Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 22, 1917, Page 9

AllSufferers OfCatarrh— have taken four bottles of Peruns and I can say that it has done me a_great deal of good for catarrh of the head and throat I recommend Peruna to all sufferers with catarrh I do mot think I ever felt much be ter. | am really ‘surprised at the work | can do. | do not think too much praise can be said for Peruna.” Our booklet, telling you how to keep well, fres to all. Those who object te liquid medi hungry for a different birthday would not let it pass for that; and sle-is the only girl Uncle Jéd ever heard of who really made & mew birthday - We can all imagineé that the Christ mas beys and girls miss the exclusive opportunity of celebrating their birth- days which other ¢hildren have: If we |4 have any Christmas Wide-Awakes perhaps -they can have a birthday given them for some other month. cines can now progure Peruna Tab THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS, | outat, arriving apparently as fresh a3 Rules for Y—u Writers. 1. Write plainly on one side of the aper only, and aumber the 2.-Use gen-and ink, not 5. Short and f E;_ : & 1 i % 2 | 8 $8s { 4 i a that! truel articles will e given preference. Do’ nbt use over 0 words. . E 4. Original storiés or fetters only vili be used, 5 ‘Write your- name, and gress plainly at ‘the betiom’ of the ory. Address all communigations to Uncle ed, Builetin Office. ‘Whatever yeu -Be R Kb x_,"'“ the younser horses, though he was Be_homest—in fgot, Fob. 15th, 1917. = -~ Be nobody else but you. 1—Mildred H. Knowlton of 2 field Center, Bunny Brown an POETRY. Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While. Birdies 2—Edward GCanton of Mansfield Cen- ter, Hickory Ridge Boy Scouts. By Margaret Clarke Russell 3—Agnes Crenin of Baltic, Dream- he birdies are not all the same, land. nd we of some should know' the| 4 Florida Reil of Versailles Bunny name: Brown rand. ‘)119 bluelbll'dl fll-rl mh the sky, pa’s F‘l:lnnd ey 9 e e e . 5—Oscar Mathewson of Versaill nd_hides him in the t tree, g mhen. ut friendly fs the chickadee; o e he waxwing lisping twitters makes 6—Phosbe Schats of Yantic, Afloat s of red cherries he partakes. on the Flood. . 7—Lawrence Gauthier of Brooklyn, Caught in a Forest Fire. 5_Mary E. Murphy of Tattville Caught in a Forest Fire. - Feb. 224, 1917 1—Alice Ziegelmeyer, of Norwi Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard. 2—Sophie Musial, of Mansfield Cen- ter: The Automobile Maids Across the he humming-bird in greenish coat is honey sips through ruby throat: )f sparrows there is quite a throneg, he vespgr, field, white-crowned and song— he whip-poor-will like sounds a h: 5, too, there's such a host, he myrtle, golden-winged and palm, Fhose simple notes are softest balm. Continent. e raven is as black as night, 3—Kathleen h; i he ‘otiole takes Drillignt HiEht. Grace Harows's Hevara (o Oversen he thrush, the wren, the vireo, meadow-lark and common Crow, cat-bird and the bobolink all should know, now dom’t you think? birdies, e’an the mourning dove, children all should learn to love Camp. 4—Edith W. Hathaway, of Goshen, Mass.,, Black Beauty. 5—Clarence Maine of North Ston- ington: Red Cross Girls on the French, Firing Line. 6—Thomas Sullivan, of Boszrahville: Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill. Madge 7—Esther Bress, of Yariti Morton’s Trust. 8—Christine M. Barry, of Norwich: Robinson Crusoe. Winners of prize books living in the city may call at The Bulletin busi- ness office for them at any hour after 16 2. m, on Thursday. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Mildred Weaver, Mansfield Depot: I thank you for the prize book you sent me. I'have read it and have found it very interesting. Laurence Gauthier, of Brookiyn: I received the lovely prize book awarded me entitled Jack Lorimer's Holidays. Thank you ever so much for it. 1 have read it and think it nice. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. Dolly’s Expressman. Once a little girl, named Dolly, wanted to g0 to see her aunt. Eariy the next morning she went out on the front doorstep to look for the ex- pressman. Suddenly she began to cry and, running into the house, she said: “Oh, he'll never. come. “Nonsense! . Go out. and look for tim again. Dolly ran out and she saw no one but a lean, tail man coming in the Opposite direction, who, stopped and said: “What, my child, has caused these tears?” Dolly said, “I wanted to go and see Aunt Sue, and now I can’t because the expressman didn’t come. ‘Just you run in and kiss your mamma and papa good bye and I will carry your trunk to the station.” The man slung the trunk on his shoulders and walked on, and Dolly followed, laughing and singing back of him. s man was Abraham Lincoin. CHRISTINE M. BARRY, Age 8 Norwich. A Stalled Auto. A few days ago when I was coming home from school I saw & man who had his auto stalled in a snow drift end couldn’t get it out. He asked me if I could get. to cut a little tree that was way. I ran home and got my axe and my father took our Rorse and helped him out. After my father got him out he thanked us and went on his -way to North Stonington. 