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Frances 1
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down the aisle, her stiff white dress
standing straight up in the back like
u strutting gobbler's tail. She grabbed
hold of the man's hand, and was
promptly lifted to the table beside
the other "orphans." Tears stood in
the good preacher's eyes as he turned
to the tittering audience and said in
a pathetic voice, "Think of it, my
friends, this beautiful little girl has
uo mother."
Poor Mrs. Black! A hundred pairs
v>i e/es sougat ner pew and focused
themselves upon the pretty young
woman sitting there, red, angry, and
shamefaced. Mr. Black was visibly
amused and could hardly keep from
laughing aloud.
As Frances passed by the Hamnions'
pew in her promenade down the
aisle, Mrs. Hamilton leaned across her
husband and made an attempt to
clutch Lina: but she was too late;
already that dignified little "orphan"
was gliding with stately, conscious
tread to join the others. This was too
much for the audience. A few boys
laughed out and for the first time
the preacher's suspicions were
aroused. As he clasped Lina's slender,
graceful little hand he asked:
"And you have no father or mother,
little girl?"
"Yes, I have, too," she angrily retorted.
"My father and mother are
elttlng right there," and she pointed
J a slim forefinger to her crimson, embarrassed
parentB.
CHAPTER XIII.
Job and Pollie Bumpui.
"I never have told a down-right
falsehood," said Una. "Mother taught
sne how wicked it is to tell stories.
l?iu you ever ten a riD to your mother.
Francos?"
" 'Taln't no use to try to 'ceive my
mama," was the reply of the other
littfe girl; "she's got such gimlet eyes
and ears she can tell w'th 'em shut
If you're fibbing. I gave up hope
long ago, so I just go 'long and tell
her the plain gospel truth when she
asks me, 'cause I know those gimlet
eyes and ears of hers 're going to
worm it out o' me somehow."
"Grown folks pin you down so close
sometimes," said Jimmy, "you bound
to 'varlcate a little; and I always tell
God I'm sorry. I tell my mama the
truth 'most all time 'cepting when
ehe asks questions 'bout, things ain't
none of her business a tall, and she
all time want to know 'Who done it?'
and if 1 let on it's mo, I know she'll
wear out all the slippers and hairbrushes
they is paddling my canoe,
'sides switches, so 1 jus' say 'I do'
know, 'm'?which all time ain't perzactly
the truth. You ever tell Miss
Minerva stories, Billy?"
"Aunt Cindy always says, 'twa'n't
no harm 't all to beat 'bout the bush
an' try to th'ow folks offer the track
'long as you can, but if it come to
the point where you got to tell a outnn'-out
fib, she say for me always to
tell the truth, an' I jest nachclly do
like she say ever sence I's born," replied
Billy.
The children swung awhile in silence.
Presently Jimmy broke the
quiet by remarking:
"Don't yot. all leel sorry for old
Miss Pollie Burapus? She live all
by herself, and she 'bout a million
years old. and Doctor Sanford ain't
never brung her no rhillens 'cause she
'ain't got 'er no husban' to be their
papa, and she got a octopus in her
head, and she poor as a post and deaf
as Job's old turkey-lien."
"Job's old turkey-lien wasn't deaf,"
retorted Lina primly; "she was very.
Very p^or and thin."
"She was deaf, too," insisted Jimmy,
" 'cause it's in the Bible, I know
all 'bout Job," bragged he.
"I know all 'bout Job. too," chirped
Frances.
"Job. nothing!" said Jimmy, with
a sneer; "you all time talking 'bout
you know all 'bout Job; you 'bout
the womanishest little girl they is.
Now 1 know Job 'cause Miss Cecilia
'splained all 'bout him to me. He's
In the Bible and he sold his hirth
mark for a mess of potatoes and?"
"You never can get anything right,
Jimmy," interrupted Lina; "that was
Gsau and it was not. his birthmark,
it was his birthstone; and he sold his
birthstone for a mess of potash."
"Yes,'* agreed Frances; "he saw
Gsau kissing Kate and P]sau had to
sell hinj his birthstone to keep his
mouth shut."
"Mother read me all about Job,"
continued Lina; "he was afflicted with
bolls and his wife knit him a Job's
comforter to wrap around him, and
be?"
"And he sat under a 'tato vine,"
put in Frances eagerly, "what God
grew to keep the sun off o' his boils
and?"
