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come to see me, should be more than de-
lighted. Will you? My days are first and
second Tuesdays; and II you could manage
to call early we might have lovely talk
before any one else came"
Alison controlled shudder. Call on
James Kynastons wife-perhaps meet him
there, in the home that would have been
hers but for the accident of having arrived
late upon the scene Of his life! She smiled
and wanted to scream.
You are most kind. but have little time
-I-rarely call on any one" she protested
lamely. Mrs. Kynaston came to the rescue.
In quick recognition of her embarrassment.
II quite understand. OF course. ought
not to have asked you Your time ID so val
liable and you must have go many INTEL
lectual and interesting friends who all want
you badly. Besides. know what constant
labor art, Of any kind, demands My hus-
band never has minute to spare. It was
the thought of him that made me venture
to invite you; for though I am humdrum,
he is not, as: you are doubtless aware, and
believe you would enjoy chat with him
Especially as he admires you SO much.
f''My God! How can get away from
herr thought Alison in despair. She felt
her face must blurt the truth to the eyes
! that watched 1t with such absorbed inter-
est)
''Reaily-you are-it is very kind of him
to say So" she stammered.
."Oh, he has never said SO In words. I
know from his voice when he mentions you,
and from his face when any one else speaks
OF you." was the prompt reply. And then
there was moments pause. For all the
world Alison could not have spoken. Mrs
Kynaston leaned forward. and took her
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BY
MARY L. PENDEREn

lingering about her flexible mouth: "0o00s
by. co hope you'll be happy, you deserve
to be-
Alison shrank as II she had received .
blow. She recovered herself quickly. how
ever. and asked, ON sudden impulse: Are
you happy?' The other woman dimple0
into a laugh.
Come and see me with rny children.
You will not need to ask then"
Out in the air Alison Cole reeled at first,
then set of as fast as she could walk. I'M
der a drizzling rain, Of which she was
scarcely conscious. Her thoughts Whirled
deliriously.
.At last-at last we've met! Rivals and
enemies. By all the laws Of convention. yet
two women who could have loved, and un.
, derstood and helped each other. She want.
+ ed to be .friencs'-thfnk of 1t! And my face,
that told her so much. did not tell her the
truth, though I writhed before her. Thank
| God for that! Thank God she can still Be
| happy"
| She pulled up On the curb and hailed .
/ hanson driving toward her. But some ONE
] had already claimed it. The cabman pulled
| up few PAGES of, then drove away with
| another fare. Alison walked on.
J First come, first served So all through
life.' She laughed at this prosaic illustra-
, tion Of theme for tragedy. THE frst. not
! the fttest! Because he met her before {
i crossed his path-and there IL nothing to-
| tell us what the real face Of love WIN BE-
like when we see it. We are made ignorant.
and then punished for our ignorance? n ie
| fairs it just?'
! "Ah. yes she thought: perhaps things
! are leveled more than they seem to our.
! tangled notions Of Justice. She has her hus-
hand. her home. and her children. while I
am alone and have nothing. But I have
never been jealous-she has. have always
been sure of him-she has not. II she has
his children and sits at his table. have
not shared all the romance Of his life? Do
! we not sit at the feast Of memory together,
he and I-always together. So the SUN
balances out! And why should she not oee
her hearts desire?' Mrs. Kynaston was
wondering. too. on her way home. She felt
sure that dear Miss Cole had story-0
secret sorrow which she lopged to share
And she told her husband so.
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Nova great cloud OF time was lifted; tho
old days were painted before her in sud
den glare Ct light. She shrank and trcm-
bled
You can't think what pleasure you have
given me over and over again." Mrs. KY
naston went on, gazing with frank admira-
ton at this paling face in front of her;
those two last pictures of yours in the
acadcmy-'The Way In ana The Way Out
ARE my favorites of all. They are eX-
quisite! The expression of the wonan's
eyes in me one where her lover is seen go
ing away in the distance haunted me for
days. How can you put such eathos and
life into mere paint and canvas? 1t is won
derful! But 1 Go not marvel SO Ieuch now
that have seen you"
Her eyes begged n question. hut Alison
could not ask it. She could only mutter:
'It is very nice Of you"
Mrs. kynaston. smiling sweetly, con-
tinued:
Your face tells me plainly that sou know
what suffering is and that you are full OF
sympathy for those who suffer. Am / not
right
Tit is a question Of art, you know
faltered Miss Cole. trying not to meet the
earnest eyes fixed on her.
