Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1913 — Page 2

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The Women’s Candidate

By BYRON WILLIAMS

Oopyrisbt 11)12. Western Newspaper Union SYNOPSIS. 41 In a spirit of fun Mayor Bedlght, a summer visitor, is chased through the woods by ten laughing girls, one of whom he catches and 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 the 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 Vining sees what she considers 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 Bess Winters. He plans to get possession of the incriminating bill. With • Harriet Brooks the mayor goes to investigate an Indian mound. They are cdught in a thunder storm. Returning late, he has rather a stormy interview with “Judge” Vining, who seeks to find out who returned to the hotel with him. Thursday was Mayor Bedight’s day of attendance upon Margaret Farnsworth. She decoys him into a cabin in the woods, and he is made a prisoner by the game warden. He is later released by one of the girls. CHAPTER X. Instead of leaving the vicinity of the cabin after being liberated, Bedight closed the door and replaced the bar. Drifting back into the bushes, he waited. An hour passed and then came voices and rustling in the wood. Soon the game warden and two deputies hove into view. The ■warden’s face was flushed with ~ex“lenraffeitt as he strode along in advance of his men. Approaching the door, he called out: "Will ye surrender peaceable and come out o’ there, er shall I come in an’ git ye?” From within there emanated no answering voice. Out in the bushes, twenty feet away, Bedlght waited, tensely. “Come on out; the door’s unlocked,” shouted the warden. Still no answer. “Gol darn ye; I’ll show ye. Come on in. fellers,” bawled the officer, throwing open the door and dashing Into the cabin, followed by his deputies. With an agile spring, Bedlght left the clump of bushes and dashed for the door. The warden saw him coming and sprang to meet him—but too late! Slamming the door shut, the mayor shot the bar home. He could hear the strenuous objections of the prisoners as he hurried away, making a detour to a farmer’s house, where he hoped to secure something to eat A ruddy-cheeked farmer’s wife fed him bountifully and protested at the unnecessary size of the coin he gave her for his dinner and a basket of provisions, with which he set out for the cabin. Reaching the wood-chopper’s hut, in which two hours previous he had been a prisoner, he rapped on the .door. “Whoever’s there,” cried an excited ■voice within, “let us out!". "Break the glass in the window,” directed the mayor, his face illumined with smiles, “and -eat out of my hand!” A gaowl of mingled disappointment and relief preceded the shattering of the glass. Bedlght held his basket on his left arm and began passing provisions through the aperture. “Good grub, this, boys,” he chuckled. "I serve excellent meals at both my boarding bouses. I’ll bring you tobacco tomorrow night. Just you make yourselves comfortable. How would you like a deck of cards?” It was dark when Bedight reached Squirrel Inn and slipped unobserved to his room. When Jackie Vining came down at •lx next morning to take a constitutional before breakfast the mayor sat In an easy chair on the veranda, smoking his favorite pipe. "Will you kindly tell Miss Mason Shat I am waiting her commands?" m asked easily, with no trace of resentment In his voice. “I was going to liberate you this (morning," she said, simply, trying to Ihlde her surprise. • “Oh, 1 got out last night, thank you. I’m particular about my own bed. Never could sleep well In a strange bunk,” laughing. After breakfast Alice Mason, the girl appointed by the court to defend ■ Bedight on the occasion of his trial, called him aside. * As your attorney, 1 am led to offer you your freedom today. I want to go to Lakeville for some cold cream, and if you will ride to the Four Corners with me. I will let you escape to your own devices. It is not always that an attorney can vouch for his as' rt-.

