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By Brand Whitlock
Illustrations by Ray Walters
(Copyright, 10#, hy Bsbbs-MerrUl Co.)
3YNOPBIB.
Senator Morley Vernon’* vl*lt with hi*
fiancee wan Interrupted by a call from
hi* political boss at the state capital.
Both regretted It, the girl more than he,
because *he had arranged to attend a
dinner that evening with him. She said
■he yearned for a national office for him.
On Vernon’s desk In the senate he found
a red rose, accompanied by a plea for
suffrage for women. Ho met the au
thoress. pretty Miss Maria Greene of
Chicago, who proposed to convert him
into voting for house resolution No. 19.
CHAPTER lll.—Continued.
Vernon scarcely knew what to re
ply; such objections as he might have
found at other times —the old mascu
line objections to women’s voting and
meddling in politics—had all disap
peared at sight, of this remarkable
young woman who wished to vote her
■elf; he could not think of one of
them, try as he would. His eyes were
on the rose.
"Perhaps your objections are mere
ly prejudices,” she ventured boldly, in
her eyes a latent twinkle that dis
turbed him.
"I confess, Miss Greene,” he began,
trying to get back something of his
senatorial dignity, such as state sena
torial dignity is, "that I have not de
voted much thought to the subject; I
am indeed rather ashamed to acknowl
edge that I did not even know the
amendment was coming up to-day, un
til I was—ah —so delightfully re
minded by your rose.”
He raised the rose to inhale its fra
grance. She made no reply, but she
kept her eyes on him, and her gaze
compelled him to go on. It was hard
for him to go on, for it was now but
a struggle against the formality of a
surrender that had been Inevitable
from the beginning. But his man’s
pride forced him to delay it as long as
possible.
"What assurances have you from
other senators?” he asked. "Though,
perhaps, I need not ask —they have
unanimously mounted your colors.”
He looked at his colleagues, sporting
their roses. Miss Greene gave a little
exclamation of annoyance.
"Do you think I don’t know,” she
■aid; “that I don’t understand all that?
I might, have known that they would
not take it seriously! And I thought
—I thought—to put the matter so eas
ily to them that I should be spared the
necessity of buttonholing them!”
“It was a novel way of buttonholing
them,” he laughed.
M Oh!” she exclaimed, catching her
breath, "they wear the roses—and
laugh at me!”
Her eyes flashed through the mists
of vexation that suggested tears.
"You are all alone then?”
Vernon said this in a low, solicitous
tone, as if he were dealing with some
deep grief.
“All alone."
"And you represent no on*—that is,
no society, no club?’’
"I am not a paid lobbyist,” she Bald,
"though 1 believe it is not beyond the
properties of our profession. I do
what I do only from a love of princi
ple. I represent only my sex." She
said it impressively, and then with a
quick little laugh that recognized the
theatrical that had been In her atti
tude, she added: “And that, I suspect,
without authorization.”
"The ladies, generally, do not seem
to be interested,” Vernon acquiesced.
"No," she shook her head sadly, “no,
on the contrary, I suppose most of
them oppose the measure.”
"I have generally found them of that
feeling,” Vernon observed.
"The slaves, before the war, often
petitioned congress not to set them
free, you will remember.”
Miss Greene spoke with a bitter
ness. Then quickly Bhe collected her
self.
"But your objections, Senator Ver
non r* she said. "Really, we must get
down to business.”
Bhe raised the little chatelaine
watch that hung at her bosom and
looked down at it. And then sudden
ly, without waiting for his objections,
as if she had quite forgotten them In
deed, she impulsively stretched forth
a hand and said:
‘Ton will help me. won’t you?”
Vernon looked Into her eyes. His
gaze, after an Instant, fell. He tried
to run the stem of the rose through
his buttonhole. The thorns caught in
the cloth.
"You’ll have to do it,” he said, help
lessly.
From some mysterious fold cf her
habit she took a pin, and then, lean
tag over, she pinned the rose to his
aoat, pinned It with Its long stem
hanging, as a woman would pin a flow
er to a man’s lapel.
