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rr 2 # KISS <Jfy\r FPANCKvS (Copyright, by ' "*We must have blankets, or coursi Bald Liua, -with the air of one who word Is law; "mother has a genui Navajo." "I got a little bow'narruh wli Bantu Claus bringed me," put in Ji my. "We can use hatchets for ton Lawks," continued the little gi "Come on, Frances; let us go hoi and get our things and come ha 'here to dress up. Run. Jimmy, g your things! You, too, Billy!" s commanded. The children ran breathlessly their homes nearby and collected t different articles necessary to trai form them into presentable Indiat They soon returned, Jimmy dum mg his load over the fence and tui bling after; and the happy quartet Bat down on the grass in Miss Min< va's yard. First the paint boxes we opened and generously shared wi Billy, as with their handkerchiefs tli spread thick layers of rouge over the charming, bright, mischievous litl ,faces. The feather decoration was next order. "How we goin* to make thet-1 ieat ?rs stick?" asked Billy. They were in a dilemma till the i jsourceful Jimmy came to the reset "Walt a minute," he cried, "I'll I -back 'fore you can say 'Jack Robi on'." He rolled over the fence and w back in a few minutes, gleefully hoi Aug up a bottle. i "This muc-lage '11 make 'em stlcl [he panted, almoBt out of breath. | Lina assumed charge of the hei dresses. She took Billy first, rubb the mucilage well into his sunny cur and tilled his head full of his aun 'turkey feathers, leaving them to sti out awkwardly In all directions a at all angles. Jimmy and Franc after robbing their mothers' duste were similarly decorated, and la Lina, herself, was tastefully array by the combined efforts of the otli three. At last all were in readiness. Hilly, regardless of oonsequenci had pinned his aunt's newest gr blanket around him and was viewii with satisiied admiration, its lo length trailing on the grass behi him; Lina had her mother's treasur Navajo blanket draped around li graceful little figure; Frances, aft pulling the covers off of several he and finding nothing to suit her fan ful taste, had snatched a gorgeo silk afghan from the leather cou In the library. It was an expensi affair of Intricate pattern, delica stitches, and beautiful embroide with a purple velvet border and a y low satin lining. She had dragg one corner of it through the mud pi ?ile and torn a big rent in anoth place. Jimmy was glorious in a brig red blanket, carrying his little b( and arrow. "I'm going to be the Injun chic! he boasted. , "I'm going to be a Injun chief, toe parroted Frances. c mei, notntng!" lie sneered, ">< all time trying to lie a Injun ehi< .You 'bout the pompousest little gl iL ey is. You enn't be a ehlef noliov yoL got to be a squash, Injun ladi r' u. me' squashes; me an' Billy's tl chiefs I'm name' old Setting Bu hi-self.' "You enn't be named 'Bull,' Jit m>," reproved Linn, "it isn't gente to say 'buli before people." "Yes, 1 am too," lie continued. "S( ting Bull's the biggest chief they and I'm going to be name' him." "Well, I am not going to play then yyi.s^ J^lna primly, "my mother wan To be genteel, and *l>ull* is n< gciif osl." , "1 tell you what. Jimmy," propost Frances, "you be name' 'Setting Cow 'Cow' is genteel 'cause folks mil 'em." "Naw, I ain't going to be nam no cow. neither." retorted the. litt Indian, "you all time trying to 'suae somebody to be name' 'Setting Cow' "He can't be name* a cow,"?Bil! now entered tho discussion?" 