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Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-01
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My Plavmates.

have a pet cat His name is Polly. Don't you think that funny name TOT him?
 He was five years old last April and is yellow I have had him ever since he was a kitten.
 Last fall when we moved from Vest erly, R. l., we carried him in covered basket on the cars. When the cars stopped he would say Meow, meow!
 When I go to bed nights take him with me. After l go to sleep he gets up and goes down stairs and lies on the couch with papa.
 have three dolls. Their names are Maude, Bessie and Alline. Maude is my favorite. She has golden curls and blue eyes and is large enough to wear the clothes I wore when l was little baby. My auntie gave her to me two years ago for Christmas
 Bessie and Alline are smaller dolls. I have had them five years.
 1 like to dress my dolls and cat up in dolls clothes and wheel them in my go-cart.
 BERTHA A. FULLER Age 8.
 Hanks Hill
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-
 maids. (See James ii. 5; Psalm xiii g. l met an aged dame one day Beside a cottage door; I looked at her with pitying eye, She seemed so very poor. Her little home was far away Within the forest drear; I thought how lonely she must feel, How often be in fear. l asked her if it were not so; But smilingly, she replied, I'm not alone, two handmaids bright Are ever at my side. At night. before to rest I lie, Faith closes tight the door, And in the morning Mercy comes To open it once more. Faith tells me I have naught to fear And bids me look above; For God. My Saviour, watches me, And He Himself is love. Then Mercy talks of what she has In store for every day; Where'er I go her footsteps fleet Still follow all the way"
 A. M. T.
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UNCLE JED'S TALK WITH WIDE.
 AWAKES.

Keep your eyes open and your mind alert. The second is just as i'm portant as the first. The eyes only see; but the alert mind inquires-it wants to know the why's and where fores. The red clover and the bee are so important to one another, that the clover cannot be grown without the presence of the bees to fertilize the seeds. A clover blossom is an as- sembly of little flowers, and the sweet odor to attract the bees; and how orderly they work together. The bees take the outside flowers first and aft CT the flowers have been visited they wilt, or proceed to perfect the seed. This lets the bee know the flowers which need attention, or contain honey for him, and it also saves him time in gathering honey. So you see if you look at clover blossom and it is per feet at the edges it has not been long open. How do you suppose the bee and the clover ever came to be so closely associated? This is something mind has not been able to fathom yet The clovers have been called the l drowsy family because. they keep regular hours and sleep O nights. Gib son tells us the young red clover blos- som at night is completely hooded beneath the overlapping pair ot leaves, and every individual leaf be- low is bowed with folded palms. "They open their leaves to the light, and close them beneath the kisses ot night" If some one had not hat open eyes and an alert mind these things would not have been known The wonders of creation are for youl delight and instruction; and if you miss them you have lost part of youl l inheritance
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Happy Closing of School.

Dear Uncle Jed: Our school was out Friday afternoon at half past 3. We had an awful lot of fun. My little brother came to school with me.
 In the forenoon we had regular les sons, and at half past 10 it was re- cess. Recess lasted IS minutes. Then we practfced our pieces. Then came noon.
 After half past 12 we played games and read stories and at half past 1 we began reciting our pieces. After the pieces the girls in my sisters room played basketball.
 After the basketball game we went in the schoolhouse and had our des- sert of ice cream and cake After the dessert school was out and we took our books and went home as happy as larks.
 Yours truly,
 RUBY E. SWAIN,TAge 8.
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She Gathers Moss for Gelatin.

Dear Uncle Jed: Elsie is a little giri 10 years old. She can harness and un- harness a horse. One day she was har- messing a horse. She was standing on the box and the box slipped She got on the box again and finished harness ing the horse. She drove seven miles to the station and back.
 There is a little girl next door and we dug a well in the sand. I go down on the beach and gather moss for gelatin I go up to the point of rocks to get some shells.
 GLADYS GIBSON BONNEY, Age 9.
 Whitneyville.
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The Pier on Fire.

