Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 26, 1914, Page 9

THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS' AND GIRLS' DEPARTMENT ‘Whoever wants to play when work should be done is out of order and if care is not exercised out of respect and then out of favor. The live men of all ages have been Rules for Young Writers. 3 1. Write nlainly on one side of tie paper only, and number the pages. 8. Use ;¢n and ink, not pencil. 8. Short and pointed articles wiil be given preference. Do mot use over 230 words. busy boys who put play i its place 4. Original stories or letters oniy|and kept it there. Washington and will be used. Lincoln and Garfield and McKinley and ‘Write your name, age and ad- Edise d Car ie and Wanamake: plainly ot the bottom of the d¥ion an e = were hustling boys; they worked, they studied and were upright in the af- fairs of life; they shrunk from no op- portunity to be of service to thelr em- ployers or their fellow men. Play with them was least, not greatest. What are the Wide-Awakes golng to be when they become men and women? They cannot tell; but if they keep play second to work and always aim to increase their usefulness they will be pretty sure to become userul, pro- gressive and honorable men and wo- men. STORIES dress story. Address all communications cle Jed. Bulletin Office. Un- “Whatever you are—Be that! Whatever you say—Be true! Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you.” POETRY. The World Smiles On. A, Walter Utting, in New York Times,z WRITTEN BY WIDE- Yesterday my kitty died, (AWAKES, Yet this morning by the side Df our house a song bird came, And it warbled just the same As it did before my lo And the bushes just across From the barn sang when the breeze Struck their twigs; and all the trees Acted just as glad and gay As they used to every day 'Fore my kitty died! The »un Shined with brightness. Never one §eemed to know how much I cried Cause my pretty kitty dled. Protective Resemblance. The polar bear is white like the ice and snow near which he lives. Since its color is the same as its surround- ings, it is protected from the sight of other animals, The chameleon has the power of changing its color to fit the place where it is clinging. The lizard of some countries has the power of changing its color from pea green to bronze brown. This is to suit it to the brown of the twig or the green of the leaf for pro:zectton. Snakes are generally of the color of the soil they frequent. They are also able to coil about trees and stumps so as to defyv detection. The grasshopper is exactly the same color as the grass in which he hops. His enemies are less likelv to detect his presence on that accounw JESSIE BREHAUT, N 2 How can all the world smile on When my precious one has gone? How can joy and happiness @till exist while my distress $eems to flood this great big earth? £ian’t they understand the worth "f my loss? Or can't they know Jf the dreadful, awful blow That has fallen on my heart? Why, I thought myself a part Of the world; thought when I sighed I would find that all had cried; Yet the sun shines just the same As before my sorrow - came! East Norwich, Jimmy's Friend, Jimmy had a little red calf for a friend. They had many sgood times together. Every morning Jimmy took Bossy out of the barn and fied her to LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT, Helen Malone, of Providence—I re- ¢eived the prize book and thank you 2\.;;;*.9-,fl;;,: P el e he meen :22v”int(lre:?i‘neg read it and found it Bossy was not always willing to be s “ % led. Sometimes when Jimmy tried to Catherine Murphy of Xorwich: 1|lead her she would pull back to do in thank vou very much for the prize|the way Jimmy did not want her to book I won. The name is the Steel |20. Bossy shook her little red head at Horse. him Jimmy knew what to do. Bossy around. Then he made believe pull her the other way. Of course Bossy would back the other way then. Sometimes she would start up and run across the field as fast as she could go. Then Jimmy had to let xo 17e rope. If he did not, Bossy would drag him e He turned Winners of Prize Booxs, 1—Joseph Marx, of Norwich—Uncle Bam’s Boys as Sergeants, 2—Gladys Newbury, of Billow Prairie. $—Helen M. McNamara, of Norwich Norwich— aciorte Banke %fn“a‘s and the rope would cut his 4—William F. Cushman, of Stoning-{_ Once Jimmy tried to stop Boss ton—Up the Forked River. by a trick. He went past a tree 6n one side and Bossy went the other. He 5 = ian Brehaut, of