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Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-18
A Younq American Conversation.

Dear Uncle Jed:: 1 am going. to tell you about a conversation between some Thrift Stamp buyers.
 One of them said: How many Thrift Stamps have you, Tommy? have leven in my book and Eddie has nine."
 i've only three in my book, but I'm going to get another today, soon s teacher comes."
 Did your mamma give you a quarter for your stamp, Alice?"
 Course not! I earned it! I helped mamma and auntie to shell the peas and then I dried the dishes for man. ma That was worth one quarter; and I carried papas lunch for a week, and he gave me another quarter; and minded the baby for Mrs Ross for two afternoons and she paid me for that, so all the stamps l have in my book are earned stamps. Auntie says that's the incest kind; and they're the kind I'm always going to have if can."
 How did you get your money Tommy"
 q earned it pullin' weeds in the garden and pickin' berries for MT. Will son. get two cents quart for berries, and it don't take long to pick quart. l LnlIlh l IlElLl CldLlpS d fine way to save money, don't you, Tottie?'
 'eYes. But the best thing about it is that we are all helping Uncle Sam tc win the war while we are saving III our pennies. used to spend my pen nies for candy and soda and things like that; but now I. save every one and it don't take long to save enough 1 to buy a Thrift Stamp. I bet there'l be lot Of rich boys and girls before long"
 People all over the country are do- ing just what Tottie and Tommy are oing-saving their pennies to buy Thrift stamps or War Savings stamps and helping to provide money for our soldiers and to make bullets and other 1 necessary munitions to win the war Won't we be happy people when the war is over and we have peace in l the world again and to think that we | had a hand in bringing about what everyone wants more than anything else-Peace on Earth!
 Are all the Wide-Awakes helping Uncle Sam in this way? l am buying Thrift stamps. I have two War Savings stamps and have i been knitting for the Red Cross. | hope all the Wide -Awakes have been | helping in some way.
 z OLIVE GUILE, Age 15. Norwich.
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Can a Girl Garden?

Let two girls who have made the venture give answer. They live in Vermont and are sisters. They culti- vated last year a little less than four acres of ground, with only such help as was given them by a veteran of the Civil War whom they hired to help them part of the time. This is an exact list, given by one of the girls, of what they harvested from their | four acres:
 l Three tons of hay, eighty bushels of potatoes, thirteen and one,haf 1 bushels of beans, fifty pumpkins,
 twelve squashes,' 500 tomato plants
 sold at sixty cents dozen, 100 heads
 of cabbage, fifteen heads of caulifiow- CT, siXty-five n1angold beets, two
 bushels table beets, four bushels string beans, five bushels green peas, six bushels green corn six bushels tur- nips, two and one-half bushels car- rots, three bushels parsnips, one half bushel onions, four dozen punches i celery, two bushel cucumbers, sixty baskets strawberries, twenty three
 baskets raspberries, ten baskets cur rants, ten dozen day-old chickens, 240
 broilers, 761 dozen eggs, 220 bullets
 raised"
 It will be seen, from this that the
 girls kept chickens on their four
 acres of ground. and in addition to the
 products enumerated they sold from
 their garden asparagus, rhubarb, let tuce, sage. radishes, Swiss chard and a good many flowers from pretty : little flower garden. Can girls gar den? We think so. And they can dt so, not only with gain to their purse: } but with great gain to themselves 1T ; physical strength and general health , since there is no more wholesome ant | healthfQl occupation in the world thar l that of gardening. Moreover, under existing conditions, a girl is in the ser
 vice of her country when she is add 5 ing to the food supply as these yount Vermont sisters have added to it, | M M. Mn the Girls Companion.
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UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE.
 AWAKEs.