In the summer of 1909, when my sister and father went to New York to meet my aunt, who was on board the large boat called the St. Paul, coming from London to New York, the pier where all the boats land was on fire.
 It was a very large fire and the peo- pie on the boats could not land as soon as they expected to. Now the docks are rebuilt and that seems to be the busiest part of New York.
 LILLIAN BREHANT. Age II.
 Norwich.
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Tom,s Dream.

One day Tom and his friend got permission from the teacher to get a drink.
 Tom reached there first. There. was just a little left. Tom drank it all leaving none for Bobby.
 Bobby began to cry. for he was very thirsty, and told the teacher. She gave Tom a whipping for being SC greedy.
 That night Tom had a curious dream. He dreamed he was in a desert. He was very thirsty and could find no water.
 All at once he saw some water. He started to run towards 1t, but some elephants reached there first and drank it all. Then they went away
 Just then Tom awoke and rubbed his eyes. Then he said: I'll never be so greedy again. and he never was.
 MILDRED SWANSON, Age 12. Baltic.
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LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.

How Louis Caught Partridge. Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell YOU about my pets l have a COW. She is Durham. She is three years old.
 One morning I went out back of our barn. There is grass there and we keep two hundred little chicks. was sitting on a stone when I saw a hawk try to catch a chicken, but l got my gun and shot at him.
 One morning I caught little part ridge I flung my hat on top of him. I have eight rabbits. l sold two and have six left.
 I have a rifle,
 LOUIS POLLOCK, Age Il. FagleVille,
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My Brothers Pet Cat.

Dear Uncle Jed My brother has a pet cat. It jumps through hoop. When my brother snaps his fingers the cat will sit up and wheel the car riage that the doll rides in. Some times she will jump over the Teddy bear, and she often lies in my mother clothes basket.
 Sometimes I take her to bed with me, and the funniest part of all is she will not lie down unless she has her head on the pillow He Skes to have the Teddy bear beside him. 's0 he can hug it.
 HAZEL M. CLIFFORD. Age 9.
 Putnam
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she pidn,t Have AnYthinu.

Dear Uncle Jed: Just a few lines to tell of my story. A lady called one day at a house where there were three children, a boy and two girls. It hap pened that the boy had whooping cough and one of the girls had measles and everyone was fretting and making much of them The other little girl sat alone in a corner, crying as If her heart would break.
 The lady went over to her and asked har what was the ma1ter.
 The child stopped crying for mo- ment and said: "Oh, dearl They've all got measles and whooping cough, and I haven't got anything! Oh, deari '
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STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE.
 AWAKES.
The PeopIe of Ind Woods.

Katy and Will were city children who had come out in the country to spend the summer. The night they arrived they wanted to go straight to the woods because it looked so cool and shady, as they were so hot from their trip; but their parents told them they could not go that night, but if they would wait till the next day they would take them there.
 Katy did not want to wait aso she at last persuaded har brother to so with hsFr much against his sWiIl. 1t was growing d1siy whom the children entered the woods but they
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Lille Likes the Farm.

Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell YOU about my life in the country. First we lived in the city. Then my father bought a farm in Connecticut. We have a farm of 53 acres. We have three horses, three cows and a lot of hens and one dog.
 I have two rabbits which are very pretty. They are all white. My fla ther gave them to me. They have four little ones.
 Sometimes in summer I go for the horses and cows, too. l take the dog with me. I think it is fun.
 I like to live on farm.
 I planted a flower garden. My flow CTS are all up. They look pretty. In front of the house we have dot of rosebushes with pink roses on them. They are very pretty.
 LILLE POLLOCK.
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Eagleville.
Edward HeIps on the Farm.

Dear Uncle Jed: I like to go out into the fields and woods when the sun is hot and lie down to watch the squir- rels and birds. Sometimes l lie down and sleep Tn the shade. l never get lost in the woods,
 [ get the cattle from the pasture. Sometimes I get flowers too. l know how to climb trees.
 A4zAr get horne n throw. down hay to feed tho horses. then wait for my
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-01
Mu Pet Cat.

