Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 339, 14 December 1918 — Page 14

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SOCIETY Julia MrEller who has been living In Philadelphia, Pa, Is visiting la RJehatond. . Until ten years ago Montenegro was without railways. EXCHANGE COLUMN Open " to All Beys and .' Girls. Thtst Ads Cost You Nothing; 8end In Your "Wants? to Tho Palladium Junior. FOR SALE Belgian Hares for eating purposes, 28 cents per pound; Belgian Hares, 7 months old, $3.75 per pair; also one large Fatagonian doe, $4.50. Call 3672. FOR SALE Mandolin and case. . Will sell cheap. Inquire at 222 . North 5th street WANTED Boys to Join the Lone Scouts. Call at 229 South Second or see William F. Gilmore at once. ;. -. , ----i.; .-; 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 t 2210 North E. street FOR SALE Christmas cards, seals and tags Also patriotic postal cards. Only 10 cents a package. Will use the money on my Victory Girt pledge. Call 206 North Ninth . street or phone 2828..LOST Receipt for $1.80 in envel- . ope. Also contained list of names. If found, return to 128 Richmond avenue. ... WANTED To buy girl's bicycle. ,Phone 4C58. . LOST A two-bladed electrocuted knife that will pick np tacks and small nails. Was dropped between 11th and 12th on North It street. ( Return to James Ronald Ross, 311 North 11th street. LOST A pair of kid gloves. If found please return to 207 South Tenth street - WANTED To buy green trading stamps at once. Please bring to the house. Charles Walsh, 308 South 4th St. FOR SALE Aeroplanes, made by , A. William Winner. Can 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 sirver-rimmed spectacles near Vaile school. If found, return to Clara Mourve, $17 South Twelfth street WANTED To trade a pair of Ice skates for a pair of roller skates. Phone 1580. FOR SALE Pigeons. William Hoffe. 418 South Eleventh street FOR SALE Air rifle. See Leoline Klus, 916 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. T .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. WANTED 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 11th and 12th on North B street Return to James Ronald Ross, 311 North 11th street LOST Child's kid glove, return to 128 Randolph street, Reward.

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Group of Valenciennes residents celebrating liberation from Germans. In center is Canadian soldier wounded in dash of Canadian troops to free city. Water used to put out fires 1ft by the fleeing Germans flooded the streets of Valenciennes when the refugees of the city returned to, their homes. But it didn't dampen their joy at their liberation from the Germans by the Canadian forces in the closing period of the war.

The Beginning of the War

- Last week we pretended we were artists and we finished painting a dark, threatening background which was the background of the great war. This week let's imagine we are in a magnificent theater, very Jarge and very beautiful; and that we are going to see a. wonderful drama or play. The theater is crowded with a brilliant company of people gay and laughing. We are among the crowd, in well-chosen seats, not too near to see the stage as a whole, nor too far to hear the speaking. We, too, are happily talking. After a while, the lights go out, and with the darkened house, the voices become still and everyone looks intently at the stage, hushed and expectant . One by one we see the lights of the stage come on. The stage is very large and we are very much surprised to see that they have taken the immense canvas we have just finished as the scenery for the play. "That's queer," we say to ourselves and thing of the play we came to see a quiet, peaceful sort of a play, the scenes of which hap pened to be laid in Europe. How strange, then, to use this, gloomy background for such a joyous play The play starts and act follows act, and the actors come and go, and everything Is gay and attrac tive. There isn't much more to happen, we think, except the bringing together of the hero and hero ine, and the promise that they will "live happy ever after." It is Just before the last Bcene of the fifth act which is the last scene of the play. The stage begins again to brighten up for the last scene, but it does not become very light Just a few lights here and there. The stormy scenery seems to be more noticeable than ever before. There isn't much on the stage except some trees and a fountain that form a public square and a long flight of steps leading up to an immense building. Now we hear voices of course it's the merry crowds gathering to sing the bridal chorus for the bride and groom when they apper. But as the voices come nearer, they do not sound joyous they sound loud and angry and dissatisfied. The door of the great building on the stage opens and two people come out and more seem to be following. They are beautifully dressed and have splendid bearing, but we know they are not our hero and heroine. "Why that's the Crown Prince of Austria, Francis Ferdinand and bis wife," speaks out some one near

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GERMANS ARE GONE FOR us, in a surprised tone some one who knows the European nobility better than we do. But hark! What is the mad scramble of the great crowd of people on the stage! They seem to be surging toward the steps where the Crown Prince is slowly descending. Suddenly we hear a low, hoarse whisper from one dark-faced man in the crowd to another, "Remember the bomb that failed us before, aim straight, this time!" Then rang out thre loud shots in swift succession, screams, a mad rush, a wild scramble follows people from inside the big building rush out, the crowd quickly scatters. "They die!" someone says in low tones as they bend over the prostrate forms of Francis Ferdinand and his wife. The Princess is dead. The Prince raises himself slightly and calls forth with all the strength he has left "It's war! It's war! It's war!" With that he dies. Then the curtain falls all the lights of the theater come on the play is over. We look around us. Many in the audience appear joyful, many look satisfied (understanding European plays more than we do, but we who come expect ing a pleasant play, were struck dumb at first with surprise and as tonishment We look at our programs again, and read that, the time of the last scene was June 28, 1914 and the place was Serajevo, the capital of Bosnia, a little Austria province. but that does not help very much. So, we put on our wraps and leave the theater, still in amazement. But when we get out doors and the fresh air makes us thing more calmly, we begin to think of many things we had heard, but never paid any attention to before. We remembered the trouble when Austria took control of Bosnia and Herzegovina, two little provinces settled with people of the Serbian race.- We remembered how Germany, by planning the BerlinBagdad railway stood behind Austria in her attempt to get control of Serbia. We realized that Russia would stand behind Serbia and that Germany would stand behing Austria if anything like what we had seen that evening in the theater had realy happened. So we went home that night wondering about many things. Now it all took place just about like we saw it take place when we imagined ourselves watching it In the theater. The assassination of the Austrian Crown Prince took place on the twenty-eighth of June, and brought the final spark of friction between Austria and Serbia. As a result of this assaaination,

