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Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-31
A Walk Through Connecticut

About four years ago 1 started on journey with three other young men. We were going to walk around Con- necticut. After all provisions neces- sary were procured we started on our trip.
 After leaving Stonington we walked to New London, where we ate our din ner After this we walked to Lyme, where we stayed over night,
 Early in the morning we ate q light breakfast and started on our journey, Nothing of any consequence happened until we reached Guilford. We retired early and at about six in the morning started off. About this time we had q little adventure.
 Jack and l went ahead of the others and a short time later saw rough looking tramp, We paid little attcn ton to him until he came up to us and said he wanted our money. He pulled cut an old army revolver. It happened we had quite a sum of money for our expenses and we tried to keep him talking until the others arrived. He grew angry and fired. a shot inte the air. This hurried on the others, Whe soon got rid of the tramp,
 In the afternoon We reached Bran ferd, The morning following we were pretty tired and stayed the next night at No~ Haven.
 While passing through small tewn near Washington depot we mad hard time.
 We went inte a stere to get some crackers and the sterekeeper ran cut the back door to return with the con stable. He teid the constable to ar
 rest us. He took US to the leekaI
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THE TENT CATERPILLAR.

I was very much pleased with my prize book.
 When I first came to the country this summer I went to the barn and found a cocoon, all white and fuzzy, sticking to a piece of wood. I took it down to the house to find out what it was, but mother said we had no book of butterflies and moths. I took 1t up- stairs and put 1t into box, and wait ed several days for it to come out
 One day when I went to look at it I found a little brown moth, but its wings were crippled so l could hardly tell what 1t was.
 Mother said it was the moth that comes from the tent caterpillar I then commenced to look for the chrysalids, but did not think at the house to look under the elapboards until one Sun day when we were coming home from church my brother saw that the house was covered with them.
 Mother and I got right out to pick them off. T1Te s-eRzhs that come from the ceceens lay their eggs on wild cherry and apple trees.
 One day mother brought in a num- Der of wild cherry branches where the moths had laid their eggs.
 The eggs were around the branch and were covered with a glue like substance. She counted the eggs in enc of the clusters and there were about three hundred and sixty, and one hundred and twelve clusters, and we have burned up as many more three times since
 LYDIA M. LATHROP, Aged Il.
 South Canterbury.
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from which we climbed out a window and continued on our way.
 The constable said we were SUD- posed to have robbed a bank.
 When in Litchfield we read of the real robbers capture.
 The next day we walked to Win chester and then to Hartford Here we had another adventure.
 While in front of the capitol we were accosted by a policeman. He took me to the police station and when my trial came off next day I was charged with attempted murder of the governor by throwing a bomb into the capitol was acquitted only after the court was startled by a wild eyed man coming in and saying he had done it. He had a small internal machine with him and was let go,
 In time we went through Stafford Springs, Willimantie and Norwich
 In Norwich 1 was in trouble again
 l took a short cut and while waiting. fer the others was pulling myself up or shining a tree. Two men came aieng and t6eiF me to the insane hos pital where l was released in a short time, net being the escaped lunatic had been taken fer;
 We seen were in Steningten when Steningten High school win ball game frem Westerly High. This game decided who should win the cup for which both fought hard, but we ar rived in time to see our boys claim it.
 So ended eur trip which we had planned and locked forward te SC eag- erIy
 WILLIAM F. eUsHMAN. Age Ia. , SteningteR.
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kNocklNe DOWN BUSINESS.

Political tariff bantering has always resulted in bringing forth hard times md the present tinlering with this economic policy of the government is knocking out trade and gives promise of paralyzing it. Senator Shoot of the finance committee, recently point ed out the revolutionary character Of the new tariff, which carries to the free list over billion dollars more of products than the old tariff bill did.
 Senator Smoot affirns that ''ali the world knbws how this country suffered As a result of the Wilson tariff law in 1896, but the average rate Of duty now is over per cent. lower than was the case under the last Democratic tariff, when the business Of the nation was paralyzed ard 3,e00, COG persons thrown out of empIeyment The imports of manufactures under the existing law have increased about s200,000,oee since 1909. Tn agricultural products and pre- visions there has been an increase in imports of about sT5,000,009. and yet this bin places nearly all the agricul- tural products of the north on the free list. There can be only one re suit. and that will be a sweeping re- duction of wages and a vast loss to producers in general"
 Of course. a few dunderheaded parti- sans will call Senator Smoot an alarm ist, but if this tariff bill is passed as it is, the results will show that this forecast is true
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suRsoIL PuLvERIzINe.

