Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 7, 1918, Page 9

D felt by m ) is of'm ; mm se 14 ville, Tehn., that l&k‘wer; llajngF on the porch darning socks when Mr. For- sythe and Do b!ds cme in the front gate to mu‘ Pfil Ne: u s woufl be 15, Jsaid Mr. Fyuyuu fo himself that ight, and had any pleasure. Phyiils “neltheb. nad any zi’xema antl ville 5 ¢ and boys red at ats. Phyllis put on your old dre ss, commanded her tather, afte uu{ Tained that l 5 ';‘he ”gp hay ride in cel zujp int6 her dress and soon alf wer phmd toma Providénce ved by all. Seos | ;, When the etel- started fleld— > um;mm night. The 3 ‘raake you very miuel prize mu 3 3 - moon shone-full. It Was near midnight . I “m ¥ have read it snd foun& it interesting. X R, UNCLE JED'S . TALK TO WIDE. |’ AWAKES. . & Untle Sam éxpects to récriit seversl - million helpers among the boys of the country and some of our boys will be She had Norwich. ) . / * The Pound of Flesh. E Thére was \mu in Italy an Italian A True Friend, by Cathériné Coomey, aged 12 of Baltic. And my_mother's Paw and my fath- ; . toward thé blue heavens above, where]and got into the fields. And when ers Maw helping in this great working army of R 4 me?t“ton;a-‘;Q ’;fm’}’;’gle:::f a greater power Was waiting. his taaster Went fof hifm he waswt i And my fathér's father and mother-|this country. other Itallar, marriage was to mi‘lnally he w:rs steean hydtht:hmen, :s th?l md !t{: ‘lrl?;':e onguitnt&t:e t}sldi " in-law; TG e enemy retrea an e men [an e , culdn’ ud“!tmid take five familiés big s The SEREMQUIE (ReBR &5 Al 1 mfll:e placb i dne m ‘fdw?‘g'flhad moved towards him. His dying words | come. He went into the barm and ours, : healthy, .robust beys and the follow- : . e Went 1o & |were: “The Stars and Stripes forever.” |got a measure but the horse wasn't And all of 'em gifted with extraling imagindry conversation upon the ] / M R s <. UNSIGNED." fgoing to be tooled tho second time so - powes .. . bject tells them Kow it is to be done; . g 3 d In wind and musclo and arms and Jegs, gl e e Antddadon (0 : it Iso. iy & Bumn LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. o 18 master went into tho barn sgain 3 the. fioney to eggs. A e that & oniey easul AndeaI;nAII five “flnm.flunu gn‘i:. for, Uncle Sam?’ askeéd Jimmie, with} : 3 v - llva the Jew a A Lesson for Life. with grai; ¢ went out into the field W‘mul milk so scarce and = eggS 90 la wink at Oscar tHat is uncle did nét 2 ghy fail to seeé. ¥ pei hat be? 4 How matty anies would ¢ “If you had asked me that yesterday 1 hate arithmetic. don’t you And I' wish this blanmied old war, - you might hdve had me” was the rg- Was|ply, “but téday, I am posted, for * and calléd the horse, but the horse ; ""’k P’“’Q e sl Pon g[‘("f‘)f Jed; I am going 10 81l |y new that if he came to him his mas- tér would put him into the barn with- One rainy day two brothers, Harry ‘his promise. “This 13 |and Fred, could not play out of doors, |OUL any grain, so he staid whefe he i And he d!dn't come Gack.to the the last day,” sué the. Jéw, “and if|So théy hegan to play hide-and-seeb mfl Sufl b Bag Ned '8 wead reast United We Stand, by Assie White of No¥wich. My teacher says, then to me! E you cannot pay ne méney at mid- | in the house. b1 have just read an article that teld ma "““ we 'ffl cé [afibulariéss, 4s there ean ‘mover be |night tonight vau will eppesr betofe| At lasi Harry hid in a large box|i" e green flelds o o Age 12, —Junior Palladium. & B 180 many of these plilows, because | the court tomorrot. and' for a while Fred could not find| prindeiq’ e ant about the United States Bovs' soldiers are being wounded évery day.