Show thf s a Lina call sauna utah are and out to Camp Lincoln They George pointed out members here and veto! It’s hard enough to get the will not vote When the absentees took many trolley rides and even there and whispered in their 'ears votes that constitute a are coded these ten will vote for tho climbed to the top of the state bouse supposed that they were doing great majority with the people against you bill and on the verification you'll see dome whence they say you can things in the fight against the bill —men are such cowards — but when It others tumbling into the see Rochester and the prairies for but that was only another time when comes to — a Now your vote is not needed as you rounding up He brought her they deluded their preclouB selves thirty miles around hundred and two — it’s an entirely dif- see and cast for the bill or against over to the house one or two mornchiefly at ferent problem They did their reforming We had been work- can have no appreciable effect upon By ings but not on to the floor as other banquets but George and the old ing quietly at the thing for days for the result The bill will pass without members did their man knew a thing or two about poliwe knew the veto was coming wives and your vote and cannot defeat it for "HER INFINITE VARIETT" DISTRICT" AUTHOR OF "THE THIRTEENTH ho sent her up to the gallery where tics themselves and George standing that the old man would wait until the the hundred and two will stand firm "THE HAPPY AVERAGE" "THE TURN OF THE BALANCE" ETC ETC she sat peering down over the railing back by the Demociatic last night to send it In We had a In the end One of them however — It at the gang — and her husband who smoking his little cigarettes diwas hundred and one tried and true men is Berry I don’t mind telling you — Is took no part in all that was going on recting that fight with the party lash who would stick to the end The hun- trying at the last minute tp force us "The old woman’s Interest in all In his hand and some of the best dred and second was Jim Berry You can take We into raising his price Copyright by I bo jJobba MerriU Compaq these new things that had come into men on the floor of the house to do his had his promise he bis place you can have his price of and believed ALDWIN the lobby- I know men who would have spent a her starved life Ho was the her would in only private stay line — though he was the easy money with his raise added “Jiding N ever ist leaning forward fortune to give that legislature one pride in her I an who could knew set members1 y afraid of his constits— for be was if you will go out there and vote for " in such a distinguished i'rV-ythe fleldwith bis elbows on more day of life but it was sweepthe bill’ poor and in debt ' Ivd as knees bis and ing on its midnight death Somehow givers were touching to rough It all old ’Zeke stood “He stood looking at the floor rumii "Judge Hardin came and sat beside w ltb as ever with a hard cold me that we the whenever I think of the legislature I looked at him that last niglt of swaying p0ame might check them off for nating Lie on his face and you could hear train as it swung think of that legislature and when-- session and thought of her the wish ourselves and Hen began calling the "'I know Henderson I continued conceives out on to tlio roaky ever my mind the state to do something to lighten their live sharp monotonous rap of his gav- - roll: 'that you are a poor man that you that paves house it isn't pictured to me aa stand-- came into my heart but Just thenj el rap rap rap neither faBt nor slow lodge have a large family that you have to “’Allen!’ tumult did not die during the the Vahey of the ing there on the hill stately in the suddenly old ’Zeko started from You aie goiwork hard for a living “’Aye!’ D e s p a ines con-- sunbhiiie hut as am reading of that scathing mesage and appeared that night chair grasped his gavel firmly " 'Ambaughl ng home tomorrow maybe not e m platively cut as I walked over from the Leland leaned expectantly over his desk At when Hen’s ruined voice ceafeed and come back here any more and you “‘Aye!’ the end from a fresh cigar and Bald with the clouds flying low over its the same Instant the oldei jnembert"be rolled the message up again and “ ‘Anderson! can go if you wish with three thousIt in his desk ’Zeke smashed "But I’m not so sure Tfter all My dome The lower floors were dark dragged their feet down from and dollars clean cold cash in your “‘Aye!’ gavel down and I heard him say: experience vith the Bailey Bill shook and still as sepulchres and the mes desks and sat bolt upright The pocket What do you say?” “’Baitlyl’ “’Will the house be in order?’ senger boys who came over from tho paper men flung away their cigarettes my faith in that proposition" “The old man turned his face away “‘Aye!’ In order for ’Zeke “And it was The two other men In the salon Western Union now and then remind- - and adjusted their eye glasses The as“The leaders Jamison over on the and began to fumble his horny of went me their sistant to ed order who how by had knew clerk that they in ghosts locked up vith startled eyes been reading compel side Republican fingers at his chin His hand trembled on and the Riley w’anted t when he to and he Democratic Baldwin had been driven over from heels dragging on the marble floors looked up from the bill then under at their desks wjth as with a palsy We could hear the A light was burning what I suppose they would have called never raised his voice to do it either roll calls at sat bis Michigan Avenue home and caught of (he qorridor roll on outside call which going they thoughtfully and hurriedly gave his only hi3 eye and the gavel And so blew the Alton Limited when It made the in the governor’s office though the old consideration It’s nearly ‘“Hear them?’ I said the smoke of their cigars as they Street man himself I knew was over at the place at the reading desk to the clerk when they were quiet he said: ’The checked the progress of the vote station stop at Twenty-thirtfp to you — what do you say?’ of the house I knew what was comShall the house concur “ ‘Beell question is: where he boarded the ihst of its cur- mansion pacing" the floor of the “The old man’B lips quivered and This coach was the brary and cursing with classic curses ing I knew that the Bailey bill was with the senate in the passage of sentained Pullmans his calloused “’Aye!’ In his fingers grated “‘Belli’ political institution known to Illinois Wo were going to try that night to on its way over from the senate And ate bill No 106 notwithstanding the beard He opened his lips to speak I heard Bill Hill call: of the governor?’ pass the Bailey bill over his veto oljections “‘No!’ statesmanship as the Springfield but his jaw moved helplessly And ‘‘‘Mlstah to floor blazed house "The the "But with tried break away comSpeakah’ his two and third Baldwin s’eeper and “Bell of course was on the other we heard Hen’s voice back there in "At the sound of that voice the up- trom him again but he held it in bis side the secretary of electric lights and the hig dome was panions Jennings and was back with the house calling — calling so that you state and Denny Healy a canal com full of noisy echoes The senate kept roar in the chamber ceased It be- gavel fist drawing the curb tight and George Herrick standing their fellows d could him in the over have heard keeping John old Long know how its coat on— you mis- loner had the capsulated coziness they came so still that thp silence tingled turned to recognize in line and barroom: over there— hut the liko a numbness through the body Riley who was standing like a tall tree from the cheering up the reformers of its smoking compartment all to mimic decorum “ ‘Gelsbachl’ Municipal league but we huddled stiller than it had been any time since beside his desk with his hand up- knew his vote ‘heniselves Down by Dwight they house was In Its shirtsleeves “‘No!’ V would have its effect on like a pack of wolves around the nitae o’clock that morning when they raised had fallen into a desultory discussion “‘He Is one of those who will Berry so I pulled the speaker’s coatof the old question as to whether or speaker’s dais with faces ripe with had paused for the chaplain to say “‘The gentleman from Cook!’ “ ’Mr Speaker’ Bald Riley ‘I move tail and ’Zeke leaned over and whis- change’ I said not every man has his price The whisky shaking its lists under the his prayer The gang turned around pered hoarsely to the clerk Hen ob- '“'Giger!’ ‘He’H question couldhardly interest these umbrella of cigar smoke Every fel- and stood motionless panting In Its the previous question’ "There was no response served a lengthened pause and then be "There was another roar but ’Zeke’s a flashlight men long for after many years’ con- low was trying get his bill passed shirtsleeves as though began to call more slowly Berry all right when they call the absentees' Halfwere to be taken stant contemplation under the gray in the last hour of the session — you photograph gavel fell and his eyes blazed black was the next I said name You again and he said: way down the aisle stood Hill dome of the state house of the weak know what it is Hank?" ’“Gordon!’ Hen “‘Berry!’ drawled “‘The gentleman from Cook moves nesses of men they bad come to an “but know how he would look at such a "Qah yes" replied Jennings "‘No!’ “There was no reply " ‘Grlesheimerl’ acceptance of the doctrine now grown tain’t nothin’ to what ’t used to be time in his long black coat hi3 wide the previous question and the ques“‘Berry!’ frank enough to have no lingering under the ol’ constitution We’d stack white shirt bosom with thq big dia- - tion is: Shall the main question be "‘Aye!’ was no "There mond in black favor now Those of his this quesrolling collar and reply put? taint of cynicism indeed a pile o’ them ’ere private acts up on Jennings them?” I asked The H’s ‘“Hear “Hen looked at Berry and the polhad just dismissed the subject by de- the clerk’s desk an’ pass ’em all t’ string tie and his long black hair fall- tion will say aye’ — there wa3 a roar of came next and tho old man still fumblYou know how ayes — ‘and those opposed will say no’ troon sat there with his eyes cast Them 'as the ing to his shoulders oncet ’ith a whoop claring: ing with his chin and without turnidown rolling his cigar around and “All men air for sale an' most of days— hut that ’as ’fore your time’ his head began to talk: around in his moilth tearing up his ng“ ”Tho-’em damn cheap” must have been good old ‘Baldwin’ he said ‘you’re right I little flakes of paper and swinging am a And so tho subject might have days” assented the lobbyist “for the poor man I have a wife an from side to side in his chair Then eight children Tomorrow I’m goln’ lapsed had it not been for Baldwin’s gang ” Hen called the next name: ’a I’m could R Baldwin "I reckon! back done home on an’ A feller That to George goin’ Monday heterodoxy "’Briggs!’ ‘of all men should doubt the first max- business in them days! 01’ John M’d hunt a job — hunt a Job in the harves’ “‘No!’ he voted and Berry looked im cf their profession was beyond field better left the ol’ constitution alone — I I've worked all my life up for the first time since the bill had ’spect to work hard all my life But there ’aa a comprehension I’ll Though he played it ’as good enough come over from the senate ‘Zeke keep on huntirf jobs In the harves’ his rart in with a suite of law passion fer change right after the rapped fiercely with his gavel and fields oiTiees in a skyscraper as a backI’ll probably die in the war” Hen paused Then ’Zeke said sharply: I’ll be buried in the potter’s The lobbyist politely nodded concurrground his serious business was lob" ‘The chair is compelled bying bills through the legislature ence in this view and continued again to field God knows what’ll become of call the attention of gentlemen to rule that woman and them children’ Ills fi lends who were many boasted "Some of the members clambered three which prohibits smoking in the "He nodded his head as in assent filling the air with x tat he always stood by them right on to their desks hall of the house n Tjrnnug Which he did Indeed and oaths ink bottles and hurtling books The chair dislikes to an indisputable proposition and his to be compelled to repeat this admoni-tio- eyes widened ' as if in fright ft w'ere generally wrong the with rattling leaves Sometimes an They '— — so frequently and trusts that iron weight sheathed in paper whizzed "Jsuch friendship or his looking down the barren years gentlemen will observe the injunction before him and I felt in that moment politics could hardly by on a vindictive mission and one without additional r The glad of my power to brighten them The day had been man made an Egyptian suggestion clerk will proceed with the calling of Some even hurled "‘Hallenl’ we heard Hen call ' Mghot one in Chicago but now a cold with rubber bands the roll’ And he smashed the brofdraft cf smoky air was sucking their copies cf the revised statutes— "‘No!’ ken sounding hoard again with his " ‘Henderson on it was the first use they had ever of Effingham through the narrow We needed time Some of the gavel which the cinders hailed as the Lim- found for them Once in a while "‘Aye!’ members laughed hut that only gave ited plunged southward some one would toss a hatch of print“The old man straightened out his ‘Zeke a chance to gain more time by long lank Baldwin had lighted his imported ed hills to the celling where they set figure and then suddenly We feared the ef- he turned and looked me In the rapping for order cigar the superior aioma of which the