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Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-11
An Incident in Linco1n's Life.

Just after the close of the war, Abraham Lincon was waking down tha streets of Washington and had just reached the steps of his home, when he heard 8 series of moans and cries. Locking crCttnd he espied a little pick aninRy whose l>l sly head was half Aidden In her arms.
 Edneela stopped down and affection ateiy asked what was the matter.
 The child slowly raised her head and said: "Ise lested
 Lincoln smiled and inquired What IS your name
 she replied, Virginia Washington Fairfax
 Well well," said Abe, ''yeu should a't have got lost with thae name
 So be took her into the White House and entertained her as best he could and then he sent one of the footmen to inquire for the parents He found them and told them from whom he was sent Much to the delight of Virginia negro mammy, who forgot for once to scold her pickaninny, and when Abe" Lincoln died no one, not even Little Abe" mourned more for him than Virginia Washington Fair fax.
 AGNES HANLON, Age 14,
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The Pipe.EiaI1.

This is q very odd-1ooking hsl, fn- daed-quite the most curious of all the fishes which live tn the rock-p pools. Arid as it is very common. you ought te be able to find if without any diff fieU1ty.
 In the fi2st place, although it grows 10 $ length Of Is or 19 inches, its body even fR the largest part. is n6 bigger F641ad than slata pencil. For this reason # is bftsB l0aowh aa the needle fish. Besides lhis. its jaws are dravn 0Ht ts 8 most W5Hde9fnl length and are fastened tsgethsF all the way along so that they rsaiIY, f6fsh a, kind of tu6R. Sc. yeu see, 8 pipe-hsh can never oBea eF shut its mouth, but has ta suck ia it's fssd through ths tiny heie a* the tip of the jaws
 Sometimes as yeu loek down into 2
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Hoss Coal i. Eorned.

Ages ago there lived by q swamp little plant. When this plant died it vas buried in the earth by the wfg7d, which blew dust over if and so covered if,
 Another plant grew nD and died Aad was buried as the 6thsv plant; still others and others grew Hp sad died 6ad were buried until af last they EoFynsa & thick layer Of dark. hard brick
 Many years passed B9 6ad tf4e tflieE, Eard layeF of brick ehanGed by some tssa k no vyR rea son t0 8 bla&ts. shihy Foek which was now called coal
 0pe day iH the year 1775 6eReFal BFaddSeE, 8 British csR4iBaRdeF. sent s1lt & ysnHg officer with seBaR #s4e47 ta ssaaka a Fead through the forest through which he TRigRt march With
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pisoheafert childrer.

In q little cottage on the edge of 8 wood lived a brother and sister called Will and Kate. One day when taeiE mother went away she told them they must not go into the woods t0 play. They promised not to ge. but soon af- ter she was gone they started eff. F'artheF and farther into the wood they went. till it begaa to get dark.
 NeOb. deaFt@' said Kate. T d0a't know wAere we are We must stay here all Kig49t!7
 At this Will began te cry, for far away he heard something say Whip poor fI!9 Whip poor will"
 Someone kaewg we have done wrong.'' said Will, and lay down and fell asleep.
 Far into the night Kate heard some thing say "Katydidl'' ''Katydidn'tl* In the morning theif father came and found chem. but never again did they disebey> They had learned lesson,
 MIN NE MAGEIA Age I2,
 Jewett City,
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Hampton.
Al the Fair.

Dear Uncle Jed: Monday. Sept. 1, went to the fair. We took an auto from Norwich to the fair grounds which brought us there quicker thar the car.
 I watched the horse and motorcycle racing and l thought them very inter esting.
 saw the biplane and waited for it tc go up. I was very disappointed wheT he said it would not go up that day.
 I saw the trick makers and I think they are very daring.
 I stayed that night and saw the fire works go off and saw the vaudeville I liked the fireworks best of all.
 About half past g o'clock we left the fair grounds in an auto. We got out at Norwich and took the car home We got home about quarter past 10 o'clock after enjoying the day.
 I hope all the Wide-Awakes that went to the fair had a good time
 FLOSSIE MEYER. Age H.
 Taftvil1e
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BreVities.

