Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 19, 1915, Page 9

Rules for Young Weriters. 1. Write plainly on one side of the Paper only,.ahd number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil, 3. Short and pointed articles will be givea preference. Do not use:over {250 words. 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, Bulletin Office. “Whatever you are—Be that! Whatever you say—Be true! Straightforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Bo nobody else but you™ POETRY. AN INFANTILE PHILOSOPHER. By JAKE H. HARRISOX “Oh mamma, Go you love your Dot™" My little girl is saying With childish sweet simplicity, Her artlessness displaying. I answer, “Yes my darling, ves! You surely do not doubt it. It mamma’s Dot were out of place How ceuld she live without it?" “Don’t birdies love their bables, too?" “Why, certainly, my daughter.” “Then why encourage cruel men To wound and maim and slaughter - THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS-AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT around the earth while sound is going 13 miles. Now to get back to the echo, i evidence of a nearby obstruction: wall of any description. Caverns and old ruins are famous for echoes. Sound travels 13 miles a minute and no echo is heard if the wall is more than 65 feet from where the sound was made. When a sen- tence is repeated the obstruction is far enough away to give the sounds a separate or distinct, and orderly re- petition. g An echo has ceased to be a mystery and become as well-defined effect. Seven miles above Glasgow, Scot- land, near a mansion called “Ros- neath,” is a very remarkable echo. If a trumpeter plays a tune and stops, the echo will begin the same tune and repeat it all accurately; as soon as this echo has ceased amother will echo the same tune in a lower tome, and after tho second echo has ceased a third will succeed with equal fidelity, though in a much feebler tone. At the Lake of Killarney there is an echo which plays an excellent “sec- may be a fog-bank. a hill, a ledge, 2{cry and tried to make myself useful i by _carrying water. while Mamma and Johnny ran the other. < Our -nearest neighbors were at the barn in a short time, but they cauld not get into it to save anything. for it was all afire inside. They were all up from the other place in a little while for they had seen the smoke and ran all the way home. Before the barn burned down there bration, but light can travel 480 times | Were a number of people here. Someiwhen 1 find a strange flower I sit came in autos, some in teams, some on horse back while others walked. The men threw water on the roof of the house and on a shed so ihat they would not get afire, too. I was so frightened that I could not It was a dig but it did not take it longito ‘burn for it was full of A wagon-shed. a corn-house and a hen-house also burned. We had fifteen pigeons, but they were in the barn and burned with the rest of the things. The peopie went away when there was no more danger of the house burning, and we put on dry clothes for we were wet from being out in the rain Supper was served late that night and all went to bed; but papa staycd up to watch the fire so the sparks would not fly. MARY R. BURRILL, Age 13. Stafford Springs. Samuel Finely Bruse Morse. In 1871, less than ten years after the close of the Revolutionary War, in an old house which is still stand- ing in Charlestown, Mass., a little boy was born in whom American boys and girls should be interested. His father and mother wished to name him Samuel Finely after his great- m’d ‘dhlber. who was a college pres- iden is “mitrewort” it is not poisonous to ‘handle. 