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^SERIAL~^ L STORY J t- ' i i * 5 M/-> 5 jj TV U 111 C11 9 j S Candidate \ * w y ' j ? ^ jj \ 5 -!==? V 2 By BYRON WILLIAMS 5 J ==================== ^ Copyright ItfU. Western Newspaper Luton I SYNOPSIS. Tn n spirit of fun Mayor BedlRht, a lummer visitor. Is chased through the woods by ten lAURhlmt xirla. one of whom he catches and kisses. CHAPTER II.?Continued. The court hesitated. Finally, turning to the witness, Judge Vlnlng asked: "What were the sounds like?" n flame of color lighting up her face. The mayor made a mental note of the color. "Well," began the witness soberly, "It sounded like?like the old password of the Elks?"Jolly corks!"" t "Pulled?" demanded the Judge, resigning herself to sacrifice. "Yes'm, your honor?and smothered In honey!" "That w-ill do!" determined the Judge, hiding her eyes behind her handkerchief. "Harriet Brooks," ignoring the state's attorney, " will you take the stand?" The prisoner arose from his soap box. "Your honor." ho said gallantly, "In deference to Mine Host, from whose culinary department there wafts to me the unctuous call of fried eggs and waffles, and because of the delicate situation the victim of my assault may find herself In should the case proceed, I have determined to plend guilty and throw myself upon the mercy of the court. I?I am guilty as charged. Guilty, I say?and proud of It!" Ha sat down soberly, but bis eyes were fastened on tho face of the Judgo She turned upon him fiercely. "For this unseemly conduct, I, tho ^ judge, fine you ton days at Squirrel Inn. Beginning tomorrow morning, you will be the servile slave of the ten young women whose feelings you have outraged. Tomorrow you will start alphabetically down the list and for a day you will do the bidding of the girl who falls to your lot. Whatever she Instructs you to do, you will do. Should you again transgress you will be?bo fined for life!" savagely. "If, at the end of the ten days, you have acquitted yourself honorably, you may go your way in peace. Have you anything to say for yourself?" His honor arose submissively. "I accept the terms," he said, eagerly. "I protest-?but I accept." "And should you desert," continued the judge. "I shall not hesitate to use tills evidence against you!" pulling from the front of her shirtwaist a bulky document. "Possibly you may recognize It!" tauntingly. The prisoner gasped. -My bill!" "Yes!" replied the Judge, piercing him with n cold look of scorn, "you , may well sa^'My bill!'" He bowed his head. "Court's udjourned!" snapped the Judge. "Breakfast Is served." CHAPTER III. A Jest Is a Jest, but the following letter, received by "His Honor, the Mayor" next morning, suggested a straw too much for the Asiatic ruminant's hack. Tersely, it said: "Squirrel Inn, "Sunday Morning. "Mr. Walter Bedlght, "Mayor of Ossian: ><JUnH Oli<< -? x'trm on . m un ic*uj ui jruur ueroeanor at yesterday's trial and the ostensibly nonchalant attitude you choso to tako of the sentence Inflicted. leads me to believe that you are considering this very serious matter altogether too lightly. Under ordinary circumstances a handsome trifler might ride into a woman's camp like Lochinvar. boldly grasp a pretty girl in his arms and kiss her, without paying a more severe penalty than the scorn of the camp and a few surface scratches. And even you, evidently a gentleman as well as a politician, might have escaped with a titting rebuke had you been luckier. Unen cumbered by baggage and feeling un bound by our court to remain, you could have drifted away into the eve nlng shadows and laughed at our ef ions 10 restrain you. "But, Mr. Hedlght, as a candidate for representative at the coming election, for which you are evidently recouping your vital forces In this tranquil spot, you will scarcely desert while we have In our possession a document so Incriminating as that found by us yesterday In your wake through the dogwood swamp "The document Itself Is evidence enough. If given publicity, to lose you the votes of almost every woman In the district. Buch treachery as you have in mind?the drafting of a bill against woman's suffrage?will not be , it t fftt i, tn i > '!' countenanced 1>y the fair voters of this land, once the facts are in their possession! "I trust'you realize the enormity of your crime and the hold we have on you. Should yuu oe unwise enough