Using mercury vapor lamps in her greenhouse, a, Scotch woman horticul- turist not only forces seeds to sprout and plants to grow In half the usual time, but also produces greater depth of color in the vegetation.
 Tn the midst of alarms frcm the Bal- kans the fact that the city Of TiyTloYa, the ancient capital of Bulgaria has been almost ccr1pletaly destroyed by an earthquake passed almost unnotic- ed.
 It will cost SIS minute to talk by telephone from New York to San Fran cisco.
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Why Mary Was Liked.

I read a story the other day about a little girl named Mary, and thought you would like to read it, so here it is.
 A queer old man once made a. tea party for the little girls in town, and when they had all come and were gathered in his front yard, he offered 3, doll for the most popular little girl and asked them to vote which should get the prize. But most of them did not know what most popular" meant. So he told them it was the best liked girl.
 Then they all voted. and Mary was the one who had the most votes. and received the doI1. though no one could say that she was either the prettiest or cleverest of them all.
 Now" said the queer old man. T will give another doll to the one who first tells me why all liked Mary best. Nobody answered at first, but pres ently one of them spoke Up and said: It's because Mary always finds out what the rest of LIS want to play and says Let's play that"
 HATTIE PERKINS,
 CaJoEac4a4
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gathering pretty, stones. Soon one of the little girls said to her;
 Come on down to the other end of the beach; there are lots of lovely stones there"
 Ruth thought this would be fine, so the followed her little friend way down the beach. She became so interested in gathering the lovely stones that she did not notice her friend had left her. Ruth thought probably she was farther down, so on she trudSed, still pcklnS up the pretty stones. Some were white, others blue, but they all pleased Ruth. Her little hands were full. She began to feel tired and the sand was so hard to walk in. At each step she sank into the sand, and her little feet were wet, for she had ventured too near, and the big waves had crept up until they had wet her.
 All at once she saw a crowd of chil- dren and, thinking her friend might be there, she walked on and soon saw a monkey on a chain. There was 8 crank in a box from which pretty mus ic came. This delighted Ruth. She lin- gered until everyone else had gone; then, thinking of mother, she began to go back down the beach. But Ruth was very tired, so she sank down in the sand to rest and soon fell fast asleep.
 Tn the meantime her mother, having missed her little girl, set out in search of her. She walked dp and down the beach, but no little Ruth was to be found At last Mrs. Lewis became so frightened that she was just going to notify the police when she caught a glimpse of Ruth's pink dress lying way up the beach She hurried on and found Ruth lying in q little heap of sand. She woke her up and gave her good scoIdins. Then they went and had lunch The rest of the day she kept close to her mother.
 told. Ruth felt very sad, for MT. Lewis said sEae could not go to the beach again that summer. Perhaps Ruth will be more careful next time.
 FDTTHE GRANT, Age 13.
 UnCaSVilIe.
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as to make it look nice. and place the pieces exactly together, then take a large wool needle. thread it with ribbon and sew the leaves together. straight through the center; leave a little of the ribbon at each end and tie back on the book to give it a f1n- ished look
 Hope some of the Wide Awakes will try and make one to save their poetry in.
 FLORENCE A. WHITE. Age 9.
 Willimantic
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rock-pool. you may see. one of these fishes feeding; and the way in which It does so is very curious indeed. It suspends itself almost upright in the water, with its tail upwards and it's head downwarIs. It then fills it's tube like mouth with water which it squIrts out again as hard as it possibly can. The result is. of course, that the sand away and the various tiny creatures which were lying hidden underneath it are uncovered. Then the fish sucks them up into it's mouth and swallows them.
 JESSIE L. BREHAUT, Age r,
 East Norwich N Y
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POETRY.
"The Night Wind.r

