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The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-08-31
My Lady of the South
Concluding Chapter]
BY


leaving me standing there alone fac
ing the closed door. The blood surged
to my face; could feel the trembling
Of my fingers as they grasped the
knob. l had not expected. not eve
hoped for this. She was standing
waiting me In the center Of a room
full Of sunshine-a slender. white robed
figure. with smiling lips and smiling
eyes.
II asked Colonel Donald to have
you come to me before your depar-
ture." she said firmly. $50 there might
be no misunderstanding between u.s."
"You refer to the words spoken yon-
der, Miss DenslowT' and 1t seemed
to me an icy hand gripped my heart
There was no misunderstanding. I
assure you. realize that what you
said was merely to W life. spoken
on the spur Of the moment"
Her eyes fell, the blood flooding her
cheeks.
ut was not that I meant, Lieutenant
King; It was something very different
l have o really deceived you, but
but l have permitted you to deceive
yourself. I thought I could let you
60 away without any explanation, but
IL find I cannot. and Colonel Donald
thinks l had better confess the truth"
81 hope you also think 90"
Eyes, III believe l do, only ! hard
~ know how to begin--how to make It
all clear. When you told me once that
you cared. for me ! said that I loved
Colonel Donald. You remember thatT"
"Yes." eagerly. WAS It not true?"
at was true, but-but not in the way
You thought. Listen to me. I wish to
tell you a little-just a little-about
my own life. then you will under
stand"
She paused with eyer cast down, her
bosom heaving.
my birth took. place fifteen miles
east of here Of Clear creek, In the
mountains. Long before then my fam
ily had become involved in a feud that
has cost many lives. My father was
not Of a nature to keep this up. but
was compelled to defend himself, and
for some years the other side was in
the ascendant and used its power
remorselessly. When l was but a child
r home was burned to the ground
and my mother. with me in her arms.
driven to the mountains. My father
was away at the time. and the ex-
posture of the night cost my mothers
life"
I could see the tears in her eyes at
the memory, yet she continued.
1T seemed as If this loss Of his wife
temporarily crazed my father. 1t SEEM
ed to change his entire disposition. and
he lived only for revenge and to drive
the other faction from this region. For
the time he appeared to lose all inter-
est in me and passed his days and
nights In the mountains with the few
he could gather to his cause. was
taken to the home Of an aunt. my
mothers sister. / must have been a
lovable child. for I won her affection
and that Of her husband. They insist
ed upon adopting me as their OWL. and
as my real father had no home. no am
bition other than revenge. he consent
ed. and I became legally Jean Dens-
low. No girl could have had a happier
life than mine or greater kindness and
care. But it is true l love Colonel
Donald. for he is my father"
1t seemed to me / could not speak.
The words rushing to my lips choked
me. What could all this mean. this
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-08-31
The Model Young Man.

)BER. straitlaced John Bar
rington motored daily each
summer between his pleasant
Hampstead home and his
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immersed in each others welfare.
What a listener would have heard fol-
lnVES-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14
THE SCHOOL OF HUMILITY
By ADA PATTERSON.

This is the torture season, You
meet friend who looks below par
physically and she tells You she is
tagged by standing in tailor and
dressmaking shops and by trying
on hats, That may account for her
pallor and lassitude but not for her
broken hearted expression. That
crushed and abiect expression fol
lows the professional remarks made
BY ber tailor, her dressmaker and
her milliper.
"Madame, inquiries the tailor,
twill YOU have your jacket cut
straight or fitted in?
81 should like ii fitted in. ] be-
lieve they are wearing seams
curved this season.
II think You had better have
tbem cut straight
Why?'
Because YOU are round here,
and he lays MS hairy paw on the
space between her shoulder blades.
Ground. Impossible.
WHY I was always the strsightest
girl in school.
"'We change as we grow older,
Madame, is the overwhelming re-
ply.
ssBe sure to have the skirt
straight around, - ventures the VIC
tim TO her dressnakcr. 1t Is
shorter on the left side. =
'The skirt is straight around:
1t was cut exactly even but one OF
your hips IS larger than the
other -
Misericordia. But your humility
is not complete. The vanquisher OF
your vanity and corrector OF your
conceit has another arrow IN her
CULVER,
IL shall have to take up this
scam AT least an inch, she sigbs.
"Your right shoulder Is so much
lower than your left.
II YOU are slender she lays stress
upon her words and Will probably
add 10 the length of her bill, be
causc she must insert so much cot
ton wadding where. she points out.
nature forgot to place curves. 1t
Won are the antithcsis of slender
ness she ameuts that she must use
so many aud 80 hcavy wbalebones
10 cncaso vnu. \ candid coutor-
ricrc advised one of her patrons,
in nv hearing, to wear long skirts
whatever the fashion. Everyone
should do that who has large
feet, said the chief torturer.
You 20 TO the mlliner $ and
hear facts vou had never suspected
or that You had moTcifulIy for
gotten.
"Really. Madame. -, Says the
.rcnins of the rhapcsus, ''vour
Lo,a sizc j. so little and YOUR face
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14
The Sacredness
of Marriage
BY the Gentlewolnan.

