Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 27, 1914, Page 9

protiamation, and in the sam m!mcn saw a light. The next day he | eé. Fio 10 & reat Tnany Kind desds And | e land. o5 *| **He aica at Audubon Park, on the His last vovage he was in chains. made the Tamous Gettysbur speech. Hudson, In 1861, at the age of seven- was loved by all. ELLEN NIELSEN, Age 9. | ¥ ; NORWICH BULLETIN, ‘THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1914 _ P were till alive clung to the other half of the On one ‘of the Fayroe lslands lived @ girl named Grace . Her fath- Father, the ] those “IUs of no use,” er, “wé cannot save them.” “We cannet stay here and see thes ERe 2 =2 | FRESH FISH SPECIALS FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY HE WIDE AWAKE CIRCL Lincoln was W& April 14,| Lebanon. LILLIAN BREHAUT. 1865, Hn' died the tommx morning. East Norwich, N. Y. snd was not only mourne L d Florence Nightingalc. Florence Nightingale was a ~rich Lttle girl. She had a pony and all kindis of pets. She was a kind lttle girl and all loved her, even the squirrels would eat out of her hands. When she would hear of any sick people she would drive her pony to_their house gnd cheer them. . Whez she Was a grown woman the Crimean war broke out. Some peo- e asked Florence to go to the war o help the sick and dying. She and some other young ladies went and stafted » hospital there. After the war was-over the soldiers wanted to erect a monument of her. But sbe said: “No. take the money and make a hospital” They made a ?aamm in Londomwhich is still stand- ng. cotintrymen but by the whole world. ANNA A. BLATHERWICE, Age 13. . Norwich, 3 H Sir Walter Scott. Sir Walter Scott was born in Edin- ‘burgh, August 15 1771 He was the son of Walter Scott, an attorney at law. He was considered a very bright scholar and his special delight P k:n history, poetry, falry fales, and o R In 1753 be entered the university: Scott was educated for a-lgwyer, but{ The bumped against all his naturai tastes were in the di-|very Crace's father climbed uy fection of Mtemtare: - ilo. Publistied | on | tz- roek-ww:lllhtf;' mb-"‘ M_-‘"‘i: “Lady. of The Lake, Marmion and The ¢ Lay of The Last Minsirel.” ihe boat and @ strong pair of bands LILLIAN BREHAUT. |Sfasped the East Norwich, N, Y. - - ‘When Whitney Was a Boy. Eli Whitney was born In Masta- Marie Rosa Bonheur. Marie Rosa Bonheur was born in leaux, France, in the year 1822. ez parents were poor. Her father was an artist and her mother was a music teacher. Her father's name was nd ‘Bonheur. They were S0 poor that her father had to teach They moved to Paris when she was eight years old. Her mother died. Her father married again. One day their mother called them. Three of them came but they did not know where Rosa Bonheur was. Her moth- er found her at the butcher shop. She was looking at a carved head of fiowing tide to a polut Where the water is rough and here it sinks and forms = shoal of sand. Nature in building shoals works slow and sire 'and it #tories or letters OBl | gooert matter if it takes o thousand! and ad-[years to build a foot of shoal of the| When these ved cryatals of foldspar a1 +3 Un- jcan hold together no longer they make u-d—n Office. a clayey mud called kaolin and from you sre—BSe that! ¥ truel er were one ‘They Tow- e wreck the rock: this the finest crockery is made. So you see- the féldspar in one form is sranite, in another form sand and in an animal. When she was ‘missing chusetts, n 1765. £ aot, another form kaolin. they always found her at the butcher Clara Bdrton. ‘The gther. fafmers were rich, but| William Penn was born in 1644 in P tact, Sand then is £ loose crystals | shy RUBY . SWAIN. Age 9. |Ewe £ vils 3 & fine house in London. He was des- M o en is 2. mass of loose oD, e L s father was poor. His = father o [ nobody else but you such as are found in granite and all its| Eler brothers were Auguste and Jules| X e had a workshop. On rainy days he|iined to Become one, of S . ——e ety and Her sister $as Juliette. Clara Barton was born orf a farm|would work in his father's workshop, | Quakers of his time. 'He went to col- Ay m;;e mrm{'e e She was seat away to school. Sheland considered herself the happiest| 1ii grew up likc other farm boye. of granite are gneiss and mica slatexpoorer rocks, Those who are wide-awake and whe Persist in knowing find that theyb out—those who have ueither eyes to was found one day i the Woods mak- ing pictures in the sand. She made pictures of the teachers and pupils. The people there asked her father to have her learn to sew. She didn't :?tlndw-umolfilob-lm efe. One day he heard a .Quaker talk and from that day he declared himself a Friend. He refused to attend the meetings at the chapel col- loge and also to wear the coliege child in the worid. She had grown up brothers and she was the young- est_of the fanily. Clara loved the animals and even the shyest animals would eat from her hiand. or pick up the food she dropped on_the ground for them. He went to school.