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Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
Tore Down and Rebuilt the Hog Hous


 l Dear Uncle Jed: On Cleanup Day the first thing did was to pull down a hog house that wash located between ltae house and barn. After that built 1 1t in back of the shed where it could not be seen. Then I got the horse and wagon and hauled the manure in the field to be plowed under as fertilizer.
 After that I got a rake and raked up the small stones and chips. There also were a lot of corncobs, as all last winter we threw them out to the hens.
 We had an ash barrel near our hen house which I put on the stone drag and pulled in the meadow and spread on the grass.
 Right near the wagon shed there is hog house that was located between the fall has lot of leaves that fall, and In the spring there have to be raked off. After I got them raked up set them on fire and burned them all up.
 All that needed to be cleaned up put in good order
 It is nice to have Cleanup Day in the spring. So we should try and ciean mp the yards. I have seen in the city ef Willfu1antic some places that could be improved by a little such work
 Besides the work at home helped to clean up the school ground by rak- ing and picking up stones and sticks
 FREDERICK KORNER, Age A. Mznzheld Depot.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
porothx in the Country.

Dear Uncle Jed: I have just come up from New York to stay with friend of mine for few weeks. am very fond of the country and often go down by the brook which runs all through the pasture to pick flowers. There are plenty of vioiets, starfiowers, wild mustard and Mayf1owers.
 There were so many violets that the hired man and myself picked four large punches and sent them to some friends in Norwich.
 We have thirty five little turkeys and sixty chickens. four horses nine cows, five heifers and two calves; also two pet dogs and three cats.
 I went fishing in the brook the other day and caught two.
 year ago this summer was in the country and hard thunder shower came up and the lightning struck a tree across the road. It knocked my brother and I down. and the others ran downstairs.
 Since I came up here my big brother has had the measles and says he don't like them a bit. I read the chiidren's stories in The Bulletin and like some ef thern very much. and so I thought
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
Versailles
1rhe Span Of Life.

Life is t5ust a short span of years. We're living under the same roof, en- joy each others company and may bestow kindly deeds on each other if we are oskt for each others welfare. After aEwhile one by one we'll drop away. ansd the smiles and cheerful faces we7H see no more. Then finally, all are gokle and a new generation will take our hplaces
 While fWe're living. why not make life swee1t for each other? Then what a grand land lovely span of years we'll have passed through. Why even the stars wiI4 twinkle with delight as they appear tbo view the cheerful situation of we rI1orta1s here below
 Katydikds and crickets will sing, fire flies wil4 help to brighten things and balmy lbreezes will bless all
 LAWRENCE GAUTHTER, Age 13.
 BrooAtfyn
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
Wauregan.
The Flag.

1 Let us for a momeraV consider the origin and development! lof Old Glory The most authentic hist brfans tell us that in the year 1777 Ged'rge Washing | ton, having designed anil emblem for the thirteen stru gglfng tBtates, called at the little house which stands in Arch street, PhiladeIphia; where Betsy Ross conducted an uphols tering estab- I lishment and ordered Tkat the first American flag be made.
 Those of you who have been to Philadelphia must have SeTm the quaint little place. and it is not hard to pie ture to our minds the fftl, dignifed and uniformed general rtooping his broad shoulders and rernovf ng his three cornered continental hat askhe entered the little shop.
 design that he and his Flonpatriots
 had evolved and said: Nal te the first flag of your country. Thih1k Of the privilege-think of the ht'mor! I'm her eyes with reverent tears,s Y1ut Betsy Ross was a brave woman aad we are told that, undismayed by t7ht great
 personality. she boldly sugges ted that
 stead of six as the men had eStesigned them. si
 This detail may seem triviagA but it
 was thus that American Wonf R,nhood tional standard. And it was Ttpntan's hands that made it The flag thus tde- signed and executed was adoptxeds by congress on June If, 1T7T- It had ssewen red stripes representing the English colony, divided by alternate strfpGst of the purest white. In the upper lekt-
 hand corner was field of the tru sst blue studded with the sfaps of heavtsn. On the original flag there were but
 thirteen stars in a circle, representiIsg
 the original thirteen states. Those stars have never been dignIned, sy
 still give a bright light to all t1te
 world. and their influence and magnattc
 power have increased the cluster ko
 forty-eight and each one grows strons-
 CT and brighter as the years roll by. A
 Our flag was set up in the name Fof
 God and stin stands firm in the sanpe
 belief. It has been carried and plant
 ed at the North Pole. and today Is
 carried high in the clouds over the.
 fighting 1egions in Europe, and dut- j ters from the muddy trenches wtere our brothers are lighting for freedom N
 Be the flag big or little, 1t is our\ flag, our hoper our country. To look on the flag is to sec the epitome of years of loyal devotion of unselfish suffering, of glorious reward and high est ambition.
 You all have heard and sung the national anthem and been thrilled by its martial music. When Francis Scott Key wrote that immortal poem he was was bourbarding Fort McHenry, which .as the guns of the ship showered shot and shell on the old stone fort, the | poet was aporehensive that it would !
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
UNCLE JED's TALK WITH WIDE.
 AWAKES,

