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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
ALBANIAN BAND DIRECTOR.

DUBLIN, March 9.-The Dublin
Band has engaged Professor J. II.
taylor of Atlanta as director, ali
me members of the band are doing
some steady work practicing. The
Dublin Band is one of the best known
amateur bands in the State.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
King Saves an Old
Woman From Arrest

speca Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, March 9.-When King
christian was about to enter the new
ST. Simeon's Church at Copenhagen,
an aged woman rushed forward, and,
Selzing his hand. cried; Il must have
talk with you"
The police wanted to arrest het,
nut the King similingly invited her
10 come to see him at the palace.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
$4,000 Irish Resent
st. Patrick EmblemS

CHICAGO. March 9-Fifty thousand
Irish residents of Chicago have Joined
a crusade 20 oppose the sale of green
snakes. green lizards and green pigs as
st Patrick's Day emblems.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
Lind May Succeed
John BaSSett Moore

WASHINGTON. March o Il is he
lieved here that John Lind. President
wilson's special envoy to Mexico. will
succeed John Bassett Moore as coun-
selor to the State Department.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
Jap Ship Rammed by
British Craft Sinks
snecIaI cable to rhe AtIanta oeoraIan.

Special Gable &c The Atlanta Georgian.
SHANGHAI, CHINA, March D.
The japanese steamship Hokuse
Maru was sunk in collision to-day
with the British steamer Oriental in
the harbor here.
A big hole was rammed in the hull
below the water line. and she went
down quickly. other ships in the
harbor put out small boats to pick up
the persons on board.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
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Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
Winter Shorts.

Dear Uncle Jed: We have had an ice storm here and in the daytime when the sun Is out the ice on the trees sparkles
 We have had snow here which Is quite deep yet. But I don't mind the ice and snow, as I enjoy coasting and skating after I have done my home work. [ have cOasted several times this year on a toboggan with some of my friends.
 We coasted on a hill which was very icy and it was very hard climbing up the hill. as sometimes we would get halfway and then fall and slide to the bottom and have to climb up again. The top of the snow freezes so hard we can walk on it without breaking through.
 I have been very lucky in getting sleigh rides for I have had at least half a dozen, either in going down to high school or walking home.
 I started attending Oyster Bay High school in September, 1913, and have been on the honor roll every month. The pussy willows are blooming fast.
 JESSIE BREHAUT.
 East Norwich, N. '.
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Norwich.
Father Sandman.

Please get out of my way, stupid elf, this is the third night have tum- bled over you"
 Softly, good Father Sandman, soft ly! If you were not So blind you would have seen me. Have you put all your children to bed. Father Sandman
 Go along for a teasing, impertient imp!"
 Pippitallo laughed shrilly as he swung himself slowly to and fro on chanting "Close, little eyelids, close up tight for the Sandman's come to town!"
 The old fellow had gone into his cave: it was nearly dark now.
 Boum! An old brown shoe came flying out and. catching the elf as he swung, toppled him neatly on to the grass beneath him. He was not hurt, for the Sandman goes very softly shod, that the children may not hear him.
 But he was extremely angry. Very goOd!" he cried, shaking his fist, "to- day you, Father Sherman, and tomor- row mel"
 A chuckle was heard coming from the cave, and that was all. Pip went off, meditating revenge. In the middle of the supper he snapped his fingers gIeefully. The very thing" he cried, helping himself to another fried beetles wing; and he began to hum song.
 Old Father Sandman could not find his bag. He went to his brother to get half of the sand in his bag, but his brother said; "One wakeful little boy takes half a peck all to himself" So he could not give away any sand.
 Poor Father Sandman saw Pip, ana he said: "I believe that it is you who stole my sack!"
 Pip laughed and skipped out of reach, crying: My turn today. May be you won't throw shoes any more"
 But Pip fetched the sand bag. Then he made a bargain. Father Sandman, will you say you are sorry ?'
 "I will say I am sorry was the re- ply.
 Will you let all the children sit up Ionger?"
 Her."
 Please yourself about the babies,' s,'' said Pip. Catch Father Sandman"
 The next minute the old fellow, with his sack on hls back and a smile on his face, was trotting off to the town.
 LILLIAN BREHAUT, Age Is.
 East Norwich, N. Y.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05

