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of miles it has been since it was a rough fragment; and if you knew| about rocks and their formation - ‘whether {t. was 1 whether it | never very polite. m&r | eloned o e et see ot tne woriaf i €075 o o Bt cor or slALe aEes o s “ | “Iam round as a ball and “the This illustrates the difference be-|whole world. Flat' stupid 1 tween eyes - no eyes, seeing -and|like you haven't mucz to say being mentally blind. _ X lot's: Tiot “quATTeL™ ata _ You are Wide-Awakes. Keep your| the 1’;”.“_""" et > 'eyes open. e | What would you do if it were not £ 2 AL 38 X * |for our friend, the ink?" Hav LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. | {2led upon to say, something, the o5 i Dorathy King of Yantic: Many | *“SFEIMY; ¢ wasn't for me, you would 2 2 i o peie bpok ¥ 45, Y204 | o B o much wee” ; POETRY. 3 ; G e 2 and penholder & vou again, but I have been away from | j up and efclaimed: k! Snme, : B t an awful blot you. would Being a Friend. " Pauline Smalewitz of Norwich: 1|maket” Ngv 3 -way lives a true|have received the prize book, Van| The pencil feeling neglected said, in ¢ . ant lo;:f f::x:d: 2 | Winkle, and thank you ever ::'h, much |2 sharp and rather injured tone: I know T can trust him till the[for it. I have always found it very| - “I guess you don't realize that I am day’s long end. interesting, and am reading it now. of as much use as all three of you to- t He hasw much to brag about &S faT| wiriam Griswold of Yorwich Towa: AR T R G R £ as ity goes; ank l ¢ 2 il oo e ’rm’ hnmd e is gold, {w:g).‘ youy::n'. e 1 iave —'reu?i‘ it and ubuuj‘:k;rz? tg;:n Qx’:" yo::h—:tm Nt - A P& KROWS. | found it very interesting. Fcan teit you & very interesting story. Whenev. T am _feeling blue, and| Helen Reynolds of Jeville, Conn.: | Evervone considered us very beau! thigcs have sil gorte. Wrong 1 e R o e entiug |and na.dombt we are, but we would Then Dick, my 800d; old dos,| Alice's Adventures in. Wonderland,| ot ‘be here if it were not for a lit- . comes pattering along. Thanks for it. I thinksit is a very g;e%z:gybz?fib;:;a l;:lug#::e. s A mm‘ e B el o e |is the Register? She must be very T LEUES I L L o e all that| _John C. Bushnell of Norwich: I|basns Sothers 0. be ! that| thank you Yery much for the prize| ~Oh, I have not very much to say." g . book you sent me. I have read it and|replied a faint voice,” Do you see all |l Just acrass -way,' Dovs find it very Interesting. of these names? They are the names t was nu.r({':«ltn 2 e -n' Arthur S. Merrifield of Baltie: T re-|Of the puplls. They have been to|plete “‘fe‘:“u:la would like And will tell you Dick's the | céived the prize book and have read it | School nearly every day. The teachers |her complete address. anywhere. through. 1If I had had my choice of |3l like me very much becsuse 7 am I haven't to brag about, but I|the books mentioned in the peper, I|S0 useful. But R gt Mg ¢lag should, wo to e should have laken that one. 1 moticed |have a chance to tallc’ b sald The Bobolink. As good 3 friend to other fblls as Dick | there were moro than 230 words in e e T Do v g Erg The Bobolink is found only in has been fo me. some of the other stories on the ii- e America. usually passes o ~—Alice Annetie Larkin. |dren’s paga is in trouble. We are very g friends, ter in the West xzm . fhocmwln“ e —— “The Arithmetic was about to say Bertha N. Burrill of Stafford Springs: | something when the Bell whispéred: | DoTthward in the lpfl:_ xfivfl'fi I thank you very much for the lovel “Sh, Sn, | hear a strange noise.” 3 o SHepg Tand B R Tacerved. Tiretay. 1o “T think It must be & mouse coming to |1and in May. At this time its plum- Here is the best of Sleepy Land, was m{‘ first prize book, and 1 was|get us for his nest” sald the Books to sall on much pleased with it. I thank|and Papers together. Then they all B'g-z s)b’v}‘;i up to ‘:ho strand, you n. Za,ugheg heartily to frighten away the ting you and me. Evelyn E. Woodward of Columbia: | arauders. ek - B E very a | The Spelling Book said sleepily, “T What shall we take to Sleepy Land, |Fhanks very much for my prize book | inic T will leave you now. I am very | W8 which they make cheerful by thely To comfort our souls as we sail | 2ve 1O me to read it yet. BUt| ;e and can hardly keep my eyes|MerTy Tads up of & mixture of al oI ‘Surs 1t I D aeE. opem. “The Arithmetic can finish talk- | SHort notes sung so quickly that it A woolly t in either hand, ing ang then I shall tell you something, many ! And a little crooning sons. WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. |00 kinds were singing all together, The others were agreeable, so, The female makes henpgnest of dried stefrs the boat to Si Laend?