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New Britain herald., 1914-04-17
BUSINESS MEN WOULD
 STUDY GOVERNMENT State Association Expects to Take Over Important Proposition. TIMELY NOTES FROM A. OUT STATE Several Local Organizations Have Yet to Hold Annual Banquets-Norwich Booming It's Town Through Busi- ness Mems Association.

Booming Its Town Through Busi-
 ness Mems Association.
 The Connecticut State Business Mems association, always hustling or ganization, is now preparing to go even further in it's efforts to better the communities and the business in- terests, for the officers are consider ing an important movement for a general study, by every association in the state, of the present forms of gov- ernment, and also of the study in a comprehensive way of the commis- sion form of government. Each as- sociation within the state will prob ably be requested to appoint some one member on a general committee, one who is especially interested, and the general committee to take up by sub-committees divisions of this study
 Although the State Business Mems association, as well as the various kindred organizations, are essentially for the benefit of the business men and the business interests of the com- munity they are by no means limit ed to these ends. as is being demon- strated by the support that the Hart
New Britain herald., 1914-04-17
WITH HARTFORD SQUAD.

toyIe and Goeb Trying Out With Clarlxin's Aggregation. Bernie Coyle and Edward Goeb, two
 bcal semi-profeAional ball players,
 Ire receiving tryouts from J. H. C1ar-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

'T'd hide 1t so well that even if you had the cipher telling where 1t lay you couldn't find it.''
 "Yes, could. too." insisted Gladys.
 "No, you couldn't"
 "If you were a pirate" said Gladys, land you should hide your money, 1t wouldn't be safe very long, for would find where you hid it and dig 1t up and buy my doll some ice cream. I'd get two dishes of chocolate, three dishes of vanilla, four"
 "Oh, slush!" came from Harold, and he turned away disgusted.
 Nevertheless he had a scheme In his head and was resolved to have some fun out of his sister. Accordingly. that evening. while his papa was reading and his mamma was sewing, he busied himself in a mysterious manner, rum ming back and forth from one room to another. writing between trips on sheets of paper at the desk.
 Gladys meanwhile sang lullabies to her doll out of the second reader.
 At last Harold finished, folded up a piece of paper, drew a skull and cross- bones in red ink across the back, and placed 1t stealthily in the dolls cradle while Gladys wasn't looking.
 Then he went about his business whistling and humming to himself. keeping an eye on Gladys and the era dle, however. As Harold anticipated. l Gladys at last put her doll to bed. She
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
Growing Pineapples

AVE you ever wondered, when
 the fruit man comes past with
 pineapples on his pushcart, or
 when you eat some of this lus- cious fruit for dessert-have you ever wondered how it grows. Here are a few interesting little facts about rais- ing pineapples; at least. about raising the variety grown in South Africa:
 The pineapple plants are set out, about two feet apart, in rows that are in the neighborhood of three feet dist ant from each other. During the first three years of the life of the plant, it produces large, sturdy delicious pineapples. After that, as 1t grows older, the yield decreases in both size and flavor. The young fruit Is first noticeable on the stools, or stalks. in the month of December; it ripens in either June or July. Now, strange fact about the pineapple is that more young fruit appears on the stools in June and this ripens the following December-thus making it almost an all-the-year-round crop. When a new plant first bears fruit, it yields but a single pineapple; then. It's second yield produces two of the luscious fruits, Its third three or four and so on until it has passed its maturity and, as with every other living thing in the world. begins to succumb to old age
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saw the folded paper and opened 1t. This was what she read:
 "Ten paces north from the sllod eld- deb is a eohs. In this eohs you will find other directions"
 Gladys was puzzled for a moment and was about to ask Harold what 1t meant, as she could see it was in his handwriting. But she happened to think that it was a cipher, So she didn't say a word to her brother but sat down and studied 1t out. She final ly discovered that dolls cradle" was spelled backward and that the same was true of front bed room," though these words puzzled her not a little. She easily understood that "eohs" was "shoe."
 "All right, MT. Pirate" she said to Harold, "Ill get your gold all right"
 Harold said nothing. but grinned in anticipation.
 Ten paces Gladys stepped into the front bedroom, looked under the bed and discovered the shoe. In the shoe she found another note which read:
 Twenty paces into the par on the pi in an empty va." Gladys wondered what "par" and "pi" and iva" might be. | Then she happened to think of par Tor, piano and vase. Following the directions, she found | another note in the vase. It read: Thirty paces into the k-n on the | ct in the c-e m-l" This gave her considerable trouble | But by using her wits she found that k-n must be kitchen, since she had al- | ready been in the bedroom and parlor | She had a harder time finding what "c-t" meant. It couldn't be stove ol sink. so she decided it must be "cabi- net" She almost gave up even then for she couldn't think what "c-e m-r stood for. At last she thought that fl must be "coffee mill" In that she fished and found note on which wa: written in huge letters:
 April Fool!"
 Naturally she was disappointed. Af ter the excitement of hunting tht treasure she thought she ought to have found, if not gold, at least a piece o, candy.
 Harold" she said. while he grinnet mischievously. you're behind time April Fool is past"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
LITTLE CHOCO INDIANS

