, and certainly the returns are not vet all in.” EDITORIAL NOTES. An automohile can be guaranteed to carry anything safely excepting a mk or af Many people know the value of tr. Ing to a bright, but they fail be- c they love to open their mouths. Most of the wonderful medical af coveries are written up once, but if they do not take they are never heard Kissing may spread disease, but the ath rate of this town doesn't seem ndicate that it is adding much mis- nd complains that the athletic s no manners, but why should when her whole aim is tof hen herself? vl 1 desire to make a man mad just soberly advise him to K We are all human and can- not endure too much! The man in the beaver hat wonders why a runabout which seats two looks soc while a motorcycle designed s just social enough? } o n thief who says that re- | forn re institutions that make class worse, should be reminded | that nothing can injure a decayed egg. No hen was ever guilty of laying t but a fresh egg and the hon- would be astonished to see wh ittributed to them in the egg | stores. | AR Americans venturing into Mexico should wear their breastplafes on |their hacks since Mexican methods | make the protection of the back most | important. We learn from Baltimore these are | siest times America or the world | has ever seen. New England needs a irply of the glasses Baltimore is wearing The extension of the Norwich trol- ley line to Maplewood cemetery is a not a favor, and asked for | alone would seem to be an obtain- {able arant worried-faced man in Norwich |is not disturbed by a visibn of hard | times—he 1= wondering how he can get away from his wife so as to attend nday baseball. An Arkansas legislator has had his t five times by Heaven seems to be against being advised to resign by 10k A Jersey mosquite 1it on a chauffeur that he lost and wrecked it. The cars to be capable his car ap e, of fifteen who had A seen enoush of (he wicked world told runaway boy [those who shipped him homeward: “I know what pa hus behind the door, but 1 am golnz right home and take my mediclr Tn San Francisco 50,000 women have reglitered to vete at a special ele tion with reference to bonding the eity for the purchase of etreet trolley lines. They are o good cxample to men who on lest some of the clése fitting gar- menis should £plit as their wearers sunt the running beards of the trel- ley limes Politicai tariff bantering has always resuited in bringing forth herd times and the present tinkering with this economic policy of the government is knocking out trade and gives promise P Senator Smoot of the finance committee, recently point- ed out the revolutionary character of the new tariff, which carries to the rer a billion doliars more of Benstor Smoot affirms that "a the | & Use pen snd ik, mot pom country suffered s a result of the Wilsen tariff law in 1896, but the average rate of duty now Tower than was the case under the last Demecratic tariff, when the busincss of the natlon was alyzed and 3,000,000 persons thrown imperts of manufactures under the existing law have increased about $200,000,009 since show that this} lightning, | stay away from the polls, The jdlaphaneus zown has net ap- peared” in Norwich yet, but there is | some anxiety on the part of leokers Rules for Young Writers. 1. Write plainly on one side of the only and iumber the passe. 8. BShert and pointed articies will be given preference. Lo not use over 24 words, 3 Original stortes or letters only will be used. 6. Write your name, uge and ad: dress plamly ai the bittom of the ory. ; Address all communications to Un- ele Jed, Builetin Ofice. . “Whatever you are—Be that; Whatever you say—Be iru Straightforwardly act, . Be_honesi—in fact, Be nobody eise but you" POETRY. My Shadow. 