Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 4, 1915, Page 9

mone *Twag-only for fi and only for me, 3 L . “They wers only for you,: . for me. b T uld It _was all 'as Heppy s happy could on our unknown “Though on-our lake we “Side by $ide in our. Mtle - In areams we sall babit is-a ‘good habit one thing which with the ‘has Sobid sing: ' could mever bur sea explore: m. e and dled. ALTHEA LEWIS: Age 11. | My Little Sister’s Adventure in the (o0ds. wy It was a very bright morning on the second of Jume, and my little sister, _We wers all ther and 1 went in the woods looking for her, we thought she might have gone with her other playmal te. pick some flowers and rambled oft | & very fs ted ‘went in e woshs. "0 Ve Be cotus onil w5 at_last heard a cry. Flome without her, 8o father ‘carries the baby home and warned her never 0 g0 in the woods agaim unless her bigger sister. was with her. so that learned -her a lesson never to go in the deep woods asain. " Staftord Spri : . Dear Uncle Jed: Two hundrfi ¥ears ago, Mary Sheppard, a_gir] fBfteén. was watching for savages on fhe “hills of Co: while Her broth- 61 thrasheq in the ‘barn. he slew her bro and earrie the head of ane Of her ¢aptors, mounted, fled away 2Crosy the Nashua river and rode through the forest home. = i WASHINGTON LEPAGE, Age 12. My Ride, One Sunday aftefndon in September I went after walnuts with another jady in one team, and & girl and two boys rode in another. 2 mian walking along, and we took the chil- dren -n, : On the way we found a swamp full of plies.. . There was going té be ing sawmill there, but it was too wet, 'so | ™3 they put piles across. It was called The place whére we went nutting'is #0 because it is sald there was a ‘bea; &nd a bag full, getting them from under the leaves by the wad, where the ‘squirrels had hid them for winter. \ On the way over we went a different way, then when we came back thc t::;? wanted to go the same way I once bad a squirrel, a crow, a puppy, and rabbit. One day the squir. rel bit_my finger. . When -he bit he would bite right through your finger. He used to bite my mother's finger redl ‘often.. His name was Bobby. He died of disease of the &'4 ALICE GURTHA KINNEY, South Coventry. A Day At the -Fair. I went to the Stafford fair the sec- ond. day. M 1 started from our house about eight o'clock with the horse and _carriage -and r.u:c tie little birds. How sad in moderately deep water, until it réaches the age of three years, when it is transferréd to another sec- had |tion of the oyster calf | sheil gently “of Ind heara her father Scon her ather two . Dbrothers, Will and Ebenezer, wanted to go to: War, but her father.told them to wait, for the war would soon be at their own His words proved true and he and t to rer- the - British. had been away “Free-an'sEqual.” | Cynthia said she would go at once to Lora Cernwallis and demand her cow. Bbe went to him mm-uund her who ed. She said she was Cysithia Smith, and she ived with her mother, three miles ere. He aeked her if she had anyfather and she said she had, and four broth- ers. One of her brothers, John, had died with Warren at. Bunker Hill, Tom bad gled at Valley Forge, and. her fa- ther and other brothers were in Gen- eral Gates' army. He asked if she was a rebel and she sald “Yes, He laughed and finally said _she should have her cow,.and he gave her 2 pair of silver buckles shich her de- ants s stil- have. FLORENCE GAYESKI, Age 4. l Colchester. - s The Phosbes. Once two phoebes built their home under the foof of a:country church which was not very high. Bvery Sun- day - when the came to church they listened to the'birds' cheery sons. The fomalo sat patiently on the eggs: the male taking her-place when she went to get something to eat once in a while, and everything went along weil until " the " little b were hatched. Then one day something dreadful hap- pened. Somec children had propped a board agains. the building -and <limbed up to look at the birds, forgetting to take it down again. A mischievous cat see- ing it, ran up and caught the mother the poor was! to The next Sunday churchgoers heard /a sad song instead of the usuel cheery one.. They all felt sorry; the chil | dren who left the board there clally. The bir on Autumn came -and the phoebe flew r south with the other birds. The next spring he returned with a new mate. He showed her the oid home, but she would not stay there, beginning another nest mear by, which the mate helped to build, - Once more the people who came to churck heard the phoebes’ happy eong. The children did not watch the nest this thne. THy little birds were hatch- ©d. learned to fiy, and flew south with the other birds in the autumn. But the male never forgot his first mate ang often was seen. in their old ome. 2 MARY A..BURRILL, Age 13. Stafford Spring: A Little -Party. Last Tuesday afternoon my . sister and T had three of our gir! friends over to_a little party ‘with us. 2 It was about half past two when they drove up to