Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 18, 1917, Page 9

Rules foF Young Writers. Write pluinly on one side of the only, and number es. Une ‘gem and ok ROt Short and pointed articles will reference. Do not use over words. - Bitinat stortes of 1tesra oy wiil be used, 2 26. Write your name, age and ad- s plainly at the bottom of the Ty, oo ZAddress all comtrunications to Uncle Jed, Bulletin Office. “Whatever ycu are—Be that! Whatever you zay—Be truel Straightforwardly act, Be_honest—in fact, Be nobedy elss but yow™ One day October my mother brought home a mice little collie shep herd pup. % “When we got her she was about o N e s ningest you ever Saw. ooter 18 white and light brown. 3 et the cows | teen dollars for When my father goes to x Her name is Beauty. My father will| I won the pennant for ‘selling the “&ome, Beauty, we will g» to the most pietures. s’ class Th nants The girls’ class selling the pennants POETRY. Baa-Baa, Black Sheep. mow to get some hay for the .cows| Versailles. Beauty will pull his hat off and run " liyining showld happen to he o hér we all would miss her very much. GLADYS GUYETTE, Age 1l g Teddy is the namje of a Jersey bull. He was eight morfths old when my ‘brother sadd I could teach him in a busgy. 1 setgto work harmess ‘for him. de it in one day. The next day before he went to the pasture I took: him out of the bamn- My litfle brother heiped me to o this. I hAd made a cart aiso. T put the ess on him. We had a time training him, but after a We got him to go. is the way we did it: I got on the little cart which I made and BNy Today is the time for laughter; Tomorrow the time for tears. may come hereafter, of woe with years; is the time to borrow best that the gods can give. We cam SOrTOw, if need be, tomorrow, t today is the time to live. *According to Percy French, a London tertainer, this is the way Radyard pling would have written Baa-Baa, ek Sheep: WHE SONG OF THE BLACK: SHEEP. hd this is the song of the blacksheep, %And the song of the white sh ‘too, Ana the auk, and the armadillo, ZAnd the crocodile knows it’s trué: “fave I wool?” said the baa=baa Black Shristmas school day very much. Mansteln GeADIE FABE, Age 12 e uiie, Skating on the Shatucket. 5 Dear Uncfe Jed: Ome day last, avesk that the German dam, was to arrive at day, Jan. 3, at & o'clock p. m., and of the passengers was to be cle. My brother and 1, who time in New York, decided immigrants land. ‘Se we took a farry @ happy afternoon in cooking some- sheep, Ye ask me, have I wool! ride to Hoboken where we arove hit hi nttle | thing or, r, 1 xiver. When T 31614 eachiear (o the shearer’s | see the passengers come Sl When ho didmt want to £o| o BSTHER HYMAN, Age 12. |ineefe SSiing on the Shetuoleutoriver. shear v Hitle brother would lead him. That orwich. safe. ' Some of my girl They said, let us .play -snap<the- WhiD. All asreed wo we played :this #ame_ and ‘they. -we s racing. hom we trained him. But this bull ‘wan very gentle or else we could not have done this with him. After that{ Dear Uncle Jed: School closed I'ri- s could drhar:' ‘him gt mwn’u- e mflu mh‘ n and opened Wednesday e 4 ut _one our haj o b e e sy to an end. My mother and father had | Satunday my brother, sister and I|whey wan mis e b e il to sell him, use we didn't have|went to chulh and spoke pieces. | askya us to @0 in. We.did, e gave room in our barn. After the speaking Santa Claus a cup of coffee. “We stayed and RALPH OLSEN, Age 13- |came and brought a lot of presents. 't warm. ‘Soon we were off ‘again. He brought me a game of little | Biating fiown, wris much better . than shoppers, some handkerchiefs and a Clckating up. The wind .blew most of stocking full of popcorn and candy. the way down. 2 A Little More of Hartford. Tl Sundor miobe Sante: i 1| Doey, dowe. 4 Boap e waste!