1 have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what cun be the use of him is - more than 1 can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me when I s jump into my bed. The funniest thing about him is the _ way he likes to grow- Not at all like proper children. which | is always very slow; | For he sometimes shoots up taller, like | an India rubber ball, And he sometimes gets So little that there’s none of him at all. He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make & fool of me in every sort of way, - He stays so close beside me, coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me. he's a One morning, very early, before the | sun was up, 1 rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an ar- rant sleepy head, Had stayed at home behind me and | was fast asleep In bed. —Robert Louis S avenson. Gentle Jane. Jane arises with the lark And takes a center 'Tound the park. Till breakfast’s ready, in the gym She exercises with a vim, For walking June not often cares, She much prefers to slide downstalrs. v rides in her new bubble, Regardless of prospective trouble, She coasts down hill with might and main; trudges up and starts again -saws with Fido, but that isn't fair, he bounces so hard he files up In the air, UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES, THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE Boys and Girls Department {Count Up the Sunny Days, by C A. | desk | the first one of the series that I have read and it is very interesting: Adelle Demuth, of Baltic—1I received my prize book and 1 thank you very mueh for it. It is very interesting: ‘WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Anna Firth of Baltie, Grage Far- lewe's Senior Year at High Seheol, by Jessie Graham Flower. 2—William Fi Gushman of Stenins- ton, The Hickory Ridse Bey Seeuts by Capt: Alan Dousias. Lydia M. Lathrep of Seuth Can- terbury, Automobile Girls in the Berk- shires, by Laura Dent Crane: 4—Margaret 8emers of Norwleh, Au- tomobile Girls at Chicage, by Laura Dent Crane. 5—Emily Baboeck of Old Mystic; Automobiie Gils in the Berkshires, by Laura Dent Cfane. ¢—Fannie Brown of Willimantio, A World of Girls, by Mrs, L. T\ Meade, 7—Lucy A. Carter Scotland, of Jones. Y s—Florence Whyte of Willimantic, The Benhurst Club, by Howe Ben- ning. Winners of books living in Norwich may call at The Bulletin business of- for them at any hour after 10 a. m, ay. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. Our Trip to Hartford. During the month of May the seventh and eighth grades of the public school of Baltic took a trip to Hartford. There were fourteen in all who went, We started from Baltic on the half past seven car and reached Hartford about ten o'clock. We saw there the state library, the pitol, the Morgan Memorial, the state prison in Wethersfield and very many other things. The most interesting thing to me was the capitol. In the capitol 1 saw the real. charter that was stolen and hidden in the Charter Oak tree, the on which President Lincoln wrote the proclamation which freed the slaves, an old wheel that had Dbeen in one of the battles of the Revo- lutionary war, am old trunk of a tree that had been in a battle and had about six cannonballs in it, and many old coins of the United States; but the two things that interested me most, and also a few of my classmates, was seeing the old torn flags that had been captured by brave and honorable men of Connecticut, and our trip to dome, We rlgo visited the house of repre- sentatives, and afterwards the senate. After we had been to all these places we started for home about six o'clock and reached Baltie about half past nine ‘We had a very pleasant trip and we all enjoyed it very much, including our teacher, Miss Donevan, ANNA FIRTH, Age 13, Baitie *When you go to the beach you seo | the little tots playing in the sand, and | they have lots of fun piling it up and | seeing it washed away | ‘Wide-Awakes are children old enough | to ask what sand Is and how it is that It lines the ocean in hills and beaches. Sand is made up of little crystals | and was once solid rock, and if you will | sit down and examine it you will find | the yellow is feldspar, white quartz and the remainder crystals are the | akes | ot a, and|these are the crystals which form granite. but which have lost their power to hold together. The | sand on the beach and the sand hills represent mountains of stone decayed. | These beaches are formed by the | force of the sea and the winds, and do | you.know the sea forms the barrier | which keeps it from encroaching upon | the land, and in a way so that the sea strikes it a sidelong blow instead of a square one. The sand hills are built up and torn down by the furiously battling winds, and the sand shoals are made up of particles of sand car- ried by the tide with the help of the sun, The sun heats the sand when the tide is out and it becomes dry and greasy, and then the gently rising tide