Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 1, 1917, Page 10

~ORWICH BULLETIN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1917 THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE BOYS AND GIBLS DEPARTMENT Rules for Young Writers. 1. Write plainly on one side of the vaper only, and number th 2. Use pen and ink, not penci 3. Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do not use over 230 words. 4 - Original stories or letters only will be used, 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story. Address all communications tu Uncle Jed, Bulletin Office. “Whatever you are—Be that! Whatever you say—Be truel Straightforwardly act, Be_honest—in fact, Be nobody else but you." POETRY. When Leaves Flutter Down. By Eliza E. Hewitt. the sweet brooding calm of the beautiful days When leaves flutter down to their rest! Each morning enwreathed with a soft purple haze, Each night with a star on its breast. Oh, Happy days of thanksgiving, for gar- ners are full With gifts from the hands of the Lord; In times when he giveth his snow like the wool, We'll feast at his bountiful board. Fair hopes and bright joys, like the leaves, fade, And loved ones fall sweetly aslee] “Fear not,” the dear Master will tes derly say, “Your treasures I safely will keep.” For the peace of the days that lie close to the frost Is a peaceful token of love, And a hint of the blessings a little while lost, To bloom in the garden above. A Chine School. The little boys in Chinese schools Have very odd and curious rules. To us it hardly would seem right To turn our backs when we recite. And fancy what a din and noise A schoolroom full of little boys Al studying out loud would make! ©Oh, how the teacher's ears must ache! too, how queer must be, Written from back to front, you see, AH up and down the page, instead Of straight across, as ours are read! How strange to use a paintbrush, too, And not a pen, as we all do! They’d think us dunces there, I fear, Our lessons are so different here. —The Minneapolis Tribune. their Then, z books' UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- . AWAKES, Do you know that no one really knows what kerasene oil is. It has been called rock oil and it took man ages to discover its usefulness and ‘worth. It has been thoroughly investigated and some scholars find evidences that it is the ofl of plants and others that it is the oil of fish and others that it is the oil of animals, and it really looks as If kerosene oil was a combi- nation of everything oily that existed in ancient times. One writer says he believes the flowing oil of the United States and Canada, (which runs at the rate of hundreds of millions of harrels a year) is the product of living crea- tures. In the olden times when the earth was young and growing the seas contained a million times more fishes than they do today, and that in some earthquake these were swallowed up and under pressured made the great reservoirs of oil being drawn upon to- day to furnish fuel and light and lu- TOMMY TIDD. ‘| Tyrolese O what is the hope of our nation, The hope of this land of the free? “Tis the parents’ and teachers’ devo- tion To the children, for in them we see The bulwark and strength of country, Their hands will its destiny hold, The pride and the boast of our coun- try, Its future, the children will mould. —Sarah Martyn Wright. our THE DRAWING CONTEST 11 Prizes Every Second Month Pictures to the width of a col- umn of The Bulletin or of two columns. - Pencil or inlk—no color Write name and address plainly on back of drawing, otherwise you may not get credit. PRESENT CONTEST CLOSES OCTOBER 23rd bricants to the world. The crude afl fuel of our great manufactories anad steamships today is the product’ of fish and animal life that was be- yond counting a million years ago. Kerosene is ancient oil not made by ‘man. : Counting time as geologists do by rock formations a jillion years is not o0 _very long ago. Disputing with others Lord Kelsey sald he believed this world was only thirty million years old, but he couldn’t prove this. any better than the others could prove that its age was a hundred million vears. Sclentists can tell you what they find in.kerosene oil but they cannot tell what its origin was. This is what they tell you kerosene is: “A product of petroleum,” and pe- troleum is “a volatile hydro-carbon.” Clear as mud, isn't it? And this is as clear as they can make it. They might just as well say it' is wonderful, and let it go at that. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—James Currier of Versailles, The Boy Allles at Jutland. 