East Norwich, thought the 2 . i T ougl e rope would come against the tree and stop her. But it didn't. The ambition of every boy is to be- 6—Celia Goldstein, of Norwich—The | She ran around the tree =nd Jimmy | COme & sailor and go far out to sea. Adventures of Robimson Crusoe to and bound him hand and foot to the | The ambition of every girl is to marry 2 3 g tree. She then began to chew his |one of these fisherlads and cook, and 7—Katherine Gorman, of Versailles— | trousers. She chewed a gri o | knit, and wait anxiously through the | o = great hole | Three Years in Glenwood. in his pants before his mother got to | Wild storms for the return of their 8 Fanni e Ll ni fisherlads. 2 S %ol'l’}f"‘i";]"-w"ifm‘fr‘m“‘dn“c Jimmy did not try any more tricks| When the girls of Holland are not : on his little friend Bossy. at other work, they are busily knit- Winners of books living in the city FRANK PARDY, Age 12, | ting, sometimes even at play. Their may call at The Bulletin business of- |. Norwich, homes are the altar of cleanliness. fice for them at any hour after 1 a. The fathers of Holland are away at ., on Thursday. George Washington. sea so muech, the mothers have almost tire rule over their children and On the twenty-second day of Feb- | <% UNCLE JED’'S TALK TO WIDE-|ruary, of the vear 1 ¥ litle bow | teach them what they themselves are A o o e e e gastre 2oy | distinguished for, homesty, piety. and G house down In Virginia. g 5 ; | On 1his farm. or plantation, as it was |, The children of Holland are obliged There is an old saying: “AN work| calied, tonaces oy oo a8 It 722 |to remain in school from six until and no play makes Jack a dull boy:” { wheat or corn, and this was sent to | Veive Vears. R R nd all play and no work is fikely to| England to be sold. ol have boan o drclan o Tstand, Hal make of him a useless man. The name of the child's father was:! ;. Rt e ece ‘;‘;2 T e Play is thought to be as necessary | Augustine Washington. His mother’ Joyed it Veryiumuch but I Hilke Swites fo success in life as work If 1t keeps|Mame was Mary. |land and England and Holland best | In the correct relation thereto. Since| They named him George Washing- | ot a1’ ! work demands of man two or three| ‘r{j]!].e-‘t name now known to everybody. | | hope some time some of the Wide n George was a very small boy his father died, and he was brou up by his mother in an old farm ho: on the Rappahannock river, just op- posite the town of Fredericksburg The boy grew up to be honest, truth- iimes as many hours as he has leisure ! play should not be indulged in but a small part of the time. for a person's leisure hours are better devozed to the duties of life and to such occupation | as increases ome's ability and opens|ful. obedient, bold and strong. ~He the door to better chances in life. { could jump the farthest. run tne fa The boy or sirl whe. thinks mest of| cSt. climb_the highest, wrestle the best, ride the swiftest, swim the lonz- play is the one who always is going to of all the bo he played with. do things tomorrow—everything has to he delayed to accommodate amuse-|kind and brave; and always told the ments. Tt is the youngsters who re- | truth. gard play as No. 2 that are ready fo| Here is a story told of Washington do work mow! This little difference (1OUBh 10 one knows whether it is in the mind is what makes a great| ' c 9f not . difference in the lives of men. | L 18 Sald that Mrs. Wasamgton had a fine colt, which she noped would grow into a very fast horse. But it was wild and had never been ridden, FAIRIES GOOD AND BAD--MICROBES By Play supplies an open door to neg- ligence and leads to shirtlessness. JANET NICHOLLS. Every boy and girl knows that all around us, in earth, air and water, in everything we touch, taste or nandle, are billions and trillions of invisible to kill. Some of them can live a long time in blocks of ice, and it takes hard boiling to kill othe; They multiply so rapidly, too, that a single one, if it friends and foes which we call bac- | Were not interfered with by enemies teria. We are more likely to think of | and had plenty of f¢ and~the right them as foes than as friends, and we | temperature, could fll up the space are sometimes inclined to envy the ;NOW occupied by all the oceans in less Deople who knew nothing about them | than a week. It Is no wonder, the and didn’t have to wWorry about them. | that they make a terrible upset when But, of course, no sensible boy or girl | they start to grow in our bodies. does