to violate the sentence of this court, the news of your duplicity will be Sient to the women's clubs of your d!s trict, 10 oe lollowed by unimpeachable evidence in your own handwriting?the bill itselt. I am satlslled that your better judgment will prevail and that you will serve your sentence as becomes a gentleman and a candidate. This being Sunday, you will be allowed your liberty to go and coino as you please and fortify your mind against the ordeal you are about to I experience. On Monday morning you will inaugurate your sentence by beginning with Mae Andrews, whose name appears first on the alphabetical list. Mae is a stunning blonde with hair like spun llax and cheeks like the down of an Alberta peach. She Is city broke and a high stepper, has a dozen Iteau Itruir.inels infatuated and loves to see enamored men turn somersaults in the service of the rmennlv sex. You will do what she tells you ?even to jumping through a hoop, should she demand it. "For purposes of assignment. I give you herewith the list of your owners and the days of your servitude, as follows: "Monday, Mae Andrews. "Tuesday, Mabel Arney "Wednesday, Harriet Hrooks "Thursday, Margaret Farnsworth "Friflay. Alice Mason "Saturday, Molly McConnell "Sunday?open date for repentance "Monday, Cleo Summers "Tuesday, Lucille Walters "Wednesday, Hess Winters "Thursday, "Jack" Vlning "It comes to our knowledge that you are very desirous of reaching your district on the Saturday night following. where you are to open your campaign. Should you prove yourself a perfect gentleman during the interim ami serve your sentence with due humility, we will return to you the incriminating hill and permit you to depart In peace. "Hut for every indiscretion on your part, you will be given a ten days' sentence under the snme conditions now governing. The court has endeavored to impress you with the se imuBuetis ui your Riuinuon ana snail feel no regret should you, In your heedlessness, fall to grasp Its Import. "Given this day and date under my letter seal at Squirrel Inn, Dlngledale, Wisconsin. ' " 'JACK' VININO, Judge " Walter Hedlght, mayor and candidate for the legislature, frowned. Plainly, here was a predicament. The humor of the situation had fled. The piqued attitudo of the "Judge" toward him was plain. It was more than this, It was "catty." She ran after him and he kissed her, a perfectly natural thing for a handsome bachelor to do if the pursuer were pretty?and goodness knows Jackie Vlning was enough of that to give almost any Inquisitive young man palpitation of the heart! But even male Judges have a way of their own, absolute and unrelent ing. wnne a woman judge, pretty, vivacious, enticing, captured in a dog wood swamp and kissed against her will?Redlght shuddered at his possible fate! The fury of a woman osculated is frequently as accentuated as the anger of a woman scorned! And he was the goat! Deep in a quandary of ways and means, the luckless politician, mentally berating the fatal day of woman suffrage, wandered into the cool, umbrageous wood. It was midsummer and the forest was a sylvan retreat whero monk and man might lose his troubles in the rippling of the rills and receive divine unction from the nature god ruling with soothing zephyrs and elixirs of efflorescence. Hedight penetrated fnr into the heart of the wood, whero dryads romp along the sunbeamed way through interstices in the trees, where mother brown thrushes peep from i ' : * 'I ( . \ sS f-/ ' , : * ^ " -I "Jackie" Vinlng. sheltered nests and frisking squirrels i 1 chatter of the hickory nuts a-rlpening upon the scraggly trees. And then he saw her! Like Psyche, she Btooped beside a quiet pool, above her the spreading 1 branches of a water elm. Reside her ' on the brink the harebell grew and > to her ear there came from down below the rhythmical cadence of a > brooklet's song, the same song that, i Id crescendo or diminuendo, it had i sung for centuries, the ever chanted, I perpetual song of the brook! I He stole softly forward on ttp-to?. > Absorbed in her mood, she gave no tV- * ^ v* j , i v ." * . " 4 4. \ ?.i.i W . ' . .