1 have studied botany for two sum- s ep am well uqu:;ud '1:= ‘most id flowers grow! arou: here. I kave a large collection wild flowers which I have found and| i fi g F { i pressed. Also, have a smail collection | sent me by an aunt in California. ‘When I go walking in the woods 1 usually take my botany with me, and j down and look up its name. In this : way 1 have learned the names of many | different kinds of Sowers. {7 MARIAN M. WHEELER, Age 13.. Stonington. Lebanon. | The town of Lebanon lies in the inorthwestern part of the New Lon- idon county. Lebanon is bounded om the north by Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut, on the east by { Windbam county and the towns of Franklin and Bozrah, on the south by { Franklin, Bozrah and Colchester, and {on the west by Colchester and Tolland The surface of Lebanon is mod- erately hilly, and the soil is fertile and it s well adapted to agriculture. It is one of the leading agricultural towns in the county. The territory which is now the town The governor of North Carolina was a bad man. He took part of Black- Maynard was the commander, The ships left Virginia secretly. knew where they were going. ‘When Maynard came in sight of Blackbeard's sloop, he hung out his of Lebanon was called by the Indians Po-que-chan-ney, and it was orig- inally claimed by the Indian chief Un- cas. The first Jand owner within the town limits was Major John Mason. In 1663 Major John Mason was given 300 acres of land by the general assem- bly of the colony. He might take this land as he should choose in any um- occupied territory in the colon: selected his 500 acres of land in the scuthwestern part of the town and it is now the society of Goshen. In 1666 the genera! assembly gave flag. Blackbeard took a glass of rum and drank it, calling to Mayvnard: “T'll give You mo guarter, mor take any. Maynard replied: “I do not expect any quarter from you, nor will 1 give any.” This meant that neither of them would take any, prisoners, but that every man must fight for his life. May. nard tried to run alengside PBlack. beard’s ship. He wanted to take his men on board the pirate ship, and fight it out on her deck. But Blackbeard had put a large negro near to the gunpowder on his ship. He said to & = - e They also wished him to bear | p, . h The birds who cannot help themselves; | ond” to any simple tune played on|jdent T ; roprietor James Fitch, who came |the megro: er's family name, which was | fro, i forw € g By wearing wing and feather a bugle. Bruse. | Tho renulte mere Rhat they| Lo eweaok to SNorwichiione Rum 1f the men from the other ship get As ornaments upén your hats— Do stop it altogether! “Each wing you wear demands a life, Each feather pain and sorrow, Each death of mother bird, or mate, Means starving, death, tomorrow, For baby birds that cannot fly— Oh, mamma, it is awful! And up in heaven, I am sure Such acts are held unlawful. “You would not kill the birds yourself, Or starve their bables, would you? You could not take their lives away Or rob their nestlings, could you Then do not help another sin By furnishing incentive— The kindest way to conquer wrong Is with a firm preventive. LETTERS:‘OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Bertha N. Burrill, of Stafford Springs—Thank you very much for the prize book entitled, “Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz” I have read part of it, and it is very interesting. Mary A, Burrill, of Staffora Springs,—I received the nioe prize book you sent me and wish to thank you for it. I have read it nearly all through and like it very much. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1-—Marjorie ms, of Lebanon— Three Little Women as Wi 2—John Wisneskie, of Yantic—The gave him the very long name of Sam- uel Finley Bruse Morse. When four years old he was sent to school to an old lady who kept school in her own house, near his home. This old lady was an invalid and could not get out of her chair so she used to make the children mind with a rattan which reached quite across the little schoolroom. Morse only got whipped once and that was for drawing pictures. When he was seven years old he was sent to school at Andover, and In that tcwn he fitted for Yale' He graduated from Yale in 1810. Morse became very interested in chemistry and electricity at Yale; but he desired above all things to be an artist. dred and twenty acres of land which adjoined Mason’s tract. on board of ours, you must set fire the gunpowder, and blow us all u James Fitch was a son-in-law of Mason and he also was the first pas- tor of the church in Norwich while he stayed. The first inhabitants of this new county had to work hard and struggle with inconveniences and hardships. Most of this territory was covered with trees and some of them were cut down and dwellings were made out of them, and some of the soil was tilleq and after a while people