Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 51, 8 January 1921 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, JANUARY I, 1921

ANCES TfeEQO MONTOOMER V

Billy and Nanny did not ran away again and. they gave np the search for their children with sorrowful hearts. They never forgot or ceas es talk about them, and on warm, moonlight nights they would lie out in the pasture and wonder where Day and Night were. - A long time after this, when goats had come and gone at Mr. Windlass', Billy, and Nanny could still be seen there. Billy was getting a little stiff In the joints from rheumatism contracted from lying on the damp ground at night, and Nanny had grown from a slender young thing into a fat, matronlylooking goat. One day two strange goats were seen coming down the lane. "Who can those two handsome visitors be one so strong and black as jet, and the other equally strong but more slenderly built, with snow white hair?' 'asked both the old goats at the same time. The strangers seemed to know the way And appeared to be very much at home, for they walked along until they came to the lowest part of the fence, and then, without a moment's hesitation, jumped over it into the meadow and, walked straight up to where Billy was standing chewing grass, as an old man chews tobacco, with his long, white beard bobbing up and down, and Nanny was lying down beside him. ' Then the strangers got quite close, the white one ran forward, crying. "Mamma, mamma, don't you know me, your own daughter, Day?" When Nanny heard that voice she was on her feet with a bound, and you can imagine the affecting

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meeting that occurred between Billy Whiskers and his family on that Thanksgiving day, for it was November, and surely a Thanksgiving day for them all. Night had not been home more than three weeks when he commenced to get restless and tired of the quiet life on the farm. It was such a change from the adventurous, exciting life he had been leading that he did not know what to , do with himseW. This going ta bed with the chickens and getting up . with the sun, with nothing to do all day long but graze in the pasture

or sleep in the shade, did not suit j

nun; so ne wmsperea iu u&f uuo " day: "This life is driving me mad. I am going away the first chance I

get. I have it all planned, uome over here by the stream and I will j tell you all about it." i "Oh, Night, don't go away and leave us! It will be so lonely without you. Why! I think it is perfectly lovely here! it is so clean and j quiet, and then we know we arei not going 10 db nun or euu veu day and petted and stuffed the next, : like we were when traveling." "I know, dear, but you are a girl and like the quiet, while I am a boy and like adventures. '.Why! I like to get into scrapes just for the fun of getting out of them. Besides, there is another reason why you like it here. You need not

think I have not noticed how that i handsome goat with , the long hair and curved horns almost as long as my own, makes sheep's eyes at you, for I have. And so, Miss" Day. you are In love. I see you are blushing, for the inside of your ear is as red as blood, and that is a sure sign a goat is in love. Well, how do you like it? It is nicer than you thoughti when you -took me away from Spotty, Isn't it?" . "Oh, Night! do forgive me. I never would have done it if I had thought you felt as I do now. But f Z did not know then: and I wanted

! you. all to myself. I know I wast

selfish and jealous, but do forgive me, won't you?" "Yes, dear little sister, I will forgive you because I did not care so very much for Spotty. If I had, you could not have kept me from her. I would have found my way back to Maderlan, if I had spent the rest of my life looking for It. But you see, don't you? that now you will be happy and contented ; father and mother don t need me now that they have you, so I am going out to see some more of the world and try to find another goat as nice as you are to marry. If I do, I will bring her back here and we will always live happily forever afterward, as they say in the story books." "But when and where are you going. Night? Do tell me. And you will surely wait until I am married, won't you?" "I am going west. I have heard all about the wonderful prairies, plains aftd mountains out there, where there are hundreds of thousands of sheep, and how each flock has a large goat for a leader. Now it is my ambition to be one of those leaders." GIRLHOOD STORIES OF FAMOUS WOMEN Marie Sklodowska Curie "The fairies you meet in the woods are a tricky, uncertain sort. The real fairies, who do things, are found in my laboratory," said Ma rie' '8 father to his small daughter, "But. father, wouldn't the fairies like it better if it wasn't quite so Jnciiir ikoroV oebcrl tYi a Httln r.'.i uucii.j wtcic t-.nr muc fMi. "Perhaps they would dear, and if you like you may be the fairy who drives away the dust." I Through this initiation into a chemistry laboratory, Marie became a scientist. After many weary hours of experimenting, Marie Sklodowska Curie and her husband succeeded in producing radium.

UNIQUE FERRY BOAT ON THE VISTULA

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The "stern wheeler" towing another ferry boat.

This odd-looking ferry boat plies up and down the Vistula near Thorn, East Prussia. It is an old craft. It has paddles similar to those Of a side-wheeler but both paddles are in the stern of the boat. In ttm picture above. Weichsel bridge, Thorn, is seen in the distance. J

My Adventure In

A Florida Swamp My adventure happened when I was down In Tuxedo, Florida. One day I was out in front of the house. It was nice and sunny and I wanted to go out walking. I went to where there was a large swamp. I had no more thana reached there when to my surprise a large water moccasin made for me. I ran as I never ran before. I could see that the snake was gaining on me. Luckily I passed an old sea-man who picked up a club and hit the snake over the head. It showed a fight but the sailor had been used to fighting snakes. He finally killed It. It measured one yard and a half long. A water moccasin is one of the most poisonness snake going-By Orville Slifer, Junior high school. (We cannot help adding and they (We cannot help adding "and they that so, Orville ?-Ed.) TIMELY BIT OF INFORMATION Here's something you probably don't know. We got it from the essay of a schoolboy. "In 1620 the Pilgrims crossed the ocean and this was known as the Pilgrims Progress." From Boston Transcript. AN ADVENTURE IN THE "WRENN'S NEST" By Mariam B. Wilton. Mr. and Mrs. Wrenn had gone to a wedding in Greenville, and were to be away over night. The four Wrenn children were sitting around the table in their, cozy livingroom, studying lessons ' . ! for next day when Ernest and Eleanor Martin, schoolmates living1 next door, came in for au hour's visit. "We thought we would keep . you company while your father and mother are away," they announced.