| 1—Hattie R. Clarke of Norwich.|«Good-night” was said by all and|Srass on the ground anf lavs five or AD, “tia & Autarins fainy crowi T Quace (Haclgwels, Blobo: Tesk M- RUER they scamipered back to fheir places B aryie, Suf Seatted S the Tarts s s in command, chool. inside the desk. . er end with brown.: Y, And a little dream or two. 2—Bertha N. Burrill of Stafford| “We must have a little rest because | *"yoyf Vg ig sitting the male bird) ng owe's Firs the teacher and her pupils will soon We ae dritting fast to Sleepy Land, | ar Guerton s Lo YO L here to use us again’. filts about and cheers her with its All In the dusky starlit'air, : J ‘The voice of the Bell rang strangely |SORE oL A murnwrgm sound on the shining s3—A|lc%‘; tF B-la’:nll of Stafford |in the silent schoolroom, and not a| -oward - :‘ cnngo Rk, a‘"o fi; 3 & * /| Serings, Water Bables. Zound amswered it. nk ceas ngt: > an; O baby, we are there! o he s Eilier o Tl Kt e 'SURRILL, Ase 15, |Sult of glossy biack for one of rusty- brown, its lower parts becoming dull —Christian Register, [at Overton College. yellow. Stafford Springs. ety & The bobolink may be tamed if tak- 5—Dorothy Rasmussen of Norwich, A Good Deed. : = UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- Aufomobile Girls at Washington. T am vary wiFin SoraliE 1 A e ey o Sk AWAKES. 6—Lewis Sears of Norwich, A Child's | ope of the warmest that summer, when | sing only in spring and summer. It Garden of Verses. dith, carrying a small valise, stepped | may be treated in the same way as Every boy and girl to some extent n & crowded car. She was going on a|the canary, whose notes it will quickly #hould be their own teachers. They | van Wiemee -owi® °f Norwich, Rip|yicaic with six more gins to the|jearn. will be if they get the student habit. : beach. A3 BERTHA N. BURRILL, Age 14. : 5—Waity M. Gifford of Willimantic,| Sbe was thinking of the good time| Stafford Tho student hablt is acquired bY | Adventurcs of Robinson Crusoe. " |s.e was going to have when her at- Springs. asking yourselves questions and aa- 2 4 temtion was drawn to the cry of a - - swering them. It is not always easy, | ey ore's, 9F, Dogks living in the city| paby in the seat back of her. Turn- How Roger Won the Prize, but it is always enjoyable. - This kind | for them at any hour after 10 &. m. on | 11-e tired and worried look on the|Went to a city school and all the boys of work strengthens the mind just as| Thursday. - e Hred and ol K held the|laughed at him because he was from other kinds strengthen the muscles of — pie e e the country end they thought he aid the body. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE.| Ruth was smiling and talking to the| ROt know much. You' round baky, which made him quiet. |, One day principal came into ou see a or oval pebhble on AWAKES. e lady, taking courage, asked: the room offered a prige for the the walk and if you ask yourself what The Organ Grinder, made it round you will wake up your L T| “There's another of those nof » satd , Wi .|, The town in which the school was mind—if you do not you. will let your |hand organs and my hoad sches | and e dceetas the ey, * ™% | nag oftered the one who had the high- mind sleep. and it is the sleeping mind | every sound goes through it! Jessie,| Eut when Ruth saw the big valize| et average a sufficient sum of money which makes a boy or a girl appear to | 40 Tun down and tell him to g0 away. |aud the baby the lady had to car'y|t0 give them a college educati be auil I x:regllyuctant stand med noise.” 