'cam he ain't no girl. Why don't you I name' 'Settin' Steer'? Is 'steer' ge feel, Lina?" he anxiously inquired. "Yes, he can be named 'Sittii Steer'," she granted. Jimmy agreeit to the compromise, peace was on more restored. "Prances and Lina cot to be tl squashes " he began. "It isn't 'squashes,' It is 'squaws, corrected Lina. "Yes, 'tis squashes too," persist Jimmy, " 'cause it's in the Bible aj Miss Cecilia 'splained it to me ai she's 'bout the high-stepping 'splainer they is. Me and Billy is t chiefs," ho shouted, capering arout "and you and Prances is the squash and got to have papooses strop' your back." "Bennie Dick can be a papoos suggested Billy. "I'm not going to be a Injun squ? If I got to have a nigger papo< strapped to my back;" cried an dignant Prances. "You can strap h to your omn bftck, Billy." "But I rife't no squash, objec that little Indian. "We can have our dolls for papo es." said Lina. going, to th? sw .. ... . ' , I in,si . " THE I Us Mrtbda: - - ing till Ch I jk I /A stockings ?" MLNLRm J? ^rc'?r: on Christm ana ^ w*s we hang ui V //^ "Yes; it' r /?DFCU HITli i vjkxm 1ull' ,uo" .' 'splainer th Boyd Calhoun Doctor 9ar Keilly A Hritton Co.) asked Flort p." where the dolls had been left. Billy * M^e ^ se pulled a piece of string from his pock- do anybody no et and tho babies were safely strapped He so forg to their mothers' backs. With stutcly forgivinges tread, headed by Sitting S>.eer, tho Claus can't n* children marched back and forth Doctor Sati across the lawn in Indian file. and mamas ,J*" So absorbed were they in playing ^?uldnt \v r Indian that Tliey forgot the flight of ' .,C>r<i'ir time until tlicir chief suddenly * aVJl ( 'aai ' stopped, all his brave valor gone as *ou r"n ?" he pointed with trembling finger up n? thc s,rect- '"'T like S That part of the Ladies' Aid Society cjarc(j pral to which lived in West Covington was eyer get(jn Z bearing down upon them. any cagtor "Yonder'8 our mamas and Miss nn{j you ,]c * Minerva," he whispered. "Now look jnK i,jni yoi what a mess Billy's done got us in; did, an(i h ( ho all tlmo got to perpose someping eye on you ?r_ to get ehillens in trouble and he all to follow y< rQ titne got to let grown folks ketch don't all t 'em." and open py "Aren't you ashamed to tell such a Sanford, 'ai ,|r story, Jimmy Garner?" cried Frances. "I like 1 [lo "billy didn't propose any such, thing, said Floren " Taln't no use to run," advised and God a in to me." , Jimmy. "They're too close and done . already see us. We boun' to get what's "And th< coming to us anyway, so you might kin-folks,' ] Jus' as well make 'em think you ain't U8e to ( 'fraid of 'em. Grown folks got to all better'n wh . ' tlmo think little boys and girls 'r* little girl, skeered of 'em, anyhow." ruption, "ti "Aunt Minerva'll sho' put me to bed office one t this time," said Billy. "Looks like that, man's I. ev'y day I gotter go to bed." K?t a dead "Mother will make me study the clo'es on, 1 catechism all day tomorrow," said bones." Lina dismally. "Was he "Mama'll lock me up in the little M*? *be hf " closet under the stairway," said Fran- on-" ed ces. "Naw; h< Is. "My mama'll gimme 'bout a million JUBt bones. , iicks ana try to taKe all the bide off ( o' me," said Jimmy; "but we done had ruped IMlly a heap of fun." "Was be S ' ' : f^^ rC ^ m ? iT^Ttionca i<'rai j.? It was some hours later. Billy's "Now; h aunt had ruthlessly clipped the turkey no wings n )f, feathers from his head, taking the "It must ' hair off in great patches. She had explained I then boiled his scalp, so the little boy "And T't )ll thought, in her efforts to remove the poor man t ' .