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Wilma and Lois bustled out to er knew better. He finally sold the the kitchen to put molasses on the 1 place at a great sacrifice and movstbve. for Mrs. Wrenn had told ed to another state." them they could have a taffy pull, j "Which would you be more "Mine's getting as white as a! scared of. a ghost or a burglar"? ghost," Lois affirmed after a while, j Queried Ernest, working her taffy hard and fast. I David answered. "I bet I could

.iti,,,,. . ,,,; ,,.,.. I declared Ben. "They is too,' 'averred Ernst. "My grandmother most saw one once. She was walking alone one night on a lonely road over which the body of a man who had shot himself had been carried home the ntgnt Deiore. &ne neara steps nehind her and lco'?d around but . she didn't see a tiding. She started j tn rim and the fitons ran nftpr her. When she got home her father and brother made a search but all they found was a b'ack cat. Grandmoth-

said ir it naa Deen a cat sneibutcher knife a pocket knife, a

would have seen it when she looked around. "I bet all the same it was a cat," scoffed Ben. Wilma poked the fire into a Htytr.-Jl

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How I Spent My

Christmas Vacation Our school let out on Dec. 23 Mother said if I would help her right good she would let me have a play dinner so I helped her with the work and on last Wednesday mother let me have my play-dinner party. Tne girls that came to play dinner were:: Constance Hall, Helen McGathey, Katherine Miller, Jeanette Hamilton, Juanlta Braent, Alma Hall, Alberta Saunders, Marguerite and Ruth Wallon. We played games and sang songs. Then mother served our play-dinner. By Dorothy Walton, 4A grade, Whitewater school. QUESTION FOR DEBATE Resolved: That the boy who stood on the burning deck and the boy who carried the banner "Excelsior" were "bonehead heroes." Irvin Cobb says they were. F. B. Pearson, writing for the Journal of Education, says they were not, contending that the sterling qualities of obedience and devotion to aspiration which these boys exhibited were greater than the sacrifices they made. There are 278 high schools in the United States that have more than 1,000 students. brighter blaze: "I will tell you a ghost story,',' she promised. "O, do," begged Eleanor, "I love ghost stories." "Well, way down South stands a palatial mansion where once lived a beautiful young lady. She was dis appointed in love and drowned herself in the river which flows thru , k t .Z , fickle lover bought the mansion and brought a bride there to live and every night at midnight they would hear sighing and moaning ilke 80meone in pain. Folks in the neighborhood said it was the wind in tne pine trees but the fickle lov. handle a burglar all right," he boasted, "but you can't do much with a ghost." The house having been locked as securely as possible, the Wrenn children went upstairs. It seemed! strange and lonely without father anad mother to bid them goodnight hnr rm rnmmenr wp mane i Before crawling Into bed David firart,0,i frnm a Hnsnt n lmmpmadA weapon belt that would inspire the; . j . j- ... . poiaesi marauuer wiiii lenur. iu slits of tne double thickness of ticking of whcri tne heu wag made were inserted a rnstv sword, a stove poker, a bean shooter and an air rifle. Thus protected David and Ben went fast asleep. Lois cuddled dose to her older sister and she, too. in a twinkling was in drenmland. But poor imaginative Wilma "ould not sleep. The ghost story she had told with so much zest haunted her in the dark of the lonely house. She heard the old clock on the mantel downstairs str'e li, then 12. then 1. What was that? Wilma sat up in bed wild-eyed. A moving light was reflected for a moment in a mirror opposite the open window. Listening she heard stifled footsteps crunching the snow outside. Wilma buiied herself under the covers: then a braver Impulse promoted her and she sprang out and, stole to the window. A light snow had fallen partly relieving the darkness of the night and Wilma discerned two men crouching from tree to tree along the Wrenn side of the Martin driveway. At the end of the drive they emerged from the tree shadows: flashed a momentary light and made their way to the Martin garaee. Trembling with excitement, Wil ma donned her slippers and ran to the boys' room. "David! Ben!" she whispered, shaking her broth ers awake, "there's burglars over by Martin's garage." Ben dashed into Wilma's room to peer from the window while David, with nervous fingers, buckled on his weapon belt. The sword and the butcher knife clicked together and the stove poker fell to the floor with a loud bank. (To Be Continued)

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RIDDLES FOR JUNIORS 1. Who may marry many a wife and yet live single all his life? 2. Why Is a nail fast In the wall like an old man or a dog's tail? 3. WTiy was Mose3 the most wicked man that ever lived? Answers to this week's riddles and puzzles will be found in some corner of this week's Junior. PUZZLES FOR JUNIORS 1. I follow the plough, but never walk. Have plenty of teeth, but do not . talk. Am strongly barred, but never close. I scratch and break, but deal no blows. 2. A tree that, without life or root. Without a blossom, bud, or flower. Bears various and most precious fruit. That comes and goes in one short hour. I am composed of nine letters. My 1, 2. 3, 4, G, is a long-necked bird; my 9, 6. 3, 8, is a period of months; my 5, 3, 7, 4 is a storehouse for grain. My whole is on the Thanksgiving table. 4. Three minutes to complete this word square: LONG O N G W ANSWERS TO THIS WEEK'S PUZZLES AND RIDDLES Puzzles. A harrow. A Christmas tree. Cranberries. LONG OVER NERO GROW 1. 2. 3. 4. RIDDLES A clergyman. Because it is in firm. He broke all the command1. 2. 3. ments Pencil Twister Can You Change. This Man Into his Landlady? Or, Mm (Answer next week). (Answer to Last Week's.)