Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 7, 1915, Page 9

THE NORWICH BULLETIN, THURSDAY, NUARY 7, 1915 WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT Rules for Young Writers. Write plainly on one side of the raper only, and number the pages. Use pen and inl, not pencil, Y. Short and pointed articles will given preference. Do not use over 0 words. s 4. Original stories or letters only will be used. 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story. Address all communications to Uncle Jed, Bulietin Office, “Whatever you are—Be that! “Whatever you say—Be true! Straightforwardly act, e honest—in fact, Ee nobody else but you.” THE NEW YEAR. mma A. Lente. New Year, How did‘you journey here? How 4id you know the moment when the Old Year would be gone? by the door to ghost Tngeed, but we w For never have w A friend re tender, hush our hest we 1T wistfully we And wond th WHEN PA KEEPS HOUSE. By Maggie A. When mama has to And pa keeps hous ttle children ron We have Wh a special treat, to keep us t— When he keeps house, to put things right But_oh, When pa k hous: ARM JOURNAL. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO AWAKES. WIDE- ever told the Wid r first is and is to read the writte: and evidence wh that you are not on both against 1 offices be- k of the prix wake u write not so pale ficult worl poil read w h g well the ma; zood ad . to et- 5 in- d d tell you h to eral very ex pleas ab most crdi instruc e to mind|2 plain. | tersso it is only to the very few who cannot tell why they do not succeed that these remarks are addressed. . Do not gzo on writing with poer pencil or pen or light colored ink which you can hardly read yourseif, for it Is a waste of time and paper. Read the rules and be governed by them and your chances of winning a book will be better. I want you all to read this model letter from one of Uncle Jed's boys: Dear- Uncle Jed: In your issue of The Bulletin of December 24, I un- derstood that all writers of the Wide- Awake Cirele on that day were to re- ceive a book from you. I did not receive any book if you sent one to me. I am writing this letter to you, not because I am dis- appointed but I do not want you to think I am ungrateful to you by not sending you a letter of acknowledg- ment. Please consider this between you and me. This d will' get on in the world if he cultivates the fine spirit he man- ifests in his letter. letter personal His book was on the way. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGE- i MENT. of Versailles: I prize book you I haye read it through, and interesting. 1 thank you much for it. I wish you a Happy New Year—Unsigned Raymond Welden, of Willimantic: I received the book you sent mo yester- day. I am reading it and I thank you very much for it. | _Ma rgaret C, Driscoll, of Nor: Kk you for the prize book “Dwellers on The I wisdH you and the Wide- Awakes a very Happy New Year. Grace Mahoney, of Colchester. I hank you very much for the prize bu sent met. It is Very nice mas present. { Mary Gorman, of Versailles: I | thank you very much for the pretty prize book you sent me. I have read it al] through and 1 like it very much. F. A, of Nor- Manpy thanks for the prize awarded me. I have read it and found it very interesting. Alice King of Plainfield: T received prize book vou sent me. It was I {hank you very much. | Helen M. Whittaker of Providence: |1 thank you for the nice prize book which You sent me last week. I have d it and found that it was a very good story. Lower Middle Girl, N, wich: book tine, | Dona Howard of Westerly: 1 received {the nice prize book, A Three Goats Gruff, which you sent me. I thank you very much for it. I have read it nd found it very interesting. Winifred Brings of Jewett City: I s surprised and pleased to get my book entitled Bovnton Pluck. I began reading it last night. I have read 65 pages in it and like it very much, you for the book, I am as ;, your loving niec WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Ellen Kinder, of Taftville—The Meadow Brcok Girls Across Country. —Jchn Sears, of Norwich—Harry | Dexter and the Stolen Boy | 2—Dorothy Loomis, of | The Meadow Brook Girls 4—Eileen Keily, Meadow Brook Girls Afloat, 5—Ruth Clark, of Norwich—The Meadow Brook Girls in the Hils. —Maurice Whitehouse, of Mt. Hope { —The Square Dollar Boys Smash the Ring. s—Ella Degenais, of Killingly—Mrs, Pinner's Little Girl 7—Francis O'Connell, of Norwich— Lebanon— by the Sea. of Versailles—The Grandfather tice to feed Pool. Milis 1 Lo calied roots, stem and leaves alive and in Ith, th no season of ear these three plant parts can- ur study of botany for to be based on this > asked us to talk thinking Theso apple, but