strange ones. One of their favorites is play bird. It is carved out of wood, in the shape of bird, and Is almost as large as a chicken. Here and there in it's sides holes are bored and bright-colored feathers are in- serted to serve as wings. Though you might consider 1t ugly indeed, a play bird is very dear to the heart of the Choco child
 They play with boats, too, fashioned of wood in imitation of the canoes in which their fathers ply the waters of the rivers. Usually the children are expert swimmers and canoeists. for the entire tribe is perfectly at home both in and on the water.
 Little Choco girls are taught to weave baskets from the stems of plants or strips of bark. These are gaily stained and are used as recep- tacles for various articles.
 Their favorite musical instrument is a double-headed dance-drum, which is suspended by cord from the neck and beaten with both hands. Then, too, there is a gourd, hollowed out and partly filled with small pebbles; this makes a most noisy rattle and Is used to keep time in the dance.
 Every now and then the little Choco girl must pitch in and help her mother clean house. But do not imagine that she ties a dust-cloth around her head, seizes a broom and sweeps away for dear life. Indeed, no!
 Instead, all she does Is to climb up to the second story of the house and brush and poke the dirt down through the cracks between the boards of the floor.
 Of course it falls through to the first floor. But what difference does that make-since, you remember. 1t Is oc- cupied only by the family pigs! Now isn't that funny way to keep house?
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ways in a good humor, playing among the flowers in the bright, warm sum- shine. They sing and dance and. in deed, even play merry pranks upon each other-but there are never any quarrels, never any tears of rage and jealousy They are as happy as the day is long.
 And you would certainly find the games they play strange and enjoya- ble. Their most popular game is shut tle-cock. I'm afraid no little American boy or girl could play it the way the Siamese do. A shuttle-cock, as you know, is small, round piece of cork with a crown of feathers. But the children of Siam use no battledore, as you do, which is really the paddle with which to keep 1t in the air. Instead, they use only their feet, or knees, or even their ankles to keep the shuttle cock flying through the air from one player to the other. And they are very expert at this pastime.
 "The little girls play with dolls, just as little girls do the world over. But they are such queer dolls! Indeed. you would not like them at all. They are sometimes made of mud that has been baked until 1t Is hard and holds the shape in which it was moulded; and others are fashioned of raw cotton with strips of cotton wound around them to hold them in shape.
 "In personal appearance the Sia- mese boy is peculiar. First of all, you would notice that his hair has been shaved off except round spot right in the middle of his head-and that Is as black and shiny as hair could pos sibly be. Then, if he is young, he wears no clothes; and the lad whose parents are wealthy enough to give him rings, bracelets, earrings and anklets, considers himself quite dressed-up. A boy of eleven or twelve is grown-up and often girl of thir- teen or fourteen is thought old enough to be married.
 Their homes are queer, too. Most of them are really houseboats, con- structed of a framework erected on a bamboo raft; the roof Is of palm leaves matched together and made hard and tight by liberal application of mud. The windows in the sides are simply openings, without glass, and, indeed, the entire sides of house can be rolled up.
 "As a rule, there are three rooms to a Siamese house. The living room contains only a platter which holds the betel; there are no chairs. The bedroom has a long, narrow mattress. made of tree cotton. for every member of the family. And over each mat tress hangs a heavy curtain to keep out mosquitoes.
 "The kitchen contains charcoal stove, a small table which Is elevated not more than several inches from the floor and on which reposes the bowl of rice. and individual smaller bowls fol the family. And you should see how they eat! Their only knives and forks and spoons are their fingers!
 Each person dips into the large bowl on the tiny table. transfers the rice. or meat, or fish to his own bow and then to his lips-with his fingers Rice Is their chief food. but they also enjoy meat. vegetables. fish. bananas cocoanuts and much fruit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
Harold's Treasure Hunt