ne Nlqht W1no-' Did you ever hear the wind go Yoooooo?" 'rls a pitifuI sound to hear! Xt seems to thrill you through and through. With strange and speech1ess fear. Iris the voice of the night that broods outside When folk should be asleep. And many and many's the time I've cried Over ths land and the deep; Whom do you want. 0 lonely night, That you wall the long hours tfrough2" And the night would say in its ghost1y
 "Yoooooo!
 Yooooo0t
 YOcooooi" Aay mother told me long ago (zvl4er I was a little Iad3 That Efsn the night went wafling so Somebody had been bad And than- when l was snug lu bed vYbttbsr ] had been sent, With the blankets pulled up round head I'd think Of what my rnother'd said. And wonder wila4 boy she meant And wk0's beSa bad today 27' I'd ask Of the wind that hoaPSeay bieW. And the voice woaid say il in mean tHSfdi way
 Y OS6O0S5
 YG0OSOSf
 Yooo00G!" f1"Saaz rtasS Hsass uF1e 1 must ajtSw, ToESh rot believe it, though! Y eS, though I'Ya quite 8 model now, ! vas not always so. And if yGu doubt what things I say. Suppose you make the test; E HDDSss, when you've been bad some day And up to iaed age sent away frozza mother and the rest Erppose yOu ask Who has been bad%S And then yo1'n hear whats true: For the wind N-ii1 moan in its ruefuIy- est tone
 y SOocC17
 XOoo1oo7
 TOoooo0-7
 -Eugens Field
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Lnat a., sha Eaas..

One day KntIa's EslsanxFss lesk hex la tf1@ beach for tfae day While they EsEe theg6 Mrs. Lewis, for that was her paatzt1aa's nanrass mast sae 0f hse eld friends ARd theY saE dsSwn te talk
 Ruth was very fsBd Of thR water. sS st@ vac @e9a G6~4 SH thR sasFe with 1ts other eh5sdEehs Wa1ehiBg tha bis waves as they came rolling in, and
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Old Mystic.
The Autobiography of Ball of Cotton.

The Autobiography of Ball of Cotton.
 The first thing I can remember was that 1 was a ball Of cotton almost ready to pick In about a week was picked by q coon named Jake He took me to the gin, where I had the seeds picked out of me. I was then taken to a press and pressed iH with a lot Of other cotton From there I was hauled to Norfolk. whence l was shipped north and made into yarn and from that into cloth, and then sold 10 q tailor, who made me into 8 suit
 man bought me and was used for his best stt; a little later for his working clothes,
 Finally I went into the raS7oag, A rag man bought me and sold me to g, paper maker. then l was made into paper and sold to 8 merchant. who sold me to s child who wrote ca me and burned me Up,
 HAROLD P. OSTERHOUT. Age 14,
 Mansfield Depot.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-11
How Ginoer Was Cured.

How Ginger Was Cured.
 Billy lay under tall pear tree by the roadside. CuPled up beside him slept small. brown dog.
 'Oh, Ginger" cried Billy sadly, as he sat up. T can't help you any long CT because you've been sucking eggs again. Father said he would sell you if you ever did it again
 When Mir Bell. Billy's father, came home, Billy showed him the empty egg basket.
 Next day when Billy came from school Ginger was still home. but standing in front of an egg.< He was surprised to see that Ginger did not eat the egg.
 Mrs. Bell told him that Ginger was still their dog and that he was all cured. She said that she gave him a hot egg with red pepper on it and that he dropped it out of his mouth quickly with a howl
 Ginger never touched an egg after that
 ALFREDA E. BROsOFsKI Age 1A
 Norwich
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LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Hattie Perkins of Colchester: I thank you many times for the lovely book you sent; Uncle Sam's Boys on Field Duty
 William CushB1an of Stonington: I received my fourth prize book and have read it through and I find it fine. as were all the rest
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and hope that it will
 be of interest to suf- fering women. For four years l suffered untold a g onies at re gular intervals, .Su ch pain 8 an q cramps, severe chills
 andsicknessat stom- ach, then finally hem
 orrhages un til I would be n e arly
 blind. I had five
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-11
Thursday, September II
THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE
Boys and Girls Departmen,

Rules for Young Writer~-
 1. Write plainly on one side of the paper only and number the paS,sS 8. Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do not use over $50 words.
 L Original stories or letters only will be used.
 k Write your name. age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story.
 Address all communication to Un- gle Jed, Bulletin ORce.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-11
Nv Pct Doc.

