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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-10

six months Of fun and three years Of misery2
And there's the kid on my hands, too.
Oh, | don't mean that | don't love him" !"
she added, quickly, "but what's going to
become Of him2 I'm thinking about that
already. He'll grow up in the streets, and
it don seem like he could havemuch back
bone. didn't give him much-of father. :"
Something in the phrase caught Nell like
a revelation Indeed, Stella whole recita-
ton Of commonplace misfortunes seemed a
kind of sermon upon some unconscious
question in ser own mind. The little line
in her forehead, the frmness Of her fresh
young mouth, certain depth in her clear
eyes, gave to her face a thoughtfulness
unusual in girls Of her age and class. She
stood silently moment looking at Stella,
feeling as if she, too, had lost something
fresh and illusory.
Stella saw that she was not only sym
pathized with, but that for all her cropping,
inadequate words, she had been understood.
In the embarrassment of her kind at any
show Of feeling, she hastcned to cover her
"Il'iNNi"bi'ii'
Don't you mind, honey ought to
hunt up policeman to tell my troubles to. F"
She turned with forced Indifference to an
approaching customer, glad of the inter-
ruption.
Through the long busy day Nell could
not keep her thoughts from turning again
and again to Stella's story. 1t weighed
upon her, depressed her, filled her with a
vague dread Of life's problems, and she was
not usually painfully impressionable either.
She ate her lunch with Stella, but the
latter did not refer to her own difficulties,
preierring to discuss instead their mutual
acquaintance.
"And what's become of that Ned Car
penter that worked at Ferris ?" she finally
asked. 81 used to think he was going to
like YOU
Nel's conscious face enlightened her.
"Ah-hal' she cried in laughing accusation.
"Is Ned your steady these days, then ?"
"Yes, F." Nell assented soberly, her eyes on
her plate,
More than that r" asked Stella, sud
denly grave, TOO,
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"But they're not now" the girl inter- \
rLptcd quickly. "She cOmdHt be in love
with him now" ',-iM
"She sticks to him, anyway grand y
mother spoke as if Nell's mother were not |
present r" God knows why" '@H
Mrs. Burroughs bent her head over her \
sewing She made no answer. A silence
fell on them ALL
"There amt much use trying to think /
things out, honey grandmother began
after while. Even in my day, when we !
took things for granted more than they do
now, | used TO wonder sometimes. But
when my turn came-I was just like the
rest. guess love is just about like this here
comet they're talking about-once in your
life it flashes across the sky, great and
brilliant and people wonder at it and think
maybe ii means great things will happen,
and maybe the world will be changed by it;
but it goes and the world goes on just the
same, no better and no worse. And you
just remember that once you saw a big light
in the sky" Her voice died away, and
again the three sewcd on silently in the ugl
little kitchen.
Then the baby coughed and Mrs Bur-
roughs went to tend it, and grandmother
laid away the little dress she was mending
to set the bread for tomorrow. !,
Nell sat still, sewing on, thinking on.
She resented love, its tyranny, its unful-
filled promises Everyone seemed to think
that it was a great thing to be sacrificed to
it-that it was in some way noble to give
up to it. although it seemed almost as if
people who did give way to this mysterious
emotion, sacred if conyentionalized, vile if
unsancGoned, were so often punished for it,
she thought of her mother-punished
Just about as often when it was sacred as
when it wasn't, MN Nm
Her heart was heavy, her head ached.
No she had made up her mind, she would
not marry Ned After all, she could never
have really loved him, she supposed She
did not want to love, to marry, least Of all
to have children.
50 deep was She in thought that the
iangling door-bell made her start nervously.
She went to answer it, knowing from expert
ence that it was sonenne bringing her
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-10
He had quit, he said. He had had enough.