crystal has not been interrupted in any way the six parts are almost eX- aotIy like onen another. If one ray Of star branches out into featheIv sPlcules (from the Latin spiculum a little poinD every other ray will have exactly the same number of spicules arranged in precisely the same way and If one of the six parts of a hexa- Son, or siX-sided plate, is decorated In & particular way the other five will De decorated in the same way.
 This is all so wonderfulu that it is worth While stopping to think about It a little. How do the atoms know their places in these wonderful com blnaGonS of sixes? They are not sup posed to have any minds, but if a Iot or boys and girls in the playground were suddenly to arrange themselves in one \of these complicated patterns they would be thought to be very clever indeed. We'll the atoms are very clever. too. and there isn't any use in trying to find out how they manage It, for nobody knows Peo- pie nave tried to explain it. but as they didn't know anything about it themselves their explanations did not heIp anyone very much.
 The most they can tell us about this amazing process of crystallization is 1hat @ atoms are very fond of order Ahey never get out of order except on
 
 compuIsion usually has to be the other way; out atoms are different, it ap- pears, and the atoms of all substances II allowed to pass from the liquid to the solld state under the right con altlons will arrange themselves fin cer- tam definite forms. Each different substance has its own particular kind or crystals But none are so beau utul as those of water, and whenever water freezes it crystallizes.
 Whether 1t is up in the bosom of the alr, where IL is easy to imagine that iairy hanos are arranging the atoms III 1aary patterns, or whether 1t is in our water pipes, or on our sI1atine ponds. where we don't expect strange things to happen. the same miracle IS performed. The water naI.ticIes as they paSa from the liquid to the solid state, arrange themselves in six-sided forms.
 We don't see the crystals in ice. be- cause they are crowded so close to- getheF, but they are there, neverthe- less, and are quite as wonderful as snow crystals. Professor Tvndau calls them the flowers of ice" and tells us that ir concentrated beam of sun Hght, or ray of electric light is pass ed through a block of ice it will melt the crystals here and there and en- able us to see them, or rather the water of which they were formed and which still retains the general shane Of the crystal Little shining points appear in the path of the light. and around each is beautiful water flow CT with six petals. The bright sDot is a Vacuum, for the water takes up less space than the crystal did and leaves an empty space in the center.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
FLOWERS OF WINTER --SNOWFLAKES
By JANET NICHOfLs.

An boys snd gfris love flowers and usually iS Is they who find the first blossoms That come out in the spring But very flaw of them ever think of me AewerS of summer are no lovelier and in some ways they seem even less wonderful
 UndAa the AoweEs o3 summer, the flowers of Wfn&eR do not come out of the ground. great many Of them, messages from the sgIgels, and we may also ind them on ouc windows in the DaoRnfn& if our rooms are not well heated or perhaps in our water pitch srSs while the surface of every pond and river is sure to be covered with them. When g great many of them are collected together we call them snow and frost and ice, but no matter what we call Ghem, or how different they looks they are all miracles or beauty &nd s5l very mach alike.
 AMow crystals are the most beautiful st these winter flowers and also the sss4e@t to study The best time to look for thsm is oa a still cold day. When tnsre is much wind stirring the deli Sa.ts stars are broken as they fall and when 1t tsD'e'TerE cold they partly melt ASad stick to one another, making the large, heavy srhoH9ftekes that every one has noticed
 If we examine a great many of these crystals iii 8 great many different xnow3s1Is. we shall find & most won desfuI variety of beautiful forms Scientists have photogra phed over 8 thousand of them. and probably we could go on forever finding new ones The stars are the conrnonest forms but they are not the only ones. It takes 8 comparatively mild atmosphere 10 make staFs. The colder air pro- d1ce@ solid crystals, which generally raSe the toSrn of thin plates of ice that are almost ap beautiful when seen under the microscope ss the stars Some observers teTl us that they have seen little pyramids Of ice. and in extreme cold the crystals often take tiie form of needles. Double crystals connected by tiny rods of ice and gre So common that sometimes almost every crystal in g. storm Is of this Kind
 With all this wonderful variety there tS an equally wonderful like Esesa. For some reason that nobody knows water is welded to the number six, and win the exception of a few three -sided and irregular forms ali its crystals are built on six-sided plan The stars have six gays and the needles and pyramids and little ice plates all have six sides. On the tops of high mountains. CT in the Polar regions. the snow frequently falls tn the form of fine white dust or delieaae needles Neither the dust nor the needles look as though they had any def1nite form; but 1T one examines thefn under the microscope ons finds that the par ticles of dust are the beginnings of six-peinted stars and that the needles have six sides.
 When ths regular growth of the
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05