appeared rtain her- ous I mean ere latel s of By herba ems that as are the Those &t plants are hen you Undress and he bed clothes! t us not be so hasty then in say- dy stem plants have no e’ we are deceived be- stems, children, are like some humans, have undressed and tiwown their clothing without caring where it landed, and then with sleepy eves have been trapped in wakm night olothes anll quilts prepared by others. Do vou know any such hoys or girls? Yes, Pm afraid 1 do. asieep. ents are like human man n more ways Let us exam- people think mall branch of a woody What a sleepy llmb of an un- d living thing! ot a lea are the: s twig so lovingly? Each leaf is a wonder- self, and yet it gave its that the baby bud might w and at last shove its best friend off into the grasp of the wind or push it off that it might fall to the ground. The bud that the leaf had iped to clothe in warm clothes for the winter was selfish, if not worse, It was once a leaf, well dressed and in good health. As it was held between the twig and leaf it pushed the leaf off so it could have more room. Then, like many humans, it stopped growing and went to sleep. Why should it not? Like Master Bruin, it could live on what it had. Tt was going to have a steady job in the epring. It is Miss Leaf now. Why should it worry? What a lot of human nature it shows, don’t it? Are all these woody stems loaded with such leaves, Grandpa? Certainly, If alive and well. But let us examine these sleepy fellows more closely. This hickory twig is the best, as the leaf children are larger. Notice the independence and bossy appearance ?f the terminal fellow? He is a boss, 00! Notice these leaf scars, Alice? Ses, the auxiliary sleeper is just above it. showing how he crowded the nurse leaf off. Here, take my glass. Look at the leaf scars again. What do you see? Little dots {n certain positions. Those dots are the lenticels or breathing holes through which the nurse leaves passed the gas it took from the atmosphere last summer. (It is these breathing holes that give the ornamental markings to birch bark). They were the nursing tubes or pipes, as leaves, like our babies, have nurs- ing hottles. Lool at this bud aga . Notice its overcoat of scales. Take them off. dependent fellow is a bud, Alice, and | s leaves. Leaves clothing and put to rm bed clothes by ee. This terminal af nurse, but f00d_department. - plant put into o¥ T.ast epring | c care and ax own importan. arcless but ungrateful to t! worked so hard for 1 Enow of <o In nearly th — What a ring of scars is revealed. That rin, is a telitale as we may find. _What I want you to notice is how ese scales overlapped 0 as to break joints. Hold un one of the scales, Is it veined? Of what use are these scales and why so gummy? Why do Vou wear waterproof clothing when It rains? The outer scales are the rubber coats, the inner ones being more like blankets. In cold countries most of these leaf children’s overcoats have been. Notice the cotton tucked in— vezetable wool—to make it warm. But it is cold, we have issued our rations for today and this long line of feath- cred citiens are happy! Tt is Christ- mas, too! You found the woody stems still losded wiih leaves and some day we will see what has become of all the herbacious stems. GRANDFATHER LOWATER. . - ed a party of 23 Fremchmen and The Moving Picture Boys and the Flood. ‘Winners of books living in the city may call at The Bulletin business of- fice for them at any hour after 10 a. m. on Thursday. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. Marie “Rosa Bonheur. Rosa Bonheur was born in France, in 1822 at Bordeaux. They were very poor. The father was an artist and her mother was a music teacher. Her father's name was Raymond Bonheur. He was so poor he had to teach. . When she was eight years old her mother died. They had four children. One day they all went cut to plav. When the mother called them only three came back. She asked the children where Rosa was. They sald: “We don’t know.” Her mother called and called but she did not come. - She looked ail over for her but could not find her, Aft- er a while she went to the butcher's shop to see if she was there. She found her looking at an animal’'s head made out of wood. Every day when she went out she always went to the butcher’s shop. One day her mother found her draw- ing a picture of it. Her brothers names were Auguste, Jules and Juliette, After her mother died tehir father sent them to different relatives. Rosa Bonheur learned to sew and she did not like it. She wanted her father to teach her to draw. They had animals. The boys used to take the animals down stairs in the morning and brigg them back at night. Rosa