i me?" she queried. And then she crimson- Beworaic, Hatt ed in sudden comprehension. An awkward silence fell upon them— rio which seemed as powerless to break as he, rest of my life. [don’t know why [ din’ | Mrs. Pankhurst Leader of the Eag- think of it mysell, ouless it was thas she lsh Suffragettes. franchise demonstration ever held in this} A New Kind of Criminal. country. Bas this event, being of the con- — always ma‘e eo light of being sick shat I stitutional character so often required of | The elevation of the American ben to ite just couldn’s realize—God knows is wasn’s | It i= probable that most people connect | she suffragettes by those who to | excellent place has intensitied the problem mm who made no pretensions to the gift of | thes I grudged ber anything—"' Mie. Pavkhurs's name only with she mili- | h.lieve in woman but disapprove of the chicken-thief. With chickens worth Bellefonte, Pa., December 10, 1909, | ready speech. And, indeed, it was be who | She averted her eyes from she pang upon waot soffrage movemens of which sbe | of militant tactics, far less effect | [rom thirty cents to a dollar or more each m—— ees | ended 18. ‘1 would like $0 get a better | his face. “You oan's realize—some things,” | Stands as the originator. Yet, to convey | upon the British publio than the arrest, in | in the markeis for stolen goods, she shiel THE QUESTIONER. one for my—{for Maria,” be said. she said. “Is seems like they couldn’s | 80 accurate picture of ber personality, it is | she following autumn, of Mrs. and Miss | bas found bimeel! unable to afford to eat He tarned his tense face toward ber, | happen. 'Twas that way about Jim. [| Decessary fo point out that she was a sul- | Papkhurst, and of Mrs. Drommond, the | tbe spoils of his prowess. When Huck iad lb Gov (0 mew KED0G O06 HA with a curious mingling of apology, ap- | never dreamed that he'd be the one. I |fragiss for many years before she became a | London organizer, on a charge of inciting | Finn was young, lifting chickens was a And 1 sald: oe an — peal, wistfalness, and something which sa- | used to laugh at bin abous bow quick he'd saffragette, and worked hard in she at- | 45 riot. A demonstration had been fixed | Weakness, like going in swimming oo Sun- 1 died, and try to make him | emp? to obtain the woman's vote by quiet i 0 for October 13th in Parliamens Square, this | 48y. Now it is a serions crime,and obicken- not to do it—Bat be never | and constitutional means before sbe was | being she third anniversary of the first im- | thieves are feeling, vot withous dismay, added, hurriedly. driven to adops foroible ones. As far back | piisonment in Maochester; and for a month | tbe importance of their place in the com- He rominated. *'I reckon 1 would have | 89 1880, she was a member of the executive | beforehand an open-air campaign was car- | Wunity. They, who never dreamed of be- promised,” he said, “i my wife nad ever | #0ffrage Society (originally founded by | ried on in London and the suburbs, with | ig anybody, are now classed with shrewd asked me. I never denied ber anything | John Stuart Mill;) later, when she came 10 | ghe object of arousing elestors and induc- | and desperate criminals. They have be- that I know of, and that wouldn's bave | ive in London, she served oo that of the | jgg them to come to Parlisment Square come a serious menace to bundreds of com- been a thing 1 would bave stuok at.” Women's Franchise League, which she | ¢/4o baok the women up.”’ A few days | munities, and sheir profits must compare ‘Bat you never were a tease like Jim,” | helped to found in conjunction with Mrs. | before the 13th a havdbill was issued hy [favorably with those from many oiher ored of doggedness. Will you laugh in that same lighthearted way | * When you've turned, say, thirty more? She wat4 good Waaidn BS seid Iy Then I thought of a past I'd fain erase— Bg ir ag tig Io More clouded skies then blue— i sirugy el they bad speech aid And I saxiously peered in his upturned face’ A oor straw which agai ted tacit ol 02 Jb skvined 40 ay: "Did you find aoyshing that suited id you! you?’ she inquired. ‘If you dido’s and 1 touched my lips to Lis tiny own Jove like for me to go along with you aud el ] : And 1said to the boy: * Heigh, ho! you to oat one—'' she said. ‘“There never was any better | Wolstenholme Eimy, now the oldest suf- | he executive committee of the Women's | kinds of crime againet property. Chickens Those lips are as sweet as the hay, new-mown; He shook his head. *‘I didn’t mean to | busband than he was, bat is wasn't in him | fragiss 10 England, Mrs. Jacob Bright aud | Social and Political Union, inviting the | at twenty cents a pound are as valuable as Will you keep them slways so? bother yon about it.” not to tease. It wouldn’s have heen Jim | others. It is interesting to know also that public to come and help the