Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 273, 30 August 1919 — Page 17
THE RICHMOWP PALLADIUM. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1919
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THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM
; ins junior Palladium u the children' section cf the Richmond,
Palladium, founded May , 1916, and issued each Saturday afternoon.: Allboys and girls are Invited to be re porters and contributor. News, Items, social Tents, "want" advertisements, stories, local jokes and riglnal poems are acceptable and will be published. Articles should, fee written plainly and cn one side ot the paper, with the author's name nd age signed. Aunt Polly is always xlad to meet the children dot-
receive
newspaper
onally sb they brlnthelr artlclea to The Palladium office, or to letters addressed to the Junior Editor. This is your little nei
uia we nope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.
I guess you thought something ttTit happen to Jack and Jane and their friends down In the mine, where we left them last time. Well nothing happened. They watched the miners at work for a long time. Every one of the men who came near enough to Jack and Jane to see them in the dim light of the lanterns smiled at them and most of the men said, "Hello, little folks, aren't you lost?" The children wondered how the men could be so happy, working all day in the dark, damp mine. "My, but it muat take an awful lot of scrubbing to get cleaned up when hey come out of the mine," said Jack to Captain Brave. Both children were glad to get out into the sunlight aeain when
he guide put them on the elevator
piu mug a Den wnicn torn tnc man Ht the engine, away up above, to
Haul them out of the mine. Jane's first question, when they
siooa on top of the ground again
was, "Where do all the miners live
and where do their children play?
Captain Brave pointed out to her
and Jack the little wooden shacks
along the sides of the hills around the mine. The little places look
ed more like sheds than houses, thought the children. They walked up to the houses and peeked into .one. Through the open door they saw two small children playing on ' the floor and, sitting in a highchair, poking its chubby feet into its mouth, was a tiny baby. Ladydear looked around to find the mother, but she was nowhere to be seen. "She probably had to leave the little ones all alone while she carried some lunch to their father at the mine," said the captain. The
children noticed that the coal dust
the Shetland ponies first came from." Now I know you must have seen lots of Shetland ponies little mites of baby horses, they seem, with their dainty little legs and hoof3, plump bodies, pretty heads and prettier manes and tails. Maybe many of you have ridden on them at the circus or the fair. And maybe pne or two of you have one right at home. Well, they cni! Shetland
Texas Cowboy, Too Tall for Army
Says Hes the Tallest Man in U. S.
ponies because they were born, or
their fathers and mothers were
born, in the Shetland islands.
mere are ever so many of these islands, about 100, I t h'sk. But
some of them arc so small and so rocky that not many people live
on them. But folks live on twenty-
three of them and it's on these
islands that the ponies are raised.
As the plane swooped down
nearer the islands the children
could see that they seemed to be built of rock. The waves dashed up against tall cliffs of granite and sandstone. It looked to be hund
reds of feet from the water to the fops of the cliffs. All around the
islands fishing boats darted in and
nut nf tho lildn 1, I7:nu:
had settled all over the mside of Unrt rai ..j .i
the house and evenUie baby's face, keep3 most of the folks on the
islands busy, you know.
was smeared with it
As Jack and Jane walked away, Jane said to Ladydear: "After this when we're using coal back home in Make-Believe town to keep us warm or cook good things, I'm going to think of the miners and their little children. I won't
mind nasty days so much and I'll Mainland
wisn max inese ooys ana girls could have as many nice things a3 Jack and I have." "And so will I," said Jack. The thoughtfulness of the two children made Ladydear happy. "I was wondering if my little folks knew how well they were taJi"n care of back home and how railed cause they had to be very happy and gay," she said. But, really and truly, she hadn't been wondering at all, because Jack and Jane had shown all the time during the trip that they realized how
lucky they were in many ways.
Captain Brave circled above the
islands until he had consulted his charts and then landed the plane on one of them. It was called Mainland. That's the largest of the islands, and so the first peoDle
who decided to live there called it
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Ralph E. Madsen, cowboy of Ranger, Texas, shaking hands with Senator
Morris Sheppard of Texas. Challenging all comers for the distinction of being the tallest man
to the United States, Ralph E. Madsen, a cowboy of Ranger, Texas, can
uccessfully star in moving pictures even if he was disqualified for serv:e in the army because of his excessive height. The war department
leight limitations are 6 feet 6 inches, while Mr. Madsen is 7 feet 6 inch-
js tall and weighs 230 pounds. For twelve years he has followed the
rarying fortunes of a cowboy and has captured many prizes for his dar
ing feats. This photograph was taken recently In Washington. Madsen
s but twenty-two years old.
!' The plane came to a stop in a wide road before a farm house. Around the house, in different fields, the children saw what looked like thousands of ponies. Of course, there weren't that many. Captain Brave decided that there must be at least five hundred, (hough. And, oh. such beauties! They were of many different ?izes. The littlest ones seemed to be not much bigger than collie
dogs the children had seen. They
trotted along the fences eager to pee what big bird had altehted near
(heir home. When they got a good
ine cniuiren- ana meir inenas innv t th . v
Is spent that night in a village in the mining district and bright and early the next day started for Scotland. When the children left the mines Captain Brave told them he was going to Scotland next. But I guess he changed his mind. For, first ' thing the children knew, they were flying right over that country.
They had passed England. Ladydear pointed out to them the Cheviot Hills, which seemed to separate Scotland from England, and the Solway Firth, which was the name of an immense may or harbor. Leaving Scotland the great plane ' sailed out over the water again and, njack and Jane thought for a min
ute that maybe Captain Brave was jijoing to take them home to America and the folks at Make-Believe tTown again. But pretty soon they ,taw a number of islands far down fbelow them. Jack couldn't wonder tany longer. He just had to ask, "Captain Brave, where are you tak!!ng us?"
