Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 28, 11 December 1920 — Page 18
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1920
AMttleBit of Everything 9 '
A party of boys and skis, includ-iyou had been thinking they werei Three days later, at 3:00 in the tog myself, were wrecked out on, one. afternoon and three miles from the the Pacific The first day haa! It seemed that Ernestine had inlands and a three of us were
vatsBtu aim mrj are now yi rpu nu , urfn wat-ncu asnore, so i got AJar- standing together on the deck,
places and that got us all mixed up until we didn't know which one
for the night
Fifth Installment I fiat .for a long, long thinking. I wondered If
time
Marge !wa8 which.
Cla rill -was still alive or not, and whether mother and . father were, either. This gave me no relief. 1 tried to make It, but no I couldn't. So t turned my mind to other channels. Ye, this wa9 the fourth night, counting from the wreck. Just think four whole days and four nights!" I thought more on this subject,
but it couldn't give me any relief, po I tried to think of something
else to think about. The next rem
edv I tried for restlessness was
thankfulness; but, no, there was only one thing to be thankful for, and that was My attention now centered itself on a certain figure I saw in the darkness running among the trees. I only got a glimpse, but it appeared to me to be a girl. The next moment it was gone, and I found- myself looking at another object coming toward me. There walking down the sand was the j little leopard cub we'd found that
afternoon. I marveled that it couia become bo tame in such a short time, but it was Just a little knowlngless bit of fur. and I suppose that it didn't know any better. I reached down and picked him up. He gave me a little rigid stare and then cuddled up-in my arms. He probably wanted some one, anyway, I reflected, his mother being dead, so I said: "Hello, Zep! You know about Uncle Dudley, don't
And you've been wondering about
the yacht and the fire, I know. 1 don't know much myself about it; I'll admit that. But here's what I do know and that is, that the very
steamer we saw on the first day
Marge said
"These are islands, aren't they? Oh, I do so love an island!" And she repeated William Sharp's lines: "There is an isle beyond our ken, Haunted by dreams of weary men; Grey hopes enshadow it with wings Weary with burdens of old thjngs.
A Story Coal Would .
Tell Hit Could America owes its growth largely
to coal, for without it how could locomotives, eteamsbips, ore and coke furnaces and most important of all our heating stoves be in existence. Coal was formed ages ago when the earth was forming. There was Just a thin crust of earth and the heat from the earth made it very warm for vegetation. What we call weeds were as high as an ordinary bush. This crust would rise and full. When it would fall water would run in and covet1 up the trees that
i had fallen.
There the Insatiate water anrinera
on land was attracted bv the flames1 Rise with thp tears nf all who weon. when wood decays the carbon of
!on the night of the fire, and with! And deep within it deep, oh deep,! the wood unites with the oxygen of
puiupa, uue auu many uuitu me; i no luiuve voice 01 sorrow Sings extinguishing articles, and with!' There evermore much bard work, succeeded in put-1 Till time be o'er. ting it out. As the night was dark. Sad, oh so sad! The dreams of men
we saw nothing of all this.
The next day we set sail for the Hawaiian Islands, the home of the much coveted jazz music.
Drift through the isle beyond our ken." THE END Northrop R. Elmer.
THE BLACK MASK
your That's right, give me a kiss." He did, all right! A swell oneJust a great big rake all down my -forearm. '-. "Well, of all the nerve! I said vnn shouldn't treat your Uncle that
way but since you're so -anxious I
to go, you can, I guess
CHAPTER III
Joe wag killed and Buck Ranger
was put on the Farrow farm to work and to watch the family. Things had been going on well for a week or so, and Buck had become used to the work and did very well. Wliile he was in the barn he was thinking who the Black Mask was. He finally chose to find out for himself. So, saddling his horse, he rode up to the door of the house and said, "I'm goin' to town for awhile. I'll be back soon." Then he started out the gate with
I ha trim rianarlincr at hia airia
After he had gotten into town he went into the only bar in the town where he thought the outlaws ! might be. He looked around!
awhile and could not see anyone: that looked like outlaws. j
"Hello, there, stranger, wnat ye lookin' for a fight?" said a laughing voice behind him.
Buck turned and saw a man who
sounds as of some one going softly In thl mea Fnulnw ln'a vrlnrlnu;
Buck looked at his guns to see it
i in. j " i i (j tuauru. i- u 1 1 111. luuAru out of the window and saw a man creeping along the sides of the house with a ladder. Buck ran down stairs and looked out the back door. He saw another man there. He went to the front door and saw another man there. He thought for a while and then said to himself, "Where have 1 seen these men before?" for in his rush he had forgotten those three men in the bar. But just then he remembered those same men that acted so queerly. (To be continued.) Lloyd Slifer, , Junior High School.