made a good living. In 1774 many men of character and enterprise came to Lebanon to live. In 1704 Captain Joseph Trumbull came from Suffield to Lebanon. He was a very intelligent man. He be- came a painter and afterwards a Maynard was running toward pirate ship to get on board. Blackbeard fired all the cannon on that side of his ship and killed some of Maymard’s men. This was really lucky for Maynard; for, had he got on board, the negro wouid have set fire to the gunpowder, and the pirates and Maynard’s men would all have been blown to pieces at once. Maynarq now called his men from below, and there was a desperate fight. Blackbeard was shot five times, and was wounded with swords: but the old monster fought until he fell down dead, while cocking his pistol. . The rest surrendered, but they had trouble to keep the negro from blowing them the At6.months old 351)05{5 =35 Cents ———-'_6 TWE caTAUR CONPANY. mEW YORX CITY. For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA came. next door said they None of us appointment to this o'clock 1 began kneading the dough until it ceased to stick and was smooth and elastic to the touch. I had to all up. THOMAS O'CONNELL, Age 4. Norwich. ‘When he was 15 ed a fairl ars old he paint- “An eagle might come from the sky swod Dictire of wiToss i And catch your Dot for dinner, trader. In 1743 there was a school Battleship Boys in the Tropics. here will forget that dis 5 3—Msrian M. Wheeler, of Stoning- | his father's house i the family at|which Trumbuil established and it was day. add a little flour if I saw that it Tt mithe et U earsl e ton—Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year | the table. He painted_quite a few | Conrolled by twelve proprictors and| pow Wawas B 5 4 GLADYS STARK, Age 15. |was too sticky, but it is best not to Than brutal men who murder birds | it High School. pictures which showed so much merit | the school was taught 37 years by O I ame Happy. Yant add too much flour. After kneading And atarve their young for treasurs,| 4—Bertha N. Burrill, of Staffora|that his father sent him abroad. He|)aster Nathan Tisdate In the thick, lonely woods of the it T cut it in three pieces and put it Or those misguided, vandal souls, Springs—Grace Harlowe's Senior Year | LcCoMe quite an artist but his mind|™ [ebanon was a very important bus- | northern part of Illinois, there lived a A B oF Bis. into the bread pans, which I had al- R i e S it St ey was on_ electricity. ; iness center, cloth, leather, boots and | little Indian squaw. whose name was( . | = S qn |Feady greased, then put the pans an a S n 1837 Morse exhibited an instru-|ghoes, saddles. harnesses, axes, hoes, | “Wawatayess.” * Her father, who was| Dear Uncle Jed: I will write and tell | sheir at the ‘back of the stove and “Yon preach a sound philosophy, 5—Thomas O'Connell, of Norwich—|ment of his own invention at the|gcythes and barrels were magle hore|a fierce chief, had a settlement there. | Y0 WhAt zood luck Tad a few days|Cotereq them with a towel, e St Biie Gashie The Battleship Boys in Foreign Ser- | university. The people called it a toy MARJORIE WILLIAMS, {ge 15. The woods, very often, were dang- s D, ey ihat 327! When the doush had risen to the top And matermiore ihafl sct ok mine vice. when they saw the new instrument| yepanon, erous to travel through for they were | “h‘ e alone Keering house, SO of the pans I put it in the oven to Encourage brutal elaughter; sending and receiving cammunication. inhabited with wolves and other wild [N the a bake. After leaving t::c pans for about 6—Gladys Stark, of Yantic—The But Morse kept on with his invention Meadow Brook Girls Afloat. 3 and his drawings; and it is from him we have the telegraph today. HATTIE PERKINS. No orphan nestlings evermore do an Shall starve through my indenting— The wrong is not the overt act, 8o much as the consenting. animals; but the Indians were glad to bave such a fine hunting =zround, as they were arxious to get enough skins in order to trade them with the white 15 minutes I turned them so that one side of the bread would not hake fast- er than the other, and if the fire zave a steady heat at the end of 25 minates How the Indians Made Pipes. I will tell you how the Indians made their pipes and about the material — Bessie Caffrey, of Brooklyn—Puss in Boots. the machine, e SR colonedar, that they used. o men for guns, ammunition, tobacco | i of a sudden T looid up and there | o3 Srena woula be Sk & 5 S—Lucy A. Carter, of Hampton—The e ere issa bright red stone which, |and varicus other articles. This life] W3S & great sw: s at th JESSIE BREHAUT. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- | Little Quen. My Trip to Hartford. when first taken {rom the quarry, is| may have been jolly for a boy, esipindow. The window was a cloull o} pegt Norwich, N. Y. AWAKES. Winners of prize books lving in| One day a Yriend invited me to take|SO SOft that the Indians could carve |hunting and fishing was exceilent el i e — Norwich may call at The Bulietin|a trip to Hartford with him. We left |1t with their iy 8 v el L M T e Swarm of bees ihat wanted to The Farm Upon the Hill. While the Wide-Awakes aro travel- | business ofice for them at any hourhome about ten o'clock in the morning {, ThE, Y0 men used to o every year | wretched indeed, for Wawatavsee oush the scrcen, so he came| Dear Uncle Jed: Our farm is mpon ling about during the vacation they after 10 a m. on Thursday. anOHx‘:mrm“_ ;uln;w fi;:dse:}e(r“flrn. this stone and take iit to their homes She did sometimes enjoy herself|1°Wn and we took . ™e pans and .'r?';‘hEr}e’;\onzh;h‘"L‘*‘on::’“:'reh:‘ls may go where there is an echo and|grop e WRITTEN BY WIDE. | tobacco, srain, and vemetable gardens. | Lo make into pipes. They carved with | making moccasins, which she was very | drémmed on them and rang the din. | tifal. Every o ¥ shout words to hear them repeated When we reached Hartford we put the | their knives while the stone was soft. | clever at, and when there were beads |Ner bell and they left th NUOW XD | 50. - " Seised = After the stone had been exposed to | enoagh s : By, lit on an apple tree nearby; then fath- Our farm comsists of a hundre after them. AWAIES, auto in a sarage. s i ® s Tposed to]enoigh.she loved to make a belt; and| - 3 ' the hive out there under the |acres. We have two horses, one is There is nothing mysterious about The Fire. ey rert Info the perk and suw Bedrer e 1 I benameivey Betta e oy making POl ewarm on 2 table they bezan to | three years old and he is all black with o3 =] s an pink, vel- 3 - ¥ R -ay, it now for we recognize it as a vibra- [ a white star in his forehead. t and go It was a larse swarm o O low and white pond-lilies. There was a place where the In- | pretty pictures on it. She was a very y : - : F and they 5 lizht on the ot We have th ats; they are ail tory effect or a mechanical repetition | mother. two soung bm,he,;“’m,f"s‘g‘. Then we went in the capital anq I|dians found a black stone which was | industrious little squaw and had to|32d they besan to heh bt ity [hiact “%hi oo b uas ix OUE ot retuim of ‘the Wound waeaiwe pet] na Grans Rod L wors e Sl saw the stajues of Lafayette on a|Soft, Jike red stone This foo, they|work g e R es their |they didn’t o in so he took off the [Glory. in motion. If this had not been dis-|_ Papa, my big brothers and my older | large horse, “Buckingham and Nathan | [i5ed in making pipes. P some traders chanced to pass their| o." f the hive and it was full,| We have fourteen cows which are sisters were down to our other farm | Hale. . SCHIient auie Gy, Su &8 & storne | s not room for them all the |all nice and fat. covered it s not probable Mr. Edison | 3557 WoT® A ‘wheel from a cannon that had| Stems for the pipes were round.|was coming up they were accommo- [icre was not room for them all t S TN could have invented the phonograph| Mamma was washing clothes, but|Dbeen hit on the hub, by a shell, and | °thers were flat: some were ornament- | dated in one of the tents. Two blank- | =% on b, W K WhS A enw faie’ WS Weos Seieg Se the Ry which because of its exact repetition | before she got through a thunder- | Proken. Flags from different wars the [0 With porcupine quills and others|ets were spread for beds, a log fire before th= bees were all hen a thunder storm came and £ wiboet FEEp h, | Storm came up. country has fought, “some are full of [ With bird feathers or tufts of horse- | built, and as it was late they were cemed to be contented as ther was hurryiaz to get the of vibratory sounds glves us speech.