"Well, sir, if you must iinow, we're going to visit the place where
children and their friends climbing out of it they became startled and
ran away from the fence
I'll have to wait until tomorrow
to tell you more about them,
though. (Copyright, 1919.)
The Trees Speaking
Mute, said I? They are seldom
thus; They whisper each to each. And each and all of them to us, In varied forms of speech. "Be serious," the solemn piue Is saying overhead; "Be beautiful," the elm tree fine Has always finely said;
"Be quick to feel,' 'the aspen still Repeats the whole day long; While, from the green slope of the hill. The oak tree adds, "Be strong." When with my burden as I hear Their distant voices call, I rise, and listen, and draw near ''Be patient," say they all, Samuel Valentine Cole,
Replanting War Forests
England and Scotland are preparing to replant forests which
have been cut to provide war supplies. They did not wait until peace is concluded, but started doing it now. Never before have those countries been so bare of timber. Hunting ranges and sporting
grounds have been sacrificed to
supply munition factories at home
and armies abroad. The old forests were primarily ornamental and in
cidentally useful, but those which
are now being deliberately provided
for will be primarily useful and incidentally ornamental, says Robert II. Moulton in the January Popular Mechanics Magazine. In the United States we are not in so much need of tree planting as they are in the British Isles. But there are two kinds of timber which the war demand has greatly depleted, and they are kinds of much importance locust and black walnut. There is another point to be considered in the planting of these trees: They can be grown on sandy tracts of land which are now considered of no value, and thus reclaim this land. An excellent illustration of what
tracts, which before being planted to trees, were practically worthless, are now worth anywhere from 50 to $100 an acre.
An Old Prophecy Comes True The following verses are from a very interesting poem called "Mother Shipton's Phophecy." which were supposed to have been written by a woman, who was thought to be able to imagine what was going to happen in the future. Nothing definite is known about this strange woman (if indeed, she was a woman) but tradition, which always has something to say when prosaic old "Facts" is silent,- tells
U3 a little about her,, which however we can not really say is known to be true. This is what tradition tells us; Mother Shipley was a wo
man whose real name was C. Ilindly, and who was born in England, near Knares borough, Yorkshire, In
July, 1488, and died when she was over seventy years old. She was prophetess and published many
strange sayings, though many were published under her name which
she never wrote. It wasn't till 1641 that a pamphlet was found con
taining her predictions.
In 1862, the following prediction
was published with the name of Mother Shipley attached to it. Even at that time many of the things -It speaks of were thought of by the people as absolutely impossible,
except the ending of the world,
which is spoken of in the last two lines and they were afraid of that.
It will be noticed that all the
events predicted in it except these
ast two lines have come to pass.
Carriages without horses shall go;
And accidents fill the world with
woe.
Around the world thoughts shall
fly,
n the twinkling of an eye;
Waters shall yet more wonders do;
tow strange, yet shall be true.
the world upside down shall be,
And gold be found at root of tree.
rhrough bills men shall ride,
And no horse or ass be at his sida
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.
In the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black, in green. Iron in water shall float As easy as a wooden boat. Gold shall be found, and shown In a land that is not known. Fire and water shall wonders do, England shall at last admit a Jew. The world to an end shall come In eighteen hundred and eighty-ona
"CHERRY RIPE" Robins in the cherry tree, Come on and get a pail! From white to green.
From green to red.
The cherries ripen overhead,
Until a luscious feast is spread For all who dare to climb; And every hungry bird has seen
That it is dinner time. Robins In the cherry tree. Who'll help to fill the pail? Walter Prichard Eaton.
A CHANCE TO SEE THE CIRCUS FREE
By AUNT POLLY
Juniors, you can really see the
big animal circus for nothing. It's
a real wild animal circus right from
the west. It's the Al. G. Barnes Wild Animal Circus, and they re
alty nave wild animals, too.
Its the only circus that has real
zebras and a herd of sacred cattle.
and many other animals that other
circuses do not have. And when
can be accomplished in the way of .show day comes, these animals
reclaiming useless land through the j prance around and act for every planting of trees has been carried i body in four big rings.
out during the last six or eight It's going to be a dandy circus,
years by a resident of Whiteside ind you II want to see it. And,
county, Illinois. In these years he pest of all, some of you can see it
has acomplished the seemingly im
possible tasks of turning some 70
acres of sand, formerly as barren as the desert of Sahara, into a flour
ishing forest. Nor is that all. For this f orest, acting as a sand binder, has been the means of saving other fertile acres from the inroads of the drifting sand, the total result being that the farm has increased sey-j cral times in value. The sandy
for nothing. This is how you can
lo it: Must Write Story AH you need to do is write a little story telling about the animal you like best, and why you like it the best of all. Then bring or send your Btory to The Palladium office before Tuesday night, Sept. 2. Judges will be appointed to decide which stories are the best
written and the most interesting, and the five best stories will be pub lished in The Palladium on the evening of Sept 4. The Junior winning the first place, will receive two free tickets with reserved seats to the big circus; the one winning second place will receive two complimentary tickets without reserved seats, and the Junior winning third place will receive one free ticket without reserved seat, Here Are Conditions. The conditions to be followed are: 1. Write on only one side of the paper and write clearly. 2. The story must not exceed 500 words. ' 3. No Junior over sixteen years
old can enter the contest.
4. All stories must be submitted
to The Palladium office, before
i p. m.. Tuesday. Kept. 2.
Notice: No limit is put on how in.
teresting tho story may be, So. so
us iar as you hkbj
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