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SYNOPSiS.
In a spirit of fun Mayor Rcdtght. a
Mummer visitor. Is chased through the
woods by ten laughing girls. one of whom
he catches ami kisses. The girls form
themselves Into a court and sentence him
to do the bidding of one of their number
each day for ten days. A legislative
measure opposing woman suffrage, which
dropped from tho mayor's pocket. Is used
to compel him to obey the mandates of
the girls. His first day of service Is with
May Andrews, who takes him fishing.
They are threatened by the sheriff with
arrest. Miss Vlnlng sees what she con*
sliders a clandestine meeting between one
of the girls and the mayor. The next
day he goes driving with Mabel Arney.
They meet with an accident, are arrested
and locked up. but escape. The mayor
returns to the hotel, finds the sheriff
waiting for him. and takes refuge In the
room of Iless Winters. He plans to get
possession of tho Incriminating bill. With
Harriet Brooks the mayor goes to Investigate
an Indian mound. They are caught
In a thunder storm. Returning late, he
lias rather a stormy Interview with
"Judge" Vlnlng. who seeks to find out
who returned to the hotel with him.
CHAPTER IX.
When Miss Jackie Vlnlng went to
her room after her unsatisfactory attempt
to wring from Bedlght the name
of the unconventional young woman
who walked with him In the moonlight,
she was angry. And It is possible
that, knowing his feelings toward
her she was angrier still because
with this Influence she could not secure
the confession she sought. It Is
likewise true that she felt In her heart
that Bedlght was right In protecting
the name of the girl and should be
eulogized rather than scourged for It
?and yet. when a man has almost
told a woman he loves her. she has a
right to expect that he will do almost
anything quasi-reasonable that she
asks of him. Failing to handle him
augurs complications for the future.
^ And most of us are alike In this.
that we love to appear melodramatic
to ourselves, doing all sorts of drastic
things that, slept over, we undo, saying
things that we inflate with self at
the time being and stick a pin Into
later when our ardor has cooled. In
this mood Jackie Vining seated herself
at a small writing desk in her
room and Indited the following letter
to the chairman of the woman's
clubs in Bedight'8 district:
"Squirrel Inn, Wis.
"My Dear Madam: The campaign in
your district Is about to open. Among
the candidates Is one Walter Bedlght,
who is running for the legislature. He
will endeavor to secure the women's
votes of the district. While running
a race near Squirrel Inn he dropped
from his pocket the Inclosed bill,
which he expects to introduce, If elected.
"I feel it my duty to apprise you
of the real character of the man and
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"Sincerely.
"(Miss) JACKIE VINING."
Placing the letter and the bill In a
long envelope, Bhe laid the package
on her dresser and retired.
But with the cool touch of the linen
and the luxury of full repose, Jackie's
heart smote her.
"Well, anyhow," she mused, ns she
dropped off to sleep, "I'll hold the letter
a few days longer."
To be In the toils of a state's attorney
Is bad enough In any event; but
If the aforesaid attorney Is a woman,
oh, most unfortunate Is the man!
Thursday was Mayor Hedight's day of
attendance upon Margaret Farnsworth,
who prosecuted the case
against him on the morning of his arrival.
She entered the arena after an
earnest conference with * Judge"
Vlnlng, who seemed unusually distrait
and worried.
"Mr. Bedight," began the lady attorney,
tn a professional tone, "I want
to get some balsam for a pillow this
morning. Do you know the tree when
you see it?"
i (?b?i v<j neon in the North Woods
on many a vacation and am familiar
with the flora and fauna of the country.
I am at your service," responded
the mayor.
They sot out on foot along a pathway
that led into the wood. Once inside
the forest It wound in a trail like
that the calf made, through spruce
and hemlock, poplar and maple, with
now and then a white birch adding a
" touch of vivid contrast to the green.
The girl, an enthusiast, was walking
ahead and babbling of the nature pictures
along the way.