—He liked fo play Wwith his father’s tools. His father had a lathe with which he_could turn out chair poses. When Eli was old enough his fath- er let him care for the tools. My Favorite Doll. Q, my dolls were many when I was B brown-eyed, and gray; ittle rag doll to which I clung to this very day. stal) like that so she asked her father to s 3 = teach her to draw. r : His mother d hen T was | gowns o he was expelied- ; iy dee nor cars to hear never know what| %, Jiked animals. When thiey wero[ When Clara was a litile sirl her | (welve vears ol The Tousckeores | “His parents. were very eauch upset Now i you should clim# up the attic|sang in Parls thev had some pet animals. | brother was very il and the doctors | seren fre ldes bo g ShoSPe . rs, —————— 3 She spent her time with her friends. | thought he would die if he didn't have over (nis ana s father sald: the the rig! . > doing. He had been making a| “1 willgnd =3 e Ans-opun the trgnk to the right, LETTERS WLEDGM In the last t her life she had |Broper care. a led L Do ‘M'm"‘"qm‘“b > }ane DS Ho:as S Hiowd Be ERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. | 3 nimals of'ell Kinds, Sne died in| The sick boy cried for Clara. s e e e T iness. She | thought it was a fine piece of work ! was at school itdred Ei Forwi e 99. She was loved by all. but they went and zot . ' ks more William Penn Pm afraid you might call her a signt. [, MK ol s, gond R o g gl o pictures_ were | her. Day and night she staved by the | Caier " that the people had him fornd hipeett B the gav CIF € Fums ‘“ 1s old, with a ecax on her |90k I Won. entitied The Littlc Lame|the “Horse Fair” and the “Oxen|bedside untll after a while he got|mend their violins., He mended them | the gayest cify in.the world. ~There i o R I IS B tysight when she| " WHe She' was & woman a_sroat | Hiceh o1° SUrErised them to kuow ne | vas net mych tme {7 Yeliglop AL, iy found it~ v interesting. She was twenty! o an a great|could do it. t er awhile . i And her cheeks are as white as tne|fond it very interesting | paintea the “Horse Fair.” She made|war broke and she got nurses| other werk to oy s DO BNt 0. him | o e adied to be a lawyer, but be did weall 2 Eva Alperin of Mansfield Four Cor- | the horses two-thirds their natural | to g0 With her to the battle fields and | * Eii's father had & nice watch. El | not forget about his Quaker religion. But understand that to me she iners: I received the prige book you sent|size. She had to use a step-iadder. T the sick and wounded soldiers. | liked to look at it. It was a won He went to Quaker meetings and his ! is me. 1 thank you very much for it. T|mhese pictures are in the Metropolitan fter tho war was over she went|t, him. He wanted to see the inside | father refused to see him. 1 | pAnd X her the best of them all | was very much surprised, for T did not | Aryseum of Art in New York cit; to Prussia and the Princess told her |of it, but his father would not allow | In & few month's more he was im- o, a time have I climbed to bed |expect it. 1 have read it all-through| Others of her pictures are: about the Red Cross society. So she | this, v as the v Wi few of his friends in | When my age was, I think, about!and think it very interesting. One Sunday as the family were | prisoned with a ing Pasture” “Contented Flock, came home and established the Red |getting resdy for chureh, he noticed | a sloomy old tower, and after awhile seven, Torwieh: | T ble Servant,” and “The Wasp. Cross soclety here: and she also aher . i 5 - 1 let out. i BEA. Qe chel vl S yo VAT ory b Tor the. | EEIARTES EOWIN HOPKINS, | founded a training school for nurses. | Watch ae- bome. oo e preienied e | He took & great interest in the ool ; » and lovely prize book. It is so interesting i Age 10. : ., MYRTLE F, SWAIN. |was sick, and his_father allowed him |onies. In the meantime o) hundred turkeys were roasted. He| They said 'if the old bathed in its % 'Mll:-h.v‘lml- prayer flew. UD 101,006 T can't stop reading it. I am so North Stonington. to stay ‘at home. When his iather |died and left him a large fortune, ,;":"h, people take part in making|waters they would become younsg| 01 ' Fauppy with it. George Washington. General G nd His B e e hurried o e oo o o Henwrs futher 580000, | the Jaxa. al ted to find thisi ; p : > . 