Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 19, 1917, Page 9

3 PR GENT. | LCONOL-3 FER S WVedetablePrepaeom P»»w.u‘ et Biwets ! { i Katherine G ot Ve r received the nice prize book You sent me entitled "Trapper Jim in the North}’ Wopds.” I have read it and found it interesting. I thank you very | much for it. ™ Myrtie Gagnon of Norwich:. I, thanki| - sou for tne prite Book you seat '@ entitied The Camp Tire Giris Go Mo- | 5 found ‘ll An Ignorant Boy (7) s they never seem to know S things aré found or how they Th lots they véad about in hooks That they can't tell you how it looks. Why, there’'s & boy next door to me Who is as dumb as he can be— Except at ‘rithmetic and- such, And then I don't know half as much. But names of birdé and bugs and bees, ‘And kinds of flowers, and of trees, ‘When grapes are ripe, when chestnuts & N In youth’s courageésus lexicon There's no such word as “Fail.” THe young man fancies that he has Dear Uncle Jed: Nearty ear | This 6ld world by the tail. - mymp-munmu:zg:w “Naw keep your éye on me!” he cries; | Play with. = < “The worla on i T sext- | xS e e wure o o Then finds he hasn’t got & match, kitten. Of course, I was anxious to Or else the grass is wet! £ ot LT minutes father came =5 aroun: t ith Unele Dudley. |20 el v with the auto #bout three miles we reached the house where we were o get the kit- We went into the barn where the ey atl T We pleiced T wn s was about forty miles|1 put him in my lop nader tha caps A féw weeks Iater the|I wore ana he siept all the time untll issing. The gentleman of- | we reached home, P fered a reward for the one Who would| - When we went in the house we bring back the dog. About ‘three or |thought the kitten might be hungry. four months later 1ié got a letter from [ He had not eaten out of 2 dish but & man in Paris. The man Wrote | once pefore in his life and he stocd that the dog was with his former mas- |in the miilk instead of drinking it, ther | er doing his daily ine of splash- got out of it and walked all over ' As they did this every day, and sev- et n, boots with mud. It was|the carpet and mads little white trac became a little used to it; but it Was|( the country so he tried to get back | carpet whils I wiped off hi always & puzale to her. While she e found his way back to | 1 named nim Tiger, but when He £o waited for them on dry land she must | ne shore where he smuggiea in among | older he used to stay out so much have wondered a great deal why they |the people. When the ship landed atjat night that we called him Moon- didn’t drown. At last she must have | prance the dog got off the Steamer -ndl light. He would sieep nearly all day glven “k‘l‘vfln »o.:j.l of those things no | found his way home. and go out hunting at night. hen_cou! 3 SHEBITZ, I haa_many good The fact was, Mr. Farmer had set - B MELDRBD. H. KNOWLTON, her on ducks’ eggs. After she had Mansfield Center. raised half a dozen families of ducks, she no longer worried about g B 2 ey LETTERS TO UNCLE JED, Mildred’s Pet Kitten. s toring. 1 have read it and very Interesting. Helen Frink of Norwich: I thank you very much for the “book you{ ™ awarded me enttiled %% o Use Fer Over Thirty Years CASTORIA ized at a meeting of the stockhol warned and held. for t purpos: a vote of the stockholders hold: less than two-thirds of the stock the company and subject to t proval of the public utilities con sion. Down in Dixie. I have resd it end find it very interesting. Mildred Grandy of Yantic: thanks for the interesting prize § you sent me. They were entitled Dirs Boys in Virmimia ' and Gress Harlowe's Plebe Year at High o I have read them both a&nd enjoved |/ them very much. % » Margaret McGarry of 1} thank you for that lovely piize N e e T you gave me. I enjoyed it ‘Aiucy] DOrt, &nd has lived indeed. I think sl the Ruth = serles are interesting, but Ruth Fleld- ing in Moving Pictures is the best all. fall, Ana such'things he can't telrat all. Phere o He couldn't tell you if he tried; Nor when the robins come about, Or when the buttercups peep out. .