The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1903, Page 4

T3E SUNDAY CALL, — - = — - it sphere # i : 3 he change in the atmosPOX 200 ou »t hi ,tly. He's general counsel until midnight in Harkness' parlorg re- deed n revelation. hard after his labors on the sub-commit- When he returned to the hotel at mid- He felt the change supper tal ‘& Fig e . §f 'L’.T .f..r:g'if.'n'\ i nn:‘l\\“eI‘ in Chicago.” ceiving the lias During their first few days in Washing- tee, and she had sent the nurse with the night, and went up to his rooms, he found again as he sat dow: ‘r:;::n .‘3,;"“( poe « the chief thing “Oh, yes, Leieve I did_hear somethyn’ “A reduced majurity draws the salary tlon, it rained continually, and she stay- baby to patrol the long haliway, in order his wife sitting before a fire she had had and vet he did not rauses deeply. ¢ “low on promises. T o that” sald Rankm, nodding his helld, just as well as any.” €6 Indoors, save for a trip down ihe street that the child ‘might not awaken his laid in the grate. She was dressed and things or probe their causes ST was { e I'd iake care of He went up there same’s all the i1est o' - - far as the ‘I'reaa’u:ynbullding. around father, and she had gone abou: herself her little traveling bag stood on the mar- thought it was their pc metines t there was no use in the Judges from tihe country does. They well work together for here, which gives them the title o' Judge, compiith more then when they come off, an’ haye to go party’s gooc t way thaa by ) “I want you dresses pole dance on to November. But politics is poli- roused at last, and called a ving come met in the office of the County Treasurer. sky and in the gladness of those nuptial ow 1 o - But on this December morning, the fog ¢ tics, an’ 1 must be getlin' a move on 4 0,04 the Capitol, and though Emily's he said: ed and said X%, e Whatevir Tt et clecied to the County COurt down oyloooi oo C ek the smoke YeDUUre faking her eyes from lis por- to read. but could not. Ste had fancled and rolied-up glovés beside it. and clangor of the pa bitter fac- 1o work again, they go up to Chicago an’ ;-_“:“"" 0 hit Amor e family, sweep of Pennsyivan along. holding tico long enough to gaze down the wide a long letter to Dade Emerson, describing — “Why!" he said, in surprise, s “avenue, with the her Washington trip. but the enthusiasm the matter?" ollowed by v hurrying anxiously ranged evervwhere. she could not find e had modded to one of the hack- B0 through out in that heastly mud hole denc:; for. So with the pleased superiority of which she walked in a little spirit of ad- noiseiessly, to the same end. She had tried ble-top center table, with her hat and veil worrying his wife. 1aac € Juu S “what's “Well, cheer Capltol rising at its end. And then she she had imagined for this letter, the first She turned and lifted to him a face that “we're poor but hor And as she looked at him inquiringly, an. evidently a poor woman, for she wore ward the fire, “I must go at once. a shawl over her head, enter the church. you were so long in coming! I needed you “After all, it's worth all a fellow has to Somehow the sight added to her despon- so and wanted you so! I ought to have one on that train to-night.” She shook consented to make the trip over to Arling- Joseph Hale and Freeman H. Pusey. he kept silent. He did not know what _FHe stared at ¥ darkened the home for them of late. ne » > g his stiil down to the table, ht pavonts. R because the tice on the title. Atter they've been v . o b L hurried back to the bab; i’ a long while '~ which she had any- was stained with tears. Then she rose, ber. iollie, wnat (I ey it g g A bout two ears people ‘begin 10 her skirts in fl.(wh");auy}‘.dhc“;’ebf‘imo'flbg:," Garwood was too much occupied with thing to relate that would compare with holding out her arms toward him hav to find that they ‘as Judges o' the Supreme prflE I A8, O Jo‘m'; Ethan in the rea, What he called duties connccted with the the letters Dade was able to write, col- Oh_~ Jerome!" she said. “I'm—going ner his i we were (ourt.” Rankin paused in his philosophiz- '8 the sleeping Ehan I tomac ©OPeNing of Congress Lo be much with her. ored as they were with the picturesque- " 1TY under the ; ing. and then 1esumed, quite seriously: - f0F was rolling up from the FOLOWS® On the day the Congress convened he ness of Old World travel, could not that y—Em—dearfe! What's the matter! the second. lere neve afar. His “bon't know but what Bromley give you fud setiiing (hick over Sh8 Cus Feiyily) took her with him and left her in the morning ring true. Tell me, what's the matter?” He had gone man than your Granpa into & scowl, @ beiter run at that than this here youns gy A3 1t was, was gratefy @ o the Eallery to look down on the assembling S£he had thought the day before, when