was conscientions and faith- ful. She spent most of her time play- ing with her friends. Rosa Bonheur died in 1899, Her famous pictures were, “Oxen Plough- ing,” @nd “The Horse Fair.” When she was twenty-eight she was a famous painter. She painted a horse two-thirds of its natural size. She §1tad to stand on a step-ladder to paint 8 EVA OATES, Age 1l Plainfield. Bullfighting in Spain, he favorite amusement of the Spaniards is bullfighting. At such fights the wildest and fiercest bulis are brought into the ring. The fizhters are 0oth on foot and on horseback. They are dressed in gay costumes, each having his hair done up in a knot at the back of the neck. The men on foot kave red blankets which they shake in front of the bull, as soon as he enters the ring, to en- courage hin. As the animal darts for them they jump to one side; and when he turns about they again shake the red blanket, a color which every bull hates, in his face. The men on horseback tease him with sharp lances and as he grows angry the men on foot throw sharp arrows decorated with bright colored ribbons into his shoulders or back. After a time even the quietest an mel can be made angry by such treat- ment, The beast soon becomes wild with rage; he darts after the men on horseback and tries to drive his horns into their steeds. When the bull has reached this tngry state, one of the men on foot. kills him. A team of horses is hitched to its horns, and the band plays while it is dragged out and an- other victim brought in. JOHN SEARS, Age 11. Washington, Once George Washington and his brothers were in a fleld where a small colt was, The colt belonged to their mother, Mrs, Washington liked the colt very much, but nobody could ride it. The boys got the colt in a corner and George jumped on the colt’s back. It could not throw George off and as a blood vessel burst it jumped into the air for the last time and dropped to_the ground dead, When George went into the house his mother asked him about the coilt. He told her it was dead and told her what he had done. At first she lobked angry but said, “I would rather have my colt dead than have my son tell a lie.” THOMAS BARNETT, Age 10. Jewett City. Hans Christian Andersen, vou look on the map of Europe will see a small country, Den- the capital and largest city of ich is Copenhagen. In 1875 a great man died. His name was Hans Christian Andersen. He was born in a city of Denmark. When Hans was nine years old his father died and he was left a poor oy. Soon after his mother sent him to Copenhagen, He knew mno one there. At first he became a singer, but in six months he lost his veice. At last he found some friends who were will- ing to help him. On his return to Denmark he wrote poems in the Dan- ish language. ALBERT PHILLIPS, Age 8. Versailles. Tom Thumb. Tom Thumb was a little fellow. Ie was as small as his father's thumb. Once Tom had a ride/in the ear of his father's horse. One day when Tom was out in the field a bird flew away with him. The bird dropped Tom into a river and a big fish caught him. A man caught the fish and said: “T_wiil send this flish to the king.” When the fsh was opened, out jumped little Tom Thumb. The king liked Tom Thumb. He gave him a sword and a horse. The sword was a needle, and the horse was a littie white mouse. How Tom liked to ride on his horse! But, one day a big black cat cavght the horse and killed him. HELEN BANKER, Age §. Mencius. A long time ago.a boy whose name ‘was Mencius lived in China. His fath- er was dead. His mother was a good and wise woman, She sent her little boy to school. Hle was a bag boy. He threw his books away and went home, His mother was sitting at her loom weaving cloth when he came in. She listened while he told her that he did not like to work so hard. Then she sai “Very well, my son, if you do not work neither will 1,” and she got up and went away from the loom. RUTH ALLEN, Age 6. band of friendly Indians to explore the great river. They floated down the Tllinois river and on February 6, 1682, entered the Mississippi. For two months they followed the course of the river. On April 6th they saw that the river divided into three broad channels. They had reached the delta and La Salle soon found himself at the mouth of the Mississippi and look- ed out upon the waters of the Gulf. ELLA KINDER, Age 12, Taftville. At Home After the First Voyage. It was Saturday morning and the Browns were up early for was mnot the sailor boy coming home? After breakfast the three children, two lit- tle boys and one girl, were down by the road, swinging on the gate watch- ing for him while the mother and larger sister worked about the house getting a good dinner ready for the