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“on _“ Storish " or 1eteers oMY “the vounmm— @il in the | Norwich. RESPONSIBILITY. By CHARLOTTA PEgRr 3 T L.am weak and you are strong, hy, ithen, Why 3 u the braver deeas Belonk. An so aglih, 1t vos nave Fifts AwA T WAVE fows It | have shade and you have si f "Tis yours with freer. hand fo e 3 LSRR ce to live, w\m barren m‘:;& Wea do not_ask the little brook To turn the wheel; Ugto the ger m-znm e To0k; The stréngth Of steel We do mot isk from &ilkén band, Nor heart of oak from fWillow Wwand; TWe do not ask the Wreh to g0 R ot Piai Up to the heizhts the sagles EndW: tnank& Beau-ii- nn Brize -book Nor vet expect the lark's clear note]You sent at some time From out the dove's dumb throat. y_Scoul less, stal Tivi: 10-a. #. én LeTTERs w"ms.t the Cossacks. u—fl ago named erf';‘n:% %‘ Winners in o city nay mfl"u e Mg s ua g fuiny At n?;“x!a%g‘: mfi e Voluntows. 4 ll “i%! “‘I of v-n-mofi—t and her mmm vemh‘t fo ua The oak must relgn the forest's king: The ruching stream the wheel must|gooksioU ARarded me en tided Larks and Pranks. move: The ered steel its strength must :’?‘:fl"x‘: it moet thmug’h, . “Tis ap-en with the eagle's eves delay in send!nx in m umhks Jps To face the midday skies. Wi mv..v( 1 mnk Yamie You \*e Sent me ahu!m The g‘—fimn’u Uh- g!;x; the Bta¥s and Stripes. It 18 a 508d Eleansr Frost, of Aflherst, \t- i _received the prizé k —@xchangs. THE PETRIFIED FERN. MARY BOLLES BRANCH centuries a®o, le fern-leal. By In a valley Grew g Pictufes, and I thank You ve; B, Tor it T s ey TR It sedtps that every Book of that se- ries grows more exciting. Seophis Gadka, of -ate fand fibrex ‘tender; the b'md crent dowh so and grass; { and moss o'u.»d it. 1 ‘s law, the perfect code—|recelved the b’lhe ook tled Aero- pired— plane Scouts of England. I whom fuch is bestewsd |it and found it ve':' humét:‘l:;e T ! threat is bid to sing. Charfotte in of Norwich required. 1 Ahs e very Wiueh for the prize The | Gny enild coutd eosla you green and seru. e entided Ruth Mhu 'ln the Jewett : ndfhl\e received the lovely prize boek AT e o y 3 n:iemna‘m's for her sumiNer va ti cows, calves fi:‘!‘sfi!fl e y other and hlve & race. It was great. B A the childfen them Iovely stries tl Amy own father what he a chl'ld S0 one dlv fruit_and floWers. Whah he liked ndthing bettér o Pull the tulips off by fie . _headls and Wl the crown of his hat with therh.. We told hifm n«t to Bb this T8t u:ere were not enough 8f th®m (o waSté in JHe Tooked very sad, but Sat under I send you miy most|a®tree and seéméd I d&ep thodkh!‘ He Wasn't moré than three years “We left him and went into the edms GEftEd- % o‘:‘:;xfl !%c * While ag0, entitled, The | that way ¥ itoh s B {Campfire Girls in the Maine Woods. w stole in br nikht a®d; g U N FTE = "o man oer trod map“‘"“"‘"‘ el Margie Guhan,’or Voluntown: - re-] then. vouns ad kedpidg WON- Lmed the prize book and thank vdu 1 think it is going|house. bigt tercsting. Aurdte Magrey of Volufitown: I re- ceived the prize book you sént fe SR- titled Do and Dare. 1 have not read m sdre it is_interesting fes 1 have won. T thank fishés &wam the silent rhain, forests wayed thair giant “ranches ! s hurled 1o ¢ e e [evohves 2 - % : number with (he hilts and; Adventure in My Cande. One windy day BY WIDE- ret’ and waved fts Wild sweet wav— ohc game to pote It day. by !ay! UNCLE JEDS TALK TO WIDE- } AWAKES. The man or who @oes not like| ™ ever dizcovers that work 1s] friend. Grove, about twé miles from the Gold &n _Spur. at is where 1 started {from. ana I got a as Turkey Point, when the wind shif and turned the how of the canee around oo o quite hard t0 turn a _eanoe around when you are against the wind. If my_canoe had not beén a Sponson, 1a knows| ! surely would ‘e _been overboard. Tt is Bv work thai the wor . . i Just as I turned around, 1 lost my what Aiman i and all thoss who o suart “Sid Tt Pomted. sewards sHors dric are. idlefs. orido-nothings:|1 was in the middle of theé river, so every person's ’epreven:a-;l ]"02!151 aot kge' it. G Tk it “ e not know what to do, . for it is by the work of each one| o it "W "0 the world knows what each per-inp good. he wind kept turning me n amouhts to. | ardting in a circle. Brerd o ‘At 185t 1 saw_something thit l5oked hatale oKk gocd o me. Some friends of haracter bedause