| No doubt aimost everyone who has|came to my house and brought a niry. | wemt e mevime ol oS in fact | yisited Hartford for any length of | tree all filled with things. e - CITOMETITY S the | time has seen m: !fi-ne¥ Memorial | My hrmhhlgr 258 Wty Who A conzamlies ealthful -exer- tower—an impressive redstone struc-{younger than I were surprised, tr ¢ b @ |“"1"'-m‘ ture which stands at the upper end of | * Then we took off some of our m}f{:rflLm JOHNSON, Age 12 ing 1ands | North Main street. Every fifteen min- | which we wanted to play with. - utes its wonderful chime clock rings My sister had a box of tidfledy- out, cauping the stranger to pause; winks whieh we played with “for a and listen to its enchanting melody. h.‘s time. We enjoyed “it very much. e The donors—the Illustrious Keney e had candy, peanuts and £ranses. My Ang i family—have also presented the city | We played store and tried to ssee who 5 Pmgen /Kitton. with a tract of land, eight miles square, | would bat. ; I had many Christmas presents, but | north of the city, which is now known | We plaved that my sister one of my best was an Angora kitten |as Keney park. This in addition to|oranges and candy and mgp brother which I received 2 neighbar, He | the tower stands a lasting memorial | sold peanuts, nuts and somg toys. s i ot iy is 3 Eayish colo, it with 1 was the buyer 2 The nearest lot ‘to the house is used wide streak of around his neck | .Another interesting spot in Hartford | Soon we were tired of DPigving stare | for pasture.. It is a large lot and is :;:fi& Jooks like & get of furs, and a |is the Connecticut bridge, connecting|so we went to bed. level. A small ‘brook Tins throush T el i East Hartford with Hartford proper{ In the morning we halped mother |this lot. It is used for fishing and ol measu i fur and it 1s a 1#- [Spanning the bread Connecticut river.|and father and then went on our pond | bathing. Tn one cormer-of this lot there le over three and onme-haif inches | this massive structure, built with nine| which is a little way frarm our house.|is o garden: As much as three bags full! “Have I wool?” eaid the baa-baa black friends avere there! sheep: Tt is found in the sailor’s socks, Retaining their heat through the driv- ing sleet, And the gale of, the equinox!” How | Spent My Christmas Vacatian. Kate Wade a Pit This is the pie that Kate made! Eeoe 2re the apples so ripe pull red, Cut into quarfers and pat to bed, _ Ia the wondexrful pie tha Eis is the crust so softh 14 The price of ‘imagine how " and flour 3s maore ought to not in the Don’t you think so? "ANNTE RYSHPAN. Norwich. e ore - toys t in the oven and balted at covered the apples' 80 v & i AT e nde. Cht into quarters I3 the wonderful g And these, PoYAaghter and fun and noisé, FPnd ofs up the crust so soft and light, Teno & the oven and baked just risht, Taid covered the apples so ripe and 7" req, t into quarters, and put o bed the wonderful ple that Kate made. Where the Infians Fought. Pear Uncle Jed: Near our farm there is another farm owned by ‘Mr. Miner, and rented by Mr. Grandy. Tt s a farge farm and is divided into a few sold ftarge lots. This farm is surrounded by hills. On 'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. ulcLe e - LOWER — AMATO, TETRAZZINI, CARUSO . long. t g 23 et be carsioss: VPtmm. Jom-Bee amed Tt S spans and eight piers, is noted as be-} We drew cach other on our sleds| About two ‘hundred and ‘fifty years| Delezates to the congress of sclen- |cawse ‘vibration. A series of highly [clearly outlined curved line sdmething to do in limited tims, keep | him " Rase wibce 3 Sy Deps oulls|ing the largest stone arch bridge injand soon we heard someone coming lago Indians lived on these-hills They |tists, acscmbled In New York at {ho | polished mirrors refloct the vibrations |shadowy biur as his voice rises fro 1 head and do it well. hi; » ¥ te suits | the ‘world. It has a total length of|so we went near the froad where we fwere not friendiy to each otber. Two [convention of the American Associa- |to a revolving triangular mirror dis<.