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Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-16

he was surprised to- see thin crystals or Ice floating on the water His par ents knew the fire would cause him great pain and make his frozenu hand worse.
 One cold, frosty morning Jack Frost taught Joey a lesson. When he went to the pump to get his mother a pail of water chum asked him if he ever put his tongue on the iron pump ham, dle on winter morning. He never had so he told him to try it and Joey cautiously put his tongue on the pump handle, and he was held fast, for he could not get 1t off until the metal warmed from the heat of it and let him free.
 Joey saw Jumbo, his fat boy neigh Dor standing on the doorstep and he shouted to him:
 Jumbo. Let me see you put your tongue on the big. brass knocker. You dassent do iti''
 Jumbo stood on tip-toe and putting his tongue out as far as he could laid it upon the cold brass, and when he found he could not get free he be- gan to screech as best he could for help.
 His frightened parents heard him screaming and they rushed to the door and opened it with such force in their excitement that Jumbo was thrown nearly the length of the hall and a part of the skin of his tongue was left on the knocker
 That frightened Joey and he ran away. for he never dreamed anything as cruel as that was going to happen and he stayed away all day. but he had to go home when night came and as he lived in the other part of the house he did not know what would happen.
 Nothing happened His mother ask ed him how he came to play such g trick on Jumbo.
 Joey was truthful when he said ht did not know he was playing trick that he tried it on the pump handl. and he wanted Jumbo to try it or the big, brass dOor-knob. Of course I never thought such a thing would happen. and Jumbo would be hurt so l Joey told Jumbo he was sorry h, was so badly hurt, and he loaned hin l his books and playthings and did ev. erything he could to make it pleas ant for him.
 When it was aii over the boys wer, 1 just as good Heighbors as ever, ant they used to sit and talk it over ant laugh. and Joey used to say; ] That's to0~bad a trick te play oi any boy, isn't it Jumbof' And Jufnbe used to say; s@That'l never happen again. will it Joey ?' an, Joey was very earnest and sober whel l he answered;
 No, siree!''
 UNCLE SAM (The season is getting too hot aa, busy for Uncle Sam to GRish the stor, about Joey Joy, so he will have to talk
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A p.t sauirr.I

My mother spends the summer at an old house in the country. Back of thIs house Is beautiful garden, where mother likes to sit and seY on fine days.
 Mother is very kind to animals. and has made friends with a squirrel that lives in tree, near by. The squirrel is not a bit afraid. It will run up mothers chair and sit on her shoul- ders.
 Sometimes mother puts some nuts in her pocket. Then the squirrel will caper about until it gets hold of the nuts, when it will run off.
 At one time mother used to wear a back comb that was very high What do you think the squirrel would do?
 It would sit on mothers shoulder, and as it ate the nuts would drop the shells on her head in front of the comb Wasn't that cunning?
 JOHN WfSNESKIE, Age Il.
 Yaptic
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Early Birds.

The robin, the bluebird, the phoebe and many. other kinds of birds come here in fiecks in the spring.
 Everyone is glad to see them com- ing. The birds mate soon after they arrive, and then the nests are built.
 The phoebe generally builds in shed, or under a barn. while, robins nearly always build near a building; but we do not find the nest of he bluebird as near the house as that of the robin. The mother and father birds build the nest together and it is made of straw. hay and any stray bits of cotton or wool. The robin la ys from four to six pale green eggs and raises two broods each season. With in week or two the eggs hatch. The little birds are the queerest looking things when they are first matched, be- cause they have no feathers and such large mouths; but after two weeks they have nearly as many feathers as the parent birds. They fly in less than four weeks.
 Their food consists of seeds, gram and insects which the father brings to them at first, and later they keep both birds busy getting them enough to eat. The father bird is a little larger and brighter in color than the mother bird.
 These birds help make the world bright and beautiful by their happy songs.
 UNSIGNED.
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LETTERS OF AckNowLEpcMENT.

Myron RingIand, of Norwich Town I received the prize book yesterday and thank you kindly. I have read part of the book and am anxious to finish it to see how Richard won out.
 Angie White, Stafford Springs-Re- ceived the prize book and am very much pleased with it. Many thanks. : Lucy A. Carter, of Hampton-I thank you for the lovely prize book you sent me. I have read quite a number of pages and find 1t very in teresting.
 Mildred Morley of Eagleville- thank you very much for my prize book entitled The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks. It is -the second book have won. I haves read it through and think it very nice
 STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE
 AWAkES. A Wasp's Sting. A miniat~~ ntered a sick mans
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The Asiatie EIephant.

