Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 18, 1918, Page 9

Size of Pictures Drawn or The Bulletin They must be either 2 3-18 wide for single column, and 4 618 for double columm. The lines must come within these measura- ments. Rules for Young Writers 1. Write plainly on one side of the h:lr only, and number the pages. Bse pen and ink, not pencil. 3. Short and pointsd articles will ps given creference. Do not useé over 250 words. 4 Original storles or letters only will be used, 5. Write your aame, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story. Adydnu all communications to Uncle Jed, Bulletin Office. “Whatever you ars—Be that! ‘Whatever yoi tay-Be truel Straightforwardly act, Be-bonest—in fac! 3 Be*nobody else you' e e POETRY. DICKIE. Dickie was a lazy pony; Loads to him were Aever y00d; And one day-we fillpl the wagon More than = Dickie thought should. we Five of us besides the doggie (Doggie's name Wwas Pit-a-pat); Dickie stuck his ears straight up- ward, > % Saying, “Just please feel of that! ‘Liz’beth sat in front with Id Dot and I sat on the floor; Lyle with -a-pat beside her Crowded down between us four. Pit-a-pat felt awful crowded, And he tried his best to fuss; Gfowled and snlgped around a minute Just to show his thoughts of us. Dickie pulled us just a little Then bégan with awful vim. Kicking at the legs of 'Liz'beth X Till he'd knocked off lots of skin. T he ran away, did Dickie, And we couldn't stop nim, though Two of s with &ll our pover Pulled upon the reins just so. Lyle fell ot upén thé roadside, And .we left her sprawling thers, While we 'sailed on fast and faster, Hats a-flying everywhere. Boon the wagon turned and jolted, Spilling us all out at_once; Then--oid Dickie of a sudden Stopped, just like a perfeot dunce. Pit-a-pat was underneath us, n the huddle—in the dirt, ot himself out someéhow disgusted, but not hurt. en he ran around to Dickie, And Le barked and bit and fought— at Dickie's legs—that doggie— Juet because he thought he ought. Dickie coeked his eves a little, Poot old Pit-a-pat” said he. “I don't care for your small bitings Any more than for a flea.” — Southera Woman's Magazfne. “MY SHIP.” I think of my bed as a hig, big ship, To carry me 6ver the sea; Sometimes we go off on a stormy Lrip, My Gollywog and me. I am ihe captain, and Golly is crew— We do have some lovely sails; And in the sea are great big fish, Saw-fish, and sharks, and whales. Some of them .frighten us very much, But Gelly and I are brave, And we fight them with swords and guns and things, Our beautiful ship 10 save. But now, T think, we must say good- by, For four eyes are beginning to peep, And we're off in our ship to the “Land of Ned” With a great big cargo of sleep. —HKathleen M, Grant in the York- shire Post. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES, People g to the seashore all their lives and do not seem interested in the motion, greatness or sounds of the sea. The action of the sun and moon up- on the water give it its acttion, and every day the wave of the moon and the wave of the sun meet in a tidal wave at a ven hour in the ocean in the latitude of Madagascan And how great is the sea do do you suppose? Your school books tell you that two-thirds of the globe is covered with water, and we know there are places where it is five miles deep; but this does not give us as clear an idea of its vastness as does the state- ment, that if the sun should take. up out of the ocean and seas of the world all the water in them, it would take all the rivers now running into them eight hundred years to replace the wa- ser. The Japanese Who -are a sea-gur- rounded and -faring people, have an old saying *hat “the sea has a soul and hears:” and the poets tell us of Its roar and its whisperings; and the sea-faring people tell us “No mortal ever saw two waves break upon the shere exactly alike.” And not one thinks what the fee and the winds and the tides had to de with the forming of the beach upon which they camp and sing and bathe in the summer time, or when, gather- ing the sea-weeds frdm the water, realize that while most of them may be from nearby coves and shores, some of them are from the sea-gardens of far-away Bermuda shoals, or the seas of Sargossa, the weed covered sea, in which weeds and refuse drift forever, some of which may have been there sinee the days of Columbus, a tideless, windless waste of waters, as danger- ous to man as the great deserts of earth. Zagre are Iots of things to be WIN A THRIFT STAMP Winning Wide"Awake Letters are rewarded with a Thrift Stamp, with an extra Stamp for every fourth book won. State your preference, stamp or hook. thought of by the sea-side besides the |- l cooling breezes and the little joys they afford. THE WINNERS OF PRIZES. 