Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 214, 20 July 1918 — Page 12

PAOW TWO RICHMOND PALLADIUM. JULY 20. 1918

CHILDREN'S RIDING HOUR

GENTRY BROS. SHOWS, RICHMOND, TUESDAY, JULY 23

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MY TRIP ACROSS THE DESERT. While I was in Egypt I wanted to toss the desert. I had to have a ruide and I found one easily in Tairo, Egypt, from where I was to Btart. I could not travel by railroad, so I had to go on a camel. I :ook water in a thermos bottle which was enough to do for about three days. I took my clothing in i large bag. We took a tent with us. One morning about daybreak, my guide and I started. When I had gotten a short distance, I grew very hot and thirsty. There was no shade near, so we pitched our tent till evening. By evening it had grown cooler. We took up our tent, folded it, and put it on the guide's camel. We passed a few caravans during the earlier part of the night. There was a man who watched very closely and who looked very suspicious. He was in one of the caravans. We traveled till about nine o'clock the next morning when we found an oasis. We decided that we would rest here a day or two. We pitched our tent. Our

camels were well trained, so we did not have to chain them. In the night, we were awakened by hearing a noise outside the tent. We did not hear it again, so we did not think anything about it and went back to sleep. But later in the night we were again awakened. On getting up we found that our camels had been taken, and in the shadow of a clump of shrubbery, near the tent was the figure of a man. He rushed out and attacked us. W discovered that there were two other men in another clump of bushes near by. They came out also and helped their leader. We soon found that the leader was the man in the caravan that had passed us during the night. He supposed that we had money and other valuables. They kept track of us when we supposed there wasn't anybody near. We fought desperately and left the men unconscious on the desert toy the oasis. Then we folded our tent and started on foot. We found our camels feeding an some shrubs by another casis. Wreary as we were from our walk

and fight we gladly got upon our camels and started. We traveled for several days and finally came to Tunis where I had to stop, for I wanted now to go and see the European country. From Tunis, I was to go to Itally. Although we had some trouble it was worth the trip I think. Edith A. Driver. Grade 7, Garfield.

V. 8. Food Administration. "Sides savin fats en wheat, we got ter save sugar. Ie bes way tsi are sugar is ter use syrups en honey. A nice in pitcher full er 'lasses convoyed hv a fleet er buckwheat cakes Is one er de bes' ways to "set crost" wid tie sugar projick, so U saves wheat flour, too.

Mike. Mike was not rich and still he

was not poor. His father made toys in the toy saops. Mike did not want toys. He wanted to live in the country. One day his mother sent him to the country to visit his Uncle Billy. When" Mike got there lie first inspected the barn then the chicken coop, the pig pen and last of all the house. The next day he went out and played in the-field. In the afternoon he watched his uncle dig potatoes. Mike said, "Uncle I want to be a gardener." His Uncle Billy said, "Come on and help me dig potatoes." Mike said, "Oh, see the butterfly!" And away he went. The next day he went to play with his cousin who lived with his Uncle Robert. When he went home he told his father and mother that when he grew up he would be a farm. His father told him that the next summer he could work for his Uncle Billy. So when school ended the next spring, Mike went to the country to work for his uncle. He found that farming wasn't all play. Since he was not a slacker he stuck to it all summer. When the

summer was over his uncle said, "Mike,. I know that you didn't like the work and since you persevered and didjthe work well, i am going to reward you. Remember that goat and wagon that you wanted? Well, I am going to give it to you. I like boys who finish all the things that they begin.

The next day when Mikes' moth

er looked out of the window she

saw Mike riding down the street

in his wagon. Mike never became a farmer, but he always ended what ever he began. Everett LadJU Starr school.

How This War Is Different From Other Wars. Many distinguishing characteristics of this war are not founded upon entirely new ideas, in some cases the underlying principle has been known for years, and advantage has been taken of it in past wars. For instance, trench warfare has been known for a long time; part of the Civil War was fought in (renches. But this is the first war to be fought almost wholly in such a manner. The machine gun has been known under various forms, for many years. Never before, however, has it been used to such an extent as now. High explosives are used in this war to a hither to unheard of ex

tent. The range of modern artillery surpasses by far that of guns used in previous wars. It seemed that the limit had been reached in the German twenty-mile guns used in reducing Antwerp; but now ap

pears the sixty-mile gun used by the Huns in bombarding Paris. One must not think, however, that the Allies are behind the Germans in the effectiveness of artil-( lery fire. The pieces used on the Western front by the Aliles are French guns; and they are really

superior to the German weapons.

Letters and diaries found on German prisoners show the terror which the artillery fire of tbe Allies has inspired. Somethings which played a very humble part in everyday life have found a new use in thLs war. Before this war the use of barbed wire was confined chiefly to farms and ranches; now hundreds of miles of it is stretched between the opposing trenches, as an obstacle to attacking troops. Some prominent features of former wars have been dropped in this one. Cavalry used to play an important part in the science of warfare, but in this struggle the activity of horsemen has been restricted to a very short period at the beginning. At the beginning of trench warfare, the military importance of cavalry ceased. Other features of modern warfare were not used in former times

because they were considered inhu

man. Such is the case of poison gas, an innovation of the Huns. But there are some weapons now in use which are absolutely new.

That jabberwalk of modern war

fare, the tank, is absolutely new

And never before has the airplane been used in war. The rapid derelopment of aerial navigation In

the last four years is proof of the statement that "Civilization comes riding on a gun carriage." Under irdinary circumstances, such a development would have taken many years.

THE STOLEN BAEY.

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Old Maida was a gypsy woman, about 65 years old. The Gypsies were encamped in a woods an a farm where lived one boy, Alcestis, and two sisters, Rose and Kate, and their mother and father. Old Maida bad sen Kate wheeling Rose on the lawn. Rose was a beautiful child and was dressed handsomely. Old Maida wanted the clothes. So one night when everyone was

sleeping old Maida crept up to the

farm. She went to the room in which little Rose slept and opened the window reached in and got her. In the morning little Rose was missing and her father, suspecting the gypsies of stealing her, started a search. He called in the police and they went to where the gypsies were encamped. The surrounded the wagons. Some of them searched for the lost baby. It was found in one of the oldest and dirtiest wagons. The gypsies had taken all of its pretty clothes and put old and very dirty rags on it. They had also stained her hands and face so that they were the same color as the gypsies. Rose was taken tiome and the gypsies were driven from town. Margaret Wynkeep, Columbia City.

MEASURING A YARD. Once upon a time fhere was an old lady. Her grandmother was visiting her. The grandmother was measuring a ribbon. She put one end to her nose and the other to her fiingures. This was a yard. The little girl went to her play house and found a ribbon. She came back to her grandmother and said, "Smell this and see if this is a yard."--Hargaret Addleman, Starr school.

BOY HAS TWO WAR SAVINGS STAMPS. I worked at the bowling alleys and made five dollars. I bought a war savings stamp and three thrift stamps with that money. I chopped wood and made twenty-five cents. I went, on errands with my bicycle

i and made three dollars. To get the

other fourteen cents I sold some fish I caught. So I now have two war saving stamps. Horace Webb.