“Thank you.” He was looking into
her eyes again.
“Rather let me thank you,” she said.
“It's so good of you to vote for my
measure.”
His eyes widened suddenly. He had
qaite forgotten the resolution. She
Mat hare perceived this, for she
blushed, and he hastened to make
amends.
“I’ll not only vote for It,” he rußhed
ahead impulsively, "but I’ll make a
speech for It.” He straightened and
leaned away from her to give a proper
perspective In which she could admire
him. He sat there smiling.
"How splendid of you!” she cried.
T feel encouraged now.”
Then Vernon’s face lengthened. He
stammered: “But you’ll have to give
mo some data; I—l don’t know a thing
about the subject.”
"Oh,” she laughed, “I brought some
literature. It shall all be at your dis
posal. And now, I must be about my
work. Can you make any suggestions?
Can you tell me whom I should see,
whom I should interest, who has the
—ah—pull, I believe you call It?”
"I’ll bring them to you,” Vernon
said. "You sit here and hold court."
He rose and his eyes swept the
chamber. They lighted on Burns, end
an idea suddenly came to him. He
would revenge himself on Burns for
all the slights of the session.
"Of course you’ll have to see Sam
Porter, but I’ll begin by bringing Sen
ator Burns—familiarly known as Bull
Burns.”
"I’ve read of him so often in the
newspapers,” she said. "It would be
an experience.”
Vernon went over to Burns’ seat and
touched him on the shoulder.
"Come on,” he said in a tone of
command, speaking for once from the
altitude of his social superiority. And
for once he was successful. The burly
fellow from the First district stood up
and looked inquiringly.
"Come with me," Vernon said;
"there’s a Chicago lawyer back here
who wants to see you.”
Burns followed and an instant later
Vernon halted before Miss Greene.
The other men, who had quickly re
turned to her aide, made way, and
Vernon said:
"Miss Greene, may I present Sena
tor Burns, of the First district?"
Miss Greene smiled on the big sa
loonkeeper, who instantly flamed with
embarrassment. She gave him her
band, and he took It in his fat palm,
carefully, lest he crush It.
"I am delighted to meet Senator
Burns; I’ve heard of you so often,”
she said, looking up at him. "And do
you know I count it a privilege to
meet one of your acknowledged Influ
ence in our state’s affairs?”
Vernon stood back, delighted beyond
measure with the confusion into which
Bums for once had been betrayed.
The senator from the First district
“Den Pm Wit' You.”
was struggling for some word te say,
and at last he broke out with:
“Aw now, lady, don’t be t’rowln’ de
con into me.”
The men in the little group on that
side of the senate chamber burst out
In a laugh, but Burns becoming sud
denly grave, and dangerous and terri
ble in his gravity, they broke off in
the very midst of their mirth. The
group became silent.
"Really, Senator Burns," said Miss
Greene, "this Is no—ah —confidence
game, I assure you.” She rose with a
graceful sweep of her skirts. Then
she went on: "If you will permit me,
I should like to explain my mission to
you. I am down here to ask the sen
ate to adopt a resolution that will
submit an amendment to the constitu
tion permitting the women of Illinois
to vote at all elections, as they vote
at school elections now. If you can
give it, I should like your support; I
should, at least, like to tell you my
reasons.”
Slowly she seated herself again,
saying: “Will you sit down?”
But Burns only stood and looked at
her. There was a trace of fear in her
face.
"Do you want dis resolution put
t’rough?” he naked, bluntly.
“IT Indeed I do!” she said.
“Is dere anyt’ing in It fer yo«?" he
went on.
“Why,” Mlsb Greene said, somewhat
at a loss, “only that I am interested as
a matter of principle In seeing It
Emanation From Printers Ink
Peeuliar Property Found to Affect a
Photographic Plats.
That printer’s ink gives off an
emanation that passes through opaque
bodies and affects a photographic
plate has been discovered by a Ger
man investigator. Photographic roll
film is sometimes thus affected,
through It* celluloid cover, by the
printed characters on the paper In
which It Is wrapped. The emanation
is found to proceed from the oil in the
ink during the drying process. It is
not precisely the seme as the smans
adopted. It would be a great day for
me if I could go back to Chicago feel
ing that I had had just a little bit to
do with such a result.”