anything so foolish as that. If But we don’t need to worry much, we must have enemies lurking around | about them if we are well. They don't waiting for a chance to stab us In the | like héalthy bodies, and all of us have it is better to know that they |in our blood a standing which, than not to know it, and, be- | SO long as it is t hting trim, st of the bacteria are our | makes things very li for any bac- and we couldn’t get on at all | teria that try to harm, These without them. In that fairyland which is all around us, but which we cannot see or hear, soldiers are the white corpuscles. ‘When any disease-producing bacteria enter the blood these corpuscles set there are good fairies and there are | Upon them and try to eat them up, or bad fairies. Bui there are many more | €lse surround them so closely that they of the good than of the bad, and some | Cannot eat or breathe. But if the day when we are much wiser than we | soldiers are not feeling well the in- are now, we shall learn to drive away | Vaders grow and multiply, and in so all the bad fairfes, and teach the good | doing give off a poison that kills the ones to be much more useful to us | defenders. 7 than they are now. { The moral of this story is that we It is only a very short time since we | ought always io keep our standing have known anything about these | army ready for dut fairies, because they are so very small s = But, after all. the number of bac- Fifteen hundred of one kind put end to | teria that like to live in the bodies end would hardly reach across the head | of animals is very small. Most of theg of a pin. But, small a& they are, there | prefer a different kind of soil. Their office in nature is to te organic matter, by which e mean wne bodies of plants and animals. and re- turn the materials to the earth, so that it can be used again for new plants and animals, If it were not for this arrangement the material would soon be used up and life would come to an end. When the leaves of the forest decay and turn to earth again it is because the bac- teria have torn them io pieces. When fish, or flesh, or fruit, or vegetables are ever so many Kinds or specles of them, and each species has its own manners and customs, so that it cannot be mistaken for any other. Some spe- eies are mortal enemies ane wil kill each other almost on sight. Others are such friends that if they are separated one of them always dies. Tn liquids, where they are able to move, they are very active. They swim about with the help of little hairlike projections and perform the most complicated ath- letic stunts, to pieces dead They all liked him, for he was gentle, | and the men on the plantation were afraid to get on its back. George Was now a well-grown boy and a good Irider, and he said that he could ride the colt. 5 S He did ride it, too, so the story.go®s, The wild creature did all it could to throw him off; but he kept on iis back and rode it around the fleld. In | the end the animal grew so violent |that it burst a “blood vessel and fell jdead. George was very sorry, out he i went straight to his mother and told | the truth. | She iooked at him a moment, then | sai “I am very glad to have my boy | tell me the truth: but I am very sor- iry to lose the colt.” : i This story may not be true, for | young boys do not ride wild corts; but | it helps us to know what kind of a boy | Washington was. { When voung Washington was sixteen { years old he gave up going to school and became a surveyor. This work ’lgept George out of doors most of the time, and made him healthy big and rong. People thought so much of im that when trouble began between ngland and France he was sent with a party to try and settle a quarrel as to which nation owned the land west of the mountains. There was no President then. amd there were no United States, for all this country was under the rule of far-off monarchs. ¢ | Washington fought bravely in many | battles and went through many per- ils. He afterwards became the first president of the United States, serv- ing two terms and refusing the third term. He was known all over the world as the “Father of His Country. GLADYS NEWBURY # Asge 11 Quaint Customs of Holland. The prim dress and,sober lives of the children of Holland make them | look very old, and nowhere else in the | world does one see such quaint and industrious little ones as in this land of water ways-and canals. Tiny sirls assist with the butter and cheese-making:; very sm&ll boys® heip their fathers upon the canal-boats, or go far out to sea in fishing boats. Young girls and half grown lads drive the dog carts to be seen everywhere in Holland. 