|a low, natural note to a high b Sgivel hoed 42 e - 1193 oot and has two 10-foot side-|saw our melShbOr's 1rl coming with | tece sven ondiy, 0 gach oteer. ention of the c = ar langular % |a low, Where is no truer eaying than bther oot wiich da Gigil g 3 ved on these hills. They were [tion for the Advancement of Science, |whichn turn reflects them wpon a |volw ; gl aster nearly fiftecn years ‘ot Ha da Al i TN D Tne yiver dot-| We ssked her to ith us but | 7, Mohesans and Iroguois. saw the woices of Caruso Tetrazini |scréen. “The sound ‘wave reflections | -Photo ‘shows the phonodelk ' Haste makes waste black and £o we named him Nig. A0 dmpoRing Vlen Ot e aats x| she said ghe couldn A mcaniih pis but | These two tribes were not friendly land Amato dance beforc their eyes on (appear upon the ‘screen ‘magniflel [back of it a chart denoting differer Zet me tell you what a little care-| When we first got Beauty they| :ana:‘:,"-;y“%l:';:fi from the conter| £ £0 to the clty of / Wilimantic which st ‘;2.;: They, daclde to-have [the walls of "a darkened "Toom. ‘The |40,000 times the size of the vibrations [bsbwesn voices. fTop ‘wéserd s Jegsness on the part of a bank clerk | Wouldn't very well, i % ch {o ught. phonedeik a recently invented ma- |upon the diaphrasm. ruso’s. Next 'to it is Signore et they are rione ay LSt how |of the bridge. The bridge is built of|is ten miles from sur house. The Indians came down the sides of |chine, consists of a supersensitive din- | Caruso's voice pictured at the top |zini’s, @nd below is Amato's. P« Wt Unela Shemn. the stove Tside by e ana eunder |granite, Wigures show that 135000 AGNES RUJT/PRECHT, Age 13. |the hilis and met In this pasture lot. |phragm of & faozelike material, [in the accompanyimz bicture, ‘as seen |traics, left to Hght, Amato, Tettuss! ‘B'Ms clork xd & dheck far $30000 | where Nig (o0 Beauty follows e, E| eS¢ RMIEDL awers Haed I ire o B Here thev: fought thetr battle. Many |thrdlish which the sound waves pass;|through the phonodet, varies from a | Caruso mail to a town not five miles away, { often see them kissing each other. 2 ndians were killed and many arrows L oe a5 o s L - — asd he was too late in reaching the| , I Wish Uncle Jod and ail the Wide- | i o sl 00 O Lol P o o How | Spent My Vacation. wee -shot. They fought for a iwhile < : talics to have Sy Sithie i Awakes. a Happy New ear. T o O s picos ‘ot Dear Uncle Jed: My .school closed | Until the Iroquois'had to retreat. The |been ditched by the animals the en- |beds reveal the fact that both camels | chasing lands for National Kore Rstefice P ALIGE WILLIAMS, Age 11. |22 he wviews S December 224 Tor ihe awinter vacation ] Mohegans won the battle. gineers got in the way of respecting |and horses orizinated in North Amer- | ceives $21,1%0. BEA other lettars, S5d 1C was SRrewa e v Satardny 1 wor the winter ymeation:] “When Mr, Grandy plows up his gar- | the buftaices fidiosyncracies.’ ica. “The remains of many widely Qif- | In making allotments, it ts expi s was-the number of | ferent -species of both animals have | ten per eent of the amount aval North the big bridge is the rail- den he finds many arrow heads! He *Astonishing o the bag at the last moment loose. ver Tip. 3 Christmas pres Frdng, o , 5 ‘;:, St novir TaCRad e et et i AR . T road bridge, while along the HartforaCNTUNTE P'esents, Saturday eveninglhad found = box fall. Amonz theso |buffalo which roamed the plains of been found in mumerous localities ex- | for ‘1918 ‘fs withheld ws o continges b taint €0 