Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 4, 1913, Page 9

THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE Boys and Girls Departmen: Rules for Young Writers. L Write plainly on one of the, paper only and aumber the y-g. 3. Use pen and ink, mot pen 3 Short and pointed articles will | be given preference. Do not use over 250 words. 4 Origiral stories or letters only will be used. { 8 Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story. n:;dress all communications to Un- cle Jed, Bulletin Ofice — “Whatever you are—Be that; Whatever you say—Be true Straightforwardly act, b i A Be honest—in fact, RO d Be nobody eise but you." F; N £ POETRY. & Why Tigers Can’t Climb, The tale is of the Tiger and his Aunt, who is the Cat. They dwelt among the jungles in the shade of Ararat. The Cat was very clever, but the Tiger he was slow; He couldn't catch the Nighau or the heavy Buffalo; His claws were long and pointed, but his wit was short and blunt, begged his wise Relation to struct him how to hunt, He in-« The Cat on velvet pattens stole along the quiet hill, this,” she whispered, “Nephew, | is the way to stalk your kill.” The Cat drew up her haunches on the mossy forest couch, | And this,” she said, “my Nephew, is the proper way to crouch,” | She hurtled through the shadowms like a missile from a sling; And that, my loving Nephew, is the only way to spring!” | Now Oh, hungry was the Nephew, and the Aunt was sleek and plump; The Tiger at his Teacher made his ‘first apprentice jump; He did it very ably, but the Puss, more quick than he, Escaped his clutching talons and ran | | i | up a cedar tree. | To purr upon the Snarler from the | bough on which she sat. “How glad 1 am., my Nephew, that I didn’t teach you that!” And, since that curtailed lesson in the rudiments of crime No enterprising Tiger has discovered how to climb. e R LR PR UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. I am going to tell you Wide Awakes | something about bdlloons and their | ! Because airships have come into use balloons have not wholly gone out of use, and are not likely te. Perhaps vou do not know balloons wre used to sound the afr just as lead his are used to sound the depths the sea. The earth is enclosed sphere and outside of that nothing earthly can pass. The sea Is its deep- in 5 1-2 miles deep, but no exactly the height of ths we of in an atmo- pa one nows atmosphere. By the use of balloons it has been learned that the atmosphere is more than four times the depth of the deep- est part of the ocean. It is not such a great while ago that a sounding balloon was sent up in Italy, and it did not collapse until it was 23 miles above the earth; the greatest height reached by such a bal- loon in this country was a little, less than 19 miles. Attached to these sounding balloons iz a little machinescalled a meteoro- graph which registers and records the altitude, the temperature, the humidity and the velocity of the wind, and this Is how they learn that as you go up! in the air toward the sun it BTOWS | colder, and at six miles it is as cold as the polar regions, 30 or 40 degrees below zero. The lowest temperature during the highest flight was over 70 | degrees below zero at 12 1-2 miles high, | It is the friction of the rays of the sun striking the earth which heats up | the atmosphere close to the ground and makes the earth productive. Men cannot live over five miles high, the cold is so intense and the alr so changed, - Men have been up five miles in bal-~ oons, but two miles is the highest point yet reached in afrships, although by the aid of Inventions it is expected man will by and by go much higher in these airships than they bave ever been able to go in balloons. LETTERS OFT(;KNOWLEDGM ENT. 1 the book you it and it was George Farrell of Norwich: to thank you for me. 1 have read interesting wish gave very Esther Page of Mansfield Center: thank you very much for the book. enjoy reading it. : 3 1! Veronica Rocheleau of North Frank- | lin: I thank you very much for the | rnzs book I received. I have started | t and found it very interesting. H Jessie L. Brehaut of East Norwich, Y.: Thank you very much for the prize book you sent me entitled Uncle Sam’s Boys as Sergeants, by Han- cock. I have read it and found it very interesting. | Agnes Aberg of Taftville: Thank | You very much for the prize book you { sent me. PRIZE BOOK WINNERS. 