7 Often one sees a heavily laden veg- etable-wagon pulled by a dog and pushed by a child, both panting and | doing their bes Girls who have not vet left child- hood carry on their heads fish and green things from the garden, which they sell in the streets. Boys who look like sober men with pipe or cigar in mouth, trundle carts laden with brooms, brushes, cheese, tin-ware, wooden shoes and baskets. These.small peddlers shout their wares in the\ street with high shrill voices which make strangers turn and smile at these queer men clad exactly like { {h Norwich, their fathers, or grandfathers. From the the 5 time a lad can toddle in streets, until he is an old man, he ars the same kind of a dress con- ting of black jacket and trousers, coarse black woolen stockings and painted or unpainted wooden klamps or pattens as they call these shoes. Their hair is usually cut in a straight line behind the ears, and crowned by an ugly black cap. % In most localities the girls wear a white muslin cap. Not a curl nor a bang of childhood is allowed to peep from beneath this prim little cap. will be fortunate enough to CATHERINE DESMOND. Norwich, Age 13. A Clock’s Sad Story. me, what a sad, sad world th sighed an old clock to a tiny “Do you wish to hea is mouse, one day. my sad story | “I was onge shipped from factory in a c brothers to a ch s After having a journey >d at the store of Mr. Brown. unpacked me and put me on high shelf, where after having lain for a few days I was purchased by Mr. Jones, perintendent of a large school. I rode in an automobi and the janitor, me to the wall. The wound he me hurt me so much that I knew nothing until Monday morning. I v awakened by loud voices and bells nging Many children came to sit in vacant seats. Many times durin they looked up at were mischievous) children and chewed gum and wrote notes the teacher’s back was turned ys laughed when they were 2 Lo the school, rough man, d of the the me anxiously. i | staving two years in that place and working carefully, taken down and think of my sorrow | nd anger when one of my old friends v placed in my position. I can never forget how proud he looked. was thrown out here to the joy of friends, but in time his fate will the same. “I am too sorrowful to think of my | future days any more. I had such | pleasant dreams; d the clock, brok- | 1 Ah! This is indeed a sad world,” said the tiny mouse. JOSEPH MARX, Norwich. | | The First Flag of the United States. | A long time ago, when George | hington was leading our soldiers |in war against England he felt that our country needed a flag. “We must have a flag,” he said. “One flag for us all. The soldlers will fight better if we have it.” So he talked the matter over with his advisers, and it was decided to have one. Washington drew a picture of the flag he wanted, one with stripes of red and white. But he knew that he must find some one to make this flag. In Philadelphia there lived a young woman named Betsy Ross, who did great deal of sewing. One day as she sat in her home. busy as usual, there came a tap at the door. She opened the door. and there stood George Washington and other men. She in- cited them in, and Washongton her that they had come. hoping she would make a flag for them. He show- w told ! be brave, the white says be pure, and the blue says be true. i AUGUSTA SHERSHEVSKY. Norwich. The Wood-Mouse. Once there was a wood-mouse which lived in a mossy bank under a hedge. Such a funny house! There were vards and yards of sandy passages, leading to storerooms and nut cellars and seed cellars. There was kitchen, | parlor, pantry and larder, also Mrs. Wood-mouse’s hadroom . ,where she slept in a little box bed! She was a most terribly tidy, par- ticular litle mouse, always sweeping and dusting the soft sandy floors. If anyone lost his way In her passages you would hear her clattering behind | them with her dustpan. Mrs. Wood-mouse had eaten the acorns before Christmas, and so she knew her storeroom must be empty. ' But it was full of untidy dry moss, | which she began to move, but stopped | because she saw four bee: Then she | said: “I will have them turned out.” “Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!” “I wonder who would help me? I will not have Mr. Jackson. He never wipes his feet But she decided tho leave the bees till after dinner. When she