Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-10

con fires. Those who saw the fires, lighted other fires farther away. These fires let the people know that the en- emy was coming, for light can travel much faster than men on horseback.
 Have you heard the story of Paul Revere? When the British were about to send troops from Boston to Lexing- ton, Revere and his friends had an understanding with the people in ChArlestown. Revere was to let them know when the troops should march. They were to watch certain church steeple. If one lantern were hung in the steeple, it would mean that the British were marching by land. If two lanterns were seen, the Charlestown people would know that the troops were leaving Boston by water. Revere was sent as a messenger to Lexington. He sent a friend of his to hang up the lanterns in the church steeple.
 Long before Paul Revere got across the water in his little boat the people on the other side had seen the lanterns in the tower. They knew the British were coming, and were all astir when Paul Revere got over. Revere rode on to Lexington and beyond, to alarm the people.
 Paul Revere's lanterns were used at the beginning of the Revolutionary war.
 There is story of different sort of telegraph used when the war was near it's end. It is told by a British officer who had not the best means of knowing whether it was true or not. But it shows what kind of telegraphs were used in that day.
 This is the story: A British army held New York. Another British army under Cornwallis was at Yorktown in Virginia. General Washington had marched to Yorktown He was trying to capture the army of General Corn wallis. He was afraid that ships and soldiers would be sent from New York to help CornwalIis; but there were men in New York who were secretly on Washington's side. One of these was to let him know when ships would sail to help CornwaIlis. Washington was six hundred miles away from New York. How could he get the news before the English ships should get there? There were no tele- graphs. The fastest horses ridden one after another could hardly have carried news to him in less than two weeks i; but Washington, had a plan. One of the tAen who sent news to Washington was living in New York When the ships set sail he went upon the top of his house and hoisted a white flag, or something that looked like white flag. On the other side of the Hudson river in a little village man was watching this very house. AS soon as he saw the white flag flying H0 LOOk up HIS gun ana HT6Q IL, lar ther off there was a man waiting to hear this gun. When he heard it he fired another gun. Farther on there was the crack of another, and then another gun.
 By the firing of one gun after an- other the news went southward. Bang, Bang, went gun after gun across the whole state of New Jersey. Then guns in Pennsylvania took it up and sent the news onward Then on across the state of Maryland the news went from one gun to another till it reached Virginia, where it passed on from gun to gun till 1t got to Yorktown. In less than two days Washington knew that ships were coming. He pushed the fighting at Yorktown with all his might
 When the English ships got to Chesapeake bay at last, Cornwallis had already surrendered. The United States was free. The ships had come too late.
 THOMAS O'CoNNELL, Age 18.
 Norwich.