women to | cOPper juok,a favorite spoil of the marand- Then back from those years came a rakish | *Is wouldn’s be bother—it would be in- | if be badn’s—'twonld have been like bread | the inaugural address wae given to the | ‘rush the House of Commons; aod ou the | e18. Already sone sections are aroused to SOug— teresting,” she urged, sensible of miseing | without any salt. Bus nobody would bave | league by her husband, Dr. Pankburst, | Sanday before, at a demanstiation in | tbe obicken-thief peril, and others aie With a ribald jest or two— the note she intended. been any slower than he'd have been to put whose name will always be connected with | Tiafalgar Square, Mrs. Pankhurst and ber awakening. And [ gazed at the child who knew no wrong, Even before he spoke there was repudia- | anybody in my place—" the passing of the Married Women’s Prop- | golleagues repeated this invitation in forei- The modern chicken-thieves travel in And I thought he asked: tion of her suggestion so instinctive and r eyes met, and wandered apart in | erty Aot; and that, during a three days’ | ble language from the foot of the Nelson | bands, and they work over a community “Did you?" : complete in She slight contractile move- | acute embarrassment. conference on the position of women, beld | golumn. with a thorougbuess which leaves farmers N Iovkod in lis evon. bik. brown sid: cleat ment of his shoulders that she reddened | “Not,” she said, quickly, “‘that it really | in their house in Russell Square, under the | The circumstances of the subsequent ar- | actually buying eggs. While the organ- ly rol mine! ' with a feeling of rebuke. would bave been putting anybody in my | suspices of the league, one session was pre- | ress caused much excitement at the time, | ised chicken-thieves do not disdain she Will you keep them true in the after-year? “No,I thank you,” he said, with finality. —if be had married again. 'Twouldn’s | sided over hy the Re. Hon. James Bryce. | On the Monday moming the three who | flook of te or fifteen which moss farmers ve been shat be’d forgotten me ; 'twonld | Mrs. Pankburet was ove of those to ac- ¥ “Bas ust see the ” he added, Will you leave no heart to pine” J pr: just have been doing the best he conld, with | 0¢pt oballenge thrown out by oar oppo- were selected ae responsible for she action | allow to run about their barn-yard, lifting Then out of the past came another's eyes— after » momens—‘‘and buy some little of the committee were served with a sum. these little flocks is a mere incident of a Sad eyes of tear-dimmed blue— things to take back with you.” me gone. And ’twouldn's have dove me | Dents, that women should prove their fis- | mons at the offices of the Union in Cle. | night's raidiog. The gang, with borse and Did he know they were not his mother's eyes? The uncomfortable blood mantled again | any good, when I was happy in beaven, to | Dees for public life by embruciue the oppor- | ment’s Ion, calling apon them to appear | Wagon, starts across country. The mem- Yor he answered me: *¥¢*" | in her comely middle-aged face. ‘I baven’s | look down and see him lonesome and un- | tubities already n to thew; and sbe | before the magistrateand ‘‘show canse why | bers who have sposted the lay of the land “Did you?" : the craze about shopping people bave,’’ she | comfortable—"’ served on boards of guardians, echool | you and each of youn should nos be ordered | BO with precision to the roosts, snap the He passed his hand across his furrowed | boards, eto., besides working for social re- brow. “I reckon we look at most things | form with private philanthropic societies; differently,” he said, “when we get up [avd she filled she post of Registrar of there.” Births and Deaths in Manchester for some “We know then,” she said, ‘how to | years, until her rescive to give her whole make allowances. Jim would have prom- | time to ‘votes for women’ led to her res- ised as soon as anybody,” she resamed, *'if | ignation. She worked for the enlfranchiee- there'd been any use in promising. Baus it | ment of women, indeed, in every peacea- was a silly thing for me to ask. He was | ble way open to unenfranchised citizens, just as tender-hearted as a woman—and first attaching berself so the Liberal party tenderer-hearted. There wasn’t a thing in | and then to tbe Labor party. It was only this world he wouldn’s do for you if he | when she realized that the justice of the loved yon—"' women's claim was not in itself sufficient “ "Twas just that way with my wile,’ | reason to induce a government to take up By Carl Werner. sR Joeves a Care ahout baying things RR} TEES ‘Of course not,” he said, mechanically. THE UNRETURNING. He did not see her obagrin, it was evi- — dent, or really note her attempted demurrer The bride's right shoe pinched intolera- | to his misunderstanding. For the time bly, and her head ached, and