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Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE
BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT

travel before it was used to direct ships on their course at sea.
 Eoang-ti was the Chinaman who discovered that lode stone rubbed upon steel would nagnetize it and it would point to the south. The earth is a great magnet and Hoang-ti lived near est to the south magnetic pole. When the south could be surely point out mechanically an intelligent person knew the north was behind him, the west to his right and the east to his left hand. At first there were only four points to the compass, south, north, east and west. and it was the rlavigators who carried the points of a ships compass to 40 and invented the art of boxing the compass which it takes an expert seaman to do even at this day
 After the magnetic compass was in vented it took thousands of years to discover that there was 8 south and north magnetic rso1e as well as north and south geogra pllic pole, and the magnetic poles have 5ot1 been located within recent years, so t took 5000 years to locate theE1.
 The compass was not very accurate t2t first and when Co1u-rolls called the islands bounding the Caribbean sea the West Indies he thought they were west Of Spain. but they were rot. But few people talk now about the mistakes Of Co1unbus-they only re- member his remarkable daring and success.
 Then the compass first held in com bination the letters N-E-W-S. In- formation came from all parts, or cor ners. of the earth and news became a correct name for it.
 \ b5ok could be written z;oout the compass, but this is enough for US to know today.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
How the People Sleep.

The American i'll order to sleep well must have a downy pilliw under his head; out the Japanese, stretching himself upon a rush mat on the floor puts q hard, square block of wood under his head, and does not sleer well he dies not have it.
 The Chinese think a great deal of their bed. which is very low, indeed hardly rising from the floor. but is often carved beautifully of wood: but hc never thinks of making it any soft CT than Susii mats will render il.
 While the people of Northern countries cannot sleep well unless they have plenty of room to stretch out The inhabitants of hot countries often curl themselves up like monkeys al the lower end of a hammock and sleep soundly in that position.
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Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
LETTERS oF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Frank K. Kowatz o2 Stafford Springs -I received the prize book you sent Ire some time ago. Thank you very much for it. have read it all through.
 Ern1ina Miner, o1 Hadlyre- re- ceived niy prize book entitled Tom Swift Tn His Airship. I have just fin islrsd reading IL and ind t is very Interesting. thank you very much for lt I would like to try for another of the rom Swift series.
 Frank Psr9y. Of Norwich-I thank you very much for the nice prize boo11 you gave me. have read it and found 1t very interesting
 Clare Hoibrook, Of Colurn6ta-I thank you very much for the prize book you sent me. was surprised when IL came. I think ! shall enjoy read Ing F.
 Alice fs. German, Of Versailles: ] received the pretty prize book en- titled The Camp Fire Girls at Sun rise H:n.'' which you sent me l have read Ii through and found it very in- teT"stirg. tlls,k you very much fo1
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
The Panama Canal.
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The history of the Panama canal is very interesting. It started about the time of Columbus. He sailed up and down the isthmus and tried to find an orening through it. People then began to see what great importance this little strip of land was. Gil Gonzales, a Spaniard, then discovered the Lake Nicaragua route, Which runs over 1t.
 Next. C,ortez. another Spaniard, with the help of Montezuma, discovered the Thehauntepec route which is on the Tehauntepec penisula. These with the Panama route made three routes in the early part of the sixteenth cen tuIy.
 Panama. was so situated that cara vans deposited their goods there to be later sent to Europe. Panama was then called Panama The Golden. It was destroyed by a pirate named Morgan who sacked and then burned it. It was later rebuilt and had a strong wall built around it.
 The English under Nelson tried to capture it but disease soon started them back to England
 Then the Scotch settled at Gala donia bay. They stayed only a short two thousand through malaria and vel low fever The isthmus was then abandoned for 200 years.
 The French tried in 1881 to build a canal. but a lot died from disease. There vas a certain Russian en- gineer who borrowed d suit to visit the Englisl minister to Panama, but when the time came he did not show up, and on asking the minister found that the engineer was dead and buried.
 Then there were eighteen younger Frerchmen who came over and in a short time they had all died from malaria and yellow fever.
 There was also a director general who built q large and magnificent house which he thought he was to live in. but before he reached it his wife and child were both dead and he went back to France broken hearted.
 De Lesseps the builder of the Suez canal tried to build this canal. He raised G0.000,000 10 do it. He got 1t from S00,000 contributors. After 9 while he failed and died in Franco broken hearted.
 Then came the United States period. We tried to buy the land from Colom- bia (1903). Colombia wanted too much for the Panama route so we were ready to turn to the Nicaragua route. Panama realized if We did this she would lose all her trade, so she re- Nolted. She was used to this because she had rcvolted nfty-seven times in fifty-tWO years.
 Tho United States helped her by re- fusing 10 let the Colombia soldiers cross the railroad, so Panama won and the United States paid $10,000, coo down and $250, 900 after nine years for rent. For this we hold a strip 10 miles wide. and could keep order in Colon and the City Of Panama.
 CARL FREDERICK ERICKSON.
 Baltic. Age F.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
GIRLS! BEAUTIFUL, CHARMING HAIR,
 NO DANDRUFF--25 CENT DANDERINE

