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Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
THE HANDLES LITTLE BOY
By Annie H. Dennen

I wish l didn't have any hands. so
there!' snapped Glenn. Then nobody d
say, Won't you please pick some
strinsbeans for dinner and Won't you
please to pick some currants for tea p
an Won't you please to pick some
Chickens for Thanksgivin'!" finish
ed Danny, gleefully. Glenn laughed,
and then, of course, she felt better.
But you couldn't make those lovely
currant buns O mud 'thout any
hands, little Doris remarked, grave
~. She smacked her lips as if her
mouth watered for a bun.
Then I'd make EN- with my feeti"
laughed Glenn. She had put on her
broad brimmer'' and picked up her
baskets. ready for the currant pick
ing. The little rain cloud had quite
blown over.
Aunt Jeanette was writing a let
ter to her soldier. The children
thought she was away off in the Phil
lppine Islands, and it almost startled
them when her sweet voice sounded
suddenly in their ears
I saw little boy making mud pies
with his feet" said Aunt Jeanette.
sAunty. With his feet ?"
Yes. with his two little feet. and he
did it in very workmanlike way, too.
% aunty. don't stop. Tell us the
Test! pleaded the three children,
eagerly.
But I'm afraid to keep Glenn wait
lng-lt will be so hot in the currant
patch soon,' Aunt Jeanette objected
Hot! I'd rather pick currants in
in Vanilla, aunty, than not hear that
seory! Glen cried. So aunty slipped
her soldiers letter in her portfolio and
told them the story
I think he must have been on his
way home from school He was a
bright-faced little fellow about as old
as Glenn. and he had on a little blue
cape like soldier boy. 1t hung round
him in loose folds. There was nav
house going up on the street, and he
was making his pies out of a little
heap of sand beside the great box the
men We're mixing mortar in. / wish
you could have seen the neat way he
made them.'
20 aunty. with his feet,'' breathed
Glenn.
With his feet. He drew the moist
sand toward hin>into a little pile with
one foot. and worked it and stirred
it and patted it with the other. He
was so busy he didn't notice ANYBODY
watching him until said How much
do You ask for your piesT and then
he looked up into my face and smiled
We felt quite acquainted then
Then spose you shook hands, lit
IL Doris said
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
LITTLE ORIGINAL STORIES.


Each vacation the family took trip
down the Hudson. They were going
on the Sd of July in 1907. The day
came and the trip began. The family
had to go to Albany from Rome, which
took three hours of patient riding on
the train; but Albany was reached at
last. 1t was the night boat they were
going on, and it did not start until 8
o'clock. 1t was only now, so there
was plenty of time.
When the boat started most of the
people We're on deck. where a band
was playing. The searchlight shone
on a camp among the mountains
which had been decorated for the
Fourth, and some boys came out and
rang a cowbe1l.
At another place there was a log
ca bin in the woods. A man and
woman were standing in the doorway
and two boys were romping in the
woods with some dogs.
l began to get sleepy, SO 1 went to
bed. The next morning l got up ear
~ and went out. The Palisades We're
on each side of the river and looked
like a picture. But the picture was
soon gone. AS l discovered we were
near New York I had to hurry and
get ready to go ashore.-Lucy Clarke.
age 10, Norwich, Conn
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
Pitching ouoits.

There is no reason why this game
should not be played in every yard, for
it is good sport. 1t develops muscle,
and it may be constructed for nothing,
if a blacksmith will give you four old
horseshoes. At the opposite ends of
the yard and on line with each other
spikes made of old broom handles
should be driven into the ground SO
that each spike is left at least an inch
above the ground. There may be two
players, using two horseshoes or quoits
each, or four players, each playing
with one quot. The contestants stand
at one end of the field and aim their
quoits in turn at the spike in the OPP
posite end. Ringing the spike with
the horseshoe counts two points; the
pin nearest the spike counts one; if
player has both his quoits nearest the
spike he scores two points. Measure
n1ents may be made by a string looped
around the pin or spike. When the
points at the first goal are decided
upon, the players pick UP their quoits
and rlay toward the opposite goal.
The winning of a game consists ir
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
THE PROCESSION OF THE DOLLS.