All the little Wide-AwakeI gardeners know how the constant rains have hindered gardnsrs this Spring. Some how. almost every Spring. resolves it. self into a cold and backward Spring: and if 1t isn't too wet i4 may be too dry: and so it goes.
 We have all wished the rain this Spring had beer divided with some Jess favorable parts of the earth for
 we have had teo much where they have had too little.
 Here in Southern New EnglanU we have 45 inches of water on the ,1evel annually. and the last Uncle Jed tknew about 1t there had not been rain fin Alden. Arabia, for 25 years; buttwhere there is little rain there are heavy dews at night
 While we have been having so much rain this Spring, England was. without a drop Of rain for 27 days. which is somSthing unusual for that country But Engiand's wettest month in Is5O. July, there were but two inches and a half of water fell and in February of the same year three-fourths- of ansiach marked the dryest month.
 Tn India they have twice as much rainfall as we-from to feet on the, level annually; and Brazil has twice as TTfucl, rain annually as India and in sections of Africa and Peru no rain.
 And the general average of rain flor the earth is five feet on the level: Tb1t New Engiand's rainfall for the :past twenty years has fallen off more jthan one whole years rain, or over 45finch- es on the level.
 A2d how much water do youf think falls upon an acre per month ? From 4B te so tons-mors than ton of water a day: and perhaps you have never thought of the speed of drops of vstsr-from 500 to 800 feet "a minute and you have noticed long and heavy rains harden the surface of sthe earth as if it had been hammered, which if, fact It has.
 And those who study rain find that one-fifth more rain falls upon the open ground than falls upon the topIof a building, and that the higher ',1p water is measured from the earth the less the water guage measures. For instance, a guage on Westminster FAb- by in London measured a little over 12 inches of water in a year; while the guage upon the ground measured 22 1-2 inches, or about twice as inauch
 Tn the temperate zone they have drfzz1ing or misty rains, but in the tropics the rain never drizzles but just pours down
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14


 aacerated wound Tn the little rough nesses and between the shreds may be poisonous saliva. If these projections and depressioels affording lodgment can be removed, the poison may not harm |, so much. Lf done with a knife, the wound sxoindib converted, practically. into cut wound and would require treatment fortsuch.
 Remove the clothing at once from the bitten paxtl and apply a temporary Hgatare abovsffthe wound. This inter rupts the activity of the circulation of the part, and to that extent may de- lay or even ppewent the absorption of the Peisonousl saliva
 If the rounsIhis at once well cleansed with antiseptSr washes and stick of solid nitrate nf silver rapidly applied to the -entireg surface, the danger of blood poisoniTE is greatly diminished. If a physician is at hand, he will prob ably cut Iput the injured portion, or cauterize 1Sethoroughly. A doctors ahefp is not alkTays at our command. In srch a case ftab would be a safe and by mo means a HFainful procedure to take a poker, heaE it redhet, and cauterize the entire sSnface of the wound.
 MAHY BOROVTCKlA, Age 13. West Wdlfngton.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
How I LosttMy Gold Dollar.

