Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 208, 10 July 1920 — Page 14
PAGE TWO THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, JULY 10. 1920
iLiyWuimmLf Frances Trego Montgomery
Billy Whiskers and Nanny, pull-, catch the hub of the wheel and
ing Ttm and Mike, were within ten I overturn the cart in great shapo. ! feet of the pond, when Hilly gave! The boys began to switch the' Nanny the signal call and. with one coats for the ducking they had
accord both goats put down their
beads and ran for dear life. At first the boys thought It great fun, going so fast and neither suspocted what the goats were up to, until Rilly gave a quick turn and into the water they went before either boy could jump out. The water was cold and deep and both boys took hold of the reins to try to stop the goats or make them turn around but to no use; on they tvent until only the heads of the boys were seen sticking out of the water and both goats were swimming. When they got in Billy enjoyed the wetting he was giving the boys so much that he did not stop
when he had wet their feet, but told Nanny to keep on until they were drenched to the skin. While they were swimming, Billy said to Nan: , "I am tired of this, besides when we get to shore the boys will pound us for ducking them in the pond, so I am going to run them into a big tree and upset them. This harness is so weak that it will break at the least strain that is put on it, and when the cart goes over, we will both give a big pull which will break it loose from the cart, and then we must run and hide in those thick bushes I see ahead where the boys can't find U3." "Oh, Billy, I am afraid," said Nanny. "They will surely find us and whip us and shut us up without any supper." "You're a coward, Nanny. Do
what I tell you. The boys will nover find us If we once get looso
and I'll show you where there is the best supper you ever tasted."
And once again Nanny fell in
with his plans and both goats began to swim for ehore, pulling the cart with the two boys still In It, scolding like magpies. Once on shore, Billy turned to theieft, instead of the right, which was the way home, and made for a tree that was Just the right size to
given them, and of course, thought
the whipping the cause of their rapid progress, but could they have read Billy's mind they would have seen their mistake, for Hilly knew the harder and faster he hit the tree the more sure he was of smashing things and getting free. Smash, bang, roll and tumble! The cart has hit tbe tree and two boys are rolling over each other in thedust, while the goats go scampering off into the thick bushes that line the road. Mike recovered himself first and started in hot pursuit of the runaways, whilo Tim sat still on a stone and rubbed his head and nose which was bleeding profusely. "Hurry, Nanny, hurry," Billy called as he disappeared from sight down a deep ravine. Foor Nanny was so frightened at what she had
done she could not hurry or begin to keep up with Billy, who madei
great leaps from rock to rock; so she ran under a thorn-apple tree and trusted to its low drooping branches to hide her. But Mike was too close on her heel3. He saw the moving of the branches and knew one of the goats was hiding there. She made a futile attempt to escape, but the thorns ran into her so that she
THE f MYSTFRYi
HOUSE HP
i Srd his sliare' Marlon and Donald
"He had two children, a boy and a girl. When the girl was but nine years old she was stolen by kidnappers, who held her for a ranS((u. The kidnappers sent him a lotter saying that if he put a certain sum of money ( I forget how much It was) In a certain place and
at a certain time, they would see that he got his daughter back. Well, the letter was delayed in coming, and when Grfnard received it, the date had pased two days before. Nevertheless, he put the money in the place where tho letter told him to, thinking that they might still bo around. The next day he returned and found the money still untouched. Ho left tho money there for a week, and still no one
came for it, so he took it home. He advertised in many papers for her but never a twice of her did he find. Then one day he was called to a nearby town by the detectives that were on the hunt. They had found a hat In the Omaka river
; that goes through Richinglon and
through Dillerton (that is the town that he had to go to) and also pieces of a dress that looked like the description of the one that Grinard gave the detectives when
; they first started on to hunt for
her. Well, when Mr. Thawley ar1 rived in Dillerton he found Cue i dress and the hat to be tho same'
his little girl had worn the
day that she was stolen! That
CHATTER II All about the "Mystery House" The days slipped away as if by magic. Mr. and Mrs. Dewe had started on their trip and Betty and Billy had come just yesterday. This morning, ihey all awoke a little earlier than usual. After having dressed, the girls heard occasionally from across the hall. "Ouch! that hurts," "Gee, that was a hard one," Pitch me a good one," and easily guessed the boys were having a pillow fight. They went over to their room and were readily welcomed with pillows, thrown at
thorn from different parts of the room. The boys were getting the best of them and so they all ran back to their room and got a pillow apiece. The boys thought that they had defeated the girls and that
they wouldn't come back, so theyi
finished lacing their shoes which they had forgotten. So the girls tip-toed in anil made a .surpri.se at- ,,,.. ,, Ti.,,,1 n,,. (,,!,!
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runewtui, uui in uie vim uio KUia won.
their daily chores and the guests in
sisted upon helping them; so the!
work was soon done. Then they
gave up ann meekiy let nersen ne went out on tlie pido porch Betty
Norene'
led back to the cart Copyrighted
by the Saalfield Publishing Co., Akron, O.
The Story of Tea Tea comes from evergreen leaves of the bushes.