| Pedro, knowing this; told his wife thie | him. N = “ THE ROBBER KITTEN. Working Reservés. It is a. new. de- |ty w8 hurried in tM i We can léarn to knit, and them we | bad news. . He was about to give up the search A Farmers Plight. = partment of laber, whose busindss it|Which thé:voice had oo 0 jedn make sweaters, ha‘ne't! squares | Helena, who was wgfl(fiy gave him | when he heard a noise. It came from b Uncle Jed: As I was walking R —pe v Is to find workers and distribute th Peekifig cautiousty 3?‘ hing - With which to make an afgham, afid a thé iwo hundred dollars to pay the|the big box that stood against the et g 5 irds T nenta s A Kitten once to"its other said, ribute thefl. | b, fres wé saw a tall, m-:mm boy, [€r€at many other things which Sol- | Jew but it was too late to pay, for it | wall b0y Tiohering eHonte 1 i06ked “Tl} néver more be good and it is 41s0 a part of {he denertmefl!whom we recognized af-once fdiéts and sailors need. was past midnight. > Going softly towards the box, he ":{H‘Eh&dy I:cuer n;“ andoo;saw S But I'll go and be a robber flerce, |of agriculturd because the sérvice of achoolwo, Rm&u‘lp noum "1k that &1l of the childrén In the| The next morning Pedro, his wife |saw that the.lid was not quite shut |OVer edfs 3“’; Wlewm 4 flew fleld. And livé in a gmfywm e, the Hoys' Réserve 18 quité likely to be w;igm?.gm g “m. at gg(‘en Sutlei"wxyll :‘o‘ :!t‘ least !omeeot and the Jew were in court discussing [and he could hear someoné moving in- ““I’ 5;:; ’fm u‘wxl){mg i Ak 41 16 Jermia 1 sugBass both vou bosal? Which wfib igh 4 i the irigs 1 Mave 6ned as cvery [the case. Helens ‘wanted to give the | side tree. After walting several . minutes, | Htflé bit will Nielp to bring universal{Jew ten me, the sum but the Jew| TFeeling sure that Harry was hiding | Pifds, and in a shert time I heard Lh\_ “Whoa, 'Back!” Prsctogom e saw @ goor, frighténed cat: eroep | peace. refused 35 meney. - The Jew there, he ran to the box, shut the lid, | $aMe voice again a 8o oft it went to the dreary Wwood, | “jimmie cant't,” said Osear, “4ér he eaufleum o -5 BLEANOR FROST, Age 11, sk S0 has -bough ande mped upon the stone wall and was handed a ¥nife with which He was to]and turned the bey, locking in his {“ iy my erandfather And_there it miét a cock, Mu M: e Yasel - Cowumbia, ctt the {#sh, . but brothe St o ke 598 LT L And Bigw 1o head. with a” pistol, oft, | KW't Yet 16, and I shall have fo get |GV MW s 10t ut before he touched r. 5 Soing over the plow handles. t large ‘m Pedro, Helena “Remember, you| Hdrry cried out and_tried to push|S°ng over Which gave i i} awful shocki |the coment of hoth by father andiar her WETh Iottunatity hiass 3| Mew Wa. Can el Win the Wir. |agll 4 mne o B e e T e ta e At Biens mfrandtatin bolieied Shock,. shock, .shock, [mother. T dom't see why they should|mark. FHére a¥6 many Ways we can|hOt to touch a drop of his Blood.” Just then Fred heard his mother W i5, Bl Sy Tetruck a large "Which gave it @ Aawful shock!. |sbjset, thoush. If I were a fittié oider s mes ‘m ’&T?‘%fi Ofl & th: help win the war: first by Duying Lib- g J'Vl'dkmv':}'fl but aid not think | calling and ran off to see what shéf.ion, which made the plow stop quick Pum y. W . It climbed a_tree 1 1ob a vest they wouldn't keep me from enhisting|, 2 poor_animal 5 ::‘y', lhgreafls ‘,”3‘33 B ne Rt Lhet mad-wamt ot wery md betsras| Shis sént iR Oh ah eifand dnd WHen g;"‘u;]“ade Iy dfeabiediice fy ptime Of voung and fefdef o as A soldier, agd this is the next thing tretéd. snddé -the Cross that dlso helps. Al these | F€fusing the money. he came hack she asked him where | V332 :j,t up and looked around, and But llhe Franch Byoke cd ud the Xit- | to it. ;g‘,,, are mostly for older people. Now Pedro and- Heléna are living | Harry was. g gaw I was looking at him. He called wk;"q; tremendous, héwls! “Tes, and they will b& glad that the Naw the. children can also do their [ 8PPy, . Pedro owmg his life to his| Fred laughéd and said he had locked me over and I ran to see if hé was owls, howls. howls, mavemiérit is, riot only under the Wi far o panaer A e IBit, by sving up every pemny whieh | Wife, Helena. s Ay Syt A rem us tae ern: P61 our fim instea buying ca; hurt. I started to laugh to think how government, but the G % b o - JOSE] , Age 14. Tis thother told Him to set the little ! o oA T hElp. Wity s Bdlerndans Sawie) of the ¢ ¢, but that the gov-{hiding pldte tiiew them 8L him. We |coing to the pretures Thas can car| ci 1 e 468 b onck a4 i 1o pee |10y be lodkad (n nis plisht 1 A6 Soon after that it méf a cat: ernor of cach s{atd or his réprésenta- imme«hately fio‘ppéd sa.ck in- em- hid-dig - vcry wmv by Hieping their par- that ‘He did it. m L “Now give t6 me vour purse, n&w t if he dis” [érits and by déing little jobs for their A Practiéal Joke, Or Tl shoot you through, and stab You girls he wcu\'d .m éighib tian- that the new. field would not be plowed tive is a part of thé countcil of o RIS o9 biaiE carpets ‘When she saw the box she quickly t3 |thdt day,. % turned thre key and threw open the lid. NA CURRAN, Azé 9. They will like what ffiey{run. We were drawn from our plac-|caring fér the neizhbor's baby and .,,3' tan“gxi“;? oy “x’e&"’ f;,'f,d i3 pick-| As soon as she saw Harry she cried Canterl;Sr\;' e heré, fco, concérhing fhe nationdl di-fds of concéalment by. the sdund of|getting the cows. With these pennies|itn whom he ctaiited boew e |Out: “Oh, Fred. What have you done?” véctor, Willam E. H&lé, wht tas|io0tstéps and all wére overjoyed to|which the childrén havé earned they e And ki}l you, Which 8 wétde!- W <€ Wors here in the box lay Harry, quite e 4 °Y | The bridge whist club met to pla: =z . % ' My Sehool. Ana Xl boa, .;?,'{:; e T, | entaent. ot the Tédefdtion of Bays :f;l;“;;*"'}';} e M ‘h“";“l{fip (hih®s DEYC | whist evary Satutday ' night, Afies | P PR BSIBE MOV AR ORR | e Jods Lok gbing 6 te11 clubs, with 100,000 membors.” lowing day we spread the g ”““n"g’! . é cents, When f‘h“e} e games -refréshifents were usually ‘'One dav it met a Rob&er Do And they sat down to dvink; The doz did joke, and laugh and sing, Which made u~v~ I\mm wink! wink,: wink, hlch Hiade the Kitten wink! ©.- Cow: e cuick!” said his mother as she lifted |you about my schoelroom. It is a “They want to énroll a million Boys ek of Il eoaLal St armotig all|have bought sidteén of these stomps | omics ool eveRing on which this in- : Harry out of the box and laid him |large room with six windows. cident occurred, thé game was played = is Miss MeNamara.: 1 v Sdi P His gchootates and He was WedPised | théy will be given a war savings stamp upon the sofa. teacher is Miss McNamara. 1 for Industry! said Oscar. “and thelg fi'Cuoet intmate friends. . . |which bears 1terest and at the ond 0f | Giosn® e o vnks. Knapp. Mrs.| "0t ran Fred as hgrd as he could =o.1the thira srade. “There are thi recruiting is to be dene through six AT four yét!’s they will veceivé five dol- PP € ‘and entertain- 3 1 = He soon brougit the doctor back wfth | children in my room. teén z6rés With héadquarters in “the i 5 X o 1a ing hostess as well as-a.grcat hand at | 1,5 5998 DrO0ent s G We ate learning about William Perin ¢ 3 % X prastical jokes. . AS there were no vhil Ty ves |in History. ,In geography we are %o |ohicf cifee THE first thinE"T 8Ralf e sm;:::;o: GILL, Age .. lheayy losers this evening, cveryome ”;:;“We.;;‘a‘gf;‘fnifi’ap‘”’e“ed his eyes | B rins Sbott the enildren of ,Japan. A€ last they quarredi them have to Go is to take a physiéal éx- i MRS #ag partcularty Tippy. Oh, how glad Fred was then! ~He |l also study spelling, arithmetic, lan- Yt amination “afid dnéwer g lof of dués. | Amierice ; S T Jax “emré%frys to;{ nthe refreshments, | o3 not meant to hurt his brother, |guage and reading. I liké to read very 'lmfig ot t) desip s tions about what I can do and wewld [{énce, some of these are: The use 6f i sinid, PP, Lurning to| “.wnhy did it hurt him.so much, doc- | Tauch. 