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The Washington times., 1915-06-20
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~o 1E6%He Birds s-a Ateen IS ysarsl
Aiteen steere (1s years).

Twos h:tte birds sat up 5n d tree. Chipping and talking busiiy; Said one to the other;y |. Now, dear little brother, cts tell a story about one another; What we do, and what we say, Where we live and where we play" Said one little bird with a straight
 little feather, That looked as though he'd been ex-
 posed to the weather: T know a cottage by the way, Where in little sick child lay, All alone the nve-long day; Sick. with a broken, back, folks say, Arid her mother is gone the live-long
 day,
 gc. make their living in a house far Fa away Said the little bird with a bright little "Mine. is a different tale altogether Where live a child is happy and gay, And does nothing but laugh and play
 . ali day., She has dolls and books. and games to Sings, and goes to parties gay. Rut, this chad does some good in the
 world, little brother; She belongs to a club that helps one
 another, A.ai one and two and all together. :. TLey- viSir the poor all kinds Of
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Iaminn q chipmunk.

Dear Uncle Jed: My brother Fred saw his little Kitten coming up to the house with a small chipmunk in her mouth. He saw that the chipmunk was alive and ran after the kitten and she dropped the chipmunk.
 Fred caught the chipmunk and went to the house. My mother got a squir- rel cage for him.
 While Lloyd was making a new door the chipmunk bit Fred through the finger
 Fred pinched his jaws and he let go. s
 I laughed at him and he cried.
 He put the chipmunk in his cage then he put in some apple and wal nuts. The chipmunk began to eat them.
 When Fred got up the chipmunEI had carried al ithe apple down to the bottom of his cage. .
 Fred put him out doors and when l got home I thought the chipmunk was dead ,.
 I picked him up and he bit me through the finger. pinched his jaws and he let go. I put him in his nest.
 Then put in some apple. In the morning he was quite lively.
 I do not know how long he will live.
 CLIFFORD cONGDON, Age 12.
 Voluntown.
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Az poc's Love.

One day as William Carter, young boy of nine made his way through the bushes of his island home on which he and his parents were wrecked to- gether, he saw a dog limping toward him.
 Will went up to him and stroked bis head:
 4 guess you'd better come along and have a sail with me to keep noe com pany," he said.
 The dog followed and soon both were seated in little boat The sea was rough and they had not gone far before Will. by sudden movement capsized the boat and both were plunged into the sea. &
 The dog began to swim about as ii nothing had happened. His thoughts seemed all for Will.
 Then he saw him trying to get into the boat.
 The dog was a St. Bernard and St BernaFds never give up.
 Soon WfH's strength began 10 1alL The dog grasped him by the collar and managed in some way to help hin scramble into the boat, then he climb ed in himself and settled down in the bottom of the boat.
 When Will got his breath he stoop- ed over to pat him.
 Good boy.'' he said. But for you would never have gotten to the boat You shall always have a home with us, for your people were all lost 1T the wreck"
 The dog rubbed his nose against Will as if he understood. They named him Hero and he lived to bt a very old dog. =,
 HELEN ERICKSON, Age II.
 Baltic
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 returned just as- huckleberries were beginning to rtpen. picked many quarts, Of which sold about five dol lars worth.
 Then I had. my little friend from Norwich come up fofi a visit Of a few days with me. ss
 Papa took ps all in a big covered wagon on fishing trip to Hopeyfile. We looked like a band of gypsies.
 When we reached Hopeviile we drove down to the shore. The ride down having given us an appetite we had lunch. Then we took of our shoes and stockings and went in wading.
 We went up to a farm house to get a pail of water, and the farmer gave us some sweet apples. When we got back to the shore papa and mamma were out in the boat fishing. They soon returned to the shore and man. ma started to prepare dinner.
 Papa took us out fishing and my ehum caught four and a caught i've fish.
 Soon mamma called us to dinner and we went ashore and had our din ner. Then we tried fishing again., but our luck had failed us. So papa took us all out for a TOW on the pond. Then we came ashore and hitehed up and started for home very tired but very happy. We arrived home at p, m. The next day my chum went home and l began 10 prepare to return tc school, which began Sept. [, 1915. ALICE CONRAD, Age 12.
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Uncle Ned,s Story.

