Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 265, 17 September 1921 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1921

4 Frances Tfee.co Montgouerv

PART I After an uneventful trip, they Bailed one day into the beautiful harbor of San Francisco, called the Golden Gate, and Billy and Stubby were looking forward to a good time ou shore, and planning what they would do, when, all unexpectedly, after landing, they got mixed up in a bunch of cattle, and were driven aboard a big boat that was being loaded with live cattle for Japan, ond trp as he would, Billy could not extricate himself from them or avoid the long whips of the men who were driving them. As for Stubby, he could easily have slipped away, but he preferred to follow Billy, and that is how our travelers found themselves bound for Japan without a day's rest on shore after they came up the coast from Mexico to San Francisco. The only thing that varied the monotony of the long trip to Japan was their short stop at the Sandwich Islands, where Billy and Stubby were taken ashore for a run by tfie cook and his assistant, who were both Japanese and were returning home to join the army. Since starting they had made great pets of both Billy and Stubby and had often given them meat and apples, and got permission for them to run on deck once in a while. Otherwise they would have been shut below with the cattle and the trip would have been unendurable to the independent, free-roving Buiy. When they landed, Billy's and Stubby's friends, the Japs, took them home with them where they were fed and nicely housed in their back yard, and. while Billy and Stubby were making friends with the beautiful pheasants that were shut in the same yard, their Japanese friends went to military headquarters to join the army and when they came back they were dressed in their uniforms with orders in their pockets to report at headquartTg the next morning. For several days after this Billy and Stubby saw nothing of them, but they were fed and looked after by a pretty, rosy faced, little Jap girl who wore a pretty flowered kimona and wore her hair in funny looking, little, smooth puffs with toy fans sticking out of it. PUZZLES & RIDDLES 1. What is an eaves-dropper? 2. What roof covers the most noisy tenant? 3. What happens to the chocol ate cake when an only son eats it? 4. What is the difference be tween a sun-bonnet and Scmday bonnet? 5. A man went away on Friday and he came back on Friday and only stayed two days. How did he do it? WHO IS HE

A great Italian poet, born i265 A.D.. and died 1321. Last week's: Cleopatra, famous queen of Egypt.

-- . PART II Billy Jr. and Stubby had been in the Japs' yard about a week and Billy was getting tired of such close quarters with nothing to see or do, when he heard a military band marching down the street on the other side of the high fence. The little Jap girl who had just brought them some water, when she heard this, dropped her pan and ran to the gate in the fence and looked out to see the soldiers go by. Of course nary turned and was through the gate in a flash, with Stubby close at hi3 heels, and down the street they ran in the direction the band had taken, while the poor little Jap girl ran after them wringing her hands in dismay and calling to them to come back, but they only ran the faster. Billy was as bad as any little Irish Paddy about liking to follow a parade or a band and .when he caught up to it he found It was leading a regiment that was march ing to the front. When Billy and tiuDDy dropped back to the rear who should they see but their Japa nese friends, the last men of the last rangs. When Billy spied them he made up his mind in a twinkle to follow and go to war with them. This he bleated to Stubby and of course Stubby thought it would be great fun and agreed to go, too. When the regiment had left the city's cheering crowds behind, Billy and Stubby crept up closer to the soldiers and trudged on quietly after them until Stubby gave a quick little bark which one of the Japs recognized and, turning his head, he saw with surprise Billy and Stubby marching behind them. He tried to drive them back by shooing them and scolding, but what cared Billy and Stubby for a shoo or a scold when they were going to the war. As the Japs could not break ranks and go for the goat and the dog, they had to let them follow, which they did. mile after mile until the regiment broke ,

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and months they did this, sticking, to the regiment whether it chanced to be in the thick of the fight or waiting for marching orders, and strange as it may seem, whenever this regiment was In a fight, it always won and the two Japs had fought so bravely that they had been promoted until they were no longer privates but wero colonel and captain, and their regiment was known as the "Black Goat and Yellow Dog Regiment," while Billy and Stubby had become their mascots. Billy and Stubby never learned what the war was about It proved to be a border dispute but that didn't worry our friend3. (Copyright by the Saalfiekl Publishing Co., Akron. O.) GREETING Good morning, friendly world! Good morning, Mr. Sun! Robins hopping on the lawnGood morning, every one! Good morning, cherry tree; Good morning, garden bright! Good morning, everything That loves the morning light! cnristian science Monitor. AFTER ME

