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He Escaped With out Breaking His Parole By ALAN HINSDALE Jim Truesdall had a passlsn for risking hit life. Whfci he lfl school ha waa poorly etlucatad, having bu absorbed during the poritx of stud; la trying to find out how fast he could run a motorcar, climb a water spottt, div from a groat height or perform some other feat Involving danger. Had It not lwi for the risk Involved he would not have done any of these things. When aviation first came In Toguo Jim found something especially Inter esting to liim. When the last revolution in Mexico broke out Jim wont down there with his aeroplane with a view to joining ono of the contestants for the presi dency. Aviation wuj then in lta lu fancy, and the Mexican!) knew nothing bout it. However, Jim did some aviation scout inx for t'.ie revolutionists, but he Dew too low aud was Prolixin down by a shot from the e.ietuy. Of course the capture of a nmn bird excited a great deal of interest among the Mexicans, and the general com manding visited Jim's machine, which waa very little damaged on touching the earth, Jim having managed its de scent very skillfully. General Sauches ordered his captive to tell him all about his machine, and Jim explained the mechanism. The general waa seuted with a desire to utilise it for the pur pose of observing the revolutionists, Just aa aeroplanes have since beem used In the European war, but no one la Mexico knew anything about avia tion, and if he utilised Jim there was nothing to prevent the captive from flying away. Jim didn't care on which aide he served and offered to join the government aide, but the general de clined to trust hlta. Concha Sane hex, the general's daugh ter, was for a woman something of what Jim was for a man. She was fascinated with the aeroplane and seized with a desire to ride In It This desire she manifested to her father lu Jim's presence, and Jim said that If be would permit her to go up with him he would pledge his word of hon or not to Hike her to the rebel camp, but bring her back after the airing. To this the general gave an emphatic re fusal. But Concha interviewed her father privately nml told him that she would arm herself, and he tould make sure that the prisoner had no weapon. She could therefore control the aviator. She might ssilly lenrn to run tba machine and could then rend r It use ful to the government. After a long struggle Concha overruled her father and obtiilncd the desired permission. Jim was pledged to bring her back after a rid-. Another thing was concealed. Con cha Sanchez was of that tropical kind of women who are apt to love stidtlen- and deril . Mir filler did nt know her chief Mb.hU for oottig Up wit It J in, lur ili.l Jim kirn It Midi they got tip in the cloud JltU WHS prone to court danger lu love as well ss lu other ways. He 1pi.hu to make love to tils passenger ami waa sur prised at a favorable response. It la quite probable that the danger in volved In an uffalr with the daughter of a mnu who held ids life In his hands added to Jim's attraction for the girl Concha urged Jim to take her to a lolnt where they would draw the ftre of the enemy, and Jim did so, but took care to fly so high as not to 1 lu dan ger. She was delighted. Wbeu she had had her full of this amusement Jim took her hack to the general, who had Iwn watchlns them with pareurnl anxiety. Concha was in raptures aud Insisted on being taught how to run ihe machine. She was a hit careless In concealing her penchant for the aviator. Hut fortunately the general did not seem to notice It. At any rate, he yielded to her request, and Jim was permitted to give her lessons, but not !ofore the general had Impressed upou his daughter that the slightest suspi cion that there was any attachment between her and her teacher would re sult lu his Immediate execution. Love affairs, esiieolally when attend ed with danger, usually grow hotter. These two were of a kind to be drawn together by the risk they ran. Obser vation of any show of what was be tween them would result In Jim's death, for Coucha knew that her fa ther had set spies upou them. One day an evil looking Mexican woman saw them sitting, locked in each oth ers' arms, and they knew that as soou as she could reach General Sanchei Jim's life would not be worth a penny. But how could it te saved? Jim had given his parole not to escape and to always bring Concha back after their flights. Coucha had by this time learned to run ths machine. When she and Jim saw the spy obsertiug them Concha, without a word, made for the aero plane. Jim followed her. She got into the driver's seat, and Jim took the seat beside her. She ordered the at tendants to gtve them a start, and they rose In the nlr. Meanwhile the spy ran to Genera) Sane lid and reported what she had seen. The general, realizing that no time was to be lost, hastened to the grounds where the aeroplane waa kept Just iu time to see the runaway couple rise beyond his reach. Had Jim been alone be could have been brought down by rifle shots, but the E.-neral dare not risk his daughter's life as well . Jim did not break his parole, for he was run away with by the general's daughter. She carried him Into Texas, wbe.w they were married. BOILED THEM TO DEATH. Hew Poisan.r Ware Puniihsd In the Good Old Days, Our forefathers deemed hanging too food for people who went about delib erately poisoning other people, Thev substituted for that punishment boll tug to death, the first to suffer this peualty being Richard Kosso, cook to the bishop of Rochester In the reign of Henry Mil. In medieval times In Europe poison. in when detected were usually broken live upon the wheel after havlug first beeu given a taste of the rack while In prison awaiting execution as a sort of gentle reminder of what they had pres ently got to go through. For wholesale poisoners, however, wrtn this dreadful death was not deemed sufficiently painful, and new and special modes of punishment were lnveuted. Thus Louise Matins, a Tart sian baby fanner, who In 17u3 was proved to have done to death no fewer than sixty-two Infants by administer ing to them carefully graduated doses of white arsenic mingled with pow dered glass, waa sentenced to be shut up In an Iron cage with sixteen wild cats and suspended over a slow fire. This was done, with the result that when the cats became Infuriated with heat and pain they turned their rage upon her "and after thirty-five min utes of the most horrible sufferings put an end to her existence, the whole of the cats dying at the same time or within a few minutes after." London Mall. SHIPPING DAY OLD CHICKS. An Unlucky Showman. Punch and Judy originated In China about 1,000 years before Christ. The Emperor Mir of the Chow dynasty was one day making a tour through Ihe empire when an entertainer named Vlen Sul was brought Into his pres ence to amuse the ladles of bis court During the performance the puppets cast sin h si'-:nifit mil glances toward the ladles that the angered emperor ordered the crtln: tor of Ihe "puppet" play to l .-:( l.miloii Answers. As Th.y Nssd No Watsr Nor Food For Sixty Hours It Is Easy. When little chicks come from the shell they need neither water nor food for sixty hours. That fact has given rise to a new business, Day old chicks are sold and shtpied by people who operate Incubators. Those who buy are relieved of the trouble, of the Incon venience, and to some extent of tlTe uncertainty of hatching. Only a small percentage of day old chicks perish while on the way from shipper to cus tomer. People are thus enabled to get the little chicks and begin the poultry business without the necessity of pur chasing an Incubator. Special boxes of pasteboard are made for shipping purposes. Some have a capacity of twenty-five chicks, some of orty and some or 1(H). It is doubtless best that no more than twenty -five shall In any case occupy a single com partment The walls of the boxes are moderately thick, and some soft ma terial as grass Is put In the bottom. Otherwise there are no especial provt sious against cold weather. However, the chicks themselves may be deluded upon to cluster together and In this way keep one another warm. The boxes are not to lie oiencd en route nor are the chicks to he given food or water. Successful shipments have been made for 2,000 miles. Popu lar Science Monthly. The one time a man's credit Is al ways &hx is when he sets out to bor row ifo-thle. -fhirnso News A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS ALL-OF-A-SUDOEN ID) GGY Presented by the Senior Class Hillsboro High School AT THE CRESCENT THEATRE Wednesday, May 16, 1917 At 8 o'Clock P. M. DIRECTED BY A. P. 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