our front door with played croquet out an our front then 1 showed my friends our Gdlfuwloth&renmlhflx" our: party in room. i ety i S nly e came et + Renovating Old Orchards. {°01d, neglectad ‘orchards fre- tly be made profitable Ibr".evmx by proper care and cultivation. Dbed. At this time the farmer pries the apart and pits in the nu- cleus which i3 a tiny peilet of stone. He then laces the oyster in the ened to the stone. On is Buttercup. She is gives five or six.quarts. I have a goat and ny. Wi 1ive in o house of eight rooms, We have four large trees in front of our house. Thorse the pellet, or nucleus, form the pearl [around here. deposits, layer after layer. After be- ing transferred to the second section, the young oyster is left to .itself for Then at seven years it is even then barren ovsters are not wholly without value; the mother tables, boxes t;nsdm ;flfi,r articles, % ) Age 10, West Willington. \ “I Didn’t Think.” “I Qidn’t think,” said a smart looking boy ome day as he stood with cast eyes in the presence of a grave- locking man, his master. “You didn’t think, eh? Then I am ruined because you are a’ thoughtless boy. You may go, sir,’ replied his master in a tone of voles which ex- pressed both sorrow and Sternness. ‘The boy silently .left: the ‘room. He, too, seemed sad, and a glistened in the corner of his ey hat was the matter ‘What had he done? I wil: tell 'you: He was an appren- tice. His trade was that of & car- penter. "It had been part of his duty to light the fire in the shop haif .an hour - before' the men came to work. One cold, windy morning he lighted the fire as usual, but in doing so he left a shaving burning cutside the door of the stove. It was only one shaving: He didn't think it would do any harm, because it was only a little shaving. But 2 puff of wind from beneath the door of the shap blew the shaving on the floor. There it set fire to another shaving; the fire spread unperceived by the boy until it reached a pile of shavings and blazed up into the room. Then he started and tried to put it out, but he was too late. It was beyond his control. He rushed out, shouted “Fire'” and alarmed the people. They came, but could not save the shop, LEO PBLIQUIN, Age 11. Versailles. By Automobile to Albany. I thcught I would write you about my visit to my uncle’s in_Albany. We started at 4 o'clock in the morning, papa, mamma, and grandpa, grandma and myself. .1t was awfully cold until the sun arose, but after that it was warmer., About 8 o'clock we ate. our breakfast under some trees by road. After we ate our breakfa: started again and did not stop to get gasoline until we got Hudson, New York, where we grandma and igrandps at another aunt's and Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary, Then I went on to Albany with papa and mamma and got to Unele Fred's and Aunt Mary's about half past 12 o'clock. Atter we ate our dinner we went to Saratoga Springs to the races. The next day we went to Sayandoga pond. The next day we went to. Hud- The next day we all went through the capitol at Albany and the educa- I saw lots of stuffed a whale's skeleton. The next day we started about half rast 10 {n the morning, returnin the Berkshire hills. Woe stop- s s gt & Arlek of Wnthr S5 S V! Well an 1 was very tired and went to bed early: Lut I will never forget the good time I had. I go to schiool and 1 am fin the SN BTG ey, sAMBR, Age 10. Eagletille. g - Apples. Des, Uncle Jed. Gut, Jombcn .1 Agriculturs this week is “Apples. Orcharding s one of «our most /ifn- portant industries and the appies ic most ‘i1 frajt, It is /nof uted “Orders c o “Our latest T, 2 mmm.n%ns and the deposit vault the stamps Te- quired. ing them which makes it im sidle te molest a single stamp wi in thout detection. ‘We stitch the sheets to- an gether and ‘staple them on the edges, be 'l':‘ of &0 trat no sheet m: without Teaving a per i ed damaging evidence behind it. This a u, becausa the evidence would show that tho theft been made safeguard for the Bburea! after the order left our “These stitcher sheets are bound to- department. tied int difficult to raise apples. But to raise |8Fe Wra) £00d_apples we find t are many: ineects combat as well as fungue disease. Apples should be. put on the 'nar- ket in an attractive manner, and they Will bring a cash income. The most commion Zontainer for the eale of appies is the apple batrel. Ap- ples should be ed tof size and quality. Thers should be at least three grades, number one, num- ber two, and ciders. 1t _the fruit is of a high guality it would be weil to make still another class, “A 1" Dishonest packing is a drawback to the apple indpstry. The Wesiern growers are far in ad- ance of the.Eastern. in. the matter of packing apples. They have stand- ardized their grades of apples and or- #anized packing 5. The West- ern grower produces large, mhly colored apples while New England roduces @ hetter quality, - YETTA LEVINE, Age 12 Colchieater. 