"That was Jonah," said Lina, "and
it wasn't a potato vine; it was?"
"No, 't wasn't Jonah neither; Jonah
is Inside of a whale's bel?"
Trances!"
"Stomraick." Frances corrected herself,
"and a whale swallow him, and
how's he going to sit under a pumpkin
vine when he's inside of a
whale?"
"It was not a pumpkin vine, it?''
_J*And J'd jus' Jike to see a man in
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i side of a whale a-setting under a sots i
> morning-glory vine." they
"The whale vomlcked him up," said up fc
Jimmy. ernor
"What sorter thing is a octopus like islatu
what y'all say is in Miss Poilie Bum-j^.}^
pus's head?" asked Billy. ! ( > _
" 'Tain't a octopus, it's a polypus," I ? '
explained Frances, " 'cause she's scene
- ... W.. , trump
named miss route. lis a someping
that grows in your nose and has tc | ?nd t
be named what you's named. She'i day 1
named Miss Pollle and she's got t I about
polypus." ( ! Eliot,
"I'm mighty glad my mama aln'<. (.|lurr
got no Eva-pus in her head," wat teste(
Jimmy's comment. "Ain't you glad, tory.
Billy, your Aunt Minerva ain't got peopl
no Miss Minerva-pus?" i deter
"I slio' is," fervently replied Miss vanta
Minerva's nephew; "she's hard 'nough \e
to manage now like she is." their
"I'm awful good to Miss Pollie," j man
said Frances. "1 take her someplng | . T ^
good to eat 'most every day. 1 took ! .
her two pieces of pie this morning; 1 aRain
ate one piece on the way and she ti'iue
gimme the other piece when I got the I
there. I jus' don't believe she could York
get 'long at all 'thout me to carry her n hii
the good things to eat that my mama. Rituui
send her; I takes her pies all the (... t)
time; she says they're the best smell- j.'
ing pieB she smelt."
"You 'bout the pigglest girl they
Is," said Jimmy, "all time got to eat i)la>' 1
up a poor old woman's pies. You'll of tn
have a Frances-pus in your stomach race
first thing you know." All
"She's got a horn that you talk est p
th'oo," continued the little idrl ROrPTlA. 1 n *
j npuis
ly contemptuous of Jimmy's adverse nuu.j,
criticism, "and 'fore I knew how you
' I j/f( \V
talk into it, she says to me one day, j
'How's your ma?' and stuck that old " Ai
horn at me; so I put it to my ear, too, 1
and there we set; she got one end of 1 "line
the horn to her ear and I got the erent
other end to my ear; so when I saw woul<
this wasn't going to work I took it . 0Xt.0j]
and blew into it; you-all'd died a- ?efj ,
laughing to see the way I did. But . .
j .n ., , ... ., book!
now I can talk th oo it s good s any-! ?
body." lacke
"That is an ear trumpet, Frances," tut 1
said Lina; "it is not a horn." , :i thli
"Let's play 'Hide the Switch,'" sug-jthat
gested Billy. i shavi
"I'm going to hide it first," cried die o
Frances. i "l*
"Naw, you ain't," objected Jimmy, show
"you all time got to hide the switch vear
first. I'm going to hide it first my- wj,jc]
self."
"No, I'm going to say 'William Com ( ^ '
Trimbleton,'" said Frances, "and see ' r<'
who's goitig to hide it first. Now you- lio
all spraddle out your fingers." inclu
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Mrs. Robert Kmmett Jeffrey is the news
wife of the newly appointed minister j of a I
to Uruguay. Mrs. Jeffrey was Miss ln
Nlta Hooss of Heber Springs, Ark.. lin,)rt
before her marriage to the minister.
a vera
and
TO BE SOLDIER, EATS BEANS PerHO
i erage
Youth Who Tried to Enlist Three Avert
Tlmee la Under Weight?Physl- libel
clan Advisee Him. him
make
Alexandria. Ind.?Paul Hogle, * i with,
high school pupil, who has had am- agC(,p
bltlons to Join the United States army,
returned from Indianapolis, where he HflH'
made his third unsuccessful attempt ly un
to enlist under the Stars and Stripes, eomn
At Muncle the young man was in- his b
formed six months ago that he wan as an
not old enough When he tried to Join eye-li
the army at the Anderson recruiting heats
station his parents objected. A few jugt days
ago he slipped away to Indianapolls.