2 ht: Kiek .{ On dn angle caused by theé connec- | her maid. “Bring in tongue sand- 5 Next March we aré going to have a like to do. 1 shall have t6 take the|Ls 2 fi:’fi,:n"&,‘,f“m‘“;;f;: tion *of two streets, stands a_pfomi- | Wiches.” thn, 10 Be Joeofl b for auch e e aakvig Eoltast) T 4t £oli 1 oath “of allédidfice if 1 am sccépted, Wfshi whiof ia used o search he seas|Nene and well Known pfiding, the Otis} | Tonsue sandwiches? Ab; Servt ms | UMEL S VL L oq an o |¥poai on The Bius and thc Gras. e S € they il BRI, Library. Tt is situated on a slight em- | first, please, Jane.” You ean réadily pure air in the box.” said the-doctor. At recess I have a_nice timeé sliding b “mm“ : T W e of The (ATRs0E (hat cgii{ bankmiéitt gloping downward until |¥uess by wnom thils rémark was made. | PUT 4T I e B Sl e J0CKOR i my friends. We also play fag give mé ¢ badge that Bears the sedl |y, o TUNAN VT e talls to hit{nearls 16vél with the strect. The cen-| A look of understanding passed be- |, = =07 ®if A8 ROt BRET SAM WA | 0ng other gafes, of the: United Statés and the inscrip- |its "iaf b6 made g6 ter of 'the roof is composed 6f heavy |!Ween maid and mistress. When the | DY ORening the > ARLEEN BURDICK, Age 8. i “Bovs' Worki B - X p glass. Ivy extends over the greater sandwiches’ were sérved, Mr. Hardy | (2, been dead. i tt Cit, ion, “Boys’ Working Reserve, U. S . Y. 1part of the exterior. chose the most ieiting’ ome on the |, L NOPe vou will not forget this, my| Jevett CiLy: A. Then I ehall be put with & squad| A > e e of a dark, h late, bit info- it, ut | boy: we need good pure ‘air all the 4 ghoot twenty-six milés. It can ark, 7é1 hte ths bullding plate, bit infoit, made 3 grimace but| Y0 "p f°Ch. BO0d MUCE 4k b, Lo Fritz. of boys—not miere tlian twenty -fi\e— through four fe&t 6f Bifek, cement an breathes forth sobriety. Three Targe | said nothing. 'The ‘othér people were i B ol ill, and 2y v, : in our . i s stocl They have & gun weion” A00 |zablé windows on the cast side, partly | enjoving their sandwiches, Jno Freatle (L ylLe 1 Ead ey dle 1 Didx Uncls Ja0- 4 Ao ciadd p "W tre DUTA 1Y in cantpet di fRr They Tare £ UM hish . cedliierinac With I¢y. 24 to the atirac. | “Well, Jim, you must be about ready | TO keep your health you must breathe gV R 3 = A tiveness. Titted in on the remaining |for_another” said Mrs. Knapp. : ‘. o R ed Jimimie. ! but T was old encugh E“m‘k[‘,n"’:; ;%fi?&‘e *;H:;’e““"‘ sldes of the bullding are windows of | The company, knowins Jim's. fond- |, HOW thankful Fred was to see Our teacher has a record Yhebrgflf to Joint” . Camequryl BLL érdinary sizé. ness for ‘tongue sandwiclies, laughed ittle brother well again! As for him- | béar growls, and Fritz begins to 3 €lub, Mest terrible to see! See, mee, aee\ Most terrible t& gee. When pusé #ot up, ite eye was shm, And swell'd, and black, dnd blue Moreover, all its bores weré soré, 8o it began to méw! Méw, niew, meéw, So it bégan to mew! 3 Then up it rése and sorateid its nése, CAnd went home véry sad: “Oh! mother dfar. Péhold me here, “Yy 0 Pt S Above the massive, outside door is a [and one remarked, self, he had learned a lesson for life.|so we all begin to Jaugh. l“”l: ::;:; ::f e ::'; et R rema st DT, stone slab, réctangular in shape, with| ‘“Ready for another! 