Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 2, 1914, Page 9

*‘bg'i&vu preference. Do not use ove: *L Y Oikinal stories or letters onty vlf used. ¢ : "mu and ad- dr.ss plal of the l;ll communications > Un- cle Jed. Bulletin Office. A & “Whatever yeu are—Be thatl Wharever you say—-Be truel . Straighttorwardly act, Be honest—in fact, - Pk Be nobody else but you.” POETRY. in the Moon. What do you see in the moon, little one, Up In the sky so high Do you see a man with a twinkle of your name, age ot the bottom 'un = Bhining bright from his silvery eye? What do you s=ee in the moon, my hjld, cl Keeping watch over all the earth? Do _you see a rabbit, a rabbit wild, That excites your childish mirth? Do you see in the moon as it hangs on wfi m"“"o“:m mw:l.fll sigh, Who combs and .combs, out a sigh, Her wonderful golden hair? Now look-at the moon again, my dear. ‘When it's roi -and clear and gold, And yg:g: see & mother bend over her Ana its little form enfold. « : A Young Artist, By D. Webb. Little Willle made a drawing “What is that?” he asked exultant. “"Tis a puppy,” she replied. Then he took it to his father, Who exclaimed, “I wonder now! It's a quadruped for certain, I should say jt was a cow!™ Willie wondered that his parents Did so strangely disagree; “It was meant to be the sofa In the parlor,” murmured he. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES, Uncle Jed wants the Wide-Awakes to write him out-of-door stories. With the open air games, the birds, the flowers, the trees and the brooks in full force there ought to be plenty to write about. Uncle Jed goes to walk and he takes up wild flowers and brings them home with him and he has violets under the mock arange tree, and daisies in the border and wild geraniums under the crab-apple tree, and an orchid in among the phlox, and some of them have grown' and increased for many years. Keeping a few wild plants in the yard is -than keeping wild Dirds in a'cage, . 5 The giris stroll in the fields "and know a great many more flowers than the boys. Now the girl who first finds the tway-blade, a sly, two petalled, smoky-blue colored flower and writes & good story where she found it, shall receive a bright silver quarter as a reward for her alertness. The boys boat and fish and swim and the boy who catches the biggest black bass, or the largest blackfish, And he showed mamma with pnloi cand - have a brigh And for the best nature story on any subject they may choose Uncle Jed will award a prize ‘of a silver |’ quarter-‘to boy or girl. For the best story of ghells, or sea- weeds, or insects picks up on the seashore, written by Wide-Awake boys -or girls, a silver quarter will be given. x | | ‘ Uncle Jed wants the Wide-Awakes to get busy out-of-dcors. There is pleasure and health and knowledge to be had in the open every day during the long vacation. Do not forget what your eyes are for or your brains—just keep your lids wide open and your mind. busy. No Eyes is a sleepy head and he misses most of the interesting things indoors and out and often misses his lessons. i Some grown folks, as well as chil- dren, think rest means idleness, but it doesn't. Idle people are the most miserable. We ™find rest in doing any- thing interesting that may be pleas- ing to us. The out-of-doors is full of good book-winning topics just now and the girls and boys who are going on ex- cursions or picnicking in the woods ought to be able to writé good. letters about what they see and enjoy. And when you write just make it clear and plain, so Uncle Jed will be able to read it readily, for if he can- not read your letter, the printers will refuse to bother themselves with it, WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Alice M. Gorman, of Versailles— A Soldier of the Legion. 2—Frank Pardy, of Norwich—Tom, the Bootblack. 3—Sadie Shea, of Versailles—The Little Queen. 4—Mary Rybic, of Mansfield—Those Preston Twins. 5—Julia_Latham, of Norwich—Little Folks of North America, 6—Fannie C. Brown, of Willimantic —What Gladys Saw. 7—Eward 8. Jackson, Mansfield Cen- ter—The Soldiers of the Duke. 8—Nelson J. Leierich, of Norwich— Robinson Crusoe. Gratuity—Zillah Morry, of Oneco—A Little Book for Little Folks. + Winners of prize bocks living in the city may call at the business office of ‘the Bulletin for them at any hour after 10 a. m, on Thursday. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Paul Werth of North Franklin: I received the prize book, The High School Captain of the Team, and I thank you ever so much for it. I like to read those books. | before the leaves appear, with one pound of copper sulphate to fifty gal- lons of water. t The- second should be made with Bordeaux mixture "and arsenate of léead when the blossoms fall, EDWARD RUCHLE. Mansfield Center. _— s The Story of a Wise Woman. Miss Eliza Lucas-of South Carolina showed the people how to raise a new plant. Miss Lucas’ father did not Jive in South Carolina. He was the governor of one of the islands of the ‘West Indies. Miss Lucas was fond of trying new things. He father sent her seeds and she planted them in South Carolina. He sent her some seeds of the indigo plant. She sowed some of them in March. But a frost ¢ame and all the plants died. She sowed some more of them in April. The plants grew well until a cut-worm found them. The cut-worm wished to try new things, too, so he ate all of the indi- go plants, but Miss Lucas was one of ‘those people who try, try again. . She planted more of the seeds and they grew very well. She wrote to her father about it. He sent a man to show her how to make indigo. This man did not.want to'show her how.to make indigo be- cause he feared the people in-_his country would not get so much for their indigo. So he did not explain how to make it. Miss Lucas watched him closely and found out how it ought to be made. In a few years more than a million pounds of indigo were made in South Carolina. Many people got rich through it. -And it was all be- cause Miss Lucas did not give up. ALICE M. GORMAN, Age 11. Versallles. - o What a Brownie Did. There lived a poor woman and her little. girl near the edge of a forest. Onec day the little girl went into the woods to gather berries to sell in-the nearby town. She walked and search- and by noontime she had only a few berries, hardly enought to cover the bottom of her basket. “This will never do,” she said aloud. “T must find more berries, or we shall starve. There is not a piece of bread left in the house.” Now the little girl did not oW that she was near the home of two brownies. Ngr did she know that one of the brownies was watching her from behind a big fwee, and that he heard every word she said. “Ahem,” said the brownie to him- @elf., “Here is some one who needs my help. I will find out whether she is good and kind. her good fairy. So the brownie said a few magic If she is, I will b2 STORIES WRITTEN AWAKES, The Nervous Man. ‘A man returned late to his room in a_hotel and kicked off one shoe, which flew with a clatter to the other end of the room. Then, remembering that the man in the next room was nervous and was a light sleeper, he divested himself of the rest of his clothes as quietly as possible and went to bed. Three hours later he was awakened by a voice at door. “For goodness sake,” said the voice, which he recog- nized as that of his nervous neigh- bor, “when are you golng to kick off the other shoe? I have been lying awake here for three. hours waiting BY WIDE- Since every man is supposed to have music in his soul, every boy must have a bit in'his, but the boy’'s music ex- Ppresses itself in a series of annoying instcad of pledsing noises—a racket instead ‘of a symphony. In Joey Joy’'s day there were more home-made instruments than in these days, ahd while the boys used to make unearthly noises with a blade of grass between the fleshy parts of the hands'into which they blew, paper over a comb through which they could make many discordant sounds, the ®quash-vine flute, a cornstalk fiddle and a willow whistle, and while these instruments in the hands of the young produced a. disturbing - variety - of , moises, in the hands of older children they would produce surprising and agreeable mausic. Joey Joy had two screaming whis- tles he delighted in, either .of which could be hearq half a mile away— one made by placing two extended fin- gers of each hapnd in his mouth, and the other by closing his forefinger and pushing it into his mouth under his tongue. Joey could never produce any harmony of sounds but he could imi- tate a screeching whistle of any kind, make' an Indian warwhoop that was hair-lifting, and his mother used to say he could make noise enough to wake the dead. ° 5 Joey used to be one of the leaders of the campaigns at the penny-store, in which the boys bought meade; Jack- son knobs, stri peppermint, sassa- fras and barley stick candy, gib-ral- ters and kisses, . “The Jackson knobs ‘were of molasses with a lump on the end and were the forerunners of the lollipops; the gib'ralters were red and ‘white hard-lump, everlasting candy, and the kisses were a.softer confec- tion rolled in white and pink tissue paper with prettily fringed 5 There was no soda water, or pink lem- onade, or ice cream cones -in those days. There was a peppermint. pipe, so-called because it resembled a pipe- stem, and it was so hard a /penny’s worth wouid last a