The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-06-14

First Episode-"Tho Ebony Block. /"
CAST
Pearl White The Lightning Raide,
Henry Gsell- Thomas Norton
Warner GLAND Wu Fanp
Frank Redman- Sing
"The Lightning Raider, is the So
briquet given to the cleverest girl
thief in the world by her associates of
the underworld. Beautiful, daring
and gifted with super-intelligence,
she matches her wits against the DOW
ers of the law and always comes out
best in every encounter. The petty
profits of ordinary thieving are scorn-
ed BY Lightning" who always plays
for big game. A hundred, thousand
dollar painting, gem SO rare and so
large that it is practically priceless,
or a paper that may change the des-
tiny of a nation, will lure this girl.
but common burglary, or even bank
robbing are far below her intelli-
gence. She is thief-de-l luxe, a fem
mine Raffles who steals for sheer
love OF the game. In the first cpl
sode Of "The Lightning Raider" she
is revealed playing the game she
loves. She is in the curio shop room
of the Museum of Art in New York
City. 1t is ten thirty at night and
Lightning has just spread adhesive
tape over a glass case containing the
thing that has lured her. 1t is a SQUAT
karatsi vase, turquoise-hued, pot bel
led as whe' wa. moulded BY Il
cunning hand of Ch'ien Li'ang centur-
les before. Ugly as sin and as price,
less as virtue it stretches forth unseen
hands to the girl. She knows that
two policemen are waiting below the
window by which she entered the mu-
scum, to capture her when she leaves
but she quitely cuts the glass top of
the case, removes the detached Sec
ton fixed to the adhesive tape and
reaching in, brings out the hideous
little vase worth q kings ransome.
Pooling the police who were waiting
below, by q trick, she slid down the
arinpipe to the ground and jumped to
the running board Of a passing taxi
in which reclined Thomas Norton. a
young millionaire. The police soon
followed in another taxi and when the
chase became too hot she thrust the
precious vase into Toms hands, and
jumping from the cab, made her es-
cape via an elevated train. An hour
alter she visited Tom at his apartment
md found him terribly agitated over
he theft OF an ebony block, a token
eft him by his father at the time of
his death. He suspects WI Fang. a
'rafty Chinese criminal, and, Lightn-
ng, who 10 WI Fang's most hated
'nemy, agrees to help him find the
block. The next day she takes him to
W. Fang's den, which is built at the
conveyance Of two sewers beneath
New York and through an aperture
hey see him at his desk with the
'bony block in his hands. Then they
eturn to the street and Tom tells
the history of the block.
lis father had years before been en-
'loyed by WI Fang in the rubber
orests Of Brazil. He had fallen in
owe with a beautiful Chinese girl
whom WI Fang was holding prison.
r, and had finally taken the girl and
ed to America. The ebony block was
WI Fang's most cherished possession
no they had taken it in order to
ave hold on WI Fang. Years Ia
er Toms father had been mortally
rounded by an emissary of WI Fang
rho had never ceased in his attempts
0 secure the block and before his
cath had given it to Tom with the
nJunction to guard it as he would
is own honor as it was the most dan.
erous thing in the world. Lightning