Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 11, 1914, Page 9

THE WID Rules for Young Writers. 1 Write oiatnly om one. side of tnz Paper cnly, and number the pages. 3. Use d ot pencil. et mm ZX t‘.:“&: e ven ee, use LAY, 4 Original stories or letters oniy will be used. 8. Write your nmame, age and ad- d1.55 plainly ot story. Address all commuaications cle Jed, Bulletin > Un- hatever ycu are—Be that! Whatever you say—-Be truel Swraighiforwardly act, Be_honest—in fact, Be nobody else pbut vou.” N POETRY., The Birthday Gift, By Louise Taylor Davis. Last week | had a birthday, and my father said to me, «*9’ll give you anything you want. Now, son, what shall it be? How_would you like a phonograph?” But I just answered “No. I'd ratier have a puppy, ‘cause a pupny loves you so!” So then he laughed and said that he would try and get a pup, And on my birthday morning, nute 1 woke up, tattest little furry dog was sit- ting on my bed! There’s nothing in the world that I'd ‘a rather instead. the The had He follows me around all slecps with me at night; day and He loves to bark st me and growl, and then pretend to bite. His littie legs are wobbly, and he can’t run fast, but oh! I'm giad I've got that puppy, 'cause a puppy loves you so- Uncle Jed's Talk to Wide-Awakes. It is not easy for a real boy or girl to always walk a chalkline, because it is not natural. Billy Caper is much more interesting than Bobby Straight; and the same may be said of Lucy Long when compared with Miss Prim. Lucy Long had a song written about her, but who ever tsought of setting Miss Prim to mu Whai makes children interesting is acting like children and not like grown folks. There is no reason why there should he anything very solemn about life. The joy of life does not lie in that direction. When young people are summing up the pleasures of life they should not forget to include being obedient and belpful to their parents. How much better it is to be spoken littie trial, or a great care. When a parent says a child is a great care it means that it does mot do as it is told. The child is not to be depended upon. The little helper is making a good reputation, and the great care is making a poor name. The bud of today makes the flower of tomorrow; and the little folks of today become the men and women of wffairs tomorrow, if they study their lessons and are obedient to their par- ants. There is more pleasure in an orderly lfe than in any other kind of exist- wnce. Restraint is not irksome when %t tells for increased joy by and by. it is loving kindness in the parent ‘which prompts them to guide their thildren, and the child who likes to be guided finds in life the most joy wnd comfort. The reason children should always find pleasure in obeying their parents $s because their parents find joy in aiding them, To be naughty is to be a disturber of the peace, and this is what no Wide-Awake should ever be. There is no reason why there can- not be a thousand smiles in life to every tear, and a thousand pleasant words to one disagreeable one. If life isn't pleasant it is because 1 haven't made the best of it. By vour speech and your conduct ¥ E AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ DEPARTMENT the bottom of ths as a little helper instead of as a! keep life sweet. Do'not put vinegar into it. WINNERS OF PR]ZE BOOKS. 1—Ruth Tew, Lordship’s Puppy: 2—Ruth Kingsley, of Uncle Tom, the Burglar. 3—James Stearns, of Norwich—The Boynton Pluck. s Sadinsky, ! | of Colchester—His Scotland— 4—Eva of Norwich— Dreamland, 5—Marion Royce of Norwich—The Meadow Brook Girls Afloat. 6—Dorothy Rasmussen, of Norwich —The Sleeping Beauty. 7—Edwin Williamson, of Norwich— Meadow Brook Girls Across Country. 3 _Rose Casavant, of Versailles— The Meadow Brook Girls Under Can- { vas. Winners of prize books lving in the city may call at the Bulletin of- fie for them at any hour after 10 a. m. Thursday. Letters of Acknowledgment. Evon M. Broadhurst, of Norwich— I wish to thank you very much for the prize bocok which you sent me. I think it is very interesting. I bave read it half through. Raymond Gray, of Willimantic—I thank you very much for the prize book. I have read some of it and think it very good. Mildred L. Zabriskie, of Preston— 1 received the prize book entitled The Meadow Brook Girls Afloat. 1 like the book and thank you for it, Joseph W. Prue, of Eagleville—I re- ceived the prize book and was pleased to get jt. Many thanks. Mary A, Burrill, of Stafford Springs —Thank you very much for the prize book, Grace Harlowe’s Senior Year at High School. I have started to read it and find it very interesting. It is the second book I have won. I like to read books. Leona Palmer, of EaglevilleThank you very much for my first prize book, Little Prudy. I bave read it through and found it very interesting. I like the Little Prudy series and have read three others. I will write more stories in vacation. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES, The Settlement of New London. In the spring of 1646 John Winthrop under auspices of Massachusetts, be- gan a settlement near Pequot harbor. This territory was claimed both by Massachusetts and Connecticut. Mr. Winthrop removed his family from Boston in the fall of 1646, They spent the winter upon Fishers Isiand, but in the spring they settled on the main land. This was the beginning of the city of New London. In 1647 the territory was conceded to belong to Connecticut, and the gen- eral court suggested the place be call- ed Fair Harbor, but the settlers finally decided upon the name of New Lon- don. The Pequot river was known as the Thames, The city is built facing the south- east and enjoys fine views over Long Island_sound. At Groton Heights on the opposite bank, a small baitery occupies the site of Fort Griswold, near which is a granite shaft 127 feet high commem- orating the massacre of its garrison by Arnold’s troops in 1781. The harbor of New London is the best in_the world. As a whale fish- ing port New London was from 1840 to_1857 second only to New Bedford. In 1771 the city was captured by Benedict Arnold and together with Groton was burned by accident or de- sign. At the present day they are enlarg- ing New London harbor, o &s to make it a large port like New York so ocean steamers can land there, RUTH TEW, Age 14. thereafter Colchester, When Betsy Proved Her Value. Betsy had been in the service of the milkman, Mr. Jones, for five years. JOEY JOY, A ROLLICKING BOY How He Learned to Swim Joey Joy always played around the water and no one would have been surprised had he been drowned. At low tide he ran on the flats barefoot and bare-lezged with his trousers roll- ed up, looking for minnows in the shallow water and for lamprey eels in the guileys under the eel grass. But the flood tide in summer was most intercsting for the water was warmed as it came in from the sea by runniny over the sandy flats which had been exposed to the sun ‘and it was then the boys went in bathing and the fishermen returned from the fisbing grounds with boat loads of live lobsters and clams and catches of cod and pollock from the sea. There was always something doing at the water's edge when the tide came in. Joey Joy was known by the river- men and they used to teil him where the rock-cod played in the bronze sea- weed, where the seals herded on the sands to sun, where the pipe fish and theé devil crab were to be found, and the starfish and the razor clam; where the sandbirds fed by day and the bittern fished at night. The how and the where and the why of life made Joey ask questions and he had the faculty’ of learning more out of school than some boys could learn in school. He was confid- ing and venturesome and his trust in others caused him nearly to lose his life once for he took the word of four big boys who could swim and they did not do as they said they would, It was about high tide and the wa- ter was warm and deep, and these boys told Joey if he would jump in they would get him out if he could not get out himself, He und: himself and jumped overboard. He knew the water was deep, but he did not think the big boys would run away and leave him to” drown, but they did. When he to surface and looked up for his rescuers, there was not a liv- ing person in sight and he imme- diately sank again. He could push and he said he thought they meant to dive into the water ard help him get out, but he guessed they meant they would come and get him when the tide went out. He did not think that any boys could be mean enough not to do as they promised. He knew boys and men better latef in life. This experience helped Joey for he felt if he accidentally got into water over his head again he could get out; but he never did get in where he couldn’t get ut, although he had sev- eral perilous au “ntures. Joey decided to learn to swim, and with him it proved to be no easy task. He could sink and wondered how other boys so easily could float One day he dove off a Scow into the yellow water and began to swim and he found he could go under water if he could not swim with his head out, 80 he used to be known as “the scooter” because he could dive and swim like a coot; and when it came to holding his breath and swimming under water none of his playmates were a match for him, so in all scoot- ing matches he always came off first. One day toward the last of the sea- son Joey decided to try for the