Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 26, 1914, Page 9

Thursday, March 26 THE WIDE A WAKE CIRCLE BOYS’ AND . GIRLS’ DEPARTMENT Rules for Young Writers. 1. Write lainly on one side of tiz vaper cnly, and number the pages. Use pen and ink, not pencil 8. Short and polnted articles wiii be given preference. Do not use oves 250 words. 4. Original stories or letters oniy will be used. & Write your name, age and ad- dr.ss plainly ot the bottom of ths story. Address all communications t> Un- cle Jed, Bulletin Office. “Whatever you are—Be that! ‘Whatever you say—Be truel Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you.” POETRY. The Little Lad’s Answer. Our little lad came in one day, With dusty shoes and tired feet, His playtime had been hard and long Out in the summers’ noontide heat, “I'm giad I'm home,” he cried, and hung His torn straw hat up in the hall, ‘While in the corner near the door He put away his bat and ball “l wonder why,” his auntie said, “This little lad comes always here, Woen there are many other homes As nice as this, and quite as near?” He stood a moment. deep in thought, Then, with the lovelight in his eye, He pointed where his mother sat, And said, “She lives here, that is why!? With beaming face the mother heard; Her mother heart was very glad. A -‘rue, sweet answer he had given— That lm‘m*'"gfu‘ loving, Nttle lad, And w now that hosts of lads Are loving. true, and dear; That he did, “ living UNCLE JED'S TALK WITH WIDE- AWAKES. Evervthing we have to pay for w do not pay for in money, and it is a good thing to learn this ear¥; Omne of the most eosily things in life is disobedience. The little girl or boy who is getting the habit of refusing to | obey is getting in the way of trouble and peril The disobedient are never pepular, because they are too often refusing to do what will pleass others—are too disorder Let us see what same of the costs disobedience are. The disobedient child is the one oftenest crippled the streets or drowned at the bathing place. They iose their lives by doing what they were told pot to do. If the disobedient child lives to grow wp it is always veniuring where it is advised not to. You see, 1o gei the habit of disobedience 2s a child is to grow up to lzck caution &S a man or a woman, and ships are wrecked, all kinds of bdusiness ruined and even armies defeated because of this greal . famit which seems so unimportant 0 2 child. If you counid ask the prisoners in 3ails, and the unworthy people every- ‘where, the cause of their troubles, you ' would find they are those who have been beediess in life, that is. they have | not rightly vained the benefits which result from obedience. Discbedience of orders caases all ' morts of accidents in life, grea: losses " of property and no end of misery. “I won’i” iz the sourest fruit thatl zTows on the tree ef life, and from it the vinegar of life is natmraily fer- ‘ mented. “I won'i” from vour Ips Zives notics that you are revelfious and cammot be ' depended mpor, and it is those wio , eannot be depended mpon who make up the no'er-do-wrells of the world. You woukd h surprised if you knew [ in | dience imperils every good thing in Jdife. It would not do to talk to dull chil- dren upon such a subject as this, but Wide-Awakes are capable of learning that one of the worst faults in life is more than anyone can afford to pay for it. It is wise, then, for children to obey their parents, not merely to please their parents, but also to make of themselves devendable men and women in all the walks of life. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Bertha Fuller of Bagleville, received the prize book. much. I have read it through. The title of it is The Little Lame Prince. Please accept my thanks for the same. Eleanor P. Norton of Norwich: Thank yau very, very much for the prize book you gave me. It was very Conn.: I like it v interesting and I have read it all through. Thank you again. Sarah Hyman of Norwich: T thank you ever so much for the prize book you gave me. Frank Pardy of Norwich: I thank you for the nice prize book you gave me. I like Alger books. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. T lrene Kiedasch of Norwich, His hip’s Puppy. 