Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 306, 5 November 1921 — Page 14

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n PART I. ,..:-, i In the half darkness, Billy, tangled In the curtain, was a great white figure with a long trailing rhite robe behind him, and the first Woman he met in the hall screamed like a steam calliope. Of course her screams brought others out Into the hall and everybody, even . the men, began to run when they saw this jumping white ghost coming toward them, every once In a while letting out a loud "baah!" Many ladies were so frightened that when they came to their doors, instead of running Into their rooms, they started down the hall ahead of

Billy, shrieking and screaming at the top of their voices. The noise only confused Eilly the more, The more confused he rew, the harder he jumped and struggled to get out of the curtain, until at the very end of the hall he name to a stairway and went down it head over heels to the next floor. Here things were even worse .han they had been on the top floor,

for by this time the hubbub above

came to a stairway, tumbled down It, Jumped back through another hall full of screaming people to another stairway, and, so on until he reached the ground floor. Here the stairway opened Into the great, marble-paved, main corridor of the hotel. This was just now thronged with men, all wanting to know why the lights were out and what all the uproar was about. Through these men Billy dashed like a hurricane, having now torn the curtains enough to let his legs have some action. One big fellow whom he upset fell on the long trailing end of the curtain, and the shock nearly tore Billy's horns loose from his

head, but the curtain pulled in two

and at last Billy was free except for a few stray shred3 and small pieces that still clung to his legs and horns. Now he coud see where he was going, and, darting out of the side door, he ran back to where he remembered the cellar steps into the porter's room to be. The door was wide open and inside he found his

m had hrmitrht evervhodv out of i friend, the porter, with a lantern,

their rooms, and the crowd was al- looking for him. The porter saw

ready there. As Boon as Billy

scampered to his feet after his tumble and made another jump high into the air, they too began running and screaming. Billy now had gotten into a series of halls that ran the whole length

at once from the shreds of curtain

that Billy had been into mischief again, but as before, he was afraid to say anything about it for fear somebody would find out that he had left the door of the storeroom

open, so he simply took the shreds of lace curtain off of Billy, to carry

away with him, and fixed Billy s bed nicely for the night. PART II. Hunting further In the basement, Billy found over In a dark corner a nice bed which belonged to the engineer, and it looked so inviting that Billy curled up there for a sleep. When he awoke it was nearly midnight and there was a blaze of light in the basement. There was a strange whir of machinery and he could hear anxious voices. Billy ,of course, did not know that he had been the cause of it, but this is what had happened: When the electric current passes through a wire, the wire becomes slightly heated and stretches a little bit. In stretching, the two

)f the building and had a stairway : cables where he had chewed them t each end, so now he jumped and I bare, came near enough together to ;truggled his way along until he j touch each other once in awhile,

and that made the lights all over the building wink, that is, almost go out for a second, and the engineer was verv much worried about it. What Interested Billy more, however, was a small, wire screened room that stood near him. Presently a big cage, brightly lighted, came down in it with a man and a

boy. It stopped when it got down ,'nto the basement, when the man and the boy stepped out, going down into the engineer's room. They were the proprietor of the hotel and his elevator boy. Billy, as curious as any boy could have been, walked into the little cage to see, what it was like. The sides of it were padded with leather; there were mlrors in it that made it a place of light, and there was a seat at the back of it. At the front side near the door a big cable passed up through it, and to

this the hoy who ran it had left hanging a leather pad with which he gripped the cable. Billy could barely reach it with his teeth and he pulled sharply on it. It would not come away so he hung his j weight on it, and immediately the

cage began to go up. Billy was in an elevator and he was taking a ride all by himself. It never stopped until it reached the top floor where a safety catch caught

it. Luckily the door on the top floor had not been carefully closed, and Billy was able to slide it open with his horns and wait out into a narrow hall which had a thick velvet carpet upon it and from which opened many doors and other halls. Billy trotted along this hallway, liking the soft fee of the carpet underneath his feet. As he did so, all the lights about the building went out and everything was dark. The cables in the cellar had at last settled down so that they lay i

Dijuuic iitiubs rnuu ullici biicic Billy had chewed the covering off, thus making all the electric current which ran out of the machine on the one side come right back

into it on the other, with the result of burning out the dynamo so that there could be no more lights from it that night. This did not worry Billy any. Light came in from the

street at the far end ot the hall, where some white lace curtains fluttered in the breeze It worried

a jrreat many people who were

still awake in their rooms, however, and ,of course, they opened their doors to see about it. By this time Billy had reached

the curtains and took a nibble at one of them, and found that they were finished with the same starch

the taste of which he had liked so

much in the laundry. He wanted them down where he could get a good bunch in his mouth, so he pulled hard, raising up on his hind

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Jean Gets a Scare tart" II. Jean went inside . .4 he cave expecting to find it dark inside, but there were several turnings in tha cave and she soon came to h large room, well lighted from sonv cracks in the ceiling. Here she found a ring in the floor. She lifted it. There were steps leading down into the room. Jean went down the steps into the room, where she saw an ugly fuulooking at her through some velvet curtains. With a scream Jean rushed up the stairs, through the cave and out into the sunlight again. Shi told her mother and father about ii. Jean never went into a Strang looking place without some onv.