lifts it and carrles it until ripples or grasses sink it. No one has ever tried to tell how s many solid rocks became separated into sand. It was the work of ages of time, and these little grains of sand have a history which reaches back beyond the time of all other living things, And the sand is known as grit, 8o at last man has come to say the man who | is plucky has sand. There are lots of may | learn from the sand if you lend your minds to it. a things you LETTERS OF ACKI\OWLEDGMENT William F. Cushman of Stonington: I received the prize book you sent me and find it a fine hook. I am very much obliged for it Edward G. Moran of Norwich: T thank you for my nice book. It is the i | had invited her to attend | wanted to do her work new The Maiden’s Visit to the Fairies. There was once a poor little servant maid who was very industrious and and her master and mi d ner greatly. She worked in s a way that peeple thought she must | have fairies. help from the One day a letter came to the doer and she taok it to her master because she was unable to read it. She was greatly surprised to find it was her | own letter addressed from the pixies. These pixies were good fairies who a ehristen- ing. She .was half afraid to go, but after a while she went and she wa led into a door on the aide of a moun- | taln. The christening was a very | magnificent one and she was kept for | three days in the pixies' home. Then her pockets were filled with =old and she was sent home. She found that there was mistress in_her home and a new | when she | servants came to do fit. e was amazed to hear that she was seven years with the | pixies instead of three da: ALFREDA BROSOFSKE, Age 13. Norwich. My Visit to the Museum of Art. | three times since. It was about a_month ago I visited | New York city. One of the interesting | places I visited was the museum The Museum of Art is a large white | building which is situated on $2 street | and Fifth avenue. To enter the muse- | um T had to go up many white marble steps. As we entered the museum we | saw many fine tapestries. One of the | tapestries explained the siege of Jeru- | alem, This tapestry Is called a Goethic | apesiry. Goethic tapestries are sup- | posed to be religious ones. As we walked farther we entered the Swiss room. In this room was a Swiss cra- | dle, a table and a spinning wheel with flax on it. On the whole this room is | a very beautiful one. In another hall we saw coffins with mummies in them. The coffins are in & cases. On some of the coffins are | carved the faces of the mummies. This | was the Egyptian room. In this room | I also saw the jewels and money | which was used by ia the olden times} I also saw pyfamid the Egyptians and an_obelisk It T was to tell evefything I saw I| would need about four books. 1 When I was asked how I enjoved myself T told them I enjoved the visit very much MINNIE SUBOFSKY, Age 13, Norwich. [} The Cup and Saucer Limpet. This is a very curious creature in- About four y s ago I started on a | | journey with three other youns men. We were going to walk around Con- necticut. After all provisions neces- sary were procured we started on our | trip. | After leaving Stonington we walked to New London, where we ate our din- | After this we walked to Lyme, | where we stayed over night. | £ in the morning we ate a light breakfast and started on our journey. | Nothing of any consequence happened until wo reached Gullford. We retired early and at about six in the merning | started off. About this time we had a little adventure. | Jack and I went ahend of the others and a short tme later saw a rough looking tramp, We paid little attcn- tion to him until he came up to us and said he wanted our money, He pulled out an 6ld urmy revolver. It happened we hud quite & sum of money for our expenses and we tried {0 Keep him | talking until the others arrived, e and fired a shot inle the | grew angr ir, This hurried on the others, whe | soon eot rid of the tramp. In the afternoon we reacied Bran- ford, The morning following we were | | pretty tired and stayed the next night tat Nuw Hi | While passing tHreugh a small tewn 7ashington depot we had a hard went inte a stere to get ome erackers and the storekeeper ran out | the back doer to return with the cen- gtable,, He teld the cemstable to ar- Test us, He took us to the leckup, A Walk Through Connecticut | real robbers' capture. from which we climbed out a window | and continued on our w. The constable said we were sup- Pposed to have robbed a bank, When in Litchfield we read of the The next day we walked to Win- ! chester and then to Hartford. Here we had another adventure While in front of the capitol we were | accosted by a policeman. He took me | to the police station and when my trial | came off next day I was charged with | attempted murder of the governor by | throwing a bomb info the capitol. 