Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 137, 20 April 1918 — Page 11

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM

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RICHMOND, INDIANA, APRIL 20, 1918

PETER'S REWARD Peter had four Thrift Stamps. The first stamp Peter earned by selling rags, second, by selling fish, by returning a purse that a lady had lost, fourth by cutting the grass. Now it seemed that no one wanted their grass cut and they no longer wanted fish. Peter had no father or mother. He had a paper route and that paid his board. He made a dollar and sixty-five cents per week. He had one pair of shoes and one suit of clothes. They were very ragged. His hands and face were always clean. At last the paper for which he worked failed and Peter had no place to work. He was standing on the corner and he heard two men talking. One said, "Harry, dc you know where I can get a boy for a messenger?" "No, I don't," said Harry. "Sir, I need a job very much and would like a position as a messenger very much. Would I do?" said Peter. "You may come to the office with me," said the man. He liked Peter's looks and gave him the job. He started hi min at $8 per week.. "Peter, said the man, today you have made a firm friend and I will walk down town with you. He had noticed Peter's ragged clothes. He took Peter into a clothing store and bought him everything he needed. Then they went to a jewelers and bought Peter a gold watch and chain. Peter got along fine in his work and has five war savings certificates and thirteen thrift stamps. One day as Peter was in the park a child' fell into the bear pit Peter took the child from the bear. He found that she was the daughter of Mr. Karmer, his employer. Mr. Karmer adopted Peter and sent him to school as a reward for his faithful service. Julia Burr, Starr School.

ABOUT BIRDS The California Quail is very different from the Eastern Quail. It not only different in appearance, but also in habits. The California Quail spends the night in bushes and low trees, while the Eastern Quail spends the night on the ground. Its call is different also. It has several distinct notes and calls the most common of which sounds like a rooster call. The other calls are interpreted as mean ing, "You go away," Cut it out," and "Put that down." This call is a sort of warning call for the members of the quail family to be on their guard. Along the vainy and damp coast belt of California the bird is of a darker color tnd is large in size while in the dt t interior it is pale in color and is very small. The darker quail is ci Tied the California Quail end the oner is called the Valley Quail. The quails nest , s very interesting. It is usually a little hollow in the ground with a li le dried grass or a few feathers fot a lining with the advantage of a st ne, shrub or a tuft of grass to cone ul it. The number of et gs varies. Sometimes there has bet i found as high as thirty-one or -t eggs in a single nest. The usual . umber is from fifteen to twenty. Th ground work of the egg is of a creamy white while the markings a 3 spots and blotches from a golden yellow to a dark brown. If the egis are touched by anyone, even though by only one finger the nest is nearly always deserted. How I Earned Money to Buy Thrift StampOn Saturday morning I help mother do the work and I do the dishes. In the afternoon. I mop the kitchen and make the beds and do all kinds of work. Then when pay day comes mother gives me a quarter to buy Thrift Stamps. When we planted the potatoes I hoed the soil and helped father plant the potatoes and he gave me ten cents. I do not do this to get money, but he gives it to me. I pick up old papers and things around the house and In the barn and sell them to buy Thrift Stamps. Roberta Sheffer, Baxter School.