Suddenly Itedight felt something I
hit hltn in the back, as though a pel- i
let thrown trom close range. He
turned inquiringly. From a clump of |
brush along the trull a woman's hand
waved st him and a white paper fluttered
to the path. Turning, the mayor
retraced his steps. The messenger
crouched low and Bedlght, having secured
the message, touched hla fln
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leers to his lips and wafted her a salutation,
chaste and replete with appreciation.
And then from ahead came the surprised
call of Miss Farnsworth.
"Hurry!" cautioned a voice from behind
the clump of greenery.
"Coming," cried Bedlght, turning
and forging ahead through the wood.
A pair of pheasants arose with
drumming whirr from beBlde the path.
"There!" exclaimed the mayor, accepting
the birds us the foundation
for a clever ruse, "you've frightened
them away."
"Oh, why didn't you tell me?" reproached
the girl, getting a fleeting
glance of tho brown beauties as they
floated off through the trees.
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wini ina note ciuirnea in i
his hand, made reasonable apologies |
for his thoughtlessness and the girl. \
unsuspecting, led on. chattering delightedly.
It was a day of days to bo i
in the wood and youth is ever buoyant ,
and gay. Plainly the girl was In
tune with the mood of the time and j
the place, nnd like the beatitudes ]
about her. sought to be congenial and
natural. The man felt himself pleased
with her, for he, too, loved the solitude
and the harmonies of the forest.
Presently she sighted a scarlet tannger
and ran ahead. Bedight. waiting
for the opportunity, unfolded the slip
of paper. In a woman's handwriting
this warning was written:
"BE CAREFUL. SUE IS TRYING
TO TRAP YOU."
Bedight smiled and tucked the note
In his pocket.
Miss Farnsworth was sitting upon
a fallen monarch of the wood when
he caught up with her. In her hands
she held a lichen that had taken her
fancy. Of the party at Mine Host's
hotel, no girl was prettier than Margnret
Farnsworth and few as Intellectual.
Vivacity and spirit predominated
and ns Bedight looked at her he
did not belittle her ability to make
things Interesting for him.
She sprang to her feet ns he drew
near, and ran after a big brown butterfly.
Bedight sat down on the log
and waited. Suddenly he heard a
scream, the voice of a woman in pain.
wish rarnswortn sat upon 'ne
ground holding her ankle In both
hands. Her Hps were tightly drawn
and her face pave evidence of pain.
"What Is It?" questioned Bedlght,
apprehensively, going up to her and
taking hold of her arm.
"Help me to stand," she directed,
gripping his arm.
He raised her. She let her foot
touch the ground, winced and toppled
toward him.
"There's a wood chopper's cabin
Just ahead," she groaned. "Could?
could you carry me there?" blushing.
For answer he picked her up In his
arms. She threw her arms about his
neck and clung to him, her hair
brushing his cheek. In sight of the
hut she whispered:
"Walt! Let me down a minute."
She stood leaning against him. her
full, ripe lips teasingly near. For a
moment as he looked Into her fathomless
eyes, Bedlght felt the weakness
of man for woman coming over
him. To combat It, he moved farther
away, supporting her at arm's length.
"It would be well to leaVe me at the
cottage and go back for help Look
Inside, please, while I lean against
this birch," she directed.
"There's probably a burglar In the
woodbox or a man under the bed,"
he said laughingly, as he started
toward the cottage.
The mayor stood for a moment
upon the threshold and then entered.
As his form disappeared within, there
appeared around the corner of the
no Kin n man iho ooma nm i?/4 ?? o#
Lakeville. In a twinkling he had
slammed shut the door and thrown
a great bar across It from without.
"There, darn ye; I told ye I'd git
ye!" he bellowed with radiant pomposity,
Itedlght turned angrily ns the door
closed and realized too late that the
warning given along the trail had not
safeguarded him. He was a prisoner.
Peering through the dirty windowpane,
an aperturd not large enough to
permit the passing of a man's body.
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he saw Miss Farnsworth leave the
tree against which she had been leaning
and walk leisurely toward the
hotel.