glass prisms of the chandeliers eyes fect however an discipline “ ‘But Baldwin’ he said ‘I come hero Then he percepiiblo even in an atmosphere jingling and then fell like autumn called Brisbane one of our fellows rhoked with coal gases and the fumes leaves a shower of dead pledges and last January an honest man and toand he didn’t vote I grew uneasy morrow And out of all the of the domestic cigars Jennings and withered hopes I’m goln back back to ol’ and Judge Hardin was squirming there Greene Itealy were smoking indicated faintly hubbub rose a steady roar—” back to my people back to beside me on tho lounge When I that woman an’ them children the height of cultivation to which he "Like at a lyuchin’ bee” assisted and Baldwin’ — he gulped the word—‘Baldthought of Berry I grew mad had brought his appetites when Jen- Jennings wondered if we could save the bill win I’m nings flecking his ashes ou the fioor assented Baldwin who "Exactly” goin’ back an honest man in ASSENT without him At that instant my eye of the salon Just as he would have had never seen a lynching “There “’Henderson of Greene!’ Hen’s of happened to light upon Henderson done on his own parlor carpet said: were drunken If in f RIGHT” howls and vacuous voice caliedHand the old man stalked Greene He was under the standing “Well go on with tho story” into the corridor and thundered ‘No! laughs and yet we could hear through gallery just as he had been standing in a “One session there was an old man it all the hoarse voice of the clerk his trumpet note” all evening He seemed not to have named Henderson id the house who throat so heated that you could see The lobbyist ceased The train had He had his hands clasped had come up from Greene County the vapor of his breath as you can an he would love such a moment— and it There was a heavier roar of noes and moved was chew- stopped at Chenoa and they could He then came the old cry: in win- was his last chance that session Henderson of Greene everybody call- orator's or a ‘Ayes and awkwardly behind him and hear the breathing of the engine his tobacco And ing contemplatively Mr ed him to distinguish him from Tom ter rapidly intoning senate bills on stood there quietly a whole minute noes ayes and noes Speaker as a living thing when my chance! I thought of the breathing He w’as a third reading Henderson of Effingham The pages were grow- and then putting a foot forward said ayes and noes damn you don’t you here was biography rests The nolBe ceased presently in the house direc- and The in his great bass voice: dare shut off debate!’ But ’Zeke only pathetic queer figure was Henderson of Greene ing heedless and impertinent the silence of the wide country ” ‘Mlstah Speakah’ and his gavel cracked — and tory I thought of his yife as I had night ensued smiled tall and gaunt with a stoop in his newspaper correspondents their disThey heard only seen the old thing going around notes “Old ’Zeke rose and said shoulders He always wore a hickory patches on the wires puffed their cigthey were still Then in the stillness town withpoor that came from the throats of him the week before I “ ‘Mister Doorkeeper’ he said: shirt opened at a red and wrinkled arettes in professional unconcern and frogs and the strldulent drumming of " ‘Gentlemen " ’A are as familiar with thought of the way he had worked and the cicadae throat and his hair was just a stubble awaited happenings worthy of late bulmessage from the senate by its looked at the Baldwiq toiled for her all those children two the rules as is the chair bleached by harvest suns The old letins The older members who had secretary’ They are and how little and held politicians expecting some comfor him life " ‘A message from the senate by its well aware that the chair is powerless man was a riddle to everybody in been through the mill many times bement The oscltant Healy looked out could get him for the bill in Berry’s alvoce was after He a their a that to viva seats One call ’Zeke order roll winter fore lounged low in and then of the window into the vafet darkness Springfield secretary’ repeated I knew people had to give way to Sam Pollard vote unless he is in doubt as to the place the Chicago ways in his seat even on Monday could see above their desks only brooding over the prairie town Jennresult the demand for the yeas and would he liberal with him and he ings feat meditatively pulling at his evenings when no one else was there their heads and heels The speaker who stepped forth and said: could go hack home better oft in a “ ‘Mr was in the chair He voted