Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 193, 1 July 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, JULY 1, 1916

Young Kreuger Tells of Fourth of July in East

Last year I spent the Fourth of July in an unusual way. We took the steamer on Sunday, July fourth at New York, and went down the Atlantic Ocean to Norfolk, Va. We were on the steamer all night and I slept pretty good, but in the morning I was a little seasick find didn't want any breakfast. We had two outside state-rooms on the second deck and they were fine. We ate three meals on the steamer arJ they were fine. 1 met a little boy on the steamer and he bad been visiting his father in New York. He had a fine collection of foreign stamps and he told me all nboat them. In the morning we went into Chesapeake Bay, and landed at Norfolk. I don't like Norfolk because it is so dirty and oldfashioned. We took the trolley back from Norfolk to Virginia Beach where wo stayed one week and I had several dips in the ocean. The first time I went in I screamed and went back to the shore. Once when I was sitting in shallow water, a big wave came and rolled me over. We spent one day at Hampton Roads Navy Yards where they build the big battle ships for the U. S. A. GEORGE KRUEGER. Sour-Grass Loses Head on Fourth It was the Fourth of July morning, and all the flowers and weeds along the back fence were talking things over. "Aren't the children having a good time, though?" said the hollyhock. "I hold my head up just as high as I can to see everything they do." "Oh, I don't know," whined the sour-grass, "this noise gets on my nerves until I'm a perfect wreck. I'm delicate, you know." "Well, I'm thankful I'm not weak," said the clover. "I enjoy every minute of the fun, and I smell just as sweet as I can, to make them happier than ever." "That's my view of things, too," put in the dandelion. "I don't smell sweet, I wish I did; but I make my yellow head shine as bright as it can, because the children like colors." " "But the whole thing is so silly," growled the peevish sour-grass. "What's the good of making such a fuss over a little thing that happened years and years ago. Who cares, anyhow? And to spend a whole lot of money for noisy firecrackers just to annoy people with." But just then a three-inch salute fell beside the sour-grass and blew its grouchy old head right off. A Certain Spider A sun-of-a-gun of a spider Went up a watering spout. The rain came out in torrents And washed that spider out. Pretty soon the sun came out. And dried up all the rain. And the sun-of-a-gun of a spider Went up the spout again. Why Do You When you are celebrating the Fourth does it ever cross your mind what you are doing it for? Have you ever read the first two paragraphs of that document which causes all this noise and commotion? For fear you haven't, here is part of the most thrilling assertions: "We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created

News Review

The worst danger of war with Mexico is past, since Oarranza has released our soldiers w ho were taken in a battle with the Mexicans last week. But. the question of whether or not we will fight with Mexico, depends on the way they act from now on. The people of South America are so anxious for us not to fight with the Mexicans that they have offered to act as a court of justice, just as the police court would between two men who had a uiaiter to be settled. Theodore Roosevelt has deciOed that he will help Mr. Hughes, the Republican who wants to be our next President, instead of trying to he the Bull Moose President,, himself. Sir Roger Casement, a great man who has keen helping the Irish in their fight for freedom against England, has been condemned to death, but maybe his case will be appealed to another court. StampCostMore Every letter that comes here from Canada now costs three cents instead of two. Beside the regular stamp there must be a war stamp which is one cent. Any of you boys who are making a stamp collection better look out for these, because they will be mighty interesting in a few years from now. NATIONS SAVE LIGHT BILLS. In Europe the people have moved ahead the hands of the clock one hour in order that they might save on their light bills. The people arise one hour earlier and of course go to bed au hour earlier. The war has forced the people of Europe to practice the most rigid kind of economy.

Dinty Moore Returns Home; Little Children Greet Friend

Economy, Ind., June 22. Editor Junior Palladium: "I like to read the stories in the Junior and I think they are very interesting. I would like to see this story in print." The editor is glad to get such letters and wishes the author would sign his name, so that she may write to him. The name will not be published unless the author permits, but we like to know who our friends are. The story follows: One night this spring I woke. up very suddenly and thought I heard someone pass below my window, around the back of the house, and whoever it was had a dog with them. "The dog was growling and I knew right away that it was our dog "Dinty Moore," that we had sold a few weeks before. I lay there not knowing what to do, because I did not think any one was awake, and I was afraid they might enter the house. What made it worse, I heard the clock strike twelve and I thought if anyone would have wanted to do anything they would have come about that time. My two brothers sleep across the Observe Fourth free and equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of hunntneaa That in fthese rights, governments are in stituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it."