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HOW THEY HELPED THEIR COUNTRY There was once a little girl. Her name was Martha Jones. Her brother's name was Robert Jones. He and fcis sister were wondering what they could do to help their country. The agreed they would not ask their mother and father for any money. Robert said, "I can buy some news papers and sell them. I have fifteen cents." , Martha could not think what she couM do. "Let us ask Grandma," suggested Robert. Upon being told of the plan and how they wanted to buy thrift stamps, grandma hired little Martha at twenty-five cents per day. Next morning Robert went and sold his papers and Martha went over to her Grandma's and worked all day. "When night came, she went home. Robert was just coning home. Robert had- seventy-five; Martha had only twenty-five cents, but Robert gave Martha twenty-five cents of his earnings that day. So she had fifty cents and he had fifty cents. So they each got two thrift stamps. Vera Bozworth, 6th grade, District No. 6, Boston township. ARBOR DAY Arbor day is different from any of our other holidays in that it is looking toward the future, while all of the other holidays are to commemorate something that is past. We celebrate the birthdays of our great men, both statesmen and writers; we celebrate the anniversaries of great deeds of the great things that have been accomplished. But Arbor Day is our one day that is all for the future. Although Arbor Day is one of our newest holidays, long, long ago there were other nations that had similar holidays. It is said that the Old Mexican Indians planted trees on certain days of the year naming them after their children; also that the Aztecs had a treeplanting day. In this country we are indebted to Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, for the institution of Arbor Day. He was a pioneer of the plains and felt the value of trees. Arbor Day was first ostablished in 1878, and Nebraska v known as "The Tree Planters State." Casimir Reilly. St. Marys Scaool. Boy Sells Papers The way I buy Thrift Stamps is to sell greens, pass papers, work in the house for mother and do outside work. I work in the garden and get food for pay. I buy my own clothes and with the money left over 1 buy Thrift Stamps. Russell Robins, Baxter School.

SAN DIEGO JACKIES SHOW THEIR

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' One of the most interestine spectacles furnished by the cadets ot

the naval training station at San Diego, California, is their formation, of a living navy flag, spelling out the word "navy" with their white

blouses among the blue. The Jackies at San Diego have an excep

tionally beautiful camp, as the grounds and buildings ot tne ranamaCalifernia International exposition were turned over for the purpose to the navy department by the city of San Diego.

PRIZE CONTEST NOW ON Junior folks, here is a chance for each boy and girl in the county to test his or her ability as a writer. In the west window of Jenkins and company's jewelry store is a reproduction of a battle scene on the Western front. The Allied and German trenches, American and German dugouts. Red Cross Field Hospital, Barb Wire entanglements and British Tanks are all shown. The reproduction is even- better than this; it shows the aircraft. Suspended from small chains are miniature airplanes. Every boy and girl, man and woman in 4he county should see this window because it will give them a more definite Idea of how warfare is carried on. It is more instructive than any book or explanation. To the boy who writes the best description of this scene will be given a $12 gold filled Elgin Watch and Chain. To the girl who writes the best description a diamond ring will be given. The contest is open to all the children from the first to the eighth grades inclusive. Palladium carrier boys will be excluded. Judges will be appointed and the papers will be graded on language, spelling, neatness, grammar and punctuation. The stories must not exceed three hundred and fifty words and must he written on one side of the paper only. Those written en both sides will be thrown away. The contest will close Monday, April 22nd. The winners will be announced in the Junior Palladium of April 27th. All papers must be sent to Aunt Molly, in care of The Palladium.

A WOODCUTTER Once there was an old man and woman who lived in the forest. In the winter it was very cold, the wind blew and the snow was two feet deep. The old man cut wood for a living. One -day he came from cutting wood, and the old woman did not have dinner ready. He began to growl with her. The wife said: "You get like an old bear; for this ill talk of yours, you get no dinner at all." So the oM man went back to the woods disheartened, as he sat on a snow-covered log, a bird came flying by and said, "Spring will soon be here." Then the old man went home with a new hope of joy and told his wife the story. He told her how sorry he was 'for treating her so mean. She gave him his dinner and he went to the woods again. As he came to where he was working, he saw and old man sitting there weeping. The woodchopper asked, "What is the matter with you?" He replied that some robbers had taken his gold, and then the old man aBked him where he got the gold. The old man answered that there was tons of it back in a mountain, but that he was unable to get any more on account of lack of strength. So the two turned their steps to this mountain. And then the woodcutter mined enough gold to last both for the rest of their lives. William Cooler, District No. 6, Boston Township. Boy Dries Dishes for Sister I dry the dishes for my sister. Papa gives me twenty-five cents every pay day. I buy one Thrift Stamp every week. Maurice Bortner, 2A, Baxter School.

