Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 77, 9 February 1918 — Page 11

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. FEB. 9. 1918.

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PRINCESS HELEN

Helen was a princess. Her uncle King of the Dark was hated by most of his people. He was very cruel to Princess Helen. He shut her in a room witli only a dog for company. One night the king and his soldiers were having a feast. Princess Helen ran through the door into the fresh air followed by her little dog. A river ran past the castle. She ran on down the river till she came to a tree, here she sat down to rest. "Princess Helen," cried a little voice. Helen looked up and there stood a little man. 'Princess," said the little man, "I know you have no freedom here. Come with me to good King John." "That I will do sir," said Helen. "I love freedom." The little man and the princess walked till they came to an old woman's house. Here they were invited to eat and rest. Hardly had they finished eating when they heard the king's soldiers coming. They were hunting Helen. The old women went to the window. "I can save you," she said. "Open that trap door, it leads to a rock close to the castle. They thanked her and went their way. The little man and the princess walked through the tunnel to the big rock. The little man said, "We will Bleep in this tunnel. So they fell asleep waiting for another day. The next day they awakined early. They could see the castle in the distance. Noon came and still they had far to go. They walked till night overtook them. The little man said, "It seems bitterly cold." "Yes," said the princess, "it does." They had to sleep in the rock that night. The princess awakened early. She built a fire and then ran out and picked berries for their breakfast. ' At last they came to the castle. The king and prince gave her their welcome. Then he promised to keep her there and to tell no one. Five years passed, the Princess Helen and Prince Albert were married. They had two lovely children, who were now big enough to understand the story of their mother. "Some day," she said to them, "I will die. Then who will tell the story." The little ones would hang their heads in silence but would answer nothing. (The End). La von Beeeon, 6A Grade, Columbia City.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln was boru in a log cabin February 12, 180'J, near Hogensville, Kentucky. He had a sister Sarah, who was two years older than himself. When he was eight years old his parents left their Kentucky home and moved to Spencer County, In diana. It was then that his mother's health began, to fail, but she bore up bravely and did the housework as best she could. She taught her little son to read and write, for she had a good education The woods were full of game artd it was easy for Abraham and his father to keep the family supplied with fresh meats. The mother was finally compelled to go to her bed, so she called her son to her bedside and told him to be good to his father and sister, to try and live as she had taught him and to love his Heavenly Father. On the 5th. of October she fell asleep never to walfe again.

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neighbors dug her grave and she was laid to rest in silftnee. There was no minister to conduct

the religious services but Abraham remembered a traveling minister who was in Kentucky by the name of David Elkins. Abraham was only nine years old but he believed that the good man would remember his mother and come. Months past and at last the preacher was there.

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irom rar ana near to hear what the minister would say. A prayer was offered, hymns were sung and words of sympathy were spoken; His sister who was twelve years old, did the housework. There were very few things to work with. One day the father said, "Sarah and Abraham, I am going away. I will leave your cousin Dennis Hanks with you, and I will not stay very long." A few weeks later a four-horse wagon drew up to the door. Sitting beside the father was a kind-faced woman, and in the back of the wagon were four well-dressed children. There were many curious things in the wagon. The new mother treated them kindly and during the few months of school the Lincoln children were always present. So the years passed in this way, always loving, truthful, kind and obedient. Lincoln served two terms as president of the United States, and on the 15th of April, 1865. this great life was ended. Ruth Penery, 4-A Grade, Starr School.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin county Kentucky in 1809. His early life was spent in toil, hardship, and poverty, but it was the independent poverty of the western wilderness. And it made men of those who fought their way out of it. When the boy was only eight years old he had learned to swing an axe. From that time until he came of age he literally chopped and hewei his way forward and upward. He learned to read from two books, the spelling book and the Bible. Then he borrowed "Pilgrims Progress" and "Aesop's Fables" and would sit up half the night reading them by the blaze of the logs his own axe had split. In 1816 the Lincoln family moved to Spencer county, Indiana and in 1830 to Decatur, 111. On this last occasion young Lincoln walked the entire distance, nearly two hundred miles through mud and water driving a four-ox team, the journey taking fifteen days for even two yoke of oxen do not move quite as, fast as steam. When they reached their destination In what was then an almost unsettled country the father and son set to wojk to build the log-cabin which was io be their home and when that was finished the young man split the rails to fence in their farm of ten acres. In 1834 he resolved to begin the study of law. A friend in Springfield offered to lend him eome law books. Lincoln walked there twenty-two miles from New Salem (where he lived then) and it is said, brought back with him four heavy volumes of Blackstone at the end of the same day. He was the sixteenth president and served two terms. He waa killed In a theatre by James Wilkes Booth. R. L. M. 6th grade. Age 12.

Cold weather ills and troubles aren't bothering these tw;o happy youngsters or their mother as they stroll on the sands at Palm Beach. Mrs. Vanderbilt is the widow of Alfred G. Vanderbilt. who was lost on the Lusitania. 'Alfred Gwynne, Jr., heir to the great fortune, is five years old and his brother is four. Mrs. Vanderbilt was formerly Mrs. Margaret Emerson McKim.