traveler, All-at once Jimmle caught sight of him_and Dbegan to shout: “Hurrah! Here comes Jack!” “How tall he is and how brown he looks! Look at the biz package he hag-" “Mother! Mother!” he exclaimed, as he came into the house with the chil- dren hanging onto his coat. His mother with tears in her eyes took him in her arms and kissed him. Then he sat down to eat and to tell about his journey. : Meanwhile the little sister was tak- ing some things from his package. She sat down by the table like the rest to listen. In ome hand she held a string of coral beads and in the other a large and very beautiful shell. She held it to her ear. Her sailor brother was very happy to be at home again. The mother, who sat at the head of the table, looked happy, too. What interesting things he told them of the trip to the Philippine islands and all the curious things he saw. They all wished they were with him and one of the boys said he would be a sailor, too, when he grew up. The Dhig Dbrother could scarcely eat for they were asking him all sorts of questions. Tt took him a long time to tell everything about the people and things he saw. Then he showed them all the queer things he brought home. There were jackknives with ivory handles for each of the boys, a string of coral beads for the little sister. a Dbasket and some embroidery for ihe |larger sister, and a nice soft shawl { for his mother, and many other things among which ‘were the most beauti- ful shells and baskets which the na- tives in Manila make and sell to tour- ists. MARY A, BURRILL, Stafford Springs. Age 12. How to Keep Earth Roads in Repair. In order to mai knolls should be cu , the seepy places drained nd the hollows filled up. They may be filled with the same dirt that taken from tihe knolls, thus twe things will be done at once. The road should slope toward the gutters so that the water will flow from e crown of the road into the gutters and not stand in hollows in the road. The road shouldn’t be slant- ed so much that vehicles would be in danger of overturaing, In the lowlands and valleys roads should be built on embankments so they wouldn’t Be in danger of being hed away in the rainy season. Weeds should not be left to grow on the side of a road because they stop up the gutters and the water flows onto the road. In order to keep the surface of the road dry a dry subgrade should be obtained. First the surface should be waterproof, second the underground water should not be allowed to per- colate under the road it should be drained off in pipes. Roads should be worked constant- ly in-order to keep them in repair. A split log drag is good for that use. i y to make. Take a log split it in halves, put rounds between them like the roonds of a ladder, hitch a horse to ome corner of it and go up the road on 6ne side then down on the other, then hitch the horse in the center and go in the center of the road. Trees should be planted along the sides of the roa They are a com- fort to man and beast on a hot sum- mer day. Trees are also a help to the road when the rain comes down, the leaves preventing the rain strik- ing the road and resulting in a wash- out. Tho roots reach under the road and drain the moisture from the sub- grade. DOROTHY W. LOOMIS, Age 13. Lebanon, A Lighthouse Keeper's Kindness. There was once a ship wrecked not very far from a lighthouse keeper's home. In this ship there were of people who perished, but one was found in _its mother’s arms, was not dead. Her mother scemed to be a rich man’s wife, This little girl was about four months old and her mother seemed to_be twenty-five vears old. When this lighthouse keeper found the baby in its mothers arms, she was wrapped up in canvas so the water could not zet to them, but the mother was dead. She had not lived long after the ship had been wrecked. The old man took care of the little girl till she was old enough to take care of the old man. The old man called this little girl Star Bright, because the name of the ship that had been wrecked was call- ed_Star Bright. She lived with this old man happily and begged and beggzed for the old man to tell her the story over and over again. She married a yvoing man and she told him how she was found in the sea by her dear fa‘her. She had children and told them the story her father told her over and over again till they knew it by heart, when they ask her why she was called Star Bright. _ ELLA DAG Killingly. 