hun- dredth time to swim with his head out of water and he was surprised when he could keep his mouth just a little above the water line, but he persisted although when the water was a little ripply he swallowed more than his share of salt water and was constantly choking and coughing., but he per- severed and when he was ten years old he could hold his head as high out of water as the best of swimmers, but he could never swim with the movement of a frog, for his stroke was then called “dog-paw and foot” swimming, but now it is practiced by powerful swimmers and known as “the Italian stroke.” < And Joey got so he could see un- der water as well as out and used to dive in dee- water and pick dimes and silver three cent pieces from the bottom to amuse people on the wharf himself to the top of the water, but had to breath quick for he immediate- ly sank again, He could not keep a minute, hold his bottom an of the wharf he could climir up, and this he did. It was only a few feet and a very eouid mot help thinkipg got out he would never be to jump overhoard e he cHmby but he thought he if fool* 1 again; breath and walk on d when he reached the difficuit- task: He ever, ‘enough ed . deep from who enjoyed the sport. He used to dive from posts twenty- five feet above the water, and swim under scows and do other daring feats which few boys would venture to try; and one time it felk to his lot to dive under a sloop to hook the centerboard rope to & gaff and when he had sue- ceeded the flat bottom of the boat sucked him up and but for dangling ropes within his reach hanging from the sloop’s rails he would bave lost his life. After he learned how fast a flat bottomed boat could hold a strong boy he did not risk his life eath th o e UNCLE SAM, 1end of the barm, + was =0 Yat and haa so She was very old, and proposed to sell her. One day Mr. Jones fell very sick and so Tom had to take his place, As he had just hitched Betsy to the wagon she kicked him to the other Fortugately, Tom many clothes on that he only hurt his finger. Betsy calmly walked to the nearest] "house and neighed. “Say marmer, Jones is siek an’ he sended hisen horse bestead” an- nounced Wiliie, the younsest of the famil. Mrs. Howard burried to the horse and got her bottle, while Betsy moved on to the next house. So it happened that Betsy went the rounds and Mr. Jones resolved to keep her because she had more than most horses have and that is “good horse sense.” PAULINE ELEANOR REYNOLDS, Norwich, s so Mr. Jones The Life of a Pestage Stamp. I was but an old rag apron, bought from the rag peddler. Then brought to a manufacturing mill, and in a day or two was made into a large-sized sheet of paper. I and my _riends were packed into large bundles and. brought to a train in which we were to reach Washington to be made into postage stamps. After that long and tiresome journey I was seat back again to a postoffice. Tili I was made into a real 3 stamp I was nearly crushed to death by being under so many machines. At last I was sent to.a drug store where, after a few minutes I was sold with & couple of others to a proud lady who stuck me on an envelope, and threw me in a green box. A half hour later the mail carrier took me and all the others to the postoffice. 1 was to go to Boston, Mass, which 1 thought would be a very weary ride; but some how or other after many bumps and jumps we ‘reached the place ard I was handed to a lady. After she opened the letter she threw the envelope into the stove and I was burned. This énded my life EVA SADINSKY. Norwich. The Sphinx. Do you know where Bgypt is? Have you ever seen a picture of that monster, the Sphinx? She was the most famous riddle maker in the world. Half lion and half woman. She sat speechless ex- cept when there fell from her cruel lips this questions “What is that animal which walks | on four legs in the morning, on two | at noon, and on three at night?” i Woe to the person who had no eor- rect answer to give her! The Sphinx ate him alive. One day a very wise man came her way. The Sphinx asked him the usual question. She was thinking what a fine tid-bit he would make, when to her surprise .he gave the right an- swer! Man,” he safd. When he is a child, he crawls on hands and feet; that is the morning of life: when he becomes a man, he walks erect on two feet, that is the noon of his life; when heo is old, he leans on cane and that is the evening of His life.” It made the Sphinx so anzary to have Her riddle guessed that she killed her- self, and so the world was rid of a terrible monster. JAMES STEARNS. Norwich. The Spelling Prize. | Mary Gray stood at the head of her class. Catherine Harris at the foot Although Catherine studied