Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 11, 1913, Page 9

Thursday, September 11 N THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE Boys and Girls Departmen: Rules for Young Writers. gathering pretty stones. Soon one of | 1. Write plainiy on one side of the | the little girls daid to her: paper only and aumber the “Come on down to the other end of Z Use pen and ink, mot pencil the beach; there are lets of lovely 3. Short and pointed articles will | stones there.” be given preterence. Do Dot use over Ruth thought this would be fine, so 250 words. the foilowed her little fricnd down 4 Original stories or letters: only | the beach. She became so interested will be used. in gathering the lovely stones that she & Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story. Address all commupications to Un- cle Jed, Bulletin Office. did not notice her friend had 4eff her. che was farther so on up the pretty others blue, but the Some were white, all pléased Ruth. Her little hands were full. She began to feel tired, and the sand was so hard “Whatever you are—Be that; ; in. At each step she sank into Whatever vou say—Be true and, and her littie feet were_wet, Straightforwardly act, she had ventured too near, and the Be honest—in fact, > waves had crept up until they had | Be nobody eise Lut you.” wet her. 5 All at once she saw a crowd of chil- ren, and, thinking her friend might POETRY. be there, she walked on and soon saw . S a monkéy on a chain. Therc was a “The Night Wind.” crank in a box from which pretty mus- & : ic came. This delighted Ruth. She lin- Did you ever hear the wind &6/ gered until evervone else had gone; H Yooovoo? 5 | then, thinking of moiber, she began Tis a pitiful sf:}lmi to hear | to go back down the bheach. But Ruth Bt seems to thrlll you through amd | was very tired, so she sank down in __ through, | the sand te rest and 'soon fell fast Tith a strange and speechless fear. | aglaep. "Tis the voice of the night that bmodsi In the meantime her mother, having { utslde f . 2 1 missed her little girl, set out in search When folk should be aslesp, ¢ of her. She walked up and down the | And many and maby's ‘he Moe.Twalheach, but no:litte Ruth ‘wis 0 ‘be cried . S ; found. At last Mrs. Lewis became Over the land and the deep; i i 2 B e | so fr d that s just going ™A hom do von want, O lonely night, | e "“I")l i e uang’ut a That you wail the long Hours | -0 BoUIy the police w £ AnE o through i Elmmlsn of Ruth’s pin s il) ing wa \.] P 1p the beac She ied on anc And the night would say in its ghostly | ;o '®p 20V RS litiis: heat of WaYy: _Rath iyin v sand. She woke her up and ve her a “Yonoooo! 4 ood scoldi Then they went and P o000851 good scolding., Then the) ot N ¢ had lunch. The rest of the day she } Kept close to her mother. i That night when Rufh's papa was Sy mother told ms long aso (When 1|, ;"% 5 % it Very sad, for Mr. Lewis was a lttle lad) R y ; said she could not to the beach That when the night went wailing so | Eomebody had been bad: i And then when | was stuug in bed, again that be more car Whither ] had been sent, FDYTY Age 13 With the blankets pulled up round | Uncasvilie head e T'd think of what my mother'd =aid, My Vacatio And wonder whai boy she meant! | After 1 finished te scheel in And who's been bad today? Pd ask | June | picked strawberries for a neigh- Of the wing that hoarsely blew, { bor of ours, Quite few others pick- And the veoice would say it in mean- | od there, too. | picked there until they meful way? | were most eone, and them I stayed Y 066066 { home for awhile Y 6606061 bon after 1at my aunt carme 1o see Yo000051” Iu and stayed a week or g6 home took me W That this rue 1 must allow, | 100Ut weeks. While T was Toull not believe if, though! i my took me to see the Yax, though I'm quite & model now, { convict ship “Success.” It was a hor- I was not always se. rible sight to see. It show And if you doubt what things 1 sa¥, | {hings they had to torfure the convicts, Suppese you make the test; | There were fou ils for the men and Euppose. when you've beem bad some | one for women seemed dreadfal | day % that human beirgs should be treated s < o "”:.’ g away fTom | o, This ship had been suni for a leng e an =% . | while, but finaily a man bought it and Eoppose you ask “Who has been Bad? | 11,4 i raised, and now ke is showing And then voull hear whats' true: |;i"i; the people at the different places For the wind will mean in its ruefull- i \pior vy visit in Bridgep with my et | aunt 1 came nome and started in to go i to high school Y”{’m“""fi - EMILY BABCOCK, Age 13. e ene Fisld Old Mystic. e The Autobiography of a Bail of Cotton. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE-| The first thing I can remember was that 1 was a ball of cotion almost AWAKES. ready to pick. In about a week I was = 7 _ | picked by a coon named Jake. He took Seme peopie are very much mVSH- | me to the gin, where 1 had the seeds fied by an echo, and there was a time | picked out of me. I was them taken men were afraid of their own | i 4 press and pressej‘: in v[rilh ahlm‘ 0; voice because they di ey ¥ other cotion. tn there I was hauled ey - o ¥ did not understand | (Norrolic, whencs I was shipped north s A o ot and made into yarn, and from that into An echo is one's. own voice thrown cloth, and then soild 1o a tailor, who back by the obsiruections of nature. It made me inio a suil may be any other sonnd, like the sound wthen A man bought me and 1 was used she trudged, still peking | R for his best sut; a little later for his| of 2 blow or of a whistle: | S8t elothen N0 echo cam be produced by the ob-{ Finally 1 went into the ragbag, A sirnetion of sound waves within 65 | rag man bought me and sold me to a faet of (he speai It requrises distance , PADer maker: then 1 was made inte > Sk Fpedder. lrequrises distance | oper ang sold to 3 merchant whe s weil as 3 wall 1o send words back | ¢oiq me to a child who wrote on me to the ear, and wherever there is 2a | and burned me up, echo there is a clif or a hill to step HAROLD P, OSTERHOUT, Age 14, sonnd waves which Uavel at the Mansfield Tlepot « of 13 miles a minute and a ie- 3 g < ey Ao oo i i Disobedient Children. 3 2 i | littie cottage on the edge of & ooy ety ared uy ey a brether and sister cailed seven syllables can be spoken in twe One day when their seconds and they are all distinctly re. mother went away she told them they Soi G hat the ob. MUSt not go inte the weods te play. ated 1h hat the ob- : o 1o not te ge, but soen s awa for il ter she w they started off sound waves one secomd te | Farther and farther into the wood they h the hill or clff whirh makes the | Weni til 1 an te get dari i S e Bl o [ SOR A id Kate, “ don't know o : Y where we are, We must stay here all of this kind is very might!” : ™ o people who do not know At this Will begam to er for far b thisasniicn by be usid | AWaY Be d something gay: "Whip- SR poor-ill! or-wiil BPTLAcuan st sound Scireone kmows we have done e wro said Will, and lay down and ere is an oid house in Scetiand in l‘ asleep. : i 5 = which an echo will rep: R ar inte the night e heard some- - = e tonge repeat the tune of | .0y say “Katydid!”® “Katydidn't!” In a trumpete our times—the fourth K he morning theit father came and time se geatly it is just discernible, | found them. but never again did they and re is an echo at the Lake of | disobey. They had learned a Tessii. i 1 MINNIE MAGEIL, Age 12 Kiliarne: n land which clearly re Jewett City s the sounds of a busgie. = 152 While an echo is very interesting | A Boys’' Paper, ere is nothing mysterious about it., When the school term ended_in June F: . [xae boys wished to work An echo alarms ¥ many of the 5 S i only the lgmorant | o lowhere to earn a little pocket ¢ sure no live Wide-Awake | money. will become frightened by an ecao, | Some of the bays had organized a B | club called the Boj lub. They held LETTER F | 2 meeting and decided to publish a s APSSN_OWLEDGMENT" paper. The officers were elected and d Aslchbatit: _| an office chosen. 8 Hattie Perkins of Colchester: I thank | *'pj(tfce was in the basement of an L il e Sy ely DooK [01d house. Fred Davis had a printing i le Sam’s Boys on Field | acs and a large roll of paper was G procured from the lLakewood Gazette William Cushman of Stonington: I|office. The paper was to be published received my fourth prize book and |semi-weekly and was to cost two cents have read it through and 1 find it fine, ; 2 copy. Ed Greene was the story writ- er, having a story in each copy either complete or in serial form. The boys | were reporter FTred was editor and 1had two assistants. The paper was as were all the rest. WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. A Story Without a Name. ce and Richard had gone