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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-07

of engagements.
Ed Walsh tried a preliminary gal
lop against St. Joseph yesterday to
get in shape for the opening game
against Cleveland, and the White Sox
star finger was whaled plenty by
the Western Leaguers.
= The wet wizard went like a house
afire for six innings, but in the sew
enth the Drummers hoped him, and
six successive hits counted three
runs, giving st. Joe the game, 4 to 1.
Bill LANCE toiled in the eighth and
whitfield two men,
Notwithstanding the massacre of
Walsh, he viii star .hostilities Thurs
day in Cleveland, with young Ray
Schalk on the receiving end.
Crutcher had the Sox stopped dead
and every budding rally was nipped.
Seven hits were rung up by the Sox
and they were kept scattered. Jack
Collins took a rest, Schaller playing
right field. Rath retired after the
third inning and Joe Berger pastimed
at second like it was his home
George Mogridge was pestled Sc
verely by Des MONIES, but the second
squad won by ninth inning rally, 6
to 4. Fourier, Easterly and Sylves-
ter each compiled double and single.
Sylvester is trying to make a good
showing in the Western League
towns, as he may work there this
summer
Tonight there will be a reunion of
the squads in st. Joseph. Tomorrow
will see the last game of the training
trip and Cal will lead his men into
Chicago, taking them almost directly
to Cleveland for the big doings. 1t
is probable the manager will use his
second team against the Drummers
in the last game, as he wants to. see
the youngsters in. action before doing
any beheading. Jack Holland is after
a pair of the players and also wants
to oh 10
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-07

Smith Bombardier Wells tangle, Joe
Rivers and Leach Cross will clash for
ten rounds at New York tomorrow
night.
If Rivers cops he will be given a
meeting with Willie Richie for the
lightweight title July 4. Richie has
said he will meet the man who has
the best claims to challenge, and
Rivers will be in a class by himself.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-07

The Boston Red Sox left the Uni
versity of Illinois for home yesterday.
Stahl will give his men daily work.
outs at Fenway park until the season
opens. The. worlds champions were
in good shape when they hiked.
With more hingeing on the result
than any fight since the Gunboat
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-19

spectability and try to find their way
back to it
Though Frances Hewitt helped to
spend their money equivalent, the
bread those checks bought was a
bitter morSel on her tongue.
Twice checks have gone to young
Mott, sent him from Boston. The
checks bore his wife's name.
When he fed on the tramp steamer
in search of happiness young Mott
left not only his wife, but two chill
dren. The woman waiting there in
Hong Kong for the divorce that will
never come thinks often of those chill
dren. To woman on whom, like
herself, all the English women resi-
dents frown. she said:
One woman can pull against an
other and stand chance to win, but
against children? That is nearly i'm
possible. Every time Jordan comes
home looking gloomy l think he
wants to see his children. How long
can l hold him against them? How
lOng?"
In gay mood on her arrival in
Hong Kong, Motifs companion, with
glass of champagne raised, her eyes
as bright as it's contents, said, smil-
ing across her glass at her com
panion:
Here's to our happiness. Wicked
/ may be, but stupid l am not, and
Jordan hates stupid women Was
ever a good woman anything else"
Mott, borrowing the phrase from a
much-quoted newspaper man, replied:
"Why do we marry women to whom
We cannot talk?"
PVT = ie fhc cosr.0 oH -no'ieE
speaking Hong Kong that between the
pair conversation has become diff
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-19
An Execution in the Quarter of Hong Kong Where
Mott and the Former Mrs. Bovine Now Live.

turesque flight cannot afford to live
there, nor would the public senti-
ment in the town, governed by
the most rigid English social
customs, permit them to live
there Poverty and ostracism forced
them to the foot of the Peak. They
have been forced to live in the mixed
district beyond the Queens Road.
Forced by their circumstances to live
in a meaner part of the city, they
have for neighbors Eurasians, per
sons, men and women, who become
social Outcasts by intermarriage with
Chinese.
Moreover. another element of dan
ger has entered into their defiant
life together Frances Hewitt Bovine
has nothing to do. That is always a
misfortune. To a woman of her
active habits and yivacious tempersr
ment it is a calamity. Used first to
the demands made by her profeS
Sional career, then by her social
duties on Long Island, she is now 4
woman with nothing to do but wait
and wait for what?
For her husband to finally cast her
off by the aid of$he courts? That he
has done, and very recently married
a beautiful friend and neighbor Of
hers, Mrs. Adele Taylor Manning.
For Mrs. Mott to divorce her
recreant husband? That Mrs. Mott
has vowed she will never do. As
patiently and far more securely she
has waited as the former Mrs. Bovine
is waiting.
Il will wait till the end of my life
if need be she says. Some time
Jordan will come back to me. Men
.. ... nr u,. t.ey ung for re-
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-19