faithfully. she could not learn her lessons as quick as the other children: but when she went home she studied the lessons she had that day im school until she knew them. She studied spelling very hard and knew all of the hardest words. At spelling Mary was always at the head and Catherine at the fout, because she did not know her lesson for that day. One day some visitors came to the school. One of the gentlemen went to the blackbord and wrote on it this: “The best speller in this room will recieve this prize” He then held up a box filled with cotton, on which lay a gold medal The spelling began with Mary at the head of the line; Catherine at the foot. Many words were given out, but Mary | or Catherine did not miss. There were but a few children remaining. Mary and Catherine were among the num- ber. : The teacher gave a very hard word. The child next to Mary missed and the one next, then it came Catherine’s turn and she spelled it right. The teacher gave out the word “Re- ceive,” and only Mary and Catherine remained. Mary looked at the board and there was the word. She spelied it as it was written on the board, “R-e-c-i-e-v-e” She was wrong and had to take her seat Catherine spelled the word right, and had won the medal. After the visitors were gone the teacher said she was very glad Cath- erine had won. That was the only time Catherine went from the foot to the head, and when Catherine tells this story she always ghows the medal which she has yet. MARGARET M'VEIGH, Age 12, Norwich. How 1 Spent Memorial Day. The first thing T did In the morning was to get up early and go to church When 1 came home, I went to the woods to pick flowers. to put on the grave of a friend of mine. I did not get back until 12 o’clock. When T came back from the geme- tery T ate my dinner. Then I got ready to take a walk. LORETTA PICHE, Age 10. Norwich. My Native Town. Scotland lies in the southwestern part of Windham county. It is bound- ed on the north by Hampton and a small part of Chaplin by Lisbon and Franklin on the south, and Wind- ham on the west. It is six miles long and three miles wide. It comprehends about eighteen square miles of torritory, much of which 1s hilly and in a wild condition. Merrick's brook runs through _the middle of the town, meeting the She- tucket in the southwestern corner of the town. The New York and New FEngland rallroad runs through the southwest- ern part of Scotland. In 1870 Scotland had 648 people. In 1880 it had reduced to five hundred and ninety. The forests of Scotland are very valuable. Scotland was settled In 1700 by Tsaac Magoon, a Scotchman. He named Scotland after his native home. He bufit a hut which burned, but the neizhbors helped him to rebuild one. Seotland is a very pretty place in the summer time. RUTH KINGSLEY, Age 12, Scotland, The Chimney Swift's Adventure. Last summer a pair cf ochimney swifts had a nest in my grandmoth- ers chimney. Grandma never used the fire-place so the /chimney made a fine place for their nest. One evening there was a loud peep- ing in the fire-place, There was a sheet of tin and a eurtain over the front of it, 8¢ we could noi see what made the noise. The next morning we opened the fira-place and there were five baby swifts clinging to a piece of their nest, They wers not very pretty babies pe- “just getting their were all over. n there and pretty A T cause" they ‘were feathers. They We left them i m" :.hh:y mother ?lrd W Just flying up the chimney. Her made a whirring sound so we knew when she had fed her babies. In a few days they began to climb up the chimney. There were only three climbing, because one had died, and one was too weak to hold on the side of the chimney. I don’'t know whether those three ever reached the of the chim- ney or not, because I had to come home to go 1o 00l EMILY LATHAM, Age 13. Norwich Town. CAMPING IN THE WOODS. At our school we make oup descrip- tlons _from outlines and tkis is one that I made up. The camp is situated on the out- gkirts of a larze forest. The camp is occupied by four girls, four boys and a chaperon. The tent is large and made of can- vas. There is a gypsy fashioned fire place out side of the tent. The food consisted of bread, cold chicken, cake, milk, sslmon, sand- wiches and cookles. The camp is surrounded by tall, stender birch trees. The campers spend the evenings sit- ting around the camp fire telling stories, They retire late and as they drouse off to sleep the hooting of an owl iz heard in a distant tree. The mornings are spent making the , cleaning the tent and doing va- rious other things to keep them busy. ‘The campers will stay one week and theri return home as happy as the birds of the forest. . FLOSSIE MEYER, Age 12. e