|""4s it grew worse we all went into | holes where shells went through them.” | hair. . 8lad to lie down and rest. Early that “their new home, and when | hay in, but he did nct have time. The songs and music as given to it. the dining room, and shut the win-| The sravestone of Putnam; one of the | Some pipes were used for every-day | morninz, Wawaytasee appeared at [ {0U1d be my father and brother |whole family was out in the storm. A vibration is air set in motion and |dows and doors so tmere would be[8uns captured in the Spanish Ameri- [SMoking and others only when the | their tent and calleq out quietly, at|j came Tork % 'AEAtr ant BROrier| Wl SRR S Aot an e e the speed of the movement determines |0 _draughts. can war: a tree with cannon balls in | tribe praved to the Great Spirit. h they answered. As she could|, .%iieon, then they took them down |because we made such a noise. He 7 We all were frightened and sat still, | it. with bark almost grown over them, | The Indians often exchanged a horse | speak some English, she asked if they | [h¢ DiVe and moved them and the |didn’t know what to do. We a whether it is to be a gruff or a squeaky [, ¥ 0 FETe (TIEHER red ball of fire |and a model of the front of the cap- |fOT @ g00d pipe would take her away from her home, ¢ . < n home safe and happy, but we all got > - . o 01 hey bexs C VO sound, a euccession of pleasing | gno ‘s directi ital. JOHN WISNESKIE, Age 11. |so thev prepared the next night and |I¢X! MOrning they bekin to work and £ ; ghot down in the on of the . . Yantic. > ” Nd | hey are still there and are very busy |a good soaking. sounds, or a variety of colored light. | barn which caused us to scream and 2 'ghfin Wehwrnt into the state ;Tmry antic. fh{'m‘l fl“a.\'("urr\’nn:xceéd_ ihe '\a;-“‘g,. bees. BESSIE CAFFREY, Age 9. : jump up and down. and saw the courtroom, the library EE—— aken to one of the trader's homes an joy watchin: them and see Erooklyn. Tou' Eeve notioed tie apasck ofisome [ T D S0 oY it e and fanl| Bockx slline difierent cutas of Mivee. How | Earned Some Money. soon became acquainted with his lit- | T enjoy watchin: them and sceing By persons is low and loud and that of |, i Wal 0ing away. but when Grace | ent countries. One day when I was up to our|tle daughter. whom she loved dearly. | o™ COME WAL T02KS O ight up Martha's Pet: other persons high and shrill. They |looked out of the window and said| The Swedish half dollar was of cop- | neizhbor's house she asked me it 1 _ LILLIAN M. BREHAUT. |G ROpey wah o won't B e e vibrate the air different, the first at|there was smoke coming from the | Per coin four inches square. would pick some berries for her to| FEast Norwich, N. ¥ T ery | Dear Uncle Jed: I chought T would a slow rate and the second at a much | Parn. We began to scream more. All kinds of paper money and pic- | preserve. I promised to do it and she S e friendly bees and we hey wil |¥Tite and tell you a our dos Mamma opened the door and told | tures of different governors: The Con- | said she would give be fen cents = The Naughty Sheep. do well this winter: ana perhaps they | Shady: and our two cats. higher rate. us to run to our neighbors for help. |nectlcut charter, and Constitution: a|quart for them I will tell you about,a little girl|will make us some horey next sum- |, Shady caiches wood:hucks and when \Light and sound are caused by vi- | Grace, Everett and I ran one way |Piece of the Charter Oak, and the desk | I asked when she wished them and | whomy. S oy e W Soradaaer o s AT he gets one he will shake him until Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Pro- |she said the next day, so I decided to] | ooy Dame is i o -‘ 0 oy N 3. |he kiils him. prme el et G Ty dav. =0 I decided 10| in France, but later she went with her LUCY A. CARTER, Age 13. ot et T ektiues saikey and At two o'clock we went into the mwdle BOAr T DIEE Bl Sl L i e st W R DU brings them to the house dome of the capital two hundred and | than later when the sun is hot. Tt b it Diais T the codfts. o Cooldng ot tieadi I have a little black and white Kit- fifty-two feet above the ground. My sister went witk me as I didn't | Teooas & Siane I Csime Bl nir i sy ten. He is a great fellow to catch I enjoyeq my trip very much. Hike o 80/ alone. . We wWalked abowt| ., o> &jDWce