Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 27, 1913, Page 9

Rules for Young Weriters. 1. Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil. 3. Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do not use over 250 words. 4. Original stories or letters only will be used. 5. Write your name. age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story. Address all communications to Un- tle Jed, Bulletin Office. “Whatever you are—Be that; ‘Whatever you say—DBe true Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, > Be nobody else but you.” POETRY. A Thanksgiving Party. By, Helen M. Richardson. Thanksgiving day I had some friends To dinner, five in all spread my table in the yard; My guests were very small . Miss Chickadee quite early came, Dressed all in black and gray. A woodpecker flew to her side, Red-depped, with neck-band gay. Yert Mr. Nuthatch next arrived, A gy nast of renown. He could do stunts on any tree With head or up, or down, Miss Sparrow . then smartly dressed In pretty mottled brown: And last of all a squirrel gray From home in squirrel town. came, When all my friends had found 4 place At my Thanksgiving board, They made a very charming sight, i And I could well afford To give them aill that they could eat, For I knew in the spring They’d be my unpaid foresters, And gaily work and sing. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES, We are going to have some nice na- ture stories, and some doll pictures for the little girls to cut out and put together for their amusement. The Bulletin has made arrangements for a series of very interesting and In- structive nature storfes and also for a series of pattern pictures with a va- riety of designs which will afford pleas- ure for the children when the weather is too cold, bleak or snowy to play out of doors. Of course the boys who have little sisters, may find pleasure in cutting out and making up the pictures for them Unele J d is very much pleased with the excellence and variety of the let- | ters he is receiving from the. Wide- Awakes, and they make him feel some- {imes as if he wished he had more books to distribute, the little writers are so deserving; but all will win & hook If they persevere. Do not expect to get a book because vou want one, for they must be earned, and to earn books requires good work and clean copy. Uncle Jed has no reason to com- plain of the work done by Wide- Awakes forthe general excellence of Awakes for the general excellence of the rule, not the exception. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. is Abraham Swatsberg, of Mansfield, “enter—I received my prize book and am thinking of trying to get another. 1 thank you very much for it , I am very much pleased with it. Nathan Cook, of Ballouville—T re- celved my prize book this morning, THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS' AND GIRLS' DEPARTMERT y entitied, Black Beauty, and t;:ank you { very much for it. Jessie Brehaut, of East Norwich, N, Y.—I have been looking at my prize books you sent me today . I have | twelve of them. My ‘mother, father, sister and I enjoy reading them, as they are very interesting. 1 am alwavs glad when Thursday’s Bulletin comes ag I enjoy reading the letters written by the Wide-Awakes. Jennie M. Grant, of Mansfield Cen- ter—I want to thank you for the nice prize book you sent me. I have read it through and like it very much. This is my first prize book and as it came on my birtaday 1 doudly appre- ciate it. WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Richard C. Moran, of Norwich— The Rook’s Nest. 2—Madalyn Sullivan, of Norwich— Rhymes, Jingles and Fairy Tales. 3—Frank Pardy, of Wayring at Home. Norwich—Joe 4—Annie Henzier, of Taftville—The Whirligis. Lillian Brehaut, of East Norwich, I I | N, Y.—My Lady Barefoot. 6—Reginald Archer of ILeonard Bridge—Black Beauty. —Gladys B. Newbury, of Norwich wiss Famiiy Robinson. $—Pauline Smolowitz, of Norwich— | Dorothy in California Walter L. Archer, L.eonard Bridge I | | thank you for my prize book. I read it through, aud then read it to' my fa- | | ther. We both taought it very inter- | | esting. i | Helen Maione of Providence, R. L: I thank vou very much for the prize | book you sent me entitied A Liitle Girl of Old Chi 1t is very interesting. é { i { Winners of books living in the city { may call at The Bulletin business oi- | fice for them at any time after Thurs- i day. | STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. What | Expect Thanksgiving. ! 