Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 170, 28 May 1921 — Page 12

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Billy Jr. listened with, both cars while old One-born told about getting even with the fireman. "One day I was lying here In the shade half-way between sleeping and waking when I saw him come out of the engine house and start to cross the vacant lot you see before you, for his home is on the other side," said the goat." "He was halfway across when the thought struck me now is my opportunity. He was alone and carried nothing to ' protect himself with, so I lumped up and ran Quietly behind him, the soft turf deadening all sounds of my approach, and he never suspected that I was near him until I gave him a vigorous butt that was the master-stroke of my life. It sent blm flying six feet ir more straight In the air. When 'ie struck the ground he lay perfectly motionless for a moment with the breath knocked completely out of him. He was only 6tunned however, for he soon raised his head and, seeing me, shook his fist and fairly roared, -You confounded old goat, I'll break every bone in your old Carcass for this!' "I intended to let him alone after that, for I thought he had been punished enough, - but when he shook his fist and threatened me, I was mad all over and I lowered my head and would have butted him again had he not caught me by the horns, at the same time giving my head a twist with his great muscu lar arm that nearly broke my neck. This made me furious, and I stamped and kicked and tried to get my horns loose, but he held me tight, well knowing that it was dangerous to let me go.. "Well, we rolled and tumbled about In the mud until we were both nearly exhausted, and at last he loosened his hold of my horns, at the same time giving me a part ) ing blow on the head that made me see stars for an instant. In the meantime he started for home on I a dead run. and as a matter of! course I lost no time in following him, but I did not catch up until just as he was entering the front door of his home. Then I aimed straight for hiscoat tails, but he shut the door with a bang, catch-1 ing my horns between it and the! Jamb; then he pushed with all his night and main from the inside, while I too, pushed with all my BILLY BUNNIKEN IS A FINE BIG RABBIT, MARTHA SAYS New Madison, O., May 1921. Dear Aunt Polly: My kittens died and so did Peter 3ilkear. Billy Bunnikens Is a great jig rabbit. He weighs nine and jne-half pounds. I keep htm in a calf pen. I have a little heifer calf. It was four months old yesterday. ( just read the Junior and I like he stories in it. My school was ut April 29. I will be in the sevinth grade next year. I like the letter the Joseph Moore boys and girls wrote to the children of France. I like "Billy Whiskers." We began planting corn today. And we will get done Thursday or Frllay if it doesn't rain. Martha 3melker, R. No. 2, New Madison, Ohio. Dear Martha: I do SO like to receive letters like yours! I am so torry, though, about the kittens nd Peter Silkear. I hope it doesn't rain any more , for awhile, too. I wonder If you have a garden. Please remember me to Billy Bunoiken and the little calf. Your friend. Aunt Polly.

strength from the outside, hoping to splinter the panel of the door, but Instead, I broke my horn, and that Is how I lost it and why 1 owe him a grudge." In the back yard of the engine house stood a pump with a tub of water under its spout. Billy Jr. went to get a drink from it and, while quenching his thirst, heard one of the firemen say to two others standing in the yard, "I'll bet you can't do it though every one knows he needs it badly enough. "Oh, it's easy enough to wash him," they answered, "the difficulty will be in untying him after It is done, for then he will butt the life out of the first man he catches." "Let's draw cuts to decide who is to do the untying," said a third. "All right," they answered; and before Billy even suspected what they were talking about, he found himself bound and tied to the pump so that he could only move his head slightly. ESTABLISH 8TUDENT COURT, WITH A BOY, AGED 12, AS JUDGE Not a pupil in the eight public schools of the Nineteenth Ward of Chicago, III., can play hookey, or take part in any lawlessness and "get away with it" if young Judge Frank Laino and his three court assistants know anything about it. All cases of truancy or hookey and other offenses committed by Nineteenth Ward pupils, are to be placed in Judge Laino's hands and punishment will be given as he sees fit. The judge himself Is a pupil in one of the schools and is but 12 years of age, and his assistants, a prosecuting attorney, a court bailiff and a court clerk, range in age from 12 to 15. They were selected by their classmates as being the four most capable of dealing squarely with the violators. Recently Judge Laino and his throe helpers made a visit to tha grown-up court of Judge Williams, Chicago, and learned a few tricks of the trade. BEST SORT OF DETECTIVE. Horsey Rebo "My father must have been up to all sorts of mis chief when he was n bov." Harold Banks "Why?" Dorsey "Because he knows exactly what questions to ask m? when he wants to know what I have been doing." JUST KIDS-Days of

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Children Play an Up-Side-Down Trick Miss Anna Fulton was sitting on her little front porch a bright June afternoon. In her lap was a letter she had received a few days ago. She was just through reading it the fifth time. It was from her sister asking her to come to her home and visit awhile. "Well," she said to herself, "I do believe I will go." So in two days more 6he was on the train. And while she was riding let me tell you something about her. She was an old maid forty years old. She lived in an old fashioned town which only had one store. The people of the town called It the everything store. We will now go back to the story. The children of Miss Anna's sister knew that their aunt was coming so they decided to play a trick on her. I forgot to tell you that there were three children. The smallest child asked her mother in which room her aunt was going to sleep. Her mother told her. So the children went upstairs and put brushes in their aunt's bed. At four o'clock, their aunt came. They ate their supper and a little while after, Miss Anna said she was so tired that she was going to bed. They did not want their company to go to bed and themselves stay up so they went to bed, too. It was all the children could do to keep from laughing out at the joke they were going to play on their aunt. Miss Anna's sister showed her where she was to sleep. The room was very beautiful and when Miss Anna saw it she said she wasn't going to sleep there and muss up that 1

pretty bed. Her sister told her that if she didn't sleep there her husband would have to. Miss Anna said he would have to then. So that was settled. The children didn't hear this and they were still laughing. When the father lay down they all heard him say "Ouch!" He got up and looked under the covers and discovered the brushes. He said "I bet I know who did this." He went into the children's room and asked them if they put the brushes in the bed. They said "Yes." Their father told them for playing tricks they could not have any DreaKiast. ine cnuaren wisnea mar mev nau noi mavea inai trick. It was a long time before they played another. Mary Frances Clements, Grade 5A, Vaile School. Haooiness r

