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===== A Gen From Mi by THOMA Sfoxtelized From the 'Play COPYRIGHT. 1909. B\ nenators. Ik ft possible. -ir. that yea i have actual knowledge : ttta! hup . penings that give v. a tin right to t.:.k j as you have? 1 want to know if i j must fool shantv. fool disgra- < . sir. to' be a sciuttor Iroin Mississippi, that Btate, sir, thai the Almighty himself, j sir, would choose to Jive iu if lie cattle to earth." "There, there, senator, don't take too seriously what I have said," Sanders replied in reassuring tune, ba\ ing outlined his course of action. "1 lost my head because you wouldn't promise me something I needed -that appointment for Xlagley. What I said about senators an' such was ah wild words nothin' in 'em. Why. how could there Jl be, senator?" This ijuety was a happy afterthought which Sanders craftily 1 , suggested In a designedly artless manner. "Just what 1 thought and know.'" ex- | claimed Langdon shandy. It couldn't be; it isn't possible. Now you go, sir. and let it be your greatest disgrace that you are not tit to enter any gen- j tleman's house." "Ob/don't rub it in too hard, senator. You may need my help some day, but you'll have to deliver the poods beroreband." I "I said, 'Go!'" "I'm goln', but hero's t tip. Don't blame me for tigbtin' you. I've got to light to live. I'm a human beln', an' f humans are pretty much the same all over the world, all except you you're only half natural. The rest of you is reformer." After Sanders' departure the colonel sat at his table, his head restiug in his hand, the eveuts of the day crowding his brain bewilderlugly. "The battles of peace are worse than any Beauregard ever led me into," he murmured. "Fighting to conquer one( elf is harder than turning the left . flank of the Eighth Illinois In an enfilading fire." But the new senator from Mississippi i did not know that for him the wars of r peace had only just l>egun, that perhaps his own flesh and blood and that L of the wife and mother who had gone before would turn traitor to his colors f In the very thickest of the fray. CHAPTER ill. 110W TO PLEASE A SENATOli. * 1 Wfich. iUUTUauuimi uvici i*? ington was all hustle and bustle. Was it not preparing for Its first senator since l^So? No I lees a personage than the Hon. William H. Langdon of Mississippi, said to be a warm personal friend of Senator Stevens, one of the leading members of his party at the capital, hac engaged a suit of rooms for hlmr If and two daughters. "Ain't it the limit?'' remarked the chief clerk to Bud liaines, correspondent of the New York Star. "The senator wrote us that he was coming here because his old friend, the late Senator Moseley, said back in '75 that this was tbe best hotel in Washington aud where nil the prominent men ought to etay." "Haines, the ablest political reinirter in Washington, had come to the International to Interview the new senator, go describe for his paper what kind of a citizen I.angdon was. He glanced around at the dingy woodwork, the worn cushions, the nicked aud uneven tiles of the hotel lobby, and smiled at Jbe clerk. "Well, If this Is the new s men 01 |hiuui,i iu*uij uv v. right into the senatorial atmos. Both laughed derisively. "By ^^Khe way," dded Hain< "I suppose ^^Brou'll raise your rates now that you've J^^KOt a senator here." The clerk brought Lis fist down |BJ the register with HH 'mjRJ a thud. /f \ "We could have H_ fjt - w"\ tbein every day Mr jA if we wanted ft '(jf them. This felH > A<\/rA I low, though, we ll t I 4 L. J have all winter, I V" Jfr< 1 l\ guess, ills son's At J / .W f1 n\ here uow. Been Ht f jj jTy ^J \ I breaking all rec^ ii on*s *or drlnk" Ha. % &' lnS- Congressn man Norton of r Mississippi has can't you see been down here ^K^^vhat you're doingr with him a few I Hjcs. There young Langdon is now." ^^^Hlaines turned quickly, just in time H^^Efomp into a tall, slender young who was walking unevenly in direction of the cafe. m ' ??wah f.aa t t- vatt'pa ^a_ (vttli i* vu dcv n uub j vu ?v uvluttered the tall youug man i smiled. The chap who has inlfback four years on his colen and held the boxing chainAn his class is apt to be good He does not have to take ofslly. Besides, Kandolph Langplainly under the infltience of So Haines smiled pleasantly ller young man. our pardon my fault," Haines don't let it occur again," mumlgdon as he strolled with uumlty toward the door. Bud augbed. 