Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 19, 1914, Page 9

Thursday, February 19 Rules for Young Writers. 1. Write nlainly on one side of the paper only, and number the pages. Use ren and ink, not peacil 3. Short and pointed articles w. be given prefereave. Do net use oves ©Original stories or letters only will be used. . Wrlte your name, age and ad- drsss plaialy ot the bottomy of the slory. Ac{d:m all communications to Ua- cle Jed, Bulletin o, “Whatever you are—Be that! Whatever you say—Be true! Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you.” POETRY. The Visitor. (From Harper's Magazine.) Somebody’s at our school las’ week, A Visitor—an’ w'at he does Is tell you things you won’t forget If you can 'member what they wuz. An’ we must stan’ up in our seats An’ n'en we mus’ set down agalfr You dassent chew gum w’'en he talks Nor draw things with your pen Th' Visitor wants boys to be Real brave—so's we can all get shot Like sojer-mans he telled us ’bout, N'en we’ll be Hist'ry, lekt as not Visitor, his glasses aint Swung fum chain; they kind You hold an’ 'xplain with w'en you talk point at boyvs- a are th’ An' but I don’t mind. W'en Th' Maysie Smith, she got teacher says, “Bring me.” N'en all her curls went down an’ hid Behind the big geography. An' Johnnie Jones, he made th' sun Shine on his piece of lookin'-glass, ' n'en he hid it in his desk Till teacher got through goin’ p th' note, that to An’ w'v we all laffed out was ’cause He went an’ made th’ sunshine go A-bobbin’ on th' Visitor's head Wite where his hair forgot to zrow! Th’ Visitor, he's drefile glad~ If any word 'at he could say Has wreathed a children’s face with miles— “That's all, boys and zi day.” An’ LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Annie Henzler, of Taftville—I thanl vou ever so much for the prize book I received. I have won nine books and hope to win more. Janice Grant, Mansfield Center Having finished reading my prize book, Little Grandmother, I wish to let you know that 1 emjoyed it very much Please accept many thanks. George Farrell, of Norwich—I wish to thank you for the prize book I received, which was ve intéresting. Jomsie Brelraut, of Hast Norwich, N Y.—Thank you for the prize book you sent me entitled Frank on the Gun- boat. 1 emjoy reading the books you have sent me. I hope to go skaiing if the weather keeps like ft.is now. I have seen some pussy willows in Hioom already, Afice M. Gorman, of Versailles—i re- ceived the pretty prize book entitled Mise Blliot’s Girls. I have read haif of it and I 'like it very much. I thank you Yor-il. Lucy Henmshaw, of Colchester—1 re- eeived my book and was very much pleased with it. 1 thank you ever so much ‘for it, Winners of Prize Books, 1—Loretta - Pichs, of Norwich—Ad- ventures of a Brownie. 2—Augusta Sherskevsky, of Norwich | Black Beauly. 8—Frefda Retkovske, of Norwich One Girls Way~Out, 4—Raymond Ploss, of Plainfield— Animal Stories for Little People, 5—Bessie Fox, of ¥alry Tales. Anderson’s 6—Margaret L. Somers, of Norwich Seven Maids, T—Alice M. Gorman, of V Polly—A New Fashtoned Girl. S—Lucy Henshaw, of Colchester Swiss Family Robinson. Winners of prize books may ecall at The Bulletin busineas office for them at any hour after 10 a. m, on Thurs- daw, UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE AWAKES, T am going e talk fo the Wide-~ Awakes about two bears which oniy THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS’ AND GlpLS’ DEPARTMENT a few people have conquered since the dawn of time. You have .quite likely heard of them. They do not llve. in a wild country and prey)upon the domestic animals or stores o ple, but dwell in the human mind, and comes to us, These bears live in your language lessons, in the spelling book and in the dictionary as twins and they al- ways go together and their names are Bear and Forbear, and when you mas- ter them you will find that Patience is your constant guest, the white- robed angel that mitigates all suffer- ing; and it has been said of those who have mnot patience “how poor they jare! Bear helps-us to pass unnoticed all that annoys and irritates others: and Forbear prevents us from resenting meanness and lowering ourselves to | the level of those who demean them- selves, and of whom we may complain if we have not learned of the great value of Silence; which is a preserver of the peace. These two