client, but I am willing to take a chance on you,” confidently. "And besides, these girls have°been badgering the life out of you. Itffe time somebody took pity,” laughing. ' I ■ The mayor- put his lips close to the girl’s rosy ear. “Honest,” he said, “hope to die. I’ve never had so much fun in all my life —but that bill business is dangerous, and I’d like to get through with the ord eq} honorably. I can use today, and as a small expression of my gratitude, I’ll send you the jolliest big box of candy in Chicago as I pass through.” "Thank you," she said, her eyes dancing. "I’ll leave the selection to you.” An hour later Bedight, astride a good horse, was galloping toward Bordeau, a railroad crossing ten miles t<y the north. Arriving at the station he sent a telegram, ate a typical meal at a typical country hotel, and started back. He reached the cross roads at dusk and let his tired mount plod leisurely homeward. Saturday morning broke clear and tense after a sweltering night. The sun was copper colored and the leaves upon the crest, where they were wont to bow and curtsey to the zephyr’s breath, hung listless in the shimmering heat. At breakfast, none looked refreshed and Mine Host complained of drought. Paulirie, the cook, whose eggs were alwayts soft-boiled to a creamy elasticity and whose toast was ever golden brown and delicious, fretted the formed into blue-black globules surrounded by leathery gelatine, while the latter was burned and desiccated to a hard-tack condition decidedly disappointing to her usually delighted followers. The thermometer, to all intents and purposes, was so basely ambitious as to seemingly have no other desire than to climb higher and higher in its relentless rise. , “Come on, Mr. Bedight,” exclaimed Molly McConnell, “row me over to Waxelbaum’s Point. I want to sketch La Veck’s cabin, the remaining relic of what was once the oldest trading post in the state. It is tumbledown and ramshackle and will make a fine study. I was by there a week ago on a calm day and the reflection in the placid water, was almost as realistic as the old log-pile itself. A photograph taken when I saw the cabin would puzzle the beholder to tell which was the cabin and which the reflection. Today promises to be still and bids fair to afford me an opportunity to get just the right atmosphere. I'll be ready in ten minutes.” She; came down to thedjaek__.h.er.. black eyes dancing in anticipation. Bedight packed her outfit in the prow of the boat along with the lunch basket, held the boat firmly against the dock as she put her dainty foot upon the stern seat, and dipped gracefully into position, a magazine under her arm and a camera slung across her shoulder. -i; v

As the mayor took the oars he looked at her —bareheaded, her lustrous black locks defying the sun, her full tempting lips shapipg a perfect cupld’s bow, a saucy little dimple on each side of a well-rounded cheek, and teeth as white as milk-coral through which the laughter trilled and rippled like a singing spring across its minty way. Surely a man might well be sentenced for life to such a woman’s whim, while but a day’s service were as an hour In Naples after a hard passage! Molly McConnell had one of those daring, unconventional temperaments that bespoke a womah of full blood and spirit, a being of beauty and grace and voluptuous constancy. To THE man she would be all in all, reining queen of his hjeart, laughing at affinities, scorning jealousies, holding him secure with her mental and physical charms. The lakeowas calm and through Its mirrored depths long strands of weed and marsh grass could be seen streaming upward In the shallow places. Not even a ripple stirred the surJhce and the sun reflected from the sheening

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waters, glowed heatedly upon the faces of the two in the boat —the girl with hair /ike the night and eyes of liquid velvet, the man with a sentence to serve In the Garden of Eden with a pippin ah the forbidden fruit. . The mayor rested on his oars and mopped his sweating bro#. The girl’s eyes danced: “And rtow,” she babbled, "you are In a position to appreciate the arduous life of due galley slave. Row on, my man!" I , “O, that this were the river of Life!” /countered Bedlght. matching the woman’s frippery. ' One of the Obligations imposed upon iyou by the ‘Judge,’" solemnly.

"was not to propose marriage or play the role of Lothario. I trust your intentions toward me are like the Christmas snow—simply another layer of white purity!” "3^.« ,• “Pray do not tempt me, Eve,” he said; “a boat is fully as perilous for loving as a flat for matrimony." Her merry laughter rippled out across the water from a throat as* shapely As an artist’s model. Her neck, browned from the life at Squirrel Inn, was full and, moulded free of hollow dips. "O, you old Adam!” she giggled, “don’t you know , that the price of apples has gone up—away up—since our mothers quit sewing carpet-rags and spinning flax. It takes a man with a head these days to keep my lady gratified." "Apples, say the physicians; are necessary to the human system. And I may point also to a higher authority who has said it is not good for man to dwell alone! As for the price, was there ever an Adam whd thought of this?’.’ * “Not until the baby needed shoes!” agreed the woman, letting her hand ripple the water over the rail. “Many an Adam has asked his Eve to fly with him and after the flight couldn't buy a curry of chicken wings in a Boston restaurtint!” The mayor smiled. "Marriage as it is practiced,” he commented, “is a bigger gamble than the board of trade—and twice as interesting/’ The boat glided Onward across the sleeping waters, leaving a V-shaped ripple in its wake. Traversing the lake, Bedlght pulled through a narrow neck tha£ connected Goose Lake with