2 . eorge - eneral George and His Boy. where the watch was hanging and e king ow! :000. London snd was buried| Ponce De Leon want this! T4 an Indiam dolland 'a bride and gliidred Lawis of Nor ch: I saw bY| One Saturday morning George| This bravo sojdier was both a great|took it down. Ha opened itc and | Penn gsked the king for @ gramt of m*“\eq“fiel“chum“_yu“ Tenteit Do 1o saliet mdm s i & s st neis ¢ |4be paper. I had won a prize book, Rib | waslington came into his fathers ta- | commander and a good man. < He had|$aW ~some little wheels in it. He|land in America. MILDRED GRANDY, Age 5. | the year 1513 and discovered & lan P E ble and asked one of the me ad- 2 son whose name was Henry. One evening a gentleman was at the thought it to b Penn proposed they call it Sylvania; forgot about I a living thing. but_the king sald: father, but not the could you please hold it for me until 1 the claim’it? T thank you for your Kind- brilliant with flowers, and named it e s iy king. dell, dle a fine horse for him. with a silver purse. bove Ponce De Leon. Florida. He explored but littls, and < i fraid to let George ¥s house. A v e ng|Machiners. So he took it all apart.| “No, call it Pennsylvania in honor 2 jer.| was hit an Indian arrow. After) | R e e T hetiook et e . Catels e o e e T e o B e T e e Ot ] o T demier. A Peas™ fa oo Do Len e o beare e g o ol { i illl Ve sengll be Pleased to keep it £or | pined, so he did as bidden, and George| husband and. caid, “Whero 15 Hen be thousht he could mot get it to-| In 1652 Pemn got & liberal charter.|Ho was made governor of Torto fico. FANNIE LATHROP, Age 13, 115 the:tittle rag dell thht T love the| o Lo cood) > mounted the horse and rode away. have not seen him all the ufterncon.” | gether again: but he .succeeded. His | The settlement grew rapidly. s of & Founiain of Youth.}: Yantly 4 : by Alice F. Burrill of Stafford Springs: | 'This was the day of the great fox| “Tho general started to his fe father never knew about the mis-| Once Penn gave a dinner for whichl the | . - v I haven't seen my prize book yet be-|hunt. MMany men for miles around|excited and said, “Why, poo chief until several years later. ~SRET * |, Shed ihe dearest—the swestest Of| ks T ans in Willimantic now. Thawk |Drovght large packs of foxhounds.|he's standins o Lowdyn 5 Whitney went to @ dlstrict school. o it this Coumecticut pemiel 5 s—Maktwell Williams, in the Northwest~|you very much. I think I shall like it.| They met in a field and there was alin this cold wind to! I left him and|He liked arithmetic the best of all Leghorne, Merrythought Farm's White 4 } r—y et great shouting at the dogs and blow-| %old him to t there fore me; |Studies. When lhé was nineteen he Wyandottes from Columbia, Conn.| = ! Christian " 1 ¥, ey ing of horns. and there he is still I'm sure. In|Wanted to go to college. His step- Neale Bros” White Wyandottes from 3 e g 8 THE WINWERS OF PRIZE BOOXS.| Just as they were to start off Who(the midst of business, I quite forgot|Mother didn’t wamt bim to go. He R. 1, and Barron’s Whits 3 = Apponaug, The Boy's Vision. ; showld ride up but George. The men |y anpormtarernt ot in tauht sehool to get money, and waen [l A GRI n andotiss from England all ssemed 1 oy from his bedroom window 1—Llildred Grandy of Yantic, A |laushed at him. One of the men ask-| It js now seven o'clock in the even-|DNe was twenty-three, he went to Yale = to be perfoctly matched. Towards the 3 ‘ over the little town, Child’s Garden of Verses. ed if he could etick to his horse. An-|ing. For seven long hours that faith-{college, New Haven. - end of December, however, these Eng- 4 to the bleak black upland 2—_Catherine Biddell of Oneco, The other 3skedh!( the horse knew anyone | fy! had been waiting for his | Mr, Whitney graduxl.lzda from. col- = lish Wyangdottes forged ahead and per- a clouded moon. oo -4 d was riding him. father. ege. in 1 A man in Georgia en- for more than . Meadow Brook Girls Afloat. George said ‘Yes.” They rode off.| “The general excused himself to his|%aged him to teach his children. Y IN NEW ENGLAND. mado up as follows may be scattered |sistentl$ Beld the lead for more than » nself to The forth from 3—Lillian Breh He got along very well, as the horse | friend called b any & idiy| When on his journey he met Mrs < along the furrows. bt Sh . _Jedhme ki Sate The moon came for om her cav-| 3—Lillian Brehaut of East Norwich, t g $o|friend. called a cab, and drove rapidiy f Wher e ooy 5 = A 5 e G Ip’ horns began to gain on N. Y.. The Meadow-Erook Girls Under | knew just what to do. 'They were in| (5 the bridge: and sure enough, there|Greene. When he got to Sgvannan BY GEORGE FRENCH. Bran, 25 pounds; mel:;c:n‘u‘! g:fi-{ffim-. T e T S 2 the sudden gleam Canvas. fing 0 D e T one R was Henry, shivering in the coid, but|slic invited him to her hame/ T mn\:: .“:nh'x:f:'nlnf:‘:'x‘x'mre e up like good reserves to defend his 2 i 7 % N hen the hunt was over George| patiently doi o . 5 Vhen he got there the man said he New land ent to moi - = e T e aasodtend | s—atics Kingsley of Scotland, The|starteq on his way home and as he| hie iy g "8 What his father told| N hen B O o s g he % A”;:h," << B .el‘ .,,l,'::: ads = e T aming the b g . Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas. |rode along hz noticed that mebh?