1 expect my cousin Thanksgiving. In the morning 1 expect to go out and watch s carry the barrels | to the place whe v intend to burn | them; by noon I shall be glad to go | in and help the turkey which | mother has cooked for dinner, and | how I'll eat! > afternoon and | x the barrels and | I shall go oul watch the boys play arvound H The boys have boxes burning all the | afternoon. | In the evening is the most fun to | watch the boys set fire to a string of | Parrels Scmetimes the boys have charcoal and rub it on your face. T don’t like that very, well; and after the barrels burn we play games, so I don’t get to bed tlll late. FLOYD HILL, Age 9, Norwich. A Changed Programme. “0, Hoo! O, Hoo!” screamed Char- lie Wade at the top of his voice as he sighted a number of his companions a few yards ahead of him on their way | to school. “Wait a minute, fellers,” he shouted, ve got something to tell you.” The boys turned and when they saw it was Charliec Wade they were only | too glad to wait for him, for Charlie | was their leader in all their sports as well as in his sehool work, and he was such a good-hearted boy none seemed envious of him. “Say, boys,” d Charlie. went up to see Mr. Smith, and he says we may keep our barrels in the basement of his blacksmith shop, if we are not too noisy, or do not make any disturbance. Mighty good of him, hey, | boys? Let's give three cheers for Mr. Smith,” sald one of the gang, and three hearty cheers were given. The Boys worked hard for a couple | of weeks and had gathered quite a | number of barrels. One evening while | on thelr way to the blacksmith shop basement with a load of barrels they heard the sound of a drum, and as 1 “I just | { | By JANET NICHOLLS, Haid the little brown leaf as it hung in the .air To the little brown .Jeaf below, “What a summer we've had To rejoice and glad, But today there's a feeling of snow.” — Margaret E. Sangster When the woods put on their autumn drees of gold and crimson do the lttle folks ever wonder why the plain green ;f summer changes so suddenly to such eautiful glowling colors? Perhaps the grown-ups will say, If hey are asked, that Jack Frost does But that is a great mistake, as we phall see if we only take the trouble o think a little. In August, long ore the frost comes, the red maple Jometimes “crimsons to a coral reef,” #nd it is in the vears when the frost omas late that the leaves color most eautifully. ¢he colors whenever he gets a chance, but he cannot make them. What, then, is the reason for the biaze of colors that makes the autumn woods s0 beautiful? We do not know exactly. HEyen the wise write scientific books do not quite un- derstand it, but they do tell us a few things which it is interesting to know The yellow color in the ieaves they expiain this way: The green color in all plants is produced by something called chlorophyll, from two Greek words meaning simpiy The chlorophyil 18 made up of substances, one bluish and. one yellow, and as every boy or girl who owns a paint box knows. these two oolors to- | gether make green. XNow, free s getiing ready for sleep these two substances separate he bine disappears and the vellow is left to give itg color to the leaf The red color camnot be explained 0 simply, We only know that it is produced in some way by the waste material In the leaf. Before the leaves fall the tree takes from them every- thing it wants to keep and gives to them evervthing it wanis te get rid of, and the more of this waste matter there is the more beautiful the autumn colors are likely to be, This seems to be the reason why the leaves ecelor #0 beantifully after a rainy summer, provided the frost does not ceme teo . There is always some waste matter in the water which the tree sucks up through itz reets, and the more it drinks the more waste ma- terial will be collected te eolor the leaves in the fail, The falling of the lsaves is anether thing for which Jack Frest is usually blamed, but with which he has neth- ing, or at least, very little to' do. - shed their leaves in cow es wz it never freezes at all, amd in the morth a great many fall before the 1) comes. It is_not; the autwmn Rl which make them fall, either, when the 1--The Autumn Woods Jack Frost, in fact, spoils | people who | “leaf green.” | two | its winter | though