Seeing a piece in the Wide Awake Circle how a girl Host her gold dollar /reminded me of when I lost mine. My uncle gave me a gold dollar on my third birthday and my sister had a link put on so Iitwore it as a locket. About two years sago while at school some of the girls and I were playing around the organ a nd about two hours afterwards I discovered my f1ocket'' was gone. We hunted all around and couldn't find it.
 A while afterwards the organ was given to a neighboEsi as a kind friend presented the schobk with another one and as she was Ea1zing the old one apart, thinking of ,rraking a book case. she found the gold ffollar and returned it to me, for which U was very thank full.
 GRACE I. MAHEONEY, Age 12.
 Colchester.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
NWicked Mary,

Wicl<ed Mary. Dear UIii.Ie Jed: Mary was a girl thirteen yalars old who had neither fa- ther nor risother. She lived with her aunt who fNas very kind to her. The 1moIe her aunt did for her the more wicked she was. One night she awoke from, her sleep and sat on her bed. Marty saw a little elf sitting on the foot cf her bed She looked at him in gr9iat surprise and said; ~I don't &now you" The litt1k elf told her not to be so wicked, azkd to be glad for what she got So I fkhink she got over her wick edness.
 LEOIA LEGARY
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
The fEIaEdl r .t41e U. s. A.

Fhe F'IaH4 oT tf1e 0. Ss A. What a bean dfjAt hagif This flag of ourIs4 The Red. the FWIhite. the Blue. love it from f IEt tip to top. And I know tn Ia1; you do, too. But if you love eEyonr, flag, Forget not to h idnortand obey. Then if you do Shat You've got it d pwn pat Hurrahi Hurrs shi Hurrayi When your flag sis in need, Help and help ff along, For then you, c ian cheer When the vfctc wy is near And celebrate with song
 DOROI HY PASNIK, Age II Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
Burned the Dead Leavesaand RA,bisf,.

Dear Uncle Jed: On kC1ean-ups Day raked the lawn, and kpicked. Np the sticks and stones Thea lawn; tsR very large and takes much work and makes sores on your hands from yrakfn&
 l raked the dead leaves from under ! the trees. The small sticks I rp1cked llp= in a basket and put ain Sthe fiie&tQ burn. J piled the stones on the wall ka1td then raked the whole lawneand s8ePt the dirt from the steps andSswept 4tke flat stones near the house. I swspt and raked 1t. and put it in "a wagen land hauled it away. The sticks and ssstones were all picked up and5the 4rd was looking cleaner. But I wa4tea sit to look cleaner. swept land rafsd athe lawn again. It looked much cle&Rf- Fer then The dead graas + threws in la mudhoIe and fixed 1t so autoSho lbiIes and teams wouldn't get stuGk. T. then made the yard look sstth cieRn- Ter, by taking away the wagons fana old pieces of wood. puts then in Ashe woods. NJ planted some lily bulbs irfmy Sow @Agarden and some sweet pehs.l When thA wagner weather comes Ehf RHDw- er74 wilIf grow and draw the ee aafsention oftthosa nearby. ikL
 Although I worked very hFNa am we1N satisfied with the feol7 Iof my lawnN and every one speaixs Rnf about whahVat nice lawn we havet
 LILLIAN KORNEF, Tkge a2.
 Mansfleld Depot Verde tFJeed cl>a~;r,nf ia fhazezSprixc
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
My Gxrden.

One day just behs>re school let out the teacher in histo1ry passed out ap- piication blanks to ill out for either Home Gardening FHome Canning" or Working on a R:trm All Summer" filled out the blank for home garden ing sId promised toeIHant at least one half an acre.
 After the ground fwas plowed my uncle went over it, with a harrow until it was level II then planted one quart of beans, one dfkcorn and pla3t- ed twenty-six hills df8 cucumbers and thirty of muskmelomsk I put in a Small patch of beets, ] f1lrnips, radishes and carrots.
 One day my uncle was narrowing and I went to visit h i'm, and he told me to get on the harrow and go once around. I went around and he went out and went to sleep tand slept until the noon bell rang. finished the narrowing, and he was6 riven the credit for it.
 HAROLD WILDE.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
RuIe. fsr Yeuna Wrieer..