who knew more about such thing.as caves. The End. Loraine

Petty, grade 6A, Cambridge City.

feet and throwing his weight upon them. The curtains gave way at the top but it was not so convenient as he had expected, for the

long, white curtain came right down over his back. He tried to get from under it and his horns ran through the, open work. He

tried to turn round and his hind feet ran through other open work places. Ha tried to back out of

it and his forefeet got tangled in

some more of it. The more he

tried to get loose from his starched

meal, the more tangled up he got, and, at last, growing angry, he be

gan to jump as high In the air as he could. (Copyright by the SaalfteM Pubt listiirig: Co., Akron. O.)

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The first number of The Headlight for the present school year was scheduled to appear on Friday, Nov. 4. Members of the school art classes visited the exhibit of etchings in the Publi Art gallery Tuesday and Wednesday. The lunch room , was opened to the students Tuesday, Nov. 1. Girls in the domestic scicence courses do the cooking. On the opening day, 126 people were served. The committee on school letters of the "G" Senate recommended anad the senate members voted to award "G's" as the school letter at the end of the present semester, notwithstanding the fact that the school is to be divided then.

Patriotism and peace will be the subjects of the Armistic day pro

gram planned for the chapel exer

cises, Friday, Nov. 11. The Spe

cial Day committee, a sub-commit

tee of the Board of Publication is arranging the program. William Campfield is chairman of the com

mittee.

The debating club which meet?

with Miss Kiff planned to debate

on the following question on activ

ities period Friday: Resolved That

it is better to Mve in the Country

than in the City. They will consider this question from the follow

ing points of view: health, wealth, education, religion and reccreatio. "Better Speech Week" will be observed in several departments of school work next week as well as in al lthe assembly rooms. On

Thursday all of the English classes

will exchange plays which their

members have written about Good

English. The 8A composition class

will write many slogans which will be daily posted in every assembly room. In the drawing classes, the

boys and girls are making posters related to the week's subject. Surprise songs will also be a feature of the program. Members of the Girls' Dramatic club which meets with Miss Williams planned to read "Little Miss Lonesome,' a harvest play in activities period Friday. The cast was as follows: Betty, Beatrice Owens; Mother Autumn, Ruth Penery; Farmer Lads, Ruth Dalbey and Esther Fiening; Picnickers, Frances McGraw and Shirley Sirams; Corn, Catherine Hopkins and aMrguerlte

J McKay; Autumn Leaves, Esther Fienning and Thelma Sharkilt; Pumpkin heads, Ruth Dalbey, Franj ces McGraw and Nancy Bobbins.

Trees We Like A little girl was having tea with her nurse, and there were doughnuts on the table."What tree do doughnuts grow on, nurse?" asked the little girl.

"Why, the pantree,' 'said nurse. In an arithmetic class a pupil who was reciting, said for the answer to a problem, "I have one foot." Another burst out with, "I have two feet." "How did you get that, Freddie?" asked the teacher. "I don't know. They were on me when I found them." Claude 11. Bond. Puttiro the "Dent" in Accident Teacher Johnny, did you ever have an accident? Johnny No, ma'am, teacher, 1 never did. Teacher-pJohnny, a Scout is truthful. Wasn't that an accident when your father's mule kicked you last spring? Johnny No, teacher. That bird did it on purpose Boys' Life. An irate fan, who had watched the home team go down to defeat, stopped the umpire as he was leaving the park. "Where's you dog?" he demanded. "Dog?" ejaculated his umps. "I have no dog." "Well, your the first blind man

I ever saw who didn't have a dog,"

returned the disgruntled one.

Who lowers the shade of night?

PUZZLES & RIDDLES

a body of quantity of

1. Doubly behead water and leave a

paper. 2. Hidden in the following verse are four fruits: Go range through every clime where'er The patriotic muse appears. He, deeds of valor antedates, His ban an army fears. 3. When a dog comes into the kitchen, why does he look first one way and then the other? 4. "Dan drew a picture of a jar of jam especially for his brother. 'Huh,' said Dan's brother scornfully, 'some stuff; rank, I think.'" Two boys' names are hidden in the foregoing sentence. Can you find them? 5. What conies through your window without being asked? 6. What trees do you have in your hands? Answers are published elsewhere In this week's Junior.

MUSICAL RIDDLES 1. A synonym for hearken. 2. I am a sensitive Dart of the

head. Take away two of mv let

ters and put in their nlace an ex

clamation and you will have something necessary in music.

3. I am a word of three sylla

bles, the name of a great composermy first syllable, though it

has only three letters, makes up a large part of the human race; my second is a shady nook; my third, when pronounced, sounds like grains of wheat, which have just been put into the ground.

Answers to these: 1. Liszt. Temple, tempo. 3. Mendelsohn.

Oldest Orchestra in U. S. The oldest orchestra in the

United States Is the Philharmonic

of New York, founded In 181S.