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The Washington herald., 1917-10-30

Evidnce of the esteem in which
James Lansburgh. who died at his
home, 2511 Fourteenth street north
west, yesterday morning, was held
various trade associations and CON-
mercial bodies Of which he was a
member held special meetings last
night and adopted resolutions Of re-
gret over his death and made plans
to attend the funeral.
Mr.. Lansburgh was the senior mem
Der and president OF the firm OF
Lansburgh & Bro, and the death
Of the merchant came as great
shock to friends throughout the city.
Funeral Tomorrow.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from
the family residence. Interment will
be at the cemetery Of the Washing
ton Hebrew Congregation.
Mr.. Lansburgh was prominently
Identified with civic and fratsrnal
bodies in this city. and was active
In various charities. He was a MEM
Der of the Washington Board of
Trade. Chamber Of Commerce, Retail
Merchants Association and the A.
ISOLATION Of the Oldest Inhabitants.
Mr.. Lansburgh, who was "a years
old, was a Mason Of the thirty-third
degree, having been connected with
the fraternity for nearly fifty years.
He received his Master Mason de-
gree in Lebanon Lodge, No. Z, F. and
A NJ, Of this city, June ., 1871, and
was made a Royal Arch Mason in
Washington Chapter, No. 2, Feb
ruary q, 1872. afterward, February II,
1874. affiliating with Lafayette Chap
ter No. 5.
Mr.. Lansburgh was a prominent
figure in the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite Of Freemasonry for
many years. In 1888 he was elevated
to the rank and dignity Of knight
commander OF the Court of Honor by
the Supreme Council Of the Rite for
the southern Jurisdiction of the
United States.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Hanna Lansburgh, and four children,
Mark Lansburgh, Mrs. Bessie
Schwartz, and Miss Eugenia Lans-
burgh, all Of this city, and Mrs. Leon
ard Weinberg, Of Baltimore.
Simon Wolf, prominent Washington
lawyer. whose celebration of his s1st
birthday was tempered last night with
grief over the death of his lifelong
friend. made the following statement:
Il have known Mrs. Lansburgh ever
since I have been in Washington, and
We were personal friends, he having
belonged to the same Masonic lodge.
His loss will be deeply felt as he
was an upright honorable man and
a good citizen"
Merchants' Resolution.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-30

Medford. Mass: Oct H.-Pen, Paint
and Pretzels. the Tufts College dra-
matte society, is arranging to fur
nish entertainment to men In army
service The organization is rehears-
ing several one-act plays which will
be presented at various New England
army camps
The Washington herald., 1917-10-30

Amsterdam, Oct 9.-The inaugura-
ton Of the Polish state council took
place at Warsaw in the Royal Castle,
according to a dispatch received here.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-30

Petrograd. Oct. 29.-Admiral vladis-
lavoff. who was in command of the
submarine iotilla during the German
operations against the Russian ISL
ands In the Baltic, has disappeared.
1t is believed he fell overheard from
a submarine.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-30

Waterford, n. Y, Oct. 29.-Miss
Olive Whitman, the little daughter of
Gov. and Mrs. Charles 8. Whitman.
unfurled a large service nag here to-
day for the 10 citizens Of this small
village who are now in the army or
navy.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-30

Madrid. Oct 9.-The Spanish news
papers attribute a certain amount OF
gravity to the ministerial crisis. Some
Of the newspapers assert that It Is
the end OF the Dato ministry and
also the deathblow to the rotating
system by which different parties sue
ceed one another in power.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
POETRY.
HopPy and FioPPy.

Next door, there lives g. little boy,
 With cheeks just like a poppy; do not know his truly name,
 And so I call him Hoppy. When mother calls him from his play He. hops tip in a. minute; If she has work for him to do.
 He's eager to begin 1t. If there's an errand to be run,
 He hurr4es off to do 1t;
 If there's 8 hard thing to be done, He hops his way right through 1t There also lives a little girl.
 In this same house with Hoppy. And her name. too. do not know,
 But I have dubbed her Floppy. Does mother call straieItway she Hops Down on chair or ria; Or creeps into 8 hidiT place
 Just like a little gop \E. At sight of work she Hops right down Wherever she ts standing; All tired outi" and only moves
 At mothers stern commanding, Now which of these two children Would you youngsters like to copy? If you live in my neighborhood,
 hope 1t won't be F7oppy! Pauline Frances Camp.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
, MadaIine's Auto Ride.