It is not strange that the roots of a tree nee4 room but it Is queer that the means of breaking up the subsoil for orchard trees was not sooner found out A North Carolinan who set out 9 acres to fruit trees tells an inter- esting story of his success with dyna- mite as a deep pulverizer of the sub soil. He put one-half a stick of 40 per cent. dynamite into 30 inch hole bored with a dirt auger, and found the sub-soil pulverized for 2 feet on either side the hole. He writes the Connect icut Farmer that not one of the twelve hundred and fifty trees was killed by the dry weather though l had to replant about twenty five that died from other causes. This to me is remarkable in the light of the fact that fully 90 per cent of trees planted
 in this section during spring of 1911 in spaded holes in fairly good ground perished; while mine. even in the old road place. fourished.
 "A prominent nurseryman who se cured scions from my Delicious trees told me the growth was extraordinary for that season. One of my neigh bors. seeing the young trees thriving
 in the old roadbed that dry season. IGIn&IkeQ, Tie \ SOlHe 1iOI AlCuAtulAS The little I know of the art, however, was gathered from observation and from reading such literature on the subject of fruit growing as I could secure The real cause of the thrifti- ness of those young trees lay, not in any special care of mine but in the pulverized condition of the soil under meath them. which was thereby en- abled to hold in suspension sufficient moisture to keep the trees in excellent condition during the dry weather.
 T feel that I have already been more than repaid both in satisfaction and in a financial way for the expen- diture of six cents per tree that I made for the dynamite, and certainly the returns are not yet all in.''
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POETRY.
My Shadow.

have little shadow that goes in and
 out with me. And what can be the use of him is more than 1 can see. He is very, very like me from the heels
 up to the head; And l see him jump before me when 1
 jump into my bed The funniest thing about him is the
 way he likes to grow Not at all like proper children, which
 is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller. like
 an India rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that
 there's none of him at all. He hasn't got a notion of how children
 ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in
 every sort of way, He stays so close beside me, he's
 coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as
 that shadow sticks to me. One morning, very early. before the
 sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on
 every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an ar
 rant sleepy head, Had stayed at home behind me and
 was fast asleep in bed.
 Robert Louis Stevenson.
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years and has siooped over to the cor respondents
 Preston B. Sibley sheriff of Wind ham county is the best man in the county for the place and everybody knows 1t. There is no such thing as an "age limit" either to the position of Sheriff Sibley.
 Supposeing for instance our sheriff should feel like quitting next year of course his constituents would at once see that he has earned the right to re- tire but in spite of that fact, the only way to retire and retire properly would be to accept the nomination if forced upon him, accept the election which will certainly be his if he Is candi- date, in spite of the democrats and buh moose attachments. The -age limit" will be reached in the case of the Windham County sheriff, when Pres ton B. Sihley is called to a higher re- ward or refuses to again be a candidate There will be no Fox and Geese or Welch rarebit games played with the Wfndham County sherfff's office as long as Preston B. Sibley IS willing to serve the public
 C. B. MONTGOMERY,
 Packer, Conn, July 28, 1913-
 Japan, in 1912, exported 1,7S2,S83 gall lons of sake, valued at S1,107,276.
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My Visit to the Museum of Art.