1S, Age 13. History of Roads in America. The animals were the first road build- ers. The buffalos trampled down the bushes and made trails. The Indians walked in single file on these trails, cach one stepping in the tracks of the one before him. When the white men came, they blazed the trees. The In- dian used to blaze the trees before, but after the white men came they used the trees as a trap. Daniel Boone was employed In 1775 to build the wilderness road. IHe used a buffalo trail half the way, Sometimes the plains weré flooded and the Indians made the trails over the hills. These were called high- ways. In the fatal battle of Blue Licks, the Indians blazed the trees. The white men followed the trail and it lad them La Salle. La, me to Canada from France in 1 He then was 23 years old. The Indians told him of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. La Salle believed that the latter Saile river flowed to the Gulf of California and that it offered a road to the riches of India. He soon returned to France and there obtained the men and means which he needed for the great undertaking. After his return he built a vessel which he called The Griffon; near the Niagara river, and in the summer of 1679 he sailed up the dLakes of Maclk- inaw. He loaded The Griffon with furs and sent her back to Niagara. The vessel nover returned. She may have een lost in & storm or destroyed by traders, but La Salle never knew, After many troubles La Salle form- a Ve e e e o= - to trouble and they were all killed. There was no thought of comfort in those d The nearest way to the river, village or meeting louse was made a trail. The first American highway was be- tween New York and Philadelphia. The first macadam highway was be- tween New York and Lancaster. Washington and Jefferson tried to get better roads. EILEEN KELLY, Age 11. Versailles, The Panama Canal, The Panama canal was begun by the French in 1883. The workmen employed were chiefiy men from the ‘West Indies with 2 few negroes from the southern states of America, Before the close of 1887 the people in'England and America believed that the French would never complete the canal because they had lost all con- fidence in the scheme, In 1899 the route for a_ canal was sold to the United States by the Re- public of Panama. Then the Amer- icans set to work to complete the canal, but they saw that they could not build it unless the Canal zone was made healthful in. order that they could live there. The mosquitoes there carry disease. They made it more healthful than some marts of the United States. In 1910 there were 28,676 men em- ployed there. The total length 50 1-2 miles. In going from New York to San Francisco about 7,873 miles will be saved by going through the canal :ns(ead of going around South Afner- ca. Forty tons of dynamite set off by President Wilson destroyed the last barrier between the Pacific and At- lantic oceans. __ALICE M. GORMAN, Age 11. Verzailles, of the canal is Yellowstone Park. The Yellowstone Park is situated in the northwest corner of the state of Wyoming. just about midway be- tween St. Paul and Portland, Oregon. It is a large wilderness on the sum- mit of the Rocky mountains. Of the four national parks of the west Yeilowstone is the largest. It is almost as large as the state of Con- necticut. This park is full of natural won- ders. It was not built by man, but by nature. At its Jowest point it is more than a mile above the sea, and there are mountains about it which are more than two miles in height, The surface of the park is a roll- ing plateau, parts of which are cov- ered with wood, while in other parts are wonderful cliffs and deep canyons. The most curious things about this park are its geysers and hot springs. There is one hot spring which has formed a white hill about two hundred fest high. As the water flows over the top of the hills it falls into a semi-circular basin, The mineral matter crystallizing from the water which flows over the sides of the ba- sins has imprinted upon them all shades of blue, scarlet, green and yel- The water at the top is boiling It grows cooler as it flows from in to basin. There is one spring which throws forth masses of green, sliimy mud mix- ed with sulphur. The smeH of this is very sickening. The Grand Geyser, the greatest in the world, throws forth a volume of steam and boiling water three hundred feet into the air. There are other geysers which throw up quantities of mud. Most of the geysers build up stony fountains about them, formed of the minerals which are in the water. RTTH H. CLARK, Age 12. Norwich, A History Test, Laura and Louise were two good friends. Louise felt a little jealous of Laura use she was at the head of her in history. 