hi . in the eance without a pad- blamed. The iei SO they eafie to help me in their work shows the chi Otr work prais T tried us if 1t i= good, I Went out in_my canoe and started tb go down to Pine the other hands; but that did| mine, In a minutes he went softly down the #ardep walk, took Off his shoes, stooPEd down and seoop- Mp earth enough to fill them. and then in his stocking feet, ran in among the tulips and filled each cup full of the earth, emptving all from his shoes into them. Daughter and 1 had bEén watchifig the child from the 1 window. We erept out the RoWse and got into ‘the zarden as quickly as we could. and peeping behind the hofiey- sutkle arbor, listened while the little tellow talked aloud: “Now ‘ou tulips @BAr make haste and grow. All this @t will make ‘ou grow I know, and thén thére'll be ;nough to fill my little hat full every my baby boy round and round through )t'n! dam garden paths! He led us quite & chase before we could cateh him. How Jamies and Amy laughed. when e told_ this story. ORE M. Age i Voluntown. 5wt 5 Kate and the Goat. {. 1t was a warm day. School was just out «\nd mue ate . stoda jook- inZ At a large %b CrosE it ‘Was a short cut hofl:e for her and a pleasiin way, but for one thing. a Wicked ol goat of which évervone was and it was always réady o figh! ) zaye mie a scolding for going out t and it is not by it we afe €dn-| sxnoeing on a winde day. f,,,gmh,‘ Would attack man, woman or child, so him 1 would never do that again. "‘;e[ owner of the field safd that srhall b 1o, the beit Aa dviy bhE dek DOROTHY RUDD, |Children cught not to éross there. New London time of t¥ial. for the busy per- son has ne time to be ihigerable: and irthda) i he idle person has ho means by Which | e - . 5 | g Do dmy.x was making a doll's dress o escape. :2, Josebh pounced on me and said, o Tt was work that charted the heéav. ens and oceans. and that proflucedi I said - a'fie‘“’é’é‘f:;..s i T out! ' Yéu Wil be more frorieed then work that man materraliz-| ever you ughis—and &l the wonder-| As I came near the dinifig room I el obiects you have aver AW @Ak figures roaming mround. As & I entered several hands ih, thought ih the! ;S0 CiCh, mind of man. | ic thought ®hich first profluced aiTeom soon started to mee or templs' wi 1 - _ { Joseph lit the efectric a temple' with anl its fur- | OS] i nishings; and thought represents =74 5 fi%flmh;; ",:fi;o;: . The action o7 the mind and the an@ bést of all in front of me y cake with lighted can- w horns and front dishes, mussles produces a Bving- machihe o | was;a 2 poeth dlesfon A aféund tic iable iwere Sren ke Haistn, o A i, my CIORN W U O I eies a : i reoni, Who. ang- sang,.danced, al drank, and had fnd their work and do it. makp W|a Jevely time, # ieh endires for dges. [ Then the caikiren aill atherea up It is’ the work of the psbple: ot "i‘rgfin“m, o and potes 0 s | EESSIE m?“mx A®e 11 The Adventiutes of a Cloek. When 1 caie olt of the fattory in which I was imade, 1 thought I would have a peacefal life. After the clock-mmker had put the finishing touches oh #e, I was packéd with many fn_a large box. me to her home pHt e ut ‘frie down | IPite black figures roamiig around the | Kate stood thinking: Is it bettér to 80 that way, or round by the rfead. Shc icoked up and down, but there was no sign of the #goat. So Mmind 1o cross the She started and was about half wi across When She saw the t comi; ing toward her. It had b®en asleep in another part of the field, but #4& ReWw awake and very wide awake. When the goat saw Kate it xawe i ‘head n ‘waKe as if to ask. FiZht have wou here? and started at- tér_her, The girl hadl Very Nitle HME to think what she should do. Not far off was the stump of a tree, and toward this Kate ran ag fast as she could. jgqhen she reached it W put her abron around the Stamp and them stood behing it. She was not ahy tos s&bh, for al- most at the safne minute the goat came up and crash went its head against. the, stump. Then all wis still. After awhile Kate Todked around, and there the goat lay as if dé You may be sure it did not take Kate long to get hemre. When her father heard had done, he was very proud of her because, as he said, she did not lose Wer thinking-cap when she was in danger. BEATRICE HEBERT, Age 13. lainfield. A c.