Dear Uncle Jed: This is a true. story of my auto rida with my father. mother. aunt, brother and another man named Mir. .Lahn. He owns the auto and it was he who invited us to take the auto rlde.
 We waited anxiously for Mr .Lahn to come. At fifteen minutes of eight the auto was at our door. We got in to the automobile and off we went. Mr: Lahh said he was taking us to Willimantic and back.
 My aunt, who lives in New York. was delighted, although we all liked the ride, We saw so many trees ana spen fields, that my aunt had never seen before except Gan Riverside Drive. , B. ' 7-r . We got, to Willimantic' ats o'clock and stopped" at 'a friends fTouse till ten o'clock. When we got home it just struck II o'clock. I was very tired and fell asleep directly.
 MADELINE THUNE, Age 10. e Norwich.
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The "Tootums."

Johns begun to go to school;
 He reeites the Golden Rule
 (Not the Rule of Three).
 But every morning you can hear Him recite a table queer, And 1t puzzles me.
 It's the Tootums family:
 Twelve of them there seem to be- Such odd people, too!
 For I cannot understand All about this Teotum band Such queer things they do. ''Tootnns won ertu." dear me! Now, what can "ertu" be
 That a Toetum's won? I've asked Tommy to explain, But he cannot make it plain Just what Tootum's done. ''TeotuHns Threer's six," poor thing! Thus does Tommy ever sing. "Tootums Forer ate" What he ate I do not know. "Tootuns ate are sixteen," though. I've heard him relate, Tommy knows the Toetums well. But he really cannot tell Of this family anything! But he says that is the way That the children, every day, Stand in line and sing.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11

one has greater need Of the seeing eye l than the person who goes out into the world to earn a living. Those who do l cnly what they are told to do and are l blind to everything else are. seriously | handicapped. What shall I do now" l is often a very annoying question to 1 an employer The employe who con | stantly sees things ,ta be done and does lily to, grow in. favor with his or her | employer. A girl who secured a. posi- l ton as an assistant to a woman who had charge of a certain department in l a commercial house retained her posi- tion.only a month, and the woman un- | der whose direction che worked said: r T had to tell her to do every bless ed thing sha did all day long. Her eyes did not seem to reach beyond the end. of her nose" f.+
 That is a very. poor kind of eye to have. It will always keep, one in g. very parroW circle of effart. There Is .none of the branching, out" spirit in it., That reminds me of g girl who once Showed me a very handsome basket she had made after a purely original design. She made baskets to be gold by a. handicraft society, and when I a asked- her if she designed all of the baskets she made she said: "Not all of them, but I sometimes like to do with baskets as I do with other. things. like to branch out and see what I can do all by myself" - There was girl with. a seeing eye. It looked about for that good thing we call opportunity. :, It saw that cer- tain things could be done. and did them. It had that admirable thing. ina gtpation, back of it. Then an alert eye adds so much to the pleasure of life. Nothing is lost that comes with in it's range, and this cannot be said of the full eye. When I see a girl with keen, alert eye that discovers so much of interest or value or charm Tn everything I call to mind these lines. by Thomas Moore:
 Nothing Is lost on him who sees
 Witt, an eye that feeling gave
 For. him there's story in every
 breeze,
 An picture ia every wave"
 Life will mean SO much more to the person with the clear seeing and the far-seeing eye than it can ever mean to the person with narrow or seem ingly blinded : visisn The girl who looks out on life with an eye back of which there is~ love, charity. for bearance. a keen desire to know and to be of service will rarely know what it is to be either dull or idle.
 Girls Companion.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
UNCLE JED's TALK TO WIDE
 AWAKEs.