always with his party and old ’Zeke himself Speaker I am directed to in- nays not having been preferred before financial way than iwhen ha came moist mustache an expression of perphe voted consistently as well like a suave as ever but growing caustic form the house that the senate has the question had been put to the And so I In his countenance and lexity motioned to Burke Instance’ — and the In this good country member against all the He had splintered his wrinkles of increasing passed senate bill No 106’ — I never house concentration old fellow swung his gavel when he came up I told him to ask of mind gathering in his brow PreseBut he was a early In the evening and had taken shall forget the number of that bill splendid Chicago legislation the Greene meet from to silent man who stood apart from his to tapping perfunctorily his walnut after all the sleepless nights it caused to his ear and the smile flickered out me gentleman ntly without a word he rose and left fellows looking with eyes that peered desk with his little inadequate gavel me and the anxious mornings scan- of his face — ‘in this instance the chair I at onceto in the speaker’s room and the compartment When he returned await him Presently in he was from under his shaggy sun burned And yot he and the older members ning the calendar to see if its black is not in doubt The ayes seem to hisretired treading in Jbls stockings his clumsy way he shuffled in - lie coat the ayes have it and the main brows with an expression no one and the newspaper men would cast figures were there — ‘Senate bill No have and waistcoat and collar had came close had and I when to me up fathom a could been removed lie never made occasionally an anxious glance at the 106 A hill for an act to amend an act question is ordered’ his suspenders mere "’The question is: Shall the house given the poor devil a cigar he bent hanging at his hips He was evidently speech he never introduced a bill he clock and an expectant one at the entitled: An Act concerning the exerconcur with the senate in the pas- over to hear what I might say I preparing for his berth never offered a resolution he never big doors cise of the right of eminent domain Baldwin asked him how he was going to vote even presented a petition and when meanwhile had the objections "As I sat there on the old red notwithstanding of the sage “of senate bill No 106 notwithpressed a button and on the bill said he thought the speaker made his committee as- lounge under the speaker’s sent Gentry the aged porter now in standing the objections of the gov- he would voteand he it inasmuch governor’ — you know the lingo as against on in man Upon this question those of white jacket for his bag and laid out Then as the speaker said ’The clerk ernor Henderson I noticed signments he placed the old canopy the governor had said it was a bad on the committees on History Geology Greene standing away back under tlje will read the message’ Hen Harvey favor of the hill will vote aye the seat beside him hispajamas Well there was piece of legislation and a traveler’s case- filled with silver and Science and on Civil Service Re- galleries on the Democratic side eying who was clerk of the house stretched and those opposed will vote no no time to discuss that phase of the form and he did not even look disap- the proceedings with the same mys- - his arm over the narrow desk and when their names are called toilet articles Jennings lifted his question call will roll’ and the clerk the own had never left him took the file from the page The old terious stare pointed” big valise to his knees and from “ ‘Look here comrade’ I said 'this its depths drew The two politicians chuckled a bottle wrapped mad when he wrote that The gavel fell and the speaker holdsince he had been sworn in As I have man is a hill that concerns Chicago alone “As for me" continued Baldwin “I said I had never spoken to the fel- - veto message and he gave both ing it where it had fallen leaned half — He held one heavily in a newspaper it does not affect and cannot affect of the heavy little never spoke to him and never knew low but I had always felt a pity for houses the devil I never knew the his length over his desk and motioned glasses under the one way or the oth- faucet of the Hen had taken off his your constituents to Hen Harvey and allowed any one who did The speaker him- him— he Impressed me as a man who legislature to get such an unmerciful can It?’ er — — would as collar and and him vest and he addressed coat then the to self only trickle into it