« The place to look for.moss or fern, ; things a boy can't help but learn, He knows no more of than a cat— ~Tm glad I aint so dumb as that. fany men, women and childrén suf- are found, where tishes ISAREL HEBINDEBN, Age 12 little - creatures take to the brook. ond her reach. ‘whatever, floated about, ducked their heads um- der the water, and came ashore when they feit like it. A Riddle. Bxact Little Miss Polly McCarthy Went to “a béautiful’ party;” tent lttle boys were so sweet, /tén little girls were so neat, ‘The food was delicious and hearty, The games were the best ever scen. Little Miss Geraldine Storrow Came home from a party in sorrow; .. The ten Httle. boys were “so bad. The ten little girls (oh, how sad!) —this is the Indian name for {s watching her as she says her ers beforé’ going to bed. n Showing the Strength of a Giant. i This trick is not so well known as it| The -poor ayah is very fona might be, aithough for a. while if was | Bertha. She is not a Christian, quite a popular drawing attraction for | has never prayed to the true E circus side shows and other amugement | but now, when Bertha rises -from her Places. 1t Is one of the favorite Hindu| knees, the Indian woman falls down ricks. The performer tor ex-{ upon hers, and clasping her han amination two pieces of rope ten feet vs: *Oh, good God of White Peo- Crossing. THfe school is oile and one- Ralf storles high. It has six windows in it. Each window has a pair of blinds painted gray. In the top of each blind is a half moon. The inside of the school is salmon color. There are two blackboards and a. set of maps Yantie. A Clever Hedgehog. Wers greedy;- “she hoped by tomorrow They'd know they’d been hateful and long. In one end of each ropé a large|ples! don't let Missie Baba go away ring is fastened. Taking & ring in|to England without Ayah;: but let poor fhe way of_her brood. Possibly she thought that when she Mr. and Mrs. Hedgehog lived in a snug litgle corner in the wood. One My Birthday. Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I_would It was of the world. There are a few pic- tures on the wall. Section 4—This fect from a - b tell you about my birthday. ’e 4 r; - ‘mean.’ each hand, the performer gommands|Avah go, t And Ayah's prayer | Was a chicken she had known how to thing for dinner, so 37 Out teacher’s mamie is Miss Rath C.|amendmen f Thres or 7ot e 55 Garh Son f o | e o e B pa- | swim herself, and that it was only | 0¥ L R O O e e O e oias 8 Jears old. | Moore. There are sevenieen puplis in | charter < "Tis strange, bit the beautiful party Enjoyed by Mies Poly McCarthy “Was the very same party, I'm told, .. That made little Miss Geraldine scold; The very identical party! < . Now what could the trouble have been? —AMiss Elizabeth Lincoln Gould. rope to take hold of it and t & si they pull as hard as possid Fray ble. They pa and mamma heard of it, they thought she would be the best person pull untll they are exhausted as in a|to atténd to their iittle girl on the tug of war, but the performer only | voyage. appears a trifle exerted and finds mo difficulty in holding the men. The secret is in the mse of a piece of flexible wire which passes up the LORETTO GIGUIRE. Taftville. advancing age which cut her off from this pleasure. EDWARD T. MARRA, Age 10. Bozrahville. The Posdle Dog. The poodle dog first came frofi Ger- . He roamed about for but _found nothing. And at last ke was afraid he should have to back to his wife and the little Hedienogs with no dinner for them. But he presently spied somiething on the ground: = with pink frosting and candles, ice cream and candy. 1 got two presents, 2 book and watercolors. 1 had a very good time. EDNA DAWLEY, Age 9.. Jewett City. He Goes to Broad Street Scheol. school. The oldest ones in school are fourteen years old. There are eight grades in school. There is from one up to four pupils in a grade, a boy and two girls. We have fifteen minutes recess ond @ half hour noon. We play all kinds of games at schook~ ven and Har Railroad An Ad of a Coffin. Extraordinar urn up courts as the naps the most e years has just b m ¢ e rme: A Winter Scene. many. Now they are seen in almostt “Ho, said he. “Apples! the very Dear Uncle Jed: We i1 the summer |dict in the English High [ o YHGLE JEDIS _TALK .TO WIDE- {:nsehiuscte;:dogov?: B elcens veo| As I looked through my window the | every country. TThey can ove taught|thing for the children. They will|pant a garden this ot e o DY foon i P By Ellen Robinson, a widow . AWAKES. ing just inside of the coat sieere’ At|view was entrancing. The branches|many tricks. They are g00d water|soon have their dinner now. ‘We had Faster vacation last week. JULIA MONTY, Age 10. |Lithgow, the executor of 4 dead n % the ends of the wire are small hooks.