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?v lS ", % ,fsERIAL^ [ L story J S I ^ j \ .Vomen's \ \ Candidate ?j j Y y ' J ? I 5 8 | \ g By BYRON WILLIAMS A \ ======================== f Coorrtaht IUU. Wr?lern New*uaper Union 9 SYNOPSIS. In a spirit of fun Mayor Bedlght, a lumnmr visitor. Is chased through tho Woods by ten laughing girls, one of whom !;? catches and kisses. The girls form themselves Into a court and sentence him to do tho bidding of one of their number each flay for ten days. A legislative "measure opposing woman suffrage, which dropped from the mayor's pocket. Is used to coinpel 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 considers a clandestine meeting between one of the glr's anil tho mayor. The next day he goes driving with Mabel Arney. They meet with an accident, are arrested and locked up. but escape. Tho mayor returns to tho hotel, finds the sheriff walling f?r him. and takes refuge In the room of Bess Winters. He plans to get possession of the incriminating bill. With Harriet Brooks the mayor goes to Investigate an Indian mound. They are caught In a thunder fctorm. Returning lute, he has rather a stormy Interview with "Judge" Vlnlng. who seeks to find out who returited to the hotel with hltn. ThlirnHnv vifnu Vfnvn, TI...H V. * O .1.? ?, ?' attendance upon Margaret Farnsworth. She decoy* him Into a cabin In the woods, and he Is made a prisoner by the frame warden. He Is later released by one of the girl*. He turns the tables on the Knme warden and makes that Kentlenian and his party prisoners. After breakfast he goes on the lake with Molly 51c_ Connell. f > ^ CHAPTER X.?Continued. "Your diplomacy is admirable." he i congratulated, passing her the coffee potLunch over, Bedlght packed the cooking outfit and replaced it in the boat. The sky was smoky in the west, smoky with heat that generated a strange restlessness among the quivering trees, while the air was Burcharged with & portentous quietude that presaged a clash of elemental fury. A black cloud stood upon the rim of the lake and caused a look of v concern In Bedight's eyes. A glanco v In Miss McConnell's direction showed the girl absorbed in her work. The mayor picked up a magazine and stretched himself upon the sward beneath a huge yellow birch. He was attracted from his story a half hour later by a shadow across the sun. Hurriedly springing to his feet, he scanned the sky. A mass of black with livid green patches and scurrying forerunners of white froth lay like a monstrous curtain across the west, through which shot veins of gold like roots of mammoth trees. A deep rumble, bass in its intonation, rolled across the sky, warning the creatures of the earth that soon their master would bo abroad In the land to wreck and destroy. The woman, tco, aware of the danger, sat gazing apprehensively at the uiaiuroea sny. "Oh, Mr. Bedight," she cried, with the veriest trifle of anxiety in her voice, "wo must be going. The sky looks like a storm." The mayor came over to Miss McConnell and, standing beside her, gazed analytically into the west. "I think we will be safer here," he advised, quietly. "The storm will break before re can reach the Inn." \ "But we cannot stay in this ruined hut. It leaks and the doors are goue," objected Miss McConnell. "Come on, let's be off." The man hesitated. "Don't you think it wiser to remain here until the storm Is over? We are a long ways from Squirrel Inn." couni ' seled the mayor. I \ "But the wind will kick up the lakes I until we can't get across for hours," cried the woman nervously. H| "Sometimes," said .Bedight, looking bH squarely at her, "a man Is not as dangerous after dark as a wind HT storm by day." "Nonsense!" exclaimed Miss McCon I nell. "Where's your sporting blood. Let's make a try for it." The mayor turned and walked down to the boat. The girl followed and got aboard, lie rolled up the sleeves of Lis light shirt and took the oars. As he did so, a drop of rain (ell into the |^B BB "Really. Miss McConnell," he pro9^B tested, "this Is unwise. You will not ^^^B only get a good wetting but there is ^^^B grave danger of " B^^R "1 am neither sugar nor a coward," ^B she said curtly. "Go ahead." Redight fell to his oars but his in^^^^B epectton of the sky over the girl's head as she faced him was far from B B reassuring. The clouds had taken more definite form and in their center, occupying the front of the great stage of the sky, clung a balloon-like mass B of twisting matter. Redight looked at the girl apprehensively, as she sat in the stern of the boat, taking the splashing drops of rain like a SparB^B^B "Miss McConnell. we are going to ^^H^^^flhave a bad storm presently. Don't you ^^^^^^^Bthlnk it would be bettor to go back? Book the sky you." I^B^^B As turned her head. An >??