GATHERING NUTS T'was with great happiness that Tom and Joe trudged along the dusty road; each with a sack on his back and each chewing at a lengthy stick of Black Brownie and yet, there was a guilty feeling in each of the boys' hearts, for they could hear the school bell ringing, and that bell meant that right now it was time to begin the afternoon study. But what was "learnin' " to them with the woods filled with autumn nuts. It was now late afternoon and with gunny sacks filled as well as their pockets and all the extra room in their blouses, the worn out boys started down the hot highways homeward. But the question was now, how should the nuts be divided . After some wrangling it was decided to stop at the graveyard on the hili and while they were resting they would count them out one by one. As they entered the gate they dropped two (according to an old custom) for good luck. It was a long and weary task to count tliem in this fashion, but the boys were presistent and intended staying until it was finished. So they counted: "I'll this one, you'll that one, I'll take this one and you'll that one. Just then a Irishman happened along end hearing talking, ran down the street as fast as he could until he met a man and told him the Lord and Devil were . dividing the souls in the graveyard. "Oh, no," said the stranger. Come with me and I'll show you," said the Irishman. So the two walked to the graveyard gate. Just then the boy that was counting had finished and had Eaid: "Don't forget the two at the gate." Upon hearing that they both ran as hard as they could until the reached home. Edna Sousaman, 7B5 English, Garfield School.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, February 12, 1809. In 1816 he moved with his family to Spencer County, Indiana, and for the next ten years he was engaged in doing various kinds of hard labor, having only about a year's schooling in all. In 1830 the family moved to Macon County, III., and he was for some time in charge of a store and mill at New Salem. At the outbreak of the Black Hawk war in 1832, he joined the volunteers and was elected captain of a company. He served three months in this campaign. He next opened a country store which did not succeed. He then was appointed postmaster of New Salem, and began to study law by borrowing books from a neighbor lawyer. In 1834 he was elected to the Illinois legislature.- In 1836 Lincoln was licensed to practice law and in 1836 he moved to Springfield and opened an office In partnership with Major John F. Stuart. He still played an active part in politics and in 1846 he was elected as a representative in congress. In 1858 he was nominated by the Republican StaJ.e Convention as candidate for the United States senate against Stephen A. Douglas. Douglas was elected. In the Republican national convention held at Chicago in May, 18G0 he was nominated as a candidate for the presidency. The election took place in November 1860 and he took the office March 4th 1861. About this time the Civil War broke out and everyone knows the events of the next four years. The determination of the northern states to pursue the war to its conclusion led to the re-election of Lincoln as president in 1864. The decisive victory of Grant over Lee on April 2, 1865 followed by the surrender of Lee and had just afforded the prospect of an immediate termination of the long conflict when on the 14th of the same month, President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth and expired the following day. LIucoln received a magnificent burial in Oak Ridge cemetery, near Springfield, 111., where a fine monument was erected to his memory.

STORIES OF LINCOLN Lincoln disliked to punish with death any irime. Papers were sent to him in the case of a soldier who' had deserted and again enlisted. Ho returned the papers after writing upon tbem. "Let him fight instead of shooting him." A story Is told of William Scott a boy from Vermont, who after marching two days and two nights without rest volunteered to take the place of a' sick friend who was ou guard. Weariness overcame hiin and he was found at his post sound asleep. O.' course he was sentenced to be shot. . Mr.' Lincoln heard of the case Mid went to the tent where young Scott was kept under guard. He talked to him kindly asked him aboit his home his schoolmates ani particularly about his mother. The lad took her picture from his pocket and showed it to him without speaking. Mr. Lincoln was much affected. As he rose to leave he laid his hand on his shoulder. "My boy," he said, "you are not to be shot tomorrow." "I beli?vc you when you tell me that you could not keep awake. I am going to-trust you and send you back to your regiment. Now I want to know what you are going to pay fo?' all this?" The lad was so overcome with gratitude that he could hardly speak. He finally said he did not know, that his father was very poor, but would do what he could; also that there was some pay coming to him and that he had a little money in the bank. He thought his father might borrow a little and give a mortgage on his farm, and that he also thought his comrades would help some. He asked if five or six hundred dollars would do. The president shook his

head and said in a very kindly tone: "My bill is a great deal more than that. It i3 a very large one. Your friends cannot pay it nor your family, cor jour farm. There i3 only one man in the world who can pay it and his name Is William Scott. If from this day, he does his duty so that when he comes to die he can truly say: 'I have kept the promise I gave the president, I have done my duty as a soldier; then the debt is paid." Young Scott went back to his regirnont and kept his promise. Edwin Herman. St. Mary's school.

SAVING IN MY HOME At my home we are saving food and many other things. Father said it is better to save some food for the sohiiers or they will die of hunger. We are saving sugar, salt, meat end many other articles for the solniers. I think that everyone In town should save some food for the soldiers, as they are fighting and trying their best to save our lives. If it wa.3 not for them we might get killed by the German soldiers. They could come over to the . United State3 and kill all the Americans and steal all of our things. So let us help by sending them food and by knitting them warm sweaters. Milli'j. Goodlin, 4A grade, Hibberd School.

Be Patriotic and Save We must save food for others that are helping win the war. Don't make candy or put icing on cakes. Make more cornbread, eat less .meat. The food will help win the war. Have one meatless day a week. We may not like rye bread or barley bread. but no matter, we must like it. We must learn not to waste. The more we save the more there will be to send to France and the rest of the allies. We can save food by not putting so much sugar In our coffee and tea. This is a war that children can help win. Pearl Dixon, 4A grade Hibberd School.

Two indispensable qualities of friendship, mutual agreement and confidence.

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