here a whole evening silent am
afraid that when / awake in the
morning he will be gone, that | will
find a note telling me he has gone
back to his wife and children, Or
worse"
She looks apprehensiyeIy at a
drawer where the queer Mclean
man always keeps plistel. which the
thieving Chinese neighbors fear.
Frances Hewitt Bovine has another
fear. All Hong Kong knows her as a
wicked woman" They know she
ran away from her husband. They
know the man who comes home
sullen or quarrelsome TO The house is
not of her name. The strange half
caste men who pass her cOttage peer
inSolcntly into the windows. One
dared to try to push his way in at
the door until she screamed for help.
at is horrible" she said .shiyer-
ingly to il woman who had fled like
herself from the obligations and
decencies of life in the West and had
been wrecked on this Eastern reef
1T chillS my blood waoB these awful
men look at me in that way. But
her voice sank 10 a Whisper-'you
know what they think OF uS?'
SO in that strange lone land, the
Frances Hewitt who WAS Il few years
ago the toast of Broadway, afterward
the envied wife of a rich Long
Islander, sits nearly always alone and
. always an object Of pity. Openly, It
is said, that she has played a losing
game with her heart as Il stake. The
SO-Called romance Of last year has
become q tawdry, furnished thing.
Upon her has been forced The realiza-
tiOn that when a woman takes from
a man everything else the gift of
herself cannot make up for their loss.
AT heart a man is respectable.
He may be a hypocrite, but he has a
taste for the outward appearances Of
virtuOus living. He wants an ac-
credited wife. undisputed children.
the respect of the men he meets in
business and at the club. He wants
to be able to be invited TO dinners
and TO be able TO face a man across
the table without fear of Snubs for
violation of a mans code of honor.
said a prominent English clubman of
Hong Kong. Jordan Mott has lost
all these privileges, and having for
sworn them he is miserable
I'VE are sorry for her. Yes, | sup
pose We are sorry for her said the
mans wife of Jordan Motifs COM
paniOn. whom, of course, she had re
fused to meet we are sorry for the
painted woman of the street. but be-
cause we pity her is no reason why
we should choose her for an assocl-
ate. don't you know?'
SO Frances Hewitt Bovine sits alone
in the ashes of her romance thinking
of Floretta Whaley, who was glad to
marry finally; of Mrs. Walter Suy-
dam. who killed herself because she
could not bear what Mrs. Bovine is
bearing.
Jordan L. Mott is wondering what
to do. At best men are selfish, and
the pressure upon him from home
is strong His father repeated, when
he returned from Europe, that he
would disinherit the mad boy unless
he left that woman soon. That was
the message Hector Fuller. pursuing
the pair half round the world, de-
livered to him when he tried TO earn
$4,000 by separating the pair. Then
Jordan Mott had laughed at him.
Now he is never heard to laugh.
and he seems to be pondcring some
thing of great weight to himself ana
n,-r~'i1r" woman sitting in
DrOMu cot - .s.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-19
Frances Hewitt Bovine, Who Deserted
a Middle-Aged but Devoted Hus-
band fora Dramatic ElOpement
with Jordan L. Mott, iii.
Hong Kong, China, Oct. 1.

Hong Kong, China, Oct. 1.
A LII the English-speaking resi-
"A dents of the Reef are saying
q n that once again it has been
proven that you cannot buy happi-
ness with the coin of sin. They point
with frank fingers and nod with
unmistakable heads at Jordan L.
Mott, Sd, he who was an usher at
the marriage OF W. K. Vanderbilt,
Jr., and Virginia Fair. They cannot
point at the woman. who is his
partner, in proving the wisdom OF the
world-old adage, for she is never
visible. But they do crane their
necks and stare insolently at the lit
tie house in which she waits, waits,
they predict, with the accents OF GER
tainty, for time that will never
come.
Jordan L. Mott, Sd, believed, year
ago. that the world was well lost for
love. He tossed away the world, ms
world. with a careless flick OF MS
fingers, as he would toss away bit
of the ashes of his cigarette. And
the woman beside him laughed as he
threw it away She was throwing
away something, too, a middle-aged,
but devoted husband, Walter Bovine,
wealthy resident of Flushing, l.. l.
To her it was as amusing as a scene
in a comic opera. She had been prlma
donna in "The Chocolate Soldier" be-
fore she became Mrs. Bovine, and 1t
was delightfully."- dramatic to her to
sail away in. the freight ship In
dradeo, she disguised as a stewardess
and he as a steward.
"The Indradeo's name was so musl-
cal and alluring that We overlooked
the dirt and deficiencies" she wrote.
me name made her look the
rlmmest of liners. Tramping on
mp steamer is the only way to
G the world, through new, rose
eoiored, romantic lenses"
Then-but now!
-.~a, 80 acr c~--,N 'f7'v~= 49, -
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-19