"And heart. But It is all amazing: I have
so often longed to be clever"
Never do thatv Alison exclaimed, I'm
petuously. adding, IN lower key: BE
leve me. 1t Is undesirable"
Undesirable! To be clever! You cannot
mean it, Miss Cole. would give the world
to have your genius. your brain. They
would have brought me good deal of hap
piness that have missed. But you will moi
underestimate can't explain
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Alison felt cold. The woman's voice,
warm and sweet as 1t was, had become a
stabbing pain to her: its note Of sadness
wrung her heart. When she spoke again
her voice was husky.
'You are, I fear. under delusion." she
said. 1.-The clever and talented woman rs
one Of Natures mistakes. a freak that had
better, perhaps. be strangled at her birth.
Too often she misses all that Is worth hav-
ing in life. For the simple. ordinary woman
the feast Is spread. everything is prepared.
Her notes are all soft and low. in har.
mony with the normal key: the melody Of
her fate flows easily. It Is otherwise with
the woman who finds herself pitched too
high for the usual voice"
"You mean that she seldom marries hap
PLY; that. as so few men are her superiors.
she rarely meets one who can dominate
her. as a husband should. have often
thought of that" was the quick reply.
c'And he told me she was not responsive!'
thought AlisonJ She said aloud. choosing
her words carefully, for the ice was thin
/, between safety and betrayal: "That fat
tiers the clever woman too much. Her su-
perlativeness II thing not proven. Prob
AMY Tue oiMcuity lies less oIten IN her
! failure to find the superior man than in her
failure to please him when she has found
him!'
Mrs. Kynaston looked at her moment
before replying.
You can never have failed to please any
man or woman" she observed decisively.
so don't tell me that. But you are mod
est. as all large-minded and great-hearted
people are. It has been real pleasure to
meet you. Miss Cole and have thorough
ly enjoyed our chat. II you would only
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creates considerable sensation among the
inhabitants Of the Gay City who chance to
see her passing by.
That Mile. Rienzo knows the value Of her
remarkable bovine team you may Judge
from the fact that abe lately refused an Of
fer Of 5000 for her pets: nor Il It surprfs-
ing, considering their accomplishments.
Not only do they ansver to the bit as well
as any horse. but they have likewise, by
skfful and persistent training, been taught
to trot as smartly as the neateEt cob; the
feet and legs being lifted ID manner quite
unusual with horned cattle.
PsrhAps one Of the most remarkable things
about these last tr0tnng bullocks Il that
they have never been known 70 shy.
Ths animals are flll grown. being nearly
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knowledge has In no way proved injurio0
to their health you may Judge from their
plump appearance
It Is said that the most diflcult part o.
their training consisted In teaching them to;
lift their forefeet smartly and at the Same
time carry their heads somewhat hiihsP
than is natural to their kind In the uncul-
tured state: nor Is this altogether to b won
dered at. Fortunately. however. builocts are
by no means such nervous animals q horuso
and are particularly characterize ~ Sx-!
IRENE patience Of disposition: heueo psrsagt.
|. ence and kindness on the part Of ~ tHuin.g
er have in the end tfiumphed. ana fho
hefress now has the good foftuno 70 TIE
her morning outings In deg.oase 6nS1l6
her bovine team. = - -.
AS yet. however, MrIs. nsenue1 enno
pesme 70 hare - WI - 1u1on6I 3 -.
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hand. They were sitting in the deep bow
Of a window, behind half-drawn curtains.
May I make confession to your she
pleaded softly. land beg your forgiveness?