moment continued in the same small voice:
Pretty near half the girls in the store have
been married-lots of 'em have children
they have to support-some Of 'em arc
divorced and some Of EN- don't know where
their husbands are. | guess they all got
married for love what else? And it didn't
seem to do much for EN-, except to get EN-
into trouble and not get EN- out"
"You don't know what you're saying,
child, said her mother brusquely,
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Grandmother's lips twisted into queer
little smile. "You been dom lots Of think
ing, amt you, honey
"Well, why not think httle2 qucried
her grandchild Sometimes think that
what we need most Now, all the stories
I've read say that love is the grandest thing
in the world"
Il expect it Is, grandmother murmurcd.
But the books all end when they get
married, Nell persisted. "And the mar
ried people | know seem to have forgotten
all about the love part"
"Well,' mused grandmother, your
mother here and your father was awfully in
love with each other"
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father home Instead, it was Ned on the
doorstep He laughed at her startled look,
and drew her out on the dingy little porch.
I've been down to Terry Bryan's," he
whispered. ." thought Id come by this
way, and ! saw your light still burning. /
wanted to say goodnight to you" He
took her gently in his arms. Say, I've
been thinking about the twelfth OF June"
He laid his smooth cheek down against hers,
and laughed softly. suppose you haven't
changed your mind, darIin'? a
She raised her head to look up into the
young the gay the careless face Of Present.
joy. Her arm tightened around his neck.
No" She whispered Gercely.
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It was Burroughs payday and his nom
appearance meant that the rent was prob
ably being exchanged for liquid refresh
ment at one or several Of his loahng places.
~ thought heard someone with you! "
Mrs. Burroughs inquired wistiully.
"Only Ned.
The girl sat down, received her plate of
boiled dinner and began to eat in silence
She did not feel particularly depressed by
the present reminder Of one Of the family
skeletons only little weary Of the same
ness Of the old story She was quiet, not
because She was suen, but because she was
fhcurhtfpl
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they were all wakeful, and the baby was
croupy and had to be creased and hanneled.
But at last they were quiet; the dishes were
washed; and mother and daughter and
granddaughter seated themselves around
the lamp on the kitchen table, with stock
ings to darn and clothes to mend.
"Stella Davis came back to work to-day"
said Nell presently.
p "Oh have they come backP" asked her
mother with interest Tim out of work ?"
y They've quit" Nell explained laconi-
cally, then briefly recounted the story she
had heard that morning.
Dear, dear" Mrs. Burroughs lamented.
That's too bad; she shook her head sadly.
Tim seemed such nice fellow. Always
reminded me little of Ned.
A Slight quiver crossed Nell's face. Self
forgetful, she stopped sewing and stared at
the SCARED top Of the old kitchen-table.
Her grandmother, looking up after mo-
ment, gave her a keen glance. Nell was
her favorite-but she did not speak until
second look showed Nell still preoccu-
pied.
Have you and Ned decided when it's to
be?" came without preface in the old wo-
mans dry expressionless tones.
Nell started. The twelfth Of june"
she answered quietly
"Humph, grandmother merely grunted.
1t took her a long time to say things. Her
bIuntness was not to be read as blurting
out of every impulsive thought *~'
81 suppose Stella IS got child r. she sur
missed presently.
"Yes," Nell confirmed. "Of course"
she added.
Some subtlety OF tone made her mother
look up. "Why, Nelly" in gentle reproof
The girl suddenly fared into exaspera-
ton. "Oh, Mother" she cried. How
can you lists 50 silly"
Her mother stared, as if her eldest child
were suddenly mad.
81 don't want any children" Nell de-
clared in a voice trembling with vehe-
mencc.
"Why-why NeTy?" said Mrs. Bur
roughs again in a sort of helpless pain.
People like us" cried the girl almost
fjercely, we haven't got any right to have
children look at Stella and Tim two
kids getting married now what shows
little Tim got? It's like Stella said We
been thinking about that-hell grow up on
the streets, aud likely not get much out OF
life except hatd knocks" '~f
81 don't know why" said Mrs. Bur
rouphs. and the color rose in her pale
cheeks, 81 don't know why, just because
we're poor, we should be denied every
thing. Seems like we might be allowed our
children" 20
Because they've got some rights too"
Nell broke in, and if you can't give EN-
ANYTHING that makes living worth while,
'tisn't fair to give em life, isit?"
Mrs. Burroughs eyes filled. "Honey,"
she whimpered, "what is it What's the
matter with you? ! thought you was
happy"
ooh, it isn't me specially, mother. I've
lust been thinking about things that's all.
Grandmother took up the scissors to cut
thread, and laid them down again on the
table with a clatter.
There's time She commented in her
drv voice. there's a time when we all Kick
-. ..&-a y,ft tbi,,oc y
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denly grave, too,