1—William Cushman of Stonington, In Camp on the Big Sunflower. 2—Hattie M. King of Lebanon, The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip. 3—Robert Ruchner of South Wind- ham, Captain Kidd's Gold. 4—Winifred Holton of North Frank- lin, A Girl from America. 5—Vivian M. Stone of Hampton, A World of Girls, §—Helen Malone of New TLondon, A Bweet Girl Graduate. T—Andrew Bellefleur of Taftville, In Camp on the Big Sunfower. §—Cathamne Desmond of Norwich, | PoHy, A New Fashioned Girl, Winners of books living in Norwich may call at The Bulletin business of- ce for them at any hour after 10 a. m, Thursday. WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. STORIES The Boys’ Club of Lakewoed. Winier was nearly over and the boys | who formed the Hoys' club s Lake- ‘Wood were busy enough. This was their first summer, and all were anx- ous to have a good summer of it. A social had been given in the win- ter and enough had been taken in to buy the camp fixtures and two large wall tents. About two miles up the river there was a small island. This was selected for the camp, and a good spot it was. On the 10th of June the boys put their tents up and got the camp ready; after corting all the things up the river in.boats. That night they slept in the tents, and next day the camp was fixed up in fine shape. There was Z0od fishing near by: the boys all liked to swim and the camp was near a fine swimming hole. Bats and balls there were in plenty, and a ball team was formed from the best material The boys had swim- ming contests, and many trips around the island in boats were made. Several of the boys got up an expe- dition to go to Black Rock Island and early one morning started out. They rowed to the island and then ate a lunch they had taken along; after eat- ing they went up the large hill; when they reached its summit they could see plainly their little camp. Just as they were about to go down one of the smaller boys exclaimed: “What’s in our camyp down there?” This made the other boys look up; they could see what looked like a large bear in the camp. All the boys ran down the hill at breakneck speed. The boats were soon shoved off and rowed as speedily as possible to the camp. They found the food had been disturbed a little and the water bucket was entirely empty. After a careful search they found the rum- mager—a large Newfoundland dog! They decided to keep him in camp as a mascot. On the Fourth of July they went to Lakewood. where their ball team was ito play Riverhead's best boys’ ball team. The Boys' club came off victorious iand returned to camp highly elated All were browned and when the season was termined to have the summer. healthy over camp and were de- the next WILLIAM CUSHMAN. Stonington. A Bear Story. Tom Smith and. Frank Peabody planned to go camping for a day. They got their lunch ready and started. They put tkeir lunch in the hollow of a tree, instead of carrying it around, while they explored the woods. At length they said it was dinner time. But you ask “How did they know it was dinner time if they didn't have a watch?* This is their answer: “We can tell time by the sun.” But I think their stomachs told them, don’t ~you? 1 They started back to the tree where they left their lun When they got ch there, to their surpris. gone, but a bear was th both much frightened he lunch was e. They were and at t when they could speak, Tommy said: “Come, let us go to the hunter's home which we saw yesterday.” Luck was with them. They found the place and the old hunter was | there, too. He gave them something to eat. Afterwards they showed him | the bear, which had fallen asleep be- | peath the tree, and he shot it. | When the lads reached home all their playfellpws wanted to hear their | adventure in’ the woods, so they were | told this story If Tom and Frank wanted to ify their listeners they . would have to tell it to them mére:than ten times | for they found much amusement in the story, JOSEPH T. GILMARTIN, Stonington, My History Hero. My favorite history hero is Lincoln. Although not a hero in battle, for he | took part in none, yet he was a hero | in his own way. { Of course, no one has the same opinion as another, so one , might ¢hoose Washington, another Napoleon, and someone else would have still an- | other person in mind w 0 to them was the greatest hero of all Washington was a great man, great- { er than Lincoln in some respects. He carried on a great