close to her and taken her in his arms; Fow'd ye get along ai school : o\ TouT Wetherby ‘il do.” ot B o £ L Sl e Tod that members and she found her keenest in- they were in such gala mood, that the and he made his question the demand of asked presently, still adress! il > » :0u know him? ing curves, and she was €06 LICr terest in foilowing him about as he moved old lover-like intimacy was Erowins upon a man who does not like to deal with “You want to get a mD o Garwooed'§ T i, T've scen bim onct or twlct over't K, Wag moist fur the dampness bazliec o7 to his seat, and in watching the members them again. and she had told herself that tears: . I'm goin’ to put you in Jerry GArsgoch all. § He's just a voung lawyer, an’ Lec® BnQ cooled her brow., 14 no sooner Pause to shake his hand and to smile. a winter thus together in Washington 'What's the matter, I say, tell me! office one o' the p' make 3 Ws ‘ai 11 1 Cas any chanct o his oy L0 Vyashington. she had N0 em she and to join their laugh with his. so that would once more intertwine their liv: A \one of dexror had got kato bl voles. . ver of Tou S w he'd never been nominated set her foot to the pavement than She she knew they were congratulating each into one harmonious and beautiful fabric; *Look!" She drew a telegram from the ° Eut iry to rally _the Ecplember came. but the weather re. W(:ed her cves to behold the Py of other upon re-election. that all their dreams would come true. hosom of her dress, and held it toward fajjed, curlously st 14 mamed as hot as ever. Hankin declared 1ihich symobols the might and 8 €S en , Garwood otherwise was most of the She had carefully scanned all the Sena- him. When he took it. she hid her face from & .. and ba.k as what's Pusey that the mere prospect of cool weather (1€ republic to the stranget, WS B an. time out of her sight. She had observed .tors and public men she had seen intent on his breast and shook with great sobs. Then it dawned upon him. o 7 heid out by the ammanac. made him feel ‘f{"l‘”d A -\”‘4 {’ A or this city be- in him a new interest in life the moment upon knowing them, at least by sight, and He took the telegram with his free ~ “ook'e here,” he said, placing his editorials,™ though he be.eved that the ai- for. And feels at home. o @ tizen in it his feet touched the stones of Washing- she had resolved. ioo that she would hand, flirted it open and read: on the table, his knife B e ought to be revised, for he was 0n8% e the malton aud o of his citi- ton. He went about with a quick, elastic study the details of guhllc questions more _ “Your father ili. You had better come one his fork from the “you 1 Rankin. *Ju the seasons were ‘changing in 0% AR IEeCiate COIE AU Pnership in Step:. he was full of enthusiasm and deeply that she might be of real help to heme at once. Dr. G. S RKIN. t' some piea sury vava: m, that's ail.” ) As a boy he had always gone ZenSHID and of his commor Oeeting and lausghter, and if he kept her waiting for her husband, as he grew in statecraft. “Doctor G. S. Larkin!" Garwood sald, can-see it in taces. L . Kin « an skating on Thanksgiving, he said., bur Lhe things that make A e pitol as him long at meal time, he returned to her ~ But—she had felt her heart turn cold repeating the signature, “that’s like him, ' pirthday Kind of a game T caned over in mow the cold weatner never came until Ef\"‘)’ S et o the most memor- With ample apologies’ and in a state of and dead within her as she recognized, in to sign it doctor.” you an’ mama puttin’ up on the ofd mas i his hand on after New Year's. And he remembered, Sy¢ DA secn 1t (RSt O @ e trip, lift- °Xcitement that made him solicitously her curiously intricate train of morbid “Oh, but Jerome, his wife cried, “that’s 5, }oq2" He looksd at his son 4 too, that the girls always wore white fv€ WMOXNnE B LAET, e e n autumn Merty during the meal. At dinner he thought that these very resolves proved of no importance—how he signs ft—now. o sald bis wife, and her tone-s ? o usuaily called for a bottle of wine, and. the existence of conditions she had re- And she wépt afresh, as if he had added i most froze him. He I first day of May. “But nowada h s G ‘ as his eyes fastened themselves upon the fused to acknowledge, and now she sat ap affront to her misery. outh and eyes open. explained, “they'd have to hop roun’ in 4avs. she had pleased her own fanc v and glass into which the wine bubbled as the before the window, her little chin on her ““Well. there, dear, don't cry. It's alp 9% Mis mouth and vl OFCC o5t Galway overcoats if they wanted to cele- JeNEhted '“'("‘”:\od";m‘ and the life Ne8ro filted the bottle he had bound in hand. fooking vacantly out. Over the way right. Must you go, think?” He released " 0 B0 00 0 0 ' brate that day. an’ as fer summer—well, %Y batween s covec ADCE Jer its