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Copyright 11113, Wostita Nowspapor Union
SYNOPSIS, "" "" 4r ‘
In n spirit ot fun Mayor BCdlght, a
irununer visitor, Is chased through tlio
woods by ten laughing girls, ono of whom
kisses.
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CHAPTER II.—Continued.
The court .hesitated. Finally, turn-
dug to tho witness, Judge Vlning
•asked:
N “What wero tho sounds like?” a
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 pass
word of. the Elks—‘Jolly -corksI' ”
“Pulle'd?” demanded tho Judge, re-
• signing herself to sacrifice.
“Yes’m, • your honor—and smoth-
ered In honey!” .
“That ‘will, do!” determined the
Judge, hiding her. eyes 1 behind her
handkerchief. “Harriet Brooks,” Ig
noring the state's attorney, wlU you
taie the stand?”
The prisoner arose, from his soap
iox. '
^TTour hopor,” he. said gallantly,^in
deference to Mlne*H6Vt, from whose
- efilnajy, department' there'Viwaits' jtp
„ n« tho unctuous call .oi;-tried -eggs
and waffles,, ahd 'because of ’.the deli
cate situation the. victim of frijr as=
aault may flnd^herself in should; the
ease proceed, X. have determined to
. plcaty jgutlty^and^-.throw myself upon
l tbg t 'm6rcy of.the*: court: -t-X- am guilty
x as charged. Guilty, r say—and proud
§ ofitiv- V •;
*>5- He-sat down- soberly, - bbt his eyeS
were fastened on"jthe' f^ce^ ,the
•| | 'jugge..-SbeYtunjedYuppn Xilm;], fiercely,
i 1 ' “For This .unseemly; conduct, I, the
.'Judge, fine you ten days at Squirrel
: Inn. Beginning tomorrow {horning'
you will he the- servile slave of the
i ten young women whose feelings you
( lave outraged. ■> Tomorrow you will
start alphabetically down the list and'
I ;lor a day you will do tho bidding of
the girl .who falls to your tojY Wbat-
i evpr she Instructs you to do, you will
do. Should you again transgress you
;will be—be fined for" life!” savagely.
] “If; at the end of the ten" days, you
have acquitted yourself honorably, you
i may go your way In peace. Have
,yon anything to say for yourself?”
His honor arose submissively.
“1 accept the terms,” he said, ea
gerly. "I protest—but I accept"
!s#&“And should you desert," continued
'the Judge, “I Bhall not hesitate to use
this evidence against you!” pulling
from the front of her shirtwaist
bulky document "Possibly you may
zecognige it!” tauntingly.
The prisoner gasped.
“My hill!”
“Yes!” replied the Judge, piercing
him with a cold look of scorn, ‘‘you
may well say, ‘My bill!’”
Ho bowed his head.
"Court’s adjourned!" snapped
Judge.'" “Breakfast is served."
the
CHAPTER III.
A jest is a jest, but the following
• letter, received by. “His Honor, tho
Mayor” next morning, suggested
Hisiir
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’ “Jackie” Vlning.
straw too much, for the Asiatic rumi
nant’s back. Tersely, it said:
“Squirrel Inn,
"Sunday Morning.
“Mr. Walter Bedight,
“Mayor of Osslan:
“Dear Sir: The levity of your de
meanor at yesterday’s trial and the
ostensibly nonchalant attitudo you
chose to take of tho sentence inflict
ed leads me to bellevo that you are
considering thiB very serious matter
'altogether too lightly.' Under ordinary
circumstances a handsomo trlfler
might rldojinto a woman’s camp liko
Lochinyar, boldly grasp a pretty girl
in bis arms and kiss, her, without pay
ing a more severe penalty than tho
scorn- of the camp and a few Burfaco
scratches. ..And even you, evidently a
gentleman as well as a politician,
might have escaped with a fitting re
buke had you been lu’clder. Unen
cumbered by baggage and feeling un
bound by our court to remain, you
could have drifted away Into the eve
ning shadows and laughed at our ef
forts to restrain you.