With the realization that the girl
had deliberately led him into the
hands of the enemy, he gritted his
teeth and then, at the thought that
perhaps Jackie Vluing had planned
this coup de main. Bedight felt a
queer sinking of certain hope* that
heretofore had buoyed up a heart
yearning to take high hurdles. No? j
a woman may keep a man in hot water
on general principles of lova, but
to throw him in jail is treachery, and
vhen a woman reaches that point she
a like the womnn scorned?a perfect
ury.
The room In which Bedlght found !
limself was big and rough like some
)f the words the mayor said before
lis sense of the ludicrous returned;
Then. In full possession of the humor
>f the situation, he sat down on the
ilde of the bunk and grinned. A man
%an grin when the Joke is on him. but
le seldom becomes hoisterous under .
die circumstances unless he is in pubic,
where it is always good taste to
[>rove his good fellowship by blatant i
aughter.
That the game warden had gone for
tieip mere was no doubt. Remembering
tho slap which Bedlght had administered
on the day of their first
meeting, that worthy did not desire
to take further chances.
"Hut if Miss Vining planned the
trap, why did not the warden bring
enough help with him to arrest me?" 1
This was the question the mayor
asked himself?and gave It up. He
had no way of knowing that the warden
had sent word to the sheriff to
be on hand?but that functionary was
at the moment marooned on an island
five miles from the village with ample
food sent by a kind providence in the
light of the moon, but with no boat
by which he might navigate the intervening
waters.
An hour passed, during which time
Bedight had satisfied himself that
wood choppers' cabins in general and
this one In particular were built with
the express purpose of being better
Jails thnn those possessed by the ordinary
hamlet in the north country
He was securely confined?and he
was In to stay until some one chose
to liberato him.
A voice from without suddenly gave
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Miss Farnsworth Sat Holding Her
Ankle in Both Hands.
him hope. It was a voice he knew
well?the voice of Jackie Vlning.
"Mr. Bedlght," queried the voice,
"are you there?inside the cabin?"
"No, Miss Conspirator," replied the
mayor, vindictively, "I'm up on the
roof playing solitaire."
"Will you tell me which of the
girls was with you last night?" demanded
Miss Vlnlng. "If so, I will
let you out."
"Oh. I like tt In hero," replied the
mayor, enthusiastically. "It's a nice,
quiet place, no hooks to bait, no
mound builders to excavate, no runaway
horses to catch, no balsam to
pick, nothing to do hut relax and
think of the perfidy of one's fellows?
feminine gender."
"I'm glad you like it," responded
the "Judge," with a wholesome flavor
in her voice, "and I'm sorry to advise
you that the warden and reinforcements
are about due. Wouldn't it be<
wiser to help ire protect a thoughtless
girl and go free than to be contrary
and go to Jail?"
"1 like the Jail at T.akeville even b? t?J
ter than this," responded the prison*,,
affably. "It is light nnd airy and ha
easy exits in case of tire or ennui."
"Very well," she replied, "repent .
leisure."
The mayor listened. She was fing
away.
"Miss Vlr.ing," she cried.
"Yes, Mr. Hedlght."
"You know very well you would esptse
me if 1 told you what you re
asking. I am tlrm in my resolve ot
to appear in this light. You majas
well go now, for I shall not ansf'T
your question."
He watched her lithe form as 'j?e
walked rapidly away, her head eCL
her shoulders back, every in<, a
splendid woman.
scarcely nun bih* uisnppearen v
Hedight heard the bar thrown h k
and a voire whispered eautlousl./
"Walter! Walter! The door iff n
barred. Wait until F net away! *
From his dingy window Ik h'
saw another feminine form sj,/.ej
leisurely up the trail ?and thh./n
too. waa slim and fair to look i on
a woman that any good man /gh
well desire to win.
(TO DR C'ONTINTTRP).)
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Filibuster. ^
"What did George say when J ro>
fused him?" "He wildly decla^ he
v.ould go right down to one /hose
Central American states, staifn up
rising and horrify the world, hen h
rushed from the house." "Did!11 name
of the Central American br/ sound
like rathskeller?" "I'm not sur' "Well,
there's where he went. Ancie, start : ,
ed tho uprising by breaklngw) tnlr
rors, tipping over the bar nd floor ,
ing the proprietor with a lull XIV
table leg Whereupon the ult-r hor ,
rifled the world by picking Im lp an4
dropping him on a passing tah cart."
