Gilpin observer., 1913-04-24

countenanced by the fair voters Of
this land, once the facts are in their
possession!
II trust you realize the enormity Of
your crime and the hold we have on
you. Should you be unwise enough
to violate the sentence of this court,
the news of your duplicity will be
sent to the women's clubs of your dis
trict. to be followed by unimpeach-
able evidence in your own handwrit-
ing-the bill itself I am satisfied that
your better judgment will prevail and
that you will serve your sentence as
becomes a gentleman and candidate.
This being Sunday, you will be al
lowed your liberty to go and come as
you please and fortify your mind
against the ordeal you are about to
experience. On Monday morning you
will inaugurate your sentence by be-
ginning with Mae Andrews, whose
name appears first on the alphabetical
list. Mae is a stunning blonde with
hair like spun fax and cheeks like
the down of an Alberta peach. She Is
city broke and high stopper. has
dozen Beau Brummels infatuated and
loves to see enamored men turn SOM
ersaults in the service Of the queenly
sex. You will do what she tells you
even to jumping through a hoop,
should she demand 1t.
For purposes of assignment, l give
you herewith the list of your owners
and the days of your servitude. as
follows:
Monday, Mae Andrews.
Tuesday, Mabel Arnsy
"Wednesday, Harriet Brooks
Thursday, Margaret Farnsworth
Friday. Alice Mason
Saturday, Molly Mcconnell
"Sunday-open date for repentance
Monday. Cleo Summers
Tuesday, Lucille Walters
"Wednesday, Bess Winters
Thursday, Jack" Vining
1T comes to our knowledge that you
are very desirous Of reaching your
district on the Saturday night follow
Ing, where you are to open your cam
paign. Should you prove yourself a
perfect gentleman during the interim
and serve your sentence with due hui
mility. We will return to you the in
eliminating bill and permit you to
depart in peace.
But for every indiscretion on your
part. you will be given, ten days
sentence under the same conditions
now governing The court has en-
deavored to impress you with the Sc
riousness of your situation and shall
feel no regret should you, in your
heedlessness. fail to grasp its import.
Given this day and date under my
letter seal at Squirrel Inn. Dingledale,
Wisconsin.
JACK VINING, Judge"
Walter Bedigft, mayor and candi-
date for the legislature, frowned.
Plainly, here was predicament. The
humor Of the situation had fed. The
piqued attitude of the Judge" toward
him was plain. 1t was more than this,
1t was "catty." She ran after him and
he kissed her. perfectly natural
thing for a handsome bachelor to do
If the pursuer were pretty-and good
ness knows Jackie Vining was enough
of that to give almost any inquisitive
young man palpitation of the heart!
But even male judges have a way
of their own, absolute and unrelent-
ing. while woman Judge. pretty, VI
vacious. enticing. captured in dog
wood swamp and kissed against her
will-Bedight shuddered at his pos
sible fate!
The fury Of a woman osculated Is
frequently as accentuated as the an
ger OF woman scorned! And he
was the goat
Deep in a quandary of ways and
means. the luckless politician, mental
ly berating the fatal day Of woman
suffrage. wandered into the cool. um-
brageous wood.
It was midsummer and the forest
was q sylvan retreat where monk and
man might lose his troubles in the
rippling OF the rills and receive d.
vine JUNCTION from the nature god rul-
ing with soothing zephyrs and elixirs
of efilorescence.
Bedight penetrated far into the
heart Of the wood. where dryads
romp along the sunbeamed way
through interstices in the trees. where