3s young Langdon Is going to f the boys, isn't he?" already one of them when It .. .T" tleman ississippi S A. WISE by Frederick *R. Toombs THOMAS A. WISE ;< a < * tli: il rnpreirr," ia'il-l.'d SOT'lO lie bt'llilld i.iti!. Sll'd 1 Still whirled to meet the g;:?.e of his friend, 1 >i<-k t'nllen. representative of one of j!i- 1"*ir <'! ioago dailies. "V.?u down here to poo T.nngdon, to'.;" C'lllL Hllll. ' nodded. "Queer roost where fid* senator Is to hang out. isn't it?" "it cau't be a rich one. then." suggested Haines. ( alien chuckled. "Perhaps he's an honest one." "I hadn't thought of that. You always were original. Dickie." commented Haines dryly. "By the way. what do you know about him?" "Nothing, except that the Evening Call printed n picture of his eldest daughter says she's the queen daugh tc-r ot ttie soirni. u iamuus hchui>, m-u planter for n father, mother left her a fortune"? "She'll out quite a social caper w ith this hotel's name 011 her cards, won't she;" broke hi Haines as he led Cullen to a seat to await the expected legislator, whose train was late. "I don't know very much about him myself," said Haines. "All I've becD able to discover is that Stevens said the word which elected him, aud that looks bad. Grout glory, w hen 1 think what a senator of the right sort has a | chance to do here hi Washington?a nonpartisan, straight out from the shoulder man:" He paused to shake his head in disgust. "You know these fellows here In the senate don't even ; see their chance. Why, if you and I . <lidn't do any more to hold our Job* than they do we'd be fired by wire the first day. They know Just the old political game, that's all." "It's a great game, though, Bud." 6lghed Cullen longingly, for, like many T "4 rti>ntlrriin)t from ZJt\. SJiH ** v#* J Mississippi." oewspfiper men, he had the secret /eellog that he was cut out to be a great i politician. "Sure, ifs a great game, as a game," agreed IIallies. "So Is bridge. au<l stud poker, and three card monte, aud flimflam generally. Take this new man Langdou. for instance. Chosen by Ste > ens he'll probably be perfectly obedl : enf, perfectly easy going, perfectly blind and perfectly useless. What's wanted now Is to .get the work done, not play the game/' j Thoroughly a cynic through his ' years of experience as a ntwspaper 1 man, which had shown the Inside workings of many Important phases of the seemingly conventional life of this complex world, Culleu pretended I unbounded enthusiasm. "Hear! Hear!" he shouted. "All you earnest citizens come vote for Reformer tlalnes. I'm for you. Bud. What do I get in your cabinet? I've j joined the reformers, too, and, like all of them, me for P-U-K-I-T-Y as long gh?? fivt>s r?e n meal ticket." ^ But uot eveu Cullen could make : Haines consider bis views on the necessity of political regeneration to be ridiculous. His optimism could not be snuffed out, for be was a genuine believer tbat the untural tendency of humankind was to do right. Wrong be believed to be the outcome of unnatural causes. This quality, combined with Ills practical knowledge of i tbe world arid bis courage, made him a formidable man. one who would one day accomplish big things if be got the chauce. "You know you can't shut me up, Hick," was bis response to Culien's oratorical flight. "I'm going to have my say. I don't see why a senator shouldn't be honest. All I want them to do is to play a new game. Let 'em at least seem to be honest, attend to their business, forget politics. Tbe country seuds them here to work, and If they do the work the people really don't care a bang what party they belong to." "Come out of it. Bud. Your brain Is ! wabbly," yawned Cullen wearily. "I'll i buy a drluk if you'll quiet down. Let's be comfortable till this fellow Langdon appears." He caught his friend ! by the arm and in spite of protest dragged him off to the cafe Just at i young Langdon and Congressman NorJ ton came down through the lobby. Though but few years older th?E i Tlandolph Langdon, Charles Norton