-;v: They were home in an hour. As|money. He had no friends. He went j"_“? ';:";‘ that was regarded SOILING CROPS VERSUS SILAG! = mmv-wm TS Sath Weck S She E could find that w: o N was lame. George was vesy bright|they came in the gener: to his ve with. Mrs. Greene. While he |joining his farm, -gard — and: =t ttes In the Sith e B Mi_d‘};'_‘;;;g;k"c';:;;;};xfé‘,:{s;,’“‘ and he scrambled down from his| friend. ~¥c e Stibliee "2 | wae there: he began to study law. as good for mothing. It was a sandy By G. C. White, Professor of Dairy|Connecticut Wyandottes in the s7th [ of 4 5 5 “ | horse’s back and walked along leading | = soldier's family. One day Mrs. Greene broke her |ynon " producing absolutely mothing.| Husbandry, Connecticut Agricultu- |Week but neither Voo Eneu @ es 3 - . v 5 - The ool abides. $—Annie A. Blatherwick of Norwich, | the horse. 3 How well that dear boy had learned | emibroidery frame. Mr. Whitney sald | "0 36 it yield an average of 3 11-16| ral College. : hive been abie to stop the onrush of e e Automobile Girls Along the Hudson. @ :V)&en h’ee a;rl\:d vya't(htgn'hi;t?g?p I;A: l:e les which Jesus practiced headxollld ':/nuke !;dnehv: ;nt,‘fleso flhe tons of good hay per acre for the four Lincoln's Leghorns. At the close of I glis of.. 7 3 ound the head man with a° through all his life on earth—the les- | Made a new one and s as pleased. |ton < B calities to is Ci cticut pen was & _day." 4 letting George take the horse. which made him the pleasing Sonl ireene. most of them. wera officers. | DUl ol (LFUEREr SO0, SOt ot for the ing them to the barn to be fed. This|this, the itnd week, they are leading “Within or without me $—Ruby E. Swain of North Stoning-| Gegrge rushed forward and snatched FRANK PARDY, Age 13, | Mr. Gréene had heen their general. [3PPLying it, “:'-l v 'but hay 15 hay at!eystem is practiced on high priced]tne 'centest by 5 margin of four eggs. 1 my. < [ton; The ‘Battleship Boys in the Trop- |the whip out of his hand. He begged s e = » A8e 13- | These men wished the South would [hay I o not know, but hay y at!syst - ocrh onpe Siidised N h s a un But the by no m et Allingham, | ics. him not to Ifit Sampson. Then he told | N °rwich. Erow betetIn ' the - North’-thity were|all timtes, and st all Hmas 8 worth land and fences It incures & BSUCOT 1Bt (b6 zace is by mo WO TUNEINL = Sampson how Le gut oft #o. Saxe:the David Grockett Sctting _spinning wheels, The people |& o ieaars e - Eee A ‘fi’e&fir’?:u:npa&;“:u"\rfi?n! |t the hast and belleves thoroushly in A I > | - of the So send their cotton |ing money. Whe g - e A - Wicte JEos TALK'TO WIDE.[STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- ["ER0PEI |1y Georse always to be| David Crockett was born in Ten- | (o tacemo i e elr Cotton | o shat will vield Jueh dividends,| ‘But how about’ (he’ SummerSilo” | his birds. Baron sys that if e AcTARER. AVISKES. Hndt animaia, S toiumt k- ochool hegan bt Dayd | [aucibecause 1t cost so much to clegn |sUmply for thS SMEREL | o o,y |Eecciiesent Bation publisned the Te- |eetiing more.than 30 es6s ahead dur- . = . . A school began but David | i - v ryan- Many of you have been to the beach Abahom Eincoln. co iy B. PUROKELL, Age 11 | 4ig not like it 8o he ran away. That| Cxre Wi ithey said he would nelp tne |New England is looked into the more suits of an ex&e;fl;;nl‘l‘;th:!‘flr;hs :g!:|{lr;g"l':e:fi‘xzf;:!&:etael,:l:“hiah:gall:‘ - ] was_all the schooling he had. b. “Boyin /17 Tt and promising crops were co! v o1 d /and played in the eand and have nét| Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth pres- Wien 2o was Atuh sightesn . ke | Southl. Beyty 1293 T s ol I atie meane. ot only mey |1t was found that corn silage was!etretch, He thinks they will be able 5 yoursslves what sand is? ident of the United States, was born Goorge Washingten. married a pretty Irish girl. They liye 2 day then a maan could in|we supply all the native demands|superior to all of them in supplying to come back strong in O oo e " Mal of the grown-ups in the world |, 309 In a frontier cabin on Nolin| . ..o ochington was born Feb-| €4 happily for a few vears when the . for feeding, but we may plan to raise|dry matter and it produced a pound |count of the rest they are taking now. : . creek, Hardin (now Larue) ' county, [ipiad oI o r °D- | news came that the Indians had take: W S nd sheep. It is by rolling up of butter cheaper than any of the| All birds sent to the ce a1 : jheufid you ask them what y ruary 22, 1732, in Virginia. Wh'n he n R AT | 5t 2 ed b sand is|Kentucky. i he weat te sl wWhE e the’ war. -Dath. RTRUDE HATTIN, Age:10. that bankers and lenders make crops tried. Last year the writer con- | next year's contest will be tésted by $ !would just stare at you and say: It is| His ancestors were Quakers. At the P e oo B2 | “Davia Croskett wes one of the frkt| M6 - So if we can make hay at a|ducted u similar experiment in Ne-|the Storrs Experiment Station free of E s 4o not o T et coimse o Waera g | o dld s mother. hen e becurye | (0 enliet ‘The Iniiins ers detenics Rt B e e e e | e iy T 4 . @6 not know 1t was once rock— | 1o, acTSrry SOUEY - man he went to Mount Vernos to |2t Horseshoe Bend. we can afford to raise beef cattle [green corn and alfalfa ed. | the. y . ied in 181 Rt O e 4 Sren One day Colonel M: d If: s rior to the other for-|{heif desire to have this test made. -4 3 + ; i B Mathews came to feeding -them through the long and|Alfalfa was supes # Sdldipatiic granite—and \that| —In the following year his father mar- [Cta¥ With his brother. Mis brother |, One dey Colonel Mat ¥ : » ‘i i but silage was far superior | During the past two months the 3 e . v " i Lova there was going to be : c0ld winters we are blessed with, there|age crops, but silage pe. ng pas | erysials of mica and quartz and|Tled again. His stepmother cncow ?\?xsrrf_-wmcd Lt L R ] et e e i Rl elitiite Targe. The. voyase was very|ls still ancther chance for our gm-'u. them all. 2 & : Experiment suuo‘:.h ","'m:fllf:; ¥ feldspar Have separated—that is the|25cd Dim to study. 7 George's brother was taken for colonel and urged David to run for the sailors said to Columbus |aSinations to picture the possible| It is mot too late new to erect a ks in the State - O N In 1823 he made a trip to New Or- o 5 When | major. 5 PO wealth that New Eugland has in view.{summer silo for next year. It must|considerably more than four - its power to hold them to- | leans on = flatboat. o e s e e L | T Mathews gave. o srest ot YO TSarboard and &0| magine, if you can, what it would |be filled this fall. This silo hens. Of this number 482 or a little R & ¢ Wahe 4 gouitte GM or| His family moved to Ilinois and n |38, diod, he left a wife and several|, oo to make himeelt pomu- | o ' B oret oM e sk |mean to all New England if the graz- |be smaller than the winter more than 11 per cent. were found to to pleces and the remains are|1S30 he heiped his father clear a|Chlidren. ; lar; POPUl wail a few more davs and if we |8 nd in Maine were to be 50|cause silage spolls faster in summer |be infected. This blood test is un- << g farm, Lincoin, split the ralls to fence e Codmpe mnl i 8 I L Colonal Mitbows tntal o sraas] 32 not sec any signs of land wo will] B8 231 Mat it would produce half [and more must be removed from the |doubtedly a long step forwasd in the | e farm in, an ten s a & Mrs, Martha 3 Wagthows °d-3 = D1 turn back. X » b, is disease - 3 Tt took & good many granite Tocks |for nelghbors fo enable him o get hiy| . HE was a sury S e Lo | i Wit adatnen. whioh 3a| o, e next day ane of the sallops sxw 208 ERGTI ATRE i e omee | 7 AV B3 Rnns yuns il 4 o1 i “ai s1 L 0f T ich so as th Ve vi C =, s - y ¢ khe this Jhtie of the deserts’and |clothes, because his family was poor.|Fairfax to survey land. =~ o . . lcomoietely won the people that hetwag| & bush in Jrater with red berries | H . or = one-sixth, the maximum.| MILK DECLINES IN AUGUST. Bormie Brook Poultry Farn's White 4 That is how he got the name of “rail- | , He Was commander-in-chic It t night we saw a light Leghorns from Saratoga, N. Y. won . . seashore and untold ages for them plitter.” & =1 American army. Washington fouzht | elected colonel. distance from our ships, Co-|There is no good fundamental reason —_— A &! o T ey, e A B % B ground to such tiny crystals; and [ In 1532 ho served in the Black Hawl | Many battles and won many. Hef After a while he w to Texas to ried: “Light! lght!.” for not expecting it to projuce’ the|By Profsssor G. C. Whits, Connecti- | o POce 100 tie s credtt and -erystais are alive, for if they fell|war, was promoted, and served as|traveled thro many s $tam. fsht e The et by of the eailors saw 1tmaximum, but we ey conce '“e":._ cut Agricultural College. another pen of Leghorns from Manor mpast or were ground to powder they|C3Piain three months. e e R o o e O oo e e . vers heppy for they knew '@ the igek of capital amoag the . Pouitry Farm, Manorvilla L. I. werq = In 1854 he devoted himself in ear-|Yharf and one man pulled:the Brificn | e 3D oot odes & land was near. - . all og| There is always a marked falling|,; equally close third with 2 yield of ‘would make siit, which combined with |, 1o the struggle against slavery. fiag down and put the stars and|™" but before he reached him he was hen we had landed the next morn- |OWners of the lapd, even after 55 |Off in the production of milk through- |3y eZce” The total yield for the week ‘would make mud, Lincoln . was- elected, and on March | Stripes up. , Lilled. - ing some red men were at the wa-|them bave got so entbused s 1o make| gue the etate in August. This is partly | oo c8uee s 0500 30 egxs less 1 €ivea the red color to the beach (4. 