* mucilace. Now shorn i if his loeks to Hen von . and of some of his courage, tlie child < "I spec' 1 ^ was sitting quietly by her side, listen- he died ai [i(' ing to a superior moral lecture and place," sup: jj indulging in a compulsory heart-to- "I'll bete ' heart talk with his relative. to forgive "1 don't see that it does yon any papa and j good, William, to put you to bed." from Jimm "I don' see as it do neither," aereed just a lteep Billy. j him to torn "I can not whip you; I am constitu- "I hope tionally opposed to corporal punish- tree at S t> ment for children." | mas," sai< "I'd 'posed to it too," he assented. , "and I hop "I believe I will hire a servant, so j 'iko 1 did 1 :>l that I may devote my entire time to 1 Tommy K your training. ! wasn't goir This prospect for the future did the tree sc not appeal to her nephew. On the' red apple : contrary it filled him with alarm. | paper 'FYor "A husband 'd he another sight. : Knott,' am '' handier," he declared with energy; Puj '' or- * "he'd he a heap mo' 'count to you'n a "Let's as cook, Aunt Minerva. There's that \t..w " going to as "You will never make a preacher "Naw; y of yourself, William, unless you im- Jimmy. prove." fit st. rid file, n* The child looked up at her with as- one tonlshment; this was the first ho ? ?noun(j 1K knew of his being destined for the Prettiest 1B ministry. see?' 00 "A preacher what 'zorts an* call's up mourners?" he said,?"not on yo' "'Humpty 116 tin-type. Me an' Wilkes Booth Lin- Humpty coin?" All the "How many times have I expressed king the wish not to have you bring that Can't pr negro's name into the conversation?" agai she impatiently interrupted. M n(1 "I don' perzactly know, 'm," he an- * u" k * *st swered good humoredly, " "bout fifty , '10 hunderd, I reckon. Anyways, Aunt Minerva, I ain't goln' to bo no preach- "'House fi 'eB er. When I puts on long pants I's "Hush. to goin' to be a Confedrlt Vet'run an' KU8t. "Yc n kill 'bout fifty hunderd Yankees an' riddle's. e' Injuns, like my Major man." ewers, too and let sc lBb CHAPTER XI. >BO ? v ^ "'As I wj \n' Now Riddle Me This. whe ilm children were sitting In the I picked swing. Florence Hammer, a little 'Twas i girl whose mother was spending the bom day at Miss Minerva's, was with I kept It to#- them. Lac "Don't you-all wish Santa Qlaus had 0njl ... ?. ANCASTER NEWS MAY 11, 19 r ngui iiw" - I ence. "That's a ea risttnas to hang up our 4<s nothlng! asked * ranees >QU ^ ft * 18 isn't Santa Claus birth-; wouldn.t -a ,cked :ted Llna "God was born ;|i a liule bab rab as and that s the reason! ??tt At wttu uvunvr ? our stockings. bone," she declared s old Santa's birthday, fleBh and bone." d Jimmy, " 'cause It's in "Then It's houn' 1 ind Miss Cecilia splained Jimmy'b next guet nd she bout the dandiest fjeBh and blood anc ey *B" 1 "An apple can't ou'all like the best: God or , triumphantly auswt iford or Santa Claus? Well, It was an egs nee. a chicken. Now, od 'nother sight better'n I one." ," declared Jimmy, " 'cause "S'pose a mnn w Ivingsome. He's 'bout tho house," she asked t person they is. Santa out?" let you go to Heaven nor "Clam' outer a ford neither, nor our papas j Hilly, i nor Miss Minerva. Now " 'T wa'n't no wli e bo in a pretty llx if we she declared, nd on Doctor Sanford or "Crawled out th'c 3 to forgive you every time Santa Claus," was or fall down and bust your ?? *t wa'n't no chi Naw; giinme God ev'y up? Give it up?' laughed gleefully. " lanta Claus the best," de- out with measles." rices, " 'cause he isn't f'r- "]t is Billy's tlm g in your way, and hasn't seemed to be mlsti oil like Doctor Sanford, "Tabernicle learn n't f'rever have to be tell- school; see If y'all i're sorry you did what you by had four kittem e hasn't all time got one n?t have none 't all i either, like God. and got ..j don.t Bee no Bf 'u 'round. And Santa Claus nrgucd j|mmyf ? 