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I MISS } ^Frances b (Copyright, by Rei 6 CHAPTER XVII.?Continued. "Maurice loves you, too"?she hoped to conciliate him; "he says you are the brightest kid in town." "Kid," was the scornful echo, " 'cause he's so big and tall, he's got to call me a kid. Well, he'd jes' a-wastln' hi'self lovln' me; I don't like him an' I ain't a-goin' to never like him, an' soon's I put on long pants he's got to get 'bout the worses' llckin' he ever did see. "Say, does you kiss him like you does me?" he asked presently, book ing up at her with serious, unsmiling face. She hid her embarrassment In a laueh. "Don't be foolish, Billy," she replied. "I'll bet he's kissed you more'n fifty hundred times." "There's Jimmy whistling for you," said MIsb Cecilia. "How do you two boys make that peculiar whistle? I would recognize it anywhere." "Is he ever kiss you yet?" asked the child. "I heard that you and Jimmy whipped Ed Browa because he imi tated your own particular whistle. Did you?" "How many times is he kiss you?" aeked Billy. The young girl put her arm around him and tried to nestle his little body against her own. "I'm too big, anyway, for your real sweetheart." she said. "Why, by the time you are large enough to marry I should be an old maid. You must have Frances or Lina for your sweetheart." "An" let you have Maurice!" he eneered. She stopped to lay her flushed cheek against his own. "Honey," she softly said, "Maurice and I are going to be married soon; I love him very much and I want you to love him too." He pushed her roughly from him. "An' you jes' 'ceived me all the time," he cried, "an* me a-lovin' you better'n anybody I ever see sence i s born? An' you a Sunday-school teach er? I ain't never a-goin' to trus' no body no mo'. Good-by, Miss Cecilia." She caught his hand and held It fast. "I want you and Jimmy to be my little pages at the wedding, and wear dear little white satin suits all trimmed with gold braid"?she tried to be enthusiastic and arouse his in terest; "and Lina and Frances can be little flower-girls and we'll have such a beautiful wedding." "Jimmy an' Lina an' Frances can be all the pages an' flower-girls an' brides an' grooms they wants to, but you can't rope me in," he scornfully replied. "I'b done with you an' I ain't never goin' to have me mo' sweet heart long 's I live." CHAPTER XVIII. Closer Than a Brother. It was a bad, rainy day. Jimmy and Billy were playing in Sarah Jane's cabin, she, however, being in happy Ignorance of the fact Her large stays, worn to the preaching the night before, were hanging on the back of a chair. "Ain't I glad I don't have to wear no corset when I puts on long pants?" remarked Billy, pointing to the article. "Ain't that a big one? It's twice 's big 's Aunt Minerva's." "My mamma wears a big co'set, too," said Jimmy; "I like fat worn ans 'nother sight better 'n lean ones. Miss Minerva's 'bout the skinniest woman they is; when I get married I'm going to pick me out the fattest wife I can find, so when you set In her lap at night for her to rock you to sleep you'll have a soft place to put your head, while she sings to you." "The major?he's mos* . plump enough for two," Bald Billy, taking down the stays and trying to hook them around him. "It sbo' is big," he said; "I berlieve it's big 'nough to go 'round both of us." "T.o'n SPA if 't ain't." was the other boy's ready suggestion. He stood behind Billy and they put the stays around both little bodies, while, with much squeezing and gig gling, Billy hooked them safely up the front. The boys got in front of Sarah Jane's one looking-glass and danced about laughing with glee. "We're like th9 twinses "what was growed together like mamma read me 'bout," declared the younger child. Presently they began to feel un comfortable, especially Jimmy, whose fat, round little middle was tightly compressed. "Here, unhook this thing, Billy, and le's take her off," he said. "I'm "bout to pop open." "All right," agreed his companion. He tugged and pulled, but could get only the top and bottom hooks un clasped; the middle ones refused to budge. "I can't get these-here hooks to come loose," Billy said. Jimmy put his