1—Olive Guile of Norwich—Thrift stamp. ‘2—Raymond Ayer Through by Wireless. §—Lydia Dugas of Versailles—Red Cross Girls in British Trenches. 4—Ethel Light of Willimantic—Red Cross Girls With Russian Army. 5—Inez Guile of Norwich—Thrift stamp. 8—Sophie Goska of Jewett City— Dorothy on & Ranch. 7—Bertha Lichti of Versailles—Pen's Venture. . . 8—Rosalie A. Anderson of Norwich— Thrift stamp. Wiinners of prizes living in the city may call at The Bulletin business office for them at any hour after 10 a. m. on Thursday. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Geraldine Gareau of Southbridge, Mass.: Although I am late in thank- ing you for the prize book you sent me entitled The Frontier Boys in Celo- rado, I have read it through and found it very interesting. Thank you again. * Alice Runney of South Coventry: I thank vou very much for the Thrift stamp which you sent me for my story. Hans Stienmeyer of Bagleville: I thank yof® very much for my Thrift stamp. I had oné week's vacation and I earned one dollar and now I have 13. I hope I will win another. Sarah Hyman of Norwich: I thank you very much for the prize book en- titled Making the Last Stang for Old Glory, which I won some time age, 1 have read it through and have found it quite interesting. of Norwich— STORIES WRITTEN AWAKES, The Acorn asd theé Pumpkin. A countryman who was lying at the foot of an oak considered a pumpkin plant in his neighbor’s garden. At this look, our countryman cried: “How is it that such big fruit is sup- ported by such a little thin stem, while the little acorns are suspended on this superb oak? “If all the things of this world would have been created by me, these big, nice pumpkins would have been put on the oak.'” Had he not just said these words, when an acorn fell from the tree, the face of the man was struck by it so Jjustly snat the blood came down from his nostrils. “Oh, yes!” said the man, “I just received a goed whack for my foclishniess! BY WIDE- had it been attached he acorn, would have Danielson. Shag’s Side of the Case. Alice’s sister came into the room where the dog was barking. “Shag is getting to be such a mise chief. look at the books on the sheif of the bookcase!. We will have to get rid of him! Don't cry, Alice. How can we have a dog around the house that does such damage? Look at the ink he has upset on the tablespread.” She loved Shag; but what should she do? He dig spoil things, and he would have to go. “I told you it wasn't Shag that both- ered you,” said Bridget the next morn- ing. “Jusc come here and see.” The little family foliowed the maid —and what do you think they saw? Shag jumping around and on the fioor lay three dead mice—two of which were streaked with ink! “Then that is what he wanted,” saifl Alice, “and you won't get rid of him, after ali!” “No, indeed!” said Alice's stooping down and patting him. RUTH ERICKSON. sister, Norwich. A Narrow Escape. “Fifteen cents a quart?’ said Fan- ny. “Yes, he said he would give us fif- teen cents a quart.” She spoke to her friend Bessie as they sat down where they had been picking blueberries. “That is more than mamma pays the woman who brings them to our house,” said Bessie. “Yes, but we are going to give the money to Blind Joe, so we take a big price.” Just then Bessie's little sister came along. She carried a pail, too. “Where are you going?” “'m going picking berries all by myself!” and she walked off without a word. “Why don't you stay with us?” call- ed Fanny. Dora looked over her shoulder and called back: “Ask Bessie; she kno TFanny turneq and said the darling is crying? back!"” But she had turned the road and was out of sight. Suddenly they heard a scream. It was Dora! She is in the cranberry bog and will be drowned! Just then “I believe Oh, call her a man came up and brought her to dry . land. - “You're too kind for anything,” said Bessie and Fanny, and hugged and kisseq Dora with all their might. “You never will go picking berries alone again, never as long as I live.” “Well, I—I didn’t want to,” sobbed Dora. ESTELLA OLSSON, Age 13. Norwich. Daniel Webster’s First Case. Daniel Wepster's father was a poor farmer. Besides Daniel, he had an older son named Ezekiel. - One day Ezekiel set a trap to catch a wood- chuck that for a long time had been stealing his breakfasts from the gar- den of the Websters, At last the wocdchuck was caught. “Now,” said Ezekiel, ‘“you've done harm enough to die, Mr. Woodehuck, and die you shall” his brether net to kill the woedchuck, | but to let him go. But Hzekiel would ; not, 8o they asked their father what was_to be.done. “Well” said old Mr. Webster, “here is the prisoner. You, Ezekiel, shall be lawyer against the woodchuck, and you, Daniel, shall be lawyer for him. Temper and John Webb. By Norman W. Twiddy. That he was hot-headed, John Webb knew. John was as fiery as the bright red thatch which covered his head. In school, John was as smart as most boys; in his home, he was courteous; in his sports, he was square—only ‘one bad habit was fixing itself in sixteen- year-old John's being—Temper. Smart, courteous and square, he was—when everything went along smoothly. When it didn’t—wow!