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How It Feels to Ride in the Cab of a Speeding Locomotive While Little Towns Sleep Sit in a small, dimly-lighted enclosure that is surrounded by darkness. Have a hot stove in front of you. Have some one bump your chair up and down continuously. Listen to the deafening roar of heavy machinery. Throw Dreaming Quarter-Backs. (Written especially for this newspaper by Red Graham, quarterback, University of Chicago, 1916 and 1919. An old time star quarter-back once said, "If I were going to play in that game next Saturday I'd start now thinking about what I'd do from the time the game begins till it ends. I'd think about it at meals, In bed all the time." As a general rule day-dreaming is not to be encouraged, but in football it is diffewnt, I guess. Imagine that you are picking up a fumble and getting away tor the winning touch-down. Dream that you are making the tackle that save the day. In your mind play the game over and over from the kick-off to the whistle. Imagine just what will happen. Lay your ulans carefully." Figure on what vou will do if such and such a thing should happen. Then, when you really are play ing the game and one of these crit ical plays does occur you will know exactly what to do, because you did the best thing in your day-dreams The quarter-back should do more of tins day-dreaming than anyone else. He knows the strong and weak points of his offense and his opponent's defense. He is the gen eral: his brains "direct the play Consequently he must be cool; and he must be a good leader. If he isn't he will never make a good quarter-back. By Ad Carter SI i r TV Buck - ant

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a cinder at yourself once in a while. Do all this and you will get a fair idea of how it feels to rida in a locomotive at midnight. It was a stormy night. No. 15, one of the 92-ioot-long 280 ton giants of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, with her heavy string of 12 passenger cars, was leaping through the dark, cloudy night at fitty-five miles an hour. We had been out of Chicago only about" an hour, but long enough to run into and then out of no less than three heavy rains. The tracks were wet. Drivirrj Wheels Slip. Suddenly the bumping of the engine increased alarmingly. All the train wrecks I'd ever heard of flashed up. I looked over to the right side of the cab,' where John Slattery, big. jolly engineer of No. 15 minded his throttles and brakes. He was leaning hard against a lever. The speed of the train slacked. Then, almost as suddenly as it had started, the extra jerking of the engine stopped. It returned to its normal bumping. I sat back on the springy-leather-upholstered window seat on the left side of tho cab with Johnny King, fireman, feeling relieved that nothing serious had happened. "Those wet rails are bad," yelled Johny in my ear. Conversation Taboo. The cab of a locomotive is no place for a talkative person. I had a hundred and one questions to ask, but decided to hold them off till we came to a stop. Only occasionally did Johnny and the engineer talk with each other and then only when one would stick his head close to the other's ear and yell. "You have it pretty comfortable in here in the winter with this firepit in front of you." Johnny had climbed up on our window seat between shovelfuls and I leaned to his ear. "Don't you believe it," yells he. "This place gets pretty cold in winter. Wind and snow beat In here in spite of side curtains. We burn about twice as much coal." This being the case, Johnny has a mighty hard job in winter. In summer he shovels almost continuously, taking only brief rests of three or four minutes now and then. That ride corrected at least one mistaken idea of mine. I had supposed the only time the engine bell rang was when the engine came to a stop and started. It rings all the time and by air force. The engineer blows the whistle by pulling a small lever above his head. The headlight of an engine illuminates only about fifty yards ahead. But the light can be plainly seen several miles distant. We passed No. 58 headed in the onnosite direction and when she was a couple of miles ahead her headlight looked like a full moon. Fascinating Experience. It was fascinating to sit hieh in the cab of the speeding engine and watch the dark, silent little towns whiz past and wonder what the villagers were dreaming about, and tn I'see Johnny King heave his coal into the wide mouth of the fire pit, and to watch John Slattery push his throttle and levers and keep his eyes on the track and signals ahead. But the rough riding! We arrived in Milwaukee, where I was to get off, a half hour after midnight. Mr. Slattery, goggles off. long spouted oil can in his hand, was the first to jump from the cab. I came next. "Well," says he, grinning, "did it shake your gizzard out?" "Gizzard?" says I. rubbing my back with one hand and digging a cinder out of my riirht bv with the other. "Gizzards. Dleasp " Johnny King, heavine in an extra shovelful, chuckled. n R. Cleveland. .WANT ADS GIRL'S BICYCLE Kor sale; will sell cheap. I'hone 3238. TRAIN, cars and track; boys' toys, games and books, for sale. Call 100 North West Seventh street. FOUND Doll's slipper, between Seventh and Eigthth streets, on North A. Loser may call at the Junior Palladium office and receive same by identifying it. LOST Part of a fountain pen. the part carrying the point. Lost between the Main street bridge and West First street. If round, phone 3334 or call 115 South West Fifth street.