Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1915 — Page 2

The Governor’s Lady A Novelization of Alice Bradley's Play

B y GERTRUDE STEVENSON

Uustrgtkns from Photographs of the Stage Production

n -t CHAPTER IX—Continued. "Mrs. Slade.” Merritt began, and took a quick, apprehensive look in the direction of the kitchen. "Take a hint from me! You give it to him! Soak It to him! He’s used you like a dog! I came here today to find out if you meant to fight him. 1 had an Idea that you did. I’ll help you do him up." "You’re talking against the man 1 lived with most of my life,” and she fixed an angry eye on him. "You get right out of my house, sir.” v ßut—’’ protested Merritt, rising. "Go right along, sir! Go along!” and Mary raised her voice as her temper got the better of her. Hayes, bearing the loud tones, appeared at the kitchen door munching a biscuit "How dare you!” he heard Mary exclaim. “You can't abuse my husband to me!" —— Merritt looked once at Hayes and once at Mary. Then he went Hayes stood taking large bites out of the biscuit looking at Mary with an amused smile. "11l say all I want about Slade,” Mary sputtered. “But I wont let anyone else do it" Tve noticed that” returned Hayes, dryly. “And I can tend to my own affairs, too." •Tve noticed that too" still dryly. “I’m kind of wound up.” Mary confessed. “I’ll just wash my face and cool off. Then we’ll have dinner, Rob." She had no sooner left the room than a knock came at the door. It appeared to be Mary Slade’s day “at home." “Oh, the dev—” muttered Rob as he started toward the door. "These d— —d curious neighbors!” He opened the door abruptly. Instead of the gossiping neighbors he had expected he was confronted by Katherine Strickland.

CHAPTER X.

Katherine was just as much am axed at meeting Hayes as he was at finding her at the door. „ . "I didn’t know you would be here," Katherine apologised, “otherwise 1—” Bob’s expression silenced her. She had never seen such an expression in his eyes before. Katherine was radiantly beautiful today. She knew it. More than that, she had token particular care to gown herself in an exquisite afternoon dress of dull blue, a gown that had been draped according to her own fastidious design. But in Bob's eyes there was no response to her beauty or her clothes or her poise. He didn't even attempt to disguise his disgust at her effrontery in invading Mrs. Slade’s retreat. "I want to see Mrs. Slade,” Katherine finally announced. “Upon my word!” his voice was low, but hoarse. "I never beard of such a thing as your coming to this house. What do you want here? Want to tell that little woman you’re after her? What do you want here?" “Will you kindly tell Mrs. Slade that I am here?” Katherine’s eyes were hard and her mouth a thin strip of determination. “First, I want to know what you’re going to say to her,” Hayes demanded. "Whether I say It today or tomorrow doesn’t matter.” Katherine answered, quietly. "I’ll say it. So you might as well let her know I’m here—and go." -All right, but do you think you had better risk it? You look out! When she discovers —” Mary’s entrance at this moment checked Hayes’ warning. She looked questioningly, first at Katherine, then at Hayes. , “I’ll be back, auntie, in a very few minutes," Hayes remarked. “I’ve got to work on my car. This is Miss Strickland." and he shut the door. “Oh Miss Strickland,” repeated Mary, very much pleased, but very much in awe of the senator’s daughter. * “You called on me once before, but I a headache. I’ve often wished since I hadn’t had it. Won’t you take off your things and sit down. It's very kind of you to call." Katherine thanked her and sat down. She had not expected to find such a sweet little woman in Mrs. Slade. The woman was so little, so fragile, so harmless and helpless in appearance. Even the old-fashioned cottage made its appeal to the girl's sensitive spirit; • the shabby furniture gave her a vision of what Slade’s earlier life with thin woman must have been. Instead of her usual poise, she found herself quite a little at a loss to know what to do or say before the frank, sincere gaxe of Slade's wife. The questions she had meant to blurt out soon after her arrival remained mutely on her lips. Instead she found herself answering the questions that Mary Slade was asking. She found herself telling the woman of her own struggles against increasing poverty, talking of her own hopes and ambitions. ——— "Mrs. Slade, I don’t say this Is a social call.” Katherine found herself as frank as the woman at the other side of the table. "You—you gnow all about my arimble. Miss Strickland V - -- ---- f*Tes. that’s what I’d like to talk to