—he went off like & hand grenade. The “Eagles” were playing the “In- vincibles” for the. baseball champion- ship of the Junior League. The League was an eight-team one and his bunch lot of thinking, he slowly and sadly changed his uniform for street clothes without speaking to any of the fellows. . What would this temper) if it was going to lose a baseball game and make him hit -a smaller fellow now, do - when he was older? John had dreams ef gomg thfough college and of becoming a suc ul lawyer. A: wise little head had John when he “came down to " He figured that, if Temper could do so much harm at sixteen, he .had better get rid of it before he was a day older. Outside the locker room, John run into the small second baseman of the “Invincibles.” “I'm sorry I hit you,” marRet, and You may both gpeak. I will be judge.” Ezekiel began, about the harm the woodchuck had done. He told how much trouble jt was to gatch him. He asked if the woodchuck would not take to his bad habit again if they let him go. He ended with these words: “The woodchuek must die, and, to pay for what he had stolen, let us sell his skin.” Daniel was very much afraid that his brother had -won the case, but, seeing the poor prisoner tremble, he felt pity for it, so he took courage and said: “The woodchuck has a right to life, to food and to freedom. God made him to live in the bright sun- shine, in the free flelds and woods. He is not like the cruel fox,, for he kills no one. Has he taken anything but the corn to keep alive? And is not grain as sweet to him as the food on mother’s table? You can't say he has broken the laws as men often do; he has only done what it is his nature to do. Lool at this peor, dumb, trembling creature and answer me this: Do you take away a life which you never can give back? Daniel paused. There were tears in hig fathers’ eyes. Tears that rolied down his sunburned cheeks. The plea for mercy had touched his father’s heart, and forgetting that he was “judge,” he started up and cried in a loud voice: “Zeke, you let that wood- chuck o LYDIA DUGAS, Age 10. Versailles. Galileo. Galileo was an Italian. He invented the telescope, microscope and the ther- mometer. When 18 years old he saw lamps suspended on long cords and observed that they swung with differ- ent beats when the wind blew. Ex- rimenting, he finally discovered the right number of beats in a minute was 60 because his string, which was 39 jinches long, beat that number of times. was the lenzth of the pendulum of all old-fashioned clocks for many years. This discovery has been valuable to the world for calculating correct time. The longer the penduium, the slower the beats. The shorter the pendulum, the more rapid the beats. KATIE BOBECK, Age 10. Columbia. Pauline Cushman. The theatre at Louisville, Ky, was crowded to the doors one March night in 1863. For Pauline Cushman, a Or- leans girl, was starring in a new play. The Civil war was at its height. Kentucky, like other border states, was nominally true to the Union, but was seething with southeérn sympa- thizers. Louisville was a hotbed for Confederate plots. Col. Moore, United States govern- ment provest marshal of, the city, could not possibly cope with all these conspiracies. At such a time a northern address might have found scant welcome in Louisville. But Pauline Cushman was a Louisiana girl and it was whispered that all her sympathies were with the confederation. She was forever re- turning to the south on theatrical tours. During a banquet scene in xhat] night's play at Louisville she snatched la wineglass and strode to the foot- iights. Her eves were ablaze and her cheeks flushed. In a trumpet voice she offered a toast to Jefferson Davis and to the tri- umphant victory of his rebel armies. For an instant a gasp of amaze- ment ran through the audience. Then a thousand men sprang o their feet, cheering madly. They cheered be- cause Pauline had echoed their own eentiment. Also