Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 267, 18 September 1920 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, SEPT. 18, 1920

U A Ays Nances Trego Montcomerv i

When next we see Billy, be and Nanny are lying peacefully in the moonlight fast asleep. After running away from Mike, Nanny showed Billy the way into the country, for she knew the road ' well, as she had to draw a can of milk to town every morning. When they, were once out of town Billy said: . "Now, Nanny, we must find a nice meadow somewhere in which we .fan get some grass to eat and ' water to drink, and then you must tell me all that has happened since I saw you. - - But first we must get as far away from the road Mike will have to take to get home as we can, or he will find us," So they turned off at the first cross-road they came to and hur ried on until they found the fine, green pasture where we now see them. ' i The next day they were In this same pasture enjoying themselves when they saw some boys coming , toward them; but soon discovered from their conversation - that the boys were going swimming in a little lake at the end of the meadow near the woods. They passed close by. the goats without paying any attention to them. ' One boy had a bag of pop-corn he was eating, and Billy, smelling it, commenced to long for some. The firemen had bought salted and buttered pop-corn for him every day, and the smell of this made . him hungry and he determined to get the bag from the boy. "But how can you, Billy?" asked Nanny, when he told her he was eoine to get the pop-corn. "I'll tell you: when they leave their clothes on the bank and go in swimming I will steal up and eat what is left in the bag, ana any thing else I find in their pockets." "How are you going to get any thing out of their pockets without hands?" "Why, I will eat pocket and all if I smell anything in there I like," answered Billy. "Billy Whiskers, you are the most determined goat I ever heard of." said Nanny. "If you want any thing you are going to have it, no matter how you have to get u. , "I guess you are right, Nan. But if you had ever tasted salted and buttered pop-corn you, too, would have it if you had to hook all five of those boys into the lake to get it. Come along, and we will go over near the lake so when they go into the water we can go through Pencil (Twister Can You Change this Motk IMIOATIQERHIAD? two

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their clothes and I will give you your first taste of a town delicacy in the shape of popcorn." Billy and Nanny soon arrived at the bank of the lake where the boys had gone in swimming, ' and, behind a clump of bushes they found the boys' clothes. Billy lost no time in smelling out the bag of pop-corn, but, alas! when found, it was empty. Billy's disappointment knew no bounds and he began to vent his spleen on the clothes x that were lying around by hooking and stamping on them. When throwing a coat up in the air on his horns two nice red apples rolled out of one of the pockets. After eating one of these and allowing Nanny to eat the other, he felt a little less angry and commenced to smell around for something else equally good. What Billy's nose smelt will be told next week. (Copyright by the SaalfieM Publishing Co., Akron, O. THE CLAN OF VII. PREPARING CAMP Francis Rolt-Wheeler "The sooner I get out there, the better," said Lars, the Engineer. "I want three fellows to help me survey and lay out the ' ground, plan drainage and sanitary ditches, run the. line of the water pipe and the rest of it. But how are we going to get there? It's nearly forty miles." "That's my job," said Jim, the Transportation Expert. " 'Dressy' isn't the only one who's been doing some planning. I know a farmer who's got a broken-down flivver truck. He can't use it, and will sell the old junk heap cheap. If I'm authorized to buy it, I can have that in repair by next Saturday. A truck's better for us than a car." "I want to go tomorrow," said Lars. "No work to be done tomorrow," put in Pierre, the Director. "It's Sunday. But there's no harm look ing over the ground. Your father won't be using his car tomorrow, will he, Dressy?" "I can get it," was the reply. So, right after Sunday school, Camp Director, Camp Engineer, Camp Gardener, Camp Transportation Expert, drove out to the site. Arriving at the ground, Lars broke EVERY-DAY SCIENCE TUNGSTEN LIGHT BULBS Grant M. Hyde ' Why did you exchange all our electric light bulbs for these new ones with the little glass sticks in them, Daddy?" "Because they give more light and use less current. The new bulbs have a different filament, or wire. Both these new tungstens and the old 'carbon' bulbs, are called 'incandescent' lights because their light is produced by electric heating a wire until it is white hot, on incandescent. The filament is of such a nature that it offers .'resistance to electric current that tries to pass through it and is heated white hot as a result. The white hot wire makes the light. "The filament is placed in a glass bulb to keep it from burning up. In the open air, the white hot wire would burn up almost instantly. But in an air-tight glass bulb from which all the air has been sucked in a vacuum, as they say it will glow almost indefinitely because there" is no oxygen to make it burn. The first incandescent electric light which can be called success ful, was invented by Thomas A. Edison in 1879; and his first lamps had a filament of bamboo fibre. The first commercially successful lights were those that we call 'carbon bulbs whose filament is a delicate strand of carbon. In 1906 a new tungsten bulb was brought out with a filament of tungsten metal, It is better because less curent heats it to incandescence and it does not throw off so much carbon to smoke the bulb, but the filament is so delicate it has to be hung over an arbor made of a glass stick and small wire hooks." "But arc lights seem to work all right without glass bulbs?" "They are based on a different principle. An arc light consists of sticks of carbon with electric