bears prevent ail of trouble and by being honored make boys and girls noble in their conduct who are in danger of becoming base. These bears of the mind found only | in books are good bears, and they are no less to be held in esteem because | they are of the imagination. They add to civility and promete politeness and make the way of life easier for every boy and girl who gives heed to them. This is a language lesson and Uncle Jed hopes the Wide-Awakes will the value it will make them more kind and obedient at home, pleasanter to and more beloved by their associates and orderly and dili- gent pulips more essteemed by teachers Bear and true helpers see of because it “orbear will ever be your | | | STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- | AWAKES. | George Washington. When George was a little boy his father gave him a nice’ new hatchet He went into the orchard and cut one of his father’s best cherry trees down. When his father came home he ask- ed who cut the cherry tree down. George did not want to tell a lie, so he told his father he did. Flis father and mother were very proud because he never told. a lie. When George was about seven vear old his father died. George helped h mother as much as he could when he wag small; but when he grew to be a man he went to work, and sometimes {had to go harefooted in the snow and had ragged clothes on George Washington was brave. He was our first president AGNES KAMINSKI, Age 11, Neorwich. George Washington. a boy Washington was noted for s truthfulness and his courage. He was also very generov He was both liked and respected by his schoolmates {and was alwave chosen their leader He was a fearless rider and a good hunter, At the age of 14 it was decided he should enter the navy. The ship he was to join lay in the Potomac anad { his trunk was sent on board, but at the last moment his mother, dreading the temptations of a seamon's life upon a boy so youns, asked him to remain with her. Washington was sorely but he yieided cheerfully er's wish. Washington upon leaving school had chosen (o be a surveyor and soen after disappointed his first meeting with Lord Fairfax was emploved by him to survey his land. His life as a surveyor was a hard one, but he enjoved it. Washington at an early aay had a great fondness for military exercises and soon became one of the best in- formed men upon military matters in the colony. Governor Dinwiddie ‘Washington to take a le to the commander of th in the Ohio valley. Washington was instructed to find out the number, po- sition and strength of their forts, He got all the answers and set out to go back again to Virginia General Braddock came over from Ingland to drive out the French from the Ohio valley, and Washington join- ed him. When they had about reach- | ed Fort Duquesne there came a volley of bullets from behind the trees. The soldiers began to run, and as they they were shot down. Washington was not shot. | A clergyman said that he believe& “Providence had saved Washington for some important service to his coun- try.” After the Revolution, Washington WHAT MOSS The bors and girls who read about the work of the lichens last week remember that they are nature's pio- neers. 'Today we are going fo learn something aboui the plants that come after the lichens. When we see a rock will overed with a green velvet mantie we | know may always that lichens have been there before, and in dying have left just enough soil for the moss plant to root in. The moss when it dies leaves soil enough for some higher plant, until at last tall (rees may grow where all was barrenness before We have seen that the lichen is a very strange plant. and moss is almost as queer. Like fhe lichen. it is hard to kill, and for the same reason. Al- though it loves water, it can dry up without doing itself the least harm and then neither cold nor heat can hure it Mosses that haze been kept years will come to life and grow ag if they can get water. Even artifici drying, greater than anything they would ever have to endure in nature, does nof kiil them. A German scien- tist brought a piece of moss to life after it had been kept eighteen months in a drier. This, by the way, is a nice little puzsle for the scientists. Why should the mosses have a power of resisting dryness so much greater than they need? No one has been able to find the answer yet, and there are many