4 gark| SBE.mew it was impossible for her to|, All the chil e afternoon was cloudy an: That pebble has had its experience. |and Just as Jeecie openod the Tron £ate | Crber she hought to herself: "Wy | Studving so ha ; It 1s alive, 50 you know it was broken | into the street great drops of rain be- | srculdn’t I take her there? Ill have|Dations came they were very dim- from the parent rock by violence, Ages | 520 o fall. She delivered her mes- |time enough. Our car doesn't leave cult. The papers were all corrected, ago it started on a journey against its sssi.gée :&%&h?gofij‘;gleguitn r;ofl‘ ms'n(m' S rea:gnle dd‘ . ai“ “dtwtha s S of e diniag| out just he car eir destl- > will. Ity parent may have been|room window at the big drops of rain nafignt '.al‘ietn‘ tux'nirl::c mna with the| The other children were very sorry ‘bounced on another rock by an iceberg | falling on the pavement. The music|same smile, she said: when they heard Roger had won and or it may have been shattered by light- | Sc25ed 8t once and-the organ grinder| “I'll take you there, if you wish.” fun of G aF hrilg CAE Tice disappeared up the street. The lady was very pleased and tae . Ao - s The rain fell faster and faster. Jes-|troubled look disappeared from her u not know the pebble has|sie watched it. Suddenly she was|face immediately. York. life, 80 you couldn’t ask yourself what |Startled by the reappearance of the or-| All the passengers were then get- HATTIE R. CLARK, Age 12. is the life of & 1ock? Tt is ité oo ‘“i’xf’v‘v“&“;n . and. his face|UIPE Ut and Ruth took the baby. She Norwich. hesivencas; that is the Dower of ifs| was pale and thin, He shivered in the | had Sone o Nitle way she was a0 hei| _ The Story of a Maple Tres. crystals to hold together in one sold’ cold wind, and tried to draw his hat|and tired that she almost wished she| I was once a very little seed on a mass. If it was crumbly it would be|OYer his face to keep the rain off. H.s|hadn't volunteered to go; but then, she | maple tree. I fell to the ground. In dead rock because it cowld no longer | oiieS Were all torn. thought to herself: 2 few weeks I was covered up in dirt. hold its parts together. Hurrying to the basement door, Jes-| “Do unto others as you'd want them | The ground all about me began to get o4 ‘sio _unfastened the high iron gate and|to do uato you.” hard and cold. It was not round when it started on | invited him to come unden the porch She’d surely want someone to help It was then winter, so I thought 1 its travels, for rocks break in fras- | ‘on.Shelter her mother. This gave her courage to| would £0 to sleep. ments with sharp edges, and it is sand he old man hesitated a moment|go on. I had slept for about five months i e T 80 and then walked in. With their faces as red as beets, | when I woke up. I found the ground er m Wi x;m,ie that ,_,..““m“‘ you like something to|they reached the place. Ruth was|was getting soft so I stretched out fragment of rock into form 4s a peh- m"b asked Jessie. ” 5 only 'too glad to give her burden (the|my hand to see what I could find.Then ble, and it may have rolled on the on’t trouble yourself, ma’am. I'm|baby) to its mother. I thought of what was about the sandy bottom of & brook or on the sea- | ool iUk OPliged to you for letting me| The lady thanked Ruth pver and trxufl. S0 1 stretched up my head. b bed 835 1 Some 1" over and offered her a dime, but Ruth it first I looked Hke a little weed. ore for ages ore it reached the| GCoing into the kitchen, she made a|declined it with thanks, saying: Then I began to R‘I bigger. 1 was place where you saw it. It would teil [ CUP ©of tea and sp) a good meal| “If it was my mother, I would went|about three feet high when I was dis- you a wanderful story if it could in- :Kion the":able. and then brought the sa;xeone rt|o dohthne_ima“ o no‘v&r‘;l. < ool 4 o o i o uth then hu o the station, ast came an my form you Bow many thousands of years| It was a happy man who went away | where the girls were waiting impa-|green leaves began to turn yellow. tiently for her. Then my leaves to fall In “Oh, Ruth,” cried one of the girls|about three weeks I was absolutely as soon as they caught sight of her.|bare, and now I am covered with aybe you know where the boat is|one who had the highest average at that goes to New York?” the end of the year. \ k - 1 am so glad you came We were JOHN C. BUSHNELL, Agé 13. % ’ afraid we'd miss this car. We've only| Norwich. : g “Where were you so long?” asked|“The Autebiogrophy of a Lead Pencil.” ‘another. I Dencil and was made 1 “Oh, I took a lady to the boat. She e g:ficfl :n!lo'.ory w.i“: - i d:'.ldx;‘ thnm where to find it,” answer- Bessie lived on sheashore—that| they can't get as o uth. pencils rolli over the floor. 