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The He had advanced from a penniless popped miner to a miiliomaire figure in the *t*rted business world. At fifty his were the fruits of a well-gpent, energetic life. Handsome and immaculate fn his per fectly tailored evening clothes, he fit ted into the beautiful room with its rich tapestries and oriental rugs with all the ease and naturalness of a man born to culture and wealth. Every now and then hi* eyes wan dered from his newspaper to the fig ure of his wife sitting at the other side 8* tho richly carved table. The tiny, ur. imposing little woman la her badly cut, dun-coiored gown was the one in congruous detail in the room. She was like a shabby little prairie flower suddenly transplanted to a conserva tory where brilliant orchids and lovely ."oses bloomed all about her, her fainl little fragrance overpowered by their heavy sweetness—her delicate loveli ness completely submerged by very contrast with the radiant beauty of tier surroundings. To Blade's critical eyes, the dowdy little figure, with the work basket ia her lap and her head bent over the •tocking she was contentedly darning, was an actual eyesore. He had fitted op a magnificent home that would iiave made a perfect setting for a prin aesa, and Bis wife's appearance had aot changed a particle from the days when they lived in a tumble-down cot tage and he worked in the mines in hie shirtsleeves. With the getting of vast »mounts of money he had acquired a veneer of manners and tastes that at •imes failed to conceal the rough and »rutal instincts of the real man. His locial horizon was enlarging, but within it his wife seemed to find no place He wanted, beyond this and tverything, to climb the political tree tnd pick the fruits thereof. His wife leemed not to know that there was tuch a thing as a political tree to climb. With herself, her husband and ker work she waa contented and happy. The wives of other men of his po iltlon were social queens noted for &elr beautiful gowns, their entertain Og and their clever wit. He alone tos shackled to a woman he would rfitve been ashamed to introduce to hie friends. Only he was tied to a wife he could not force either by pleading or argument to enter Into the life which meant so much to him. Tonight as he rehearsed in bis mind his many unsuccessful efforts to make Mary advance and take an inter est in his life as it was now, rebellion (urged in his heart. He had struggled fear after year to attain his present itanding, his present position in tue world, and Mary, the one loved thing of his life, insisted on hanging like a millstone aroueu his neck. Why, oh, why, couldn't the woman progress? Why hadn't she developed as he had done? Why was she com placently sitting there satisfied to re main just as she had been twenty years ago, hopelessly behind the times? And if the wouldn't advance—why should be consent to be held back by her? If she wouldn't go on with him —he would leave her behind. The thought and the resultant decision had their birth suddenly but positively In the man's mind. He would make one more argument, one last appeal. If Mary wouldn't meet him half way, Mary could stay behind with her ever lasting darning and her eternal knit ting. She could wash and cook and stew and sew, if she liked, tat she couldn't do it in his mansion. But Daniel S'ade was no more un comfortable at hating her there than Mary Slade was at being obliged to live In this great, elegant house, with its crowds of servants and its routine, absolutely foreign and well-nigh hate ful to her. She knew she didn't fit Into her surroundings* She realized her own iaharaeoay. Her attempt« to look natural and feel comfortable were pathetic. She felt lost without the of overseeing the Monday's washing. She was heart-broken be cause she couldn't personally superin tend the making of Ian's coffee. Her iUe waa incomplete because a hired cook made the breed that was served os tie table and becaose Dan never seemed to miss the evenly bfiown loaves that had been her especial pride in the old days. Mary Statde was as commonplace a* a cop of boiled tea. She was a plain, ordinary, everyday woman, who loved Governor's A Novelization of Alice Bradley's Play "By GERTRUDE STEVENSON ffliflAratfons from Photographs of the Su^e PradttcMon Copyright, UU3 LPntkUcaUoo 8lg&* Hammæti tff UATM DWIAMO, CHAPTER I. Daniel Blade sat reading the evening newspaper in the handsomely appoint ed library of his spacious home. To all Intents be was a man at peace with the world. He had money and power. above the priceless rug that was one of her husband's newest purchases. All big crises la life are the re sults of trifles. It took the merest incident to crystallise Slade'e thought into action. Mar had picked up a portion of the paper after it had dropped from her husband'i from ber husband's hands to rea'i Panted