orie ot the TBiinE e O | b O e T e e lawne and |Mas iree a'ad exercises 4t the church, | INere Was @ large arrow head. ~This|old, even more numerous were the an- | tending from coast to coast.in the [fund. Ome:hilf of the rematnder B L e S e e e e I T I it ie sagition to the |1 speke o /plece called ~The Night one was ‘arger ‘than any of e rost. | tclope, thoush the latter did not attract | United States. Camels “and Torses, {been’ apportioned mons he stats (e mot 3 bear. “brought s 4 cer | After Chr'gs e kept ‘these n a box which he placed | as much attention as the larger mam- [with many specles of antelope closely | amounts based on the area of the | g esthen brought to camp|cool, refreshing breezes from the river gstmas” 1 had a-good time. ki ipe spontiroom. mals. Besides these, the chroniclers |related to &till existing forms in Afri- | tional Forest lands in each state, whils " office of destination. Beveral honest clerks were immedi- ately suspected of being dishonest, the case was reported to the postmaster- geberal, and a special agent was sent he fought fesperately until we gave hira some sugar. hes was eating it taen cuddied down ‘went to sleep. make it an attractive place on hot, sultry days. ‘Willimantic. The Little Postman. sied. WALTER V. GAVIGAN. I went to church Sunday. Christ mas day I slid down hill on my I, the_atternoon some <4 our playmates to come to our Christmas tree. houses in the evening. we invited We to their 2d candy m‘ h: These arrow heads were stolen. Mr. Grandy never found out who stole <hem. HARRY SCHATZ Age 11 Yantic. of the cclonial days give many inter- esting accounts of the incerdible number of other wild animals, includ- ing bears, wapiti, white-tailed deer, and turkeys. on which the wolves made fierce war. One writer narrates ca. abounded over a large part of this country-up to the-end of the geological age immediately preceding the present era. At the time of its a Columbus this continent ha by d only one the ‘other half ‘has been allotted basis of ‘the estimated vale timber and forage Tesources which 't forests contain. Let Well :Emough ‘Alone. 1 and tookies. I bad 3 : er L Rt pe A S Biiou ie o smell pus with a very |4 CO0KIes 1 bod 8 very mice Ume. A Midnight Alarm That aaring the winter of 1670-71 fully | domesticated animal—the dog. In most| Colonel House was sure o e ¥ . dblack nose end a very curly tail: Just|ing ‘my cousin came to see me. In the{ ‘Dear Uncle Jed: It was ‘the 28th of | 2:400 moose were snared on the Great|instances the ancestors of the Indian |tioned sooner or later as a suce: Tnis agent went to both postoifices a | BEly encush to be admired for bis me-1 o ino POUSIL SUEE OB SRS IR T o e U mriday mine ot of [ Manitoulin sland, at the head of Lake | dogs appear-to have been the mative|to Secretary of State Lans! am charnly asantionet Thr ek and Jinaw. Ho used to bo considersd hy{4rCenoon we staved In thethouse After) October, 134, 'a Friduy'nightiand we | jron g Covoten OF gray wolves, but the des- | denials of present rumors of s T e e overyone. except his mistregs, a very | Aien my *thiher took s SKAtnE, W | el SverobIng wae Wi wight el |, -THG wealth of animal lite found by | criptions ‘of ceme dogs’found by the | change apear to be compleie. = Hoth Bpeistanity gn X e {stupia ltue fellow. He ek T O I e T cemet oy e g i Tight until| ;" forebears was one of the _great | carly -explorers indicate very different [ men are ‘well placed ws they are. - AL the end of five or six weeks the missing letter was shaken out of a childgren, and was not at all playful. He spent most of his time looking ou’{ falling. neither can my skage, cousin, so we lrapt down. We each taking hoid of v eldest brother, Jacob, -heard a crackling nois. whose name _is He natural resources of the New World. Although