oil, and in just a few moments you have doubled the beauty of your hair.
 Besides beautifying the hair at once, Dauderine dissoivss every particle Of dandruff; cIeanses, purifles and iilvig- crates the scalp, forever stopping itch ing and falling hair.
 But what will please you most will be after a few weeks use when you will actually see new hair--fne and downy at drst-yes-but really new hair growing all over the scalp. If you care for pretty, soft hair and lots of it, surely get 35 cent bottle of KnoTlton's Danderine from any drug gist or toilet counter, and just try it.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18

or tie crows with few other birds, and several Of the small animals; thought they had q. right Co tramp O.. Grandpa as they pleased. As long as he didn't complain who should?
 NT. Churchill vas surprised. T did not know before that you had such a show, brother Lowater'' Why these wild things are no more wild than my herS. How did you bring 1t to uass and with So many individuals of each kind, too?''
 By several years of Kindness, that's how. But these friends of mine are here to enter a com pIainc against the town people. Each in turn will tell you. through me, why they think you snouId GlTe them a better protection. Those little birds flying about your head or coming down one of these caslonaIly they stop to eat a weed seed--that certainly is no harm to you but they claim they are up with the sun. running up and down your trees, hunting for things that do you harm. Notice how softly they run down that tree, head downwards? Why? Be cause they can more readily find the eggs or larvae that are hidden in the small receSses of the barlI
 -Notice, too, ho7' they Go the:r com -nG clown in q spiral path? Thus they work for you day after day. the year round, rain or shine, from early morn until near sundown--and that, too, Without any expected pay from you. In the days of the canller worm the nuthatcll puts in extra hours, yet those town boys because they Iravc d desire u tramp and iearh to use their guns, come to The Pool and shoot at any thing that moves, because il affords 9 marx. Two nutll3tcle5 were killed the other day. That harm had they done? What good would their dead bodies Go the boys' Ali they ask now is that YOU will forbid those boys shooting at anything on land owned by you. Be fore you answer, these other friends Of nine have something to say"
 GEANDFATHER IOWA TER
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
An Appeal to Wives

You know the terrible afiiction that comes to many homes from the result of a drinking husband or son. You know of the money wasted on Drink that is needed in the home to purchase food and clothing. ORR1NE has saved thousands of drinking men. It is a home treatment and can be given secretly. Your money will be refund ed if after q trial, it has failed to benefit. Costs only s1.00 a box. Come ill and get Q free booklet and let us tell you Of the good ORRINE Is doing
 \. D. Sevin 6 Son, 11S Main Street.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
The Don and His shadn,u.

A dos was once carrying home a had to cross q bridge over q. little river. He locked down. and saw his shadow there.
 He thought it was another dne with a larger piece of meat He drop- ped his piece and jumped into the Wa ter to get the other piece of meat.
 But there was no dog there. His meat fell to the bottom where be could not get it, and he had to go without his dinner
 This is q good story for greedy peo- pie.
 MARIE ANGIE P-AQUETTE. Age 10.
 Taftvillc
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
George Washinaton.