1. Write plainly on one. sids- of Athe paper only. and number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil. 8. Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do noS-use lover 2Ee words
 1. Original stories or letters soniy will be used
 5. Write your name. age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom Of the story.
 Address all communications tcaJncle Jed, Bulletin Office
 s-Whatever ycu ar1-Be thatt
 Whatever you gay-Be truet -es
 StraightforwardlY act sT*t
 Be honest-in fact & Jf
 Be nobody else but you" < a
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
Little Eunrise.

Dear Uncle Jed: am going. to tell :you about Little Sunrise. Little Sun trise was just an ordinary sort of boy
 but there was not another like him in
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
poa Bikes.

There is not much rpore danger from the bite of dog thatS is not mad, that is, not suffering from Ethe disease call ed rabies, than thersb is from any other lacerated woundI A bite from a dog that is really ma6g is a rare acci- dent which demands ppmpt and fear less treatment
 A mad dogs bite really makes a
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
Mary's Walk.

Mary had to stay in the house a 1ang time for she, had the humps. How her fans did puff out! But her bird in its neETcage sang sweet songs to her. One day when the sky was bright her motfler saia she might go out to walk in Hhe WeaE-m spring air.
 The first lining she saw was a gold en dandelion ib the green grass Then her brother EAank ran down to the brook to get a gray aster. He fell in and got all wak.
 Soon Mary was glad to go into the house and rest.
 ALICE GUYETTE, Age 14.
 North Fraatklin.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14

Buy a Liberty Bond before it is tos iate-at
 THE THAMES NATIONAL BANK
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
.Me ,Pro1 q Crow,

A crow sftund son ae peacock feathers and stuckSfhem ann Ong his own feath- CTS, and then he vi eT1t to see the pea cock. The tpeaeochx new at him and pecked hfrnt and Tle was glad to fly away. ERNEST EAF RENIEFE. Age B.
 Occum.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Jessie L. Brehaut, Huntington, l.. l. -I wish to thank you for the lovely book you sent me. It fs a very inter- esttng book and I am very much pleased with it.
 Lawrence Gau+hfer, of Brooklyn received the nice prize book and thank you very much for if. have read 1t through and liked it.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
Our Friend in the Garden

{! He Is not John. the gardener, And yet the whole day long He makes himself quite useful The flower beds among. He is not Tom, the pussy cat, And yet the other day. With stealthy stride and glistentng
 eye.
 He. crept upon his prey. He is not Dash, the dear old dog And yet, perhaps, if you Took pains with him and petted ihira You'd come to love him, too. He's not a blackbird, though he chkrps, And though he once was black; Yet now he wears a loose, gray Ecoat All wrinkled on the back. He has a very dirty face, And very shiny eyes; He sometimes sits beside our door. And Iooks-perhaps fs-wise ./ But in a sunny flower bed He has his fixed abode; He eats the things that eat my plants He is a friendly toad.
 Juliana H. Ewing.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
Aus&raIiar Sights.

The American who, for the Arst 11mss zxisits AHstralta. wiu And uurh
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14

would write one, too >but I cannot write with pen and ink very we'll
 DOROTHY MFR RRIFTELD, Age S. Baltic.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
POETRY.
Mister Spider spansIs-Less

By Leslie Clare Manchester. O Mister Spider-Spangle-Legs Sailing there in your balloon; Sailing there beyond the hedge, aGainst the rim of the golden moon! O Mister Spider-Spangle-Legs, The dew is on your hfrny lace: I see it glint like sprinkied stars Caught in the dim weh,g gauzy haze! O little gray man with sili<en coat Asleep on the deck of your pleasant
 craft
 Light are the pillows that float and
 float
 On, light as dream asi they gentlyE
 wait You up and up to the golden moon $ Light is the breath of the evening air. But lighter still your gay ballooni I want you to live in my garden Ihere:A want you to dwell the saasonf
 through I want you at morning, rosy clear. , And in the even balmy and jbiue1 Oh bid you moor to my whitet troSe-s
 hedge
 As long as you care. as long assyeu
 will; Oh, welcome your sloop at my gar
 den edge, Gray little sailor of waters still! .a
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14

Yards fNeed Cleaning it tfs@Sprius.
 Dearh Uncle Jed: Clan -u5lE7Day I
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-14
sToaIEs
AWAKEs.

STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE
 AWAKEa-
The Washington herald., 1917-05-21
MAXWELL CO. PLANS
FUEL ECONOMY TEST
Great Contest to Be Staged Wednesday
In y. S. and Canada.

