Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 233, 11 August 1917 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, AUGUST 11, 1917

THE H1CKSV1LLE BREEZE HUCKELBERRY FINN, EDITOR Published every now and then in llicksville, ."somewhere in America" to let the people of the community know "almost the truth" and usually lives up to its reputation. Should you have any news notes that would sound like it would make good reading for the Breeze, send them to address Huckleberry Finn, Editor Hicksvllle Breeze, care of the Junior Palladium.

Thinking clean , will prevent

one s mouth from speaking dirty.

WE MUST HAVE WEATHER

Whether there's war or whether there's not, we must have weather, whether or not

THIS HOT WEATHER. WHAT DO WE CARE? The price of coal Is in the air; But, bless your soul, What do we care?

Vacation Is Nice But We See It Different After All Is Over Same old skeeters, same old chuck, Same old fishing, same old luck, Some old beaches, sameold skies, Same old peaches, same old flies, Same old dances, same old moons, Same old string bands, same old tunes, :, Same old hammocks, same old swings, Same old campfires, same old things, Same old widows, same old girls, Same old face tints, same old curls, Same old row boats, same old sands, , Same old blisters, same old hands, Same old backache, same old fleas, Same old gossip, same old wheeze, Two weeks outiag fades from view; Some vacation! nothing new.

ONE LITTLE GIRL. "One little girl drives a dozen wild. One little girl makes an old man a child.

One little kiss and you jump to

the sky, One look like , this and you are ready to die. One little girl makes your bankbook a " sight, ; And though your rent's overdue, Still you buy diamond rings, Ob, what wonderful things one little girlio can do."

OUR HEALTH HINT.. Proper food properly digested willdo much for one's health and happiness.

S1LLYETTES

There Isn't a Bit of Sense to Some of This, but We Can't Help It.

A horse and flea and three little

mice - V Went out to skate upon some ice.

The horse slipped and fell on the

flea; Flea said, "That's a horse on me.

Dear Huck I am not a very handy man around the house but I wish

to save the expense of calling a carpenter to fasten down some loose boards in the kitchen, floor. I have a good hammer, but my nails are too short. What shall I do? E. B. Answer Let them grow. Huck.

WELL ESTABLISHED Over in Pumpkin Center the potato bugs appear to be so well established that some of them call the gardeners by their first names.

These Might Be Handy Moss will not form on a tin roof if it is taken off and dry cleaned once a year. Never throw away an old electric fan. The blades can be used as shoe horns. - ' Gold fish will not sweat if kept In the refrigerator.

"PASS DE HAT" The colored parson had just concluded a powerful sermon on "Salvation am Free," and announcing that a collection would be taken for the benefit of the parson and

Uncle Joshua says "You can always expect a lot of big talk from little men.

his family. Up jumped an acutely

brunette brother in the back of the church.

"Look-a-yeah, pahson," he Inter

rupted, "yo aint no sooner done tellin' us dat salvation am free dan

yo' go asking us fo' money. If salvation am free, what's de use in payin' for It? Dat's what I want to know.. An' I tell yo' p'lntedly dat I aint goin to gib yo' nothing until I find out. Now"Patience, brudder, patience,"

said the narsnn. "I'll MiirltrntA

S'pose yo' was thirsty an' ccme to a river. Yo' could kneel right down an' drink vour fill, cniildn't vn'?

An it wouldn't . cost yo' nothin',

wouia nr "Ob co'se not. ' Dat's just de very

mmg "

"jjat water would be free," con

tinued the parson. "But s'posin' yo' was to have dat water piped to

yo nouse, yod have to pay,

wouldn't yo ? "Yas, suh, but " "Waal, brudder. so is it wid sal

vation. De salvation am free, but

it s de cabin' it piped to yo dat yo' got to pay fo'. Pass de hat, deacon; pass de hat."

Somethings That

Really Did Happen

TIFFIN, O. Farmer finds twen

ty-four potatoes and silver dollar in

one hill. . BIDDEFORD, Me. Poultryman Bays he found cooked egg in nest exposed to sun. " . LAKE FOREST, 0. Policeman wants to buy second-hand gas masks; citizens insist on police ridding the village of several families of skunks. HASKELL, Kas. Citizen says he will sue county; his chickens stuck in tar on a new pavement and were run over by autos.

LITTLE MOTHER Oh, you carders little mother, Dolly sure will get a fall Do you think it's too much bother To talco care of her at all? Wake up! Day is not for sleeping, You have duties to preform; Children should be ever keeping Dollies safe for hurt or harm. I'm afraid that you are lazy, ' And too much do love your bed; You will drive your dolly crazy If she falls upon her head. Wake up, mother, she is falling! Could she speak, she'd, tell you so; But I fear there's no use calling You're too sound asleep, I know.

.Little mothers with their dollies Should give them the best of care Sleep in day times, and such follies, Should be banished anywhere. Economy, Ind.

