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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08

her nephew, go up to the front, Will
liam, and shake hands with the nice
kind preacher"
"Wha' fer?" he asked. II don't want
to go up there; ev'ybody. herell look
right at me-"
Are there no little orphans here ?"
the minister was saying. II want to
shake the hand Of any little child
who has had the misfortune to lose it's
parents"
go on, William" commanded his
aunt. Go shake hands with the
preacher"
The little boy again demurred but,
Miss Minerva insisting, he obediently
slipped by her and by his chum.
Walking gracefully and jauntily up
the aisle to the spot where the lee
turer was standing by broad table,
he held out his slim, little hand.
Jimmy looked at these proceedings
of Billy's in establishment, not com.
pretending at all. He was rather In
dignant that the older boy had not
confided in him and invited his par
ticipation.
But Jimmy was not the one to sit
calmly by and be ignored when there
was anything doing, so he slid awk-
wardly from the bench before Miss
Minerva knew what he was up to.
Signaling Frances to follow, he swag-
gered pompously behind Billy and he,
too. held out short, fat hand to the
minister.
The speaker smiled benignly down
upon them; lifting them up in his
arms he stood the little boys upon
the table. He thought the touching
sight Of these innocent and tender
little orphans would empty the peck
cts OF the audience. Billy turned red
with embarrassment at his conspicu-
GUS position, while Jimmy grinned
happily at the amused congregation.
Horritied Miss Minerva half rose to
her feet, but decided to remain whore
she was. She was a timid woman
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08
CHAPTER XIII.
Job and Polite Bumpus.

Job and Polite 5umpus.
IT never have told a downright
falsehood," said Lima. Mother taught
me how wicked it is to tell stories.
Did you ever tell fib to your mother,
Frances?"
"'Taint no use to try to 'ceive my
mama" was the reply of the other
little girl; She's got such gimlet eyes
and ears she can tell with 'em shut
II you're fibblng. I gave up hope
long ago, so 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 'varicate little; and l always tell
God I'm sorry. I tell my mama the
truth most all time 'cepting when
she asks questions bout things amt
none OF her business a tall, and she
all time want to know Who done ito
and If let on it's me, know she'll
wear out all the slippers and hair
brushes they is padding my canoe,
sides switches, so l JUS say 4 do
know, 'm'-which all time amt per-
Zactly 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 out
an-out fib, she say for me always to
tell the truth, an jest nachelly do
like she say ever sence rs born" re-
piled Billy.
The children swung awhile in ST.
lence. Presently Jimmy broke the
quiet by remarking:
Don't you all feel sorry for old
Miss Polite Bumpus? She live all
by herself, and she bout a million
years old, and Doctor Sanford amt
never brung her no chillens cause she
amt got 'er no husban' to be their
papa, and she got a octopus In her
head, and she poor as post and deaf
as Jobs old turkey-hen."
"Job's old turkey-hen wasn't deaf"
retorted Lima primly; "she was very,
very poor and thin"
"She was deaf. too" insisted Jim
my, "'cause it's in the Bible. know
all bout job" Dragged he.
II know all bout Job, too" chirped
Frances.
"Job, nothingl" said Jimmy, with
q sneer; "you all time talking bout
you know all bout Job; YOU bout
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08

down the aisle, her stiff white dress
standing straight up in the back like
strutting gobbler's tail. She grabbed
hold of the mans hand, and was
promptly lifted to the table beside
the other orphans" Tears stood in
the good preachers eyes as he turned
to the tittering audience and said in
a pathetic voice, Think of it, my
friends, this beautiful little girl has
no mother"
Poor Mrs. Black! A hundred pairs
Of eyes sought her 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 Hamil.
tons pew in her promenade down the
aisle, Mrs. Hamilton leaned across her
husband and made an attempt to
clutch Lima; but she was too late;
already that dignifed 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 preachers suspicious we're
aroused. AS he clasped Lina's slender,
graceful little hand he asked:
"And you have no father or mother,
little girl?"
Eyes, have, too" she angrily re-
torted. my father and mother are
sitting right there" and she pointed
a slim forefinger to her crimson, en-
barrassed parents.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08