short, fat arms around him and tried his hand, but with no better success. The stays were such a snug fit that the hooks seemed glued. "We sho' is in a fix," said Billy gloomily; "look like God all time let tin' us git in trouble." "You think of more fool stunts to Cacti for Tel Scheme for a Government Line In Arizona Desert Which Is Be lieved to Be Feasible. Sahuara for telephone and tele graph poles Is the latest idea and one that Is to be tried out It sounds plausible and it is believed that it will be more economical than the old style of poles. Its test is to come from Arizona. DNEKVA id GREEN ML cfyd Calhoun Ily & Britton Co.) do, William Hill, than any boy they ia," cried the other; "you all time want to get us hooked up in Sarah Jane's corset and you all time can't get nobody loose. What you want to I get us hooked up in this thing for?" "You dbne it yo'self," defended the boy in front with rising passion. "Squeeze in, Jimmy; we jes' boun' to git outer this 'fore somebody finds it out." He backed the other child close to the wall and pressed so hard against him that Jimmy screamed aloud and began to pound him on the head with his chubby fists. Billy would not submit tamely to any such treatment He reached his hand behind him and gave the smaller boy's cheek a merciless pinch. The fight was on. The two little boys, laced up tigntiy as tney were in a stout pair of stays, pinched and scratched, and kicked and Jerked. Suddenly Billy, leaning heavily against Jimmy, threw him flat on his back and feU on top of him. Bennie Dick, sitting on the floor, had up to this time watched the pro ceedings with an interested eye; now, thinking murder was being commit ted, he opened his big, red mouth and emitted a howl that could be heard half a mile. It immediately brought his mother to the open door. When she saw the children squirming on fho flnnr In hor nnlv r>nrnef\ her Indie nation knew no bounds. "You, Jimmy Garner, an' you, too, William Hill, yuh little Imps o' Satan, what you doln' In my house? Didn't yo' mammy tell you not to tamper wld me no mo'? Git up an' come here an' lemme git my co'set off o' yuh." Angry as she was, she could not keep from laughing at the sight they presented, as, with no gentle hand, she unclasped the hooks and released their Imprisoned bodies. "Billy all time?" began Jimmy. "Billy all time nothln'," said Sarah Jane, " 'taln't no use fo' to try to lay dls-here co'set business onto Billy; both o' yuh Is ekally In It An' me a-almln' fo' to go to three fun'els dis week an' a baptlzln' on Sunday. 'S'pose y' all'd bruck one o' de splints, how'd 1 look a-presidin' at a fun'el 'thout nare co'set on, an' me shape' like what I Is?" "Who's dead, Sarah Jane?" asked Jimmy, hoping to stem the torrent of her wrath. "Sis' Mary Ellen's las' husban', Brudder Llttlejohn?dat' a-who," she replied, somewhat mollified at his in terest. "When did he die?"?Jimmy pursued his advantage. "He got 'way fom here 'bout moon down las' night," she replied, losing sight of her grievance in his flatter ing Interrogations. "You know Sis' Llttlejohn, she been married goin' on five times. DIs-here '11 make to' gen tlemans she done buriet an' dey ain't uuuuujc ca.u manage a, iuu ei line sue kin; 'pears like hit jes come natchel to her. She sho' is done a good part by eb'ry single husban' too, an' she 'a flggerin' to outdo all the yuthers wid Brudder Littlejohn's co'pse." Sarah Jane almoBt forgot her little au dience in her Intense absorption of her subject. "She say to me dis morn in\ she say, 'Marri'ge am a lott'ry, Sis Beddlnfiel', but I sho' is drawed some han'some prizes.' She got 'em all laid out side by side in de buryin' groun' wid er little imige on ebry grabe; an' Sis Mary Ellen, seein' as she can't read de writln' on de tomb stones, she got a diff'unt little animal a-settin' on eb'ry head res' so's she kin tell which husban' am which. Her fus' husban' were all time a-hunt ln', so she got a little white marble pa'tridge a-restin' on he' head, an' hit am a mighty consolement to a po' widda 'oman fo' to know dat she can tell de very minute her eyes light on er grabe which husban' hit am. Her secon' man he got er mighty kinky, woolly head