% heed. The rich outline of her figure thrilled him and on her golden hair the sheen of the morning radiated like a halo on the head of n Titian masterpiece. Step by step he drew near, cautiously. Little by little he crept forward until he stood with his hand upon the trunk of u tree. And then, i quietly, fearlessly, he stepped behind 1 her. his shadow falling over her shoulder upon the plncld waters of the pool. With a cry of alarm she sprang to her feet and faced hint. Ho stood his ground boldly, but in his eyes there was an appeal. "Forgive me," he said evenly. "I? you needed the shadow of a man to complete the picture." "You flatter yourself," she replied coldly He started to speak, impulsively, to plead for forgiveness, but she held ' up her hand mandatorily. "1 hold no conversation with prisoners outside of court," she said, austerely. Turning from the pool, she stood before him as one In authority. "I am going. Walt here. Ito not follow me," she admonished. He sat down beside the pool. Ab he did so, for a fleeting moment the form of a lithe and graceful woman fell over his shoulders upon the drowsy waters?but the face was turned toward the backward trail. "Everything ? even mythology ? 19 twisted," he growled, "in those parlous days of woman suffrage." He turned his head to catch a glimpse of her, flitting through the trees, but tinlike Lot's wife, she did not look back. The mayor sighed. "What an awful moss a man can get into," he sorrowed, "through the perfectly harmless diversion of kissing!" CHAPTER IV. Monday morning dawned with a purple glow that melted into molten im iT "Guilty, I Say, and Proud of It." glory na the sun came up and painted the hille and valleys with delight. Flute notes of harmony thrilled from flitting birds and the incense of fragrant flowers gave joy to the olfactorv norvPH ns hla hnnnr tha r?iQi'n?? and Mao Andrews tripped down the front steps of Squirrel Inn and made for the boat landing, the girl in the lend, the man behind, carrying a lunch basket and fishing tackle. "Do you really and truly believe, Mr. Hedight," babbled the girl over her shoulder, "that there are just aa good fish In the sea as have ever been caught?" The mayor laid down his burden on the dock and smiled confidently into the pretty face of his Interrogator. "An unmarried man," ho began, carefully, "would answer yes; a married man. most assuredly, would deny the allegation and say no." The young woman, with a glance of mischief in her eyes, nsked innocently: "And you?" "I wmilfl ?nv If n nrl^nnnr mi.-rht express himself without implication," questlonlngly, "that it depends upon the bait!" (TO TIR CONTINUED > Ghost Gave the Tip. An extraordinary story of a gambling "tip" from the regions of spirits la that of Slgnor Crotta, the stationI master at Cicignano, near Naples. Signer Crotta speculated one franc at a weekly lottery, and now finds himself in consequence the lucky winner of $120,000. On learning the good tidings Crotta's first task was to telegraph to the directorate of the State Kail ways his resignation lie is a married man. and has a daughter who is a local schoolmistress. The exstationmaster is also setting apart a sum for masses on behalf of his dead aunt, whose ghost, he avows, appeared to him in the early hours of the fateful morning bidding him gamble on four numbers which she revealed to him. all of which eventually proved lucky ones. seaweed Made Valuable. It la estimated that those engaged In the Industry of gathering seaweed and reducing it to gelatinous food In Japan alone number 600.000 persons. Within recent years seaweeds have been Introduced Into the English kitchen. The edible species, served with roast meats, have been found to be very palatable. Devonshire and Japanese seaweeds are employed largely In the Lonnon Industry. ;> ' " ' ?C v t \?*V f:/? _'r '. ' ' '' * ^GEORGE i ft 0 This Interesting photograph of C.ec Helen, to Mr. Shepurd. The two girls LIKE JEAN Boy Escapes Reformatory and p Turns Over New Leaf. n ti Youth, Now Married, Writes Mother? tl Superintendent of School He Es- w caped From Causes His Arrest r' and Governor Is Asked to Pardon. P ; 1 Dt*n\or. Colo.?Victor Hugo's story R 1 of Jpciq \ aljean In "Lea Miserables" is duplicated In many of the circumstances surrounding an eighteen-yearold Colorado bov who llirnu vonra n?o run away from the industrial school ei j ut Golden, worked himself into a good tl ; position and then, u year after ho had p< i been married to a l)es Moines. Iowa, tl i gii'i. found his past rising behind him. ai relentless as Hugo's Inspector Javert. ni Six years ago Itosle E. Sheldon's fa- ri ther died ut Glenwood