It was about month ago l visited New York city. One of the interesting places I visited was the museum.
 The Museum of Art is a large white building which is situated on sgd street and Fifth avenue. To enter the muse um I had to go up many white marble saw many fine tapestries. One of the tapestries explained the siege of Jeru- salem. This tapestry is called Goethic tapestry. Goethic tapestries are sup posed to be religious. ones. AS we walked farther we entered the Swiss room. In this room was a Swiss era dle table and a spinning wheel with fax on it. On the whole this room is very beautiful one.
 In another hall we saw collins with mummies in them. The collins are in glass cases. On some of the cofffns are carved the faces of the mummies. This was the Egyptian room. Tn this room I also saw the jewels and money which was used by the Egyptians in the olden timess
 I also saw pyramids and an obelisk If I was to tell everything I saw I would need about four books.
 When I was asked how I enjoyed myself I told them l enjoyed the visit very much.
 MINNIE SUBOFSKY, Age 134
 Norwich.
 The Cup and Saucer Linnpet.
 This is very curious creature in
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LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
A Visit to Ocean Beach.

Dear Uncle Jed Last Wednesday I went to Ocean Beach for the day. A little friend. his mothers aunt, his aunt and I started for the beach.
 We took the eleven o'clock boat. The day was bright and the scenery was beautiful. The wind was strong and nearly blew off my hat
 I saw the Thermos bottle factory. There was a big chimney and it had "Thermos'' printed upon it in big red letters.
 I saw the Yale headquarters The house where the boys stay is quite large It had a large flag on it,
 also saw the Harvard headquar- ters. The sheds where they keep their boats were kept lovely, but the house was very odd and painted red.
 I saw my uncles cottage at Gales Ferry.
 We had long sail before we came to the drawbridge In about two min utes we landed at the New London dock.
 We then took the Ocean Reach trolz ley. We had a very pleasant ride. l saw many beautiful summer homes We finally came to the beach.
 After we got settled we had our lunch. After we had finished We went down In the sand.
 My little friend went in bathing, but I did not, I met my cousin and We walked around and had some candy and ice cream
 At four o'clock we teek the trolley, We went home on the five ecleek beat When we reached Norwich we were very tired. j I hope all the Wfde-AWakeS viii have a nice sun1mer Norwich Conn.
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Five Quarts of Berries From Three
 Bushes,

Dear Uncle Jed and Wide Awakes: I enjoy reading about the Wide Awakes, going on pleasure trips and how they are improving their vaca- tion, but as I have no grandpa or grandma, nor no own cousin that can go to visit, I have to stay at home on the farm.
 Now the berries are ripe I go with mamma and help her pick them which I like to do very much when they are thick. The other day we went out an hour and picked five quarts of blue berries off from three bushes. think that was doing well.
 I wish that some of the Wide Akak- es lived nearby so we co Id go togeth- CT and they could get some for their mammas.
 I send in a recipe which I have learned to make with the berries.
 Berry Cake-One cup of molasses, two eggs, one half cup of lard, salt and cinnamon to taste. one teaspoon soda, one cup huckleberries, two cups of sweet milk and four enough to make a soft batter like any cake.
 This makes a great big loaf. Bake it in yours mammals dripping pan,
 hope Some one will try 1t and will have good luck. I think it is nice.
 LUCY CARTER, Age Il.
 Scotland
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-31
AN ECHO OF GETTYSBURG.

President Wilson's address at Get tysburg is still the talk in the south. The people of the country do not agree uron the merits of the presidents able. neutral address. and it is not strange that the perfervid listener thought it lacked the glorihcation of the flag and the recognition of the true heroes which they deserved. It was a difficult position for any man to occupy. for the object was to pro- mote perpetual peace by fraterniZa.ion of anfaeonistic forces and a better knowledre Of one another. That great Gettysburg peace meeting was worldwide wonder from any point of view. Tn the north here we believe In freedom of criticism and in the south they do not The Richmond Times Despatch .s prompted by adverse crit scism of she presidents speech al Sstsysburs to ask:
 with the battle fifty years behind rs with a southern man in the pres fdential chair. and with a southern chief justice. what sort of speech should the president have made? Modification of the flag doubtless a denial of his own heritage as gouthcrner and & Virginian, an Insult 10 the Confederate veterans who were present.
 There was TO necessity for an of rcnsiye word or act. and the presl- dents speech may be worthy q place beside Lincoln's great orntion: but it win not be admired for what it con ssfned SO much as for tho caution unfch prevents it from being enthus- taaricai,r patriotic. The president could hays said much more than he did. with credit to himself and with- nmt offending anyone
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STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE
 AWAkES.
Our Trin to Hartford.