“I’ll Bring You Tobacco Tomorrow Night.”

the main body, of Sylvan. The view was enchanting—pine, cedar and hemlock, birch and maple varied the shores and green bushes trailed their drooping tendrils in the cool waters. La Veck’s cabin came into view, sit uated upon a knoll beside the lake, a picturesque pile of the lumber-jack days. About its tumbled sides the wild ampelopsls scrambled, and rag-weed flourished in the clearing. The mayor drew the skiff upon the shore, carried the girl’s easel, box and camp chair to a spot designated and stood by for on ders. “Can you make coffee?” asked Miss McConnell, as she. got out the canvas and prepared to begin the sketch. “In these days of the new woman," he said, banteringly, “man has come to recognize in a kindlier light the ladylike art of cooking. Fair enchantress, I can make coffee fit for the gods, but woman’s dainty hand must pour, else It loses its flavor.” “Very well,” she said, “now run away and forget me until the coffee is boiling in the pot.” Bedight turned to the forest’s fringe and began gathering firewood. When he called, she came promptly. “Man,” she said, “has caused many a divorce by not coming to dinner when he is called. Nothing so net ties a woman as to wait meals. Knowing this, I make haste.” (TO BE CONTINUED.)

Disarming Powers of Evil.

A very interesting custom has just been carried out by the Arab population of Tripoli. Several huge cranes for salvage work recently arrived there from Genoa, but before any of the 500 Arab workmen could be induced to start operations, the Moslem priests were summoned. Then began the celebration of an elaborate rite, during which a large number of young lambs were immolated on the altar. The new salvage plant waa smeared from top to bottom by the priests with the blood of the victims, and the ceremony concluded with a aacred dance around the cranes. After this the Arabs set themselves joyfully to work In the assurance that the powers of evil had been effectively paralyzed.

Ever See a Frog’s Nest?

In Brazil there exists a species of tree frog (Hyl<* saber) which constructs In the water a curious nest. Jr fortification, to protect its egga nd its young from the attacks of fish, tartlng at the bottom of a pond, the Another frog erects a circular, tubeJike wall of mud, which at the top proects above the surface of the water, (where it bears some resemblance to she crater of a miniature volcano, n (he water, thus the egga are laid, and when they have hatched out the young frogs are secure from enemies until they are able to take 'care of themselves. In the meantime ithe parents remain In the neighbor 'hcod aa If on guard.

NOTED GIRL MODEL

Face Made Famous by Greuze, Whose Name She Disgraced. Famous Artist's Immortalization of Hie Wife’s Features Can Be Seen at the Great Galleries in U. 8. and Europe. London.—Another ideal has been shattered. The babylike face that is known the world over as the fabulously expensive and miraculous creation of the famous artist Greuze, was that of a commca little girl who, after marrying the artist, stole his money and disgraced his name. Greuze's immortalization of this face can be seen in almost any of the great galleries In! Europe or America. ? John Rivers has shocked London by robbing this wonderful Greuze face, which adorns the royal palaces, the National and other picture galleries, of all its historic virtue. In a book just, published Mr. Rivers thus describes one of the most fascinating types of feminine humanity, for which American and European collectors today -bid against each other with reckless enthusiasm: “All the world knows her, and no one who has ever seen her can ever forget the sweet sting of her beauty. Her eyes are like the fish pools of Heshbon, and many a man has died happy for the kiss of a mouth such as hers. The noonday sunlight seems to have got entangled in her hair, and young men dream o’ nights of her warm and palpitating throat. And, if with innocent effrontery, she .delights in showing to the best advantage her dimpled arms, her firm and delicate hands, and all the fresh graces of her rounded form, it is because she has just awakened to the life emotional; it is because her child’s heart—the wide and troubled eyes confess it—has suddenly been thrilled and a little frightened by the eternal, delightful and foolish craving, for something to love; and so, she lavishes the treasures of her heart on the pet lamb she holds in her arms, or the doves she fondly presses to her breast. “She was admirably proportioned. Neither too short not too tall, which Is rare among women, who, for the most part seem either to have just failed to reach, or to have inadvertently exceeded. the exact stature that nature meant them to attain. Saucy, finpetUbUS, with the manners of a hoyden, her beauty was dainty rather than distinguished; a fresh color, a provocative nose, with slightly dilated nostrils; strange humid, alluring eyes; beautiful teeth; a