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,11 ABOUT TREES Trees are one- of the important factors of nature. They draw and retain moisture, thus aiding in the growth of vegetation. Trees grow in nearly every part of the world, but they differ in form and size in the different zones and climates. After the willow in the Frigid cones the lowest form of tree comes in succession the alder, birch, larch, pine, oak, linden, chestnut, poplar, redwood, date-palm, tree-fern, wax-palm, and last comes the cocoanut-palm, the highest form of tree that grows in the Torrid Zone. Each genus is represtented by many species. Thus a few of the species of the oak are, white, red, black, live and cork; a few of the pine are, Scotch-fir, the white, the yellow, the pitch and the stone; and several of the palm have been named above. We get many kinds of food from trees; as apples, peaches, cherries, apricots, olives, oranges, and ba nanas. Others bear nuts, as the beech, chestnut, w,alnut and palm. Then there are trees producing foods, which we would hardly think a tree could produae. There is a tree in South America called the milk tree, yielding a sap which tastes like cow's milk. Another, the bread fruit tree, has, as its name suggests, a fruit which resembles bread. The sago-palm yields a well known form of starch. Coffee is obtained from a tree, which is often called a plant. There are spice trees; camphor, cassia, cinnamon, clove, mace, nutmeg, etc. Fodder for cattle is produced from the grass tree, a native of Australia, whose trunk ends in a large tuft of grass. John W. Weber, St. Mary School.

SUCCESS AND FAILURE Every human being is more or

less desirous of achieving success. It matters not how evil a life may have been there is always a time that a wish comes for "Something better than they have been." As we know, in anything there is one of two results, namely, success and failure. The latter needs no explanation save that it is the op posite -of the former. It must be remembered that those who go to the successful road are traveling the road of difficulty and discour agements. Regardless of all obstacles it is a consolation to know: "Since all that I meet shall work for good. The bitter is sweet, the medicine. food; Thought painful at present, t'will cease before long, And thee O how pleasant the conqueror's song" The successful life must be willing to take what comes. Whether, it be to "Conquer the earth like Caeser or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus." It is like a person in a crowd that is running for a gate,. , He must bold his ground and push forward. If seemingly no honor comes, to much the better for more than one life has been a failure because of seeking honor. Success never comes to an individual, but he must go after it A certain writer has said, "He that would win success in life must make perseverance his bosom friend, experience his wise counselor, caution his elder brother, and hope his guardian genius." . I say that the young life that takes these guides as its interpreter of the road need not fear failure, but can in his or her heart say: "He who from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flights In the long way that I tread aTong, Will lead my steps aright." ORCHARD ORIOLE How many of you know anything about the Orchard Oriole, Juniors? I suspect that all of you have seen the bird, but know little about him. The Orchard Oriole lives mostly on caterpillars and other insects that he can find in the tops of trees. After the breeding season he is often seen on the freshly ploughed ground after other insects. For the few berries that he eats he repays the farmer three fold by keeping away the harmful Insects. The nest of the Orchad Oriole Is to be found supported by slender twigs and is usually in the top of an apple tree. The nest is somewhat pensile, but Is shorter and more firm than the long pocket nest of the Baltimore Oriole. The open" tag is somewhat constricted. It is made of fine dry greenish or yellowish grass and is elaborately lined" and woven. The bottom is lined with soft vegetable down and feathers. The eggs are grayish white with lavender spots and in fact are somewhat like the eggs of the Baltimore Oriole, but are smaller and more coarsely marked. There are usually three to five in number. The plumage of the male Oriole goes through striking changes. While yet a nestling and during the first autumn the male looks much the same as the female a dress of green and yellow. The next fall his throat becomes black and in his old age he is obliged to wear a dress of chestnut and black. THE ALICE THRUSH. The Alice Thursh is also called the "gray-cheeked" thrush because of its rather peculiar markings. Its back and tail are an even olive brown and Its cheeks gray. The eye rings are whitish. It is about tbe size of a blue bird. " It is very shy during the nesting season and builds its nest in very secluded spots. They bui'.d in bushes or small trees. The nest is made of grass, leaves and twigs. It is lined with grass. The eggs are greenish blue and spotted with reddish brown. There are usually four and it takes them about thirteen days to batch. The Alico Thrush never sings except at nesting time.