1| was acquitted only after the court was | startled by & wild-eved man coming in | and saylng he had done it. He had a | small infernal muchine with him end | I was let go, | In time we went through Stafferd Springs, Willimantie and Norwich, . In Norwieh I was in trouble again, I took & short eut and while walting for the others was pulling myself up or shiuning a lree.. Two men came | along and took me te the insane hos- | pita), where 1 was released in a short | a time, not being (e escaped lunatic I|We went home on the five o'clock boat. | had been taken for, We soon were in Bteningten when we arrived just in time to see the Stoningten High sehool win Dball game frem Westerly High. This game decided who should win the cup for | which both fought hard, but we ar- | rived in time to sce eur hoys claim it, | Ho ended our trip which we had planned and looked forward te so eag- erly 3 WHLIAM F, CUSHMAN, Age 13, Stonington. | In the night came _ But if you want to - oad - was look . instde its shell inst: de. Then you will see that in the corner 15 a_curved plate which really looks very much like a tiny tea- cup, ‘while_the shell itself surrounds it Just like s saucer. And if you were to examifie the animal which lives in- side it_very carefully, and to pull out its long tooth-ribbon, you wouid find at the tp of it a curious litlle organ which looks just like a teaspoon. So that we have cup, saucer and spoon all in one! Perhaps you may wonder what the odd little cup is for. Weil, the fact is that the muscles by means of which the animal clings to the rock are very strong indeed. So, of course, there must be something else very stro to which they can be fastened, an this cup-shaped plate gives them a very firm hold, . o JESSIE I: BREHAUT: Bast Norwich, Ni Y: 5 Gen. Custer and the Bird’s Nest. There were net many men who were as brave as Gen: Custer; nor were there many whe had eaptured mere prisen- ers than he had. Theugh he was brave, he was gentle te dumb ereatures. One day when they were riding ever the plains he saw a frightened little }!h‘ldl and a nest and seme young birds in ft. If he and his seldiers went straight on 1h9‘ birds weuld be erushed by the herses' feet. Instead of marching straight on he ordered a change in the line of march. ‘When the soldlers saw the nest they understood that their leader had a ten- der heart, ’EDWARW BURNS, Aged 13, Norwich, The First Matoh One hundred years ago,, matches were not known. In the days of our great grandfathers light was made—by striking steel against steel or flint. The matches had a strange begin- ning. About the year 1832 there was an up- rising in Gérmany and many peop were arrested, among them being the chemist’ John Kammerer. Kammerer was permitted to work in his cell. Early and late to invent ‘white phosphorus. When this substance was placed upon the tip of a splint, dipped in sulphur, and rubbed against a hard body, jt pro- ! quced a flame. The g news of the invention spread like wildfire. The German govern- ment grew alarmed and made Severe laws against the use of matches. Driven insane by disappointment poor Kammerer died a few years after mak- ing this invention ROSE DUPREY, Aged 13. Taftville, : THE TENT CATERPILLAR. T was very much pleased with my prize book. When I first came to the country this summer I went to the barn and found a cocoon, all white and fuzzy, sticking to a piece of wood. I took it down to the house to find out what It was, but mother-said we had no book of butterflies and moths. I took It up- stairs and put it into a box, and wait- ed several davs for it to come out, One day when T went to look at ft T found a little brown moth, but its wings were crippled so I eould hardly tell what it was. Mother said it was the moth that comes from the tent caterpillar. I then commenced to look for the chrysalids, but