The Washington herald., 1913-02-24
srArEnlEa-RzAI AND NEAR
~ FRED C. KELLY.

| Synopsis of preceding chaptsrs$Wnx.
rem Worth Bailey. . young man who later
on Is going to represent the Johnstown.
Pa. district In the Sixty-third Congress-
Is running q sman Newspaper at Cariisle.
Ind, and In the youngest editor in the
Hoosier state. In due season he win be
editor Of the first paper devoted to Henry
Georges single tax propaganda and at
the time Of his election to Congress he
VIII be editor and proprietor Of the Johns
town Democrat. lust now. however, he
is busy printing things about the people
OF Carlisle. Ind. One day he publishes a
sensational little story about q man and
girl. The man Is greatly exercised
when he sees q copy of Bailey's paper.
and declares he win kill the editor Just
: soon as he can get around to II.
Everybody who knows him says he will
40 IL too. VIII no one save the future
Congressman!
Synopsis of this chapter:-Scsne is laid
on quiet street OF Carlisle, Ind. Bailey.
the young editor. ID seated on doorstep
OF q doctors ONCE near his newspaper
shop. For first time in his life Bailey
Is carrying concealed weapons Across
the street Is the man who has deter
mined to Kill him. The man changes his
1
across to where Bailey is sitting. In
stantly all the townfolk about there cease
| their simple tasks to see what is coins
to happen The barber. the Erocer, the
| saddler across the way, the druggist
down the street. the tsquire-aIl have high
hopes Of witnessing a tragedy. Along a
| nearby hitching rack are strung a row
Of villagers. peasants, school children and
professional eye-witnesses. But no ona
4 mn Dat
calmly. with one hand In his side coat
pocket. clutched firmly to a gun" He
has been warned to take no chances
with the man now walking toward him.
All. but some one is going to regret this
day,
The two men look straight at each
other. Bailey makes up his mind to wait
until the moment when the mans foo,
touches the curb. And then
Nearer and nearer comes the man.
walking casually but firmly He Is only
fifteen feet away-now ten feet-ffve feet.
One more step and he touches the curb!
But h. does not take the fatal step.
Instead, when within a single step Of
the curb, his nerve fails He turns sud
denly and walks back across the street,
and out Of sight.
Young Bailey. who has been steady
enough til the man turns away. finds
ISLANDERS. who lost out on seeing a tra9-
edly. come up. nevertheless, to offer con-
gratulations on the way he kept his
nerve.
Synopsis Of next chapter:-rhe mar
who was going to kill the young editor
leaves town and does not return for q
long time. When he comes back. he Is
as friendly with Bailey as a stray dog
But neither refers to the day when one
more step meant somebody getting killed.
Tom Hefin. the prominent anti-suf-
fragist. walked over to Billy Kent in the
House chamber the other day and re-
marked:
suffrage congressman on those banners
you're going to carry in the big parade
March 3"
What banners. I don't know any,
thing about any banners replied Kent
Why says Heflin. 'I understand
that you fellows who expect the women
to vote for you are going to have BAN
ners saying: "A vote for women is a
vote for u.s.
When Representative Curtis Creek. Of
Pennsylvania, sent his son James OF to
college he sent also this letter to the
faculty:
You have my permission to teach
James whatever you think best, from
ancient languages to veterinary surgery,
but 1 draw the line at one thing / re-
fer to botany. II you undertake 10
teach my son botany Tll-vell, III sim
ply have to make other arrangements,
that's all.''
a colored man down in Representative
Stanley's district in Kentucky was lust
back freRs sojourn at the penitentiary,
where he spent year or two for steal
ing.
Tt done me a lot Of good Mlstah Stan.
ley" the man said. That stay up there
made Christian nigEah out o. me- II
I'd gone on the way I was roin' I'd ha'
ended up by gittin' sent the fo' life. As
1t it's now, I wouldn't touch nothin' that
didn't b1ong to me. even II WAS
stahvin.' Why. Mistah Stanley. ia cross
the street to avoid passin' a 1o-cent piece
somebody's dropped on the sidewalk
Nick LongwOrth declares he got this
right from a friend of his whose wife
favors equal suffrage
I don't mind getting up and fixing my
own breakfast" the man said. III my
WIFE wishes to go about to suffrage meet
inSs from early morn til set of sun.
that's her own affair. I've been coming
home from work tired and picking IN
what l could find for dinner. and washed
the dishes and put the youngsters to
bed. and not one word of complaint have
uttered. But when my wife put a lot
OF pink ribbons through my night shirt.
made up my mind that the thing was
being carried too far
Copyright, 1913, by Fred c. Kelly An rixhts n,
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