Everything went along fine " f
until it came to the question of ou^,1|
weight. He was five pounds under f?rm'
the prescribed weight. He has been 0
advised by a local physician to con- Ye!
fine his diet to beans to take on ex- out h
tra weight. erage
K LANCASTER NEWS MA
THE NOIiliK AVEH.ViE. I avers
Columbia State. ' a nlc
ston continues in a furor of fex- j two i
lent over the exhibition of the at th
lie "Birth of a Nation," adapted sends
e are told, from Tom Dixon's nal o
and play, The Clansman. That a pea
say. the negro, Trotter,is very all o
exciieu una uie oiu uuuiiuuu ??vi
is turning well-bred somer- pend<
s, and the New Yoark Evening for o
is throwing a fit with its usual sun."
Ion of common sense when it ougli
i whiff of dark meat. In Boston i our <
have had this weighty matter I diges
>r hearings before Mayor. Gov- insid'
and a committee of the Legire.
"A judge has been found | LIQl
authority and courage enough
t out the most objectionable
The press has been full of ar- ]j|
nts for and against the film Wash
he propsed legislation. On Sunlast
many clergymen preached ,,uor
the play; and ex-President 8tate
speaking in a Cambridge 8tatei
h was one of those who pro- lless
1 against its falsification or his- other
Never before have the colored j)efor
e ort Morton been so united and ,|le (
mind or appeared to better ad- poopl
ge. and their white friends 11(
rallied in great force to throi
aid. Gov. Walsh. ex-Congress- Bress
McCall, and Lieut. Gov. CU8h-itjie ]
have spoken out emphatically to 8l
st perm'ttlng the play to eon prolil
, though the Mayor sided with ij(JUO
iroducers?as our own New a n
Mavor has failed to reccetiize ?...
3 utterances the gravity of the j"^,'
Lion, or to rise to the emergen nati0
oing content w.t.i 'he piomise ;i^ar
rtain slight sxahions, which
ir to be of little or no value. The
continues to do its devlish work ?,ni
Isrepresentation and fanning of "1>tly
hatred." politl
of which is, of course, the ir.cr- ! ^
ilffle. Neither the "Leopard's :tro
nor the "Clansman" was l'le 1
of a book, and the play that ' cure
out of them was less as drama.
is as much melodramatic slap- treni1
from a wrong Southern bias as l'on.
le Tom's Cabin" .vns a incoh- a c'e:
and ignorant farce which reseu
il never have had recognition aK&hi
it as ic inspired Northern hat- A
In both ceres, the plays and the Pass
3 were bad-?so bad that they t,le *
d in tlie essential of good taste.
vhen we commerce to surppress atyng
because it is in bad taste, at 'las '
moment we slice of a large duest
ng for tlie sorely whltted c in- ' 'n'shi
f human liberty. ' ',e
ncle Tom's Cabin" has been ,or<e
n in motion pictures within the ,ter
in tliis tow n of South Garofiiia '',e>
i was burned by General Slier- | *nv
who led soldiers that consM- s'<ler
it almost a Bible. Ie gives the
lirect to everything Southern. Pu"h
ding even the negro as we of
- #S?v.. ,
outh know him. It Is caricature.
malice, and hate, and lies, front su')m
ining to and. Yet we never had comP
t over it.. Nevertheless, taking prefe
thing said about its objection- temp
character to be trtie, we see no r
n to prohibit the "Mirth of the
m" or any other play or film not fougl
mtly inimorni in either tlie sover
1 or the South. niissi
the public is a <n''d, p ought to 1 iino
one guardian, and only one If ,or tl
i man. as we are foi-.d of think- 1,1 is!"
t ought to lie treited as the col- ,a('k
e nian it likes to think itself. lr>e
the perfectly inane "(lirl anion
Rector's" was prevented play- time
lie town of Raleigh?and most l',t? 1
e male, population spent good 'heir
and money on railroad fare in more
away to s? it in an adjoining sls
only to be stung as they do- The t
il to lie. Oscar Wilde's splen- harsh
Salome" was stopped by ttat- f
jollcenien in N'eu York beeause ?r th
tody had tlie notion that the unto
trie Oscar was not a very nice rights
n. It afterwards had more and t
allies playing it everywhere, <luor
lily, than any other "show" has fln(' '
been afilietcd with. We ought stittu
reasonable about censorship, the e:
ially when the great war shows the si
>\v i he ability to suppress the for v<
develops into ttie propagation
lie.