1 was glad it was so we could help him. I want to help anyone that is in need. DANIEL, ARTHUR MAIN, Age 14. Mystic. Little Things. day of small vexations o'er— ome mud tracked to the nursery floor: e = w rubbers that he will forget: jumper-suit dew-drenched and wet; ne Noah's ark in ruinous state $nd Noah's wife disconsolate. Fow. as the twilight shadows grow, ?e kneels, the curly head bent low, ests a word, if all ‘he sleepy mind cannot recall, nd that the Lord may make him, i Fno, mother,” in decided tone, he angel eyes raised to her own, lled with a calm, superior light s one who claims a lawful right, rosy, flesh-bound. human son, want to have a little fun. hat is the nursery carpet for? that my laddie breaks no law ¢ love or truth or courtesy y should I curb his ecstasy? o him the world is all at play, riots on its carefree way, h. when life holds so many stings, Fiiy do we chide for little things? —Florence Louise Morris. NCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- _AWAKES. 2“‘5 is Washington's birthday =0 it ay in order to have a little chat out birthdays. You did not know jeorge Washington had two birthdays. $ell he did, ene misfit birthday and Bhe legally fitted birthday when he Mas 20 years old Prior to 1752 the ola Roman calen- r was losing time like a wornout 'k, not because it was old, but be- use it was never started right, and e mathematicians then issued what s known as the Gregorian calendar ich chariged the commencement of e year from March 25th back to &nuary 1st, and ten days had to be pped to make up for an error. so cember 10 was called the 20th and ferybody’s ‘birthday had to be set ht by adding 10 days. So Frankin d Washington and Jefferson, and all ple of that age found themselves of a sudden ten days older than ey thought they were because of it time. They did not celebrate birthdays in e 17th century as they do now-a- ys, and so far as known Washington 49 years. old when the first pub- celebration of his birthday was 1a by the French and American of- jers, of the army of the revolution a dinner in Washington on Feb. 12, 1. Had this been right he and Lin- in would have been born upon the e date in the month of February. ‘ashingtons dary for 1789 contains “rote: “February 22, went with family to a ball in Alexandria en by the citizens in commemora- @n of my birthday.” This was Feb. nyone in_ the Shep, the Message Dog. I have learned my dog several tricks and I thought I would tell you how I enjoy myself in the evening. I ask Shep if he wants to be a mail- man and he will bark thiree times, as much as to say, “Yes, I do.” Then I get a piece of newspaper and put part of a cracker in it wrapped securely. Then I give it to him and tell him to take it to my mother. When he gets there he does not Tlke to give the paper to her because he knows that-there is'a piece of cracker in_the paper for him. B ‘When she holds her hand down and says, “Do you want it?’ he promptly brings the paper over to her to take the cracker which she will give to grom style. hen do you realize that all little ks who have Christmas for & birth- lose the chance for birthday pres- s and cake§ and candles which er people enjoy because their matal v seems to be lost in that festal sea- Ve remember that a youns Miss Emplained of this to a celebrated En- sh writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, ji he bequeathed her his birthday ch was Nov. 13th, and ever after g had her birthday party and pres- dits five weeks before her real birth- & came. This.may have been sug- z8tcd as a joke at first, but the girl 1o You Wom Out? [®Pes night find you until my mother writes a small mes- sage and sends it back In the paper to me which I take and read and then answer it by sending it back with a small piece of cracker. Shep ‘dld have one trick which I did not like and that was jumping up on everybody when they came in the house. I did’ not know how to cure him until a friend of mine told .me to step on bis hind feet when he jumped up, Wl and it soon stopped him of his trick. % e When:I.go. to school in the morning my dog does not like 1o gee the other dogs follow me. He will watch me until I am out of sight. ana if any other dogs. do follow me he will bark to try to call their attention away from me and make: them come to him because he does not like to have dogs follow_me. = = Mans- i His im. He will eat the cracker and wait | years old, and it-was a 1, at bread. cold which tAreatened pneumonia, and the officers decided to put the animal LEO to death. Versailles. How cows. cow. get ready fe eight. “The. other Best regar Eagleville. An Acqu: One day thing rustlin side of the up_a large a quail that was trying t until 1 went and put the exercise. It would eat fre escaped. eral times Toddy years old. of us a fishpe ‘While I ws some worms. We went around and Then we ran rock. Then ‘When we c: my hook. to_see first. were 1 looke see Toddy He began that. little while. afternoon. Goshen. A lots of enow After breal coat on, is a very si sliding. At t were bloody ten rainutes’, long as we o'clock. My Last corner. My “Would vor We were all things up as big loads. and when_ th . SCOTTS EDMUND A. SMITH, Age 14. Hew Uncle_Sam Honered a Fai Horee. e Foxhall was the only. animal on the e O B e i i BT 34 0MTS Ob EIOTINS Sartion including campaigns in Cuba and Por- to Rico and an overland march of 1,- Houston, Secretary Garrison - directed that the horse be attached to Battery A, Third Field Artillery, for care and maintenance, _con| to the " usual practice of sell horses When they *TIn 1630 when Foxhal) was, 12 ears when B for .the pa R ithful led for them for them, bu I hyd to go day. Aftef the L carried away the. wagon furniture an back once Where I had HANS STHID it was a snake. As we came near we saw and put it in my hat. school_and left it in the dressing room buckwheat and gave it water. day I allowed it to leave its box for about a mile away. hooks and set our poles under a large lines were moved up the lake. in and found that I had a shiner on It weighed nearly a pound. Then we went down the lake to see how the other lines were. fall into the water. back and pulled him out. You can guess what when we got home for running away. HARRY BARKER, Age 14. Saturday morning 1 bed very early. to be a pleasant day, We played lots of fun on the ice. Stafford Springs. loading ‘things on the was very muddy that day and the horses had to_pull very hard with the {they went away and- hid. regular army POLOQUIN, Age 12. I Te e Barn. My brother and I change every week in the barn. One week is barn work and one week is chicken work. 1 get up at half past six, thex 1 feed the cows and the pig and dog. the barn, and sweep it, and water the When my father milks one cow 1 watch the little calf from the other . At last 1 make the.bed for the cows and calf, then I get my breakfast and half past week T feed the chickens, ducks and_geese, and brngf wood and coal into the house. ‘or school at ds to all Wide-Awakes. MEYER, Age 8. intance With a Quail when my brother ana 1 were going to schoo! we heard some- g in the dry leaves by the road. My brother picked stick because he thought had broken its wing. It o escape, bt I caught it, 1 carried it to home. When I reached home T made a box quail into it. I fed it on Bvery became quite tame. It om my hand. One day 1 went away and on re- turning I found that my pet quail had It has come to my door sev- since_then. THOMAS SULLIVAN, Age 11. Going Fishing. One day I went fishing. with me. : Toddy is my brother who is eight I took T went to the shed and got each one ole. as_doing this Toddy dug Then we were ready. west of the house, SO mother would not see us. Then when out of sight we circled came out into the road. to a small lake that was ‘We baited our we went along the side of the lake and set two other lines. ame back we saw that the 1 pulled T'ran ahead ‘When T was almost where the lines d around just in time to 1 ran to sputter and scold me for running ahead; but I did not mind He got over his troubles in a We caught a good many fish that we caught Pleasant Day. sprang out of 1 knew it was going for there _was on the ground. kfast I put my hat and took my sied and met my other friends at the schoolhouse and we all set off for the big golf hill. It teep hill and very' good he foot of the hill the lit- tle brook was all ice. Ten of us girls started in a line and counted three, and had a fine slide, but at the bottom we had miserable luck. 1 cut my finger and the other mishaps noses and some fell into heaps of snow and were nearly frozen. We all went home and fixed up and set out for some more fun. The girls all had their skates with them and we set off for the big pond walk from my house. snap the whip and had We stayed as could, and that was six I retired to bed early, having had a very pleasant day. MILDRED E. WHITE. —_— t Day at the Farm. One day last fall when I hom, from school and after I had Gaken 5% my coat and hat and hang it in the father said to me: u like to leave the old farm and go up to the village to live? I immediately answered, “yes After the farm was sold. my father got ready for the day when we would bave