Show “I’ve missed my train” she said quietly Vernon grew red with confusion “I beg a thousavid pardons!" he said “It was all my fault and It was certainly very stupid of me” "It’s of no importance Where must I go to reserve space on the rrtght train?” said Miss Greene Vernon told her and proffered his services He was now delighted at'the philosophical way In which she accepted the situation — It would have he rebrought the average womah flected to tears — and then he went on to picture to himself the practical results In Improving women’s characters that his new measure a3 he had already come to regard it would bring about CHAPTER 8YN0PSIS Senator Morley Vernon’s visit with his fiancee wa3 interrupted by a call from his political boss at the state capital Both regretted it the girl nioro than he because she had arranged to attend a dinner that evening with him She said she yearned for a national office for him On Vernon's desk in the senate he found a red rose accompanied by a plea for He met the ausuffrage for women thoress pretty Miss Marla Greene of to convert him who proposed Chicago Into voting for house resolution No 19 Miss Greene secured Vernon's promise to vote for the suffrage resolution He also He took others aided ner by convincing Miss a liking to the fair suffragette Greene consulted with the Vernon admitted to himself that the suffragette had stirred a strange feelHe forgot to read his ing within him Vernon made a great flancee’B letter aided by In favor of suffrage speech glances from Miss Greene CHAPTER V— Continued When he had done there was a moment's stillness then came the long sweep of applause that rang through the chamber and while the lieutenant men for order governor rapped crowded around Vernon and wrung his hand as he wiped his forehead with And then the roll his handkerchief was called It had not proceeded far when there was that subtile change in the atmosphere which Is so easily recognized by those who have acquired the the sense of political aeroscepsy change that betokens some new unexpected and dangerous maneuver Braidwood bad come over from the house His face framed in its dark He beard was stern and serious whispered an Instant to Porter the Porter rose senate leader “Mr President" he said v The lieutenant governor was looking at him expectantly "The gentleman from Cook” the lieutenant governor said' “Mr President” said Senator Porter “I move you sir that the further discussion of the resolution he postponed until Wednesday morning one and that it be week from made a special order immediately following the reading of the journal” “If there are no objections it will he so ordered” said the lieutenant governor Bull Burns shouted a prompt and hoarse “Object!” But the lieutenant governor calmly ald: "And It is so ordered” The gavel fell CHAPTER Vernon looked at Miss Greene helplessly hut she was nodding her head in acquiescence to each point the doc- tor laid down In his harsh palm with that long forefinger Vernon had no chance to speak until they reached the hotel She was to take the midday train back to Chicago and Vernon had insisted on going to the station with her Just as she was about to leave him to go up to her room she said as on a sudden Impulse: you know that the women of yes the people of America a debt?” Vernon assumed a most modest at“Do America owe you titude "If we are successful" she went on “the advocates of equal suffrage all over the United States will be greatly the reform movement encouraged VII Marla Greene would not let Vernon attend to her tickets she said it was a matter of principle with her but late In the afternoon when they had had luncheon and she had got the tickets herself she did accept his Invitation to drive The afternoon had justified all the morning’s promise of a fine spring day and as they left the edges of the town and turned Into the road that stretched away over the low undulations of ground they call hills in Illinois and lost itself mysteriously In the country far beyond Miss Greene became enthusiastic “Isn’t It glorious!” she cried “And to think that when I left Chicago last night It was still winter!” She shuddered as if she would shake off the memory of the city’s ugliness' Her face was flushed and she Inhaled the sweet air eagerly “To be In the country once more! she went on “Did you ever live in the country?” Vernon asked “Once” she said and then after a VI After the adjournment Vernon sought out Maria Greene and walked with her down Capitol avenue toward the hotel He was prepared to enjoy her congratulations but she was silent for a while and before they spoke again “Doc” Ames striding rapidly had caught up with them He was still scowling “I was sorry you didn’t finish your speech as you Intended Blr” he said with something of he acerbity of a reproach “Why” began Vernon looking at him “I—" “You laid out very broad and com“Did You Ever Live In the Country?” prehensive ground for yourself” the old man continued “but unfortunately you did not cover It You should have everywhere’ will receive a genuine Im- grave pause she added: “A long time developed your subject logically as I petus" ago” “You will be down next Wednesday had hopes Indeed in the beginning The road they had turned into was when the resolution comes up again you were going to do An argument as soft and as smooth as velvet now would have based on principle been won’t you?” asked Vernon that the spring had released it from more to the point