on a pic- | LETTERS The boys all took their turn at selling them, and as most of the townspeople were interested they sold fine. - A The first copy came out on the first nic in Farmer Dale’s field. pit- ed all their friends. They tnvit-{ iy, It cortained numerous adver- After they had their lunca an tiséments, all of the local news, the MATEE & Tod FREAbs whe fihofid‘l‘,gf“: standing of the Dig leagues, several along but armer Dale. When he | cOmic picturés of the paper's staff by reaced the dren he said: | Art Jones, the cartoonist. and the story i\ Get out of my field. Get ¢»{ by Bd Greene. The cnildren were fnghtened and| Al the following covics were as good ran as fast of they could. When Alice | 2nd better, and when the time came and Richard got home they told thefr | 0T 8chool fo start in the fall they mother, and =he said that they cmxldi;‘nad gm‘,@;‘:‘.}.' }rt}fi!‘: M&ffi'{,'fi‘ifid. ]h’v\- :.:l\de another pienie if she could hire a | & JGH i club room with ail “The next day Mrs. Aims came to cai, | the things they wanted and could have £he Ifved four or flve houses below us. some left over in the treasury, WILLIAM CUSHMAN Mre. Stanly, the children’s mother, 2 told her visitor about the pienic and| SO mSton: hiring a fisld. “Why, you can hire my fleld for nothing!” exciaimed Mrs, Aims, “And | T will help make the picnic.” tittle plant, S0 the children went and had a lit- | was buried in the earth by the wiad, tle cireus, taking turns in acting, and | Which blew dust over it and so ecovered had a_better tfme than they had | It in Farmer Dale’s fleld, Another plani grew ud and diad and ELEANOR KLOFPPENBURG, Age 5, | WAS bur ag the oiher plant; stiil Watertury. i others and olhers grew up snd died uatit et last fhey How Coal is Formed, Ages ago there lived by a swamp a and were buried, Laot 20 800 iBiaith, “rzx‘l‘c‘d a thick layer of dare, herd One day Ruth's meanme 109k her 1o Many years passed by ond €as thick, the beach for the day. While ihey wewe | haid Juyer of ok chenged by som 8, for that was her | puknown reason o o blusw, shiny ree :ft‘m o 6ld { which was now called coal, down 16 One dpy in_the vear 1775 Gemeral Rich was vers fond of ihe waier, co | Braddeek. 4 British commander, seat she was gOOR ‘o8 the shere wilh | put e young efficer with some men 1o the other waickipg the big "4 read threugh the ferest make t waves a5 they came rolling in, and'threugh which he might march with called The Lakewood Boys' Club News. | When this plan< died i | | sealions, flatfish, starfish, goldfish and his troops to attack a fort. This of- ficer while digging in the earth found a layer of coal. He burned this and found the coals could give both heat and warmth. It also could cook food. People began using it all over the world and ever since that coal has taken the place of wood. ASA HYMAN, Age la. Norwich. How Ginger Was Cured. Billy Jay under a tall pear tree by the roadside. Curled up beside him slept a small, brown dog. “Oh, Ginger!” cried Billy sadly, as he sat up, “I can’t help you any long- er because you've been sucking eggs again. Father said he would sell you if you ever did it again.” ‘When Mr. Bell, Billy’s father, came home, Billy showed him the empty egg basket, Next day when Billy came from school Ginger was still home, but standing in front of an egg.\ He was surprised to see that Ginger did not eat the egg. Mrs. Bell told him that Ginger was Graham Crackers are wholesome. They are nourishing. palatable and appetizing. ask your grocer for a package of NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY GRAHAM CRACKERS as to make it look nice, and place the pieces exactly tegether, then take a large wool needle, thread it with ribbon and sew the leaves together, straight through the center; leave a little of the ribbon at each end and tie back on the book to give it a fin- ished look. Hope some of the Wide Awakes will_ try and make one to save their poetry in. They are Just FLORENCE A. WHYTE, Age 9. Willimantic, A True Fish Story. Jed: This week I am Dear Uncle 3 I think most fish writing a fish story. stories that you read about are-not true, but this is a really truly one, Last Thursday, friends. I went to with a party of the drawbridge to spend the day fishing. We brought a large basket of lunch to last us for all day, our fishing poles and bait. We hired a comfortable flat-bottomed boat and rowed