shad- @ bapkin. he said to her: > a Catholic church, built of stone, held one her and she sank into the chair again. "Fie drapped his knife and fork. a sudden t keeps hotter'n the hinges o' hell right v rounded. symmetrical and complete. Ah! This is life once more! of its oaken doors ajar. She saw a wom- ‘“‘Oh, yes.” she moaned, drooping to- ¥ s S es. then the grin gleam came to h Oh. Groke out all over hig big fac stretched out his hand to wool his head again. when his wife looked ried: t Lo ing of the Congressional committee. - rho rus e s a im in 10 be back here where one can really She was roused by a knoek on the door. her head slowly from side to side. “Poor, e B vou don't under t 1o keep Pusey members, newly chosen at the Pekin men who thrust their whipe af him {8 jive. A’ Dalibby Btood AhEre withis tray. SHe. lonely ol meant” } Leon. Jim. no—don’t-you, dow here don't convention, came to Grand Prairie and Menacng invitation and &S be (WIMGE L0 It was in one of these moods that he {ook the cards, and read the names of The words half enraged Garwood, but t e Ghaisd T ® 5 4 ir 2 f Ay it 8 minuta, his wife following. and there, under the blazing gas jets and IN& for So W ; i 4 ton. and Emily, who had already matured Hale had written his name upon the blank else to do—only to wait. 2 . Jookinm &8 r e e newspaper, with the biinds closed, they began to or- OnG who has grown famillar with noteq g teminine plot of reviving, hereby, some card supplied by the hotel; Pusey's was “Where's baby?" he asked presently. ~In her eyes, and her son fryind, ' ve've got to ize Garwood's campaign Do hting 1and, he point- Of the emotions of their wedding journey, a sample of his own job work and pro- _“He's sleeping.” she said, “in there.” swallow the L ST littie girl to patch kin and Pusey had long ago shaken !hen. like a s sig t felt a new resilience in her spirits that claimed him as editor and proprietor of She waved her hand wearily toward the throat when m d. 2 yo Garwood standing by with the €42 A verified at last all the hopes she had held the Grand Prairie Citizen, daily and week- Goor. “He’s all ready—we're all all ready. looked up with ey ] e fic Flow of the peacemaker, though e oot head and her Ot to her heart for this sojourn in the ly. She thrilled a little at the thought When can we go” was still. At last Rankin spoke. the while the look in Rankin's eves His little wife bent her head and Mem Capitol with her husband. that she was in the presence of the reality ““Well, you can’t leave mow until to- "How do you know?" he askel: . oo, W * he consent- as hard as ever, and Pusey's smirk was ra%®. WAllR S0C, (0 LF miled and sighed It was a warm afternoon, and the sun of -a delegation of constituents calling morrow.” he said, trying to be tender with Willie heard it down town, @48 present to be. What- unchanged. Pusey attended the meeting ZUE€L, PWT B0 Tl o ition ™ For she had shone down with a cruel suggestion of upon their Congressman; and then a her. ‘“Hadn’t you better get to bed and hv:.m» from school.” 1a doggedly. SVOr yOu sa. . ree, but the truce ©of the nal committee, even if AU LRc . OF O o, floating ma- SPring—cruel, because one must instantly great flood of homesickness rolled over get some rest? ., ol dou't Believe It e ST O atel. "Il be a da i sight more out'ard thun he was nota member. ard the others were (CSCUSC TO% THASTEE CORE. JCRIAR $70q remember that it was only December, and her, a homesickness that was the more — “Oh—no—no,” she moaned. “I couldn’t Oh, hones’. papa.” t fi‘ ny {mpugned in'erd with I'te ; stimuiatcd by the prospect of JOCAUY 1[G BVEY MVIE O dhaa he. that the winter lay all before. They 'took acuie because these men were not known slcep.” 2 as If his veracity had Oeor o nein’ e o wny, Sim: between him and Rankin. (8IAched JEC ranl 18 2%%e & color and their luncheon that day in the Senate to her. and could only suggest home, not “But.'dear. yowll need your strength, ‘cross my heart it's true! Its RODEE, TR maintained a perfect sl- God, Jerr Rankin ex le evening, nmever vouchsaf- as fer your sake that I got INg one suggestion, but acquiescing in all hough 1 never did that was done, if not by voting. which would have been impertinent. at least by respectfully nodding his head if. later, when the County Central mmittee, of which Pusey was now the which he has that County, editor of the Advertiser of the ground and thereby deprived the alert Well, for my sake 2ke up w him. 1 don’t cherish ar ill toward work of a story that would have served Garwood this him for every dull nour of an unusually dull campaign. It ‘vas perhaps well for was not so much for him to do, and what adfast there .was he could enjoy in a more lei- of g S h d away and vanished like a vision out of 3 Vi s d com- 1 ing his wife witk the washing. The