TN these days OF iconoclasm, when ir-
responsible writer's OF certain school
seem 10 find their chief delight In
- pulling down all fabrics OF belief and
giving us nothing in their place, Il
| is small wonder that one OF the most
ancient Of all the worlds ceremonies
should be made the subject Of a sneer.
One can not but regard with apprehen-
sion the rshtness with which the mar
rlage vow Is held, and the growing ten
dency TO contract it without the sancti-
Tying environment OF a religious service
The nippancy with which the subject
| is discussed b. modern playwrights. who
| claim TO he i'm the van of the intellect :
usl movement" whatever that may mean.
| Is also a reason for 6squietude. At the
| present moment on the stage plays are
| permitted 20 be acted In which the whole
| theory OF marital fidelity is made the
| subject Of hilarious banter, and audi
| cnces are made to laugh incontinently
| al situations in which husbands and
wives hold up TO ridicule the sanctitv Of
| the marriage tie.
The type ot playwright to which refer
does not IL is true. pose as q teacher,
! Hc ella inns 10 mirror the tendencies of
| the age. and he generally tries 10 make
AZ much as he con out Of IL. He finds
| that pruriency pnys. and Il is lamcntablc
! to think that while the censor objects
| to "A Sceuo in - play written ny an car
nest man with The object OF stamping
! ont a growing evil, he will lightly pass
work in, which the most sacred Icla =
I tionshps Of human life are treated With
| n disgusting ,evity, This form Of enter
| tainmont naturally encourages the growth
| OF skcptical attitude towards nnarrlaS Q
and all that IL means. II leads 10 the
| belief prevalent In this country that
| a marriage IL not contract within tho
! meaning Of the constitutional law or any
/ other law; that il can hc entered into
| lightly, and broken as lightly on the
flmsiest of rreteNts.
What II the cHcct OF ali this upon
! the pstion7 Does II tend towards An up
liftinc OF the home into "A seren. atmos-
| and II mutual respect and love between
| man and wife" Does IL not rather re-
| suit in n soul-destroyinG skepticisr, i'll
which all human relationships, besides
| marriage, arc regarded as OF little value :
Does II not account for the hundreds OF
cnsee OF domestic unhsppir-ss which
| are found In our law courts. from the
| highest tribunals to the lowest
n marriage Is regarded as D civil act
pure and simple, !, Ia likrlr TO become
ls,liy and irresponsihility. IT. on the
other hand. IL is looked upon as IL should
| be- ns one of the sacred ceremonies Of
\ our lives. charged with mysteries ema
mating from The Divine source Of all
! things. carrying With II ohliaa tlons not
and the nation. then does It's influence
become righteous ono. and the nation
| which II builds up Will have Its folnda-
] lions In righteousness
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so full. that | cannot suit YOU in
my stock. 1t is necessary for
ladies' like YOU that hats be made
up for them
To the shrinking feminine who
had worn her bat month beyond
its natural lease Of life because
she dreaded the ordeal she was
now facing:
''You need something swagger to
give YOU this The milliner
raises her chin, straightcns her
shoulders and walks across the
room with the dignity of grand
duchess. 'Gou bsven't il, YOU
know.
Il know, SAYS the woman in
need of hat, and there s sob IN
the background of her voice.
''lnu like the new shade of red
1t will hardly do. II makes you
sallow. That is not a shade for
anyone over twenty-five, Better
be safe and take black and white. :
"You haven't enough hair TO
wear this large hat, Que learns.
Another sitting before the next
mirror is told that she has too
much for a small hat.
eff one has natural style she
can wear anything is the verbal
mountain that falls upon and flat
tens to earth the woman who
knows what she wants. but hasu I
been able TO find in that shop.
The shoemaker laments that your
feet are too short and broad to
look stylish in anything made OF
leather. or he says your foot ls 50
long and thin il is impossible 70
fit it, unless YOU have your boots
made to order.
You drag yourself home after
day of shopping, You meet ear.
loads of other women who look as
woebegone as YOU feel They, too.
are bowed beneath the weight Of
Their multitude Of defects, Con
vinced that they are human freaks,
they wonder how it happened that
no circus ever offered them large
salary TO travel with tbe fat lady
and the skeleton man, the three
headed calf and the flve-legged
dog
Yes, IL is the torture season. tho
time of total ahasement and utter
humility of spirit. Il is good for us
10 see ourselves as others see us,
but how il hurts.
Poets sing Of beauty OF spring
aud the mellow Joys OF autumn.
Bot poets wear old clothes and
have little regard for the change
of ia ashions. For US of commouer
clav. those seasons that mean q
change of new wardrobe. are dark,
inevitable labyrinths for the spirit
70 traverse. They are the time
when we matriculste in the school
oT humility
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Then young maids listen to old mems wooing.

