Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 15, 1915, Page 9

Snm) Say i : cold. We S iyt S . iy o S =Yy { et e axes 1o cut the Y. 3 , Bresident Tm‘m )::.- i two 3’-‘.’-—- il S\ £ i 3; L i Hely iz | i A ket : i it 3 g 4 i H b il fz¢ i J;!l X | ; > is a thought babit it Wil pay Near the tops of the mountains the high. We attending and Wide-Awakes to cultivate, or any- i e ot Ao teachers and. Jook. s Tor B v A n % R B e o ot Teig o Be seut 0 a0k, hmother o g A big ol lump came my throat over P DF purtoter made me vy i Ripe Which wers frosen ages aso and sbout the middls of hi e e o ] For me en’ ma 1s awful pals 3 on are freesing still. There are s ings, graduvate of Yal Ao alfus Kiss €004-BY, i Tas ‘masses of ice an e chiléren when “they b An’ might’ ever'thing slowly, siowly they h“-‘m Soliciting by Scouts, Went wrong, looked like to me; iato DO R All_scout officials will be e, S T An’ fell and my knee. & v to come home. ot mm“";_ T misseq in *rithmetic an’ lost E. e e e Sy Daltimore Scoutmasters A chanst 0 git up 2 e $1i1 gt T Ana b e Port in full is given bel Ad’ In the spellin® ss I Jeft but made e 4—James Kelley of Arlington, N. J. A letter out of “dead.” Tom Bwife and His Hiectrie Hifle pin with this sparkiing white stone In Ar® that o’ lump growed, an’ I says:| 5—Doro G. Gardner of Central “S'pose if ma should die Village, u'::yh Purdy’s Captain Horace. § § g d 4 § s it 225 EE : 3 % g i 3 E R et her placed with other pins S Tand® tign b peblie taver. aad this t now an’ me a-leavin’ - . out kissin' her good-by.” &—Almira Kramer of Colchester, A |i; the big window, where I could see e g whichme popent. | fact tn turn imposes additional respon- DS """‘"‘“‘“‘"‘" sttt | Y oTone Wh passed. by am whesk fwe X SOOW. ot | contented and well pleased with my vy ace | nihiironn Wilun AN Haaghlon's Cove. | ibilitles on us and cives us sreater. My! that's the Ionges” mornin’ 7—Elsie Lang of Norwich, A Little|I Was admi many people. use. Scout- service. win 1o At gver X spent, T know, i e s rerch, “How happy 1 was when purchased then gy g BT B Joorsh” BAGS. ot . B 8004 will and this scemed like morn ffty years % ones. 5—M. M. Anderton of Lebanon, Pru- ; 4 JESSIE L. BREHAUT. fow roouaiinie o ore it was time to go. e e dor i e H R ] and my new play hoves umtil I fell{ East Norwich, X. Y. By seost ? An’ never mind what heppened | Winng books living in the city |Deach I fell from her Gress into the —_— troop Whenl seen my the, vt 1 e taas al oa bosney ot | smot: How fo Make a Fire. n LLDRED £ WHITE, Age 1. us 7208 ’!-31_ ga:lk: '_"'m‘*h oy g; more fice of The Bulletin at any hour after| “A u‘tgs while later 2 m of girls| In the making of fires there is much - l-u.u:l ut kissin' her £00d-by. , B uraday, came along and_one of discov- according to — scouts g : B hicago News. |10 & ™. on Th: ered mo iying there. . . a| The Hunter and the Elephants. i i LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. t a week ago the girls had|the cooking-fire and other varleties.| Long ago there Hved a hunter in it a party here in the woods and while | Bach of these has its own method and | Asia. One day he went hunting with UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE-| Ruth K. Cregan of Wilsonville: I was | they were playing tag the girl to | purpose. his bow and arrows. He lay @own|our Camap-Fire Club. AWAKES. much surprised and pleased to receive | Whom I now belong ran so fast that| Perhaps just nmow at the beginning |to rest and soon fell asleep. While| In the first place we selected a very s the prize book you Sent me. 1 have|l,became unfastened and fell to the|of summer vacation the building of | he was asieep an elephant came and |sweet, motherly woman (o ‘While you are often advised totake | Tead it and liked it very well. I am |&round and now I must end my exist- |the campfire interests us most. The |coiled his trunk around him and car-|guardian. Them we chose ten nice axercise for your health, you may|3edIDg aothier story and nope you |ence here unless— object of the eampfire is to give heat | ried him off. The hunter woke up and | girld and told them about our pian in sii W ' will iike this one s weil The pin did not finish, for just then | to' the