an' he mighty meek, bo she got a little white lamb a-settln' on he grabe; an' de nex' husban* he did n't have nothin' much fo' to dis gueese him f'om de reB* 'cep'in' he so slow an' she might nigh rack her brain off, twell she happen to think 'bout him bein' a Hardshell an' so powerful slow, so she jent got a little tarrapin an' sot it on him. Hit sho' am a pretty sight jes* to go in dat buryln' grotin' an' look at 'em all, side by side; an' now she got Brudder Lit tlejohn to add to de res'. He de onli est one what's got er patch o' whis kers so she gwlne to put a little white cat on he' grabe. Yes, Lord, ef any tu.ii-ixv V/Vuiu pcai tcu a. w iuua uiuau hit would be jes' to know dat yuh could go to de grabeyard any time yuh want to an' look at dat han'some c'llection an* tell 'zactly which am which." Sarah Jane stopped for breath and Billy hastened to Inquire: "Who else is dead, Sarah Jane?" "'Tain't nobody else dead, ylt, as I knows on, but my two cousins is tur rible low; one 's got a hem rage on de lung an' de yuther 's got a congestin' on de brain, an' I 'lows dey '11 bofe drap off 'twix' now an' sunup tomor ra." Her eyes rolled around and hap pened to light on her corset. She at once returned to her grievance. "An' sposin' I had n't 'av' came in here when I did? I'd 'a* had to went I to my own cousins' fun'el 'thout nare ' ephone Poles The government is to build a tele phone system for the forestry serv ice of the Coronado forest reserve. The first of these lines to be built out of Tucson Is to be used Into the Catalinas, and it is there that the Sabuara experiment is to be tried. The giant cacti will not be sawed off and set up nor will they be trans planted, but the growing plant will be used as a pole where It is found prac co'set. Y* all gotta go right to 7' all's mamas an' MIbs Minerva dis very min ute. I low dey '11 Bettle yo' hashes. Don't y' all know dat Larroes ketch meddlers?" CHAPTER XIX. ' ' Twins and a Sissy. Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. Black were sitting on Miss Minerva's veranda talk ing to her, and Lina and Frances were in>the swing witn amy. me m traction proved too great for Jimmy; he Impolitely left a disconsolate little visitor sitting on his own porch while he jumped the fence and jeined the other children. "Don't you all wish you could Bee Mrs. Brown's new twlnses?" was his greeting as he took his seat by Billy. "Where 'd she get 'em?" asked Frances. "Doctor Sanford tooken 'em to her last night." "He muster found 'em in a holler stump," remarked Billy. "I knows, 'cause that 's where Doctor Shackle foot finds aller ol' Aunt Blue-Gum Tempy's Peruny Pearline's, an' me an* Wilkes Booth Lincoln been lookin' in evy noner muuiy ?? ?- < sence we's born, an' we ain't never foun' no baby 't all, 'cause can't no body but jes' doctors fln' 'em. I wish he 'd a-glve 'em to Aunt Minerva 'stldder Mrs. Brown." "I wish he 'd bridged 'em to my mama," said Frances. IIV A-l?1? -3 ? iklnlp K ft T*-?{crV?f Vl Q vo l ceriaiui^.uu luiuo. uc u?.v given them to us," declared Lina, "and I 'm going to tell him so, too. As much money as father has paid him for doctor's bills ai. i as much old, mean medicine as I bave taken just to 'commodate him; then he gives ba bies to everybody but us." "I 'm awful glad he never give 'em to my mama," said Jimmy, '"cause I never could had no more fun; they'd be struck right under my nose all time, and all time put their mouth in everything you want to do, and all time meddling. You can't fool me 'bout twinges. But I wish I could see 'em!- They bo weakly they got to be hatched'in a nincubator." "What's that?" questioned Frances. "That 'b a someping what you hatches chickens and babies In when they's delicate and ain't got 'nough breath and ain't got they eyes open and ain't got no feathers on," ex Dlained Jimmy. "Reckon we can see 'em?" she asked. "See nothing!" sniffed the little boy. "Ever sence Billy let Mr. Algernon Jones whack Miss Minerva's beau we can't do nothing at all 'thout grown folks 'r' stuck right under your nose. I 'm Jes' cramped to dpath." "When I 'm a mama," mused Fran-' ces, "I hope Doctor Sanford '11 bring me three little" twinses, and two Mal tese