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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-10

n "Zps" Evening Journal chart Of vaudeville he
Nine. Adelaide Hermann as "Queen Of Ledgerdemain'
she balances the books.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-10

Obviously one Of the rules in the Philadelphia kecor
book Is against the sbbrevaton Of Of states Tor N
speaks Of "Mozart's Twelfth Massachusetts"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-10
THE ADVERTISERS MOTHER GOOSE.

Hev didde diddel the SAMANTHA MoPES PEDlGREED
FELINES) cat and the (SCHECHTER'S GENUINE OLD
MASTERS) fiddle,
cover the Moon" (SERLIN BNYDERS POPULAR SONG
HTS.
The ONGLESBY KENNELS little dog laughed to see such
oFIrNp $50 PER YEAR, JANUARY NUMBER NOW ON
THE STANDS,
And the GKEWIS & LONGER PATENT "KEEPHOT) dish ran
away with the (NEIGHBORHOOD SILVER u PATTERNS)
spoon. ED'iN ''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-10

The Fepo Posts headline policy at least Is varying and
utabe Tuesdays paper said "Sharp Note Demands Ancona
Dismissal and nights mote Austria Is Blunt and Drastic
Unless many paragraph the note became dued over ng
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-10

London, Dec. 9.-Stephen Phillips,
poet and dramatist, died to-day at
Deal, England, where he had been in
failing health for several months. He
was born in 1868.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-10

Edward Abeles will begin his tour OF
the Loew circuit on December w. play
ing the American Roof.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-10

Canorons ambition writes is meet bartender who
gives you your second hghba the Of two for quarter
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
The Deer and the Eaw1.

A faWn is a young deer not a year
old. The stag is male deer and has
branching horns.
The deer is timid animal. A small
dog can frighten him. The flesh of a
deer is called venison.
the common deer Of America was
once found in great numbers through
out this country and it is still to be
met with in the woods far from towns
and houses.
When chased by hunters, the deer
will plunge into a lake or river, If one
can be reached, and try to escape by
swimming. If they cannot do that,
they will seek some high cliff or rock
and there boldly face the hunters and
the hounds. -
Sometimes the deer are shot by the
hunters, who lie in wait for them near
the salt springs, or deer licks. They
are also tracked by hounds and shot
by the hunters, who watch near the
paths which the deer are used to take
In their runs. p.
Sometimes the deer are shot in the
night time. A torch Of pitch pine is
carried by one of the hunters the
others, with their guns, keep in front
The deer, instead of darting off when
he sees the light, stops to look at it,
and his eyes shine SO that the hunter
is guided in his aim and shoots the
poor beast.
VERONICA RoCHELEAU, Age Is.
North Franklin.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
A Year In Boarding School.

About two years ago my mother and
father had to go to Europe. They
didn't want to take me, SO they left
me at a boarding school in Baltimore.
At the boarding school the girls
were divided into small groups and
they went to separate houses under
different teachers. They all came to
the main house for their meals.
After breakfast at half past eight, a
simple morning prayer is said by the
whole school in the main building.
The recitation periods are from 9 to
IL in the morning and from 1 to in
the afternoon.
Walking, driving and riding are IA
vorite amusements.
The periods from 4 to are known
as study hours. The girls study in
their different houses.
After supper, all the girls amuse
themselves as they choose for an hour
and half. Many of the girls dance
in the gymnasium.
They have to put their lights out at
o'clock
mornings as on every other day but
they have Monday out, because they
are not allowed to study on Sunday
On Sunday the girls attend a morn
ing service in one of the churches in
the city.
Just before tea the principal gives a
short talk to all the school in the main
building. After tea, they stay a while
In the main school to sing, and then
they go to their different houses to
have a short Bible lesson.
CATHARINE NELSON, Age II.
Versailles
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
A Mysterious Stranger.

