Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 14, 1913, Page 4

£ :ie’P. QLD. 120 & week; 500 & manth; $8.00 & y m.;-. Postoffice at Norwich, Cotns. 08 e, it O Room. 2, oom Blliding. Teiephone 210, Norwich, Thursday, Aug. 14, 1913. Murray £'he Circulation of ‘tne Bulletin The Uullctin has the largeac efr- 1400, and in all of these plnces 1t ‘s cousidered the loeal datly. Eastern Commectient has forty- Wine towss, omc humdred amd sixty- Wive postoffice districts, amd sixty smral (ree delivery reutes. . ¥he Bullciia s seld n every jewn snd on all of the B &, b teuice in Eastern Conmecticnl CIRCULATION 1901, average..... 1908, avarage....... 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 GROWTH OF CANADA. The American citizen and American ®apital ought to be reciated by Canada for she is being largely bene- Sted by both. Millions of American dollars are Invested there and since fhe ceniury opened about a million Americans have settled in that coun- #ry and are busy develpping its re- sources. In the past thirteen years Canada Bas Increased its population by two and a half millio of whom over #9100 went from tnis country, to 374900 which' came from 'Great Brit- sin and 656,90 from countries in which Fnglish is not spoken, hence & milllon and three-fourths of her settlers are able and reliable and be- ‘come at once profitable subjecis. Amerfcan emigration to the north s falling off in numbers, the total for last year rising only to 130,000 to 150,- 08 from the homeland, and from other lands came to Canada’s shores 236008, It is noticeable that a great Smajority of her new comers are de- sirable settlers and add to her strength and weolth, AGAINST A SURPLUS. While God through nature is gen- #rous to His people, those who act as Feapers and disiributing agents defeat @vine bBemeficence by their manifest sreed 1t is now aw established rule @f trade i there is a surplus crop of anything that cannot be: preserved in <old. storage to destroy enmough of it 25 sherten the supply and raise the #Fowers with a big crop this year, and fhey are far from giving thanks and appear determined that the people @ball mot have a cause to. ~ This is ‘what the Rice Growers association has #814 to the harvesters: “If we could destroy a million and a quarter sacks ©f the rice, getting nothing for it, the ®alance would bring more than the . Whdle would bave brought: but by ex- % Porting 1t (at cost of growinz or low- _*r) we get something and we get it fout of fhe way.~ This fornishes one of the reasons he cost of living is kept high. There 48 0. little morality or conception of Justice in tfade that they make waste ©f or send out of the country good cerenls and frults and vegetables so #s 1o keep the supply down in the market whem it i= plentiful in the fleld. Such conduct ought to be con- sidered criminal and be severely pun- fshed by lavw. NATURAL OBSTACLES TO PROG- RESS. Tt fs a strange circumstance in the fe of communities that the lay &f land may promote or check prog- ess. Townsites divided by rivers or proken up by hills and settled serially 4n villages and brought together un- der city government never acquire #i3e get-together spirit which a whole 4nd hamdsome site inspires. Where there is en east-side and a west-side, br an upper vitlage ,central village mnd lower village, they have fealous- des and prejudices which do not die when their interests have become umited, Cedar Rapids, Ta, was a river-di- . ¥ided ety with an island in the cen- fer and in all fssues the east side got @yerything bhecause it had most vot- :-::a there was no good fecling be- ) the east side end west side, After this topographically divided mni(v hiad gathered 35,000 pop- and sdopted & commission of government, the idea of a centrs developed, -and the isl- in the river was selceted for it, this ferwerd neutral movement alf wid prejudices and Cedar VWM thereafier knew mo east side or st wide, but grew in beauty and sctivemess and its new future had w of harmony that assured suc- K all day tefling how clovers she has g iletin - 'SAFE IN MEXICO! _ Gov. Lind, the special envoy"from ‘Washington, is, we are told, safe in Mexi¢o, Since his predecessor Was safe, and from reiiable sources We learn that ~ in settled portions American residents are protected, there appears te be no serious cause for alarm with respect to the official conduct o Mexico, We