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Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
The Discovery of New Haven.

Dear Uncle Jed: Once there were tWo ,3. little girls Their names were a beautiful country of Haven. Lillie and Violet had each a pony of her own, besides a great many wonderful things, including gardens, rabbits and
 Their father and mother were very good religious people. and though they were rich themselves, they did not forget the poor They wished their little girls to grow up to be noble women.
 One evening after LilIie and Violet had gone to bed and their father and mother, whose names were MT. and in their beautiful parlor all furnished Tn velvet and gold. MT. Lafayette sud- denly paused in the middle of a piece he was playing on the pianoia. and splendid if we got some poor children to make them happy"
 So the wife agreed to get them and soon they were going. AS they got off dirty and ragged. They were selling newspapers, the boy asked of MT. La fayette, Do you want a paper" Then MT. Lafayette said. Come with me to my home to see Lillie and Violet They will be glad to see you, and the girl and boy followed.
 When they got home Lillie and Vio- let were glad to see them.
 MrS. IAIayeLte toiu NioieL 10 Lake them upstairs and dress up. So they went up and soon they were dressed up and going for a walk with Lille and Violet. very happy indeed in their new home.
 When they got in the woods the boy said, Let us sit down and rest a while. When they had sat a little while the boy said. What is that thing coming here?"
 Then Violet said: That Is a herd of hi1ffaIoes Let us get out of the way"
 The boy said: This place has not been trodden on by any creature. so we will live here. They lived there.
 The girl said We nave discovered
 The boy said. New Haven would be nice. So they named 1t New Ha- ven, and they thanked MT. and Mrs Lafayette for taking care of them when they were poor and ragged.
 ELEANOR DAYON, Age 12.
 PIaiufieId
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
Indian Character,

Many people have wrong ideas about Indians An Indian was not so dirty as he is now. The reason for this is that while he roamed about in the wilderness he could take a bath any time he wanted. Now he is shut up in reservations where there is not so much water to be found.
 Indians are often blamed for being cruel without reason. They are some times cruel in fighting. but when you read of white men burning Indian camps with defenseless women and children you will not wonder at their being cruel.
 Indians also have great endurance. They can go a day without eating. What white man could put red hot coais under their arms and hold there as the young braves have to.
 Indians are great swimmers, hunt CTS, and trailers. They can swim across rivers. hunt amidst the thick est of forests, and follow a trail that to a white man is almost invisible.
 JOHN MCDOWELL. Age 13.
 Stonington.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
sToRd Es WRITTEN BY WIDE A.
 WAKES
A Visit to a Sugar Plantation.

"A Visit to Sugar Plantation.
 New Orleans Is one of the chief su- gar markets of the United States. There are thousands of barrels of su- gar piled up on the wharves and you can smell little else as you walk through the streets near the wharves.
 There are vast sugar plantations near New Orleans. There are scores of them. some containing one thous- and acres. Some are so large that they have railroads upon which to send the sugar cane to the factory.
 Visitors often take horses and ride about. There are roads through the fields. The leaves sometimes in the right season rise over their heads as they sit on the horses Many of the sugar cane stalks are fifteen feet high.
 A field of sugarcane does not look unlike field of our corn.
 Sugar cane is not planted like corn. 1t may be planted in either fall or spring. Pieces of ripe stalks are placed in furrows about seven feet apart. The stalks are laid together, three being placed side by side. Next. the soil is thrown over the cane with a blow. In August the stalks become as tall as a man. In the middle of October they are about twice as high as an average cornstalk. Then they are ready for cutting. Sometime I will write about the refining process.
 MILDRED G.RANDY, Age Il.
 Yantic.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
The Autobiography of a Mouse.