tent. To begin with, one must | was afraid. At last the elephant stop- | argan % ! mever have been told to exerciseyyour | you very much. a_little girl who was gathering flowers 000 Sxe and know Bow to|ped and laid the hunter wnder & tall | s ans s Comp-fre. -y mind for the strengthening Of YOU| Ancic Whyte of Stafford Springs: |00 SIon: The squirrel, although | chop Wwood. & =¥ et ree. guardian we had chosen . much interested in the story, scam-| 4 solid foundation log is needed to| A herd of elephants came. The ele- B pbs Recelved the pretty prize book. Many, | pered home, and the mext time he|nold the heat and réflect it into the | phant that had brought him Jooked um{ciep. o ‘he ‘onele Camp-Fire J You have mot got to commit any- 34 came that way the pin was nowhere | tent. Care must be used In the choice | Into the tree and then at the man. We selected Wohelo because it thing to memory, but just take What| Flossie M. Meyer of Taftville: 1|to be seen, so we leave you to guess|of this log. A very dry one gives too| The man sald to himseif: ‘I think e we call a simple word like Forest or | Wish to thank you for the prize book | What happened, much heat and is apt to' burn out |the elephant wishes me to cHmb up f~ Stars or Ocean or Tres or:Dawn and | You sent me. 1 have read it through MARY A. BURRILL, Age 18. |[quickly. A damp one smoulders and |into the tr So up he climbed. every Saturday moraing and a council, and have found it to be one of the| Stafford Springs. puts out the fire. By end by a large lion came and the | or ceremonial meeting once every think what they mean. ‘most, interesting books I have ever R s Birch is the best wood. A log four | man saw him spring on one of the|month at night. TYou know what a forest is. It is &|read. A Quaint Old Village, or five feei long and about one foot | elephants. Before the lon could barm| Our council meetings proved to be little one, though not the great woods| Mildred Weaver of Hampton: I thank | Last week I passed by aceident |in diameter will serve the purpose. B O G",ll’,*{.::‘-h:he s shot Bim|very interestins. Each member 2 of South America or Russia, where|you for the nice prize book you sent |through one bf the quaintest little vil- | Iecessary two or three jengd tree. g PR By S R B The mesting opemed at 7:30| Any legitimate way of earning mon. you may stand on the edge of woods o :;dmd The Three Little Women at léuceahl r;la\he Lok s:ev-:r ,th :olemnmsu:: Tay the thickest log on fhe ground| The elphants then gathered. around B S he o, % aovoves maibeal the other odge of whish aresthousands | ¥ O’ broken by friit venders ory, rattling |about ten or twelve feet in front of |him. Tney acted as if they wanted taken, followed jmiles away. ¢ the tent, and drive two strong stakes hank him. Then he followed them | bver each shoulder, bty oo A weod word, and 80 (s Twi- | STOTMES WRITTEN BY WIDE: | of magons ok O ot comimonty | behind it, slanting backward a lit- |and they went to whers a Toat-many | fhcaa we had & head bend which we 3 tie and lay the other logs on top of | tusks were buried. e P light. You know them both—the com- A e M A bowy Jesthy the Arst, resting against the stakes.| The hunter secured these and- re- | Breund u cony. Onen emplose amg e The houses, judging from thelr ap- ing of light, the fading of Mght—a lit- My First Dog. Denn e g o baT 2b” | Now we make use of the smaller [ furned home happy, es he 1wory | tola creepy Indlan legends until it was tlo sesson of morning end eveming.| When I was a very little girl 1 lived |eral hundred years, and what seemed |Sticks which are. laid three ar four|enough to bring him thousands of.dol-| time to o, comi count my father and|most peculiar, were all inted a pink- > - o> Bt Ment A7 “;“d:;"?;h" Ia8InE [ mother. 