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Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25

ing, to keep them from starving.
 John was ambitious and wanted an education.
 His mother used to help him in her spare moments. One day John was walking along the seashore when he saw something shining. He went closer and found a gold watch.
 Johns father used to go into the village every week and he said he would look for the rightful owner on his his trip to the village.
 When the day came for his father to go into the village he took the watch and set out very early. When he reached the village the market place was crowded with people. They seemed to be greatly excited. They told Johns father a very rich man had come to spend the summer at the village and that while walking along the seashore he had lost his watch.
 Johns father asked where the man was and they told him he was in the hotel.
 Johns father went to the hotel. When the man saw his watch he gave Johns father d banll-book for a 'thous- and dollars because of his honesty. They at once moved into the village when John's father secured employ ment and John was sent to the village school.
 MARY NOLAN, Age 13. TaftVilIe.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
THE POOL

The delegate that I now pointed out to AIr Churchill was a female Fox Squirrel who had come from The Pool hy Walkomobile and in this winter scene presented an appearance any Norwich boy would have been glad to see. These Fox Squirrels are ia winter much stouter and mon grey squirrels. (SciuruS migra- toriJ.s' squirrel is registered as "Scturus Tubricaudatus. No wonder Audubon isn't read mora by you boys)
 You boys and girls know that the again Big words because they some ttrnes mean several small ones. What is meant by 'Arboreal 9" Would cit igens of The Pool have a right to the nans!) The squirrels home is in the trees and most of his food, fruits and buds. but ho Is quite destructive Of certain insects, often because they bother him. He builds his nest of leaves and tWigs, sometimes in a hole in che tree, and sometimes at the joint Of limbs. iie likes the trees where he can go from one to another with oat going 60 tine ground. This is com mon to all squirrels, but our delegate was a fcX-squirrel, one of the aris- tocracy This delegate was good F inches from snout to tail, tail, (bones
 
 end of longest hair, 14 inches; hind foot, from heel to longest toe, in chez. breadth of head, between the sars, I 3-4 inches; girth behind the shoulders. inches: weight pounds and 2 ounces; breadth across the tail, with the hairs extended, 6 inches. Glow do I l-uow? Why 1 have meas ured many both tame and wild. Did that when a boy and was shown how 10 study squirrels by my Indian playTu2tes.>
 Tie fox-souirrel has the utside of It's ars clothed with long hairs which extend nearly half of an inch beyond the tip. It's fore feet are it's hands and iie can use them as well as any boy can his in proportion to size and requirements. The thumb of the toro foot Is protected by fiat, blunt nail, rot 2. claw.
 Have 1 shown how you can zeil him rom his cousins and other relatives
 MT. c. noticed the remarkable thick and warm fur this fox-squirrel had turing the cold weather.
 Whats that9 Squirrels sleep in the Uinter. No sir. They are not as
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
LEGAL NOTICE
ATTENTION! SIDEWALKS
OFFICE OF THE STREET COMMISSIONER,

Norwich, Dec. 21, 1914.
 The ordinances of the City of Nor wich provide that the owner or own CTS, occupant or occupants, private corporations, or any person having care of any building or lot of la11, bordering on any street, square, or public place within the City, where there is a sidewalk graded, or graded and paved. shall cause to be removed therefron any and all snow, Sleet and ice within three hours after the same shah have fallen, been deposited or found, or within three hours after sun- rise when the same shall have fallen in the night season: also, that whenever the sidewalk, or any part thereof, ad- joining any building or lot of land, or any street, square or public place shall be covered with ice, it shall be the duty of the owner, CT owners, occu- pant or occupants, private corpora tion, or any person having the care of such building or lot to cause such side walk to be made safe and convenient ering the same with sand or some other suitable substance.
 The failure to do so for two hours during the daytime exposes the party in default to the penalty provided by the ordinances.
 The ordinances also provide that in case of violation of any of the foregoing provisions, or refusal or neg lect to comply with them, the party violating them or not complying with them shall pay a penalty of five dollars for every four hours of neglect, after notice from any policeman of the city.
 The ordinances also make it the duty of the Street Commissioner to collect all penalties incurred under the foregoing provisions, and if they are not paid to him on demand, to report the case to the City Attorney. who shall prosecute the party offending.
 ERROLL c. LILLIBRIDGE
 Streat Comi4li <sint,ar
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
LETTERS OF AcKNowLEpeMENr