treasure in the world. You may not recognize it at first, but keep looking"
 Harold was not little surprised at this statement. The greatest treasure in the world! What could 1t be? A diamond? Gold? Surely Gladys couldn't tell falsehood.
 For five minutes Harold sat and looked about the room, expecting his eyes to light upon something of great value. or worth having if not, as Gladys imagined. "the greatest treas ure in the world" Gladys sat croon- ing to her doll. His father sat at the table writing. His mother sat facing him in the center of the room, sewing.
 At last Harold got impatient. Hay ing, as all true treasure-hunters have. deep desire to solve the puzzle, he got up and began to explore the room thoroughly, peering into the bookcase. on the mantel, under the couch, and was just turning to look on the center table when he stopped short. He had found the treasure!
 It was seated In a chair in the cen ter of the room, rocking and sewing. It had this card pinned to its back:
 THE GREATEST TREASURE IN ALL THE WORLD.
 HOW ABOUT IT, CAPTAIN KIDD? Harold stared awhile in surprise. and then walked over and borrowed his fathers pencil. He wrote on a sheet of paper in large letters:
 YOU'RE RIGHT, MATES.
 SEWER MY TIMERS IF YOU'RE l MOTT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

"Just the same. got good one on you" laughed Harold as he turned to some other amusement for the even ing. Gladys went back to her doll and began to sing to it again. at the same time wondering how she could get back at Harold. She resolved to take her father into her confidence.
 Before Harold was up next morning. between them she and her father fixed up a scheme. It was Gladys turn to write notes and act mysteriously.
 That evening the family was seated in the sitting room as usual. Gladys being occupied with her doll. Harold had just picked up Treasure Island" to read awhile when a piece of paper fell from the open pages. MT. Meyer gave Gladys sly wink. Gladys sang to her doll as if she hadn't noticed the paper. Harold picked 1t up. It was in Gladys handwriting:
 Look in your right shoe." 1t said. or came the shoe. Stuffed in the toe was piece of paper. Strange he hadn't noticed it'there before. He un- folded 1t and read:
 Look in the lining of your cap" In his cap he found another note. It read:
 Look inside your tie."
 Sure enough, there was thin piece of paper stuffed inside his four-in- hand. It said:
 Look around the room carefully. | Not ten paces from you Is the greatest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

