Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 53, 13 January 1917 — Page 11

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. JAN. 18, 1917

Animals Have Fun in Winter Time

If yo:i have the idea that all the animals out at the Glen crawl Into dark holes and bleep all during the winter, you better change your mind right away, because they are having as much fun as ever, and not a single one except the monkey faced owl even blinked an eye. The monkeys were in a special little room at the side of the greenhouse, squeeching and jumping around, munching on pieces of carrot, and then shaking the wire door until' it "almost rattled off of its hinges. The ocelate cat. sat in its cage just opposite and hissed and flapped its tall around as mad as anything, maybe thinking of the nice fat juicy little guinea pigs whose cage was just on top of his,. yet where he never could get a single mouthful. This old cat likes his food alive, so every once in a while for hi3 Sunday dinner they let him have a rabbit or pigeon or chicken in his own style. The old Mr. Ground Hog was asleep (I forgot about him), waiting for the first of February when he is to look for his shadow. But I'll tell you a secret. Last week he either had the night mare or got mixed up in his dates, because he came out and looked all around to see what was happening. Maybe he had an inkling of President Wilson's peace note and wondered if

the war was over yet. But as soon as he discovered his mistake he darted back in his hole as fast as he could go, and hasn't stuck his head out since then. The allegators are in shallow cement tanks out in the green house, and as soon as they heard us coming they began hissing like steam engines and they opened their mouths as wide as barn doors. They haven't eaten anything for about two months, and wont all winter, but they aren't sleeping and are anything but dull. Poor old Wichita, the big coyote is prancing around his cage the same as ever, but there Is one difference. His tail no longer dangles after him. One day he was napping too close to the next cage and his beautiful long tassel got on ;the other aide of the division, so when lie woke up his tail was being 'chewed off by . the little coyotes next door. But Wichita doesn't know they did it. He blames the keeper, and every time the man come3 to feed him, Wichita is ready -to fight. . . But the black bears are having the most tun this winter. Instead of living off of bread and milk as .they have to all summer the keeper bakes corn-bread for them. He has a special stove in the corner ' of the big barn, and bakes up a good hot sheet of the corn-bread tha way they like it best, but if it gets burned on one end that doesn't : matter, livery once in a while the bears get something the matter with them so the keeper puts their medicine in their corn-bread, and . they never notice. The big hole under ground wherethe bears sleep is about eight feet square and warm, but the bears only stay there at night. Men Catch Eagle. The eagles do .not need any winter protection, even the one by the tbear cage that lives all alone.- Had -you ever heard how he was caught? They found him right here in Glen - Miller park. One day the .keeper saw this great huge bird out loose ; by the animal cages, so lie got his gun and shot at it. The bird flew up. circled around and then drooped down behind honey suckle hill, so the man ran around the hill but when he got there, the bird had gone. H? could not find him any where. But a few days later a man telephoned from a little farther .east, that there was an eagle out in his back yard. He said that he had tiied to go towards him, but the eagle was ready to fight. -So -four ran from the Glen went out and took a rake and some heavy twine with. ihem. - When they got 'there tne bird had gone, but they track?'! him in the snow until they found If n about a mile away. Ho 'was not hurt, but he seemed very wcalt from-hunger and flyiner such ' a very great distance, probably ?. 'thorsa -id -miles. The men cam nn carefuIJy, for the eagle seemed vicious att;1 easily cou'rt b!rp rimol their" fJsh open with his claws. ;Tl:eu fit-e of the men suddenly pinned the bird's head down to the "ground with the rake, whi'e the "others im I ted his wings up over his lk :ii;J tied them with the twine

When they lifted the rake, the bird clutched the handle with his claws, so the men tied his feet to the support and thus carried the captive stranger to the cage which he still inhabits. Queer Old Steve. The funniest creature in the whole menagerie at the Glen Is old Steve, the queer duck who lives in

Juvenile Impressions! How the new bathtub seemed to Willie after graduating from the kitchen sink

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HIS FIRST LETTER. Dear Aunt Moile: I have a story I want to tell you it is a good one. I have a kitten. - Its -name Is snowball. It play's with a string. - I think it has a good many play's. It has a mother and a sisther. It mother is a year old. I have a bed in the shed. My mother nome 13 toodle and my sisther mane pudl. I get in the house sometimes. I step in wen y masther is not looking. Sometine I slip in. But not off in. That is all goodby. From Illlbert Bond.

An Old Story Retold

Since the Sunday School work is one of the most important parts of a girl's or boy's life, we are veryglad to liublish anything pertaining to -that great organization at any time. ' The following story is i the first of the kind ever sent in. I and while the ending is a little dif ferent from the ordinary,, the storyis well worth while as it is. DAVJO AND THE KING Once upon, a time there was a king. - His name was Saul. He had one son. -His name was Jonathan. Jonathan was David's friend. David could play on his harp very well. One day as David was playing on ( hi3 harp a. man came up and said the king was very 111 and would like for Iiim to play on his harp So David came and played on his harp. The king -said It made him faAl Kr.tlap - mrs -fill i rAA S-n stay with him and David did. This mad? Jonathan feel very glad. i

the house with the deer and peafowls to the west of the lake. He thinks he owns that whole part of the universe, and as soon as anybody comes near, out waddles old Steve as fast as his big flapping, pigeon-toed feet can carry him, talking to himself and snorting and puffing, as mad as he can be. He