got back to the parlor there sat Mr. Jackson himself. He had got wet and was sitting near the fire to dry himself, and so Mrs. Wood- mouse had to go around him with a mop and wipe up the water that drip- ped off his coattails. He stayed so long that he had to be asked to dinner, and he wanted some honey, but Mrs. Wood-mouse did not have any. So Mr. Jackson was not satisfled un- til he had searched the cupboards. On his way to the acorn cupboard he met Mr. Bee. He walked into the cupboard and moved the moss out, but did not find any honey, so he went away. He left evervthing so untidy that Mrs. Wood-mouse did not invite him again. She partly closed up the front door with twigs and made it too small for Mr. Jackson, who was very fat. JESSIE L. BREHAUT. East Norwiech, N. Y. | The Little Girl Lost Her Shoe. lLast Saturday our club went on & vicnie in the woods. We chose a shady spot where we were to have our lunch. We did not eat our‘lunch at once, but plaved many. games. We were having the merriest time of all when we heard a sound which sounded something like the cry of a child. We determined to find out what it was. We went over to the place we heard the cry come from, and what do you think we saw? We found a little girl crving because she could not find her shoe. Well, we laughed so heartily that the rest of the crowd came to see what the matter was. We told the little child to stop crying, and one big girl carried her home. After we ate our lunch and had a nice afternoon we went home, ate our supper and went out on the porch and told stories. But we never forgot about the little girl who lost her shoe. LILLIAN LEVINE. i Neorwich. George Washington. George Washington was bern in a preity country home of one story, con- taining four rooms and an entrance ball, on the 22d of February, He was the first child of Mary and Augus- tine_ Washin . When George was 6 years old the family removed from their Westmore- land home to a large tract of land on the Rappahannock river, opposite Fredericksburg. It was not a thickly settled portion of Virginia at the Lime ana the Indians, though ostensibly friendily, were stiil a menace to the | settlers. The conversation of the par- | | ents, which their little son listened to | with interest, was often on this sub- | | ject, and it was in this home that he | ‘Anrm exhibited his strong liking for| | military life. { | Mr. Washinzton died at the age of | | 49 vears, leaving his young wife the responsibiiity of raising the famil and managing his affairs. George was | i then about 11 years old. | Mrs, Washington permitted her son' | to spend his holidays at Mount Ver- non wita his brother Lawrence, and there he was brought into contact with ; men, naval officers and the | of merchant wes . Thus | concaived the idea of going to i | French and Indian war broke out, George Washington received nly his mother’'s consent but ner ng when he made known his de- go. He soon after married and ectied Mount Vernon, while his mother remained on her own farm. But Wash! ton was often a guest in his | mother house at Fredericksburg. When the War of the Revolution broke out, Washington, fearing his motiher would not be safe on the farm, induced her to remove to a house in the city of Fredericksburg. where she afterw continued to reside. Washington was inaugurated presi- dent of the United States on the 30th | At the close of his ad- retired to his Mount he LILLIAN BREHAUT, Age 16. Es b 72 st Norwich, N. George Washingten. Georgze Washington was born in Vir- ginia Feb. 22, 1732. Washington's fa- ther died when George was only 11 ¥ old, leaving him and his broth- ers and sisters in the care of his sensi- ble mother. George went to a little country school, where he learned to read and | wr George was very fond of Sporta | anG games, but he had a hot temper and at times his blue eyes flashed | fire. { George could jump higher, run fast- er and throw « stone further than any of his playmates. When the boys played soldier they liked to _have “Captain George” as commander. When | he drew his wuoden sword and shouted “Comc on!” they would all rush into battle with a wild hurrah! Years afterward, when the real war came, George drew his sword in ear- nest. Some of his school companions may have fought under their old lead- er. 9, - KATHERINE GORMAN, Age 9. Versaiiles, A Rainy Day. i 1 Rain, rain, rain] How it did rain! The great drops ran down the glass n streams. Tom, Jack and little M watched it for a long time. “O, dear: st, “do you think it We want they said clear? will to go out and | market St. Joseph, on Lake Michigan. Dear Uncle Jed: If ever you Cross Lake Michigan, I think the prettiest place to stop at is St. Joseph. It is situated In the southwestern part of Mfchigan. As soon as the steamer an chors and you go on land you are sur- prised when told you bhave to go up many steep steps to be on a level with | St. Joseph. | it has pretty groves,’long stretches | of trees and many frult trees. There ! is a concert stand where musicians play every Sunday night. Many open- air resiaurants are found and few | moving picture ‘houses. Many pretty ; cotlages of wealthy Chicago people are 1o be seen ulong magnificent boule- | vards. | A few miles away from St. Joseph is Benton Harbor. This is the city of | the people cailed Israelites. They are! very peculiar peoplé. It would sur- prise you to sec men, women and chil-* dren go along the streets with long, streaming hair. They do not eat any thing that is not a plant of nature and are very particular about what eat. I think if, you saw them you would think them very peculiér people. CELIA GOLDSTEIN, Age 12. Norwich. The Defeat of General Braddock. In the year 1755 General Braddock, with two thousand English regulars, was_sent over from England to help the English colonies of Virginia against the French in Canada and around the Great Lakes. General Braddock was warned by Washington and Franklin about fight- ing in woodland warfare, but he would take no advice. He and his regiment started from Alexandria, Va., and marched northward in hope of cap- turing Fort Duquesne and the forts along the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers, up as far at Fort Niagara. He as tiere going to meet the other English regulars and try to take pos- session of the land for England. When Braddock was about eight miles from Fort Duquesne he marched his regulars into an ambush. The at- tack came from an unseen foe who shot the English regulars down by tried to ilght in rank, but were more easily shot down by Indians fighting behind trees. Braddock and his regiment made a great effort to bear up against the foe, but were very unsuccessful. Finally, after suffering severely, the regulars fled in shameful rout. The brave Virginia militia, with Washington al their head, fought be- hind trees in true Indian fashion and saved the British regulars from utter ruin. This was the dismal failure of Braddock’s defeat. GRACE BUSCH, Age 14. Norwich. The Fir Tree. I am a fir tre I live in the woods witi: my mother and two sisters. We were very small at first, but we grew and grew and grew and got larger every day. Sometimes the snow wouid then we used to ‘have a it would come down in soft white flakes and we were very proud of our snow coat. In the winter time Old Mr. Wind wouid howl around us and try to bend our limbs, but we were 8o close to- gether that Old Mr. Wind got fooled. One day our mother was telling us that some day we would be made into Christmas trees and have lots of Gec- orations and presents on us. We tnought that must be lovely. Gne day long after this a lady. a man and four children came jnto the woeds. They were looking for a Christmas tree, and after searching quite a while a little girl ran towards me and said: “Oh, this is just the tree we want!” So then they got an axe and chopped me down. I traveled a long while and at last we came to the house where they lived. They all got out and the man came round to me, took me out of the team and brought me into & roocin and set mé up. Then one of the girls ran upstairs and brought down a big box which and presents. They then went very lonely. childrer coming softly downstairs. They came in, danced around me and then they pulled down their stockings and were just eating candy when the father and mother and the rest of the fami.y came in, and then they paid no more aitention to me. After a while, when they got tired of their vresents, they ran back to me and danced around me. 1 stayed this way for a week, when the father said that [ was gelting drv and niy needles were getting all over the floor. So thev bezan unirimming me and I felt very sad. Theu they carried me out to the vards. where taev had a big fire. As it was very cold they all stood around me and got warm while I burned to nothing. HELEN MARIE M'NAMARA. Norwich. The Potato Scab. The potato scab is a rough appear- ing mass on the skin that cuts s value. It is caused by a fun- gus that is hard to