2—Lloyd Rathbun of Norwich, The | Bquare Doilar Boys Smash the Ring. 3—E. Abbott Smith of Burnside, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Dora Diggins of Willimantic, Mis- Moppit. George Farrell of Norwich, Water Babies. | 6—Bertha Fuller of Hank’s Hill, Mis- | tress Moppit. | T—Abraham Schwaitzberg of Mt | Hope, Little I Prince. | %—Mildred Grandy of Yantic, Dear- Dot and the Dog. Winners of prize est bmm‘ living in the Bulletin busnh hour after 1 for x‘xem at any . on Thursda STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- | AWAKES, i Keeping Poultry. All poultry are descendants of wild fowls, Poultry raising is a very profit- yable business, although it ranks sixth | among agricultural pursuits. ! In 1899 the value of the pouliry | raised w $37,000,000. The value | the eggs was $44,000,000. The poultry jand eggs together were worth more | than all of the coal, iron, gold and sil- ! | ver mined that year. | There are many dreeds of pouitry. { The Brahma, Cochin and Langshan are | the meat breeds. There are aiso breeds raised for eggs and meat. Some of these are the Ply mouth Rock, Wyandotte and Rhode Isiand Red. Some of the egg breeds are Leghorn, Minorca and Spanish. The ornamental breeds are the Game, Bantam and Polish. Pouitry should bhave grain, animail | Tood and cracked oyster shells to form lime in the body They need some grit to erind their food. They need pure water to drink. There shouid be plenty of sunlight in the henhouses. A window set into the roaf to supply light in the back a {good thing. The coop should have a dry floor. A cement floor is very good. 4t *houtd be two inches thick. | There should be plenty of fresh air |in the coops. Sometimes the coops have open fronts. When bad weather comes, curtains can be drawn. It is good to have an elevated platform un- | der the roosts. The nests should be placed so they will be easy to remove when the coop is being disinfected. APRRAHAM SCHWAITZBERG, Age 12. Mt Hope. | of | The Gentie Boy Who Grew to Be a | Gentleman. | ! “You and 1 are gentlemen,” said| “] will not take an insult"” A { He had been throwing stones at Peter Jones, and he thought his anger prov- ed him to be a gentleman. “If you want to be a gentleman, you . “Oh, deart” sighed Helen, 1 i were ot grandma's, there wouid Haxrold sai leoking out =i somse - » tle brewn binds hopping abeat ju the mnddy sweet, He €id not answer Presently Helen tried sgain. Way iHawold, ave you aslesp’ Can't ,-u hink of mnflsmc 1o play? hipk you mighi Wy!” stie pouted. FHeanold loeked a1t Helem as she sat s with her nese pressed against the s windew, fonesaly watebing the rain- i mewry game of tasg. t Yeuw nese wgfljaa' xeal pug if yowre ¢ met Helend” he exciaimed. i sgea abeut a gewme in a story " ook tiss Week Believe Fuorm We onught te know | SM tam& Iet's make one like “Whese can Wwe eke i’ “On the Kitebea table. The eioth & gsmen and will Ao for grass. Go Bt the mns amd Pl show vou how e Fhew WM MI‘IF bml&iafl their fasm as Haridd remembes. in the story. Helew's pen was Dbuilt and ; filled wath pigs. They weze fai litle . bulions. arcdd found a pasieboard ux.wer om a0 cdd “piciute book and : stood if in one cozner for a hazn. He puilf 2 ing and a checker feace * around His cows wgre marbles | Sehile some glossy brown horse-chest- nuts made es. *I musi have some Lmnbs” decided She rofled some pieces gsxee ed aiiy that made fleecy 1i: il 3 sheep-fold of s bil of froken glass was the whepe they drove theanimals to “g wmh we had somre trees” said “Wed get some the next time we wisit -grandga.” planned Harold, “We could bring home a”lot of pine cones, and the Tittie green tips fl" hemlock and cedar wonld make a splendid grove. Now lefs get same of that sand ‘we broughi™from the Beach Tast summer and make a garden’” “Afl right” agreed Helen. “Mamma wom't care if we don’t spill it on”the They spread some paper. on the ia- Ple and covered it with sand. In this they planted celery tips, gerapinm leaves and some faded flowers that ‘,‘;{ L it-is caiied a Make- ! of ! | | 1 | their mother had lor vase. “It's not so pretty as grandma’s but taken from the par- it's Tather good for make-believe” de- cided Helen | They drove the animals from the | barn to the pond and back again and | put the frisky lambs out to pasture. Helen tried to shear their wool with | the seisscr: of the fun, their molh- | stones at their a habit of disobedience—that it costs | | who 1 1n, | ses what - must be a gentle boy first,” said his teacher. “Gentlemen do not throw neighbors. Peter Jones dld not hrow stones at you, and I think he is much more likely to prove a gentleman.” i But he's got patches on his knees,” | | said Will. | “Bad trousers don’t keep a boy from being a gentleman,” said the teach- er, “but a bad temper does.” A little further on the teacher met Peter. Some stones had hit him and hurt him. “Well, Peter, what's the matter with | you and Will this morning?” asked the teacher. 