I have a pet dog and his name is Prince. He is a very good dog and he follows my two sisters and ev anywhere we go. He will not let any one touch us
 My brother takes him down to the river and lets him swim. He likes to swim. If you throw 8 stick in
 the river he will go in after it. He will beg for things. ELLA ADAMS, Age F.
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his troops to attack fort This of- ficer while digging in the earth found a layer of coal He burned this and found the coals could give both heat and warmth. It also could cook food. People began using it all over the world and ever since that coal has taken the place of wood.
 ASA LYMAN, Age 12. N0rUioh
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Whatever you are-Be that; Whatever you say-Be tru@G StraightforwardIy act Be honsst-in fact,
 Be nobody else but you"
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My Vacation.

After I finished going to school in JuNe l picked strawberries for 3, neigh bor Of ours. Quite q few others pick ed there too. l picked there until they were most gone. and then l stayed home for awhile.
 Soon after that my aunt came t6 see us and stayed 8. week or SO. When she went home she took me with her. 1 stayed doout three weeks. While l was there my uncle took nae to see the convict ship Success" It was a h0r- Fibje sight to see. It showed all Of the things they had to torture t1se convicts. There were four cells for the men and one foF women. It seemed dreadful that human beings should be treated so. This ship had been sunk for a. long while. but finally a man bought it and had it raised, and now he is showing it to the people at the different places.
 After nay visit in Bridgeport with nay aunt l came hoSne and started in to go to high school.
 EMILY BABCOCK, Age 1S.
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Oneco.

a letter with it, so you could see how I can use tae typewriter.
 ADA MARRIOTT, Age 12. Oneco
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GIRL SUFFERED
 TERRIBLY
At Regular IntervaIs-S Says Lydia E. Pinkhana's Vege- table Compound com
 pletely cured her.

Adrian, Texas. I take pleasure in adding my testimonial to the great list
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-10
News Of the Railroads and Union Labor Organizations
Expected Increase In Business
Causes Overhau1ing of Engines

{ H II. Carroll, engineer for the G. H.
at FL PasO, was used Sunday on the )
o'clock engine in engineer Pete kleid
place, who is i'll
James Graves, extra fireman for the
G. H, at FL Paso. has been assigned to
8 p. m. switch engine with engineer
Harry HOllamOn.
A V Lemons, extra fireman for the
G. r. at FL PasO, worked in the FL
Paso yards last night with engineer j..
. ". Daniels.
The G. h used an extra switch en-
CINE yesterday evening. The crew
were engineer J. Horton and fireman
J. H. McGovern. The yard crew was j.
J. Armstrong, engine foreman. and
helpers H. a. Cunningham T. Q. Nc
Cdbe and Z. Lane.
c. n Tolford night engine herder
for the G. H, at FL Paso, is laying off
and switchman J. J. Trainor is filling
J. W. Gerald. switchman for the &.
H., at FL PasO is laying off
Ed Laymen, extra engineer for the
Southern Pacific, is making freight
trip between FL PasO and LorosburS IN
engineer W. o. Olsen's Jurn. L. Il
Moore is firing for him.
w. c. Heinrich extra fireman for the
s p. between Ell Paso and Lordsburg,
is laying off
F. W. Hoffman. extra fireman for the
Southern Pacific, is making a round
trip on freight between FL PasO and
Lordsburg with engineer H. r.
Vaughan
N. Z. Shameley, extra engineer for
the Southern Pacific, is back on the
local extra list. after a freight trip be-
tween FL PasO and LOrdsDurg.
Extra fireman Kelley, OF the Southern
Pacific, is back on the slow board after
a freight trip to LOrdsourg and re-
turn.
J. A. Roddy, extra fireman for the G.
H, at El Paso, is back on the slow
board, after a round trip to Valentine
and return with engineer Charlie Gil
lespie
n. T. AEerrel. switchman for the g.
H, at Ell Paso, is laying off on account
Of sickness.
Z. Langston, switchman for the q.
H. at FL PasO, is laying off.
W. J. Mccarthy, extra switchman for
the G. H. at FL PasOs is laying off on
account Of illness.
W. n. Neal switchman for the G. H.
at FL PasO, is laying off on account Of
sickness.
Operator c. Simmonson, of the 7. &
P, now stationed at Odessa, Texas, is
seriously i'll at the Mar snaI hospital,
with pneumonia.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-10