Uncle Jed hopes the Wide wakes when old enough will join the Boy Scouts and the Camp Fire Girls, for this means for the boys and girls bet ter training and more intelligent and happy life than they might otherwise lead.
 The Boy Scouts soon become helpers in public ways, as do also the girls, and they are all taught so many use- full things all boys and girls ought to know. It really takes a book to de- scribe them and there is pleasure in these studies.
 How the Boy Scouts have helped in England on special guard duty, and how they have helped promote good order and advance great causes in our own country in the past year or two. Their services are called for in all great civic gatherings.
 The aim of the Camp Fire Girls in these war times is to save as much of the crops as possible. in which aim tkey are following the urgent appeals of President Wilson and Food Director Hoover. The attention of the girls has been called to the fact that the an- ,nual loss to crops because of weeds is very great. and. as our soldiers in France have pledged themselves to fight the one enemy, so have the Camp Fire Girls pledged themselves to fight crop destroying weeds. Of course, the girls have been vigilant in this matter throughout the year, but they have chosen September and Octo- Der for making special drive against "a nf 10
 Whenever it is possible the girls are seeking to get at the root of the undesirable plants so as to eliminate them entirely. Tn other cases they are assisting in burning over fields where weeds are f1ourishing. or spraying the weeds with salt water so as te destroy
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11

friends laughing merrily in the par Tor. One girl shouted, We've got one on you, all right"
 After while we went out on the lawn and I took their pictures in many different views with my camera
 We played many games, one Of which was to pin the tail on the don- key. Nellie pinned the tail correctly and won q large flower vase: Mary pinned the tail on the ears of the donkey and won the b0oby prize-a pickininny doll.
 Next mother called us in to dine. We had sandwiches, cake. cookies, ice cream, candy, fruit and coffee.
 After eating all we desired we played games, played a. few selecticns on the piano. and made merry until |; o'clock. when the girls departed wishing me many happy returns of the day. 7
 I received many presents. such as ribbons. stockings, gloves. candy, etc.
 I went to bed very happy that night and thanked mother very. much. for the surprise she had giXeu me.
 HELEN FRINK, Age 14 . Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11

ct fence around the once spacious garden is partly diiapidated In the garden are, old scraggly rose bushes with vines twinins aFound them.
 Under the large maple tree at one corner of the house is a moss grown well-curb with long eld-fashioned sweep.
 The open door, the broken windows and the dull gray color of the house give it 8 very -spooky. look. When anyone goes by the dueer noises that arise from within send cold chills down their spines.
 Although this deser4ed farmhouse seems like a haunted place it inter- ests everyone who sees it. :
 MARY A. BURRII4L. Stafford Springs.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
THE GIRL WITH THE SEEING EYE

Not long ago I hear& a woman talk ] ing about a new maid in. her home, and
 she said:
 She is a very good girl in many re- cooks very we'll and will do anything l I tell her to do. The trouble is that l she does not do so many things she l ought to do without being. told to dc 1 them. She seems never. to see that | this or that should be done. She al
 most waits for me to tell her to wash 1 the dishes after she has them piled up l in the dtshpan, ., /, I once had a girl relative just like | this She did everything she was told
 to do, but seemed to have a peculiar blindness of vision when 1t came @ seeing things that ought to be done. She was in great contrast to a girl
 whose mother said of her: 'I never saw such a girl as Helen
 is for seeing something to do. She never has to be told to do anything.
 She sees that it needs to be done-7and
 does it."
 and her mother! Such a daughter
 must be a source of great satisfaction
 to mother. One need not look far
 to discover the reason why Miss Helen
 has such, a clear seeing eye. It is to
 be found in the fact that the spirit of
 helpfufness is so strong in her. and
 that she hates idieness. The girl who has a good; big bump of the spirit of
 service always has with it an eye that
 makes it easy for her to discover things that need to be done.
 :. This sharpness of vision is sure to be combined with quick readiness to do the thing that needs to be done and this cannot but make one a useful and self-reliant person.
 friend of mine once told me of the way in which his daughter, girl of but 15 years. saw just what needed to be done, and did it in a time of real emergency. She was alone in the house when she discovered a fire un- der very good headway in one of the rooms of the house. The nearest water was down two flights of stairs. and the girl readily saw that it was improbable that she would be able to extinguislr the flames by trying to throw water on them when the water was so far away. What she did was to close the door and a window of the room so that there could be no draft to fan the flames into greater activity. Then she ran down the stairs and out Of the house to a fire alarm box around the corner. She rang in an alarm and went back home without having utter CT the least outcry. I wonder how many of the girls who read this would to be done and level hea ded as to have done the right thing at the right time.
 It is a great help in life to have the elearenss of vision that enables one to see the thing that needs to-, be done without having to be told anything about it. No employer will sput tip''= long with person who must. be told i to do everything he or, she does. No
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
Rule. for Youne Writers.