Springs. A tri year later the boy was sent to the in- P' dustrial school for boys at Golden as w incorrigible. The intervening year tho mother had lost all control over him and it was at her request that he was | 01 | tuken in charge by the state. j Dl The state made a poor Job of reforming Sheldon Its method of curing n' high spirits did not succeed, and Shel- 'r don ran away The first few times he r< ran away he was caught and brought " back. Early in 1910 he managed to n' slip away and stay lost. The officers a looked for him a few weeks and then 01 gave up the search, although they did not forget. / R Sheldon went to Des Moines. Iowa, and there started out to do what tho S big stale of Colorado had not been able to do. lie started out to reform himself. He got a Job in the big Cownle glove factory ut $ 10 a week, commenced to save his money and to go to nlcht r ; school. Hefore long his salary was 11 raised, and then pretty soon it was ' raiseil again, and ho was given a re- ~ sponsible position. A little mora than a year ago ho inet and fell in love with the daughter of a Des Moines business man. The two were married and started ^ housekeeping. Sheldon was so happy that ho wrote to his mother In l>en- , j vrr to tell her about his wife and the baby had just come, lie told her the new name ho had taken when he ran " away from the reform school Ri The mother told some of Iter friends, ' Sheldon's younger brother, now In the " school, beard where his brother was, u and through some of these sources Superintendent Fred L. I'addleford of 8 the industrial school board heard ? where his runaway had gone If it was not long thereafter 'hat Chief ii of Detectives Johnson of Des Moines arrested Sheldon and took him to jail- H Sheldon told the story to the d*-tective e and begged to be released Dispatch- " es that carried the story did not state '1 whether Die detective had ever heard $ of Jean Vatican and the good bishop, f? but it 1s in the role of thi bishop that a Detective I oh iikoh fienrea from ni"" on. c * promised the boy that although e ho couldn t let him go he would take a an appeal direct to the governor of " Colorado and ask him to grant a par- a don to the runaway boy who had made nr good. Governor Shaforth said that ho P would act in the case as soon as It h was otllcially called to his attention p ana would take whatever action the b facts might warrant. it Superintendent Fred \j. Paddleford t] of the school declared that the boy p must be returned to the school "for c the sake of discipline" "The fact that Sheldon Is married It and apparently doing all right now b can't be taken as any excuse," the su- fi perlntendent said "The only way we 1j have to preserve order here and to b \ - - \ "fr GOULD AND HIS FA r^^nmn i iiiiwiirnT?wiT-rrrnTTTrna 1 irgo Gould and hlB family was taken ure, from left to right, Gloria and Edl VALJEAN revent the boys running away whenvor they get tired of staying is to take severe example of them when ley are caueht. "If Sheldon were made an exception te chances are that all the boys ould plan to run away and get marled." IAN TO SEE WHITE ESKIMOS v. W. H. Fry and Party of Natives to Visit Strange Tribe Discovered by Steffansson. Edmonton, Alborta.?Bishop Strlngr of the Yukon diocese, the largest In ie dominion, who Is returning to his ist In the north country, announced iat Ilev \V. H. Fry and 12 natives re on the way to Coronation Gulf, ear the mouth of the Copper Mine ver, to visit a tribe of white Esklios discovered by Steffansson, an exlorer. It Is expected that the party 111 reach the gulf next October, be>re the close of navigation. The bishop has no doubt there are ther triboB of Eskimos in the far orth. lie was stationed on Herschell land seven years and has been as far orth as 73 degrees latitude on a whalig trip. At times the thermometer L'gletered 69 below. He has also vised many hitherto unknown places In nrthern Canada, suffering hardships nd endangering his life on numerous ccaslous. IEW YORK CAPITAL OF VICE . H. London So Calls It?Finds 6,100 Men Take Profits of 26,000 Women. New York.?With his evidence reuced to the matter of fact form of a ard index, Samuel H. London, for- j lerly prosecuting attorney of El 'aso, Tex., who said he was semiRESENT TAX * omplaint by Foreigners on New Insurance Levy?Workers Especially Feel Burden. norlin.?Foreigners employed In erlin