kittens, and a little Japanese, and a monkey, and a parrit." "When I 'm a DSDa." said Jimmy, "I don' want no babies at all, all they- 's good for is jus' to set 'round and yell." "Look like God 'd sho' be busy a-makin' so many babies," remarked Billy. "Why, God don' have none 'a the trouble," explained Jimmy. "He 's just got him a baby factory in heaven like the chair factory <and the canning tufa* J Billy Would Not Submit factory down by the railroad, and angels jus' all time make they arms and legs, like niggers do at the chair factory, and all God got to do is jus' glue em together, and s^lck in their souls. God got 'bout the easiest job they is." "I thought angels jes' clam* the golden stair and play they harps," said Billy. "Ain't we going to look sweet at MIbs Cecilia's wedding?" said Franoos, after a short silence. "I '11 betcher I '11 be the cutest kid in that church," boasted Jimmy con ceitedly. "You coming, ain't you, Billy?" "I gotter go," answered that jilted swain, gloomily, "Aunt Minerva ain't got noooay to leave me witn ai uuuie. I jes' wish she 'd git married." "Why would n't you be a page, Billy?" asked Llna. "'Cause I did n't hafto," was the snappish reply. "I bet my mama give her the finest present they is," bragged the smaller boy; "I reckon it cost 'bout a million dollars." "Mother gave her ? handsome cut glass vase," said Llna. "It looks like Doctor Stanford would 've give Miss Ceillia those twinses for a wedding present," said Frances. "Who is that little boy sitting on your porch, Jimmy?" asked Llna, no ticing for the first time a lonely-look ing child. "That's Leon Tipton, Aunt Ella's lit tle boy. He just come out from Mem phis to spend the day with me and I'll be awful glad when he goes home; he's 'bout the stuck-up-est kid they Is, and skeery? He 's 'bout the 'fraidest young un ever you see. And look at Mm tmwl Wearq lonp' purls lilte a e"1rl and don't want to never get his clean clo'es dirty." tical. Where they can be found in what approaches alignment, so that the line will not have to zigzag too much, the sahuara up in the canons through which the line will pass are to be utilized for the purpose of at taching brackets to which the wires will be fastened. And so the secret is out Along the proposed line it is diffi cult to set poles, owing to the rocky nature of the country traversed. Not only Is this the case, but it is diffi cult to get the poles up there in the think he 'b a beautiful little boy," championed Lina. "Call him over here, Jimmy." "Naw, I don't want to. You all '11 like him a heap better over there; he's one o' these-here kids what the fur der you getaway from 'em, the better you like 'em." "He sho* do look lonesome," said Billy; "'vlte him over, Jimmy." "Leon!" screamed his cousin, "you can come over here if you wantta." The loneaome-lookine little bov promptly accepted the invitation, and came primly through the two gates. He walked proudly to the swing and stood, cap in hand, waiting for an in troduction. "Why did n't you clam' the fence, 'stead of coming th'oo the gates?" growled Jimmy. "You 'bout the prissi est boy they is. Well, why don't you set down?" "Introduce me, please," said the elegant little city boy. "Interduce your grandma's pussy cats," mocked Jimmy. "Set down, I tell you." Frances and Lina made room for him between them and soon gave him their undivided attention, to the in fPTino envv nnrt rifneilfit of the Other two little boys. "I am Llna Hamilton," said the lit tle girl on his right "And I 'm Frances Black, and Jim my ought to be 'shamed to treat you- i like he does." "I knows a turrible skeery tale," re marked a malicious Billy, looking at Lina and Frances. "If y' all wa'n't girls I 'd tell it to you." "We are n't any more scared 'n you, William Hill," cried France, her in terest at once aroused; "I already aiiu w uuui law lucai auu uiuuu; bones' and nothing's scarier 'n that." "And I know 'Fe, Ft, Fo, Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll ground his bones to make me bread,'" said Lina. "Thls-here tale," continued Billy, glueing his big eyes to those of the little stranger, "is one Tabernicle learnt fer a speech at school. * It's all "bout