Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 77, 8 February 1919 — Page 13

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inn juimuk ruLAjjiuivi WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM - RICHMOND, 1ND.. FEBRUARY 8, 1919

The Children's Campaign for Saving and Thrift

I The Candy Box. i BOYS AND GIRLS: Let's start out. with a Box of Candy. That is a pleasant beginning, surely. How long will the Box of Candy last? Maybe an hour? Two hours? Not very long, eh? And then the Candy Box is empty! Worse than that: You have a little pain in your stomach. Very likely! Well: the finish isn't as pleasant as the Btart. "Better go to bed without any supper," says Mamma. "And here is a tiny little dose of Castor Oil. Come! It's good for you. Down with it! So." Oh, the wailing procession up to the little bed! Then "good night!" II "HELLO BILLY! Feeling a little better this morning Tummy ache cured, eh?" Yes, yes! A big Box of Candy is a right good beginning; but it may be a very bad ending! How much better it would have been to make it last longer! Why not eat a little candy now. Eat a little after supper. Save some for the next day Why not? What do the pigs do when the farmer fills the trough? Why, of course they" eat and eat until the trough is empty. That's pig nature. Your nature ought to be Just the opposite of that. You can think ahead. The pig cannot or does not. Next time youh 'ave a Box of candy.'why not put half of it on the top shelf of the pantry. Then you will have a treat the day afterward. Then you will not have the stomach ache and you will not need the Castor Oil. It is all right for a pig to be a pig. But a boy ought to be a Boy. Save something for tomorrow. Ill YOUR UNCLE SAM runs the government. He is the Government. You are a part of Uncle Sam: even more than a Partner! A part. Your Uncle Sam needs money to pay war bills, and everything. He will call on your Father to pay more taxes. But Uncle Sam needs more than he can obtain that way. He wants your help, as well as your Papa's. "What's that? Uncle Sam need the help of a little boy like me?" "Yes, indeed! Every boy's help: every girl's help." The box of candy story will show you the way. IV JUST SUPPOSE! Suppose, that your Aunt Polite has given you a quarter: Careful now! Don't answer until you think of the Candy and the Castor Oil and the Pigs and the Trough and the Stomach Ache! That is what your Thinker was made for. It was made to' use in just such times as this. A quarter is a very fine thing as it is. You cannot cut it in two if you want to save half of it; a cut quarter is useless. The best thing you can do with it is this: Take it over to the Postoffice and tell the man that you want: (1) to help Uncle Sam (2) to save that Quarter (3) to be a smart boy and not a silly pig (4) to start a Thrift Stamp book. . By using Aunt Pollie's quarter that way you do four good things. And you are much better off than Gym Girls Give Party for Freshmen The girls of the Girls' Athletic association of high school will give a party for the new freshmen on the afternoon of February 14. The G. A. A. Alumna are especially invited. Hiss Wickemeyer, physical training instructor, said, but asked that they notify her if they can come. Basketball has been played with enthusiasm this year. "They are really playing basketball," said Miss Wickemeyer. The Reds, captained by Helen Jessup, and the Whites, by Thelma Bymaster, run very close scores. At present the Reds are ahead of the Whites by three points.