Dear Children: l am going to tel.
you about quaint and curious festival
which takes place in the old French
town of Douai the first Sunday after
July every year. It is really a pro-
cess1on of dolls, but grown people are
as much delighted by it as the children
are. At II o'clock in the morning, to
the ringing of chimes, the Gayant FAM
lily leave their home in thu town mu-
scum and march through the main
streets of the place, to the delight Of
an enthusiastic audience of citizens
and visitors.
The Gayant family are an extraordi-
nary group. Monsieur Gayant is %
feet high and is in knights dress cap
ped by helmet with white plumes.
He is carried along by men who are
concealed in the wicker framework Of
his legs. Behind him marches his wife
Marie Cagenon, whose tall figure. 20
feet high, is dressed in an ancient cos
tune, that of the court of Marguerite
de Valois. Then come the children,
Monsieur Jacquot, II feet high, and
wearing velvet hat and Spanish cloak,
and Mademoiselle F'illon, 10 feet high,
and dressed in the same fashion as her
mother. Last comes little Binbin, eight
feet high dressed like al infant with
cap and rattle.
After the distinguished Gayant fam
lily comes a chariot carrying a figure
of Fortune in it, and in front of it On
revolving platform Spanish gentle
man, a lady, a Swiss soldier, a banker,
a peasant carrying a chicken, and a
lawyer, with his pocket full of docu-
ments. AS the platform reyolves first
one figure is elevated before Fortune
and then another. Thus. as the song
of the Gayants explains, fort ane
changes for every one; all. from the
peasant to the gentleman, have vicis-
STUDIES.
The people of Douai love their NAM
moth dolls, and make the fete one Of
great rejoicing, with an enthusiasm
which suggests belated carnival. They
receive with fresh delight each year
the Gayant family and the wheel of
fortune and sing their song with an
enthusiasm as great as that inspired
by the ''Marseillaise'' in Paris. Towns
people who are away from home re-
possible.
History tells how in 1745 a company
of gunners from Douai encamped at
Journal suddenly deserted in a body,
but their captain. who knew his men
simply smiled and said to the excited
sergeant: Keep cool. I know where
they are. They had to go and see their
Grandfather Gayant at Douai. They
will come back" And come back they
certainly did, when the fete was over,
bringing back with them a number IF
recruits who had been charmed by
their military bearing.-Cora Roche
Rowland, in Chicago Tribune.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
Need of Vacations.

Vacation does some persons good,
and others harm. 1t might be the
saving of lives, the conservation of
health. the relief of which would
make the whole year go WELL if it were
rightly used. But SO many persons
misconceive the character and re-
quirements of vacation, and abuse
instead of use the much or little time
given them Of cessation from work
There are those who are worse off at
the end of their long quarter of a
year of relief from regular work than
they We're at it's beginning. There
are others who manage to get seant
week substantial good to last them
all the year.
Vacat ton advice has been wasted by
the barrel. 1t generally is as unheed-
ed as it is unsought. Each has his
own vacation, and his own vacation
problems. But ii is obvious that the
purpose of vacation is to make the
work of the year easier and more val
'lable There are too many, it is to be
feared, who regard the means as the
end, and are perpntuallt unsatisiied
because the vacation is 50 Short
New Haven Register
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

something, the little boy knew not
what.
She commanded him to drink, and
as he was very thirsty he took the
tunibler and did not take it from his
lips until he had drunk all it con-
tanned.
Poor little boy she said, Il will
stay here with you and fan you for
awhile, for / am the fairy Kindness,
and I love to do good for little chill
dren. Would you like to have me tell
you something about the fairies ?''
Just then the wind blew hard and
the. little boy felt someone shaking him
and he opened his eyes and looking
up saw his father, who had been look
ing for him and found him asleep I'M
der the old oak tree.
WHITE WINGS.
Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

each society to form the nucleus of
the gathering and to lead the singing
as the chorus choir might be expected
to do in any church where mass sing
ing is used.
AS soon as the 100 hymns and
tunes have been compiled, the work
will be inaugurated with a gigantic
praise service as the opening meeting
of one of the future festivals in the
Music shed. The entire chorus of 500
voices will be enlisted for this service,
and it is figured that such a praise
service would forever convince every
rightly tuned mar ard woman of the
superiority, grandeur and true religious
feeling found in mass singing, as COM
pared to other petty and personal
modes of vocal service.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
Birds.