a 'oman what was buriet in a graveyard with a diamant ring on her flneer. an' a robber come in the night?" The child's tones were gut tural, thrilling and hair-raising as he glared into the eyes of the effeminate Leon, "an-* a robber come in the night an' try to cut it off, an* ha'nts was groanin' an' the win* moan 'oo-oo' an'?" Leon could stand it no longer. "I am going right back," he cried rising with round, frightened eyes, "I am not going to sit here and listen to you, scaring little girls to death. You are a bad boy to scare Lina and Fran ces and I am not going to associate with you;" and this champion of the fair sex stalked with dignity across the yard to the gate. *.T ? ?? 1 III 11U UiUie Dwaicu 11 uvkutug, and Indignant Frances hurled at his back. "You 're just scared yourself." Jimmy giggled happily. "What'd I tell you all," he cried, gleefully. "Lina and Frances got to all time set little 'fraid cats 'tween 'em," he snorted. "It 's Just like I tell you, he 's the sissyest boy they is; and he don't care who kiss him neither; he'll let any woman kiss him what wants to. Tamely to Such Treatment. Can't no woman at all 'cepting my mama and Miss Cecilia kiss me. But ,L.eon is doul tne Kissingest Jiia tney is; why, he'd just as soon 's not let Frances and Llna kiss him; he ain't got no better sense. 'Course I gotta let Miss Cecilia kiss me 'cause she's 'bout the plumpest Sunday school teacher they is and the Bible say 'If your Sunday school teacher kiss you on one cheek turn the other cheek and let her kiss you on that, too,' and I all time bound to do what the Bible say. You 'd better call him back, Frances, and kiss him, you and Lina 're so stuck on him." "I would n't kiss him to save his life," declared Frances; "he's got the spindliest legs I ever saw." CHAPTER XX. Rising in the World. The painter had Just finished put ting a bright green coat of paint upon the low, flat roof of Miss Minerva's long back-porch. And he left his lad der leaning against the house while he went inside to confer with her in re gard to some other work. Billy, Jimmy, Frances and Lina had been playing "Fox and Geesei" Run n;ng arouna tne nouse mey spiea me ladder and saw no owner to deny them. "Le 's clam' up and get on top the porch," suggested Jimmy. "Aunt Minerva '11 put me to bed if I do," said Billy. "Mother '11 make me learn a whole page of the catechism if I climb a lad der," said Lina. "My mama '11 shut me up in the closet, but our mamas are n't bound to know 'bout it,"?this from Frances. "Come on, let 's climb up." "I ain't never promise not to clam' no ladder but ?" Billy hesitated. hills to set, while the sahuaras are right there in many instances, and while not at a uniform distance this is not considered important. An other saving will be that while the made to order poles will not oust the ready made ones, these will be of long life and will not demand replen ishing and replacing from time to time. The Rfcnfle of Vision. Data have been gathered In Ger many with reference to the distance "You-all 'bout the skeeriest folks they is," sneered Jimmy. "Mama 11 whip me going and coming if she finds out "bout it< but I ain't skeered. I dare anybody to dare me to clam' up." "I dare you to climb this ladder," responded an accommodating Frances. "I ain't never tooken a dare yet," boasted the little boy proudly, his foot on the bottom rung. "Who's going to foller me?" "Don't we have fun?" cried a jubi lant Frances. l "Yes," answered Jimmy; "If grown folks don't all time be watching you and* sticking thelrselfa In your -way." "If people would let us alone," re marked Una, "we could enjoy our Belves every day." "But grown folks got to be so per tlc'lar with you all time," cried Jimmy, "they don't never want us to play to gether." He led the way up the ladder, fol lowed by Frances and Billy; and Llna brought up the rear. The children ran the long length of the porch leaving their footprints on the fresh, sticky paint. "Will it wash off?" asked Frances, looking gloomily down at her feet, which seemed to be encased In green moccasins. At that moment she slipped and fell sprawling on top of the roof. When the others helped her to her feet, she was