'tb lme say, 'Shet your eyes bovs drowned 'em." your mouth,' like Doctor "Tabby was a ci ad poke out your tongue.'" other boy, "and sb< Doctor Sanford the best," | and stlngheo was a ce, " 'cause he's my uncle, , dl(]n.t have no klt nd Santa Claus ain't kin , -what's this," n * -s?. w * < man rode 'cross r '? I MoA o 1 s Dimv sajs, i^ove your ? ?. Miss Cecilia 'splained?" do." ? like ray Uncle Doc' heap "You didn't ask 1 lat I do now," went on the said Lina, "you i heedless of Jimmy's inter- wrong. The riddh 11 1 went with daddy to his across the bridge a lay. And what you reckon and the answer is, ' got in his office? He 'is named Yet who v I man 'thout no meat nor ' bridge.'" nothing a tall but just his "Well, I'd "nothei a little dog name' F a hant?" asked Billy. "1 .my. "I little dog lajor best?he's got meat little girl name' St sense a tall to it." s didn't have no sheet on? "Why should a 1 " was the reply. penders?" asked I 3t on; no meat on!" chir- body can answer t , glad of the rhyme. "To keep his br? a angel, Florence?" ques- off," triumphantly "No, you goose, s& wear suspenders si j have a gallows han vS?5^\ CHAPT o\ 'n the House A It wns a beautifi: \ ?' ***? ^ ^ Was uot occui)ie(* tor. Brother Johnso '* *11 eliib? minister, coll I church orphanage the speaker for the [| the Love Feast ai Rally anil gave llbe r* to every cause. ? Sy/ y "=L^' lier own pew betw< ^|c"t?-- my, Mr. and Mrs. yS mained at home. Ac , ^lcr 8at Frances II father and mother; of her were Mr. a with Lina on the aisle. The good ices. too; it was the 01 e didn't have no harp and depend upon for sei either." The preacher, afi have been a skeleton," eloquent discourse Mna. will remember the ncle Doc' just keep that the big Ftible with here and won't let him go to wake up any wl where dead folks b'longs." ing. He came dov ie wasn't a good man 'fore and stood close to id got to go to the Had made his last path gested Frances. "My own heart," her he never asked God to every orphan cli him when ho 'ceived bis low fever epidemic sasscd bis mama,"?this two years old, I lo iy,?"and Doctor Fanford's mother. If there nr ing old Satan from fretting children here todaj 3t on a pitchfork." il they would com they'll ; ive a Christmas and shake bands w unday-School next Christ-] Now Miss Miner 1 Frances, harking back, ly responded to ev 0 I'll get a heap o' things b'* a preacher; it last Christmas. Poor little religious conviction nott he's so r.koered he was e ver a shining, lg to get nothing at all on tore, light. When ) he got him a great, big. for all those who in' he wrote on a piece o' Heaven to rise, sh n Tommy Knott to Tommy first one 011 her l 1 tied it to the apple and to see the raised h be tree for hi'self." were members of k riddles," suggested Idna. tender age of ten it," shouted Frances, "I'm va's thin, long arm tk the first." sponse. Once wli ou ain't neither," objected j evangelist was hr fou all time got to ask the tracted meeting ui I'm going to ask the first town and had ask I read the book of V1 , , I Dible to stand up s a biscuit, busy as a bee, one sl(lo of the b, little thing you ever did voted lover on th A watch. among the few whi Dumpty set on a wall, feet. She bad re Dumpty had a great fall, from cover to cov? king's horses and all th? i Revelation over 's men. I thought she had it Huxnpty Dumpty back : Bf oro of times, n/ ?A effK So now, whon t , for little orphans s a ring, deep as a cup, she leaned down aiiiK b kivinvt* can I pun it . ? "A well ' ! her nePhGW. 