get rid of. It has been known to stay in the soil for six vears. Hot water will not kill it. The best way to treat it is to dis- solve two ounces of pulverized corro- sive sublimate in two gallons of water and let stand over night; then add 18 gallons of water and let it stand four or five hours Then the potatoes may be dipped and planted. & sive sublimate is a poison and the potatoes dipped in it should not be fed to stock. Formalin is another good method. Tt is used at the rate of eight ounces of formalin to 15 gallons of water. Sulphur is a better method. Use sulphur at the rate of 300 pounds to the a in open rows when the fun- gus is already in the soiL Roll seed potatoes in sulphur before planting. WALTER B. HATTIN, Age 14. Hope. Mt Convict No. 444. Convict No. 444 was summoned to the office of the prison warden. There he was given the papers making him once more a free man. He had been arrested and convicted of a serious crime when he was 21 years old. Al- though entirely innocent, he being poor and unabie to furnish analibi, was sent to prison for five years. Now that the real lawbreaker. His brother met him at the prison and together they went back to their humble little cottage, where they met fir Their mamma said: “Why do . not go up to the garret and play "rhat struck them as a fine plan and off they ran, up the bare stairs, with their noisy feet. They found three old Lrooms and began to play soldiers. o first, then Jack, with Meg last of ou The garfet was very large, and their mamma could hear them as they tramped along, and she could hear om’s commaid to “Right about face!™ when they had reached the other end. By and by they got tired of playing soldier, so they pulled down some old drésses and hats that hung on pegs, and put them on, and made believe 1 saw in the paper where that con- | that (hey were grown up people. Then ' vict No. 444 was sent up for that bank out of an old box they dragged a ' roobery where you killed Policeman | his parents. Their parents, though poor were honest. Jokn Frankiin, alias No. 444, soon went to New York city. Here he hoped to find the man for whose crime he had been convicted. X He tried for work in several piaces, but could not obtain it because he ha been in prison. At last he obtained work around a wharf. Here he asso- ciated with all kinds of low men. One day he was sitting beside a pile of lumber when he heard two men talking. One voice he recognized as the voice of a desperate character named Dan White. Creeping up closer he heard parts of the conversation. they | died. 1 flr they opened and put ornaments on me | to bed and T was | After a while I heard the | was once more free he determined to| 1 il he was vindicated from the charges. He is married and thinks of the days when known as No. 444, WILLIAM F. CUSHMAN. Stonington. George Washingtoa. George Washington’s birthday s February 22, so I thought I would write to you about him. ‘When his brother Lawrence went to the West Indies as a soldier, this made George want to be a soldier, too, so they played soldier at school. He taught the others how to march, !heyl had parades and fought bloodless- battle: ‘When he was 11 years old his father He was very fair in what he @!4, and when the other boys got into disputes they went-to George for him to settle them. The scholars practiced jumping, to see who could jump the farthest. George jumped such a long ways t8 you could hardly believe it possible. He could throw stones higher than any of the rest. He studied surveying and writing, reading and arithmetic. He went to school until he was six- teen years old. When he was sixteen, a man hired him to do surveying for him. He could 3"" from fifteen to twenty dollars a ay. In this way he got acquainted with the Indlans and the country, and this was a good training for him when he became a soldier a little later in life. He died in 1799 when he was about sixty-seven yvears old. He was first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen, He was. called the Father of His Country. FANNIE E. BROWN, Age 10) Willimanti The Fire Escape Dog. . “Bill” was as brave a worker as ha master, Mr. Wood. He had been a fire escape dog in London for nine years, and he wore a silver collar for his faithful service. He would never let his master sleep too long, but awoke him so he would not be late. How he told the time nobody knew. Bill was a very quiet a{;; but when the fire alarm sounded he barked loudly. The men knew his call aad hurried to