1 was playing ball and the ball hit Will Thompson’s dog.” “Why did you not throw back?” Because, my mother gentleman. The teacher walked on after prais- ing Peter’s conduct. He lived to see Will a rowdy, Peter a gentleman, ed by all. Remember, a gentle boy makes gentleman. FRANK PARDY, Age 13. and loved and respect- a Norwich. Any Port in a Storm. Let the players sit in two lines op- posite each other at some little dis- tance apart. Then two members stand between, one of whom is blindfolded; the other, in a whisper, gives the play- ers on one side of the line the name of vessels; for instance, S. S. Ken- tucky, the Maine, etc. The leader on the other side he names as different ports, such as Liverpool, Boston, New York, etc. After doing this he stands beside the biindfolded player, who is termed “a wreck” and cries aloud: & Kentucky is ordered to the port erpool.” reupon the ship of that name and the port change places and the “wreck” tries to slip into one of the 1 empty places, Then the player who calls out the changes may give “the wreck” a better opportunity by saying: “‘London, Boston and New York, call for aid from S. S. Kentucky, the Maine and the St. Louis”” In the general scramble “the wrec usually finds a port, and the one without a seat be- comes “the wreck.” GEORGE FARRELL, Age 13. Norwich. Our Song Birds. As soon as the fir: gns of warm weather ap the birds begin arrive from their outh to the warm home in the cooler climates in such as his red breast is us- bird to arrive and us when spring is here, rrives when the snow @ ground and the poor rob- d time getting his foed, sparrow usually gets before s a the Next they must build their homes, in the thickest part of the cherry tree where it will be out sight of the naughty ,or cats, or other enemies, for which the birds al- ways look wisely forward. Many more beautiful birds arrive when the weather gets warmer and { they are always on the lookout for ;x;»s‘ts that have been vacated by other birds. We can often liear these beautiful song birds singing in the trees sur- rounding the house just after the sun has risen, and thefr songs often glad- den the sick heart of some poor invalid has had a wakeful night and waits the first sound of morn- get to work and which usually are of little children eager] 2. The chief food of these birds is worms, and many farmers are thank- ful to them for ridding their gardens of the worms which often destroy the crops, Many boys find it sport to go nuti and rob the nests of these beautiful songsters, of the eggs which they have so carefully guarded. Many shoot the | birds as a pastime and nothing more. The slaughter of many of the wild birds is for the reason that their feath- ers may go to decorate women's ha This one reason has almost exter- minated most of the more beautiful birds. Many bills have been passed to prevent the destruction of birds. AUGUSTA SHERSHEVSKY, Age 13. | Norwich. says to be a : enough to dres: { Bill, go out of doors and ciean the | s will be green—no, I don’t look | sidewalk. Some children going 10 |good in gre uu-—] wonder if there is) school have fallen and hurt mselves.” | any such color as sky-blue-pink. T | “All right, father,” said Bill. | guess it will be pink, and I will g,.] He was out cleaning the dewalk ; to dancing and they 1 ail| when a man came along and said: i wa me, but I will take | “Why are vou cleaning this long |t I v take ‘1,"\ sidewalk and not in school?” | richest and he will come witl ! “Some of my schoolmates have fall- | » and take me home. en and hurt themselves and I made up | Il this time was my mind no more would fall,” replied her and higher | BilL . {when the pail of mi “All right,” said the man. “That is i spilled a brave deed, and here is five dollars P A Spirited Contest. All eyes were turned toward the greased pol: which was about eighteen feet high, and at the top fluttered a bank note. ontestants were ranged up at either | side and one after another they tried to climb up, but as soon as they were about half way up, down they came. Many refused to ftry. About the end of a half hour a man and boy were | the only two contestants. The boy had