|Of the trees in the farm-yard were | 90%S and are very bright. But, oh, dear me! he very soon| On Easter Sunday I got a pansy at| Piainfield. will, appeared ae plaintiffs agn Perhaps you will feel a sense of 5ur- | When about to perform this trick the| Weighted with downy smow. It aiso| THis is a story to illustrate the clev-| found’ he could not even carry one|the church. TR universal provider regard - prise to be told that animals hear a |performer puts on'a pair of glovés. The| Was heaped in drifting banks. The| ©T7ess of one of them. apple in his mouth, and one apple| We all sang an Easter hymn on the Gléd Spring Has Come. coffin of the late lamented Mr. ¥ t ds h - |gloves are siit in ‘the paim: o huge icicles on the edge of the roofs| An English gentieman was once|youian’t be nearly enough. What|platform of the church. 4 ¢ |inson, wha cremated July great many sounds human beings can. paims to allow .crossing a bridge in France. All at ” 2 Dear Uncle. Jed I am d tha A L " =g the hooks to pass through. The hooks | 37d, the giistening snow on the roofs|Gile’se teit something rubbing asainst 41d Be do? jeave the dimmer behind| I eo to Broad street school I am|,. iug is here. Hirds have come intifts arranged that' def : are covered "with cloth, colored to|Of the many wooden structures gave|PHCSbS, folf SomELnIng FRONINE QERINSE | him? Not he! ust “sp: o srade SEine 1n Bate . Bieds bave' come d mae s 1 Sound travels_over 1,000 feet a sec- [maich the gloves. An essential point | the landscape a “Fairy Land” appear- | U5 9%, FC G0keC COWE 20C, (COih | those Iittle splicy duills ail over his Namg%m B. TALBOT, Age R L nd were to provid 2 ond in' the air, and four times as fast to remember in performing the frick ance. mud. body, and then rolled amongst A Kind lady tamed the sparrows o tion coffin with an inserip i " Y, , . It was stipulated tha in water; but the air can earry music, |18 0 keep the ‘fingers well around the| AREL DTN AV ) tleman became very angry|aPples. Of course some stuck fast o ould €at out of her hands and fIt " i or harmeny of sound. while eater dues |TINES to- Drevent the ropes from drop.| Nerwith. and wanted 1o hit the doz, but ihe | on the spikes, and off he ran, as happy et she put.some crumbs in her hat and |tion plate was to be X » S ping in case of a slack-up on the ten- o Ay, When be Sassed the |2 little hedgehog ss ever You saw,| Dear Uncle Jed: I had a fine school | $0° DUl "ome Srumie the coffin. At the cremation not. A bell rung under water sounds|sion. > George's Trick. o T o i Dooliiae ang | with his family's dinmer sticking on | vacation. I live on a farm. We built BT DROSOFSKE, Age 7. |and the cofin handies were ta like two piaces ©f metal struck to- 2 LILLIAN M. BREHAUT. George lived in the far west. There | ot his boots cleaned. Every time he | his back. Wasn't that clever? & wiéwhin and ecslled ourssives (B8] Norwich Tow N o s O, okt - ity T 0 e S e e r WILLIAM EOURRY, Age 0. | O erc was another tribe living mear i ihe inscription plate to an Gnde A horse is of great service on army mother sent him fo a school many |covered with mud by the little dog. Glasgo. e A b iy A Penny. b ey o €2 bR 20 e Wha Are the Patriots? miles away. One day when the dog rubbed mud A 2 - o % Aret dit ot ise’ aa srtisement & outposts because he can hear a sound | p, . VY - . Wit Goiah cibustiod 1| ont €e mentieman’s boots ha wabched We made bows and arrows, and then | Dear Uncle Jed: 1 was firs duly placed in the undertaker's e s N s T ere is_something wronz in think- “und moiner were sitting | him. He saw that the dox ran down Seut Wosks sht Qepiow:Cans. War upon the Mohawk |piece of copper in the White House in |dow. The long arm of colncidence 1o man who is posted far out in the country of the enemy at night doesm’t ing that soldiers and saflors are the oniy patriots. What shall we say_of the women who do not fight? What his father and mother were sitting in the parlor. sister were His little brother and playing near the fire. to the water and covered himself with mud and then rubbed everyone’s boots who weft by the bridge. Then he On the southern side of that beauti- ful entrance to- San Francisco bay known as the Golden Gate stands the 1t was a fierce war, Their tribe had knives and darts while we only had Washington when an old man picked me up. When he picked me up first 1 was square and then I was put into rths after nto terfered some m. Robinson gazing the inscription describing her & the winde hall we say of Martha Washi “Let's play hide and seek,” said his . L a, then a , wast , bother to listen but lets his horse/do | whe was o e ing tout, - saw how the dog ran over to his mas- | CIiff house. It is locatéd on a Clff réo- | bows and arrows. But we won the|a machine and made round, then on the original plate: suit was ¥t for him. He dlsmounts, stands/be- | while hor wabeicq 10, Stay at home litlle Hster ot indeed” saia|ter. the bootblack, ana the master