puzzies of the same kind in na- ture. Ewven if the moss is broken to pieces in its dry state no harm is done, be- cause each separate piece will grow into a new plant. For this reason some mosses that have a very hard time to get along do not bother to grow seeds. They just Tet the wind break them to pieces and blow them about. This s all very sirange, and we can’t understand it, but it i8 not the strangest thing about the moss plant. If we plant a moss seed. or spore, as the seed of a plant that does not blos- som is called, we ma)y gel & moss DOES™ FOR™ US | plant er we | look ‘in the 1 | the plant that produces spores will grow from scientists call tions. Hach get « that doesn't like moss. Then degesn’t look like drdinary moss them. This is alternation of genera- new plant Is like It | grandmother, instead its mother. { We find the same thing among ferns and among Jellyfish, as well as among | other plants and animals, and when the liitle folks are a iittle older, per- | haps they will like to know how the scientists explain sses have been loved by poets f beauty ever since we have had any poetry, but, as we have seen, it is not merely for their beauty that nature has given them to us. That reason enough, to be sure, but being beautiful does not prevent a thing from | being useful, and mosses are so use- | ful that we couldn't possibly get on i without them. “They make soil on the | rocks and they also make it in water. There are some kinds of moss which seem (o have been specially designed by nature to fill up swamps, and the s0il thus made is extraordinarily fer- tile. All over #Qurope and America we find that a large part of the most fer- tile land was once bog land, and al- most anywhere we can find moss at work filling up other bogs. Bog moss is not rooted in the earth, but floats fres in the water and as it grows, the older part dies and sinks to the bot- tom. It does not décompose, as dead plants usually do, because bog moss has the power of manufacturing an antiseptic fluid which preserves it. And so the bog is gradually filled up. Sometimes the dead moss is used for fuel, and then we call it peat. Another useful thing that moss does is to store up water on the hills to feed the rivers in dry weather. The moss- covered slopes of a mountain are just as good as a reservoir, and if we go on cutting down the mountain forests and destroving the moss, as we are doing now, we are going to get ourselves into all soris of irouble may st of to his moth- | would be | the peo- | & e : ~ B was made the first president of the United States. ° In 1799 Washington died at his home in Mt Vernen, and there was great meuriing for him all ever the world. FRIBDA RETKOVSKE, Age 12. Nerwich. Truth is Gélden. - “Jehnny,” said a farmer to his little boy, “it's time for yeu to go to the pasture and drive the cows home.” Johnny was playing ball, and the pasture was a long way off; but he was accustemed to obey promptly, so he started as fast as he could go. Being in a hurry to get back to | play, Iy half iet down the bars, if weo master them a white-robed angel | b thon o Agge > and then hurried the cattle through: {and one fine cow, in trying to erowd | over, stumbled and broke her leg. kinds | their | | away Johnny steed by the poor suffering creature and said fo himself: “Now_what shall I do? That is the best cow father has: it will have to be killed, and that will be a great loss Lo him. What shall [ tell him?” “Tell him,” whispered the tempter, “teil him you found the bars half down and the cow lying there.” “No, I can't say that, for that would be a lie.” “Tell him,” whispered again. “that while you were driving the cows Farmer Brown's big threw stones and hurried the cow that she fell.” “No, no,” said Johnny; “I never told a lle yet, and I won't. begin now. I'll tell father the truth. It was all my fault. I was in a hurry. 