believe President Wilson's dec- laration that our relation to Mexico is friendly, is pleasing to a great ma- rity of the people of the United tates, The only stirrers up of strife here are among those who would pro- fit from interference and the strug- gle that would follow. § The president only = requires that Gen. Huerta shall show that he is the choice of the people of Mexlco before this country recognizes him as ‘the head of the government. It would not be in keeping with American tra- ditions or professiong to recogmize, a flitary usurper. v Linds mission is mot inspired by a meddiesome spirit on the part of our government, but by its concep- tion of homor and the guardianship which a republic should have over its subjects and its principles. ‘& OUR POULTRYMEN. From a picture printed in The Con- necticut Farmer of a part of the at- tendants at the Poultry Breeders meet at Storrs Agricultural college recent- Iv, it appears that most of qur poul- trymen are women, for there appéared to be in this picturesque group six ladies to each gentleman. While this may be too large a pro- portion of women to the sterner sex it 1s a recognized fact that more wom- en than men give attention to-the poultry business and make both mon- ey and fame at it When it came to talk of the fncu- bator chicken as compared with the hen-bred chick it was admitted that the artificlally-hatched motherless chick was a weak and uncertain crea. ture both with reference. to shapeliness and vitality 1t was also brought out that the weight of the eggs s effected by the fullness or meagreness of the rations given from day to day, which appears to show that It fs a just requirement that eggs shall be sold by welght to the eonsumer. The meeting was confessedly pleas- urable and profitable to all who were in attendance; EDITORIAL NOTES. The severest drouth vear does mnot wilt the bank clearings—it takes a democratic reform goverument to do that. ‘ Never talk to an emplofer about: what your ancestors did, fop his in- terest is wholly wrapped up in your own performance: The man in the beaver hat says a thing of beauty is not always a joy forever. He had to get married be- fore he realized it! Some women can get as much fun out of a swatter and a flock of files as a hoy can peeking through a hole in a baseball ground fence. President Wéson says our attitude toward Mexico is that of friendliness and the powder makers and gunseliers say he is a killer of businésa. France claims that the cocktafl had a French orig: This saves me\‘face of America a little bit if the cocl !l_"; did somewhat effect its mouth, Uncle 'Sam’s telegraph bills for con- gressmen have risen to $50,000 a year: but the new allowance of $80 each will reduce this amount by about half. The man who thought life would be worth living if Monday didn't come round any oftener than Saturday, showed how matter rules over mind. A gentleman shocked by present feminine styles of the opinion it will not be long before the ultras wi only be obliged to remove their slip- pers when they g0 to bed. A Virginia farmer who 200d rogds has just refused an offer of $3.000 for a farm that cost him 31,500 because of the improved ap- proaches. That's converting. To receive a letter from a friend .in the mountains when the g.ass marks 93 degrees in the shale telling Svu how many blankets ccps under sort of relieves one's distress. When we come to think of the songs we sjng how do they compare with “Dandy Jim of Caroline,” “Miss Lucy Long” and “Jim Alons, Josey,” songs our fathers sang before the war? A Michigan woman has asked for a divorce because her husband made her eat horse meat. If the horse could not go faster than a mile in twelve minutes this is a sufficient ground for action. The people of a South Dakota ‘town voted tninimously for a- candidate for the postmastership, but President Wilson appointed another man. Who best represents democracy Statistics show that there Is six times as much distilied liquor drunk in this country as there was when the prohibitionists begun work; but real life shows that there is mot ope drunk now where there were tweive then. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. The Boy Scouts. Mr. Editor: T noticed in one of th editorial columns of ycsterday’'s Bul- letin the following ariiele: “The Boy Scout movement is reco: nized as a good thins by eleven na- tions because in principle it preserves peace by preparing for war, in all probability that state- ment was made with the best inten. tions of boosting the Boy Scout work, but the phrase “preparing for war’* may be literally translated and be very misleading, There are twe words that have ab- aolutely no place in the expression ot the activities of the Boy Scouts of America; they are “war” and “mili True, they may have simple marching drill, but emy for the pur. pose of teaching the value of dise pline, Other than that, arme of any character, or “sham hattles” are ab- solutely prohibited, So it weuld be well for the press, upon hearing of such “battles” or dis- plays among hoy scouts, to asceriain cther it is an organization of Boy Scouts of Amreica or some other bod- ies that are known by the term Boy Sobuts, while they muy have ne af- filiation with the great nationai move- ment. It this idea of military traning that &0 belitties the B S. A, move- {:\pm in the eves of tertain classes of eople, and we wish o do all in our power o place purselves before the public as we shouid be piaced. BENJAMIN M. BRUCH, n g Aiiiat, i abss L0 b W opposed | Assistant Scoutmas will find. it very interestin " Rules for Young Wiiters. i 79 K polated artioles will wiven Do not use over 2y word storfes or letters only L Py o EeTos o e ds il communications to Us- clo Jed, Bulletin Offcs. < “Whatever you arée—Be that Whatever you say—Be trul Straighitor s e honest Be a IIDJ eise but you POETRY. “How the Leaves Came Down.” “I1 tell you down,” The great iree to his children sald, how the leaves came “You're getting sleepy, Yellow and © Brown, Yes, very mieepy, little Red; It i3 quite time 'to go to bed.” “Ah!” begged each silly, pouting leaf, “Let us a little longer stay, Dear Father Tree, behold our griet! "Tis such a very pjeasant day, ‘We do not want to go away.” So, for just one more merry aay, To the great tree the leaflets clung, ! Frolicked and danced and had their way, [} | Upon the Autumn breezes swung, ‘Whispering all their sports among. “Perhaps the great tree will forget, And let us stay untll the Sprin If we all beg, and coax, and fret” But the great tree did no such thing, He.'smiled to hear their whl!verlng.] { “Come, children, all to bed!" he cried, | ‘And ere the leaves could urge- thelr | prayer H He shook his head, and far and wide, Fluttering and rustiing everywhere, | Down sped the leaflets through th air. I saw them; on the ground they lay, Golden and Red, an huddled swarm, Waiting till one from far away, ‘White bedclothes heaped upon her arm, Should come to wrap them safe and warm. ] The great bare tree looked down and smiled, | “Good night, dear little leaves;” he said, And from below each sleepy child Replied “Good night,” and mur- mured: “It is so nice to go to bed!™ —Unidentified. N UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES, 1 think I will tell the Wide-Awakes how the winds made a little boy sad and glad. Benny was wishing to have a flower garden, and being unaware of the tricks of the wind or the way of plant- ing seed right. he went out one windy morning in April to plant some holly- hock seed his mother had given him, He tossed the séed to the ground, or thought he did. and raked'the place over and firmed: the soft earth and waited for results; but he did not get any, and was disappointed for a whole year. The next vear he planted a garden and 4id better; but his own garden is bardly worth telling you about, since he got most pleasure from the holly- | hock Seeds he planted and never knew the wind took them to a poor invalid woman’s yard next door and dropped them under her window, where they grew and blossomed much to the pleasure and comfort of the old lady, who did not know where they came from, but loved them just as if she had planted them for herself. It was Benny's thoughtful mother who at last discovered that old Aunt Tilda’s hollyhocks were the very ones she gave Benny, and that the wind had carried them over the fence to bloom beneath the inyalid's window; and the flowers afforded her so much pleasure and comfort that Benny was glad the .wind plaved the trick and taught him the lesson to be thousght- ful of and kind to shut-ins, Aunt Tilda never knew before what a message of love flowers could bring to the feeble, or how they could de- light an invalld by their wonderful habits, and as long as Aunt Tiida lived she wanted the hollyhocks to grow un~ der her window, and Benny felt as if he had peen commanded by the winds to see they did not fail to grow there. These stray hoflyhecks brought a Dlessing to both and revealed to them one of the true missions of a flower. WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Helen Nichols of Montville, Dad- dy's Girl 2—Edward Kuchle of Mansfield Cen- ter, The Boy Scouts. 