"But, Mr. Bedight, as a candidate
for representative at the coming elec
tion, for which you are. evidently re
couping your vital forces lui this tran
quil spot, you will scarcely desert
while we havo in our -possession
document so Incriminating os that
found by us yesterday in your wako
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. Such treachery as yoil
have in mind—the drafting of a bill
against ■wbindh's; suffrage— ! will not be
countenanced by tiio '"fair voters of
this land, once the facts nre in their
possession! Li "V-
: "I trust you realize , the enormity of
your crime and the. hold we have, on
you. 4 Sh’buld you bo unwise enough
to violate the sentence of this doiii-t,
tho news of your duplicity will be
sent .to the women’s ;clubs 6f your dis
trict, .to - be-followed,-by^^mlfApeach-.
aDle|evidence in your own handwrit
ing—the'-bill itself.'Puih'saUsfled that
your better Judgment wUl prevail and
:thal!'-*‘^if--^lll''serve'-"youf sieriteneo as
becomes a gentleman and-a canciidate.
This being Sunday, you will bo al
lowed your liberty to go and cbme as
you please and fortify your jniud
against the ordeai you are about to
experience: On Monday morning you
will Inaugurate your sentence by be
ginning with Mae Andrews, whose
name appears first on the alphabetical
list. Mae is a stunning blonde with
hair like spun flax and cheeks like
the down of an Alberta peach. She Is
city broke and a high stepper, has
dozen Beau Brummols infatuated and
loves to see enamored men turn som
ersaults in the service of the queenly
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 Brooks
“Thursday, Margaret Farnsworth
“Friday, Alice Mason
“Saturday, Molly McConnell
"Sunday—opqri date for repentance
“Monday, Cleo Summers
"Tuesday, Lucille Walters
“Wednesday, Bess Winters
•‘Thursday, “Jack” tnepr-
“It conies to our. knowledge that you
are very desirous of reaching your
district on the Saturday night follow
ing, where you are'to .open your cam
paign. Should you prove yourself
-perfect gentloman during the interim
and serve your sentence with due ,h
mility, wo will return to you the in
criminating biir and-permit you.
depart in peace.
But for every indiscretion on your
•t, you will be glyen a ten days
sentence under the samo conditions
now governing. The court has
deavored to impress you with the se
riousness of your situation and shall
feel no regret should you, in your
heedlessness, fall to grasp its Import
“Given this day and date under my v
letter seal at Squirrel Inn, Dingledale,
Wisconsin. -
“’JACK' VINING, Judge."
, Walter. Bedight, mayor and candl-'
date for the legislature, frowned,
Plainly, here was u predicament. The
humor of tho situation had fled. Tho
piqued attitude 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 wore pretty—and good
ness knoWB 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 unrelenV
ing, while "a woman judge; pretty,* vl!
vacioUs, enticing, captured in a dog
wood swamp and kissed against her
will—Bedight shuddered at his pos
sible fate!
The fury of a woman osculated Is
frequently as accentuated as the an
ger of a' woman scorned! And he
was tho goat'!
Deep In a quandary of ways and
means, tho luckless politician, mental-
berating tho. fatnl day of woman
suffrage, wandered Into tho cool, um
brageous wood.
It was midsummer and tho, forest
was a sylvan retreat whero monk and
infill might" lose his ‘ troubles in the
lppllng of tho rills and ■ recelvo dl-
vino unction from tho nnturo god rul
ing with soothing zephyrs aud elixirs
ofllorescenco.
Bedight penetrated far into tho
heart of the wood, whero dryads
romp ajong tho sunbeamed way
through interstices in tho trees, whore
rnothor brown thrushes peep from
sheltered nests and frisking squirrels
chatter of tho hickory nuts a-rlponlhg
upon tho scraggly trees.
And then ho saw her!
Llko Psycho, sho stooped beside n
quiet pool, above her tho spreading
branches of a water elm. Besldo her
on tho brink tho harebell grow and
her ear there came from down be
low tho rhythmical cadence of a
brooklet's song, the samo song that,
crescendo or diminuendo, it had
sung for centuries, the ever chanted,
perpetual song of tho brook!
Ho stole softly forward on tlp-too.
Absorbed !n her mood, sho gavo no.
heed. The rich outline of her figure
thrilled him and on her golden hair
Turning from the pool, sho stood bo-
fore him ns oflo in. authority.