Some elephants of Asia are twice as high as an average man. They live in herds in the forests, usually where there is a marsh, When the natives wish to catch wild elephant they take with them tame elephants to ge near the wild ones and keep them from noticing what the men are trying to do. Then they fasten the elephant by ropes to trees. The elephant, thus caught, is furious and struggles sev- eral days, but when worn out and hungry it is tanned and taught to do all that horse does. and many things besides.
 EARL o. VARS.
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of the mansion entertain the hunts man with true Highland hospitality. He gives the name and rank as James Fitz James. Knight of Snow down and tries in every way to learn the names of his hosts- During the night his sleep is disturbed by such frightful dreams that he rises from his bed and walks in the night air. in or- der to shake off the dread effect He then returns to bed, says a prayer and sleeps soundiy until the growing cocks awaken him.
 LILLIAN BREHAUT.
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She was Promoted.

Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write a little letter to you. School let out the eighteenth of June. I was in the third grade and I am promoted to the fourth grade. I got all as and b's on my report card. I only got three b's this year. I was tardy one morning in the whole year I hope that all the children will have a good vacation I have always liked to go to school, but I like to have a vacation sometimes.
 I think I will have a good vacation. 1 will have to close now.
 ALICE WILLIAMS, Age ..
 Norwich
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THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE
BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT

untrue for truth is smart or cunning, for in this way little folks acQuirs the habit of lying. It is nice to be imaginative and interesting, but be careful the false is always given its true place and value
 Do not think it is smart to stand and giggle and glare ar strangers. for it is impolite; and when you know it is wrong and do it, it injures you.
 If you think how much your parents do for you to make life pleasant you are not likely to shame yourself by refusing to do little chores for them. Be grateful and you will be giau You know it is not right to be care less and increase mothers work, and if you are untrue to this thought you immediately become a negligent and naughty child.
 Do not think there can be no fun unless you make a great noise. The steam piano doesn't make the finest music-the zither is more pleasing.
 Thinking right prompts everyone to do right, and it is doing right that makes life pleasanter for one another.
 No one ever yet thought they were better than someone else without be- ing worse than they should be-
 Learn not to be proud of your pos sessions, but if you must be proud let 1t be of your kindly disposition and acts.
 It is easy to b naughty and the sorrow which follows it gives you pain. It may be hard to do right. but the feelings which come of it give you pleasure
 Get this impressed upon your mind and you will be true to your honest convictions. Because you insist upon honoring your honest convictions you will be honored.
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The Birds.

My Dear Uncle Jed: I have been having a good time feeding the birds There are lots of them. There are nowbirds, crows and bluejays. The bluejay is very pretty. He kas a blue bunch on his head. It is very pretty, The crows are pretty, too, I love to see them fly over the house. The snowbird has a very pretty breast. I love to see them eat at a bowl.
 I feed them bones and bread,
 THEODORE KENDALL. VersafIlas
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Plainfieid, Ct.
A Trie to Boston.

We had just seated ourselves when the conductor shouted All aboard."s and the train started on it's journey. It moved slowly at first but after a while it increased its speed. In about a half hour the conductor entered oar car to punch our tickets.
 When he reached my seat he asked me where I was going and told him I was going to Boston He then puRch-
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Mary,s Little Hen.

Mary had little hen,
 Its appetite was big, And every day for worms and bugs 'Twouid in the garden dig. 'Twould harrow up the fertile loam With both it's little legs, Then crawl beneath the neighbor's
 barn
 To lay her little eggs. Each time it's daily egg was laid 'Twould strut about and say: k Cut, cut. cav w-cut!" once or twice And celebrate her lay. So Mary saw she lost her crops, And lost her hen fruit, too, So she shut up her little hen, And then her garden grew. Not only this--her little hen 0Another nest did f1ll- For aught I know this little hen Is laying hen fruit still.
 -Kearney, Neb. Democrat.
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THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS.

