Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 187, 24 June 1916 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

NEWS OF THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF WAYNE COUNTY IN THE JUNIOR FREE TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION SEE THE COUPON ON FOURTH PAGE. RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 191

Smart Rabbit Almost Killed Bv Automobile

Little Bunny RabbH had grown fast. He seldom visited his home in the timothy field, for he considered himself big enough to get along without the advice of his father and mother. Old Daddy Rabbit told- his young son on one of these visits that young rabbits often are killed because they believe they know too much. He warned his son to keep oif the roads at night. "The bright shining lights on he automobiles will blind you, so that yon will not know what you are doing," he told him one day last week when Bunny was home on a visit to his mother. "When the bright light shines into your eyes you lose all your senses and you often run under the wheels and are killed." "You do not know me," answered his stuck-up son. "I am too smart to be run down by an automobile. I will keep my senses, and when I see the light I will dodge into the weeds and bushes at the side of the road." With that he stalked away from home. That same night he was on his way to a farmer's garden where he intended to nibble the tender young lettuce. He was running along the road, when suddenly a ball of light seemed to hit him straight in the face. He sat up on his hind legs. The ball of light seemed to be glowing stronger and to be coming nearer every minute. Mr. Bunny was so frightened that at first he could not move.- The he did just what his father said he would, he ran ocross the road. The auto almost ran over him. Young Bunny was not over his scare the next day when his father met him. Bunny admitted that his father knew more than he did. Uncle is Held War Prisoner Editor Junior: My uncle is a German missionary. He was trying to convert tho people of Africa when the big war came. The English stuck him in a prison in Africa and did not let him see my aunt and cousins. After a long while, my aunt and cousins and other German women and children were taken to a bog boat and sent across the ocean to Holland. They were then told to go to Germany. But my uncle was not with them. After a while they took him to India where he is in prison now. All he can write is on a card saying he is well. He knows my aunt and cousins are. in Cermany. He cannot write them very much either. I wished the horrible war was over so that my uncle could see his children. FRIEDA W.

Town Boy Visiting on Farm Eats Rotten Egg by Mistake

Deer Joe: I am out in the country, having a hot time, believe me, along the creek, S miles from hear. You kinds don't know wat i'm doing. Old farmer-; thinks he's a wise boy, he haint got the goods on me yet. I swiped a whole nest of eggs and sucked them, the first ones were fine but i got one that must have been rotten. It stunk awfull, but I swaloed it and then i got sik. 1 dont eat eggs in the morning now. I am layen for a wood pecker. Yesterday I just misst hitting one, but he got away. I ast why woodpeckers peck. He got smart and sad to here there noise like kids do. The hired hands who are kountry jakes lafftyl becose they thot it was a Yadovile joke. I ast one of them if he new seeds would grow in hair. Gosh, he got mad and chasd me unto the house. Thse farmer kids are toff allright, all-

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How a Poor Boy Became Rich

Julia R. Burr, 10 years old, has written the following story for the Junior, which she has entitled, "How a Poor Boy Became Rich." Harry Roup was a very poor boy. He was only 12 years old. His father died when he was a baby and his mother when he was 9 years old. He earned his living by selling papers. His only bed was a sack of hay and he slept in a barn. One day when he was out selling papers, a woman was crossing the street when a car was coming, and Harry saw that she didn't see it, and she would have got killed if. he had not run out and helped her across the street. Then he asked her if she needed him any longer. She told him to take her to her home, No. 420 Madison avenue. So he took her there and she told him to come to her room with her. He did so. Then she asked him whether he had any parents and where he lived. He CHILDREN'S DAY SERVICE. How many of our readers have taken part in Children's Day exercises? Almost every boy and girl has an opportunity once in his life to take part in these services. Boys and girls usually enjoy them very much, for only children take part, and on this Sunday the whole church is turned over to them, told her. . Then she asked him how many papers he sold. He told her that he had sold none. Then she right. I got mixed up in a scrap and got a black eye but wouldnt got it if the kid hadnt hit first and i sawed his old man comen. Im layen for him. If he ever comes to Richmond, i'll soke his bean with a brick, you know me Joe, dont you. You get lots of fine stuff to eat. Mr. ast me while i was eateing chicken if I had a hole in me. And not noeing he was intenderi to act smartie i says no. Then he ast where all the grub is goin. The hired hands all laffed like if it was funny. I told them better have a hole for grub than a head with a hole let the branes all run out of it. That held em for a while. You know Joe i dont let any roob git smart to me. Tomorow iam going along the creek to catch cradads and minnies. I wish you was here. Yours truly BILL S.

