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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-23

Last night Officer Sullivan arrested
Ed. Elmer and Herman Kraft. who
were intoxicated. The officer was
under the impression that Kraft tried
to hold up Elmer but when they were
arraigned before Police Magistrate c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-23

Innis, on what charge could not be
learned.
Was Only DRINK. :
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
WHO WON THE PRIZE?

Once upon time an old man who
was rich, gave his sons all his goods
and gold, but kept a diamond ring.
The old man sent his sons away
and to return on a certain day and
he who would do the noblest deed
would get the ring.
In short time the sons came
back, and described their deeds.
The eldest began, "One day a man
came to me and trusted me with all
his wealth, but didn't keep it, l
gave it back to him with interest
besides" The father said, THAT
was only your duty"
The second one said, "A child
fell over board into a river, |
plunged into the river and saved
her" The father said, "TWas
bravely done but more than that
will require the ring"
The youngest said, = saw my
enemy sleeping on top Of preci-
pice but l did not leave him there
to die, ! awoke him, though my
fiercest foe. and saved his life"
The father cried with JOY, Take
the ring because you saved the life
of an enemy and did not show re-
venge.-Frank Asfalg, St. Andrews
School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
THE PASSION FLOWER

! met a woman at the Y. NJ. G. A.
the other day, who had the prettiest
flower | think | ever saw. Now
what do you suppose it was called?
Well because it is such a pretty
story I'll tell you the name Of the
flower and just what 1t is supposed
to mean. 1t is called the Passion
flower and it tells us more plainly
than words all about the crucifiXion
of Christ Each petal and stamen
represents the suffering or rather
the instruments used to make
Christ suffer as he did. The corona
represents the crown of thorns,
stamens and pistils the nails driven
in his hands and feet and the five
sepa!s and five petals represents
the ten disciples who were faithful.
This flower was a beautiful laven-
der and purple. l wish you chill
dren might all have seen It.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
A LETTER FROM LYNN

Lynn, Ind, July 8, 1917.
Dear Aunt Molly:
live east of Lynn and l thought
] would write you this letter and
see if you printed it. like to read
the Junior Palladium. / saw in the
last Junior that you were sick and
! am in hopes you are better by this
time. am eleven years old and my
brother is ten. We have to 60 after
the sheep every night. have pup
and the other night We went for the
sheep. AS we were coming back |
saw snake. The dog stepped on it
and the snake tried to bite the dog
but l got him off. l threw some
rocks at him. Papa called me to
the top of the hill and | got stick
and went back. | mashed his head
and then carried it to the house.
Papa said it was a blue racer We
measurer it and it was four feet
long-Your friend, Robert w. Kin
Sey
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
WRITES FIRST STORY
FOR THE JUNIOR

Richmond, Ind, July IL, 1917.
Dear Editor-This is the first
time | have written to you. Per-
haps wouldn't have written to you
now but as read every article in
the Junior Palladium and thorough
ly enjoy doing so l read your ap-
peal for stories and SO | am writ
ing this one and am answering
your appeal. l also wrote because
! wanted to know you better. The
story am sending would like to
see in print. With best wishes for
you and the Junior Palladium, / am
Your friend, Leona Hartman, age
Ii years, 131 North Fifteenth
street.
Leona's story is called, "My Va
cation Trip" and it surely will be
found in the paper today. All you
boys and girls be sure and read 1t.
1t was kind of Leona to help me out
and hope she comes up to the Of
flee to see me some of these days.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
Where Are the Letters?

My goodness gracious what are
you boys and girls doing these days
and why in the world don't you
write and tell me what fun you are
having. l know you are all having
good times for there are so many
picnics and some one told me the
other day that some of the boys
and girls had been out to Hawkins
bathing beach with their fathers
and mothers and had splashed in
the water in great glee. l know
lot of you are going away with
mother and father, maybe, for va
cation but that is only a wee" time
out of your whole summer SO l
know you can find little time to
write me- Just address it to the
Junior Editor, care of the Palladium
and will surely get 1t.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
MY SHADOW

have a little shadow that goes in
and out with me;
And what can be use of him Is
more than | can see.
He is very, very like me from the
heels up to the head;
And see him jump before me,
when / jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the
way he like to grow
Not at all like proper children,
which is always very slow.
For he sometimes shoots up taller
like an Indiana rubber ball,
And he sometimes gets so little
that there's none of him at
all.
He hasn't got notion of how
children ought to play,
And can only make fool of me
in every sort of way.
He stays so close beside me, he's
a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie
as this shadow sticks to me.
One morning. very early, before the
sun was up,
l rose and found the shining due
on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow like an
arrant sleepy-head
Had stayed at home behind me
and was fast asleep in bed.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
THANKING AUNT MOLLY