lar- s V! which the people, unable to work them- ¢ ¥ Record, nevertheless foregathered com- ang said they could come back in the aft- heart. I wo XVl selves up to the pitch of excitement re- Sight 5 panionably, Republicans and Democrats, ernoon. oy sl By s BBt was ripening the cOrM. quired of them in Presidential years, leave _ Emily saw the Capitol at other times. and even Populists, and joked and laugh- . wo can go out and see the town a lit- NQrae: thoush Raakin himself laughe and Y tha more fertile flelds the politics to the politicians even more than She saw it close at hand, on her way with ed like common brotherly men. The little 4. “ 214" Fite. *We've never been in WitI his usual optimism, and =aid that siender stalks aiready nodded their young ihey ordinarlly do. The stripling from Garwocd across the vark that spread its bell that was always Jingling them away YWWoepincton before, ma'am. Great place, & Would be all right again in a few heat that quiv- Moultrie County who was running against Dplats = 3 wood seemed far beneath his motice, Walls ofsthe new Congressional library except when he chose in his speeches to She 1 own acquaintance had statue of Washington boxed up for the older and hence more dyspeptic states- grown wider, there were many to welcome Winter, and Jooked up, up. up the pillared men, their bread and milk, just as they vet it Was necessary 10 him everywhere he went, and they liked front of the building to the dome shining were being served, filled that little room preparations for the th. istinction of knowing thelr Congress- in the afternoon sun. She saw it on dark in the basement with a fine excitement, mer was too much they work in patronize him. ¥ loth to be- id they w would be upon them m - revel § i was understood to be resting jarity, ar was rumored that he 1o co le and recuperate man of the pe ngers of apa in telling You that one afternoon when I effort satisfied Garwood we stood, said: ‘Jerry on through Au- fejlow 1 wanted to see- to Ranl eve - life, though Frypiien me. That story, bout you— member e was? An’ you ‘member Bromley—what was thes his own State, and journeyed over Ohio, where he spoke in the Dayton Di of an imme over the mnation itself, and over its destiny. Tt soared far ahove the passions the step of the carriage, while the others, the misanthropic coachman, the hungry and accustomed husband. the heavy-eved Jurse, and the slumbering babe, waited. she pressed her face to the rattling panes ceal behind all the euphemisms sena- surely manner. It was the off vear, in find the great dome no more; it had float- their contributions to the Congressional she preferred. They adopted her selection should begin to HINt of wood loved to bask in their smiles, to blinked out of the black wall of night: ing cheeks, and wsent its exhilaration nd it became more and more easy in the luminous light of the moon: but it if she had consented to drink the wine Ince himself that he was a genuine Was not in any of these moods that she Jerome still urged upon her. ple. There was another could remember it thereafter, nor as she As she looked at all those great men, In the flush of his re-election he had &l of the Senators are known by sight. ¥iug the party by had gone over to the White House and insisted upon his wife going to Wash- Not until _the ¢ 14! the mere fact of 118 was waliting there in the ante-chamber ington with him for the short session, Up;. Jerome had explained to her. you're just the without her during the three months the hardly a compliment. You know, the car- 2 session would last. though the lengthened It was not necessary that vear for him tone in which he drawled out the names State Committee, ° and of _delivering thought through the long hours of wake. Shall be detained here at the Capitol for \ ning ¢ had some gpeeches in other districts in Illinois, and ful nights of her separations from him; fright the qa_vsdmto v(\i'hil;‘h (l}.n" separa- EOITY. tions lengthened, and she had resolved &0 ba 1 ush 't trict for his friend Whiteside, who sat be- that nevermore in the future would she Put you on the car—I'll join you there at 7t /"1 kiag the baby good-by and I'li Pot. its fragrant aroma had reached him faint little = restaurant and Emily assured Jerome realize it for her here so far away from you must try; think of baby ty with it. As she tried to must have to make the repast per- When she awakened her husband, as helplessly. k him out of town, over to Mason 4 and she looked proudly across the tabls “Oh, let 'em walt,” he said, then he “You'll soon be back, father'll he better i the all else and stood there with her foot on a( jerome and compared him to the dis- rolled heavily over, stretched, and went he's all right. You can bring him back =g tinguished men he was constantly point- to sleep again. She