5o Wil 1iee 1t or 8Way and I kmow they | "yhaii DIQ you take her as far as e e & Mi"u-c d packed TIsiand. So no sooner said than the two| Pat? You foolish girl!” said one of | us in packages of twelve (1.8 and put sirls acgompanied by the her friends. us in a box. Iand some other pencils raa,m‘.l::&g along the %,’e.f_.‘h, '&flk}'fi: But Ruth assured her she was right| went to a little store near a schdbl. “|'evidently enjoying thefr outing. in doing eo, and that she \Udn't lose| We were placed in a Window where ' Suddenly the strains of a hand- mhinz by it, for she ga back In|we coulg‘ look ‘}}",‘, £ organ reached their ears, < One y a little girl bought me. were forgotten in _their ufifi‘:;‘x:':z Ruth felt happy and enjoytd the fun | She put me in a pencll box and I got and they rushed ovér the hill. follow. | With & light heart, for she had done a ing the man from house to house un.| 5904 deed that morning. (il Bessie cried, “Oh, Alice, the chick- INSIGNED. ens! 1 forgoet them. Do they are lost” T SmPoen My Sunday School Picnic. 1, Jt took them some time to reach the| We had the Sunday school picnic at beach but ihere wers no chickens in|the Bayville beach. Conveyances were left a bagket m o sight. They searched everywhere, vet|supplied for the people to be taken little niece, reet.’ " 2 ‘twas no use; they were not 0 be|from the village to Bayville. Jessie t can be in that basket” sald|found: and I and one of our friends went with “What will pava say?‘I must wait|our Sunday school teacher in her au- “Bessie _lifted t:: cover and with a|xt the gate and tell him about it,”|tomobile. We started at 9.30 and ar- ut of -joy said, m- "(g:‘{ s":: meri“::-;xra‘lc‘:me hom&: even- | rived there about 10 o'clock.. . o oo mamma.! 4 om’“ 3 rls were sl ng at| We put our wraps and lunches ne cold winter's day a PO little chickabiddies! u&:: very. . Bessie's eves were red and|one of the bungalows. After we found a little He took too, there’s one, two, th there was a suspicious tremor in her|taken a little Test in the bunsalow we his J six, seven, eight of ti t| voice when she said: “There's walked along the beach, and when we bave a house built rl:b away. s hem down|came to the breakwater a boy took ue E’}? beach and now they are all|all out for a row. It was very Trough 2 | gone. on the water just then, but all the “How did that happen; did they all| same we enjoyed it yéry much. father | fiy -away?" asked papa with a twin- Out here the picnics are very differ-|" kle in his eve. ent from those in Connecticut, as here “Oh, no, Papa, I left them just a few| each one takes their own lJunch. little. minutes and when I came back| We ate our lunch en the porch. had About 2 o'clock ‘the people went in ‘bathing and had lots of fun. ‘We went out in & boat for another row in the afternoon. - In the water there were trees which mark the oyster beds. When we came back the ice cream was served. a We Todo bask asate With our Buaday e rode with eur i e h '&'howsth:éhu:‘oen a leasonnl -cggfl teacher. 2 y Ar Automobile Ride. 'to my ter Swe al you wi sister and I enjoyed ourselves| It was Saturday when I love- look after them more carefully after|so much at the beach that we are go-|ly ride. We went in a ll?:: :)l!lrh‘l‘ her sister, | this” | ing there ourselves some time. car to the beach. Hast Norwich, N, ¥. e may call at The Bulletin business office | ;.; around, she couldn't help noticing| Roger was a little country boy. He |y frost, | was served, which consisted of sand- Is Diplomacy Bankrupt? . wiches, cake, lemonade and ice cream.| If the Chinese ambassador in Eu- P""":’;m}l%n [ GERMAN the woods I noticed a medium sized alder tree. I took out my knife and found that the bark was thick and LETTERS TO UNGLE JED. :‘du:’:u:v'%yn‘:; ekl el ' The Ganning Club Piente, ool fice. Sd Somietiaes ek PR Dear Uncle Jed:—1 will write and | toes in it. You about our club pic- | The other day while looking for dry|ls et nic. We had it at the mnecticut | wood to start @ fire with 1-heard a Agriculf tural College, Storrs. We had | pitiful cry. I walked over to wh to be there at eleven.o'clock, Thurs-|the cry came from and found it 3 ‘day morning, Aug. 13th. We helped|a baby robin that had fallen out of Mr. Brundage make sandwiches. lem- | its nest.. I picked it up, climbed the onade and ice cream. We had our|iree and put it in the nest. lunch under a big tree. There were| There were three other baby gobins about thirty there. in_the mest. After we had lunch Mr. Brundage| | hope when a Wide-Awake has a chance to help a bird hi for § apples. He had four kinds of can-|may mean the bird's life: ning outfits. The names were, the LEWIS SEARS, Age 9. Homemade, Hot-water Bath oOutflt, | o o ' T o N | Ive unds or more, and the 2 pressure cooker ten pounds or more. Wy Nompation:ar. the: W Mr. Brundage gave us some canning ncle Jed: I have been think- . 