Helen had gone to bed early because
she did not have any studying to do.
She was tired, but could not sleep.
At last she fell asleep. only to
awaken with a jump. She looked
around the room, wondering what made
it look dreary; it never had before.
She was thinking this over, when she
suddenly heard a mysterious noise.
They she saw a white figure slowly
come into sight. She was greatly
frightened, but still kept very quiet.
She could see the figure plainly now.
She did not want TO act as though
ing out loud, pretending not to know
anyone was in the room. The figure
began moving. muttering words at the
same time.
Helen did not know what he said
because he spoke low. But finally she
heard him say, IT wonder who Is in
this room?"
Helen answered, "It is I, Helen Fray,
and I would like to know who you
are. and what you are doing here?"
"Oh," said the strange figure, II am
your unc1es ghost and I am just walk
ing around to save the funeral ex-
penses."
Then, before Helen had time to
speak, the mysterious stranger was
gone.
Helen wondered what all this meant
and when she told her parents in the
morning the" thought it also very
strange as Helen never had an uncle,
The only way the Fray family could
account for it was by saying the ghost
must have come to the wrong house.
ANNA SCHRIEFER, Age IA.
Columbia
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
My Trip to the Dome.

Not long ago one pleasant day my
mother and I went for walk to Hart
ford. I told her that would like to
go to the capitol and go to the dome.
She said "A1l right"
We went up on the elevator, four
flights and then we had to walk the
rest of the way.
The guide unlocked the doros, and
would wait until everybody was in,
then he would shut them again to keep
the breeze away. 1t was no easy task
to climb the one hundred and seven
ty-two stairs. Some were almost
straight up and some were winding.
There were two flights Of winding
stairs. The people dropped out and
would not go to the top. Anyway, we
got to the top. 1t was two hundred
and fifty five feet above the ground.
1t cost three million dollars to build
it. We could look all around the city
and see the neople on the streets be-
low. They looked like toys.
One man let us take his field glasses.
We could see Mt. Tom, and many other
things in the distance: but there were
so many forest fires the air was full
of smoke SO that 1t made the scene
blurred.
1 hope the Wide-Awakes who have
not been to the capito1s dome may BIO
some day.
Burnside,
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
The POOL

Everything at The Pool is putting on
an air of being busy, thank you. Even
IL Uncle Jed got lost in it's suburbs.
business is picking up and many Of the
Inhabitants have returned from their
southern tour with a determination to
built and expand.
1t vas only yesterday that several
pther aristocratic citizens, while dis
eussing political matters for the good
government Of The Pool, commenced
to compare notes in regard to the
restiessness Of their roots.
eyes" said a sugar maple, there is
difference in the roots of plants. ]
know some being determined TO go
straight down while some of my neigh
bor3 cave what Grandpa Lowater calls
fbrous roots"
That's It," said an ironwood which
stood near by as straight as an ar
row. Your roots are called axia1 be-
cause the center one is a continuation
Of tho direction or axis of your trunk,
while many OF these small neighbors
have radial roots, so called because
their roots radiate in all directions
from q common point"
81 see" said the oak. THAT is why
the tap-rooted plants can stand the
dry " Gather best. Such roots strike
deep and draw much nourishment
from the deep soil, while our friends
that suffer from thirst must have roots
that spread out near the surface and
make them dependent upon surface
eondit.ons."
",rrue," remarked a tall elm, "but
did you people know your roots were
constructed differently from your
BODY? A class from the consolidated
school were out here last summer and
talked the whole matter up while seat
ed about my trunk. It was interesting
even il 1 did know more about it than
they cid"
"Teli us what they said" begged an
Did butternut.
''It was q life history. These pupils
commenced with grains Of corn they
bach held with acorns. beans, grains
and various other seeds"
&c.," said their teacher, from what
side Of the grain does the embryo start.
RenieII Der that embryo consists of
three parts, named In a former chap
Ter, cctyledon, plumule and Fhypocotyl.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
Maxine Steel RaiIs.

Before 1855 all rails were made out
of iron, and by hand, because there
was no machinery as there is now.
This way of making rails was very
slow and would not satisfy the rail-
roads of today.
In 1865 new process of making
rails was begun. This way for making
rails Is still used. The rough pig iron
Is put into blast furnace, there it is
heated until it reaches liquid state.
From here it Is run into a Bessemer
converter. This machine is very pow
erful and can make one ton Of iron
per minute.
There is a large opening at the top
Of the machine, into which air is con-
tinually blowing through it from the
bottom.
When the pig iron reaches the con-
verter, impurities, the most common
Of which is carbon, are burned by the
oxygen in the air blast and goes out
through the opening in the top as
gases, leaving the finished product
called Bessemer steel in the converters.
The next step is to get the metal
into some convenient form for rolling.
This is done by drawing the molten
metal from the converters into molds
JAMES O'KELLY, Age Il.
Versailles,
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
Mr.. Fox and Mrs. Duck.