shown the most promise from the first, although the man had gone up a good way, but as soon as he | neared the top of the pole, down he came. { Again the boy tried. This time he reached the top, and when he put out his hand to grasp the note he lost his | palance and came back to the earth. Favor seemed to be with the boy, and, seeing this, the man retired, leaving him sole contestant, and mid cheers and cries from the crowd the poy started up again and won. MARGARET M'VEIGH, Age 12. Norwich. e ———— ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. \Vegelable forAs similating the Food and| ting the Stomachs How | Made My Corn Urop. 1 joined the club because I thought f Pmmnlelegeslimflutfl- I would learn more about corn and i ness andRestCantains how to take care of it than I knew Deiter before. Opium.Morphine nor Mioeral I tested my corn by putting some Nor NARCOTIC. seeds in a box, and the seeds that came up were good seeds, and the ones that did not come up were not good. I had half an acre for my field. I cleared away all the stones and culti- vated my lot before planting. I had a good sunny spot. 1 planted my corn in straight rows and only a few kernels in each hill. I picked out good strong kernels. i Mr. Brundage and another man came | to visit it. They took a picture of it. They thought it was nicely cared for. The weather was good for my corn- field. There wer2 not many insects on | A efiwkamdyl‘nrmnsh hon Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worras Corvulsions Feveriske nzssam:llaossorSLEfl? During October T harvested my crop. oo— I had a good corn crop. I had about forty bushels of corn. I had a lot of little ears which I did not count. I got about four dollars for my corn at Berlin fair. It cost me three dol- lars to grow my corn. I have learned how to take care of corn, and I am glad I belong to the corn club. BERTHA FULLER, Age 10. Hank's Hill Tue CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YCR K ek i A Brave Deed. | One night it snowed very hard. The next day it wa 1. and that night H the s r ttle bit, and the next ¢ 1i and the | GASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the For Over Thirty Years trolley Childran oing to times fall nd hurt man was the h and saw and ! head she had in the window This man had & said named Bill and | boy n.- ken w that the c 1 a new he for vour hard work.’ Central Village. WILLIAM EATON, Age 10. I 3 St. Patrick. St. Patrick was born in the year 387 end died in the vear 465 A, D. His father belonged to a noble Roman fam- Norw Working Out. 1 | ! | Dear Uncle Jed: I want to tell you inl{‘ t‘Hlsr amolhoe Wi a niece of St |,pout tobacco. The farmers think that | [artin o ‘'ours. i raising tobacc When St. Patrick was about lfi | there is more money in g tol O | than there is in raising vegetables and other things. I worked for a man | got one dollar a day cld he was stolen from his home me pirates. A These pirates sold | him to a rich man named Milcho. At that time the Irish people had last summer and 1 helped to weed the beds and water them. I pulled never heard of Christ. They worship- | gome of the plants. 1 drew the water ped the sun, the moon and streams.|for the tobacco setier. Then iwe had | © hoe and When they Lu’ lhe tubac(u I helped hand tobacco. With some of my money I bought a Scotch collie puppy. He is now about St. Patrick had a dream one night. | In this dream a messenger said: “Behold, a ship is to sail” When Patrick reached home he was | Their priests were called Druids. | to | received with great joy. After a few |half grown and knows many tricks, days home he set out to convert Ire- | ianyiothan Ehinpiiend koot land. He converted most of reland, ! nding money and put and when he died he was glad to| How a Kitten Was Savad. One summer day a woman went for | a4 ride, and as she was riding along Past a swamp she heard a noise like a | kitten mewing. She stopped the horse and went to it was. When she reached the place she saw a lictle kitten. It | was all wet and dirty. | he took it home and washed it. The kitten soon grew and i a strong | and beautiful cat. s still alive. i CLAIR HOXIE, Age 8. | Coichester. A Bear Hunt. A young man went of Maine to huni bear After he had | looked about for some time for tracks | he struck a fresh trail. As he walked along in a careless way, with his gum | unloaded, all of a sudden a large bear jumped out from the bushes and with an angry growl came