CRUEL BIRDS There are some children so cruel that they cannot see a beautiful bird or hear one sing but they wish to pick up a stone or stick to throw at it Little Tommy Fitch was such a boy, and he indulged in his cruel disposition; so, that all his schoolmates called him the "Hawk." Nature formed hawks to prey on other birdsand we cannot blame them, but it is so with children." There is a little songster on a tree warbling its beautiful notes and filling the woodlands with its music. Suddenly some fierce birds of prey espy it, "and in an instant the song is hushed, and the little singer lies quivering in the cruel claws of the hawk. No child can wish to resemble such a cruel bird. Any inclination to hurt others should be checked; aud we always see that boys like

BETSY ROSS AND THE FLAG In 1770 a committee was appointed to diticusu the design for a national flag. They agreed that there should be thirteen r.tr.pea, one for each state, while thirteen stars in a blue field should represent a new constellation. The committee, with George Washington, decided to discuss the plans with Betsy Ross. So one afternoon they called nt Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia. Betsy was a young widow of 24. She supported heiv.rlf by continuing her husband's upholstering business. She was noted for her exquisite needlework, and it was because of this that the committee decided to visit her. When they showed Betsy their designs and discussed with her their plans, she noticed that the pattern stars they had made had nix points. "But the real star has but five points," argued Betsy Ross. "We have so many stars to make," argued the cov.imliU e, "and a five-point start is hard to cut." For answer Bety Ross took her scissors and a piece of paper. Deftly folding it she cut it quickly. Then, folding it, ;he exhibited a perfect Jive-point star. This was what definitely decided the committee to leave the designs' for the national flag 1 n Betsy Ross' hand:?. It v.-ivt vhc who decided how the stripes and stars were to be placed, and in what proportion. In 1777 she had the satisfaction of knowing that her Hag had been accepted and that she was the originator of the national emblem of the United States of America.

Timmy Fitch are ready to make others suffer, but never will bear anything from their comrades. X. Y. Z., Economy, Ind.

What the Little Ribbons on the Soldiers Mean

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. "The little strips of parti-colored ribbou so often seen on the breasts ot our "Soldiers of the Sea" are a mystery to most civilians," says Major-General George Barnett, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. "Everyone and three-eighths inches of the strip denotes that the wearer is the possessor of a medal awarded for valor or good conduct or of a badge for service in some famous campaign." "The man with the light blue strip decorated with white stars possesses the greatly coveted medal of honor; the blue, white and

red combination mean service In the -Philippine insurrection; two bands of blue and gray of equal width, service in the Civil war; two bauds of blue separated by yellow, service in the SpanishAmerican war; red, yellow, blue, yellow and red bordered with blue, the Cuban occupation. One of the easiest to recognize is the China Campaign badge; a band of yellow with edges of bine."

Pet canaries in this country consumed a total of 3,704,625 pourfds of birdseed during the last year.

The University of Southern Cal ifornia offered the university campus to Los Angeles to be planted with vegetables.

Many date palm trees have been brought from Africa to California, where dates are now raised successfully.

CANADA WILL FILL SOME OF ALLIES' BREAD BASKETS

SOME HOPE LEFT. "Henry, the flour is all out." "So is my money." "The potatoes, are all gone." "So ia my credit." "Well, we can't starve." "Can't we? That's good! I was afraid we might"

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Wheat in Alberta' - J-M1

A cartoonist in New York says: "It costs to much to liv and you can't afford to die.

Thrashing

Canada plans to feed more people

this year than ever before. An in

teresting sidelight on what is being done to put every available acre of land possible under the plow this year, is given in the following la

conic statement from the land de

partment of the Canadian Pacific

railway:

"We shall produce, over and above last year's crop, enough food to supply one million people for one year." Next to the crown the Canadian Pacific railway is the greatest land owner in the British empire, possessing approximately twelve million acres of land. Much of the

land sold has been bought by Americans who, for various reasons, have not made the most of their opportunities for cultivating it Circulars were sent to 7,000 American owners of Canadian farms in western Canada asking them to cultivate their idle, and, in most cases,

virgin acreage.

barrel of flour, this represents 800,000 barrels of flour. Each barrel can be transformed into 250 loaves of bread, which gives a grand total of two hundred million loaves of bread, or food enough for one million persons for one year. Of course this is just a small

Two thousand owners have placed j part of what Canada is doing to

nil tne world s bread basket, but it shows what effort is being made to get all land owners in Canada to make their land yield abundantly. As an added incentive Canada has a "wild land tax," which is being strenuously applied this year to those who for speculative or other reasons let their land remain unproductive.

an average of 100 acres each under

crop. Considering that twenty bushels of wheat per acre is a conservative estimate and that the average wheat yield for western Canada runs fifty-four bushels an acre, it is estimated that four million more bushels of wheat will be grown this year than lasL Estimating five bushels of wheat to a