>????. B tion of surprise broke from her 11p?. "If you think best. Mr. Uedigbt. I am afraid 1 have been foolhardy?but I'm still satisfied to go ou If you are." proudly. A terrific clap of thunder directly v/tci ucau, vuuyieu wiixi a. luur 111 lue west, caused Bedight to hesitate. Instead of turniug the boat, he headed for the shore. Behind them the storm was rushing with ten league wings and the waves leaped Into an action that set the boat tossing like a speck upon a boiling pot. The day became as dark as night, 6nve for the lightning flashes. In a moment the storm broke. Amid the crash of rending trees, the demoniacal shrlekings of the wind, the terror of the lightning, the boat j sped onward alont? the shore, oue oar gone, the other useless in such a sea. In the main channel no craft could have lived, but along the shore down which the two raced before the wind, the shell flew on the wings of the tempest. White but brave, frightened but in full control of her nerves, the girl clung to the boat. Straight toward the narrow neck of Goose lnke. the craft bore like a wind-whipped iceboat under & gale. The mayor gritted his teeth. Once outside the smaller lake the course of the craft would be directly across the larger body of water. He studied the girl opposite. Did Bhe realize the danger? "Mr. Bedight," she spoke regretfully, with an effort at bravery. "I?If we go through into Sylvan lake I?I'm sorry I didn't take your advice. It won't help much now to know that I've repented of my decision?but I?" The mayor interrupted, shouting against the wind: "I think we'll avoid it, and surely this must pass quickly." > Her answer was lost In the musketry and deluge that followed. The boat, half filled with water, lurched perilously, rolled like a cedar log and turned turtle! Bedight felt himself carried forward nun leiiium tspeeu ami aeposueu upon the shore. He shook the water from his eyes, neside him on the sand lay the girl, and a rod down the shore the Loat hung upon the shingle. She opened her eyes to the sound of his voice nnd the pressure of his hand upon her heart. Coughing, she sat up on the beach and rubbed the sand from her face and hands. Her clothes hung closely upon her, showing the outlines of her body. The rnln still fell in torrents and ran down their necks In tiny rivulets. "Oh!" she gasped, when her senses marshaled themselves from the bewilderment. "I've lost my sketch!" The mayor laughed. "If you had been a trifle less fortunate, you might not be worrying about that now?although I'm willing to admit you'd make a swell mermaid." The storm was raging off in the e&Bt, the wind whore they Btood had ceased cracking Its lungs, but a heavy sea was running on the lake and both oars were gone. Iledlght looked about for shelter. Mounting the shore's bluff, he saw, off lo the north, a hut still standing, evidently Fome fisherman's shanty. He beckoned the girl, who came up laughing. "If I look bb funny hs you do with your clothes all stlcklne tn von th? little birds will be In paroxysms tomorrow!" laughed the bedraggled woman, saucily, gazing brazenly at the man. "Well," replied Redlght, returning the star^, "your hair Is down, your shirtwaist Is out at the back, your skirt is showing your limbs and your shoes squash when you walk. Otherwise you are dressed for one of Mine Host's summer feeds or evening hops ?thAt Is. dress appropriate for Squirrel Inn when there are no men to ensnare and all dancing parties are feminine." "You're horrid!" she scowled. '"What are we going to do?" "There's a hut over there. If there's ggg "Your Diplomacy la Admirable.** any part of it that will burn, we wil preperve the remainder and use it ai a Garden of Eden supplied by a klm providence." The woman hesitated. The Gardei of Eden stuff in the morning was no then so pregnant with possibilities Hedight set off ahead, apparently oblivious to her doubt. Miss McConnell's face was clouded What else waa there to do? The; were on tho opposite side of the tur bulent lake from the inn, with an oar less, shattered, boat. The country about was rough and unsheltered t jj The night was upon them and the way j to the inn around Sylvan lake was too I far for her to attempt walking It In the night, along the rough trails und through the mud-covered roads. Medlght met her at the dcor. "Welcome. Eve." he said, teasing ly. "Eden Isn't Buch a bad place, after all. There's a stove and some Hour and salt here, also matches, u dish- , pan. three chairs and a bunk. J'rn go j ing to see if the lake has yielded up our coffee pot and some coffee" "I'll go." said Miss McConnell, soberly. "You start the fire and put the kettle on." She went out abstractedly and walked down to the beach. What should she do? Was she sure of this man who seemed a gentleman, or would she need protection from her pro- | tector? If she had been more guarded in her bnnterlng conversation of the morning, if she had not been quite po natural and unconventional. She looked up und down the beach hurriedly as though sho would run away, a sudden passion for tlight coming over her. But where could she go? And there were snakes and bears in the woods! Whut should she ! do? Hedlght found her sitting upon the edge of the boat. She started as he drew near and took on a new reserve. He looked at her understandingly and dropped his Joking mood. "Here Is the coffee," he said, pro ducltig a sodden mass, "but the pot must have followed the cyclone Shall we go back?" She looked up like a frightened child with that pleading look we see In the eyes of a cornered rabbit. "Come," he said, kindly, "the pot boils and you will be needed soon to pour the coffee." She arose without a word and followed him into the shack. "And now," lie said. "I am going away for an hour. There Is plenty of wood here Take off your wet clothes and dry them. When you have r????????????? l ^ * J Lucille Walter*. finished, call from tho door. I will be on the beach. Do not be afraid. 