I was born in an old trunk in the garret. When I became older I thought of seeking a new home in spite of my mothers warnings about being caught in mouse traps, by cats, etc. I thought T would move into the cup board, because I knew it contained cheese.
 I was a daring mouse and I thought I would take a chance at getting some cheese. because was getting very hun gry indeed.
 I heard the doorben ring and I knew this was my chance, as the cook had to answer it. I peeked out of my little house so to be sure the big black cat wasn't around.
 I jumped up into the cheesebox and T was having such a fine time eating cheese that I did not hear the cook coming until she exclaimed: Good ness mel you little rascal! How dare you start eating the cheese that I was going to make sandwiches out of Scat, and don't let me see you here again"
 1 was quite afraid after my experi- ence with the cook, and I thought of taking trip to my mistress room.
 I spied a pretty blue hat on the bed, trimmed in bright red cherries and a pretty blue ribbon. I set to work and chewed the red cherries into bits and I gnawed the pretty ribbon into shreds.
 The next morning was Easter and nations; she was saying: 70 dear, My new Easter hat, all torn and dilapi dated Pm sure Kitty didn't do that. Come, Kitty, find the mouse"
 When I heard this I ran home to my mother and remained there. I have a very lively and merry life.
 MILDRED DUNN, Age 13.
 Noruyich
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
RuIss for Young Wrassrs.

i. Write plainly on one side of the paper only., and number the pages- Use pen and ink, not pencil
 g. Short and pointed articles VIII sne given preferences. Do not use over .sah0 words N
 L Original stories or letters only will be used. ssr E Write your name. age and ad- HdresS plainly at the bottom or the story.
 Address all communications tc Jncie Jed, Bulletin once C. --whhtever you arS-Be that!
 Whatever yoG Eay-Be truet
 StraightforwardlS act.
 Be honeSt-in fact. Be nobody else but you.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12

 get home. and 1t was growing dark; but they kept on walking. Soon it was dark and they were still in the woods. The farther they walked the deeper they had gone into the woods.
 All at once one of the girls whisper ed. .Ses, xhere is . light in the dis tance.''
 All the children looked and there they saw two men coming towards them They were very much afraid because they were alone in the woods and they thought the men were; rob bers.
 Nearer and nearer came the men. Then one of the children recognized that one of the men was her father. When the men came up to the chil- dren they were very happy, because they could get home now. The two men were the fathers of the children, who had gone to look for them when they saw that the children didn't come home
 PEI<AGEA KURTz. Age 1s. Yantic
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
He Ran Away iron, Home.

Dear Uncle Jed: One time when l was six years old I had to bring wood and water for the house. thought my brother. who is two years older than I am, did not do his share, so I thought I would go and live with a neighbor about two miles away.
 I told my folks the night before that was going away to stay. They thought I was fooling them, but the next morning got up early and start ed before breakfast. After they had looked for me my grandmother tele- phoned to them to find out if I was there and told them to send me home.
 came back home and have never run away again. This is a true story. HARRY EUGENE STIMSOE, Age 8.
 North Windham
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
UNCLE JED's TALK TO WIDE
 AWAkES.

Every wide-Awalxe looks up to the sky. but doesn't see any sky as men used to. because it Is all space and so far as we know there is no end to Space. Tn old times they did not know the moon was quarter of a mill lion miles away and that the sun Jour star) is ninety-three million miles away, or that 1t took light travelling at she rate of 1s7.00o miles a second eight minutes and twenty seconds to reach the earth
 . When this was found out man had . way of measuring any distance in space, and they found suns like ours so far away that it takes 40 years for the light from them to reach the earth' a distance so far it cannot be express ed in figures so they say 1t is 4o-light years distant. And the nearest star to us-Alpha Centaur is distant 26,- 0oo, 900, 900 miles and it takes the light of it 3 1-2 years to reach the earth. So when you look up to the heavens at night you see the light of suns twinkling and do not see the suns which make the light
 Our sun is a hundred times bigger than the earth, and these distant stars are as many times bigger than our sun. There are big things overhead and whoever wrote Twinkle. twinkle lit tie star. how I wonder what you are" had not found this out" There are parts of worlds there, and dead worlds, and old worlds and new worlds. and worlds being made.
 And up in the sky. at a point in the Milky Way there Is a hole. the star gazers tell us. that Is two hundred millions of miles wide. and the sun and all its planets can pass through it with safety, and they take a space of over one hundred and seventy five million miles.
 Uncle Jed does not know whether a ray of light can beat electricity in a race around the world, but it can cover the distance seven and a half times in second.
 And this sun of ours and all its planets makes a journey around Arcturus, greater sun once in 40. 900 years.
 And how do we know the measure of speed is correct? Because great astronomer figured thesspeed of Venus
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
Cruelty to Animals.