0o ? i 11am, and shake h ill, yard full, can't ketch?' " kind preacher." Tlmmy!" cried Lina, in dls- "Wha' fer?" he c >u don't know how to ask , to Ko up there; Kou must n't give the an- right at me." . Ask one riddle at a time "Are there no II ime ono else answer it: the minister was i I shako the hand < is going through a field of who haa had the parents." up something good to eat, ,.Qo on wlulaiT lelther fish nor flesh nor Runt ,<Go ,hake 1 preacher " L till It ran alone?'? The ,Utle boy ft :e! lor- HJ?11 Mlnery^Jnsh ....... . i ,, \o. By riddle." I !" scoffed Jimmy,' TJrift&'V'.J' ,{ nnko. 'Sides Llna rjJ up a snake. 1b pnypg? ]i '|| bit, Llna?" < fflflT-J 1 M fish nor flesh nor I 1; "and a rnbbk 1b lSp>w I j| :o bo a apple," was MS *1 I n 1 |w JT ?s; "that ain't no IreSjSi'SJ !j I 1 lilw p I it's good to eat." U3sfel|P| .? II ? run alone," she y^P^'inj .j^jK >red. "Olvo It up? ??" ; and it hatched to nyjj^|jB r^e. it!*& Jjjft Florence, you ask [I ii] |nUy f? . as locked up in a winder," guessed fbjfll |*? ider to tho house," ^ i ^ fit' ?o the clilm'ly, like i1/' Billy's next guess. l || m'ly to it. Give it tho little girl ?Well, ho just broke dignaril tTial fho older ~t>o confided in him and invite e," said Lina, who ticipution. ess of ceremonies. But Jimmy was not the it this here one at calmly by and bo ignored \ can guess it: 'Tab- was anything doing, so he ? but Stillshee did- wardly from the bench bi .'" Minerva know what he v nse a tall in that," Signaling Frances to follow out some bad little pered pompously behind Hi too, held out a short, fat h it," explained the minister. 3 had four kittens; The speaker smiled beni little girl, and sho upon them; lifting them tens *t all." arms he stood tho little isked Jimmy: '"A *he fable. He thought th i bridge and Fido 8'Rhi of these innocent s ittle dog name' Fl- MM? orphans would empt> exs ox xny auuit. ce. UUjy that right, Jimmy," wlth embarrassment at hi. ilways get things ?U8 V?*[iloD' wh,le ?mtI s is. 'A man rodo *app"y ft the amused eo nd Yet he walked/ Horrified Miss Minerva h. He had a little dog hfr fpct' but decided to rer miked across the sh* *?f- fh* was a \ln and did not know what < , . . .. . . ought to pursue. Besldet m! ^ t! JU8t caught the Major's sm Mdo," declared Jim- ?And ,ong h?v6 yo name et and a orphan?? t^e preacher wax lllshee ain't got no B1jly "Ever sence me an* Wll langman wear mis- Llncoln.8 born? BWeetIy tD% 111 b6t n?" the child. haf . . ... "I 'bout the orphantest leches from falling volunteered Jimmy, answered Frances Frances> re8p0nding to 1 a hangman should jnvna?jon< had crawled ove o tbat hod always er>8 jej?g before he realized happening. She, too, we ER XII. (Continued in Next I of the Lord. ____ il Sunday morning. ? ? Methodist Churct by its regular pu& n. Instead, a traveling funds for a T Ma]ra f*-. in Memphis, was * U 1Wd"C day. Miss Miner- ^^ service in her own ilways on hand at _ ^ id tlie Missionary B~**l rally of her means llie wa sitting in een Billy and Jim- 1 Onrner having reross the aisle from ? lack, between her ^ two news in front I nd Mrs. Hamilton, outside next the w Major was there, % / L4 4 ?ly place he could Jj eing Miss Minerva. ler an earnest and AlW?lV from the text, "Ho fatherless," closed a hang calculated j lio might he sleep- ! .'ii from the pulpit r*f\ k I HOI his hearers as he CUAL, - DIvl etlc appeal. ' said he, "goes out can gl lid, for In tho yel\?! 