1e can do jus- IRENE STEWART, Age 11. Oné day Fritz Qid not come to Bad, bad, bad, Janet, “when you've Just gafited your Our Part i the W"‘- the words “Otis Tibrary" inscribéd on |tice o a plateful” Jewett City. school becausé his master took him 11 Aéver ore be Wil o deafést wish—to_be old enough to join| The ¢hildnen of '76 aid a gréat.deal|it. Fancy iron éngravings adorn the| “There's something tlié matter with out to find three cows that were lost, the Boy Scouts.”. guring nii: u:eéér Tndépendence. ’rhé upper panel of the r. which is built tHrsW ;andwxch mumbled Hardy. * The Old Apple Dealer. In:'ch Fr?%hando “l’:s master came home . cyasr . . velunteer ‘a8 - a8 fof wood and painted black. 14t do mean?’ asked Mrs.| Dear Uncle Jed: He i hort Faen) e A i - Yes" sald Osear, 1eplying o Jimt- [ysune as ten ana twelve years oid and| Stone steps lean to the entrace: | Knapp innocenily, With a gray stubble beard. He is in-| Sometimes when it Is a rainy doy o my's question, “when there is a call imarched :as bravely as the men. Thé| Three wide slabs of stone form a| “T don’f know, but it's mightv tough | variably clad in a smuff colored sustout|and Fritz comes in sehool aud Ao 1=lrens Iv-nc, of Pmnfl-ld—-mue for workers a squad will go to the [8irls loaded muskets for'théir fathers | pathway i the yard. Béing a narrow [and I'm quite .Sure 1 chose the best|which half conceals a pair of gray |:he floor up with his foohtpr mts “et Grigs Gifls in the Watér. point where the work is-to be done and Jyard it is particularly séen so on the f6né on the plate.” pantaloons. His whole dress though |Shakes his long shaggy hair to g . SR 5 t, he wets: the floor. u:r"f;" sch.:‘ of “ Yastic—Mol5r |ivill cgmip near. Fach squed wis save 1) west sidé am it cothes in contdet with | After inspecting the sandwich for a|neat and entire is flimsy with much w%v;:'e&:fliga 15 old Gliet pomidg fn s’ comibiiamty " BcBATEnE | o mmgmue; - h " Sl B e str‘eet‘;hr(o}:xgh‘xthree orffour feet mfle heé exclaimed, “Well, what do vou | wear. tnidé B lied d by the stove - o e a e cl ca nd mus wer depth. n iron fence sur- ow about this!” Now what do you C si S i from outside he lies down Motor OYele Chumt Reging. the Tofd,|Fompetent cook and Sach bey . wil |40 88 HuCh as the ohidsn of ‘16" W |rousds Biat side No foncn surfounds |supbode. Fopresented the MICKise” on- | wins tus hikels Hepenitay Mofore T | 9nd. Sta3s thess for a long time. When 4—Nelsen Hulms, of Beitic — Thé contribute & part of his wages to pay gfi e a'?shéal mbdmmt m%% the frént yard. A stone wall surrounds | gue in the sandwich. A piece of shoe- | on the floor, with a-board stretching | i¢ is warm he comes . the east side, rising higher with the[leather tongue, nicely tri 9 i around. Avia it For a Fortune. . [his board and lodging.” i ML SRS, ah WAL save bamiment. " A" lawn 1a- visiole on | mustaraeq, o0 T WM\ o ne o e ciher, wmon Shieh 872 | *Eversbody likes Fritz, and s0 do I 5—Reland Cufran, of Cantérbury— “You dow't mean that you are to]ings: certificdtes, and in-this way welthis &id HELEN KLINGON, Age 13. apples, a plate of cakes and ginger- 1 like him better than any of nur fl“ mmu\:rs;;:m Dash. earn wages?” questioned Jaset. ap éan raisé a fufid f6r our gevernment.} This buxldlng is.in a prominent sec- | Colchester. bread, a box of variegated candy and | 408S- my , of North Stoming- ton-—] Matcol's Tén. i We ean join the Juniér Reéd Cross ktio; the city, overlookis : d hank ery much for the first u;tg::‘& You were going to be like & 4 here s frany things et ey doon I U Y, averlanhing Yinion that delectable condiment known to|, I thank vou very s V—Elug Frost, of Columbla— $—Anni¢ E. Sullivan, of Norwich— i i i 2 ook you sent me, and I like the hook. ' té Keélp. One thing every ohild ftral Baptist church, its back faces the i Abraham Lincoln. children as Gibraltar Rock, neatly “Well, soldiers aré paid. They mean [$BR d0i is to'cut rags in ‘tiny pieess|Y. M. S, A buu«gng( its cast