The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-02

pay mother,s traveilng expenses.e
 It was evident that Maud really loved the Judge.
 As for tine Judge. he looked back from hill and saw her still soldering and gazing at him and said: She looks all right to me. If I could get some girl like that, me for q uuiet place in the country But don't think my family would stand for her"
 So the Judge rode on into the town and back to the Court House, while Maud stood around. thinking of him, until she was caught in the rain.
 He married rich wife who travelled with the high-rollers and often at night when ne was waiting tor her to come home he would gaze into the fire and wish that he could get out of it pers.
 Sometimes he wondered why he hadn't played few return dates with the good locker that brought him the water.
 As for Maud she married poor man, but what the couple lacked in Furni- ture they made up in Family.
 Very often she would sit around dur ing the long. lonesome evenings, with nothing to read but the agricultural papers, and try to Imagine what might have been If she had made little stronger play for the Judge.
 That Is the end of the story There is nothing more to It.
 Suppose that some Whittier of today should write this kind of story and send 1t to the editor of a brisk little magazine that guarantees you many a tingle for your ten-eent piece.
 Would the wise man In charge of tho dime throbber. who knows just what the fiat~hcaded public is iolsIng for. &C., cept any such childish and pointiess narrative as this? Not on your s00,00O circulatsoni
 He would return the Ms. to the Au- thor and suggest few changes in or- der to make the story more Snappy and give the Artist q chance at some crack. ing good Pictures. By the time he got thiaasn Goetoring up the Romance 1t would run about as follows:
 Maude, with ani 'se, as type of the Progressive New Woman, Is In the hay field directing the operations of q large gang of workmen, when the Judge comes by in a 60 H. F. motor car
 Tine Judge has become immensely wealthy while acting as tool of the Corporate Interests that are slowly but surely sucking the life blood OF the Republic. The Judge Is the en1bodi- nent of the pernicioas System, what ever that Is.
 Inasmach as he is exceeding the speed limit. Manae, whCn she sees him coming, goes into her colonial cottage that cost half million and gets a shotgun, and as he comes by she shoots him In the knee. The purpose of in- troducing this incident is to give the artist an opening for q wash-drawing g that will be full of Action.
 The Judge falls out of the machine and Maude Muller has him carried into the house, whereupon he calls for @ drink. The Maude Muller of 1906 knows better than to offer a Judge anything that comes out of spring. She brings him Scotch When he arouses hime self to the fact that she Is a Having Beauty and furthermore is highly cultI- vated, the same as all the girls living in the country, he forgets his resent ment and they spend many happy hours together discussing the problem of La- Dor and Capital while he is beng nursed back to health
 At last the Judge returns to town. leaving Maude very lonely. The wires get crossed and he narries somebody else. She does the same, necessarily Then both of them sit around relaect- ing on the old eouplet: