Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 25, 1921, Page 2

‘When I am playing by myself, And all the boys are lost around, Then 1 can Sear the water go— Tt makes a little talking sound. Along the rocks below the tree, 1 see it ripple up and wink; And T can hear it saying on, i “And do you think? and do you think?" A bug shoots by that snaps and ticks, And a bird flies up beside the tree Te go intg the sky to sing. % 1 hear it say, “Kildee, kildee." Or else a yellow cow comes down To splash a while and have a drink But when she goes I still cam hear The water say, “And do you think?" Eiizabeth Madox Roberts in Poetry. Be A Geod Boy. Goed-Bye How oft in my dreams I go back to the day, When T stood at our old wooden gate, And started to school in full battle ar- ray, Well armed with a primer and slate. And as the latch fell I thought myself free, And ziories, T fear, on the sly, b “Till 1 heard a kind wvoice that whispered to me: 5 “Be a good boy; gapd by !” “Be a good boy, goodbye!.. It seem They have followed me all these years. They have given a form to my youthful dreams And scattered my foolish fears. They have stayed my feet on mamy a brink Unseen by a blinded eye: For just in time T would papse and think: “Be 2 goed boy; good-bye " brother of mine, i& the battle of life, ust starting or nearing its close, This motto aloft in the midst trife Will conquer wherever it goes. Mistakes vou will make for each of us of the just honestly try To accomplish your best. TIn whatever oceurs “Be a good bov: goodbye!” John L. Strong UNCLE JED'S TALK AWAKES Many of the Wideawakes are going to «pend thelr lomg vacation at home. Oth- #rs will o to the seashore. some to the mountains; some to both the shore and the mountains while theve are those who will have a delightful time going to the Aifferent citfes to the country, ! taking trips here and there. Some may go samping and others may be putting in some happy hours at the playgrounds. But whatever you do or wherever you go should t adopt as your motto "Be careful” Such instruetions as you may have re- setved in your homes or in school about seing careful must not be disrezarded during vaeatfon. There are always many dangers to be avoided and they san be escaped by just a small amount of attention at the right time. Boys and girls must keep out of the way of automobfles which creep up so silently at times they must be careful ™ swimfing no to go beyonfl their denth it they cannot swim, they must no jump on or off the back of vehicles, they must not get into dangerous places but have a thought of what is lNable to serious injury or death and avold Be careful is 2 warning that can be applied on many occasions. If there Is any doubt, “Be careful” should be guild- Ing influence. And wlle there is need of being care-- tal for your own protection, there is likewise plenty of opportumities for ap- plying it in regatd to others. Tt is im- portant mot to do anything that would cause serious injury to another, that might make a companion a cripple for ife. or that would cause damage to property through carelessness like play- ing with matehes, starting bonfires or leaving camp fires or other fires near woods where a large loss of property might result therefrom. All of us can see where we might have been more careful after something has hap happened. What is more important is to do it and prevent the undesirable things from happening. Be careful. TO WIDE- cause WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS i—Bernice M. Burdick of Danielson— Prixy’s Holiday Journey. 2—Pauline Eisenstein of Colchester— The Campfire Girls at Long Lake. 3—Ruth Dreschler of Norwich—The mpfire Giris in the Mountains, 4—Helen Johmson of North Stonington —The Campfire Girls at the Seaghore. §5—James Quill of New London—The Boy Scouts With the Tanks. $—William Gaska of Jewett City—The Boy Seouts in France. 7—Derothy Gibesult of Killingly— The Campfire Girls in the Woods. S—Adrien Bazinet of Taftville—The Boy Scouts’ Champion Recruit. Wianers of prize books in the city can obtafn them by calling at The Bulletin business off after ten o'clock Monday mornning. LETTES OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Tilda Gibesalt of Attawaugan—I re- el 1 your book and am very thankful for it. I have aiready started reading it and find it very interesting. Frascis Donoven of Taftville—I receiv- »d your prize book entitled ‘“The Boy Soouts with the Allies. " I have read it and found it very interesting and wish io thank vou very much. Eva Friss of Amston—I want to thank you for the prize book entitled Face the n Foe whioh I recefved some time read it and Mke it ever so much. receiv- ] n see-saw, a -board placed mcross the low fence, where several railings were broken off, eaught sight of him and dart- toward hm with joyous . whoops. Bie had kissed Bessle with audi- = AWAKE CRCLE small children balancing on | little vegetables are just like folks to me. I get chummy with every young omion Bt T dowtaie 1o ‘tylike carry wat- er for I.hn‘m‘n)u ‘Why don't you wait till I get home? You're tired then, too, and it's fun do- ing it myself. I have to have flowers to loek and the vegetables are going to Support us this summer: T'm tired of Iiv- ing out of tin cans. , ADRIEN BAZINET, Age 11 Taftville. p to have you grumbled. Alexsnder’s Lake. Dear Unecle Jed: I live near a beavtfs ful lake. They say many years ago this lake was a beautiful mountain om Wwhich many Indians lived. One day an old Indian preacher came to them and told them to Jpe good or something would happen, but'they simply laoghed at her. So the following day an earthquake arose and shook this mountain which therefore left this place called Alexander's Lake. On the eastern shores of this lake is a large pavilion on which many pecple enjoy dancing. There are also clam- bakes on Sundays. There still stands a deep well on the shore of this lake Which is eaid o have been used by the Indians. This s the only thing left except a few carvings which are said to be the only relles left and found in Iater years. DOROTHY GIBEAULT, Age 11. Killingly. 5 Lincoln's Wit Dear Uncle Jed: Abraham Lincoln was noted for his wit. On many occa- sions it served to free him of perplexing situations, but probably never more So than during the Black Hawk war. Lin- coln had been chosen captain of a vol- unteer company by his townsmen and with_his nondescript band was marching to join fhe regular troops at the state capitol. - He did not know much about military tactics and when his men marching four abreast, came to a high fence with a gate only a foot wide, he could not for the life of him, think of the proper order to give to get them through it single file. “Hait” he cried, 0 an effort to gain time. Then a bright thonght came to his rescue and he drawled, “This company is dismissed for one minute. When vou form ranks again please do it on the other side of that fence. WILLIAM GASKA, Age 11 Jewett City. The Hunters Dear Uncle Jed: This is the second story I have written and will try to make it better than my first, Once two men armed with guns started out for a hunting trip through the woods, On the way it began to rain. One of the men would have stopped cnder a nearby tree, but the other wanted to keep mov- ing. So they journeyed on for mearly a mile. Sudden!y they saw at a distance a great cloud of dust, then a great herd of buffaloes were seen tobreak through tae dust and come galloping at full speed toward them. The hunters fired at the now enraged buffalo as they neared them. As tne men fired their guns the buffaloes turned into beautiful sea maidens who were sitting in the sea.combing tneir long golden hair and singing beautiful song that made the two men go to sleep never, never to wake again. MAGGIE CUSHMA! Little Sunrise Dear Unele Jed: Little Sunrise was just an ordinary sort of boy, but there was not another like him in all Muskoma, because Muskoma was an indian village and all the other bpys were redskins. T-aeir skins’ were not really red, you know, only ruddy brown; and certainly the white boy's skin was ot white, because the sun and the wind had turned it al- most as ruddy as an Indian’s What made him different from all the rest of the Muskoma boys was his hair, because it was red and curly, and tueirs was black and straignt. There was another thing that made him different from all they Indian boys. They could sit still and he could not, ex- cept when Ossawippi, the old chief, was telling bim a2 story, and even then it wasn't what an Indian would call sitting still. Tae only time he was realy still was when he was fast asleep in bed. When he was awake everybody else had to wake up, too. That was why the la- dians called him Little Sunrise, though perhaps the color of his hair had some- thing to do with it. His real name was Rennie. At least, that is what his father and motmer calied him. They called him Reginald when they wanted to be severe. WILLIAM PEUTIER Tattville. Story of Molti Cat 4 Dear Unele Jed: I have a beautiful cat. One day last week Ma, pa and I were sitting the plazza and there was a skunk searching for chickens and Kangaroo. my Moiti cat, taking the skunk for a kitty, sprang on MIs back. Oh, Uncle Jed, when he found out it was no kitty, ©e ran for his life and has not returned. ARTHUR GIBEAULT, Age 18 Killingly. Johnny ,the Young Hunter Dear Uncle Jed:: Johnny was just sixteen years of age before he learned to hunt. His first hunt was for a fox. One morning about seven o'clock he set out to hunt 2 fox. He had his father's gun across NS saoulder his own knife in its sheath and his brother's ammuni- tion belt around his walst. Johnny reached the woods a little aft- er midnight. The next morning about five o'clock he went to munt for a fox. He went into the depths of the forest and when he came to a ledge that he knew well; he saw something red come from under a huge boulder. Johnny knew it must be a red fox. He quickly reached for his gun, took a hasty aid and fired. But to his bitter disappoint- ment he missed. Johnny sadly tucked his gun under his arm and took after the fleeing fox. A He traced him through the dense forest to his den wWhich was a long dark cave extending into the ledge. Johuny took off ifis coat and crowled in- to the cave mot forgetting his trusty rifle. He crawled straight for the direction in which he heard the bark. Suddenly he came on the fox he was chasing with its young ones. Johmny did not have the heart to kill the fox and her baBies. So he reached his arm down and grasped. a little fox which he tucked into his wajst. He then crawled out picked up his hat and coat and made his way home. Soon after Johnny trained his young fox which he kept for a pet. He called him Fleetfoot for he could defeat any dog in town in a fair race. JAMES QUILL, Age 11 New London, Conn. The Shining Lake. Dear Uncle Jed: One day last summer my friend Daisy and I went to pick some berries in our pasfure. We picked the berries for about an hour, then thinking that we had enough berries for that day, we were about to go home. But we didn’t go just then, for some- thing interesting happened. ‘While going home you have to pass through a gate- way which is on both sides surrounded by large stone ferices. As the gate was closed, and the bars were heavy te lift, Daisy and I walked on the sgne fences, to pass from the pasture we were in to the lane leading to our homes. While I was on oné of the large rocks I happened to look back into the pasture over the trees that were scattered around the field. x In so doing I caught sight of some- thing which filled me with amazement. BY. “Fye learned a lot, mother, from that correspondence course on poultry isis I'm won £ you. could M“"”"“fl‘idfgggr smdya‘ti’ihe (s thoughtfuily. “Go ahead, daughter. Make your plaga “I’ll telt you what they are. I think the girl W be a success as poultry raiser should start out as as- sistant on a poultry farm. Next, she should take a course in poultry raising at an agricultural . After that, she can keep in touch with the latest information by sending for the free re- ports of the Department of Agricul- ture, Washington, D. C.. and by read- ing_the pouitry magazines. “We have a good sized plat of lagd, just the thing. This will give free raugewthe:{ndmm‘ ; and we can raise reen things 'to cut down the food bill or feed costs like everything.” “How many chickens will you have ?" “T'l start with a few and increase gradually until we have about 200 hens. All the experts say it's a business one must learn slpwly.” “200 hens !” “Yes, that many. How would you like to raise 3,000 yearly? That's what the big try raisers handle. They say the little plant of 200 to 300 is very simple in comparison to the large one which demands wide experience, con- siderable capital, and a ready market." “Do you know that there are hun- iirgr.ls of fnru in this business year- “That’s why I want a good start. Ex- perts say chicken raising nearly always pays if it is studied as any other busi- ness is. The pouitry plant on the farm pays. It’s often run by a woman, too, the farmer’s wife.” ere is your capital to start?” “It doesn’t take much capital to be- in. I'll start with a few hens. There 13 and always will be a demand for table fowl and eggs, but we won't be rich with the income from 200 hens. Thelaverage profit is $1.50 per hen - “Maybe, after I've started I'll raise | fancy stock. Single birds have brought prizes in poultry shows as high as $150 and the eggs from these birds have sold as high as $15 a setting.” _ - Why Is a Civil Engineer? Because He’s in the Army BY R 5, ALEXANDER “Dad, hy do they call a civil engi- il ¢ ""’?yx_..?m-:fe neer a civil \“No, I'd hardly say that, Sonny. You is supposed to see, originally the only s there were were in the army. ‘when men outside. the army ‘began to take the same training and do the same work as the army engineers, they had to in- vent a new name for them. " They called them civil engineers—that is civilians who did the’ “:i:l."