S0Tie anu nls wlIe knit him a jobs
comforter to wrap around him, and.
he"
"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 Lima, and
1t wasn't potato vine; it was"
mo, t wasn't Jonah neither; Jonah
is inside Of whales bel"
81 sho' is" fervently replied Miss
Minerals nephew; she's hard 'noughl
to manage now like she is"
I'm awful good to Miss Pollie,"
said Frances. 81 take her somepinR
good to eat most every day. I took
her two pieces of pie this morning; 4
ate one piece on the way and she
gimme the other piece when / got
there. JUS don't believe she could
get long at all 'thout me to carry her
the good things to eat that my mama
send her; l takes her pies all the
time; she says they're the best smell
ing pies she smelt.'
You bout the piggiest girl they
is" said Jimmy, "all time got to eaH
up poor old woman's pies. You'll
have a Frances-pus in your stomach
first thing you know"
She's got a horn that you tain
th'oo," continued the little girl, serene
ly contemptuous of Jimmy's adverse
criticism, and fore l knew how you
talk into 1t, she says to me one day,
'How's your map and stuck that old
horn at me; so put it to my ear, too
and there We set; she got one end OF
the horn to her ear and l got the
other end to my ear; so when I saw
this wasn't going to work l took id
and blew into it; you-all'd died "a
laughing to see the way I did. But
now l can talk th'oo it's goods any
body"
THAT is an ear trumpet, Frances
said Lima; ut is not horn"
Lets play Hide the Switch" sug%
gested Billy.
I'm going to hide it first" CRIED
Frances.
Nav, you amt" objected Jimmyy
you all time got to hide tie switchs
first. I'm going to hide it first my
SELF"
mo, I'm going to say William Conn
Trimbleten,' said Frances, and see
who's going to hide it first. Now you,
all spraddle out your fingers"
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08

mes, e-1 .a~..r narrng uacH.
"erd ] hope IN get a heap o. things
like I did last Christmas. Poor little
Tommy Knott he's so skeered he
wasn't going to get nothing at all on
the tree so he got him a great, big,
red apple an he wrote on q piece o.
paper From Tommy Knott to Tommy
Knott and tied it to the apple and
put 1t on the tree for hi'self."
Let's ask riddles" suggested Lima.
"All right" shouted Frances, I'm
going to ask the first"
Nav; you amt neither" objected
Jimmy. "You all time got to ask the
first riddle. I'm going to ask the first
one
Round as biscuit, busy as bee.
Prettiest little thing you ever did
seer "A watch
"Humpty Dumpty set on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had great fall,
All the kings horses and all the
kings men.
Can't put Humpty Dumpty back
again. "A egg
Round as ring, deep as a cup,
All the kings horses can't pull it
up "a WELL
House full, yard full, can't ketch-'"
Hush, Jimmy!" cried Lima, in dis
gust. you don't know how to ask
riddles. You must MT give the an
swers, too. Ask one riddle at time
and let some one else answer It:
AS I was going through a field of
wheat
picked up something good to eat,
Twas neither fish nor flesh nor
bone,
kept it till 1t ran alone?'"
"a snake! A snake!" guessed Flor
ence. That's easy riddle"
Snake, nothing!" scoffed Jimmy,
you can't eat a snake. Sides Lima
wouldn't a picked up a snake. Is
1t little baby rabbit. Lina?"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08

IT was neither flsh nor nesn nor
bone," she declared; land a rabbit Is
flesh and bone"
Then it's boun' to be a apple" was
Jimmy's next guess; that amt no
flesh and blood and it's good to eat"
AN apple can't run alone" she
triumphantly answered. "Give it up?
Well, It was an egg and It Matched to
a chicken. Now, Florence, you ask
one"
"S'pose a man was locked up in a
house." she asked, how'd he get
out7"
Clam outer a winder," guessed
Billy.
ct want no winder to the house"
she declared.
"Crawled out th'oo the chim'ly, like
Santa Claus" was Billy's next guess.
EFT want no chim1y to it. Give it
up? Give 1t up?" the little girl
laughed gleefully. "Well, he just broke
out with measles"
1T is Billy's time" said Lima, who
seemed to be mistress of ceremonies.
"Tabernicle learnt this here one at
school; see If y'all can guess It: 'Tabt
by had four kittens but Stillshee did
MT have none t ALL"
81 don't see no sense tall in that"
argued Jimmy, "'thout some bad little
boys drowned EN-"
"Tabby was cat" explained the
other boy, "and she had four kittens;
and Stillshee was a little girl, and she
didn't have no kittens t ALL"
What's this" asked Jimmy: ga
man rode cross a bridge and Fido
wRlked?' Had little dog name FL
do"
"You didn't ask that right, Jimmy"
said Lima, you always get things
wrong. The riddle is, "A man rode
across the bridge and Yet he walked
and the answer Is, He had little dog
named Yet who walked across the
bridge"
well, I'd mother sight ruther have
a little dog name Fido," declared Jim
my. II little dog name Yet and q
little girl name Stillshee amt got no
sense tall to it."
why should a hangman wear sus.
penders?" asked Lima. It'll bet no.
body can answer that"
ITO keep his breeches from falling
off," triumphantly answered Frances.
mo, you goose, hangman should
wear suspenders so that he'd always
have gsllows handy"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08

