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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, FEB. 8, 1919

Query Corner!

The editor will try to answer Questions readers of tho Junior

submit to her. She will not

promise to answer all .of them.

The questions will be" answered In rotation, so do not expect the answer to be printed In the

same week In which you send

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Dear Aunt Polly: - Where do you live? Ruth Brugger. Dear Ruth: 1 First I want to thank you for your little note, with its New Year's greetings. Same to you. Yes, indeed, we want every number of the Junior to be "full up" with all kinds of "good things." And many of these "good things" will come from Junior Boys and

Girls, for : it's really your paper you know, and I'm Just a very

much interested Aunt, after ail. so

all you Juniors want to catch that story that's rushing around in your

head, so teasingly ana by magic or

otherwise transfer it to paper, so that all the other Juniors can read

Now as to the question.

It you should go down Main street till you come to the place where there isn't a single thing

straight ahead of you except a very attractive looking, but a very incomplete bridge; and if you should fly across this space (or you can take the slower -way of climbing 67 steps) then you would probably land on West Main street, providing you flew straight; and then if you walk west about five and a half short squares, you would find in front of you, half-way up the hill, a rather small house with a big welcome (only you can't see the .welcome) and that is where I happen to live. The name of this house happens to be "The Little Brown House," and it's a very human little house. In fact, it you look at it long enough, you will probably see the drowsy eyes that are in the long green roof, open and Close, and if it finds you friendly, it may even wink at you roguishly, or wrinkle all up with laughter. Of course, everyone that looks at the house, doesn't Beo these things. Just some folks. Wonder what it will do for you! Aunt Polly.

Dear Aunt Polly: Am I friendly? Am t tiresome? Am I tedious? Am I hungry? Lcoline Klus. Dear Leollne: Should say not! That is, not tiresome and tedious. Imagine a scout .being dull! And specially a typewriter scout. Such a thing is unthinkable. If you ever find any one that things you are, just send them to me, and I'll tell them such a lot of things about "Y" races, soldier friends and skating rinks, that they won't ever think it again. Friendly? Yes, you certainly are that too, that is, except when some one tries to do typewriter duet with you, and then sometimes you well you don't act exactly friendly, but that is very, very seldom. As for being hungry, I wouldn't doubt that you are that, most of the time. Isn't that so? Anyway I wouldn't like to offer you a box of candy, no matter what time of

the day it was, if it wasn't up-

posed to be eaten. It wouldnt be safe, would it? Aunt Polly.

Dear Aunt Polly: ,Do you like a circusJohn C. . Dear John: "Oh! the circus day parade, how the bugles played and played." Goodness, the very thought of a circus sets my blood a-tlngling! I'd like to stay right with it when it come to town, from the time the big grey elephant wobbles down the gang plank to the time the last yellow car is speeding quickly out of sight, down the narrowing railroad track; and that includes marching in the parade, behind one of the most mysterious looking wagons, and sitting through both performances, eating peanuts and trying to keep one eye on the ring leader, and one eye on the clown with the sidewhiskero. Do I like circuses? Oh my I What is there, that is ware fun? Aunt Poll.

(Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery in Gettysburg, November 19, 1866.) FOUR score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived of liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotionthat we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation, under God, shall Jiave a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Feb. 12, 1809 Born, in Hardin v county, Ky. April 21, 1832 Elected captain of a company raised at Richland, 111., for service in the Black Hawk war. 1833 Appointed postmaster of New Salem and held the office for three years. 1834 Was elected a member of the Illinois legislature and was re-elected in 1836, 1838 and 1840, after which he declined further election. 1835 Began the practice of law in Springfield, 111., in partnership with John T. Stuart. 1846 Elected a member of congress and on the expiration of his term was not a candidate for re-election. 1849 Offered the governorship of the territory of Oregon by President Taylor, which he declined. 1854 Began a series of earnest political discussions on the repeal of the Missouri compromise and the slavery question. 1858 Commenced his series of public discussions with Senator Douglas on the slavery question, which established his reputation as one of the leading orators of the Republican party. ' May 18. 1860 Nominated by the Republican convention at Chicago for the presidency. Nov. 6, 1860 Elected president of the United States. March 4, 1861 In his Inaugural address treated the act of secession as a nullity. April 13, 1861 President Lincoln Issued a call for 75,000 three

months' militiamen. March 6, 1862 Sent a special message to congress inclosing a resolution offering pecuniary aid to states that would " adopt the gradual abolishment of slavery. Jan. 1, 1863 President Lincoln issued his proclamation emancipating the slaves. No. 19, 1863 Delivered his famous speech at the dedication of the National cemetery on the battlefield of Gettysburg. Nov. 8, 1864 Elected the second - time to the presidency. July 18, 1864 Sent open letter through Horace Greeley to southern agents in Canada, stating the only terms upon which peace be made. . April 11, 1865 Delivered his last speech on public affairs in front of the executive mansion. April 14, 1865 Shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's theatre, Washington. April 15, 1865 Died from the effect of the assassin's shot