the auction. was over we were very bi o ting up to move. when e Tes day came it was the busiest day of all. After the auction But when the last hustling around packing nd men wie very busy big wagon. It We had two large cats. ey saw so. much going on Tearly all day sad o an t_they did not appear, so back for them the next astioad of goods had been my mother and I got into in which we had some d_drove away. 1 looked more upon the old place lived as long as I could remember, and soon we were out of ight. This arm. H CLARENCE MAIN 2. North Stonington. crosher Dogs are d ended by last day on the Dogs. - lomestic animals, but wild Every dozs are sometimes found. countiy in thy kind . e world has dogs of some There are many kinds of Hnost. commion are the ‘» . PUE, and 29 mile trip; marching 1 clean that it was| “Why 14 we eslebrate Wash lu‘-'flrmy ‘more than mine?”" ed the teacher. A boy shouted: “'Cause he told a lie” herd dog, the Newfoundland, the spaniel, and many others. Dogs are of many different sizes. Soms: weigh as much as men. and some no larger than half grown kit- ten: The Newfoundland is ome of the largest. It can carry a large boy on his back. of almost any color can be found. _Some are black, some are white, some are brown, and sbme are §ray, and many are spotted. Many dogs are used for hunting. The hound is used in hunting foxes, rabbits, and other animals. The grey hound can run so fast that he scan catch the swiftest deer. Some dogs are used for guardfw: bouses and flocks. The shepherd dog h.;',’.';, the shepherd take care of thc In some cold countries dogs are used to draw loaded sleds over_the snow and ice. LAWRENCE GAUTHIER, Age 12. ‘Brooklyn. A Home Made Telephone. When I have told you about this if jt ism't successful I won't know what to do: Get two cans and a can-opener and cut the bottom off so it will be like a hollow tube. Then cut two pieces of paper a lit- tle larger than the opening of the can and seak it in water until it is good and wet. Do not let it éry but put it on right away and then tie it good. When it is dry it will be like a drum. Make a pin-hole in the center and put a string through it and tie it from the inside from one can to the other and make it as lonz as you wish and then it will be finished: and if made right it will be successful, I am sure. —Not Signed. Life on a Farm. Some people who do not live on a farm, think it an ideal life. About two years ago I came from Texas. I like Texas much better than the north. I had never seen any snow until I came here. In Texas I lived in the city. I now live on a farm. I was unaccustomed to the work, when I moved to the farm. Now I can do all kinds of farm chores. 1 can take care of horses, mikk cows, and raise chickens. In winter I have to walk to school, through very deep snow. I have found out that farm life is not the ideal life which people think it is. ESTHER BRESS, Age 13. Yantic. Paper. In the old days paper was made from rags gathered from homes and tactories. For more than forty years however, much paper has been made from wood, and now all newspaper. and most book and magazines are printed on sach paper. So mucl? printing is done that rags can supply only a small past of the paper needed. The softer kinds of wood are used, particularly spruce. Maine, ' New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York have much spruce, and tnese states have become important in wood pulp industries. Much wood pulp is also imported from Canada. The trees are felled, the bark remov- ed, and the trunks cut into blocks about two feet long. The mills which often make both pulp and paper, are in or near the forests, usually where a waterfall supplies power: All_the large rivers in XNew Eng- land float the logs and supply the pow- er from pulp mills. The pieces of wood are ground by -heavy machinery or boiled in acid to separate the fibers and make the puln. The acid process makes the paper l of these he wishes, and eat it, and I will eat the other!™ . perfectly No duel was fought, and no one ac- cused Virchow of cowardice. RICK CUSHMAN, Age 13. Stonington. —_— e The Rice Plant. A very valuable food product of all the world is rice. The Chinese peo- ple raise and seil it for the support their family. The people of the Tnited States and other people all over the world use it. It has to be cultivated in a swampy place, 50 the Chinese peopls dig canals or ditches under the ground so the wa- ter may easily flood the fleids. In the autumn just before the harvest, they draw the water off and _ the horses enter the field to cut down srain. The stalk of the rice plant grows from three to six feet in height. At the top of the stalk is a large bunch of seeds, which if not looked at very closely you would think was a bunch of oats. After the