her muscles | unmistakably his thoughts were not upon pived for relaxation. The couvtry-made | ber. She bad longed, during the past week, gray traveling dress; pulied down too | for some such interval in his unremitting tightly in the back, forbade ber comforta- | attention—so, she would say to herself, that ble middle- semi-stoop, and compelled | she might call her soul her own ! The wall an unpatural ereotness. To sit up straight | of abstraction beyond which be bad with- all day in new clothes, to wile petpetas). drawn left ber fee and solitary. And they ly, to wear one’s self oat sigh og, to |satin silence while the twilight fell, he eat unwholesome holiday things at strange | seeming to scan the street scene below, she and irregular houis—this, she told herself, | with a yesterday's newspaper outspread was enough to make anybody feel cross | upon ber lap. and wretched. But in ber heart she knew | With something of guilty start he recov- that her trouble lay deeper. ered himeell at last. ‘‘Let me turn on the They bad finiehed the luncheon for | light so that you can see,” be said, rising which they had returned to the hotel, and | with the stiffness of overwearied muscles loitered now in oue of the ornate reception- | and the hurry of assiduity. rooms ; in which, as in the rest of the es- “‘Don’s the dark come on soon ?'’ she tablishment, she had already piaiced every- | said, to say something. “‘I slways feel shing until she had begun to hate every- | when November begins that I'm going into thing—mirrors, rugs, pictures, fuarnitare— | a long gloomy tuonel—with nothing be- accessories all, she dimly felt, in the pro- | yond it. It sors o’ seems that everything longed torture of forced conversation. Ob, | is over and dove with—"’ to be silens, sullen, solitary ! Bat ready | His awent was obviously more than to find sureties for good behavior.”” This | fowls from their perohes, and decapitate summons they not only ignored, but used | each with one flip of the band. Is is the a8 a text for further stirring speeches, de. | Work of only a few minutes to sweep bare livered the same afternoon to a wildly en. |® roost. Io the morning the farmer's wife shusiastio meeting in the Queen's Hail. A | finds only the heads of her birds. It is a second summons met with the same recep- | bungling amateur who starts she flock tion; and a warrant was then issoed for | 8-cackling. or stirs the dog trom its front- their arrest and presented at Clement’s Iun | door mat. on the morning of the 13th by Soperinten- | Chickens weigh from two to five or dent Wells and Inspector Jarvis, who,how- | *ix pounds each. If ove owns a fine ever, were met with the information thas | flock of, say, Plymouth Rocks, be knows the three women would give themselves up | [rom experience that not very many such at their own time—at six o'clock that even. | birds could be carried away by one man. ing. The premises were searched for them | Then, too, a flock of any size would make he said. ““To the very last, almost, she | their cause thas she severed her connection | without avail. At six o'clock, punctually, | 8 loud and startling noise if aroused in the wanted to be waiting on me, and —"’ with all political parties, and, in 1903, | sbey appeared, true to their word,and were | Dight. Imagine, then the consternation of He could not go on for a while. founded she Women’s Social and Political | taken to Bow Street. a Deerfield, New York, farmer, when he “I don’s know what she saw in me,” he | Union in Manchester, the nursery of 80| The trial shat followed, one of the most | Went to view his flock of one hundred su- said, with a attempt at a smile. many great causes. sensational in modern times, was remark- | perior broilers of she Plymouth Rock breed Love,” said, ‘‘is something you | Fortwo years, the polioy of the Union | able for the able defence of the shree pris- | 80d found not one! Nearly a quarter of a can’t explain.” was to work quietly but strenuousiy in | oners by one of shem, Miss Christable Pank- | ton of loud-voiced chickens suddenly de- The unflattering implication of her words | order to force some party to recognize the | hurst, and for the speeches made by all | parted in the night, and vo trace of them ocourred $0 her, bus nos, apparently, to | urgenoy of the question. In 1905, with a | shree defendants ; also for the appearance | was ever found. From another farm in him. Or be did not care—absorbed in | threatened obange of government, came the | of two Cabinet Ministers in the witness-box | the same locality forsy-odd chickens disap- other thoughts. initiation of the so-called militant tactics | Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Ex- | peared in equal silence and mystery. But Busied with separate memories, they eat | when, on October 13th, Mies Christabel | cheguer, and Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Home