pat- |mg abruptiy from the sea. and the | War all the sime Indian was put upon me and then 1909.1for trespass and breach of side his horse upon the ground and ? places his hand high up near the ears of the horse. When he throws his ears up it is time for his rider to re- mount, and he does not hear the sound of marching companies or of prancing loofs for eeveral minutes—a signal for Lim to return to a point of safety. A dog or a cat can hear sounds that i their masters cannot.” When in a ciose ; oity room a Boston bull terrfer will : hear the ‘footsteps of a dog on the . pavement on the opposite side of the ttreet and recognizé them as belonging to the dog family. Those familiar “with animals can tell when they hear sounds which they-do not by the manner in which they prick Jup ‘their ears.and listen. Moat Of you have Heard an echo. This repeating of soupd is caused by “the striking of the sound waves against some nearby obstruction, and returning -to our ears. Nature in the echo pro- fuced the first phonograph. It man had not carefully studied -sound pe could Bot have produced music; not only the birds who were the first musicidns helped him, but the sounds of the hammers of metal- workefs were the forerunners of the brass bands. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—John Burrill, of Stafford Springs - ‘a iness asset #fhat, skio-treuble may be more than of suffering and embarrassment may be holding you back in the business world, keeping yoo out of a Better job for which a good appearance ‘Why ““take a chance™ when 1 o7 slanple @i ccdbmtca] touse 7. 1 w i at Valley orge? What shall we say of thous- ands of women who sent their broth- ers and sons to fight for liberty? Were not these women as good as patriots? George. “When a fellow goes to schiool he has something better to think of than games. George saw two large apples on the A multitude of men were never sol- diers or sailors, yet were patriots. There was Benjamin Franklin for in- stance. He never fought, but. who loved America better than he? Then there was Washington's friend, Rob- ert Morris of Philadelphia, who helped et money to pay the soldiers. Thousands of brave men risk_their lives to save others from harm. Brave doctors and nurses go where deadly disease is. Brave engineers are not afraid of sudden death if they can vave their passengers from accidents. Brave firemen stand ready to die to bring little _children out of burning buildings. Brave boys every summer risk their lives to save their comrades from drownins. Brave fellows hold in check maddened horses and prevent them from running away with women and children. Brave women risk their lives for the sake of others. Wherever we see a brave man, or woman, or child, there we look for a patriot—Unsigned. A at My Grandmether's. Monday, the second of April, my fa- ther hitched up the horse and said that he would take my sister and myself down to my grandmother’s, who lives in Norwich. We packed our suitcase and were soon started. We had a Dleasant ride. When we reached my grandmoth- er's, she was waiting for us on the porch. My sister and 1 had not seen her since Thanksgiving so we were glad to be able to stay a few days. Af- ter my father went home we w the store and bought some things. Then went back. < Tuesday night my aunt and my dmother took us to the Breed ieatre. There were two pictures, one a long one and the other the twelfth chapter of a serial picture. g ‘Wednesday we stayed at home and sewed and read. Thursday afternoon we bought a pot of tulips and took to my aunt. We visited there a little while and then ‘we went to the Davis theéatre. It was awfully crowded but we secured seats. The big picture was not very good, but the rest was fine. Friday my mother was coming after us, but_it rained so she could not come. We embroidered and played in the house all day. Saturday was a fine day, but my mother was busy and could not come. Sunday morning my aunt went to church and ‘in the afterncon my mother and father came after us. We arrived _home about 4 o'clock. MILDRED GRANDY, Age 11. Yantie. § A Country Girl in the City. InA htirl Jike me ;‘vlho has -:'IYO llv‘l': the country just e 2 qu little village meets q':fl-hm puz- zling experiences when she. comes to a large city. I the country I could 1y along the sidewalks chat as long as I wi farmers. Then stroll sometimes a stray cow broken down the:fence and - out into the road. & In the city I things very aif- he with th ‘mee! to| the bread was. table. “1 can make those two apples into three apples,” he said to his fath- er. “Let me “Indeed see you do it “That is one " sald George,” and that is two apples, and one and two are three.” “Very well,” said his father. “Your little sister may have the first one, your little brother the second, and you may have the third.” George neéver tri id his father, ted him. The gentleman now knew that this view from its broad, ehady piazza: overlooking the apparently boundiess Once upon a time a lilac bush grew Ly a child’s window. There was no garden there, only a little bit of ground with a few green things in it, and be- cause there were no trees in the crowd- ed streets the birds perched on the lilac - |bush to sing and two of them hid a What Alice Did. Once upon a time thers lived a lit- tle girl named Alice. One day as she was playing with her doll her mother called her to g0 to the store. For it was near dinner time and her mother wanted a loaf af bed. So Alice put her hat and coat on and started for the store. When she got in the store 2nd was about {0 ask the man for her bread she saw some nice lolly pops in_She ?-e.‘ms%m':mz jer mother wouldn’t mi she it & big lolk DOAp hllt?lld. y g s she was going home eat- ing her lolly pop, her mother hap- pened to be looking out of the win- dow, and saw Alice eating the lolly pop. She was surprised not to see the bread. When she went in_the’ House, her mother asked her where 1 She did not like to tell her, so-she said she had bought a tolly pop. e told her that she would never do it again if her moth- er would férgive her. R LAVIVIERE, Age 11. Love Or Duty. In a little village one summer day 2 man ‘walked up and down siong ihis cabin, He was a switchmzn. It Was his duty to waich the signals of the down trains when they came. He was now waiting for the down train to appear, but the down trains were often late. So thinking he had plenty of time he lighted his pipe, leaned against hfy cabin and smoked away. Suddenly he heard a rumible—a roar. It was the down train. “She is on time today,” said he. Not far off between the rails he saw his young- est boy at play. Not far, but too far. There was not a moment to spare. If he had waited to get the child the train would be wrecked, and many lives lost. So trusting his child to Ged, he turned the switch and the down train was saved. The train had mot touch- a hair. , There are several plants or trees om whose eap wugac is made One is"the Maple tree. é sugar season begins in the spring as soon as the| sap commences to circulate in the nest away in its branches for want of a2 larger tree. 1t had been a happy lilac bush ali its life, drinking in moisture from the carth and making it into sap; adding each year a tiny bit of wood to its siender trunk; filling out its leat buds: and then—oh, happy, happy time!— hanging purple flowers here and fhere among its branches. It always felt repaid for its hard work when Hester came to gather some of the flowers just before Easter Sunday, for one spray went to the table where Hester and her mother até togetiher, one went to Hester's teacher, one to the gray stone church around the corner and cne to a little jame girl who sat quite still all day by the window of the next nouse. But one vear the lilac bush grew tired of being good and working hard, and the more it thought about it the sorrier and sadder and more discour- aged it grew. The winter had been dark and rainy; the ground was so wet that its Toots felt slippery and un- comfortable; there was some disagree- growing on its smooth the sun almost never shone; the birds came out but seldom, and at last the lilac bush eaid: “I'm going to I won’t do a thing for Easter this year. I don't care if my trunk doesri’t grow, nor my buds swell, nor my leaves grow larger. If Hester wants her room shaded she may puit her curtains down, and the lame girl can—she cah the lilac was going to say “do without” but it didn’t quite dare to think of the little lame girl without any comforting flowers, so it imfllwd thinking and hung its Six _or eight weeks ago Hester and her miother went out to see the lilac bush one morning. “It doesn’t look as well as it ought,” said Hester, shaking her head sadly. “There aré oniy a few buds and they are -all shrunken and shriveled, and see how Hmp and flabby the stems of the leaves look.” “Per- bape it is dead” sald Hester's mother, T perhaps it s too old to bloom. “T like that!” thought the Klac bush. “Fm not dead and I'm not dving, al- though I'd like about as soon die as 0 keep on working through this damp, They” cail . And as for bein. past ey call it. And as past blooming—I'd like to show her that it isw’t so much