1 frightened the poor creature, and she fell and broke her leg.” soon as he had made this brave resolution he ran home as fast as he couid, as if he was afraid the tempter would catch him. He went straight to his father and told the whole truth. His father laid his hand on Johnn's head and said: “T that cow, but 1 would rather lose every cow 1 own than to have my boy tell an untruth.” the tempter so How happy Johnny felt then that God had given him grace to do the right thing! Truth is golden, and Johnny had told the truth. Honesty is golden, and Johnny had acted hon- estly. He felt in his own heart the reward God gives to those who get the | * victory over temptation. FRANK PARDY, Age 13. Norwich. A Faithful Horse. A girl working in a railway was once attacked by a band of bers while the station master on his vacation. She had rob- just | gone outside of the building to give a istter to tne conductor of the train and when she returned and had entered the | r she saw to hide building and closed the d the robbers, who were trying themselves. “They immediately sprang at her and tied her to a post with a very strong She tried very hard to get away, t the more she tugged at the rope the tighter the knots grew. The only ng she could do was to blow her | whistle which she had fastened around | out, ju | through, her neck. This she succeeded in do- ing The horse, who was in a barn about a quarter of a mile away, came to barn door, nushed the peg out with his nose and then galloped along the railroad track to the door of the de- pot, which he found closed; but he soon opened it by pushing a few boards t enough to pass his head so that he could turn the nandle with his teeth. He then walked in and nibbied the rope and let his | owner free. ir | for the summer, and skating and The girl then rode off for help, and when she returned she gave her horse an extra supply of feed JESSIE 1. Norwich, N. Y. BREHAUT. Life in Sweden, If any of the Wide Awakes sheuid visit Sweden they would find the peo- | ple are very healthy and jolly. These people have many ments uch as picnics and amuse- May poles slid - ing, snowballing and other sports the winter. One of the most important festivals during summer s on the 23rd of June. The people in the country start early to the small village, riding in a haycart ,holding about twenty people. This cart is decked out with flowers and birch leaves. The driver has a seat made like an arbor of flowers Then the people sing and enjoy them- selves. The ride is a long one and they are glad to reach the village When they reach there they find girls and boys and elde; people. | Young and old come to this feast. In the middle of an open field is o large May pole trimmed with flowers and ribbons. On the top is the flag of blue and vellow for Sweden. All dance around the pole for a long time then the feast is spread. After all Tave eaten they play games and dance all night and then go home happy and tired. All the children like the winter be cause it brings the snow and ice and winter sports. The most important sports are the sailing on skates. They bave sails of canvas in the form of the capital letter A. backs. When the breezé® blows they glide across the pond at one mile in | two minutes. Many skate on strips of wood in the shape of the runners of a sled. These are called skees. They bave a long staff to help them up the hills and aid them in steering. The snow lasts four or five months. For two months it is very dark; and on the darkest day of the yvear the Swedes celebrate Christmas On this day they send presents and have sports hey have a big nner as we do. What is left over is given to the snow birds which are very tame in Sweden MARGARET L. SOMERS, Age 11. Norwich. Our Little Hindu Cousin. little Hindu cousin live She takes a bath in a ve Our in In- large | stone tank in the courtyard every day It is one of her though she married The Hindu people get married when religious is only duties. 10 years old she A is they are young. She does not with her husband yet. She still with her parents and plays with her toys. When she is older she will go to live with her husband. Her father owns a shop in the ba- zaar. where he sells sweets When her brother grows up he will sell sweets, too, because the Hindu boys take up their father’s trade. She has a queer little pet. What do you suppose it is? It is a monkey, and she has a great deal of fun playving with it. Her grandmother cooks the food in ipboards in the wall. of stones is a fire. Under a The pan’ or pot is put in the little cupboard. The | people in India eat a great deal of rice, and, of course, her family does. In one part of her house is a baked clay idol. Every day the family make offerings to this idol. In India the people are divided classes called castes. The people of lower caste are not allowed to go with or even touch those of a higher caste. The