over this afternoon and help me straighten the house. as 1 am all upset from moving?
 Beatrice told the boy she would surely be there. That afternoon when Beatrice went to Mrs. Kings she was told she would have about two weeks work, and as Mrs. King was a wealthy lady and very liberal she told Beatrice she would give her ten dollars for her work.
 Beatrice was the, daughter of a poor widow She tried to do some work to help her mother support the house. So it was no wonder she was glad to get this job
 Beatrice did not tell her mother that evening she had new job, for in about two weeks was her mothers birthday, and she wanted to save the money she was to get to give her mother birthday gift and surprise.
 At fast the mothers birthday ap- preached. When she got up that morning to go to work she looked wor- ried and tired.
 Mother" said Beatrice, you aren't going to work the morning of your birthday, are you?'
 Why, yes. my dear I have hardly enough money for the rent and it IS due tomorrow. So you can't expect me not to go to work even if it is my birthday"
 
 trice
 What" said the mother Do you mean to tell me you can give me six dollars"
 Just wait and see if I can't" said Beatrice. She then produced a small poclzetbook and took from it all her money. She gave it to her mother, who stood there in amazement.
 Why. you've got 15 dollars here!" said the mother. Tt can't be all yours!"
 Tt certainly is," said Beatrice, and then sine told her mother all about it. The mother looked happy and pleased and said:
 "Oh, my dear, and you didn't even tell me about it all this while!"
 But Beatrice said: You see, Ma, l wanted to give you a birthday gift and surprise so I couldn't tell you"
 And it certainly is a surprise. my daughter"
 GRACE KERN. Age 13.
 Nnrrz,Ieh
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
A Chat About china2

l suppose you have all seen a China man. How funny he looks with his long pigtail hanging down his back, and queer shaped clothes and shoes. You must rembember, however, that Englishmen look just as odd to John Chinaman.
 In China everything is very different from what it is here. They have very few railways and no hanson cabs. When people wish to ride from one place to another, they hire a kind of chair slung between two poles and carried on the shoulders of two men, one in front and one behind.
 The houses are not at all like our houses. They are low, and the walls in many cases are made of bamboo covered with thick paper. so if anyone wishes to see if his neighbor is at home he may just poke his finger through the wall and peep through the hole.
 When Chinese baby is a month old all the family and friends meet to- gether, and after the little ones head has been washed barber slaves all the hair off
 Master baby is then carried to a table on which are spread little toys, each one representing a different trade He, of course, grasps one of them, and this toy is held to represent his future trade or profession.
 VERONICA V. F. TUCKER, Age Is.
 Versailles.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
A Busy Little Girl,

Dear Uncle Jed: I read the Wide Awake Circle stories every time I get The Bulletin. I like them very much. 1 have written once before. but per haps you do not remember as you have so many to look sat.
 Our supervisor has asked the schooi children to write more letters.
 I am going to tell you what I do. I go to school every day. and at night I get in my kindling wood and water. At 5 o'clock l go over to my neigh bor and get her milk pail to get some milk. I run errands for her and earn little that way.
 One summer l earned six dollars. At Christmas time I bought a coat, two dresses and many other useful things. l like to save up my money. Some children spend every cent they get, but l do not think it is right.
 EDITH HILL, Age 13.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
The Bio Snowstorn.