you about, without offending you, if I might. You see, this trouble comes very near to us—” "How does It come near to you, my dear?” Mary interrupted. “Mrs. Slade,” Katherine set herself bravely to what she knew would be a bitter task. “My father Is virtually a beggar. You know how we live! People think we’re rich. Well —we’re poor! We’re getting poorer every day. Every penny ie tied up In —politics. My father was the first to see Mr. Slade’s strength. He is now living on Mr. Slade’s future.’’ Mary nodded. “Mr. Slade Is a very Important man,” Katherine went on, “but no matter how much people admire him he can easily be ruined by a scandal." "I haven’t any desire to ruin my husband,” Mary protested, quickly. "No, I’m sure you haven’t,” Katherine was more at ease as the conversation progressed. “But you being here and he being a few miles away, of course, there’s no excuse to be offered. Is there? It Is a scandal. Politically and socially he’s ruined unless he comes back here, or you—” Katherine paused, for the simple reason that she didn’t have the heart to finish. "Or I go away,” Mary completed the sentence. “Yes, and if I go away—l know what that means. No. I’m not going away. Miss Strickland, you tell your father and his friends, from me—” "Oh, no—please,” Katherine objected. "I came quite alone, unknown to him.” “Well, you might as well tell him or anyone else that wants to know —” “Oh, no, I couldn’t, Mrs. Slade. I couldn’t carry any messages. I came here to find out—” Katherine checked herself. The situation was suddenly becoming embarrassing. “Well, now, you know,” Mary answered, “there won’t be any divorce.” "I see—yes —” and she took up her gloves, preparatory to going. "I’m very sorry,” Mary explained, vthat others should suffer through this, but that’s how it stands. For once In his life Dan Slade is not going to have his own way." She smiled. "Now, let’s talk of something else. I hear you draw pictures of your dresses —designs. Is that one of your own gowns?”

“Oh, yes," Katherine replied, amiably, “I often do little sketches for the fashion magazines, and I do busts. My friends think It’s a fad, when as a matter of fact, It’s for money, for clothe# and thiugs.” ”1 had no idea." Mary was ail sympathy and understanding. ’’You’re so young and need pretty things. That’s one of the joys I’ve missed —dressing a daughter! You know,” she began, suddenly, "I’ve heard a great deal of you, and you’re not at all the young lady I supposed you were. You’re just as simple and street and natural as you can be. And your affection for your father!’* . - Mary got up and, selecting the loveliest rose from the cluster In the vase, carefully wiped the stem and handed It to Katherine. “Won’t you stay for a bit of dinner? Better have just a bite.” “I must go,” returned Katherine absently. Somehow or other she hadn't quite expected this sort of a visit. “I hope I haven't said anything to trouble you,” she hastened to add. “What I said about this ruining Mr. Slade is just an echo of what his friends say.” “My dear child, you haven’t hurt my feelings. Perhaps you know something I don’t know?” she asked, suddenly. “Do sit down again. Stay Just a minute. I’d like to talk some more. You’re out In the world and I’m quite alone. People aren’t as frank with me as they might be. Suppose I’m your mother —just let me say it—and

PLAY NECESSARY FOR CHILD

Moat important for Hia Proper Development. and There Bhould Be Safe Place* Provided. "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.” Thus Zee ha ri ah in 520 B- C. But there were fewer motor cars in Zechariah's day than there are In oars. I The children now need, for their play, some place safer than the street, declares the Craftsman. More Important than the playground. however, la the play. It la well that children should play In a safe place, bat it is absolutely necessary that they should play somewhere if.they are to grow up at all. For there la no doubt now, I think. In the minds of educators that play builds the child. It ie the method that nature **»■ provided fry his development