"We're going to be married next sum-
mer, said Nell slowly.
For a moment Stella made no comment;
thoughtiully she lifted strong hand to
her blonde pompadour Going to get
married, eh2 Well, you've got nerve "
She sighed
The pessimism OF the new cynic is usually
boundless; suspecting this, Nell only smiled
a little
When She went home that night however,
hanging 70 a strap in a crowded strectScar,
her mind was still full Of Stella and Stella s
marriage She did not know why She had
been 50 impressed by 1t, nor why she iclt an
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In any event, conversation Of any con-
tinued conference was impossible SO long as
the children were up-they were all much
younger than Nell; it was the two next to
her in age who were dead. Any serious
family discussions were usually postponed
until the youngest had been put to bed.
This, tonight, proved tedious operation;
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GodT>ey

Mrs. Burroughs wiped her eyes and re-
sumed her darning " guess you're not
much in love with Ned Nelly She sighed,
accusingly
The girl shrank little. All her vehe-
mence fell from her +" | don't know, She
half-whispcred. "Im-Im sort Of afraid
Of love, | think She paused, but after a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-27
WHAT SHAW MEANS

Bernard Shaw's s'Blanco Posnet," which was given in New York, re- gently mystifies the critics. They say .hs motive of the play is misty. or missing. The doubt comes because ths critics are not especially familiar with the philosophy of MT. Shaw, which is Marxian. His characters coarse, low, vulgar and criminal as they are, show under examination the presence sofg those3 suualities which ImaiSe hsinianity akin to divinity. The purpose of the play is to show that men differ in their moral conditions be- cause of environment very little mixed with hereditty, that given prop CT social conditions they will be as good as the best. It is the parable over again of sthe seed that fell not on fertile soil. The theme has been much elaborated in "A Modern Uto- pia" by H. G. Wells, who entertains MT. Shaw's Philosophy. without his mix ture of wormwood and gall Says MT. Shaw, "rear men at least as care fully as you do cattle if you would have them sound"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-27
0rganist Is Sued
 By Woman Artist
Mrs. Virginia Janis Says Arthur N. Devore Made Slanderous Statements and Asks $10,- 900

Greenwich, Nov. 27-Aneging that he said she was a snake and that her relations with married men at River side had been improper, Mrs. Virginia Janls, an artist, has brought suit for $l0,OO0 for damages for islander against Arthur N. Devore, an organist, of Al Madison street, Brooklyn. Notice of the suit was served on MT. Devore Saturday, by Deputy Sheriff Phillip F1nnegan. The writ is returnable in the Superior court, at Bridgeport, on December 5.
 The alleged statement, on which the complaint is based, is said to have been made on July 8, 1910, by MT. Devore to his sister, Miss Ella Madge Devore, a violinist, when Mrs. Janis and the Devores were Living together in Riverdale, Conn. After the sale of the house. they were occupying, three months ago, Mrs, Janis and Miss De- wore went to Cos Cob, where they now reside.
 Pending a decision in the islander suit, $500 due MT. Devore from the sale of the Riverside property, has been garnisheed in the custody of c. B. Burnes, a local attorney.
 Mrs. Janis has considerable reputa- ton as an artist, her best known painting being "A Yard of Roses.'' In 1896, she obtained a divorce from Dr. Thomas c. Sangree, of this city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-27

pointed to the billion dollar Congresses as one reason for supporting tariiI program which would bring m SuIIl- cient revenue to meet the lhIialeu government expenses. Even If tnere were no other necessity for economical expenditures, that one would De suI- ficient.
 "But there are other reasons. Dem- ocrats in Congress are pledged to an economical administration, and this we propose to give. We hold that the country is disgusted with the waste fuI and extravagant expenditure or government money, and we are deter mined to spend this money just as conservative, careful business man would spend it."
 The estimates for such of the gov ernrnent departments that are already completed show a liberal use Of the pruning knife The interior depart ment will ask for a million and a half less than was called for last year. The Navy department, it is announced, will spend two millions less, and a similar saving will be effected in the other departments. This saving is ln the estimates alone, and by the time the Appropriations committee gets through with it's pruning work the probabilities are that the saving VIII be grealy increased. while the eff1c- iency of the government business will not be decreased in the slightest de- gree.
 The Democrats, in short, are out to make a record as business men.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-27
GOV. BALDWIN'S PLACE