near suwme hil; and| Dear I e mice. His name is Tramp. GEORGE EATON, Age 13. |two miles before we got to the e & L0t TNy Wiy Wl ks Stk o ETT, Ag= 10 Eagleville. Cite. Whére e oot He, Pas- | lambs were to be seen. ] Sninke & Thursday mther"":?some o bef{d :§:§~3.n; :1?: Rosy used to walk "r:" wm,d h:r although I do not b to a cool Newfoundland Dog. steadily, so once fn awhile I sat down | jambs, and o phuck the wid flowers | c Deah SnK you would be picased| pennsylvania imposes a state tax It was Saturday morning, May 2%,|puff, puff, clatter, clatter, rattle, rat- | Thers ate few dogs which are more e g L T Tab | at Stew oN (s Rille. ~ORs @iy Gh6 | A fow:i(hys #0.1 SHiad iy kick at on anthracite coal ¢ = e rattier 9 ching and carrying - 3 i e Jat- | made a wreath of some nice plants|pread making and t> my surprise I |e—————— 1915—a £ood time for adventure. Jerry | {le. S?mti; 555535%:1!1::5;:;:32?: thén the Newotmalas, ter position I felt something stinging | ana flowers and her mother tied it |wac successtal, The dcugh rose just arose promptly at six and one-ninth | o 3a"7 2 tedt & This dog always likes to have some- [ Me and T jumped up and saw a bee|round Rosy's hat. Then they went|ns high as when my mother makes Your Cough Can Be Stopped. v, people shouted! The wind I e o'clock, put a navy bipe stocking on one foot and a seal brown stocking on the other foot, washed three per eent. of his face, looked out of his window 17 times, broke a shoe string, lost three buttons, worked the kinks out of his suspenders six times, yawned roared through Jerry's ears, the sand flew in his eyes, he was dizzy, he wanted to cry, he forgot to steer, he forgot to toof, shut his eves and thought of home, wondered if he would ever see his fantail pigeons again, and mother! mother! mother! thing in it's motth. It can be trained to seek for ang object that has been left at a distance and will seldom yield the point un- til it has succeeded in it's search. 1 will tell you_a story of my New- foundland dcg to prove how much resting on my leg. hed it off quickly and then went to anothar place tc pick, as I thought there might be more there. Ever~thing was quiet for awhile, but as I was walking around I stepped into @ hornet's nest. I didn't get stung this time, because I ran as fast nearer to the sheep and. while Rosy stood holding her mother's hand, a voung sheep came up behind her and what do you think it did? Tt did a very saucy thing. It put it's mouth up to Ros: hat and nib- bled off the nice wreath she had made bread 1 T took a cle will tell you just how I made it n white enameled pan and it three quarts of flour; one of = one quart of luke- ater Fleischmann's dissolved in one-fourth cup sure, sudden changes, and poon B nd Using care to avoid draughts, expo- taking a treatment of Dr. King's New Discovery will positively relieve and in time wiil surely rid you of your cough. The first dose soothes the irritation, checks cough, which stops in a short time your 59 times and was dressed as the clock | That magic word braced him up. they know out of plants and flowers. of lukewarm water. i then mixed the | King’s New Discovery has been used struck 7. Then he slammed his door,| *“I must do something,” he said, and | , My father had gone down street ana |2s I could, and was careful not to get| “Den't do that, naughty sheep!™ | dou il it was rather spongy and |successfully for 45 years and is gnaran- fell downstairs, swallowed some break- | S0 he tooted his horn, 1 sat in my bedroom reading when I|T7e€ar there agin. Rosy cried out, as soon as she found | would not stick t them cov- | teed to cure vou. Money back it fast, coaxed 15 cents from his mother | Straight ahead, where the road |heard a queer sound at the door. It began {o grow hot so we thought | out what the sheep was doing. ereq it over with s nd small | fai Get a bottle from your druggist; and’ was off, curved, was a big barn, with front| Opening the door there stood Max|We would start for home. Tt took us| Her mother laughed: and Rosy took | hlanket and left it in the kitchen all | it costs only a little and will help yoli His plan was to get on the car that|and back doors open wide, and Jerry | With a bundle in his great mouth. The | Uite a while to zet there as we