1861, he was inaugirated. ife iried| Washington was the first president | Thus died the man who always Jived | {ar. = But when {hey aw us come on|3RY Kind of effort for improvement. Ut the S IR SREVEL TS I BATI wands is the great quantity of crystals ‘of ‘Sel@spar—teldspar is a satiny look- i8g rock and greasy and after it has to prevent a civil war, but on April 14, 1861, the war began, and lasted until 1865. In 1363 he iesued the emancipation ind fcaught in- all his life, and he surely where he had been he said v mind where 1 have been.” She o' him no more questions. . of the U When ed States he was filled with sorrow. CATHERINE RIDDELL, Age 14. Oneco, Columbus. Columbus did not like this work. other things. died the whole country Columbus was bom in Genoa, Italy. He was the son of 2 poor Wool comber. wanted to be a sailor, so_his father I sent him to school, and the boy learned how to draw maps and learned to do At that time the people thought the earth was flat, and if they should sail too far on water they would fall off, up to his motto right and then g “B sure you are John Smith, Jobn _Smith was born to adven= ture. While yet a bey he left his Lome in Lincolnshire, England. to en- gage in Holland wars. Later he went to fight the Turks. He robbed while in France. While he was at sea he was thrown overboarc, but he swam to land. When he was in battle he was taken prisoner and sold as a siave, his head was shaved and his neck bound with an iron ring: He was he killed his master, arrayed himself land they ran away from us for they- were afraid of us. These people on ere not dressed like us, foy, ch clothes on and banners. soon as we were on land we kneeled down and fave thanks to God for bringing us safe to land. And when we thanked God, Celumbus said. “I claim this land in _the name of the King and Queen of Spain. The natives on shore were .very queer for they wore mo cioths and their skin was red. They came up to r 2 while and we gave them trinkets, and many other “red peonle were sutprised to see 1t this is a big proposition, to ask you to imagine Maine. raising half as much hay.as could be raised on the land now in grass, just look about your own town and note the hundreds, probably thousands, of acres that are almost valueless, and which might be pro. ducing hay at the rate of from two to five tons te the acre. There is an enormous potentiality in this question of hay. Hay is the coal of the animal world. With it we can © herds‘and flocks innumerable, aimost without other cost except the growing and harvesting of the hey Cattle and sheep will breed such in- creases as will take care of ail the hay freshen in early fall, but if a farm to farm canvas werer made, it could readily be seen that the great major- ity of cows are rapidly declining. ‘To whbat is this due? Is this a nat- ura] and unavoidable condition? Nat- urally enough, flies and hot weather are disturbing factors, but the largest factor is that the cow does not t the necessary feed. When grass is short, flies numerous, and heat severe, the berd grazes much less than under pleasant conditions. Therefore, supply the feed so_that it will be a pieasure to eat it. Feed heavier in the barn on grain. If green crops of silage are not available, a good quality of hay than the previous week, making a| |arand total of 100,670 eses. The ten leading pens to date are as| follows: Francis F. Lincoln, Mt Carmel, Conn., White Leghorns 1767; Tom Bare ron. Catforth, England, White Wyane doties 1763; Tom Barrom, _Catforth, England, White Leghorns '1678; Mer- | rythought Farm, Columfis, Conn. White Wyandottes 1600;: Neale Broe Apponaug, R, L. White Wyandottes 1582; Cecil Guernsey, East Cobleskill, N. Y. White Leghorns 1511; A. BE. Brundage, Danbury, Comm. §. C. Rhode Isiand Reds 149%; Marwood Poultry Farm. Butler, Pa, White Leg- Piatt, Wallingford. g h o hat can be. raised, and if the prices | oo 13Y | horns 1488; P. G o i " . in the dead man’s garments. mounted h_ships and people. i icS | will/ help. The vield must be main-|ps White Leghorns 1436; Bennie Next night, when rabbit's wife but Columbus thought that the earth | g T was afraid of them at first but|3re not too high, the people of New |igineq else the herd goes into winter | gpo lying very stiil, just half aslech _o|wasround. He wanted to find a short- | * Jorse. and rode to e bu popped off again.” By and by rabl Wwife heard the hound, and this time the barking seemed to come nearer, er passage to India. He went to the queen of Spain asked her for some ships and sailors. Having returned to barked for the N voyage he e: bellows and was em and got used to them. The red peo- 1 tents and wigwams. pe the rest of the boys and girls ke a trip like mine, soon =P England will take care of all the cat- tle and sheep that can be raised. Think also of being able to keep five T six COws to the acre instead of one. at a low production. Once down they will not come back even under good management. Keep the Yield up Brook Poultry Farm, Saratoga, N. Y., Whige Leghorns 1470. The following is a lst of the ten leading Connecticut pens 3 ai o 4 Through August. Francis F. Lincoln, Mt. Carmel and then it seemed to go away. At|She was busy with war at that time e % chains, sl 2 3 hich is now a good a: . Woat Rich, k b last she couldn’t hear it at all. ana aia’ not motice him. He waited| Dt hfs worth became sv ap,.c.