Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 167, 26 April 1919 — Page 16

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TFIE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY. APRIL 26. 1919

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rue editor win try to answer questions readers of the Junior submit to her. She will not promise to answer all of them. The questions will be answered In rotation, bo do not expect the answer to be printed In the iRii.e week in which you send it In. Dear Aunt Polly: How many men are there In President Wilson's cabinet? And what are their names T M. M. H. Dear M. M. H.: There are ten men now in President Wilson's cabinet. They are: Robert v Lansing, secretary of state. Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury. Newton Diehl Baker, secretary of war. Thomas Watt Gregory .attorney general. Albert Sidney Burleson, postmaster general. Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy. Franklin Knight Lane, secretary of the interior. David Franklin Houston, secretary of agriculture. William C. Redfield, secretary of commerce. William Bauchop Wilson, secretary of labor. Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: What does a spirit look like? N. R. E. Dear N. R. E. : Haven't you ever seen a spirit? Then you probably don't believe in them. Because I have heard that only those people can see spirits who believe that there really are such things as spirits that live around here, and that come to see and talk with people. Now I never happen to have seen a spirit, but when I was a little girl and had to go upstairs by myself, I was sure that there were fifty of them real close behind me and even farther on ahead of me, but I never really found them to be there when I tried to And them. Guess they must have scampered away by that time. But I have heard people say, that feel that they have seen them, that they were shadowy things that nev er came very close to them. Some times they talked, but that wasn't very often. These spirits were very busy ones, so the story goes, al ways doing something. But the real word "spirit" means somethings that doesn't have any body at all, so that would probably be something we couldn t really see after all, and of course if we could not see it, it wouldn't look like any thing, would it? It might be, too, that a spirit is something very much like a thought, something that lives in our minds. Did you ever hear any one say about someone you know, "He is full of the spirit of cour age !" Anri ihnt moanr ttio ho was always thinking brave thoughts? It didn't mean that that boy had a "spook" in him, did it? Well, there are spirits and spir its, in many places. You keep your eyes open and when you see one be sure and tell me what it looks like, if it looks at all. I'll do . the same. EXCHANGE COLUMN Open to All Boy and Girls. These Ada Cost You Nothing; Send in Your "Wants" to The Pallidlum Junior. FOR SALE History of the War. Life of Theodore Roosevelt. Call 236 South Third. TOR SALE Eight months old fullstock male calf. Liberty, Ind, Phone 10-1. Raymond Johnson. WANTED More boys for the U. S. Junior Training School. LOST A blue angora, cat, white feet and white nose, answers to the name of "Fluffy". If found Please return to Rhea Louise Pyle, or phone 4322. Reward. WANTED A place on farm during summer by boy 12 years old. Call 915 North O street.

HOLY LAND INTERESTS ALLIED TROOPS

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French officers on furlough inspecting pyramids and sphynx in Palestine, below. Above, mail arriving for French soldiers in Syria and General Allenby, hera of the Palestine campaign and now In Egypt to quell revolt. . The Holy Land has a new class of sightseers in it these days. Modern crusaders who restored it to the Christians are enjoying the wonders of the land. Soldiers and officers of the allied "army of occupation devote their brief periods off duty to inspecting the pyramids, the sphinx and other points of interest. General Allenby, hero of the Palestine fighting, who conveyed the Turks' request for peace to the allies, recently was ordered to Greece to handle a revolt which has broken out as a result of the Greeks' demand for independence. General Allenby has been caled deliverer of th Holy Land.

