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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:
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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
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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
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"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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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