I feel that must now. and clear my con-
science. Years ago-about fifteen years
now-that makes US both seem DID, doesn't
It? But you will always be young. Well.
I had not been married long. and was a
silly goose. dreadfully in love with my hus-
band. and continually tornenting myself
about him. The fact is, I took 1t into my
head to be Enthusiastically jealous-of
you. Miss Cole. thought'-she stopped.
Alison had drawn her hand away in
stinctively.
Now you are vexed. and no wonder! But
you will forgive me. Your kind eyes tell
me you could not be hard on any one. And
I was only very young wife. You know
how blindly girls adore. how full of ro-
nance they are. and-rubbish. Then some
one came to me and said that James-Mr.
Kynaston-had been seen with you at
certain place when he had told me he was
going somewhere else. lost my head, like
, the Door fool was and taxed him with
| deceiving me. He seemed confused, grew
dUSTy anu OIuStereu, as ne hdQ never uOno
before, and so-we had our first quarrel.
Don't you think there was some excuse for
! me-just fraction? For, though you were
not famous then. had heard how lovely
! and attractive you were. and could see that
he admired you. It only needed that horrid
bit Of scandal to fan the spark into fame
know ought not to have believed It. but
I was a foolish. credu1ous girl and-aiy-
+, how. was very soon ashamed of my !eal-
/ ousy and suspicion. Can you ever forgive
! me for wronging you so?''
Alison tried to speak. but her lips trem-
bled fatuously. She could only murmur:
| please, please. don't talk Ike that.
There is nothing to forgive-I raean-you-
you did not wrong-you did not know me. !"
| THAT was Just the reason" declared the
other woman. earnestly; eff I had known
you It would all have seen dlfrere.t-oh,
| quite different. It is the thought of your
noble life. devoted to art and to works Of
charity, that shanes me now. I wonder
how could have been SO idiotic SO wicket,
as to doubt your goodness I've long want
ed to tell you this. I've written letters to
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Why the horse should have become the
accepted animal for driving 1t would be hard
TO say. for there are many people who drive
not so much with view to getting over the
ground quickly as for the mere pleasure of
handling the ribbons: and when you
come to think Of 1t. there is As much. and
even more. skill needed to drive a team of
xebras as to manoeuyre with horses.
Apparently this, coupled, with q certain
love Of notorfety. has inspired the beautiful
Brazilian heiress. Mile. Laura Riense, to
have pair OF hallccks trained to trot in
tandem fashion. in order that sha might
drive them about the streets Of Paris. which
she has very frequently dome during the
past few weeks. - - q:
. Needless to say. tbs sight Of = beautisully
drssssd GIL dazzling alcng. The houlsyards
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of her other novels could be dramatized.
Like Millions "COmus" and Shake
SpeaTe'S Midsummer Nights Dream,
there is in them too much of the ethe
rial, too much of the supernatural TO
bear the glare of the fOOtlights. But
with the devil it is different. He has
been a familiar figure on the stage
ever since the English stage was born,
but never has he appeared under the
natural yet startling circumstances in
which Miss CoTelli has placed him-a
visitor on earth in modern garb, a, god
like mortal irresistible in his beauty,
strength and genius, alike tos men and
women.
William A. Brady, after the presen-
tation OF this drama at the SALISBURY
theatre, London, was quick to see the
possibilities in it for a tour of this
country, where sales OF Sorrows of
SATAN alone have exceeded 100000
copies. Mr.. Bradys laVishness in the
way of elaborate staging and his care
in the selection Of perfect casts is well
known, and the company which viii
interpret the play next Monday and
Tuesday nights at the Theatre will
doubtless satisfy even those admirers
of Miss CoreIli who appreciate the diff
ficulty of placing her characters on the
stage.
The Al G.. Fields Greater Minstrels
are to be here this week. lisa saying
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young people Of the city are to take
part.
Samuel SiegeI, the great mandolinist,
is to be heard at the First COngrega-
tional church tomorrow evening. He
viii be assisted by Professor Radcliffe,
Professor Schettler and the Ladies
string quartette. Mr. Siegel viii play
numbers from Bizet. RUbenstein and
Mascagni. besides giving some Of his
own compositions.