It was raining hard. Tom, Sam and Ben were playing in the attic Sam kicked over a pile of clothes. There lay little valise.
 Its Uncle Ned's." said Tom. Let's show hirn.''
 When Uncle Ned saw the valise he said:
 Boys, there's a long story connect ed with that valise.''
 .'Do tell us, Uncle Ned" said Ben
 "All right, boys, here is the story:
 T was sailing on the good ship Ann Hardy. A young man joined the crew. He was rather weak and I helped him all I could: When we reached Fris- co he left the ship. I heard nothing of him often. When he was on the ship he gave me the satcheI
 One day I was walking along the street. A beggar started to ask me, for some money. When he saw me gasphed and ran away. I fol- lowed him and at last caught him. His face seemed familiar. I took him home gave him good clothes and told him to wash clean. When 1 saw him in half an hour who should stand before me but that man whom l met on the Ann Hardy. I got him a suitable posi- tion and he came to live with me
 One day he told me of sister and mother at home I sent for them. Lat CT I married the girl. The man is now junior partner of the firm. Now, children, that man was your father.
 JOHN CUSHMAN. Age II.
 Stonington.
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More Turkey Missionaries Coming
 Home.


 The American Board of Commission CTS for Foreign Missions has received a cable from Rev. William N. Cham ber5. D. D.. sent from the Piraeus, Greece, where he had arrived upon the United States Battleship "Des Molnes", stating that he Is on the way home. by the. Greek steamship Them istoc:es," from Adana, Turkey, ac- compa1iied by Mrs. Chambers, Mrs Thomas D. Christie. Mrs. Cyril H Elizabeth Webb, Miss Lucie Borel Miss Johnson. Miss H. E. Wallis. The same dispatch announces that the fol- lowing members of the Adana and Tarsps stations Of the Board are re- raining at Adana: Dr. Cyril H. Haas in charge of the International Hospi- tol, and Miss Mary c. Webb and MT and Mrs. William L. Mute at Tarsus The information is also given that whine the city of Hadjin has been burned, Miss Olive NJ. Vaughan whe has been stationed there for several months with Miss Cold, is not in per- sonal danger.
 AS to the conditions of the country in the vicinity of Adana and Tarsus Dr. Chambers reports the mission work is largely paralyzed and that the Armenians are deported en masse their properties confiscated and that scores of thousands are in pftiable destitution and dying from hunger and exposure.
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weather" !"

weather" fair little girl sat under tree Einbroidering industriously; She heard what the little birdies said, -snd then thought came into her
 head For, this is the rich little girl, you
 see, That was talked about by the birds on
 the tree. She ran to her sister, she ran to her
 mother, She told each Booster; they told one
 another; And then the thought that came into each head Was talked about till they went to bed. And next day Boosters-twenty and
 three- Went to the home of the poor Eirlie. With packages great and packages
 small. Packages long. and packages tall: AH.. when they got there they chased
 off tie gloom, Ana made bright and eheery that dear
 little room; .et.- Ant if you go there sd happy and fine YoE'H see girl &with d healed spine; New, they all prayed to God, and that
 made her well And happier than anyone could tell, And. If you go there, you'll see her
 strong and true; Fc:, she is now Booster, too!
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LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
The Halloween Party.

Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you about the Halloween party. went away Friday night and had the party on Saturday night at half past seven.
 We decided to have it in our friends barn, saying there was lote of room to have a good time. There were fifteen of us nll together.
 In every corner of the barn there were stalks of corn, From the beams were pumpkins hanging. Some were Jack O lanterns. and some were not cut. There was also a row of light cd lanterns hanging from the beams.
 We played bobbing for apples, but ton, button, and played we were ghosts. We then sang Halloween songs. Aft CT we sat down and told many ghost stories which frightened US very much.
 About ninc o'clock we had pumpkin pies, chicken, corn and many other good things.
 When we left it was ten o'clock, and we were all very happy. am sure we will try to have another party next year.
 FLORIDA REEL, Age 10.
 VArsa fl1aa
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money to pay his soldiers. So he tax ed the colonies. A tax was laid on paper. glass, lead and tea.
 The East India company had sent quite a lot of tea to Boston. Charles ton, Philadelphia and New York. In Charleston they had stored the tea in damp cellars, where it had spoiled. The tea was sent back from New fcrlz and Philadelphia
 One night the people of Boston had a meeting in the Old South church, and while they were having their meeting they heard an Indian waFwhoop and 70 or 90 men dressed up as Indians came down the streets.
 When they got to the boat they chopped open three hundred and forty two chests of tea and threw it into the harboF.
 The king was very angry with the people and ordered the trade to be shut off. The king thought that if he pun ished Massachusetts that the other colonies would act better; but instead they sympathized with Massachusetts and sent her rice and clothing and other provisions.
 FRANCES DAVIS, Age 12. EaGIeyfIle
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Often Tempted..