1t was hara for Louise to keep up with the class, for that was her hard- est study. Each vear there was a history test and the smartest pupil received a priz It was the morning of the history )2 and they were all seated in their se as the teacher passed out the papers. They were all ready. The teacher then asked: ‘When did Columbus discover Amer- clz i There was a scratching of pens and then all the faces looked up ready for another question. The teacher then asked one after another. She wrote the last few questions on the board. 2 A few minutes later Louise rose in her seat and waved her hand. The teacher asked: “What s it Louise?” “Laura is looking in her ook for the answer.” said Louise. All the faces turned toward Laura. Laura’s face grew crimson as the teacher walked up the aisle. ‘Laura, did you look in your his- for the answers?’ the teacher asked sternly, “I—I—I have finished my lesson and I took cut my library book to read.” “I am glad you didn't copy,” said the teacher, as she walked to her deslk. That afternoon Laura won the prize. Loui was sorry she had spoken so_qui ~ L;;ura. forgave Louise and they were as good friends as before. DOROTHY RASMUSSEN, Age 11. Norwich, Respect for Elders. It happened at Athens, during a public representation of some play ex- hibited in honor of the commonwealth that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age, and quality. "Many of the young sentlemen who observed the difficulty he was in, made signs to him that they would accom- modate him if he came where they sat. . The good old man hustled through the crowd accordingly; but when he came to the seats to which he was invited, the jest was to sit close and expose him, as he stocd embarrassed, to_the whole audience, 3 The frolic went around all the Athenian benches; but on these occa- sions there were also particular places assigned for foreigners. When the good man skulked toward the boxes appointed for the Lace- demonians, that honest people, more virtuous than polite, rose up all, to a man, and with the greatest respect received him among them. The Athenians, being suddenly touched with a sense of Spar tan virtue and their own degeneracy, gave a thunderous applause, and the old man cried out: 5 “The Athenians understand what is good, but the Spartans practice it!” MASTE ONELE BLANCHETTE. The Story of Two Pens. Now I am an old pen. 1 was once very proud of my shining, bright color, but now it is as black as coal. 1 lived in & very pretty box that lay in a large book store. One day many boys came in to buy some pens. It was my luck that I was chosen. My new master, who was by no means a tidy one, paid one cent for me. How sorry 1 felt to leave my old home! My master ran off with me to a large building which I knew at once wasg the school. Now my new compan- ion was an old penholder. One day another pen as large as myself got into trouble, but the teacher blamed the boys and I didn't have to worr: As my master was not a very good boy, he never wiped my face and it W always covered with ink. One afternoon my master acted rather queer. He looked at me with a cross eve and he gidn't use me. In my place I saw a bright, new pen such as 1 had been. It was my rival and when I spoke to her I received the same answer as if I had spoken to the wall. I guess my master did not ap- preciate my services very much, wishing to rid himself of me, me into his pocket, and Y heard him say: “If T can’t find my pen home, I'll use this one,” JOHN SEARS. Norwich. 3 Our Sapoo! Hitching Post. We first theught of having a hitching when someone drove up to & little at Christmas and hitched. The horse ate the bark around the tree trunk. Then we thought weé had better set ‘some posts for people to hitch to, if we were going to save our trees. One of -the parents, Mr. Whitehouse, said he would get the posts. He got,the posts, about six feet in length, and peeled them. A Then one of the pupils took his grandpa's horse and went after them. A little while after that Prof. A. J. Brundage came and we told him what we were going to do. So he was kind enough to dynamite and blow out the holes. He cut a stick of dynamite in three pieces. In each end of the pieces of dynamite he put a fase and on the fuse he put a cap. : Iz it wasn’t for the cap, the dynamite | wouldn’t =0 off. After Mr. Brundage had the dyna- mite fixed we took a_crowbar and made | three holes. Mr. Brundage put the dynamite in the holes. We got some sand out of the road and filled 4he holes. Mr. Brundage lighted the fuse and the dynamite loosened the sofl so we could easily dig the holes. We put the posts in the holes about two feet. Then Wwe stood the posts up straight. We put stones in the holes and hammered them down so you couldn’t move them. Then we painted the Dosts. I hope all echoolhouses have hitch- ing posts so as not to have the same trouble we gid. MAURICE WHITEHOUSE, Age 12. Mt. Hope. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. The Northmen. Dear Uncle Jed: Away up in the northland, where the ice. and snow never melt, lived little Prince Erlc. He did not live in a palace as the princes in fairy stories do. In the summer he lived in a hut on the hill- side, and in the winter he lived in a cave in the mountains. Eric Ilked the winter, for then the men bullt roaring fires in the caves and sat and told wonderful stories and sang wonderful songs. “Why does the warm summer go " Prince Eric asked one day; hy does the long cold winter frost giants have had a battle,” Eric's father said. “The frost giants have won the battie and have put summer to sleep. But by and by summer will wake. Then he will whisper to the trees and to the fiowers, and they will send out their leaves to make the world giad again. He will breathe upon the brooks that are covered with ice, and they will dance and sing. ‘Then the f{rost giants will have to run away to their homes in the mountains, for they cannot live here when sum- mer’'s awake.” Little Prince Eric liked a storm. He liked to hear the thunder roar and to see the lightnine flash. “The rumble of the thunder is the voice of the God,” his father said, “and the lightnin~ is the flash of His eye.” One day Prince Eric saw a rainbow, He had never seen one before and it was very wonderfu] to him. By and by when Prince Er had grown to be a man he built for him- self a great ship and sailed out into the open sea. Fric sailed and sailed till he came to the island of Iceland. Here he made a new home for himself and his people. By and by Eric had a little son., He named him Leif. But the people ai- ways called him Eric’s son. He liked to hear about the wonderful voyage his father had made across the sea, so when he became a man he, too, set out upon the sea with a crew of brave northmen. He sailed out into the west till he came to Greenland. Then he sailed on and on till he came to a long shore that reached north and south as far as he could see. This was the shore of our own country, and these northmen were the first white men that had ever come to it. The skrellings, as Leif called the- natives, because of the °‘squealing noises they made, came down to the shore to see what this strange ship was, and why it had come. “It is a big dragon!” the skrellinzs said. “See its head and tail; how they shine in the sunlight.” The stern of the ship too was hig and was built in the shape of a drs gor’s tail, The head and tail were covered with gold, and the gold shone in the sunlight like fire. The skrellines could frighten the Norsemen sometimes. One day they came down to the shore with long poles. On the ends of the poles were big blue balls which made a whizzing noise as the skrellings whirled them s about. The northmen had never seen any- thing like it before and they fled to their ship as fast as they could. In our country the northmen found more wild grapes than they could eat. They had never seen so much fruit before, So when they went back to their own land Leif Ericson said: “Behold, we have found a wonderful country and we have named it Vine- land!” FRANCIS O'CONNELL, Age 10, Norwich Kittv Came Back. Dear Uncle Jed: One day when Ger- trude was coming home from the store she heard someone throwing stones and heard a cat crying. Just as she came around a corner she saw a boy throw a stone at a li tle kitten. He was ready to throw an- other when she grabbed the kitten. One of the boys told her to put the kitten down or he would throw. the stone at her. She was afraid he would and started to put the Kkitten down. Then she said she would not be a coward; 50 she ran home as fast as she could with the kitten tight in her arme. When she reached the door she was all out of breath. Her mother took her in her arms and asked mer why she had been run- ning so. Then she told her the whole story. When her father saw the kitten he told her its leg was broken, Gertrude's father~was 2 doctor, so he doctored the kitten’s leg until it was all right again. She named the kitten Faith. When she called the kitten would come to her. One day Gertrude called and it didn't come. Then she began to crv and cried herself to sleep. When she awoke Faith was by her side, fast asleep. She took the kitten in her arms and ran into the house, saying: “I knew my kitty would come back.” EDITH BUSHNELL, Age 14. Norwich. My Visit to Slater Memorial Museum. TUncle Jed: Months ago I visited the Slater Memorial museum. In the up- per part I saw statues of famous men One wlio lived hundreds of years ago. statue built by the ancient E was a figure of Pharoah, Egypt. There was a statue of David slaving the Giant, and in a glass case some coins which were used by the early Romans. Some of them were of the date 850 B. C. And in another case were an old armor, a sword and can- dlestick and many other articles. All of them were used about 400 years ago. ASA HYMAN, Age 12. Norwich. A Little on the As if we did not have trouble enough already, along comes a sclentist and tells us that Niagara Falls will be dry in 1,000 years more, Or maybe he s Just trying to “rub it in” on old Demon {Rum.