Then peeliwater had been stunned by repeated raps lamming in my life it was outrageous ” ‘No’ he said 'reckon not' call that roll himself— and as he unthe gentleman from Greene — when of bad luck Along toward the end of for it was a good hill and — ’’ back the paper from his bottle he ng No one the Besslon bo buttoned his cuffs inclining his head “'They don’t even know down in took a long pull from its naked neck they were verifying had brought his wife "Ought ter pass” interjected Tho toward the speaker ’Zeke yelled In his Greene county that there is such a bill and passed it to Baldwin As he did ever knew where he boarded from Greene County to the capital nings repeating the trite phrase do they?’ ear: so his brows still knotted in perplexherd book gave him a paragraph sayhad that tired look that country tentlously “ ‘Reckon not’ he said ‘leastways I “ he in born had roll Indiana been it call Hen ‘Now that damn that ity he asked: ' ing women have Her face wag seamed ‘‘‘But nobody heard it for when Hen hain’t heerd ary one say nothin’ ’bout “Wbat’d you say that feller’s name along In ’37 and moved to this state her cheeks hollow her back was bent began to read the gang took a deep to beat all hell’ Left an orsometime in the fifties was?” In a bow and walked hurriedly breath and began "Then we knew that the Bailey hill it’ to howl From she ‘Of course you haven’t’ I said 'and We bad had phan early with no education he bad anxiously along her flapping skirts both sides of the chamber broke forth fight was on to a finish "Henderson” been a day laborer ail his life work- beside her tall and somber husband a clamor of ‘Mr Speaker Mr ’’Henderson of Greene eh?” our first big battle with the reformers what’s more you never will Now ing at anything he could get mostly “Yes” had never been away from home er’ until in the din even these words and were down together In the last see here’ I said TR be quite frank had office held He never on farms Whenever a bill with some- with jou for I like you’— he cast a before and the boys had many a laugh were lost and there was just that ditch "Jennings threw back his head and before and none knew how he broke over her wonder The boys camo over thing In it Is about to pass the legislaat the trolley-car- s strange sidling glance at me dis- tilted the water deadly cold from long heavy roar into the legislature — the tidal wave I purring along under the maple trees from the senate for they had done ture a strange quality steals into the trustful like all farmers— 'for I like Ice and tasting of smoke into hia suppose Every one knew be never and her fears of the elevators in the their duty and had done it nobly In atmosphere just as there does in the you’ I said ‘and I want to do some- throat and when he rinsed his mouth would come back again be said with the happy expression of council chamber in Chicago when anystate house — though for my part I the face of a great storm of criticism thing for you The men who are pro“Well we got down to the last could see nothing ludicrous in it all combined with the abuse of the Chi- - thing is to be pulled oft — don’t you moting this legislation have exactly a man who has resolved a doubt: an enough votes to pass it over tho gov“Oah John Henderson yes night of the session The hands of She Btayed three or four days and cago papers and they wanted to help know? There is a forebodement of IIo lived out at Rabb’s Corthe clock had been turned back In they went everywhere out to Oak lift in the house And with them apprehensiveness that electrifies the ernor’s veto and It’s going to pass Greene Yes that’s him that vain old attempt to stay the re- Ridge to see Lincoln’s tomb over to came the crowd of reformers from the nerves and oppresses the lungs I felt On this ballot they will have just ners the governor — imhours a votes We had had one of their men ’p’inted dim public administrator but its pale and morseless or and stood about it there that night Eighth Street to visit his old homeLeague Municipal passive face was impotent as a grave- stead up to the Geological Museum with George Herrick the old man’s heavy fight to pass the bill in the first will vote against it to move a recon- Greene "aunty right after that sessstone to stay dissolution and oblivion where the stuffed animals as place and now we had to override a sideration if necessary and about ten ion " The oQODo TheVindicationof Henderson of Greene it BRAND WHITLOCK hiThe it to trTrgist nf4s as to le an it the IfI the it that in the 'private secretary 1 reformers |