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ernment. NOW CHILDREN: Thla la verv important. If you Bave a Quarter a day and buy one Thrift Stamp a aay u means $75 a year. A Nickel a day means J15 a year saved. If 20,000.000 boys, zirla and bie people do the same it means ONE BILLION FIVE HUNDRED MILLION Dollars saved each year for the Government. Think of it: $1,500,000,000. And so it is. that Savins a little Candy for Tomorrow and Saving a few cents a day and buying Thrift Stamps will enable every bov and srirl to help the Government. Let's resolve to do all we can in this way. Bob, the Life Saver While talkine with mv mother about the courage of certain does. she related to me this story which had been told to her by her mother. Years ago in County Kerry, Ireland, an hour after her husband had gone to a meeting in another village, Mrs. Grant, while rocKing her baby in a cradle near the lire, was suddenly startled bv hearing a knock at the door. She hastened to open it and into the room stepped a woman who inquired in a rather muffled voice as to the whereabouts of her husband. After telling her where he was, Mrs. Grant, being a hospitable woman, prepared to cook some supper for the stranger. But while doing so a fork which she was using, fell to the floor, and while stooping to pick it up, she happened to gaze underneath the table. Then she saw that her strange guest had on man's trousers, and she guessed and guessed rightly, that she had beneath her roof not a woman but a man, who in all probability was a robber. Without waiting a second, 6he ran to a ladder that extended up to a loft above. She hastily climbed it and pulled it up after her, mua preventing the robber from climbing up. After finding that he could not reach her, the enraged robber suddenly grabbed the baby and made as though to throw it into the fire. As a last hope to save her child, Mrs. Grant shouted to her faithful mastiff, who was asleep in a corner of the room "Sick him, Bob, elck him!" Hearing his name, the dog awoke and understanding the situation at once launched himself at the robber's throat, who, upon seeing the dog fly at him, dropped the baby to the ground and was just about to Jump away when the dog landed on him. After gripping him by the throat the brave dog shook him as a cat would shake a mouse, and in a short while the man was no more. About five years later, this tame child, one day, while crossing a river, by leaping from one stone to another, slipped and fell into the water. After hearing her cry for help. Bob, the dog, plunged in and succeeded in catching her collar in his teeth. He then swam with her to the shore, where she was revived by a thankful mother who had been too frightened during the accident to do anything for her accident to be of any use. Our Dumb Animals. Girl Scouts to Give Play The girl scouts of Troop No. 1 will give a play about the first of March, entitled. "The Liberty Thrift Girls." The following cast has been selected: Mistress Davis, Madge Whitesell; Amy, her daughter, Mildred Mote; Caroline, colored maid. Aline Tall; The Keller Girls Mary Agnes, Hester Jones; Josephine Columbia. Christine DuVafl; Lillian Schumann, Gladys Libbking; Maud Maxwell, her chum, Esther Lieneman; Annie Gray, Bertha Foulkner; her brother, Johnnie, Jeanette Thomas. Troop No. 1 Is very anxious that a second troop of Girl Scoots should be organized in Richmond. Any girl over 10 years of age may belong. A girl over 21 yean of age Is needed for Captain.

ABRAHAM One day a woman, accompanied Lincoln. The woman was the wife

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band had been captured, tried and condemned to be shot. She came to ask for the pardon of her husband. Lincoln heard her story and then

asked what kind of a husband her "Is he intemperate, does he abuse the president.

"No, no," said the wife. "He is a good man, a good husband; he loves me and he loves the children and we can not live without him. The only trouble is that he is a fool about politics. I live in the north and was born there, and if I get him home he will do no more fighting for the south." "Well," said Lincoln, after examining the papers, "I will pardon him and turn him over to you for safe keeping." The woman, overcome with joy began to sob as though her heart would break. "My dear woman," said Lincoln, "if I had known how badly it was going to make you feel, J never would have pardoned him." "You do not understand me," she cried between sobs. "Yes, yes, I do," answered Lincoln, "and if you do not go away at once I shall be crying with 'you." .

In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness. There are men as good as he, but they do bad things. There are men as intelligent as he, but they do foolish things. In him goodness and intelligence combined and made their best results of wisdom Phillip Brooks. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught them to keep time to the music of his heart. David Swing. ' Amid the political idiocy of the times, the corruption in high places, the dilettante culture, the vaporings of wild and helpless theorists, in this swamp of political quagmire, O Lincoln it is refreshing to think of thee! H. A. Delano. A power was his beyond the touch of art -Or armed strength his pure and mighty heart Gilder. He built the rails as he built the State. Pouring his splendid strength through every blow, , The conscience of him testing every stroke To make his deed the measure of a man. Markham.