The bushes grow from three to
with the morning nape
with her embroidery, Agnes with a "Mystery Book" that she was reading, and Hie boys had nothing in particular to do. They sat around for awhile and soon finding the girls too busy for them, started off to find some other "tellers" to nlav baseball. Then silpnro tnnk
rive leet liign; tne leaves resemble h(i(I of ,.,-,, .,,;, nnnilv .,
the leaves of a rose bush or a wil-i closed her book with a slam so that anyway and when Grinard heard of low tree. . I Ihe others would know that she il' u maAe llini ver-v anSrv- In The tea is from the young, ten- didn't intend to read any more at l wrath he wrote to his son and told der light green leaves. tho present. Betty looked up frouJhim tli:,t ,ie nevor wanted to see The plant of tea belongs to the her paper. mra or nis wife, ever! So, he has same family as the Camellia. i thought tint waq tho hook i never heard of him since, for the
is a native of sub-tropical i niat von aid una n intnr,?vi in i " l young man never bothered his
Give A Lawn Party Once upon a time there was a little girl. She had a brother. Their names were Marion and Donald Clark. Marion wa ten and Donald was twelve. They had very good times together. One time Marion asked her mother if she could have a party. Her mother said she might if her father didn't care. Her father said she might. As it was in June, they docidxl it would be a lawn party. They decorated the lawn beautifully. They put the table out under the willow tree. They put a vase of roses and ferns in the middle of it. A little nosegay of roses was plated at each plato with a card tied to it with the person's name on it that was to sit
there. Five boys and five girls were invited. They played many games. And then they had refreshments. They had block ice cream colored pink and white, and cake of the same color, and lemonade. Then they played more games. Then thoy went home. They had a nice time. Dorothy Tierson, grade 3A, Starr Platoon school. Hoiv bid the Manx Cat Lose Its Tall? In tho Isle of Man, that famous litle island off the southern coast of England, lives a tailless cat -many of them, in fact. That is about the only kind of cat on the island. The name of this strange cat is the Manx cat and it is as friendly and cunning a pet as was
wno spnt in rnUwn and tnnk nn ffi- ever a little kitten With a tail.
erary work. Soon after his college The people in this little island education he fell in love wiih a ! tell several legends or old stories fiirl that ho had met while visiting ' about how their cats came to bo with his cousin down south. He j tailless. One of these says that sent her picture and a letter to his the Manx cat was late entering the father, askinc for his consent to ! Ark and that Noah shut the door
,
After breakfast they began to do J uV.ieed that she was
drowned, for they haven't heard of
; her even to this day.
"Then when the son grew up he
marry her. His father wrote back, his answer was 'No.' "Well, then, the son married her
It
0 Interest to Janiors
Richard Lee Beck, of Bridgeport, Ohio, Is the boy who, at 13 years of age, with a .22 caliber Winchester rifle won the 1919 national championship of the Winchester rifle corps. " Hi," the prize ram of the handsome flock of the White House
sheep Is serving a term of solitary
Asia and grows on the slopes of the Himalaya mountains. It has been cultivated in Japan and China. It has only been in the last hundred years that it grows in (Vylon and Java. That is where most of the tea comes from today. The wild plants grow to a height of about fifteen feet. The plants can be set so close together that 1,500 or more can be planted in one acre. They need rich soil and must be plowed until three years old; then tho leaves are picked. The best comes from the young leaves when the buds are ready to open. In Japan there are three pick
ings each season
she said.
"It is," replied Agnes, "but I would rather read it at. night. That's the time for mysteries." "Ugh!" shuddered Betty, "that would make me dream about it all night then." "That's just what I want to do," said Agnes, " I like to have scary dreams." "Is there a murder in it?" asked Norene. "Yes," replied Agnes. "Good night!" said Betty. "No, good morning," said Norene, cunningly. As silence was almost taking
possession, Agnes said, why doesn't anyone live
father after that.
"Then Grinard's wife soon died
and about, a month later, his father.!
He stayed in that, house alone tor a year and then the doctor sent him to Florida, for bis health was failing and lie is stili (here." "But where does the haunted part come in?" asked Agnes. "People say ihat sometimes about midnight they have seen
Grinard's wife holding out her
arras for her little girl and so 'hey believo that the girl is still living, for if she was dead she'd be right up in heaven with her mother, and then, you see, her mother wouldn't
'Norene 1 "ilvu lo "1IU oul nor arms long-
in that onu tivnu,
upon his tail, thus cutting it off. A later legend is told in verse: "A sailor asked of a Manx cat, 'What weather, Stubbin, sun or snow ?' ' 'Twill storm,' said Puss, 'I'm sure of that, I'll eat my tail if that's not so.' "With laughing face the sun burst out. To think that pussy's word would fail; And so today he goes about Without the shadow of a tail."
"And I believe it, too," said Betty. "How old was her father when
house over there?" and she pointed toward an oh! fasliionr;l In: t nrr'tili
Merchants in China sell tea at ! built house nevt rirmr tn tho rw-A' ' nif little girl was stolen, and how
I i r a I . v - i j ,, .
itu a pounu. it was a three storv Ii.hisp and KPt ; mu was uie fion wnen ne was mar
It the
rind?" asked Agnes.