harvest when the rice is cut down the bunch of seeds is taken and thrashed until the kernals come out. s l Then the Chinese prepare it for to be sent to other countries to be sold. In New Orleans, Charlestown and Savannah, the rice is polished for the market. While it is being polished. a white powder drops off, and is used for making buttons. Sometimes the rice itself is used in the making of pear! buttons. OSEPHINE HARRIGAN, Age 12. Norwich. Boston Boys of 1776. The Indian were not the only en- emies that the colonists had to fear. A great many soldiers were sent from England to force them to obey the king’s laws. Some of these British soldiers had their camp on Boston common. This common was the playsround of the boys then, just as it is now. In the summer they played ball and had a jolly time flving their kites. In the winter the knolls furnished ex- cellent coasting, and nowhere was there befter skating than on the lit- tle pond. The common was large enough to furnish both as a camp for the soldiers and a playground for the boys: but the RBritish soldiers, having nothing to do, annoyed the citizens and even seem- ed to take delight in spoiling the boyz" good times. ‘As soon as the water froze in the little porid the boys spent every mo- ment that could be spared from their lessons skating on the ice. 1f it snowed they built up the knoll into steep hills and_ coasted down across the pond. But now that the soldiers were encamped on the com- mon everything was changed. Tt ice formed in the pond, was chopped and cracked during the night If the boys built a good coast it was torn down or covered with sand. At last the boys could endure this treatment no longer: and one morning they chose some of their number to call upon the Tiritish general and com- plain to him of his soldiers. When General Gage heard the boys’ story he said: “Who told you to come to me? Are vour fathers teaching you, too, to be little rebels?” “No one sent us,” replied one of the boys. “We have done nothing to an- noy vour soldiers, but they spoil our coasts and break the ice where we skate. We complained to them, but they call us “Young rebels,” and told us_to help ourselyes if we could. We told the captain and he laugh- ed at us. Yesterday our work _was destroyed for the third time and we can bear it no longer.” The lad’s eves flashed, and General- al Gage, who was by no means a bad man could not help admiring the cour- age of the little fellow. He turned to one of his officers, say- ing: “The very children draw in n A TRA “Twas on the twenty-second day Of February, so they say, ‘That George Washington cut down The only cherry tree in town. There was a boy in our town His name, you see, was Johnny Brown, T SSNSBAL S repiy GO Da tun To as littie George had done. GEDY. He took his little hatchet, and Upon a tree stump took his stand, And, when his father came, you see, He told him he had cut the tree. His father took him on his knee And spanked him till he couldn’t see; “Next year I hope you'll spend the Said he, “in quite a different way.” No-=i Georgie couldn't tell 2 l— than either you or 3 LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.' He Lives in the Country. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 have read the stories in The Bulletin and enjoyed them every ome. I thought I would write and iry to win a prize, so here I am. I live in the town of Columbia. I live about a mile and a half from school. ] have missed only two days 50 far, and wasn't tardy once. There are twenty-three pupils in our school. I am in the fourth grade. There are six of us in my grade. 1 like my gchool. We have a hill to slide down %o our school. live _in the country and sometimes the roads are very bad for me to to school. BRNHEST BROU! U, Age 10. Leonard Bridge. Her Removal to Goshen, Mass. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to write about our trip when we moved from Lebanon, Conn., to Goshen, Mass. We started at quarter of six in the morning and came by auto to Yantic, where we boarded the steam car. We passed through Willimantic, Stafford, ‘Willington, Palmer, to Amherst, Mass. then from Amherst to Willlamsburg by trolley, and from Williamsburg to Goshen by auto. We arrived at two o'clock p. m. At Willington we saw where there had just been an auto accident. The driver had lost control of the auto and ran into a telegraph pole. One woman lay on the ground dead, another in- jured and two men injured. It is a beautiful ride from Williams- burg to Goshen, and is all macadam road, and you would not think as you are riding along that you were going up hill at all, but it is higher here than Mt. Tom. A little ways from our house you can look ‘through a break in the moun- tains and see Mt. Greylock, which is quite a number of miles