-‘i m.. Mariah Wwas feelifg oress. Mother noticed it and cailled her ifite her bedroom. “You must havé <otten dut of the T dFhis s what she f in her bedroom That dme up and.put mej' ot e ‘night I feard |} the window. TRen a head in. He had a large and he took many 3 _into it. He was & when he saw fikd _ath = m&"fl" like best &%-; -\i‘te{‘t :’:: little Harvey Wik véry Sma oF, he was a Id@ - “The listeners had 1d faugh. At that | w,gebm ‘from the | Salits, mmmxe Pills, Of); or Purga- tree {tive Water: £ m':mvsk- Bf thie “pine_or, h»gd out oi tin. Its :han is a @@h%%* nf st mm wire xfl sticks Be ‘sure to turn the Pr fight way Xhen twisting up ds for me ‘eed‘s W ‘When they are Soit enough to fim with, dry ‘betwken folded towels. Deécide on the arrangement and Zelor Combinatioft. Yoit will be surprised to see ‘mn prefty effeéts you bring % 4 loug, slender neédle ded Wi h coarsé cotton. Red and w kernels of fofn, strung altérhately in gro! of thrée, will make exactly the _neckE%“);on wiant to weéar with ycur dress. Those big 5 red and brown beans look well mmg cither singly or with grains of cora. String melon .seeds singly and as carefully as you can, putting the fieedle through each seed from point to pi Decorate them with your water colors. are making a necklace to wear r gay plaid gingham frock, se- lect the most premunent color in_the cloth, and paint the Béads to match. You lflly'h!fitb puit oft two or three ¢oats it ®ch one to dry thomug ly before putting on the next. Such a_necklace of melon or squash seeds will be very pretty if colored jade- green or amber-orange. Small crystal beads may be combined with the seeds. if you like. Boys' and Girls' Né Copyright 1919, by J. H. 5 < 4 Boys' and Girls: Copyright 1919, J. H. by Millar B = side of the robin’s nefi. spaper Service | afterwards I looked up Millar heads with their méuths wide open. 1 knew the baby birds gry and that the fried all 1 could this summer. I have tWo uncles whd fought to protect the Stars and Stripes. One of them is resting peacefully ‘“over there.” When I think of ull the brave men | who died during this great war I feel ¥ sad, but it was their duty and With vaith and courage in their hearts, went forward and fought to keep the Stars and Stripes waving. It is wav- i and I hope it will Wave forever in peace. N I hope every boy and girl in Amer- [ica will loye and protect the dear old | A filled up. left them on the grass. long before the mother " birds them and took them'to the baby birds. 1t was not long before the baby birds were flyifig ardund the yard. us. and kept it awhile. A number of pe that this really true Story Was true. DIANA DOYON. h or lieve I shall ever see another one. MARGARET TORREY, Age 12. Central Village. Grasgo. The Birds’ Tenement House, Offe dWy in spring while I was sit- ting on the porch I heard a rustle among the leaves of the Dorothy Per- Kins rofe. What do you think I saw? It was a robin carrying At once £ a nest. still and Watched Mrs Breast bulld her nest. She wove the nest very carefully. then she pias- red the outside with sticks and mud. j}bn e Went out near the hencoop and gathered some soft feathers in her Dbill, then she flew back to the nest with them and lined it with the soft feahers so as it would be soft for the After she had com picted her nest I went into the house ¢ day I went out on the climbed the trellis to seée it lhere Were any eggs. There was Just ome egg Which was light blue in color. A few days afterwards I went out and again repeated the performance of climbing the trellis to see if there more eges. I was surprised Attéhding a Birthday Party. One Sunday fay friend Mary me to heér birthday party. 1 _gladly went. I sat very Robin Red At first We sang many songs Anna played on the piano. After singing we were called {the dining room by Mary's_ mother. There Zoou things to eat. teen burning candles around -it. Each girl was served with cake, pie, cookies, candies, water. | On the Way we were cracking jokes. telling stories and 'singing. til it was time to gé hom SGNBE MZOZINSKA. Colchester. An Exciting Adventure. to see four blwe eggs. As 1 was One day abbut a week afterwards I; noticed a small gray bird which was a sparrow carryving twigs to the rose bush. T thousht probably the spar- row was building a nest in another part of the rose bush. But it was not. It was building a