George Washington of Virginia was born Feb. g., 113@. When q boy he learned surveying and he was sent out in company with his brother to sur vey sections in the land west of Tir- ginia. He proved his worth as q gen era1 in the French and Indian war and when the cotonlsts decided to unite against England he was made com nlander- in -chief of the colonial army. lie showed the characteristics of a great general in his management of the half starved poorly clad colonial army in opposition 10 the English troops.
 At the close of the Revolution he was elected first president of the American republic. He died at Mount Vernon in 1T99.
 LILLIAN BREHAUT.
 East Norwich. x Y
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18

alarm indicated that the fire was in the center of the town. The fire spread with great rapidity because the firenen were handicapped by the frog en hydrauts
 A general alarm brought the full equipment of the fire department and increased the crowds on the streets. Falling bricks and tirnbers made the work Of the firemen very dangerous.
 All at once above the din of engines hissins and axes chopping a shout was heard, Look out!" and amid the rat tie of glass, the hugh chandelier on the center of the building tu11bIed to the floor, a fireman barely escaping death beneath the weight of falling pieces.
 RUTH B. SCRIVENER, Age fl.
 Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
TRY THIS! DOUBLES BEAUTY OF YOUR HAIR AND STOPS IT
 FALLING OUT.

Your hair becomes light, wavy, fluffy, abundant and appears as soft, lustrous and beautiful as a young girls after d 'Danderine hair cleanse" :" Just try this-moisten 8 cloth with q little Danderine and carefully draw 1t through your hair, taking one small strand at time. This will cleanse the hair of dust, dirt and excessive
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
Tha nenr-

The deer are rur2crous iu Connecri- cCt. I see them most eyery week near our house. This last summer when water was scarce they used Q come and drink from 9. E3root-I1eal the house.
 Abolft tv-o weeks ago when we had a big Tain ] looked out Of tie window and saw two dogs going through tte meadow that was covered with water. ! rent out to watch them and they ran through the water with their white tails ir the air es fast as they could go.
 In ayout twenty minutes I heard some hounds coming as fast as they could but when they. came to the meadow that was covered with water they lost the track of the deer
 The deer, as well as the fox is a very cunning animal They destroy fruit trees and vegetables.
 MILDRED WEAVER, Age 10.
 Mansfield Depot
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
Molly Pitcher at Monmouth.

Molly Pitcher was a. strong and pow erful girl who carried water to the soldiers in the battle of Monmouth. They were thirsty, for the thermometer stood 96 degrees in the shade, and it kept her busy carrying water. As she was coming with some water she saw her husband fall. and ran to his help, but he was dead when she reached his siGe.
 At the moment he died the officer ordered the gun to be removed because he had no one to serve 1t. Then Molly asked the officer if she might be all lowed to take her husbands place.
 The officer assented and she handled it with much skill. After this the sol diers called her Captain Molly.
 On the day after the battle she went to Washington and received q ser- geant's commission with half pay through lie.
 EpNA KENDALL. AEe 10.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
Colunhus.

Tn the year 1492. that is. about 100 years ago, Christopher Columbus sail ed from a country in Europe called Spain. fia had three small ships. the spanish caTaVel Santa Maria. Coium- bus and flagship. He sailed ou the Atlantic ocean toward the west until at last he came to land. l. was one of the beautiful islands of the West Indies.
 hen Columbus reached the shore the rednlen, dressed iu feathers and decked with gold, came to meet him. ofIeT.ns him fruit and other orovisjons
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
UNCLE JEo's TALK WITH WIDE.
 lAWAKES.

Il Is not likely the TVide-Awaies know iaucil about t,le compass for gToTR-uPs do rot, except as uavi- gators CT explorers. The compass is Ere Of tGe oldest inventions on eslrtl, 61d ae3 1eels in use for 5,000 years szd < vas lsed 2,Gt9 years for lend
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
Ar Excitinn Mnn,ant

One cold winters night, was awak ened hy the fire alarm. and running to the window was surprised and fright ened to see that the fire was in the opera house . short distance from my home
 Tie streets were soon alive with neopie hecsfISe tho r1Tr7har oF +L-
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
Rules fer Young Wri:e.s.