1 had the cutest littie white|sh- white. Each was set well ‘back| A dry spruce” will give a bright T CHND. Mg Norwich. gvery moment in the day. The ImPOT-| jog whom I called Bingo. He and 1]from the road and passersby were kept | crackling fire. A harder wood will sonville. tance of actlvity and rest will gleam | were almost constant companions be- | from intruding by a low, white-paint- Purn more steadily and less nolsily. Ja Rosestt Lowttf upon you from these two words. ‘cause wherever he chose to go I always | ed picket fence. The single street was [A Dirch with the bark still on gives _p S ~ rs, etc. In our opinion the following methods the | are unworthy and ought not to be Raffles or lotteries of any kind or nature. They have the taint of . e bling on them, and are forbidden P o ey the meeting . = Dear Uncle Jed:—One day at our wil ), Door to door, street or store soMcit- BPLSIE L. LANG, Age 14. followed him 1 a good flame and burns far into the| James Russell Lowell was, born in Cail to mind Tree—when you com- |f0Rowed him 1f 1 could get away, = |so By thal. vebicley had SiSeen Hasnt Cambridge, Mass, Feb. 23, i819. The|house we all arose at five a. m. for an five; for ing. b scouts singly or in groups. prehend what o tree 1, you WID|of pranis but L ibed i i et | 12 pessing each other. cAm tres quity, | Several birch sticks should be lald | house in which he lived was very old | auto trip sixty miles from home. Thers dbal ecouts ousht Bot to beg find - it 45 a miracle. Man | ter for it. Interlaced overhead, forming a green |on tob. A few splinters of dry spruce |and a great many high elms surround- | Were six machines. We started at money for their own uniforms o created the seven wonders of the| The plice where we lived was just|archway. or pine and some dry strips of birch |ed it, so they called it The iElms. seven a. m. and arrived in the country service equipm niform neces- world, but he cannot make the sim-|3Cro88 the road from a forest. Oue| The few persons I met seemed to |Placed endwise between the smaller| Lowell did not like school. ' He loved | at nine forty-five a. m. day in the early summer when I was | participate in the genceal air of as. |sticks will serve for kindling pur-|to sit and read. We all had_g00d appetities from the Plest tree. Trees a hundred years old [out on the lawn playing with Bingo, | Liquity, for they were all old - Jadses, | Poses. When going fo college he. was not|long drive. We had lunch of frank- ‘surprise you, but there are trees 3,000 |he took a motion to wander in the |dressed in rustling black silk of a by- | NOW comes the lighting up as a re- |allowed to graduate with hissciass be- | forts and rolls and coffee. After Junch years old. Trees provide man shelter, | W00ds, so I, as usual, followed him.|[gone fashion, and some carried small, | Ward for previous effort. A match |cause he did not do well we picked strawberries and made|not yet been * | When 'we had been gone for some time | black pacasols in . black-mittened |410ne may be used or a iighted strip | He besan to’ write early. He was|merry. Z food and clothing: mother missed us and called to me,|hands, ‘As T went by, each regecded |of birch bark. married to Marie White. In 11855 Low- | Later in the day we had a eclam Oceans cover three-fifths of the sur- [ Getting no reply, she searched around |me in a politely Inquiring way, as JAMES SELUY, AGe 14 | ¢l was told that.he was o swcteed| dinner. After dimmér Wb fosk .pic- Though asking by what teht ] tne| Arlington, New Jersey. Longfellow in teaching in Hawvard col- | tures of the merry-makers. Some went truded into that quiet spot. S lege. A fishing, but soon returned for they Altogether, it seemed as though pro- The Fate of the -indians. The mother of Marie Whitie said she | were victims of hard luck. gress In its onward march had made| Not many years ago, where we now | could not marry such an idle. man, and| The children played while the elders 5 ide detour of the I it, there was another race of huwan |so he settled down and ledrned law.|made themselves sociable. ittl Beavine it untucned o e Vllage, | B e alled Indiana. At ihat lime | But after he was married ho went to| Before leaving we enjoyed ics cream . . (= ervants PLIZABETH M. OROURKE. |the wild fox would dig his hole un- | Writing agair. He wrote prose as well [ and cake. “for 36 Providence, R. L scared and the deer would roam in |as poems. We arrived home at 7:30 p. m. We 100 points, g s great herds. ZLowell was sent to Spain.and three|enjoyed ourselves very much. Al mm,,. - Bo Kind to All, The Indians wero great hunters and | years later (o England as minister | machines went and returned without o Pine i - | trom nite . 