a sight to behold, her white dress splotched with vivid green from top to bottom. "If that ain't jus' like you, Fran ces," Jimmy .exclaimed; "you all time got to fall down and get paint on your dress so we can't 'ceive nobody. Now our mamas bound to know 'bout us clamming up here." "They would know it anyhow," mourned Lina; "We 11 never get this paint off of our feet. We had better get right down and see if we can't wash some of it off." While they were talking the owner of the ladder, who had not . noticed thorn?and wan ripnf in the bareain? had quietly removed it from the back porch and carried it around to the front of the house. The children looked at each other in consternation when they perceived their loss. "What we goin' to do now?" asked Billy. "If this ain't Just like Billy, all time got to perpose to clam' a ladder and all time got to let the ladder get loose from him," growled Jimmy. "We done cooked a goose egg, this time. You got us up here, Billy, how you going to get us down?" "I did n't, neither." "Well, it 's Miss Minerva's house and she 's your aunt and we 's your company and you got to be 'sponsible." "I can clam' down this'here post," onlH the ppsnnnaible nartv. "I can climb down it, too," sec onded Frances. "You can't clam' down nothing at all," said Jimmy contemptuously. "Talk 'bout you can clam' down a post; you 'd fall and bust yourself wide open; you "bout the clumsiest girl there is; 'sides, your legs 're too fat" "We can holla," was Llna's sugges tion. i "And have grown folks laughing fit to pop their sides open? I 'm 'shame' to go anywheres now 'cause folks all time telling me when I 'm going to dye some more Easter eggs! Naw, we better not holler," said Jimmy. "Ain't you going to do nothing, Billy?" "I '11 Jest slide down this-here post and git the painter man to bring his ladder back. Y' all wait up here." Billy's solution of the difficulty seemed the safest, and they were soon released from their elevated prison. "I might as well go home and be learning the catechism," groaned Llna. "I'm going to get right In the cloBet soon 's I get to my house," said Fran ces. "Go on and put on your night shirt, Billy." Billy took himself to the bathroom and scrubbed and scrubbed; but the paint refused to come off. He tiptoed by the kitchen where his aunt was cooking dinner and ran into his own room. He found the shoes and stockings which were reserved for Sunday wear, and soon had them upon his little feet. Mies Minerva rang1 the dinner-bell and he walked quietly Into the dining room trying to make as little noise vtvisl qo Hfflfl oft/inHnn fr*nm ailU IV aiiiavi uo ? viii his aunt as possible; but she fastened her eyes at once upon his feet. "What are you doing with your shoes on, William?" she asked. at which persons may be recognized by their faces and figures, says the Scientific American. If one has good eyes, the Germans claim, one cannot recognize a person whom he has seen but once before at a greater distance than 25 meters (82 feet). If the per son Is well known to one, one may recognize him at from 50 to 100 me ters, and if It Is a member of one's family, even at 150 meters. The whites of the eyes may be seen at from 27 to 28 meters, and the eyes themselves at 72 to 73 meters. The Billy glanced nonchalantly at her. "Don't you think, Aunt Minerva," b? made answer, "I 'a glttln' too big to go 'thout any shoes? I 's mos' ready to put on long pants, an' how'd I look, I'd Jest like to know, goin' round' bare footed an' got on long breeches. I don' believe I '11 go barefooted no mo' ?Ill jest wear my shoes ev'y day." "I Just believe you won't Go take tham nff of aaaa on/? Imww your dinner."' i"Lemme jest wait tell I eats," he begged, hoping to postpone the evil hour of exposure. "No, go at once, and be sure and wash your hands." Mlsd Minerva spied the paint the in stant he made his second 'entrance and immediately Inquired, "How did you get that paint on your feet?" The little boy took his seat at the table and looked up at her with his sweet, attractive, winning Bmile. "Paint pertec'si little boys'feets," he said, "an' keeps 'em f'om gittin' hurt ed, Aunt Minerva, don't it?" Miss Minerva laid down her fork