1-John Wisneskie, of Yantic-Rob- inson Crusoe
 2-Bessie Fox, of Norwich-The Pleasant Street Partnership.
 3-Myron Rinsland, of Norwich Town-Pony Riler Boys in New Mex ico.
 4-Louis Sears, of Norwich-Black Beauty.
 s-Almira Kramer, of Colchester The Little Queen.
 7-Mary A. BurrilI, of Stafford Springs-The Little Queen. 5-Frank A. Pardy, of Norwich Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics.
 SEAsnee White, of Stafford Springs -The Pleasant Street Partnership.
 Winners of books living in the city may call at the Bulletin business office for them at any hour after 10 a. m. Thursday.
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UnkIndness of Fate.

For placing an obstacle on the rxn and thereby causing a train to stop" 3 peasant of Mini Novgorod was fined s. He was trying to commit suicide, and the obstacle was his own head.-St- Petersburg Wireless to New York Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-16

Dear Uncle Jed: I am now about to describe myself. I am a large oak tree. One day while I was talking to my brothers and sisters some men came into the woods to look for some tall trees. They saDd me and after chopping me dow>1nd cutting off my branches carted me to a lumber mill and sawed me up into boards.
 One day a man came into the mill and after carting me home made me into a bookcase. He kept all his books and papers in me and after a while put two glass doors on. me.
 I now stand in the righthand corner of his library.
 JOHN FREEMAN, Age 17.
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Not Gracefully Thanked.

Rector (thanking all who have con tributed to the success of the bazar) And as for Lady Blank. should not like to tell you what she has done"-Punehs
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She is six

Dear Uncle Jed: am a little girl six years old. in the first grade. My teach CTS name is Miss Strahan. I like her very much. She teaches me how to read and write. I can read a frat reader pretty fair.
 When go home from school at $50 D. m. my little dog greets me with c bark and jumps on me. He knows me very well. He is six months old.
 BESSIE BRUCKNER. Norwich.
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LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
NM Blower Garden.

Dear Uncle Jed: th5ught I would write about my garden because know you like. to read about them.
 This year I planted some flowers which are nice now. Some seeds did
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The Owl.

Dear Uncle Jed: I heard "Screech OwP' on the evening of the 2sth of June. It was the first have heard this season. I want to tell the Wide Awakes about the Owl"
 Long. long ago when people wanted pictures of things that were wise they nearly always made a drawing of an owl. It's head was so big, it's face round, that they felt sure the owl must be the wisest of all birds.
 But when the sun shines the owl blfnks and goes to sleep, in a dark hole; and the mother bird after lay ing her eggs takes no care of them; through their shells she does not trouble herself whether they live or die.
 Do you think a bird who neither loves to look upon the sun, nor upon her babies deserves to be called wise7
 Nearly every bird in a bright and cheerful creature, never happier than when the bright sun is shining. But the owl loves best of all the dark and silent night. It is never wide-awake until the sun sets. and then it flies away to some neighboring barn. or outhouse, or meadow. there to sit si- lently with rourN bright eyes wide open, waiting for the coming of some unlucky mouse, or other small animal Then, with swift and silent flight. it pounces upon the victim, and re- turns to enjoy breakfast at midnight in some dark nook.
 Owls lay their eggs in the holes of old trees, or climbs in the walls O: old buildings.
 The barn owl, which of~all owls are the most often seen seems to be the only kind that takes any trouble to make a nest and even this is only a little moss laid on a bare stone Owls have very sharp beaks, and strong talons. The gray. owls are the largest kind: and their eggs are as large as a hens.
 full.
 MYRoN J. RINGLAND. Norwich Town.
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My Visit In Providence.

I was visiting a friend in Providence year ago. and I had a very good time indeed.
 I went to the fireworks the nrst night. My grandfather took me places, and I went to the theatre most every night. I liked the shows and pictures.
 I stayed about six weeks and when I came home, we had five days of "Old Home Week"
 ANNA TILlNGHAST, Age II.
 South Coventry
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POETRY.
 - The EireflY