than an appeal to “Indeed I shall” she said “Do you the thrall of winter’s mud It led bethe passions I think Miss Greene will have any hopes now?” a side golf links and the new greens am me I did not sorry you agree with "Why "Hopes?” laughed Vernon of certainly we’ll adopt It I’ll give my were already dotted with golfers who acquaint me with your Intention with the zest they had accumuaddressing the senate on this imporwhole time to It between now and played tant measure I would very much have legislation this session appropriations lated in the forbidding winter months liked to confer with yout about what and all I guess that will bring them They showed their enthusiasm by playas If already it were ing you were going to say It is not conto time!” the height of summer templated by those In the reform “You’re goodr she said "But As the buggy rolled noiselessly movement that the charms of woman I fear Mr very Porter’s Influence” along Vernon and Miss Greene were sishall be advanced as the reason for “Oh I’ll take care of him You lent the spell of the spring was on her right to equal suffrage with man trust It to me The women will be them To their right rolled the praiIt is purely a matter of cold abstract voting in this state next year” ries that never can become mere Justice Now for Instance" the doctor “And you shall be their candidate fields however much they be tilled or laid his finger hi his palm and began for she cried clasping her fenced The brown earth with Its to speak didactically “as I have handsgovernor!” tinge of young green here and there pointed out to the house whatever the Vernon he felt a warm or its newly plowed clods glistening colored power or the principle that gives to but he and steaming in the sun rolled away man his right to make the law that thrill course through him waved the nomination aside with his like the sea Far off standing out governs him to woman it gives the hand He was about to say something black and forbidding against the horisame right In 87 states the married more but "he could not think of any- zon they could see the ugly buildings mother has no right to her children behind above the In 16 the wife has no right to her own thing quickly enough While he hesi- of a coal shaft tated Miss Greene looked at her trees that grew for the city’s shade earnings in eight she has no separate watch convent tower and above lifted the its seven—” In her to property right the gray dome of the State House reared Itself dominating the whole scene The air shimmered In the haze of spring Birds were chirping In the now and then a meadow-larhedges sprang Into the air and fled crying out Its strange staccato song as it skimmed the surface of the prairies Vernon Idly snapped the whip as he drove along neither of them seemed to care to they speak Suddenly heard a dtstant heavy thud The earth trembled slightly “What’s that?" said Miss Greene In Borne alarm “It couldn’t have been thunder” "No" said Vernon “It was the miners blasting” “Where?” “Down in the ground underneath us” She gave him a strange look which he did not comprehend Then she turned and glanced quickly at the black breakers of the coal shaft half a mile then at the away “Do the mines run under this ground?” she asked sweeping her hand about and Including the links In her gesture “Yes all over here or rather under here” Vernon sa'd He was proud of He his knowledge of the locality thought it argued well that a legislator should be Informed on all questions Maria thought a moment then she said: “The golfers above the miners below" Vernon looked at her In surprise The pleasure of the spring had(gone out of her eyes “Drive on please" she said “There's no danger” said Vernon reassuringly clucking at his horse and- the "beast flung up its head In a burst of speed as spasmodic horses will The horse did not have to trot very far to bear them away from the crack of the golf balls and the dull subterranean echoes of the miners’ blasts but Vernon felt that a cloud had floated all at once over this first spring day The woman sitting there beside him Beemed to withdraw herself to an infinite distance “You love the country?” he asked feeling the need of speech “Yes” she said but she went no farther “And you once lfved there?” “Yes” she said again but she vouchsafed no more Vernon found a deep curiosity springing within him he longed to know more about this young woman who In all outward ways seemed to be Just like the women he knew and yet was so essentially different from them But though he tried he could not move her to speak of her own life or Its affairs At the last he said boldly: “Tell me how did you come to be a lawyer?” Miss Greene turned to meet his Inall CUBANS ARE HAVING TROUBLE Gomez Announces He Will Make Ap polntments Without Considering Any Faction Havana— Not since the downfall of the administration of President Palma has the political atmosphere of Cuba been more obscured and more laden with suggestions of trouble than now The is republic scarcely nine months old and already rumors are persistent that some way Is being sought to secure the retirement of President Gomez either by and to persuasion or compulsion place Zayas at the head of the nation Probably the most serious condition that the president faces is that resulting from the continued failure of efforts to effect a complete fusion between his partisans and those of For three years Zayasnegotiations to this end have been in progress and at least