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Show WOULD BE REASONABLY BUSY Small Girl About Right, If Bad Man Did His Full Duty Without Fear or Favor. As Anson Mount, superintendent of the Howe button factory, of Petersburg, Peters-burg, was reading his evening paper, liis little daughter, Mary, age six, was playing on the floor. Tiring of play, she crawled to her father's knee and asked him : "Does the bad man get all the people peo-ple who are bad?" The father, not looking up from his paper and a little provoked by the interference in-terference replied, "I suppose." The child studied for a minute, and then said: "Does he burn them all up? Some little boys told me he did." Again the father replied that he supposed he did. Again the child, not satisfied, asked tlie father where they went after he burned them all up. The father, irritated, replied that he supposed they all went to ashes. The child studied for a few minutes, min-utes, and then said: "Gee, he must have an awful job carrying out ashes." Indianapolis News. |