3—Jonas Bjenenstock 'of Uncasville, Lost in the Dismal Swamp. 4-John F. Barnett of Jewett City, The Boy Scouts. 5—Edna Calkins of Kissimmee, Fla., Automobile Girls at Chbicago. §—Sadie Crawshaw of Plainfield, A Girl from America. 7—Asa Hyman ot Norwich, The Iron Boys as Foremen, $—Lillian Etter of Baitic, Sue, a Lit- tle Heroine, ‘Winners of boaks living in the city may call at The Bulletin business of- fice for them at any hour after 10 a. m, on Thursday. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Wiiliam Cushman of Stonington; 1 ved the prize book you sent me | fand like it yery much, "I think the hooks. are worth trying for, Amos Leomis of Lebanon; Thank | you very much for the book yeu seat me, My sister Is reading it te me and I enjoy it very much., I am glad you Wwrote in it, Florence Wihyte of Willimantie; Thanks ever so inuci for the nice prive book I received entitled A Sweet Girl Graduate. I think Mrs, Meade's books are just lovely, Ella E, Nyo b South Eoventry Thank you very much for that beek, I | love books dearly. I haven't read the 1 ook vet because 1/have had eompan; . ARna. Firih of Baitici: 1 send many thunks for the prize book I received, I have staried to read it amd think I rgaret Somers of Norwici i yoU Very much for the lavely . be. prize book you gave me much surprised and my tion, 3 : i Ticksed and surprised mithiny Took, "oy, a New Fashioned Giri. B like such books as that. [ Eva Alperin of Mansfleld Four Cor- ners: I have received my prize book. 1 thank you very much. it all through. | o STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. Autobiography of a Kitten. I am a little black kitten, and my name is Poko. am considered a smart kgitten, and to tell the truth I think I am; but mother says I must not be vain, so I suppose I mustn't 1 have not stayed at my mistres; house much, as my mother wished me to live in ‘the woods with her, and a few nights ago I followed her to the house and had a nice warm drink of milk, after which I took a nap. 1 have frolics with Cooney and Rab- Dbit, two other Kkittens, and as they have just come in the.house, I think I will go and have a wrestle with them. so goodbye, . with best wishes to_all Wide-Awakes. MARGUERITE FARROW, Age 14. Southbridge, Mass. “Honest Abe.” In 1830 Abraham Lincoln was a clerk in a country store. One day a lady came to buy some- thing and she pald Abe 16 cents too much. When she went away Abe found what: she had done. Affer the day’s work was done Abe welked 20 miles to pay back the sixteen cents. Any ever after everybody ¢alled him ‘Honest Abe.” JONAS BIENENSTOCK; Age 12, Uncasville, Conn. Our Trips to Ocean Beach. The Sunday school of the Methodist | church took—~a f{rip to Ocean Beach | about three weeks ago, and as I was spending my vacation in Baltic the superintendent of the school said that I might go with them because I had been a scholar -of the school before. So I was very glad. Now that he had sald this I was wishing with all my heart for the day to come that we should go. After my waiting, the time did fin- ally come, all the scholars and par- ents get in the two special cars, and at eight o'clock the cars started for the Be: . How the horng did blow, and the'children did shout and sing all the way, which made many people run to the doors. ‘We reached the Beach at ten o'clock and as soon as we landed we all ran to the office of the bathing house and got a room and suit, including me. I enjoved myself very much at the Beach, being in the water most of the time. ‘We had to start for home at 6 o'clock from the Beach and all seemed to have had a good time, and most everybody was sunburned. ‘We reached home at eight o'clock. SADIE CRAWSHAW, Age 12. Plainfield. The Old Oak Tree. 1 am the old oak tree by the school- house. Travelers often sit under the cool shade of my branches. The boys and girls sit and play around my trunk. 