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The Brownie Jelly

Once up a time there Avas a little girl. Her name was Mabel. One day she got on her pony and rode off to the woods to pick some berries. It was a late time for them, so she had to go into the brush. She found a large hole. She wanted to go into it and she did. She went in a large dark tunnel and went about a mile. Then it gave a sharp turn. Just then she came to a door. She opened it and what do you think she saw? A whole lot of little brownies. One day the people . praised David and cheered for him so much that his friend Jonathan was very glad.- But it only made the king madder than ever. The king told Jonathan he was going to kill David so Jonathan ran and told David to hide and he did. It did not scare David. . - One day David -told Jonathan he" was going away. Xut would -come and visit him. - This-made Jonathan very sad. Not very long after tills David came to see Jonathan and the king. Then David went away again, and the next time he came back he heard that -the king and Jonathan were killed in the army. And David was sad aud always thought about Jonathan and king Saul, and ever after that David was sad. ' Told by- Burthelia - May Heeger, Warner School.

over the top of his head, and a big red wort on his nose while hit bill has two holes In it, like tin eyelets in a lace-shoe. His tall kept wagging back and forth all the time, and I thought he was trying to be friendly like a dog when-he wags his tail, but not much I He was trying to scare me away. One day he tried to scare a small hoy that

When they saw her they all stopped their music and fun. They told her to sit down on a cushion. Then a brownie waiter brought out a jar or brownie Jelly. It tasted like nuts,' ice cream, pounded almonds. chocolate and strawberries that blended all together. It melted on her tongue like honey. Then a brownie told her that she must go to the king. So Mabel and a brownie went jto. him. The brownie led her through a short passage. Then she came to the king's room of which the wall and floor were covered with diamonds and rubies. The king was glad to see her. He told her she was the first little girl that ever had been down there. He told her to go in the next room and choose anything she wanted. First she saw a doll that could walk and talk, then she head a magic music box. She saw a large doll house that she herself could get in. Then she spied a jar of the brownie jelly. When the king saw her she asked him to guess what she had chosen. He "guessed and guessed but he could not guess the right thing. She told him what she had and he laughed and laughed. Then she started home and the brownies soldiers honored her by leading her clear out of the tunnel. She went home with her jelly and told her grandmother about, it. Her grandmother could hardly believe It but Mabel let her taste the jelly when she ate it, and she kept the 6ilver spoon and jar ever after. UKBA TOWNSEND, , 4 A Grade, Baxter School. Don't be afraid to be careful.

way, and when the be? didnl t old Steve was so peevish he snap Eed at him; but the boy had a bait all bat and gave tha cross ol4 duck snoh a good crack on tha head that poor Steve was laid up for two weeks. Elk's Horns Ara Dangerous. But the one animal who can ba cross and accomplish something U the big old elk whose horns now are full grown. He can take great big limbs and carry them all around, and Is ready to fight with anything. The horns will come off about the first of March, and then the elk Is so meek you could drive him around with a straw becausa he knows his defense is gone, but you better not try It now. Each year the horns have - one added prong. The elk now is about fiva years old, and the little baby (which by not means could lie in a cradle) is almost a year old. They stay out in the open no matter how cold and snowy, and even sleep out there. So whether entering or leaving the Glen these winter days, you can see the animals as brisk and full of energy as in the summer time, and they are well worth visiting. - , . J

THIS IS ORIGINAL j Once upon a time I saw an elephant eating some hay, and a monkey was jumping on a big wide board. ". ' ' - ; . :. v... ' ; A man was coming with a pail of water and the monkey jumped In the pail. The man picked him out and put him in the cage. The elephant came 'and picked the cage up, and the monkey was in it. He took it home and ate it.. He said, "Yum, yum, yum." ' Then it was nine o'clock and he went to bed. But; the monkey had stopped jumping, and he never said "yum, ' - yum,' yum," any more. Harold Gross, Third grade, District School No. 10. KITTEN GOES SAILING Once upon , a time there lived a little girl named Betty. She lived by the ocean and she had a little kitten. HOne day she found a little hox and said, "I will take this box and kitty and go to the beach,. and, let kitty go sailing." So in a little while she was at the beach. Sho set the little box down on the water and put kitty in it. , 1 ; . r The waves took the box out far on the ocean. -The little girl be-, gan to cry. Pretty soon she heard, some one say, "What Is the matter. Betty?" i , She looked around and there was her mother. : ' "Kitty is on the ocean," said.Botty. ' c:-"- i v. Mother called to the fisherman who was nearby in his boat, to row them out to the box. At last thev came to the box. Mother took tho frightened kitty in her arms and said, "I thlnk-kitty thought that it was the saddest day in her life." And Betty never played with kitty by the , beach again. Contributed by Mary Bell. f WHO WAS IUJND ! . , One day as two girls were walking to schoolthey saw a man como out of a beautiful house. Just n.i he was about to step off the porch he sew a black and white kitten. It mewed as though 'It was; hungry. But the man Just turned up his nose and kicked, the kitten down the steps. Just then a; poor little boy came along picked up the kitten and petted it. Then he put it tinder his coat and took It home with him. Which do you think was the kindest, the man -or boy?Ktuel M. Keithaus, ago 11, Garfield school. ' ' , ' - r , ; A CHANCE FOR HEROES More Policemen Are ' Wanted In Eoytown 'The Junior Police Commissioners met Tuesday night and appointed Wayne Haisley Chief of Police and Herbert Ashenfelter first sergeant The commissioners were Jack Falk, Max Davids and James Sherry, president. A few. policemen also were appointed. "More jpolicemen are wanted. To get the positions see the above committee. Kill winter flies; they are said to be the -parents of millions of th summer flies.- and in iew York City a prize was offered for them,