Dear Uncle Jed: I don't believe many of the Wide Awakes have seen such a snoWstorm as we are having In East Colchester. I never have since I was born. and I am II years old. It began showing Friday evening and did not stop until Sunday morning.
 Drifts in some places were as high as the walls. It was all papa could do to'take care of the stock. Sunday 1t was bright, so l went out and slid down hill. About every slide I took I would go headhrst into a big drift. That made 1t all the more fun
 guess the roads are pretty bad, as no one has been out till today to break them up. tell you we are glad to have a telephone so that we can talk with some of the neighbors.
 This morning my brother started for school. but he came back. It is the first day he has missed at school.
 My teacher started out from town with a sleigh and she had to go back, too. It Is showing again today and I guess the drifts will be worse tOmor- row.
 While I have been writing this letter our mailman telephoned that he had got three miles and would have to 80 back.
 ALLIE E. KRAMER.
 Colchester,
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
Cocoons of Moths.

Dear Uncle Jed: I have been getting cocoons. I have nineteen Prometheus; they are wrapped in a leaf. The leaf swings all winter
 I have two Cecropias. Their co coons are dark brown in color and are tent shaped. I also have one other cocoon which I don't know the name of
 I have seen Q Cecropia cocoon at tached to a wire fence.
 Most moths fly at night
 The Cecropia has a red and white velvet coat. Its brown wings are beautifully marked with red, black aGd gray. It has large white crescent shaped spot, bordered with red and black on each wing. The caterpillar has tubercles or knobs on it's body Those near the hear are like red coral, others are bright blue and some are yellow.
 One of my Cecropias I found when a caterpillar upon an apple leaf. l put it in a box and gave it apple leaves every day. In a few days it spun a cocoon.
 Have any of you Wide -Awakes found any cocoons when gathering egg masses
 ELIZABETH PARKER, Age 12.
 Mansfield.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
The Tinder Box

Once upon a time there was a sol dier who met an old witch on his way home from the war
 Good evening, soldierI" she said w hat fine sword you have and what big lnapsacl1! You are a real soldier You shall have as much money as you wish
 Thank you. old witch" said the sol dier.
 Do you see that big tree?" asked the witch pointing to a. tree that was nearby. Tt is quite hollow inside. You must climb to the top, and then you will see hole, through which you can let yourself slide, so as to get down into the tree l will tie d rope round your waist, so that I can pull you up when you call out to me"
 What am I to do down in the tree ?r ask the soldier
 Fetch some money" replied the witch. When you get to the bottom of the tree you will see a. large cave: it is quite bright for over a hundred lamps are burning there Then you will see three doors; these you can open, for the keys are in the keyholes IT you go in the first chamber you will see a great chest in the middle of the floor; on this chest sits a dog with ey es as big as a pair of teaeups; but you need not care about that. | will give you my blue checked apron. and you can spread it upon the floor; then go quickly and take the dog and place
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
The Bird and the sheep.

Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you about the bird and the sheep.
 Once upon a time a boy and his father were sitting under a tree tend ing sheep.
 A man came along with a dog. At sight of the dog the sheep were fright ened. and ran through some bushes which were nearby.
 This tore the sheep's wool for there were thorns on the bushes and the wool stuck to them.
 At sight of this the boy was very angry and said:
 Father! these bushes should be cut down." but no sooner had he said this than a bird flew down and took the wool away. Then the father turn ed to his son and said: My son. now do you want these bushes cut down; the bird will make a good warm nest for his young with it and the sheep can do without the wool"
 The son replied: "No father, let the bushes stand where they are.' ELIZABETH MrGARREGLE, Age 13
 T9ftVille
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
The Bringing Up of Teddy.

