Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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INFINITE
VARIETY
By Brand Whitlock
Illustrations by Ray Walters
(Copyright, 1907. \>y Bubba Merrill Cu.)
SYNOPSIS.
Senator Morley Vernon's visit with his
flnrnw was interrupted by a call from
1,1s political boss at the state capital.
Both regretted it. the glil more than he.
because she had arranged to attend a
dinner that evening with him. She said
he yearned for a national office ,m ' ;
<in Vernon's desk In the senate he found
a red rose, accompanied by
suffrage for women. l'«r ... __
thoress, pretty Miss Maria r hlni
fhlcago. who proposed to convert llitn
into voting for house resolution No. 1.1.
Miss Greene secured Vernon s prom so to
vote for the suffrage resolution. If' also
aided her by convincing others. He took
h liking to the fair suffragette. Miss
Jjreene consulted with the lieutenant
«rnor. Vernon admitted to himself tnat
the suffragette liad stirred a stiange f
>Mg within hlin. He forgot to lead bis
fiancee's letter.
CHAPTER IV.—Continued.
Once or twice he glanced into the
•pamphlets Miss Greene had given him,
but he could not fix his mind 011 them;
their types danced meaninglessly be-
fore his eyes. He was angry with him-
self for this nervousness. Why must
it assail him now, just when he wished
to be at his best? lie had spoken be-
fore, a hundred times; he knew his
4iu'lience, and he had the proper coil-
tempt for his colleagues. He had
never, to be sure, made a set speech
<n that presence; seldom did any one
do that; the speeches were usually
short and impromptu, and there was
mo time for anticipation to generate
nervous dread. And yet his mind
seemed lo be extraordinarily clear
just then; it seemed to be able to com-
prehend all realms of thought at once.
liut it was not so much the spec.-h
he thought of, as the effect rtf the
speech; already he could see the news-
papers and the big headlines they
would display on their first pages the
next morning; he could see his mother
reading them at breakfast, and then
he could see Amelia reading them.
How her dark eyes woultj widen, her
cheeks flush pink! She would raise
Jier hand and put back her hair with
that pretty mannerism of hers; then
impulsively resting her arms on the
tai/le before her, she would eagerly
mad the long column's through, while
her mother reminded her that her
breakfast was getting cold. How
proud she would be of him! She
would never chide him again; she
would see that at last he had found
himself.
The Eltons, too, would read, and his
absence from their dinner would react
on them impressively. And Maria
Greene—but a confusion arose—Maria
Greene! He had not thought of
Amelia all the mSrning until that very
instant; Amelia's le'ter lay still tin
opened on his deck back there in the
senate chamber. Maria Greene!
would hear, she would color
looked at him, and
glow
I Vernon stood by his desk, arranging
complacently the documents Miss
Greene had given him. Once or twice
he cleared his throat and wiped his
lips with his handkerchief. The other
senators subsided into their seats,
and, seeing that they themselves were
not then to be permitted to speak, and
like all speakers, not caring to listen
| to the speeches of others, they turned
philosophically to the little diversions
with which they whilod away the
hours of 1 he session writing letters,
reading newspapers, smoking. \ er-
non glanced around. Maria Greene
was sitting precariously on the edge
of a divan. Her face was white and
druwn. She gave a quick nod, and a
smile just touched her fixed lips. And
then Vernon began. He spoke slowly
and with vast deliberation; his voice
was very low. He outlined his sub-
ject with exquisite pains, detail by
detail, making it clear just what prop-
ositions he would advance. His uian-
i ner was that of the lawyer in an ap-
I pellate court, making a masterly and
! purely legal argument; when it was
i done,*the senate, if it had paid atten-
| tion—though it seldom did pay. atten-
| tion—would know all about the ques-
| tion of woman-suffrage.
1*. his deliberation. Vernon glanced
j now and then at Maria Greene. Her
j eyes were sparkling with intelligent
| interest. As if to choose the lowest
- — | point possible from which to irace the
r,-- , pt'heU au- j rise and progress of legislation favor-
' able to women, Vernon would call the
attention of the senate first to the de-
cision of the Illinois supreme court In
re Brad well, 55 111-, 525. That was
away back in 18611, when the age was
virtually dark; and lhat was the case,
gentlemen would remember, just as it
they all kept each decision of the
court at their tongues' ends, in which
the court held that no woman could be
admitted, under the laws of Illinois, lo
practice as an attorney at law. Hut -
and Vernon implored his colleagues to
mark—long years afterward, the court
of its own motion entered a nunc pro
tunc order, reversing its own decision
in the Bradwell case. Vernon dilated
eth us upward and on.- He recount* | QAY LABORER RULES PARIS
he services of women In time of war.