he had his choice he would rather
90 home to pipe and slippers and
his baby's arms around his neck
than sit i'll poker game.
The woman ascertains that when
she goes back home she is toler-
ated rather than welcome guest.
People look at her with pity and
call her poor Maryi' Her
brothers and sisters are sorry for
her but they would rather have her
room than her company. She S
been AT the head of house. and
1t ism y easy TO be a pensioner in
somebody else's. and it doesD t
take her long to wish that she had
put Up with John Is whins instead
Of running foul against mother $.
Six months of trial divorce
would convince nine couples out Of
ten that they had better try matri-
mouY over again, for if il is true
that marriage is one Of the things
that YOU regret, whether you do it
or don t do it. divorce is even more
so.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14
Treaty Of Amien,
BY REV. T. B. GREGORY.

"HE Treaty OF Amieps.
signed one hundred and ten
years ago by the English
diplomats and the repre-.
sentative OF First Consul Bonaparte
filled Europe with rejoiciogs. The
people of England and the people
OF the Continent were tired OF war
and its ravages- and the thought
of peace filled them with 4 dcIiri-
um of gladness.
But there is a big difference be
tween the people aud the men who
run the political machines, and the
peace Of Amieps was destined 10
hat a short duration. II lasted
but little moro than year. and
then began the awful series Of
wars which devastated Europe till
the summer 81 1915.
Napoleon WAS not saint. and
il is well known that he some
times lied: but he maintained 20
tho last daY Of his life that he sin
cerely wanted the peace which
was inaugurated AZ Amiens. aud
that IL was his solemn intention to
have kept il had ne been permitted
20 do 60. And he probably told
the truth.
At sny rate, the great man put
his splendid gifts Of organization
10 work at once. and France fairly
bloomed with the wonders Of bis
administrative genius. He put the
finances upon a healthy footing:
he began the measures which were
70 end with the amicable settle
meDt OF the religious difficulty,
he revolutionized agriculture; he
breathed the breath Of a nev life
into the body Of the civil law, and
did more for France in year than
had been done for her in all the
centuries of his predecessors in Of.
flee.
Says by no means friendly au-
thority; ''On every side fresh en-
ergy was evoked, new enterprises
stimulated; all things were felt TO
proceed from one Genter-a center
not, as in the old mpusrchy. Of
selfishness and waste, but OF active
and beDeficent influence.
Such was the situation in
France and such the employment
OF Napoleon S energies when some.
thing happened. That something
WAS an ultimaium from England
demanding the concessions which
angered Napoleon and brought u
declaration of war on May Is.
1903. In other words. England
broke the p)igbted trotb.
Bourrienpe. who was in posi-.
tion to get at the real facts in the
case, says: "That England wished
for war there can he no doubt. She
occupied Malta. though she had
promised 10 give il up. She Was 10
have evacuated Egypt. set there
she still rcmaiued. The Cape of
Good Hope was TO have been sur
rendered. but she sti1l retained
possession of it, England hs,i
siguel at Amious peace which
she bad no intention of maintain
ing.
In the wars that followed the
rupture of the peace OF Amieps
millions of human beings we're
mangled or murdered. millions o.
widows and orphans made and bill
lions OF treasure spent, and i is
probably true that the greater part
OF the responsibility for il all rests
upon the shoulders Of tho mon who
at that time stood at the head Of
the British nation
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14
A Divorce Daniel Come to
Judgment