“n of work the army engineers Eglhag sort of work was that?” “Well, they built bridges, laid out camps, built forts, did surveying, etc. They still do work along the lLines. No‘lv there are mersal main ra.l’ sions of civil engirfeering. Structural engineer- ing takes in all sorts of building and constructing with steel, timber, stone, and concrete. Railway and highway engineering takes in all sorts of work in keeping up the roadbed of railroads, laying out and building m;velinu, re- pairing. roads and making ones. “Hydraulic engineering takes in 2l sorts of engineering operations which' deal with water, such as city water plants, resetvoirs, sewage systems, ifri- gation systems, and canals.” “What sort of a fellow should a civil engineer be?” &He should like mathematics first of all. He should be ingenious and re- sourceful and he should have lots of good common sense. If you are not clever at working things out for your- self, don't try to become a'civil engi- neer. “You will need more than these|It had been broken in two. things, however, to get you anywhere, You need some very costly training. You should have your high school course. Then you should have a four- year course in a good technical school. Youdon'thave to wash your faded things ‘before dyeing WITH Twink you wash and dye in the one washing. Easy to use. Saves time. ‘Twink is not for tint- ing—it is for the real job of putting new col- or into your faded blouses and under- things — camisoles, nighties, envelopes, knickers, vests. 20 lovely colors. At drug and department stores and all five ahd ten cent stores. MADEIN U.S. A Twink only 10¢ TAX-EXEMPT 8% PREFERRED STOCK ASHLAND COTTON CO. MILLS AT JEWETT CITY, CONN. CHARTERED IN 13863 President Vice-President ARTHUR H. BREWER OLIVER L. JOHNSON President of Norwich Savings Vice-President Chelsea Savings Society . Bank 4 Treasurer GROSVENOR ELY ,» Thames Nationel DIRECTORS—the above officers, also— LEWIS M. CARPENTER, Assistant Treasurer ARTHUR M. BROWN, Atterney, of Nerwich CHAS. R. BUTTS, Norwich Savings Society Your Money Is Safeguarded and These You Get a DIVIDEND CHECK BY MAIL Every Three Months, Direct From the Ashland Cotton Co. = ————— INFORMATION COUPON BARSTOW, HILL & CO., Inc., 68 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass, * Without obligating me in an; , please d circul, full_particulars regarding Ashiand Getfon Go. 8 per cemt. Breferred NAME ADDRES: said I looked so funny. The next afterncon 1 went in the aero- planes, through the mill, in the tubs, on the Ferris wheel, in the automobiles, on the whip and through the rapids. I also went on the merry-go-round. Later that afternoon we rode a2 few miles in the auto and went in bathing. The beach at Savin Rock.is not good at all. Then we went to Cox's and had a shore dinner. It was very good. That night they had fireworks. . The next morning we went back to New London. My father came Saturday night and stayed till Monday morming. | Then we went home. 1 Bad a lovely time. 1 hope all the Wide-Awakes will have a nice vacation this summer. BERNICE M. BURDICK, Age 13. stricken out by the house. Leaders in the senate committes alsc were expecting to see a revival of the fght in the house to have the senate re- store 3 duty on hides and long staple cotton with provision for compensatory dauties on shoes and leather goods and textiles in which the long staple odtion is used. Proposers of atarif on pe- troleum appeared tonight to have given up their fight, although they will ask for such a duty before the committee. ‘The house ways and means commit- tee is going into its hearings without any Half of it| Danielson. had been washed awav and the other J half lay yet on the rock. The Unfortunate Child. The committee held some hearings last Those of the crew who were alive were o = bad winter and these, with still clinging to the rock. On one of the| Dear Uncle Jed: Little Naney