freely drawn upon from the first the stock was but little depleted and unknown ‘ancestry. Unfortunate- Iy these strange dogs became “extinct at an early period, and thus left un- £pringfield Republic Are ‘Not Deceived n. bag that had been thoroughly shaiken of the window and baridug at eats. I my father. Then first one woul founa that the wras e e Now this story will show you howif Ii¥ Tather, Then frst one would pull | flound, that the harn was ablage. = He |, to ‘within a century. During the |solvable. the riddle of thefr origin S pbipiag- oyl s 3 g I aia nop sadly he was misjudged and what ad M3, 000 e KOS OUACh o o LGS O en all my Besthere ooy | 1a5t 100 years, however, the rapidly in- | “Before the discovery of America the | House will not deceive themaelves The cause of all of the trouble ‘was | came up ofily and really inteliigent, bright dogaie he is.f MY Brother took his sied so my fath. |&at up rathers ‘and | 23t 0 Yo o, of the continent | people of the OId WOrId had domesti- | 1o the vedson for (hels armnsing non His mistress was »d and went and other ca together with a|cated cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats ularity.—8t, Lot Globe-Democra e me fewnd 0lding the syru; the contents the clerk’s slovenly gumming of “ the fidp of the envelope and superfijous to live in another house ¢n the samg. street, about five blocks @way. home. She: ten o'clock the next morning. sorry she had to go. My cousin went home about 1 was Our neighbors came up we called the fire engines ‘but It was -of no use, it would be burmed before they <could steady increasing commercial demand for animal products, have had an gp- a but mone of ‘these domestic except the dog, existed in America until brought from Europe by, Situation Unchanged. micilage on the front of the enveliope Bijou with her, of Qourse; but o : : 3 zan Wi da: - | reach The da uld | palling effect. The buffalo, elk, 4 ks gl £ whlich fixed it to the bottom of the bag, | condensed suilk Waid tightty Ul liked nis 014 pome. and e - e RNy [Redst HSS i S ot s /IBht | Jncelope are reduced to a pitiful frac- | the invaders of the New World." ,The chict charasteristi pea This cost Uncls Sam 3200 i 24 SR PR e s i < 5 e o % WA~ | tion of their former countless numbers. i’ ontinues to be low visibi - s 3200 at least | 87, L vl ALFREDA WALKER, Age 12. |ons and harness into the ‘bars. We | other large game has York Sun used the put in the can.' When covered with milk, he woul In the fall we moved leave him. He was now so his new owner kept and a half dozen clerks more di:jtress agd sieepless nights than money could pay for. Two minutes late and two setonds of slobbing was at bottom of fast he went back there to make a wished to send & message to her my yew sth-| Dear Mansfield Center. Had a Good Time Chéistmas. Unecle Jed: During my Christ- were so excited when it was on could mot take anything out barn. The next day -after the fire we aid not have ‘any harmess to hitcy up the fire we of the “Practical {alarmingly _decreased and its exter- mination hds been partly stayed only by the recent enforcement of protec- tive laws. i of “The recent great aburidance FOREST NOTES. On_about two milifon acres of N tional ‘Forest. lands grazing by domes- tic stock is ecither -entirely .prohibited "he municipal sl town honte bustness V New Britain— er house at the was opened for : day he saw a girl er. ‘How could she send it? There|,car Uncle Je car sif weeks of serious trouble. passing He pulled frantical : D s e . e e oo SArting wooll then. | large jand mammals in North America, |or is greatly restricted to provide — — 2 g B AT e ner. I haq a vepy nice time |double team harness. wave us a8 T ividuals and species, is in | range forielk. HOW THE MODERN WRAPPER LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGM ENT. | [1° thought he had found hls old play- We thought that our hotses ~were |SiFiking contrast with their scarcity in WEARS THE WINTER'S PELTRY E d A. Smith of Burnsige; 1|B2Fm her, fired, and our 1:54,.;, It £0 his harness ana| iou. ook Ner to the collegre and then I lbumed 4o, ‘but our wosding -man | LOUL America, the difference evidents | It is -esttmated that in 1917 about une . Smi o a 9 73 ‘i 0ok her to Spring Hill and sho o y being due to the long isola 40,000 forest fires ocourred In the Uni- Poor little Silver TAp! ection n about half asa hour e s | turned them out the dav 'before the |}, Southern continent —from - other | ted States "which bumed ‘over about than! baok. much. Ralph Olsen of Baltic: I thank you very much for the prize book you semt me. Harold Kinder of Pawtucket, R. L: The book you sent me entitlcd The Three Gays arrived safely. I have read it and liked the story very much. I have always enjoyed reading the dlo- ries of your other nieces and nephews and am glad that now I too can claim you for an uncle. Iam glad you liked my story and thought it worthy of a pisee in your paper. T will close. wish- ng you a Bright anl Happy New Year. “Mark Paunch of 23 am very thankful for the prize book [ received. I finished reading it and found it very Interesting. Mary E. Brown of Stoningtor: I re- cefved the prize book The Automobile Girls in Berkshire and thank you very mueh for it. I am reading it and lke it very much. you very much for my prize 1 have read it ana Hkea it very | W28 his undoing. LEO PODIQUIN, Versailles. g : it Sparrows Feed a Disabled Robim. The sparrow has never been moted for its works amd kind deeds, but sfinu;h}‘hm;.h:‘mmm says the Reecord, rilates an experience that throws = : mnew light on the eharacter of the little i r. Fox lives in A other ovening, just ahost_dude ‘he discovered a young Tobin foundering about on his lawn. It was upable to fly, and had evi- dently fallen from its mest. Fearing the cats might catch him, Mr. Fox took the bird to the rear of his house, where he has a couple of gui- nea pies in an enclosure coyured with screen, He placed the young rebim in pen. While dressing aixt. mornc ing he looked out from his wingdow and was amazed at the actions of a few sparrows who were. worms to the young robin closure. _ Thej o return a few moments later worms, which they progeeded to through the screem inta the u) mouth of the robin. -They ' Berformance b Wit the’ rebhe. liberajed and even then . tited suardtanm tut a3, FRED DUGAS, Age 10. Versailles. — 1 Bringing Yoursslf Up, The fathers and mothers bave great deal to do with g boys and girle right- have a hand in it teachers as well as thos, schools; and the other! sisters do a_great deal than | many ing’ or hindering realize. : But though all those ‘have o much' to do ‘with o THE WINMNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Harry Schats of Yantic, Com- rades of the Saddle. 2—Alfreda Walker of Mansfield Cen- ter, Tho High Schoel Rivals. 3—Alice Williams of Norwich, Madge Morton of the Merry Maid-\. 4—Fanny Ry$hpan of Norwich, The Meadow Brook Girls by the Sea. 5—Mentcalm Gauthier of Brooklyn, The Boy Pilot of the Lakes. 6—Ralph Olsen of Baitic, Bob Che: ter's Gr! » 7—James Murphy of Versailles, Aur tomobile Girls at Chicago. s—Agnes Rupprecht of Mansfleld Center, Madge Morton's Victory. Winners of boeks living in the city may call at The Bulletin business of- fice for them at any hour after 10 a. m: on Thursday. make the mistake of &’ boy was taken to task by a 3 4 All-man- asked, and the boy 3 e ket makee Jon ek a8 nered yor raw the. replied: “It's because my mother didn’t bring. me up right.” STOP 5&85¢%éne have done, by taking the 4o not | g5y T i Ris i ont , mever £ HH He expressed his delight