iowards him. | The young man had no time to load | his gun, but ran away fast as he could. Tn a grove of trees he had seen some men at work chopping wood. He dropped his gun at the foot of the tree and climbed up jusi in time to get out | of the way of the bear. The b2ar rushed at the woosdchopper, ‘who had no time to get awa: into the forests | He took | up his axe and hit the bear on the| head. 1 The bear struck the man with his| paw. Then the man was in dreadful | The bear was so dizzy that he ! did not know what the man meant to said, when do. So the man took up his axe and , the ablural abbut ir{ hit the bear another blow and the bear H = A tpink 1 ve brought {lay down dead. | 1the very thimg ‘vou will like best | LESLIE HOLDRIDGE, Age 6. | | today. | Norwich | i She piaced a paper bag upon the | | table. { “Oh.” eried Helen, pee | Frank and the Sheep. * ” sald aking out a | Tank’s motner would not let him stful @a: crackers. ! swim in the pond with the other | he: ‘ows! Goat Dogs! Bears! | so he said he had nothing to do, and | Lion Elephants! Camels! We can nbed upon a gate to do it. and as he have a eircus. t0o.” sat there, thinking what an ill-used | 'Their mother showed them hew to|boy he was, Tinker ran down the lane. | | stand the animals upright by leaning Tinker was Farmer Brown’'s dog, and { then against pins stuck in the table. he knew Frank well, but today he did | _ Harold found a box and cut holes | noi even siop to e him a wag of | {for windows and a deor, and soon had | his hurried on without no- ja little building where the wild circus | ticin, | animals could live. | he be Zotug in such a | Mischief, the kitten, came looking | hurry rank, jumping off the linquisitively at ik farm. Suddenly | gate and running after him as fast as { Wken the twins were not watching, | he could | she raised her white paw and knock. ;| Ile found the dog in a turnip field led t racker dog on the floor. | drive out the farmer’s sheep, “Oh,” Harold,” cried Helen, ‘“there | d escaped from their pasture { veur dog. His head is smashed | through a gap in the fence. land Mischief is eating it | Frank eclimbed over the fence and | { “And I dont believe there is am- | oPened gate between the two fields other dog in the bag,” scolded Harold. | a4 85 s oS e | Mischief was shut out of the kitchen | and Helen found one move dog at the ihan.um of the bag. “It's tail is broken off, but we'll call it a Boston Terrier,” she laughed. { All the long rainy afternoon, they | were busy = py_as if the sun ! were shint ily. The rain poured noticed, for the little farmers wers { tv meadow near grandpa’s barn. The fish, Bven lhe cracker dog without a sparrows hopped about the gutters un- { 'The green table-cloth was the prot- Harold had cuught turtles and tiny AH too sogn it was supper time and frightened *k to their own place. he shut the gate in and, pici up & board whici lay upon the ground, stopped up the gap in the fance with it, so that they were not able to get through again Bravo! A swmart piece of work!” shouted a cheery voice, and there was | Farmer Brown, who had been watch ing the chase. He took Frank to the farm and let him ride the pony and eat | as many apples as he pieased. And when at last the boy ran heme again he hugged his mother and said: “I'm so glad you did not let me swin, mother. 1 should have missed a lot of fun if 1 had not seen Tinker m down ithe lane this afternoen, and, | besides, T conld not have helped Farm- | own if I had not been right ithe farm-yard had to be stored away until another rainy da 4-rwdily on, and the little drenched cavefully tending their fioc i pond was the one at grandpa’s where tail was named for Rover. i Nellie M. Leonar LILLIAN BREHAUT. East Norwich, N. ¥. | come down on the window | I used to work in the kitchen but they ! girls besides me. | liked Ruth and I | fold spreads at know that 20 churches were establish- | ed in Ireland. | JOHN O:NEIL, Age 1 \LBL)TT Jurnside. SMITH, 11. Age His Visit to the Country. Dear Uncle Jed: I have never writ- Norwich. LETTERS TO UN:')LE JED. —— ften to you before, but I thought I| Venturesome Boys. would write and tell you about my vis- Dear Uncle Jed: One warm day in | it to the country. £ early spring two boys were playing on Last summer I went to visit my the ice along the shores of the creek. |aunt'’s farm. We start ¢ noon and They had long poles in their hands |80t there about 4 o the after- and were