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by a senator, called on President of one of Mosby's men. Her bus husband was. - the children and beat you?" asked He was the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, for in bis ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and in the depths of his great soul the faults of both were lost. He was greater than Puritan, greater than Cavalier, in that he was American, and that in his homely form were first gathered the vast and thrilling forces of this ideal government. Henry W. Grady. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest Civil War. He is the gentlest memory of our world. rIngersoll. It was his deep heart of pity and love which carried him far beyond the reaches of statesmanship or oratory, and gave his words that finality of expression which marks the noblest art Mabie. Great captains with their guns and drums Disturb our Judgment for the hour. But at last silence comes; - These are all gone and standing like a tower. Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest brave foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise not blame, New birth of our new soiL the first American! , Lowell.

How South Feels About Abe Lincoln John' Kendrick' Bangs, in "From Pillar to Post": "I happened to bo in Atlanta, Ga., over Lincoln's birthday, and it pleased me beyond measure to find printed on the first page of one of the prominent newspapers of that beautiful city a three column cut of Abriham Lincoln, with a suitable tribute in verse. As I was about to toss the paper aside a fine old type of southern gentleman seated himself on the divan alongside me and in the usual courteous manner of the country gave me a morning salutation. I responded in kind, and then, tapping my paper, observed: "That is a fine picture of Lincoln.' "'Yes, suh; a very-fine picture, suh,' he replied. 'I never had the honor of seein' Mr. Lincoln, suh, but from all I hear, suh, he must have resembled that picture pretty close, suh. " 'It is a delight to me to find it in one of your southern newpapers,' said I, 'especially in one so influential in the south as this.' " 'Yes, suh.' he answered. 'It shows that the south is not slow to recognize genius, suh, wherever it is found, suh. But' he added, 'there is no occasion for surprise, suh. We have always appreciated Mr. Lincoln's greatness down here and we have had reason to believe that durin' the late unpleasantness, Buh, he was consid'rable of a no'thern sympathizer, suh.' " Finding Gold in Alaska This is a true account of how the Nome gold ields were discovered. Two Finlanders . named Lindstrom (brothers) wanted to go to the Yukon, but their funds only carried them as far as San Francisco. One day while at the docks they encountered a captain looking for two deck hands. He was sailing for Behring strait When the boat had gotten nicely under way the captain discovered that the Lindstrom brothers were landlubbers and didn't know the difference between the jib-boom and the"anchor. "I thought you said you were sailors, you numbskulls!" he roared with true nautical anger.

"No, I said tailors," averred the one who had negotiated the deal. It was too late fo turn back so the captain kept the brothers on board until he reached the first bit of land, a neck of the bay across the mouth of the Yukon. He gave the brothers a supply of grub and put them off. "I can't be bothered with you any more," he said. "That grub will see you through. Hoof it around the hay to St Michaels." So the Lindatorms landed on the coast and threw in their lot with a bond of Eskimos. They found that the natives had plenty of gold and questioned them about it. The natives were not at all secretive and showed the brothers where the metal had been obtained. The coast line at that point now Nome was rich with the metal on the sandy shore. The Lindstroms went silently to work. After months of arduous labor the brothers gathered a small fortune and they started for St. Michaels. They were as silent as clams and never showed enough dust to create interest. They reached 'Frisco, where they bought machinery to work their claims in a bigger way. While in the city they let a hint drop and soon one of the maddest stampedes in history began. When the news reached Dawson City is caused great excitement and everybody that could, got away up the river. Some got in in time, but the most were disappointed, as all claims were staked when they reached there. Lone Scout The Great Salt Lake in Utah was a fresh water lake twice and is now a salt water lake for the second time in its history. This is due to the climate of Utah, changing from a relative moist to -dry. In the dry climate the water evaporated and left behind the mineral matter which was held in solution, and salt was one of these substances.

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