Answer to puzzle No. 3: 385 cannon balls can De put in the pile.
PUZZLES FOR JUNIORS
And I suited the action to the
word. He bit me "farewell" at the end of a "swift kick!" That ends- my "mushiness' with leopards, believe me! But, listen! The next moment as I looked out on the sea, what Bhould 1 see but a ship yes, sir, a boat! I .
Hie. wake un there, you land
"A ship, a boat voices
lubbers!" I cried.
come qui " , "Who are those . I paused abruptly, for upon sec- Buck, after looking
ond thought I looked twice, ana,nwhlle.
what did I see but our own yacht! This so "bemuddled" me that I stood still, I'll bet . five minutes; Just stood there gasping at it, honest! , . i The others came up then, and when they saw it gee! I thought they'd go mad. Why, they all pranced around in a way fit to kill. 1 said I was sure they'd gone crazy. The next day came, and with it
the landing of the yacht. After
1. Behead a horse's house and leave a piece of furniture, behead acain and transnnsp anrl vrai will
j looked to be good-natured, "No, I'm j have one of the first men spoken
or in tne hidic. take away t lie last letter and you have the nickname of a famous president of the United States. 2. My first gives a baby support. My next i? a virtuous lass; To the fields, if at eve you resort, My whole you will probablv ;i -s. 3. If In a pile of cannon balls, the ground tier has loo balls arranged in a square, what is greatest number of balls that can be put In the pile? 4. Make a word square with five
words of five letters each. The definitions of the words are: A. Fun. B. Cold, icy regions. C. A fruit grown in Spain. D. A big black bird. E. A tendency. Answers to this week's riddle?
tne air. but when the water runs
in the wood turns into kind of a charcoal, because no oxygen can get to it. The veins of coal are generally about 56 to 60 feet wide and high. Sometimes it is so near the surface that it may be mined sumilar to the way rock is taken out of a quarry. Sometimes it goes straight through a hill so the mine looks like a tunnel. Bituminous coal is the cheaper
graae or coai. ueeause it has so much bitum or mineral pitch in it.
Anthracite is a higher grade of coal because it is harder. Anthracite is a Greek word, meaning ruby because it has kind of a red glow and no flame. Most grnerally you go down a dark shaft to enter a mine. The modern mines are lighted electrically now. A hundred years ago they used candled in mines until Humphrey Davy found that fire would not. go through thin wire gauze and after that they used little carbide lamps that fastened on their hats. Mining is dangerous work. A miner never knows when his axe may strike a vein of water or the mine may catch fire. George Harris, Starr School.
Melbourne Wrote This About Himself Little Melbourne Davis Was working in the sand; He hurt hia foot and then his hand. He never cried till he hit it with the hoe; Then he screamed Bloody Murder, and said it wasn't so. Melbourne Davis, 5B, Starr Platoon School.
Answer to riddle No. 4: Milestones, because you never see two of them together.
CHILDREN GIVE PROGRAM The boyg and girls of the first and fourth grades of Finley cshool gave a little play, "Cinderella" before the grown-ups who came to the school's Parent-Teachers' meeting, Thursday afternoon after school. Recitations and songs by the children also formed a part of the program.
Answer to puzzle No. 1: table, Abel, Abe.
Stable,
ORCHESTRAS PLAY TOGETHER Tuesday evening the Hibberd and Starr school orchestras held thier weekly rehearsal together.
Answer to puzzle No. 4: SPORT POLAR OLIVE RAVEN TREND
HOME-MADE HOLLY Cut the pattern of a holly leaf from heavy paper. Lay it on several thicknesses of dark green tissue paper and cut out the leaves. Make the berries from peas or little balli of cotton covered with red
Answer to riddle No. 3: When she pulled his ears and trod on his corn.
not looking for that
'Well, let's have a game of poker, then,' said the man. Buck consented only because he wanted to learn something of the Black Mask. In about half an hour three men walked in the bar and sat down in a dark corner around a table. At
once they started talking in low
men?" asked at them for
They are part of the Black Mask
gang,' 'said the other softly. Pretty soon the three men walked out the door. "Remember at one o'clock this night," said one. "All right," agreed the other two men.