dictate to them what they should be.
1t IS, indeed, difficult to ascertain the
true contours of a woman 1ndlVlduaI-
ity beneath the conventional exterior
which cultured woman wears like
some skin-tight covering Accus-
toned to a constant repression OF every
opinion upon life, bound by a Tnou-
sand invisible threads more securely
than by chains forced by the tyranny
Of prevailing standards into self-de-
ceptiOn and a fear of confesslng their
own divergent emottOns-they silently
pursue those paths which have been
prescribed for them by a stronger
A Fixed Type.
Opinions with respect to what
woman ought to be are the determtn-
ing factor of feminine education, the
sole purpose Of which is to suggest
fixed type to the growing girl To be
sure, the development Of young men
is subject to a similar influence but
as women are trained merely for one
purpose, for one vocation, there IS
much less play for individuality with
in the limits of female education
I'm addition to this, women are gen.
eraIIy much more disposed to subOr-
dinate themselves to authOrity-the
fact that they are considered the
weaker sex is, in the main, due to their
susceptibility to suggestion. The discip-
linary measures by means Of which
human beings are converted into use
fuP members of society react mora
strongly upon them than upon men.
in whatsoever way we may elect
to judge them, it is nevertheless true
that the majority Of women conform
to the dominance of certain ideals
with regard to their duties, in order
to approximate as closely as possible
to some model, come canon OF woman
hood. The closer they resemble this
disciplinary ideal, the more womanly
they believe themselves to be, and
they fear to lose this WOmanly quality
by any divergence from this idea
But a Means to An End.
"That conception which has hither-
to determined the social status Of the
female sex has decreed to woman only
a secondary Significance. According 20
this, woman is only a means to an
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-10
Must FIGHT Animal Nature
Only by Constant Struggle Can We
Prevent Ourselves from Be
coming Brutes.
-By DR.. Charles H. ParEhurs1-

MAN is not much but flesh. In
~ deed, all Of him that is visible
L n is flesh. And yet within that
Is something of which we cannot speak
very definitely except to say that Is
is there.
to prevent it also from becoming flesh
is one of the problems O. life II IS
a problem so difficult that some peo-
pie fail to solve it and become 1lesh
altogether; then we call them brutes,
differing from ordinary brutes only
in the fact that they go on two feet
instead of four
Many Almost Brutes.
There are hundreds and thousands
of people all around US who, Judging
from appearances, are pretty nearly re-
duced to that condition Perhaps we
do them injustice, but that is the way
the thing looks. Appearances are often
deceptive, and it is only fair to give
every one all the credit that is posi-
bic.
But when we meet, as we sometimes
do, men and women whose only inter-
est appears to be in what they eat
and drink and in what they put on,
one cannot help noticing how much
they resemble fOur-fOOted creatures
whose wants are all satisfied if only
their StOmachs are filled and they
have on sufficient fur or wool to keep
them warm and a nest or kennel so
compact as to keep out the snow and
rain, or if, like such creatures as pea
cocks. they have plumage sufficiently
alluring to win the attention Of the
other sex.
The only object in writing in this
way is to remind US all where it is
that our danger lies
We all start out in life with some
thing besides the stuff that our bod
les are made Of and of that something
we can make more and more or less
and less.
Easy to Become Bad.
It is Just as much in the order of
nature for an apple to rot as it is for
it to ripen, to grow bad as Tor II to
become more luscious And things
become bad of themselves without hav-
ing to have any attention given to
them, but in order to become better a
good deal Of attention has to be given.
It is the same with q man as with
an apple. or with anything else that
has possibilities.
This something within our flesh
that we call our humanness has got
to be watched, taken care Of and fOs-
tered.
That is the only thing that viii pre-
vent our sagging lower and lower
till we drop down into the region OF
dogs, snakes and gOrillas.
Is Taught In story Of Christ's Temp
tafiOn.
This same truth is taught in that
Bible story of Christ's temptation in
the wilderness, when the devil under
took to break Christ down by holding
his attention off from his better self
and trying to make him think about
gratifying his animal impulses, and
converting the stones, which lay about
him, into bread.
To which Christ replied, Man shall
not live by bread alone"
Chdists reply to the devil is ex-
actly in line with what these forego-
ing paragraphs have been trying to
say, only he said IL better than we can
and more cOncisely.
It is very true that we must not
neglect the flesh