help. When the lantern was lighted en dark nights Bill seized it between his teeth and ran on ahead of his master. He was always the first one to yun uwp the Jladder and dask into the smoky rooms. He helped to find the and to bring them out where It was safe. One time Mr. Wood-and his compan- ion. who were trying to get out of a burning house lost their way. The fire burned so hard and the smoke be- came so thick that they feared they would never get out. Faithful BN seemed to understand what was the matter and began to bark. That was a welcome sound to his poor master. He knew that Bill wanted him to fol- low: =0 the two men crawled along after the wise dog and soon came to & window. In this way brave Bill sav- ed the men's Hves. At another time Bill saw-a. deap Itt- tle kitten standing on the stalrs of = burning house. The noble fellow hur- rled along back of the kitgen and chased it down step by step untll the had it safe out of doors. How much good Bill did just by being faithful! ROBERT.KRAUSS, Age 13, Taftville. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. The Birds, My dear Uncle Jed: One day this { week I began feeding the birds, There are many different kinds of birds that are gathering around here now. The names of the birds are chicadees, snow birds, bluejays, robins and the crows. 1 have enjoyed feeding them. I be- gan Wednesday to feed them and the birds have enjoyed their food, I am sure, The next time T write I will tell you how many pet birds I have got and also their names. DORA DIGGING, Willimantic. e eee— A Winter Cough. A stubborn, annoving, depressing cough hangs on, racks the body, ens the lungs, and often leads to se- rious results. The first dose of Dr. King’'s New Discovery gives relief. Henry D. Sanders, of Cavend y was threatened with consumption, af- ter having pneumonia. He writes “Dr. King’s New Discovery ought to be in every family; it is certainly the pest of all medicines for coughs, colds 'or lung trouble.” Good for children's coughs. Money back if not satisfied. Price 50c and $1.00. At all druggists. H. E. 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Bliss 126 Main Street BUY THE Big Ben Alarm Clock From this we would natyrally sup- pose that they were animalg, but the scientists have decided, after much dis- cussion; that they are plants, which is & very comforting thought. If we must have diphtheria, it is pleasanter to think that plantz are growing in our throats than that animals are mak- ing themselves at home tners. Bacteria, or “ge ” as we wsually call them, are shaped like little balls or ovoids (egg-shaped forms), or like rods, or spirals, They are terribly hard decay, it is for the same reason, and |{ ed her the paper with the flag, and 1t 18 not the fault of the bacteria that | they talked it over together. they sometimes produce some very bad-smelling gases when they are at | and white cloth together, and making work. : a fleld of blue with white stars. This Nature Intended them to do mest of | was really the first flag of the United this work underground, where the | States of America. gases wouldn’t bother anybody, and The soldiers loved this flag and fol- we human. creatures, who think we |lowed it in all their battles. are so wise, ought io have sense ‘We_have the same beautiful banner enough to give our friends, the good | today, and we love it, too. The col- fairies of the invisible world, proper or mean to use what they meant places to work in, the soldiers long ago, for the red savs So Betsy made the flaz, sewing red ' at Wm. Friswell’s, 25-27 Franklin Strest seran book full of pletures and sat down to look them over. Meantime their friend Rese had comnie, all wrapped up, through the rain, | to make them a call. She brought a | | basket in which were her two kittens. | | “The children aregn the garret,” | said their mamma. ' Manins. Hard on the poor feliow, but you couldn’t have saved him without| losing your own sealp.” t “What! That youngster that was} sent up from the country? What wme H I would he do if he knew whers I was? Let's see, his name was Johm Frank- lin, wasn't it? So Ruse]mn l;)p to hflnd them. She John Hstene:[l to the fianvenama\ in DAN MURPHY & CO. - did find them, but they were fast|amazement. jere was his man. un- = aslegp! ning softly, he hailed a policeman. To- | Ales, Wines, Liquors and Cigars HELEN WISNESKIE, Age 13, gether they captured the man. Thus “ Y Yahtic, John was freed of all connection with Corner of Water and Market-Ste.