5 Improvements at School. Déar Unele Jed: I thought I would write and telt you about our school- house. There are all new seats in it and :hry“ure single seats. There aré 36 n_all. The schoolroom is newly-painted in- side and the entries are, too. The schoolroom is painted dark green and the entrles are light green. There is a new floor in the school- room and in the entries. It looks like a new schoolhouse.” There are 32 scholars in the ‘school. T g5 to schaol at Gurleyville. 1 am in_the elghth . B)&y teacher’s name is Frances M, iiss. My triend and I take care of the schoolhouse and build the fire, We have lots of fun playing different. games. 1 like to play Drop the Hand- kerchief, The Farmer in His Den, and many other games. - BERTHA FULLER, Age 12. Eagleville. Lollypop. Dear Uncle Jed: My kitten is mal- tese with white double paws and a lit- tle white around his neck. He can do manytricks. I héve a nice bed in the celiar, but he insists on sieeping on_the steam pi) ‘When he wants t0 -come in, he will at the door, If no ome hears He is very well trained. ‘When we first got him he would visiting the neighbors, but 1 gave hi 2 whipping. so he stays in his own yard now. ROSE BAGAN, Age 8. ‘Willimantic. He was the greatest general on the Southern side. v in additional packag “Then the packages are -put trucks and sent to the city postoffice, re: where they re stampe are delivared as registered mail tered. All the and pouched for shipment difectly to type of Amelican woman which represen: new element in-20th century civiliza- the individual postmasters.” Miss Kerfoot is of that tion—efH lent feminity. She is “all business’ and has the energetip man- ner of one who works mansges {o have & good time out of it. To_sec her in her, department, seems to be “ome of the feliers.” her nierry eye may beé deepended upen for cheer, and her countenance is ever lighted with enthusias: . she But She has grown up with the depart- ment and has seen the stamp output more than doubled. Her first work was that of an apprentice's assistant and ehe has held nearly all of the po- sitions over which she now has super- vision. OLD JERSEY PINS ECCAPE OBLIVION. Saved to Present Generation by Being Used to Fasten Some Torn Bits of Money. In 2 _downtown New York old coin and anfique shop are a dozen commo: place looking little pins stuck in a They look like ordinary pins at first, though the paper Is matked: “Jersey pine, 1750 to 1780.” The difference between these little pins #nd t).08e of today can only be told by the ing glass. The heads are rough to the touch, and plece of white paper. .gers and a magnify! the giass shows that each head formed by a little coil of fine wire. Pina ordinarily do not live very l'flnm Ve been found in any but a place where It is in the old a and these old-timers old morey is collected. bills that they have lived through century and a half. woul These ld not particul is the pin business to the. extent was able to employ 1,500 workmen, and formed the | & posterity as rarities, they. such erormous quantities. ag0 it was estimated that in Great -pins w.r!gh. mfl: dally, The United States at sams g was also doing o big business w | siderabla thickness and extent. ‘Owing pins, using from 350 to 500 tons of |to its high ash and brass and- iron wire while | ¢ontent Rhode Isian Great Britain was using 1,275 tons. Pin money, which flourlshed at one tain, never found tavor in the United- States. ~Perhaps newer country thaught it tended to extravagance, Pin | tht money was the allowance made a wife by her husband for “pins,” as a gen- eral term for. dress allowance. But to Britain 50,000,000 the futhers of to d ‘she have any of it |5 unless she was living apart from her husbend, when it would be hers—it | means reverted to the husband’s estate. His- tory dces not relate why the American husband did not care to make his & pin-money allowance, Perhaps only hended out money for dresses and shoes and bonnets as they were need- does not relate low miich of her pin money the housewife of those early Pl wite he ed. And history pay for the in Rhode lstand Coal” Report The_presence of coal in Rhode Ts- ngag tand was known as early as 1760, but |keep him from Lurope ti pong of the atfsmbia p:Ads:io ufilles beds of the State gr cult to mine, and unusually aiffi- e attempt to burn the coal or to treat it is other ccals have been treated has been unsaccess- E missio To understand why this should be |dent Turk—Washjigton Post. Y For Over | Thirty Yoars hi moisture o veal abes mot: *coal At it time the beat a5 ot 25 roduction of electric that Island coal can mined and delivered at the. funace for less than one-half the wholesalé prics of competing coals in Providenss' and ston. Bryan Can't Understand. - Bryan can’t understand all that over the président's one s when Be has e safer—Boston Advertiser. | gt Superior Missionary Work, SCORE OF CHILDREN DIED IN FIRE WHICH DESTROYED PEABODY SCHOOL 2 o mwl:.-ufl!wfwrmhfi’ T _was saved and slavig T "jcannot be kept in the United