nest right on the |at the right was a brook. rible figare fore me. 1 scarcely knéw which way to tufn, looming ¥ i to F o ¥ Newspaper Setvice A few Weeks and peeping over the side of the nest were little wefé hun- little ‘mother birds were very busy Keéping the little birds 1 thought I would trv and help the mother birds, so I wént into the garden and” dug a few worms and It _was not fouhd A few days afterwards the birds left We took the teneément nest down ple did not believe {That is the only bird’s tenement house that 1 have ever seen, and I don’t be- invited f course | When' I came to her | { knew the | house all the idvited &irls were there. While ;| into beheld a table loaded with In the center was a large cake with frosting and four- ice cream and soda- In a hour or so, we returned and played Zames 1 waliing _along a_lofely road in the dusk I suddéenly saw a ter- the path be- | for at the left was a dense forest and In the dis- 4 Bent ‘piece of h; / tance 1 siw sOMEtHINE WHIve 1 | i 1 | | | tongue, When Constipated, Are you kéeping ybur‘MWfl, Tivér, and stOfhach cléan, pure, and fresh With. Cascarets, or méfély WRIppIng them into action ‘every féw days With Thor ek | B e oo sok, the ¢léan: ,% thé stomach, remove the sout ai : R‘# m'owy Lflm ‘We, by mfu O‘Reh of M”leh. REAL “INSIDE” 'iNFQRMATION Bilious, rma:ch), "Cascarets” for Livér and Mm--No- “Shake up” Take m and foul gases, take the lh! livéy and _éarry 50'!'5 All the mfima it’! ner and “polssns 'S\l ma ou_teel ”“xm‘ i WOEK. Whiie fip._;a " ‘Efipe, ‘wickén, or fivemefiee. they co#t se (armchifie A met my though' (Her 1 aimly ed a dark ob]ect As T turned arou’il 23 run back, I heard muffied souRds be- hind me. In_ a thrilling momént of my &x- citement I ran back. The tHSuRhHt of those terrible sounds made fhe ‘shiver. or a. moment -1 -scdrcely @afed breathe, but persuaded myself to 33 on.. T iooked cautiously about to. Wee if the white ‘objeét had disappedred. but instead it was coming nearer. Al most paralyzed Wwith fear, I heafd my name called: 1 recégnised the voice of my* father driving opr White horse. The, next morntnz I found that the terrible figure of the night before proved to be. the sh ew of & tree that I had séen many, t é Ru-fl-i E. Hfiu‘ww A#e 13 Danielson. h_as 1 could An Automobile Tri We starteq about 10 0'clock and #ot there afound 3. First we went to ElizaBeth park. Thére was fn Awme, ican flag made up of red, white and Dblue Aowers. Next we went around the capitel and aiong Capitél avenue. A fe minutes later we Wwent down Charter Ozk avénue and in front of fagtory. - The new bridge bver the Connecticut rivér is quite long and hak lights on eath side which makes it véry pretty at nizht LOUIS GROVER, Agé 10. Norwich. stone A Country Sthool of Long Ago. It Was a country school of Blden tihe. We could tkll for the desks and books Were of ofden tybe. The chil- daren ré - Writing. e floor Wwak partly decaved. It séemed stran¥e to see S0 few books. These bSoks were The English Primer, a writing book, and an_arithmetic book. Some chil- dren with dunce caps on were sitting in front of the room oh small dunce stools. The teacher had his hair pow- dered ana tied in a que with a black velvet ribboh. The punishment In those days %as something awful. Some of the pun- ishments were when a child tald 4 lie they would put some mustard on his And when théy Ntole thingx from another child the teacher would After_the delicious lunch We Wére |} 04 (heir fingers over red hot coals. taken 6ut for a ride in a lafge auto.! Sometimes they would put clotheqnm on their ears ahnd other .timeg m stick pins through their tohEues am glad we ao m)t hnvé hat kind of XSY b. CULVE & Afl“& Gri!wolfl A Good. Time With a Bieyete. n mriun mmm oraers “pack 6 e Uhised States, One aay, while Walking through a wood, hé saw a fine bigyele against 3 tree. - He went over t at it, when a French peasant hoy B(epy!d from behind a mm- anldl spoke to h 'w(mm you fike a ride on Yy wheel 7’ asked the bey, netihg the in- terest Domald tddk in thé fine ma- | chin | certainly wouldi” repied Don- ald. ' “I have a wheel of my own ih Ameriea. The Frémch 1a@ sald he woéuld not nesdl his bicycle until suhset, 56 Don- alg started o?f, after reporting tb hi captain. e day wu bright and clear. and Donald could not have had a better day