"Den I’m wit’ you,” said Burns, and
wheeling, he went back to his desk.
Miss Greene watched him a mo
ment, and then turned to the men,
theh* numbers augmented now by
others who had come up to see Burns
In the presence of such a woman. The
glance she gave them was a question.
“Oh, he means it,” said Monroe of
Whiteside. “He’ll vote for the reso
lution.”
“Yes, he’s given his word,” said
Brownwell of Cook.
Vernon devoted half an hour to
bringing senators to meet Marla
Greene. It was not difficult work,
though it had its disadvantages; it
did not allow Vernan to remain with
her long at a time. But at last It was
done, and he found a moment alone
with her. She had given him some
pamphlets on equal suffrage.
"Ah, if you could only address the
senate!" he exclaimed, In open admi
ration. And then, as If an Inspiration
had come to him, he added:
“Perhaps I conld arrange It; It has
been done.”
She gasped and stretched out her
hand to stay him.
“Oh, not for all the world!” she
protested.
"But you'll come and meet the lieu
tenant-governor?”
"Up there?" she said, incredulously,
pointing to the dais under the flags.
“Why, yes,” Vernon answered; "why
not? It’s where all the eminent law
yers who come down here to lobby
sit."
She looked up at the desk behind
which the lieutenant-governor sat,
swinging gently In his swivel chair,
while the secretary read senate bills
on third reading. There was a re
luctance in her eyes, but when shs
caught Vernon’s smile, she gathered
her skirts and said:
“Well, If I must.”
CHAPTER IV.
While Miss Greene sat chatting with
the lieutenant-governor, who gladly j
neglected the duties of his high office, !
Vernon went out into the rotunda,
lighted a cigarette, glanced over the
pamphlets, and tried to. arrange the
heads of his speech in his mind.
At the thought of the speech, Ver
non grew cold and limp with novous
ness. His hands were clammy, his
knees trembled, his mouth became dry
and parched, and the cigarette he had
lighted imparted all at once an evil
taste. Yet he smoked on, and as he
wandered around the rotunda, men
from both houses, passing to and fro,
greeted him, but they seemed to him
to be strange new creatures flitting by
in a dream. If he was conscious of
them at all it was only as of envied
beings, all on a common happy plane,
fortunate ones who did not have to
make a speech within the hour. He
went over to the state library, think- j
ing that its quiet would soothe, but
when he stood among the tall stacks
of books he suddenly remembered that |
he must not smoke in those precincts;
and so he turned out into the rotunda
again, for he must smoke. He walked
round and round the rotunda, pausing
at times to lean over the brass railing
ami look far down to the main floor
where the red light glowed at the
cigar stand; he sauntered back into
the dim and undisturbed corridors, his
mind racing over all the things he
might say.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Trim Your Nails.
There is a certain eminent physician
who, wiser than the children of light,
plods his way along in an unbeaten
track and has no peer as a diagnosti
cian. He is always accompanied by
an expert manicurist, instead of a
white or colored valet. "The human
nail, like the human hair,” he said
to me, "is much affected by physical
conditions. Barbers will tell you that
in certain seasons the beard, for In
stance, grows nearly twice as fast as
at others. It is so with the nails. At
times, according to how we feel, the
free edge may be a month In growing;
there is some retarding agent. At
other times it may grow in a week.
Sometimes the nail has transverse
furrows, indicating periods of illness.
At other times it bears furrows run
ning lengthwise—a sure indication of
gout. My manicurist can tell by these
indications when your last sickness
occurred, and I can tell what the mal
ady was.”
Fish Caught by Horsemen.
It is not often that hunting and ang
ling are combined, or that fish are
caught by a horseman; yet this is
what, according to a correspondent,
happened at a recent meet of Lord
Fltzhardinge’s foxhounds. While jump
ing a stream, Mr. Philip Norris of Bris
tol (England) was thrown from his
horse, and fell into the water. Subse
quently, while changing his clothes at
a village hostelry, he discovered that
a live trout had netted Itself in one of
his pockets while he was in the water.