oIic9 Tor Founo Wfi.e!S' !. Write rlat71iy on one side o2 the FSpe- onfs-, and nuraber the pages. Use pen and iEil. not pencil .. Short and pointed articles will 6e givea preference. Do rot use over 2J0 words.
 i. Original stories or letters only will De used.
 ,. Write yo.- name, age and a5- dress plainly at the bottoGl Of tEe story.
 Address all corl1au-7ic 7icGttoz-s to Uncle Jed, Bulletin Office.
 ''Waatever you aFe-Be thati
 Whatever you s2y-Be true!
 ft-atGiltfcrN-ar7Iy act,
 Be acnest-in fact
 Be netody else but ycu,''
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18

so well as the top Of the big soap stone.
 All these nations would have to have their own kinds of beds, for they would not sleep well without them.
 MARY RYBIC. Mansfield Four Corners.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18

with the rise and fall of the tides. set Of currents at all times, danger spots, best landing places for boats, light houses, beacons, storm signals and many other details of sea craft.
 DOROTHY RASMUSSEN, Age Il.
 Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18

You can be happy footed just like ms Use ''TIZ' and never suffer with tenden raw, burning, blistered, swollen, tired, smelly feet. "TIZ' and only 'TIzd takes the pain and soreness out o5 corns, callouses and bunions.
 As soon as you put your feet in ? ''T1Z' bath. you just feel the happinesS soaking in. How good your poor, old feet feel. They want to dance for ioy3 TIE is grand. ''TIZ'' instantly draw3 out all the poisonous exudationa which puff up your feet and cause sore, 5n.., famed. aching, sweaty, smelly feet
 Get a 25 cent box of 'TIZ' at any drug store or department store Get instant foot relief. Laugh at foot sui tererS who complain. Because your feet are never. never going to bothAz or make you limp any more.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18

Columbus had discovered America. The continent was named America from Americus Vespucius, an Italian navigator
 MARGUERITE KEENAN.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln is the greatest of all Americans, and one of the greatest men known to history. The life of this extraordinary man, who rose from poverty and obscurity. has become an example to all poor boys occupying a IoWly station.
 The anniversary of Lincolns birth is truly a red letter day in our calendar, growing year by year. As often as his natal day rolls around it is well to think of him and sum up his public services.
 Lincoln's parents were of good old EnsItsll stock. The IincoIns in Eng land may be traced back to the time of the Norman conquest. It is said that Samuel Lincoln came to America in 1637 and founded the family that gave to the American republic it's 18th presi- dent. Capt. Abraham Lincoln fought in the American revolution. He was q, man of some property. In 1TS1, or about that time, he sold his Virginia land and made his way with his three sons over the mountains into the will derness of Kentucky. Thomas the youngest son of this worthy pioneer, was then only two years old. He grew up. earned the carpenters trade, and founded g home in which was born the child destined to become the enamel paror.
 T thomas Lincoln married Nancy Hanks, wao came of good old Virginia stock. She was q young woman. of loTIy condition. but possessing quail ties of intellect and character above the average. She could read. but not write. A woman Of excellent judg- ment. she left an indetible impression on her son, who never forgot her. The father is described as ignorant and rather shiftless though at times in dustrious. Abraham's mother died in ISIS, and the boy of nine deeply inourned her loss. Tn later years he said: All that I am. and all that I hope 10 be, I owe 10 my angel mother.
 JESSTF. BRTTATrT
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-18
The Horse That Knew Her Master

There WAS once a. FOOT Arab who owned q fine bay mare; but she was stolen from him one day, and he was too poor to buy another. Ten years afterwards, as he was wandering in the desert, he came to Q green spot where the tent of q rich Arab was pitched. and where [ horse stood tied to q post The poor Arab vas so weary that he lay down upon the ground. Soon the horse began to smell of his face and then to rub her lips against his cheeks, as if to get his attention.
 At last the man woke up and cried out, 'Zaral' That was the horse $ name that had been stolen from him so delighted that she almost broke her halter in showing her pleasure. The man rose from the ground and patted her on the neck. Then the rich Arab came out Of the tent and said, Who are you?''
 ''T am the rightful owner of this horse replied the poor Arab. She was stolen from me just ten years ago tOr'orroW."
 That was the day I bought Iser.' said the rich Arab The fellow who sold her to me 1 charged with steal irg her, but he denied it. Walk to wonder palm tree. I will unite the mare, and if she follows you I shall 1 tlli"ll she is truly yours" The poor Arab walked to the tree: and as soon is the ether united the mare she ran with a snort Of pleas ure to her old master.
 'Talle her! She is yuurs," said the rich Arab, and here is a purse of gold to pay you for my use of her" WILLIAM SHAW. Age Ii.
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