upon his wife, his children, his for
tune of many millions and the re-
spect of his friends for woman is
earning Il precarious livelihood as
free-lance newspaper writer in Hong
Kong.
Clearly the romance has lost its
bloom for him. When the necessity
for unaccuStomed work presents il
self to the son and grandson OF mil
lionaires love hovers on the window
sill and seems ready to fly. But what
is more to the point with Jordan l..
Mott. Sd. who Is young and not lazy.
men do not Scruple to call him fool.
and when they tell him so he, who Is
usually so glib, finds no words to
reply. 1t is hard to be consistently
and continuously claSSed as a fool.
And what is still worse, there are
men who regard him as a cad, man
who has no sense of honor Men,
charitable to the faults of their sex
draw the line at the man who deserts
a wife for another woman. Hidden
love affairs. hypOcritical alliances,
the "secret orchard in mans lie
men can forgive, but open desertion
of a lawful wife for an unlawful
partner they condemn, and young
Mott is feeling the lash of their con
demnatiOn.
Tolerated as a visitor to the Eng
lish Club. he has not been admitted
TO membership. nor could he afford
it. But he knows that his friends
are snubbed for taking him there,
and he is seldom seen within the
walls that would once have so hos
'pitably received the grandson OF the
multfmillionaire iron master.
Yet a few men will still slap him
on the back, will still greet him as
'Old chap" will drink with him. and
his time is occupied, though with
less profit than he could wish, for
Journalism is extremely conservative
in Hong Kong.
But the rub is the woman. The
r., 7'r'
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-19

cult. Through their open
windows their curl
Gus Eurasian neighbors
overhear bits of Conver-
sation in heated tones.
IF you hadn't" the
woman's voice, high,
musical, but fretful, be-
gins.
Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-19

IF you hadn't the mans deeper
voice, sharp with impatience, retorts
Then IA hand closes, with a bang,
the windows of the little brown house,
but not 50 soon that even the
Eurasian neighbors have not under
stood that the romance has reached
the danger line of elimination and
recriminatiOn, the death line of love.
1t is tod in the clubs that young
Motifs hands doubled into his palms
when an English magazine editor be
gan a reply to his offer to write a
series of articles on AN American
Millionaire in China"
Sir, do not know your ability,
but | do know that | would not Of
fend my readers by the sight of your
name"
Yet the logic of the great English
editors words was indisputable. His
cheeks flushed, his eyes smarting,
Mott turned on his heel. That eve
ming more high words were over
heard by the Eurasian neighbors of
the couple who live in the little
brown house.
81 can bear a quarrel with Jordan
better than silence. | cannot bear
his sulks. Sometimes when he sits
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-07-24
Cavanagh,
The Great Conserva-
ton Novel
INTRODUCTION