because of her rash courage in offering such a toast in a city garriscned by Union troops., If a New York actress in 1918 should give from a stage a toast to the kai- ser the public could not be more hor- rified than was the loyal element of Louisville. The whole city was in an uproar, That very night Col. Moore, the Union provost marshal, arrested Pau- line and threatened her with a prison sentence as & traitor to her country. She was a heroine trusted, petted. All doors and all arms south of the Ma- son-Dixon line were eagerly thrown open to her. Pauline Cushman had done a clever thinz. All the while she was a Union spy! She and Col. Moore had asranged the whole farcical affair of the toast to Jeff. Davis and her eviction from Kentucky. They had done it to make tne south trust her. And they had succeeded. From that time for many months Pauline could get any infor- mation from the Confederates that she | wanted. Southern spies, southern offi- cers, southern civic authorities told e her many precious government se- crets. They let her see the lists of secret Confederate sympathizers and agents in various cities. They con- fided to her their carefully hiddén pro- cesses- for smuggling food and arms and despatches and medical supplies into the southern army forts and forces and she planned movements of their armies. All this Pauline trans- uitted faithfully to the Union' gov- ernment and rendered incalculable service to our country by her tidings. At last she penetrated to' General Bragg's Confederate headquarters at Shelbyville. There in some. way she aroused suspicion. Perhaps by means of some spy in the Union_confi- dence may hive betrayed her 5 In an¢ case Bragg ordered Pauline arrested. She was court martialed and was sentenced.to be hanged as « spy. . There was no Abraham Lincoln on hand as 4n the instance of captured women “spies of the Confederacy to commute her death sentence to ban- ishment, ‘or & prison term. But be- fore sentence could be carried out a Union army captured Shelbyville. The Confederates in their haste to get out of the city did not wait to hang Pau- line, but left her imprisoned there, The réscuing Unfon troops acclaimed her as 2 heroine. They gave her ac- coutrements of a United States officer. o ETHEL LIGHT, Age 12. Willimantic, Lewis and Clark’s Expedition. When Thomas Jefferson was presi- dent people did not know anything|ki about the far west. Nobody lived there but the cruel, savage Indians. Thomas Jefferson sent two men through the wild country to find out what kind of people lived there. The names of these men were Lewis and Clark. There were forty-five men in the party. They were to go up the Missouri river and find a route over the Rocky Mountains. They were gone two years and four months. They ate horsemeat and dogmeat and some- times they ate bread made from roots. They went to an Indian’s village and the Indians fed them. After they were done eating they saw a buffalo head hanging on a post. The Indians put someé meat in a bowl and set it in front of the head and said: “Eat They believed if they treated this head politely the other buffalos would come to their hunting ground and then they would have plenty to eat. KATHLEEN DONNELL Age 10. Lisbon. Little August. Once there was a little boy who was very lonesome. He always went to the woods to look for flowers. He was very kind, but people did not like him because Le was homely; but there was one who liked him, and that was God. { Both his father and mother were dead, but they were in heaven, &nd they both were watching“over him. One day when he was walking throush the woods he saw a little young bird iying on the ground and he picked it up with his tender little hands and, looking up, there was a lit- tle nest in the trees which he was anding by. He climbed the tree h the little bird in his hand and when he reached the nest the mother bird had just come home to her little ones, and the boy put the other one in. The mother was so giad to have her young one back that she always was with the little boy, and she was not afraiqg of him, but always ate out of his hand. He was in the woods most of the time. The people heard of this and were very much surprised and they treated him very kindiy afterwards. The people noticed he was out in the woods mostly in the month of August, so they named this kind boy “August.” LOUISE LEBER, Age 11. Plainfield. Our School. To begin with, our school is situat- ed on Main street and is of brick construction. It has four classrooms and has three large hallways by which the pupils enter their classes. A fire escape is situated on the back