—~Omaha Bee, Its efficacy, pleasant taste and - freedom from injuri- ous ingredi- ents make Hale’s Honey Of Horehound and Tar the ideal home treatment for coughs, colds, hoarseness, tick- ling dry sore throat, and chil- dren’s croup and whooping cough.. ‘When It Contains no_opi- Aches Again um nor anything Try Pike's injurious. Toothache Drops Sold by Druggists e NO REASON FOR IT When Norwich Citizens Show a Way, There can be no reason why any reader of this who suffers the tor- tures of an aching back, the annoy- ance of urinary disorders, the pains and dangers of kidney ills will fail to heed the words of a neighbor who has found relief. Read what a Nor- wick citizen says: Mrs, Mary Neff, 465 Main St, Ner- wich, say “For many years one of my family was Subject to attacks of kidney complaint, He suffered from pains across his loins and at times could scarcely get about on account being so stiff and lame. secretions were irregular in passage and often contgined sed- iment. Doan’s Kidney Pills, procured at N. D. Sevin & Son’s Drug Store, proved of benefit from the first and sodn every symptom of kidney com- plaint disappeared. I willingly con- firm all I said in praise of Doan's Kid- ney Pills in the statemene I gave @ few vears ago. Nothirg has occurred # my high opinion of this at all dealers. Don't for a kidney remedy—get that simply ask Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same Props., Buffalo. N. Y. Abolishir- Fahrenheit. Tc has been suggested in a scien- tific journal that Fngland should cease using Fahrenheit's thermometer, see- ing that its inventor was a German, nd follow the French by using the Centigrade, which was invented, not, as is commonly supposed, by a Frenchman, but by a Swede, Celsius. It is true that Fahrenheit was born in Germany, but he lived nearly all his life in nd that he invented his thermometer, which for popular se is more convenient than either the Centigrade or Reaumur, as for ordin- ary temperatures. it obviates the use of the minus sign. Fahrenheit fixed his zero 32 -degrees below freezing- point, and though he was quite wrong in thinking that temperature was the lowest obtainable—pk: ts have al- ready gone over 400 degrees lower— he gave us a scale for everyday use which any one can understand—Pall Mall tte. Diamonds Diamonds Diamonds Joha & Geo. H. Bliss 126 Main Street LEGAL NOTICE ATTENTION! SIDEWALKS OFFICE OF THE 7%% STREET COMMISSIONER, Norwich, Deec. 21, 1914, The ordinances of the City of Nor- wich provide that the owner or own- ers, occupant or occupants, private corporations, or any person having care of any building or lot of land, bordering on any street, square, or public place within the City, where there is a sidewalk graded. or graded and paved, shall cause to be removed therefrom y and all snow, sleet and ice within three hours after the same shall have fallen, been deposited or found, or within three hours after sun- rise when the same shall have fallen in the ‘night season; also, that whenever the sidewalk, or any part thereof, ad- foining any building or lot of land, or any street, square or public place shall be covered with ice, it shall be the duty of the owner, or owners, occu- pant or occupants, private corpora- tion, or any person having the care of such building or lot to cause such side~ walk to be made safe and "convenient b emoving the ice therefrom, or cov- ering the same with eand or some other suitable substance. The failure to do so for two hours during the daytime exposes the party in default to the penalty provided by the ordinances. The ordinances also provide that in case of violation of any of the foregoing provisions, or refusal or neg- lect to comply with them, the party violating them or not complying with them shall pay a penalty of five dollars for every four hours of neglect, after notice from any policeman of the city. The ordinances also make it the duty of the Sireet Commissioner to collect all penalties incurred under the foregoing provisions, and if they are not paid to him on demand, to report the case to the City Attorney, who shall prosecute the party offending. ERROLL C. LILLIBRIDGE, Street Commissioner. THERE Is wo advertising Eastzsrn Connecticut equal to letin for business resull o Bul