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STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE. AWAkES
Valentine.

Long ago there lived a priest named Falentine.S This good man was noted for his kindness all the country round. He was always ready to nurse the sick, and help The
 Valentine dearly l6ved the chil- dren, and those who went to h.m for food were never turned away. After this kind priest became too old to go about among the people they became very sorry. Then he remembered that he could write loving messages to the sick and sorroWihg. Even the lit,le children would say, when they were sick: T think Father Valentine viii send uie little message today. But after a t..ne no more letters were. received and the news spread abroad that good old Valentine was dead. Then everyone said that such man was good ard kind enough 10 be called .sa.nt." And from that day to this everyone has known him as Saint Valentine. .s Today the children celebrate his birthday by sending loving ress1ges to their friends. The messages con taining the gifts gre called Yslen- tines.
 This ail happened years ago. but good Saint Valentine is still renem- bered on the 14th Of each February. FLORENCE E. McGOvERN, Age fs. G1asgo.
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The All Round Girl (@3 Red Cheek:
That 0ld-Fashioned Saint
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 Why do we celebrate St Yaier tines day, motherf"
 sIt's like most of our customs, Dor othy. A celebration that has oniya. !oczi interest is taken lip by> outsids, and falls into universal use. In |: first century A. D. there were tNS Roman priests named Valentine who did much good for their people, dis trihutiug aims and sacrificing. then1- selves in many ways. They died on the same day. Thereafter, the Ro- mans did them honor by. distributing fasis fzsS' 0n fhsiF nsm0F'ai '1y-rs''o-'s
 Did we just copy the custom from the Romans P
 "Not exactly. When Roman customs came into England, a little of the St Valentine spirit remained. Rural folks adopted the habit of making St. Val- entine's day an occasion for gifts be tween sweethezrts. If the young man did not give a gift to his bride-to-be On February 14fh, she had cause for annufIing the engagement. It is also thought that St. Valentines day is the time when birds begin to mate; there fore time for messages of love be- tWetn friends @isa:si ''sssssss sss ss z
 Dorothy said: Mother, I'm going to make Valentines day a yeGI time fer my friends. There Is net oae who will not know how value friendship. When you see my list, you will be sur psised." s4Fszl
 Dorothy went to her desk and wrote. Here is her plan:
 q. Answer Aunt EieanorS letter. 2 Write grandmother q have not .sritten for rnonths). 5. Send each of the girls card wishing her good luck {. Write short note to every mem Der of the family saying something pleasant (to be used instead of place cards at the dinner table1. 5. Return the book 1 borrowed from Mary White. 6. Mend my stockings. 7. Do something especially nice for mother. E. Re pleasant ali day..o. Do all the odds and ends that I have been neg lectine. 10. As I do each thing I wili make check over the number"
 Dorothy was a trihe embarrassed over the things she listed and showed 1t to her mother with some hesitation.
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right length after the upper end is bent into loop. Make the iooD by hsmmering the end around spike in a plank; the loop should be large enougf1 b turn loosely on F. The cross wire (F) should be passed through holes bored in the two side-posts (B, B) and bent over.
 The most difficult part to make. ;s he door step co which keeps the wires spaced apart, allows them to swing in, but keeps them from swing, ing out Make it out of a piece of elear-grained wood, one-half inch by 2 by 9 inches. Draw a line para,iei J to, and z inch from, the edge and space this of, into E. inch intervals to form the centers of a series of 3-i6 or N inch holes. sSpace of the tons ef the points as shown in the detail of ' and saw out the notches with fine Saw. 4 hole and notch are needed Tor each of the eleven wires. Then tasten c into place and space fhe wires into the proper notches.
 Bait the trap with some grain cn the doorstep, and a trail of grain lead- trg inside. Mir. Sparrow viii push the wires back to get inside,.a and they will tall back again and lock him in"
 Copyright 1sso. by J. H. Mirtar
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Yanti,
The Busy Bees.