out for quite a ways, then threw out our lines, but a storm was brewing and the water was rough, so still their dog and that he was all |xho fish would not bite no matter how cured. She said that she gave him a tempting our bait was. After an hour hot egz with red pepper on it and N . or 80 we decided to go ashore and try that he dropped it out of his mouth and find out how good they are. Give | later in the day. quickly with a howl. A P } While walting' we called on a friend Ginger never touched an egE after them :‘9 :hi children—they can’t get of one of the party, who treated us that. rovally. He filled our baskets with ALFREDA E. BROSOFSKI, Age 14, enopER o them. Keep a few p.aCkages peaches, peaers, watermelons and Norwich, on the pantry shelf for daily use. fresh green comn, so we decided fo o ostpone the fishing until some other TR e Always look for the In-er-seal Trade e I have a pet dog and his name is Mark. RICHARD €U MORAN, Age, 13, Prince. He is a very good dog and ot he follows my two sisters and I ev- \ R erywhere we go. He will not let any- Brevities. one touch us. Usin y ek 5 : sing merc vapor lamps jn her My brother takes him down to the evesilibusied Brotohiwomas hartiouts river and lets him swim. He li | turist not oniy forces seeds to sprout to swim. If vou throw a stick | et 5 o haE > 4 £ : 5 plants to grow in half the usual the river he will go in after it. | by but g = = but alsc pr ter depth will beg for things. 5 ! of color in the vegeta et | in the midst of alarms from the g NGt ns, the fact t s elty o tt anzient oa £ Bulgaria, Why Mary Was Liked. rock-pool, you: may- see- one of these | a letter with it, so you could see how | heen almost ¢ Teairoyed by I read a story thé other day about | fishes feeding; and the way in which | I can use tae typewriter an earthquake pa 2imest annotic- a little girl named Mary, and I|it does so is very curious indeed. It | ADA MARRIOTT, | ed thought you would like to read it, so | suspends itself almost upright in the | Omeco. It will cost $18 a minute to talk by here it is. water, with its tail upward and - . telephone from New Yoirk to n Fran- A queer old man once made a tea | head downwards. It then fill She Went to Plum Island. 1.L~(.. party for the little girls in town. and | like mouth with water, which it squirts ar Uncle Jed: I will write and | when they had all come and were | out again as hard as it possibly can. | B4 T heb st iy SReation | - ] gathered fn his front yard, he offered { The result is, of course, that the sand I went down to South Man- £ & a doll for the most popular liitle girl |at the bottom of the pool is blown | BT D o el T H 3 and asked them to vote which should | away and the varlous tiny creatures |\ i% 00, W URE ) GPERE W0 HE | get the prize. But most of them did | which were lying hidden underneath it | " twhen 1 was there © saw & steam | not know what “most popular” meant, | are uncovered, Then the fish sucks | g val and went to a o wheve So he told them it was the best liked | them up into its mouth and swallow | saw a great many different kinds of sl LT Y S | animals. It was a great deal of fun Then they all voted, and Mary was TBSNYE 1, BREHAUT, Age 17, | 15 see {he ponfessperform i the one who had the most votes, and Yorwich, N. AR e G s Lt Pham Tatand THESER T recefved the dotl, though no one could | - - with me mother. 1 spent ihree davs At Regolar Intervals— Says say that she was efther the prettiest | The Sea Mouse. | there. I w fishing and had a gre: o - ) OrCicverest of &'.’;"i. L ola man, 1| ML You g0 down among the roeks|dcal of fun picking up stones a Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- e O Ve oS etk when the tide is out and hunt im the ! shelils. ¥ 7t give amocher doll (o the one ivho | muady poois mear low water mark |- I was my first ride on a steamer, table Compound com- & y. el Lk Meary - | you will be almost sure to find a very | Some of t! people 1 saw were sea- Nobody answered at first, but pres- | 44q looking creature indeed. It is | sick. There were a great many Sol- pletely cured her. "'3{4,”32(»13 «m‘i'?a ]fl‘w:’:v up. 1";?(1581?. { | senerally between three or four inches | diers on the island. I saw them | = ol Al long, and although it is led a a | drilling, I climbed the tower of the | : [exas, — < < = ; what the rest of us want to play and | mouge” it looks-very muech more like | lighthouse, I never saw a lighthouse | Adrian, Texas.