Blaze. Grace vnm:d‘fo go out one morn- ing when John was busy, so she went alone, on her own dear little horse. He was called Blaze because he had a white blaze on his forehead. Grace wanted to ride through the country lanes to see a friend of hers, who was il She could have gone there and back quite easily, and no one known of her going alonme, but when they were half way Blaze cast a shoe. It is a dreadful trouble when a horse casts a shoe, because he cannot be g0 on without it, and it has to nailed on by the blacksmi Poor Grace was in great she was afraid she would hav off > to get and walk and that would take her lonz. her mother would. think wus lost. But fortunately there was a blacksmith's forge on the road, and the blacksmith came out to her, and seeing the trouble she was in, help- ed her off the horse. He then took the horse in the forge to have a new iron shoe nailed on; and it was soon done, Grace was waiting outside in the sunshine; and then she mounted her horse and galloped away. FRANK PARDY, Age 13 Norwich. Auto-Biography of a Pussy-Williw. All last winter I was an old stick growing by a tall maple tree. In February little bark shells began to come on me and about the second of Mach it rained very hard and this of course made me very large. The next day the sun came out and thinking T was big enough I broke through the shell and appeared. First I had a nice ljittle white coat. One day while 1 was being ad- mired by the biz maple tree a Ilit- tle girl came and safd: “I will carry this to the teacher.” I was cut a.‘a brought to a large room and put In a glass of water where 1 lived a happy life. My flow- ers are out now.. I suppose I will be thrown away, so good bye. PATRICK MAHONEY, Age 12. Norwich. The Meeting. ‘We were going on an expedition in search of Captain Cook’s private goM. There were twenty-six of us. We were marching on a small island to a smail mountain which was soon reached. The gold was there. The men began digging and dug till they got out two chests from the gold-ridden ground, for some grains of gold were seen. The chests were carried to the ship. The cabin bory told us that night he had heard some of the men saying they were going to mutin If we were to have mutiny, we want- ed to know how many were loyal, of course. In our party was the captain, first after him the doctor, squire, ten men, and the boy. The mutineers had about fifteen men. The fight which followed was shert but decisive. We lost one man to the mutineers’ ten. The rest, filve in all, we brought back to England and strung upon the bibbet. ‘When we got home we counted the money and found we had twenty-five thousand pounds in English money, or in American money about one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars. One half of this was divided between the captain, doctor, squire, and the boy, and the other half among the nine men who hélped us in the fight. GEORGE FARRELIL, Age 14. Norwich. LETTERS TO UECLE\ JED. Our Flag. Dear Uncle Jed: I will tell you a story of the history of the flag. When this country was fighting to be free, many years ago, the people wanted a flag for their very own to wave over their homes, and to lead their soldiers to battle. So George Washington and a friend, Mr. Morris, were told to have just the right kind of a flag made. (George Washington drew a picture of a flag with stars and stripes anrd took the drawing to Mrs. Betsy Ross, a milliner in Philadelphia. Washington told her to make the stripes red and sky, and he toldfier to make the stars six_ ppinted. She said: Dointed;” pointed. Then she told him the sta sky seemed to have five point folded a piece of paper and cut a per- fect five pointed star. ‘Washington and his friend & and the siars were made five poinizd. In her own little heme Mirs. cut out and made the firet Hag w the stars and stripes. This teaudulal flag, which stands for our free cour tells a story, The thirteen stripes are for thirtean “No, they should te five but he wanted them six in the This is & free land. Be brave. white says: Be pure, Be true. WILLIAMSON, Ago 11 The Little Pig He Won. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 have a pig I got as the third prize in the cern coatcs:. I received piggy April 20th, Ii {s blzck with some white in its fare, it was quite little when ltn! i, but now 1 has grown lots, I feed it ihres lmos a day about three quarts of miix and a pint of middlings at a mesi. Mame- times I get in the pen with it and piay and it makes pelieve bite my ieet, and follows me.all areund the pen jiks o dog. Semetimes I give it green grass and it lkes that, MASON PARKER Mgnsfield, e S My Pet Dear fincie Jod; We have a cow a.d she We eull peep. ¥ I looked in-| ‘white, and the stars white on a blue | D | that first came into the umici. | her Nig: and we have a heifer. Sie | is brown and White, and ber name 18 Spot. We have two horses from the collese. My rtather works there, 80 he arivas these horses and keeps them here. "fhey are black and white. Their names are Kate and Tom. He can drive Kate single. i read the Wide-Awake stories. They are nice. NBLLIE E. DAY, Age 1L Storrs. Her May Basket. Dear Uncle Jed: Marion Burton was a little girl about the age of 10. She lived in a smail village outside the city of Providence. Her father was a rich merchant, and her mother was dead. One day about the first of May her teacher announced to the children that the one who had not missed a day of that term would receive someth'ng ke a = Marion was the one who had not missed, so all the school children and the teacher had a meeting with the exception of Marion (she was to know nothi; abuut it). They planned to hang m @ May basket on the $'h of May jas her reward for not missing school. The teacher was to purchase the things and make the May basket. It ;v:l.u to be made of white, trimmed in o. i Finally the day came to hang the basket, and all that day could oe heard buzzing throughout the school- room. About 7 o'clock that evening could be seen a lot of children on the veran- da of Marion’s home. The teacher was supposed to ring the bell and all tie children had planned to hide in back of the garage. ‘When Marion came to the door she was so surprised that she could hardiy talk. Oranges, bananas, popcorn, pea- nuts, candy, etc., were arranged neat- ly in the basket, with a large bunch >f liles of the valley on the top. About 9 o'clock the children said “Goodbye” to Marion and thanked her for the gnod time they had. She also thanked them for the May basket. ALICE BE. PARTRIDGE, Age 12. Jewett City. Kindness to Animals. Dear Uncle Jed: The wagon was' heavily loaded with bars of iron. Ili looked too heavy for a single horse :o draw. The patent creature had strain- ed and tugged until he succeeded in reaching the top of the hill. Now he must back the heavy load in at tne open door of the barn. “Back, Jim! Back!" said the driver, pulling lightly at the reins. The horse braced his fore feet and pushed, but the wagon did not move. I'ne man got down from the seat, went o the back of the truck and pulled. cl he cried. The horse strained every muscie. “I3ack!” cried the driver again. The wagon moved this time at least a foot. Once more the driver pulled and the horse pushed together. h the last command the great horse shoved with all his might. There was a sound of spiintering wood and the wagon ‘rolled back. Not a blow had been struck. Only gentle words had been spoken and the horse had done the rest. The man went to the horse's head, took his nose in his hands, patted him between the eyes and said: d “Good old Jim! You did it, didat you? 1 knew you would.” The horse rubbed his nose against the man’s ches ROSE CASAVANT, Age 11 Versailles. She Visited Mohegan Park. Dear Uncle Jed: My friend and I took a walk to Mohegan park Sunday. We went by the way of Greeneviile and up by the Broadway school to the park. When we got there we were very tired, so we sat down to rest. After we had rested, we walked around to started for home. We walked to the to Mohegan park some time. HARRIET GRAHAM, Age 12. Taftville. My Visit to the Woods. Dear Uncie Jed: 1 am going to you and the Wide-Awakes about visit to the woods. One Sunday afternoon my aunt, brother Raymond and 1 went into tne woods. When we first went into the woods we saw a black-billed cuckoo in a maple tree. We then got some dogwood, jack-in-the-pulpits, some Some cocoons. After we had walked ‘a little while longer we had lunch. My eyes were sore that day, so we did not stay very long. When we were coming home we stopped at my aunt’s house a little while, and then tame home. MARION ROYCE, Age 9. rwich. teil my my | | some anemones, AV to the Farm. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you how I enjoyed the farm last sum- mer. Early one morning in July I received a letter from my uncle. He wrote asking if I could come to the farm. I went to ask my mother, and she said I could go. The next morning I was up very early. I said “Goodby” to my mother and wént. 1 reached the depot just as the train was about to leave. I bought my ticket, entered the cars and sat down. 1 passed many rivers, woods, cities and fields. The train stopped and I went off. I could see the litcie farmhouse standing in its place. I went to the house, and there I saw myv uncle. He was glad to see me. It was nearly supper time, so I went out .n the yard to see the cows, horses aad igs. | P e cow was named Daisy and oze named Prince. A little while later I went in and ate my supper. Then 1 read some ke, At 8 o'clock I went to bed. | day 1 got up very early | uncle, as_he was going to . 