It had been raining all day and evening. There was no blue sky to be seen. Two girls and a boy stood dis consolately watching it, and appeared to be thinking hard. At last the oldest one said:
 q have plan! Let'sNforrn a club!n
 This was readily agreed uoop and soon they were drawing plans for it. After much .discussion they agreed upon the name "Busy Bees" eiecting Janet (the oldestJ president: Kenneth, treasurer, and Harriet to plan enter tainments for each meeting.
 The girls then went to sew badges for them on brown cloth with gold letters B. B. across them.
 At their first meeting tout in their favorite apple tree. which was decided son as their clubhouse) they decided to help the RedCros so as to live un to their name and do s7ippine. and mak- Ing scrapbooi1s for the orphans.
 The work was given to them and al each meeting they worked upon 1t. ard at Christmas time thew dresSad a doIl for 2 little Fgerch crrha h., :. At each meeting collection va taken u9 till they had en6ugh fos buy sonae thrift stamps for the club. Sometimes the collector would e,c to the Red C~oes, or to the Ii.fie starving children ia war stricker lands.
 So>the club has gone on for over i've wears. Teyv r1eT77hers have ssAen afsSed he chfldren F1eing onzv too -piad tr ipin. and all tfe members hesrtffy wish it to thrive for many years tc come.
 FLrzAHrrH s. AVERY, Age is.
 Norwich Town.
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Young Citizens s l $.s Adventures
Lincoln and the Slaves
BY R s. ALEANDE1

BY R. $. ALExANns2
 @Old Abe's looking mighty frisky this morning." said Hunting Eyes friend, the mayor, looking st the statue of Lincoln in front of the town hall. But he has right to look that way; it's his birthday"
 -Who was Old Abe and what did he do" asked the boy from the North Woods.
 His real name was Abraham Lin coin and he freed the slaves"
 Slaves What are they?"
 sThey were persons who were owned by other people Long ago. when two peoples or nations fought, the members of the nation which con- quered took the men and women of the other as slaves; that is they made them their property and forced them to work for them The white men who first came over the Great Water made slaves of many of your people in this fashion.
 Shortly after the white men be- gan to come over the Great Water, they commenced to bring with them black, men from Africa as slaves. These black men were stil wifa and uncivilized without improved methods of warfare. Thus they were easy to capture. These slaves were needed in the southern part of the country to help grow cotton. The industry of the north was so organized that 1t could not use them. So they were sent most ly to the south. <.
 Gradually people began to feel that slavery was wrong. England, one of the greatest of the nations across the Big Water prohibited it nearly one hundred years ago. The people in the north of this country wished at that time to follow England's example. But the people in the land of cotton, who had grown up among the slaves and had been trained by the conditions about them to think that slavery was right, did not wish to abolish it.
 The controversy. oyer the question became hotter and hotter until, finally, it resulted in the great war which we call the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln
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place for only tl1rees months Of khAs year. The sound of church going bell these valleys and woods had never heard; church was held in the school house whenever a travelling preacher came that way. Letters came to the. town but once week. and the post office was in the postmaster's kitchen.
 Ruth had to walk two miles to school, and the thick woods stretched away on either side of the road for miles and miles.
 One day when she was duite a little girl she had, been sent on an errand to a neighbor's, a mile away. She took 8. short cut home through the woods. As she was walking along. thinking Of nothing in particular. listening to the %oodpeckerS tapping the trees, and to the whirring of the cartridges and the carvings of the crows flying over from her fathers cornfield, she suddenly saw a big dog, as she thought, not far from her.
 The animal was sitting down and looking at her. Ruth likes dogs and was not at all afraid. She thought of going up to him and batting his brown head, but her mother had told her t0 come home quickly. Then the creature Fan towards her, stopped again, and showed his white teeth. But yet Ruth stood still. watching him. not bit scared. She wondered if neighhor Farrar had a new dog, or whose he could be, and wishing she knew. his name.
 Just then he got up again and turn ed and trotted off into t--- deeper woods. As he was disappearing in the shadows of the trees it flashed upon Ruth that he was not a dog at all, but I wicked brown bear Then she ran home as fast as her legs would carry her, without looking behind her
 ALDEA TETRAULT.
 Versailles.
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My Flower Garden.

q I was so pleased with the results Of my garden will tell you about it. had both a flower and a vegetable garden.
 My flower garden was five feet long and three feet wide. I had a border of pansies around the bed [ had pink, white and purple asters ana zinnias in the center.
 Tn the afternoon when 1 came. home from school I spaded the ground. then [ raked in the fertilizer. I made the ground rich and the flowers bloorned well.
 had a border Of geraniurns around the vegetable garden. had fine iet- tuce. beets and carrots in straight, even rows.
 My garden took the prize in the school garden contest.
 l expect to have larger garden this coming year. A EVA BURCHARD, Age 14. Norwich,
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UNCLE JEo's TALK TO WIDE.
 AWAKES.