2—Sophie Musial of Mansfleld Cen- ter, Ruth Prentice. 3—Isadore Riben of Mansfleld Cen- ter, The Boy Allies in the Baltic. 4—William A. Wheeler of Packer The Boy Allies Under the Sea. 5—Anna Corcoran of®Lowell, Mass., Bertha’s Summer Boarders. 6—Rose A, Demuth of Baltic, Mildred and Elsie. 7—Leona Sullivan of Taftville, Ruth Fielding Down ir Dixie. 8—Alfred Lister of Plainfield, The Boy Allles With the Cossacks. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Doris C. Parsons, Providence, R. L: I have received the prize book which you semt me as a prize for my letter of Oct. 4th. I am very pleased with it, and thank you very much. Josephine Borovicka of Storrs: Thank you very much for the prize book you sent me entitled The Boy Scouts on_ Sturgeon Island. 1 have read it and found it very interesting. Roscoe D. Fisher of North Stoning- ton: I thank you for the book you gave me as a prize. I have thoroughly en- joyed what I have read of it. I may send more stories to you later. William Cotter of Willimantic: I re- ceived the prize book and I thank you very much for it. It is very interezt- ing. . STORIES WRITTEN AWAKES. A Hike Through the Woods. It was 10.45 a. m. Sunday morning when five other girls and I started for a hike through the woods. We brought a lunch with us. After we walked about a mile and a half we came to a good place for a rest. As the road we gook was along the side of the river we were all hungry We sat down to eat our lunch which consisted of sandwiches, cookies, cof- fee, watermelon, and candies. We zlso had soda. After having a very good time we 8ot ready to come home. It was 3.30 p. m., when we started hofleward. We went a different road for a ways. We saw some blackberries and stopped to pick some. We went around the bushes and stepped into an ants’ hill. That stopped us picking berries. ‘Then walking a little further we came to some more bushes. They were loaded and we stopped to pick some more. Another girl and I were in back of all the other: Just as we got to the bushes we heard someone call. We ran to see who it was. When we got there we saw one of the girls run- ning_swiftly away. _ Inquiring, we found she had stepped in a bee’s nest. She had lost her slipper in the nest. After getting the slipper, which was quite a job, we started for home again. ‘When we got to the house of one of the girls we put witch hazel and per- oxide on her face and arms for she got stung very badly. After bidding one and all a fare- well we went our way. We were all glad to get home. ROSE ALMA DEMUTH. Baltic. BY WIDE- The Boy Who Forced Back an Army. In the war which the French made upon the Tyrolese, people who lived in the northeast of Italy, the French soldiers attacked a village on _the bank of the River Ard. The village could only be reached by crossing a swiftly flowing river rushing along the bottom of a ravine. Across the ravine lay the trunk of Signaling, or Wigwagging, by Claude Robinson of Norwich. $0.75. to kill his dog, but Florence Nightin- gale insisted on nursing the dog. She w: always kind to sick and poor people. She was always thinking and talking about nursing, so she de- termined to train herself as a nurse. “She went to Germany to a training school. In those days the nurses were ignorant and coarse; but Florence Nightingale was wealthy and _ had many friends in society. She visited all the great hospitals in Europe. There was a fight between Russia and Turkey in 1854, for Russia wanted scme parts of the Turkish territory. She was especially anxious to get con- trol of the Bosphorus so that her war- ships could sall from the Mediterra- nean sea to the Black sea. At the end of this great conflict there were many a tree which had been cut down @n the bank and allowed to fall so that its trunk rested on the farther end and therefore formed a bridge. Three hundred men and a boy named Albert - Specikbacher guarded the tridge. As the French advanced the bezan to hew down the tridge with axcs; but the bullets of the French,sold‘ers fell thick and fast and one after another of the brave men fell. Among the dead was Albert's father. Albert tooV his fathers place. The tridge was nearly down. A few mare strokes of the axe snd there would be no way for the Irench to pass. Seizing an axe, Alhert faced the fire from the French guns ~nd hewed the tree at the peril of his lif was only one small piece left moment Albert gave v'p his life for his country. He threw down his ave ond jumped down on tre tree with > force that his weight snapped ti plece still holding it in place and bridge and the boy fell into the rive- The French set up a_ monument to tell how bravely he died. © ANNA CORCORAN! Lowell, Masa. . Why Connecticut is Called the Nutmeg State. In the early colonial days men came around to the settlements of southern Massachusetts and Connecticut selling nutmegs. Now these nutmegs looked like nut- megs in size and shape, but they were not real nutmegs. They were small pleces of wood carved to make them look like nutmegs. % ‘When this fact became known the government tried to put a stop to the selling of these nutmegs, but as these men had become quite numerous they bad quite a time getting rid of them. & JOSEPHINE BOROVICKA. torrs. Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, but lived all of her life in England except when on the cali of duty. She always liked pets and was always on friendly terms with squirrels ‘and birds. day an old Scotch shepherd was wounded soldiers lying sorely neglected in_Crimea. ‘When the war secretary heard of the wounded soldiers he wrote a letter to Florence Nightingale asking her to take charge of the sorely neglected soldiers. Florence Nightingale had written a letter to the war secretary the day be- fcre she received the letter from him volunteering to go. She got 38 more nurses and went to Scutari, where she could take good care of the soldlers. There were bar- racks which were made into hospitals, where the wourded soldiers were, and the nurses took good care of them. LILLIAN KLECAK, Age 13. West Willington. Grandmother’s Remedy. “Girls don’t have to do anything, declared Bobby as he sat down with his grandmother in a room. “Girls don’t have to feed hens or fill the wood bex. I wish I were a girl, so I do!” “Girls. don’t have to do anything!” exclaimed Grandma_ Stone in surprise. “Well, well, well! You come with me a minute, Bobby, and we'll see if you are right.” Bobby followed Grandmother into the sitting room; but when they #)t there both were surprised, for sitting ir_the big rocker was Beth, her eyes tull of tears. “I wish I were a boy, same as Bob- by!” she said sorrowfully. “I'm tired &s anything of dusting rooms. Boys don’t- have to dust or mend stockings or-do anything' Oh, dear, dear, dear!” and - Beth hid her curly head in the duster and sobbed. “Well, I never daid!"” exclaimed Grandma. “Suppose you do Bobby's work today and he will do yours. I know that he will be delighted to change places with you.” But would you believe it? was mistaken, for Bobby head. “I'm_going to feed my hens my- self,” he sald. Beth wiped her tears in a hurry. “Girls never flll woodboxes,” she mur- mured. They both laughed. So vyou see, Grandmother's remedy was a good one after all. % LEONA SULLIVAN, Age 12. Taftville. > The at the Window. Dear Uncle Jed: It was one night while we were eating our supper we heard a rattling on the window. We looked and saw a sparrow flying Grandma shook his Second prize, around the window, so I opened the window. When I opened it the bird fell down to the ground, so I took a lantern and went outside to find the bird. When I came to the window I could rot find the bird Then I looked and saw it on the window sill. I brought it into the house and wanted to keep it in the house through the night, but my father said my Mrs. Tabby cat would eat it up. It was a cold night, so_I did not want to let it outside. My father said the poor bird would only lose its life and that was a pity, so I threw it up in the air to sée if it ceuld fly. It did not fly but fell to the ground. The next morning when I tried to find it I could not find it. SARAH SCHATZ, Age 9. Yantic. Accidents Wkich Made Fortunes. How to mak:> starch from corn was discovered by Thomas Kingsford, a mechanic, accidentally. One day he threw a mess of cornmeal mush into the garbage pail. His wife emptied some lye into the same pail and in the morning when he emptied the pail he was astonished to find a small quantity of starch at the bottom. Thomas Boisover, a _Shefiwd me- chanic, was mending the handle of a knife made of copper and silver. He saw these metals fused together and the idea of silver plating was born in his mind. He laid a thin plate of silver cn a heavier one of copper and heated them till the edge of the silver began to melt. He took them from the fire, ler them cool slightly. then rolled and hammered them to the desired thick- ness. This was the origin of “Sheffield rlate,” all of which was made in this way until electroplating was invented, Cornelius Dubbel Jeft a bottle of aquaregia (a mixture of nitric and muriatic acids) on a shelf. It fell over. the acid ran down over a window and dropped into a bottle containing an extract of cochineal. This turned to a vivid scarlet. Dubbel found that the acid had dissolved some of the tin of the window casing and the combina- tion had produced the new color. A few experiments added the most bril- liant color to the list of dyes. WILFRED LISTER, Age 12. Plainfield. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. A Hallowe’en Party. Dear Uncle Jed: I wili tell you about our school. I go to the Model School and am in the Fifth grade. There are thirty-nine scholars fn my room. I have three very nice teach- ers, besides the drawing and music teachers, w0 are very nice, also. We are going to have a Hallowe'en party on Hallowe’en. - RUTH POLUVAL. Willimantfe. Hazel’'s Vacation. Dear Uncle Jed: T will tell you about my summer vacation. I worked in the hay lot, after it got dry in the after- noon I helped rake. When they finish- ed loading it they went down and I rode on the load. When they came back I did the same thing again. After we finished having I played in my playhouse. ¥ tools my dishes to Knm‘f;r the' Boys e THE PICTURE CONTEST PRIZE- WINNERS. During the picture contest for Sep- tember and October there were 50 contesting pictures, eleven of which win prizes and thirteen contestants receive honorable mention. The Bulletin is very much pleased i with the excellence of the pictures, and the evidence of wide interest taken in this department Prize Winning Pictures. 1—Knitting Socks for the Boys of 1917, by Catherine E. Kirby, age 11, of Norwich. Prize $1.00. 2—Signaling;, or Wigwagging, Claude Robinson of Norwich. 0.75. 3—Monarch of the Air, by age 12, of Norwich. by Prize Lillian Prize 4—A Merry Hallowe’sn, by Cather- ine E. Kirby of Norwich. Prize $0.75. 5—Ready to Serve His Country, by Burrill of Stafford Springs. orm, by Mary A. Burrill of Stafford Springs. Prize $0.25. 7—I'm. Uncle Sam, by Eisie Church, age 12, of Norwich. Prize $0.25. S—Charlie Chaplin, by Anthony Con- nell, Norwich. Prize $0.25. 9—Back Again, by Robert Sage, of Norwich. Prize $0.25. 10—The Lady, by Claude Robinscn orwich. Prize $0.25. 11—Dobbin, by Helen K. Klingon, age 15, of Colchester. Prize $0.25. Honorable Mention. Claude Robinson, of Norwich, age 15, pictures of Wilson and Taft. Joseph Jackson, of Norwich, Old Dobbin. Helen R. Klingon, of Colchester, The Family Horse. Elsie Davidson, of Norwich, Human Interest. Grace A. Burrill, of Stafford Springs, Miss Liberty Maria_Whitford, of Norwich, The Winter_Sport and Fatty Arbuckle, Etta Rondreau, of Jewett City. Right { 'rom Paris. Ida Slosberg, of Norwich, The Busle Call. Rose Egan, of Willimantic, Feeding the Birds. Rae Gordon of Norwich, Can't Be Cured. Dorothy Sneeston, of Providence, R. L Guarding His Home. Geraldine Gareau, of Southbridge, Mass. Join the Red Cross. Austin Smith, of Yantic. and A Coast Guard. it should be borne in mind that the next contest closes the second week in December so that the contestants may have their prize money in time for Christmas. Louis of A Vision a little brook a little wavs from the house and: washed them with soap and water. , Then I brought them back and wiped them and put them away. HAZEL McDANIELS, Age 10. Mansfield Center. Rough Boys—A Kid Doctor. Dear Uncle Jed: Last night I went to see the doctor. The boys at our school are very rough. They knock- ed me down and three or more jump- ed on me at once. This was more than I could stand. I have never been well and strong like the other boys. I like school if I can be used right. T like books. The doctor was very pleasant.- He showed me a sample of salt he brought from the mines. He also showed me stalks of sugar eane, cotton pods with cotton, showing white, large heads or stalks of rice; he gave me one of each which I shall keep as they all came from the south. I like to hear him talk about them. T liked this doctor very mpuch. 1 have had and been to seven. Some I don't like. WILLIAM A. WHEELER, Age 12. Packer. Isadore’s Vacation. Dear Uncle Jed: T will tell about my vacation. This summer I went to Hartford twice. The first time T went I did nothing but eat candy, ice cream, bread and bananas, eggs and, drank soda water: but the second time I sold about five dozen eges and three chick- ens. I also had the same good time as in_the beginning of my trips. 