they help a litile, like the frost. A wind strong enough to blow the leaves off would take the twigs, too, and very likely uproot the tree, The leaves fall simply because the free cuts them off. It has no use for leaves in winter. Leaves are Ilittle factories where the food of the trees is prepared for them. Frost spoils the machinery of these factorles, and so | the trees have learned to_sleep all winter and do without food, Besides being useless the leaves would also be dangerous If left on dur- ing winter, as ther would catch the snow and wind, and thus breai the twigs and branche Sometimes an | early snow finds the trees unprepared, and then they have a very hard time. indeed. The snow, collects 6n the | leaves and the weight breaks off great branches as thick as a man's arm. This would happen every year if the tree -had not learned to take off its summer clothes in good time. | The cutting-off process begins when summer is at its height. Away back in the dog days the trees began Brow some cork cells between the leaf | stem and the twig. This was to pre- | vent an open wound when the leaf i should fall, for a tree can be wounded, Just like an animal. Then, above the cork seal it grew a layer of another kind of calls. This is called the layer of separation, or cutting off layer, and | can easily be seen on the blackberry. for instance, where it forms a yellow ish green ring on the purple leaf stalk There are three rows of cells in thi | cutting-off laver and after a while the | | middle one dissolves into mucilage. so that there is nothing left to hold the leaf to the (wig except some woody | threads which pass through the cut- ting-off layer and through the laver of | cork. Then the cells that are left be- | gin to swell, and push the leaf stem away from the twig, until at last a puff of wind or a fresty night snaps the threads and the leaf falls to the ground, The reason fresty nights heip in this Wwork is heeause they freeze the water that collests in the eutting-off- layer, Of esurse, the little folks all know that when water freezes it expands, so when the water freezes in the eutting-off layer the leaf stem is pushed harder than ever, After frosty nights in the late fall, therefore, there is apt to be a great fall of leaves. That is why yao)h say that the frost makes them 'all, but if the trees had mot almost cut them offyaiready the frost would not do it, and a great maay fall with- out any help from either frost or wind, After the leaves fall some frees cover up the ends of the broken threads with Biun, as ean eastly seen on the horse chestaut. ere the cork seals that grow at the base of the leaf stalks are shaped something like horseshoes, and the gum-covered ends of the broken flll:’eads look like the nails in the horse- #hoe | they drew nearer saw th-z 1t was the { Charlle to | It | four a Bible.” "fi]vaunh Army, and they waited to sten. 7 The spealer told of how miny little children would be cold and hi n‘%on ’Ethhznkxglvm‘ day if no one would ‘help em. “Come on, boys! We have nothing to give” cried one of the boys, but Wade's tender heart was touched with rity} and he was sorry for the poor children. “Tell you what we could do, boys,” said Charlie. “We could chop our bar- rels up into kindling wood and bring a basket of wood to some of those poor people,” At flrst the boys did not want fo do this, but finally all agreed, and-the boys set to werk with a will. On. Thanksgiving morning each of the boys carried a basket of wood to some poor family, and in the evening went to see the other boys burn their barrels. When all was ‘over the boys returned to their homes happy be- cause thev had made others happy. RICHARD MORAN, Age 14. Norwich. & Burial Customs in the Gilbert Islands. The natives of the Gilbert Isiands regard death very passively. They dle without regret and without fearing the mysteries of the fufure world. drawer. or on the piano lid covering he still, with his eyes, demands his pipe, has it lighted and smokes until his last expiring breath. Then he turns over and falls into his fimal sleep, almost without agony. When the soul has departed an old man or woman begins the death chant, which is very dramatic in style. expressing } desolation and various degrees of sad- ness. ¢ The dead man is asked many ques- tions, to which the singer composes his own replies. This melacholy wail, rising suddenly in the middle