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Babette Taylor is feeling very sad, for her mother has just told her that she is to go in a few days to make a visit at her Aunt Mary's in the country. It was a long distance from New York, and Babette did not like to go so far away from her mamma. Mrs. Taylor told Babette how many nice things she would find on the farm, and what a good timo she would have. At this remark she brightened up, and when the day came for her to start she was quite a happy little girl. When Babette arrived at her Aunt Mary's she was nearly knocked down by a dog that jumped up on her and tried to show her in every way how glad he was to see her. As Babette had left a dog at home it made her feel less lonely right away to find such a nice dog as Rover. They became great friends and Rover would follow Babette everywhere she went. One day her Uncle Will came in and said, "Babette, come with me, I have something to show you!" She immediately danced off with him, Rover at her heels, and what THE CALL OF When they arrived, supper wag on the table and Eleanor entertained her guest in the living room. Both girls, however, were puzzled over one thing. There were five places laid at the Table. Neither one could figure out whom it was for, though Mr. and Mrs Holt knew well and smiled at each other. Soon steps were heard on the stairs. Peggy rushed to the foot, of them and looked up, but she could see no one. She did the same thing twice again, but could not find anyone. Finally she gave up and she and Eleanor went out into the dining room. Soon a familiar air floated out 'into the room. It came from a . narp. i Rushing in Peggy found a kliaki 'clad figure in front of the harp, I She ran to him and embraced him, ! for it was none other than her brother, who had come all the way from Chilicothe to be with them for only three days, Tom, for that was the brother's : name, whs very piau io tet- cvi,j ; uouy. eMifiiituy rt-iuiui, urrauoithey had been going together for some time when the war broke out and Tom enlisted. Eleanor also was glad not only because she had been invited to By Ad Carter rcssi FWocmS BffcEBMl THKT WS siumicyc THE BEST ACHtT I EVER HIS& WAS THE PAX ME m PEAHltf STOLE THE CE Cmn AT THE SUNM SCHXL ttCMlC

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do you think she saw? Three little calves, About the same size and color, and all close together. Babette had never seen any before and thought they were the prettiest creatures in the world. Babette had a very happy visit, and when It came time-to go home, though she wanted to see her mamma, she felt almost as badly to leave the farm as she did her own home; but she took something with her to remember the pleasant summer by. Aunt Mary gave her a basket to take charge of and when she peeped in what she did she see but a dear, little Maltese kitten. When Babette reached home, she put a blue ribbon round its neck and taught it so many amusing tricks that Puss became a general favorite with all the children who visited Babette. Mabel Wright, age 15, Senior High school. GOSHI Sophomore "I can lie in bed and see the sun rise." : Freshman "That's nothin: sit in the dining room and the kitchen sink." I sea PEGGY HOLT J supper, but because she was engaged to Tom, and had wished for a visit from him ever since ho had left. Though ho was not going to be here for as long a time as she had hoped, she was glad for even a short visit. Though neither spoke, Peggyknew what was in their hearts and stole away from them. "You have been so long in coming," said Eleanore, her lips trembling. "I know," answered Tom, his large hands grasping hers, "but T couldn't get away before this. Uncle Sam has needed me every minute, and I had a hard time get tin?; away this time, for I am now a first lieutenant." "Oh, Tommy! What a surprise!" cried Eleanore. gleefully. "Come here, Peggy, Tom has a surprise for you. Tell her, Tom." "Yes, I will. Come here. Peg. Look me me over. What do you see?" "Nothing unusual. Why?" Look at my shoulders and then you will see, just why I want you to look at me," laughed Tom. 'Oh, Tom! A first lieutenant?" "Yes siree." "Oh, Eleanore! Aren't we proud of him though?" "I certainly am," said Eleanore with great satisfaction. When Eleanore went home that night, Tom went along, and pleas ant memories of the day wen swarming in her mind, especially one, the few minutes that she was alone with Tom. The next morning Peggy and ' Tom got up early for Sunday school. Meeting their parents and Eleanor at church time they stayed for church. One thing Peggy never forgot in I Dr. Macwintar's speech, "ThousI ands of people were waiting to be : baptized in the name of our Lord i and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Inside J one of the largest temples in China i thirty-six thousand people were waiting, while on the outside then: was a crowd of fifty-four thousand clammoring for entrance." Peggy felt that she could stand it no longer, but did, nevertheless. When the end came, however, with the call for young people to consecrate their lives to Christ, she went up to the altar and humbly kneeling, did al lthat was requested of her. As Tom was to leave Tuesday for Chillicothe, he arranged to take Eleanor back with him and on the day before they were married. But what of Peggy? Ah! hers was a sad love story for she left Chicago the next week and did not get to see her sweetheart. Before she left, however, she looked for her locket and could not find if. Joseph called her on the phone before she left, saying that he had found the letter and would send it to her in a letter by a messenger. Though she did not see him, Peggy thought that the words which he wrote were Just as precious as any that he could have spoken. Yea, I said that it was a rather sad love-story, but Peggy, happy in the thought of her missionary work, set sail from San Francisco just a month after she was called. So after all, she was happy.