Tno nation to1ay celebrates Asra- han L-1col1's birthday. because he was & great President, and like John Bright Of England, a great Common q,
 10 man erer believed mere thor
 sAH n the people, or ia the
 '.re:eies os the American Constitu- sisn.
 He w2s loyal to God, to his own eOnTicfiers and to his country
 Since he had said 10 man is good rroaxa 10 be my master. he was cenecioGs that he was not good eaouga 10 De anyone else's master. and vas q trre servant of the people.
 There. never had been ard never vii Do another President like him. He had passed through every coudi- tier ot life from the lowest to the 1.ReeSt, and there vas no class his thought and sympathy did not reach. Tn Lincoln every citizen was repre- seated.
 Why all the people loved him was sec2uss he loved fair play and show sz great forbearsnce and mercy where another might have been re 1.E1
 When one of h.s cabinet onieers ezne to him for the third or fourth tirno 10 have several soldier boys exc euted fer misdeeds, he burned the pa pers and said to him: Its a fine day to take a walki' And they walked and forgot t.
 He was too forgiving for most ot thoss around him. and they com piasEe6 that he was not harsh enough He said in reply to them: ~It makes ne rested after a hard
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ing to bring them tomorrow; but do not know whether they will or not
 One of the boys was sliding on a piece Of cardboard which the teach CT let him have. The hill was so slippery that he could go pretty fast could do to get up the hill.
 Some of the smaller children would get half way up, and then fall down again. A lot of the children ran in- to the bushes.
 When the bell rang was sorry to hear it because we had to leave of our fun and go into the schoolhouse.
 hope all the Wide Awakes have as good times sliding down hill as I have had this winter.
 MARJORIE GATES. Age g.
 Gales Terry.
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railroad company to persons whose goods had heen left there by mistake; just one let : was missing, as usual, but note results of the neglect The poster ran thus: Persons to whom those packages are directed, are re- quested to come forward and pay the Awful charges on same.'" Perhaps they would be at that However, the company did not intend being so very candid, instead. the awful charges should have read the lawful Although in this case perhaps 1t was awful, still they did not mean 1t to be so given out.
 You see 1t was all caused by neglect in the little things.
 FLORENCE J. HALL. Age 1a. E Norwich.
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the war. Their mother was shot down by a cruel German officer for not sa- luting the German flag
 After their mother had died, the street until an American soldier found them and sent them to an orphan asylum. The children had been in the asylum a year. One day a woman came into the asylum and asked the children if they would like to have home of their own. a. They said they would. and the woman took them home and they lived with her ha opily ever after.
 MARION GIBBS. Age l2.
 Yantic.
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LETTERS OF AcKNowLEooMENT

Fteda Longer, Of Gurleyviiie - thank you very much for the prize With the Tanks" have read -sotsiie of it. hope I will win another one some other day.
 Ruth GohrI, of ,Uncasvslle-I receiv- ed the prize book you sent me entitled "Tne Two AdInirals" cannot express my thanks for the book. have read it and found it very interesting.
 Mildred Cotton, of South coventry- thank you very much for the prize book you sent me. I have read it through and find it very interesting.
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A pay an the Earn,.

One day, not very long ago, I went to farm where had very much fun. for there was many things I liked to see. There were chickens, cows. horses, dogs pige, pigeons and many other animals.
 There was bun there which broke loose and we had trouble in catching him. We had to pass many farm houses out Of which the men came and helped us catch him. After caught him, who had joined in try ing to catch him. We then brought the bull back and tied him with a chain instead of rope. After that we took a horse and team ad went for ride and then went home for it was quite late.
 WILLIAM DUR0, Age 10.
 Taftviile.
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statement to this effect: ..Mr. = and a few friends had gone for tbe purpose of shooting peasants when he had really gone with friends to shoot pheasants.
 Another paper in relating te fate of a. COW which has strayed, and got on the railroad track, said: "The COW had been cut into calves (instsad of halyes), by the blow from the engine.s
 A notice was posted by a certain
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sndina Down Hin.