"Mr. Fox thinks he knows so much"
said Mrs. Duck as she was preparing
to take a walk in the woods.
AS she came down the road, quack-
ing with all her might, Mr.. Fox, who
was near by. heard her.
Now shall have meal Of victu-
ais" he said to himself as he hid be-
hind a tree.
Mrs. Duck now was near the tree
and Mr.. Fox caught her and threw her
was hanging down.
So Mrs, Duck put on her thinking
cap to save her life.
''Mr. Fox" said she, would you
mind if 1 could have my head little
higher?"
None Of your tricks now. You know
you are caught and will not be let
CO." -.. .
But, Mr.. Fox. let me tell you some
thing. Would you prefer a pig or
duck?"
Now, none of this" and he smacked
his lips so hard that 1t sent a shiver
up Mrs. Ducks back.
why do you shiver on this warm
day Are you cold?"
But Mrs Duck was too proud to
would tremb1e and he would know she
was afraid.
So she said again:
Mr.. Fox, which would you prefer, a
pig or a duck?
"a pig, of course, because when get
/ a duck I nearly choke myself with the
feathers"
az will tell you where there is litter
Of pigs"
At this Mr.. Fox again smacked his
HIPS, which sent another shiver up her
back.
Would you like to know where?'
Yes, indeed" was the answer.
Then put me down."
"Al1 right: but II there liz nothing
there, you must stand STILL"
Yes I will"
But where are the pigs?"
"They are in the midst of this
brush. You must jump in the midst
of the litter"
"AH right" and he jumped in the
midst of the litter.
But, oh dear, it wasn't a litter OF
pigs. 1t was a litter Of puppies and
their mother.
The mother dog jumped and chased
the fox and the fox had just time tc
glance back at Mrs. Duck.
You wait! I'll catch you some day
and you won't get off so easy, either
well, here IS your chance"
But Mr.. Fox did not dare to 1ooh
back, because he knew the dog was al
his heels.
Mr.. Fox looked back once in time tc
| see Mrs. Duck quacking all she could
by the litter of puppies.
ROSE PAR1ZEK, Age 10.
West Wilmington.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15

Do yeu remember what each part was
to do
Then they talked about the direc-
ton the root and plumule grew, how
the cotyledon sometimes appeared
above the ground, but not always. You
also remember the endospern, we as
mothers always pack into the cradles
! with our babies-food for them to use
before they can draw food from the
soil.
S-"Dut what interested me most was
the'c talk about the hpyocotyl and
how it ate the endosperm. How this
toe peeked out Of the seed first and
| as it grew grains of soil would cling
to 1t, not of themselves, but were held
by TRY hairs.
These pupils called these hairs "root-
hairs" and told one another they were
| the real mouths of our roots. What
may seem strange to some of us was
| the fact that these hairs never live
| very long, but are constantly dying
and erowir~ anew on the younger part
of our roots. The naples seedlings
show these hairs more plainly than
mine.
What is more. the pupils were told
by the teacher that our root-hairs
exude slightly acid fluid. which aids
the hairs in dissolving and absorbing
the mineral part of our food.
Another interesting part of the pu-
pills talk was the claim they made
after passing around an end of one
| of my own roots they had dug up and
cut off without asking me if they
| might. That claim was that each root
terminated in horseshoe-s shaped
mass.
The teacher named it ''root-cap. "
He said its Office was to protect the
| tender parts behind 1.-THE Darts
| where all the growth in length Of our
roots is made-as our roots push their
way through the SOIL
The teacher claimed this burrowins
of our roots must go on year after
year or we could not live. This cap
was examined by the pupils with what
they called "a glass;" which allowed
| them to see that it was composed of
loose cells. out Of which the solid root
is formed: and, as I have said, the
progressing point was at the extrem-
| ity of the Tip, just behind the cap.
There were no hairs on the cap
| GRANDFATHER LOWATER.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
Colchester.
A True Hero,