statements, testimony of taxpayers this islands was a lighthouse, and there through the long night Grace Darli Some of the money for this course you | had listened to the storm. can make for yourself. Most of the schools have employment bureaus | house keeper, and she had lived at sea bij \_Ngich‘ help students to get part time jobs while they are going to school. ThenA you can earn some money during vacation. . “If you want to find out more about it, write to the Registrar of one of the big technical schools or to the Secretary of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 33 West 29th Street, New York City.” Before me, not more than a mile away, it seemed, was a clear shining lake. TIts waters shone like silver and seemed to beckon us to is. L turned to get my friend to admire the scene, and we both thought it would be great sport to find that shining or “Silver Lake,” as we now named it. We walked towards it, but the nearer we went the farther the lake seemed to be. At last, discouraged, we turned homeward. Even though we failed to find it that time, we have not given up hope of find- ing it some other time. PAULINE EISENSTEIN, Age 12. Coichester. A Pienie . Dear Uncle Jed: We had a picnic June 17. We had it down to our school. We were going to have it in the woods, was 100 Wet and rainy. So we had it in the schoolhouse. We had sandwiches, lemonade, cookies, | cake, olives, bananas, and ice cream. Then we played games. We started home ‘about 2 o'clock and got hame at half past 2. \ FLORENC Franklin. YERRINGTON, Age 11 Bubber. Dear Uncle Jed: How many of you boys and girls have rubber balis? | Did you ever wonder where the rubber comes from? There aré tall trees with pails hanging on them. The pails are put there to catch the sap. £ This sap is made into rubber, sap is thick and white like milk. The The men in the woods will heat the sap | las over the fire. When it becomes dry and | hard it is taken to thé mills and made into balls and dolls and bags. Can you think of anything else made of rubber? FRANK E. TRANCHELL, Age 6. North Stonington. .Baking My First Oake. Dear Uncle J&d: I will tell you about the bad luck I had when baking my first.| cake, Last Saturday T asked my mother if I could bake .a loak of cake. She said: ~Yes, but be sure that you put all the ingredients in.” T put all the things together and mix- ed them. The dough looked very nice. I put it in the pan and into the oven it went. Every few minutes I looked to see it it was done. It did not seem to raise. At last it was done. It Was no higher than when I put it in. I looked at the recipe to see if I had left anything out. Alas! T had 1éft out the baking powder. That is why it @id not raise. 1 hope that I will have better luck next time. RUTH DRESCHLER, Age 1i. Norwich. Theedore Roosevelt, _Dear Uncle Jed: Just six years after the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock a company of Dutch emigrants, led by Peter Minuit, sailed up “the finest har- bor in the world” and disembarked on a long, narrow island which the Indians named Manhatton. Minuit bought this island for 60 guilders or $24. Eighteen years later, in 1644, the first of the Roosevelt family came from Hol- and to settle in this country. His name was Klaes Martensen Van Roosevelt. The satisfaction of the worthy Dutchman is indicated by the fact that every Roose- velt in the line from Klaes to Theodore was born on Manhattan Island, Theodore Roosevelt was born Oct. 27th, Matterhorn. Roosevelt threw himself into the presidential campaign that followed. He ted 24 states and traveled s, making nearly 700 speeches. We owe to Theodore Roosevelt Panama canal. In his speech at Cal nia on March 23, 1911, he said: “I am interested in the Panama canal because I started it.” The canal is the greatest tangible result of his presidency. In the winter of 1913 to -1914 Roose- mi velt took his trip through the heart of | uncle’s South Americ: On Feb. 27, 1914, shortly after mid- day, He and some other people started in| were waiting for us with their automo- During the | bile to take us to Savin Rock. They had first day Kermit carried the sighting rod { our reom all ready for us. | and landed nearly 300 times. The rain poured down and swarms of | Later in the afternoon we took the ferry Cove, their seven dugout canoes. bees and flies attacked them. Ants, too, | over to Lighthouse Point, Morris Wwere numerous and voracious; one night|and went in bathing. Then we ca they ate all