short, we would like to see the Spart
ssion Rain ground that the A i
ge citizen is much more kindly, at hi
friendly, and discriminating a how
n than he is painted by the av- he cl
exceptional citizen. If Mr. whicl
ige Citizen could have a suit for One
against the up-liftera who run us th
down, what a case he would ture I
out against them! To start 11? a
he la a tippler, aa anybody can "I
tain by the simple process of live, 1
ing hia breath. He la absolute- Indus
hygienic and insanitary, aa any , sount
littee can tell by looking over ment
ack fence. He ia noneugenlc, j the v
y one can see by turning up the j ciala,
da of his eldest boy. That he tng w
hia wife is clear, aa you see by some
looking at her clothes. By all and o
tods, both big and small, he inter*
t to be reformed while the re- my II
ng ia good, and if he dies under "I
peration, a good riddance! aa on
t, it would be a aad world with- help I
im. The average man, the av-,the at
book, the average play, the dency
Y 14, 1<)15.
ige movie. All unbeautiful to thai
e discernment that runs front a atm
days' beard to a horrified gasp l.v 1
e "vulgarity" of something that gru
5 empty pates away with a ker- as t
f thought rattling in them like ter
i in a guard. And yet, after all. and
f it is just natural and just
ueu
rage." Just liberty. Just inue- waI
ence. Just the rignt to swlui
ne's self. Just the "placa in the lle |
' Just the power that we all pre!
t to wish as the highcit good foi ,,
hildren, to se.-j and learn, and
? and discriminate from the
e of a head instead of a ! ..
fer
mui
'OK BUSINESS IS A ' hls
FUUISTIVK KltOM JUSTICE lnip
his
jerty, a magazine published in coal
lington, D. C., says:
ire than fifty years ago the 11
business was outlawed in the
of Maine. Since then eighteen
s have declared the liquor busian
outlaw. Nearly a score of
state legislatures have tdlls
e" them which aim to submit
tuestion to the decision of the
e. The American people servotice
upon the liquor business,
igli its representatives in Conwhen
a majority of eight in
house of representatives voted
lbniit the question of national
ibition to the people, that the
r traffic will soon bo declared
tional outlaw. The men who
business front henceforth do
their own risk of becoming
nal outlaws and that in the
future.
illiam Jennings Bryan, in The
ltoner, of January, 1915, very
states what the double-faced
Ician may expect, as follows:
fhlle the brewers and distillers
congratulating themselves that
trohIbition forces could not sea
two-thirds majority they are
ng with blanched faces and
bling hearts upon the declarasolemnly
made on roll call, that
ar majority of the people's reptatives
in Congress are arrayed
ist ru mselling.
s it only requires a majority to
laws, the liquor interests see in
ote on the amendment the beng
of the end of their supremThe
death knell of the saloom
>een sounded, and it is only a
ion of a few years when the
ess, now made nil outlaw, will
riven from the highways and r"^
d into the secret places, where,
a few years more of fugitive
it will meet Its death. From
on the liquor business can conitsell'
a fugitive from justice,
; in constant fear of arrest and
ih ment.
lany who voted for the prohtbiamendment
were opposed to its
ission at this time, but, when
el led to vote yes or no, they
rred to ally themselves with the
prance forces rather than run
isk of being counted on the side
e saloon. Others, who have
it the li(|iior interests in their
al states, voted against the subon
of the amendment at the
because they preferred to cenic
fight on the states where it is
ue rather than to have the atscattered
over the entire counThese
will favor a national
dment whenever they think the
is ripe for such action, and ir
neantime they will redouble
energies, and enter with still
earnestness into the state conagainst
the liquor interests,
entperance element will not deal
l.v with the man who voted,
rovided he is in the forefront
e battle in his state, but woe
the man who pleads ' state
against national prohibition
lien allies himself with the li __
interests of the state! He will I
t difficult to convince his con- I
enta that his arguments against
xercise of national authority on
jbject expressed liis real reason
:>ting No."
