Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 223, 30 July 1921 — Page 14

AGE TWO

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY, JULY 80, 1981

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PART I '; Stubby continued hia tale of woe for Billy Jr. "Oh, I tell you. Master Billy, you don't know what It Is to knock around the world and be only a poor little yellow cur that every one delights to kick and stone, although he has dope nothing but mind his own business. You see, though you have traveled a great deal and seen more of the world than I have, still you have not bucked up against its cruel side as I have. One reason is because you are so big and strong that people dare not hurt you, while as for me, I have been so small and so homely that any bad boy or man could be cruol to me and not be afraid of getting hurt for it. "I had had my eyes open only a few days when my mother told my brothers and sisters and me that if we wanted to get on In the world we must not look for justice, or bite when we were abused, and she said that we must endure all things, be patient, and return good for-vil. I remember this talk distinctly because It was the last we ever had with her, for the next day a boy crawled under the barn and took all my brothers and sisters and myself In a basket and carried us to the river bank, where he tied a stone to each of our necks and then threw us into the water to drown. Somehow, he did not tie my string tight enough, and when he threw me Into the river the weight of the stone untied the string and let me loose, so when I reached the bottom, instead of staying down like my brothers and sisters, I came to the surface and then Bwam ashore. I never knew I could swim until I found myself in the river, and then, Instinctively, I struck out as if I had been swimming all my life, just as all animals do when thrown Into the water for the first time. "Whe; I reached the shore the boy had gone, for when he saw us disappear under the water he thought we would never come up. I rested on the bank In the sun until I got dry. Quietly crying for my kind little mother, for I knew I could never find my way back to her. I saw a house a short dia tance away with a barn and barnyard at the back, so I crept under the fence into the back yard and went to sleep beside a straw stack. For supper I had only a little milk that I lapped up from the ground where the girl had spilled it when milking. Of course, I got more dirt than milk, but I was afraid to! go nearer to the house for fear or being abused. "The next morning the hired girl came out to mtlk the cow and I made up my mind I would try to t lltlHWmnilMMmMHIIHHtflMjE I At a Party The fellow who knows sleight-of-hand tricks, is always popular. Read INDOOR MAGIC In The JUNIOR PALLADIUM

make friends with her, so I commenced by giving a low bark to attract her attention as she sat milking. . She turned around quickly and said. "My goodness, how you scared me! Where did you come from, you poor forlorn little thing?' "Her voice reassured me, so I ran straight up to her and she patted me and said, "There, don't look so frightened, no one 13 going to hurt you When she went to the house she called to me to follow her, which I was very glad to do, and she gave me a saucer of nice, warm milk, which I was very much in need of, being both cold and hungry."- ' PART II "Well, from the day the hired girl gave me the saucer of milk until I was stolen by a tin peddler, I stayed there and was petted and fed as If I had been a dog with tho bluest of blue blood in my veins," continued Stubby. "But what a life I had of it with that lying, cheating tinker, until he at last sold me for five dollars to a young lady who had taken a fancy to me, mostly from pity, I think. From this lady I learned many tricks and was dressed in a blue blanket and tied with blue ribbons, which I tried to lose off or else rolled in the mud with, every chance I got. Some boys stole me from her, finally, and they cut off my beau tiful curly tail, the only thing about me that was beautiful, although the young lady used to say, 'Stubby, you have the loveliest

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eyes I ever saw in a dog's head. They certainly look as ir you had a human eoul, and yon make me wonder what you are thinking about.' "After the boys stole me, my luck went from bad to worse until I had to hide in the daytime and only look for food at night. I was stoned and kicked so that at last I gave up trying to find a good master or mistress and I hid In alleys, sometimes sleeping out In the rain and cold without any Bhelter' but the sky or anything softer than a board to sleep on, so when this old packing box was thrown out into the alley I hailel it with delight and have lived In It ever since. "You see my story is only a pitifully uninteresting tale beside your life history." "Forget the past," said Billy Jr. "That is gone, and In the future we will live together and see what good we can get out of life. What do you say to leaving the city and going out into the country? It Is much cleaner there, while there Is less chance of being abused or of getting shut up where we won't be fre eto come and go as we please." "Very well.' 'said Stubby. "I am longing to get into the country once again. What direction shall we take?" "South 'replied Billy Jr. "Let us try to find our way to Old Mexico, where it la nice and warm the year round." "That is a splendid idea' said Stubby. "I, too, am tired of the col." - "It is too bad that dogs can't live on grass and the things that goats can, for then you would not have to go hungry so often. I believe I could live on old shoes and

straw if I could find nothing else to eat, although I don't say I should relish them much," said Billy. "Oh. I can live an very little, so don't worry about me," said Stubby. At the first peep of dawn the two friends left the old packing box and started on their long Journey to Old Mexico. Copyrighted by the Saalfield Publishing Co., Akron, O. INDIANAPOLIS SCOUTS ATTAIN HIGH HONOR Five Indianapolis Scouts attained the honor of Eagle Scout recently, the highest honor in national scouting. There have been 42 Eagle Scouts of the 2,700 scouts since the organization in Indianapolis.