5 . “Oh, what an untidy room! Skip|who told what the others heard” “It| Look out for others. If you are|mere @80 crafty and cunning fght- | frord fog, FRUSd Biltehea m 1835, ana *> 2 I ANDERTON, Age.11. | £ Bobut of Freop No. 1, o€ Hew ; about, little ones, and set it in order.” t-:loak a lon: time to get to it, I think,” |strong, so much the more should you |~ Yyhere we have now our large boats | four years later he married Miss| Lebanon. it T dewt like ‘to tidy room,” said keep watch to see where and when | inay paddled their light cances. Here, | Frances Dunlop. Eisle, with a pucker on her 'pretty| *When thess had settled upon any-|you can be kind to one less favored | (oo, they worshipped: and from many | Mr. Lowell died in 1881 in the old TR 2 forehead, as she turned the pleces of | thing to be done,” went on mamma, |than yourself. ver | family mansion, Elmwood, where he My Cat. = P her dlsdoted map this way and that, | “there were a pair of lovely little fel-| A number of active boys were busy | & s Seeet Spime L P re DI | ed most of his life. Doar Uncle Jed:—I am _going to| 100! e - et y & “I phink it must be ewer so nice fo|lows, always wearing dark, stout|in playing baseball while a little lame | “rrhey did not have their laws writ- FRANCIS DAVIS, Age 11. [tell you about the same cat I wrote = - Kndp Dlety ot sbfeants” sad Roth: clothiing, Who earried the' litfle giris |fellow. about twelve, pale and sickly, |ten on paper but followed them ac.| Bagleville. about befgre. She is very big now <5 .. “Tes, indeed,” said Bessle, “just like | to where their work was to be done.” |stood leaning on his crutches, evident- | coraing fo their own ideas. _ and very cross. If anybody touches Mrs. Marshall” Oh, oh!” laughed Elsie, “what a|ly very sorry he was not able to take |~ Ayl this has nassed away now. Two Only Ten Minutes. her she gets wery angry. Her princi-| - Eisie brought a pout to her lips to|gueer set yoware telling us of, mam- |part in the exciting game. Indeed, he |pundred years have changed it all.| “Harry, I want you to work out a|Pal f00d s milk and Quaker oats. keep company with the pucker in her |ma. Were the little girls lame?” seemed to lose sight of the fact of [mhe Pilgrims came, over in the May- | problem for me. She is white and black. But she forehead &nd looked as doleful as a{ “I hope they did their work well |how much his infirmity unfitted him flower, bearing the seeds of life and | “All right, sir” Harry took out his|keeps very clean all the time. I was little girl whose face seemed made|When they got {o It, after all that|to join in the sport of his stout and S . very surprised Friday morning when I rather for smiles than frowns could |fuss” said Ruth. healthy companions. e o U it Dahre T | P e I ere how mmeh it | £t Up-for tihk bl foee 1iitie kit Took, ‘hey surely ought to have done so,” | The other boys good-naturedly tried s mave ChATEed & Ereat con | would ot i Aras o o v Boer: | One ‘was white and bisck Just lke the *Do you think you would be happler | mamma said, “for they had no less|to persuade him to stand on one side | Senr ond blotted forever from its PR nelling Andal Seund Ieakige. than ten little servants to.do it for SO fnnlha Ly Dl Phcy Bt lovew s Whote, ‘peculiar people. As & | Harry colored:” He had been late B oAb Seauehs iles. wYes, l’:n sure I should,’ said Eisle. M“N # . ey 'hel'e md A ‘enout © DUl ace of people they have withered | every mornis for more than a week. he takes care of them very nicely. “And 1" said Ruth. Y T 90 41 uawiat you [16-en Ehe et hey were afraid | from the land. - Their arrows. are|When Mr. Wilson had gone back into|They are beginning to open their “But,” sald Bessie, thoughtfully, *I|mean,’ 4 Elsi e might get hurt. ke r springs have dried w arry n the | eves and walking around. R M e o] ™ mesd ad ‘mamms, “that lite| “Why, Jimmy" sald one, at last,|Dr<e: thelr eprings have dried up e TR S e Last-time she had five kittens but looks half so niece and pleasant as|Blue Eyes and Brown Eyves and Gray |forgetting himseif for a moment, “you | Gouncil fires no longer burn and their | First he found that ten minutes a|they ail died