husband and wife believe love TO
be dead, aud so in only TOO many
cases they apply to the court for a
burial permit Tor it.
They are too precipitate,
What they need is a breakaway
and not divorce. aud SIX
months separation would euable
them TO kiss aud make up, and
save all of the expense and scan
DIAL and heartburniugs that are the
necessary accompauiments of a de
cree absolute.
There is nothing else in the word
that is more unfortunate lnap t5ao
we are so stupid that We do not
realize the virtue aud value Of .iu
dicious absences from even our
best beloved There are no two
human beings that can be togetb.
ing each other and coming to
loathe each others society,
Even au angel from heaven
would bore us if we had to always
look at the same crown and the
same wings, aud listen to IL, day
after day. month after month,
wear after year. playing the same
old tune, in the same old Key, on
the same old harp.
Ii is literally true that If people
were married only three days 2
week instead of seven there would
be no more divorce, Never do the
virtues OF the partners of our boS'
ops loom up so grandly ana nean.
TRULY rs when they arc not under
our immediate ewes.
When Won said guod-by TO your
John. madam, on the per, didp I
you reflect what little hump.
shouldered, dingv man he was!
And when YOU had been away Tor
three davs didn Z YOU revise Your
opinion and begin TO think that he
was fiue looking, outstanding
gentleman. with an intellectual
face;
Bv tho time vou reached London
wcren I YOU brage'ug about what
q handsome mau your husband was,
and before your three months IN
Europe were up didu 1 he look like
q figure of romance Ia YOU that YOU
were .hurrviug back to as fast as
steam would take YOU!
And van. sir. didn't YOU find
that absence robbed your Maria of
her fat and gray hairs and made
her slim and beautiful to your
fancy. and that it turned all her
nap-ipc WAYS into loving solici.
tudc for YOU, of which you Dragged
10 other men? You We're so glad
"a see her 90 YOU could scarcely
keen deceut face, but YOU are so
anxious to see her back that YOU
wait tbrcc hours on the dock be-
fore tho ship is due.
What the trip to Europe or Flor.
ida or tho seaside docs for some
couples. the limited divorce will 10
for others. It will give them the
separation they need and chance
TO got perspective on each 9th
er's virtues, instead of having
their faults rubbed 10 at close
range,
Also II will give them tho or
rortuuity TO find out that divorce
ism Z al beer and skittles, as they
imagined il in their longing for
freedom. It is inevitable that when
Ive contemplate the past ne put on
it coat of gliding 10 which II is
not entitled. So when man and
woman think OF the JOYS Of a HI
voree. they picture themselves re
turning TO life as il WAS before
they were married at all.
Everything changes, We change
ourselves. The man who has been
married and had wife and chill
dren of his own finds out that he
is more domesticated than he
thought. The idle round of dissi,
patton soon pals upon him, and If
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14

BROOKLYN Judge has
~ granted a fighting married
~ couple a trial divorce.
For six months the hus
band and wifs are prohibited from
seeing each other or holding any
communication, The man gets nd
of his wife aud her aggravating
ways and has his bachelor liberty
restored to him The woman goes
back TO her mother, as she had Of
ten threatened TO do,
This arrangement gives both par
ties a chance to see how they like
divorce before they irretrleVapiF
commit themselves to II.
A Daniel, second Daniel come
TO Judgment, is this wise Judge.
Would that every magistrate VINO
deals with the woes of the unhap-
pily mated had his breadth OF view
and his knowledge of human ma
ture. and that all divorces had
proba tionary plank in them. II
would save the fual breaking up
Of many home.
For the average divorce Is tue
result not of some heartbreaklng
and unforgivable crime, as we are
accustomed TO think, but OF a mar
ried couple getting on each other
nerves through seeing too mucu OF
each other, and of the natural lu-
man impulse we all have to glorlty
too much the thing that We
haven't done.
If the truth were known, more
divorces are granted because of
boredom than for intidelity. This
is particularly true among people
in moderate circumstances, who
cannot afford to take trips and in
dulpe in sports and amusemonts
that separate husbands and wives.
Thus married couple are
thrown back upon each other tor
society. aud in time they almost
inevitably get tired of each other,
and the dav arrives when they can
perceive nothing but each other
faults.
The man wonders what he ever
could have seen iu his wife TO make
him want 10 marry her. The vom-
an wonders what the fool killer
was doiug when she permitted that
human shrimp To lead her to the
altar.
The husband thinks that IT his
wife mentions TO him another time
what her mother said about so aud
so that he II commit murder. The
wife erits her teeth 10 keep from
shrieking as her husband starts out
to relate for the millionth time hiss
pet story.
Wbcn y couple gets in this frame
Of mind everything Jars upon
ihcm. The wife cannot make th"
mildest suggestion 10 her husband
without his rcscuting II as an AZ
tempt 70 hcnpcck him. and III con
sequence whereof he saws things
that wound and raukln like Pols'
oncd dart,
Nor can the husband express his
oninion oil any topic, from nol'tlcs
10 pic, without his witc considering
il deliberately planned insult
,hat calls forth weeps and lameu-
iaiious. -,
In their secret thoughts both
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14
Married Life
in the Third
Year
The Thought of Wdrren's
Hardships Melts Helen
Into Instant Tenderness
BY MABEL HERBERT URNER

