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Ths State of Vermont, which parsed a law providing tor the gradual freeing of slave In 1777, was the first state to abolish slavery. There are more than 200 specie of aillc-produclng Insects, though very few of these are of any practical value to mankind. EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to An Boys and Girfs. These Ads Cost You Nothing; Send In Yeur "Wants" to The Palladium Junior. WANTED Boys to Join the Lone Scouts. Call at 229 South Second or Bee William F. Gil more at once. LOST A green hat cord. If found please return to the Junior office. WANTED More boys to. Join the . United States Junior Army and the United States Junior Navy, and to start a training school. Inquire 915 North G street. FOR SALE Rabbits. I doe and 8 young and 4 older rabbits. Inquire it 2210 North E. street FOR SALE- Christinas cards, seals and tags Also patriotic postal cards. Only 10 cents a package. Will nse the money on my Victory Girl pledge. Call 206 North Ninth street or phone 2828.. LOST Receipt for $1.80 in envelope. Also contained list of names. If found, return to 128 Richmond avenue. WANTED To buy girl's bicycle. Phone 4658. LOST A two-bladed electrocuted knife that will pick up tacks and small nails. Was dropped between 11th and 12th on North II street. Return to James Ronald Robs, 311 North llth street LOST A pair of kid' gloves. If found please return to 207 South Tenth street WANTED To buy green trading lamps at once. Please bring to the house. Charles Walsh, 308 South 4th St. FOR SALE Aeroplanes, made by A. William Winner. Call at 31 North Ninth street. FOR SALE 16-Inch airplanes with wheels, 75 cents; 8-inch with wheels, 35 cents. Leoline Klus. LOST Child's silver-rimmed spectacles near Vaile school. If found, return to Clara Mourve, 317 South Twelfth street WANTED ;To trade a pair of ice skates for a pair of roller skates. Phone 1580. FOUND A re sweater belt in the South Tenth Street park. Owner may have same by calling Elsie Baker, 207 South Tenth street. FOR SALE Pigeons. William Hoffe. 413 South Eleventh street. FOR SALE Air rifle. See Leoline Klus, 915 N. G. street WANTED New scraps of all kinds of good, for quilt pieces, two to three cents a pound paid for them. Alma Chamness, 16 North Eighteenth street, city. WANTED Boys to join the Lone Scouts of America. For further information call at 229 South Second street, or see William F. Gilmore. WANTED Doll wigs to make. Call 111 North Third street, or phone 1821. WANTiSD To buy girl's bicycle. Nina Murray, 216 South Ninth street LOST A two bladed, magnetized knife that will pick up tacks and small nails. Was dropped between llth and 12th on North B street Return to James Ronald Ross, 311 North llth street. JX)ST Child's kid glove, return to 128 Randolph street, Reward.

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LATEST WAR NEWS. The other day General Staff, accompanied by General Orders, came around for inspection. Nothing was said about the rank, but the file could not be used. The General was told that one of the ponies was a little hoarse (horse). On asking a sick drummer what ailed him, we are told that he ate a drumstick. Kernel Wheat is resting, while Kernels Corn, Barley and others are taking his place. We are sorry to say that these are ground down. J. B!rd has been getting danger-, ous lately. Corporal Punishment fell In a tank. Luckily he missed Private Entrance The following privates have been shelled: Walter Nutt (walnut), Chester Nutt (chestnut) and A. Corn. HOW TO SUCCEED. "Push," says the button. "Do a driving business,' the hammer. says "Never be led," says the pencil. "Don't be driven," says the nail. "Stick," says the glue. HE SPOKE THE TRUTH. Funnlcuss. who rather prides himself on his astuteness, arrived at the station the other evening to find every car of the 6:12 packed. Halting by one of the back cars, he exclaimed in a loud voice, "Why, this car isn't going?" , Result exodus, in consternation, of the majority of the passengers. Funnlcuss appropriated a corner seat and the train steamed out. "Thought you said this car wasn't going," remarked one of the passengers who had retained his seat. "Neither was it when I spoke," blandly responded , Funnlcuss, with a seraphic smile. ' A: "I'm some guy. I got a letter from the general the other day." B: "What general was that?" A: "Oh! General Delivery." SO LONG AGO. Little Nephew: "Grandma, how old are you?" Grandma:. "I me seventy-five years old." Little Nephew: 'Fhew! It's so long since you were born, I suppose it seems as if it never happened." HE FOUND SOMETHING. A pretty school teacher, noticing one of her little charges idle, said sharply: "John, the devil always finds something for idle hands to do. Come up here and let me give you some work." IN 1920. Hubby: "This pie, my love, is just the kind that mother used to buy at her bakery." NOT HIS KIND. Mr. Nodd: "I don't think much of that toy bank you got the children." Mrs. Nodd: "What's the matter with it?" Mr. Nodd: "Why, I worked over it all the evening and couldn't open it." LITTLE MOTHERS. Elsie: "What's your dolly's name?" Marjorie: "Ethel Watts Thompson." Elsie: "Is the middle name on the father's or mother's side?" HE MIGHT CATCH IT. Young Turkey: "What's Thanksgiving, pa?" t01d Turkey: "It's a kind of epidemic, my son." STANDS A GOOD DEAL. Doris: "But I never told you that I have a brother-in-law who is a senator." Harry: "No matter, darling. Even that fact cannot separate us." A FALSE START. "What a nice sister you have! What's her name?" "Mike." THE PROTECTING CLOUDS. Preacher: "What! fishing instead of attending Sunday school? Don't you know the Lord looks down and 6eesfevery thing you do?" Little boy: ' Yep; but he can't see nothin' today it's too cloudy." Billie: "You's goi an orful dirty folce, Jimmie." Jiramie: "Say nothin' I's Jollih'