one after another for she mamma, .gnd she saye her servants|Eyes ought always io be on the look- |can't run, you know. war cry is dying out rapidly. day amounted to an hour every week, | Wouldn't take care of them. She would ‘bof.b-rhwd ;\:;-n the time. Domnu mmmk‘ age < thing to be done for those hush! n:nmtha ”:;Mhe,k the| " glowly and sadly they climb the|Mr. Wilson gives his employes two e them all d-y!fithm;ntndn‘m-n er you, mamma, you > . “Never Y yeaks Aan a o r names_are them?" “Oh, I se¢” And ears to liste s g e “I don't know, dear. I never tried Mminutes late every day for & year” . |mother, the other one was black, and ,_Tiger, Topsy mind, I'll run for him, and you can|goom in the setting sun. They are and Fido. They are very nice little cried Bessie, greatly amused at mam-{count it for him. shrinking away from the mighty tide | would lose 50 hours. The working time | Kittens. 3 ma’s fancy.’ So saying the noble boy took his|of white people who are rushing forth | in the office was 44 hours a week, 5o LENA LACUSSE, Age 12. ‘And dear little lips,” said mamma, | Place by Jimmy's side, saying to the|i; take away their land. They must | he found that in a year he would cheat| Uncasville. kissing ‘the pair which chanced to be|Other, “If you were in his place, would | soon hear the roar of the last wave |the firm out of almost seven working nearest, “which can not only talk|You like it which will settle over them forever.|days. about duties to be done, but can listen IRENE MATHIEU, Age 14. This is how the Indian, the only Harry has not been late a single bo.t‘p;: et i :‘3.."’3.’3"}‘,,‘;";’ aw for them-| Columbia. 2 natural American, was gne&t‘:a 10U of | morning “since he worked that little ers e —— an how The Stolen Little One. B S v Pustey ‘Bessfe, running to>kiss her mother. “I do love, to o and merry chatter. i for' you, ey, ;| “An to walk and run with”| Two little girls went shopping with| + LEO POLIQUIN, Age 1L Versatiles. let's WN&M we can_bel” ¢ e their mamma. While she Was at the Versailles. S And malds flew about un-|/ “And fingers. Dear me. juf think|end of the store, Julie, the youngest, — LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Of all the servants” said Eisie. “I[ran to the door. Her mother was too A Good Woodhouse, 3 — should think they would quarrel once |busy to notice her, but Ju convenient place for the storage The School Picnic. in g while, Mattie was watching her, A & whi T 3 of fuel ig 8 mecessity on every farm.| Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell "-r.:"‘ld Bessle, “supposing the She saw a tall woman the door |14 .hgula'b. located near the kitchen, | you about our school plz:lc_ Every something to do, and the|and snatch up little Julie. Without |an be easy of access from that quar- | year when the time for vacation draws fimB"::rdlb.:flm]dn't Y':;l: ltbout ";nlrll: :hword to her mother, Mattie ran after ter, - In case, it should be near |near, we all begin to plan for a pi o g0 em. ag G ic. ' This year, Tew ds &nd the hands shouldn't want to do| Away they went down the street. |SDOUSS: © o . o o Dt S - “l.c‘;i.olol.‘wa began The woman would soon outrun Mattie, to talk about a picnic and what each [hi A Fire. Dear Uncle Jed:—The other day gere was a fire on Ridge fli‘l:.:.h All e firemen were up stairs e en- ALIX DUGAS. |gine house when the ‘That would depend on what kind |but her screams atiracted the atten: woul o Mitle mistress they "naq’ said |tion of o policeman. He followed up. e D e mamma. “If she wanted to do ‘They came up with the woman |wood were at - school L would be sure ta keep all her lt- darting irto a cellar, family in one vear. It should be .'whorses and some servants in 3 Mattle told"the policeman the ‘bad | viged with & good floor, that th for a table and put the table in a traf . ‘woman had stolen her sister Julle. the ground. |shady place near the school. When we He soon took both children ho: had everything ready, we went into the lfl:ool. and began our usual morn- essons. e n:;flrn. son:.nlunmpl had 0 sD 2 then 330 schiool closed the picnic. Versallles. Lorenzo Dow and His Wife Peggy. In :;b town, of Montville iz the early e last century, lived a quaint Lorenzo | is g B