Until we each see a ghost. Aunt Polly. Dear Aunt Polly: Please tell me the names of some nice books for children. 1 am eight years old. Frances K. Harper. Dear Frances: Some of the really most interesting ones are the Hed-time Stories that Thornton Burgess tells. These stories are all about the jolly times the animals have. Peter and Polly in the stories that Rose-Lucia writes are very interesting and Juniors should become acquainted with them. So are Doris and Julie, whom Gertrude Smith knows. A man whose first name happened to be William and whose last name happened to be Hopkins, thought up, oh! so many splendid little stories. Some of these stories he called, "The Sandman Stories," some, "The Bunny, Stories," and many other books of stories. These books arc all in the City library. Then, there are always stories and poems for Juniors, just your age in the St. Nickolas and in Little Folks' Magazine, those interesting magazines that come every month, and these are in the library too. Have you read these? If you have, come up and see me, and well And some names of other good stories. Aunt Polly. A ROBIN'S SONG. Dear Aunt Polly: This morning when I was going to school I heard a bird singing the sweetest song. I looked and looked, but could not see the bird. Then I looked in the top of a cherry tree and there sat a robin singing his morning song. Erla Juanita Clark.

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STATE HONORS "FATHER OF FORESTRY"

Dr. J. T. Rothrock, "father of forestry" in Pennsylvania. The state of Pennsylvania recently planted eighty trees In honor of Dr. J. T. Rothrock. The doctor is one of the vice presidents of the American Forestry association and has been head of the Pennsylvania association for twenty years. He has become known as the father of forestry in his state. He was eighty April 9 and the trees w ere planted two

days later, the state's Arbor day.

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Taming Mr. White Long, long ago before the Civil War there was a small negro boy whose name was Jake. .NOW Jake Was a VOrv Inrinatrimia

child and worked hard in the cotion neids or Alabama for a very cruel master whose name was Mr. White. Mr. White had ownptl him nnd I his parents ever since he could remem Dor. His master had made him go to work when he was just seven. At the age of thirteen his shoulders were bent, with hard work. Jake's birthday happened to be on Easter that year and the negroes had planned to have a party. One small boy said, "Let's have our sisters bake a cake." " Another said, "We can dye some egjrs with onion peelings." . Then came Mr. White's daughter, who visited the settlement very often and was liked very much by the negroes down there. She said, "I will buy some eggs." When Jake's mother heard about it she exclaimed, "My law, children, the boys can make nests and the girfs can make some cakes. Then we will all color eggs when Jake has gone to the mill." It never was found out how the plan got to Mr. White, but when he heard it he didn't hear the true story and so he went thundering down to the settlement and brutally asked, "Why did you plan such an outrageous thing for? Hey! That's something I would like to know! Tell me. Did you hear? You know as well as I that I don't allow such plans to be made without someone consulting me," Jake's mother and all the others burst out crying. Mr. White was so mad that he went back to his home swearing to himself as he went. When he got home he went crashing to his room. He had been there only a short time when his daughter came crying and screaming both at the same time, "Father, how could you? Father how could you?" Mr. White loved his daughter very much and he exclaimed, "What is it, daughter?" "Oh, you spoiled our plans. I saw you through the window. . Oh, father, how could you?" said she.' Then she told him the true story.1 and they, arm in arm, went down , to the settlement and instead of! the people bowing to him they went Into the house. He called and still they would not come out so he had to send his daughter after them. When they came out he said, "I am sorry for the grief I have, caused you and you can have the party in my home." With these words he turned and went home feeling much better. This is how Mr. White was tamed. Rachel Jones. Dalton Township. Runaway Chee&es A man of Gotham once went to the market to sell cheeses. As he went along, one of his cheeses fell from his bag and ran down the hill. "Can you run to the market alone?" said the man. "I will send the others after you." And he set them all rolling down the steep, crooked hill. When he came to the market, he could not find his cheeses, so he went about asking if any one had seen them. "Who was to bring them?" asked the man. "They were to come by themselves." anskered the man of Gotham. "They were running so fast when they left me that they have probably reached the next town by this time." He hired a horse and rode away to the next town, but to this very very day he has not been able to find them. Selected by Albert Cox. 6B, Sevastopol School A Monkey's fright A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out He tried to pick it up, and spilled twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty and spilled them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions, and ran away. Tony Mitrione. 6B, Whitewater School