of the night, causes one to shiver. Mothers show great grief over the | death of their little ones. Before the arrival of the white men they refused to bury their children. Instead, they kept the corpses in their homes, bathed them with sea water, with oil, and exposed them in the sun until ‘they became like mummies. Today the law prevents such pro- ceedings, and burials take place in the ordinary manner. JOHN HOGAN, Age 10. Putnam. Topsy. To! . our pussy cat, was only a tiny, woolly ball when we found him one morning in a basket in the cellar. He belonged to a large family. but only he and his littlg sister lived to be transferred to a box in the kitchen Topsy was a greedy little fellow and, only thought for many days. Soon aspired to a _wider ion of life rim of his four-sided house. Over he tum- bled to the floor, never fearing his ability to cope with the dangers of life in_the Kkitchen. . Soon he made himself at home in the overturned waterpot, or. pail, peep- ing out when awake, to blink at you as you passed by. So full of play was he that he would tear into tiny bits any paper left in his reach. He was often found nestled in a Sunday hat, curled up in an open walking along the rafiroad track whea the keys. He always helped himself to food, drink or place to sleep, expressing the utmost surprise if punished. JESSIE L. BREHAUT, East Norwich, N. ¥ he v than he could obtain from the Age 11. Habits of Frogs. There are many kinds of frogs, dif- fering from one another considerabis in size and color; but all frogs live in places where water is more or less abundant. Frogs are often banks of ponds and streams, or float- ing on the surface of the water with only the tip of the nose above water. In célor they usually resemble- their surroundings rather closely, and so secure as certain degree of protection from fishes, snakes, which are their more common enemies, When pursued, they quickly disap- pear beneatn the water and often sbury themselves in the mud at the bottom until the need of air compels them to return to the surface. Late in the autumn they burrow in the mud and remain there until the following spring. The more or the frog, its slippery skin, its long, muscular legs, and its webbed feet all adapt the animal for rapid swimming through the water. LILLIAN BREHAU East Norwich, N. Y. The Box of Money—A Dream. One night I dreamed that I was walking alon gthe railroad track when I fell-over a stick that was sticking up from in between the ties. I was going to pick up the stick to throw it away when I found that I could not lift it from the ground. I dug down in the ground with my fingers close to the stick when my hand struck something hard. I found out that it was a box of money that wag put there long ago, and the box ‘Wwas rusty. I opened it and it was full of gold coins. I took a pocketful of the coins when I heard the train whistle. I cov- ered up the box of coins with dirt and sat down near the track. When the train went by I took the box of money and started for home. When I got almost home some men who stole the money had watched me from the bushes near, and they saia: “We will take our mon Then I woke up, for it was daylight. AMES SEWART. T, Age 15. Baltic, The Quaker's Gift. Once there was a Quaker who lived in London. He had a little clothing store, and had four men employed in “Bver: emploved men a present. Now this New Year’s day he called them in his office. As soon as they entered they all wished him a “Happy New Year." He then said: “Dear friends, here are your presents. Each of thee can have either a fAive doilar gold piece or “1 can’t read,” saild the first one, “I1 will take the money.” “I can read, all right. the second sald, “but T am short of money, so I will take the five dollar gold piece.” And the third also took the money. But the fourth said: “Dear sir, since you ask us if we want a book, it must be worth reading, so I'll take a book.” He took the Bible and as he opened it a ten dollar gold piece fell out. Noyr o /othie s hung their heads and looked suiky. The Quaker said: “I am sorry theu did not eaeh take a Bible. Theu should mot blame me for {t. I had a Bible ready fer each of thee, with a ten dollar geld piece in it, ana I also had a five doflar gold piece ready for e . And now,” he went on, “you have mot oniy lost the ten dollar gold’ piece but also the word of God, which is wlgrth more than all the gold in the world” The one whe had” taken the Bible thanked the Quaker and said: “I am glad I took the Bible. I can now read it to my dear mother who is sick in bed.” He thanked him again and again, and then left. ANNIE HENZLER, Age 14. Taftville, A Thanksgiving Turkey. When I opened my eyes I saw a mass of feathers about me. I crawled about in the feathers until I came in contact anointed them | e any baby, eating and sleeping was | | found either on the | birds and man, | less pointed snout of | 'y New Year’s day he gave his | v SR 801 ks MT.I looked up and saw bq%{:h overhe: too. . 