of the school. On the left side of our school is the boys’ play yard, and on the right is the, girls’. » On Friday afternoons we snip and sew towels and we cut gun wipes for the Red Cross. ‘We also have a Junior Red Cross and have our Red Cross flag. We sing patriotic songs and recite war poems. I also have a garden and raise many \\\ - a— m— —the a first place. game, “Eagles”—were but one-half game behind the “Invincibles” for This would be the final| Every member of the winning team would receive a medal offered by the leading newspaper of “the town. John Webb played shortstop, 3-3 in the fifth, &vith the “Bagles” up and John on first! the second. Suddenly the bay at bat hit a hard grounder toward John was off like a streak. The “Invincibles' ” second baseman got the ball and tagged John as he slid for the bag. A Little Pig-Club Girl, by Margaret Nosworthy. This little pig went to |made a is little girl bought Thr ift Stamps. 1 | worth. “Out” shouted the umpire. Then “Old Man Temper,” who had slave out of John, whispered to him, “Go on. Kick up & rumpus.” He lost control of himself and up he went into the air like a dirigible. He flung his cap on the ground and Kick- ed the earth with his spikes. His face began to match the color of his hai ou're out a mile,” grunted the “In- vincibles' ” second baseman—a smaller boy than John. John, without thinking of the boy's size or of fair play, hit him on the chest. The boy staggered and went down. . The umpire seized John by the arm. “You rowdy!” he said. “Any more of that and you go ocut of the game.” The words cut John. He walked back to the bench, still boiling inside, but trying to fight his anger down. He was ashameqd of himself. With a boy on third, in the sixth, an easy groumnder was hit to John. He was unstrung. His fit of temper, his striking of the smaller boy and the umpire’s rebuke had been torment- ing his sense of squareness. First he fumbled, then booted the bal The boy scored from third; the batter was safe at first. John felt miserable for more than one reason. That run proved the winning run for the “Invincibles” Webb's fumble in the sixth had lost the game, his teammates said—but he knew the game. had been lost before that. It hdd been lost in the iifth inning when Temper had beaten him without his even fighting. The championship lost; for .the fellows; and he, John Webb, had struck a smaller boy! John did a ds_of vegetables. LEONA BERTHIAUME, Age 11. Dayville. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Helping the Red Cross. Dear Uncle Jed: I have been col- lecting mont for the Red Cross. I collected $2.55, and I brought it down to the Red Cross room I'riday after- noon. The Red Cross gave me a pin for collecting money for them. I have joined the Junior Red Cross too. < I have a brother who is a sailor. I like to be patriotic . My mother and my sister have join- ed the Red ( ROSALL Norwich. . also. ANDERSON, Age 8. How She Celebrated the Fourth, Dear Uncle Jed: I will teli you h I spent Fourth of Jul I did nct b very many fireworks. I had 10 cents I thought I wouid save my money and get thrift stamp: I al- ready have nine, and I am trying to get more. My mother told me if I aouse she would give me ery week while she goes wi ng the mill. And besides I get small change from my father which helps get a stamp. I think it's a job to keep ; anyhow I get a thrift stamp week. We all have to start in £ and it's wartime and we have to help. I have to take care of my sister and fifty chickens. I have to see that they have warer. I think that job is worth 25 cents. I will- close and hope that all the Wide-Awakes had a happy Fourth of suly. BERTHA LICHTE, Age 12. Versailles. A Young American Conversation. Dear TUncle Jed:: I am going to tell | vou about a conversaticn between some Thrift Stamp buyers. One of them said: “How many Thrift Stamps have you, Tommy? I have ‘leven in my book and Eddie has nine.” “I've only three in my book, but I'm going to get another today, soon’s teacher comes.” “Did your mamma give you a quarter for your stamp, Alice?” “Course not! I earned it! I hefped mamma and auntie to shell the peas and ther I dried the dishes for mam- ma. That was worth one quarter; and I carried papa’s lunch for a week, and | he gave e another guarter: and minded the baby for Mrs. Ross for two afternoons, and she paid me for that, so all the stamps I have in my book are earned stamps. Auntie says that's the nicest kind; and they're the kind I'm always going to have if 1 can.” “How did you get your money, Tommy 2" “I earned it pullin’ weeds In the garden and pickin’ berrles for Mr. Wil- son. I