for his trip.. e rode far Intd the country and amonay the hills, enjoying himself imfnensely. The roads wers in excellent hgbl}dlnon. thaking riding enjoyable al A st. }&ynbb,p Dohald stopped At a_smiall French caf> ahd ate a very hearty meal. Soon afterward he started of again on the bicycle, riding to Qe top- of a high hill. From there he could 160k down upon one of the smal ¥rench villages. The scene was peaceful and quiet. and it sceméd strange to Donald that just three mom}fi previous he was fighting in No Man's Land. It was about two hours_before the time set to meet the boy when Donald turned his wheel towara camp. He arrived there as the sun dropping from sight behind the hills, and found the boy awaiting him. Don- ald returned the wheel to its owner, saying as he did %o, “Thank yéu very mOch LLIAM GWASDOFF, Age 14. Neorwich. was My Trip to Virginig. My tather is an enkineer the Merchant Marines and this su he tbok me for a trip to .Virginia. The Ship was anchorelf iy Provigence, and, ot course, anxious to sew il in ¥ Colt's | S ais in it for 1 hu'no! séen ‘a bif SHe Befsre, and her home port is Bos- Years, then she was cut in two aadl . rt, Me., to Norfolk -and O she @ays aRd the next day gzot under way About nooh we wefe off Newport. 1 saw a sub chaser and a few bther 6v4 Bigex Témnd, The that funny feeling, and then a head- Cape Charl on an islard of the and got my dinner and thea clock I went oh deck to get a hmth just _going _past be Henrry, Va one, ana which Was the ofd nne 1 boats as théy came to ahchor. tdught to fell the points of thé ssm- New! %nm a ship is anchored tn sueh a 1 fishéd a ¥68d ‘part of the Aay and fish is “craakers d Are very gl barge 108t its anehor And hit a LAMEY. made fast t6 1t to the dbek. About thres or My Father got off watch at folk, 1 had a very good time, but ft & big dirigiblo. Wé went back te the was pleasant all the way. blew whistles tb ®ath other. on our way back we were abeut o She is féet 1ofig, and eatries hg fame of her is_ tA® ton. She was built 32 yeats ago oh the Great Lakes, and ran there a few brought to_the eoast. She now fufs from Bosion, New York, Providenss News, Va. The trip I was sn d in Providence for thres about ‘olock, of at thrée bells, as the sea phrase goes. saw the barracks there and two fares aeréplanes, and then farthér, down | ernment boats. Along {h tHe Afternooh We sighted i clouding up and 1ooked ke Ta 1 bégan to hAvé ache and 1 had to go below amd tufh in. T tas sick all the way dpown t2 southern coast of Maryland. 1 got up and’ went to the mess hal feeling better. But a litt) had_to turn in again. About of fresh air as the hole in _the rodm I sle Taere ure (wo lighchouses there and my father told hic) wn the Asw Stayéd up all the way th and {hat sikht T sat on the afterdadd and watchéd the A saifor taught me 6 Wigwag, and tell_the time by bells; and T ‘was pass. The ne¥t day we were still at chor Betwéen Norfolk and Ne place where thers are so many bosts a tug has to tow them th the Aoek. I got enough fish to fesd the Whels créw for supper. The name o6f the AT eating: and T euvght a féw crabs, 56 That day we saw a government ship. and khdck ths the afterdetk; and thea Riv g6t oMers that night to be réally the fltst thing the next morning to .b o'clock the fext morning the !mu v Oréw, a tug, cafe after us. i b'clock and we went ashore to Nor- is véry hot there. I saw aeroplaneés 4o sunts, and sdw Ship ‘and started for Boston about one o'clock, and The first night out we saw a trans- port and our ship and the transpert I saw a Schodl 6f porpoise, and twe fin back whales and eight sea turtles. % e Cod when a tan came out th & ot boat and gave the captain or- ders to turn aAd g6 batk to Providemes 28 _the coal dock had burned down is ton. We anchbred in Newport that night afd the next morning which was the Feéurth of July we went Up the river and I went hormre. 1 was glad to gét home, although 1 would have liked tb have gohe mgain ORMOND HOLLOWAY, Age 14, Prainfield. SLOW DEATH pains, nervousness, diM. culty in uwrinatiag, often o-eap serious disorders. The world's suihdard remhedy for kidney, liver, bindder dnd uric acid troubles— GOLD MEDAL refisf and often ward off %m ‘Rnown as the national vstnedy ‘of Molland for moere than 200 yéars. ANl druggists, in three clvex s w P i < b