The Arizona champion., 1883-11-17

 ter's wife, and the Ptolemy Logus wom an, don't any of 'em dress as old as they ought to. A stranger wouldn't have the least idea from the looks of 'em that they had got grown up children.
 I'll tell you how mad got the other day when I went to the school exercises. Little Jack Widber was seating folks, and he said to me, when 1 whispered to him in the entry way to give me good seat,-
 "Yes'm, we've fixed it so that you and the rest of the old ladies can have the front seats, where you can see the
 est; and Lucy Skittles is going to peak some verses to the grandmothers; and the Ptolemy Logus ladies, and them, have got to sit farther back"
 was a good deal riled, l tell you, to think they should set me down for an old woman, and Miss Plover among the young ones; but this deceitfulness is what Pm going against. It does seem as if something ought to be done about it. The ministers ought to preach about it--but there it is again; they are decetful themselves about wigs and such things. No wonder their con sciences smite 'em SC they can't open their mouths about it.
 There's our minister's s wife, now I've found out that she has to have thicker sole on one shoe to walk even. Of course she ain't to blame about it, but the thing is, she has been so terribly careful not to let anybody know the truth. I never should have found it out, only their hired girl told me one day, some such thing good while, but hadn't chance to find out. Finally Miss Blank went off in hurry one morning to see woman who was sick, and left the closet door unlocked, and she went in to pick up things; and there were her shoes and slippers, with con siderable thicker sole on one than on the other, piled up on tine inside so as not to show so much. Now why should she be so deceitful about it, want to know?
 Whats that white thing just coming out of tho woods, upon the side hill, by the pasture bars? l ain't ashamed to say that my eyes ain't as good as they used to be; l wonder what Ann'll do when she gets to wearing glasses? It'll do me good to see her; she can't cover them up, guess.
 Yes, I believe that is Ann. She's got on that old white muslin dress that she's worn these twenty years. She's got two; and she puts lem right on about home here, these warm afternoons. I've given her my mind about it more than once. There she comes now. She'll manage to get down to the road about the time that man horseback gets along; you see if she don't. Because she knows that when she gifts fixed up with her white dress and blue ribbons she don't look bit more'n twenty, and I say it's no better'n tellin' lies right out.
 A few days ago she was all ragged up, and out digging among her miserable hower-beds, when who should come along in his buggy but that rich old bach that's bought the Milk's place. 1 was watching when he drove up to the gate; Ann didn't know it, though ; l was peeping through a hole in the window curtain; and l heard him call out, "Sis, where's your father" You see she had on that abominable broad brimmed hat, and he thought she was some little girl. When she turned round and answered him, you never see how disgusted he looked.
 I didn't see the rest of it, for just then I heard the tins rattling, and l knew something was happening to my bread under the kitchen stove; and had to go; and it must be that Ann had left the back door open, for the hens were all at my dough, and the rooster flew through the window and broke a light of glass; and there was such a muss that didn't get back till the man had gone.
 I went out and talked to her, though feel that it's wrong to keep still when you see such deceit carried on around you.
 There's Eiss Knapp, now, Star Knapps wife; you wouldn't think she was deceitful and underhanded, would you? She's a great hand to have com pany, you know, and everybody goes away saying what a nice time they've had. Well, girl that lived there once told me that she had known Miss Knapp to settle down into her rocking-chair as soon as the folks were all gone, and say to herself, "IIow good it seems to be alone 1 hope there won't anybody else come tonight" when she'd just been telling them how delighted she was to see them, and they ought to stay longer, and all that. But you see, she didn't know that the girl, or anybody, heard what she said afterward.
 was over there myself only yester- day, and l saw enough to convince me that something ought to be done. She was just telling me that Ebenezer was going out West to visit an uncle of his, and she'd got to hurry like everything to finish his shirts, when who should we see coming but the woman who lives in that little cabin behind the hill. You can just see the roof from here. She Il