get two cents a quart for berries, and it don't take long to pick I think ‘Thrift Stamps a to save money, don't you, “Yes. But the best thing about it is that we are all helping Uncle Sam to win ‘the war while we are saving up our pennies. I used to spend my pen- nies for candy and soda and things like that; but now I.save every one and it don't. take long to save enough | to buy a Thrift Stamp. I bet there'll be a lot of rich boys and girls before long.” People all over the country are do- ing just what Tottie and Tommy are doing—saving their pennies to buy Thrift stamps or War Savings stamps, and helping to provide money for our soldiers and to make bullets and other necessary munitions to win the war Won't we be a happy people when the war is over and we have peace in the world again; and to think that we had a hand in bringing about what everyone wants fmore than anything else—Peace on Farth! - Are al! the Wide-Awakes helping e | Uncle Sam in this way? I am buying Thrift stamps. T have two War Savings stamps and have been knitting_for the Red Cross. I hope all the Wide-Awakes have been 1 no medals he said. And it took some manhood to say that. “I was out, all right. I'm going to learn to swallow my temper.” He did. John Webb discovered a big truth—that self-control is the first law of suecess—The Boys World. Can a Girl Garden? Let two girls who have made the venture give answer.. They live in Vermont and are sisters. They cuiti- vated last year a little less than four acres of ground, with only such help as was given them by a veteran of the Civil War whom they hired to help them a part of the time. This is an exact list, given by ane of the girls, of what they harvested from their four acres: : i “Three tons of hay, eighty bushels of potatoes, thirteen and one-half: bushels of beans, fifty pumpkKins, twelve squashes” 600 tomato plants!i sold at sixty cents a dozen, 100 heads of cabbage, fifteen heads of caulifiow- | er, sixty-five mangold beets, two bushels table beets, four bushels string | beans, five bushels green peas, six bushels green corn, six bushels tur- nips, two and one-half bushels car- rots, three bushels parsnips, one-half bushel onions, four dozen bunches celery, two bushel cucumbers, Sixty baskets strawberries, twenty-three baskets raspberries, ten baskets cur- rants, ten dozen day-old chickens, 240 broilers, 761 dozen eggs, 220 pullets be seen, from this that the kept chickens on their four {acres of ground. and in addition to the products enumerated they sold from their garden asparagus, rhubarb, let- tuce, sage, radishes, Swiss chard and a good many flowers from & pretty little flower garden. Can girls gar- den? We think so. And they can do so, not only with gain to their purses but th great gain to themselves in iphysical strength and general health. |since there is no more wholesome and healthful occupation in the world than that of gardening. Moreover, under, existing conditions, a girl is in the ser- ce of her country when she is add- ing to the food supply as these young Veérmont sisters have added to it. M. M. M.—In thé Girls’ Compenion. = Seventh Prize, $0.25, to Roger B. Mi- rer of North' Franklin. The Jolly Tar. S SEE—SEE—- S war gardens and Thrift stamps this year. < - . RAYMOND AYER, Age 10. Norwich. An old-fashioned rosebush in Mrs. Albert Fletchet’s yard in Laurel, Bel, that never was grafted, has tliree beautiful roses, one red, another white and the third blue. No ona in the city ever saw or heard of ahy- thing ke it—Boston Globe. H CALD SUFFERED W TG he has a flag wita 2 stars upon it, representing his 26 sons and grandsons now front. in the service on the Italian belongs to “Scotty” Allen, the of the famous Darling team of He has had many vears of ser- e in the wilds of Alaska, and when ildren and grand- were called into serviee “Over They are all trained dogs and carsy munitions and supplies to the soldiers in tne Alps. They are very sure footed and climb over the mosi dangerous Jasses W ut losing their foothold on the ice and snow. Cid Baldy was the leader of the team of dogs for many years but was r and so, like ather, he t he would much to do. INEZ GUILE, Age 12. Norwich. The Sguirrel Family. Uncle Jed: of Once there lived a squirrels near the Their names were , Fri They had many neigh- but the ones they loved best were the mice fami. One day Mrs. Bushytail woke up carly for her sister v coming to it. So she was preparing for a great { She started the fire and set the coffee ®n to hoil, then she began muking cornmeal cakes. Everything she needed was there except the corn- meal. So she went to w but