1 looked to see what the feathers werg, and to ‘my surprise they be- longed to my mother. 1 asked her where I was. stm&‘ld. You are in a barrel. ‘will thke you ‘out for a walk you are a little older.” Every morning we were fed by the lady of the house. One morning she forgot to shut us up. ‘Mother said: “Come, we'll take our walk now. We will go into the fields for a feast. Eat all you can so you will grow to be large like me.” We were in the fields all day. At night we came home to our house. In the night someone came and stole my mother. I was cold all the rest of the night. In the morning the lady was awful angry to find my other gone. She wanted my mother for her Thanksgiv- ing dinner, = As days went on 1 grew larger. The lady sold me to a farmer. The farm- er shut me up in a small coop, gave me all I wanted to eat, to fatten me for Thanksgiving. I grew to be a large turkey, and when Thanksgiving came I had my head chopped off. That was my end. FRANK PARDY, Age 12. M Norwich. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. A Busy Farmer’s Boy. Dear Uncle Jed: I live on a farm in the town of Lebanon. I like farm work very well. We have finished digging potatoes, gathering apples and husk- ing corn. We have and Fanny. and Dolly. I have a pet hen that is two years old. She lays ‘'most every day. When I go to feed her she will run up and eat from my hand. H I also have a dog named Donald, and | a cat named Buff. My dog will sit up two horses named Nellie and cows named Minnie | when I tell him to, and speak for bread. { My cat will sit up and roll a ‘ball When I sit down in a chair she will | come and get into my arms. When | 1 go to milk she will follow me. When I go to the house with the milk she | i1l beg for a drink. { This morning when T went to do my chores at the barn [ saw something in | a @eorner, I went to it and found it was my cat. When I began to cut up feed sl ed with it. REGINALD ARCHER, Age 12. Leonard Bridge. A Pleasant Week at New London. Dear Uncle Jed: I' want to tell you about a week that my sister and 1 spent. at New London last summer. | We were visiting my aunt, who lives { not very far from the beach. | The week we were there they were aving some kind of practice at Fort | Wrig 1 every once in awhile they | shot off big gt sometimes in the | ddle of the night. i Every time a gun went off it shook | the house where T was staying, making | all the dishes rattle. One veral of our cousins went with us to the beach, and we had a fine time. We went in bathing | played in the sand, and ate the 1 which we took with us. ‘While we were down there they fired off the guns | at the forts = ral times, and we could see the flash of the guns, and in | a few seconds the splash of the water then a few seconds after the splas | vou would hear the report of the gumn. ‘While we were at the beach there was a man with hyvdroplane. When he started it a-going it would skim on top of the water like a boat for quite a distance; and then it would slowly rise, | increas until it got I 8 | | | out of sight. led gver the w 1 times, back and forth, once | v near the Groton side. Then. slowly descending onto the water, 11! skimmed back to the beach. Tt dia that twice the afternoon we were there, . | _Afier we bought some cream-cones and some peanuis we boarded the car back to my aunt’s,tired but well plea ed with the day’s pleasure. | Twe days after that I came } the 9 o'clock boat, arriving in /Nc about half-past {en. me on wich | My brother and my cousin were | husking corn, so we got dinner. GLADYS B, NEWBURY, Age 11 . Norwich. Glad to Feed the Birds. Dear Uncle Jed: This is the time we people shiould remember the It is near winter now, and we be good to the birds and give them something to eat. T like to feed the little throw crumbs out to them. watch to see them come, tle birds come. [ am glad to something for the bi MADALYN SULLIVAN, Age 8. Norwich. birds. t| Then 1 Several lit- | that I can do Oz which are all very useful. the car frames are made of All | oak, and then there are many kinds of furniture made of oak, and they use the bark for tanning leather, to make our shoes, which we wear: and the bark is used to color with. the oak for many kinds of timber, and then there is also a big demand for oak to burn in stoves to keep us warm and to cook>our vietuals with. LUCY CARTER, Age 12. Scotland. Castle Garden. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell the Wide-Awakes abouf Castle Gar- den. It was originally a fort and was afi- erwards transformed garden, and in that way | name it now hears. « Many years ago it was used for civic and military displays and receptions. In 1824 Lafayette revisited America, and a erand bali was given in his hon- or at Castle Garden, and - President Jackson in 1832 and President Tyler in | 1843 were publicly received there. Ip 1855 the immigrant depot was es- tablished within its wall The present building at Castle Gar- den was erected after the partial, de- struction by fire of the original struc- ture. i HELEN MALONE, Age 14, Providence,, R. T derived the Hoping for a Turkey Dinner. Dear Uncie Jed: I am a little girl. T am six years old. I go to school every day., My teachers name if Miss Good. I like my teacher, I am glad Thanks- giving is ceming. T hope that I w have a turkey dinner. Good-bye, Un- cle Jed. . ANNA RETHKOVSKEH. Norwich. Saw the Lizard Cast His Skin. Dear Uncle Jed: I thank you for the prize book I got so long ago. My mother helped me to read it. I am going t6 tell you about a lizard T found last Friday in the cow’s drink- ing tub. He was black, with yellow spots. His feet looked like four littie hands, only the two front ones had four fingers. - My mother put him globe. - Saturday we” all watched him take off his skin.. He began at his head, and when he got as far as the front 1 ‘he twisted all up like a worm and ‘pulled them out, and then he did it in the goldfish = TSP I could arcely drag himself h me. His The Oaks and Their Uses. mother had gone to the grist mill to Dear Uncle 164 As Hhers was & pi see if the mill boy could deliver the in last week's paper about the bi slen B nd and its uses. I now will write vou | Shaiswas bupe about the. oaks which grow on our d birthday. tulip. : ; 1 out of the ground There are several kinds of oaks. and put it in a pot. Then sfip cut Their names are White, Black, Yellow, | 308 BU. a8 B B0C tulip and care- Gray, Pin, Chestnut, Tanner's and Red | pully' placed the precious note in it. | and also | into a summer | fect Remely for ook S Dot Worias Convulsions.Feverish ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. | Tac Sinile “Signature of i ; CENTAUR chPAuY, ““NEW YORK E The Kind You Have Always Bought Use For Over Thirty Years again with his back legs and tail, until his_ sl off. Th is the first time I have with ink. EDWARD FERGUSON, Age 6. | Norwich, ‘7 written Made Her Doll Furs. ! Dear Uncle Jed: T have a big broth- | er who is 17. He hasea big gun and| goes out hunting almost ever day. | The other day he went out hunting | and caught two big gray squirrels. | I told him I wanted the furs for my | doll, so he skinned them and after that | he put them on a board to dry. He | left them on a few days. and after | that he took them off and gave nwm‘\ to me, and 1 made my doll a nice muft and fur for winter. ANNIE GRIESHAMER, Age 12. | Balt The Noise They Heard. Dear Unc I am going to tell you a story something that real- 1y ypened to two little girls who | lived in a big farmhouse far from'\ neighbors. i One day their parents went to town | and - left them 1 alone. They were | playing together when they heard a | great nédise upstairs in the house. At first they w golng to run away but then -t} thought that was not righ So thev went cautiously up Lhei and when they reached the top ! r slowly opered the door and looked What Go vou suppose they saw? | There was an old cradle full of wal- | nuts and the ¢ was running back and forth on them. The walnuts were fall- i ing out, and that w what ‘w. mak- | ing the noise. That taught the girls to | be brave. S ALMIRA KRAMER, Age 11. Colchester. The Red Tulip. ish soldier and down tne quiet opped at a small i i the | | i