Something

Adoloh And The Movies Adolph was an artist who lived all by himself. He was a fearless fellow and often said that he was afraid of no man. One day as he worked away on his canvas his brush accidentally tickled the hand of a boy he was painting. The. boy immediately turned toward Adolph and started to grab him, whereupon the brave artist slipped and fell upon his paints. He ran after his gun and when he returned he pointed it at the boy. Lo and behold a new picture! The dog Fanny seemed to enjoy the show as well as the others. Can you draw a movie? Try it. Protected by George Matthew Adams

hall and I went ower there as quiet as I could and wakened my oldest brother and told him about it. When we started down the stairs we heard someone moving around downstairs making considerable noise. We waited a little while until we heard boards rattling outside and then we went down stairs and roused our father. He opened the outside door and walked into the night with determination to meet whoever it was bravely. He called the dog and found it was "Dinty Moore," as I had thought, but for there being any person around was all my imagination. "Dinty Moore" had just got loose and come home, and was hunting rats. Here is a little joke I think would be all right to print in the Junior. Little Paul had just had his tonsils and adnoids taken out. His little neighbor friend, running to his mother, cried, "Mama, Paul don't say 'huh' any more." Baseball Team Changes Lineup The new Indoor Baseball team which was organized at the play grounds last week, has changed its line-up as follows: C K. Calkins P. S. Watt S. S. Dan Roet 1st. David Rost 2nd R. Keys 3rd. R. Thornburg L. F. E. Keisker C- F. T. Shoemaker R. F. W. Vofh

For Fun

After the Fourth We put him to bed in his little nightgown, The most battered youngster there was in town; Yet he said, as he opened his only well eye, "Rah, rah, for the jolly old Fourth of July!" Two thumbs and eight fingers, with lint were tied up, On his head was a bump like an upside-down cup, And his smile was distorted, and his nose all awry, From the glorious Fourth of July. We kissed him goodnight on his powder-specked face, We laid his bruised hands softly down in their place, And he murmured, as sleep closed his one open eye, I wish every day was the Fourth of July." M. PHELPS DAWSON. Look For Did you ever wish you could go to the sea shore and pick up she-Ms, and play in the sand, and watch the big waves come rolling in? Well, guess what? That is just exactly what used to happen right here at Richmond, and if you had only lived here a few million years ago, you might have done that very thing. When you go down to the river, and see all those flat white stones, try to see how many shells and funny little animals you can find in them. There are some shells that are quite like oyter shells, and some fat round ones with little ridges along their sides that belong to the family of the Chambered Nautelas. (Do you remember that poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes?) And then there are "sea lilies,"

Ice Bound Town Gets Supplies

Last week the residents of Nome, Alaska, received the first fresh supplies from the outside wcrld they have received since ' Ice rvented ships from reaching this -port last September. Steamers from Seattle try to reach Nome " sometime in June with fresh fruits and vegetables. This year the ice 11 pack held so firmly that they were . unable to reach the town until the middle of June. Even then they " were compelled to discharge their passengers miles from the beach, . and small boats were compelled to pick them up and take them thrdugh narrow lines of water b e-' tween ice floes to the city. How would you like to live in -Nome? When the Arctic winter begins in September there Is no chance for a boat to enter the port until the following June. Stores lay , in large supplies of fresh vegetables but these are soon used. Then the residents anxiously await June and the coming of the first steamer. Its arrival always means, a big celebration. Library Corner Did you know that Miss Fouike keeps games up in the children's department for you to play with quietly, when you are tired of reading. She has puzzles, dominoes, checkers and blocks. Besides all the interesting magazines down stairs in the library, there are special ones just for children in their department. The complete list follows: American Boy. The Boys' Own Magazine. St. Nicholas (three copies). The Youth's companion. Little Folks. "The most patriotic thing in the world is a daily good turn," said a scout official recently. Nothing will make friends for a nation more rapidly, or protect it from unfriendly acts more effectually, efficiently, than a reputation for being primarily interested in doing good Boys' Life, the Boy Scout Magazine. Doll Makes Trip Clarabell was almost heartbroken. Her little mother was going away to spend the Fourth of July and leave her behind. The trunks were all packed and strapped, and A the family had told Sarah to go to. bed so that she could, get up early the next morning; and Sarah was just ready to climb the stairs when ' suddenly she happened to see poor Clarabell sitting in a corner. With a cry she ran over to her neglected doll, and you can be pretty sure that Clarabell wasn't lonesome after that. She wore her best hat and blue silk coat on the train, and met the nicest French doll on the journey. And when they got to Sarah's grandmother's she shot off doll-firecrackers all day long. Sea Shells that have such graceful stone petals, and finally the queerest little animals' of all called trilobites, that are almost oval shaped and divided into three parts with a round bead at the top of the middle lobe and ribs all across the lower parts. And when you are down by the river try to think how it used to look, when the broad grey stretch of sparkling, rippling sea water used to reach clear over to Europe, and the waves would come lapsing up on the shore to make the little rows of ripple marks that you can find even now some places in the limestone. Why, you don't have to go away to play on a sea shore. Just pretend a little, and you can have as much fun as anything, right here.