One afternoon at school the other children and I went out sliding back of the schoolhouse. There is a nice hill here and 1t is very steep, and the snow is very hard.
 Some Of the children slide on boards. but I brought my sled and we took turns on it.
 The children who have sleds are go-
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Al odd Pony.

i My little sister Grace uses Prince as a, pony. Prince is 2 great brown and white St Bernard. He has been here eight years. He came from Italy. Every sYnoruing Prince. lies fiat on the floor to fef Grace climb on his back. Then the big, kind animal gets, up and she rides hiEn all over the kitchen. He is always very. careful not to let her fall.
 While Rrincet1 lives Grace does not
 EDNA WEAVER, Age F.
 Providence
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Nsaiee+fuIness of ui4ls Th;,...

Persons who may be reached through this letter may have had just such mistakes happen to themselves. For instance, you write a few lines hurriedly, and you spell one word wrong, by leaving out one little letter. You do not realize you have done so. if you did you would correct 1t and think
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To Guard .axsinst rnaaepzs.

II you have even the slightest cough or cold, be tier hegin using Fc.ey's Honey and Tar at once. Henry Willis, Sandy Point Texas. is one of many thousands who consider this remedy .just fne.' He says: T suffered se- verely with a bad cough: after using four or five dollars avorfh of different med cines decided tn try Foley's Honey and Tar. One bottle gave relief Bsa1
 medicine I ever usea Contains no oEtates. Lee & ossoed Co.
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Two French Orphans.

Pierre and Jean were two French orphans. Pierre was 5 years old and Jean was S.
 They had not seen their father for two yeATs. 6oR he had been killed in
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THE WIDE-AWAKE CIRCLE
Bs' and Cals' Dspsrtment

1 Write plntzly ea eas side cf the nauaP aniy, and number the pages. q uss pen and ink. Eot pencil q ghort snd pointed articles viii bs sspsn preoerenee- Do nor use evee {. orSizsl se0rses or letters only s. write seur nsns. age and ad. ersss plainly ct the bottom of the seery.
 POETRY.
 Be Secuti Said tSs mother of three to the moth
 e of i've, ~Fsr. how do you manage? oh. my
 ezzes alive; ! seldom can find anything that I
 want, Ny pa-ing knife always has gone on
 . jsurt fns string and the tack claw are
 reve-. around; Ny Soys borrow eVrything that can
 be found" Smiles the mother of i've to the
 mother of three. -Scrae string and the tack claw l
 cz-ry with me: The paring knife hides in my best
 tailored suit; 4 rttie more string h the side of
 ny boot Ny hat covers many things needed
 around, Sc when my boys want them they're
 rot 10 De found" sTss plain to be seen that these boys
 are not scouts. Boys careless as these should most
 call them .slcrts,' For scout boysT return borrowed
 things with .Sreat care, Not ersre by their acts their dear
 mas to despair. Eat study the comfort Of all on their
 way. fn1s doubling and treoiing their
 sood turns each day.
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no more of it. But did you ever stop to think what a. mystery the want of that same little letter makes of your message, eiher in business. or 1riena- iy way?
 You viii find such mistakes quite frequently in the newspapers. An English paper quoted that "A sur eeon had been taken alive in the river. and cut up and sold for sixtenco a pound. which you kill perceive should have been sturgeon.
 Another quotation which naGs {
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days work. if can 6nd eocd eanse for saving a mans lifes and go ts bed happyl"
 He believed in controlling by love. not by fear; and he believed h turn- ng down excited people with joke.
 Did you ever hear Nf his shortest speech? 4 band serenaded him. and he was called for. He went to the window with Mrs. Lincoln who was as much shorter than other women as he was taller than other men, and said: -Here I am and here Is Mrs. Lincoln! That's the long and short of ftl''
 This was pesnaps tLne6in's great est speech: s'1 know the Lord Is all ways on the side of the right; but 1t Is my anxiety and constant prayer that I and this nation shall be on the side of the Lordi"
 