went down to the par- with you, and we'll have a good time here | B4 ing_out—Senators with whose names she lor herself to meet the two men. all_together.” had long been familiar, whose faces she «I'm Mrs. Garwood." she sald,*and I'm She shook her head hopelessly. : ’ . “Well!” said Garwgod at last, and she ry, Vi ‘ ce in h . E - 'grap Garwood, considering the strained rela- X ere was a species of reassurance in her wood was detained very late last night by When I'm coming. A tions between his two chief supporters, Caught her breath and recalled herself jmmediate observation that they Were, an important committee meeting and is Garwood was giad to escape to the office With his that this was a dull campaign. He found to the earth with a sigh. after all. very human men, who, despite giil) sleeping. Can you come back later, and the bar. t were a it much less trying than the first. There _ AS they roiled over the asphalt streets, (he partisan bitterness they could not con- or wiil you wait? I do not like to rouse - ek s . him just now—he is quite worn out.” she XXI. the carriage window, but she could {orjial courtesy moved them to employ in gddeg. selecting for ?lipm the alternative < between the Capitol and the rising to roll-calls up in the Senate chamber, yuSMEtGE BETOre, Ma e, Creat Place paused to rest a moment near the lobsters and salads, or, In the cases of the yi " hiace Hale spoke with the glow of personal pride, and with the sense of personal own- 13 1 ership the American feels in tne ruler he has helped to raise to power, and is just * “There s a land of pure dely fore Garwood had finished the coffee and back door. room. sang cn: “No, couldn’t get near him. got the swelled head, hain’t he rtoonists take them uess he's T'll take you over to see him before you E g0 back. When'd you get in?" “Just got here this morning,” said Hale. Sweet flelds beyond the—' toons are all hateful, outrageously hate- ful—at least. the good ones, Those that about half an hour. We have a meeting he added as he saw her face fall, “but if you can go back to the hotel—I'll reckon—headaches, too, like the devil. the kitchen, the coffee steamed fect, but her conscience, or her sense of she thought the importance of the visit She grew calmer after awhile, and said: wife. responsibility as the keeper of Jerome's justified her in doing. he roused and “My poor little visit was doomed from {t gr had 80 often seen in ' the NeWSDADETS. glat to s suy one from mome Mr Gar. “You go telegraph, Jerome. tell them Curly head Rankin had been at home all day, help- days. The evening had come and he as snatching them. as it were, from their Do had gone out into the yard to do his H President? 1id like to feo how.ne,120K3 I8 chores. Though the air was cold, he was o in his shirt sleeves, and h. went about his work singing loudly the staves of au _ He ceased his sobbing and was st His wife stood by him, patting him now ks on the back, now running her fingers roll which he had ordered sent to his “Yeoup!" he shouted back, and This heavenly land from ours. Rankin stooped in the anguish of a fat is this Friday? I'll fix it for you though. up the stairs into the kitchen, he sang on: “Hello, kid,"” he suddenly sald, his little s]:]‘(flr trle(:] to l‘“s(;flcl his atten- : 3 g ¥ “Ain’t you well?” asked Hale, solicitous- tlon from his own hunger by cutting an- NOW, once he even went beyond the borders of she had counted with a gasp of sudden ©f @ Sub-committee I'm on. I'm awfully 7 tics on the dining-room floor. Oh. fust a touch of rheumatism, 1 The pleasant odor of fried potatoes filied n the down town in_fror ] a4 2 : = . = that she had never enjoyed any luncheon that home. “Poor little fellow!” she said. thoug® office, an’ it's in the paper, too. 1 hear Lrace Its vague colose TR ot &0 much in her life. She was tempted in She told the boy to show the gentlemen he had been deserted. She clasped her ever'hody talkin' 'bout it, hope to die I e o ot e e hane and the spirit of holiday that was upon them. to the parlor, and to say that Mr. Gar- knee m_her hands and rocked back and did.” 4 Iraoded iner the apital ot (he mation, 1o drink some of the wine Jerome said wood would hédown presently. forth. Garwood was silent, looking at her Rankin stared at his son for an instant. and then slowly turned his gaze on jeved her to see, a look of utter, d : and vartisanshin of the little men who i D > & irman, met, Rankin did not return his D¢ chkai 2 . conscience, would not let her. As they writhed his big arms over his curly head. the first: I knew it, Jerome. spairing anguish, Call, as It were, by Teciprocally attending o na gt meril I8 el Portics anq Sal there ‘over thelr oysters, Emily was “Who are they? he yawned. “Oh, now, don't look at it that way o oS iow you mistrusted some- the ‘meeting, he