 During the month of May the seventh and eighth grades of the public school of Baltic took a trip to Hartford.
 There were fourteen in all who went. We started from Baltic on the half past seven car and reached Hartford about ten o'clock.
 We saw there the state library, the capitol, the Morgan Memorial, the state prison in Wethersfield and very many other things.
 The most interesting thing to me was the capitol. In the capitol 1 saw the real charter that was stolen and hidden in the Charter Oak tree, the desk on which President Lincoln wrote the proclamation which freed the slaves, an old wheel that had been in one of the battles of the Revo- lutionary war, an old trunk of a tree that had been in a battle and had about six cannonballs in it. and many old coins of the United States but the two things that interested me most, and also few of my classmates, was seeing the old torn flags that had been captured by brave and honorable men of Connecticut, and our trip to the dome,
 We also visited the house of repre- sentatives, and afterwards the senate.
 After we had been to all these places we started for home about six o'clock and reached Baltic about half past nine,
 We had a very pleasant trip and we all enjoyed it very much, including our teacher Miss Donovan,
 ANNA FIRTH, Age IS,
Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-31
UNCLE JED's TALK TO WIDE
 AWAKES.

When you go to the beach you see the little tots playing in the sand, and they have lots of fun piling it up and seeing it washed away
 Wide-Awakes are children old enough to ask what sand Is and how it is that 1t lines the ocean in hills and beaches.
 Sand is made up of little crystals and was once solid rock, and if you will sit down and examine it you will find the yellow crystals are feldspar. the white quartz and the remainder flakes of mica, and these are the crystals which form granite, but which have lost their power to hold together. The sand on the beach and the sand hills represent mountains of stone decayed.
 These beaches are formed by the force of the sea and the winds and do yous know the sea forms the barrier which keeps it from encroaching upon the land. and in a way so that the sea strikes it a sidelong blow instead of a square one. The sand hills are built up and torn down by the furiously battling winds, and the sand shoals are made up of particles of sand car ried by the tide with the help of the sun, The sun heats the sand when the tide is out and it becomes dry and greasy, and then the gently rising tide lifts it and carries it until ripples or grasses sink 1t.
 No one has ever tried to tell how so many solid rocks became separated into sand. It was the work of ages of time, and these little grains of sand have a history which reaches back beyond the time of all other living things.
 And the sand is known as grit, 30 at last man has come to say the man who is plucky has sand.
 There are lots of things you may learn from the sand if you lend your minds to it.
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The Mother Toad and Her Babies

The Mother Toad and Her Babies.
 Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you a story about the mother toad and her babies.
 A mother toad once took her babies out beside the road to eat some bugs and insects for supper After a while the mother toad heard an automobile coming. So she said:
 Come babies? Come qUick?'
 She hoped quickly to the house, and her babies followed her-all but one little toad. It stayed out beside the road to eat another pretty insect. Be- fore it got it, there was the auto mobile. The baby toad tried to jump quickly. But the automobile came fast and ran right over the poor little toad, and the toad was dead After the mother looked around, she saw there was one little toad gone. So she and her babies went out to look for the little one. They looked all around They found 1t dead and they were sad.
 If he had only minded me-" said the mother, he would not have been dead"
 He was put In a pretty box and all his folks went to see him buried.
 FANNIE E. BROWN, Age 10.
 Willimantie.~
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of the Wide Awakes ever have

of the Wide Awakes ever have a party in their own little play house.
 One morning I gathered some ber- rfes from around the fences. I got so many of them that I planned to have party among my brothers and sis ters. In the afternoon we got every thing ready and arranged the berries and crackers on the table in the lit tie cups and saucess that paper gave us for Christmas.
 Just as we had everything ready who did we see at the gate but one of my SchoOlmatesi
 We all gave a shout of joyl and said !:
 Come on. Margaret. just in time 3
 We all sat down and had real good time eating up the goodies. When we had finished we played some games which were Drop the handkerchief 5 Hide and seek" Tag" and Tom Chase"
 Then brother John thought of the hay mow. so we took turns in jumping off the scaffold down into the hay. This we enjoyed best of all. It wasn't an up-to-date party but we all said we had a good time. Best wishes to all,
 FLORENCE WHITE, Age g,
 Willimantio.
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Baltic.
The Maiden's Visit to the Fairies.