the womanlslzsr Gs 1850 they 49,,
Now know Job cause Mss Ceciliai
'splained all bout him to me. He's
in the Bible and he sold his BIRTH
mark for mess Of potatoes and--"I
you never can get anything right
Jimmy" interrupted Lima; that vas
Esau and it was not his birthmark,i
1t was his birthstone; and he sold his
birthstone for a mess of potash"
YES" agreed Frances; "he saw
Esau kissing Kate and Esau had to-
sell him his birthstone to keep his
mouth shut"
Mother read me all about Job,
continued Lima: "he was afflicted witt
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08
CCopyritht, by Reilly & Britton Coz
CHAPTER XII.
Now Riddle Me This.

Now Riddle Me This.
The children were sitting in the
swing. Florence Hammer, a little
girl whose mother was spending the
day at Miss Minerva's, was with
them.
Don't you-all wish Santa Claus had
his birthday right now stead o wait
ing till Christmas to hang up our
stockings" asked Frances.
Christmas isn't Santa Claus birth
day." corrected Lima. God was born
on Christmas and that's the reason.
we hang up our stockings"
Eyes; it's old Santa's birthday,
too" argued Jimmy, "'cause it's in.
the Bible and Miss Cecilia 'splainedi
it to me and she bout the dandiest
'splainer they is"
(Which you'all like the best: God or
Doctor Sanford or Santa Claus"
asked Florence.
ri like God mother sight better'n r
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08

do anybody" declared Jimmy, "'cause
He so forgivingsome. He's bout the
forgivingest person they is. Santa
Claus can't let you go to Heaven nor
Doctor Sanford neither, nor our papas
and mamas nor Miss Minerva. Now
wouldn't we be in pretty fix IL we
had to pend on Doctor Sanford or
Santa Claus to forgive you every time
you run of or fall down and bust your
breeches. Nav; gimme God ev'y
time"
II like Santa Claus the best" de-
clared Frances, "'cause he isn't f'r-
ever getting in your way, and hasn't
any castor oil like Doctor Sanford,
and you don't f'rever have to be tell
ing him you're sorry you did what you
did, and he hasn't all time got one
eye on you either, like God, and got
30 follow you round. And Santa Claus
don't all time say, 'Shet your eyes
and open your mouth like Doctor
Sanford, and poke out your tongue"
Il like Doctor Sanford the best"
said Florence, "'cause he's my uncle,
and God and Santa Claus amt kin
to me-"
"And the Bible says. Love your,
kin-folks,' Miss Cecilia 'splained-"
81 use to like my Uncle Doc heap
better'n what I do now" went on the,
little girl, needless Of Jimmy's inter-
-ruption, till l went with daddy to his
office one day. And what you reckon
that mans got in his Office? He is
dnod xoyl
lcloes on, nothing a tall but Just his
bones"
WAS he hant?" asked Billy. I'll
like the Major best-he's got meat
on"
NAV; he didn't have no sheet on
just bones" was the reply.
NO sheet on; no meat onl" CHR
lruped Billy, glad Of the rhyme.
was he angel, Florence?" ques-
toned Frances.
Nav; he didn't have no harp and
mo wings neither"
1T must have been a skeleton"
explained Lima.
And Uncle Doc just keep that
poor man there and won't let him go
to Heaven where dead folks blongs."
IT spec he wasn't good man fore
he died and got to go to the Bad
place." suggested Frances.
an betcher he never asked God
ITO forgive him when he 'ceived his
papa and sassed his mama, this
from Jimmys-"and Doctor Sanford's
just a-keeping old Satan from getting
him to toast on q pitchfork."
Il hope they'll have a Christmas
ftree at Sunday-Sohooi next Christ.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08

ana ulH Ugr Grow wncr course sne
ought To pursue. Besides, she had
just caught the Majors smile.
and now long have you been an
orphan?" the preacher was asking Of
Billy.
Ever sence me an Wilkes Booth
Lincoln's born" sweetly responded
the child.
81 bout the orphantest boy they
u.s." volunteered Jimmy.
Frances, responding to the latter's
invitation, had crawled over her faith
er's legs before he realized what was
happening. She, too, went smiling
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08
Human Nature.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEP

Pat was being shown an incubato
by one OF his friends who had recent
ly removed to the suburbs. He tool
great interest in all the details ana
examined everything with great care
Then, as he looked at about hundred
young chickens that had Just beer
Matched, with an awed expression he
said; Human nature is funny thing
after all, '-Everybody's.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08
CHAPTER XII.

In the House of the Lord.
It was 9 beautiful Sunday morninR.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-02-08

Must Have sustenanee.
No man can be wise on an empty
stomach. George Eliot
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13

Little Helen Hollander, of 36 Com
merce street, whose sympathy was
awakened by the Evening Stars story
of the sad plight of Mrs. Beast Seval-
10 and her little ones. is not only go
ing to help the family herself but is
going to interest others in the case.
When she brouf nt in her 81 today
she. was very anxious to know IL the
fund was still open. When told that
it would be until it was large enough
to provide temporarily for the widow.
her mother and children she seemed
very happy.
Then I'll have time to collect some
money from the commission mer-
chants" she said shyly.
And now she is going about on her
errand of mercy persuading others
that they should open both their
hearts and their pocketbooks at the
call of the less fortunate.
In sending 81 to the fund one
woman wrote;
Enclosed please find 81 to be applied
to fund which your paper is raising
for the poor Italian family whose
father was killed recently and whose
pictures were printed in n of your
recent evening editions.
A SYMPATHIZER.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
ARM HANGING OFF,
NEVER FL|NCHES
Factory Workman Calm, While
Women Are Thrown Into
Panic.

After having his arm almost torn
out of its socket while working in the
factory of the Keystone Folding Box
Company at AZ Spring street, Charles
Koehler, of 1871 Evergreen street,
Morristown, walked to the elevator
with the arm hanging by a thread
and ode to the Sity Hospital in the
Second precinct ambulance without
losing consciousness. The doctors
there said 1t was one of the most re-
markable exhibitions of nerve they
had ever witnessed.
Koehler was working on the third
floor of the building. when as ne
turned to answer a call hsi lef.
sleeve became engaged in the ma
chinery, and before the machinery
could be stopped he was whirled high
in the betting.
The other workers in the. shop,
mostly women were thrown into a
wild panic. but Koehler was perfect
ly calm. He walked to the elevator
and rode down calmly talking. The
Second Precint ambulance had been
summed as the hospital rig was out
on another case and Koehler was
rushed to the hospital.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
MURRAYS AGAIN (
SUED BY S. P. c.
Former East Orange Couple in
Trouble Once More Over
Adopting Children.

Mrs. Sarah Van Allen Murray, who
was sued in the Court of Chancery
here two years ago. to tell why she
had adopted ~6-year-old Kenneth Will
Jams from st. Mary's Orphanage.
Providence, r. L.. is threatened with
trouble again. this time by the Chill
drens' Society.
Mrs. Murray, who simply can't b p
taking little children under her wing.
is now entertaining ~15-year-o1d Ernest
Foster, of Fort Worth, Tex. at her
summer home in Croton, N. Y. 1t is
about the welfare of this boy that
the s. P. c. C. is %solicitous and yes
terday; before the society knew that
Mrs. Murray already was acting as
Ernest's foster-mother. S~uperintend-
ent Thomas d. Walsh declared that
the society intended investigating the
.sproposed adoption.
Being investigated by the s. P. G.
C. and other organizations is an old
story with Mrs. Murray. 1t is said
that 500 children have been inmates
of her homes for the past twelve
years, and all sorts of charges have
been brought against her because of
this peculiar penchant for sheltering
children.
Mrs. Murray was living in East Or
ange at the time she adopted Ken
neth williams from st. Mary's Or
phanage, in Providence. She declared
this boy was the reincarnation of
David, and gave him that name.
The adoption was questioned on the
grounds that the income of Mrs. Muir
ray and her husband. William John
Murray, was too uncertain to allow
them to take upon themselves the
care of &hildren, and after much liti-
CATION the boy was ordered sent back
to the orphan asylum. Before he
could be sent there, however, he was
kidnapped and appeared with the
Murrays in New York.
Mr.. Murray explained the boys APP
pearance in New York by saying he
had received a telephone message bid
ding him louk for Kenneth at the
Brooklyn bridge, and that he found
him there.
Kenneth, so far as can be learned,
still ives with the Murrays.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
INJUNCTION FOR
MOTORDROME IS
DENIED BY COURT
Eastern Motorcycle
Racing Association
Wins Noise Suit.
|vAILSBURG FOLK MUST
AWAIT FINAL HEARING
Vice chancelIor Says Sounds
MAY Be DisagreeabIe, Yet
Not lrreparable.'
~ EE=1E