1t was many years'ago since I was born. One day long ago before the white people came, a tribe of Indlans camped under me. I could see the dark faces of the boys as they scam- pered around me. Indian squaws hung their babies in my boughs. There were no schoolhouses, or fine public | buildings nr streets, only a vast wil- derness; it§ inhabitants were the wild beasts and the Indian. And now, my story is ended. ASA HYMAN, Age 11, Norwich. Captain Smith and Pocahontas. John Smith was born in England | over three hundred years ago. He was one of the first Englishmen who came to live in America. After many adventures on land and sea Captain John Smith with some men went to Jamestown. At first the settlers had a hard time. They were not used to hard work and Smith had 8 hard time to make them cut the trees down and plant corn. They were in need of food a great many times and in danger. of attacks of Indians. One dav he was going along a for- est path looking for food when an ar- row whizzed through the air and the | Indian war cry rang in his ears. The Indlans captured him and drag- med him to_their chief, Powhatan. Smith stayed in prison for a long time. Then they decided to kill him. Clubs were raised over his head when a lit- tle girl rushed in and threw her arms around his neck. She prayed so much that her father let him free, He was a friend among the Indians after that. —Unsigned, The Oar Weed. The oar weed is a very fine sea- ‘weed growing to a height of ten or eleven feet. It lives in deep water, ‘where it is always covered even at the Jowest tides. It is often thrown up by the waves. however, and you' must many times have noticed its long, thick stem and flat platelike leaves lying upon the shore as the tide was going down. The stem of the oar weed Is often used for making the handles of knives. When it is quite fresh it is so soft that the tang of a knife blade can be forced into it quite easily. But if it is put aside for a few months it be- comeg hard and solid like horn, and holds the blade very firmly. The roots of the oar weed are not like those of other plants which grow in the ground, but are very, strong suckers. Seaweeds do not send their roots down into_the ground, but merely cling to the surface. That is why they are so easily torn up by the waves. LILLIAN BREHAUT, Age 15, Bast Norwich, .N. Y. Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston nearly two hundred years ago, When he wag seventeen he went to Philadelphia and began printing news. Papers. Franklin’s father was a “poor man. Benjamin went to school two years: | when he was ten he had to leave school and help his father fill candle molds and other thinge, but he did not like this kind of work so his father put him in a printing office With his broth- #r James Franklin. Benjamin did not like working with hig brother go he made up his mind to_run away to New York, When Franklin got there he conld not find worle so decided to go to Phil- adelphia, Frankiin arrived in Phil- adelphis on & Sunday morning in 1723, As he walked along he came (o a baker ghop, He went in and bought three penny rells, As he pessed a house he moticed a Preity Youne lady who séemed to want ugh at him, Her ni Deberah Resd, e e g he: number of years later he married prige books the bg.'{)l my collec- | E x : Tiv ' and Gatcn erabs when It 1n low e, |in a 200, and so they know what the ried over other thi T wenf the lot quite a few times. I can the pony all alone A ¥ e People have st in our cottage uite & few times. ‘It 1 very nice over They can go. down to the I have lots of fun over there. BMILY BABC ‘Age 13. 01 Mystic. e What Lucy Found in the Attic. Dear Uncle Jed and Wide Awakes: I will write and teil you of my find the other day. There are two ells on our house, and the ome on the back side is an old one that used to be part of the old house, so they say, and up overhead is a place that has always. been boarded up ever since the new house was built, and that was fitty-two vears ago, . Well, we heard as we thought a swarm’ of bees up in there and papa tore off some of the laths and it was 8 big yellow jackets nest, so, of course, I _wanted to look up there. I got up on the step ladder and I could see something that kad pegs on it 'up there. . - Mamma helped me get it down and it is some kind of an old musical in- strument. We don't know the name of it, It is made of wood with five pegs on it for strings on the top: and on the back there s a round knob not quite opposite the pegs. Some that have seen it say it .may be an old dulcimer. but they dan't know for sure. They think it is over a hundred years old. It has kept well. It is in good e, the wood all sound, but there are no strings. Uncle Jed, dld you ever see any- thing of the kind? 1 would like to know what it is. 3 LUCY A, CARTER. Age 11, Bcotiand. (It Is difficult to tell what the board with . five pegs in it is from your description. The duléimer had holes in it to aid the sound and many pegs for strings. Someone may be able to tell us what this five-pegged board was used for.