Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-12
DO you want your breakfast now


 trained from kissing him she relre>seel desire to wiring the neck of q young broier and cook it for his breakfast. remembering that she had heard the gave folks pretty much what the. wanted when thes woalln't want it long. So Jim g5t hs u.s;:al b9eakfas; of bacon. uncooke1 canned tomatoes. soda biscuit an,l coffee. She sat with him while he ate. but they spoke no more of them or of how soon they" might be expected. She told him that young Jim had preteided that morn ing that lie had Il cactus thorn in hi' foot so that he might have piece of dried apple, And old Jim in an excess of parental fondness and pride said. .'ine Little liar he'll get to congress yet
 But the children were a dangerou topic for oTerstrained nerves at t. particular tine. so Aida told Jim tha she had put the black hen to set an she thought they'd have some chicken at last. Jim smoked while Aida wash ed the Gi sheS. and when Jims back was turned she examined the lock oD the door. \ good push would open it Tlen she looked at the brown bureau. and the reckleSsness of despair came into her e%es. In the room beyond Jim was reading d two weeks old news paper and smoking. He looked like d lazy rancllMan taking his ease.
 As she went about her household tasks that rlorn;ng .AlGa noticed thing as she Lad never noticed them before. \ sunbeam came through the shutter 1ess window of the house and writhe | and tiii 1eIei on the wall as if it wer, q live thing She read d warning n thiS aa in the color of the sun. tha was red. like blood. and in the whN Of the gras>hDpperS, that was sinister and threatening The creeks had drie :. and their slimy beds crept along the willows Ike sluggish snakes. Gaun; range cattle beloved ill their thi.st and the rarehed earth cracked be heath the sun that hung above tho house like d flaming disk. SoMe1ilHe- she sunk beneath the burden of it. the she Wou'd wr:ng her hands and cal 0 Sod to help them. They Were bayo2 human power.
 Aida and Jim We're alone all [ morning. They did not again refer . what they knew would happen. i read his old paper and she put h"' house in or;ter. She did it with eSnr- cial care. Ii Was meet to have thiHg secnly in tl.e house of the dead. Ant, every tine she glanced @t Jim she r1 pressed the dc ire tp fling herself C his T tl,, h.. consumed her.
 At noon she brought the chillle' home 10 Gilii:er. aAd aftegward I taugh, them to throw the lasso ali played buffalo with them. Aida q i not tru t herself to watch them. Sli stayed in tie kitchen and saw the sun. beam grow pale With the waning of the day. the day whose minutes drag, ged Ike lead. yet had I'll >hed from Il leaving her the night to face At s,u down she cooked supper. but she ne longer knew what she did A crazy agility had taken possession of her, and she spun about the kitchen, doing the same errand many times. finding hefsef doing always something diff ferent from that she had set about do ing. The molten day was burning itself out like q fever. Hot gusts of air beat up from t.le earth. but the wo- man who waited felt chilled to the marrow and took Il cloak down from a peg and wrapped it about her while she waited for the biscuit to bake.
 At supper they sat down together, the man and his wife and their three children. The children were in fine spirits from the fun they had had that afternoon. Never had daddy been so nlce to them. cIe had taught Topeka to throw the lasso so well that she had caught the cat once and little Jim twice, and daddy had played he was buffalo and had charged them all With his head down till they screamed m terror. But daddy seemed moro qulet through the meal and once moth CT started up and cried:
 What's that:'
 She ran to the door with her hand pressed to her side, but daddy called after her:
 Don't you know the towards bet ter than that? They'll wait for night fall"
 hut these things had not worr ed the enilureh, With their heads full of play lug buffalo and throwing the lariat.
 'lm, said his father before they went 10 bed, remember you are the "ah or the family" But young Jim was already holding with sleep. To- peAa ana Judith were sleepy too. They kissed their father and were glad to go to bed.
 Ane night began menacingly to close u.er the wilderness. All day the dry, .uihihg neat had quivered over the uesert' like hot air waves .fickering oser @ d bed of live coals, and now the .' .ery earth seemed to palpitate with eae intensity of it's fever. Each sound oi the desert night Aida translated i'm .o ,he tramrling of horses feet: then