Ny Dear Mr. Garland - You
have been Kind enough TO let me
see the proofs of "Cardndgh,
Forest Range" I have read ii
wfth mingled fceiings-wifh Keen
appreciation Of your sympathetic
understanding of the problems
which confronted the forest serv-
ice before the western people
understood il and with deep re-
pret that I am no longer officially
associated with its work, al
though an, as deeply interested
and almost as closely in touch
as ever.
Western frontier people faced
life with manly dependence on
their own courage and capacity
which did them and still does
them high honor. Some of them
we're naturally SLOW TO see the
advantages of the new order. But
nov that they have seen ii there
is nowhere more intelligent, con-
WINGED and effective support of
the conservation policies than
in the west. The establishment
of the new order in some places
was not chiid's play. But there
is a strain of fairness among the
western people which you can
always count on in such a fight
as the forest service has made
and non.
The service contains the best
body of young men I know and
many splendid veterans. II is
nine-tenths made up of western
men. II has met the west on its
own ground, and it has won the
conteSf-an episode of which
YOU have SO we'll deScribed-be-
cause the vest believes in what
it stands for.
/ have lived much among the
western mountain men, differed
with some of them and worked
with many Of them. Sometimes
I have lost, and sometimes /
have won, but every time the
fight was worth while. I have
come out of it all with a respect
and liking for the west which
will last as long as / do. Very
sincerely yours,
CLIFFORD PLNCHOT.
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ended. but as the swift car drew away
from the valley OF the Bear and
climbed the divide toward the north
the free range was disclosed. with
few changes save in the cattle, which
were all Of the harmless or hornless
variety, appearing tame and spiritless
In comparison with the old time half
wild broadhorn breeds
Lee began to wonder II she should
end the Fork much changed-her
mother was a bad correspondent.
Her unspoken question, OPPORTUNITY
asked by another, was answered by
an old woman passenger. "Oh. Lord.
yes Summer tourists are crawlin' all
over us scnce this otto line begun.
Pears like all the bare armed boobies
and crosslegged little rips in Omaha
and Denver had Jest got TO ride in and
look us over Two Of them new hotels
In sulphur don't do a thing but feed
these tenderfeet. s'pose prohibition
will be the next grand stand play on
the part of our town lot boomers. We
old cowpunchers don't care whether
the town grows or not. but these hyer
bankers and truck farmers are all for
raiSin' the price o. land and taxin' us
quiet fellers out Of our boots"
The girl was brought back to the
vital phases OF her life by the harsh
voice Of one OF the men. Lie Weth-
erford is goin' to get jumped one o.
these days for selin' whisky without
n license. I've told her so too. Every
body knows she's a-doin II. and what
beats me is her goin' along in that way
when a little time and money would
set her straight with the law"
The shock Of all this lay in the fact
that Eliza Wetherford was the mother
TO whom Lee Virginia was returning
after ten years Of life In the east. and
the significance Of the mans words
froze her blood for an instant
The young fellow on the back seat
slowly said. Il don't complain Of Lie
sellin bad whisky, but the grub she
sets up is fierce"
The grub amt so bad: it's the way
she stacks It up remarked another.
But then. these little flybit cow
/ towns are all alike and all bad, so far
as hotels are concerned"
| Lee Virginia. crimson and burning
hot was in agony lest they should go
| further in their criticism.
! She knew that her mother kept a
boarding house. and while she was not
proud Of II. there was nothing dis
graceful in IT, Happily, the conversa-
| tion turned aside and fell upon the
governments forest policy. and Sam
Gregg. a squat. wide mouthed. harsh
voiced individual. cursed the action Of
Ross Cavanagh, the ranger In the dis
| trict above the Fork. lie thinks he's
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-07-24
CHAPTER |.
CLIFFORD PLNCHOT.
TIE DESERT CHARIOT.