"I am going. Walt hero. Do not
follow me," s|io ndmonlshed.
Ho sat down beside tbo pool. As
ho did so, for a fleeting moment the
far in of a lithe nnd graceful woman'
fell Over his shoulders upon tho
drowsy waters—:but the’ faco was
turned toward tho backward trail.
"Everything — even mythology — Is
twisted," _ho growled, “In these par
lous days of woman suffrage.”
Ho turned -Ills head to - catch a
glimpse of her, flitting through tho
trees, but unlike Lot’s wife, sho did
not look back.
Tko mayor sighed.
VWhat an awful mess a man can
got Into," he sorrowed, "through tho
perfectly harmless diversion of kiss
ing!"
CHAPTER IV.
Monday morniug dawned with a
purple glow that melted Into molten
glory ns tho sun came up nnd painted
tho hills and valleys with dollght.
Flute notos of harmony thrilled from
flitting birds and tho lneonse of fra
grant flowers gavo, joy to tho olfac
tory nerves ns Ills honor, tho mayor
nnd Mao Andrews tripped down tho
front stops of Squirrel Inn and made
for tho boat landing, the girl In the
lead, the man behind, carrying a
lunch basket nnd flBhlng taclclo.
"Do you really and truly believe,
Mr. Bedight," babbled' tho girl over
her shoulder, “that thero aro Just ns
good fish In tho soa as havo evci
been caught?"
The mayor laid ddwn his burden on
the dock and smiled confidently Into
the pretty face of his Interrogator.
!‘An unmarried man,”. -he began,
carefully, “would answer yes; a mar-,
rled.man, most assuredly, would deny
the allegation and say ho.’i ■
The young woman, with a glance,of
mischief in her eyes, asked Inno
cently:- -, • ■ •'■A'.. ' : v ;T.
“And you?"
“I would snyi '-lf a prisoner ' might
express himself without Implication,”
questionldgly, “that it deponds 'upon
tlio bait!" J
(TO BB CONTINUED.^ 1
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“Guilty,
tbo sheen of the morning radiated like
halo on the head of a Titian mas
terpiece. Step by step ho drew near,
cautiously. Little by little he crept
forward until he stood with his hand
upon tho trunk of a tree. And then,
quietly, fearlessly, he stepped behind
her, his shadow falling over her
shoulder upon the placid waters of
the pool.
With a cry of alarm she sprang to
her feet and faced him. He stood his
ground boldly, hut in his eye3 there
was an appeal.
“Forgive me," ho 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 mandatorlly.
“I hold no: conversation with pris
oners: outside of court,” she said; aus
terely.
Ghost Gave the Tip.
An extraordinary story of a gam
bling “tip" from the regions of spirits
is that of Signor Grotta, the station'-:
master-at Cicignano,, near Naples-
Signor Crotta speculated one franc
at n weekly lottery, and now finds
himself In consequence the lucky- wln-
'■f n6i! ?of.j$J20,000, On learning tho good
tidings Crotta’s first task was to tele
graph to the directorate of the State
Railways his resignation. -He Is a
married man, and has a daughter who
is a local schoolmistress. Tho ex-
statlonmaster is also sotting apart a
sum for masses on behalf of his dead
aunt, whoso ghost, ho avowB, appear
ed to him in the early liour3 of the
fateful morning bidding him gamble
on four numbers which sho revealed
to him, all of which eventually proved
-lucky ones:,
A 'small boy. doesn’t' find it vbry
amusing to do' tlip-things his parents
are willing to let him do. ; .-,y
1JOI3S YOHJI IlEAlVACnia? X
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Employes on Eastern Dairy Farm Are
Specialists, Each Handling 35
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On tho average dairy farm the man
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in New Jersey, ten operators are milk
ing 350 animals twice daily, an aver
age of 35 cows per milker. Ever Blnce
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'lhc' manager of this eastern dairy
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and asked them if they would ho will
ing to test out the plan., They en
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Wlfey—I want to get a big- Effect
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One thousand sword fish, were
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five tons. As a consequence the mar
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was organized. Holland 1b an exten
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an Increase.of $86,349 over the same
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Dutch herring figuring at 2,536,128
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