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LITTLE STORIES from EARLHAM MUSEUM

The Mummy in Its Curious Case Came All the Way from Cairo, Egypt.

The mummy that lives In the Earlham museum has come a very long distance to make its home here so near Richmond with the other strange and very Interesting things that are exhibited there. Where It or the person lived when It was alive perhaps some three or four thousand years ago, is not known, but the place where the mummy was discovered was near the River Nile, about seventyfive miles south of Cairo.. A mummy Is the body of a person so carefully preserved by bandaging and spices and certain chemicals, that they remain well preserved for many centuries. Most of the mummies that have been found, have been discovered In Egypt, where the dry, sandy soil kept them in such splendid condition. INDOOlMAGIC Produce On Chalk Writing Slate Show a common school slate. Allow it to be examined by one of the audience. It Is entirely unprepared, and therefore, you take no chance . of being "discovered. Then, to further convince the audience that the slate is unprepared, suggest that a wet sponge be passed over its entire surface. This done, wrap the slate in a piece of newspaper. Place it on a chair and ask someone to sit on it so that it cannot be tampered with. On unfolding the paper a minute or so later, writing in chalk will be seen on the slate. The secret is this: The newspaper in which the slate is to be wrapped is especially prepared. Write backwards on it, and in chalk, the word or words you wish to appear on the slate. The Water left on the slate when the damp sponge is passed over it causes the chalk to be transferred. By Ad Carter " by The Philadelphia" Inquirer Oh

You have all seen pictures of the great pyramids in Egypt, haven't you? They were great tombs and the bodies of their famous people their rulers and leaders were put In the pyramids as an honor. The mummies of many of these great rulers have been discovered. Box Painted Strangely. The box in which the mummy in the Earlham museum Is lying is not Just a plain box, but Is shaped something like a person and is painted in blue and red and green. There are some helroglyphlcs on it, too, the symbols those old Egyptians used instead of A, B, C's as we use. Wonder what they say! They are not translated. Often a face is painted on the box. This box, in fact, has a head and face painted on it. About all we see is the closely wrapped bandaging, now browned by age. Sometimes the old Egyptians used 700 yards of bandaging when wrapping up a mummy. Brought to Earlham in 1889. This mummy, which seems to have no name, not even a pet name as the- mastodon has, was bought from the Government museum in Cairo, Egypt, by an early president of Earlham college, President J. J. Mills, and brought to Earlham in 1889. Though it made 6uch a long Journey to get to Richmond and though it was so old when it made the Journey, it arrived in the museum in very good shape. It is complete except that the nose and one toe are missing. The mummy and the case in which it has lived for so long Just think! for twenty or thirty centuries occupy a table in the main room of the museum, and on the first floor, not far from the mastodon. . Mummy Dolls Exhibited. Some curious little mummy dolls made of stone and porcelain are

nw 1 1 n.bit wii ill uui ill j . incac are, perhaps, some of the little doll3 called "ushabtis," which means "answerers." These were very often placed with the mummies In a tomb, especially with those of kings and noblemen and it was thought they would be the servants for the mummy In the life beyond. Often very, very beautiful furniture, made of ebony and of ivory, and Jewelry and amulets, or little things that are supposed to bring good luck, are discovered with the mummies. Mummies Have History. Not long ago some one thought they had found the mummy of the Pharoah, or the man who was king of Egypt during the time that the people of Israel wanted to, and finnally did leave Egypt, for Palestine under the leadership of Moses, whose story we read in Exodus. Whether this is so or not, has never been proved, but many mummies have been discovered of kings and people who lived as long ago as that monarch did. - It will be interesting to any of you Juniors to take a close look at the mummy the next time you visitthe Earlham museum. TRUE WAR STORIES Told by Soldiers in France Next week's "True War Story" will be "Where the Kaiser and HIndcnburg Stayed During tho War." The two stories sent in for this week's Junior, we regret to say, had been previously published in The Junior Palladium. CHAMPION PIG GROWER WON TRIP TO CHICAGO Edwin Pease, of Usk. Wash., was the grand champion pig grower of the Inland Empire in 1920 and received as his prize a free trip to the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago, because of his superior record as a pig club member, and, because of his ability in swine Judging. This prize trip, the value of which is $175, was one of three trips offered by Armour and company, In the Interest of swine raising.