Dear Uncle Jed. Once there was a
little boy named Jacky. He had a dog
named Hero. Jacky's father had a
horse named Cass. He and Hero
were great friends. When Cass was
out with the carriage Hero always
trotted by his side.
Cass was pastured on an island and
Hero went to see him every day. They
had great frolics together; but at
night Hero was at home so he could
watch the house.
One night in the middle of winter
Jacky's father heard Hero barking and
he looked out to see what the trouble
was and the stables were on fire. The
flremen were called and they did the
best they could to save the stables
but their work was useless.
Cass was in one Of the stables and
the men tried their best to get him
out, but the stable was full of smoke
and they couldn't get to him. Hero
tried to save Cass, but he couldn't He
ran to his master, then to the stable
he barked and howled, and at last
he jumped into the blaze and laid
down beside Cass. His master tried tt
coax him out, but he wouldn't come
and they couldn't get t OHM through
the fire. So he and Cass were burned
to death.
By morning the stables were al
burned; and only q few whiteneC
bones were left of Hero and Cass; bu
these bones showed that Hero ant
Cass lay side by side through the fire
MILDRED EILER.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE,
AWAKES,

Spring has come and we must be
alive to everything about us. 1t does
US good to know the plants and the
birds and the brooks and the ways
Of nature.
The flow Of light is steady from
daybreak until noon. and then the ebb
Of light begins. There are not ten
minutes in the day when the light is
Of the same intensity-it is increasing
IN volume until noon, and decreasing
until shutdown; and there is not a
day in the year when the landscape
looks exactly the same.
Everything which sustains life is
constantly changing as well as life
Itself. The morning glare and eve
ming glow of.one day are not the same
as that of another day.
The birds come in their order, the
flowers bloom in their order, the in
sects appear in their order, the trees
leaf out and bear fruit in their order;
and the order Of the insects and the
flowers which they are related to is so
exact that each comes in time to ben
eft the other.
Order is the supreme rule Of nature
and there is as much order in the cy-
clone. the hurricanes and the earth
quake as in the gentlest manifestation
Of nature. although to man they are
terrible and appear to be disorderly.
One has to be wide awake to read
Gods book of nature which has not
one mistake in it. although men in
trying to interpret it have doubtless
biundered a million times and are like
~ to be mistaken million times more.
We should know all we possibly can
about this order. Only an orderly life
Is a long life.
Disorder is disastrous anywhere and
q violation Of law. Disorder produces
disease and death. which in time you
may learn.
Wide-Awakes keep your eyes open
and learn something new every day
about orderliness
THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS.
..1-Thomas o'conneII, of Norwich
The Campfire Girls in the Outside
World.
2-E Abbott Smith, Of Burnside
The Moving Picture Girls.
Carrie A. Pratt, Of Pomfret Cen
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
His First Trout.

Dear Uncle Jed: One day in April
I got up in the morning and saw II
was very cloudy. Then I said to my
self that it would be good day to &c
fishing.
/ asked my brother If he would &c
with me and he said he would.
Then I got my pole, fish line and
hooks ready.
We started about half past seven
1t was long way and the road was
hard to travel. We soon got in sight
Of the old school house and heard the
brock laundering down by it. Then we
baited our fish hooks and walked soft
1y into the bushes. go. ..-----e..
We both dropped our lines into the
rushing water. 800
Then We walked down stream a lit
tie distance.
We were not there long before my
bEother got a bite.
Then he told me to stay there aad
1sn
In the water lay big stone. II
about ten minutes saw trout dari
out from the stone. I did not wait but
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
STORIES WRITTEN. BY WIDE
AWAKES.
A STRANGE Escape,