"I think I heard father say that
The chief of the black tea is back in the yard quite a piece, known to commence as follows: needed naintinf and wn-Mrc-
Flowery Pekoe, Suchong, Oolong. ' rrass was lon? .mil nno rnni'd su.he was forty-six and the boy was
Orange Pekoe, Pekoe, Congowi little patches of grass growing be-! twenty"five- Tne bov wrtls on,v Bohio. jtween cracks in the bricks that'three years older than h's si-ster-In Russia, there is another form made the long walk that led up to'u vr,ls aD0 five years ago that
in iea raneu oriCK tea. Brick tea is largely used in Thibet and Mongolia. A large part of our tea comes across the Pacific Ocean and is sent to Seattle or Vancouver and then railed to, other ports. By Juliet Smith, age 11, seventh grade, Hagerstown, Ind.
the house. It was a shady place !he son wa? married, so the father
Most people think the Bible was
and looked cool to Agnes
"Well, I don't know exactly," answered Norene. "That is a long story. Do you want to hear it?" "Oh, yes," exclaimed Agnes. "First of all, people say it is a haunted house," began Norene. "And, to tell the truth, I believe it
is about sixty-one years old." re
plied Norene. "What were the children's names?" asked Betty. "Frances and Harlan," answered
Norene. "Oh, wouldn't it be nice if the girl wasn't dead and that somehow they would find each other and then the son he forgiven and they'd
AND THE DEAF MAN SAW A FLOCK AND HERD A dumb man once picked up a wheel and spoke. A blind man once picked up a hammer and saw. Boys' Life.
Pencil Swifter
Can You Change Mr Bryam Tnto uucle, savl
uptime dowt 4n4 Urt dmwm4
!t was originally one continuous ; North.
confinement for having invaded the' Pce of text, with no divisions of -when he went to war, leaving hi
White Houso of ices recently. This
makes us think of Billy Whiskers, George Cohan, who writes mu
sical comedies for a living, made
even, or punctuation. Its division inlo lines to suit the sense was
done by Euthalius. of Alexandria
his first appearance in public, at in the, ,ast haIf of the fifth century, tho mre of ten vftars niavinfr thA "s division Into chapters is
violin. The instrument wa a half-! ascribed to two archbishops. Lan-
sized Instrument given to him atlfranc in the eleventh century and
the age of eight, by his father.
Idaho, Oregon and Washington
Red Cross Juniors In 110 high! schools are corresponding with pu ! pils in France, and 50 schools in ' those states are exchanging letters,
with pupils in schools of Chile. A potato looking very much like a pig head, ears and body was exhibited In a recent fair in Tacoma, Washington, and sold for J HO. The potato was a natural growth.
is! Thp. "hnnsp helrmp-s tn a Mr
first written exactly as it appears ! Thawlv. was a rivii war votl
today. But such is not the case. eran. fiehtine on the sidn r.f thoia11 be s happy!" suggested Betty.
lie was only a young man uue!,ul "r. inawiey
ieuL uia uouie: asKea Agnes. "Because he doesn't want to," I suppose," said Norene. "He has it in the hands of a reliable lawyer here, who is a very good friend of his." "Have you ever been in it?" asked Agnes. "I should say not!" shuddered Norene. "You haven't!" exclaimed Agnes, "A mystery right under your nose and you still dreaming! Believe me, I am going to keep awake!" Julia R. Burr. Continued next week.
any kind, no sections, no chapters, sweetheart (who had promised to
no verses, no envisions or words, marry him when he came back) be
rum n n nun siv w . i n- ...
nina. -toward tne end of the war, his father failed in his business which left him almost penniless,
while before he was a wealthy man. "Then when young Mr. Thawley
Grinard was his Christian name
came back from war one of his arms was off. He wrote a note to his sweetheart asking if she still remembered her promise and if he could come and see her that evening. What her answer was no one ever knew, but Grinard never married her. "It was five years afterward when Grinard fell in love with another girl and soon they were married. By this time he had helped his father build up his business again, and in a few more years
his father had more money thani
Langton in the thirteenth, and a
cardinal, Hugo de Sancto Caro, about 1250. Rabbi Nathan began the division of the Bible into sections about 1445, and another Hebrew. Athras, completed the work in 1G61. An English printer, Robert Stephens, introduced the present division inlo verses in 1551.
OFF! Jack: Say, Artie, this firecracker won't go off. Artie: That's funny, it went off all right a minute ago.
he did before and young Thawley 1 Ciobes.
THE PAIN REMAINS IN SPAIN Second Class Scout: If Germs come from Germany and Parasites come from Taris, what comes from Ireland ? Tenderfoot: Search me.
Second Clasa Scout : Mike
Can You Change Tkis HbRj-f, Into A turkivh lady?
Kif wy r,gh Answers next week.
JkCI.a.
Answer to last week's.
Boys of Japan still keep up the traditional sport of that countrykite flying. Some of the Japanese kites are so complicated in their makeup and so fantastic in their appearance, that they may truly be called wonderful.