l. Write plainly on one side of the raper oaly, and mum mber the pnges. 2. Use pen and ink. not pencil. g.. Short and pointed articles VII pa giyen preference. Do not use over 2a0 words.
 f. Original stories or letters only will be used
 5. Write your name. age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom, of the story.
 Address all communications t. Uncle Jed Bulletin Office.
 Whatever you are-Be that!
 Whatever you Eay-Be true!
 S.raightforwardly act.
 Be honest-in fact,
 Be nobody else but you
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
Russia.

Russia Is the largest country in the world. It extends from. central Eu : rope to the eastern coast of Asia and comprises more than one-half of the continent of Europe and more than one third of Asia. It includes about e-fifth of all the land surface of the world. European Russia has but little Va. rlety of physical features. It is for the most part vast plain, with scarcely a hill to be seen. The country has about fifty thous- and miles of navigable waterways.
 Russia has great extremes of cli- mate. The summers are warm, but part, are long and very cold.
 In the mountains of Russia are found large coal and iron mines as well as other minerals. Next to the United States, Russia produces more petroleum than any other country.
 Odessa is a blaze in Russia where the largest fairs of the world are held. People from all parts of Russia and Europe, come to Odessa to the fair.
 LILLIENNE MATHIEU.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11

lie life. The house, for example, was small and unattractfve. It faced di- iectly on the street, often without any opening except the door which s~ung outward.
 The women's apartments were sep >arated ard secluded.
 The house served the Greek chiefly for sleeping purposes, the storing of his goods and the keeping of his household.
 From it he went out very early in the morning, after a taste of wine and bread. to meet his friends. or engage in public business in the assembly or elsewhere
 Toward the middle of the day he took breakfast or 1ounged about and gossiped in the public walks or porti coeS. -
 The gymnasium occupied him in tho afternoon as place of exercies, or of intercourse with friends, whence he returned home for dinner, the chief meal of the day.
 If a poor man he went to bed early; if well to do aud socially inclined. he spent the evening at a banquet with his friends.
 JOSEPHINE BOROVICKA.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
The Deserted Farmhouse.

On one of the shady backroads in the town is a deserted farmhouse. It Is a lew. eld-fashioned building with haunted appearance. It is weather beaten and many of the windows are broken. The large oalxen door with the iron knocker swings on it's rusty iron hinges.
 The square red chimney on the top of the house is falling down and the bricks lie scattered on the sagging reef
 The walk that leads from the door to the road Is of flat stones. The pick
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
Yantic.
Our Farm.

Our farm consists of 125 acres. 40 acres being cultivated land The rest of 1t is pasture and woods. We have two hayfields, one six acres and the other four acres.
 There are two cornfields. one of them consisting of eight acres, and the other four acres. We have most all of the corn cut. We found ears of field corn 13 1-2 inches long. having 163 kernels of corn from the bottom to the to). and the stalks were 2 1-2 inches thick and feet high
 We have eight cows, one bull, eight heifers and twelve calves. We also have two horses besides.
 The cows and heifers stay in the barn during the winter, but the calves and horses stay in sheds. The horse barn burnt down.
 | During summer We have had sum mer boarders and roomers. We made about S200 from them Some of them were our cousins.
 Around the house there are large maple trees, all being different kinds.
 In the orchard we have 45 apple trees; and about ten other scattered trees.
 In the peach orchard we have 13 trees which yielded many peaches this year. My mother canned most all of them, except the soft ones which we ate.
 We have four acres of .huckwheat which is cut. Some will be used for feeding tue hens and chickens, and HARRY SCHATz, Age II.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
Ruth,s :Thre. Little Chickens.