500,000 SHOT OR WOUNDED

Turks Lost 300,000 Men, Bulgaria 80,000, Servia 22,000, Greece 7,000 and Montenegro 6,500. London.—Nearly 500,000 soldiers have been killed or wounded in the Balkan war and hundreds of millions of dollars expended, according to statistics compiled here. The Servians contributed 300,000 soldiers to the allies* ranks. Of these 50,000 stayed at home for service there. They lost 22,000 killed and wounded. Of these they claim only 4,000 were killed and the rest wounded. The Bulgarians sent to the field 300,000, with 50,000 on the northern frontier. They lost in killed and wounded 80,000 men, and at Kirk-Kilisseh they lost 20,000. The Montenegrins sent 75,000 men to the front, of whom they lost between 6,500 and 7,000. The Greeks contributed 120,000 meh, and they have lost up to the time of writing about 7,000 men. Servia was spending SIOO,OOO-a day from October 18 to December 23, making $6,600,000. It mobilized its army eighteen days previous to the outbreak of the war, which cost it $1,800,000. It has reserve fund enough to fight four months longer without borrowing. Bulgaria for sixty-six days has been spending $120,000 a day, making $7,920,000. Its mobilization cost another $2,160,000. • Greece has paid out $3,660,000 up to the timd of writing—that is, about $60,000 a day. Estimates of the killed and wounded are: Turkey, 300,000; Servia, 22,000; Bulgaria, 80,000; Montenegro, 6.500; Greece, 7,000. The monetary cost to the warring nations as well as to the powers is calculated thus: Turkey, $40,000,000; Turkey, In revenue lost from lost provinces, a year, $30,000,000; Servia, $13,400,000; Bulgaria, $10,000,000; Greece, $3,660,000; Montenegro, $500,000; Russia, $12,000,000; Austria, including loss of wages and profits, $38,400,000; England, $300,000; Italy, including loss of wages and profits, $3,240,000; Germany, $440,000; France, $6,000,000.

HURLED INTO WOLVES' CAVE

Meeker (Colo.) Newspaper Man Bruised When Horse's Foot SlipSaved by Grasping Shelf. Meeker, Colo. —Julius L. Roberts, Rio Blanco correspondent for several newspapers, was badly braised when thrown from his horse into an abandoned wolves* cave near here. Roberts was crossing a fissured gulch when the horse’s feet slipper. He was catapulted down a steep declivity and saved himself by grasping a shelf rock about six feet belo# the surface.

HEIR PRESUMPTIVE OF AUSTRIA, AND FAMILY

This is a new photograph of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his family. The archduke is the son of the emperor’s eldest brother, Charles Louis, who died in 1896. He is forty-nine years old, and was married morganatically to the Countess Sophia Chotek In The archduke renounced the claim of their issue to the throne.

full red mouth, which seemed to give a subtle and wonderful meaning to the lightest word she uttered; and glorious auburn hair, gleaming like burnished gold as it caught and held the sunlight. The smooth, arched brow, the kindling dilated nostrils, the moist lips curved like Cupid’s brow—her every feature, in short —announced a hasty, passionate and rather voluptuous nature.” The M-ographer of Greuze then ruthlessly explains that this fascinating type was Mlle. Anne Gabrielle Babuti, the daughter of a bookseller in the Qua! del Augustins, who was more interested Ln her father’s customers than in her father’s books. She was

WAGES FOR BLOWING BREATH

Eight Women In New York Laboratories Draw Dollar a Day for Thus Aiding Experiments. New York.—A dollar a day for blowing* one’s breath is being paid at the laboratories of the College of Physicians and Surgeons to eight women who started upon their unique occupation recently. When a representative of the laboratory went to the municipal lodging house to get recruits for the work he barely escaped being locked up as fit for the psychopathic ward. He explained, however, that women were wanted in connection with experiments in sickroom ventilation. They were to breathe into six teen ounce bottles imbedded in refrigerators, the food particles being removed from the breath during its passage through a rubber tube. The, condensed vapor is to be chemically analyzed, and the doctors hope through their experiments to better conditions of the atmosphere in sickrooms.