There is no objection whatever to a presidential boom for Governor Balds win. provided it does not take him out of the Governors chair. An addition has recently been made to this excel lent boom. It is asserted that the obs ject is not really to get the presiden- tial nomination for Governor Baldwin, but to find him a place in the cabinet of the Democratic president who may be elected. Many are promoting this boom who notoriously do not desire to see Governor Baldwin renominated and reelected, he not having proved complainant toward interests that they represent.
 Indeed this group has already select ed Governor Baldwin's political suc- cessor, in case he shall be beguiled in- to leaving the service of the state. The heir apparent is not pleasing to the people of Connecticut, and espe- cially not pleasing to those who in- habit this part of Connecticut.
 Governor Baldwin's place is in his own, State, in the seat of the chief executive.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-27
Mrs. Thayer Killed
 In Carriage Wreck
Sister of Henry R. Mallory, Head of the Mallory Steam ship Co.,, Thrown
 While Driving

Hot Springs, Va, Nov. 27-Mrs. K. M. Thayer of New York was thrown from a carriage in which she was driving, yesterday, and died of her injuries while she was being carried back to her hotel.
 Mrs. Thayer was formerly Miss Mall Tory Of Brooklyn, sister of Henry R. Mallory of Brooklyn, president of the Mallory Steamship Company, and of Charles Mallory of New York, also of the Mallory Steamship Company Mrs. Thayer came here after spending the summer in Europe, and was to have left last night for her country home at Port Chester, where she was expecting to entertain a large house party over Thanksgiving. Her apart ments in New York are at the Man haitian Hotel
 Driving with Mrs. Thayer were Miss Florence F Flynn of Washington, and Miss Katherine McGuire of New York. both of whom were thrown out, but only slightly injured, though the lat ter, who had known Mrs. Thayer for many years, is suffering severely from shock. She and Miss Flynn have slight contusions, and are under the care of physicians.
 The accident occurred two miles north of Hot Springs on the road to Fassifern Farm. where Mrs. Thayer was to give a luncheon. Among her guests were to be Mrs. Edmund Will son, wife of Attorney General Wilson of New Jersey; MT. and Mrs. p. A. Zonne of Minneapolis, and Mrs. Ed win l.. Dyer of New York All were close behind Mrs. Thayer's carriage in another carriage.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-27
MRS. DEVORE DENIES
 SLANDEROUS STATEMENT.

New York, Nov. 27-Mr. Devore, who IS an organist, composer and a mem Der of the staff of the Musical Ameri- can, said last night that he had been served with the papers in the suit, but he denied that he had been guilty of making the statements alleged by Mrs. Janis.
 T met Mrs. Janis last summer when, With my sister, Ella, I was a boarder at her home, in Greenwich" MT. De- wore said: "I learned, after we had been there a few weeks that Mrs. Janis had gained a strong influence over my sister, who is sixteen years old. The influence was so marked that my sister refused to leave when I tried to take her away.
 "I once told Mrs. Janis that women were divided into two classes--the pur- sued and the pursuers. I hardly think that is slanderous
 'T have been informed that my sis- ter is to be the principal witness against me. Really, I do not think the girl knows what she is doing. Not only has she refused to listen to me and leave Mrs. Janis, but she has re- pulsed an older sister, Hortense, who came all the way from Indiana to get her to return home.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-27

Rev. George M. Brown, pastor Of the First Methodist church, seems to mistake the point. There is no stren- uous objection to Shaving the truth told" about the social evil. This is an age of truth seeking and truth telling. Men are realizing that no condition can in the whole be worse than Ignorance By carefully written books, we'll thought instruction and prayerful admonition children are be- ing taught facts of life and being which aforetfme were kept carefully from their knowledge. The effects of diseases deemed in the past more or less harmless have been probed until it is known that they are the parents of a horde of enduring physical, moral and mental evils.
 Of the need of knowledge there can be no doubt.
 The question is to the remedy.
 Pastor Brown believes, and is obs liged to profess, such being the force of institutional creeds, that the social evil must be dealt with by pursuing
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-27
ECONOMY THE RULE
Democratic House Will Use the Pruning Knife on
 Appropriations
(By Clyde H. Tavenner, Special Cor
 respondent of The Farmer.)