she must have for her chiliren (F and Tommy) woke up too. Mrs. Bushytail told Mr. Dushytaii that she had no cornmeal ke cakes with. So he took three filled them with corn, put them wheelbarrow and started off mill. ’ ‘While he was gone Frisky and Tom- my did the most cunning trick. Their mother told them to go out and pick some sticks to make the fire brighter, but instead of getting the sticks Fris- ky and Tommy thought they would 80 to see their friends on the other side of the wood. and Tommy bors, ke Mr. Bushytail, houted too loud They started -off very happily, al- though they didn’t know the way for they hadn't seen them since last Thanksgiving. in the woods it was very quiet in some places, but in oth- ers it was quite noisy. Sometimes they heard the wind rustling the léaves on the trees and they thought it was i snake coming to devour them. Tom- {my was the older and had his senses, but Frisky was a great deal smaller and younger and she would cry at the least thing. When they came to the heart of the wood Frisky wouldn't go any further, thut bezan crying. Tommy left her and went to look for a safe place where she might sleep . Soon he found a hole in a tree and called to Frisky who came willingly. Tommy helped her get in, then he himself crawled in. TNey soon fell fast asleep and slept till it was get- ting dark. Then they thought they would start for home so they took hands and began running. They had not gone far when they met their father, mother and aunt and Were coming to look for them. Their aunt was holding a lantern to iight the way.# Tommy and Frisky heard enough of seolding from their parsnts for a while, but when they reached kome they were being huzged and kissed and instead of having the feast at daytime they had it at night. The next time their mother told them to do something they id it and never again did they run away from thefr happy homé. SOPHIE GASKA, Age 12. Jewett City. My Farm Home. = Déar Uncle Jed: I thought T would write and tell you about the farm I live on. There are one hundred and twenty acres. We have twenty-three sheep and ten lambs. We have seven cows and six heifers, and two bulis. We alsc have two horses. B I have a war garden in which I am Scalp and Dandruff. Cons!aut@ Scratching, Hair Thin ; and Lifeless. i HEALEDBY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT “My daughter was troubled ver much with dandruff and her scalp was sor€and very tender. Great }m:hel of dandruff would orm on the scalp, an; drawing 2 comb throug] her hair would often stag . the blood. The dandruff scaied off and could be seen on ker clothing. She suffered extremely from her scalp itchi ing, and she war conStantly scratchs ing. Her hair was getting thin and lifeless. : “I sent for a free sample of Cuticura Soapand Ointment. Ipurchased more, and now she is healed.s (Signed) Mrs. Carrie A, Bryen, 21 Centre Place, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 3 & You may rely on Caticura to carg for your skin, scelp, heir end hards; Bample Each Freo by Mail. Address ?‘b ¢ard: “‘Cutienra, Dept. R, Boston.” Bold everywhere. Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and 50¢ e = PLUMBING AND GASFr¥=¥=G CALL UP 734 With or Without Gas Attach- ments but Alwaye EFFICIENT, and ECONOMICAL~ ; MODEL RANGES We furnish Repairs for all makes of Ranges A. ). Wholey & Co., 12 FERRY STREET Phone 581 Modern Plaméinér is as essential in modern houses as electricity is to lighting. We guaran- tee the very best PLUMBING WORK by expert workmen at the fairest prices. Ask us for plans and priceas i1 J. F. TOMPKINS 67 West Main Street T. F. BURNS HEATING AND PLUMBING 92 Franklin Strest ROBERT J. COCHRANE GAS FITTING, . PLUMPING, STEAM FITTING * Washingion 8g., Washington Building Norwich, Conn. Agent for N. B. O. Sheet Packing IRON CASTINGS I FURNISHED PROMPTLY BY : ' THE VAUGHN FOUNDRY (0. Nos. 11 to 25 Ferry Strest ! g Daniel, who had a kind heart, begged | raising beets, radishes, peas, tomatoes, B o r ¢ carrots, peppers and several other veg- f/, p = oojl % Famous Dog and His Service Flag. Dear Uncle Jed: Did you ever hear of a dog having a service flag? Per- haps not, but there is such a dog. His name is “Baldy of Nome.” and y * ooy, OLVE GUILE, Age 15, |carrots, ; i ’ & | k/\\\\\\\k\\\\\\ A i oo gew g i wy| AMERICAN HOUSE ‘When school closed we had about $30 worth of stamps. I have six Thrift stamps and hope to get my card filled bgfore December. hope all the Wide-Awakes have ¢ First-class Garage Service Connected D. MORRISSEY, Prop. - Phone Shetucket Street Tenth Prize, $0.25, to Hilda Holmber, of Norwich, The Little Nut Cracker.