Emil Pataud, Head of Electrician's
Trade Union, Has the City
at His Mercy.
their deeds in the days of peace, and
in the end he became involved in an
allegory about the exclusion of the
roses from the garden. I
The senators' had begun to pay at- | pa,.|g Emil Pataud, the absolute
tention to him a3 soon as he talked nlU>i, and deBpot|c governor of the
Paris electrician's trade union, is tho
She
as she
her eyes would
he could feel the warm pressure
of the hand she would give him in
congratulation.
And it was this handsome young
v/oman's presence in the chamber that
gave rise to all this nervousness. He
was sure that he would not have been
nervous if Amelia were to be there.
She had never heard him speak in
public, though he had often pressed
her to do so; somehow the places
-where he spoke were never those to
which it would be proper for her to go.
She would wish she had heard this
speech, for in 24 hours it would be
the one topic of conversation through-
out the state; his picture would be in
the newspapers—"The brilliant young
Chicago lawyer who electrified the
Illinois senate with his passionate ora-
tory and passed the woman-suffrage
measure." It would be on event to
mark the beginning of a new era—
But his imaginings were broken, his
name was spoken; he turned and saw-
Miss Greene.
"Come," she said. "It's up! Hurry!
She was excited and her cheeks
Slowed. His teeth began to chatter.
He followed her quick steps in the
■direction of the chamber.
"But," he stammered. "I—I didn't
know—I haven't even arranged for
recognition."
"Oh, I'll fixed all that!" the womao
said. "The lieutenant governor prom-
ised me." She was holding her rustling
skirts and almost running.
' CHAPTER V.
As they entered the senate cham-
ber, Vernon heard the lieutenant-gov-
ernor say; "And the question is:
Shall the resolution be adopted?
Those in favor will vote 'aye
opposed will vote
names are called;
will call the—"
"Mr. President!" Vernon shouted.
There was no time now to retreat; he
had launched himself on the sea of
glory. A dozen other senators were
on their feet, likewise demanding rec-
ognition.
"The senator from Cook," said the
lieutenant-governor.
"This Recognition of Her Equality Can-
not Be Overestimated in Importance!'
upon the importance of this decision;
he extolled the court; it had set a white
milestone to mark the progressing
emancipation of the race. 1 hen.
briefly, lie proposed to outline for them
the legislative steps by which woman s
right to equality with man had been
at least partly recognized.
He fumbled for a moment among j
| the papers on his desk, until he found
one of the pamphlets Miss Greene had
given him, and then he said he wished
to call the senate's attention to the
employment act of 1S72, the drainage
act of 1885, and the sanitary district
act of 1890. Vernon spoke quite fa-
miliarly of these acts. Furthermore,
gentlemen would, he was sure, instant-
ly recall the decisions of the courts in
which those acts were under review,
as for instance, in Wilson vs. Board
of Trustees, 133 111. 443; and in Daven-
port vs. Drainage Commissioners, 2j
111. App. 92.
Those among the senators who were
lawyers, as most of them were, looked
up from their letter writing at this,
and nodded profoundly, in order to
show their familiarity with Vernon s
citations, although, of course, they
never had heard of the cases before.
"This recognition of woman's nat
ural right," Vernon shouted, "this rec-
ognition of her equality with man, can
not he overestimated in importance!
He shook his head fiercely and struck
his desk with his fist. Hut then, hav-
ing used up all the facts he had marked
in Miss Greene's pamphlets, he was
forced lo become more general in his
remarks, and so he began to celebrate
woman, ecstatically. He conjured for
the senators tho presence of their
mothers and sisters, their sweethearts
and wives; and then, some quotations
fortunately occurring to him, he re-
minded them that Castiglione had tru-
ly said that "God is seen only through
women;" that "the woman's soul lead-
about things they really understood
and were interested ill, and now they
shouted to him to go on. It was spread
abroad over the third iloor of the
stateliouse that some one was making
a big speech in the senate, and rep-
resentatives came rushing over from
the house. The correspondents of the
Chicago newspapers came over also
to see if the Associated Press man in
the senate was getting the ' speech
down fully. All the space on the floor ;
was soon crowded, and the applause
shook the desks and made the glass
prisms on the chandeliers jingle. The
lieutenant governor tapped from time
to time with his gavel, but he did It
perfunctorily, as though lie enjoyed
the applause himself, as vicariously
expressing his own feelings; his eyes
twinkled until it seemed that, were it
not for certain traditions, lie would
join ill the delighted laughter that
made lip most of the applause.