7,8,#w.ien bu; wood and st both father and . ? any llttl. orphan place Qr I should he glad ^ ? e up to tho front ???r < I Ith me." / 1 Ify A I va always faithful- '* + cry proposal made was a part of her I i. At. revivals she if solemn and aus a minister called wanted to go to e was always the * * ? . Feet. If he asked I Iff % ands of those who I ^1 the church at tho A x years. Miss Minergave a prompt re- r en a celebrated W I l/\ ildjng a big pro iaer qkdtbi in too I I ed those who had 1 Heceklah In tho I . Tirv,ot 1 Miss Minerva on ThlS IS What g tent and her de1 Ou o other etde were I > had risen to their 1 "\\Te have 111 ? ad tho good book TWo+^a Tat)!) ,r, from Genesis to J otatOCS, V>UUI> and over so she Stl'llltf BcftllS, read Hczeklah a | ? Corn, J une i he preacher called .. . to come forward, I ClldieS, Jilftl and whiapered u> Peaches and r p to the front, wn- Don't place yc ands with the nlco __ A ^ Plants until yoi isked. "I don't want i jot t n r'ybody here'll look nave iul.s 10 ?t 11 Success For Us ttle orphans here?" __ . Raying. "I want to MA of any little child Isfortuno to lose Its 1 Caddy GOOd F You $4.00. i, commanded his 1 hands with the RFMNCTl gain demurred but, I/Lll lEl M i Rtlpg, he obediently If Ve only knew the cares and trials, yk Knew the efforts all in vain Ti TB^-aT tllw fitter disappointment If p^?0] Understood the loss and gain? II I Would the grim eternal roughness II l. < Seem?I wonder?Juot the same? Q Should we help where now we hin- % 0 F^IL der? Should we pity where we blame? Ah! we judge each other harshly, Knowing not life's hidden force? ft Knowing not the fount of action ft Is less turbid at its source; '? Seeing not amid the evil I TV All the golden grains of good; I And we'd love each other better iW If we only understood. ' iffiw yfe Could we judge all deeds by motives Pgj ilj|a? That surround each other's lives, ? > See the naked heart and spirit, >sf t Know what spur the action gives, Often we would find it better jB M j. Purer than we ju<lge we should We would love each other better ^ If we only understood. t ?RUDYARD KIPLING. his par- Notice of Discharge. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will, as surviving exone to alt ecutrix of the estate of Mrs. H. P. vhen thcro Crockett, deceased, on the 29th day i slid awk- of May, 1915, make her final return efore MIbs as such executrix and apply to the . as up to. probate court of Lancaster county . ho swag- 'or letters dismissory. Ijy atui he, MRS. NANIE S. CROCKETT MILnnd to the LEN, Surviving Executrix Estate of the said Deceased. . . April 27, 1915. gnly down bUoPy.'nui!n help the kidneys e touching , ,, _ . ind tender ,iancastep Renders Are learning the - the pock- It,8 the uttie kidney ills? .re(* The lame, weak or aching back? i conspicu- The unnoticed urinary disorders? ly grinned That may lead to dropsy and ngregatlon. Brlght's disease, ilf rose to When the kidneys are weak, naln where Help them with Doan's Kidney lid woman , P'Rs, course she A remedy especially for weak kld, 8lle had neys* ** .'. Doan's have been used in kidney troubles for 50 years. u been an Endorsed by 30,000 people?eni asking of dorsed at home. Proof in a Lancaster citizen's Ikes Booth statement. I responded Mrs. W. M. Barton, W. Gay St., Lancaster, says: "I take Doan's boy they Kidney Pills when ever my kidneys get out of order or I have backache he latter's | or ot',er symptoms of kidney trou r her fatb- "l<?- ine>' never ran to give me rewhat was prlce 50c, at all dealers. Don't ut smiling simply ask for a kidney remedy? ssue 1 Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mrs. Ilarton had. 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