in every could. that day he has been a regular earrier between the twio houses. breakfast. when he gits ready ‘maje fis call, ho presents himself mistress and barks and begs he gets his letter. When she lets e starts off like a real post- ':u»ml to play with the dogs he “slways insists upon Waving a reply to his note—which is often only where the town clerk kas his office. |fire, we - felt Later I took her to some villages near Mansfleld which she enjoyed seeing. After our long walk we. went home. “When games had a the note, whick. -was a e she sent, anfl petted ‘home. home, THE looking to the riglat or left. a plece of white paper—and _almost any morning one may see this cunning little pug k3 Mt Brooklyn. LETTE! trotting gravely street with his letters. ALM GAUTHIER, Age 9. RS TO UNCLE JED. A Pleasant Christmas. Dear Uncle Jed: came back cause it was icy in the road. sin went to I am writing to I spent Christmas. When we we went on the snow be- My cou- church with me. We had | chicken, meat, mashed potatoes, tur- nips, cream cake ana pumpkin ple, T apoke a plece the Naturasy might Christmas before up to the Bkonk and some candy. We had a tree down to the sehool house. I got a pecklace and a stick of candy. |, OLIVE .* Moosup. MATILDA COLE, Age 10. How We Spent a Rainy Afternoon, Dear Uncle Jed: One rainy after- make neon, my ‘som sister ‘and I decided to rainy A I was very we got home we plaved some and we also sang songs. We very merry time. On Tuesday morning my cousin rode sorry when she rode but was very glad when she BOOK-WINNING PICTURES | a Tittle better. The foundation is left and ‘we are going to make a boardinghouse in two or three years on it. SARAH SCHATZ, Age's Yantic. THE WILD LIFE OF NORT'H AMERICA. e The Only World Rival Is Africa — But Nothing Companed to What It Was In Prehistoric Days. (Special to The TBulletin.) ‘Washingtan, D. C., Jan. T7.—Al- though the wild Tife of North ‘America 1s more abundant than that of the other .continents .of tite morthern hem- isphere and has only Africa as'a world rival, yet our present-Gay richmess in this respect is dedide@lly pwor- com- pared with the abupdance smud variety ©of mammalian life thet wroumsed our Indians came to | even meove habit vthe ‘land s to ithe Nattonal 30,000,000 to 60,000,000 ranimdis (the latter figure is /000,000 greater than the total number of mmttle 4n dhe Uni- ted States according to' the census of 1910), and it might have land-masses, whence loss of -a been restocked after the formerly existing fauna. “The fossil beds of the Great Plains of North America and other -parts of the West contain eloquent proofs ‘of the richness and variety of ‘mammal life on this continent at different/per- iods in ‘the past. 'Perhaps the mast ~wonderful of ail these ancient faumes |. -was that Tevealed by the bones ‘of birds-and ‘mammals which had ‘been trapped in the ashalt pits recently dis- covered in the outskirts of Los Ange- ies, California. These bones show, that prior to the arrival of the present fauna the plains of southern Calffornial ‘swarmed with an astofiishing "weal of strange birds and beasts. ‘The Mmos| notable of these are saber-toot tigers, lions much larger than’those O tAfrica; giant wolves; several Kinds:of [bears, ‘including the huge cave “bears, feven larger than ‘the gigantic brown| bears -of ‘Ataska: large wild ‘horses;| camels, ‘bison (unlike our ‘buffalo)| ity antelope, the size of a'fox; masto-| «dons, ‘mammoths -with “tusks 15 ‘fest tong; ‘and glant ground sloths: in ‘ad-| Adition to many other specles, large and femall. § “With these amazing ‘mamals “werel equaily strange birds, including amon; numerous birds of prey a_glant Vul- |'ture-like species (far farger than any condor), peacocks, and many others. “There is reason for believing ‘that| primitive man occupied California and fother ‘parts of the West during, at least the latter part of the period -wiren the fauna of the asphalt pits ‘still flourished. The folklore of ‘the Ho- cally restricted California _Indians contains detailed _descriptions of a beast which is unmistakably a bison, probably the bison of ‘the usphalt pits. “The discovery in these pits of the bones of a gigantic valture-like bird of prey of far greater ‘size then “the condor is even® more startling, ‘ince the folklore of the Eskimos and In- dians of most of the tribes from Ber- ing Straits to California and tie "Rocky '| Mountain region abound in tales of the ‘thunder-birds'—a _gigantic bird -ef prey like a mighty eagle, capable BT carrying away people ‘in ‘its italons. Two such coincidences suggest the possibility that ‘the aceounts of the bi- son and the ‘thunder bird’ sands of years. 5,900,000 -a¢res and-caused a damage of approximately '$7,000,000. Revised estimates place the amount ot tamitng merchantable ‘timber-in - th United -States at approximately 2,767 BlMon board ‘feet. Of this amount 1,464 billion board feet, or 53 per cent of tie votal, #5-4n California, Washing- ton, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, ‘Duriniz past fiscal ‘year there were comdtructed on ‘tie ‘National Forests 227 rmites (6f mew rmad, ‘1,975 ‘miles of tratts, 2,124 ‘miles ‘of telephone line, 89 failes” of fire lines, ‘§1 lookout stric- tures, 40 -bridges, 222 miles of fence, 545 .dwelliugs, barns and other Stru tures, '17 ‘corrals, and 202 Wwater im- provements. st “Snee ‘the "passage In ‘1912 of ‘the act ‘providimg ‘Tunds 'for /land «wlassifcation, and asta_Qireet result of the classifica- tion work, ‘a itotal of 13,477/181 ‘acres ‘has ‘been gliminated from’the National Forests. “This inclulies an eltmimation Of approximatély 860,000 acres ‘of Jand_from tire ‘Ohugach Nettionai For- est in Alaska, which embraced larids of low value for any purpose other than mining. "Money ‘for "National Forest Roads -and “Trails ‘Allstted. , Secretary "Houstori ‘has ammounced the amount allotted 40 each siate from the million dollars to be spent during ing “tive ;Ascal syear 1918 in construict- ing roads and trails within of partly within the National Forests. THils money it ipavt of “the iten million «dol- lars “appropriated 'by ‘the Federal Aid Road Act to'assist-development of the National - Forests, -which _becomes avditdbie at ithe rate «of @ :mlllfon dol- lars a year Yor ten years. TPhe allotments as approved are @s follows: Alaska, $467934; “Atizona, $58,- 04 Arkemees, $9,803; _California, $140,988; Colorado, ' $62,575; Idaho, $108,730. Montana, ."$70.042; ' Nevada, $19,396; New Mexieo, 1$42:495; ‘Oregon, $123,111; _South ‘Dakota, 38092; Utah, $4L16T; Wastimgton, $91,944; ‘Wyom ing, $40.684, A tot: % s been ‘aNoteda “to Tforids, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North ‘Dalkota, Tenni /A GOSTLY BURDEN ‘Worn with a.¢hocolate brown velvet nal | reatment. Jnstitute > tended to ‘are really > No ey A bov, old enough to make such n | cooking. We cmioyed the _cooking ased on the originals of the asphalt | and.Oldahoma.. The. -of Bastern |suit and-a natty Jttle dhat wre th 5 gewer is old enouigh to take Atmself yov much. v nen it was done we ate Deills and lave been passed down in|States—Geursia; Maiwe. .New Hemp-|loxuriant eables along sover | the 1 = k ook some- dary hi thro; . North cand South roiina, | shoulders and | o ot Remember. boys and thing lagendary history through many thou- |shires North -and South < s o raling to ald: 3 girls, that those leve you can do -anything -every ‘We wish afternoon. the Wide-Awakes to spend | South 1 “Among other: marvels -our fossil essee, Virginia, fa—in 'yteflcl\ the government is pyr- throat i a wide band ot fur.