Dear Aunt Molly-Thank you
very much for publishing my notice
in the Junior Palladium. / sold my
banties very quickly. I hated to
part with them for they were such
dear pets.
am at Portland, Oregon, visit
ing. wish you could see the love
ly roses here. Almost everyone
has them in their yards. Lots of
people have rows of them on the
pavement next to the street. They
plant potatoes the funniest places
out here. They Eut them between
the rose bushes Instead of having
grass in the yard they have pota-
toes right up to their houses.
There are such great big snow COW
cred mountains that you can see
from here. The nearest one is sew
enty miles away but it looks to be
a mile Off Well | must say good
bye now, with love.-Audrey
Chenoweth.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
HAS STRANGE PET
Do you youngsters know there

Do you youngsters know there Is
a man in Bloomington, Indiana,
which is not so many miles from
here, who has grounding for a
pet. Now hundreds of folks have
dogs, cats, chickens, rabbits and
other similar things for pets but
only one man ever heard of has
a grounding.
The mans name is Walter Soud-
ers, and he is a meat market man.
1t is full grown woodchuck which
has become domesticated and stays
about the Souders home. The little
animal likes cantaloupe, ice cream
and cookies and will sit up on it's
hind legs and eat like a monkey.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
ALL THE WAY FROM
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

Master Dougan Lee Jones of
Birmingham, Alabama, has come all
this way to visit his grandfather,
Dr. Lee Hoover, South Eleventh
street. Master Dougan is just nine
years old and rode in pullman all
by himself He had to change cars
at Terre Haute but he says he
wasn't bit afraid. | wanted him
to write us story for the Junior
but you see they don't have any
Junior in Birmingham and besides
Master Dougan is just a little bash
full. His grandfather asked him if
he tipped the porter and he said,
Sure" Then his grandfather got
real inquisitive and asked him how
much and Dougan replied he
couldn't remember and Il guess
that's a pretty good answer for it
doesn't always do for grown folks
to get too inQuisitive.
Master Dougan visited his other
grandfather and grandmother in
Howard County. He is having a
splendid vacation.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
WRITES POETRY

You children all love to read the
poems by James Whitcomb Riley
and lots of folks are beginning to
think Grantland Rice is going to be
another great poet, like Riley. He
is q sweet and kindly human being
who has way of saying things in
sweet and kindly way His vers-
es are good. He also writes things
for newspapers and his column is
syndicated all over the United
States in newspapers. He is the
highest paid sporting writer in the
United States. Syndicated means
to acquire or control. This is the
first verse of one of his poems pub
lishcd in the American for August:
Is the sunshine any brighter
From the years that used to be?
Is the moondrift any softer
Down in sunny Tennessee?
Are the song birds any sweeter.
AS they MARBLE to their mates?
Are the mountains any higher
Than they are in other states?
For you understand the feeling,
II you've ever had to roam,
The sky is always bluer,
And the old-time friends seem
truer,
When fellow thinks of home.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
BE SURE TO LISTEN

Willie Jones was a baby mole,
his daddy was papa mole, and his
mama was a mama mole. The
whole family lived with lot of
other moles in the same house and
all at the same time all of a sud-
den.
One day Willie Jones willie
wuz mole you know so one day
as | was saying before-Willie
Jones said one day, "Papa-(you
know papa mole was Willie oJnes
who was also MOLE SO >he
said, Papa, lets go away and live
by Ourselves-(you know Willie
and his papa who was also a mole
and mama mole who was also a
mole all lived in one house-which
was a hole with a lot of other
moles) so as l was saying Willie
said to his papa that they should
go away and live in their own
house which was to be a hole in
the ground and they was to live in
it understand?
Well, Willie had just said to pa
pa mole to git out in the Guild wur-
ruld and find them oun selves hut
to live in only the hut was to be
whole in the ground. So, papa mole
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
A MAN AND HIS GOOSE

A certain man had a goose that
laid a golden egg every day. Be-
ing of a covetous turn he thought
If he killed his goose he should
come at the source of his treasure.
So he killed her and cut her open
but great was his dismay for he
found nothing in her different than
any other William Brady.
"A Vale school.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
HOLD YOUR HEAD UP

Did any Of you folks ever try
holding your heads up high when
you walk down the street. Well
just try it and see how many beau
tiful things you can see that never
in the world could be found on the
ground. Then besides when you
hold your head high you will take
deeper and deeper breaths. You
will find you can walk better and oh
my how much better you surely will
feel.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14

said to Willie-(you know-he was
talking to Willie who was a mole)
as was saying papa said to Will
lie, "Willies, go get mama and
tyou know mama was mama of
Willie and wife to papa and she
lived with Willie and Willies' papa,
papa mole) so he said oh,
wots the use-your not listenin'!-
"By-Gum."
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
HERO OF RUSSIA

