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Gallman, Mississippi (CNN) -- A 42-year-old man was charged Wednesday with arson and two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of a woman and her 7-year-old son in Mississippi.

Wearing a bulletproof vest, Timothy Burns appeared in Copiah County Justice Court. He said he has no lawyer, so one will be appointed to him.

No bond was set.

He's being held in the deaths of Atira Hughes-Smith and Jaidon Hill. The boy's stepfather, Laterry Smith, was also killed.

There's some question as to whether Smith was killed in a different county, said Copiah County Sheriff Harold Jones, explaining why Burns was charged with two, rather than three, counts of murder.

There's no indication the suspect had anything against the three victims, the sheriff noted, nor that he even knew them.

"We don't think there is (a relationship)," Jones said. "But we haven't tied that loose end up yet."

The seeming randomness of the crime makes the deaths all the more inexplicable to loved ones, as well as to neighbors in the city of Brandon they called home.

As Vinson Jenkins, Hughes-Smith's cousin, said: "We don't know why anybody would want to do any harm to them."

The family was last seen Friday in a car that was later found flipped and on fire.

The Copiah County sheriff says authorities now believe that Burns was driving that car when he got in an accident, then set it ablaze. Was he alone at the time? Jones said he has "no way of knowing that right now."
1. Who was charged with arson and 2 counts of murder?
2. What was his name?
3. How old was he?
4. Who did he kill?
5. Where?
6. What were the names of the victims?
7. Why was he tried with only 2 counts instead of 3?
8. Was there a bond set?
9. Which county is he being tried in?
10. What is the name of the victims cousin?
11. When were they last seen?
12. Where at?
13. What condition was the car in?
14. Who does the sheriff feel is responsible for the car accident?
15. Was he alone?
16. Did he have anything against the victims?
17. Did he wear a bulletproof vest to court?
18. Does he have an attorney?
19. Will one be appointed to him?

Numbered answers:
1. a man
2. Timothy Burns
3. 42-years-old
4. a woman and her 7-year-old son
5. Mississippi
6. Atira Hughes-Smith, Jaidon Hil, Laterry Smith
7. There's some question as to whether Smith was killed in a different county
8. No
9. Copiah County
10. Vinson Jenkins
11. Friday
12. in a car
13. flipped and on fire
14. Burns
15. no way of knowing
16. No
17. Yes
18. No
19. Yes

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CHAPTER TWO

Babalatchi ceased speaking. Lingard shifted his feet a little, uncrossed his arms, and shook his head slowly. The narrative of the events in Sambir, related from the point of view of the astute statesman, the sense of which had been caught here and there by his inattentive ears, had been yet like a thread to guide him out of the sombre labyrinth of his thoughts; and now he had come to the end of it, out of the tangled past into the pressing necessities of the present. With the palms of his hands on his knees, his elbows squared out, he looked down on Babalatchi who sat in a stiff attitude, inexpressive and mute as a talking doll the mechanism of which had at length run down.

"You people did all this," said Lingard at last, "and you will be sorry for it before the dry wind begins to blow again. Abdulla's voice will bring the Dutch rule here."

Babalatchi waved his hand towards the dark doorway.

"There are forests there. Lakamba rules the land now. Tell me, Tuan, do you think the big trees know the name of the ruler? No. They are born, they grow, they live and they die--yet know not, feel not. It is their land."

"Even a big tree may be killed by a small axe," said Lingard, drily. "And, remember, my one-eyed friend, that axes are made by white hands. You will soon find that out, since you have hoisted the flag of the Dutch."
1. What can a small axe do?
2. According to whom?
3. How many eyes did he have?
4. What did the one-eyed person need to recall?
5. What kind of flag was raised?
6. Who quit talking?
7. Who will cause the Dutch to come?
8. Will he regret his actions?
9. When?
10. Who is the current ruler?
11. Who was moving his feet?
12. Where did this occur?
13. Did Babalatchi have a relaxed posture?
14. What did he gesture towards?
15. Was it lit up?
16. Are trees aware of the name of their leader?
17. Who's land is it?
18. Do they have feelings?
19. What was the color of the hands?
20. Is a big axe needed?

Numbered answers:
1. kill a big tree
2. Lingard
3. unknown
4. axes are made by white hands
5. the flag of the Dutch
6. Babalatchi
7. Abdulla's voice
8. yes
9. before the dry wind begins to blow again
10. Lakamba
11. Lingard
12. Sambir
13. no
14. the doorway
15. no
16. No.
17. the trees
18. no
19. white .
20. no

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Yu Pengnian is an 88-year-old real estate Chinese businessman. He amassed a fortune of $1.3 billion dollars during his career but instead of keeping the money and living like an emperor, he decided to give it all away. All of his fortune will be spent on helping poor Chinese students get a better education.

And Yu isn't the only super-rich person in China who has this spirit of giving. Chen Guangbiao, a Jiangsu recycling tycoon, has given millions of dollars to charity and promises to give all of his money to charity when he dies.

Yu and Chen are among the many businessmen who have become prosperous during China's economic rise. An American business magazine, Forbes, estimates that there are 117 billionaires in China and hundreds of thousands of millionaires. What sets Yu and Chen apart from the rest, though, is their tremendous generosity(,) when it comes to donating money to charity.

Last week Bill Gates and Warren Buffett came to Beijing. Gates and Buffett, two of the world's richest men, are also the world's biggest philanthropists. They invited fifty of China's richest people to have dinner with them and talk about the spirit of giving. At first, only a few people accepted their invitation. It seemed some of the invited guests were afraid that Buffett and Gates were going to pressure them into giving their wealth to charity.

A lot of people are angry at the billionaires who are not willing to give away their fortunes. They _ hem for being miserly and not caring about the poor and the less fortunate. But I think this criticism is wrong. A gift, any gift, should come from the heart. Instead of criticism, these reluctant billionaires should be encouraged to follow the examples of Yu Pengnian and Chen Guangbiao. Encouragement is always a better strategy than criticism. As we say in English, "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."
1. Who came to Beijing last week?
2. How many billionaires are there in China?
3. Gates and Buffett invited fifty to do what?
Numbered answers:
1. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
2. 117
3. to have dinner with them and talk about the spirit of giving.