I thought r would write and tell about my eat. She has three little kittens. Their names are Whitefeet and Blackie and Bonny. They run around the house now. The mother cat hunts rats and rabbits and squirrels. Sometimes she catches the mice alive Sometimes the little kittens jump out of doors. l like them very much Sometimes they will catch the mice their mother brings.
 ROSE ALPERIN, Age 8. CS11r1avvi11a
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to the bottom of the ocean and waves himself along the bottom, stirring up the sand and worms until he has eaten his fill.
 The bait with which they are caugnt are commonly called blood, or saho' " O' -''O MARIAN BLIvEN. Age 10.
 Norwich
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HiahIY Recommended.

Emily had just left school and was seeking a position as housekeeper. Mr. White, her friend spoke highly of her, as she behaved so well al school
 Emily loved to work and always did one thing well before she started an other, therefore she was not long in finding a position.
 JESSIE BREHANT. Age 15. Norwich
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Another Ideal Shattered.

It is nonsense to say Laugh and the world laughs with you-' res laughing hyena is always lauEktnE. but the woId does nat lAssh with "a -,Salt I.aka S1akin@k
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The Des Moines Capital says of the Iowa bull moose convention and par ty: We do not believe that Iowa ever saw more wonderfully hetero- geneous aggregation of politicians with supposedly divergent views as- sernbled under one root" It was 4 hot convention in more ways than -one!'s
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Next week the Coloners own con- vention win meet in Chicago; and if he is not recognized as the Alpha and Omega of the movement, he will de- mand the reason why.
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Hamid,s Hard Luck.

We grieVe to hear that Abdul Hanid has been deprived of all but six of his wives. It must be tough on the old man to be cut down to sextette
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In Kansas, the issue is whether a man who is a republican elector should give his allegiance to another political party! That doesn't seem to be much of a problem.
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Iowa is one of the six states that has been continuously republican since the party was formed, but fears are entertained that Teddy has thrown it to the democratic side.
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An English socialist was surprised when an auditor called for document ary evidence as he finished the deela- ration that Tall the land belongs to the people"
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Tha Flat Fisk.

The fiat fish is avery, curious fish, When The first learns to swim he swins This eyes turn and ze sEvinas out flat, When he-gets hiE-fond he goes down
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-01

The candidate who will not abide the decision of a majority of his par ty, or take the advice of his friends, has the quality to be a first class servant of the people.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-01

The workmen who vote for Wilson and cheapness in November may have plenty of time to consider the folly of changing the economic policy of the government.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-01

The bull moose party platform doesn't endorse the equal suffrage issue, but just expresses a willingness to leave it to the people.
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A fly net is just as necessary for the horse as the fly swatter is for dining room or kitchen.
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The style of horse headgear never changes. The same old rummage hat does for him sunimer after summer.
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The bull moose party had a most creditable convention at New Haven; but since they expected to be com- pslied to hold an open air meeting from thasovernpw at must have been ninappnlntfng
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When age gets into motor car and drives it 50 miles an hour, it doesn't look as if the days of youth had gone hV
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President Taft's title to renomina- tion is as good as the title of any can- didate has been since the republican party was formed
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-01

When a man sits down to tell a woman wsat he is worth, the tempta- ton to dazzle her regardless of facts is great.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-01

Since Candidate Wilson has shown his ability to sleep twenty hours on stretch, it is noted that the vice presidency might have fitted him bet fer
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It is not surprising that great many women believe in a personal devil since they have to live with one
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The progressives in Connecticut give assuring evidence that our dem ocratic governor will be reelected.
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It does seem at times as though congress met principally for conver- sational purposes-it likes so to hear itself talk
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The Colonel thinks all paths lead to revolution, but mine; and he is the most revolutionary critter in the whole bunch.
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when all his life he has been accus- toned to a whole chorus- Milwaukee Sentinel.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Happy thought for today: The school of experience is not a cheap institution.
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Rules for Young Writers.