away from us. 1 find the winter here far different from the Connecticut winters. We have so much more snow. We have had fine sleighing here since the 15th of December and have not had bare ground once. EDITH W. HATHAWAY, Age 10. Goshen. Visited the Fort. Dear Uncle Jed: I was down at Fisher's Island all summer. I had a very nice time. One day our family was walking down by the ocean where the soldiers had their kitchen. They called me in and gave me all sorts of good things. I brought some out to my mother and father and my brother and my nurse. We were very hungry so we ate it all up. ‘Then we went over to the fort and saw the guns go off. They made so much noise that we had to put cotton in our ears. Then we went home. KATHARINE S. BUNNELL, Age 6. Norwich. * Camp Fire Girls. Dear Uncle Jed: This village has a squad of Camp Fire Girls. 1 am a member of the same. Our object is 1o help the suffering and unfortunate. In order to acquire proficiency we meet every Friday night at each others’ homes. We sew, sing and have talks and otherwise engage in those things which make for helpfulness. Our suits have arrived and we are now busy in sewing them together so we shall be all the more readily recos- nized. ~ We get Deads for every good deed we do. This reminds us that though the reward may seem small, yet it is an honor to wear them. It makes us long for more. , We expect to be of service to ‘our country if unfortunately we should be plunged into war. KATHLEEN JOHNSON, Age 12. Baltic. The Lost Cat. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought T would tell you about our tom cat. He had been” missing for two or three days, when one morning as I was an my way to school I heard him crying, and, turning around, I saw him lying by a log. He had a tin can on his head. He was so weak that he could not go any farther. 1 ran back to tell my mother and she said that sae would go and get him. When she got there she pulled it oft one ear but could not it any farther. She took it to the barn, where my father was and he pulled it off. When I got home at night he was Iying under the stove with a black ring around his neck. BDNA DAWLEY, Age 8. Jewett City. ! An Auto Rides Dear Uncle Jed: I thought T would tell you about my summer sports. One day ‘this summer I and my friend went for a good time. A man whose name is Arthur Wood wanted to take us for a ride in an au- tomobile. We said “Yes. ‘We rode to the Connecticut Ag¥i- cultural college, which is two_and ene- half miles from my home. When we got there we visited the beautiful flower gardens. Afterwards we went into the armory, where we played tag. First, before we plaved, tag, we went through one room and after a little while we climbed a stair and there was a floof a great deal higher than the first floor and an iron fence was made at one side so that we would not fall down to the bottom. ‘We ran round and round the room, trying to catch each other. After we had enough of playing tag, we came down to the first floor, where we saw two long ropes and a sort of a ring at the end of the ropes. My friend swung on two and I took two and we were swinging so fast that we thought we would fall off. We also took some exercises and afterwards we went to see the plants in the green- house. We -saw about one million sxsen plenis in. the grswhdnes Npap the greenhouse was a tank half full yater and three gold fish swimming u Afterwards we went into the museum where we saw animal skeletons, birds, eggs of birds, snakes and a lamb’ head with three eyes. We also went to the tank. The people who were on docken_oee Lt sixty steps. We could see Gurleyville, my friend's house, and my own home. ‘We studied catechism every Satur- day. We had fun with this, too, be- cause after we finished our catechism 66 and watermelons, and iso P! games until four o'clock, and then we went home. SOPHIB MUSIAL, Age 12. Mansfield Center. What | Earned. Dear Uncle Jed: I am ten years old. I go to_the Wequonnoc school in Taft- ville. I am going to tell you and the Wide-Awakes about the pins we earned in school for good writing. We started from drill one to drill twenty: five in our Palmer's Method books. The teacher then’ sent them away. Every- ome in our room got one except four. The pin is blue and white with “Palmer Method” written on it. ., HELEN CAMPBELL, Age 10. “Taftville. On the Farm. Dear Uncle Jed: 1 am going to tell you what a fine time I had on my triend’s farm in Jewett City last sum- mer. My mother and sister and I started at 9.45 in_the morning on the trolley and got off at the station. Then we had to walk a long, long way befors we reached the house. It seemed as though we would never get there. ‘We were very tired and were glad to sit and rest before going around to see the strange sights. The men were out in the fields hoe- ing potatoes, and my sister and I had a ride all around the farm in the hay cart. Then we went to see the seven little pige, all eating and making a very funny noise. My friend let us feed the chickens and the ducks, and after dinner we went picking blackberries and got a pail full; then when we got tired of that we went to the barn to see one of the men milk the cows. ‘We had the best ‘time that day on the farm of any place we went that summer. ALICE ZIEGELMAYER, Age 6. Norwich. 