A BEAR STORY

One day in Colorado a boy was walking in the woods when he came upon two bear cubs. He picked them up and took them to his father's hotel. lie fed them and the cubs got fat. The army draft came, and he had to go. The boy served his three years in the army. When he came home he saw his mother at the gate and his stepfather kicked one of the bear cubs. The boy took the cubs to the kitchen and fed them. The boy'i took the cubs to his room and taught them how to dance. The next day the boy took the cubs to the dining room of the hotel. The cubs danced and the people gave them from 5 cents to 25 cents. - The next lesson was how to serve noodles, and the cubs did that wonderfully. A man bought them for $25,000. By Karl King, Garfield school. Honorable Mention in the StoryWriting Contest. NORTH AMERICA abruptly from the party in his sullen fashion, and, climbing to the highest point, took in the lay "of the land. Roughly, in his notebook, he sketched the contours. He located the springs, mapped out the site, and studied the line for a road. Then, coming back and getting Jack, the Gardener, to go with him, they discussed at length the lay-

out of the fields and gardens to be; die is only playing." put in crop. When it was time to "He may be only playing, but it start' for home enough rough data is not play for the one on the bihad been gathered for Lars to ' cycle, I asure you," was the grim

work out in detail at home. In the! Camp Engineer's mind, at least, the Camp was already designed. FOR BOY MECHANICS current jumping from one to the other. A tremendous light is made by particles of carbon which X Ccwoofsj Liowt, Z Tungsten. the current tears from the sticks and heats white hot as they pass across the gap." A Borrowed Dog He was a tiny wriggling baby when Dora's Aunt Jane brought him home. And very young to be taken from his mother was Laddie. When he was on the floor, he was under everybody's feet. While visiting her father Aunt Jane let Laddie wander anywhere he liked, j Laddie was not long in making his

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acquaintance. Laddie wandered into the grocery behind the counter and ended with the scrap meat box. Having eaten his fill he wandered into the side yard where Aunt Jane caught him some time later, and, he received a sound spanking. He ran howling to the back yard, and lie never did such a thing again, for although he wanted to, he remembered the spanking and shrunk from doing it. Dora went to visit her Aunt the next summer. While she was there she often sat on her Aunt's lap. laddie was very jealous and tried to get up, too. Although he was jealous he liked to play with Dora.

One " day, Dora hid behind the kitchen door and whistled softly just once. Laddie, who was in the living room, came bounding out poked his nose into every nook and corner until he found her. This was the way in which he played hide and-seek with Dora. Aunt Jane was moving. "Would you like to take care of Laddie?" she asked Dora. "Indeed I would," was the quick answer. So, Laddie was left in Dora's care. Laddie had- to be bathed every Saturday, and, as he did not like it, you could be pretty sure he would be missing Saturday norning unless chained the night before. If Dora, after much running and coaxing, did get him, there was still the problem of getting him into the tub. He would curl up in her lap and put his head under her arm, as much as to say, "Please don't wash me." But, finally, he would submit to being washed. After he was all clean she would take him out for a walk. Laddie had a way of barking at automobiles and bicycles. The people of the town did not like it, as you may suppose. One day Laddie was barking at a bicycle when another, mounted by the town marshal himself, turned the comer. Immediately Laddie ran up to it barking. When the mar-1

Dora's house, he dismounted, col-jready and there was no relief 111 lared the dog, walked up to the sight. When so prominent a Klidoor, rang the bell, and when it ! mack as George Jeffries had been was answered by Dora's mother, he i forced to spend a night in jail, cersaid; j tainly revenge would be sought.