and other German cities whose ulary or Income is #100 a month or as 'ire complaining bitterly over the ew government insurance law which ront in effect the first of the year This new law suspends all private j iok insurance, which Is replaced with government insurance system. It i compulsory on foreigners residing i the empire as well as on Germans. So far as foreigners are concerned, affects principally teachers, governsses. office employes, etc The anual cost varies from $5 a year for liose whose salary does not exceed 1-." a year to 578 annual premium >r those whose nalary Is between 580 nd JlOO a month The law provides that half of the ost of Insurance must be paid by the mployer and half by the insured As salary of $100 a month also calls >r an annual Income tax of $70, soch , a employe Ib compelled to pay $9 a lonth for tax and Insurance. Should the Insured leave Germany i ermanently during the first ten years | e has no claim for the return of | remlums pnld and loses his rights to eneflts under the act. As the majory of foreigners remain only two or hree years, coming largely for the I urposo of studying, few will have lalms on the premiums paid. Only such persons as were insured i foreign insurance companies doing unlness In Germany are exempted rom the provisions of the law. There i but one American company doing , usineas In Germany. i ii?ByH^^^HII igHHHMgaHHgpi I 1 Just after the marriage of his slater. th. officially connected with the department of JuBtlce at Washington, has laid before the aldermanic committee which Is investigating police conditions here the result of his seven He called New York the capital o( commercialized vice and said that, with the assistance of fourteen agents placed at his disposal by the government. .he had carried on Investigations "from Fairbanks In Alaska to the canal cone." Mr. London declared that hla census In New York revealed that there were 6.100 men profiting from commercialized vicet In which 26,000 women were Involved. He charged that the police officials aided the traffickers. He believed that only Individual policemen were concerned in the business and doubted that the number of these officers would exceed 100 out of 10 000 men on the force. FINGER PRINT IS OUTDONE Accused Burglar Comes to Grief In France When Imprint of Tooth In Butter Is Viewed. Paris.?Even the finger-print method of obtaining evidence against criminals has been excelled by the police In establishing a burglar's Identity from the tooth marks which he left In a pat of butter. Plerro Hassaud, held on a charge * of burglary, broke into his former employer's premises at Montreull-SousBols. Falling to discover any valua bles, be went to the kitchen and had a feast. When arrested be denied the charge, but the police found the mark* of his teeth. Including one which was broken, exactly reproduced In a lump of butter Into which he had probably bitten by mistake In the dark. Bassaud still protested hla Innocence. but when the magistrate before whom he was arraigned, sent for some butter and made the prisoner bite Into It. the same Irregular Impression was obtained. IN GERMANY^ FALLS OFF TRAIN; IS LUCKY St. Louis Orphan Lad Has an Extraordinary Experience on Kansas Railroad. Strong City. Kan.?When Harry O'Brien, a fourteen-year-old orphan from St. Ixiuls. tumbled from the blind baggage of a train running at a thirty m!l< an hour clip here, he did not know that he was dropping Into a home where he would be cherished and loved. Charles Beach, city marshal hero, picked O'Rrlen up. bruised and bleeding, and took htm to bis house to give him care So attached did Marshal Beach and his wife become to the boy that they decided to keep him. and announced that they probably would adopt him. O'Briep, with a companion, Ernest Stone, was beating his way to Tulsa. Okla., where Stono's grandmother lives. Stone, who was not hurt, continued the Journey to Tulsa on a ticket purchased for him by mercbanta. BURNING COAL FIELD FOUND Seam* of Blazing ^uei Discovered In Duchy of Altenburg, Germany. Berlin.?What la described as a burning coal field has been discovered at Haaelbach. In the duchy of Altenburg. Engineers declare that the fire beneath the ground has been going on for years. Mysterious fissures appeared beneath a factory anS shafts were sunk. At a depth of 18 feet seams of blazing coal were enootus* tared. . 7 S