General Konoff great Russian leader who is driving
the Germans back in Galcia. He from poor boy,
forced to earn his education to supreme military
authority of Russia Soldiers and civilians alike have
pete confidence in him. He resigned command of Petro
grad district rather than oppose revoutioniss Photo
copyright by Underwood and Underwood.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
PRINTED IN INDIAN

You folks who go to Sunday
school do you know that the first
Bible. was printed in an Indian
language, translated by John FL
lott, pioneer missionary to the In
dams, and published in Cambridge,
Mass, the new testament in 166L
the entire Bible In 1868.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-07-14
LITTLE JIM

The cottage was matched one,
the outside old and mean,
But all within that little cot was
wondrous neat and clean;
The night was dark and stormy the
wind was bowling wild,
AS patient mother sat beside
the death bed of her child
A little wornout creature, his once
bright eyes grown dim.
1t was a Golfers wife and child
they called him little jim.
And oh to see the briny tears fast
hurrying down her cheek,
AS she offered up the prayer in
thought she was afraid to
speak,
Lest she might waken one she
loved far better than her life.
For she had all a mothers heart
had that poor Golfers wife.
With hands up lifted she kneels
beside the sufferers bed
And prays that He would spare
her boy and take herself
instead.
She gets her answer from the
child; soft fall the words from
him,
Mother the angels do so smile,
and beckon little jim,
I'll have no pain, dear mother now,
but oh | am sorry,
Just moisten poor Jims lips
again, and, mother, don't you
cry
With gentle, trembling haste she
held the liquid to his lip.
. He smiled to thank her as he
took each little, tiny sip.
Tell father, when he comes from
work, said good night to him,
And mother, now I'll go to Sleep"
Alas poor little Jim,
She knew that he was dying, that
the child she loved SO dear,
Had uttered the last words she
might ever hope to hear.
The cottage door is opened, the
Golfers step is heard;
The father and the mother meet,
yet neither speak word.
He felt that all was over, he knew
that his child was dead,
He took the candle in his hand
walked towards the bed,
His quivering lips gave token of the
grief he'd fain conceal;
And see, his wife has joined him
the stricken couple kneel;
With hearts bowed down by
sadness they humbly ask or
him,
In Heaven, once more, to meet
again their own poor little jim.
Benjamin w. Burr, Garfield juni-
or school.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-10-26

do not drive TO the station TO meet
CAPTAINS very often; yet King climbed
into the dogcart unexcitedly, after
Keeping the general waiting while ne
checked a trunk!
The general cracked his whip with
ont any other comment than smile.
A blood mare tore sparks out of the
macadam, and q dusty military. road
hecon TO ribbon out between the
-rbaeIs. SentrieS in unexpected places
announced themselves with ring OF
sboten steels as their rifles came TO
che s.nresent." which courtesieS the
General noticed with raised whip.
On the dogcart's high front seat, star
,,g straight ahead of him between
the horses ears, King listened. The
General did nearly all the talking.
sarhe North's the danger.
King grunted with the lids half-low-
cred over full. dark eyes. He did not
look especially handsome in that at
4,+ude Some men swear he looks like
: Roman. and others liken him TO
,srgovle. all of them choosing to ig-
moro the smile that can transform MS
.vbole face instantly.
Were denlding India OF troops
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-10-26
CHAPTER II.

The train pulled out, amid din OF
voices from the left-behind that nearly
drowned the painting of the overloaded
engine. Hyde all but stripped himself
and drew on striped pajamas. King
was content to lie in shirt sleeves on
the other berth, with knees raised, so
that Hyde could not overlook the gen.
erals papers. At his ease he studied
them one by one, memorizing a string
of names. with details as to their own
ers' antecedents and probable present
whereabouts. There were several
photographs in the packet, and he
studied them very carefully indeed.
But much most carefully of all he
examined Yasnini's portrait, returning
to it again and again. He reached the
conclusion in the end that when it was
taken she had been cunningly dis
guised.
"This was intended for purpose of
Identification at a given time and
place." he told himself.
"Were you muttering at me? asked
Hyde.
"No sir. Nothing Of the sort in
tended"
Hyde turned an indignant back on
him, and King studied the back as if
he found it interesting. On the whole
he looked sympathetic, so it was as
well that Hyde did not look around.
Baked ambition as rule loathes SYM
pathy.
After many prickly-hot, interminable,
jolting hours the train drew up at
Rawal-Pindi station. Instantly King
was on his feet with his tunic on. and
he was out on the blazing hot platform
before the trains motion had quite
ceased.
He began to walk up and down, not
elbowing but percolating through the
crowd, missing nothing worth noticing
in all the hot kaleidoscope and seeming
to find new amusement at every turn.
1t was not in the least astonishing that
well-dressed native should address
him presently, for he looked genial
enough to be asked TO hold a baby.
King himself did not seem surprised at
all. Far from it; he looked pleased.
Excuse me, sir" said the man in
glib babu English. 81 am seeking Cap
tain King sahib, for whom my brother
is veres anxious to be servant Can
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-10-26
CHAPTER |.