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< tUbs of the military academy i
nov. i .|?rhapa have they evoked groi
the ii Arican army, as may be set
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Spanish Prime Minister Foretold
His Own Death.
Wonclcrjl Prognostications of Mnhmoud,
an Egyptian Astrologer.
Wee Verified, When Bourtos
Pasha Was Slain.
I .on dm?"1 know that I am condemns
to death, because 1 possess
( positiv Information that two anarchists
lave taken an oath to kill me.
1 kno", f.irther, that the anarchist
who li to take my life is a man who
was hnished from Buenos Aires, and
mm fi went mt'nce to I'arls and
Iliarri/.. after which the police lost
! trace >t" hiin."
So spoke the late Senor Canalejas.
the Danish prime minister, on Nov.
8. 192. in a conversation with an intimae
friend, and four days later he
was shot dead by nn assassin while
lootaig in at the window of a book
shot
t must be a terrible strain on
neves and pluck to feel, as so many
hvl done, that the sword hangs over
tie head, suspended, an It w ere, by
a b lgle hair.
1 it such has been the fate of morn
I th:i one public man during the past
1 fe^ years, and of scores In earlier
| dais.
{ n February. 1910, Sheik Mahmoud.
a [veil known Egyptian astrologer,
wjnt to Iloutros I'asha. prime minister
olEgypt, and told hint that he foreaiv
his deAth at the hands of an as:^?sln
Iloutros believed the prophecy
ad as every one knows, was foully
tlirdered a few months later.
It Is worth mentioning that MahJoud
put in print a prediction of the
path of King Edward three months
ofore It occurred. He said that it
jould come to pass in May.
Hy (he way. he also foretold In 1910
lhat King George of Greece would nntex
three Turkish cities. This also
ruin trim
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Willi** on the subject of Turkey and
'trie east, we may say that the late
AMERICAN HIDES FOR KING
Pennsylvania Tannery Gets Rush Orders
for Sole Leather to Go
to England.
Warren. Pa.- A company has Issued
an order to a tannery at Clarendon to
rush work and put on all the men that
can he obtained to complete within
forty days a special order for 1,200
King George V.
sides of fine solo leather to he shipped
to London
This tanned leather Is for the use
of the manufacturer who supplies
King George, and Is for his exclusive
use and for the supplies that are need
ed for the current year for the royal
family and its household.
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it West Point always are cheered when l
iter enthusiasm than during the inaugt
n in the photograph, made a most eCfec
ed^bFfate~1
King Alexander of Servia fully believed
that ho would meet with a violent
death.
Years earlier, in fact, when King
Milan. Alexander's father, was on the
throne, a Servian peasant predicted
that Milan's reign would be one of
many misfortunes, thnt he would wage
I an unsuccessful war. that he would
marry, have one son and then be divorced
He ended by prophesying a
violent death for the son.
Alexander, realizing how true the
rest of the predictions had been, frequently
spoke to his Intimates of his
coming end. hut ho could hardly have
expected that it would have been attended
by such horrors as were actu
j ally the case.
Of all modem stories of doom, none
Is so terrible ns that of the Austrian
noble family of Vetzera. The name
will be familiar to all readers, because
of the Baroness Marie Vetzera. for
love of whom the Crown Prince Rudolf
killed himself
Every member of that family was
beautiful and Rifted, yet for generations
ill-fate doRged them and none
died a nntural death.
Marie, It is believed, poisoned herself
with strychnine, her brother, a
tine younR officer, was burnt to death
in the awful conflagration at the Ring
theater; the father. Baron Vetzera.
fell dead of sunstroke in a Cairo
street. Finally, Jennne, countess of
Bylandt. one of the most beautiful and
accomplished women who ever lived,
died suddenly In Rome,
i Poison caused her death, but whether
administered Inteutlonally or not
none can say.