and Rave her nephew her undivided attention. "You have been getting into mischief again, I see, William; now tell me all about it. Are you afraid of me?" "Yas'm," was his prompt response, "an' I don't want to be put to bed neither. The major he would n't put little boys to bed day times." She blushed and eyed him thought fully. She was making slow progress with the child, she knew, yet she still felt it her stern duty to be very strict, with him and, having laid down cer tain rules to rear him by, she wished to adhere to them. "William," she said after he had made a full confession, "I won't pun ish you this time for I know that Jim my led you into it but?" "Vnw'm .Timmv rilrl n't_ Me an' him an' Frances an' Lina's all 'spons ible, but I promise you, Aunt Minerva, not to clam' no mo' ladders." CHAPTER XXI. Pretending Reality. The chain-gang had been working in the street not far from Miss Mi nerva's house, and Lina, Frances, Billy and Jimmy had hung on her front fence for an hour, watching them with eager interest The negroes were chained together in pairs, and guard ed by two, big, burly white men. "Let's us play chain-gang," suggest ed Jimmy. "Where we goin' to git a chain?" queried Billy; *"t won't be no fun 'thout a lock an' chain." "I can get the lock and chain off'm Sarah Jane's cabin." "Yo' mama don't 'low you to go to her cabin," 6aid Billy. "My mama don't care if I just borra a lock and chain; so I 'm going to get it." "I 'm going to be the perlice of the i gang," said Frances. "Perlice nothing. You all time talk- j ing 'bout you going to be a perlice," scoffed Jimmy. "I 'm going to be the perlice myself." "No, you are not," interposed Lina, firmly. "Billy and I are the tallest and w? are going to be the guards, and j you and Frances must be the prison* ; ers." "Well, I ain't going to play 'thout I j can be the boss of the niggers. It 'a Sarah Jane's chain and she 's my ' mama's cook, and I'm going to be what ! I please." "I '11 tell' you what do," was Billy's 1 suggestion, "we'll take it turn about; | me an' Lina '11 first be the perlice an' i ir' oil ho the rhnln-ffflns an' then wa I ^ ? - I '11 be the niggers an' y' all be the 1 bosses." This arrangement was satisfactory, | so the younger boy climbed the fence I and soon returned with a short chain and padlock. Billy chained Jimmy and Frances to gether by two round, fat ankles and put the key to the lock In his pocket \ "We must decide what crimes they i have committed," said Lina. "Frances done got 'rested fer shoot- j in' craps an' Jimmy done got 'rested , fer 'sturbin' public worship," said the other boss. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Color Contrasts. She (tartly)?Don't congratulate J yourself that everything is going to , be lovely when you reform. He (startled)?Why not? She?Because rosy futures don't go i with purple pasts. different parts of the body and the j slightest movements are listinguish able at 91 meters. The limbs show at 182 meters. At 640 meters a moving man appears only as an indistinct form, and at 720 meters, 2,361.6 feet, the movements of the body are no longer visible. Oysters Aro Nervous. Eels are not nearly so easily fright ened as oysters. Oysters are bo ner vous that a crash of thunder will kill hundreds of them. 1 CITIZENS or u. s. 0 t FALL ARRAIGNS STATE DEPART. MENT FOR ITS FAILURE TO SECURE REDRESS. HAVE MADE NO PROTESTS . - Zj . . -A Senator Swanson Says if Reports Are True, We Should Hang Our Head* \ ! ' in Shame and Disgrace?Other Countries Get Redress. Washington.?Iu a strong arraign ment of the United States govern ment for its failure to secure redrass for injuries to American citizens and property, resulting from the Mex lean insurrection and revolution, Sen* *' ' ator, Albert B. Fall of New Mexico de clared in the Senate that this country would not regain its prestige in Mexi co in fifty years. TT- i ^ ttiot norms nv no ucisiaicu buub vutuMf ?w. ?? and other countries had forced Mexi co to make restitution for the dam ages inflicted on their citizens Thus far, he said, the United States had done nothing. He added that because of the course of the State Depart ment, the people of Mexico believe that this