Presses The Plunger And Out Pops A
 Savings Stamp.
 the bank to be entered as deposits In her savings bank book.
 And if she happens to be very. very thrifty, or if her parents give her generous allowance, she can secure savings stamps of larger denomination than ten pfennigs to attach to her card. The bank pays her three per cent. interest on her deposits. reckon ing the time on each deposit from the day after 1t was made until the day before 1t is withdrawn.
 So. you see, this little German maiden then has her money working for her." And, as anyone will tell you. interest certainly does mount up at an astonishing rate when one is saving.
 In the city of Munich, the municipal savings bank has six branches in diff ferent parts of the city convenient to the schools. When thrifty little boy or girl turns in card filled with stamps to one of these branches. 1t is immediately sent to the home. or cen tral banking office. with the young ster's savings book. where the deposit Is entered and the book returned to the branch bank for delivery to the youthful depositor who, in the mean time. has been given receipt for his card and book. Such procedure gen. erally requires five days to complete.
 This method of saving seems to be very popular in Munich. Twenty eight schools there now have their own automats. from each of which an average of thirty-five dollars is col- lected each month. In 1912 the Mu- nich school children deposited $12.210. and there were over 16,300 children who availed themselves of this method of saving their pfennisA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
HOW CHILDREN SAVE
 IN GERMANY

AF course you have your little toy
 bank in which you deposit a
 penny now and then, when you V can spare it from candy and soda water, haven't you? So. too, 1t is safe to say, have many little school children in Germany. But they also have unique way of saving their pfennigs (and a pfennig is nowheres near as much as our penny.
 = At convenient places near the school buildings are automats, which are ma chimes very much on the order of our chewing-gum penny y-in-the-slot ones. But they do not contain chewing-gum. nor even candy; instead, they are filled with stamps.
 When a little German school girl has a ten pfennig piece (value 2.3S cents in our coinage) she steps up to one of these automats, deposits the coin, presses the plunger and out pops savings stamp of that value. all gummed and ready to be ''licked" and pasted on a card which Is marked off into ten squares, each just large enough to contain a stamp.
 Then, when her card is flled-the total value of which Is 23.8 cents she presents 1t at the municipal sav-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
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If You Lived In Siam.

a certain species of palm tree. It makes their gums very, very red. Both children and grown-ups chew betel and there is always a platter of it handy in every house for visitors Surely, Dorothy, you do not want your teeth to become all black-why some- one might come along and say. Heav- ems, look at that little Siamese grill
 But their teeth are not the only strange thing about the children of Slam. Indeed, they have many peculiar and interesting customs. For example. Siamese child does not use books In school. Instead, his teacher reads cer- tain sentences aloud to him and the other children, and they repeat them,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

"AVE you ever heard of the Choco
 A Indians? If so, you must also
 have heard of something of their
 strange customs and ways of living. No, they are not numbered among our tribes in the West; but they inhabit the forests and plains of Panama where, you remember, Uncle Sam has built his great canal.
 Of course, if you happened to be little Choco Indian boy or girl it would all seem quite natural to you. But since you are not, you may won der, perhaps, how any little boy or girl could be content and happy in such surroundings. Again, you may consider it all good fun and even wish that you could be little Choco boy or girl-for a day or two, at least.
 To begin with. their house is erect ed on tall piles that raise it above the ground. The house IS really two stor- ies, though the floor of the second is fashioned simply of rough logs and boards laid side by side. The family sleeps and lives in this second story. for the first Is given over entirely to the pigs and other domestic animals.
 The roof of the house is of matched bark and grasses, and it's sides are open to the winds of heavens for the temperature Is warm and there are no cold breezes to be kept out
 At night, when the Sandman comes around to make the eyes of the little Choco children heavy with sleep. they do not rest their heads upon a soft. downy pillow as you do. Indeed no! Instead, their pillows are made of wood. Yes, of hard wood, slightly hollowed out in the center and fan tastically carved. Though you would not think so, the little Choco boys and girls declare that 1t is quite a comfortable pillow.
 And they have toys. too. but such
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

F there was one thing Harold Meyer liked to read better than anything
 else it was treasure stories. He
 devoured tales of Captain Kidd, Treasure Island," and Poe's Gold Bug" He often wished he could have lived in those days of treasure-hunt- ing. To think of digging in the sand and finding bushels of Spanish dou- blooms was the height of excitement!
 He often told his younger sister Gladys stories of gold-seeking and pi- rates who buried their rich treasure, and although Gladys was more inter- ested in dolls than treasure, she always listened politely and soon came to know what was meant by the words
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