5 Early Planting. Dear Uncle Jed: I know it is pretty early to be talking about planting, but to_have pansies one must do so. Late last summer I carried some rich earth down the cellar and filled two small boxes of earth. A little while ago I sifted it and put some fertilizer in and planted some pansy seeds. They are up now and 1 must keep them in & warm sunny place so that they can grow good.. 1 water them ev- ery other da. Last year T did not have success, but I hope T shall have this year. MIRIAM SHERSHEVSKY, Age 9. Norwich. A.Big White Duck. Dear Uncle Jed: Last summer my father won a big white duck at a car- nival. He brought it home and put it in_the bath tub when we were asleep. The next morning when we opened the bath room door the duck frightened us. it made such a queer noise. We did not know it was there. We did not have any place to keep it. 8o we put it in a covered basket and brought it up to my uncle’s house. He has about fifty hens, a dog named Toodles and three cats. He put the duck in with the hens, but they pecked it s0 he had to let it out and waddle around by itself for about a week. At Thanksgiving my uncle killed the duck. It weighed four and one-half pounds. He sent it down to us. We had it for our Thanksgiving dinner. It tasted very good. MARGARET SHERIDAN, Age 9. Norwich. Mary's Rabbit Dear Uncle Jed: I have three little rabbits. Their names are Bunny (she is the best), the others’ names ar Pinkey and ‘Bubbles. 1 suppose you think these are funny names, but I like them. ‘We keep them in the barn in a box and cover them over so they are warm and won't freeze. We feed them cabbage, potato peels, bran and milk. They aren’t at all afraid of us. . MARY DE CARLO, Age 9. Brookiyn. Improvement in Status. Even Mr. Hughes admit that standing behind President Wilson in February is a good deal more com- 40,000,000 BUSHELS OF GRAIN IN CHICAGO (Continued from Page One) that both the commission and ¢ railroads are completely overwhelmed and have lost grasp of the situstion. stated Mr. Grifin. “As a matter fact the intervention of the Interstat Commerce Commission has been harm: ful rather than otherwise and th method of relief insisted upon, or of fered by them, has been fanciful and without substantial results.” The etatement asserts that unless & remedy is found, the demoralizat will extend to all commodities. concludes Commerce Will be Prostrated. “I am willing to predict thas within less than thirty days the commerce of this country will be prostrated ur less some large and more #nfluential power than the rallroads and the 1 terstate Commerce Commission 1s placed in control of the matter.” Grain the Cheapest Food. Mr. Griffin said that grain ls today the cheapest food commodity in tha world. He said that prices hers at present are but 20 per cent. above t level which has ruled during the war while “potatoes and produce geners are selling from 200 to 1,000 per cent higher than the level of a year ago, High Prices in the East. “The distress at consuming points,” he continued, “is clearly demonstrated by the prices prevalling for spot grain While the value at Chicago and othe western markets is moderate, grain for immediate delivery in the east is sell ing at a premium of from 5 to 20 cents ‘a bushel above Chicago parity, freight conditions considered.” His attention was invited to the of. ficial statement that the car shortage of the country is now 109,000 cars. Could Use 20,000 Cars. “I don’t know just what those ) ures mean,” he sald, “but I do that we could use 20,000 cars in Chi cago right now.” Telegrams along the lines given in his statement were sent by Mr, Grif fin to presidents of eastern railroads and to the Interstate Commerce Com mission earlier in the day these he asserted among other that in things a continuance of the present situation would Jead to the danger of anarch; and rioting. He asserted that the root of the trouble lay in the use of a 4 proportionate number of cars on east ern roads for carrying manufacture articles bringing the railroads a hig er revenue than grain and foodstuffs. He said that munitions of war formed only a part of two or three hundred articles_which were given preference in the matter of cars. 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