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- at - Home's Old Kit Bag my goil I's got an autimoblle." THE POINT OF VIEW. Mrs. Hen: "Willie has a bad cold. I believe he got his feet wet" Dr. Drake: "H'm! Nonsence. He may have kept them too warm and dry." AN EDUCATIONAL EPIDEMIC . Mother: "Where do you feel Sick?" Son: "On my way to schooL" BEHIND THE TIMES. First Little Girl: "Have yon been operated on yet?" Second Little Girl: "No. Mother says I am very backward for my age." IT WOULD PAY THEN. One day a gentleman, walking down the boardwalk at Atlantic City, saw an Irishman on his knees pushing a dollar bill through one of the cracks. He touched the man on the shoulder and said, "Why are you doing that, my good man?" The Irishman looked up and said, "Faith, and I jist dropped a nickle through the walk, and I thought I'd make it worth me while to tear up the walk and get me nickeL" "It's the songs we sing and the smiles we wear That makes the sunshine everywhere." Mr. Murray, irritable from long confinement to a sick-bed, cocked up his ears and listened. 'That's all that piano-bangln in th' parlor?" he then demanded, glaring at his wife. "'Tis our daughter Mary takin her first steps in piano-playing," rejoined his wife. "Her first steps! Phat's she doin', walkin' on the kayboard?" Lippincott's. If of me you never think, My heart will shrink and shrink and shrink. A Reader. MY VACATION. The first week of this "flu" Vacation, I made airplanes and skated. I practiced one hour a day on the piano also, but I was rather lazy. The next week I worked every afternoon and a whole day on Saturday at a store up town. I enrolled as a Victory Boy, and am anxious. to earn the money for it as well as for' my Thrift Stamps. Edward A. Nusbaum. ON THE WING Captain Charles Biddle of Philadelphia i3 the first man to capture an enemy in mid-air and bring him down alive. He wounded a German aviator in a duel and preferred making him a prisoner to killing him, which the German also seemed to prefer. So Captain Twiddle drove the German flier before him and compelled him to land within the .American lines. MY KITTY BUFF I have a kitty named Buff. I named him Buff because he is buff color. When Buff wants anything to eat, he stands on his hind feet and looks very cuto.i Almost every Saturday, mother bathes him, and then he Is very pretty and clean. We think a great deal of him. Sometimes he is very bad, and jumps in the fern and breaks the stems down. Alta Dove, Vaile school. Kupple ov Grins Mike "Are yez aloive afther fallin' three stories?" "Shurc; phat's throe stories whin it's a twinty story bildin'?" Mandy "Rastus, do ye noe whut you reminds me of?" Rastus "Naw, whut?" Mandy "One of dose flyin' merchines." Rastus "Why so, Mandy?" Mandy "Cayse you ain't no good on earth." Lone Scout. There Is eighteen pounds of metal in the equipment of every United States infantryman. The earliest record of banks In Europe Is the x Bank of Venice, founded A. D., 1171. The first bank notes that we know anything about appeared in China and date back as far as 2657 B. C.