trembled for well she knew earch for her b i the barn other kW nt with gton and ‘neral Washir She then covered it up to show it had not been tampered with, At that minute her mother came ' DEEDS, NOT WORDS | Norwich People Have Absolute Proof of Deeds at Home. It's' not words but deeds that prove true merit The- deeds of Doan’s Kidney Pills, { For Norwich Have made their local reputation. Proof lies in the testimony of Nor- wich people. Mrs. C. Bennett, 46 Palmer Street, | Norwich, Conn., says: “Some years ago | one of my friends suffered frcm back- | aches. Every cold ke caught settled on |his kidneys and made the trouble | worse. His kidneys were disordered, |as was shown by the kidney secretions | being irreguiar in- passage. Doan’'s | Kidney Pills. procured at N, D. Sevin & Son’s Drug Store, brought prompt | relief.” kidney sufferers, A LASTING EFFECT. At a later Interview Mrs. Bennett said: “Doan’s Kidney Pllls cured a member of my family of kidney trouble some years age and there has been no sign of it since, I willingly confirm my fermer endorsement.” For sale by all dealers. Price 350 eents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember = the name—Doan’s—and take no other. - Nervous and Sick Headaches. Torpid liver, conmstipated bowels and disordered stomach are the causes of these headaches. Take Dr. King's New Life Pills, you will be surprised how quickly you will get relief.. They stim- ulate the different organs to dq their work properly. No better regulater for liver and bowelg. Take 25c and invest in a box today. At all druggists or by !mail. H. E. Bucklen & Co., Philadel Pphia ud;St."Louu | during | last sniff at the lilac bush | € | of several home and whispered that all was ready. The British soldier came up and asked for a drink. He was asked in and food and drink were placed before him. Y Gertrude put on her cap and bon- net and aid: “Mother, I am ing to give Mary her birthday tuli He asked her, “Do you go north?’ She nswered “Yes.” He said, “I will go with you as far as the turn 4n the road.” So they both rode north and he was holding her tul She feared he would keep it; but when they reached the turn in the road he gave her the tulip and she dashed into the gate of the miii. She then hurried in the house and tore the tulip out of the pot.. She gave | it to the mill boy, who then rode away, Was it not a brave deed for aschild to save the American army? PAULINE SMOLOWITZ, Age 12. Norwich, Conn. "FOREST NOTES. BEastern manufacturers are looking to the northwest for hardwoods for the manufacture of clothes-pins. Birch is particularly wanted. . The Panama canal commission has requested the forest service to inspe the timber being creosoted at Seat and Tacoma for the commission. The THet-receipts from the nation- al forests of Washington and Oregon the past four months amount- ed to $115,620, an increase of 17 per cent over ceipts for the same period vear: . % Of the two million trees to be plant- ed on the national forests of Montana and northern Idaho during the pres- ent fiscal year, one-half have been sef. out this fall and the rest will b e put in next spring. .A thoroughly upsto-date sawmill of 60,000 board feetf -a. with a capac day has been erected on the south Mindanao island. It is of <e throughout, and uses the modern bandsaw. This is only one wch mills*in the Philippines. Good Politics. “Bf yo' ain’t got no money yo' need- n't come ‘round,”, is a_bad motto in politics.—bad even for Tammany Hall, —Brooklyn BANK REMOVAL To meet the needs of increased businsss we have purchased the build- ing formerly occupied by The First Nationai Bank. We have been urged to make the change from our former location by many Norwich peopls representing varied and important business interests. With adequate room, modern vaults and other ex- ceptional banking equipment, we are able to furnish our patrons every accommodation consistent with con- servative banking methods, and believe that we shouid receive the support of community. In so far as. it is wiiling to co-operate with uas we shall be able to give enlarged service. We solicit new deposits—a portion at jeast of your banking business. The Uncas National Bank DR. C. R. CHAMBERLAIN Dental Surgeon In charge of Dr S. K. Geer's, praclics during his last illness. McGrory Building, Norwich, Conn, . WHEN you want to it your busi- l‘ll’ll b:.tgto e pal er'e 1§ No - um Better