Dear Uncle Jed: One dreary, cold winter night poor. jet black kitten came to our door. It was almost starved, the owner having put it out in the snow to find it's own food. I let her into the house and gave her milk and food. I did not let her out that night, but the next day would couldn't make her leave the house, so she stay ed with us.
 A few weeks ago on a Sunday after noon about o'clock she went out. In with an injured back, a cruel dog had been teasing her. He bit her back so hard that she could not drag her two hind legs along. For a week she was like this. Slowly the wound healed up, but not good.
 Last week she became sick again and died. Now don't you think some of these cruel dogs ought to be done away with instead of a poor harmless cat?
 UNSIGNED
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12

wonderful piece of mechanism in the world.
 As we sailed on we reached West Point, where the famous U. S. Mill tary academy is located Here they educate U. s. military officers
 The next stop was Hudson, where we stayed over night From Promenade Hill we viewed the Catskill mountains.
 On the return trip we noticed the trains disappear in holes in the noun tains which resembled cat holes, and appeared on the other side of the mountain in the same manner
 We arrived at New York at p. m. Reached uncle's home at 10.30 p. m- enjoyed the trip very much HORTENSE P. VALLETTE, Age 13.
 Baltic.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
SHOULD MAkEA
 MILLION FOR HIM
cmcMNATl MAN TELLS HOW TO
 SHRivEL UP CORNS SO THEY LIFT OUT

Ouch l<?, This kind of rough talk will be heard less here in town if people troubled with corns will follow the simple advice of this Cincinnati authority, who claims that a few drops of a drug called freezone whom applied to tender, aching corn stops soreness at once, and soon the corn dries up and lifts right out without pain.
 He says freezone Is sticky sub- stance which dries immediately and never infiaua@s or even irritates the surrounding tissue or skin. A guar ter of an ounce, which will cost very little at any drug store, is saId to be sufficient to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one's feet. Mill lons Of American women wil1 welcome this announcement since the inaugu- ,ztion of the high heels.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
My Trip Up the Hudson.

I went on a visit to my uncle's started from Baltic. went by the way of New Haven. My uncle met us at Bridgeport From there we took an electric car to his home in westport stayed here a few days From West port we went to New York by train We arrived at Grand Central at a. m. From Grand Central we had to go to West 42d street terminal. Here we took the boat for a sail up the Hud- son. The boat was the Hendrick Hud- son.
 As we started up the river the first interesting thing was the Palisades. The perpendicular rocks look as if they were cut out by an artist. As we sail ed we passed many barges and boats.
 While the boat stopped at Pough- keepsie I saw the railroad bridge 212 feet above the water. The largest boats sail under 1t. Trains look like toy carts as they pass over It is the most
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
Peok Hollow Brook.

Dear Uncle Jed: One day my broth CT and I walked about three miles to a brook named Peck E1oiIow brook. The water falls In this brook were very pretty.
 My brother had a camera and so hadgI- We took quite few pictures of the brook.
 Near the brook a railroad runs On the railroad is a small station. The windows of this station are boarded up. There are many names written on the walls of the station.
 After we had watched the brook a little while my brother started to fish As was jumping across a we'll made in the rock by the water fall on it, slipped and fell and fell in. I got wet up to my hips. We have a very pleas ant time. all except when I fen in.
 CHARLES ". BRUSH, Age II.
 FitchyiIle
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12

cIOthfnQ was agRraVatnR 10 me aIll when put my hands in water they would smart.
 'sThe trouble lasted two month1 before used CuticuKa Soap and Oint- ment. I got relief in less than week and after using them a month I Was healed" (Signed1 Mrs. James Hardy, Fryeberg, Me, Oct. 6, i9l6-
 Why not prevent these distTessinE skin troubles by making Cuticura your everyday toilet Soap aided by touches of Ointment to heal the frsf signs Ot pimpIes, rashes, etc-7 No p1reToT more effective emollients exist than Cuticura-
 Fer Free Sample Each by Return Mail address postcard: 'fCutieuFls Dept. R, Boston" Sold everywhere.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
A Kind Mayer.
JeWett City