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Funny Little Pappy-Dog Funny little puppy-dog, Capering so gaily, Going at a Jiggy-jog By my window daily. No one ever need inquire Why you are so merry.

Why your twinkling legs don't tire

Though they re short oh very! Reason is, you're close behind Your beloved master! Why. I don't belivee you'd mind Going whole lot faster! Loyal little puppy-dog, Capering so gaily, Don't grow up, jiggy-jog Past my window daily. Our Dumb Animals.

PAINFUL

Freshle "I don't feel well this

morning." Sopt "Where do you feel the worst?" . Freshle "In School." American Boy. AN UP-TO-DATE PUPIL

Teacher "Name the five rones." Pupil "Temperate, Intemperate,

War, Postal and O." LITERAL She "Do yon think our soldiers were happy when they first started for France?". . He "Happy! They were in transports!''

Stephen Foster and American Folk Song About fifty-four years ago last' month Stephen Collins Foster, the maker of many sweet and tender melodies, fell upon the floor of a cheap hotel In New York City and died. If we have any real American folk songs they are Stephen Foster's intimate and heartfelt tunes. Foster is doubly American because he was born on the fourth of July, when the people of Pittsburg, his native town, were celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of America's independence He came into the world to the tune of The Star Spangled Banner, and his music never got very far away from our starry emblem. His songs have become so much a part, of cur life that we think of them an having "just growed" like "Trpsv". and we seldom think of tlsu m.; ho made them. Stephen Foster was musical from the first. As a little boy of two he would lay his sister's guitar on the floor, calling it his "littly pizani," and then pick out the harmonies on its strings. At the age of seven he taught himself to play the flute. His first composition to bo given in public was a waltz for for four flutes. This he played with three companions at the Athens (Pa.) Academy, where he attended school. His first song to be published was "Open Thy Lattice, Love," this at the age of sixteen. Later came "Uncle Ned," composed for his singing club. This with "Oh, Susanna" he gave to a friend (Foster had not yet taken up the profession of music.) The gift was a valuable one, as the friend cleared ten thousand dollars from the two songs and established, upon the strength of their sale, a large and flourishing music publishing business "out West." Foster had a wide range of culture. He knew French and German well. He was a great reader and a painter of ability. "My Old Kentucky Heme" was his twentieth plantation melody. The song was a great favorite with many great singers. For perfection of simple pathos It has no equal It has been translated into all the European and many Asiatic languages and has found its way around the world. Foster wrote many tunes Avhich he destroyed immediately. Upon being asked why he tore up so many songs he said, "Because it's

the only way I can get them out . of my head and make room there for something better." His Most Famous Melodies. Several of his most appealing melodies have been the outcome of personal experiences. "Massa in de Cold, Cold Ground," while a darkey melody, was written after his father's death and echoes the loneliness he felt at that time. "Old Dog Tray" is in memory of a favorite setter, and "My Old Keutucky Home" is in memory of the pictureskue old homestead of his relative, Judge Rowan, of Kentucky. In all, Foster composed one hundred and sixty songs. They were on millions of lips even in his day, yet people passed the composer by. It is a Jong, long way from Foster's simple songs to "Parsifal" or a Strauss opera, but the influence of Foster upon the people of America has been a more important factor in our musical growth as a nation than that of any other composer. While our appreciation of his service to American music comes much too late to be of personal benefit, still the very fact that we recognize him as an American composer may give fresh courage to some poor straggler at our elbow who is trying to win out against our indifference. We do not have to go to Europe for folk songs, let us use our own American-made ones.

THAT RISING SUN An old lady who lived on tne coast went to visit her son who was in a navy yard. They were walking along one of the streets In the evening, when all of a sudden, there was a loud bang. "Good heavens!" she exclaimed, "What was that?" It's all right, mater," said the boy. "It's only sunset" "Sunset!" she ejaculated. "Well, I've lived by the sea all my life and I've never heard the sun go down with a bang like that before I "