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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
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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.
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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.
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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*
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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.
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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
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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.
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CITIZENS or u. s.
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FALL ARRAIGNS STATE DEPART.
MENT FOR ITS FAILURE TO
SECURE REDRESS.
HAVE MADE NO PROTESTS
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Senator Swanson Says if Reports Are
True, We Should Hang Our Head*
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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."
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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
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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.
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