—“I take pleasure in says “Let's play (hm_,i prmuiNe, | * heiry slug; for its whole body is | before | adding my testimonial to the great list S i e with a matted eoat of brisses. | ] have had a fine vacation this vear and hope that it will =olchenter, But it is really a kind of sea worm I will ciose, hoping the Wide-Aw: be of interest tosuf- S And it looks just about as dull and | had as pleasant a v i 2 The Proud Buckwheat, dingy as any creature can Dpossibly | ALICE I fering women. _ For Once there lived in a fleld a buck- | be, ¢ S Eampion ! four years I suffered wheat flower. The buckwheat did not | Yet in reality it is one of the most | Sl | Buntold agonies at bend like all the other flowers, but| beautiful animals which are found in At the Fair. i regular intervals. stood erect and proud. the—sea and if you want to see ¥=! pesr Uncle Jed: Monday. Sept. 1, T ch i a I am as valuable as any other | beauty, all that you have to do IS t0 | went 1o the fair. We took an aito | ScxDainscan grmn said she, “and I am much | wash it. For the bristly coat Which | fyo' Norwich to the . fair srounds cramps,severe chilla PN comer Moy fowers axbiakbexatl Leggis | 1is) Dogilata d of filter, | wyich brought us there quicker than }ii andsicknessat stom= ul as the apple blossoms. | which strains out the mud from the | (pao car $ 2oh thenBnailohems There arose a terrible siorm that| water which passes to the g gnds| S o e Sin e A o) Talipae day and all the field flowers folded | it soon becomes So choked with mud | ypcing and 1 th Tter jorrhages until I their leaves together or bowed their that you canneot see what the animal i 3 | would be nearly littde heads while the storm passed |is really like at all. All that it wants, | . itite blind. I had five over them, but the buckwheat stood | erect in pride. “Bend your said the flowers. “I have no occasion to do so,” Te- plied the buckwheat | “Close your flowers and bend your | leaves.” said tbhe willow tree. “Do not look at the lightning when the clouds | burst; evem man cannot do that.” | “In a.flash of Mghtning heaven opens | and we can look in, but the sight will | head as we do,” strike human being: biind. What, then, must happen to us, who only | grow out of the earth. and are so in- | ferior o them, if we venture te do s0.” “Inferfor, indeed!” safld the buek- | wheat. “Y intend te have & peep into | heaven.” | and holdly she looked up lightning flashed aeross the | sky as if the whele world were in | flimes, When the storm bad passed | the flowers lifted their drooping heads in the rain; weed in refreshed by the | lay like a | blackness | pure, still air, but the bucltwheat the field, burned teo < A Nerwich, KAMINSKI, Age 11 | An Incident in Lincoin’s Life. { the close of the wavr, | necon was waking down the Jashington and had § aniany hidden In her ar Linevln stooved ately asked whal The child slowl said: “Ise loated _ Lincoin emiled and inquired “What 18 yous L v 8Bhe 1 airfax “Well, well,” said Abe, “you should- n't have got lost with tha¢ name.” S0 Abe took her into the White House and emtertained her as best he ! could and then he sent one of the footmen to inquire for the parents. He whuse balf was the matter. raiked her head and | "Virginia Washington foun 1d told them from whom he w Much to the delight of Virginia's negro mammy, who forgot for once to scold her pickaninny, and when be" Lincoin died no one, not even “Little Abe” mourned more for ?im than Virginia Washington Fair- ax, AGNES HANLON, Age 14, Taftville. My Visit to Battery Park, When we lived in New York T alway went to Broad with my fathe: work. My father is a men’s vest tailor and worked at home. When I got home from school my father would send me to this shop with the vests. Some Saturdays when 1 would go T did not have to go home so soon, so I would go to see Battery park it has only two sireets to it The most interesting place I liked to go in was the aquarium. It a | very nice place to go. They have h | fish which if you watched carefully you could see change colors. There | Were turties, green backs and blaclk | back, green eeis, 9 to 12 inches thick, and about two feet long. { There ix a smail fish that has a head | like a horse, 10 to 12 inches long, call- | ed the sea-horse, There are many other | fish T do not remember i 7 wish some of our other