half a dozen times announcement has been made ot their suocess In the presidential cambut with the paign there was a trui beginning of the distribution of offices under the new administration mutual distrust was A few days ago General Gomes startled liberal leaders in a letter in which he stated that so far as he waa officially concerned he had decided to consider the fusion as an accomplished fact and In view of this he would to his cabinet make appointments without reference to the particular faction of the liberal party to which the appointee might have belonged LARGE OFFICIAL FAMILY The Employes of Uncle 8am Exceed 370000 Washington — The' personnel of Uncle Sam’s establishment Is Increasing by leaps and bounds the grand total of all federal employes being approxi306141 In mately 370065 against 1907 an Increase In the two years of 63924 or 20 per cent These and other Interesting facts are brought oul In the official register or government “Blue Book" for 1909 soon to b® issued by the census bureau The District of Columbia leads all the states and territories in the number of persons working for the government in this city Arizona Is credited with the smallest number— nineteen — whose salaries aggregate amount to ?25226 Couldn’t Hit a Balloon New York — An anchored balloon off Sandy Hook at a continuation of the army’s test of aerial warfare passed unscathed through a fire from a gun especially designed for the purpose Twenty shots in all were but none hit the bag Results fired quisitive gaze of the experiment are being kept a “How did you?” she asked The balloon was fired upon Vernon cracked his whip at the secret at a height of about 500 feet but road the failure from the weapon’s “Well — ” he stammered “I don’t whether Inefficiency or poor marksmanship know I had to do something" could not be ascertained “So did I” she replied Vernon cut the lazy horse with the Labor Leaders Appeal to Higher whip and the horse jerked the buggy Court as it made its professional feint at Washington — On behalf of Samuel trotting Gompers John Mitchell and Frank (TO BE CONTINUED) Morrison the labor leaders a petition LIKED THE FIGHTING APOSTLE was filed in the supreme court of the United States on Saturday for a writ certiorari requiring the court of Name of St Peter Appealed to Heart of of Soldier appeals of the District of Columbia to certify to the’ nation’s highest tribunal for its revision and determlnac It Is well known that Elias Howe the Inventor of the sewing machine tlon the appeal by them in the famous rot only enlisted as a common soldier Bucks Stove & Range case in the ranks of the Seventeenth ConShot the Wrong Man necticut regiment carried a musket Paris— A man believed to be Inand did full military duty during the sane and having an Imaginary grievwar but at a certain Juncture when national finances were at a low ebb ance against the war department shot he paid soldiers out of Ms own pocket and seriously wounded General Yerand Relative to this Incident P T Barnum on Sunday on the steps of the Hotel Continental as the general was enused to tell this story: “While Mr Howe was counting out tering the building to attend a banThe man was arrested Later the money referred to a stranger who quet was a clergyman entered the tent and It was learned that he had mistaken said he had heard of Mr Howe’s lib- General Verand for General Brud of war minister The attempted aserality and had called to ask him to sassination created a sensation contribute toward building a church for his congregation ‘"Church church’ said Mr Howe without looking up from his bills he In was counting ‘building churches war times when so much is needed to What church Ib save our country! sent up Accident Causes Eearthquake Rumors San Francisco — The failure of an engine in one of the big power houses caused by a shutting off of the feed water condenser interrupted all telegraphic and telephone commun' cation It?’ with the outside world for a few minthe Peter's church’ “’St replied utes Saturday night but Isolated 3an clergyman Francisco long enough to give rise to ‘"Oh St Peter’s’ said Mr How of rumors throughout the coum ’well St Peter was the only fighting a flood had been I’ll try that the interruption apostle— he cut a man’s ear oft caused by an earthquake For about go 500 on St Peter but I am spendminutes the hundreds of wire twenty on most of money saltpeter my ing nrunlng east north and south were now' " silent Idea by No Means New of Production Tobacco The object of New York’s newest Enormous club is to eat wisely but not too well Washington — More than 150000-00That Is to educate housewives in the pounds of cigar tobacco and neap But this idea is as ly four times that quantity of ths domestic sciences old as the hills and was tried by Bos- other types of tobacco was grown In ton years ago with more or less fail- the United States in 1908 according ure Clubs of domestic science are all to a bulletin issued by the department over the United States now and one of agriculture Kentucky leads all can determine their value to society the states In tobacco growing producby harking back to the old days of the ing more than of the crop While some tobacco simple life when eating and the prepa- of the country ration of food was not the main object is produced In almost every state lesi had not than 1 per cent of this and the servant problem country’s crop started on its wild career ‘3 grown west Qt the Mississippi river ' |