(By Clyde H. Tavenner, Special Cor
 respondent of The Farmer.)
 Washington, Nov. 27- Democratic leaders in the House of Representa- tives are planning to give the major part of their attention during the propriation bills. It is by demonstrat- ing their ability to spend Uncle Sam's s money wisely that the Democrats hope to establish their claim for greater recognition next year, and if there is one thing upon which there is no di- majority leaders, it is the determina- tion to make the coming session mem orable for its buSinesS-like admins tration of the vast government ma chinery.
 That the Republican cabinet mem bers realize that there will be no chance for unmerited expenditures is indicated by the fact that the great est care is being given to the prepara- ton of estimates. Just now the vari- ous cabinet heads are at work on these estimates, and all along the line the word has gone forth that no money must be called for without the author ity of necessity. It is also known that many of the Republican Senators of the old school, who for years have been accustomed to drawing on the public treasury for money with which to build improvements in their home States, regardless of whether these im- provements were necessary, are great ly perturbed over the outlook.
 Chairman Fitzgerald and his col leagues on the Appropriations commit tee have announced that they propose to discontinue the practice of allowing the victors to have the spells, for the simple reason that there will be no spells. MT. Fitzgerald has served mo- tice on the House that the lid is to be nailed down on the ''pork bar'I' and that for every dollar of government money appropriated there must be a satisfactory excuse.
 ''On the work of the Appropriations committee a great deal depends said MT. Fitzgerald. ''As long as there is an enormous government expenditure there will exist in the minds of some the belief that high tariff is neces- sary in order to meet the expenditures. High tariff advocates in the past have
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-27
Socialist Couple
 Commit Suicide
Daughter of Karl Marx and Husband Take Poison,
 Though Wealthy

Paris, Nov. PA sensation was created among Socialists here yester- day by the announcement that Paul Lafargue and his wife, Laura, who was a daughter of Karl Marx, had committed. suicide at Draveil. where they lived on their handsome property.
 Lafargue was originally a Cuban. He was 6s years of age, He was a noted socialist writer and polemist. He was for long time secretary of the French Labor party. He had also been a Deputy from the Nord.
 He took part in the Congress of the United Socialists in Paris On Novem- Der 1, and at that time there was no apparent reason for his tragic end. The couple possessed a comfortable fortune and no reason is known for their act beyond what was contained in a letter which Lafargue left for his nephew, in which he said that he felt age coming on and had resolved to dis,
 Death was caused by the injection of prussic acid, the effects of which La fargue recently tested. It is supposed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-27
PROPOSALS FOR sEwERs.

The Paving and Sewer ConnIssscn will received proposals at the oIIlSS of it's secretary, Room ZZ, City fia1s until Friday, December 1st, 19lls 8 o'clock D. m., for the construcssos of sewers in the following nanaf< streets, as per plans, pronIes apa specifications on file in CIty En- gineer's office, to wit:
 In Dewey street and BrocklaWn avenue. from Maplewood to Clsvs- land avenue, 3S76 feet of % inch sewer. 14s3 feet of 24 inch sewer
 Separate bias are rsquested foT brick, vitrified pipe, and cement p1ps construction.
 A certified check to the amount of five per cent. os each bid, is rsc to accompany same
 Bids are also asked for. at same time, and place, for extension of Sew CTS emptying into Pequonnock Tl@efs south of Berkshire Pond Dam f0r q distance of about one hundred t100J feet.
 Also for construction of i've ssre~ wells at Sundry points.
 The Commission reserves the Ti&fs to reject any or all proposals The Paving and Sewer Comrzssf1s.
 By BERNARD HEATING. H25 bs Secretary