3 Dear Uncle Jed: There are many of us who are often tempted to do certain acts, and sometimes we know we would be in the wrong if we did these aets.~
 Sin is often the very essence of temptation, for unless one imagines that, there is some good to be ob- tai1ed byz stn, there is no inducement to commit2it ,s=1 ~SE si
 Sin consists in yielding to the temptation. that is' seeking to acquire the supposed good in wrong and un- lawful way As we are constituted and in the worldly environment ;n which We live, it is impossible to es- cape solicitations to evil; but when such solicitations come we may resist them. in which case. though tempted we are guilty of no sin. On the other hand we may yield to them, and by so doing become the victims of sin.
 There is actually less of spiritual danger in the midst of work and care, than in solitude and idleness. Hon. est work, by keeping the mind and hands employed, Is God-given de- fense against temptation.
 To escape from temptation Is then not only impossible, but the effort to do so is itself q sin. God has placed us in the world. to the end that by contact with good and evil we may learn to choose the one and shun the other.
 ! Resisting temptation is the divine ly appointed means whereby we ac- cuire moral strength
 !. Temptation means the possibility of loss and defeat: but without facing this possibility there can be no moral strength.
 The victor's crown is only for him who has met the enemy and con- quercd
 JESSIE L. BREHAUT.
 East Norwich. N. r.
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A Four.Eooted Assistant.

Of the coast of Alaska, on a small rocky islands is a little light station. A fog bell is connected with this light station. and when there is a dense fog the bell is used to warn vessels of the danger of coming too near the coast.
 The light keeper has a large and very intelligent shepherd dog named Carlos. This deg has. been trained to toll the fog bell when the weather is bad. So well trained Is Carlos that when the fog comes he will rush to the bell and. begin to tug at the rope without waiting for his master.
 Carlos often takes his turn at the bell during the night, when the keeper ia busy looking after his light.
 T do not see how I could get along without, Carlos the keeper declared. T am all alone, and have no other as- siatant, but I can always rely on my dog. He knows his duty, and faith fully performs 1t, whether he is told to do so or not" ..,.
 A. LOUISE PELIQUIN. ,
 Versailles
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"What AiIed the Bell"


 It was the first day of school after a vacation. The children were play : ing in the yard. The teachers sat at their desks waiting for the bell to strike to call the children to differ ent rooms. The hands of the differ ent clocks pointed to a quarter before nine.
 The bell was sort of gong fastened to the outside of the building and the master of the school could ring 1t by touching a knob on the wall near his desk. s. It was now time to call the children into the school. The master touched the knob and waited. Still merry shouts could be heard in the school yards. Very strange! The children could not hear the bell, he thought. Then he pressed 1t more vigorously and still the shouts and laughter con- tinued.
 The master raised his window, drop ed his hands and pointed to the bell. The. children rushed into line like lit tie soldiers and waited for the second signal. The teacher pressed the knob, but there was no sound
 Then he sent a boy to tell each line to file in. and another to see why the bell did not ring.
 What do you think the carpenter found? little sparrow and its nest inside the bell.
 The teacher told the children and asked if the nest should be taken out. There was O loud chorus of No, siri'" Every day the 400 children would gather in the yard and look up at the nest. When the little birds we're able to fly to the trees in the yard and no longer needed a nest. one of the boys climbed on a ladder and cleared away the straw and hay so that the sound of the bell might call the chii- dren from play.
 LORRAINE L. MARTIN.
 Plain field
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The LittIe Match Girl.