People ge to the seashore all their lives and do not seem interested in the motion, greatness or sounds of the sea.
 The action of the sun and moon up- on the water give it it's action, and every day the wave of the moon and the wave of the sun meet in a tidal wave at a eHven hour in the ocean in the latitude Of Madagascar
 And how great is the sea do do you suppose? Your school books tell you that two-thirds of the globe is covered with water, and we know there are places where it is five miles deep; but this does not give us as clear an idea of it's vastness as does the state ment, that if the sun should take up put of the ocean and seas of the world all the water in them, it would take all the rivers now running into them eight hundred years to replace the wa Der.
 The Japanese, who are a sea,sur- rounded and sea-faring people, have an old saying -hat "the sea has a soul and hears;" and the poets tell us of Its roar and it's whisperings and the sea-faring people tell us ''No mortal ever saw two waves break upon the shore exactly alike"
 And not one thinks what the ice and the winds and the tides had to do with the forming of the beach upon which they camp and sing and bathe in the simmer time, or when gather ing the sea-weeds from the water realize that while most of them may be from nearby coves and shores, some of them are from the sea a-gardens of far-away Bermuda shoals, or the seas of Sargossa. the weed covered sea, in which weeds and refuse drift forever some of which may have been there since the days of Columbus, tideless windless waste of waters, as danger ous to man as the great deserts oi earth. c-
 EAere are lots of things to be
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he has a flag with 26 stars upon it, representing his 26 sons and grandsons now in the service on the Italian front
 Baldy belongs to "Scottv" Allen, the driver of the famous Darling team of dogs. He has had many years of ser vice in the wilds of Alaska, and when war broke out his children and grand children were called into service "Over there" They are all trained dogs and it is their business to carry munitions and supplies to the soldiers in the Alps. They are very sure footed and can climb over the most dangerous passes without losing their foothold on the ice and snow.
 Gid Baldy was the leader of the team of dogs for many years. but was too old for service abroad and so, like q loyal and patriotic father, he sent his boys to do the work he would Iike so much to do.
 INEZ GUILE, Age F. Norwich
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shae's Side of the Case.

Alice's sister came into the room where the dog was barking.
 Shag is getting to be such a mis- chief. Look at the books on the shelf of the bookcase.. We will have to get rid of him! Don't cry. Alice. How can we have a dog around the house that does such damage? Look at the ink he has upset on the tablespread.'
 She loved Shag; but what should she do? He did spoil things, and he would have to go.
 T told you it wasn't Shag that both cred you" said Bridget the next morn ing. Just come here and see''
 The little family followed the maid and what do you think they saw? Shag jumping around and on the floor lay three dead mice-two of which were streaked with ink!
 Then that is what he wanted" {" said Alice, and you won't get rid of him, after all!"
 No, indeed" said AIice's sister, stopping down and batting him. RUTH ERICKSON. Norwich.
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Temper and John Webb.
By Norman ". TWiddy.

That he was het-headed, John Webb knew. John was as fiery as the bright red thatch which covered his head. In school, John was as smart as most boys; in his home, he was courteous; in his sports, he was square-only one bad habit was fixing itself in sixteen year-old Johns being-Temper Smart, courteous and square. he was-when everything went along smoothly. When it didn't-wow!-he went off like a hand grenade.
 The Eagles" were playing the Tn vincibles' for the. baseball champion ship of the Junior League. The League was an eight-team one and his bunch the Eagles" eS"-were but one-half a game behind the "Invincibles'' for first place. This would be the final game. Every member of the winning team would receive medal offered by the leading newspaper of the town. John Webb played shortstop, 3-3 in the fifth, with the Eagles" up and John on first! Suddenly the boy at the bat hit hard grounder toward second. John was off like a streak. 1 The "Invincibles' second baseman got the ball and tagged John as he slid for the bag.
 Out" shouted the umpire Then "Old Man Temper" who had made a slave out of John, whispered
 to him, ''Go on. Kick up a rumpus D He lost control of himself and up he went into the air like a dirigible. He flung his cap on the ground and kick 1 ed the earth with his spikes. His face began to match the color of his hair.
 You're out mile" grunted the Tn
 vincibles' !" second baseman-a smaller
 boy than John.
 John, without thinking of the boys 5 size or of fair play, hit him on the
 chest. The boy staggered and wen'
 down.
 l The umpire seized John by the arm that and you go out of the game" The words cut John. He walked back to the bench, still boiling inside but trying to fight his anger down He was ashamed of himself
 ! With a boy on third. in the sixth : an easy groupder was hit to John l He was unstrung. His fit of temper his striking of the smaller boy ant
 the umpires rebuke had been torment ing his sense of squareness. First h fumbled, then booted the ball! Tn } boy scored from third; the batter wa safe at first. John felt miserable fo
 more than one reason. That run proved the winning ru ! for the "Invincibles." Webb's fumbl | in the sixth had lost the game, hi
 teammates said-but he knew tn ; game had been lost before that. 4 had been lost in the fifth inning whe Temper had beaten him without hi ., even fighting.
 The championship lost; no medal
 for the fellows; and he John Webb
 had struck a smaller boy! John did
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THE WINNERS OF. PRIZES.