trouble! How old does ::; think 1.am, I wonder? There isn't thing in this part of the city that is over ten years oid, and I wasn’t the THE EASTER LILAC about me. It starts my sap flowing and I shall grow in spite of myself.” “Let us see what we can do.to help the bush along,” said Hester's mother. “Take your trowel and dig around the roots first.” (“They’ll find a wet, sticky place and be better able to sympathize thought the iilac.) ‘hen put in some new earth, the richest you can get, and we'll snip off the withered leaves and dry twigs and see if they don’t take a new start.” shall have to, 1 believe, if they don’t stop making such a fuss about, me,” tho the Iflac. bush. pity if a thing can’t stop growing and Dbe let alone so that it can dle if it wants to.” But though the Hiac grum- bicd a little at first, it felt so much better after Hester and her mother had | cjick and- the poor little mouse was |roads drew up a bill to me: spent an afterncon doing things to comfort it that it began to grow a little. just out of gratitude. Then seve things happened; the sun shone; the earth that Hester had brought gave everything it had to give for sap, and the warm air dried up the ugly moss that had disfigured the trunk and branches. The lilac bush was glad 1 wonder if all the other boys and girls had as nice a vacation as.J. RAYMOND ANDERSON, Age 10. Norwich. Scribble Scrabble. Dear Uncle Jed: There was a little mouse named Scribble Scrabble. He lived under the floor of the night nur- sery. He made a hole in the floor. In the night when the children were asieep he would come out and eat the scraps that they had left there. He grew bolder and bolder and one night he came before the nurse had taken the light awas. e chifdren knelt beside the bed and watched him. When _the nurse came in for the candle Secribble Scrabble like lightning. The children told the nurse the mouse. She di thing but looked ve: the candle away. were asleep she came back with a tiny trap which she baited with a ran about v any- wise and took en_the children the hole. The mouse soon smelt it and came out. Poor Scribble Scrabble! When he was eating the cheess there came a was = very —much Gaught fast. He spent a miserable frightened. He night there. The.. children awoke early the next wmorning and saw their dear litile mouse in the trap. h!” sald Eilie and she pressed the spring of the trap and away ran Scribble Scrabble. 1 was brought to a store on Hizh street and a little boy came bought four lollypops and gave store keeper five_cents and he gave me to the boy. When he was g..ng home he had to pass a wood anJ he dropped me. A poor man picked me up and put me in his pocket. He was on his way to chu put me in the poor box in Sr. Pars church, which i« on Broadway. And T was given to a poor lady with a lot of other pennies, and she enj yed me very much. And that was the cnd of me. MARY DONEGAN, Norwieh, K8 Age 2. NEW HAVEN WANTS TO ISSUE PREFERRED STOCK Joint Committes on Railroads Will Hold Hearing Next Wednesday. Hartford, Conn., April 18 —Author- “IU's 2| siece of toasted cheese and set it near |ity to issue preferred stock to pay indebtedness was asked of the general assembly today by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad 'com- pany and the joint committeg on rail- this de- sire, and set next Wednesday as the date for the hearing’ upon it. The measure would authorize the is- suance at par of $100 of not more than 500,000 shares of stock of the company mreferred as to dividends not to exceed sgven per cent. per an- num -payable semi-annually, and cu- mulative to dividends should the again, and it set out to grow as fast| When nurse told about the cunning |net imeome of the company not be as it could. It knew it would be be- wmouse at breakfast Ellie and Babs sufficient in any vear to meet such hind time, anyway, because it had lost [looked at each other and never said |requirements. many a day standing still and grum- Bling. So it made sap all day long and the leaves and buds grewgand finajly Jilacs began to group its Hower buds up among the branches. By this time it was the week befors Eastér and the lilac almost sat up nights to work. Hester said to her mother: “It is go- ing to be prettier than it ever was be- fore,” and that wae true, for it had never worked so hard before, théi of course Hester didn't know that. was afraid, though, that it wouldn't bloom soon enough, it was so very late this spring. One morning, the very last one be- fore Easter Sunday, Hester turned in ker sleep and dreamed that a sweet pe o Wwas coming in at her window. In 2 minute she awoke and ran across her room, and what do you think? Ev- ery clyster of buds on the lilac bush had opened into purple flowers and they were waving in the morning sun- shine as if to say: “We are ready, Hester. We are ready, after al And so, as usual, one epray was pinned on the teacher's dress (It was shabby and black, and she was glad of the flower, because it reminded her of home), and one Spray was put on the dining table. (There was aever very much to eat at Hester's_house, but the little girf and her mother did & word. Scribble Bcrml.