of the doctor's undershirt|back in the ferry and walked over to the and chewed holes in his #nosquito net. aly kept from serious ted doses of quinine On his ar; May sickness by re- 19, 1914, he had by no means re- covered from the effects of his trip and It was the steepest roller coaster there. which he | My Aunt Mabel and 1 went on it. First we went slowly up, up, up. up, and then a| whizz we were down to the bottom, and the serious passed. In February, 1918, he painful minor operation illness through underwent It was success- ful, but mastoiditis developed in his left | breath. ear and for a few hours he was in a|after the other, as fast as the car could Every time I got to the top I wished . At Christmas he was able to spend his|I wasn't going down. last Christmas. with all his children and | ones that 1 didn't mind at a critical condition. grandchildren who were able to come to Oyster Bay. When, he was ready for sleep he turned personal attendant and told him the lights out. Those were the r' he was heard to utter. buried on a beautiful spot on overlooking Long Island sound. All of his children were there except Theodore and Kermit, who were fighting in Europe. HELEN JOHNSON, Age 12, North Stoningten. The Story of a Strawberry., Dear Uncle Jed: One day a little giwl came along the side of the strawberry bed. I was only a little green straw- berry then, and she said “I won't pick you until you get ripe. 0, how I wished I was ripe. But day by day I began to grow pink, and then I got big and red. But alas! a great big robin came and picked me. thing I knew was a lot of little birds eating me up. Now wasn't that a nice ending? MILDRED J. TILLINGHAST, Age 18. Jewett City. Hunting Bears, Dear Uncle Jed: One morning as Hape ry got through with his breakfast he thought he would call on his chum Frank. He did not forget his 45.70 rifle, for he had to go through the woods to reach his cham's house. The forest con- tained many wild animals, and among them were bears. As he was slowly walking along the path he saw a brown bear pop out from a hollow log. Harry quickly dodged bee hind a lofty elm tree. Wasn't he frighte ened! But after a moment he recovered himself and picked up his gun.’ He sete tled the weapon in a crotch of the took careful aim at the bear's head and fired. The bear beat the air with his enormous paws, then dropped without a sound. Harry thought he might be play- ing ‘posum, o he gave the bear an- other shot. Harry found out that the bear was very heavy. So he skinmed it and ‘took the choicest stakes. These he carefully did up in a bunde and contin- 1858, The house in which the Roosevelts lived and wheer Theodore was born stood on 28 East Twentieth street, in New York city. Theodore's father died Feb. 9, 1878, while his son was a sophomors at Har- vard. After Theodore's marriage on.Oct. 27, ued on.to his chum’'s house. THOMAS B. RUDD, Age 11. New London, Graee Darling. Dear Uncle Jed: It was a dark Sep- tember morning. There was a storm at 1880, he went to Europe. While in Swit-|sea. A ship had been driven on a low zerland he climbed the Junfrau and the'rock off the shore of the Fame al from South America on|also looked pretty The nextl Grace was the daughter of the lig as long as she could remember. * must try to save them, let us go in boat at once,” she “It i8 of mo use, ther. “We cannot sav “But,” answered Gra stay. here and see them di Soon they were ready. and they set in the heavy lighthouse boat. were close to the rock. Now they w in greater danger than before. many trials her father climbed upon rock while Grace herself held the said her were placed on board. climbed back into his Then her fat! place. they were all safe in the lighthouse. VIVIAN RICHARDSON, Norwich. On One of My Pleasure Trips. Dear Uncle Jed: Saturday mor mother and I went to New London to house. We stayed till Sund morning and then we went to New I ven, where Aunt Mabel and Uncle noon we looked around White City. It looked very a string of lights. The first thing came to was the roller coaster. TI because everywh the car went there was a string of ligh I thought I would never catch go0. The the journey was over I was glad. aunt laughed all Dr. Valeria H. Parker— Guardian Of Morals As executive secretary of the U. 5. Interdepartmental social hygiene board she will watch over the so- cial health and morals of soldiers, saliors and marines. Dr. Parker as supervisor of state policewomen in Cennectieut and member of Na- tlonal