these thefts do not compare with the one of silent, and yet not, as heretofore, apart. | Pavkburst and Miss Annie Kenney were | Secretary, who were sub by the de- | which a Waterville woman was the victim. An indefinahle domestioity of air bad taken | sent to prison in Manchester for causing an | fendants, were brilliantly cross-examined | She breeds chickens on a large scale, and the place of formality and constraint. Al- | obstruction by addressing the crowd, alter | by Miss Pankhurst and made to testily to | last spring she had thi ze thoueand fowls, with bis eternal acquiescens smile, | formal. ‘Bus,’ be said, lamely, *‘it ain’s | most ove might bave fancied, to see their they had been flung ous of a Liberal mees- | she absence of violence shown in Parlia- | mostly white Leghorns, on ber farm. The was banging, as it were, upon her lips. | really 80. And--and is won’s do for me to | faces, that into the cold eleotrio glare bad | ing for asking what the new government | mens Sqoare. The magistrate, however, birds bad the run of the and were If be just wouldn't be so polite, so deleren- | abuse November,’’ he added—*‘after what | orept something of the glow of firelight— | was going to do for woman suffrage aud for | refused to state a case for a higher cours ; | only counted once in a while, owing to the tial, 80 eager to agree with her on every | it's brought 1" . they bad so softened and brightened with | insisting on ap answer to their question. | and, deolining to be bound over, Mrs. great number. One day the owner nosio- possible and impossible point—in a word, | She flushed a little at the somewhat gal- | the falling of balm upon aching loyalties. | After that the militant movement grew | Pankhurst was given a sentence of three ed that the flock ‘‘looked thin.” She or- #0 absolutely and determinedly the groom! | vanio gallantry. ‘‘Don’s bother about eay- “Some things don’t come in life bus | apace, and the scene of it was shortly trane- | montbs, Mrs. Drummond the same, and | dered a counting. Of three thousand In the fall merciless afternoon light she | ing things like thas,” she said. once,” she said at last. She pus her hand | ferred to London, where, in the following | Miss Pankburst a sentence of ten weeks, | birds, eight buodred bad disappeared, looked at him, in bis unbecoming, insiet- e stared at her in a blankness which | upon his knee, and he laid his own upon | year, the greatest sensation was caused by | The demonstration on their release, con- | over and above she highest percentage of ently new suit—bridal io every hard line | banished words. is. ‘Bus, thank God," she added, ‘‘bappi- | demonstrations in the ladies’ gallery of the | sisting of a greas public breakfast, followed | normal loss from disease, accidents, ete. and crease, as bridal as the gallantry which | “I know,” she said, ‘‘that you don't | ness isn’t one of them !""—By Avnie Ste- House of Commons, by disturbances at | by a triumphal procession through town, | The chicken thieves had stolen more than would not soffer her to speak without in- | really feel like saying them.’ ger Winston, in Harper's Bazar. Cabinet Ministers’ meetings, by a meeting | whioh was headed by Mrs. Pankhurst and | a ton of birds, valued as nos less than three stant, unreasoning assent, or to step across | He opened his month—and shat is. He ——————— of women in the Caxton Hall, who formed | her daughter in a carriage, was remarkable | hundred dollars. They could not have a etraw in her path without the assistance | had no talent for deception. Doing Good Werk themselves into a deputation and marched of his hand elevating her elbow—and not-| His distress awoke in ber an obscure ——— : to the House of Commons. Wish all shese ed with resentment the depth of the srow’s | spasm of amusement which sought no vent | Since the organization of the Pennsylva. incidents Mrs. Pankburst’s name was con- fess syouna id pid a ) ‘oe Seer fo fuslle nor disturbed her essential KraY- | nig Railroad Employes’ Relief Funds, $27, | "Trot one my first impression of Mrs sled bair about his temples ; above all, the | ‘*How long has it been,” she asked, with. | 150,635.96 have been paid out in benefits | Pankhurst, when I saw her take the chair | in she Caxton Hall to the House of Com. | many birds. SUNAIYIuE vamne ype ing bis meagre out Do eine she died > tht to their members. This fact is brought at 3he Cazion ga on February ) 13 Jam, 1907, Hous, ite leader was » be Mrs. Posh. ole ge for Stolen birdie 48 hlanna in ening the joyfulness of the | An overcome reluctance spoke in tone t report 0 nos gn now Ww i ex ures. time especial stress was uction camps v nds and occasion, and a: of the | oF bis respouse. “Ten years—uext April.” Waa shows oy . pe Yoo shape to see, bus I know I bad never plotared 80 | on the right of the women, as