did not think at_the house to ook under the eclapboards until one Sun- day when we were coming home from | church my brother saw that the house was covered with them. Mother and I got right out to pick them off. The me:hs that come from the coceens lay their eggs on wild cherry and apple trees. One day mother brought in a num- ber of wild cherry branches where the moths had laid their egzs. The cggs were aronnd and were covered with a substance. She counted the one of the clusters and there were about three hundred and sixty, and one hundred and twelve clusters, and we have burned up as many more the branch glue like eggs in LYDIA M. LATHROP, Aged 11. South Canterbury. Celia Thaxter. Celia Thaxter was born over sixty years ago. She lived on the Isles of Shoals about ten miles off the coast of New Hampshire. Her father kept a lighthouse. Celia Thaxter liked to play among | the ‘mother looked around, she saw the rocks. She liked to watch the birds | there was one little toad gone. So and feed them. She liked to watch the | she and her babies went out to look waves and vessels, too. for the little one. They looked all Celia Thaxter wrote many poems |around. They found it dead and they about birds. She wrote the Sandpiper, [ were sad. Spring, Wild Geese, the Swallows, and Christmas in Norway. Celia_Thaxter, died in 1894, DOROTHY RASMUSSEN, Aged 9. Norwich The Indian and His Crow. There was once an Indlan who had a crow of which he was very fond. At night he slept with the Indian and he fed him with his own hand. Once the Indian, whose name was Black Crow, was on the warpath and was afrald to shoot anything, beir most starved. His crow flew away, but flying back from tre to tree, as if there was something in one of them, as indeed there was. The Indian’s attention was soon di- rected to the cr There up in the op of one tree was a big bear. The Indian took his tomahawk and knife and climbing up soon made an end | of him. The Indian’s life”was saved by the crow, whom he rewarded by giving him a part of the beas TONIS KIRSCH. Uncasville, LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. A Visit to Ocean Boach. Dear Uncle Jed: Last Wednesday I went to Ocean Beach for the A little friend, his mother's aunt, his aunt and I started for the beach We tools the eleven o'clock boat. The day was bright and the sCenery was beautiful. The wind was strong and nearly blew off my hat. I saw. the Thermos bottle factory. There was a big chimney and it had “Thermos” printed upon it in big red letters. I saw the Yale headquarters. The house where the boys stay is quite large. It had a large flag on it T also saw the Harvard headquar- ters, The sheds where they keep their boats were kept lovely, but the house was very odd and painted red. I saw my uncle’s cottage at Gales Ferry. € We had a long sail before we came to the drawbridge. In about two min- utes we landed at the New London dock. We then took the Ocean ¥each trol- ley. Wo had a very pleasant ride. 1 saw many beautiful summer homes. We finally came to the beach. After we got settled we: had our lunch. After we had finished we went down In the sand. My little friend went in bathing, but 1 did not, I met my cousin and we walked around and had seme candy und ice eream , At four e'clock we teol the' trelley, When we Norwich we were very tired, I hepe all the Wide- Awakes will have a nice summer, MARGARET BOMERS, Age 11, Norwich, Conn. reached He 8aw a Woodcock. Dear trneié jed: Bvery Saturday I ge to the Raymend Hill library, 1 seme- times ride with Mr. F. Tiooker, the mail carrier, some of the way, beeause he does not go all the way (6 the library, he studied | ~siven to it vy)a‘: | | | toaa, | he got a ladder and toek them up in {1 like to do very much when they | {an hour and picked | went with my big brother, We theught ‘told one of the .Vufl' avout, lu Wide-Awake circle and.. stories_and letters to Uncle_Jed be cagse he does not take The 5 _ Saturday, July 19th while I was walking near the itbrazy 1 saw o large vellow bird with spatted brown breast and a brown back. He had-a long bill: 1 think it was a woodcock. Dom’t you and the Wide-Awakes think.so top? One of the boys with witom 1. g0 to the library saw one in his yard dead 00. g I enjoyed readips Dncle Jed's talk tothe Wide- Avale, last wevk = | / JONAS BIENENSTOCK, Aged ¥ Uncasville. Her