Carl E. Ericksen, of Baltic-Received prize book all right, for which I thank you very much. I find the book very interesting. l love to read. Some times I wish that is all I had to do. The prize book was very welcome as ' had not expected to win anything but a note of approval.
 Dorothy Rasmussen, of Norwich--I thank you very much for the prize beck entitled The Ranch Girls Across the Sea- I enjoy reading it and find it very interesting.
 Alice F. surriH of Stafford Springs When came home from school Thursday afternoon l was surprised to find I had won another book. I have started to read it and found it very interesting.
 Frank ParIy, of Norwich-I was very pleased to receive the prize book, Boy Scouts of America. It is 8 very interesting book.
 Jessie Breiaut of East Norwich, N. Y: Thank you for the prize book you sent me. entitled The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World. It is very in- teTesting.
 Loretta Piche of Norwich: I thank you very much for the prize book you gave me, entitled The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires. I have read if all through and think it is very inter esting. Thank you again..
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS

Frank Pardy. of Norwich-The Bowntcn Pluck
 2-Agnes K1ecak, of West Willing ton-The Little Queen.
 8 Nellie Paley, of Colchester-A i ose of Holly Court.
 4-Nancy Tetrault, of Versailles Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch.
 5-Yetta Levine, of Colchester Dreamland.
 6-Eugene R. Sullivan, of Bozrah- viIle-Andy.
 Harriet Graham. of Taftville- Huth Fielding of Snow Camp.
 S-Lucy A. Carter, of Hampton Story for Girls
 Winners of books living in the city may call at the Bulletin business office for them at any hour after 10 a. m on Thursday.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
An Eight Year Old Lemon Tree.

Dear Uncle Jed and Wide Awakes:- l hope you are all well this nice win ter weather. I wonder how many of the Wide Awakes ever saw a lemon tree that bore real lemons. I am go- ing to tell you about the one my mother las. It is eight years old and 1t stands about three feet high and it has borne lemons for three years. It takes the lemons from the time they blossom until they are ripe, about eight or nine months to grow. The blossoms smell like the orange blossoms.
 The lemons grow to be real large; but the tree is called the dwarf kind. It had some forty blossoms on it at one time, and fifty at another. They don't get lemons for every blossom, but as soon as the blossom opens you can tell whether it is going to be a lemond or a false blossom, for the lemon sets in the bud.
 Mother had one lemon on the tree this year that measured twelve inches the long way and eleven and a half around; and it weighed fifteen ounces. It grows large like the grape fruit.
 It is quite a sight to see such a little tree bearing such large fruit. The lemons are just as good to use as those you buy. Mother made three pies from one lemon, and they were fine. I wish the Wide Awakes could have been here to have sampled them with me.
 LUCY CARTER, Age 1s.
 Scotland
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
Tame Squirrels.

My father and my brothers once found two flying squirrels while cut ting logs. As the tree was falling the squirrels who were frightened jumped into fathers hat which he had held out hoping that they would fly into it.
 They brought them home at noon time and we had a squirrel cage which he put them into. There were two compartments in it, and we put some hay for them to sleep in, in the upper part. There was hole in the ceiling where an old dead branch of a tree was placed for them to climb up This served as stairs.
 My mother named one Nibble and the other Pert. They soon became tame and would eat from our hands We gathered nuts for them to have through the winter.
 Pert had been hurt from the first
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
What Happened While Waiting For .
 Train