The freed of Citizenship,
anhurg Herald,
modest young man was sitting
s typewriter, and, just to see
the thing would look on paper,
icked off the subjoined paper,
1 is worty of special thought,
without his knowledge, hands
e paper, and here it is. We venthe
opinion that the young man
reader of The Herald:
believe in the city in which I
ts geographical location, growth
try and possibilities , in the
Iness and wisdom of Its govern,
and the heartfelt Interest in
velfare of the city by its offland
when we see anything gorrong.
I will try and think of
way of bettering the matter. \
ffer my suggestions to the party i
jsted, in place of taking out |
ittle hammer and knocking. |
believe if we all pull together j|
e large fomlly, each trying to I
;he weaker ones and encourage I
:rong ones, it will have a ten- I
to promote the welfare of all; ||
MHHHK
t all people delight to live in an ' TO
losphere of kindness and brotherove,
and that the knoeker and the Plans
mp Is different from mo only In- ('
ouch as he has not given the mat- Wa
due thought and eonsideration, 1)anle
u t_ ? j-.t- i??? ? ... i1"*' ?
.1 io IUJ uuiy 10 Iieip Uispai 1118 """ "
isions by finding out what he J
its (provided he knows) and try- mon^
to remedy the matter, knowing; ^ ^
las the same right to live and extieet
i
38 his opinions that I have.
coast.
I believ? that if I were the j^aj
. or, and had the honor of serving j { )uJ
people, that I would always pre- t v
having any member of my 'comltty
family* coming to me with (.ou)tj
complaints and suggestions for
rovements, rather than going to !
i not
brothers and raking nie over the (jiroU|
Is, deservedly or undeservedly." , ,
elockc
South Carolina Boot
TO
SAN FRANCIS
LKAVIXt
June 15th,
Persons I'sing This Train
South Caroli
AT
PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATI
Which tins been arrange*! by t
June 28th
SOUTHERN R
Has lleen Selected as the
A get-together movement under au?
inerre of the State for Soutli Carolinian!'
eonie better acquainted, boosting their
taking |?art in the exercises at the K\|><
Stop-overs and many attractive side t
Make your arrangements through you
merce or address \V.
To Make Good Bread
FROMEDWARDS
& I
PORCEU
Is The Br
VEGETA
Always FRESH at
WE SELL
COAL, - BRICK, - SHIN
We can supply you wit]
wood and Oak Wood f
place, or anything in tl
EDWARDS &
"DON'T 1
WHAT TO a
DINNEF
This is What We Hear Eve
Our Phones, 119
We have in stock, Sweet I
Potatoes, Cabbage, Hams, 1
String Beans, Lima Beans,
Corn, June Peas, Ileinz
Peaches, Blackberries, E\
Peaches and Prunes. Can (
'Don't place your order for
Plants until you see us. Crc
have lots to sell in May. Tra
Success For Us and we are ye
MAP OF LANCU
1 Caddy Good Plug Tobacco f
You $4.00.
BENNETT-TERM
I
REMAIN ON EAST COAST.
to Send \C?rslil|? Through
anal Virtually AImiikIoihmI.
shington, May 13.?Secretary
Is said again tonight that ho
ot determined finally to abandans
for sending the Atlantic *
hrough the Panama canal next
i, but it now is regarded in ofliircles
as virtually certain the
will be kept on the Atlantic
lor Gen. Goethals is understood
vs advised Secretary Daniels
i hile it would be possible to put
attlcships through now he
give no assurance of what con8
would be in June, and could
promise that the fleet, once
gh, would not have its return.
;d by new slides.
iter Special
CO, CAL
1915
i Will Celebrate
ina Day
10NAL EXPOSITION
he Governor for
1915
AILWAY
Official Koute.
pices of chambers of Com*
i to travel together and becomniunitles
en route and
>sltloii South Carolina Day.
rips going and ret timing,
r local ChamlM>r of Com*
H. CAFFEY, If. P. A.
Charleston, S. C.
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Buy Your Flour
|
10RT0N
UN
and
BLES
this Store
m cc uTf\f\i\
UL.L.J, - TTUUU
h. good Stoveor
your firele
Wood line.
HORTON
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KNOW I
ET FOR
V1
iry Day Now?Call
or 204.
Potatoes, New Irish
Eggs, Peas, Beans, ,
Beets, Succotash,
Soup, Pineapples, t ^
aporated Apples,
loods of all kinds.
Nancy Hall Potato
>p little late. Will i
de Week was a Big I
t on the j
LSTER. !
or $2.80 Will Bring
Company J