The men who govern India-more
power TO them and her ARE few.
Those who stand in their way and pre-
tend to help them with flood of
words are a host The charge has
seen the light in print that India-well-
spring of plague and sudden death
and money lenders-has sold her soul
to twenty succeeding conquerors in
turn.
So when the world war broke the
world was destined to be surprised on
midas account. The Red sea, full of
racing transports crowded with dark
skinned gentlemen, whose one prayer
was that the war might not be over
before they should have struck blow
for Britain, was the Indian army's an
SWer to the press.
More than one nation was deeply
shocked by India's answer to "prac-
tees" that had extended over years.
But there were men in India who
iearned to love India long ago with
that love that casts out fear. who knew
exactly what was going to happen and
could therefore afford to wait for or
ders instead of running round in rings.
Athelstan King, for instance, moth
ing yet but captain unattached, sat
in meagerly furnished quarters with
his heels on table. He is not a
doctor, yet he read a book on sur
gerry; and when he went over to the
club he carried the book under his
arm and continued to read it there.
In the other room where the telegraph
blanks were Uttered in confusion all
about the floor, the other officers sent
kilograms and forgot King, who sat
and smoked and read about surgery +;
and before he had nearly finished one
box of cheroots q general at Peshawur
wiped a bald red skull and sert him
an urgent telegram.
Come at oncer" it said simply.
King was at Lahore, but miles don't
matter when the dogs of war are
Ioosed. The right man goes to the
right place at the exact right time
then, and the fool goes to the wall. In
that one respect war is better than
some kinds of peace.
In the train on the way to Peshawur
be was not troubled by forced con-
versation. Consequently he reached
Peshawur comfortable. in spite of the
heat. And his genial manner of salut-
Ing the full-general who met him with
a dogcart at Peshawur station was
something Scandalous. Full-generals,
particularly in the early days of war,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-10-26

King, with his mouth full of curry,
cid not answer, but his eyes smiled.
After lunch he was closeted with
the general again for twenty minutes.
Then one of the generals carriages
took him to the station; and it did not
appear to trouble hiDa at all that the
other occupant of the carriage was the
self-same Major Hyde who had sat
next him at lunch. In fact, he smiled
so pleasantly that Hyde grew exas-
perated. Neither of them spoke. At
the station Hyde lost his temper open
ly, and King left him abusing an I'M
happy native servant.
The station was crammed to suffo-
cation by a crowd that roared and
writhed and smelt to high heaven. But
the general himself had telephoned for
Kings reservation, so he took his time.
There were din and stink and dust be-
meath savage sun, shaken into re-
verberations by the scream of an en-
gine's safety valve. 1t was India in es-
sence and awake India arising out
of lethargy India as she is more
often nowadays-and it made King,
for the time being of the Khyber rifles,
happier than some other men can be in
bathrooms.
Any one who watched him-and
there was at least one man who did
must have noticed his strange abil-
ity, almost like that of water, to reach
the point he aimed for, through, and
not around, the crowd.
He neither showed nor argued. Or
ders and blows would have been equal
ly useless, for had it tried the crowd
could not have obeyed, and it was in
no mind to try. Without the least ap-
parent effort he arrived-and there is
no other word that quite describes it
he arrived. He climbed into his car
riage and leaned from the window.
'Why are you here?''' asked an acid
voice behind him; and without troub-
ling to turn his head, he knew that
Major Hyde was to be his carriage
mate again.
Orders" said King.
10 yOuI dASWcI dShcu TIC
| major. Baked ambition is an ugly
horse to ride. He had tried for a
command but had been shelved.
II have sufficient authority" said
King, unruff1ed. He spoke as if he were
thinking Of something entirely differ
ent. His eyes were as if they saw the
major from very long way off and
rather approved of him on the whole.
"Show me your authority, pleased"
King 'dived into an inner pocket and
produced a card that had about ten
words written on it's face, above a
generals signature. Hyde read it and
passed it back.
$50 you're one of those, are you "
he said in a tone of voice that would
start a fight in some parts of the world
and in some services. But King nodded
cheerfully, and that annoyed the major
more than ever; he snorted, closed his
mouth with a snap and turned to re-
arrange the sheet and pillow on his
berth.