| CATHERINE MAY BIDDLE, about the supply of milk for the cities THE APPLE CROP. e e I e S After a long while Tabbit came back |several more years and at last the| ot 10 3 il Age 14, |Fhen we are able to keep five cows : and then his wife asked him where he |queen gave him two hundred sailors 2 . ik had been. Ho said ho had been hunt- 2. She asked him where was his gams and he.said he left it outside for safe keeping. Old rabbit sald: “Do vou hear that yellow-green hound? and three ships. He Palos, Spain. started Atlantic three times. to Spain and died in poverty. from ‘Columbus made voyages across the He went back KATHERYN GORMAN, Age 9. These and many other wonderful exploits he tells in_a book published after his return to England. However. his services were of un- questionable value to -Virginia, and his disinterestedness appears from the fact that he never recei a foot of A Patriotic Quakeress. During the Revolution the British guarded the entrance to Philadelphia. Washington's army was freezing on the hillsides of Valley Forge. to the acre? There would not be any milk problem if the men who raise milk for the market could contribute to their contractors five times as much as they mow do. And the hopeful thing about it all is that it is feasible. It is so feasible An apple crop of 210,000,000 bushels is forecast by the department of as- riculture which bases its éstimate upon its latest reports. That is about 65,- ©00,000 bushels more than last year, bat 25,000,000 bushels less than in 1912, 1600:; A. B. Brundage, Dsnbury, 8. C. Rhode Isiand Reds 14%: Branford Farm, Groton, White Leghorns 145 Glenview Poultry White Leghorns 1428: Thas. W. Moore, Central Village, White Leghorns 1355; Frederick M. Peaslev. Cheshire, White g S Storrs; KA e and abouf 4,000.000 bushels less than in |Leghorns 1325; (. H, Sawage, B B Lmndr Hib Rt el Vermilles. land in ‘tho colony his wisdom had | . South fecond strest shers lived a |18t een dona these past 25 yert: i1 "The mean price fo producers | White Leshorns 1325 N. W. i ey both Went to sleep. i - e SSIE 7 wife Lydia. The Eritish had rooms in | Considering the opportunity that Na- |in the three months of heavy market- New Havem, White “Where was the John Greenleaf JESSIE L. BREHAUT. p und, Uncle Bph?" or. part of their house. ture places under our feet, we see that ing, September, October and Novem- Mrs. K. E. Woodruff, g the children al askat (his point| John Greenleal Whittier was born| Fast Nerwich N. ¥ They used them for a secret meet- |Peoplo progress with great delibera- | bo™ Jast year, was §5.5 cents o bushel | White Leghorns 1324. : in the story. Ang then Eph has to tell | near the town of Haverhill, Mass., Dec. s ing house. tion. In twenty years perhaps, but(i® 1912 1t Wae © —- : the rest of it: IV 2507, The old Ememhomas. Wwas near 3 3 - One’ day an officer came and told | possibiy not until Aifty years, such stufr| 't vas §97Tente 0 o Ul st Louws has 4 When old rabbit sat on the edge of |the Merrimac river. In the staic of Massachusets there|Lydia to have the council chamber |8 I am now writing. and you are|pn, ihe torecasted ooop, W |, oiers. the bed with hjs iead in his hand e | Trom his boem “The Baratoot Boy"|once lived o very remarkable man|iiady by seven oclock Ang Bave |Teading with some skepticism, . wili| SPEnd’s g g was thinking something had to hap- |wo learn something of his boyhooed. named Thoreau. ~He became sof(pe servants and children in bed by [Seem like.history. It will not have a|2Sfollows: oo 0 = /Hampshire, | pen. So he went out to the woods and| Young Whittier worked on the farm | deeply interested In the animal world | saven. single element of novelty or a earapl;06000: Vermont, 2,500,000: Mass- . jooked around till ,he found a long|and also learned the shoemakers|that he built a lttle hut for himself| “rne soldiers came and all was[Of information. Why should we not|LT00000: Vermont 2.500.000; Mase ollow log, wide at ne end, narrow attrade. He had very few books. near Walden pond and there he lived|ready, hasten that a little? Why should e rperr il . the other. He tried it and found the small end just big enough to let him through. Then suddenly he had an 1ded. He went back to the yellow\green hound and said “Howdy!” The hound didn’t understand howdy, so he just st out after old rabbit, ippety-clip- Dety. Now, ‘old rabbit had