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Chinamen Pay Little Attention To Idols in Their Joss Houses

To the Junior Editor: "I am not a boy, but once I was, and for that reason I enjoy reading the Junior every Saturday. I have seen much of the world and have had the opportunity of traveling far and wide. I know that boys and girls like to hear about strange countries and strange events. For that reason 1 am sending you this little article. If you want me to write again, drop me a line." The editor of the Junior is glad to hear that grown up men and women enjoy the Junior and are willing to write for it. The editor has written this friend to write sketches for the Junior. His iirst article has to do with a joss house in Victoria, B. C. The article follows. Several years ago, it was good fortune to be stationed on the West coast. By that 1 mean the states along the Pacific ocean. Often business took me to British Columbia. One day I went to Victoria to transact a business matter, and after I had concluded the deal. I had four hours to wait until the boat arrived, for Victoria is on an island. So I walked down to the Chinese quarters where the orientals live. I entered a store and asked the proprietor If he could direct me to the joss house. The joss house is the temple where the Chinese keep their idols and where they bring them sacrifices of rice, punk, incense and money. The temple was located on the third floor of a brick building. I had to walk up a dark stairway. As I went up, I began to pmell the punk. Several Cb ina rm en glided by on their felt shoes,

The Jail

Once there was a man and he Avas speeding. The police stopped him and took him to jail. When he got there the judge asked him what he had been doing. He said that he was speeding. The judge fined him $50 and put him in jail for a week. And he fined the other man $65 and put him in jail for a week, too. When be was out of jail he found that his sister had died with chickenpox. He was very sorry he speeded when he heard of his sister's death. LOIS McCOY, 124 North 7th Street. Richmond Boy Sees Chinese Buy Produce Mr. Editor of the Junior: I read in the Junior that the Japanese eat ferns out in Washington. That made me think of what I saw when my father took me on a trip with him in the West last year. At Victoria, which is on an island on the west coast, I went through the Chinese part of the town with my father. A big ship had just come in from China. The Chinese had received green vegetables from home. How funny they looked. They were real long stalks, like corn stalks, only much thicker. The Chinese men and women were buying them to eat." Also they had a fruit that looked like a pumpkin, only it vas green. They also bought of this. In one store they had a whole roast pig hanging on a hook. The Chinese butcher just cuts off pieces off the end for his customers. There were all kinds of funny looking nuts and fruits which the Chineso bought. The little Chinese girls wear long pants like boys do in America. They looked fiinny, but were having a good time playing games on the sidewalk. 1 will write the Junior another letter.- I like fo read it very much. HORACE D. Age 9 years. making no noise but frightening me very much. When I entered the temple, I saw an altar of stone in which they kept sacrificial water. On either side were rows of burning punk sticks. The air was very oppressive. Gigantic battle axes and big war drums were on either side. Fine silk draperies were used as decorations. I walked into the temple proper. The idol was tho most beautiful piece of carving I ever saw. It was made of evpeneive wood and inlaid with gems and precious stones. The Chinese did not show much reverence for their idols, however. Chinese children swarmed up the stairs and soon -were playing merrily about the idols. After they left, two Chinamen noislessly came out of a door which I had noticed before and circled around the temple. Their presence and the heavy atmosphere caused by the burning punk and incense gave me an uncanny feeling and I quickly descended and left. Two weeks later, a Chinaman ran amuck and smashed the precious idol with an axe. The Chinese held a mass meeting and decided that the gods were of no use to them in Canada, so they refused to contribute the money to have the idol repaired. OUR BOSTON COUSIN This was the first time that our little Boston cousin had ever seen a banty hen's egg, so her father asked her -what she thought about it. "Well," she said, "probably it was a new hen and she was just practicing."

Fast Speeder Caught in Net; Pays His Fine The picture suggests that he had exceeded the speed limit. The marshal of Cambridge telephoned to the police headquarters In Richmond to arrest a man who was coming that way, who had driven through their town at a high rate of speed. The man was arrested at the corner of Fifth and Main. He was taken to police headquarters where he was charged with fast driving and fined 25. Pulling a roll of bills as large as your hand from his pocket he, cheerfully counted out the money, handed a five dollar bill to him Tor the faithful performance of a policeman's duty. He then jumped in his car and drove up the street at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, waved his hand to the traffic officer and was soon , lost sight of as he disappeared over lhe Main street hill. EMILY LAND.

Old Pitcher Is Honored By Mistress The fine dishes and cut glass in a china closet liked to poke fun at an bid cream pitcher that was never used. They could not understand why their mistress kept the old dish, for she never used it. When she invited her friends to a dinner party, all the good dishes would be brought out and placed on the table and the guests would admire them. Sometimes the old dish felt disappointed that the mistress did not use it at these affairs, but then she would console herself by thinking that she was lucky in. not being thrown away. One evening after the mistress had given a dinner for her son who had just returned after being away from home for many years, the new dishes were praised by all the friends of the son, and the old dish, standing alone in the china closet felt very discouraged. When the guests were gone, the mother and son were talking in (he dining room. The son told his mother everything that had happened to him. Soon they were talking of old times and the conversation turned to the big fire fn which they lost everything thy had, excepting a few chairs and one dish. His mother said, "Harry, you remember the old cream pitcher we saved. I think so much of it that I never use it. See it standing back there in the china closet. I will keep it as long as I live and then I want you to preserve it. The cream pitcher was on of the first presents your father gave me." Harry took down the old pitcher and 'for a long time, mother and son talked about father and his career, and about the fire and the old pitcher. When the pitcher was returned to its place, it was happy. The other dishes wished the old pitcher good luck. They now understand that the mistress thought more of it than she did of them even if they were new and pretty. INDOOR BASEBALL TEAM. The new indoor baseball team has been organized at the playgrounds which played its first game last Thursday with the Baxters. This team has the following line-up: Sidney Watt, pitch and captain. Richard Thornburg, catch. Burr Simons, 1st base. Wilber Zoss, 2nd base. Harry Thomas, 3rd base. Daniel Rost, short stop. Tommy Shoemaker, right field. Richard Mansfield, center field. John Iifmon, left field. RICHARD THORNBURG. Playground Correspondent