at least found business 10 '15 huge Tothals. and It URteC her Relt happier than she had been ‘for months, She read the names. said 'Garwood, In a big round voice. thing, you know you did. You'd never own up to'it. but you know you did.” he bent h he burst inte around to b shoulders, laid her thin cheek to his cur! hair, and then as her own tears rained fast, she said at last somethin’ else “Oh, "taint that,” came his voice, 1 was so proud of him. An’ now—an and of calling him “Jerry. Gar- nights. when its rows of little windows which reflected its warmth in her glow- Las helped to ralse to power, and is just Where'ints, immortal reisn; fhrough s curls. A" last he ralsed him- s, In-fi-nite day—' " self, rubbed the tears ¥ n the sensation of personal popu. She saw it rising calm. pale and majestic coursing though her veins as happily as thinss fosufthim. . 0 gt hid Site's volce called from the pulling out his handkerchief, bl lose wit v blast. - taen ‘You a fool, hain as it appears t0 men new feature in this campaign that he en- had seen it for the first time on her wed- and looked at Jerome; thinking how much T90 . oo g {s little daughter, and then in turn ve'is rest for the weary. Jove#. He was enabled In his speeches ding journey. but forevermore it appeared more handsome he was than they, she i S e T withs e S e (hains A, sas thetr Geratained fuce th ral reluctar to speak familiarly of Washi ¢ as she had seen it that morning, when projected her thought to the time when !ds mouth full of the roll, 111 be at your setee abi - i > - peak fam 5 shington, o | R ) cervice presently. What have you bee There everlastin’ spring al and then he said ontemplated and dif- ihings that were done and said in’ the her eves pierced through the mists and he would be a Senator from lilinois and 3eTVice presently, WWHat Beve vou b o i “Well, 'm makin’ & pleasant home sn r politicians fe House, and to relate personal anecdotes caught that one glimpse of its mighty they would appear together in the Sen- dolng fto kil the time? Beciug the slghts? 1'Oh, Jim Srenilie campaige for yo I Bain’t more at stake of noted men, to whom it was apparent image, a gray specter of the life she once ate restaurant. in their turn to be pointed ell, T e I e At e Yeoup!” he shouted. as the call eame fireside campaign fer ye here haimt 17 not have liked he could talk in a free colloquial way, bad pictured to herself. out. The pleasing sense of distinction was "9{“-' f: o ‘d;;v ;;m ‘;“!3“‘“1:1 zok "Er the second time. “Whatch y' want? 3 '.'1'; Ty Garmosk Al i o c a8 he, and in that were almost as delightful to his au. _They drove to the hotel where Garwood already with her. because of the company Out of the window with his usual Jack of ~cCome here! v JEVy SEnioel 5o e e ct he bestirred gitors as to himself, Irad lived during his first session, and they were in, though Emily had speedily Inferest Tnthl a Beiated fy Craw o ters. Al right— e . e R e 1 down to see Pu- I suppose, now that it is all over,” he Where he still owed a bill, and took the learned that most Congressmen in Wash- {‘ap3 oac it with his lttle” stick “‘An’ mever-with'rin’ flowers; l'I:':’ ool . . gan to write in goyld say, “‘that 1 betray no confidence room he had arranged for. ington go about unnoticed and that not “See him?" asked Garwood. Death like a narrow sea, divide; “Jim.” his wife smiled proudly at him. fan. but you've got too soft a heart k. bl R . Py G od 9aughed. man and gathered up an armful of the ¢2M, e T : - . Thirteenth District did to gee our great President, that he spied and without much difficulty she had fn- _“¥ou'll go eplendidly in a cartoon!” she [EFMECR) you know he's busy._Possibly kindlings he had been splitting and Didn’t I tell vou that somethin’ ‘as ur ay members in gtaying 2t me among the others—Senators Ames was duced her father to consent to her de- %ald. enthusiastically. a he was at a cabinet meeting. Tet's see, Started toward the house. As he stamped last summer when you & ., » ting to others to pull it there with me—and, coming over to where parture. He had said he could get along .~ ‘Would I?” he rejoined. *“Well, that » Pekin? Didn't I tell you somethin’ ‘as inter- petter go or you'd get left of September, . . raise are aiways absurd and flat.” # is morning his own song, “where'd you come wve w Molie, e ol em six weeks of & rat: {odctepd his own record He could sub. of the three months, December, January Piiy'iney were finishing thelr luncheon, L come o talk over with yoh that little TURDE ™ - geticalty, “you know' I didnt have o the line. T e e o it A an ong and dark as the winter ltagif, three men came in and took a table across Imatter about— e looked all around "'Hl'stretched out his'right arm and cov- price in the first place, an secon’ly, Jerry “we dom't want to oL l® O e tike all the other She had silenced the qualms she had feli the room. When Garwood saw them he Ihe root 2s 't SpieS WEre Corce ol SOMer oring his little son's head with his big {oiq me, told me. with his own lips, right on, an’ have it Jiecchec”delivered that fall, or any fall, by wringing from him half a promise to bowed. and gome signal evidently passed FSC®:, o palm he rolled it round and round on the gown theer in that old office o' his'n, that o' Bromley's 1o ‘men striving o retam seats in Can: come on to Washington himself in Feb. between them, for Garwood excused him- XUOW-" .. 