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my husband wanted a divorce—he’s old enough to be your father —we’d all get together to find out'why, wouldn’t we?" "I suppose we would,” and Katherine took the chair Mrs. Slade bad Indicated. “What I want to know Is why people think Mr. Slade want* a divorce? Why, Isn’t a separation bad enough V "I don’t know that I—" For the life of her sbe could think of no answer to this directly simple line of questioning. "Well, there’s only one reason I ever knew of,” Mary continued, "when a man’s so Insistent. I guess you know the kind of reason I mean—a — well —a younger reasonl" "You mean —a woman V Katherine's voice was cold and firm. “Yes, I do. It doesn’t seem to surprise you,” Mary declared suddenly noticing that Katherine had known at once just what she had in‘mind. “Miss Strickland, I think you know something mare than you’re telling me and you hate to say it. What would you do in my place?” she asked ae Katherine’s silence gave virtual assent. “I?” Katherine asked vacantly. She thought a moment Tben quickly, earnestly: “I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d do what they all do. I’d save what’s left of the affection I once had. It’s no use standing over a man with the end of a chain in your hand; -that doesn’t get him back. I’d take his money, the luxury—l’d simply—well. I’d diesolve partnership and I’d go. I’d go to some place where life interested me and get what I could out of it. I’d live as I never had lived, and I’d make him pay.” “That’s a new idea to me.” Mary was listening intently. “I never thought of such a thing.” “And supposing, Mrs. Slade, that another woman did appear. 1 don’t say there Is one, but —” “But is there?” Mary persisted. “I didn’t say eo. But I do know this: If we do love anyone, and they really love us, they never get over it and we never get over It, either, for there’s always something in our hearts that we can’t—we can’t forget. And take a man who’s not young, like Mr. Slade, why, no other woman could be anything at all to him —I mean anything more than something to keep up his position.” ”1 see,” replied Mary, thoughtfully. “Someone to sit In hiß box at the opera—someone to go about and do him credit. Mis® Strickland,” she paused a moment and. looked at Katherine earnestly, “there is such a woman, and you know it. I believe, Miss Strickland, I believe the Lord sent you straight here to me.” “I only came to find out what you intend doing,” Katherine answered, alarmed and not knowing exactly what Mrs. Slade meant. “I mustn’t trouble you any longer.” “You’re no trouble at all,” said Mary, detaining her. “It’s the doubt that troubles me. Miss Strickland, I know perfectly well you must have heard people talking. The words I want are in your mouth. Come, now, honestly tell me,” she coaxed, “who is the hussy?” “Mrs. Slade,” exclaimed Katherine, haughtily, unconsciously drawing herself up.

"I ought not to have used that word, I know,” Mary drew a long breath, “but I—you can’t blame me. Why, do you know what it would mean? It would mean two Mrs. Slades here in this town or or anywhere he's known. Two Mrs. Slades after all these long, respectable years! Why, it isn’t human!” and she held up two accusing fingers. “Oh, no! Every one would be askin’: ‘Which Mrs. Slade Is that —the old one or the new one he got?’ He’d be out with Mrs. Slade No. 2, while Mrs. Slade No. 1 was home breaking her heart Well, they don’t catch me like that! Not much! If that’s what It means, there’s only going to be one Mrs. Slade, and I wouldn’t stoop to be that, one. 1 fought for his name when he was free, but if he isn’t now, I wouldn’t haggle over a man who didn’t respect me enough to —No! She could take him and his name and his money and —I’d go to where people didn’t know the sight of my face. Miss Strickland, there is another woman, and you know it. Out with it, like a good girl. Just say It—and I’ll take your advice. I’ll make the best of life and go. Just say It!” (TO BE CONTINUED.)

Play Indeed is the positive side of the wbole phenomenon of infancy. The reason the higher animals, and man above all, are born so helpless and unformed is that they may be finished by this special method. It Is for the sake of play that infancy exists, that there is such a thing as a child at all. The child who is deprived of his chance to play la deprived of hi* opportunity to grow up.