—Uncle Jed.) LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. The Floating Tree. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought'I would tell you about our camp on the She- tucket river. We go to_the camp all the spare time we have. We have clam chowder dinners and very good times and also a motor boat. One night we stayed later than usual and it was quite dark going home. 1 was steering the boat and the first thing 1 knew I was on top of a floating tree.” We could not go any farther. We tried and tried to get loose, and it kept growing darker and darker, and we thought we would have to stay there all night. 1 was very much frightened, but my mother told me to keep very quiet, After an hour and a half we paddled ashore, tree and all. When we got straightened out we went home without any farther trou- ble. Now we always make sure to get home before dark. as we do not want another such experience. LILLIAN ETTER. Age 1l Baltic. An Alligator for a Pet. Dear Uncle Jed: I suppose most of the Wide Awakes have seen alligators one about which I'm going to tell look- ed like. One day last summer an old man who lived next door to us brought a little alligator about two feet long and gave it to my little brother and said Be had caught it in a swamp. We put it in a tub of water with a big piece of wood in it. This was for the-alligator to lie on when he wished to_come out of the water. ariye | right upon this comes the nervous strain of caring for the child, and a distinct change in the mother results. There is nothing more charming than ahappy and healthy mother of children, and indeed child-birth under the right conditions need be no hazard to health or beauty. The unexplainable thing is that, with all the\evidence of shattered nerves and broken health resulting from an unprepared condition, and with am- ple time in which to prepare, women will persist in going blindly to the trial. Every woman at this time should rely upon Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, a most valuable tonic and invigorator of the female organism. In many homes once childless there are now children be- cause’ of the fact that Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound makes women normal, healthy and strong. If yon want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi= dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by & weman and held in strict confidence. we had in Montville, but I think they have no idea how bad it was. My friend and I were going to the postofiice when we. heard the whistles blow. We got frightened and ran home. From my friend's home we could see the flames. Every one around there was in a panic. They were afraid the tanks would blow up, for they were full of gasoline. The firemen from Norwich came down. . About night they got control of the fire; but I think they had a bard fight to do it. The fire started about half-past nine Wednesday, and some of it is still burning today (Friday). I do not think there was anyone hurt. T hope there will never be anothet fire like that. HELEN NICHOLS, Age 12. Montville. What | Saw, Dear Uncle Jed: One day my aunt and 1 went for a walk. Suddenly auntie said “Oh, look at the ants.” ing a ball made of earth. It was about the size of a golf ball. T don't see how they could get it in thelr home. While they were rolling it, it fell in a little hole. The ants pushed with all their might, but could not get it out of the hole. 'So auntie and I helped the ants {and took it out. Then we continued | our walk. I think there was food inside the ball, don’t you? / JOHN M. HOGAN, Age 9. Putnam. 