1 will not be out of hearing." "Thank you," she replied, and there was a more cheerful Intonation In her voice. Hedlght sat upon a log and watched the white-caps whip themselves along the shore. The sky was clear and the moon came out from Its nest behind the wood and glowed like a ball of crimson ochre. For an hour he sat thus, when he heard a step upon the gravel behind him. "The coffee Is ready, Mr. Hedlght. If you are as hungry as I, we shall do ample justice to saleratus biscuits and coffee." They sat down by the light of an oil lamp that contained two Inches of kerosene. v "Oh, If Pauline could only see us now," laughed Miss McConnell? or Mine Host?"but It's good, anyhow. If you're hungry enough!" "Add to all your other charms," said Redight, lightly; "the quality of being a good cook!" The girl's face grew serious again. Redight noted the varying shades, but n.l.l 1 1 1 r"l I'mvi uu uuioaiu nt't'u i (in rougn fare and the abominable coffee were palatable and both felt better after eating. They sat quietly after the meal, the oil burning lower and lower In the lamp. Outside a wolf barked and In the margin of the wood a night bird Hew by with a raucous cry. "And now," said the mayor. Jovially. "It Is the curfew hour In Eden. Tho laBt one In bed won't have to blow out the light, for It Is going out of Its own accord." Me arose and, taking off hU coat, rolled it into a pillow. "Lie down hero and rest a while." he said, gently. "1'lease, Mr. Medight," replied the girl, her face flushed and her eyes turned away. The mayor arose and stood before her. "Miss McConnell," he spoke quietly, reassuringly, "I had a mother once She was sweet and pure?and?and rhe died." The mayor's voice broke for the moment. "She?she taught me to respect womanhood. She taught me to be open and simple and sincere I The situation In which we find our * selves Is trying only as we make It so 1 Let us be sensible and direct. Ther* Is the bunk. Lie down and sleep, 1.' 1 you can. I shall stretch out upon thi 1 floor and try It myself. You nee< ' have no fear that " f "Forgive rue." she cried, laying hei hands upon his. "! have no fear? ' nothing but explicit trust and confl 1 f dence!" "Which is the time, usually." hi ' said, with the old ring In his volc? f "that the apple gets bitten!" ? (TO BE CONTINUED.) CAR AND DEPOT THIEVES Will Find Operations More Difficult as Result of Bill of Virginia Representative. Washington, I"). C.?Car and depot thieves will lind their operations in tlie future more difficult than in the past and will have to face prosecution in the Federal courts as well as be fore state tribunals as the result of the bill introduced by Representative t\ C. Carl in, of Alexandria, Va(( passed by both houses of congress, | and approved by the president. This J act imposes a maximum ilne of $5,000 j or imprisonment for not more than ten years for any person convicted of unlawfully breaking into any railway car containing interstate or for- j eigti shipments of freight or express, or of stealing or obtaining by fraud or deception from any car, depot, platform, vessel, or wharf ant freight, express or baggage which consti tutes or is a part of any interstate or foreign shipment. Willie the Carlin Act in no way in fringes on the jurisdiction of the state j courts, it puts the whole power of j the Ked? ral Department of Justice behind the detection and prosecution i of persons guilty of stealing from cars ! or depots. since it will be practically ! impossible for thieves to distinguish between intrastate and interstate ; shipments. it is confidentially ox- ; pected that this law will have a powerful effect in breaking up thefts of this character which not only In ! volves a serious loss to the railways i atiad causes great inconvenience to shippers and travelers but are a eon ; stunt menace to railway employees and the traveling public since it If 1 notorious that car thieves do not lies- | itate to interfere with trains or resort i to other expedients to serve theif ! own purposes, regardless of the con sequences. Train Plunged Through Open Switch Rheumatism Caused by Germ. Chicago.