Older people say there are not as
many birds now as there used to be
years ago, but there are quite few
near my home.
The barn swallows are quite plent1-
full around here There were as many
as four or five nests in our barn this
year.
There are also many blue birds and
wrens. I put boxes in the trees for
them to build in.
There is an oriole who builds her
nest ia an elm tree near our house
every year. 1t seems as though their
nest would come down when the wind
blows, it is built in such a funny
way on the very end of the limb.
There are also many game birds
around here. The partridge, quail and
woodcock. Quail are the most plenti-
full We hardly ever go out into the
field but what we see a flock of quail.
Troy /. Main, age II, Norwich, CT.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
A Little Gardener.

Dear Uncle Jed: I have four good
uncles and you are another.
| like to read the letters that the
boys write TO you
I have a snail garden and take all
the care of it
l planted turnips, lima beans, string
beans, scarlet runners, crease back
beans. dwarf beans, peas, potatoes,
radishes, tomatoes, lettuce, sweet corn,
watermelons, muskmelons and nastur-
tiums.
/ have a dog whose name is Shep.
| hitch him up and drive him. He is a
good dog and l have lots of fun with
him.-Earle Morgan Palmer, age g.,
Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
THE FAIRY KINDNESS.

Under the shade of a large oak tree
a little boy threw himself down to rest
one hot summer afternoon.
He had not been there very long
when a beautiful lady all clothed in
white appeared to him and said:
Little boy, you are very tired, are
you not? Here is a soft green velvet
cushion for you to rest your head on,
and l will bring you something nice
and cool to drink
The beautiful lady disappeared and
in few moments returned with a
golden tray on which was a glass of
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

He Drove the Cows and Went Barefoot
Dear Uncle Jed: I spent two weeks
of my vacation at my grandfather's
farm in the country.
| got up at six o'clock in the morn
ing to see the cows MIXED Then
would drive them to pasture. In the
evening at five o'clock l would bring
them home again.
L went barefooted all Gay long and
would wade into the brook and catch
tiny 1i5h in a dipper
/ had a good time and just loved the
country. Your nephew,
]. S. NJ.
Norwich, July 10, 1911.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
Five Red SQUIRRELS.

Dear Uncle Jed: There is a large
elm tree opposite my house. in which
there are five squirrels. They are red
and have beautiful tails and are also
quite tame
Every day they can be seen run
ming along the fence in search of
something to eat.
1 put corn on the fence and enjoy
watching the squirrels eat it. They will
also eat the tall grass.
They run up and down the trees as
if they were playing tag.
Your little niece,
MYRTLE M'CORD.
Norwich Town, July 10, 1911.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
Rule. for Youno Writers.

1. Write plainly on one side OF the
pa per only and number the pages.
2. Use pen and ink. not pencil.
8. Short and pointed articles will
be given preference. Do not use over
$50 words.
4. Original stories or letters only
will be used.
). Write your name. age and adj
dress al the top of the first page.
Address all communications to
Uncle Jed, Bulletin Office
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
Wants to Join.

Wants to Join.
Dear Uncle Jed: [ have read the
Boys and Girls Department every
week since it started. and 1 felt that
I would like to join it. so l am send
ing you a poem that I made up We
take The Courier and think it is very
nice.
I hope that my poem will be worth
accepting. 1t is true. even the places
spoken of.
With all success to the Boys and
Girls Department. I am,
Your friend.
HENRIETTA ALLEN.
Mansfield Depot, Conn.,, July 10, 1911.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

The little book-winners who have
not received their books by mail should
inform Uncle Jed within three days
after they see the announcements; and
they should also be prompt to notify
him when the books are finally receiv-
ed
These books may be called for any
hour after 10 a. m. Thursday.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

The Boston Transcript of Tuesday
evening said: "The weather is sin
gulsrly appropriate for holding the
Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrin-
ers of the country, whose sessions
os~n at Rochester, n. Y, today. The
c>~nel will find the city pave as hot
AID familiar as though treading again
lyon the burning sands of Arab
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
Liked All the Books.