Kittens, Dear Unele Jed: T am going to tell you abeut my kittens. We have a cat and it had three kittens a week ag There was one for my sister and broth- ergnd I s e mother's name is Bob, because it has a beb tdil: We've :‘mema others Tiny, Tabby and Fiuff, They have just opened their eyes. Tiny is eray and wlite, Tabby i3 & tiger and white and Fluff Is a tiger: 1 will clese new: NELLY COTTER, Aged 11 Beotland, Conn: o Dear Uncle Jedi I have net writ- ten to you in a long time. I think it is_about time I did. I have been to school all this year. I was not late once. For three or four years I have net been late, There is & girl in my school that has not *been late or mbsent since she has been to school, and she Is in the sixth grade now. She will be In the seventh grade next year. Oh, I have told wrong. She has been absent one-half of & day and that is all. I will go to high school next year over to Btonington. When school was out (Jume 18), T picked strawberrles untll July 4, 1913, Then the straw- berries were almost gone. I go to Bunday school and church I haven’t missed a Sun- T didn’t miss a day last ear. We get prizes for going every unday to Bunday school I do not g0 just to get a prize, but I go because I want to. I wag baptised the last Sunday in May. I am going to try and get a camera some time or other. I think I will close as it is dinner time. EMILY BABCOCK, Aged 13. 0ld Mystic, The Flax. Dear Uncle Jed: I am telling you about the fiax. It is a little plant that grows In the fields. One day a farm- er came in the fields to cut the flax. He took it to a machine. Afterwards he took it to the miH to be woven into linen cloth. They took it to the store to be sold. The next day a woman came in the store and she saw the linen eloth. She thought she would buy it. She brought it home and the linen was made Into a dress for a little girl. 2 BSTHER HYMAN, Age 2. Norwich. What He Found In the Yard, Dear Unele Jod: I am now visiting my grandpa and grandma's home, but 1 live in Newark, N. J. I come myself from home to New London. My moth- er bought me a half ticket and my grandpa come for me in New London. When I come to Jewett City my grandmother give me a long sweet kiss and then I went into the yard and found my little banta rooster which I left when I moved, and I found lit- tle chicks. I hope my little baby brother Lloyd will come and we will have all the fun. EERNARD M. WECHSLER, Age 7. Jewett Cil The Mother Toad and Her Bal Dear Uncle Jed: 1 am going to tell you a story about the mother toad and her babies. A mother toad once took her babies out beside the road to eat some bugs and insects for supper. After a while the mother toad heard an automobile coming. So she said: Come babies? Come quick?" She hopped quickly to the house, and her babies followed her—all but one little toad. It stayed out beside the road to eat another pretty insect. Be- | fore it got it there was the auto- mobile. The baby toad tried to jump quickly. But the automobile came fast and ran right over the poor little ‘and the toad was dead. After “If he had only minded me," sald the mother, “he would not have been dead.” ie was put In a pretty box and all his folks went to see him buried. \IE E. BROWN, Age 10. Willimant They Feed Their Young Every Day. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write and tell you about a famlily ot robins I am very much interested in. The other day my brother saw three veung robbins underneath a maple tree on our front yard. Upon looking around he found they had fallen out of their nest. He called my ‘father who got a box and fixed a nest in it for them, Then the tree and tied the box there. At first 1 was afraid they would not o near them because they would think the box was a trap; after a while they overcame their fear and now they feed their young everyday. ALLIE KRAMER, Age 1L Five Quarts of Berries From Three Bushes. Dear Uncle Jed and Wide Awakes: I enjoy reading about the Wide Awakes, going on pleasure trips and how they are improving their vaca- tion, but as I have no grandpa or grandma, nor mo own cousin that 1| can go to visit, I have to stay at home on the farm. | Now the berries are ripe I go with | mamma and help her pick them which | are thick. The other day we went out five quarts of | blue berries off from three bushes. I| think that was doing well. | I wish that some of the Wide Akak- | es lived nearby so we co 1d go togeth- er and they could set some for their mammas. I send in a recipe which I have learned to make with the berries. Berry Cake—One cup of molasses, two esgs, one half cup of lard, salt and cinnamon to taste, one teaspoon soda, one cup huckleberries, two cups of sweet milk and flour enough to make a soft batter like any cake. This makes a great big loaf, Bake it In your mamma’s dripping pan. hope #ome one will try it and wil have good luck, I think it Is nice. LUCY CARTER, Age 11 Scotland, The Circus Parade. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write to yeu about the parade. I think all childrén would like to see It. It was quite long and was nice, I the clowns were the best; and that the 20 oxen looked nice The animals all lecked tired, 1 like the little elephant, “muggins,” best, The parade all looked good. We saw it pass three times, ISABBELLE BOBSEIN, Age 10, Norwich. Not An Up-to.Date Party, - Dear Unele Jed: 1 wender if any “THE TRAIL ©F CARDS; . AT'S THE MATTER WIiTH FATHER? ...... “A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN,” . “A SEA DOQ" —DANIEL FROHM, HIS GREATEST MASTERPIECE AM P! JAMES K. HACKE : —IN THE < PRISONEKR OF ZENDA IN 4 REELS, IN ADDITION TO_OU ..... Selig’ Smuggling Stery . Cemedy-Drama Te— 1 O-DAY R REGULAR DRAMATIC AND COMEDY PHOTO-PLAYS—USUAL TIME AND PRICES SEATS NOW ON SALE DAVIS T BR HE FRICES $1.50, $1.00,75¢, §0c, 35¢, 250, ATRE ADWAY 0 ONE NIGHT ONLY—MONDAY AUGUST 4th ‘Whitney Opera Co., Direc on F. C. Whitney, Presents THE WORLD COMIC OPERA THE G:O0COLATE SOLDIER 9ame Company that played the Colonial Theatre Boston, with the Oris nal Colonial Theatre 8ymphony Or chestra, Signor De Novillis, mm-g 30—PEOPLE—60 60—PEOPLE—60 of the Wide Awakes ever have a] party in their own lttle play house. One morning I gathered some ber- | ries from around the fences. ters. In the afternoon we got every- | thing ready and arranged the berries and crackers on the table in the lit- tle cups and saucers that paper gave us_for Clristmas. years and has siooped over to the cor- Tespon Pres! en “age limit" dents, ton B. Sibley sheriff of Wind- I got so|ham county is the best man in the many of them that 1 planned to have | county for the place and a party among my brothers and sis- | knows it. everybody There is no such thing as either 1o the position of Sheriff Sibley. Supposeing for Instance our sheriff should feel 1ike quitting next year of | course his constituents would at once Just as we had everything ready | see that he bas earned the right to re- who did we see at the gate but one | tire, but in spite of that fact, the only of my schoolmates! ‘We all gave a shout of joy! and said: “Come on, Margaret, just in time.” time eating up the goodies. “Hide Chase. Then brother John thought of the | bay mow. so we took turns and seek,” “Tag,” the hay. be to | way to retire and retire properly would accept the nomination if forced upon him, accept the election which We all sat down and had a real good | will certainly be his if he is a candi- ton B. ward in|a eandidate. jumping off the scaffold down into|and Geese, or Welch rarebit This we enjoyed best of all | played with the ‘When | date, in spite of the democrats and bull we had finished we plazed some games | meose attachments. Wwhich were “Drop_the handkerchief,” | will be reached in the The “age limit" case of the and “Tom | Windham County sheriff, when Pres- Sibley is called to a higher re- or refuses to again be There will be no Fox games Windham County It wasn't an up-to-date party but|sheriff's office as long as Preston B. we all said we had a good time. Best| Sibley 1s willlng to serve the public. wishes to al. FLORENCE WHYTE, Age 0, ‘Willimantia, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. About That Age Limit. Mr, Dditer: The Willimantic eor- respondents of different papers are consoling themseives considerably these dnvs because Sheriff Sibley of | this county has reached the “age| }mit?” Age lmit in the position of | county sheriff is entirely within the | mind of the fellows up in Windham | who have been Barkises for some C. B. MONTGOMERY, Packer, Conn., July 28, 1913. Japan, in 1912, exported 1,782,883 gal- lons of sake, valued at $1,107,276. TradeMack fu 34 hosia. 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