day. This was recognized as being harder than Pha- roah’s heart, 52 3 And in those days the boys called thelr confections “licking good” and “galaraping,” which s ‘to mean ssemed the same as “bang-up!” These campaigns were to have fun + ‘with the keeper of the store who walk- ed with a crutch because one Joey Joy, A Rollicking Boy How the Trick Came Home Joyous chuckle). T'd keep agoing all night for a penny a trip!” z There never was but one David, and were such a scheme practiced on a cripple in these days it is likely some- one with humanitarian predilections would send for the police. Once Joey played_a trick on David which was unworthy a rollicking boy, for he hid fifteen cents fying on the counter under the bate of the scales and disappgared, and be never thought David would know and would send Word to his father that he had stolen the money. He had not been in the house many minutes that nisht when he noticed that there was a sad atmosphere, the faces of Pa and Ma did not look right and he could not tell why. Then Pa ooked at Joey and said: “You come down cellar with me, you, sir! I have a Mmind to hang you up by the thumbs and strap you!” As Joey Joy was. going down the cellar stairs, he began to cry and said: ;Wdhat t:m:e I done, Pa? I haven't ad a fight or done a thin - ey & g to no “Don’t you lie to me, vyou scamp!” said Pa. “How came you to take David's money? What have you done with the fifteen cents you took from the counter in his store?” “I didn’t take a peuny off his coun- ter, Pa," replied Joey, but he saw the trick was more serious for him than he had ever imagined it could be, “Don’t lie to me!” exclaimed Pa. “I shall first whip you for lieing, and then I will thrash you for theft- And the strap began to make Joey’s back smart and he screamed— “m nonmi?;, Pa! I never stole the money. avi m: have tho did, but I didn’t!"ay N It made no odds what Joey said for the facts were against him, and he ‘was thrashed for lieing and for steal- ing anq then sent t6 bed without his supper. - 2 ‘He heard Pa say as he disappeared smarting and crushed to think his parents did not believe him: “I'll thrash that boy until he owns ;13' the theft, for-there is no doubt of little Ma came up and talked with Joey, as good mothers will, and told him how sad she felt when she heard what he had done, “Now Joey,” she said, “you tell me all about it.. Didn't you :nk: the money from David’'s.coun- o3 ors | He told her how he hid 1t for un that it was right on the counter words_and changed himself into a lit- tle old man. Then, coming from be- hind the tree, he said: “Little girl, I am very hungry. Will vou please give me some of your ber- ries 7 “Yes, you are welcome to all you want,” answered the little girl.” “You are good and kind” replied the brownie, but as you are very poor I am going to offer you a fairy gift which he drew from under his coat.” It was a golden casket and he also gave her a key, and saild, “Now do not open it until you reach home, then make a wish, turn the key and you will find what you wished for.” She thanked the brownle, and then hurried home, and called her mother to see her open it. She wished for gold then opened it and found it full of gold. So she and her mother were mever poor again. ADA RINGLAND, Age 11. Norwich Town. Old Speckle. I am an old hen with black and white speckles. My mistress calle me, “Old Speckle.” Every day my mistress gives me water, cracked corn and plenty of bread crumbs. for worms. Everyday I lay an egg. One day I made a nest behind the barn and laid my eggs there for fear my misiress, would come and = take them. I lald twelve eggs and iIn three weeks twelve little balls of vyellow, brown and black chickens came tum- bling out of the nest. My mistress came out and was sur- prised. She shut me up in a coop with wire in front so that my chick- ens could go in and out. In about two weeks I was let free to roam about with my family. EVA ALPERIN, Age 13. Mansfield Four Corners. I eat flies and dig - A Little Problem. A farmer had a boy and a girl One day the daughter asked her father for fifteen ‘cents to go to the show. The father replied, “If you sell thirty apples, 2 for one cent, and 30 for fifteen cents, you can go to the show.” Then the boy asked, “Can T go too?" The father said: “Here are thirty apples, sell them at 3 for one cent, home from his office and told us we pyramid is, nz--u to be about five thous- _old, FLOSSIE MEYER, 12. Taftville. A8 2 The Castaways. . ¥ One- bright day in June, father came not g0 on the water very often. ‘When we were on the water for two days a storm arose. The boat rocked like a cradle, and about two oclock in the morning we heard a great