Then they parted
untY Mr i t ir i act
HER BEST FRIEND
'One day in spring there were two small girls, playing along the street whose names were Nellie snd Bessie. These girls were of
Hie same age and were great friends. Nellie was cross most of the time and was unkind to many little creatures and would do many harmful things to little birds, which couldn't protect themselves. This, Bessie did not like at all. She tried to teach Nellie different, but it did no good. One day while Nellie and Bessie
were playing along the street, tlie j
neighbors had a poll parrot, sitting out in the front yard. Nellie cried: "Oh! Bessie, let's throw stones at
U Wi.
; and puzzles will be found hidden in this bird and make it cry." While
How did you come to know' all sorts of places in this week's Bessie was listening she only re-
them?" asked Buck.
i Junior. Find them.
the meeting was over it was found that just one person was missing. "Only one," my father said "Marge Clarill, yes, sir. Only one, but that's bad enough. ' Where is Bhe?" And, sure enough, there they were, both right together both of 'em! It certainly gave me a jolt; couldn't believe it Just imagine
two girla just exactly alike, same dresses and all, when all the time
"They stole some of my cattle
one night. It happened that when
they were just startin' to go I heard 'em and got up out of bed.
I saw most of their faces, but one! like Pharoah's daughter?
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NOnuH-MCHtttT
who wore a mask. I didn't want to do anything for I knew the whole gang could kill me before 1 could do anything. I'm goin'a wait till I kin git a gang and fight 'em:" "Very good, but what place have you?" "It's called the Starr Ranch. Starr is my name."
Buck started in surprise for he! remembered the place where Joe:
Farrow was shot. "I would like to be the first man
to join your gang and now I will
be goin'," said Buck cheerfully. On his way home Buck was won
derlng what those three men were up to. After awhile he dropped the matter and turned his mind to the
things about him.
When he got home he started to finish the work. At night he returned to the house saying, "I'm tired, I think I will go to bed." "All right, then we'll come later," looking up from his work with a smile. Si Buck went to to bed but he could not go to leep for he was thinking of the three men all the time. Finally he got up and put on his clothes and decided to watch for he thought they "might ccme there. Anna and Mary had already gone to bed. - i At about two o'clock there wer
plied: "There is no one to throw stones at you when you are enjoying yourself." "Oh! You big crank, anyway.
1. When are brokers in a nanic Wvpr want in have anv fun." said
Nellie.
RIDDLES FOR JUNIORS
l tissue paper. Tie the leaves and beries in bunches and attach the j bunches lo twig3 or cords. In the ! same way you can make mistletoe
I i rum gray-green paper.
2. Why did the Austrian sol-j "Yes, I do, but I don't believe in diers wear steel buttons on their doing such thinKS," said Bessie, coats and the Russian soldiers; This made Nellie mad and she brass ones? Wf.nt on throwing stones at the 3. When did Ruth treat Boaz!parrot. "Poll Parrot," cried the hadyLru , ' !bird- "What do you think I nn? 4. What are the most unsociable n niro Rcccio nioneo liavo memv
things in the world?
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on me." In the meantime, Bessie ran up to the parrot and took it in her arm and rubbed it. "Poor Poll," said Bessie.
STOCKING PLACE CARDS Stockings cut from heavy red paper with a white cotton fringe pasted around the top, and a pretty Christmas seal on the side will make attractive place-cards.
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This made Nellie more and more little rolls of
angry, so she said: "Go home, you're no friend of mine." Bessie Fays: "Why Nellie!" t "That's all right, you mind me." ' Bessie did as she was told. Nellie was sorry of the way she had
treated Bessie. She wrote a letter i
to Bessie to forgive her. Bessie answered: "I still think of you, but can never be the same girl as when we were true friends." Nellie was so sorry of the way she had treated her friend Bessie and said she never would forget it. She lost, her friend all by being unkind to the bird and getting mad easy. Bertha Belle Morrett, Greenwood school, Grade 7, Liberty, Indiana.
Christmas Party Decorations Santa Claus and many other quaint little figures, such as Red Riding Hood, Pierette, and f'i"rter-
ella, can be made from lollypcps. Draw a face on the paper co.ei.1ig of the candy, and wire two Ugh;
wnite tissue nape-
onto the sticks for arms. Dress with colored tissue paper to sin. the character.
Answer to puzzle No. 2: maid.
Milk-
Answer to riddle No. 1: When they save a little prophet from the rushes on the banks.
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