"Madame, this doe is a nuisance. You shall either have to chain him up or I shall have to shoot him." "But," said Dora's mother, "Ladreply. "We will chain him," she said, "but I doubt if it will do any good." Laddie was chained on the spot. It was a very shame-faced dog that was fed and bathed by Dora for two visit

weeks after the marshal's , is bad enough to have you and JeffAt the end of this time the. Hps nut nf the lineiin. hut is fiven

marshal called again, clog his freedom for a "Give the cuuiue "I, of

days. After that, however, if he is know all we wi1 have left around not cured, you shall have to get rid; here wm be a bunch of SOUred molof him," he said. , iycoddles wearing football suits." It was fortunate for Laddie that; well, Art, what are you going to his mistress came for him just at; d0 about it? You are not to this time, and he was taken away.; Dlamc? You didn't get into the Laddie had learned, however, a p You played a good heady lesson in obedience while he was mo a.,trd.iv pvon if vmi didn't

staying with Dora. Carolyn Nice, 7A, 32 Wescott Building, Richmond, Ind. Honorable Mention in the Junior Palladium Story-Writing Contest. PUZZLE CORNER 1. A British poet is hiding; can you find him? Puzzle pudding's a very fine dish, You can learn to make it if you wish ; Take a pound of patience, a peck of time, Stir in an idea and make up a rhyme; Bake, well in the oven of homely wit, With cake at supper we'll relish it 2. A hunter once said to his As the two some fine bear ate; A of bruins might win me fame, I could If manage some cubs to Each missing word contains the same four letters. Can you find the words? NOTHING TO IT Tenderfoot:- When you go home ionight don't walk over the log across the brook. First Class Scout: Why? iontleifoot: Because 1 took it awr.y. Boys' Life,

Jeffries, Quarterback

CHAPTER HI. Newt of Fight Is Out; Klimackt Klan Brings Notoriety to Oakdale George Jeffries spent the whole night in the cooler, and about fifteen minutes of the morning in the police court. His breakfast was free, but the time spent in the court cost him at the rate of $40 an hour. He paid a $10 fine for "disturbing the peace." In the meantime, a live, young reporter for a local paper had been on the job. He delved into things, questioned a lew of the people that lived in the neighborhood of the Klan headquarters, and, before long, had secured a cracking good newspaper story telling how hostility in Oakdale high school that was caused by an illegal secret society had finally resulted in open battle between the Klimacks and the Barbarians. The story looked so nice after he had written it that he sent it to a much larger paper in the neighboring city. That evening all people within a radius of 50 miles were reading about the night's scandal. The name of the fallen leader, George Jeffries, was featured prominently. Oakdale High was getting notoriety and Old Henry Weatherby was almost heartbroken about it. On the same day the second football game of the season was played. Art Billings was picked by Coach Murray to pilot the team. Art did better than was expected, but lacked the brilliancy of Jeffries. His men lacked their usual confidence, but they worked hard and held their opponents within check. They were defeated 13 to 7. Art could see that things were soing from bad to worse in OakI dale. They were bad enough alSomebody ought to De geuins busy. Art decided to talk to Tom Taluiadge about it. CHAPTER IV. Get Together Spirit Is What This School Needs, Says Billirrjs "Tom, I tell you, we've got to do something." "This scrap was started with that first football game is going to be a real feud before long. Our I foothall season will be a failure. It ! worse when all the other fellows lose thpir nen. First thine we have much of a team behind you." "That's not the point, Tom. The trouble with this whole high school is that we're not a high school at all. We're just a bunch of different little groups and cliques. The girls are as bad as the boys. There isn't the school spirit that there should be. We will never have it, either, if we don't get together and talk things over as a body. I think we ought to have a real high school council. We could handle most of our own troubles, better than Old Henry. If we had a council with the whole school behind it, most of these troubles would never come up in the first place." "I guess you're right, Art," said Tom, and walked away. Whether Tom would support the idea or not, Art couldn't tell. Art tried the same thing on George Jeffries, but got little more than a few growls about "raw deals" and a few more surly grunts. He wasn't at all sure of himself when he finally telephoned Old Henry and asked him if he could talk things over with him. "Yes, Billings, I certainly believe you are correct,'' assured Old ! Henry Weatherby, "I wish you would come into my office tomorrow. We should get to the bottom of this disgraceful affair. I can't understand it; I can't understand it." Art and Old Henry had a long talk, and Old Henry called a meeting of all the pupils of the school. More Next Week. Boys' ana Girls' Newspaper Service.