Vice-Ohancellor Stevens today re-
fused to grant a preliminary injunc-
ton restraining the operation of the
Motordrome.
is a victory for the Eastern
Motorcycle Racing Association. The
rdiidents of the vailsburg section
Will have to put up as best they car
with the alleged nuisance until the
final hearing.
The chancellor followed in his
opinion, which was transmitted to
McCarter & English, counsel for the
defendant association, the case of
Mcmillan VS.. Kuehnle.
This suit involved the holding of
Sunday baseball games in Inlet Park,
at Atlantic City.
In his conclusions the chancello.
said in part:
Tested by these rules, l cannot say
that the injury. though the noise be
very d~isagreeable, will be irrepar-
able in the legal sense, If 1t continue
until the case be heard. The aft
davits tending most strongly to prove
it's irreparable character came from
atlantis who are not parties. They
tend to show that it is irreparable
not to compliments, hut to them
selves. And ever 20 them the proof
is not perhaps conclusive.
Il think the application must be
denied, but without costs"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
PRISONERS GONE,
CHAIN DOOR NOW
Lock Warranted Against Soup
Spoon Manipulation Also
Provided at Jail.

Conforminp 70 an ancient adare
tbe Fssex count taiI authorities to-
6av n1a.sa . heaTr iron cba;n and
hugo brass nadlock on the door ave
nrisonsrs onensd n,;tb tho filed handle
- ! soun snoor LOST FRIDAY night
The vanished prisoners like "a
horse in the nroverb. still are at large.
aItbougb three davs have nassed since
thair asc,n
Warden Ricbard MeGuinness su-
nerv,sed The reinforcing of the lock
n-;,b chain. and exnressed confd, re
that No SCUM snoon ar ANYTHING e.-e
IN the nrison can he formed to fit
the nadlock
sheriff Iobnxr Monahan soon will
sons ont eirc,,iars with the descr.n-
tion ond nictures ~ tho three Nor
whose Rosua gallery n-hotosraph
were n,blished in the Evening star
Yesterday.
Captain Brown admitted TODAY hat
II is possible he did not send Steven
Reape. who. as trusty. engineered this
jail delivery, to headquarters to De
photographed at III time OF his ar
rest.
n thought my men took him II
hea~dauarters.v he said. but thert
J are no records TO show It. Anyway
! that crime at the time only seemed
a %tri1e."
Captain Carroll, of the detective
bureau, was positive from the begin
ming that Reape never was taken tc
headquarters.
This is not the first time such a
thing has occurred he said today
land ! won't stand for 1t. When
crooks are sent here we know enough
about police business to comply wltf
the usual requirements. But wher
they aren't sent here, We can't dc
anything
There Is a persistent rumo TO-DAY
that the escape was Trained up ans
a at least wv OF the men nav
rot left Newark rms and the tine
features OF tneir escape give rise e
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-13
SEIZURE Of CAR !
Plotted Ito DIE
Navy Rebels Condemned to
Death for Conspiracy to
Force Abdication.

ODESSA, Russia. Aug. 13.-Sixteen.
naval seamen and an officer are sens
fenced to death today following the
disclosure of a plot on the battleship
Ivan zlatoust to seize the Russian
imperial family on its yacht and Gems
pei the car to ahdicate'
The plot was not confined to the ona'
battleship. The seizure OF the im-
perial family was to have been a
signal for a general mutiny through
out the Black sea fleet, the crews of
which We're to have murdered their.
officers and to have attacked CARL
stadt and St. Petersburg.
Strict censorship is now exercised
over all references in the press to the
recent disquieting symptoms. and
grave disaffection among the rank
aud file of the army and navy.