1 also rode to Willington, Chaplin, Mansfield and Ashford to collect the eges, but'er and cheese. ‘At home I chopped wood, tried to fix our smal' barns when I was plav- ing and made a dump cart. I will tell you how I made it I took four big wheels off a buggy. put a pole in the middle of the axles and bolted both sides; then I put on sticks to keep the back whsls from turning sideways. then I made a low box of old boards and fastened it on with hinges that I took from the old broken barn. When this was done I made a no'e to which T had two pull- ing _whiffletrees and one _backing whiffletree. Then I made a fiag har- ness by takinz eight red, white and blue strines and braiding them into a long string with which T made reins and Dutch coliars for pulling. In this way I had a splendid vacation. TSADORE RIBEN, Age 10. Mansfield Center. you Lena’s Best Time. Dear Uncle Jed: This summer when I was sitting in the shade of a tree one day, I heard my mother calling me: “Lena, Lena.” 1 hurried to the house to see what she wanted. When I got In T saw my mother, sister-in-law. and two of my broth- ers. with their bathing suits on their arms. 1 then knew what she wanted. She vanted me to stay home and take > of the babies. ~ I say bables. be- ~nuea T had to take care of my little he~thes and my little nephew: Protty soon I saw my sister-in-law ~min~ bock. and I thought that some- hinz had happened. . But I = soon lrarned (bat mamma was waiting for e over there so I could go swim- mine, so my sister-in-law took care of 'the children. When T got there I had the loveliest time T ever had. We swam. picked clam shel's and even raced, we were S0 jollv and happy. When we zot home we found my big brother (hush-nd_to Minnie, my sis: ter-in-law). already home. He sent Minnie here for three weeks, he having a job in Hartford, came ev- ery Saturday apd went back every Sunday afternoén. Pretty soon my father and my brother, Abraham, came home from Willimantic and we had a fine time at sunpet This has been the best time Y had this summer. LENA SCHWAITZBERG. Mansfleld. 8 Nellle's Uncle Visits Her. Dear Uncle Jed: I write to tell you about my vacation. My father wrote to my ‘uncle and asked him if he would like to come to our house and stay for a week or two. My uncle did 'not write back again, only came and stayed for a amonth. We hsg a 16t of fun. - One Sunday three girls whom we knew came and we went picking huckleberries. When the girls came my mother called us. We came home and my sister, Sophie, went to Rup- zefl' and my brother and I stayed oms 3 My sister 41d not come home early so my uncle, my brother and I, all t (o meet her. We made up our s to hide and scare her. We hid, —the secret of a New Orleans pudding—(is the sauce) Brer Rabbit Creole Sauce A delicious old time Southern Sauce. South to give added zest to Especially delicious with Plum Used down lings of all kinds. Prdding. Boil one cup Brer Rabbit Molasses and two tablespoons butter for about five minutcs. Take from fire and add juice of two lemons. Every good cook agrees that it’s the sauce that JSlavors the pudding. That’s why the careful coolt, makes sure to get Brer Rabbif real Molasses. But no longer do you have to send South Drer Rabbit Mol g £ Ter Almost cvery good grocer - carries it in smell, medium and large size cans. But be sure its Brer Rabbit with the “rabbits” on the label. It is never sold from the barrel. Every time you serve Brer Rabbit Molasccs — whether in this sauce, in your own recipes, or asa spread for pancakes, remember thet the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture shows, in Farmers’ Bulletin No. 142, the fuel value of molasses is greater, per pound, tkan steak, soup, chicken, fish, bread cr milk. That means Brer Rabbit Molasses can holp cut -3 your living expenses by serving it occasicnally. . a - - “Write foday for new Brer Rabbit Recipe Book. Free.” PENCK & FORD, L1p. New Orizans, La. The World’s Largest Canners of Molasses rcal NEW ORLEANS Molasses from and tell her to come; but before I got there she was gone. I ran back to tell my uncle she had gone. I my hat where my uncle and my broth- er were, and 1 was scared because it looked so strange to me because my uncle put on my hat. ‘When my uncle was going away we all went to Willimantic to have our pictures taken and after that he rode away in.the cars. We had to wait a long time for the train, and when it came it seemed as if it would every body scare to death it ma:de so much notse. NELLIE MUSIAL, Age 10. Mansfield. His Vacation. Dear Uncle Jed: On my vacation last summer 1 went to see my grandpa im Irovidence. I went every day to e the soldiers drill on the Dexter street grounds. They also played baseball and had thelr horses jumping hurdles. Lots of the soldiers had mascots. 