Residents of Washington will soon De
in possession of the figures in the largest
and most extensive gasoline economy test
ever staged by an automobile company
They will also have the added interest
Of seeing the name of II. 3. Leary, IT,
1921 Fourteenth street northwest as a
competitor.
On Wednesday in every State of the
Union and in many of the Canadian
provinces, will be held the National Max
well Gasoline Economy Proof Day, on
which date proof will be offered the peo-
pie OF the country that the Maxwell IS
the most economical car to operate. The
contest, planned to give every Maxwell
distributor an equal chance, Is divided
into classes Of cities according to popu-
lation, there being five OF these. Eacn
two cars. these cars being borrowed"
from Maxwell owners in his town. There
will be four passengers, including the
driver, in each car and special certified
one-gallon gasoline cans have been pre-
pared and sent out to participants in
this stupendous run. These cans will
be attached to the windshield and con-
nected with the carburetor. Observers
chosen from public officials and news
papermen, will certify to the results
The winner will be that distributor or
dealer who. on a single gallon of gaso-
line, attains the greatest mileage. The
prizes offered total 5000 in gold and, In
addition, there is the National Maxwell
Championship Economy Cup, a handsome
gold and silver trophy which will go
with first money prize.
The Washington herald., 1917-05-21
FRENCH AID COMMITTEE
OPENS CAMPAIGN HERE

With the cooperation of the French
government, the French Restoration
Fund has opened temporary headquart-
ers at the Hotel Powhatan and is maxi
Ing plans for a national campaign.
Mrs. Cecile Sartoris, wife of Algernon
sartoris, grandson of Gen. Grant, rep
resents the fund in Paris, and James
keating, former editor of Hampton's
Magazine, is in active charge Of the
American end. The committee In Ameri-
ca is headed by former President Taft
and Cardinal Gibbons, while President
Poincare will head the French commit
tee, The acting committee in Washing
ton is presided over by Mrs. Henry F.
Dimock, with Mrs. James Carroll
Frazer as vice chairman, and Mrs.
Theodore Boynton, secretary.
The fund has arranged for a series of
entertainments which will be given as
benefits first in Washington and later
throughout the United States. The first
of these will be the appearance OF
Isadora Duncan at the Belasco Theater
at 4 o'clock next Thursday afternoon.
This will be followed in a few weeks by
the French. Symphony Orchestra which
will appear here and then go on tour.
France is preparing a loan Of the best
Its museums of fine art can AFFORD to be
brought to America, giving Americans
an opportunity to see many MASTER
pieces that heretofore have been viewed
only in Paris Finally. the French
Restoration Fund will make this sum-
mer, under the direction of the French
government, motion pictures of the de-
vastated region. They will be shown
throughout America
The Washington herald., 1917-05-21
The First Lesson Of the Soldier

The first thing OF all that the young
American of the New Army will be
taught, and must learn thoroughly II he
Is to serve his country efficiently as a
soldier, is Observation-Disclosures expressed
in discipline.
Discipline is the fundamental of the
soldier.
Discipline is not punishment. Disci-
plir1e is not the goose step. Discipline,
In the proper sense, is control-control
for a definite purpose. Obedience Is
merely the adapting of oneself TO such
control And to make the system ef-
fective from the private to the army
corps, the discipline OF the soldier must
begin with the discipline of himself.
Obedience, or discipline, is not in
tended to convert a man into an un-
thinking machine. A soldier who can
think Is twice the soldier who cannot.
The most efficient National Guardsmen
on the border year ago were inyari-
ably the most Intelligent What disci-
pline does attempt to do is to supply
a man with the machinery of action
after his thoughts have been blasted to
pieces by shells. His motions must be
ngrained-automatic. This is attained
through steady drill, the routine of
camp and "the School of a Soldier"
No man is Mt to command who has
not first learned to obey. Command, in
the nature of things, will fall to those
who obey most quickly, most itelligently.
Discipline, to the young American SOL
dter' will be manifest in his conduct: in
the way he carries himself-the poise
Of his head, the erectness Of his shoul-
ders. 1t will be evident in the neatness
OF his clothes; the care with which he