Dear Uncle Jed: A ragged little girl was peddling apples at the railroad station of a great city. A train WaG about to start. Just then good look ing gentleman jumped off the .rain and asked the girl for IS cents worol
 The girl counted the apples and handed them to him. Suddenly ths train began to move, and the stranger got on quickly. without paying for the apples. He gave no attention to her at all, but laughed as she called out for her money.
 The mayor of the city was standing by. The mayor was man who del- pised all meanness. He looked very angrily after the train. Then he took the little girl by the arm and led 1er home with him. You may be cure che received the full value of her apples.
 When the good mayor learned that she was an orphan girl, without a. home, he found a kind family who were glad to take care of her. Every one liked the mayor. He was alwayg
 SARAH sCHATz, Age Q.
 Yantic.
 The hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.-DickenG.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
A Thrilling Rescue.

Three of us boys went for walk by a dam. and seeing a raft in the water we got on. The youngest boy sat in the middle. I was steering and the oldest boy was pushing. We went out a little way and turned around, when the raft started to rock.
 The eldest boy jumped out. the raft tipped and we got flung into the water. None of us could swim The oldest boy was standing on the bank, yelling Help. Help," but did nothing to save US.
 The youngest boy started to cry as he was going down, and caught hold Of my leg. The tVc of us went down. When we came up he was on my back. I was so much frightened that start ed to kick and make my arms go, as had seen people swim. I was much surprised to see that I kept above water.
 At last saw the raft. It was about five feet in front of me. I caught hold of 1t and drew the boy and myself on. Then. breaking a piece of the raft, I rowed to shore and we dried our clothes.
 It was a good lesson for the both of us, because we learned to swim.
 JOHN KURTZ.
 Yanfic
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
Bide-a-Wee,

My house which I have affectionate- iy named Ride-a-Wee, is a large. hand some building, standing some distance from the street, from which in the mondays heat my home resembles a bit of Paradise to my eyes. The hard, smooth carriage road leads through a great iron gate. guarded by two. large. bronze, lifeiil<e lions which have frightened many a youngster. Next comes a large. long. green lawn. dot ted here and there with tall trees. with long, dropping branches and on it's left little brook flows gaily along.
 Across this brook three foot bridges have been built, all of which are lat ticed and over-grown by sweet honey suckle vines.
 The gardens are beautiful with their massive rose bushes and shrubs. These gardens are surrounded on all sides by tall birch trees, and venerable oaks. Tn the back of the house is a tennis court and far in the distance are seemingly endless fields of corn, cotton and sugar.
 The house is rather low, two storied and painted white. A double piazza stretches around three sides of the house, whose pillars are inter vined with ramblers. honey -suckles and climbing vines, all so closely in- terwoven as to give the appearance of a solid mass of foliage.
 The interior of the house Is no less beautiful than the exterior. There are seven large rooms and two small kitch- ems on the first floor. In the library and breakfast room, the walls are hand painted, while the rest of the rooms are tastefully papered. All the floors are hard oak. smooth and glos- sy with the exception of the kitchens which are covered with tiles. There are large open fire places in five of the rooms.
 Upstairs there are five bedrooms with separate baths. The paper on these walls is soft. creamy color, or pale pink or blue. These rooms are rather low. but are sa.stefufly arrang- ed. giving them all a homeifke appear ance.
 FTOSSIE METER. Age E.
 TaffHi1la
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE
 Boys AND GIRLS DEpARTMEET

and calculated when it would cross the face of the sun 100 years before it happened. and it arrived on the very day-oniy four hours off the time nxed.
 Uncle Jed loves to look up and en- joy the glory of the night. and to think these same stars were looked up to by the Saviour and all of the prophets --that they must have shed their light over the Garden of Eden.
 It is not surprising that the psalm ist looked up in wonder and wrote Tn the heavens is the throne of God" THE WINNERS OF, PRIZE BOOKS. | 1-Jessie L. Brehaut, Of White Plains-rhe Ocean Wireless Boys of the Iceberg Patrol.
 2-Her4enss p. Naltette, of Baltic Lost in the Great Dismal Swamp.
 s-Bertha Adelman, of Yantic-The Camp Fire Girls Go Hunting.
 4-Esther 5ress, of Yantic-The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore. With Trapper Jim in the North Woods.
 s-Pelasa kurtx, of Yantic-The Long Measure Hunter.
 7-Jehn Mcdowell, of Stonington- The Boy Scouts With the Allies in France.
 s-Mary G. Lewis, of Stonirgton- The Boy Scouts On the Plain.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
"CASCARETS"F FOR HEADACHE, COLDS,
 LIVER, BOWELS
ENJOY LIFEI DON'T STAY BlL- IoUs, SICK, HEADActV AND
 cONSTIPATED
GET RID OF BAD BREATH, SOUR STOMACH, COATED TONGUE,
 INDIGESTION.
Get a 1o-cent box now.