No Gift Jails Husband.

Yonkers, N. Y.—Mrs. Agnes Brennan disappeared when her husband failed to bring her a gift, had him arrested, charged with breaking his parole. which required him to turn over his wages to her.

LOON DIPS A LAD INTO POND

Bird Grasps Trousers With Its Bill and Gives Youth Ducking—Boy Captures Him. Elmer, N. J. —A big loon, which was caught after an exciting battle in the water, is the captive of George Cassady, thirteen years old, of this place. Young Cassady was attending to his muskrat traps when he spied the bird in a pond. The loon did not attempt to fly, but made fruitless efforts to dive tn the shallow water. The excited boy sprang into the pond after the big bird, and caught hold of its wings- Then the captive loon turned upon the lad and attacked him With its sharp bill. It plunged him into the pond by seizing him by the trousers. Cgssady pluckily held on. subdued his prize catch, and carried It into town to show a crowd of admiring schoolmates.

Cost Him $6,000 a Year to Live.

Pittsburg, Pa.—Asserting that ho could not live on less than $6,000 a year, H. B. Kirkland, vice-president of the American Conduit company, appeared in court to protest against granting his wife more than the sls weekly alimony she to now getting.

attracted by the shabby young artist Greuze and, because he was too poor or too shy, herself proposed marriage. After a few years of happy Bohemlanism she became a spendthrift and eventually a wanton, who neglected her children, stole jher husband’s monef and then dragged his name in the mire. Sad as the story may be, her hus.band’s conception of what she might have been will live long after her own lack of charactor is forgotten. As Hippocrates wrote, many centuries before Greuze met his bewitching model in her father’s Paris book store, “Arelonga, vita brevis” (Art is long, lifeis short).

ATTENTIVE SON MADE HEIR

Mother's Wilt Favors Him Because the Other Children Neglected Her During Illness. New Yoj-k. —The will of Mrs. Katherine Van Llew Howell, who died August 6, 1911, in London, and which disposes of $72,000 real estate and $29,100 personal property, was filed here. Benjamin Hunting Howell, a son, of Ridgewood, N. J., is made the executor and heir to the residue of the estate, about $85,000, *in addition to SIO,OOO and a half interest in the leasehold of the house at 72 Brook street, London, which he is to share with his sister, Erla L. Howell. Rapelije J. H. Howell receives SIOO. Mrs. Howell says of the large bequest to her son Benjamin that it is made because he “bestowed care on me during my Illness while his brother and slstef'quite neglected me.”

Kansas Towns Rent Jails.

Kansas City, Kan. —A rivalry exisits between Hugoton and Ford, county seats in Kansas, and recently the commissioners became so disgusted with the long absence of prisoners from the county Jail at Hugoton that they rented the bastile to a family for a home. Hugoton then crowed with pride and Ford felt sore. Not a Jailbird has been known in Ford for two and one-half years, and the council of that town says it will rent the Ford calaboose cheaply to anyone to use as a chicken house.

CUT SALE PRICE OF APPLES

Women Ask 5 Cents a Quart for Same Kind Grocers Sell at 12 and 15 Centa. New York. —A big cut tn the price of apples was announced by Mrs. Julian Heath of the housewires* league At the Queensboro Bridge Market Baldwin apples, such as retailers hare been asking from 12 to 15 cents a quart for, were placed on sale at 5 cents a. quart Mrs. Heath, who conducted the sale In person, sees an entirely new situation in the matter of the high price of apples. It Is the retailer, she says, who Is keeping up the price this time. So, tn addition to selling the apples at the Queensboro market a campaign will be made all the week among the retailers in the hope of getting them to come down with the price.

Actrss Makes $200,000 In Deal.

Savannah. Oa. —Latta Crabtree, one of America's most popular actresses a decade ago, has Just cleared nearly >200,000 In real estate deals la Georgia