| In 1858 there was a little French
| colony at Onondago in New York.
Some of the men in this colony were
| traders, and some were missionaries.
| They were living among the Oron-
dago Indians. The Indians had been
very friendly, but the French found
out that plot had been formed to
put them all to death. Stakes had
| been set up in order to burn some of
, them alive.
| There seemed no hope for the
Frenchmen to escape. They knew If
they tried to get away by land they
would all be killed; if they shut them
selves up in their fort, the Indians
would besiege Them, and they would
starve to death. They had no boats
to get away with by sailing through
the lakes and down the st. Lawrence
river.
The Frenchmen went to work and
| built boats secretly in the attic of
| their fort or trading house. They
| built them strong enough to bear the
! floating ice. They had also some light
canoes made of bark. which they hid
| in the upper part of the house. The
| question was how to get away with
out the Indians finding it out and pur-
| suing them.
One of the young Frenchmen had
been adopted into the tribe Of these
| Indians. He invited the Indians to a
feast. 1t was a feast Of kind the
| Indians give. in which every guest is
obliged to eat everything that it set
before him, leaving nothing The In
dams kept On eating, while the French
amused them with dancing and games.
| The young FTenchman played on his
guitar, while the guests ate. The In
dams having eaten too much, at length
began to fall asleep one by one. The
feast was not over until late at night,
until every Indian had eaten till he
hoO0ad 70 he riUnr
Some of the Indians fell asleep while
they were eating. The rest of them
were soon sleeping soundly in their
WigWamS
their boats downstairs and put them
into the water. They loaded them
with food and other things needed for
their journey. then they pushed off
without making any noise. or speak
ing above q whisper. The water froze
every minute they feared an attack
from the Indians. They rowed during
that night, and they rowed and pad
died all the next day without taking
any rest. It was not until evening
of the second day they felt they had
The Indians slept late the morning
after the feast. When they awoke at
last they came out of their huts, one
by one. and went towards the French
house. They were surprised to see
it shut 49, and everything silent about
it. Rhey supposed the Frenchmen were
at prayer, so they waited quietly out
side. They could hear the fowls crow
ing in the yard and when they knock
ed at the door of the house, the dog
barked. Noon came. and yet no French
men appeared. Late in the afternoon
the Indians climbed up the side of
the house and got in by the window.
They could hear no sound but their
own steps. They were much fright
ened as they stole through the house
and opened the main door. They
searched the building from top to bot
tom, but not q Frenchman was to be
found. AS they were sure that the
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15
Fishinu.

One warm day two boys went fish
ing, and as they were intending to
stay all day each took a basket OF
lunch with them.
1t was a mile and half to the near
est brook. AS the boys walked along
the dusty road they talked of the fish
which they expected to catch.
On reaching the brook the hooks
were soon baited, and it was not long
before they were fishing. Harry
caught the first trout which was about
seven inches long.
As 1t was nearing noon the boys
took their lunch baskets and found q
suitable place to sit down.
While Fred was crossing the brook
he stepped on a slippery stone, lost
his balance, and fell into the brook
He didn't mind it as it was warn
weather, and was dry before they ha6
finished luncheon.
Just before 1t was growing darl
Harry felt something pulling on his
line. Looking into the pool he saw
large trout over a foot in length. He
let Mr.. Trout get a good hold an6
just as Harry was going to pull out
the trout the end Of the line which
was loose slipped off the pole. He
knew it was loose, but had forgotten
to tighten it.
Both boys went home disappointed
and Harry told the story of the large
trout, but the saying Is, that the big.
est fish that was ever caught was the
one that got away.
MARY BURRnL, Age L..
Stafford Springs:
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-15

A Search For Trailing Arbutus.

- search i OF FaiIIES HTDuIuSs
Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tel
you about my walk in the woods, try
ing to find trailing arbutus.
One Sunday afternoon one Of my
friends asked me to go with him to
find some trailing arbutus. So aft
er dlnner we started. We had to &C
across q little stream of water beside
whose hanks grew a large bed of ev-
ergreen. After tramping through the
woods for an hour, we came to q
blackberry patch and a few apple
trees, then we crossed through a cart
path to small foot path.
After a Little while we came to a
patch CT W1ntergreen and picked a
handful But after our long search
we could not find any trailing arbu-
tllS
When we were going home We saw
a large flock Of wild geese; and we al
SO saw some robins, which were sing
ing as if they were very happy.
We then went home after our search
for the flowers. We are going again
If it is pleasant.
I hope ether Wide-Awakes wonT
have such q time as T. who tried but
did not succeed that time.
Eta McGRATH, Age IL.
Bozrahville.