1-oIive. Guile of Norwich-Thrift stamp.
 2-Raymond Aver of Norwich Through by Wireless. S-Lydia Dusas of Versailles Cross Girls in British Trenches.
 4-EtheI Light of Willimantic-Red Cross Girls With Russian Army.
 5-lnez Guile of Norwich-Thrift stamp.
 6-Sophe Goska of Jewett City Dorothy on Ranch.
 Bertha Lieht of Versailles-Pen's s Venture.
 S-Rosalie A. Anderson of Norwich Thrift stamp. Winners of prizes living in the city may call at The Bulletin business office for them at any hour after 10 a. m on Thursday.
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LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Geraldine Gareau of Southbridge Mass: Although I am late in thank ing you for the prize book you sent me entitled The Frontier Boys in Colo rado, have read it through and found it very interesting. Thank you again. Alice Runney of South Coventry: I thank you very much for the Thrift stamp which you sent me for my story.
 Hans Stienn1eyer of Eagleville: I thank yoa very much for my Thrift stamp. I had one weeks vacation and I earned one dollar and now 1 have 13. hope 1 will win another.
 Sarah Hyman of Norwich: I thank you very much for the prize book en- titled Making the Last Stand for Old Glory, which I won some time ago. 1 have read it through and have found it quite interesting.
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Lewis and CIark's Expedition.

When Thomas Jefferson was presi- dent people did not know anything about the far west. Nobody lived there but the cruel, savage Indians
 Thomas Jefferson sent two men through the wild country to find out what kind of people lived there. The names of these men were Lewis and Clark. There were forty-fve men in the party. They were to go up the Missouri river and find a route over the Rocky Mountains. They were gone two years and four months. They ate horsemeat and dogmeat and some times they ate bread made from roots.
 They went to an Indians village and the Indians fed them. After they were done eating they saw buffalo head hanging on a post. The Indians put some meat in a bowl and set it in front of tine head and said: Eat that
 They believed if they treated this head politely the other buffalos would come to their hunting ground and then they would have plenty to eat
 KATHLEEN DONNELLY, Age 10.-
 Lisbon,
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My Farm Home,

Dear Uncle Jed; I thought would write and tell you about the farm 1 live on. There are one hundred and twenty acres. We have twenty three sheep and ten lambs. We have seven cows and six heifers. and two bulls. We also have two horses.
 I have a war garden in which am raising beets, radishes, peas, tomatoes, carrots, peppers and several other veg etablesS
 All of the eight children in my school have bought Thrift stamps When school closed, we had about $50 worth of stamps. I have six Thrift stamps and hope to get my card filled before December.
 I hope all the Wide-Awakes have
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STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE
 AWAKES.
The Acorn asd the Pumpkin.

A countryman who was lying at the foot of an oak considered a pumpkin plant in his neighbor's garden.
 At this look our countryman cried; How is it that such big fruit is sup ported by such little thin stem, while the little acorns are suspended on this superb oak?
 If all the things of this world would have been created by me, these big, nice pumpkins would have been put on the oak
 Had he not just said these words, when an acorn fell from the tree, the face of the man was struck by it so justly N1at the blood came down from his nostrils. "Oh. yes!" said the man, T just received a good whack for my foClishniess!"
 The pumpkin had it been attached at the place of the acorn. would have smashed my nose"
 ROSE DUQUETTE, Age 10.
 Danielson.
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How She Celebrated the Fourth.

Dear Uncle Jed: will tell you how I spent Fourth of July. I did not have very many fireworks. I had 10 cents worth. I thought I would save my money and get thrift stamps. I al- ready have nine, and 1 am trying to get more.
 My mother told me if would keep house she would give me 25 cents ev- cry week while she goes working in the mill. And besides I get small change from my father which helps get stamp. think it's a job to keep house; anyhow I get a thrift stamp every week. We ali have to start in working and it's wartime and we have to help.
 I have to take care of my sister and fifty chickens. I have to see that they have water. 1 think that job is worth 25 cents.
 I will. close and hope that all the Wide -Awakes had a happy Fourth of July.
 BERTHA LICHTE, Age F.
 VarSsilInS
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Versailles.
Calico.