little Hindu boy has to remem- into ber not to go with anyone who is no(‘ of his-.caste. Don’t you think it would be hard you had to? ALICE Versailles. it M. GORMAN, Age 11, A Game of Hockey. One Saturday afternoon the boys of the New and Old Villages played Bockey: 1 was the capialn of Uie Old boy | 'm very sorry to lose depot | was for | long | This is tied to their | Village team, and the captain of the New Village teatn was named Jehn. Neither of the teams scored for a long while; then my team became weak and the other side scored three goals. After doing some smart play- ing our side scered two, which made the score three to two in favor of the New Village. Then the game became intertsting. The men and boys who were skating on the pond came around to see the end ! of the game. The other team was always around our goal with the hockey, but never | seored. | Then our team carried the hockey | near their goal and after trying hard | made two goals, which made the score four to three in favor of the Old Vil- lage, and the result was that our team won the game. RAYMOND PLOSS, Age 14. Plainfield. Our Friend, the Chickadee. The farmer has one friend who will stay around all winter if he likes the | way he is boarded. He is called thhe chickadee. He is about the size of an-English Sparrow. i He is bluish gray on his back, white on his vest and wears a little black bib which matches cap. | When he is happy, which e most of the time, he pronounc name “Chickadee-dee-dee.” times he trie¢ to sing another , but cannot finish it. | He may be seen for some time try- ing to find an insect that has gone un- der the bark of a tree. | If a piece of meat | tree he will slowly come mearer and nearer every day. After a while he will eat some. After he has eaten all he wants for dinner he will fly away to a nearby tree and begin his task of destroying insects to show that he's satisfied wtih you for a friend. His nést is made of m It would more t Wide-Awak song, | nailed onto a some of the | ERNEST Age 11. ! Mount Hope. | One day last summer we were on an | lpx"flr:lun to Rocky Poini. We took | | the 6 o'clock train’ t5 Providence, and | from there took the trolley to the | place we were going. It was a long | Journey, but at last we arrived. | First we went to a restaurant and 12)3\‘1 some lunch. Then my friend and I and some other chums decided i« go on the scenic railway. We went for our tickets and went on the boat We went over steep hills we ro about' a mile and then came back. It | was great fun. | | Then we went on the circle-swings | and the merry-go-rounds. It was then ! time to start for home. This time { we took the boat to Providence, and | arrived just in time to catch the 10.3%8 | train, and we arrived at the station at | 1.30. Then w all went home. ANNIE PLOSS, Age 12 | Plainfield | My Early Home. i The first place I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Wateriilies and rushes grew at the other end. We could look over the gete at our mas- ter's house, which stood near the road- side. There were six cc in the meadow, besides me. 'hey were older { horses than I was. We used to run | around and around the meadow as fast | as we could go. o> Sy you gotone’ Got what? Why a set of Aunt Jemima’s Rag Dolls fortheyoungsters, of course. Almost every kiddy in town has a set, or is going to have one mighty soon, and you’d better see that Kgurs get them—or there’ll war at home. There never was 2 more de- lightful play-thing made than these funny dolls. They’re a howl of delight. And you yourself will almost split yoursides laugh- ingatold AuntJemimaandUncle Mose and the little pickaninnies. Made of strong material, 12 and 15 inches high, finished in colors. Get a set at once. It’s easy. Just read what it says on the top of every package of Aunt Jem Pancake F AuntJemima’'s is thefinest thing made for pancakes, wafflesand muffins. Try a package. Your grocer has it in a bright red package. And don’t forget to read the top of the package. rth soon we were far away from 1e e will write and tell you If my chicken and the farther we went the smalier | is better. the earth loo to us. Soon the earth | ANNA REKOWSKE, Age 6. looked like a small star itself, and the | Norwich planet Mars grew bigger and bigger all | —— the time. We traveied about thirty- | His School. tive million miles from the earth and i Unecle Jed: I thought I would took a long, long time few lines about my school. 