Teddy was a boy at the age of 8 years. His father and mother died when he was but 4 years old, and he lived in a small shed in Cohen's alley Now, Teddy was too small to work, and one day while he was walking up Broadway he saw a shining object in the gutter. He bent down and picked it up, and what, to his surprise, should it be but a silver dollor.
 He had not had anything to eat since the day before, so he thought he would get something at a cheap restaurant, and with the rest he could buy some papers to sell. He succeeded in selling his papers and he had a profit of 12 cents.
 That is a good beginning said he. If I will make as much every day I should not have any complaint"
 Teddy felt tired by this time and thought it best to be going to bed
 The next morning and every morn lpg after that he sold papers until he was 15 years of age Then he sought a position as cash boy in a large firm. At first he got but four dollars week but because of his honesty by the time he grew to be a man his wages in creased greatly. He is now one of the members of the firm.
 BESSIE FOX
 zt-
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE.
 AWAKES.
A Day's Outing.

One day last summer my friend and l took my tent, some books we were going to read and our lunch. We put our tent under a big walnut tree by the river.
 While we were talking a big COW came softly over and looked in at us, and we didn't like that very well, but we started to eat our lunch. and when we had finished we went outside to read. We read a while and then went in the tent to get some cake we had left there, when to our surprise we saw q big black snake.
 We scared that away with sticks and stones and went out to read again. After little while my friend said:
 "Oh, Mildred! Just see how black the sky is over there! We are going to have a thunder shower
 That was the most fright of all. so we took our things and went home to stay the rest of the day.
 MILDRED V. MORLEY. Age g.
 EaCleI-jl1n
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE
 AWAKES

Uncle Jed has been well impressed by the thoughtfulness of those Wide Awakes who are kind to the useful little birds. Few people ever realize that the birds are more ancient than man and that they beheld the glory of sne skies before man did.
 It is said of man that he is fearfully and wonderfully made, but he is no nore fearly and wonderfully made than the birds. It takes a skilled man to navigate a steamer or an aiTship to any part of the world thousands of miles away-he has to be very learned in geography and mathematics, and understand the use of fine instruments to make his way from New York to any port in South America but a car Fier pigeon taken from remote Penn Fylvania town to Rio Janeiro in cage was released 1000 miles away from his dove cote, and on the 47th day he arrived home. showing he has a way nan knows not of to find his way through the heavens, and allowing seven days for rest and nourishment he made 100 miles & day with the energy God gave him.
 All birds have the homing habit and the little snewbirds and winter birds which feed at the boxes at the back door know where they nest in the sum Sner time away north beyond the habi- tattons of man. In winter even the great Arctic owl flies as far south as Norwich hunting his food.
 The hardieE summer birds which are oow 3n the south spending the winter in as naflder climate know where their old nests are located and will return to them in s few Haeel1s. When you think of these little birds away be- yond Inc naountains of tho south com ing 6Rzect to shs $res or bush fin which
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05
An Eastern Puzzle.

Dear Uncle Jed: An old Persian died. leaving seventeen camels to be divided among his three sons in the following proportions: The eldest to have half, the second third and the youngest a ninth. As the camelS could not be divided into fractions, the brothers submitted their differences to a very wise old dervish.
 Nothing easier!' said the wise one. "I will divide them for you"
 I will tell you how he divided them.
 First he added one of his own to the seventeen, thus making eighteen camels. The eldest brother took his half. which was nine. the second his third. which was six, the third was to have a ninth, which was two, mak- ing seventeen in all, and giving the wise dervish his one camel. Was he not wise?
 HARRIET PERKINS, Age 14.
 Colchester
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-05

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