There viii be a benefit concert IN the
Twenty-f0urth ward assembly han to-
morrow evening at s o'clock, BY the
ward choir. The entertainment is for
the benefit of the new organ and meet
ing house, which have just been COM
pIeted.
Miss Katharine Z. oliver, the well
known interpreter of Scottish charac-
ter. who appeared here in two courses
of her popular mOnOlOgues two years
ago. has accepted an enga cement for
three evenings during the last week Of
April.
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as old as it is true, that "a man is
known by the company he keeps, and
Field is one Of the men who never
keeps anything bul the best procurable.
This year is no exception to his long
established rule. His list of n-mak-
ers is headed by himself and Arthur
Rigby, Tommy DOnnelly and Doc Quig-
ley, while he also has with him Weston
CTreVe and Stats in a musical act
sparkling with real novelty and real
music. Pascatel, the man with a hum
dred forms and tnbe of Mameluke
acrObats unsurpassed in their partic-
-uiar line of the thrilling amusement.
OF course there is plenty of good sing
ing in the first part, which, by the
way, is entirely different from the US
ual minstrel first part and represents
a Might in Paris" during the eKDosl-
ton. The band and orchestra, always
a feature with the Al G.. Field min
strels, are up to their usual superb
standard and nothing is lacking to
please the thousands of patrons of this
representative minstrel organization
It comes in all its glory to the Theatre,
Wednesday matinee and night.
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while it was predicted that he would
be there again some day, it was not
20 be supposed that ne would receive
y 600 q week for all lhe time he was
put Yet that is just the condition the
past five weeks has developed. 1t WIZ
De remembered that Mr.. Mulvey had
5000 planked down in his hands for
giving up his lease a few months be-
fore its expiration. At the end of five
weeks he takes this 5000 and buys a
controlling i.rtSrest in the theatre. get
ling the hCusie, practically for nothing.
Nor is that all. By plugging away
ike an old horse At the pillow. and say
ing nothing. Mr.. Mulvey has organized
3 circuit fetsyeen salt lake and the
Pacific coast with tNentYz hree the
Etres ia the chain. There must be-
money in that. and il VIII not be long
before the F'rohnlaN-T iayman trust is
forced 10 talk business with the Vest
srn TbeatfieaI exchange
Moreover. Afr. Asulvey IS reputed to
have taken a financial interest IN other
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| a
advance of a
On
o and
She did
revealed
that shook the building distinct
at
mig
Mile of
her mother the child at three
Of
without the aid of anybody Charles
her
that she
ace as seaso
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NXNN mates $1,000, the con-
" " cert testimonial to
Joseph H. Ridges, the
builder of the grandest
instrument on the continent. the taber-
naeIe organ, VIII occur in the historic
building next Tuesday evening Salt
lake mas rarely engaged in an under
taking more worthy than this. It is
the public that SHOULD feel tie pleas
ure in the magnanimous response
rather than Father Ridges himself, Tor
it is like paying of an old debt-One
that has run on for years with unpaid
interest accruing day by day The or
gan has become more famous every day
1t has stood. 1t has attracted thOus-
ands and fascinated tens OF thousands.
1t d.as movad men and women TO tears;
Il has excited the gra0dest emotions OF
the human being. Men have sat spell
bound under its great tones, have lis
tened in breathless silence to the dying
echoes OF its softer melody, only TO rise
and cheer spontaneously when the
crashing, thunderOus chords of a patri-
otto air seemed about to rend the great
dome roof asunder. Then they have
turned away incredulOus when told Of
the cOndi aO1s under which the lnStru-
ment was built
1T was a grand work, successfully &c
cOmplshed, and Utah Is late in giving
its niaster-hand the recognition that
was due him forty years ago. 1t took
twelve years to build the organ. Joseph
Ridges should live in comfort the re-
mainder of his years.