1. Write plainly on one side of the paper 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 250 words.
 4. Original stories or letters only will be used.
 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story.
 Address all communications to Un- cle Jed. Bulletin O63ce.
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Somebody did golden deed,
 Somebody proved friend in need. Somebody sang a beautiful song, Somebody smiled the whole day long.
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and she burst out crying again as -'''' ' Y RosINA PARADIS.
 Taftville.
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POETRY

Tho Old Cottager and Her Two Hand
 maids.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-11
FORMER FARGOAN
IL.
LUTHER M'CARTY
CONQUERED FLYNN

Los Angeles. Dec. ;11.--Luther Nc
Carly of Springfield, Mo-, last night
won the heavyweight championship
elimination contest at Vernon from Jim
Flynn, the Pueblo fireman. The battle
ended in the sixteenth round, when,
after Flynn had gone. down twice and
appeared helpless, Referee Eyton stop
ped the fight and declared McCarty the
winner. ..,E ~ &
The fight was desperately contested.
with McCarty showing great ability
from the outset. In the opening round
McCarty was after Flynn and rained
blows upon him, but the. fireman was
able to even up by the seventh round.
The exhibition of pluck by Flynn has
never been seen here before in a ring
battle. Outweighed many pounds he
began to go against him. In the ninth
round he went down three times but
followed up later with a great burst
of speed. He looked as if he had gone
through a threshing machine when the
referee stopped the battle.
McCarty and Flynn entered the ring
at S:55.. Betting at the rtngside was
even money. Time was called at 9:02
p. n. McCarty carried the fight to
Flynn throughout the first round and
the fireman spat blood as he went To
his orner
McCarty continued to force the fight
unable to reach him effectively. Near
the end of the round Flynn was stag
gered by q series of rights and lefts to
the face and appeared groggy. He came
up with a rush in the third. but Nc
Carly stopped him with a singer that
drew blood from the firemen's nose and
forced him to stall. Flynn. evened 1t
up in the fourth round, rushing Nc
Carly repeatedly and hooking him with
an uppercut that rocked the Missouri
ian's head.
The fifth was a. hammer and tongs
affair. ending with a fierce mix Up in
Flynn staggered McCarty with a left
swing that sent him against the ropes.
The seventh. bitterly contested
throughout. ended with honors even.
they went to their corners and the
succeeding round was tame.
In the tenth. McCarty landed a hard
right to the jaw, putting the veteran
arose groggy and hung on. Following
up this advantage, the Missourian
dropped Flynn for a second and a
third time, but the fireman made a re-
round.
McCarty tried hard to n it in the
tenth, but Flynn showed strong recu-
perative powers and held his heavier
and rushing blindIy, Flynn went
through the eleventh, rocked repeated
iy by the blows that McCarty landed
almost at will. 1t was the same in
~ JWS1lIlS tn6 uT6Ildu > bLdIlllld
arousing the wonder of the crowd.
Flynn badly battered, kept boring in
in the thirteenth, shaking his head
under the fusillade of blows that Nc
Carly rained upon his pulled and
bleeding face. The next two rounds
went the same way, the Missourian
having his antagonist at his mercy, but
lacking the driving power to stop him.
Flynn seemed almost helpless when
at the outset of the sixteenth he was
sent down for the of nine and
when 6, moment later a smash to the
jaw dropped him for the second time,
Referee Eyton stopped the fight and de-
clared McCarty the winner. .s'
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-11
Gradually Growing Abusive,