~ EAR HELEN; That's better.
That's moro like IT, Glad
you're getting some common
~ sense at last. Eu, yo,J saw
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friends, what she does 10 attach
other girls TO her
10 be bonest. 10y dear, a'cn I
you good ueai oil II cat. DV0 [
you give the other glrls a sly
rlawIpg when they c1,uc srUTnu
Don I YOU say. ''Uh. yes, Mamie -
such a swec, giri and very pretty,
but she gets her colnpieAluD at IN.
drug store, aun anyuudy couln isi
that ber hair Mas peioSitcd, aud -
for her being so much adnureJ b.,
men, anybody could Dare byauS Ia
they would run after men the way
she does.
And such being the ease, is there
any particular reason WHY the
MamIes Of your acquaintance
should yearn for your society!
Aud aren I YOU the cDNious
thing! Don't YOU pelittlc every
thing that anybody does that you
can Z do! When Sally goes 10
party that YOU are not invited to.
and she tells you what a gorgeous
time she bad. don I YOU remars
that the people who gave the party
are not in society, or that you
wouldu t 90 10 public ball. or
something else that takes the gilt
OF OF Sally s gingerbread!
Don { YOU invariably knock
every other girls clothes, esps-
cially If they are better than
vours. and do YOUR level best 70
make her feel cheap and mean be
side you' And if YOU do these
things. don Z YOU think tba, the
girls could do, very well without
you3
And don { YOU rather pride YOUR
self upon speaking the truth 10
your friends? Don I Won. feel
called upon to tell Sally that her
hat is unbecoming. and Betty that
she is looking sallow. and Hattie
that she is getting fat, and Henri
ctta that her old dress made over
so we'll that anybody who didn Z
know would think IL new one7
IT You do, can you think Of any
really good reason why any ore
should seek YOUR presence IN order
to be told tine things they don 4
want TO hear.
And are YOU one OF the kind nf
people that don Z mix with other
people? When hostess starts 10
make out her invitation list. does
she pause when she comes TO your
name, and say 20 herself: .'We].
IA like 10 invite Caroline Smith.
ers. but II ! do she will get into
an argument with somebody and
/ II have 10 pour oil on ths trnu.
hled waters or conversation. or shp
will be rude to somebody. or drag
in forbidden topic BY the head OF
the heel. that will hurt somebody
else 9 feelings, and 40 In 1ust
leave her out, because il gives me
nervous prostratiop TO spend three
or four hours keeping the peace be-
tween her and other guestss'
AZ for Your failure TO be popu-
lar with men. that's your OWE
fault. too. Look yourself sauarely
in the face. little girl, and ses
where the trouble lies. Are you
one Of the sniffy girls who always
tines TO make man think that
she's a sort OF fairy princess and
that no matter what he does for
Der she's condeScendinc to accept
il
If man takes Won 10 the the
ater do vou say that YOU re ac-
custome5 10 hox AT the opera7
TT q man takes YOU to ride in his
runabout do you spend the time
discoursipg about six-cylinder
high power French cars' If man
treats YOU to q heer-apd sandwich
supper do YOU make things pleas-
ant for him by telling about tine
champagne and terrapiu that some
other man set M for YOU at
Fifth avenue restaurants