- That rheumatism is cans j erl by a perm was announced recently by Dr. Kdward <\ ilosenow, of Rush Medical College, who also asserted he has discovered the identity i of the hitherto unknown bacteria. I>r. | Rosenow made known his discovery for the tirst time to the statT of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute, to whom ho described his research work. He said it line! been carried on by experiments with rabbits into which ho injected rheumatic germs taken from human beings. Dr. Rosenow found the tonsils of several patients were inflamed. He injected bacteria from tonsils into rabbits and the identical symptoms developed. There is nothing to indicate the disease may be transmitted through air, said Dr. Rosenow. and it is believed the germs lurk 1n food and first lodge in the ton [ sils. Dr. Rosenow's discoveries will i be the basis for experimental work in I search for a cure for rheumatism. Poincare Shows Democracy Too. Paris?Not to be outdone by President Wilson. President Poincare of [ France lias issued instructions which mark him as the most democratic president France has ever had. When he is making his way through the j streets of Paris, he commands his i automobile must take its chances with j other vehicles, stopping when the I others stop at crossings, going on when they go. The only time when < he will nermit trafhc to !>? ititorriou,nl I for liis benefit will bo upon state occasions, formal parade and the like | During the regime of former presidents, an armed guard, with balled car- | fridges in bis belt, slept just outside j the chief executive's bedroom door | Poincare has done away with this ens torn. Toledo, O Baltimore & Ohio pas senger train N'o. crashed through an 1 open switch at Hoytville. demolished i the stalion and turned turtle. Fireman j Jackson of C.arrett was killed. Grant Mason, of Hoytville. who was in the station was fatally injured, and r score of passengers were seriously Injured Five others may die The train was traveling at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Six of the seven coaches were overturned. According to Engineer Cost there was no ewitch light to give warning. The switch was left open by the crow of a local freight . train, it is alleged. "Dinner Pail" Necessitates Duty Free Washington Raw wool and sugar must he free of duty because they are | "dinner necessities." This is the die- : turn of President Wilson. He outlined his views to three senators Thompson of Katisns, Walsh of Coloratio and Myers of Montana, who are | against this administration tariff view. The president told the trio that he will Insis* that the congress place raw woo! or the free list immediately and sugar within three years, lie will veto any arlff bill not in ac cordance with thh idea. Reluctant to Recognize China. Washington?At least one great pow er has declined to Join with thd United States In recognizi .g the new Chinese republic at this stj<ge and there Is no reason to expect -some of the other , powers to take a similar attitude. No ! protest has been Jodged against th< j course takep but there exists so much | doubt as to the aitpcess that will fol low the attempt ft the constituent assembly to organize ? complete and stable government | that some of the powers derm It p/ident to withhold formal recognl'lon 1 for the present. # r She Wanted to Know WASHINGTON?An ancient colored woman was jammed In the inauguration crowd at the Peace Muniment. A custard-colored young wornin and a seal-brown young man were supposed to have her In tow, but theywere so taken up with each other and with the excitement going on that the woman was as alone. In spirit, as 'If alio were on a country field, where she obviously came from. There was a daze of rapt wonder In her eyes as she looked down at the firmament of electric stars and jeweled planets that canopied the avenue from end to end. And like some old brown sybil, she raised her voice in ejaculation that, someway, took on the melody of a chant: "Lawdneben, whar did dey git all dese lights fum! How did dey git 'em up > under high In de air whar nobody on uth kin cllm'! Hooks like Gawd done let down de stabs! How did dey git dom little (lames shot up in dein glass bottles? How do dey make 'em burn 'thout no taller, an' no wicks, an' no oil, an' no firewood?nor nuthin'? answer me dat! How did dey git dem It Has Arrived but Sooi Everybody knew it was coming, but possibly no one believed it would arrive so soon. The new arrival is a new national society. It Is known as the National Society of Colonial Cavaliers. This Is to bo the most exclusive society In America, and you nave goi 10 nave uncage, iois or it, to belong to It. The headquarters of this society nre to be in this city, and its governor general is to bo Mr. ('. W. I)e Lyon Nicholls. It seems as though thiB is the outgrowth of the JamcHtown exposition, where a lot of "high-brows" got together and discussed their lineage. It doeB not depend upon American birth. In fact. American birth won't help It out at all. This Society of Colonial CavallerB 1b composed of men und women who can trace their lineage directly to a cavalier who either served under or supported Charles I. of England in his struggle with Cromwell. So far the organlxntlon has been confined to the palatinate of New York. That of Maryland will be the first effort to extend the