Calico was an Italian. He invented the telescope, microscope and the ther- mometer. When IS years old he, saw lamps suspended on long cords and observed that they swung with differ ent beats when the wind blew. Ex- perimenting, he finally discovered the right number of beats in minute was 80 because his string, which was 39 inches long, beat that number of times. This was the length of the pendulum of all old fashioned clocks for many years.
 This discovery has been valuable to the world for calculating correct time.
 The longer the pendulum, the slower the beats. The shorter the pendulum, the more rapid the beats
 KATIE BOBECK, Age 10.
 Columbia
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Pauline Cushman,

The theatre at Louisville, Ky, was crowded to the doors one March night in 1863. For Pauline Cushman, Or leans girl was starring in a new play.
 The Civil war was at it's height Kentucky, like other border states, was nominally true to the Union. but was seething with southern sympa- thizers. Louisville was a hotbed for Confederate plots.
 Col Moore. United States govern ment provost marshal of. the city, could not possibly cope with all these conspiracies
 At such a time a northern address might have found scant welcome in Louisville. But Pauline Cushman was a Louisiana girl and it was whispered that all her sympathies were with the confederation. She was forever re- turning to the south on theatrical tours.
 During banquet scene in that nights play at Louisville she snatched q wineglass and strode to the foot lights. Her eyes were ablaze and her cheeks flushed.
 In a trumpet voice she offered a toast to Jefferson Davis and to the tri- umphant victory of his rebel armies.
 For an instant a gasp of amaze uenJ ran tIrOUSh the auQlence. 1nen 8 thousand men sprang to their feet, cheering madly. They cheered be- cause Pauline had echoed their own sentiment. Also because of her rash courage in offering such toast in a city garrisoned by Union troops If a New York actress in 1918 should give from a stage a toast to the kali ser the public could not be more hor- rified than was the loyal element of Louisville. The whole city was in an uproar.
 That very night Col. Moore, the Union provost marshal, arrested Paul line and threatened her with a prison sentence as 8 traitor to her country She was a heroine trusted, petted All doors and all arms south of the Ma son Dixon line were eagerly thrown open to her Pauline Cushman had done a clever thing. All the while she was Union spy!
 She and Col. Moore had arranged the whole farcical affair of the toast to Jeff. Davis and her eviction from Kentucky. They had done it to make the south trust her And they had succeeded. From that time for many months Pauline could get any infor-
 nation from the Confederates that she wanted. Southern spies, southern off cers, southern civic authorities told
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Daniel Webster,s Eirst cass.

Daniel Webster's father was a poor farmer Besides Daniel. he had an older son named Ezekiel. One day Ezekiel set a trap to catch a wood chuck that for a long time had been stealing his breakfasts from the gar den of the Websters.
 At last the woodehuck was caught. Now" said Ezekiel, you've done harm enough to die, Mir woodchuck. and die you shall"
 Daniel, who had a kind heart begged his brother not to kill the woodchuck, but to let him go But Ezekiel would not, so they asked their father what was to be done.
 Well" said old Mfr Webster, There is the prisoner. You. Ezekiel, shall be lawyer against the woedchuek, and you, Daniel, shall be lawyer for him.
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Plainfeld.
Our School.

To begin with, our school is situat- ed on Main street and is of brick construction. It has four classrooms and has three large railways by which the pupils enter their classes. A fire escape is situated on the back of the school.
 On the left side of our school is the boys play yard. and on the right is the girls.
 On Friday afternoons we snip and sew towels and we cut gun wipes for the Red Cross
 We also have a Junior Red Cross and have our Red Cross flag.
 We sing patriotic songs and recite war poems.
 I also have garden and raise many
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RuIea for Young Writers.

1, Write plainly on one side of the paner only. and number the pages. 3. Bse pen and ink, not pencil. s. Short and pointed articles will pe given preference. Do not use over 2ko words.
 4. 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 tc Uncle Jed, Bulletin Offiee.
 Whatever fcu are--Be that!
 Whatever you <ay-7Ee truet
 Straightforwardly act,
 Be honest--in fact,
 Be- nobody else but you"
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LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
Helping the Red Cross.