PI YFR RFTQ MPUf AID DCPflDn
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Aviator Gilpatrlck, With Feminine
Passenger, Reaches 5,009 Feet
Above Los Angeles.
I^m Angeles. Cal.?With MIhb Margaret
Stahl of Jersey City, N. J., as
a passenger in his De Perdussln monoplane.
John Guy Gilpatrlck. the
: youngest aviator in the world, again
W1LL~A1D
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Five Hour Day Is Asked Workers
in Massachusetts.
To Lead Country Again If Measure
Pending in the Legislature Is
Passed?Other States
Aid Reform.
New York.?Massachusetts will
again lead the country In one part of
its child labor laws, according to the
national child labor committee, if
the bill to reduce the hours of work
for all under sixteen years becomes
law. Massachusetts now has a tenhour
day for workers under sixteen,
which it is proposed to reduce at one
step to a live-hour day, with the requirement
that all child workers under
sixteen shall attend a part time
day school.
Other states, meanwhile, are won- I
doring if they can establish the eight- i
hour day, and definite carnDaicns for !
this end are on in Arkansas. Call- I
fornla, New Hampshire, Pennsyl- J
vania, Texas, West Virginia and elsewhere.
The committee points out that the
bills which have already been Intro- 1
duced In Pennsylvania, Delaware and
Texas all Include the regulation of
street trades provided In the uniform
child labor law.
This allowi no newsboy under
j twelve years and no other street
trader under fourteen. It also forbids
all girls to engage In these occupations
before they are sixteen years
old.
New York, under the recommendation
of the state factory Investigating
commission, Is considering bills not
only to prohibit child labor In cant
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Lhey mako a public appearance, but
iral parade. These future officers of
:tlve showing.
broke the American passenger carrying
altitude record.
Starting from Fairfax park, the machine
reached its highest altitude of
5,001) feet directly over the heart of
Los Angeles. > *
The record, however, will not be
1 considered official. because Gilpatri'ck's
previous record of 4,660 feet
\Vus not exceeded by 500 feet, as required
by the rules of the International
Aeronautical federation.
STRAUS, OIL MAN'S NEIGHBOR
Former American Ambassador to
Turkey Buys a Farm Near Tarrytown,
*N. Y.
Tarrytown, N. Y.?Oscar S. Straus,
former ambassador to Turkey and
, recently the progressive candidate for
governor of New York state, is to es1
tuhllah hlmoolf V* ?? ? a
u.u.?si> uci c od u uiuob aeigna\
Oscar S. Straus.
bor to John D. Rockefeller. He has
I nougnr. tne Morton farm, between here
and Pleasantvllle. which Is one of the
1 oldest estates In this section. It consists
of about eighty acres, for which
Mr Straus Is said to have paid $55,000.
Mr. Straus said he was! going to
build a simple summer home.
CHILDREN J
1 nerloB and tenements, but to reorganize
the factory Inspection departi
ment as an Industrial commission
| with a greatly increased staff of Inspectors.
Delaware, Indiana, Missouri,
North Carolina and others are
also talking of measures to make
more efficient their departments of
inspection.
I In many states, minimum wage
boards, pensions for widowed mothers,
prohibition of night work and
methods of determining age of children
seeking employment are under
discussion.
New Hampshire and some of the ?
routhern states will probably raise
the ago limit for working children
from twelve to fourteen years, and It
is hoped that a child labor law for
territories will be presented to congress.
A compulsory school attendance
law has beer, introduced In the North
Carolina legislature, and bills are
t'.Iked of in Sonfh e?~.n? ?
? umunii?, i enncs6ee
and Texas.
DAY OFF PLAN FOR DOCTORS
Berlin Physicians to Try a Scheme to
Gain a Reat?Only Few Are
Berlin.?A scheme, which haa long
been considered by Berlin physicians,
Is to be tried out, in the Moabit dls- '
trlct, when certain doctors will be appointed
to answer all calls between
noon and midnight on Sunday.
It Is planned to hare different physicians
serve each Sunday to the end
that others may have a rest one day
In the week. If It works out well It
will probably be extended to the whole
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