Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 30, 4 February 1922 — Page 14

THE fHCILMOND PALLADIUM, SATURDAY, FEBUl' AKY 1, 192

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Hv the. time the first mate had tried in vain to find out the cause of the false signals caused by Billy niiu ins invwitr tucwuiH me n lit-;, the captain came bursting into the pilot house. ''Are you a plum idiot?" demanded the captain of the mate. "Can't you be left in charge of this ship? Have you been drinking? First, you stopped the ship, then you put back for France, then you turn again, and now you blow a landing whistle." At that moment the fog horn began to cnund, although the sea was almost as bright as day with a . round moon shining overhead an 1 the ptus studed thick in the sky. The captain himself grabbed the telephone. "1 want to know who's doing all this!" he demanded. "Who's in charge there?" "I am, sir; the second engineer,'' answered the voice "Tut your assistant in charge and report to me in the pilot room at once." v Just then the chief engineer came In. "What does all roared the captain. "J don't know, sir." this mean?" said the engi neer. "I got signals to stop, Ihen to put about, then to come back on the course, all of which I did." "I don't want you to attempt to put this on to me,' 'said the mate. "I haven't touched a button for an hour. There has been no necessity. We have been going straight on our course." All this while the steward had

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j been going nearly cr'v. The bolls wore ringing from every C.''iu cm j the ship, and (lie waiters wei r a' i i uiiiimi; auuui the place like inad. First one bell, then another would ring, and always when the waiters went to those cabins they were told that nothing was wanted and were abused for waking people up That part of it was Billy Mischiefs work and he did as much to put the ship in an uproar as had his mother. The sound of the fog horn and the stopping and starting of the ship, the whistling and the clanging of the bells, kept everybody awake that bad been awakened by the waiters, and hastily throwing on clothing, the passengers began to hurry out on the decks to find out what was the matter. The steward came hunting the captain, might after t lie second en gineer. "This shin is bewitched," he cried, wringing his hands, and he told the captain of all the trouble he was having with false alarms. Everybody looked at everybody Winter Time I- la-la! Here we go! Over the ice and through the snow. Don't you hear the sleigh bells ringingAll the lads and lassies singing? How we jump and hop and run Winter is the time to have some fun! How we make (he snowballs fly, And coast on the snowy hills so high. John and Jim, Dill and I. Across my back I hang my skates, And inin tlie crowd, nn Hik frozen lake j We take our sleds, away we go. i Jim pulls me, and I pull Joe. j Each one makes a big snow man, While Jack Frost stings and bites j our hands. . Off to school with Joe and Jim, Don't we make the snowballs spin! j llow i nit mem on trie run, Say Boy, don't we have fun? Many times I have broken the rule, Flaying on my way to school! Betty Estelle, Dennis Junior High school.

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else as if they thought thai the! Others had n'l better be in the. asylum, and it Was just at ih.d; moment that Hilly Mischief, down ! in the hold, turned to his mother' and siudr j "Oh, come on! 1 don't li'ie this stuff very well, jrnyhow." and leavbiz the litthi closets to themselves, they ii'C'.'-od innocently uprlairs,

not knowing an I.'.'M- trouble ley had made. (Copyright ly tlie Saaltield liKliing Co., Akron, O.) iBOY OWNS VOICE OF FIVE OCTAVES i ;. Robert Murray demonstrating his range. Robert Murray, twelve vear-old pupii 0f Frederick Haywood of Kew York city, is said to possess a voice range greater than any known singer. In technical terms the rarge of his voice is from C. 128 V. P.. below middle C, over five octaves to 827 V. P. S.. or over the top of the present piano forte. The lad sings in three languages and renders difficult arias with case j By Ad Carter i -Copyright 1921 The Philadelphia Inquirer Co.

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A COOO TEACHER When my sister blurted to school my other little sister ciied and I