1 liked to watch my After he had milked | ' | was very —entle. Gay as 1 was reading a book uncle called_me to come ‘o I went there and asked W a5 Sae £aid 1 must come home. old her 1 would be home that £o that night I got ready to station, sald “Goodby” to my 2 aad very scon took the train. it a very long ride to reach Norwich. o I found my way hom ABRAHAM MARKOFF, Age 10. Norwich. Her Visit to Mohegan Park. Dear Uncle Jed: I took a walk up to Mohegan park. It was a lovely walk. 1 picked flowers on my way. The Arst thing I saw was Teddy Tooseveii It looked po sad to see his hoin off, which happened in the fignat furns, sed the bunnies I used to feed I fed the bunnies that wese theis, Jus; = (ursed the eorner I saw e livdie dueks waddling along, They wers g0 euie, | saw some swimming, 2 I wizo saw wha: I theught a very Preciy duek with mics eoiored win I saw other pretty birds and animais alse, 1 swung in the swing. I liked to go and 1 wondered if I might write, too. the A have a row of maple trees all in front | ======= of the house, and up both sides of tie i road to the house. We have two horses | and a dear little coit named Queenie, calves. go on the trolley one way. I € barley and give them milk and water | care of them. For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CAMIAUKEBMS AAT E TN high, it was so much fun. Afterwards I was so hun my lunch with an appetite. It was growing dark when I go through, so I went home. DOROTHY RASMUSSEN, Age 10. Norwich. Deep Fresh Véater. ery 1 ate| In Lake Bafkal, in Asia, the extra- ¢ |ordinary depth of more than 5,600 feat has been reached, making this Iby far the deppsst fresh water known. It now appesrs that Lake Tanganyika, in Africa, may approach this depth, as Capt. Jacobs of tae German navy has reporied a sounding of 4,190 feet, and & Beigian officer claims to have pene- tratad stili lower. Tanganylka's deep- We live on a farm 1 1-2 miles from |est bottom Is at least 1,609 feet be- city. The trolley runs by ouri se and stops right In front. We (1o% Sea loval A Surprise. Dear Uncle Jed: My grandma is here vith us and she takes The Norwizh Bulletin 1 always read the children’s letters There je more Caterth in this seetion of the country than sil other disesscs Pus together, and umlil the Jeat few “i!r. wWar sup| o be b & greas many yomss dooto pounced it s ncai di | ocihed lscal remedies, and Santly faling 10 cure wiib j0oe. tremt- | Soent, prousufsed il meurable. Solen-e Chickens and ducks and cows and! My brothers and I go to school. We s is printed, will tell you next time about my school, and about my ' f4# [roven (atesrs to e a ocunmat little tame duck Jimmie. s e If this is printed, guess mamma and awiired by ¥ 3. Cheney & papa will be surprised. , Ohts, Ay Comatata- MARGARET A. HALL, Age 18. ar. It in taken on i3 e i i dones from 16 ATops 1o a It @nls Jfyeeliy om the PEOBS BEIIMC O oy Saliod M Clemens, Mich. Three Motherless Chickens. Dear Uncle Jed: I think you wouid | 1i to hear about my three little ! chickens. They are Barred Plymouth Rocis. | ¥ Druggists, Tsc e ® | Their names are Muff, Buff and Fluff.| ‘ake Hai's Femily Fills for comsti- [ e T ™ et "oorae, Huchs, | They are one week old and are very | pation. 3 r 2 cunning. -4 Eohls, :’“’:,fj“::"f‘“'[fl;"‘&’h;‘lgd Chickens. | "1 'fecd them with chick-feed and | Always Luad to Better Health. Serious sicknésses start in disorders ity to_drink. of the stonfach; liver and kidneys. Th. aity and then; took the carandirode | 0000 e e O avx. The [hope all the Wide-Awakes will go | MOther. Their mother died when they | King's New Life Pills They purify were two days old, so I have to take | the blood, prevent constipation, keep liver, kidneys #nd boweis in healthy condition. G you better health by ridding the s: ¢ fermenting and gassy focd e and mild. 25c, at your Aruggi: Bucklen's A 1 wonder if you Wide-Awakes would like to take care of three motherlcss | chickens like mine? i MARY RYBIC, Age 13. l Mansfield. ca Salve for all hurts. Bulletin Pointers WHAT TO BUY AND WHERE TO BUY Fine Hair Goods|We are headquarters and Toilet Articles Hair Dressing, Mar- cel Waving, Shampooing, H Dye: ™ for Confectiomery. Ice Cream and ‘“o@a Water. We carry a complete line of Stationery and Souvenir Postcarda 3. F. WGUIRE, Iy4Th Baltie. Rogers Domestic Laundry HAND FINISHED SHIRTS A Speciaity Also LADIES’ WAISTS Tel. 541 91-95 Chestnut GASOLENE AND 5 MOTOR for sale at . S. 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