1 When we reached Mars I « » to school. 1 am seven vears iy believe that it w to Gurleyville. I like my teacher had seen from the ea very Wi much WILLIE MARCHAT, Age 7. | One day my mother whinnied to|almost twice as big as the people R me and said ive on our earth i “1 wish you would pay attention to'! We were so s | what T am going to say to you. (The peopie that no one ed us e | A Winter Cough. | colts here are very good coit but walked oughn the 4 A stubborn, annoying, depressing had not learned manners.) Don't kick The houses were ver: much i cough hangs on, racks the body, weak- or bite, no matter how bad you are than some of the skyscrapers in New !ens the lungs, and often leads to se- treated.” % { York. The streets and roads were |rious results. The first dose of Dr. 1T have never forwette: & gl W and prett | King's Ne Discovery gives. relief. bl forgotten my mulhars‘ When we would look up | Henry D sau;m , of \'a\endliph, s.; Our ster was s 3 cine 3 id se same st was threatened with consiimption, af- [ He ".fi.';.\":“‘“'srg&”:,’ ,:,uj‘)‘;;,,'d"’,;d::;‘,: at home. It is not as w ! ter having pneumonia. He writes: { and kind words ¥ it is on our ear \SC?;G”} ::“n‘l‘:“ i A b i Dick k e mane | ter most of the t H . 1 certainly the coming we x}-un}-d up nearer n’«n;» for 1 began to get homesick 50c and $1.00. At all druggists. lwhat was going on . ed to see our own sized people. I was E. Bucklen & Co. Philadelphia or ‘Bad boy!” ‘lm ;-\\d “Baa oy o glad to arrive home, but 1 enjoyed my Louis, or The Lee & Osgood Ce., e S SR g z o, trip very much Norwich, Conn chase the colt Now, go heme. 1 OO PoH L RSHEVSKY, Age 12. ¥ hall not need you on my farm again.” | ' \(J Wich 3458 S % 5 m.:{i,-t\ HENSHAW, Age 11. e | ou essed, pain in the | = A Trip to Niagara Falls. back— ¢s your | Kindness to a Pet Blackbird. | ra Falls is only a few Dealth gt e | A pet blackbird with a yellow bill | {rom Buffalo, so we take an e < completely jand beautiful volee, once lost all the | ‘rolley car to view this wondc Bur- feathers from the back of its neck. A ; e T tered from vir- ange cat. who thought the pet was V& i iver Jle for eight montha. & wild bird whom she might catch if int0 e g four doc gave him up he she could. was the doer of the mis- o = c and is now a well chief. The cat was driven away just 2 i it will do in tir to save the life of the poor s < the bird, leaving the black feathers blow- . complaint ing about in the wind. The owner b of dependable. looked at the bare neck and.said to e 50 herself: “I wonder if a little vaseline et & Co, will do it geod? T will*try el i or The Lee & So the vaseline was rubbed on the rounding the ‘“"'\',“,",",,’”.' neck and in a short time a fine new | falls, and corresponding to 1t ¢ crop of lovely black feathers grew in | yictoria park, which —the bank the place of those the cat had puiled ' NaVe established on . N0 out 2 - 1 AN BRE "} fosmerd ':“"‘:."““\““""‘“[', g B 51 How to Make the Best s e Ly TR drivers and guides practiced at Niag- Cough Remedy at Home | ara, but now everything s regulatec My Valentine. 5 !. e : : ho shall 1 have for my valentine? | BE E FOX, Age 11 A Family Supply at Small Cost, Somebody, oh, so very so kind | —_— and Fully Guaranteed. and good, so sweet and fair; I'll have to hunt for her everywhere. Her fac. ! LEREERS TO ,UNCLE A must be llke the glad sunshine, if | hia iniatihe inay ealemtines OB Sebore | Four L ittis: Birds. _Make a plain syrup by mixing ome can I find her? Can you tell where Dear Uncle Jed: I thought T would ' pint of granulated sugar and 14 pint of such a dainty maid doth dwell? I'q | write a few lines telling you about warm water and stir for 2 minutes. write her just ong little line; o ;| Saturday afternoon. I went down to 212 ounces of pure Pinex (fifty her by some other sign, if 1 co feed my chickens and hens. I went _worth) in a pint bottle, and fill it know the place, where 1 could see her | in the coop to get the eggs and there up with the Sugar Syrup. This gives pretty face, And she must have a gen- | were four little birds in there coup ' you a familv supply of the best cough i tle voice, or else she cannot be my |and three of them got out, but one of Eyrup at a saving of It never spoils. | choice: T would not have a valentine, | them got caught in between two ‘lake-a