Daily Good.

We are too apt to underrate the moral quality of a man’s regular vocation, his daily task, his business to look somewhere apart from this for his opportunity for achieving character and doing good. But there is nothing else that Is so determinative of a man’s character, nothing else that so furnishes hands for his benelleeaoa and feet to ran his errands at good wilt —John W. Chadwick.

FOUND JIM THORPE TO BE A GRASSHOPPER

Jim Thorpe, Champion American Athlete.

Glenn Warner’s resignation from Carlisle and election as coach of the University of Pittsburgh recalls many interesting reminiscences of the great athletio tutor’s achievements during his long regime at the Indian school. Probably the finest thing Warner ever did for the athletic world was to “discover” Jim Thorpe. And thereby hangs a tale. One day in the spring of 1908 Warner had his redskin stars training on the athletic field at Carlisle. A squad was clustered around the jumping standards, where Warner was attempting to show the jumpers how to clear the crossbar a la Mike Sweeney—of course. George Horine had not been heard of at that time. The crossbar had been placed at a height which all the jumpers had failed to clear. Warner had stepped to the standards and was preparing to lower the bar, when one of the athletes touched him on the shoulder and said: "Wait a minute, Mr. Warner, Jim he wants to jump. Ha! Ha! He tink he’s a grasshopper.”'

YALE STARS TO JOIN GIANTS

Harry LeGore and Long John Reilly Are Wanted by New York Team, According to Rumor. Although all parties concerned refuse to admit it, there is reason to believe that the New York Giants are hot-foot after Long John s -ReHly, the Yale third baseman, and Harry LeGore, the Yale shortstop. The visit of Harry Hempstead, president, and

Harry LeGore, Yale Shortstop.

John B. Poster, secretary of the Giants, ostensibly to look over the new Yale bowl, started rumors anew that Reilly has at least given his promise to talk business with the New Yorkers In case he decides to enter the professional game, and that LeGore is being urged to consider the same proposition. "" Both LeGore and Reilly assert that they do not intend to play “pro” ball, hat to go into business as soon as they complete their college course. LeGore comes from the prominent family for which LeGore, Md., was named. Reilly Is a member of the-fam-ily of Brockton athletes, three <* whom have worn Yale and Andrew academy uniforms. Both have had liberal offers from several hid league nines, Including-Connle Mack. ;

Auto Races at Eigin.

an gin automobile races will be held hi 1915 on Angost 20 and U.

Warner turned and saw one of the students, an Indian boy dressed in a working blouse and overalls, just as he had come out of the shop, where he was learning a trade. Warner was preparing to shoo the "buck” away and teU him to stop bothering the athletes when the youngster approached the standards, and, springing from the ground, sailed easily over the crossbar. Warner knows an athlete when he sees one. “Say, you,” shouted the coach, “go to the gymnasium and tell Mike to give you an athletic suit and a pair of spiked shoes. Then come out here and get to work. You’re a regular member of the Carlisle track team now.” Four years later the same Indian stood before the king of Sweden, in the huge, white-walled stadium in Stockholm, where the pick of the world’s athletes had been in competition. The Swedish ruler clasped his hand and said: “You, sir, are the most wonderful athlete in the world.”

FOOTBALL SITUATION IN EAST IN BAD WAY

The football situation among the eastern Big Six is very much like the turmoil In the major baseball leagues at the end of the season with nearly every one of the leading colleges of the East outwardly showing dissatisfaction with "the coaching systems used and the head coaches. Only at Harvard, where they have brought home the bacon, and at Cornell, where two successive victories over Pennsylvania have filled the cheering cup to the brim, is thgre anything like smug satisfaction. The four other members of the Big fix hunch Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania—are mouthing their grievances in a manner that will not tend to help the football teams.