crash and everyone on board rushed to the top deck. The captain tried to quiet the erowds until the boats could be lowered. It was about three o'clock when we bid father good bye and got into a life boat. We sailed about for two days and at last drifted to an un- inhabited island. The thoughts of ever going to Europe had now been forgotten. The third night after the wreck a life boat was seen coming towards us. We all went down to the shore and what was our surprise when we found it was our own father ahd four sailors, and the hoat was filled with provisions that were taken from the sinking ship. The men then started to explore the island and were gone about four hours when th returned with the welcome news that they had found a hermit at the other end of thé island, s to a ship that was a few miles from us, -and they prdmised to stop mnear the island, and we could come to the ship in the life boats. When we reached the ship we were glven a hearty welcome. We were glad to find all on the wrecked ship had been picked up, either by the ship we were on, or by the one which passed a few hours be- fore, bound for New York. MARY FINNIGAN, Age 13. Norwich. POULTRY. In 1899 the poultry in our country was worth $137,000,000 and the egss were worth $144,000,000. In 1899 the poulthy was almost as great as the coal, iron, silver and gold, mined in our country. The less imporant breeds of poultry are Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Pigeons, anr Squabs. The meat breeds of pouliry are like that of the beef types of cattle. The meet breed Is the Brahma, Cochin, and Langshang. The general pur- pose breeds for eggs and meat, both are like that of the dual types of cat- tle. These are Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes and Rhode Island Reds. The laying breeds are like that of the dairy .types of cattle. These consist of Leghorns, Minorcas and Black Spanish. The ornamental breeds are the Ban- tams, Games and Polish. Poultry should be fed over twice as much as to the same weight of cat- tle. And third of the feed for hens should be ground. Whole corn should be scattered in among the flock In the morning and the ground feed in the afternoon so -the hens will not eat too much ground feed. Chickens should have animal food, such as meat scraps, and insects and skim- med milk. Laying hens should have lime and oyster shells. They should also have wheat crack- ed corn, oats, barley and fresh wa- ter all the time. Dry mash is also good. This is made of corn meal, wheat, bran, flour, bone, meat scraps. gluten meal, iinseed meal and mid- dlings. The poultry houses should have -plenty of light. The windows should be large and high, so there will be light in the back of the hen house. The house should be ventilated. This is done by paning windows that will open and shut. EDWARD S. JACKSON, Age 13. Mansfield Center. A Famous Dog of Old Rome. It happened that a plot against the Emperor Nero had beer discovered, and the chief conspirator had been put to death, together with some servants. One of these men had a dog of which he was very fond, and from the mo- ment the man was thrown into prison the dog could not be persuaded to move away from the door. At last there came a day when the man suffered the cruel death common in Rome for such offe . He was thrown down a fAight of stairs and his neck was broken by the fall. A crowd of Romans had gathered round the place of execution, in order to see the sight, and in the midst of them all the dog managed to reach his master’s side and he laid there howling piteously. Then one of the crowd, moved with pity, threw to the dog a piece of meat. By and by the men came for the body in order to throw it into the River 7Miber. Even the dog followed and swam after-it, and held it up and tried to bring it to land, and the people came to see how faithful the dog was to his master. FREDERICK ERLBECK, Age 14. Norwich. and thirty for ten cents.” They went to the store and ask- ed the keeped if he wanted to buy any apples. He said, “Yes. “The girl said, “I've got thirty ap- ples for 15 cents, three for one cent.” The Doy said, “I have got thirty apples for 10 cents, three for one pen- ny. sixty apples for twenty-five cents.” S The store keeper gave them twenty- four cents. W The boy asked for ten cents for his ia:;eles. The girl had fourteen cents They went back to the store-keeper and asked him for the penny. He said: “You gave me sixty ap- ples; divided by five the product is 12, and they came to twenty-four cents. Will some one tell me how I can get the remaining penny. LIZZIE ASSAD, Age 12, The Great Pyramid. The pyramids are one of the many wonders of the world. There are about