Council of Defense during the war, is familiar with conditions throughout the country. She Is copsidered ome of the foremest autherities on social hygiene, id to her father. cannot Soon they After boat. Then one by ome th, worn out crew Strong 21,000 ; hands grasped the oars and by and by Age T. In the after-| Savin Rock. prett Some of the men had fever and were | Every path in the park was lighted with There would be three, one right were short but when the way because she never known a real home or a mothers care, for her mother died Im her ‘mfame oy and her father was a poor invalid, who cculd never get work. So ske, poor amiable little Nan, was Diaced by her unfaithful neighbors in am orpasn asy- lum where she lived for years. One windy day, accidentail he asy .um took fire, but to the greater su posc all the little orphans were saved, excepting little Nan, wno had been searching for her doll. “Nancy is not in the groun, she maust have stayed in the house. O! O: Where can she be; pattered Mrs. Dailey. “Look, look!” exclaimed iittle Nel} “here she is up in the window. Save her, you big mas Then with a sudden bounce he sprang to the window and saved the unfortunate child. Then the woman looked at her with ang €yes, as if to say “Couldm’t you do as the others, you ungrateful chi” So on this occasion Naney was piaced in care of a widowed lady, who had very Jittle health and momey. But as we ge on our story. Nancy !s growing up inte a bright young lady and to b= obie to support herself and the widow it was right for her to work. But she was young all week and pessible further ing suggestions from the White House make up a suffi- cient fund of information, its mem- bers beiieve. Chief among the tax bilis which have passed through the house hopper is a bill by Representative Longworth, re- publican of Oalo, who would repeal the excess profits, transportation and foun- taln drink taxes and gngduce the higher surtaxes on personal ht- We the fa- oft additional revenues repeal of the exem: tion of $2.000 for corporations and the \m:m of a 15 per rent. tax on their ere earnings with the hope that the change would bring around half a billion dofare anmually into the treasury. the her REPAIRS COMPLETED ON THE STEAMER POCAHONTAS . Napies, J 24.—The steamer Poca- hontas which wes damaged during her recent voyage- to this port from New York. allegedly by members of her crew. has completed repairs and it is expected the steamer will sail for New York on July 31 with 300 passengers, all Amer- icars. A great my my deal of cotton waste was day | 25" gelicate, and she did it and k2pt % | found in the steamer's pumps, but other fa- | o» until one drowsy morning she feit a8l ise it suffered only slight damage. Ed | 1ongh she was not able to stir; and one day the poor widow was erylag bitterly, {erying for her good adopted orphan. HELEN VARIEUR, Age 14. Danielson, MONEY RAISING TO OCCUPY ATTENTION OF CONGRESS me Washington, July 2 ation wiil ‘cceupy the attention of ngressional committees at each end of the capitol this week with the senate finance committee opening hearings to- morrow on the Fordney tariff bill and the house ways and Imeans commitfee ready for discussion of the new tax BNl Tuesday. Although the tariff bill passed by the house Thursday and designed to raise about haif a billion dtl)ll‘l!s in reven:: anuually, was going Into its seco stage interest was somewhat subordinat- ed to the tax measure which must pro- duce more than seven times as much. The house committee has a mass of bills for tax revision of a varying nature before it, and the republican members also have been advised of the treasury’'s views, but with ali of this the commit- tee will devote four days to hearing what the taxpayers have to say before beginning actual revision. gean:mle the senate finance commit- tee has under consideration a plan to establish a clearing house of experts to would sift ou suggestions regarded as worth while from the tax revision bas- ket. Although the plan has not been adopted finally, it was understood (o have the approval of most members of the committee and the experts p_mba{)ly will bgin work while ltself is listening tariff talk. mAmerk‘Jn valuation provisions of the Fordney bill will be the first step taken up by the senate committee tomorrow and Tuesday. The chemical sohedule of the bill will mext be given attemtion be- cause of the demand from some uarters for a dye embargo, a provision which was we at ere ats. my My \ t