Dear Uncle Jed: ! hope you re-
ceived my letter thanking you for my
flower book. [ like all the books you
have given me. Yours,
KENNETH w. MAIN.
Norwich, July s, 1911.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

The Maine is getting to be such an
unpleasant memory that it is recon-
mended that we let the Cubans re-
member her.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

The man who sees poetry in the
bayfield, is not the one who swings the
scythe; but the one who sits on the
fence and sings.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

Happy thought for today: 1t is
only ten weeks to a killing frost; and
that seems too long a time to wait.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
SPECIAL PRIZES.

To Mary Bromley, of Stonington, book
entitled "A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson.
To Morgan Palmer, of Norwich, book
entitled Mature Studies on the Farm:
Soils ard Plants,'' by Charles I'll. Kef-
fer.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

1t is not so easy to decide these days
whether one would prefer to be an
Eskimo or a Hottentot.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

When Admiral Togo learns of our
hero, Hobson, and his subsequent his
tory we should not blame the admiral
if he regards him as a joke.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

The man who eats too much in hot
weather prepares himself for misfor-
tune. The heavy meal never calls for
light doctors fees.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

Those who are engaged in keeping
weak presidential booms alive are
feeling the hot weather fearfully.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

Vice President Sherman's declaration
that he will not be a candidate for
reelection has not called forth any
regrets.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

The new organized movement
against tobacco smokers will prove
doubtless to be most formidable upon
paper.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

1t is an able lawyer who can make
a technicality look like the second
cousin of a constitutional safeguard.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

gaining eleven points. Another num-
Der, however, may be agreed upon be-
fore playing.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

Do not worry about dogdays, but
just have a care that every dog has
cool water to quench his thirst.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

Maxim's invention of a gun that can
be fired without making a noise is
nothing ito what the invention of "a
good flat-wheeI muller would be.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

Governor F'oss of Massachusetts
sent in six veto messages to the leg
islature one day this week; and the
total number is top-notchy.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

The dscomforts of the summer re-
sort tend to make all vacationists feel
that there's no place like home.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

\ Michigan bride having been de-
scribed as having been married in a
going away suit" an editor inquiries
ahat she'll wear coming back.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

Kansas has a town in which there is
not a smoker or a cursor: and the
most sensational thing it has stom-
ach for is an Epworth league conven-
ton
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
POETRY.
The Little Fox.

Among my tender vines / spy
A little fox named BY and By.
Then set upon him quick, l say
The swift young hunter-Right Away.
Around each tender vine, I plant,
find the little fox-I Can't.
Then, fast as ever hunter ran,
Chase him with bold and brave-I Can.
No Use in trying -lags and wflines
This fox among my tender vines.
Then drive him low. and drive him
With this good hunter, named-Irl
Try.
Among the vines in my small lot
Creeps in the young fox-I Forgot
Then hunt him out and to his pen
With Will Not Forget Again.
A little fox is hidden there
Among my vines, named-I Don't Care.
Then let I'm Sorry-Hunter true
Chase him afar from vines and you.
Union Gospel News.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
A Very Pretty Book.

Dear Uncle Jed: I thank you very
much for the flower book l received.
1t is very pretty and also very inter-
esting. | will be very careful of it.
Your little friend,
MYRTLE MAE M'CORD.
Tux
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

BE Fair"
Make this your motto for the year:
Be fair;
No matter what reports you hear,
Be fair;
1t doesn't help you up the hill
To make some others pathway
hard.
You can't expect my speaking i'll,
OF men to win the worlds regard
Be fair.
You have a chance to help along.
Be fair:
No man is absolutely wrong,
Be fair;
You don't increase your merit when
You cast slurs on another's worth;
Why turn against your fellow men
Or place one sorrow more on earth?
Be fair.
Chicago Record Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
INDOORS AND OUT-OF-DOORS
A Boys and Girls Department

wich, book entitled THE Twins In
Ceylon,'' by Belle Sidney Woolf.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

Second prize to Richard c. Moran,
of Norwich, book entitled BLACK Beau
ty," by Anna Sewell.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

Reach up as far as you can,
and God will reach down all thel
rest of the. way
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13

The California district leads in the
oil production of the United States.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-13
BACKYARD GAMES
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Norwich, July
The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-08
MEXICO SHOWS FINANCIAL GAIN
TREASURY CONTAINS MILLION PESOS MORE THAN WHEN
 DlAZ GAVE UP RElNS.
Saving Is Attributed to Economic Ex pcnditures Rather Than to
 An Increase of Revenue.