Once a page came to Vernon with a
glass of water, anil as he paused to
wipe his brow and to sip from the
glass, he glanced again at Maria
Greene. Her face was solemn and i
wonder was growing in her eyes. Hi'
side her sat old "Doc" Ames, scowling
fiercely and stroking his long white
beard. There were sharp cries of "Go
on! Go on!"
Hut Vernon, not accustomed to
thinking on his feet, as talkers love to
phrase it. and having stopped, could
not instantly go on, and that awkward
halt disconcerted him. Ho was con-
scious that the moments were slipping
by, and there were other things-
many other things—that he had in-
tended to say; but these things evaded
hini—floated off, tantall/.ingly, out of
reach. And so, for refuge, he rushed
on to the conclusion ho had half
formed in his mind. The conclusion
was made up mostly from a toast to
which he had once responded while in
college, entitled "The Ladies." Tho
words came back to him readily
enough; he had only to apply them a
little differently and to change his
figures. Thus it was easy to work up
to a panegyric in which Illinois stood
up as a beautiful woman leading her
sister states up to new heights of
peace, of virtue and of concord, lie
had a rapt vision of this woman, by
her sweet and gentle influence settling
all disputes and bringing heaven down
to earth at last.
The senate was in raptures.
"This is the face," he cried, " 'that
launched a thousand ships ami burned
the topless towers of Ilium!' . ■ ■
•she is wholly like in feature to the
deathless goddesses!'" So he went
on. " 'Age cannot wither, nor custom
stale, her infinite variety.' "
He was growing weary. He already
showed the impressive exhaustion of
ihe peroration. He had sacrificed .i col-
lar and drunk all the water from Ills
glass. He fingered the empty tumbler
for a moment, and then lifted It on
high while he said:
I tilled this cup to one made up
Of loveliness alone.
A woman, of lier gentle sex
The seeming paragon—
Her health! and would on earth there
stood
Some more of such a frame.
That life might be all poetry.
And weariness a name.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
most hated, the most feared, the most
beloved and the most talked of man in
France to-day.
Pataud. the workingmen's king, is
short and stocky, with muscles of Iron.
Ills manner is abrupt, his voice i* em-
phatic and cold; the bulldog is written
all over his heavy features, lie
sits
She Got the Letter.
The post office official put on his
severest manner.
"You say you mailed the letter
about half an hour ago at a window in
the east corridor?" he asked.
Tho beautiful woman dabbled a
handkerchief at her soulful eyes and
at the tip of her classic nose.
"Yes, yes," she said.
"To whom was it addressed?''
She told him.
"And now you want to stop that
letter?" he went on, still more stern-
ly. "You want to get it back? "Why?"
"Because,'' said the woman with un-
premeditated frankness. "I am afraid j
his wife will get It."
"Oil," said the stern official.
She got the letter.
Emil Pataud at His Desk.
enthroned in his little private room at j
'.he headquarters of the union, more in
accessible than the president of the
French republic. After ascending a
narrow, dark staircase, you are met at
the door at the top of the landing by
a man who gruffly inquires your mis
sion. If your answer satisfies htm you
are ushered into another room; not, as
you expect, to meet the great man
but to be challenged by another at-
tendant. Again you are severely
questioned, and if the object or your
visit meets with tills second attend-
ant's approval, you are shown Into a
little office which opens into the pri-
vate room of the director.
Pataud jumped into prominence in
1907 when he startled Paris by plun-
ging the gaily lighted city into utter
darkness. The pride of Paris her
boulevards—took on the appearance
of country streets and their grandeur
and magnificence were made gio-
tesque by hastily devised means or
lighting. After a short experience of
this inconvenience the authorities
yielded to Pataud's demands.