3 A Good Deed. We fed our pet on bread and such things, but he didn’t seem to care for them. ' Perhaps he would have prefer- red little darkies. After a while we gave him away, but the boy’s mother made him bring back our alligator because they were afraid of it. We gave it away again in a few days, and so we were rid of our strange pet. EDNA CALKINS, Age 13. Kissimmee, Fla. Sne Went Crabbing. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write and tell you about my vacation. 1 went to Waterford for a week with my aunt. Sunday we went to the cove at 9 o'clock and stayed till 5 or 6 o'clock. ‘We went crabbing in my uncle’s boat and got two dozen crabs. Then we- ‘went for a row. We went Saturday at 1 o'clock and came home at 9 o'clock Sunday night. AGNES BOBSEIN, Age 12. Norwich. She Bought Her School Supplies, Dear Uncle Jed: 1 have been very busy this week helping mother, and 8s a treat she took me to Willimantjc. It is seven miles fram our house. We started early in the morning. It was nice and cool, and we enjoved the fresh air and the fragrance of the wild flowers and shrubs along the Toadside. . One of the stores we went into was the five and ten cent. In it I saw so many nice things. There were dolls, dressed and undressed, toys of _all kinds and no end of school supples, but what bothered me was 1 had 80 cents and I didn’t know how to spend it, so T thought T would buy my school supplies while I could pick them_out, myself. Your loving niece, FLORENCE A. WHYTE, Age 9. Willimantic. A Picnic at Storrs. Dear Uncle Jed: Last Friday, Au- guest 1st, I went to a picnlc at the col- lege. All the members of the Corn club were there. II had a fine time. In the morning we played baseball We ate dinner under the trees, We had sandwiches, salad, sweet corn, and ice cream. After dinner we walked around the place, visited the greenhouse amd saw a banana tree. There were bananas on it. . ‘We went into the building and elect- €d a president, vice president, second vice president, secretary and treas- urer, In one of the grreenhouses wers grapes, the same kind as come from Ttaly. In ‘the barn we saw ihe horses. Then we went to look at the corn. It was very large. We went through the orchard and over to the potatoes. We saw the place where the students ghoot. They have rifies that shoot three miles. % We saw a lot of sheep. Then we went down to the creamery and saw whers they keep the cream. They tested some milk to see how much fat was in it, and we watched how the men did it, Then ‘We saw snakes in ofl and fish in ofl. I saw o wolf and a lot of interesting things, A whiie afler he 'lsn 1o sea frie Philadelphia electricity, went baek ta Bos- Qnd‘u‘,‘ hutflwwé‘ back «: Again He disoevere He disd in 1780, ROBY BWATR, Aae o Chewder Plsnis, TUnelo Jedi I will tell you abeut | Dear T came home abeut § o'clock, Yours truly, EDWARD KUCHLE. Mansfeld Cente; The Montvlile Fire, Dear Unele Jed; 1 think all the Wide-Awakes have heard of fhe fre we went Into the museum. |’ Dear Uncle Jed: Last week I went 1bathing in the Oakdale pond. I had ‘an adventure, not with Indians or ani- mals, but listen and I will tell you all about it. T am a very good swimmer and was | swimming out about six rods and was ! swimming back and when about one rod saw three girls under water. I swam as quick as I could and was | just in time. The three girls were under water about one foot when I got there and pulled them out and saved them from drowning. I 1 will tell you how this happened to {the girls, as they afterward told me. | The girls were going to a deep hole {all the while, but did not notice this. Something got hold of one of the girls® | other girl's hand till the three girls were holding each others’ hands, and went down into the deep water from which I saved them. | Hark! Did 1 hear Uncle Jed and jthe Wide Awakes say that I did a g00d deed? JONAS BIENENSTOCK, Age 12. Uncasville. (f this is a true story, Jonas de- | serves a medal for his heroism.—Uncle | Jed.) A School He Wi Dear Uncle Jed: One day while 1 was in Brooklyn my cousin took me to visit a school. Thig school is very large. It has 11§ teachers and 5,00 pupils. ~They have their playground on the roof, but when it rains they play in the cellar. | 1 ‘room for the girls, room for the boys. school is for the girls, the other part for the boys. Thev have three 100 horse power engines. Another day my cousin took me to Battery Park and Castle Garden. 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