The fish has been preserved at the
hostelry.
tion from radium and other radlo-ao
tlve substances, for, unlike them, it
changes gum arable into a granular,
insoluble substance. It was this ef
feot produced on the gum of envelope
flaps by the printed characters on the
Envelopes that first attracted the In
vestigator ■ attention. The emana
tions are reflected by metal mirrors in
the same way as light, aad they oxi
dise metal surfaces against which they
etrike. The exposure necessary te ef
fect a sensitive plate Is eight te tea
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
NEW HEAD OF P. A. R.
of land left her and she accomplished what has been impossible to so many
men.
Mrs. Scott is an active worker in ths Presbyterian church of Illinois, and
her exertions for it have been as universal as her work for patriotic and
philanthropic purposes. She also takes a cordial interest in all clubs which
have a worthy end, and is at present the administrative of the large and
successful woman’s club of Bloomington.
From a genealogical standpoint, Mrs. Scott would be an entertaining
theme for study, even without her delightful personality and her splendid
mental equipment. For she comes of illustrious lines on both sides of her
family, and even a recital of the names of her immediate ancestors calls for
attention.
Mrs. Scott resides in a handsome home in Bloomington, and is held in
the highest esteem there by her friends and neighbors.
She is one of the most intense, home-loving types, and no honor could
appeal which meant the breaking up of the family circle. She has two daugh
ters, Mrs. Charles G. Bromwell, who has been pleasantly identified with
Washington society since her debut in Mrs. Adlai Stevenson’s home during
the early days of the second Cleveland term. The second daughter, Mrs.
Julia Scott Vrooman, spends nearly all her time in Europe. Mrs. Scott con
sented to appear before the D. A. R. as a candidate for the honor of president
general only after the most serious consideration of all that the honor meant.
COMMANDS BRITISH NAVY
commander of the bath and a knight command
er of the Royal Victorian order. He served in the Arctic expedition in 1875-
76, and was naval attache for Europe in the days when Great Britain thought
that one such officer was enough for the whole continent. Perhaps his chief
distinction is his knowledge of the torpedo and its uses, of which he is de
clared to be one of the greatest living experts. He is, as well, said to be ex
tremely fine authority on naval gunnery, a past master in the art of making
every gun of his ship tell on the hull of an enemy—although it must be ad
mitted that he has never had the opportunity of trying his skill on anything
more tangible or dangerous than canvas targets.
Admiral May will be best remembered by the people of the United States
perhaps, as the commander-in-chief of England’s Atlantic fleet in 1905-06.
His career since then brings to notice the extraordinary advance that has
been made in naval construction, chiefly by the building of the Dreadnought,
which, curiously enough, is Admiral May’s flagship in his new command. When
May was appointed to the command of the Atlantic fleet, four years ago, the
Edward VII. was just being completed and was heralded as the greatest
fighting unit in the world. Yet the burden of the recent navy debate in the
British house of commons was that this class of ship had become obsolete
and would have to be practically ignored in any comparison of the navies
of the several countries a couple of years hence.
MADE TREASURY ASSISTANT
It was not long until Hilles was made financial
officer of the same institution by Gov. McKinley and then superintendent by
Gov. Nash. Such a rapid rise from a clerkship to the head of a big institu
tion was never known in Ohio.
The record of Hilles as head of the reformatory attracted the attention
of the New York Juvenile asylum trustees, and they offered him a big salary
to assume charge of that institution. He accepted seven years ago, although
he hated to give up hiß chances in Ohio politics. He was soon active in the
Ohio society of New York, of which Henry Taft is president, and did
some quiet work for the Taft cause before and after the Chicago convention.
Now comes his reward, but much will be expected of him prior to 1912. Mr.