had long exercised strong Influence over him because of his wider experience in the world's affairs. Like his father, young Langdon had stayed close to the plantation most of his life, particularly after leaving school, devoting bis attention to studying the business of conducting the family's 1 big estate. Norton brought blm the j atmosphere of the big outside world he yea rued to see even as did his sister Carolina, and he Imitated Norton's 1,1c? /Irncc on/1 JJIA/In fit IliUliljri 3, UIO Ui uu\? UJWV i speech. The congressman's habit of | confiding lu Randolph, a subtle eoiiij pllraent, was deeply appreciated by | the lad. who unconsciously became a continual advertiser of Norton's many virtues to Carolina and to his father, all of which the congressman knew. ' That Norton's political career was ! the outcome of Carolina Langdon's ambition to shine In gay society was I known to bis friends as well as his family, and his desire to win her and place her where she could satisfy every whim l?td developed almost to a frenzy. Seeing evidences of Senator Stevens' vast Influence, he did not hesitate to seek a close relationship with htm-, and the senator was clever enough to lead Norton to consider him his friend. At the start of his political career Norton bad higher ideas of honor than guided his actions now that he had become a part of the political mai chlpe that controlled his native state of Mississippi and of the bipartisan combination that dominated both houses of congress in the interest of the great railway and industrial corj porntions. Senator Stevens ami other ' powers had so distorted Norton's view of the difference between public and private interests and their respective i rights that he had come to believe capital to be the sacred heritage of the I nation which must be protected at any cost. The aeceptanee of a retainer . from the C. St. and P. Railroad com: pany for wholly unnecessary services In Washington only another way of | buying a man a transaction arranged | by Senator Stevens, was but another stage in the disintegration of the young congressman's character, but it brought him Just that much closr to the point where he could elaiin_(. *ollna Langdon as his own. And tunity does not knock twice at i door unless he is at the bead machine. Norton, the persevering young law ' student who loved the girl who had i been his boyhood playmate, was now Norton who coveted her father's lands, who boasted that be wes on the "InI side" in Washington, who was on the way to fortuue-if the new senator from Mississippi would 5r could tie forced to stand iu favor of the AltaI coola naval base. ! Ills conversation with Randolph I.angdon as Haines and Cullen saw them pass through the hotel lobby il1 lustrated the nature of the Norton of the present and his interest in the Al' tacoola scheme. "There's no reason why you shouldn't i come iu on the ground floor in this proposition, Raudolpb." he was urging in continuance of the conversation beI gun over a table in the cafe. "No rea,j son why you shouldn't do it, rny boy. ' Why, are you still a child, or are you ' really a man? You have dow drafts j for $.V).000, haven't you?" "Yeah," agreed I.angdon, chagrined : at Norton's insinuation of youthfulness i and anxious to prove that he was really a man of affairs, "I've got the fifty i' thousand, Charlie, hut but, you see, , that's the money for improvements on the plantation. As father has put me In as manager I want to masje a snow: lag." "You can't make it until spring." urged Norton. "The money's got to lie in the bank all winter. Now. why , don't you make a hundred thousand with it instead of letting it lie idle? Norton's smile whs one of deep satisfaction. i j "That's all right. Randolph. You know I want to do anything I can for ; you." i! P ONTINPEP NEXT Vk EEK. 1 Kills (o Stop the Fiend. i ; The worst foe for 1*2 years of Joht Deye of Gladwin, iMich, was a runi ning ulcer. He paid doctors ovei $400.00 without benefit. Ther Bucklen's Arnica Solve killed th( ulcer and cured him. Cures Fever(Sores, Boils, Felon3, Eczema, Sail ftheum. Infallible for Piles, Burns Scalds, Cuts, Corns. 25c at I) I OCUIL S. 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