In June last he made another at-
tempt. but the previous lesson was
still fresh in the minds of the authori-
ties and they quickly acceded to his
demands. By this time, however, many
hotels, clubs, shops and newspaper of
ficog, realizing their inability to cope
with a man who, by a word, could
plunge the entire city in darkness,
planned to place themselves beyond
liis autocratic control. They provided
themselves with electric lighting
plants of their own, and rested con-
tent, believing that so far as they were
concerned they were safe. Nonunion
men were placed in charge of the
plants and the proprietors were in a
position to defy Pataud.
Pataud was born In a small town
outside Paris in 1869. His parents
were poor and his early life was full of
privations. He had little or no school-
ing and was put to work while still
young. Ills parents selected the trade
of bricklaying for him, but he pre- |
ferred electricity and entered an elec-
trical shop. While yet a boy he organ-
ized the employes and as their spokes-
man secured better pay and shorter
hours from their employer. News or
his success spread rapidly among the
workmen of Paris and five years ago
he was made the ruler of the electri-
cian's trade union.
The Treatment Is to Accomplish
What Science Has Been Strug-
gling to Attain for Centuries.
The intense intcre-t that Ii.ik neen nun'
tested throughout the country by the wo i-
derful cures that arc being accomplished
daily by cpilepticide still continues. K >
really suhu ising tlie wi t number of | "
pie who have already been cured o! tits
and nervousness. In order that everybody
may hove a chance to test the medicine,
large trial bottles, valuable literature. His-
tory of Epilepsy and testimonials, will ■«
sent by mail absolutely free to all who
write to the Dr. May Laboratory, •>«
l'earl Street, New York City.
Grievance of Suffragists.
The suffrage papers are still griev-
ing over their mistake ns to Sweden
having granted'the ballot to women.
The dispatch which caused the mis-
take read "to all inhabitants of 24
years and over." The suffragists in
other countries are asking if Sweden
does not enumerate its women among
its inhabitants when taking its cen-
sus.
With a smooth iron and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt-
waist just as well at home as the
steam laundry can; it will have tba
j proper stiffness and finish, there w ill
| be less wear and tear of the goods.
■ and it will be a positive pleasure to
: use a Starch that does not stick to the
iron.
Nothing But the Truth.
Attorney (much baffled by the an-
swers of an Irish witness)—Well,
' you're a nice sort of a fellow, you are!
The Witness—Shure, an' I'd say the
me of you, sir, only I'm on me oath.
ANOTHER
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Last Chance.
"Why should 1 bo married la a dress
suit?"
"For two reasons, it's fashionable,
and then you'll have a dress suit."
Send postcard request today for sam-
ple package oi ii.rli.-M Tea. Nature . herb
remedy tor constipation, liver and kidn.v
diseases, tiarlield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N. \.
Women Brick Workers.
Prussia's brick yards employ nearly
20.000 women.
Look before yon pay. The spear and j
the name WRIGLKY'S always go with
the delicious mint leaf flavored gum.
German Proverb.
Though you drive Nature out with
a pitchfork, she always conies back.
By Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Gardiner, Maine.—" I have been a
(rrrat sufferer from organic troubles
and a severe female
weakness. T li«
doctor said I would
have to go to tin
hospital for an
operation, but 1
could not bear t«
think of it. 1 do
cided to try Lydia
E. Pinkliam's Veg
etalile Compound
and Sanative W ast
— and was entire!)
I cured after threi
months' use of them."— Mrs. S. A
Williams, R. F. D. No. 14, Box 39
Gardiner, Me. .
No woman should submit to a Burgl
cal operation, which may mean death
until she has given Lydia L. 1 mkham i
Vegetable Compound, made exclusive
lv from roots and herbs, a fair trial.
This famous medicine for womei
has for thirty years proved to be tin
most valuable tonic and renewer o>
the female organism. Women resid
ing in almost every city and town r
the United States bear wiliing test'
mony to the wonderful virtue of Lydi j
E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound
It cures female ills, and creates radt
ant, buoyant female health. If yot'
are ill, for your own sake as well a
those yon love, (five it a trial.
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.,
invites all sick women to write
lierfor advice, I Icr advice is lrcoi
and always helpful.
Buy a Watch Only
of a
Retail
Jeweler\
SOUK KYKS, weak, inHamcM! reel. a\atory
nnd swollen eyes, use • 1 1\ 11II S ML
SMiYK. 25c. Ml druggists or
Bros., Huffalo, N. Y.