14 Garwood with | boy's shoulders as he passed. And then pa'q promised it, an’' I'd get ft. An’ what he freese UD pless mere efforts to explot win GON° fomry: he might, she insisted, anticipate Self for an jnstant from his wife, and e . unusual suddenly Rankin felt a.strange unnatural ruq T want to run down to Wash'ton 3. though!™ Eress had mot done what the Platform of the spring that way. And when her quty Went over {o join them, leaniug over their ChEErfiness fof & TONEITHAD WheR & chill in the atmosphere of his home. it Nun 'hout it any more far? You he pleasing memories two vears before promised it would do. to her father seemed drawing her away !able to whisper for a moment. When he {ige™joe. There was the supper table laid. the baby ynow Congressmen don't want the'r co: 1t T didn’t like th As a Congressman, too. he could enjoy from her resolution, she dwelt inwardly “,FE fl;‘, ?;?‘:“ sorry. but T find T Garwood got up. with a wrench of pain. Was already sitting up to it, pounding his it " atlin’ ‘round after ‘em down there 2kin went on. Snev 8t cam- the jmportance of giving his time to ther on her duty to her husband. She had i o i ey 3 G i “God,” he exclaimed, “I feel old this tin walter hungrily with his spoon, while J;."jcaned back in his chair and spread his hands wiue, as If to exculpate himse entirel “Wel neer. a rts, now—heh?—oh, ves! Lin 1o pay d e fol Two i ? - R - O course.” Rankin Interrupted her Well, wir, you'd ought to heerd the kids 3o Senmen e Lot s Cxperience 1ot him e o0 o N L i et Sogorg He led her down the hall past the Sen- beWith youll ' = e e o trar oo fhe MOUTr .. ("It 'ad been anybody else I mightn't Pachianted in the gallery that night when the Dayton people. not o hie ekact on certain sage words of her Mother Gar. Ale Dostoffice. then out to New Jersey Lig Want Iniy (he stloining ropm, -Would take the tin pan presently out to 'a been so easy. I'd "a’ camped on B ome. o - a"ase. 4 And position Smong public tnen, detatitiag 1o wood, who had shaken her head and said: o slis D et T At That e iy illy) sin't ‘het” sl e Cistern pump and blow Hks & Do trall e e i TR nkin 3 , and roare n = . “Tt ain’ in" . tool r back to the lonesome e hotel. ol o el vas s o pever thought o m. e shook his slapped his thigh. " “Ey ‘the way: whats Tio hasor L e Saccorded him all . It alnit good, 1k sure good, Bim It was long past midnight when he re- -1 beiieve I've heard as much Intl- poise as he washed hie face. then he fead sadly. come o' Bromicy? I never hear o him & a prophet may expect away young husban’s e away too ' joined her there. mated,” answered Pusey. i T rame oEth, ANow, Jim, just look here a minute eny more, do you?" it rom his own country. from their wives. It never was intended; Garwood returned with his overcoat and scattering the water afar, and come grop- ife returned. “You told me yourse!f h, yes,” said Garwood, with his 1 On election night he found that he had no, it never was intended.”” she repeated, X hat and gloves, and they went out. He Ing into the kitchen toward the long his wifer ”;V_M S hanaai ‘Y.hi !h air of 3 KnowleAgs ot aaalslahy 1aTEe been re-slected, though the returns from shaking her head with ihe satisfaction XX. spent the day with them, tramping about towel that hung in an endless belt on a that you notic ang 0 ha too, with the pride of a man who doesn't his majority, as did those from his own of God in his personal dea Moultrie County showed a falling off in she found in her knowled of the will Emily sat at her window, across which through the rain, and at night took them roller behind the door. And then they come home from Washington las’ sum ifngs with his the rain slanted dismally into the street {o the theater, One of the sacrifices & Con. would have supper and he could Joke his mer. Now, didn't you? wish his o it belitt eclally 4 or be has defeateg ‘mgffid'o"." clally aft- ~ounty. But then, as Rankin sald in con- creatures on this earth, and her words below. Jerome lay in bed sleeping still, gressman must make when his con- little wife and his little boy and give the “Well, maybe there was a little, but il ponent. “I hear gratulating Emily, after they had sat up had impressed Emily as if they were in- though it was now necarly noon. He slept stituents come to Washington. baby prohibited tid-bits from kis plate. that 'as all right. I expected thut. I ex- This is the most wonderful colored . prod roces; b supplement ever reproduced L Tt 18 fin-hr;nrc:m‘flx-lficxdzcrx 2 beautitul girl in 2 clinsing gown o nm',’li.".’e’a.’