society. In the near future It will bo carried, according to Mr. Nicholls. into Virginia, and later into the Carolinas. l.tneage alone, however, Is the qualification test. The society is democratic rather than snobbish. and Representative Tom Butl Representative tom butler of Pennsylvania has never had, his picture taken. It Is a hobby of his. When he lirst same to congress^ tjie sergeant-at-arms asked for his photo to put in the official gallery. Mr. Butler told him in a jocular way todget any old picture and put it In. for him as he had never had any made. "A long time afterward," said Mr. Butler, "a book agent called on, me. He sang his usual Bong about my being so prominent that the publishers had printed a sketch of me and KRd When He Didn't Feel the AN' exhibit of battle flags at the museum caught tho attention of a woman who was passing through. They were poor, scarred things; some of them shot-riddled . and splotched with, maybe, mildew and, maybe, blood, and all of them dirty and tattered to slits. The woman studied each flag with the unemotional deference she had Just paid to Washington's old clothes. When she had finished the last one and was turning away another visitor came up and stood before the case. He was so old that his march with the veterans down the inaugural lint must have put an extra limp to his stiff leg and added an extra twinge to the shoulder that was pain-drawn from rheumatism and time. But he didn't seem to be feeling either limps or twinges, as he stood before the exhibit, hat off and bU Fhe Way of Electricity runner-roun lights on dem poles to burn dlff'nt like dat, somu blue, an' some red, an' some green??an', oh. my Uwd, (lore's a qulvery flag wIt live blood stripes! Look-a yander at uem uia/.in strings all over dem houses an' ain't nalry one catchin' hah. It's like Dan'l In de flahy funnace 'thout gitttn' burnt. It looks like Jedgmont day done conae an' ev'rybody saved?hally-loo-y uh!" The custard-yellow young woman took sudden notice: "Lor', gran'ma, shut up." "Ef you don't keep quiet, Mrs. Thompson," added the seal young man. Jocosely, "Miss Luce an' me'll run off an' leave you. Then how you goin' to find your way back to Prince Gawges?" "I gwlne keep m&h xnouf shet all I kin. chlllen, an' I wouldn't be feared, ? nuther. De one dat sont a stah ahead for dem shep'd men ain't gwlne leave a ole 'ooman like me to stumble in <le dark, not on a night all lit up like dls one, nohow. Oh. l^awdle, look at dat sun a flickerln' In fronter dat sto\ Ef 1 only could steddy out 'bout dem flames in dem bottles. Dat sholy gits me." Hardly worth writing' about, is It? Just the unrestrained babble of an old creature of the Maryland pines; just darkest ignorance wanting to kno(v the why of electricity. JuBt one simple soul asking God to bless her kind. Just one in the thousands who were on the avenue inauguration night. ner Than Was Expected Influence in the selection of members. w mm no person can join tnis society who cannot produce documentary proof of his descent from a cavalier oI King Charles' times, the palatine who will preside over the palatine of Maryland must be able to show that he is descended from either a son, a grandson, or one who himself was a member of the British nobility of that period. It will be seen that this newest cult in snobbishness is reaching out Into the Carolines, and ultimately into Georgia, and this brings to mind the historic fact that among the clayeaters and sang-dlggers there is a cavalier outfit. This section of the Atlantic coast was once the dumpingground of the nobtlliard scum of the old world, and soil of aristocratic penal colony, where the black sheep sons of noble houses were sent to get rid of them. er Taken at His Word printed my picture. I was immediately Interested. I wanted to know about the picture. So he showed It to me. "There I was with a regular horsetail whiskers down to my waist. Now I am no beauty, but I have never worn any hirsute adornment, and certainly no Pfeffer whiskers. It made me mad, and I accused him of being a faker "He insisted that all the pictures were secured from the official gallery, and offered to show me the original I went with him, and there, sure enough, on the walls, was a picture purporting to be me from which the copy had been made. "The sergeant-at-arm had taken me at my word, and, being a fecetious fellow, had picked out this monstrosity to represent me. It had been hanging there all the time, and 1 had never noticod It and my friends had never told me about it. You can Bee the picture yourself if you go in the cloak C room." Limps and Twinges of Age figure straightened into the military rigidity of a soldier at attention. Eret his age-drooped mouth had gone back to the masterfulness of youth, and is his eyes was the grlmness that darei follow wherever a flag leads the way And the woman who had stool aside, respectfully, and studied th? man with the same unemotional defer ence with which she had studied the . flags, said to her own curious self: "Thla, doubtless, is what yon sail