1 went to Roger Willlams park, also to Rocky Point, where I rode on the Donies and other things. The day I canie home I went to Cres cent Park. ~ I saw and learned many things of interest in the two weeks I was there. ‘When I got home I started right in to work in my school garden. 1 got the first prize for celery at the fair. 1 will close. hoping all the Wide- Awakes learn:d as much as I did this summer. JAMES CURRIER, Age 9. Versallles. My Garden. Dear Uncle Jed: I will tell you about my garden. It took me nearly ‘three days to spade it. It was ten feet in width and thirty-one feet In length. I Lard three rows each of beets, lettuce, carrots. two rows each of onions, rad- ishes, Swiss chird and beans. It was quite a hard job hoeing and weeding. Sometimes I didn’t want to do it. but I had to or the vegetables would not grow. The garden supervisor, Mr. Harvey, sald my garden was excellent, which repaid me for my work. Next year I Lope to have a larger garden. I am in the fifth grade. WILLIAM F. ROBINSON, Age 9. Norwich. The Industrial Seven. Dear Uncle Jed: This summer T rode ovér to Storrs on my wheel. [ think it took me about two hours to go over and-back. _ Going I could ride to the church at Gurleyville. I had to. walk fost ali of the way home from Gur- levville. 5 ‘When I got there I rode up to the store to get-a bottle of root beer to drink. Then i rode up to the”dairy buflding where I got some butter: Then I rode around a little and came Tiome. Heveral times 1 rode down . to Gurleyville to get things at the. store. I had a garder: this summer, and be- longed to the Ten-by-Ten Garden Club. Meetings were held over at Stérrs, but as I did not know where they jwere held, I didn't go to any of them: but before school was out. the meetings were held at the ‘school, ahout once a week. I was president of the club; Joseph Kulaga, vice pres- ident. ‘and Sophie Musial, secretary At the first meeting we named the club ' the “Industrial Little Six _of Wormwood Hill,” but soon afterwards, another gir}, joined. 5o we renanted it the “Industrial Litfle Seven of Worm- wood HIlL % * - EDMUND CANTOR, Age ‘13, Mansfield Center. 2 - Sophie’s . Pet Pig. Dear Uncle Jed: I write to’tell- you about My Pet Pix. The superviso* of -agriculture is “Mr. Ackerman, and once, last sprinz he came to school and" asked all the boys and girls if they would joln a club. They sdid “Ye: And I said ¥ ‘woutd join the ‘pig elub. On June 22 he. brought me a pig. It was a little. black one, with g white nose. and feet. The plz weighed 30 pounds. My father made a Jittle pen for -him near - the barn where I kept him. -The first day we put ‘him in the pen by himself he got away, and ran into the wdods. but we found him. by ‘following' the path in _the woods. He ran to our neighbor’s, Sul- kowski. which 1§ a mile and a half away from our house, and then came home again, where we caught him and locked him in the pen. ‘The next day Mr.- Ackerman came' to see him. When I told him my pig had but we did not see her, so I told my |him undémt_!mflmqtokmt’- left.| liked me to pet:him, and was just as gentle as a little kit- tv. He weighs a_ hundred and. forty pounds. I took him to-the Mansfield fair and won the third prize. I also took some vegetables to the fair and won the second prize—50 cents. SOPHIE MUSIAL, Age 13. Mansfield Center. E pumpkins. He | Exports and Imports of Stone In 1816 | According to information compiled by the United States Geological Sur- vey, Department of thes Interior, from statistics furnished by the Bureau of T'oreign and Domestic Commerce, De- | partment of Commerce, stone valugd" a 31,480,750 was exported from -the United States ir 1916, an increase of about 43 per cent over 1915. Of this total, $403,303 represents the value of all unmanufactured stone exporteds and $1,077,477 represents ithe . manu- factured ~ product, which incrased apout 70 per cent in 1916, the unman- ufactured portion having - practically the same value as in 1915. About 57 per cent of the stone ex= ported went to North American coun- | tries, and of this Canada took 82 per cent and Cuba about 10 per cent. “Europe’s share was over 25 per cent. of which 43 per cent went to {Great Britain. Asia}.South America, Oceania, and Africa_ followed, the principal consumers * being British East Indies, Argentina, Australia, and British South Africa. : The stone imported for consumption in the United States in 1916 was valued at $959,397, 7 per cent more than in 1915 but about 33 per cent less than in 1914 The marble and itaarble came from Italy. 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