walk- | ofr the wreath and gave it all to the |mieht to tiee In morning at 9 | so much would take him farthest for one fare, [could see a gigantic haystack on the | butcher had come that morning and | slovily, but when we reached the | gheap to eat have adventures all day, spending a |other side, finding no one at home left the meat | hOuse we ate our dinner and then Was it not a queer thing for a nickel for lunch of some kind and re- | With the inspiration of an automo- | On the front steps. Max came along | Picked over our berries. and then took | cheep to dor Indeed. I think it was serve the remaining five cents for the | bile genius he steered straight for that |and seeing a cat not far off picked | them over to our neighbor. VERONICA ROCHELEAU, Age 14 return trip. ’ It was a beautiful plan, but the ad- ventures would not wait; they began as soon ag he got on the car, which was crowded. He was no sooner on the platform than a lot of big fellows jumped on, jamming him against the haystack, whisk! up the yard, clatter clat, through the barn, kerchunk into the ‘hay! Farmer Jones was coming from the garden. As he approached the back of the barn he gazed with pride upon his noble gstack of hay—when, suddenis up the bundle in his jaws and car- ried it to the back door; and by pushing his great head on the door soon found himself in. When 1 got down staire 1 found him standisg on the floor with the bundle in his mouth. Secing me he quickly laid the bundle She was glad to get them and thought they were very nice and want- ed some more later, so we decided to %0 again the next week, hoping not to get stung again. BERTHA N. BURRILL, Age 15 Stafford Springa. 1y North Franklin. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. A Disappointment. Unele Jed One hot Dear day in June a few of us girls were intendi “IT’S KNOWLEDGE rear rall. A big, brass bound, hoarse |it whilked, whirled and tumbled about | At my feet and looked up to me as it to go to Hartford - voiced automobils crossed behind just | as if struck by a cyclone and then set. | to sav: The Last Battle of Blackbeard. o 15 the morning wa got up early ag the car gave a tremendous lurch |tled down into two or three miserable “Don‘t you think 1 know more than Our country now reaches from one|to ‘get the work done hefore we went forward. Jerry was jerked over indo |little heaps. On two heaps sat little | most dogs do 7" ocean to the other: but in the days |away. | T Q <T THF PA E" the auto with such force that he|girls with yellow curls and a Skye MILTON ROGERS, Age 14. |before the Revolution there were only | ireakfast was reads. then we sat|! THA l SL S ) knocked the chauffeur into the street |tertier, On another heap sat a pale Willimarnitic, English colonles stretching and down 1o ent. Helen wazhed the dizhes and sat in his place, Jerry opened |and frightened little boy. — down the Atlantic coast. Marchandiss | while (‘lara and | were doing the work | his eyes wide, sat up straight, gave Homething that looked like an auto- The Rainbow. was tarried from one colony to an- |outdoors. { .zr::o‘y;.?.:”:cw.«::-:ntm #d around, | mobile was sitting in the pis sty With | e eolors of the rainbok are biue, | 21er, In slow-going salling vessels, |*"When we eame in Clars said she vig in ite lap. As it happened, Jorry | yioter, groen, vellow, orange, red nnd|f0f there were neither rallronds nor | would sweep and 1 could puck g the e Wit o i bow, 0 & Biye|had dcns ihe right PiE. 150 was viame e SeYas Simw Gre mes o n those o1d times_there were rob- | "W got our work dome and weni 1 | Attend pl i e 3 " . . - e ent tn iBtop!" Btop(¥ crieq the little sirls, | ned & bit, hut he came around afl right | {17 the Fave of Juht shine through | yepy on (he sen. We call sea rob- | our rooms (o get ready. White we wer: Hup! Hup!” barked the terrier, when the Bkye terrier barkedq at him, bers pirates, These men earried can. | upstairs the expressman eame and got “l wish I could stop,” said Jerry, Mr, Plggy looked quite solemn and en from the round rain drops that they non on thelr ships, and they robbed our trunk There was a curve ahead, "I must | dignified sitting up in the automobile | “TeMAde fo form & circle, any vessals not sironger than they [ About 11 oeloek . B i ean generally see only