page with ail the serious importance of a little child trying to do something very big and grown up. Suddenly her eyes lighted with pleasure and a tander smile of pride and delight illuminated her features. In turning the pages she had sud denly dkicovered a picture of her hus band, under which she read a simple but significant line: "Daniel S. Sladf, a Possible Gover nor." "Oh, Dan," she cried, happily, "Isn't this a fine picture of you. I could almost Imagine it waa going to apeak to me." Then she paused a little wistfully and doubtfully before she asked: "But do yon really wont to bo gov ernor?" "Want to ber Slade caught his breath as lie re peated her question. Want to be—when every aim and ambition the laet few years had been made in the one direction, toward the one longed-for goal—political power! Want to be—when years be fore he had turned his eyee on the governor's chair and had been bat tling grimly, siieatiy, persistently toward that end «tver since! Want to be—when that waa hie one ambition, the one thing he had yet to achieve! He sighed wearily to himself. That Mary could ask lhat question was the beat proof of how irrevocably they had drifted apart. Living in the same house with him, eating at the same table, day after day at his side, the little woman knew no moro of hie real self or his ambitions than the merest stranger. "It's a nice story about yer, Dan," Mary went on, all unconscious of the struggle going on just a few feet away from her—the struggle between the heart of a man that calls out to the companion of his youth, the sharer of his joye and struggles and the brain of a man that demands the glory of power and the fulfilment of ambition. "But, Dan," questioned Mary's gentle little voice, "who's The Gover nor's Lady?" "His wife, of course," snapped Slade. "What does it my about you?" He reached over and took the paper from her hands, leaned forward ea gerly toward the light and frowned as he read: "Should Daniel S. Slade, the ex miner, ex-town marshal, ex sheriff, ex United State« marshal, ex-land boomer and multimillionaire, arrive, it will be interesting to see the governor's lady dusting the gubernatorial chair—prob ably the only occupation congenial to Oils kindhearted and plain little woman." "Dusting tho gubernatorial ehalr," Slade repeated mockingly, cutf to the quick by this public allusion to his wife's plainness and lack of social graces. That simple little phrase, stinging as it was brief, was as a match flame to dry timber. It was ail that was necessary to bring the hot rage surg ing through him to the boiling point The sweetness of the little woman's expression, the tenderness of her eyes whenever they rested upon him, the plaintive softness of her voice meant nothing to him then. Through angry eyes he saw only the lack of smart ness in her somber brown dress, only the note of absurdity she struck amid tie exquisite surroundings of the room he had furnished for her. He thought of nothing but the sorry spec tacle she would make at a brilliant dinner or smart function where beau tiful women in fashionable chiffons chatted freely and easily of men and things In the progress of the nation. "This is some of Wesley Merritt's tin horn tooting writing." grow led Slade. "D n his dirty work:" As her husband muttered to him self, Mary had calmly resumed her endless mending of socks, long years of thrift and saving making it impos sible for her to throw away eve« a well-worn pair tn spite of the fact that the seed for repairing had long since passed Slade found himself looking at the little woman who had been his wife for twenty years, through lean years and hard years, ae faithful and pa tient then as later, wbsn success first began to come his way, very much as he might have scrotlnized an erstir« stranger. For a moment the tragedy of their present state caught at his a simple, unpretentious life, with the! soul, and he felt the infinite pathos neighbors dropping in for a word or two, exchanging recipes for muffins and debating tbe proper way to sea son a slew. There was neither charm nor com fort for her fa the vista of room* open tog out from the spacious library. The brocaded chairs were straight and didn't rock. They were high-posted stilted compared to her own low oeatod little rocker in the cottage. When she sat back la them, sti«? »wkwardly, her fvet didn't svar. of the woman's predicament. A softer note came into his voice os he oskod slowly "Say, haven't you got any cloth«!, Mary? Haven't you any of the things other women wear at night—silfe or lace or f«aes or—whatever they are?** "Yes, Pvo fat 'em," Mary replied. Indifferently, "hot it's too cold to wear 'em, and those silk stockings you told me to tray—I cant wonr hem, either—they tfckle my toes. fem da restlessly Satia. slippers made mo nnoomfort- V# •B able, and-—" ane ftatefcoi em o km •"ins little laugh. "I guess 1 woos*t ada fur those things. Das. 4w. Pm mcch of s home body." Her very self-satisfied oompiacesMty ?tt!ed her questioner. The wmff *:&bt of the darning needle to fear flo K-ire maddened liim. Good God, Mary,* ho exclaimed.