neveb vet Dheen Garrison induced him to lend his to the cause of freedom. He wrote many fine poems, Boy, Snowhound, Telling the Bees ‘Among the Hills. Fal . in 1392) ‘When he was 13 years old Whittier began to -write. and Willlam Lloyd among them Barbara Frietchie, The Barefoot _He died while on a visit to Hampton with the animals and birds for more than two yeare. The snakes would Wind around his legs, the squirrels would climb on him and put their heads in his pockets, the fish knew him and would let him pen 2R Jjitle wood mice would Come and nibe ble at the cheese he held in his hand. wild creatures which drew lift them out of the water, and the It was Thoreau's love for the little Then Lydia went to her room and laid down. Lydla thought she heard Washington's name’ mentioned. so she went to the council door ard iistened, and then she went back. Lydia After the soldiers went: thought of a way to help the Ameri- cans. Lydia had no flour so she went to the mill. we not rajse five tons of hay to the acre? If anybody who chances to read this will tell me that, I shall be grate- ful for the information. I cannot im- not. agine why e THE ARMY WORM. 300,000; Connecticut, 1,800, 000, HUNDRED THOUSAND EGGS HAVE BEEN LAID. Record For The Contest Which Has ‘Beer. Underway at Storrs For 42 Woeeks. More than a hundred thousand egE VERONICA ROCHELEAU, Age 12. o them to| “\yhen she got there she had to wait, | ; s the recori cf the hens in the Lax- id not want to-be caught by & noisy,| North Feamkig T <5 Dhim, for animpls are Tespousive (0as she had expected. So she Went to| The army wormi has @ as|ing Contest at Stoers. This is an Yellow-green hound that had kept him love as are human beings. Washington's army and told them [suddenly as it came. A awake for months.. He ran all he knew, around and around. By and Ly Christopher Columbus. ~ LILLIAN BREHAUT. what she had heard. is likely to ap) within two’ weeks, average of nearly 123 egas each for every individual in the contest includ- You Need bt i rashes, pimples, itching. - and excessive perspiration. Glenn’s Sulphur Soap i East Nerwich, N ‘When theyBritish came to fight the |but its destru will ing good, bacd, and indifferent, and is Contains 305 Pure Sulphur he thought 1t was time to Head for.the| One fine morning Columbus statted Admericans were ready. The British |upon how well its maturel enemles |only ofic and a half eggs per it disinfacts, whitens olow Tog. . out to cross the Atlantic, He had! John James Audubon. were surprised and knéw some one|hald it .in check.. As @ rule the sec|hen behind the record for the corre- okin, You névér saw such a .race—the |three ships which Ferdinand and Jsa- | John James Audubon issuad a won-|had betrayed them. ond trood is_f t, but many period in the previous con. and| - ‘grund‘m he would catch:thc rabs | bella’ équipped for him. "After he hadfderful book in 1828, “The Birds _of ALICE KINGSL: ngblho insects may mow Dbe found in|tests. ic_thought to be an excei- and for toilet, it, and rabbit sure he woyld not be|been at sea a few days the saflors|America,” Audubon loved and studied| Seotiand. ¥ thé pupa or resting stage which In-|lent showing in view of the fact that shampoo. At all druggists. caiight. Then rabbit fell down on|wanted to turn back. They sald if he|birds. Lying under the orange trees dicate that the parasites did mot kill purpose (here Uncle Eph made be- leve almost to fall from his seat) to did not turn back they would throw him overboard, and when they got back in his father's plantation in Louisiana, he listened to the mocking bird's sons, } Grace Darling. ’ @ll the caterpillars. If the worms shouid appear again in large numbers more than 306 birds are engaged in the present contest as compared with Wm only 500 in the earlier competitions. make the hound run faster, but the|to Spain they would tell the King and [and waiched every motion as it flit-| One September morning the sea-was|standing crops should be Pro-, Not only Connecticut poultrymen ' ——— e i |next minute rabbit shot into tho hole.|queen he fell overboard and was|ted from bough to bough. y-rough: There was a boat which |tected by the of a double fur- |but all American breeders will be proud | SFs Hair znd Waisker Dys. The hound shot in after him—and |drowned. - When he was older he began to|was already on a rock. It had been|row around the fleld, with the straight|of the pen of little White Leghorn: - Slaok or Brows, §0e. gfi‘l“ B And he s thers yeti—| _Ho told them the first one who saw | sketch every bird he saw, and then|dashed into two pieces and one piece|edge of the furrow toward the Seld icago News. {land he would give a fur coat. That he was taken to France to be educat- Y N was driftiog away. The people who to be protected. A poisoned mashimel, Conn. owned by Francis F, Lincoln, Mt. Car- For the fingt seven weeks {