Tn the dark streets of New York. wandering about, was a. little girl. She was very poor. She had no moth CT, and her father was very cruel to her.
 She was clad in a ragged dress. much too big for her. and she never owned a pair of stockings.
 It had been showing very hard. The snow lay in heaps upon the ground.
 When she left home she had an old but they were too big for her and she lost them off.
 She sold matches for a living, but today she hadn't sold any. She knew that her father would beat her if she had not sold any, and she did not dare go home.
 It was on Christmas day, but she did not mind this, for she did not know what Christmas was.
 She smelled the goose and ali tho good things being cooked. How she wished she had some.
 She walked down the street until very late. At last when everything was quiet about the streets, she walk ed up to a house and cuddled up to the door as, close as she could to keep warm
 She lit all the matches trying tc keep herself warm. At last she fel asleep and dreamed she was in a lovely house. with a Christmas tree and her mother at her side. How she wished she was with her. The next morning when everybods was up there they found the little girl with the burned matches at hel side.
 The little match girl was taken tc her fathers.
 When her father saw her. how sorry he was; but the little match girl vii not be lonesome any more, she will be with her mother always. THELMA BOYNTON. North Franklin
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STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE.
 AWAkES.
The Sphjnx,

he Sphinx. Do you know where Egypt is? Have ycu ever seen picture of that grim me custer, the Sphinx? She was the most famous riddle maker in the world Half lion and half woman. she s..t speechless except when there fell from, her cruel lips this question:
 What is that animal which walks on four legs in the morning. on two at noon. and on three at niGht?"
 Woe to the person who had no cor rect answer to. give her! The Sphinx ate him alive.
 One day very wise man came her way The Sphinx asked him the usual question. She was already thinking what a fine tidbit he would make, when, to her surprise. he gave the right answeri
 Man" he said When he is a child, he crawls on hands and feet; that is the morning of life; when he becomes man, he walks erect on two feet; that is the, noon of his life; when he Is old, he leans on his cane and that Is the evening of his life"
 It made the Sprinx so angry to have her riddle guessed that sine killed her. self and so the world was rid of a terrible monster.
 GRACE I. MAHONEY, Age II.
 ColcheSte CT
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Mary .cary.

k Dear Uncle Jed: Last week, before I had won a book from the Bulletin, read a book entitled Mary Cary by Kate Langley Bosh1er. The book was I had not read 1t since that time, therefore it was as interesting to me as new book.
 For the benefit of those Wide Awakes who have never read Mary Cary, will write story about her.
 Mary Cary lived in an orphanage with many other girls in her situa- ton. Like, all chcildren she was some times naughty and therefore was kept in while the others enjoyed themselves skipping and playing out-of-doors. One reason for her having been kept in. was because she had been sent to the pantry to clean some knives. and while nobody was in sight. she helped herself to some cookies. She had fin- ished eating them and was busy about her task when finally a guardian came into the pantry. Of course, if she had only brushed the crumbs from her lips and dress everything would have been satisfactory, but usually they leave some kind of a telltale mark and this is what Mary did. She was punished for her disobedience.
 One time two or three barrels of apples were sent to the orphanage, therefore the. children were allowed
  hausted, as they would not keep
 Mary had been thinking of some way of earning money to buy a few Christmas presents. and the thought of selling her share of the apples greatly pleased her. One of the boys from her Sunday school agreed to pay l five cents for each apple. and SO Mary left the apple each morning in a hole ! in the wall and she always found her 1 five pennies awaiting her.
 | As orAa iaI e4- years ago. but there was an uncle out west who knew nothing of her exist ence, but when Mary was caring for some babies she heard some converse 1 ton about him and knowing his ad- dress she inirn ediately went home and | upon thinking it over. wrote a letter to her uncle, She did not receive a reply. that is true, but to her delight her uncle came and she was taken from the orphanage. her friends cry ing over her departure. $. LILLIAN M BREHAUT. East Norwich, N. r.
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Clays.