half the . = PoE 22 . W purs Nabdy o ;t:’::, .a:’l‘:d":llar’:z. n;n‘;lyhmr::;cnd n‘a’:: :l.f;h the terrier's pink ribbon on his | .raia ‘or o lttle Tess than half but | "ore A . okt g0, We walked out anyly, hecavse we wheel and gave a turn, fmlumly he | Even Jerry laushed, Parmer Jones | if We Mere to stand on the top of | Lb v4r Weys Bf Ired u . ihance ot |Ra aitle M et AN ¥ found himeel headed for the side- | W Just €0ing to ask some uestiona | MIEN MOUNtain we could “ses much | ERIE WOUIT not, BIARE By chance of | us Eirls kissed mother and iaried ' yaik, Bo he turned the other woy and | wheri another automobile came into T ometimes rainbows are mada by | (ANt Home of the pirates of oid|” We ot to the depot and tha train of the car, but he considerabls wab round the corner, gmvanll and aftey ling managed to There was n_long stroteh of counrty road ohead of Jerry, who, plensed with his success at steey~ ing, forgot who he was and settled back In his seat for a good ride, He passed several teams, crossed the bridge at the rallroad track, raced with & man on a bicycle and was having n fne tim specially with the horn, which he tooted all the time “gStop! Btop!” ecried the two little blue glels with yellow curls, “Hup! Hup!"” cried odle, “Poot! Tout!” roared the horn, Jerry wanted to oblige and ho tiled to stop; he pressed something—whizz! The machine gave a spring. They were tearing through the air, puff, the sky the yard, and the little girls with yel- 1l?w fi'um Jumped up sn: eried "Papa! aps!’ Then Jerry was pleased to find that the man he had knocked out was nnt hurt either, and that he had followed lmn a8 he could get another ma- chine, I'armer Jones treated them all to milk and Mrs, Jones brought out some gingersnaps und cheese, Jerry got a ride back home to his door and an invitation to ride some other dny, He returned the 15 cents to his moth- er, having had a long ride, a lunch and plenty of adventurs, all free, At night when he took off his shoes he discovered that ane stocking was ;ulvnl brown and the -other was navy hliie, “Oh!” said Jerry, tor everything." "That accounts the spray rising from waterfalls, The rainbow ean only be seen when the snn shines during a fall of rain, Most rainbows are seen In the aft. arnoon, when the sun is In the west, and rain clouds come from the west and clear up by passing off to the east; but sometimes one Is seen in the morning, ALICE BURRILY, Btaftord Hprings. Mitre-wort, ‘While rending the Wide-Awake Clr. cle, T saw a lettor requesting the name of a flower, From the description given 1 should think it to be the flow~ called “mitrewort,” or “bishop's- The description given in the letter corresponds exactly with the description given In my zou»y, I it timas sailed up and down the Ameri nan const, They eaptured ships sail- ing from Ameriealto Vurope and from Kurope to Ameriea, The worst of all these pirates was Dlackheard, s real name was Thateh, Tle was call- 00 Blackheard hecause he wore 8 long black ‘beard that coversd his face, This made him look frightful in that Aay, whan other men shaved t heir faces smooth, He divided his beard into locks, tying it at the end with ribbons. To make himself loow still worss, he fastened some of thes twists over his ears, When he was fighting against another ship, wore rap over hig shoulder to which were fastened large pistols, In those days, cannon were touched off by menns of a slow match, a kind of cord that burns slowly like punk. When Blackbeard went Into came in, We had hurried to get awny and wa forgot our pockethooks, Clara said she would go b get them if we waited st the her, Ho we asgreed we wou we wanted 1o g0 on that ear would get there earljer It seemed though Clara had only been gone 20 minutes hefore she came bnfl, with our pockethooks, We took the next car, It was so heautiful to see the green grass and the eattle feeding In the pastures &s we passed by stations, At last the time camo for us to get out of the car., On A corner was a man with an autemobile and we asked him it he would take us to 17 Alice street, and he consenied, We all arrived at our eousin’s home in hopes to see her come to the door, Clara rang the doorbell, but ne one and ot for bt we Shannon Building It Stands For Best-Modern-Business—Education |