^ can't you ever stop this endisos mending? Haven't I begged you. dayj sad night, not to mend toy socks. l( won't wear socks all over dorns— ihey'ro uncomfortable.** Just a suggestion of a amlle played nround Mary Slade's sweet mouth aa she answered: "They're yours, Dan. It's the snlji thing left that I can do for you—now. I can't bear to see strangers touch your things—" *nd her voice trailed off la ai wistful sigh, a sigh which, might on any other occasion h&voi made Its appeal to the earnest-faeo# man now gazing at her so grimly. The lightness of her tone ahowo4 how little Bhe realised the seriousness of the situation—how little she under«' stood how inadequately she was ftlK ing her position as his wife, Sho, loved her husband with the deritlonj of a slave and the reverence of a weri shlper at a shrine, but, like many an« other good woman, she wanted to show ber affection tn her own way and not in his. Because she wanted to do for him with her hands, she turned a deaf ear to hla pleas that she use her head. She wanted he* husband to be happy and comfortable, but sho wanted to make him happy and comfortable according to her own «u«aa of what ought to make a man satisfied. She had seen him ris« grad' ually at first and then by leaps and bounds. Now that be had he com# wealthy and successful she wanted tq decide for him that he ought to let well enough alone. To her St seemed foolish to bother about being gover»„ nor. abnurd for him to fret about the way she dreesed and did things. 8o. for awhile they sat In sltossc^ and the fire dying down left the ros»S| chilly, go chilly that Mary started uQ to get a shawl. Halfway to the door, she waa peremptorily called back bf her husband, who, ringing for a maid, dispatched her for the wrap, wh'lo Marv, humiliated and with somethiaf of the air of a martyr, went »dghlafl back to the big, uncomfortable choti to resume the mending that was' sucfr an irritation to her husband. "Why cant you learn to be waited on, Mary?" ber husband asked, not un kindly. "Other women do." "I'm slow—slow and old fashioned,* the woman answered, quietly, but wit* an air which plainly showed that she was perfectly satisfied with herself and that she thought he ought to bo "I've never been with women who knew how to do these things. Too didn't know any such people until lately. I don't want to know them," she concluded with sn engagingly con fiding smile. "But 1 can't go everywhere always alone," Slade expostulated. "A man's wife ought to go with him and meet the right kind of people—otherwise he's an outsider. What do you think I built this house for? I don't work in the mines any longer with my hands. I've got to use my head. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't dissipate—keep yachts and horses- or women. A man's got to do something. I'm going into public life, and I want to entertain here. You'd have mo sit back and take It easy and—mat!"' "You deserve everything you've got, Dan," answered Mrs. Slade, intneso quentially, entirely losing the point of his tirade. "You struggled like a dog. Nobody knows, only you and me. We've been through it together* "Well," demanded Slade eagerly and hopefully, "why don't you march along with me then, Mary?" His wife turned to him earnestly. For a moment Dan Slade thought tho woman he lovod was about to rise to the occasion. i TO B« nrCTTVTTiei. WORKERS AFFECTED Br WIND •ringing Freeh Oxygen tote Cltfeo Moo (son Shown to Hsvo •eneffciol Results. Office and workship management has, in some large businesses, been brought practically to the point of s science, London Answers remrrka, and lota of curious little facts hav# been ascertained by those who have studied it. Office staffs, for instance, work best in witsdy weather, as do a!! brain work ers, the reason being that fn windy weather the ordinary more or less exhausted city atmosphere is drives out by volumes of fresh oxygen. There is the same difference io 4m quantity and quality of work d.re ia offices as there is between that duos in nnventilated and well ventilated workshops, and for the same resaoo. No brain worker works as keenly is a stuffy room as in an airy one. Damp, dull weather has little or os effect on the output of work in offieoo, bat it has in workshops. Manual l» bor is lees efficient !n damp than la dry air, the reason is that the moisl air acts aa a conductor of electricity and drains away the natural electriøt ty of the body into the ground. Tbk does not affect the brtdft. bat only tho muscles and the spirits. tome Ahmet Small Enough. There was a crowd of people in tho 6 and 10-cent store about quittTn# time. Several customers were •stand