"cipher" and "cryptogram" and of the roundabout directions as to the loca- tion of the treasure written dimly on bits of yellow, weatherstained paper so that only the pirates might know where the treasure lay.
 eff could have lived in those days" said Harold to his sister one evening, "I would have joined Captain Kidd's gang and buried my treasure so that nobody on earth could have found 1t 'cept me and my pardners."
 And me-" added Gladys.
 "No, not even you." replied Harold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
PICNIC DAYS ~~~

% ICING days are here again. IR Let us slip away: IL Wood and field are calling
 plain.
 Come to me and playl" Let us pack lunch and go
 Out where Summer dwells; She has lots of room. I know. Round her hills and dells. We will pick nice spot out
 By a singing brook. And you kids can run about.
 Papa read his book. And we'll spread our table there Underneath the trees. And on grassy couches rare Stretch ourselves at ease. We will spend the long bright hours ldling in the sun. Joying in the trees and flowers
 Till the day is done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

What well-known bird Is hidden in ! this picture? To find 1t arrange all the first letters of the words that the small pictures represent so that they will spell the name of the bird. AnSUers. JUMBLED QUOTATION: Present fedrs are less than horrible imdgininOs.
 -ShdkespeGTe. zIGZAG PUZZLE: pear
 mile
 lace
 LyIn
 trip
 dche
 sell Picnics. WINCHESTER: Kettle, Indidn, Nose, y34ra6e, Frog, Iron. Eow. Hot, EoS, RGbbtt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

'If you lived in Siam, Dorothy" she Said, "it might suit you to TT And yet, the children in that far-off coun- try are very careful about their teeth. But-mind you-careful to keep them black, not pearly white! Yes, indeed, they blacken them and are very proud of them if they shine and glisten like coal.
 "They are also taught to consider very red gums an attraction; and to accomplish this they chew betel. which is a leaf, and sometimes a nut, from
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ings bank which straightway gives her a savings book showing her deposit. less ten pfennigs (which is the charge made for issuing the book). Then the thrifty little maid sets to work to fill another card with savings stamps and another and, maybe, still another all of which she proudly turns in to
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memorized them.
 "The most remarkable thing about them is that they never lose their tenn pers and become angry. They are al-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

namignigis.
 -Kerehesapsa.
 ZIGZAG PUZZLE. The following are words of four let ters each If written, one below an other. their zigzag letters, beginning at the upper left-hand corner and ending at the lower left-hand corner, will spell the name of something we all enjoy in the summer time: l. A fruit.
 2. A measure of distance. 8. A delicate network of threads of silk or cotton.
 4. A city of the United States. 5. A short journey. 6. A dull pain. T. A word meaning to bring price.
 BIRD PUZZLE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

dreSslng her TOT tne HIBHt.
 Not brush your teeth? Why. Dor othy. am surprsed Of course you must brush them. If you did not you would be like--but, there, go and brush them and I will tell a Sleepy time story which, think, will interest you very much. Hurry now, dear"
 So, after the little girls teeth had been attended to and her hair nicely combed and braided. Mamma tucked her under the covers and drew up her chair beside the bed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

\ H. Mamma, please needn't
 brush my teeth, need IF" asked
 little Dorothy, in a pleading tone, as her mother was un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
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JuMBLED QUOTATION PUZZLE.

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07

So put your, shoes and stockings on
 And grab your hat and run. And play upon the grassy lawn
 Until the day is done. For there is nothing on this earth S sweet and good as play and mirthl
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-10-29
Lookout For Blackleg.

Reports are coming in to the State
Board of Agriculture at Columbia,
NO., that Blackleg in young cattle is
prevalent in more sections of the
state than it has been of recent years.
DR.. D. F. Luckey, State Veterinarian
advises vaccination of all young cattle
in infected communities without wait
ing for the disease to appear in your
own herd. Burn all carcasses of ami.
mails dying Of backlog. If the dis.
ease has appeared in your vicinity,
write or wire the Board of Agricul-
ture or Doctor Luckey for free infor.
nation.