Washington Star: Jim" Mann Of
Illinois, Uncle Joe Cannon and Repre-
sentative Stanley were all at dinner
in the Press club. Uncle Joe asked
Mr.. Stanley whether or not the report
on the steel Investigations would be
a top-snorter, and the Kentuckian
smiled one of those imperturbable
smiles of his. Then Uncle Joe started
on a story.
Joe Blackburn told me once that he
was walking down the street in a nice
old town down in that sleepy south
country, when he met a regular Ken
lucky cunnel. The cunnel had on q
seven and ive-eighths black hat, with
a brim about a yard wide, and he was
chewing tobacco:
How do, Mistah Blackburn
How do, %Cunnel; wheah have yo'
been?'
"'Wheah have been? Wheah have
I been? Why l just been down heah to
Mistah Brickley's hotel, sab. and |
have just had the most powahful argu-
merit YOU evan heard, sab. with CunneI
Strothers.'
What was the argument about,
cunnel?'
I've argued about the state of
southern democracy, sab. We tipped
a coin to see who would go first and
he won. He led off and argued for two
solid hours, and then, sab, l got back
at him for. two hours
You got the best Of him, didn't
you, cunnel?'
"'Got the best of him.. Mistah
Blackburn, I started out by. calling
him a low-down, black-hearted.
traitorOus and ungentlemanly yellow
dog, and got stronger and stronger till
the two hours were up
And that" said Uncle Joe, "is the
you'd better start that Steel Trust
report-if o wish to get anybody to
read it,"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-11
THE BRESNAHAN
CASE UNSETTLED

New York, Dee. 1.-THE claims of
Roger Bresnahan against the st. Louis
! club for alleged breach of contract will
be settled by an arbitration commits
sion in st. Louis. This was the tenta-
tive decision of the board of directors
OF the National league at its meeting
here today. Bresnahan' and his attor-
neys. George T. Priest and Arthur w.
Sager of st. Louis, presented the claim
before the board. The st. Louis club
Jones, who also Is an attorney. After
listening to the arguments for and
, against Bresnahan's claim for four
years salary, the board suggested some
attorneys retired for an hour to dis
cuss terms. On their return. the enta-
live arbitration plan was preached and
received the directors sanction.
A more definite plan will be adopted,
but 1t was said that in all probability
the case would be settled by an arbi-
tratton commission In St. Louis which
under the Missouri laws would have
power to subpoena witnesses and rem
der a decision binding on all parties.
PREVIOUS to hearing the Bresnahan
claim, the directors decided that they
had jurisdiction over such cases aris-
ing between club owners n players,
and when the arbitration plan Is final
ly adopted 1t will have the approval
or the board and it's hearings will be
held under It's sanction.
The directors officially awarded the
pennant for the 1912 season to the New
YORK club and transacted other routine
business which included the adoption
of the secretary's and t~reasurer's re-
ports for the year.
The claim of Umpire Charles Rigler
to $4,000. against the Philadelphia club
for services in signing Pitcher Rixey.
gave the directors an opportunity to
go on record as opposed to umpires
actlng as scouts for club managers in
obtaining players. The claim Of Rig
Ter was placed on file and a hearing
to decide it's merits. Umpire RigIer
alleges that he. received $500 of the
$1,000 which the Philadelphia club
agreed to pay If he signed Rixey, then
a student at the University of Virginia,
At the meeting, Cornelius J. Sulli-
van, a director of the New York club,
was seated as a member of the board
In the place of the late John T. Brush,
Other members of the board present
were Hermann, Cincinnati: Ebbets
Murphy, Chicago.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-11
BRUSH LEFT A
=. LARGE ESTATE

Indianapolis, Ind. Dec. 1.-THE will
of John T. Brush, late owner of the New
York National league baseball club, dis
posing of an estate estimated to be
worth $780, 900. was filed for probate
today. '....
Aside from a number of pieces of
personal property ~bequeathed to mem
hers of the family, tho greater part of
the Brush holdings, including the ball
club, is made a trust estate and given
into the care of Harry N. Hampstead
Of Indianapolis, a s~on-in-law, and Ash
ley Lloyd of Cincinnati. The will pro-
vides that these, two trustees of the
estate may retain the holdings as long
as profitable or they may dispose. of
them at any time
The proceeds are to go share alike to
all members of the family, Mrs. Brush,
h widow and two daughters, Miss Ma
talie Brush and Mrs. Eleanor Hamp-
stead. ~
The will was signed in 1910 in the
presence of two nurses in la Antonio,
Tex, where Mr.. Brush was spending
the winter. ~.