1 T e i he Bavh e on | aven't had time to write as I have Sanning: been on my vacation. I will give you some recires on can- lhI am dgoix;xg to Xmllxl d‘on of some of e good times ad._ Ring tamatbes Ang apule pia Nliing: We lived near a shallow, sandy Canned Tomatoss—Grade for ripe-|beach where we went In bathing. color was the fact that pess, size and quality, Scald t There were small crabs and it was|conspicuous and ready mark loosen skins. Dip in cold water, re- | sreat fun to caich them in our hands.| enemy. move skins, pack whole. Fill ‘with| They pinched a little, but we didn't tomatoes only, and add one level tea- | mind. We used these crabs for balt spoon salt to each quart. Place | for - catching blacklieh. rubber and partially seal, sterilize 2°| I caught ore blackfish, and my minutes in hot water bath: 18 min- | brother caught one at the same time. utes in water seal outfit;; 15 minutes | About every morning at seven o'clock under five pounds of steam, or ten|we went for milk to a farm some dis- " Apple Pie Filling.—Pesl and core: | * ¥ We also saw a family BHBY AND FABE slice, scald 2 minutes in bolling water minutes in pressure cooker. Remove | tance away O: plus in cola water. Pack in glass n my & v 5 or tin and add about one teacup i | ‘wrm T lost my was < me Never Had Night's Rest. CM::? J jars, tighten covers, test joint and in- we would see jack rab- vert to cool. b ng_in their holes In the hot thin syrup to each quart P ! 4 & Irritated Eruption and Pai top, partially tighte frightened runn ize ;':(:nlnmeu in hot water bati > hills like a rabbit "}3""8 to find Used Cuticura Soapand Qintment, Didn't Have One Pimple Left. ru Stert! 12 minutes in water seal outfit, 10 min 3 utes under five pounds of Steam, or ¢ write again and tell some minutes in pressure cooker. Removec |more of my zood Jars, tighten cover, invert to cool. DOROTHY RASMUSSEN, Age 10. BERTHA FULLER. Age 10. Norwich. Eagleville. e Our Pienic, The Story of a Shoe. Dear Uncle Jed: 1, thought I Dear Uncle Jed:—One day as I was | wonld write and tell you about our sitting reading I heard a queer voice | nicnic in the woods. listened and heard the noise again It was about bhalf past ten when I said, “Where are you?’ we left school. We went up in the “I am in the cupboard”, answered z | woods near our school gentle voice.’ When we got up there we made some I got up and what do you think I|iemonade. _After thaf we had re found a new pair of shoes. Then the | freshments of cake, cookies cand shoes began to talk. peanuts and ice erecam Then we “Won't you please put me on and es. I will tell you my story”. about twelve o'clock when So I put on the shoes and this is the teacher for such a good the story they told me. left for home. One day as I and my brothers were 'HEL L. MURDOCK, Age 12. feeding in a pasture several men came up and drovlo us avmy. :Ve were then s I then sent for a free sample :{ Cuticwrs driven to a large ship where we were 5 Sent to another ity to be skinned and Letters Can Still Go To Europe. tanned. We went through many m War has interrupted the free transit chines before we were made into of mail matter between this country pair of shoes. and European points. Germany has One day & lady came in the store | refused to carry mail for delivery in| $be Olntment. Afer thres mapths’ trest: to see a pair of shoes—size two. other countries, and this has made | ment I didn't have ome pimple left.” The clerk took down one of my |necessary for the po;(al au::?rltle; to| (Signed) Miss Rose Consiglo, Apr. 2, 1944 id not like | find some other way for reaching those mfll b n Bt “ | cities ora dependent on the in= Samples Free by Mail Just then he was about to push my | ternation ain service on the com- Although the Cuticura Sosp and Ofnt- box aside when he saw on the box |tinent. Letters for Austria-Hungary,| mentaremostsuccessful in the treatment of gize two. The clerk showed me to|instead of going across the continent | gamections of the skin, scalp, hair and hands, as very 4 | are to be sent to Italian ports and are e T Pleased | S0 o forwarded from there. Russian| - ¥ ° sl most valuble for asurydey i thi; » said the | mail will doubtless have to go by way L. et e e e to"be with | of the Black Sea. The ports of Hol-| Promotoand maintein the beali of the skin You. land, Denmark, Norway and Sweden 2nd halr from infaocy to age. lddw-,-‘ : KENNETH HALL, |are still open to mail steamers, as well | where. Liberal samplo of each malled fres; Norwich. as the ports of Great Britain. And| with 32-p. Skin Book -Address post-card Our: Pionio_at Mohican Park. from the United States directly to the mail for France can be dispatched| *Outicurs, Dept. T, Bostom."t Dear Uncle Jed: 1 think you will| g oo [ ostal trains on the mainiand. enjoy hearing about the Sunday School| 0f course, all mail is sent sublect to picnic T went to nesday at Mo-| .15y in delivery, and the exigencies from British ports if not delivered hican park. of war may at any time result in the We all went in a large |‘'wagonm.|gegiruction of large quentities of cor- ich held about twenty-five or thirty. | epondence. But those who have ‘When we got there the first thing We|songs abroad may feel assured that did was to ha#ve a swing or a ride on| ., [pited States Government will do g the seesaws, and then a few of us|he THEEC SLaTes Corommrnet e line took a long walk and saw the dif-|.r communication between Americans ter‘;v:c:l:d: ::: animale. s time for| il Europe and Americans at home— 7o theMerit of Lydia E.Pink. dinper. At dinner time evervbody Philadelphia Ledger. l " v went to the pavilion where the dinner After dinner the children enjoyed &|rope, after the fashion of the Venetlan few gemes, a three-legged race, & Po-|ambassadors in the sixteenth century, tato race and an egg race. are writing home full accounts of what Later {n the afternoon the girls had| s passing under their eves, they will a scramble for apples, and then the|have e strange and well-nigh increci- boys had the same. ble tale to tell. Europe dreads war, lg; i Just before we went home some of | yet Europe is helplessly slipping over pains my back the children had a row on the lake: | the precipice into war. In no country and side and was so in the shower and|ig there a vital interest directly at weak I could hardly and about four|stake. England’s ministry openly de- s home after baving|clares that she has none. France has a very nice e. none. Germany has none, except as MILDRED EILER, Age 14. it is artifically created. Nejther has Norwich Town, Russia. All these countries protest | i i FFS' P i 5k e— 2 that they do not want war, yet each of it has A True Story Abeut Squirrels. them is straining every nerve to pre- of 1 Dear Uncle Jed: A pair of grey|pare for war. The fear of war is set- good. I will re- tling .like_a pall over the peoples of Europe. Everywhere is apprebension. The anticipatory losses are already esormous. In advance the disastrous chalr and eat out of my |repercussions war are world-wide. he had five little babies. Yet European diplomacy stands as it | testimonisl,” — Mrs. LAWRENCE there was a hard storm|were, wringing its hands. But ves- | TIN, 12 King St., Westbrook, Maine. sat into their nest. terday professing to be all-powerful Wis. — ““ At the Tother squirrel took all the|today it seems reduced to feeebleness| Manston, — ““At the Change by rignt by|and imbecility. So the Chinese am- | Life I suffered bassadors might say.—New York Post. ::uh.ma | i it 44 W F Women With Mexican Army. At Manzanillo I met General Tellez | but with his command, waiting to e transported by steamer to Mazatlan, writes Fritz Arno von de Ellen in Hm’n- ‘Weekly, and here I saw the M soldier stripped of the pre-| pains left tenses of a dress parade. Hi accompanied by his wife and ‘cl mistress. S e ot By e a g ‘HoTindd | 2 ICE A. RIX, Age 7. he Robin to It's N : As I live near the nice day. i 3 down ' and I think BREHAUT, W ‘busy {in the’ ands ! sbo wils don't 304 % -Belceted. O i e T o