conferred by | city meat markets which are kept by for- response in kind from her. The very pause which followed held the small or so slight or so young-looking a | she Bill of Rights, to lay their grievance | eigners. There is no question bas thas Fartively she looked at him. Bot it | theme in suspension before them—to his tober the benefits amounted to $156,976.94. | woman as the one who walked on to the | before the representative of the Crown ; | thousands of stolen birde have found sheir waa of the room she spoke. ‘“Things look | distaste, as was evident in aotriain rok The Relief Department of the lines east plattors and oe there, waiting R for the | and ah iments stowg fbronped 3806 abweeis yoy into Mohawk Yalley towns alone. #0 different in a real good light,’’ she said. | lessness of movement. t conversational- | of Pittsbar, ei onth of uproar of applause to cease. But the won- | round about the Houses rliament, re are men who are known to the “Just see those soratches on that table, and | ly he was always helpless. ol Bin id %a eine’ wath x der was greater when she spoke. Stand. | brought there with the desire to see justice | lice as ‘chicken thieves,” and the term is how the [urniture is beginning to fade.” “Ten wears is right long to wait,”’ she me *” | ing motionless and silent, she had the face | dove to the women. Thousands of police | used as respectfully as thas of ‘‘burglar’” He assented warmly ; and listlessly she | commented. *‘I suppose you didn’s really 751.04, representing $47,515 09 paid 0 | of a woman who, though she retained her | were in attendance, when, soon alter eight | or ‘ hoise-thief.”” Judges are glad of an let the subject drop. How tiresome it was | intend to marry at all 2’ the families of members who died and [ultimate belie! in human nature, could | o'clock in the evening, a little band of [rail | opportunity to send these men to jail. for bim to he.always agreeing, and how “No,” he answered. $65,235.95 to members who were incapaoci- point to years behind her of sadness and | but conrageous women emerged once more n some localities the chicken thieves are uninteresting he was ! Unmistakably the [fatuously proper | yoi0q tor work. The total ments on | (Hort and perbape disillusionment as well. | from the doots of the Caxton Hall. as ruthless and thoughtless regarding fa- Somebow the kind neighbor, the valued | thing to say rose nebulously before bis . pay Speaking, her head erect, her eyes afire her This time no attempt was made at arrest. | ture anpply as game hogs. Many a farmer friend, in his new role of bridegroom irri- | mind and was dismissed —in view, perbaps, the lines east of Pitsburg and Erie since | yyrangely heantifal aud maguetio voice fill- | ing them in sighs of the le. The crowd | has become discouraged over the failure to tated her to au extent at which, in the | of her prohibition; dismissed with symp- | She Relie! Fund was established in 1886 | ing easily every corner of the hall, she | simply would not have tolerated it. So | protect his birds and goes without eggs or depth of her good womanly bears, she mar- | toms of relief. bave amounted to $19,801,497.95. seemed 10 me the embodiment of the uew | the deputation was allowed to proceed up | buys them in market. In the locality velled. He fretted her as one would be| ‘‘No,” be said, again. In October the Relief Department of | WO™an who is looking forward toa great | to the doors of she House itself, and the | north of Little Falls lat summer the farm- fretted in fever hy stale, choking, prepos- | ‘I reckon it was with you like it was : pa future, with a greas hope in her heart. | waiting throng was disarmed by a false re- | ere lost upward of twenty-five per cent. of terously, unappealing eake—when all one’s | with me,” she said. ‘You just did wha | She Peousylvania lives west of Pittshurg | Thas was the day when the audience again | port, busily ciroulated hy the police, to | their flocks, some losing all their birds. od} ae ory ink out for water. seemed right "hen the Nine ise. and Erie paid out a total of $44,225 90, of formed melt infos deputation, headed by | the $hjee jnabiibe depuintian a Yee Jo: Totkeys pod Sueks Sere Seo pi wouldo’t go out any more that day, | looked like a pity lor you to alove in | whioh $18,541 00 were for the famih rs. . only to be met by mounted | ceived. As ¢ oor ons re, ear e chiocken-$ 0 she told him ; oe eas’ aoerd; or your house, EE re 10 be. a) alone, or which $1 who died, and $25,684 Hee > police who rode them down and prevented | Pankhurst was mes by Tuspeotor Jarvis on all sides. A resident of the town of must. No— positively he must not stay | the same as alone, in mine, when we might bors Wh y : their entering the House, as a consequence | with the Prime Minister's written refusal | Davube in Herkimer County found a cer- with ber. She preferred, she