Clays consist of the finer waste oi the surface rock which is derived from the rocks by weathering and me- -chanical erosion, and Is stored IT streams. lakes, teas and rivsrs and when the water is let off, and the place is dried up. and some of the earth dug away sometimes clays are found in great areas, often with oth- or metals.
 There are four different kinds o1 clays, the Kaolin, Ancient, marine brick and alluYial clay.
 Clays are used to make drain tile pottery, paints. sewer pipes, and for building bricks and fire bricks ana 1t Is also used as a constituent oi some papers.
 Kaolin Is pure clay and it is pro- duced by the wasting of Ancient crystalline rock. It is worked chiefly in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and it is employed in the making of pottery. --..y
 A great deal of clay is found around the Hudson river and is chiefly made into bricks and fioated down the river in scows to New York city. The low CT grades of clays are made into stove ware.
 From New Jersey southward the Around the Great Lakes are the Allu- vian clays; which are commonly made into bricks. New York, Ohio. Penn syfvania, New Jersey and Illinois are the leading states in the United States for clay production.
 In 1911 there was $162, 900, GOO pro- ducts in the United States from clay.
 MARJORIE B. WILLIAMS. WilIinantic
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How sho Scent Her Vacation.

Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell how I spent my vacation. I was hv- ing in Piainfeld at the time. The week after school closed took Q trip to Norwich to see my little friend s.' e>
 I spent number of days with her returning home Monday and the Sat- urday before the Fourth of July
 I took an auto trip to New London and spent Fourth of July week with friends there.
 Fourth of July morning we fired off fireworks at home and went down town. In the afternoon it raiHed. but cleared away so we could go to see tho fireworks in the evening. Il Z I enjoyed my week very much and
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surprised to find themselves in yellow satin gowns.
 Nov we can go to October party they cried in high glee.
 Jack danced around the walnut tree and cracked the thick husks so that the nuts fell to the ground 5Ft But the best fun of all. Jack had with an old gray fence. a
 Co away" said the fence, you make me cold r, ,ac 7 % .e se.--sN @2 Never mind!" said Jack, painting it up and down with his crystal brush. The next morning the old fence wore dress of icy spangles soft and fine as down @
 JOHN wISNESKIE. Age IF. Yantic
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UNCLE JED's TALK TO WIDE.
 AWAkEs.

Some. children do not know how to play quietly in the house because they lave, never been taught how and now that the cold and stormy winter days are coming their parents are wonder ing what they shall do?
 Children who like to read or to draw or to paint, or to work out puzzles or tc sew, are usually quiet children, while those who like to rornp and shout and hammer are noisy children. The best children are those who after play rick and put away their pIaythinss to save mamma work and who like to sweep the paths and fill the woodboz. SN1.tWide-Awake= can be happy uTl- jess he has something to do. and chiI- dreE who -do not know what to do get i,>to, mischief and into trouble
 1.-The child who likes to do things should try and make something pretty CT to do something useful Boxes and sfeds and fprniture can be made from paeteboard and paper and it is much better to see 5who can do the best piece of work than it is to see who car make the most noise
 Girls have dolls to dress and to play with and boys will gain more with pony carts and Noah's arks than they will with trunnpets. drums and other rack et-ereating implements.
 We hope our Wide-Awazes will try to busy. themselves during the cold weather in quiet pursuits and do soinethinga to help their parents or to help themselves.
 The habit of idiing in the child be- cemes q habit of laEiness in grown folks. Make it rulesto do something which pIeases you and that does not disturb others. s<m
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TIE WINNERS of RRIzE BOOKS

1-Aliee Conrad 7 ef Norwich, The Camp-Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill .2-z.Giadys Younss of Moosup. The Automobile Girls at. Newport
 S-Giifford consdon of voluntown, The Boy Scouts Of Uncle Sam.
 4---Fioriday RsiF Of Versailles, The Meadow brook Gisis Across Country. Milsrea Morley of Eagleyille, The s~ isa Family Eobinson.
 s-Marjorie B. Williams of Wiili- risntie. Black Bea aty.
 7LMichasfEsj Esjf Burns. of Fitchyillo. ETjtia Irapnef Jim in the North Woods. a.-Graeas L. IMaheney oi Colchester. fsrase Haslo1;a's Return to oveston Carsr:
 O.: Ger sss seilew, of East Hartford,