country is behind the Madero government and that it was respon sible for the overthrow of President Diaz, in the interest of Madero. "If the people of the United States knew all the facts," declared Senator Fall, "not all the soldiers in the coun try would be able to prevent the crossing of the border, because of the indignation that would be aroUB ed. And yet nothing has been done to relieve the most Intolerable condi tion that American citizens were ever compelled to undergo." Senator Fall urged the adoption of' the resolution Instructing the War Department to ascertain the extent of the dapage caused by Mexican bullets fired across the American line during the engagements last year at, Doug las, Ariz., and EI Paso. He declared ; the resolution did not "go far enough." He said there had been no word of protest from the American govern ment although Its citizens had been killed, women outraged, and oyer $500,000,000 worth of property de stroyed by Mexicans." - Could Not Reach An Agreement Washington, D. C.?No agreement . -] over the battleship program for this ? ? ?"" wVi /\*i a YtrniQA i-\ y tJiti W,ttO 1 CdV/iiUU nucu vuu uvuuv ( ^ and senate conferees on the naval ap propriation bill held another meeting. The senate refused to recede from its demand for two battleships, while the house demands that none shall be provided. The senate conferees be lieve they can force the house Into ) an agreement for one ship. Rebel Leaders Make Final Plans. Juarfez, Mexico.?To receive from General Orozco final instructions re garding his part in the Invasion of Sonora, Col. Alfonso Castenada arriv ed here from Madera. He expects to rejoin his column of 800 men distrib- I uted along the line of the Mexican Northwestern railroad for 20 miles .1 south of Madera. The rebel artillery j was shipped from Juarez to Casas Grandes in order to have it safely jjj away when the rebels evacuated this - *- J town. L>a&<.euuuit, wuu una uccu \jiva co's chief of staff since he assumed , 1 command of the rebels, was accomp anied by his own staff. Will Speak From Same Platform. Atlantic City, N. J.?President Taft and Governor Wilson, the respective candidates of the republican and democratic parties, are to be on the same platform and make speeches in Atlantic City some time between Sep tember 30 and October 5, according to an announcement made by the Ameri can Good Roads congress, represent ing fifty associations, which is to be in session here between those dates. T5?IniHfoHnno hofrtra thov DUIU aVV/CpiUU lUlllUUUuo vv?wa V were nominated to address the con gress and their addresses will be non political. Churchill Would Build, Great Navy. . London.?The speech of Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, in introducing the supple mentary naval oppropriation of 5,000, 000 pounds in the House of Commons fully endorsed as it was by the Prime Minister, will cause graver concern to the country than any warnings which have gone before. Without the least offensiveness the first lord of the admiralty -sketched the "unpre cedented" rise of the German fleet, which he described as "extremely formidable." To Investigate Paylors Accounts. Danville, Va.?An investigation of the accounts of City Treasurer Wil liam S. Paylor was ordered by the finance committee of the city council. T3r?*rl/ >*? lnff Viia hnmo o fan7 Hnva ac?n ICl/iUl ICll v J ~ -D and has not been located. A letter received said that Paylor did not ex pect to return. A superficial exam ination of Paylor's accounts indicated that they were correct, but the coun cil committee and the mayor ordered his office closed and the accounts ii* vestigated. Paylor's wife is pros '.rated. Detectives Paid $n,uuu in rees. Bristol, Tenn.?The man hunters who have been searching for Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards since the Hillsville court room tragedy March 14, last, have demanded and received a settlement from the state of Vir ginia for their services. W. G. Bald win, chief of the detectives, has been to Richmond to confer with Governoi Mann and it is reported that a settle ment has been reached by which the state payed the detectives $11,00, in fees for their services. o'-rt..a*- J *