Wide- Awakes would tell of their trips, JONAS BIENINSTOCK, Age 12. TUncasvyille, The Pipe-Fish, This 1 a very odd-looking fish in- deed—quite the most curious of all the fishes which live in the rock-pools, And as it I8 very common, you ought 1o he able to find it without any dif- fieulty, In the Arsi placs, aithough it grows Lo & lengih of 18 or 19 inches, its body even in the largest part, is no bigger round than a Slaie pencil, For this veason it is often kuown sy the needle fish, Resides Lhis, ils juws are druwn puL fo & most wenderful ienglh, and are fasiened together all 1he way along S0 that ihey really, form a kind of fuse. Se, yveu see\a pipe-fish can néver open or shat ite mouth, bu{ has 18 ‘suelk in itg feed threugh the tiny hele at the tip of the jaws. Sematimnes as you leek down into s ! i however, is a gdod bath. After it has been bathed thoroughly it has all the colors of the rainbow, and they seem to alter with eyery change of light. LILIIAN East Norwich, N. Y. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. The Pi Dear Uncle Jed: mer, We ha let out in June, so a a sehool It ) pier wa EREHAUT, time in Age 15. ic at Close of School. hope Awakes and you haven't forgotten me. I have been helping mamma all sum- I haven’t has the Wid to the grove, write. when school doctors and none of them could do more g0 up. I L when he said it would not go up that day & . : T e el v than relieve me for a time. akers and I think A E Z “I saw your advertisement in a pa- and saw the fire- per and decided to try Lydia E. Pink- | 1’pl$:t’fl‘fuj:f}”"l’l“~ ham’s Vegetable Compound. I took [} ASaiE Haifi past 9io clock we Tart the | ; SeVen boxes gf it and used two bottles fair grounds in an auto. We got ot of the Sanative Wash, and I am com- at Norwich and took the car home. We ot home about quarter past 10 o’clock after enjoving the da T hope all the Wide-Aw went to the fair had a good FLOSSIE MEYER, Taftville pletely cured of my trouble. When I began taking the Compound I only weighed ninety-six pounds and now I weigh eone hundred and twenty pounds. If anyone wishes to add me in person I will cheerfully answer kes me. Age 11 a little way from my house. AW of the P el e s | schoot children brougnt cake or sand- | How to Save Poetry. zytl;“;’. Es I cannot s eak s highly wiehes, S s TTnata o T pvan Tasd: ol mesite e Pinkham remedies.” —Miss JEs- There was a big swing we all swung | ¢, you every week during vacation. | SIE MARSH, Adgian, Texas. in. Then we played beanbag Teacher | [ tried to lkeep my promise and was Hundreds of such letters expr . had made about a dozen beanbags for | very 'y I had to break it, as the o ,4inde for t'r-\e ’L’fl )d”‘L“r‘ 5 i ";_ ng us, | resul p 1 cold, I am feeling be - the good Lydia E. Pink- At 12 we had dinner. We had sand- | and I'm trying to send a few lines ham’s Vegetable Compound has a rv,:\rma_ cake and lvmofi‘x\iv‘\f‘\hel"‘ cof- [t you and the Wide Awakes. plished are constantly being received, ce, am in cones. After dinner| I am very f of poetry and T've ing t] iabili i | we game of baseball between | thought of a of how to saye a "f"v’;‘? tho reliability of this grand old the girls and the boys, The boys won | the pretty pieces by cutting them out remedy. the me. They had a great many | d p3 them in a book of pape: If you want special ad o 4 b 8 vice write to more runs than we. > m You can get a yard of Lydia E. Pinkha o After the ball game we sald good- | paper muslin at any dry goods TAteD T clus G- (confl- bye te the teacher and went home. 1| for about five <cen and five cent Kos openad l'l:ad a'.d our letter w was promoted tu the seventh grade. more for a yard of ribbon. Cut it 6111;11 and hold ‘: answered hy Papa has had a typewriter a long|any sized squares or oblong you w u and he. striet confldence. iile, so I thought I would write you | to make it. Pink out the edges 7 Why Two Hods? AW OI RRances = have an Ash Hod with a Coal Hod beside it (patented). all of the ashes. carry and doesn’t spill. old, clumsy ash pan is hard to remove and strews ashes over floor and stairs. The Ash Hod is deep and catches It is easy to remove and Both hods free. The The wonderful “Single Damper” [patented] makes perfect control of fire and oven. Better than two dam- pers. - Have you seen it? Gas ovens if desired; end 5 (single] or elevated [double], For sale by M. HOURIGAN, Norwich Agent.