preferred | be sitting hy the same fire and helping mem who were unable to work. The | of which seventy eight women were sens to | to see them. With a dramatio gesture she | tain deputy sheriff in hie hen-coop, and thas be should go. And with his nsnal do- | each other oat.” sum of $7,349,138 01 represents the total | prison. Bat to me one of the chiel inci- | tore Mr. Arquith’s message in two and re- | whi him. The intruder lost his job, eility be yielded—with maviless scruples. | He murmured inarticulate assent. | payments of the Relie?! Fand of the lines | dents of February 13th, 1907, was the dis- | fused to stir until the deputation was ad- | but he is still a politician of influence. ro And “0 an hour or. two she would have yu wwe alwats Belping me Jo, Jug west since it was established in 1889. Sovery of the kind of woman we bad for witied, The police a as i former Profestivus! + Sides thieves semi add own very sanotuar her | way,”’ she continued—' tw 0 ———————— our er. oocasions, to e women a unotor on Jind seemed Sot Lree from invasion "when with the liglle 1 Id io dvs os-atA every: Criminals Identified by the Back of Ba Febraany 15th, 1908, the anniversary Suons. On al fides stovd sehen ol. Par- | Upper obawk Valley lise Joc. sight ln was by. ut now—what waa to er | th rom ng my en to ¢ day re, ust was arrested | liamens, some or ¢ ves ; | Samwer. Aan Dear es on #& her ive the depths of that pain to pov up my well-bucket when it drop the Haug, for the first time. at the windows were others, a with | north side of the Adirondacks caught three which her secret discontents and irritations | ped to the bottom. There wasn’t much I It was a gloriously sunny afternoon when | opera-glasses, all of them evidently there | men iu his obioken-coop one night in Sep- had been bat as the surface bubbles of a | could do for you, bus—"' The finger-prios method of the Bertiloin | yo appeared on the steps of the Caxton | “‘tosee the fan.” The situation was in. | tember. He seized one, bus the gang drove sea? “It's been a great thing for me,” hesaid, ne Sytem W idennily oe 808- | Hall at the bead of a small and peaceable | tolerable to any woman of spirit. More. | him back, and he failed to bold his captive. “Oh, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim !"’ she sob. | “to bave you to sit with after supper planted b uy po y 1 #up- | deputation of tvielve women, sent by she | over, the deputation num two elderly | The farmers find that the chicken-thief bed. ‘‘How could I—could I" and—"' plate) by photogtapis oy a of Women’s Parliament, sitting within, so | ladies, one of them over seventy. Mrs. [is no longer a cringing, bollow-chested The sense of loss, even in the first hour | *‘A long evening with nobody to talk to | SOS! 08 TWICE | REE BATE DOE FSPOEL. | geek an interview with the Prime Minister. | Paokhurst saw how it could he ended | weakling, ready to give up if be cannot loss, bad scarcely been so keen, the |is mighty lonesome,” she agreed. jon fhioial 1 ae 8 Dave eoeived | 4 oheer went up from the waiting orowd | swiftly without farther indignity or phys- | ran. Far from it! In January this year, a yearning for him hardly so intolerable. | ‘‘It was a sober-sided courtship—it you pot si or % ue 5g distigetiog outside as she mounted a pony trap, ber | sical injury to the woman with her. Quite | Herminia, Peovsylvania, farmer pamed But how blessed a thing were tears after | can call it a courtship—wasn’s it?’’ she ie Hips rEngers by render- | p04 baving been injared in an encounter | deliberately, with the open palm of her | Frank Nichols was shot by thieves in his the strain of smiles, how sweet she freedom | said, breaking the long pause. Tuy Setestion ot Yo saute impo). with rowdy Liberal youths at the recent | band, she struck the face of Inspector [ own ben-coop, and y wounded with from that barassing presence ! He assented, manifestly casting about |, = oC itor. : i neon of the | pig. Devon election. The small carriage | Jarvis. The act bad immediate effect. She | buckshot, and a companion ohicken-thief ronat's good, he's kind, be's well df and for some form 9 Spology. “You kvaw 1 eat bevy seo in Hd proceeded down he strees ata walking and the rest of the women were instantly gute was slightly wounded. The farmers ap to; e aren't an ren $0 | never was mo a at talking, e pace, ow twelve other 3 . over eas ve not forgotten make trouble, and I was all alone. It did | stumbled. | nished Without danger of fatal in bat before it had gone many en Io tbe police-coart proceedings thas fol. | that chioken-thieves on the outskirts of seem like it was the right thing to do.| *‘I don’t see that you can'tsay every- |. impossible Por J police stopped it and told Mrs. Pankhurst | lowed, the defence ses up by the prisoners, | Methuen, Connecticut, aesanited and beat ng Bat ob, Jim, Jim, Jim I’ she said—‘‘to | thi oa want to say,” she ned. she most out and walk. She did olaiming that they were constitutionally | to death two policemen—Charles H. Emer- shink of him in your place!”’ a Shot ap eeu dos wan Rind branding or otherwise disfiguring the flesh get b as . for the immense advance in publio opinion | been operating more thao a few nights, that was shown in favorable attitude of the | and the distance of the breeding farm from crowds that thronged the pavements. a possible markes indicated a regular wag- On June 20th of this year the thirteenth [on traffic in stolen birds. Incidentally, deputation was to be sens from a meeting | dozens of other farmers in that region lost 2 of the band. By the band without protest, and the women olosed | justified in seeking entry to the House of | son and Frank McDermott. Sbe did not know thas she had cried her- | worth saying. Don’t think I wasn’s satie- | oo 0 Toy Se nning the of to bang | ound her. Again she police interfered, | Commons, was for the first time taken se- | Farmers once thought their coops were seli to sleep, like a miserable ohild, until | fied,” she went on. “Dido's I eay Yes, | 10 Tod Faced Seplakivn of | saying they must walk behind her, two | riously by the magistrate; and although | safe when snow was on the ground, but she opened ber eyes and saw ber busband | when if anybody bad told me, when Jim | oF TOC Tl HRT FO a3 liga. abreast. She passed the order to the wom- | the beld thas they had not | this winters aw no cessation of the sitting by the window in the clear pallor | died—"’ oul ine whiny SE rae stand en, who instantly obeyed. At the cnrner ed their case, and sen them, as | and the poultry-breeding public finds i succeeding sunset—his head resting upon | Two large sudden tears coursed down Sut pum aengly ou a band | op'she street, where the roads diverged, she hay to terms of imprisonment in the | face to lace with a menace which threatens hie hand. : ber obeeks. She wiped them away. a ye tor bonographed | yaq ald to take she quieter and longer way [second division, be was sufficiently im- | their occupation. Elaborate stems of With the placidity of sleep yet upon her | ‘Don’t old times come back to you some- | = "Fy ure refer- | yo Parliamens Square. Once more she pie- | pressed by the constitutional point advano- | looks and fences have of little avail. she looked at him without word or move- | times ?*’ she said, parenthetioally. *‘ "Twas ny . pared to fall in with the police require- | @d by them to state a case for a higher The thieves carry lockbreakers and wire- ment to show that she was awake, her | like I wanted it to be,”” she hurried on, rr ee ments, bus at this point was su ar- | court; and, pending the legal proceedings, | nippers, as well as offensive w. beart vaguely smiting ber—he seemed so | “the only way for it to be, with two pea | Io the Tower of London are yet preserv- | rested and so, subsequently, were the other | acoepted bail from all the members of the | Poultry-raisers are of the opinion that the old, so tired, so unaccountably bowed and | ple like you and me—having what we have | ed some of the relics of the when men | women. On the following day she was | deputation, as well as trom nearly a buu. | evil is increasing heyond all bounds, and shrunken. to temember— though 1 didn’t know then | used ‘‘the thumb-screw and the rack for | gentenced, ns a common street brawler | dred women who were arrested on the | inventors are already turning their minds “80 you've come back?"’ she said, with | what I do mow about what she was to | the glory of the Lord.” Some of these in- | might bave been—she political motive of | same evening in conuection with the at- | to special ohicken-coop guarding appli- whatever of sliness and suggestion of | you—"’ struments of torture are dyed deep with | her crime being —$0 six weeks im- | tempt So enter the House of Commons. | ances. welcome she could infuse into ber tone. He looked past ber, a great wistfulness | She blood of she unfortuoates who suffered | prisonmens in the second division. Mrs. Pankhurst gave an understandining re- | So far the best precautions are lights, With a start be turned, obviously trying | upon his face. *‘She was a good woman,” | from them, and many of these sufferers | Her arrest made a great sensation, for | urn that no deputation should be sent to | and ‘‘still alarms,” which awaken the own- to summon bis accustomed smile. “I! be said. were women. We shudder at the thought, | the legality of of the ao- | the House by the Union until the case | er without disturbing the marauders. Ef- came back an hour betwo hours,” | ‘And I reckon she was y,”’ she | and yet women to-day, are undergoing a | tion, prompted, as was generally believed, | should be decided. fient policing and punishment in propor- he said. Hel at his