NUtnS ' ThFee CNtfe NnIckenS.
 Dear Uncle Jed:-I will tell you about my three. little chickens.
 One morning when I went down to the barn-yard l found an old hen who had stolen her nest and had hatched out three little chickens They were very hungry so 1 gave them some scratch feed. -.
 The next day I found one chicken missing. I wondered where it had gone, so hunted around and found that it had fallen into a large puddle of water in corner of the barnyard.
 1 fed tam every day, and after the two little chickens were older, the old hen made a nest in the barn where she and her little chickens stayed at night. They are continually growing and are now a month and a half old.
 RUTH DAVIS, Age Il.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11

supreme court. This commission, which was made up of eight Repub- licans and seven Democrats, decided that the votes must be counted, as they came from the people or officers of the states, and that it had no power to examine them, the eight Republi- cans voting in faver of, and the seven Democrats against it; so MT. Hayes was declared to be elected president by one vote over Mr. FiIden.
 CARRIE A. CELLO.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
Beyond Human Conception.

7 Wonder what he kaiser would do if bs were successful in what he set put to do, capture the world? He near ly. went orazy over capturing a little city >that the Russians ran away from.
 washington Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
Happy.

Happy hearts and happy faces, Happy play in grassy places, That is how in ancient ages Children grew to KinGs and Sages.
 Sent in by IDA BOTWICK, Age 10
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Jessie L. 1rshaut. of Huntington, L. lI.:-Many thanks for the nice prize book you sent me entitled The Boy Chums Perilous Cruise" It is a splendid book and enjoy reading it. Florida ReiI, -of Versaiiles:I re cefved the nice prize book you sent me. have read 1t through and 1t is very interesting. I thank you very
 much for 1t.
 Louie xeiseImayer. of Norwich:-I thank you So much for the prize book I received. It Is just the kind of read ing like.
 Mary Steinmayer. of Eagieyille:-I thank you very much for. the beautiful prize book you sent me.
 Carrie A. GeIo, of Yantic:-I re- eeived the prize book you sent me quite awhile ago, Ruth Fielding of the Silver Ranch" I have read it through fad found it very interesting. I thank you very much fer 1t. It was splendid.
 Harry Sehatz, of Yantic:-I thank you for the prize book sent me.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
The Fair She Attended.

Dear Uncle. Jed: I vii! tell you about the fair | went to. had to pay fifteen cents for my ticket and I gave [it to a nan standing at the gate. First l went into the building where the hens and other kinds of fowls were shown. There. was one kind which I had never seen before. It had feathers sticking far out over it's eyes The feathers were black and white.
 As. was. coming out I met nay aunt and we went and bought some vanilla ice cream. which was very good. I bought some popcorn, balloon a whistle and a whip.
 I started home at about ha,f-pas st four, and reached there at about 6 o'clock: ---~-'- = ''- --
 SUSIE HOPKINS.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
Walking the Rope to Fortune.


 Most of us desire wealth, but prob ably very few of us would care to follow the route to fame and fortune pursued by Jean Francois Gravelet. professionally known Blodin. In 1880, at the age of 6. he made his debut in France. his native ceurf- try, as a professional tight-repe walk CT and gymnast. His theatrical ap- pearanee brought him considerable fame, but he owed his fortune to the feat of crossing Niagara Falls on a tightfope, eleven hundred feet long and one hundred and sixty feet above the surface of the water. This he did first in 18A6.
 Once he crossed the Falls blindfold- ed, another time on stilts. His great est sensation was when he crossed a 11e0 fcot tightrope with a man on his back. B1ondin made the Journey safely, however, and a few years later thrilled European audiences by walk ing tightrope on stilts, and turning semersaults in the middle, at a height of 17s feet from the ground. In spite of the perils to which he constantly exposed himself, Rlondin reached the age of 73 years. His last feat was presented in Ireland in 1896, when he was 72 years old.
 LEO POLIQUIN, Age 1S Versailles.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-11
Williams Fishina Trip.

SSHuAHIS g T iS0iHQ tFiPs l: Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write and tell you about. my fishing trip. There was a brook a little ways from our house I went down to the brook and after while was pulling up big fish when the pole broke and the fish got away.
 I went home net in very good cheer, and the next day I-bad a pole which I got from the woods. went down to the brook and caught, two large fish and since they were the first good sized fish I had ever caught ran, yelling up te the house.
 We had the fish for breakfast and they tasted good. ..
 I went up the brook afterwards and caught some trout, pfckerel and perch.
 I can catch the fish better with the wooden pole than I can with the boughten pole.
 I nearly always have good luck now. There are not so many fish now be- cause the f1sflermon have been around them.
 WILLIAM COPPER, Age 12
 South Coventry.