teaspoonful every onme, two or who'd loudly talk, or pout ,and whine. | planks and could not get out My | three hours. = I'd travel east, I'd travel west, and | cousin @&ladys and myself got a hold The effectiveness of this simple remedy never take a_moment's rest: but now, | of his foot and pulled it, and the lit- ' is surprising. It seems to take hold al- I think, wee friend of mine, that you're | tle bird flew down very Quick I most instantly, and will usually con- just such a valentine, was going to catch it, but it fiew out, r an ordinary cough in 24 “hours. * ROSILDA CHAMPAGNE, Age 8 and 1 did not tones up the jaded appetite and i Versailles NELLIE E. DAY, Age 11. | just laxative enough to be helpful S L o 228, a cough, and has a pleasing taste. Also excellent for bronchial | George Washington. Washington was born in a plain, old- shioned house in Westmeoreland unty, Virginia, on the of Febru- He was sent to what was called an oldfleld school.” r | Little George went to school and was taughl by a man n This play-captain s boy. The people of g0 everywhere on George was not afraid horse, or an unbroken c He was so just that used to bring their to_settle. | When | father med Hobby. on became a tall that day used to horseback, a of the wildest 1t schoolmates quarre for him George was 11 yvears old his died and his mother took great | pains to bring him up with manly | ideas. He was sent to- Mr. Williams, | where he learned reading, writing and arithmetic. | His brother Lawrence wished Gedrge to be a seaman, for he had the notion | of going, but his mother was unwilli: | to part with him. | George took great pains with all he did. When he wrote a hook he wrote it neat and clean. 3 Sometimes men, women and children siept by these fires. “like cats and | dogs,” as Washington wrote, and “hap- | py is he who gets nearest the fire.” | LORETTA PICHE, Age 10 orwich, | of A Trip to a Star. One day a friend of our family's who owned an airship stopped at our house and asked one of us if we would like to take a trip with him. As no one would go, I begged mother to let m 8o 'lfi him. Ve decided to mak a to the planei Mars. staried off at Breat speed and =2 bronchial asthma, Her Colt Dick. 1 spasmodic croup. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you about my colt. He is two years o HSZUC E old and is chestnut colored He h Ay nh< an nice mane and a long tail and also Strain oney ) as a white face. His name is 1 homes than any ned a cot and he has only been tra months. I have a little two wheeled cart for him. We have had him since he was very young. of Norway white Dick is very good natured, thoush 'yich in guaiacol sometimes he is a little frisky. He won a prize at the Willimantic fair in September. | The man who trained him learned | A guaranty of him how to do the cake walk, and Dick would follow the man all around this preparation. Dick would get yp on a little table about two feet high and two feet square, dance all around and stay healing pine elementa. , tions will not work in this combifiation. Pinex, or will get it for you. send to,The Pingx Co., Fi. Wayne, Ind trouble, whooping cough and This method of making cough remedy Sugar Syrup (or i now used in more other cough syrup. This explains why it is often imitated, though never successfully. it, use only genuine Pinex, which is & most valuable concentrated compound If you &y pine extract, and is and other natural Other prepara- absolute satisfaction, er money promptly refunded, goes with Your druggist has If not, there till we told him to get down. Sometimes I ride horseback on him. NELLIE COTTER: Age 11. Scotland. Her School. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell | about my school. I am in the third grade In school. but 1 am six years | old. There are six children in my class “Palace ool and Billad Parla 8ix Tables—five pool and one Billiard Tables -sold and repairing doae at reasonable prices. Suppliez at all times. 49 MAIN STREET and I make seven. My sister Helen in the same room as 1. T MARY GORMAN. Versailles. My Pet Chicken. Dear Uncle Jed: I have a_chicken. It is sick now. 1 like it. I hope it won't dle because my uncle gave it to MRS. GEO. me. 1 take care .nf it every day. I “THERE 1 80 am_sorry it is_sick. 1 = Good bye, Uncle Jed. Next time I 3jet'n fur Lusiness CLEARANCE SALE OF MILLINERY P. STANTON 82 Shetucket Strest ceaulf