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 The Winners. of prixe hseI<s living in the city may can at the business office .af The Bulletin for them 2t any hour after 70 a. m. Thursday.
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IeR Cneap E2C pins ana me longer jHisS that are used to fasten on punches 6f flowers make bright jeweiry. With pliers remove the heads of the pins. Some will have such small heads eat they may remain on.
 Valentine Jeweiry
 Soften the sealing wax III cardie flame, add 1t in lump to the pins, and before 1t hardens raotild t into heart shape. Should the wax harden before you have it perfectly shaped, you can hold 1t to the heat again for 2 moment These pins will be very attractive favors, the hat pins. for the gi-ls and the scarf pins for the boys.
 You may become so expert at this jewelry making that you will be able to model small sealing wax hearts through which you thrust coarse needle before they harden to shape them into pendants. These are very dainty on length of narrow red rib bon.
 Valentine Baskets
 Use scarlet bristol board or book cover paper for these, either of which may be obtained at stahoner's or al q shop where artists supplies are sold Cut a heart pattern that measures about five by five and one-half inches. Lay this down on the red paper and drew around 1t. Cut out the red heart OF this outline
 With sharp scissors slash the edges of the heart all around in cuts of a quarter of an inch. Then bend. up these cuts, paste e piece of the red paper two inches. wide to them to form the sides of the basket, joining it at one of the curves of the heart where it will not show. Paste on a narrow paper handle, fiji the basket with red and white peppermint drops, and set one at each guests place.
 Heart Decorations
 Cut ever so many scarlet hearts from your scraps left from the baskets. Sus- pend these by ribbons from the chan deaier, lay them on the white table
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"You're daring girl. antis always original" said her mother, and Doro- thy thought mothers eyes looksd a tri9e misty,
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Ruth in the Woods.

Ruth lived very much in the back. woods. There was a school in, the
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Ruildipg a sparrow .Trap


 'Tell US how to make c sparrow trap Uncle Bob. Father wants it in the spring"
 ~One like the doye-cotes. that are used for carrier pigeons wosid be sim pie enough--just a-box with open sides 50 that the spafrowa can sec the bait, and seif-closing door that opens easily but closes when the spar row has entered.
 "Tfe box itself may. be about l2x l2xl8 inches. win tdoorstep' in front. Make the bottom (D) of a hAif-inch board, l2x22. or of boards built up to that size. Build the top A of a half inch board 12xl8 in. For the corners eB, B, B, B. make posts, 11z in. square and F in. long. Nail it to. gether as shown in the diagram and cover the sides and back with screen or snall-weave chicken wire.
 The self-slosing door is made of eleven pieces of telephone wire hanging on 2 cross-wire CD. If each wire is cut about Il in. long, it will. be the
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Winter Terrors. There once lived little boy in far Continued on Page Nine. Col. s.vsn)
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was the leader of the party which was opposed to slavery. For four long years the conflict lasted. Daring the war, Lincoln issued the famous Enlancipa- ton Proclamation which declared that the slaves should be free. Under his leadership, the north was yictorio1s."s But don't the people of. the south hate the north and Lineoln? ?
 No. this was like quarrel between two brothers No matter how hard they may fight eacll other they love each other just the same after they get over their anger. Both north and south now see that slavery was wrong and are glad that 1t was abolished. So both pay tribute to the great Lincoln
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Valentine Favors
s7 CAROLYN sHERwIN BAILEY

Here are some new favors for you to make for the guests at your Yalea tine party.
 Some sticks of red sealing wax and 3 few cheap hat pins and the longer pins that are used to fasten on punches 6f flowers make bright jewei1y. With pliers remove the heads of the pins. Some will have such small heads enat they may remain on.
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What Lincoln said

7 Fron1 an a6dross by AbFakasz
 Lincoln fc khs WerkraeG
 Association In ISs%/
 Property is the fruit of labor; property Is desir- able; is . positive good in the world -. Let not him who is houselsss pull down the house of another. but iet him work diligently and build one for himself. thus by example assuring tkst his own shzI be safe fTocu violence when buil4R
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Cut ever so many scarlet hearts from your scraps left from the baskets. Sus- pend these by ribbons from the chan delier, lay them on the white table