Dear Uncle Jed: I have been col lecting money for the Red Cross. collected $2.55. and 1 brought it down to the Red Cross room Friday after noon. The Red Cross gave me a pin for collecting money for them.
 I have joined he Junior Red Cross, too.
 I have a brother who is a sailor. So I like to be patriotic .
 My mother and my sister have join ed the Red Cross, also.
 ROSALIE ANDERSON, Age s. Norwich.
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ve of. ps besides the doggie

NS.- .-~- g .- Five of us besides the doggie
 (Doggie's name was Pit-a-pat; Dickie stuck his ears straight up-
 ward,
 Saying, Just please feel of that!" 'Liz'beth sat in front with Ida;
 Dot and I sat on the fioori Lyle with Pit-a-pat beside her.
 Crowded down between us four. Pit-a-pat felt awful crowded,
 And he tried his best to fuss; Gfowled and snapped around minute Just to show his thoughts Of us. piclxie pulled us just little
 Then began with awful vim. Kicking at the legs of 'Lizbeth
 Till he'd knocked off lots of skin. Then he ran away, did Dickie,
 And we couldn't stop him, though Two of us with ali our power
 Pulled upon the reins just so. Lyie fell out upon the roadside,
 And we left her sprawling there, While we sailed on fast and faster, Hats a-fying everywhere. Soon the wagon turned and jolted, Spilling us all out at once; Then-old Dickie of a sudden
 Stopped just like perfect dunce. Pit-a-pat was underneath us,
 In the huddle-in the dirt. But he got himself out somehow
 Much disgusted. but not hurt. Then he ran around to Dickie,
 And ke parked and bit and fought Bit at Dickie's legs-that doggie-- Just because he thought he ought. Dickie cooked his eyes little,
 Poor old Pit-a-pat," said he. T don't care for your small bitings Any more than for flea"
 Southern Woman's Magazine.
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suffered extremely from her scalp itchE ing, and she war constantly scratch. ing. Her hair was getting thin and lifeless. T sent for free sample of Cuticura Soapand Ointment. Ipurchased more, and now she is healed" (Signedl Mrs. Carrie A. Bryan, q Centre Place, Jamaica Plain, Mass. : You may rely oa Cuticura to care for your skin, scalp, hair and hardss
 l Sample Each Free by Mail. Address post. card: "Cuticura, Dept. R, Boston," 6old everywhere. Soap 25c. Ointment g and Soc
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Dickie e
"MY SHIP"

l think of my bed as big big ship, To carry me over the sea; Sometimes we go off on a stormy
 trip,
 My Gollywog and me. I am the captain, and Golly is crew We do have some lovely sails; And in the sea are great big fish, Saw-fish, and sharks, and whales. Some of them Afrighten us very much, But Golly and are brave, And we fight them with swords and
 guns and things,
 Our beautiful ship 70 save. But now, think, we must say good
 by, ---
 For four eyes are beginning to peep. And we're off in our ship to the Land
 of Nod"
 With a great big cargo of sleep. Kathleen N. Grant in the York shire Post.
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Norwich.

An old fashioned rosebush in Mrs. Albert Fletcher's yard in Laurel, Bel, that never was grafted, has three beautiful roses, one red, another white and the third blue. No one in the city ever saw or heard of ahy thing like it.-Boston Globe.
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POETRY.
pIcKIE.
a law pony;

Dick.e was a lazy pony; Loads to him were aeVer good; And one day we fillYl the wagon More than Dickie thought we
 should.
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CHILD SUFFERED ]
 WITH ITCHING
Scalp and Dandruff, Constantly Scratching, Hair Thin !:
 and LifeIess.
HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT
My daughter was troubled very much with dandrlff snd her sealr WAS

sore and very tender. Grest patches of dandruff would form on the scalp, and drawing 2 comb through her hair would often stan inc blood. The dandruff sealed of and could De Sea7, 1r, da- oi1ebs- c
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thought of by the seaside besides the cooling breezes and the little joys they afford.
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Famous Dog and His Service FIaq.

Dear Uncle Jed: Did you ever hear of dog having service flag? Per haps not. but there is such a dog. His name is "Baldy of Nome" and
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kinds of vegetables.
 LEONA BERTHIAUME, Age Il. Dayville.