ram.
 Dear Uncle jedi was sitting in a little country station in Hanover. a small town in the southern part of Connecticut waiting for train which was to carry me to Montreal, where I was to attend school.
 The ticket seller was the only other person in the room, but he sat behind window in a small office.
 My grandfather with whom I had spent the summer months had just train was late, and he had business to attend he Dade~me goodbye and drove away.
 The last thing I saw as grandfather drove out of sight was the little Shet- land pony, hitched to the back of the cart and on it's way to be sold. This pony had been mine all through the summer months, but as 1 was going away it would not be needed at the farm.
 A moment or two went by and then the ticket seller popped his head out of the office window and called me into his office to see what was coming.
 Galloping along the road, and leaving a thick cloud of dust behind came Beauty, the littl Shetland pony, headed straight for the station.
 The tardy train was now in sight. Another minute and it would be at the station. I could not forsake the pony but I must reach Montreal.
 1 remembered just then that there was a baggage car to most trains. Some way or other Beauty arrived at Montreal.
 HARRIET GRAHAM. Age 13.
 TaffyiIla
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Taftvillt
My Black Cat.

Dear Uncle Jed:-Thought I would write you about my black cat, which we call Mig.
 He is a slick looking animal.
 He had 9 brother a tiger color.
 He was taken sick and Mig caught a mouse and tried to make him eat it, but Tiger was so sick he didn't seem to know that the mouse was near him. He died soon after and we were very sorry.
 We also have Q dog named Daisy, and Mig has no use for her as she just loves to chase cats. Sometimes Daisy gets too near her enemy and gets-a scratch in the face.
 I wish they were more friendly for the only way to have friend is to be one.
 PERCY w. ROBINSON, Yav7tip
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
In. LittIe SninnAr-

Dear Uncle Jed:--Avachne was a poor girl who was noted for her skill in weaving. Her father dyed the wool for her in exquisite shades of purple and other colors. Her work was not only beautiful when it was done but beautiful in the doing.
 The nyrnphs themselves would leave their streams to see her at work.
 It was plain that Minerva the god dess of wisdom, who was also the greatest of WeaYers must have taught the young girl.
 ''No,' said Arachne, let Minerva try her skill with mine if she likes. "
 When Minerva heard Arachne she was angry. And then she put on an old disguise Of an old woman and ap-
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
COLD CONE! HEAD CLEAR AND NOSE
 0PEN--IT'S FINE!
"PAPE'S COLD COMPOUND" ENDS COLDS AND GRIPPE IN
 A FEW HOURS.

Take Tapes Cold Compound" every two hours until you have taken three doses then all grippe misery gocs and your cold will be broken. It promptly opens your clogged-up nos trils and the air passages of the head; stops nasty discharge or nose running i; relieves the headache, duIlness, fever ishness, sore throat, sneezing, sore ness and stiffness.
 Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing and snuf1ing. Ease your throbbing head-notfing else in the world gives such prompt relief as "Pape's Coli Compound" which costs only 25 cents at any drug store. It acts without assistance. tastes nice. and causes no inconvenience. Accept no substitute.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25

and became worse and another thought he would die, so she wanted to take them down to the woods and let them go. We objected. and mother said that Pert might live if we let him go.
 Of course, we didn't want him to die, so we took the cage down to the woods and mother opened it, and away frisked Nimble chattering with all his might Then she found a hol- low tree where we placed Pert and gave him a few nuts and seeds, and some water. We visited the tree nearly every day, but our tame squir- rel only lived a short time. We never saw Nimble afterward.
 ALICE F. BURRILL, Age 16.
 Stafford Springs.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
The Great Ruddha.