war-and came out victorious. He then started a nation | too that ended in prosperity. | Lincoln came in as president long | after this to str ten out a tangle in the nation Washington had started. He did his work well and in the end | the two sectlons were united as befora the trouble commenced But that doesn't tell why I admire | Lincoln more than anyvone else. He began poor and went higher in the end than anyone else in the United States, at least. He lived more recent. ly than Washington and is in that way nearer to us. In his pictures he | s ‘no different in appearance than a8 though he lived in these times, while Washington in his queer clothes and wig is like nothing we see nowadays. I don't ‘doubt someone else could write of Washington and find as many | reasons for liking him more coln as I have in just te. HATTIE M. KING, Age 14 Lebanon, The Painted Top. Tops are generally very common | indeed on the sandy pa i the shore. You cannot possibly mistake shells for those of an | for they are come much like rather and are generally ored they are and worn fAa strun necklace g together ed for as ornamentiing ladies sses. The painted top e of the most beautiful of all these shells, for covered all over with spots and str and bloiches of irlet, and crir and pink, and p e, and white blue, and yellow. Eut all this lovely | coloring is only on the outer coat of the shell, which is very easily chipped off. The consequence t these shells are very often damsgzed by he- ing tossed to and fro by the waves and_though you may often find twen- ty or thirty in the course of a morn- ing, not more than two iree, per- { haps. will be quite uninjured Tops are very useful creatures to have alive in an aguarium, for they keep the gl sides clean from the tiny green weeds which so quickly | grow upon them. They do this by | means of their tooth ribbons, and vou | see them crawling about on the | walls and mowing down the | just as a gardener cuts the | s on the lawn JESSIE L. East Norwich, .— A Kind Act. Durlng the vacation we were at my tousin’s home In the state of Rhode Island, and one hot Sunday afternoon we all went out for a walk in the | pleasant pasiures; as we were walking | along we notlced quite a humber of cattle, 80 we went over (o see Lhem, | There wers in all thirty, and we look- | ed for a drink of water, but in walk- ing over to privg we found the itile stream where they always came | o drink wa the cattle live without any water, While we were talking abeut it my little cousin Mabel, left us without tell- ing us where she was going and we with his scythe. BREHAUT, Age 17. New York, the > went to the door, opened it and | Soon he closed | > it in print was honest | five years later "ARRELL, Age 13. certain re- What the Rats Did. \dreds of cows ister Praises Thnis Laxative. Life Pills for King's New had directed that when the exhibi liver and bow. and Osgood Co. shermen call Lin- | ¢ tt ;. DESMOND, ILIZER LIMESTONE LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. S n’s Scrap Book. The Tramp’s Reform. Her Visit to the THE UPSON WALL BCARD INEXPENSIVE " Then, next It of acknowledgement rroundings est Storage Capacity . N. CARPENTER Commerce RREHAUT. I would go in bat 1 come out How a Silo is Filled. = nd cars from Norwich, t very happy. ned hts situ silo that will tons of corn. | a lot of men come to cut bring their tipc > KENNEDY Picnics at the man who is going to Take these, Wide-Awakes pond near hy, prosperous s older cousin goes ir Then we have ou shade and hav After dinner we play the water m on his | ames until it "HOLTON, Age 10. who called CONTRACTORS NORWICH. CONN. “Indigo Pete” A Floating Island have another aN ~ so he jumped on the ms “floating island,” as I >-Awakes would His Air Rifle. of the gutter the | did you jump the most remarkable and pic- badies of waler tienry’s lake, in Ldaho. ed in a depression in the Rocky | The Vaughn Esyuadry Co. a Specialty. scribers for capped Rock- restaurant TINGS him some food 5, n’ the lake {8 a floating island, *39 £ y 6| to Chicago, and after waiting quite a of | while I received my gun, ry much ple of under- | shoet with it nearly every day, are covered with dried up and how could | name feet in dimmeter deots se den he wanted ed with it, and | “pHERE no aaver Eastern Connecticut Sometimes I put up a target en gleiin Lor busimess res Pete had eaten 3 thing I can do for.you, Mijster, for all { bpush,