PSYCHOLOGY IN GOLF GAME

Study In Which Myriads of Those of More or Less Thoughtful Disposition Love to DelvePsychology in golf is a study in which myriads of those of a more or less thoughtful disposition love to delve. Not often do such famous players as Harold H. Hiltofi attempt to go into the whys and wherefores of this phase of the game, interesting though it might be, Like a dog chasing its tall, no definite conclusion can ever be reached except that the psychologic mystery remains unsolved, and that it always will be a source of never-ending interest Hilton deals with the matter at some length, and because it is Hilton who says it, his opinions will be read by all thinkers who play golf and all players who think golf.

Doolan and Knabe Pleased.

Mike Doolan and Otto Knabe, former members' of the Phillies, are well pleased at the treatment they have received fronr the Feds. Doolan, whose place at short for the Phillies was never filled, put up a fine game for the Baltimore Feds this year. Knabe, whose first year as leader of the Baltimore team was a success, likes the town so well that he has gone to Baltimore to engage In bad

NOTES of SPORTDOM

BASEBALL | Pacific coast league will start on March 23 and close on October 17. • • • George Stallings will train his Boson champions at Macon, Ga., next spring. • • • •, •• Only two Braves show in the .300 •lass in the official league batting list. Fhey are Strand and Conn&lly. * * * Unless used as a utility player, the mly opening for Ivan Olsen on the Eted infield seems to be at first base. —■ — . • ~r.—; Hans Wagner will be retained by the Nttsburgb club in spite of the fact hat he slumped in his hitting last seaton. • • • What does Toledo care whether she las a baseball club or not when she •an set the-woman’s fashions for the jountry? * * « Briscoe Lord, former outfielder of he Athletics, made good as a manager he past season. Bris led the Mobile ;eam to second place in the Southern league.

FOOTBALL

Yale may play Dartmouth In the New Haven gridiron bowl in 1915. • * • William J. Parks, quarterback, was elected captain of the Tufts gridders. ** * - Richard Rutherford, for two years left halfback on the Nebraska eleven, has been elected captain of the football team of 1915. * * * If Columbia re-enters intercollegiate football, the new coach may be Hamilton Fish. His success with several all-star teams is a recommendation Of the millionaire. • • • Tr- The Army loses its entire backfleld in June. Captain Prichard, Van Fleet, HodgsOn and Benedick of the backs, and Merrillat, the wonderful end, all leave the academy. The rest of the. line is Intact.

PUGILISM

Why not organize a society of those who have not yet whipped Freddie Welsh? * * # Johnny Griffiths, the light-weight of Akron, 0., is another American fighter who is making good in his battles In Australia. * *. .* Ajtie McQueen, who has been trainer for Jimmy Clabby, the pugilist, has received an offer to lhstruct the Australians in baseball playing. * • • The rumor that New York was to have a new boxing board brought about 22,600 “prominent sporting gents” out with a rush, hoping the governor would see them first.

HORSE RACING

Ray Snedeker is to have Directum I again. Nobody could do better. ** * * Harry S. J., 2:08%, is back in Her man Tyson’s stable, where he did his beat work. * * * Adbella Watts is to be tried again. Bert Shank is wintering the filly, and will take her up in the spring. - * * * Cascade, 2:06%, a very fast trotter at times, has been sold to the Russians, and will he exported soon.

TENNIS

Victoria, B. C., wants the 1916 or 1916 Canadian lawn tenniß championship. • • • It is probable that America will issue a challenge in March next, to the Australasian holders of the Davis cup, the international lawn tennis trophy. Great growth In tennis is announced. Since March 80 new clubs, having 15,000 playing members and 1,000 courts, have joined the United States National Lawn Tennis association.

BILLIARDS

“The withdrawal otOra Morningstar leaves a big hole in the Champion Billiard league. • • • Another of the teams apparently try* ing to qualify with the Inman-Hoppe circuit is the Allen-Mature combination. Looks like they play for the pocket billiard title every day or so.

WRESTLING

University of Pennsylvania wrestling squad numbers 135 men. * • • Szczerxow is not Zbyssko’s training partner. It’s 4 district in Russian