They're nnei Cascarets liven your liver, clean your thirty feet of bowels and sweeten your stomach. You eat one or two, like candy, before going to bed and in the morning your head is clear, tongue is clean, stomach sweet. breath right and cold gone. joy the incest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced. Cag- carets stop sick headache. biliou1uofr indigestion. bad breath and constiDc- - ton.
 Mothers should give a whole Crr- lcaret to cross, bilious, sicf, fcV1rirf children any time. They ar1 farml1r1 and nevnr Eripe or gickan-
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
Juiitte.

Did any of the Wide Awakes ever own nice horse who was full Of fun and mischief and whose eye seemed to have . laugh in it?
 Let me tell you about such a one.
 She was as black as jet: she had
 white star in her face. and a white stocking on her left hind foot She
 was round and plump and very quick in her motions. She could trot, rack,
 pace and run, and under the saddle
 was charmer. Her name was Julitte.
 As a colt she took the lead in mischief.
 She could unite bow knot, even
 through the bow and drawn up tight
 ly: but she was not so foolish as to do
 this when there was no occasion. But
 omit feeding her when the others were fed. and then step out of the barn for
 a few minutes, and she would be
 found in a stall with another horse.
 helping herself to his grain She had three associates whom she open the barn door, which was fasten- ed with a hook. and open the barnyard gate by drawing out the pin that held it. She would let down the bars with companions into the field. There they would be found in the morning, while she had returned to the barn before anyone was up.
 She had an innocent look when she had been on these excursions that would call forth ones admiration When I rode her to bring back the colts she seemed to know what we were after She would go quite direct to where those wicked colts could be found, and we would chase them home in hurry.
 One night we heard a queer noise in the barn. Father drew himself out of bed and went to see what the noise could be. You can imagine his aston Ishment when he found Julitte stand ing with the raised pump handle ir her mouth. trying to pump water while the three colts. with unbounded confidence in her ability, stood at~the trough, watching her with expectAn eyes.
 KATHERINE GoRMAN, Age 12. Ver~ailIeS
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
Uses of Forests.

The service of trees to us begins in our infancy and ends with our lives. Their value cannot be estirnat- ed. Our houses and their furniture, and the fences used to enclose our houses are the products of trees. Even coal Is a wood product. It is form ed by the mineralized wood of the ages. Wharves. boats, ships. rubber, gums, bark. cork, maple syrup. fruit, carriag- es. railroad cars and ties. telegraph and telephone poles-wherever the eye falls, it sees the great service of trees.
 The great forests make the dense- iy shaded hills, covered with the ac- cumulating leaves of ages, huge sponges from which trickie the sup plies of streams.
 To cut the forests recklessIy is to dry up the rivers and cause drought. Forests affect the climate of the coun- try. They also prevent ex- tremes of heat and cold, and the sud den changes in weather that spoil the crops, therefore our forests must be preserved.
 MARY G. LEWIS. Age 1s.
 Stonington.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12

was told ft was eczema. My limbs were badly swollen
 and a great many nighf1 [ was awakened by the itch- ing. The trouble went to my fingers and the sicin WaI inhamed and red. Ihad Co scratch and the eruption smarted and my fngerH used to crack open. My
Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-12
The Wiae EIarhant.

Dear Uncle Jed: Once a rich man gave baby elephant to an old wom- an- She took good care of him and soon became very fond of him. The children in the village called this wo- man Granny, and they called the ele- phaft 'Ssranny,s BIacxie." Sometimes the children would say, Please
 would answer SCon1e on, Who is first
 Blackie picked them up with his trunk. Hewonld swing them high ur in the air. then put them down softly. Blackie never did any work. The only