always had to take my sister and that is something I nearly despised. So, the next year my other little sister got up real early and said, "Mama, can'l go to school?" Ann Mama said, "Yes." She ate her breakfast very fast and washed and got combed and W!:? was all ready when I just got up from (he breakfast table, and; she went to school. j The cither day she said that the teacher was very good to her be-1 cause she gave- them all some! candy. Bornadino Keis, grade 1,; St. Andrew's school. j Woman Burgomaster The first woman burgomaster of Belgium, recently appointed by King Albert, is Mile. Keignaerts, who has been chosen to the office in a little village near Ypres. "fjiiy down, pup, lay down. That's a good dogaies. I. ay down, 1 tell you." "Mister, you'll have to say. Lie down.' He's a Boston terrier." A PIRATE'S CHAPTER V. Who it was that had caused the pirate, to fly away from their camp, the reader may have already guessed. It was Captain Scott and his men. They had come just in the nick of time to save the poor pirates who were still lied to the trees. These men were now - untied. Those who had flee! were I quickly caught and shot. The ernes that ha 4 gone with Beach, begged Captain Scott to I take them back, and they would nuui ill any ii'i' mui in- iiciuiu. "I can't see how you dogs have the nerve to ask such a thing of me, after what you did. If we had not beaten you to the gold, you and those other fellows would have taken it. Thought I wasn't on to your tricks, didn't you? Soon as I found out that you fellows were with those other pirates. I knew what was in the wind. So, that : very night, while vou fellows were sleppin. we dug up the gold and we thought we would play a trick 0n you. So, we took the gold out 0f the box, and put it in a sack; --jthen we put the box with Sandy's 1 bones, back in the hole and made things look as if they bad never been tampered with since the day when we buried it." "We couldn't help it when we led the way to the gold." said one of the pirates who had been with Beach; "Beach made us." Captain Scott really had a good heart. So, out of pity, he took them with him. "But, mind you," said he, "just, as soon as we hit land again, I'm going to shove you off. I cannot have anyone who does me a bad turn for every good one," he warned them. So, during the voyage, the sailors worked their hardest. But the strangest thing was that they had seen many vessels, and the captain never said a word about robbing them. He seemed to treat his sailors with even better respect than he had ever done before, and that is saying a lot, for he had always been good to them. He said never a harsh word to them now. One day, while they were still on their voyage, one of the pirates came up to the captain and asked him if he could see him alone for a few minutes. "Yes, sure," answered the captain, smiling, "we'll go down below to rny cabin now." After getting in his cabin, the captain said, "Now, what, is it? u must oe ot some importance, or you wouldn't ask to see me alone." "Yes, Captain, it is very important; that is where you are right." "Then, what may it be?" "Not so loud, Captain Scott. I don't want anybody to know who it was that told. Somebody might be standing outside and hear us." "All right; go ahead with your secret." "You know those fellows that you took on with us back there at the island?" "Yes, they are some of my old (sailors." answered Captain Scott. I "Well, thev are mad" because von didn't rob some of these vessels that we've passed, an' theyre nowplanning to throw you overboard I an take charge of the vessel." "What! I thought that just that would be the case. How did you find this out. Casey?" "I was sittin' behind some boxes smokln', when three of these guyg)

Two Happy Squirrels One coed Autumn clay in October, four squirrels were going hunting for walnuts. They went in pairs. Each had a sack on his back. One par went one way and lie' other went another direction. The first pair went right straight to a chestnut tree ami one ?;uirrel ran up the tree and shook them Mown, and the oilier picked both the sacks full. The sun was setting. They then started in the direction that the other pair went and couldn't find them, but they found their sacks. They started in another direction

: and found them playing tag and didn't realize it was so late. I The idle pair didn't have time to j get. any. j The winter finally came and the ; idle pair were poor and didn't have i anything to eat. They had no home. The happy and working pair were inside their home where it was warm and eating their nuts The next winter the idle pair got nuts and lived happy, while the oilier pair was idle as they were the other winter. - Esther Stanley, guide 8, Middleboro school. TROUBLES came up on the other side and sat down. I heard 'em taikin' mighty low, so, I thinks that I ought to listen and I might find out some thing important. So I listened and this is what I heard." "If a good thing." said the; cap tain, "that we aren't very far from land. We ought to hit land about noon tomorrow. Then 1 am going to put (hose fellows off." "Don't let on that I told you. Captain," said Casey, as he loft' tin cabin. That very night three dark figures were seen by Casey (who had taken the liberty 1o watch the cap tains cabin) and he Instantly hid behind a barrel and got. his guns ready. He knew what they were after. The figures crept up to the captain's cabin door, thinking that it would be easy to-manage the captain. But, as they began to open the door, someone yelled at the top of his lungs and then a shot was fired, followed by others, which came whizzing close to the conspirators. The noise called the attention of many of the sailors, including Captain Scott, who caught the con spirators and by the order of the captain, were thrown behind the bars of the ship's jail. As soon as the Black Guard reached land, the pirates who were taken on at the island, were put off and advised to look for work else where than on the sea. One day, after their arrival at land, the captain called all of his men together and said, "You have seen, I puppose, that I did not attempt to rob vesels after we lfft the island, though we saw many of them. "I am going to explain myself as clearly as I can. Maybe some of you won't like it after I've told you, but it is true at any rate. "From now on, this vessel will not roam the seas as a pirate ship, but as an honest passenger ship. I am going to live a Christian life. I've had enough of this pirate stuff. The name of this ship will be Faith, instead of Black Guard. That flag which is now flying in the air will be burned nnd the American flag will he put in its place. That is all I have to say, except this, that if any of you fellows don't, agree with this, you might as well leave the vessel now." All agreed with Captain Scott, whose eyes did not have the evil glare that they once had. Everything was changed on the ship that had seen its last days as a pirate ship, but it still roams tlm seas, with a new name, Faith.--(The End.) Llovd Slifer. PUZZLE PICTURE FIND THE CROUND-HOC

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