fifty standing near the Nile river in The Polar Bear. The polar bear. sometimes called the white bear, is the largest of all bears. It is a very hairy animal, welghing It is a very heavy animal, weighing sometimes as much as ten men %o- gether, but 1t is a good swimmer and diver, and in the icy water of the far north it dives for the fishes which it eats. It will watch many hours at a hole in the ice under which It knows a eeal has come for air, and then-with one powerful blow of its paw will kill the seal as it comes up to the surface of the ice. ‘ ARLINE J. VARS. Plainfleld. The Thames River. The Thames river is formed by the Yantic and Snetucket rivers at Nor- ‘wich, Connecticut. This river was named after the mutton is to us. night the reindeer are fetched up to be mi thicker ‘and She does not use butter. tent very nice to live in. e so small you can hardly is no chimuey, but the smoke goes o of a hole in the top. get in. They have no lamps or candles. People think the firelight is enough. ‘They sit and thney sleep on spread on the floor. the sun. How many things the little skins They tell time by But he is happy and contented. If he has a herd of reindeer he thinks he is too frozen to let him catch fish, he goes to his herd of reindeer and kills ope of them. 5 This is as good to him as beef or Every morning and The milk they give is nicer than that of the cow. The Lapp wife makes cheese of it When the reindeer dies, or is killed, his warm skin makes a coat or rug, or whatever garment the Lapp chooses to have. So the reindeer may be said to feed and clothe his master. FRANK PARDY, Age 13. Norwich. General Clark and His Men. At the time of the Revolution there were but few people living on the north side of the Ohio river, but there were a great many Indlans there. The Eritish general sent a message to the Indians to kill the white men there. There was a British fort in Indiana and another in Illinoils. This was to show the British wanted-to fight. George Rogers Clark was an Ameri- can general at this time. Day by day the Americans were losing men. They did not know whether the Indians had killed them or not. The general want- ed to stop this. He thought he could do it best by taking the British forts. He had three hundred men and started down the Ohlo. marched about one hundred and thirty miles to Illinois. The people there did not think the Americans would come so far to at- tack them. When General Clark got there they were all asleep. He went in aud took the town before they woke uj p. The people of Illinois were French. By treating them well General Clark made them friendly with the Ameri- N SADIE SHEA, Age 1L Versailies. Harry Merton. Harry Merton was a good boy, but sometimes mischievous. He was fond of chasing the chickens and was only 9 years old, but he wanted to do things like a man. * Harry watched his father feeding the calves and skimming the cream from the milk. “Father, one day I'm going to feed the calves all myself,” sald Harry proudly, making himself look as man- ly as he could. Harry's father told him he could learn to feed the calves, but not to g0 near thém, as they might kick him or knock him down. Very early the next morning, while his mother and father were sound asleep, this little boy with unwashed face and hands crept softly out of the house. It was quite dark, but he wanted to show his father that he could get up as early as the hired man and feed the calves. He saw the light that shone from the stable where John was feeding the horses. The pail of milk Harry carried was very heavy. The three calves saw him coming and scampered across the fleids to meet him. When he let down the bars to go into the fleld they rush- 3 1-2 KIDS 9gcwn.uFcoou ed at him and both he and the pail were knocked over. Harry's howl brought John running to see what was the trouble. “Why, Harry, what are you doing here this time o’ day?” asked John. Harry told him what had happened and begged him pot to tell his father. “All right,” said John, “but if you are not going to be punished any other way you must help me catch those calves and put them back in the pas- ture. You see, they bave run off up o Eh. Loy LILLIAN M. BREHAUT. East Norwich, N, Y. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. The Chicken and the Feather Duster. Dear Uncle Jed: I am a little boy 8 years old. My name is Nelson John Leirich. One day we had a sick chicken: wi ‘brought it in the house and put it in a box of cotton under the stove, and when we got ug the next morning we could not find the chicken, so we look- ed in the dining room and found the chicken cuddied up under m{ mother’s feather duster. She thought it was the mother hen. 8he Has 8ix Children. Dear Uncle Jed: I have not written to you for a long time, so i thought I It is very hot here. I would write. have six children now. and he gave it to me. I put it in some water and washed it. Thlnl?:lo:dn. Then they | i i T One basket I picked farge ones JULIA LATHAM, Age 13. PRt ag My School. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to write about my school. I am in sixth grade, in lessons . Our muhic teacher comes every Wed- nesday. We have fifteen scholars in our room. "il-y teacher’s name is Miss McCon- el - I enjoy going to school very much. 1 fast. Iam very JOSEPH GLENNER, Age 12. Attawaugan. Trading in Egypt. Dear Uncle Jed: If we ever had & chance to go to Egypt it would be in- t ‘bazaars. an-un‘“m 8 to vigit the We co uy many curious articles by bargaining. Suppose we were going into one of those bazaars to buy a piece of carved ivory. The merchant seiling the goods would ask a very high price. We might think it expensive and sa; Vo, I cannot take that; it is too ex- pensive.’ Then turn around as though we were going aut. He would ¢all us back and ask & price a lttle cheaper, Then we would think the price too high, and again refuse to take it. After bargaining a long time we get it for the price we offer. ‘Weé had to do zll this bargaining be- causé the merchant would have feit much insulted if we had paid the price he asked at first. In our country it is just the other way. SOPHTE THOMA, Age 13 Norwich. Their Pet Chickadee. Dear Uncle Jed: Two weel ago Tuesday on my way home from school I found a little bird half frozem near my house. I took it in and I put it in a lttie | basket and kept it in a warm piace. At first I thought that the poor little * fellow was going to die, for he d1d not eat’ or drink; but after two days he began to eat and drink, and I was very glad to have him. It is a chickadee and I named it Ted- dy. He has a little black bunch of feathers on his head. He looks so pretty when he comes hopping on the table with his “Chickadee! Chickades' 1i :l{y fither r t it lto corner o‘l ttle house and pu! In the sitting room. My b?mu and 1 are very fond of him. - I wish you Wide-Awakes could find a bird like mine. MARY RYBIC, Age 13, Mansfleld. . They Play Church. Dear Uncle Jed: Would yon lke to know a game we play 5 Sundays? We like to play There are five children of us of dolls and three . My big bear is Rough Bruin. t dresses up as good as he can. He is . the minister. He and his family ride out to church in a carriage, ‘e put all the chairs in rows and make it look as much like church as we can. He sits on the organ stool and has some- thing in front for a pulpit. He rings the bell and gives the news to the people, and they get ready and start. After a while the bell rings again. The people go in. The big doll named Esther will play the plano first. After they sing comes the Bible reading. We read the Beatitudes and play it is Rough Bruin doingf it; thenm" comes the phonograph. We play “Let us Scatter Seeds of Kindness,” “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” or, some- times, ‘“Nearer, My God, to Thee” Then Rough Bruin begins to preach We find a kind of sermon written for children in one of the papers and we read it, and play he preaches it. Then he has the people stand and sing some good hymn while Esther plays the piano. Then we have Sunday school. Al the dolls go down_stairs in Sunday school. My sister Ruth is their Sun- day school teacher. They sing. She tells them Bible stories and then she has them tell the story, or asks them questions. And aftey we get through,” mamms likes us to put things back where we found them. FANNIE E, BROWN, Age 0. ‘Willimantic, alot His Pet Rabbits. you about my rabbits. and they both were grey and white, and small, but they are large now. They had two little ones, and both of them were white with pink eyes. They lived for a while and one a dog bit one of them, and it got o and died.” The other one was out ons day and ate some green grass and a worm got into its stomach and it got sick and did not eat for almost a week, and one morning it was miss- ing. I could not find it in the coop, so I looked in the burrow, aad there it lay, deed. ” I was awful sorry for them, because they were so pretty, and now I only have the two old ones. They have very big burrow, and they did all digging in one night. ‘I will close no;. o you more about them some other time. THOMAS O’CO! 2. i Cultivate the Henm. Dear Uncle Jed: Cackle cackle there; lay your eggs ter “way for :; s;t - to cultivate the hen NBELLIE B DAY, Age 1L Storrs. OLD DR. RSMEDY FoOR now HARRIS’ menufactured ana is showing a fine line of NEW MiIL. LINERY for