pushing their boats with |noOR When I got sted 'l went | them. around to see the different things on The ice bearing the boys broke from |the farm. { the shore and swung into the cur-| My aunt had two one was rent The boys floated slowly dow “’named Kitty and u Simon. ihe stream. They were laughing, The | The one my aunt liked was S creek became narrow and the current |Mon and the one my uncle liked best grew faster. Then the people heard | Was Kitty. Kitty got sick first and Fes from the boys under the bridge | She died and Simon felt so bad that | | and saved them. The boys were frizht- | he got sick and died, too. My aunt| ened and cold, but safe. and uncle felt very sorry to lose them, = n CBURRILL, Age 11 They also have two dogs, one a shep- A © 1 | herd and the other a bulldog. S Spri The one Staffoeg L | T like best is Shep, because he would Grandpa Feeds the Birds. { mot_touch anybo : s22on) el | My aunt chickens, ducks D““", I‘ BOS 89 A "&rl 3““‘; and ganders. lvery morning I got | old. I live with my grandpa and |, early and went to the coop to see i grandma. Grandma wants me to Write | o0 many eggs were there. 1 alwa {to Jou o "".'."1‘13:5;““dfh'f".“)‘{u;j‘l‘:d-‘q:‘; | found quite a few, because my aunt pizds, i the ctcEsdes. ay and | ;. ite a number of hens the woodpocker and phoebe. The bird R - My uncle went to town every morn- ing and most always I went with him. 1 used to help rake the hay and went T g0 to schodi and have to walk two | miles_ | berrying quite a lot because they grow My father and mother and my broth- ;arnu’ndg,he b : ers and sisters live in the city but | ™ 6p "q, 0 when I was picking berries grandpa lives in the qountry. I like |y got in a wasps' nest and one of them it better than the city stung me on the arm. I went to the This is my first letter, so goodbye. house and my aunt put som d of FREDDIE S Terryville. RESSEELE S s tie on it My aunt has apple, pear | trees. I got up very early in the morn- ing, because I could not sleep the ganders and ducks outside, make such a noise. The cows are so tame they come and stick their heads in the window. and cherry Liked the Children’s Home. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 wili teil you about the work I did when 1 was in Putnam. I worked in two different dormitories. wanted me in the dormitory, &0 1 went. I swept and mopped the floors, and I liked to feed the chickens and pig made thirty-two beds, and 1 scrubbed { T stayed there two W and then the mop boards, and scrubbed stairs. | started for home. I did not like to too. 1 scruobed the floors on hands and knees. There were two or three We had lots of fun. Thompson would bring | or_some cake. She Ruth and I had to night There are about sixty-four children in the county home ] came from. I went to school and I was in the fourth =0, but 1 expect to go to the country again next summer, THOMAS O'CONNELL. | Norwich. Sometimes M up some cand e Norfolk, Va. Dear Uncle Jed: I thouyght I would write and tell you and the rest of the | Wide-Awakes about some of the in- e o teacher was very kind to | teresting things I saw while living in | N il for har and she | Norfolk, Va. We lived on Wood street and we had a great big backyard, with six large fig trees growing there. When the figs were ripe they were a brownish color and were shaped like a pear, but were filled with tiny seed: Sometimes we used to go to Ci park. It is a very beautiful park, with lovely rose arbors and hedges on both sides of the walks and hundreds of writes 10 me some times. My sisters say they wish they could do what I did when I was in Putnam, but they went away from there and so they said they could not do the wor I always had a good time when 1 w there. | am staying in Willimantic now and I have lots of fun every day I wash lamp chimneys and wash the | dishes and piay with the children and | Umbrella trees, There was a large e pa‘l’u‘ XTh in awiile building with all kinds of anima n s in it. I have been having lots of fun with - the children at school, When I go back te Putnam 1 will do my dormitory Mistress will not be there and i be lopeseme. Ruth and I will do the dormitory alene and have lots On Decoration day we went out to Elmwood cemetery and waited for the parade to march in. It was quite a large parade and the soldiers were dressed in gray and carried a Confed- of fun, s mother told me when I came | eFate flag in the front and the Amer- up here. ican flag in back. There was a car- I like this place and think it is very | Fiage filled with ladies with gray capes comfortabie, and caps on, who sang very sweetly. DORA DIGGINS, Age 12. Some time I will write agaln and tell you about other things I saw IRENE KIEDASCH, Age 11 rwich. Willimantic, Counted Chickens Before Hatched. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to te e IR ¥ou abeat -a girl who counted her His Visit to Besten. chickens before they were hatched, Dear Unele Jed: I am going to tell One day a girl was walking aleng yeu abeut my visit in Boston. 1 was | his i he | cutside ! write, too,” gone three day histori plac t over the North church, up in the belfrv where Robert Newman hung he lantern as a signal for Paul Revere, and 1 also saw what they call the Vin- en by King George IL From there I went to Paul Revere’s and I visited several house, and there I saw the cradle his child ed in. It was made of There were many other inters things. I went over the Art Museum, where there was silver that Paul Revere and father made many years ago. I have also been to his grave. I went to Bumnker Hill Monument. the tower there was a fine the city of Boston. around the Navy Yard and Constitution, or Old Iron- s, and to the Museum, where they had boitles of water, one from the riv- er Jordan and one from Jacob's well. I enjoved my visit very much and wish all the little boys and girls could | see thé same sights. MYRTICE L. BROWNING, Age 9. North Franklin. Where They Make the Maple Syeup. Dear Uncle Jed: One day last Au- gust my mother, brother and myself went 108 miles on the train from here, 2 . Vermont, to see my un- ns. uncle’s house we could ses mountains. Some of them were covered with pine and maple trees. That's where they get the ma- ple syr One day my uncle took us to see the gorge where the Black river runs through. The water is so black that | fish cannot live in it. I go to Mount Pleasant Street school. RAYMOND HEEBNER, Age 0. Norwich. She Found a Quail’s Nest. Dear Uncle Jed: Last summer when was out in the flelds picking dais- I thought that I saw some eggs :r a lot of long grasses that grew der an old apple tree. I looked-at it more closely and found that it was a s nest with 14 eggs in it. Another day when I looked at it that there were 16 in it - father mowed the field he he grass that grew around it. But it frightened the mother bird so much r came there any more. ather took the eggs and put side of the barn. He tried to get a bantam hen to set on them, buat could not find any, so he had to throw them away. One time I had some pheasant eggs i to me. I hatched out seven lit- tle pheasants. They were yellow, with brown stripes on their back. I guess we dd not know how to feed them right, for they all died before they wers old. This spring I hope to have somse chickens of my own, and to have bet- ter luc ith them. My f: wishes me to have some White nouth Rocks, but T would rather & ome other kind, because I do not like white hens. MILDRED GRANDY. Yantic An Interesting Talk. Dear Uncle Jed: I have not written for a long time because when I hawe to go to cholr rehearsals every Tues- day and Thursday and do my work and school work, there isn't much time: and whenever I do get time to write my little 3 year old sister comes up behind me into my chair and talks to me, and says “she wants to <o I cannot write then be- cause I don't want to be cross to her and send her away. eing it is Lincoln’s birthday. I want to tell you what Mr. Hill (secretary Y. M. €. A) said to us at our church at our revival services about Lincoln. He said he loved Lincoln very much. He went into Lincoin’s old home out west and saw It just as Lincoln lived in it There was an old chair which Lincoln sat in. As Mr. Hill got ready to®o home he noticed a parer with writing on it. and a brownish spot on it. He asked the caretaker what it was. As the old s eyes filled with tears, he said: blood. Mr. Hill said he loved Lincpln ve much, but he loved him even more when he stood in the hraae\nr blood, which had been giv many poor slaves. I had never heard anybody that ha been at Lincoln’s home before, and was very interesting to me If it had not been for Lincoin ple would be selling Slaves now LLOYD RATHBUN, Age 11. Norwich. The orfgin of sauerkraut is lost im antiquity. Onl. Whenever you feel a cold coming oa. {hink of the full name, uxA’zvd One “BROMO QUININE.” O_QUININE. Look for e of E. W. Grove on bex.