By Ray l. Hoppman. In your radiant beauty-like a glow
 ing gem, Flashing like diamond in the sky; Worthy of setting in diadem, Brilliiaak, happy, little firefly. Like a spot of gladness-your re-
 splendent gleam, Like a ray of sunshine in the night: Like the lonely beacon with it's help
 full beam, With your glowing. phosphorescent
 light. Floating in the darkness with your
 silent song, Mystic as Aladdin's lamp of old; Flashing sparks of daylight as you
 drift along, With your shining spot of burnished
 gold. With your hopeful brightness, teach
 ing men the way To live in sunlight when the path
 is dark; Changing grief to gladness. changing night to day, Little frehy with your glowing
 spark.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-16
Life on the Farm.

 l have been living on the farm for ten years. live about three miles from Willimantic. To find my house anyone going straight from town hall, reach the Four Corners, by the old chimney, turn to your right. go up the big hill. and upon the top of the hill is my home. It is large white hous :. The foundation of this house was built in 1700. This house was first built as a hotel. In the time of the stage coach George Washington stop ped at and slept in this hotel T. IS was the stopping place for stage coaches.
 We bought the farm from Jose .lh Mathieu. my grandfather who owned the farm for 13 years.
 In 1903 William Mathieu. my father. bought it.
 There are about 13s acres on tiIs farm. We keep IA cows and three horses.
 I like to live on a farm
 IRENE M. MATHIEU, Age 13. Columbia.
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UNCLE sAM.

(The season is getting too hot and busy for Uncle sam to aRish the story about Joey Joy, so he will have to take a vacation for the pEeseat.)
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not come up very good until after the rain-
 The flowers planted wAre aste-s, sweet peas. nasturtium. mignonette, cosmos, marigolds. petunias. running beefsteak plant. house laurel, angels breath, verbena- geranium. butterfly plant, alyssum, pansies, canna, chrys- anthemums. dahlias, caliiopsis and pinks.
 The dahlias are up couple feet high now.
 My nasturtiums are in blossom.
 planted peoples and phlox, but they did not come up
 Before it rained I used to water them every night.
 Last year I did not have such a nies garden as this year, because it wa: too dry Nothing could grow; but thi. year we are having great deal o rain.
 I hope the Widc-Awakes and you too. have a nice garden of some kind VERONICA ROCHELEAU. Age 13. North Franklin
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Rules for Youna Writsrs.

Rules for Young Writers. l. Write nlainly on one side of the &aper only. and number the pages. q Use pen and ink. not pencil {. Short and pointed articles will be given preferences. Do not use ove1 250 wordA
 L Original stories or letters only will be used.
 k Write your name, age and ad- dr-ss plainly ot the bottom of the story. X Address all communications D Un- cle Jed, Bulletin O6ice.
 @Whateyer you arc-Be thati
 Whatever you say-Be truel st
 Strajshtforwardiy act.
 Be honest--in fact, Asai
 Be nobody else but you
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-16
An Oak Tree.

East Norwich. N. Y.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-02-09
lost Human Nature

Some men, said Grandpa Mint
liker. need so much pettin' an per-
suadin' to make EN- keep u resolution
that you'd think Il water wagon was
some kind of IL baby carriage"
There are skeletons in closets. Grim
reminders of the past! We should
shudder as by nan they meet the
eye. We think OF hollow mockeries
that came and went So fast they look
ed like moving pictures speeding by.
Although no household scandal gives
You reason to deplore the tribute that
the Sossips love to claim. you'll find,
ON opening the door, that the skele-
tons are lcering. just the same. Oh.
Monster of Deception in the corner
over there! You ''bustie'' with the
ribs of rusty wire! The curves that
you created would produce AN awful
scare if made "A part of nowaday at
tire. And oh, you striped stocking,
like Il barber pole in pain: How gar
lshly You dangle from the peg! Your
wearer seemed to show a glimpse,
when wandering through the rain. of
Il highly decorated wooden leg! There
are curious chest-protectOrs that en-
llibit graceful curves There are stays
with levers. pulleys, cogs. and springs.
Gated nerves, that closet 1illed with
weird. %unearthly things! The skeins
of variegated hair that once were
piled so high, like funeral plumes
present themselves to view. You turn
away in terror and you shudder and
Nou sigh for fear the outfit might get
after you! An awful thing it is to
think that once upon a time this mix
up. then arranged with cunning skill,
would make YOU breathe your d
est vows in prose n halting rhyme
us YOU begged to name the wearer in
your will! There are little bits of
rulnor, there are slight domestic woes
that we naturally hope may be for
got. Eut the skeletons which this
neglected family wardrobe shows, for
fierce fantastic horrors beat the lot!
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-02-09
E. ORIGIN OF LIFE AT SEA.
DR.. Henderson Things 1t Latent
There In Organic Matter.
<Avar, rz.,