zee VIRGINIA MOTHERHOOD
began her return journey into
the mountain west with exulta-
ton. From the moment she
opened her car window that August
morning in Nebraska the plain called
to her. sustained her illusions. 1t was
all quite as big, as tawny, as she re-
membered ii. lit arena for the epic
deeds in which her father had been a
leader bold and free.
Her memories Of Roaring Fork and
its people were childish and romantic.
She recalled wildly the stagecoach
which used TO amble sedately, not 10
say wheeziy, from the railway TO the
Fork and from the Fork back TO the
railway in the days ten years before
when she had ridden away in it a
fearful, despairing, long limbed girl
and fully expected to find ii waiting
for her at sulphur City, with old Tom
Quentan still as its driver.
The first hint Of the new west
came to her by way Of the pretentious
Hotel Alma, which stood opposite the
station at sulphur and to which she
was led by colored porter OF most
elaborate and kindly manners.
This house. which furnishes an ex-
cellent dinner and an absorbing mix
ture Of types both American and Eu-
ropean. was vaguely disturbing TO her.
1t was plainly not the old time west
the west her father had dominated IN
the days before the invasion" II
was indeed distinctly built for the
tourist trade and was filled with all
that might indicate the comfortable
nearness Of big game and good fish
ing.
Upon inquiry as 10 the stage she
was amazed to hear that an autono-
bile now made the journey TO the Fork
in five hours and that It left imme
diately after the midday meal
At 2 o'clock. as the car came 10 the
door, she entered II with a sense OF
having stepped from one invading
chariot OF progress TO another. so big
and shining and up TO date was ia
glittering body, agleam with brass anC
glowing with brave red paint
As they whirled madly down the val
ley the girl was astonished at tbs
transformation in the hot. dry land
Wire fences ran here and there. in
closing fields OF alfalfa and whea
where once only the sagebrush anC
the crossword grew. Painted farm
houses shone on the banks Of tn
creeks end irrigating bitches hasbeC
across the road with an air Of business
and decision.
For the first half hour II seemed a
II the dominion Of the cattleman hat
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back. Lay OF your things and come
but TO supper Wen talk afterward."
The eating house. the rooms and
Railways were all OF that dcsolate
Ihabblncss which comes from shlftlcss-
pess Joined with poverty. Everything
on which the girls eyes fell contrastcd
strongly with her aunt's home ON the
Brandywine because that house
was large or luxurious. but because II
was exquistely In order and sweet
with flowers aud dainty arrangement
Of color.
She regretted bitterly that she had
ever left her eastern friends. Her
mother, In truth. showed little pleasure
at her coming and almost nothing OF
the Illness Of which neighbor had
written. II was, indeed. this letter
which had decided her TO return TO the
west. She had come. led by sense Of
duty, not by affection, for she had
never loved her mother as a daughter
should were In some way anti
pathetlc-and now she found herself
an unwclcome guest.
With aching head and shaking knees
Virginia rc-entered the dining room,
which was now nearly empty OF its
guests" but was still misty with the
steam Of food and swarming with flies.
These pests buzzed Ike bees around
the soiled places on the tablecloths,
and one OF her mothers first remarks
was fretful apology regarding her
trials with those insects. Seems like
you can't keep 'em out" she said.
With desperate effort lee conquered
her disgust. Never mind; I'm tired
and little upset don't need any
dinner" Hastily slipping cup OF cof-
fee, she tried hard TO keep back the
tears. but failed, and no sooner did her
mother turn away than she fed TO her
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shavcn throng which filed the room,
they seemed wondrously softencd and
sympathetic, and In the rangers gaze
was something something which
made her troubles somehow less lntol-
erablc. she felt that he understood
the dlncTlt 'i.uatiJn ~ chich she
found no sci
VcddCll w~b %. ~ Anm .. .enr.
rlbly I'M III 81 'rtcr 20 ycvrs 40.
senccf'
II fnl this unci, inca she replied
with fierce intensity, looking around
the room. Then, on the impulse, she
added: 81 can't stand Il! came here
20 live with my mother, but this Is too
too horriblc"'
IL understand your rcpulslon," re.
piled Redhcld. "a thousand times |
repeat. apropos Of this country, Where
every prospect plcascs and only man
Is Vile
"Do YOU suppose II was as bad ten
years agoi' she asked. "Was every
thing a. dirty-as mcan7 Were the
houses then as full Of flies and smclls?'
"Im afraid they were. or course
the country isn't all like this. and
there are neat homes and gentle PEG.
pie In sulphur, but most cattlcmcn
areas they've always bccn-a shift.
less. happy go lucky lot at best, and
some Of them have been worse, as you
know"
81 never dreamed Of finding my
mother in such place. she went on
81 don't know what 10 do or say. She
isn't well. | ought to stay aud help
her, aud yet-oh. II Is disheartenlIA
Lie tapped Rcdheld on the I'LL
der. Come over here. Rcddy, II you
have finished your breakfast. I want
to talk with you"
Rcdfcld rose aud followed his land
lady behind the counter and there sat
I'm earnest conversation while she made
change The tone In which her moth
or addressed the superv isor. her action
Of touching him rs one man lays hand
upon another. was profoundly reveal
Ing 10 Lee Virginia. she rcvoltcd
from Il without realizing exactly what
81 meant aud. feeling deeply hut vague.
~ INV ibtfNi iuhAfl = - ihl'iAhNs Nhf
asked
How can you endure this Kind Of
lifcf"
II cart. aud I don't" he answered
cautiously. Tor they were being closely
observed Il anf seldom Ia town. My
dominion l. more than mile above
this level My cabin Is 0Oo1 feet
above the sea. IL Is clean and quiet
up there"
care an the other restaurants In the
village like thlsf"
Worse. come here because II Ia
the best"
She rose Il can't stand this air ana
these ri.s any longer They're too
disgusting"
lie followed her into the other
house. conscious 81 the diSmay and
bittcrues. which burst forth the in
slant they were alone Nv hat am ]
20 do She Us my mother but I've lost
all sense ~ relationship 90 her And
these people except you and Mr.. Red
Geld. arc a.l dl- aI-tiug 10 mc II isn't
because my mother * poor, II isn't