The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-29

turn of a feminine mind wrecks that
| love, there never comes any other IN
real life, 1t usually isn't so. Generally
| the man in the case finds consolation
! If eyes of brown and hair or dark
he can enjoy them, why somewhere
there are eyes of blue and hair of gold
hue have been removed from where
to take their places.
Van CORTLAND passed through a pc
riod of mourning. Then, on the ad-
vice of friends-advice handed him with
great generosity at the Pail Mall club
and in the other clubs Of London-he
sought the conradeship of other wo-
men. Some were worth while, some
not. Anyway, the stone with the word
minds eye ever and anon. No other
woman could be substitute. he de-
cided.
Then he grew weary of women.
! OF course there were drink and
sports left. Van CORTLAND drank. "Al
most as fast as they make it, he ad-
mits, but not for long 1t was not
delicate constitution which caused him
/ to stop, for his constitution IS anything
/ but delicate. And it certainly was not
! lack of funds with which to help keep
the breweries and saloons going But
for some reason CT another, the man
found himself caring less and less for
lintoxicantS-
He grew weary Of drink.
Fads Not Interesting.
There seemed nothing left in life but
might be some sort of fad. Van Court
Hand tried one fad after another. He
| dabbled in organized charity on two
continents and got through with the
India, where theosophists grow-and
found the cult undressing. Likewise
christian Science and Spiritualism.
He grew weary of fads.
| Van CORTLAND likes children. There
is an aching void in his heart that has
troubled and troubled eyer since a
little life went out when its mother s,
his wife'S, did-a little life that per-
breath was ever drawn in this world
= And the wanderer has befriended chill
, dren by the hundreds; befriended them
in London, New York and Chicago in
situations, and on the streets. Hull
House. Chicago, felt his generosity tC
the extent of $1,000, and the Cincinnati
Home for Orphans received $4,000 wher
! he visited 1t at the same time as the
: royal japanese trade commissioner:
who recently toured the United States
Meets Arron In Africa.
A warm friend of Lord Roberts Of
the British army, Van CORTLAND, OF
l his endless quest for something to in
terest him, went to South Africa wher
Great Britain decided that the Beers as
a nation must cease to exist. He stayed
with Lord Roberts whenever possible
Arroll of Salt Lake was covering" the
war for the Boston Post. His creden-
tiais stipulated that he must stay with
t in the British lines at all times. He
met the British cOmmander-in-chi
and then he met Van CORTLAND They
: smoked pipes and told stories o'night.
: at Roberts headquarters.
Tt was goodbye again. and WheI
: ArroH next came to Salt Lake h
tucked the Lookout mountain pictur,
away with hundreds of others that h,
: has accumulated on his travels. Wed
nesday, when the Man from Nowhcr.
registered. and when they had recog
: nized each other. Arroll took Val
CORTLAND by the arm, led him to tn,
elevator and thence to his own apart
ments. There he rummaged throu 81
: trunks until the Tennessee picture wa
unearthed and, on their third meeting
5 they talked of their first and second
Thrice Around the World.
{ Spending money with lavish han,
I everywhere he goes, everywhere h
stops, almost everywhere he looks, Val
n Courtland, who has been around tn
: ! world three times, is making his fikS
Q visit to Salt Lake
"All that brought me here was tn
. Mormon tabernacle" he told The Her
D ld-Republican reporter. Il though
lperhaps II would be something differen
| to look at-something new.
l. 1t is the hunt for something new
8 that seems to keep him alive. Avoid
= ing, as always, the larger hotels, Va
. CORTLAND was directed to the Linder
! where Fate, IN one OF her queeres
: moods, threw him into the company G
d Arron for the third time.
y Photogra phs that would fire wit
n envy the heart of any collector 70