New York Times.)
Before a distinguished group of sci
.entists in the Johns Hopkins physical
laboratory this afternoon, DR.. L. j.
Henderson Of Harvard university as
serted that researches extending over
many years had convinced him that
inorganic matter contained latent life.
He added that he believed that this
latent life became active under certain
conditions, n that soon the line be.
tween the two forms of existence
would be crossed.
"The ocean, he said, sis the ele-
ment which might contain such con-
ditions. The organization of the ocean
fits 1t to sustain life better than any
mental characteristics of tho ocean
also encourage the evolution of act
i've life. Can we not, therefore, as
sumo that the ocean is the fittest of
known substances for the creation of
the origin of life
Variations of temperature in the
ocean from various causes are slight
er than in any other matter. For this
as well as other reasons, we find that
water is best adapted to the evolu-
ton of organic matter. In the ocean
We see every ueBTee OF development
from h highest to the lowest form
Of life. Certain forms or activitl in
the ocean are the lowest forms of the
organic life we know of, SO low that
we seem to be on the dividing line
between the organic and the morgan
ic. If we are to believe in the theo-
nv, Of the evolution, may We not 20 a
step farther and conclude that inor-
ganic life under certain conditions,
such as those contained i'll the ocean.
will develop organic life?"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-02-09
THE PASSING o FMAIAR1a.

'JoPfnai american Medical ASSN
At a meeting Of the Royal Colonial
institute in London recently. DR.. Mall
colin Watson gave an account Of his
work in the prevention Of malaria in
the Federated Malay States. TIc show
ed that pool breeding mosquitoes
could be abolished by open drainage,
that steam breeders could not So be
abolished. but required drainage, and
that countries with no hill stream
breeders had no hill malaria. He de.
scribed Investigations which he had
carried out in other parts of the world
where ma!arious conditions more or
less prevailed, in the DuarS at the foot
OF the Himalayas, and in the Jeypore
Mills in the Madras; in Sumatra, Pan
anna, British Guina and Barbados,
and declared tina the new knowledge
had given absolute control over the
malaria of low. flat land. and high
hopes of control over that in high hill
land. There was also every hope of
aholishing malaria from rice fields.
He believed that the prevention of
malaria. . the Improvement in healtl,
of the agricllturist and the cultivation
Of the land were all intimately con-
nected and that what helped the one
would improve the other. The cnor-
NOUS commercial value of the control
or prevention of malaria in tropic-
a, countries would be appreciated by
all familiar with conditions in these
localities.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-02-09
TREES HELP PUBLIC HEALTH.
Besides Purifying; Air. They Have
Effect on the Weather.
(kansas City Star.)

IhdISaS Clty otaf.1
Men and animals have good reason
for their fondness for trees. 1t is not
only because the trees add so much
to the beauty of u streets, or be-
cause the attractiveness Of rivers and
lakes and ever of the seashore de-
ponds largely upon the trees that we
look upon the trees as silent friends.
than with their beauty, great as that
steal comfort and TO our health.
The side of the street having the
most trees is the popular side in
summer. That is because It is the
Farwell tells US. for "a full-grown
tree sends out 1877 gallons Of water
through its leaves into the air.
Shading the ground also serves to
moderate the heat. And the air
around the trees is more pure. THE
foliage takes in carbonic acid gas.
| out oxygen, Which is h he, inn s'i ias
! deed, Indispensable to u.s." Medical
authorities recognize that trees pro-
mote the healthfulness of a COM
munity.
The tempering effect of trees on
the climate Is not confined to sum
ate heat, in addition to their bene-
tits as Windbreaks when planted in
clumps and groves.
That it pays to have trees in the
town n city and on the farmstead
is shown by the fact that real estate
On shaded streets and that on which
trees are growing sells for a better
price. No little of tho welfare and
prosperity of town. city or country
depends upon. it's trees, land. there Is
a direct connection between the at
Effectiveness of the village or of the
home on the farm. and the love of
the citizens for their village or Of
the children on the farm for their