What do you suppose I should like to see more than anything else in Japan? It is the Great Buddha, be- cause he is so very queer and so many strange tales are told about him. His statue is made of bronze and is forty-nine feet in height. From ear to ear the width is actually seven- teen feet. Think of having eyes that are four feet wide, and it is three feet around one thumb. What do you think shelters his head from the sun: eight hundred and thirty curls. These curls are like snails which once are said to have gone to his head to pro- tect him from the burning sun.
 The people thought so much of him they built temple over him; but the waves beat away the temple and he stayed on the beach, without any thing to shelter him.
 The people worship him because he is their God.
 AGNES KLECAK, Age Il.
 West Willington.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
How Bananas Grow.

A great many shoots come up from the roots of the old trees. These are cut off and set in the ground just as we start rose trees. Very soon the young shoots send up two long leaves. They are .curled so tightly together that they look just like a round stick. After a while the leaves unfold and hang down like branches. Other leaves grow. out. curled just as tight as the first. These soon uncurl and bend down, and others grow in their places. The plant really begins to look like a tree, but the trunk is not hard wood like that of the oak or the pine. It is nothing but leaf-stems packed close ly together.
 At the end of nine months a deep purple bud appears in the center of
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
The Birds Education.

cated, just as a child needs to be, though not exactly in -t1e same way. After the young birds can fly they need to be taught to find their own food and to know the different calls; and cries of the family and what they all mean.
 They have to learn to fly. and they must learn to sing. Then they must learn what to be afraid of and how to protect themselves from their enc mics.
 No doubt there are many lessons for them to learn that we do not know about.
 IRENE MATHIEU. Age 13.
 al hi
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
Snow Birds.

One day some one looked out of our school room window and saw a Blue Jay.
 My teacher told my brother to put some crumbs out for the birds
 The next day our teacher brought some corn meal. Every day we put some out for the snow birds. The other day we looked out of the win dow and there were seven or eight snow birds eating the meal
 GERTRUDE BLATHER, Age 13.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
How the indians Travelled.

Dear Uncle Jed:-The Indians had no roads leading from place to place as we have today: but they had mar row foot-paths or trails.
 They made these trails by walking one behind the other, as you often see cattle do in a field.
 Some of these trails extend through the woods in the east for hundreds of miles; others extended in the same way across the great barren plains of Kansas and Utah\
 ANTONY L. SKRABA, Age 12
 Versailles
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25

peared before Arachne. And she ask ed forgiveness of the great goddess. T am not afraid" said ArachEe, Let Minerva come and play her skill with mine.
 '.She comes,' said Minerva throw inE off the disguise
 The contest began. Each took her place. Minerva wove a likeness of the gods
 Avachne wove a picture of the gods faults.
 HELE AIzUAI, Age 8. 109 Prospect Street.
 Siam produces a seedless grape fruit.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCL E
 BoYs AND GIRLS DEpARrMENT
RuI.s Enr Younn Writerr.

Rules Tor Young Writere. l. Wri.o .piatni- on one zi 5s of the paper only, and number the pages. 2 2 Use, pen ard ink. not pencil. g. Short end pointed articles will be Eiv-n preference. Do not use over 2s0 s-o:-cs
 4. Original stories or lctEers cEly VIII Se Esed-
 5- Write you name. age and a6- dress pl2isly &t the bottom of taa story
 Address ali communications to Uncle Jed, Bulletin Ofiice.
 Whatever you are-Be that!
 Whatever you say-Be true!
 traightforWardly act
 Be Eones--in fact,
 Be nobody else but JoG."
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
Help the Stomach
 Digest Your Food

When the stomach fails to di- gest and distribute that which is eaten, the bowels become clogged with a. mass of waste and refuse that ferments and generates poisons that are gradually forced into the blood. causing distress and often serious illness
 Most people naturally object to the drastic cathartic and pur- gative agents that shock the system. A mild. gentle laxative, positive in it's effect and that will quickly relieve constipation is Dr. .CaIdwelrs Syrup Pepsin, sold 2 by druggists at fifty cents and one dollar a bottle. It does not gripe or cramp, but acts easily and pleasantly and is therefore the most satisfactory remedy for children, women and elderly persons For a free trial bottle write to Dr. w, B. Caldwell, 452 Washington St., Monticello, Ills.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25

and she got the smallest loaf. When she brought the loaf of bread home her mother cut the loaf in half There she found bright piece of money.
 She returned the money to MT. Brown, but he said, sTl1e money be- lenged to the one who deserved it."
 THOMAS CONNOR, Age z.
 NnrsaflleS
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
The Smallest Loaf