side faces Blue Griss Seminary Girls in. the|Who aré goiig bécausé theé = mation poin Kentucky in 1809, a Tittie boy was, done up in white paper, 8 halt peck| v SARAH SCHATZ, Age 10. i orn whose name was Abraham Lin- |measure of cracked walnuts, two or Z e ¢ for tair o4 fox 4h8 ToYw to be put in small '?fllflf! for usé in ‘ront side facés the Mountains. hééds thiem, in spite of waZes” Winners of . uv: iri the | “This is only what is Being derie in coln. When littlé Abtaham was seven [ three pint measures of the kernels o i &i yeats 0ld hi¢ father moved the family |ready for purchasers. Such are the My Trip to Fall River. city may call 3¢ e ¢¢ {01 | Burepeani eountries,” said Uncls Safm the howE 5 ’ sty o0 w “Look at thé boys whe are exeinpted from Kentticky t6 Tndiana. Here they | small commodities which the old apple| Dear Uncle Jed: One day my mother from school in England, t6 do farm et THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. lived in a housé.of the roughest an® |man has to sell and my sisters and I started for a poorest sort known to \yack'voods péo- Thus it is that our friend comes | week’s trip to' Fall River, where we pl U, daily before the world ministering fo | had formerly lived, snd having arrived 'oor little Abc- snme es attended | the peétty needs and freaks of appetite there, we hitgd & roem with two beds school: The schoolmastérs were harsh | of the people. In this way our friend a hotel for the week, then took our KVIAI!& s THe Redheaded Woodpecker, On the s'fe of a hill there lived.a littlé old woman: She was thé smal- ést womian that you ever &&w.: - Hhé Was a neat woman and dressed in a g:d'( tdf!l& Whité 4prés, and ‘& nnet, N It is sad t6 say that she was a sel- fish woman. eop‘e say she was sel- fish bédause ske lived alone. Oné onx she was baking eaxu, l poor, u“y tire> man md "!!y l.d'y ‘;fl! you five e dns Havé 16 rionéy t6 ve you, Iln m fifst thifg you. r you may have” She looked at the cakes and she thought that théy weré {66 I to 2ivé 16 the beggar. . So sheé off & nllcei?t dough and put it in the hen she took a piece as large 8s a head of & fifl. Latéf S8 gave him a plece of dry As géon as she could wink, he wu gone, é knéW u;u shé EM déne sorie- I¥e thx li:gm ciké fxn theé 5‘1 s she was tal inguhewnmw ing smallef and sfailer. Later shie was Whigked up the ehlnmey by the Wind. She wore a black dréss, white apron and a red bonnét. She got food by pecking the hara Wood of trees. That was Why the people aflcfl her “The Rell—wsd Wobd e ST LASKOWITZ, Age 14, The Boy Ran. Orié day 2s a few girl ffiénds sad 1 Bira Stewart. bwere wflfi'\mg mmr'g?; through the “Mother Goose and-Gandsr, by Albert Matiewson, agé 16 of Versailles He could not get many books as books'weére few and money scarce. The Bible, Aesop’s Fables, Pilgrim’s Prog- ress and the Lives of Washington and Clay, he read over and over again for he could get no othefs One day Abe, by LMs time eighteenn éars CVM rowed t mén wita their aggage from thé's re out to & steam boat in the Ohio fivef. The men gave him two silver half dollars and he was overjoyed to think that he carned the money in so shért & time. In 1846 Lindoln bécame a meémbeér of congress and on Mafch 4, 1861, was electéd presidérit of thé United States ;‘grf‘; re-eléttéd .again - in - November, Shortly after his re-€lécilon Lincoln was shot by Wilkeés Bnmh, April 14, 1865, as he sat jm.a tl GLADYS LIAMSON ——aa A Patriotle Gall. John Kimball sat in the Barnyard, talking to his chum; Harry Morrison. John was a, poor boy, Wockihg for his living on tHé farm. Heé was also an orphan. War W: nnaglng through thé country and redd in the town paper abeut' neod $0 many re- cruits. He was only fifteen, but was very tall for his age, and dark and he looked to be éighteen. That night John ran away. When the farm was dark and still. He pass- ed the test at *?: recruiting station &ng “enlisted. - én the: Wit opened John was on the battlefield, fighting with all the stfength and power of a true patriét. The flag was on the field, and was shat down: John rushed-on to the fielt a pickéd thé flag up. He was fatal- wounded, and Jay theére with the 1!.