watch. ‘‘Near- | said, ‘when she was young ?' slow torture, y more severe | hy government instructions, was question | So the matter stands at present; and the tion to the crime make for the stamping er three,” be amended. *‘T ought to have He waited to command his voice. “‘She | than the torments of the torture chamber. | ed even by those outside militans circles; | result is felt to be a triumph for the suffra- | oud of the organized bands. Yet, so known by the sun. But I wasn’t notic- | always was pretty—to me,” he answered. | When the nerves are racked ceaselessly, aud dueiug bet imprisosmenny she Women's gettes. They bave at last raised the cam- | long as there are markets for stolen birds, ing.” Desire to shange the subject clearly | When the day is joyless and she night is | Social and Pol Union was rein- | paign ous of the atmosphere of the police | chickens will be stolen.—By Raymond 8. “y you've been resting—like I've | struggled within him with impulse to con- eid many a woman sees the gaunt, | forced both in funds and in membership. | cours; at last they have been tacitly recog- heen,” she said. *‘Sight-seeing is mighty | tinue it. Phantoms of Vusaity eluichiuiat A great demonstration of welcome was | nized as members of a serious political — mm nice, but too much of it at a time don’t #i3he wavan prelly ans picture, beguid her in the darkvess. Even insanity when gioousd io aks plase outside Holloway | party, instead of being dismissed as hooli- | If bigness made a , Dr. Pierce's suit settled like us.” —*‘white avd pink and slim in the waiss, | caused by disease of the womanl on the day of her release; and to frus- | gus and notoriety-bunters. Whether the | Common Sense Medioal Adviser would still “No, it don’s,” be agreed. “I didn’t | and with dim bas been oured by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite | yrate this plan the Home Seoretary ordered Sake goes guitar Shem finally or not, the | be one of the of the think I'd do any more of it , except | langhed. Praseipies, It bas cured St. Vitue's dauce | her release the day before, thus enabling | movement bas been considerably advanced | with pages and 700 pictures, a what you could do riding down ov | ber health broke down didn’t know what forme of nervous disease. It is | her, however, to appear ly on | iu the mean while; and the woman whose | it is not the number of pages whioh makes streetoars. Afterall, New York is a she was. It was her a medicine remarkable for ite direot action | ghe platform at the Albers Hall, where a | name stands first among the English saffra- | the value of the book, but the extent and sighs than soything in it.” sometimes, if upon the delicate female and ite | euffrage meeting was taking place and | gettes is the woman of small stature and | quality of knowledge it con this ; was agood ides,’ she said— | Arizona or vher pn pe . It uloera- | where she was given a fine reception. A voice, the woman with the ar- | gest Dr. Pierce's great work on .: to ride up and down on the cars. | mightn’s bave 0 sod cures female weak- | public breakfast, already arranged in ber face, who bas gone to prison swioe | physiology and hygiene ranks with Tu dis get wake olf tor dido’t tell soothes pain and tones up the nervous , took place on the following morp- | for the cause and is under sentence to go a Eitan It is solentifio- To her id wonder a deep red | think so much of those 8 . It contains no alcohol, and i | ing; and few who were present will forges who, six years ago, de- | ally written, yet in such e English mounted to the very line of bis thin bair. | or he might bave thou free from opium, cocaine and | her moving speech aston in the ed that the only way to win ‘‘votes for | shat all may understand. It is sent free on “I—I didv’s intend to,” be stammered, | and it wasn't any use. other narootios. prison system and its effect on the poor | women’’ was to found a Union of Fighting | receips of stamps to pay expense of mailing ‘but we were passing a place where they | days—she never " criminal women who suffer under is. Suffragettes.—By Evelyn Sharp, in Har- | only. Send 21 one cent stamps for book in make tombstones—’ j the time she was -—Algy Sapleigh : Do play for me, | Her next important in pub- | per’s Bazar. binding, or 31 stamps in cloth, to Dr. She broke into a laugh, Raise i508 48 snaney Miss Rbgeis ; Zalwaje eujey Jour lic was on the ocoasion Tae Ty rT RY. Pierce, Buflalo, N. Y. of which surprised A ere sell the roof over my bead so mush. You know I don's know the first | park demonstration of June 21, 1908, ao- | ——You mise a good thing if you don’t —— shinkiog of getting one for yourself—or | my back, and live on bread and water the | thing about music. knowledged by the press to be the largest | take the WATCHMAN. ~— Advertise in the WATOHMAR, -
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