-m ombines - s - of Carmen with the illusive mystery and charm of Faust. Srben it is Siven away_FREE—with THE SUNDAY CALL 1t will be more talked about than anv pi-ture ever seen in Wes r! line of the figure are something 7ru2y"ex"’:::d‘}:l‘llxn)f I e s A Pony ExXpress BY HERMAN W. HANSEN. Never before has the grim reality of the pioneer days In the West been better por- trayed than in Hansen's painting of the flying horseman straining every faculty to escape from an ever-narrowing half-circle of redskins who are trying by every trick of their flend. ish jngenuity to head him off before he can reach the comparative safety of the Rocky Mountain foothills, outlined against a_ flaming sunset sky. The feeling in this picture is so real that one looks at it with bated breath—tense, eager, fearful. Yellow Roses BY FRANZ MORTELMANS, . . Nothing more true to life has ever been painted than this “still-lifs” masterplece. For mural decoration its beauty and appropriateness are unequaled. it Dainted and reproduced especially for framing, and in the Interblending of strength and_dell- : facy of the eolor effects is adapted to almost &ny room. 1t shows a perfect bunch of roses in a 5 arge vase, and in style and execution the whole ploture is most pleasing to the eye. It is & plcture that has been g - Itwill surprise you. A Proud Moment N Ot h l n g h a l f SO witn all the poIde ot E::%“T‘..u 5.’:1‘:‘:‘?55‘3E:?éiéc':‘:tr‘:fi:;‘;’i:’?fi:: :n: o Eilvering oo e i T gt 5% huntsman, but the chief charm of the picture lies not alone in the polse and action of the dog #0 much as in the whole color scheme, which shows all the beauty and charm of the forest in : . N - BY THE MOST beautiful ever giv- [EE T U s eI S e sy emmeow - ) EamnousPainters in the Warld €én away in America as these exquisitely tinted art supplements of the... ainst a storm this is easily the first. The awe-inspis color tints of sea and reproduced with wonderful fidelity, and in the liit and fiing of the boat itmelf t;k.{-‘“ an illusive something that gives us a clutching at the throat, even though we know that only a pleture. It is only genius that can play with our emotions in that way. body Wwho admires Spartan courage will frame this picture, —~— King of the FIOOK These pictures would cost BY E. R. MAES, - RTINS P u full | barmrtba SRS AYEL RE 8 Jove of natute s exoresesd in the pride and scevicy of the yo - 1€Ce zl,e::{: fi.flfll .l::fe::mh.lh evl.r dlunl b:émt‘hl}: is .mpossible to describe the beautiful color e i v dome et combined in this picture. It is a study for nwhm-ndoh{ l.lllll.h‘lf N e sttty if they could be Everybody will want this series. [ ... “&=seew In lerent wa fi.-m..w.-lnxfln.!rflumb ARAB * as In "l'!‘ PILOTS," there add eren Oriental quality of reserve that fllllhgwd Ml"'lll;l.l llll.rg:fl o ings of horse and the polished, gl ‘ . [ ] L] “A word to the wise is sufficient.” |E&isEesiisr e i Dictating a I.etter BY HARRY ROSELAND, A bit of the southiand in the old slave days. caught with almost photographic effect by ciever 4 transterred to canvas in @ way that has made him o Fy e jou ever e a picture that made you want (o laugh and cry at the same time? Well, b is ove There is 80 much of childish curlosity, such e ger expectancy, in the attitude of the aged negro couple while they watch the beautiful blonde daughter of their master in the mysieries of writiug a letter at their dictation. This is a picture you will find framed in every household as soon as it appears asa supplement to THE SUNDAY CALL. FREE If you are not already a subscriber order now---All Newsdealers. bought at an art store... Woula oty admit re and shows an equaliy n and contemplation tha ive the great enigma of life, his of the pose itself tI Will be'the most talkel shout. as he sat emem- ¢ her motion: ked a e hoy's across at him with tears mg‘b~°!, even the baby A look had come into his face which in‘s lip quivered, and then, sudden- s elbows, put his arms on the table before him, and bowing his on their enormous muscles ars. His huge back heaved and his wife, hastening m, put her arms about his “Don’t, Jimmy, don’t; you'll break my dn't mind it—you can get T thought he was my friend, I thought he was my friend. I made that boy, an me down, he's thrown me 1 get cold. The old man's he, Fannie?’ He looked a “they say vou're a hardened old polit when you told me Pusey had gone dow to Washington? Didn't I tgll you you'd . you've been In politics long enough to know—" began his wife with a