Hilles is 41, married, has three children, is a Presbyterian and a member of the
Young Men’s Christian association, in charge at Fort Slocum branch.
| SAYS HE MAY TALK TO MARS
g|i Prof. William H. Pickering, the Harvard
door, but still it’s pretty close for Mars, which
has heretofore exhibited a bashful and retiring disposition toward us.
Communication from the earth may be established at that time, accord
ing to Prof. Pickering, by a mirror reflection scheme. He has evolved a plan
which will carry the message, he declares, and he estimates the expense
at $10,000,0000.
Prof. Pickering has written various works of scientific sort, and is widely
known as a lecturer. He has traveled over the world for the observation of
solar and lunar eclipses, has climbed lofty mountain peaks in various quarters
of the globe and is on intimate or speaking terms with an astonishing number
of planets and satellites.
Mrs. Matthew Scott, the newly elected
president-general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, has been prominent in
the social life of the capital for several years.
She maintained a handsome home in Wash
ington during her sister Mrs. Adlai Stevenson’s
reign as second lady of the land. For several
years past she has served on the national board
of the organization which she now heads as
vice-president-general from Illinois, and shs has
all the business routine of the society well with
in her grasp.
Mrs. Scott is a resident of Bloomington, 111.,
the widow of a coal mine owner. Left a widow
some 15 years ago, with her income depending
on the management of the farms and real es
tate, she has increased the value of every Inch
Sir William May, the new commander of
the British navy, is called the most able naval
commander and the most adroit strategist Great
Britain can boast. He will have charge of the
coming maneuvers of the fleet, and from his
studies at this time England will settle upon
its future naval construction policy.
Sir William succeeded Lord Charles Beres
ford In command of the fleet, although the new
commander and the most adroit strategist Great
powerful vessels that his famous predecessor
ever commanded.
Sir William is one of the king’s favorites.
Like "Jacky” Fisher, the first sea lord, he owes
his advance in the service to his royal friend.
He is naval aide-de-camp to Edward, a knight
Charles Dewey Hilles, who has been ap
pointed an assistant secretary of the treasury,
promises to be a very potent factor in the Taft
administration. While to some extent his ap
pointment is a personal one, thanks to his
friendship with the president and Henry Taft,
there is also political wisdom in placing him
near the White House.
Hilles has been a politician since boyhood.
He comes originally from Barnesville, 0., and
his father was in the Ohio legislautre. The son
spent some time at Columbus with bis father,
and imbibed a love of political life. Very soon
after leaving an academy at Oxford, Md., young
Hilles was made secretary to the superintendent
of the Boys’ Industrial school at Lancaster, O.
star-gazer, who has evolved a plan by which
we may enjoy a little chat with the people of
Mars next July at a nominal cost of $10,000,000.
with no money refunded if central says "Busy”
or "Your party don’t answer,” is one of the
most noted of living astronomers.
Prof. Pickering has figured the situation
out. He finds that Mars is going to be a com
paratively near neighbor of ours next July. The
figuring done by Prof. Pickering shows that
shortly after firecracker day the comet win be
some 5,000,000 miles nearer the earth than it
has ever been before. Of course, that is not
quite like exchanging opinions and household
loans over the back fence with the woman next
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Shiloh Church to Be Repullt.
An effort is being made to build
suitable memorial church on the site
of the original Shiloh church, on Shi
loh battlefield, now one of the most
attractive of military parks. It was * ■
on this very spot the bloody battle of
Shiloh was begun on the morning of
April 6, 1862. It Is the purpose to
build a memorial church to cost not
less than SIO,OOO. The names of all
contributors will be recorded in a
permanent register and kept on ex
hibition in the church, which will be
open to visitors and tourists.
Certainty Convenience Economy
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All druggists sell it.
Nothing But the Truth.
Attorney (much baffled by the an
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you’re a nice sort of a fellow, you are!
The Witness—Shure, an’ I’d say the
same of you, sir, only I’m on me oath.
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"Miss' Adele has such a mobile
Cace.”
“Yes, I have noticed at times its
automatic expression.”
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The man who has only himself to
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ably sooner than later, that he has
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German Proverb.
Though you drive Nature out with
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