7. 1918

WARNER NOTES. Maud Matthews likes to be teacher when the real teacher is out of the room. What's the matter with Grannie Crab tree? Goldie Brown Is going to be a teacher. She can ask more questions than the teacher, herself. The boys of Warner are certainly hard' cn a football. It's getting soft already. One of the teachers laughed at the girls' baseball diamonds. She said she thought the bases weren't ten feet apart Mildred Gardener and Crystal Graves are very fond of playing baseball. Old Grannie Nib SOLDIERS' MORNING SONG. I can't get them up, I can't get them up, I can't get them up in the morning. I can't get them up, I can't get them up, I can't get them up at all. Sergeants, worse than Privates, Lieutenants worse than Sergeants, And Captains worse than all. I can't get them up, I can't get them up, I can't get them up in the morning. I can't get them op, I can't get them up, I can't get them up at all. How Fire Came to Hawaii Island A long, long tim ago thre lived at HIlu, a person named Hint. She was partly a goddess and partly human, and she loved the people of Hilo. She had three or four sons, but the one we know first was Maui, the youngest His fathe'r was the god Ku. From Ku came to Maui the wisdom and strength of a god; from the mother, Hini, came the kind heart and the love to do good to the people. At that time nobody had any fire; people must eat raw the breadfruit, the sweet potatoes, the fish; and how could they eat taro at all? Every knows how raw taro stings the mouth and makes it sore. (Taro, Juniors, is a plant used for food in the Tropics.) Now, in Hilo, on the southern side of Halai Hill, the people often used to see thin white smoke rising among the wavering ferns. But if two or three children, or anybody, ran, no matter how fast, to find the queer little cloud in the bushes, they saw only some alae birds flying frightened away, leaving nothing behind but ashes and blackened sticks. Perhaps the Holopaani might get a tiny bit of roasted banana left in the ashes. He would taste and give it to his sister, Makahinuhinu, and then he would say, "Oh, if we could only find oat how the alaes do this; how they make the fire, and cook the banana! How good it tastes!" But it was of no use to try; the birds that knew the secret of mak ing fire were too smart. Even Maui, the godman, tried a long time in vain. The birds knew that he watched them, and they always kept a watchout for him. They called bim Maui the mama, which means Maui the quick one, and they would not make a fire till they saw him off fishing with his two brothers in the beautiful blue water of fair Hilo Bay. One day Maui said to his brothers, "I have a thought" then he paused. "What is your thought?" asked the brothers. "Well, you take the long calabash in which we keep our fishlines, and put it like a man beside you in the canoe, and you go to fish and leave me on the shore.' The alaes will say, 'Ah, we count three men fishing now we are safe! But I will go slyly to, their place to watch for them, and give them a fine hoka." So he crept up under the high bending amaii ferns of Halai and hid, before the alaes came. Very soon the birds flew swiftly by with their leader, Huapl (the active), who alone knew the fire secret "Hurry, Alae Huapi!" they cried, "Kindle your fire let us get In the bananas quick, quick before Maui can come back from fishing and catch us!" And Maul heard every word, but after all did not see the fire started, though he was hiding so near, behind a big rock. He leaped out to catch a burning stick, but the watch bird saw him and screamed, "Put out the fire! Put out your

fire!' and in a moment it was out, and the birds had flown away like the wind all but the brave little' Alae Huapl, who stayed a moment too long to scratch out the last sparks. Mani grabbed little Alae Huapl, the active. "Ah, ha, I've caught you." said he. holding her out in

!hia big hand. "Now tell me how you make fire." Alae fluttered and struggled and twisted, but would not speak. "Tell it tell it" cried Maui, with a pinch for poor Alae; "tell it or I will kill yon." Then spoke the bird. "Yes I will tell. You get a stick and a banana leaf, and rub the leaf with the stick, and lire will come. So big Maui, holding small Alae safely in one hand, went to work with the other hand to rub, while Alae looked on with laugh hiding in her eyes. Do you think Manl got lire that way? Do you want to try? No, Indeed he didn't he got angry instead and shook the plucky little bird till she could hardly speak. "Now then," said he, "look out what I'll do to you next time, if you do not tell the truth!" Alae answered, "Go bring kilo stalks and rub them with your stick." and again she watched with laughing eye. It seemed that Maul was getting the "fine hoka" Just then. When he found he could get only water he slapped and shook Alae harder, but still she kept her secret, and went on telling him more foolishness. At last Maui turned to Alae. "Now," said he, "I will try rubbing your head, and see what I shall gt;" and he scraped away till the blood flowed down (and ever since the Hilo mud hens, or alae, and all of their sort, have a red spot on the head where it once was white.) Poor, plucky little Alae Huapi, bruised and bleeding! This time she said, "Go get a very dry branch of hau tree and rub it well with your stick" Maui rubbed long and well the branch grew warm grew hot; and at last, in the fine soft dust made by his scratchin, glowed the tiny spark fire for his mother fire for an of the people of the land. This, is how the natives of Hawaii got their fire in the early days. TWO KINDS OF MINES. Generally speaking, there are two types of mines: fixed and floating. The fixed or stationary mine is fired by contact, electricity, timing device or fuse. Such mines, which are extensively used by all navies, are rugged in design and may con tain large charges of explosives. They are placed in position by submarines and other specially equipped mine-laying vessels. Such a mine is provided with an anchor ing device and is deposited, if pos sible, in harbors and channels of the enemy or in the path of ocean travel. Floating mines differ from fixed mines in that they are unanchored, and unless guard boats are at hand to warn friendly vessels of their proximity, may be as dangerous to friend as foe. Such mines must be, according to the laws of war. designed to become inoperative within a few hours after being set adrift. The German floating mines aro often cast ndrift in pairs, connected by a line about one hundred feet long. If a ship runs between the two mines, they are drawn alongside the ship and exploded. The value of the depth charge is that it explodes in the vicinity of the submarine in case it fails to strike the boat itself. PRIZES AWARDED. , Although the number of articles turned In for the Victory Boys and Victory Girl Contest were very few, one prize was awarded. The first prize of one dollar ($1.00) has been awarded to Julia R. Burr. Congratulations, Julia! Two royal air force officers, with two mechanics, recently completed a flight from England to Egypt, a distance of 2,000 miles, in a type of airplane that has seen considerable service on the front The official report in announcing this feat, says: "One or two halts were made for petrol, but the flight was merely a bit of routine work." Germany had conquered Belgium, Potard. Serbia. Lithunia, Courland, and Frinll. But the Allies have conquered cotton, wool, jute, leather, rubber, copper and feeding-stuffs.