(l:vz: o8 goed oié age and never went into a trap again. JOHN BURRILL, PN Age 9. Stafford Springs. Where the Dandelion Came From. Dear Uncle Jed: Now that it is al- most time for the dandelions, - haps the Wide Awakes would ifke to ".z- how the first dandelions came to, Years and yedrs aso lived in the sky. Their mother was the moon. One night the mother cal ed to the little stars to shi but they ‘were nau They only hung their heads and looked cross. Now the mother_thought of a way to punish them. She got some good little stars to take their places, and the naughty ones felt themselves fall- to the earth. 'hen they reached the earth they were sorry for being naughty, and eried and cried themselves to sieep. The next morning when thev awoke they cried and cried again. The Sun asked them why they were sad. “They told him How naughty -they had been and how their mother pun- ished them. Then the sun said: “Don’t cry any m but shine on the earth and make it utiful. ‘Now every morning when the little many stars The issue of preferred shares must be authorized by stockholders repre- senting at least two-thirds of the cap- ital stock, and approved by the pub- Mc utilities commission of Connecti- cut. The text of the bill follows: Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives in general as- sembly convened: Bection 1—The New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford Raiiroad company i8 hereby authorized, for the purpose of paying its indebtedness, to issue for cash at not less than par, shares of the preferred stock of the par value of one hundred dollars each, the hold- ers of which shall -be entiiled to re- ceive out of the annual net income of said company dividénds’ of not ex- ceeding. seven per, cent. per annum Payable smirannually, whether oF not_the company shali at the time of such payment have an actual s plus, and it the. met income of any year shall not be sufficient to pay said dividends the same may be cumulative ana payable,out of the net’income ‘of any subsequent yea ection 2—The shares of this pre terred stock shall not exceed five hun dred thousand and may be | der such provisions for future retire- ment’ or. exchange for common stock as may be prescribed by the directors. Section 3—No such issue of prefer not care that day—they were thinking | stars awake, they shineé in the grass|req stock shall be made unless author. how besutifu! the flowers were.) Omne bunch went to the church, and the loveliest bunch of ail stood in a cup of water on the lame girl's window sill the and are happy. We call them dands lions.. GERTRUDE FONTAINE, Age 9. © Nerwich. My Scheel. : Dear Uncie Jed: Just a line to_ let you know that as I looked in the Nor- ch ad he | warded for and the jury trespass And $ The First Tariff. 1t is belleved that 1s of Moorish origin, duty placed the southern out into the promontors commanads terranean Sea. A fortress on this promontory, called in of the Moorish domination § “Tarifa” It was the custom and Wit of Gl h entrance Moors to watch from this point merchant ships passing an, Autles according 1o a fixed scale merchandise passing in and out straft. The duty thus i a the word “t trom its _ p whegi breack f name from the place and was tarifa or tariff.—Family Herald Lace was known in Venice early period, and was not ur te the Greeks and the Homan ferent. When I downtown she The sap is> obtained by boring a all about|wich Bulletin and read all the 1ittl B R e o g | o TS it ik Ko iy S0, & oSy e B ey 7| e T oo T30 T 2 | Safe Mille S have used other treatments with | - Ons_day I desired to see a dentist | deep, placing in this an_iron _spile, a|School. . . -+ | Wor tatants, 5 | Sragiun whose room number was sixty-six. On | containivg a hook to whieh @ bucket ; 1t s & Jittle white schooihouse about | The Originel Food-Drisk o the first fioor 2 attached. : had Jofft | one and & miles from Piainfield| - . .- s peered out at me fra s — e o .Theé sap is gathered and put and & Quarter of a mile from Bishop’s — —— — »