Some men are content not to do
mean actions. 1 want to become In-
canable of a mean thought or feelii g.
Look for the spear or you won't like
the flavor. Insist on WRIGLKY'S
SPEARMINT.
That It is necessary for a man to
drink liquor is a theory that will not
hold water.
YEI I.OW < I.OTIIKS \RK INSIfillTI.Y.
Keep them white With Ked1 ross bail Mil-
AU grocers sell large 2 oz. p;
For lie can properly
adjust It to your individ-
ual requirements so It
will keep pertect lime under all
Howard ^conditions. ^ t -
Never buy ft watch by mall, for no
matter how good you think the
it will never be accurate unless It is prop 1
crly adjusted to your individual require-
ments.
ekage, ;
nts.
Some rosea aro
cheeks they decorate.
known by the
Guars'1
A MEMORIAL TO ROOSEVELT.
Design for Statue of Ex-President
to Be Erected In North
Dakota.
Pismarck, N. D—Theodore Roose-
velt's life lor two years on a North
A Great Pro-Consul.
Lord Cromer, the great pro consul of
Egypt, in writing of missions in that j
land, says in his greut worl-. Modern
Egypt": The missionary, the philan-
thropist, and social reformer and oth-
ers of the same sort, should have a
fair field. Their intentions are excel-
lent, although at times their Judgment
may be defective. They will, if under
some control, probably do much good
on a small scale. They may even,
being carried away by the enthusiasm
which pays no heed to worldly pru-
dence, effect reforms more Important
than those of the adminstrator and
politician, who will follow cau'iously
in their track, and perhaps reap tha
result of their labors.
)\ou woritj^etl
(the delicious]
Icrusiiecl mh
ieaf flavor
inlessyousee]
that spear
hat!
A South Bend Watch
Frozen in Solid Ice
keeps perfect time. It would fall utterly as
a pertect time-keeper till wasn toillullcdlo
meet the requirements of eorh Individual.
I You can never buy a South B*nd Watch
bv mall. They are sold only by retail jew-
elers who ate competent to properly adjust
' ^Ask your jeweler to show you a South
Bend Watch—a real masterpiece of mccU-
I an\Vdte us and recelvc by return mall our
free book showing how and why a ijoutb
I Baud Watch keeps accurate time in any
temperature. 9
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Some authorities claim that a diet
of goat's milk makes one Immune
from tuberculosis.
lasts.
You need mc.
I'm built on honor.
I print red totals.
I sell on my merits.
I am fully guaranteed.
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A Tree That is Worshiped
those
'no,' when their
and the secretary
Ficus Religiosa Held Sacred by Bud
dhists and Hindoos.
In most of the countries of south-
eastern Asia, the Indian Ficus religi-
osa the sacred and consecrated tig
tree, or peeplt tree, is found.. It is
held pre-eminently sacred by the llud
dhists, and is revered also by the
Hindoos, the birth of Vishnu lia\ing
occurred beneath its branches
It is a handsome tree, growing fre-
quently to a great height. It is an
evergreen, which puts forth its flow-
ers ic April, and the bark yields free-
ly upon incision an acrid milk contain-
ing a considerable propo: tion of ind'a
rubber. The leaves are heart shaped,
long, pointed and vibrate In the air
like those of the aspen.
A branch of one of these trees, hav-
ing a notable history, was sent to a
city in the Interior of Ceylon, wh
It was planted, and became known by
the name of the bo-tree. For 200 years
it received the highest reverence, and
is still the chief object of worship to
the pilgrims who every year flock to
the ruins of the city.
Design for Statue to Roosevelt.
Dakota ranch is to be commemorated
by a statue to be erected within thv
state, the design for which is shown
here. The statue has been designed 1
by Ciustav Vigeland. a noten •uropean
sculptor, and accepted i>? the commit,
tee of the Roosevelt Monument asso- !
ciation, of which J. li. Worst of the ,
Agricultural College of North Dukota ;
is president and H. O. Fjelde of Abet- |
crombe Is secretary. It is proposed to j
,.reet the statue at some pla-je where
it will he seen generally by young peo- j
pie The accepted design for the |
monument is the committee's choice ■
of lour sketches submitted by Mr.
Vigeland. in these sketches, the
sculptor says, he has tried only to
give the id.-a of the line along which
le will tinish the Itatue.
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