When Father Ridges a man now in
his eightieth year, was introduced to
the vast cOncOurse in the tabernacle
last New Years day, and the tremend-
Gus ovation which IS now history was
accorded him, The Herald suggested
such recognition as he deserves. The
idea caught favor. Prominent citizens,
not alone OF the LaJter-day Saints
church, but business men, bankers and
musicians of all sects and creeds, prof
fered their support. A committee was
named to finance the affair and an
other one to arrange the programme.
The eminent success with which they
have performed their duties deserves
the highest credit.
In making up the programme, the
committee had absolutely the finest ar
ray of talent in the state. if not in the
entire west, from which to select And
a. glance at the result is all the COM
mendatiOn needed for their efforts. It
Is programme that viii please the
most critical, the most accomplished
and the mediOcrity, and one which
should. laying aside all reference to
the fullest support of the Salt Lake
amusement public, as it doubtless viii.
Among the COngTatulatOry kilograms
received by Manager Mulvey the day
following his purchase of the New
Grand was one from the managers Of
the Third Avenue theatre at Seattle.
1t read
Glad to hear of your success. God
is good TO the irish.
~ 1r-~Gr efr-rr T ~ mn
The man who penned that dispatch
might quite as appropriately have writ
ten it: God il good to one Irishman
and his name is Mulvey."
Those who have followed the history
IF the Grand-and are now dizzy from
an effort to keep track OF the kaIeidO-
scopic trend Of events-have arrived at
the conclusion that Mulvey is a syn
onym for Midas. When the stock COM
psny moved in and he moved out,
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stock company is conceded to be one
of the most powerful dramatic achieve
ments of the century. Further notice
seems superfiuOus. But the fact that
this Nell Gwynn" is the same in
which Ada Rehan has conquered and
Henrietta CrOsman has won the
greatest renOwn of her career, makes
anticipation all the more delightful.
The plot deals with the period Of
King Henry V, and it affords a great
opportunity for cOstuming. The old
DrUry Lane theatre, in which Nell is
a notable performer and the kings ia
unusual scope for the scenic artists
imagination. In both particulars Mr.
Cummings has gone to the limit. The
company has worked hard. If this
weeks production fails in any regard
to be the most magnificent of the COM
pany's season, now drawing near a
close, then expectations viii not have
been realized.
To what phase of romantic mysticism
that weird writer, Marie Corelu, viii
next devote her wonderful pen it would
be difficult to imagine, but whatever
the subject, it is certain to create a
sensation. In THE Sorrows of Satan
she has completely overturned ali for
mer ideas as to the character of the
monarch of hades. It is not to be won
dered at that this remarkable book has
been turned TO theatrical purposes. Few
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lessor Mcclellan to one of Handel's
hymns.
8 Q q
The Salt Lake Opera company is
making rapid progress in its rehearsaIs
for 'FatinitZa" The chorus sings
with a vim that even surpasses its
former work There are now about
fOrty-five voices in the company.
g g -
The university gives special memo
rial services at the Assembly hall on
Washington's birthday, in which mu-
sic will play an important part in the
programme. Professor Goddard. Or
ganist Mcclellan, Mr.. Shelton and the
University Glee club viii assist.
q - =
The Second ward fair. which is to be
of five days duration. beginning to-
morrow night, when Balfe's Operetta,
THE Sleeping Queen" will be sung
by a. number of local artists, including
John Robinson, Thomas AshwOrth,
Miss LuelIa Ferrin and Miss Elsie
BarrOws. Musical programmes are
to feature the fair all through the
week, and some of the most talented
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; = > =
: THE WEEK AT
THE THEATRES.

SALT LAKE THEATRE =
= Monday and Fuesday-"The Z
= Sorrows of Satan =
= Wednesday Matinee and :
= Night-Al 6. Fields Minstrels. =
= Thursday sad Friday, Friday :
= Matinee-IErs. Leslie Carter in =
> ''Zaza." :
= NEW GRAND THEATRE =
= Cummings Stock company in =
= E|Neu Gwynn;' all week.