& grasped tight in his hand held up Norwich, Dear Uncle Jed: One Saturday af- terneon my friend and I thousht we would go fishing all night, so we got some bait and hired a boat, and start- ed about half-past ten. We rowed a long 'way up the river and then an- chored near the shore, It was cold sitting thers all nigh' but we did not care because we wers getting many fish. In the morning T rowzd down fo get some warm ecoffee. When I gét up there it was cold so we made 4 fire and heated some water and thén placed the bottle of coffee in it. When 1 put it in the pail it fell over and we losi all the coffée. We fisheq aMout an hour longer and then went home. We caught "about twentv fish. NELSON HULME, Age 14. Baltle. Never Act a. Lie, Dear Uncle Jed: Once there was a man who ownéd a horse that he couid not catch if he let him out into the fields. so he always kept him tied in the barn. One day the horse got loosé and went out into the gréen ficlds. When his mastér went for him he couldn’t find him. : He went out into the fields and when ks saw the horse he called him but the horse was having a cood dinner off of the grass and didn’t come twhen his master called him. So his master went into the barn and got a méas- ure but he didn’t put any grain into it. He went out into the fields and called the horse again, and this time, thinking he was going to gét some grain the horse canie up te his mas- ter. His master causgit him and tied him in the barn wilhout any grain. Anotheér time the horse got loose & A men - who_fnafle théir plpils studv by |earns his subsistence. meah out, and sometimes ate them - s Wwork, and all through France the chil- means: of long: beech switches. The % HELEN E. CAMPBELL. |up in our room, which was lots of fun. TOMMY TiDD. ‘un are working in the fields.” schoolmasters did not know much| Norwich. We had a little stand which we placed _ Memsiey = themselves, but-Abraham soon learn- —— between our beds and we sat on the What Tommy says: QTWEQ WRITTEN BY Vllbln ed to réad and write, Fished All Night. edge of our beds. One day wé had the table set with goodies for dinner and each one had a bottle of soda water of a different color; and all at omce someone said something funny and I thréw myself back on the bed and I spilled the goda water all in a flood, and you would have laughed to death t6 seé it. If T had been a good catecher like Fatty in the show I might have béen able to sayé the dinner. ‘Whén the bottle came down we could not tell whether our dinner was mince meéat or hash. e had a program laid out for ev- ety day that week. We went {6 many beaches and parks and playgrounds. 1 went to one playground and it had swings and tennis sets and dances and a lake, and there were teachers for the little children who blew bubbles and made boats. Swinging teachers were the teachers im charge of the swings. IRENE BVANS, Age 1. Plainfieid. Geing to Help. Dear Uncle Jéa: I am golng to tell the Wide-Awakés how to help win this terrible war. The government ne¢ds money to'buy clothing and food for our soldiers. We all could hélp by buying thrift stamps and lénding money to the gov- ernment, 1 am going to buy some thrift stamps. Many children are going to buy some. BLLEN POWERS, Age 10. Oakdale, Waterbury. — The estimated total number of Red Cross memberships is 30,006. This number is 4,006 above the quéta for this city.