There was once 8 poor little servant maid who was very industrious and neat and her master and mistress loved her greatly. She worked in such a way that people thought she must have help from the fairies.
 One day a letter came to the deer and she took it to her master because she was unable to read it. She was greatly surprised to find it was her own letter addressed from the pixies
 These pixies were good fairies who had invited her to attend a christen ing. She was half afraid to go, but after while she went and she was led into door on the side of a noun tain. The christening was very magnificent one and she was kept for three days in the pixies home. Then her pockets were filled with gold and she was sent home.
 She found that there was 8 new mistress in her home and when she wanted to do her work new servants came to do it. She was amazed to hear that she was seven years with the pixies instead of three days.
 ALF7REDA E. BROSOFSKE, Age 13.
 Norwich
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Celia Thaxter.

Celia Thaxter was born over sixty years ago. She lived on the Isles of Shoals about ten miles off the coast of New Hampshire. Her father kept a lighthouse.
 Celia Thaxter liked to play among the rocks. She liked to watch the birds and feed them. She liked to watch the waves and vessels, too.
 Celia Thaxter wrote many poems about birds. She wrote the Sandpiper, Spring, Wild Geese, the Swallows. and Christmas in Norway
 Celia Thaxter died in 1894.
 DOROTHY RASMUSSEN, Aged g.
 Norwich
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A Faithful Attendant at seheeL

Dear Uncle Jedi have net writ ten to you in a long time. I think it Is about time I did.
 l have been to school all this year l was not late once. For three or four years I have net been late. There is a girl in my school that has not been late or absent since she has been to school, and she is in the sixth grade now. She will be in the seventh grade next year. Oh, I have told wrong. She has been absent one-half of day and that Is all
 1 will go to high school next year over to Btonington. When school was out (June 1s), I picked strawberries until July 4. 1e13. Then the straw berries were almost gone
 l go to Sunday school and church every Sunday I haven't missed a Sun day this year. didn't miss a day last year. We get prizes for going every Sunday to Sunday school. do not go just to get prize, but I go because | want to. was baptised the last Sunday in May.
 l am going to try and get camera some time or other.
 I think I will close as it is dinner time.
 EMILY BABCOCK, Aged 13.
 Old Mystic.
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The Indian and His Crow.

There was once an Indian who had a crow of which he was very fond. At night he slept with the Indian and he fed him with his own hand.
 Once the Indian, whose name was Black Crow, was on the warpath and was afraid to shoot anything. being most starved His crow flew away but in the night came flying back from tree to tree, as if there was something in one of them, as indeed there was.
 The Indians attention was soon di- rected to the crow. There up in the top of one tree was a big bear. The Indian took his tonahawk and knife and climbing up soon made an end of him.
 The Indians life was saved by the crow, whom he rewarded by giving him a part of the bear.
 TOMS KIRSCH. Uncasville
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What He Found In the Yard.

Dear Uncle Jed! I am now visiting my grandpa and grandma's home, but l live in Newark, N. J. I come myself from home to New London. My moth CT bought me a half ticket and my grandpa come for me in New London
 When I come to Jewett City my grandmother give me a long sweet kiss and then I went into the yard and found my little banta rooster which l left when I moved, and I found lft- tie chicks, I hope my little baby brother Lloyd will come and we will have all the fun
 BERNARD N. WECHSLER, Age 2.
 JeWett City
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Gentle Jane.

Jane arises with the lark And takes a center round the park Till breakfasts ready, in the gym She exercises with a vim. For walking Jane not often cares, She much prefers to slide downstairs, She gayly rides in her new bubble, Regardless of prospective trouble She coasts down hill with might and
 main; Then trudges up and starts again. Jane see saws with Fide, but that isn't
 fair, She beunees Sc hard he flies up in the
 air.