Mir. Brown gave a party to some poor children.
 When the party was over Mr. Brown brought in a basket of bread All the children tried to get a big loaf.
 One little girl waited till the last
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
Honest IittIa Lnhn

Dear Uncle Jed:-I am going to tell you about little boy named John. He lived in a little hut by the sea shore. His parents were very poor and his father earned enough, by fish
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-25
UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE.
 AVWAKES.

Whatever may be thought or said against dogs the world cannot well get along without the dogs nose and it cannot have his nose. without hav-
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-12-25
INFORMATION WHICH
MILITANISTS IGNORE

Suppose Congress agrees to spend
hundreds of millions in a way to sat-
isfy the preparationists. Then SUP
pose some other nation, noting this
at once, increases it's military ex-
penditures In order to acquire an
armament in excess of ours. Are the
preparationists prepared to speak out
now and say what we must do under
those circumstances? Are they ready
to admit that we must still further
increase our expenditures in order to
keep ahead Of the other nation at
every cost? II not, will we not be as
unprepared as we are now? Or, if we
must keep ahead with spending,
what must be the end? Answers to
these questions should not be post
poned or evaded. Even preparation
lists should realize the wisdom of
looking before leaping. Theodore
Roosevelt, the National Security
League or some other recognized
preparationist authority should fur
nish the reply.-Samuel Danziger in
The Public.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-12-25
BE CAREFUL AND DO
NOT "SPLIT A SWITCH

A powerful locomotive drawing a
heavy train over the main line sud
denly left the rails, lost it's rmomen-
tum and finally toppled over an en-
bankment. As the engine was pass
ing over switch the front truck had
kept the main line rails, but the rear
truck "split the switch" and tried to
run up a siding.
Unfortunately locomotives are not
the only things which "split g.
switch" Organizations of men some
times meet with the same accidents,
and with, even more serious injury to
1t takes skill and ex-
sperience to lay down the heavy rails
securely, to. build and drive the en-
CINE successfully so that the train
can be taken to- the point for which
it is headed, but If the wheels "spltt
a. switch" the journey is interrupted
and perhaps prevented. - Is. :. ),
Carrying the smile further we
might compare: the trade-union
movement to an express train pass
ing over the main line as 1t goes
through some great railroad yard
with hundreds of side tracks.-Kan-
sas City Labor Herald.,>' :, =:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-12-25
THE MISTLETOE.

With Christmas cheer the hall is
bright,
At friendly feud with winters cold;
Iheres many a. merry game tonight
For maids and men, and young and
old;
And winter sends for their delight
The holly with it's crimson glow.
And paler than the glistening snow
The mistletoe, the mfstletoe.
The mistletoe, the mistletoe!
The wan and wanton mistletoe!
Chance conner to our festal ewes,
Dear crimson brea: I'd holly spirit!
Thee, Robin, too, the hall receives,
Unb1dden, whom our hearts invite.
And, perched among the crumply
He cocks his head and sings
The mistletoe, the mistletoe
Hangs up above, but what's below {?
Oh, what's below the mistletoe?
The mistletoe, the mistletoe!
A kindly custom sanctions bliss
That's ta'en beneath the wanton
bough.:
Who laughs SO low? Why, here it is!
Look, Jenny, where I have you
now!
Dear .bashful eyes, sweet lips-a kiss!
An, cheeks can mock the holly's
glow"
For what's below the mistletoe?
Ah,r 'ha! Why, it is Cupid o!
no pa11
-. Ills Cupid o, it's Cupid O!