Mexico City, July Ton June 30 at the close of the fiscal year Mexf- |co's reserve amounted to 63,000,00O pesos, according to a statement made by President De La Barra tonight.
 This is something more than a million more than was left in the treasury by Limantour when he re- signed as minister of finance and was succeeded by Ernesto Madero.
 Since that time the government has expended the greater part of the two appropriations, one for eight million and the other for six milliop pesos, for the payment of expenses incurred as the result of the revolu- tion.
 President De La Barra and Minis ter Madero account for the apparent gain of approximately ten million pe- sos, not by increased income, but by the adoption of a policy of economy. A portion has been saved by re- trenchment but by far the greater part by avoiding unnecessary expend- ;tgres.
The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-08
WAR AMONG
 THE DETECTIVES
PERKINS AGENCY BRINGS SER ioUS CHARGE AGAINST BURNS
 AND HIS AGENCY.
Alege Conspiracy With Government Officials to Ruin the Business
 of the Latter Company.

Washington, July 7.-Charges that Ia conspiracy exists between United tates postoffice inspectors and the w. J. Burns detective agency to de- stroy their business, was made today in a petition filed by the Perkins Detective Agency of Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Indianapolis, with the select committee appointed Sby the lsenate to investigate the third de- gree" methods of the police.
 Tn asking for an investigation at
 the hands of the senate committee the. petition says that their case is not an isolated one, but that they are prepared to prove that like conduct on the part of postoffice inspectoss lis not an infrequent occurrence in other parts of the country.
 c. B. Perkins, Walter W. Perkins and A. Thomas were accused recent ly of having written to c. Strong of Erie, Pa., that unless s50,000 was forthcoming, the Strong house and Mauloseum would be blown up.
 The letters were alleged to have been anonymous and forwarded to MT. Strong with the idea in view, t
 was ccxtended. that the Perkins agency would gain employment in fer reting out the authors and prevent the carrying out of the threat.
 Later the offices of the Perkins agency in three cities were raided and papers ad books seized. The peti- tion alleges the officers and em- |ployes of the Perkins concern were |subjected to third degree" methods in order to extort confessions from them.
 w. j. buTHs, nedu oI the DuiHs lagency, was former secret service official in the treasury department.
 He achieved considerable reputation for his work in connection with the lanti-graft crusade in San Francisco and at present is in the limelight as
 result of his work in the dynamite
 plot, which caused the destruction of she Los Angeles Times plant.
The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-08
PROSECUTION
 WINS POINT
lISllsa IlIsls - s
&lAeEA' v lA NlA r tat- LOS ANGELES COURT HOLDS JURISDICTION IN MCNAMARA
 DYNAMlTiNc CASE.
Judge Walter RordweIi Refuses to Go Into the Matter of Fraud in the Extraditon of Prisoners From
 State of Indiana.

Los Angeles. Cal, July "A pre- liminary victory was won today by, lthe prosecution in the case of John |J McNamara, secretary treasurer Of |the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. accused of connection with the Los Angeles Times dynamiting.
 Judge Walter Bordwell. sustained the objection to the plea of no juris- |dicion, introduced in behalf of the al- leged dynamite conspirator. Judge Bordwell said the Los Angeles courts have jurisdictions over the impending Itrial of McNamara on nineteen charg- les of murder.
 As to the allegations that extradi- tion had been accomplished by irregu- larities or what the defense termed fraud, Judge Bordwell said it was not his province to enter into the ques- tion of how 8 prisoner was brought into the Jurisdiction of his court. but to try him after he arrived there. It was agreed that the same ruling should apply to all the pleas of no Jurisdiction.
 Replying to the question of tha prosecution if it desired to have John J. McNamara plead to charges against him, the defense an- swered by filing motions to quash
 the indictments. the motions being the Isame as thoge filed yesterday in the. lease of his brother, James E. Me-
 Namara, so far as the murder charg- es were concerned.
 The prosecution then moved that all affidavits filed. with the motions to quash be stricken from the re- cords. An objection to the court considering the motion to quash all lso was made.
 The case will come up again to- morrow morning when arguments will be continued.