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Austria put fearful demands on Ser bia, much harder than justice could ask. Serbia humbled herself and accepted almost all of the teams set by Austria, but this did not satisfy Austria. On the twenty-eighth of July in 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia. By thi time it was seen that the war had been anticipated by Austria and Germany and they had just taken the assasination of the Crown Prince as the opportunity to begin war. Any murder is terrible a beggar the same as a prince, because life is sacred but it was not enough in itself to start war. And so, just as at the beginning of games or races, a glove is dropped or a pistol is fired, so this assassination of the Austrian prince, which took place at Serajevo, Bosnia, In June, 1914, was the signal to those who were planning the race, that it was time to begin. Query Corner The editor wiil try to answer questions readers of tho Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer all of them The qu-scions will be answered in rotation, so do not expect the answer to be printed in tho ame week in which you send ft in. Dear Aunt Polly: Is there an employment agency in Richmond? Alma G. Dear Alma G.; The only employment agency in Richmond Is the War Labor Employment Agency ( for both men and women) which has its office in the Comstock Building. Annt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: What do the white crosses on the stars in the service flag stand for? 1L M. H. Dear If. If. H.: There are no stars like the ones yon speak of that are authorized by the Red Cross. They authorize the gold, for death, the silver for those seriously wounded and the blue for service. Perhaps the stars having the white crosses stand for chaplains. Aunt Polly. WITH THE SCOUTS. Last week the boys of Troop 3 of the Richmond Boy Scouts took a hike to Thistlethwaite's Falls, where they built a fire and toasted marshmaltows. Last Saturday, their basket-ball team beat the second team of New Paris High School In an exciting game with, a final score of 23-20. They expect to do the same to the liberty team, which they will play Saturday evening, December 14. The boys will go to Liberty In automobiles.

December Conies Flowers and foliage have vanished and the winds are cold and piercing. The birds, insects, wild

I folk everything seeks shelter from the wintry bktsta of 'December. i This month, like the three pre1 ceding ones, derives its name from the place it held in the old Roman calendar when the year was divided only into ten months. The name, as you can see, comes from the Latin word decern, which indicates ten. In this month the Romans celebrate their Saturnalia, which was a holiday for games and feasts in honor of the goddess Vesta, or purity. The Saxons called December "Winter-Monat" because of the winter season. After their conversion to Christianity they called the month "Heiligha-Monat" or Holy Month, on account of the Nativity of the Saviour. The twenty-first of this month is St Thomas Day and falls upon the shortest day of the year. But of all days we remember the best in December, the 25tb, is the greatest. For weeks we have been busy over plans of expressing our love to others, for It Is the' day Christ Jesus was born to bring a better understanding of tne Father to the wayward children of Earth. In many homes the old-time custom of burning a Tule log is still observed. It is an ancient ceremony of the Scandinavians, who at their feast of Juul used to kindle bonfires in honor of the god Thor. At the present day the Yule log signifies that all who come within a radius of its glow are forgiven all debts, animosities, and ill will, for the circle about the fire must be one of love and friendship. In England, the children sniff the cdor of the huge plum pudding and shout merrily in anticipation of its triumphal appearance on the festive board. In Italy and France sweet voices greet the Christmas dawn with carols that have been well learned. In Germany and the northerly countries Christmas means the time for general gift-giving to rich and poor and all keep a whole week of festivities. In America we follow the example of all our European brethren and thus . fill Christmas Day with much love and joy and general giving to others. Bdooklyn Eagle Junior JEANETTE'S PET LAMB Not every little girl, of course, could expect to have a nice, wellbehaved, gentle little lamb for a pet and playmate. But Jeanette OIney, who is only four and a half years old, has one and we are sure that she would like to have other girls and boys know something about it. Mr. OIney, Jeannette's father, is a member of the Yakima tribe of Indians in the State of Washington. He is a very busy man and probably the only Indian humane officer among all the different tribes. Now Mr. OIney Is not only a stockholder In the big bank at Wapato, the only Indian bank in the United States, but he also has a lot of live stock out on the ranges. That is where the lamb was born: and it was so very small and weak that its own mother couldn't take care of It So a kind herder took it up and carried it In his pocket for six whole weeks and fed ft with his own hands. It was then that the little fellow was given to Jeanette and she at once named it Booby, which probably means something nice in the Indian language. Booby has grown fast and is now six months old. It wont be long before it will be a grown-up sheep, surely before Jeanette gets to be a grown-up girl. . CAMDEN'S PATRIOTS Dear Junior Editor: The amount of War Savings Stamps sold by the pupils of our schools is $13266.34; of this sum. the grade pupils sold $8,366.30. The number of Victory Boys and Girls is 89; of which number the grade schools have 49. Both the grades and the High School have 100 percent in the Victory Boys and Girls. The Junior Red Cross members number 141. The The Junior Red Cross membership is 100 per cent in the Seventh and Eighth giades. Vietta Brown. Camden Public School.