ing around the table, which held the monse traps. A mui rushed In and not waltiog fa» hla turn pushed his wo? through the crowd and approached the sales gS/t "Please sell me a motise trs# rigStf away 1 «ani to cotch oty our/ IB said, as ho dived to*o Ms poøfcrt the shoots* o v v I w ASKOV AMERICAN. ASKOV, MINN. CLEANING t: UP In the above picture is shown tlie ef feet« of a cleaning up campaign now |oing on in Washington. The district shown in the INuki ration was known as "Willow Tree alley and was fa mom« among a certain class a« the scene of many drunken brawls. The the picture shows it as It was, the one at the bottom, as it now appears. The alley is just three blocks from the CAPITAL'S NEW DIPLOMATS How They Ar« Expected to Fit lots the Social Life in the City Next Winter. A second minister recently appoint ed to this country is Senor *4* Kan to:, A. Dominicl, who succeeds Minister Ro tas as representative from Venezu ela. Senor Dominicl is sow minis ter to Great Britain, Germany and Bel gium, and will come to Washington 3« soon as a successor can be appoint ed to those countries. Another addition to the diplomatic circle in the fall will be Makdi Kahn. the Persian minister, who, though not recently appointed, is a comparative si ranger to Washington society, lie •fas made representative to this conn tty less than two years ago, but has -pent little time here at the capital He L* a brother of the regent of Per ia and a person of great distinction in his own country and will be an im portant figure in diplomatic circles here next season. Argentina will have a new first sec retary of tho legation here. Eduardo Labotisle, who for some time has been stationed here, has been transferred to »lerlin and will be succeeded by Fred eric« Quintanna, first secretary of the Argei.Mr.e embassy at Berlin. Gomes Ovt of the Ordinary. In the Canary istands a favarftt spor* is wrestling of a kind very slm Mar to that practiced by the montag nards of Switzerland. A curious game in the Bales rat Is hurling with the sling, a weapon with which the sa lves, who are agiC to have invented it, »ere familiar In aBeient times. Th* women of the Tarr&gona district run races wirb cantaros (pitchers) bal anced on their heads, ana in l,a tlo mera island (,*anarfwu the Snhabi ants display wonderful skill In com municating with each other by means of whistling, which they "•'t'lf nadli h. 1 in HWIIM«IO mM ststA^li' o rentable median of speech. ,- .* 1 CAPITAL'S SLUM DISTRICT nation magnificent eapnoi oniidmg It wo« fn this lowly part of the r»a tion's capital that the late Mrs. Wilson »penI a great deal of ber time for the betterment i»f humanity Shortly be fore her death Mrs. Wilson asked the president to urge congress to eusrt a law which would «iitntnat* the alum districts of Washington, whiwfc been done. FOUNTAINS J)F THE CAPITAL Tt*if Line the Way of the Tourist Ne Matter What Olrsctlen He Tikft. Whoa society of the national capital, Whatever direction a tonrftt may now scattered to all corners of the take fn Washington, fountains line hi« globe, returns here in the fall several way Whether he starts from the changes will have been made in the browse stork fountain not far from diplomatic circle. The newly appoint- t?n!©n station, and travels across to »i minister from Cuba, Dr. Carlos! «ie bright fountain« that de Cespedes, who arrived here recently the sunset way of Pwitylvania ave' from New York, where he had been for several days, will be a distinet ac quisition to the diplomatic circle and woniety generally. Doctor de Tespedes kpeaks several ICuaopeun languages as well as English. He Is a doctor of in ternational law and the author of sev eral books. He ia greatly interested In sculpture, and when not writing de votes much time to she work. The new ambassador from Turkey, Kustem Bey, is already well known in Washington. He served here for sev eral year« as first secretary and charge, prior to going to his ment post in London. He has many friends here, and j*viil be gladly welcomed back. He succeeds Youssouf Zia i's sho. Another change has been effect ed bp the transfer of Senor Dr. Don Francisco J. Peynado, for two years Dominican minister to Washington, to a European post He will he succeed ed by Eduardo Seler. Luts Galvin will accompany the new minister as secre tary of legation, to succeed Senor Don i. A. Cernuda. play Another has Its «lon^ nu« or from the slender fountain on Connecticut avenue down to the new little one* playing ia the Potomar Park gardens, sil ara lovely, each dlf fering from the other in glory, each worthy of separate praise At Twentieth street and Connect! cut there Is a dainty little fountain set In tho open triangle of green, Its low-felling spray uprinkllng the flow ery shrubs and creating a cool dis turbane« in the air that sets the snow ball branches swinging. Alongside the car track this delicate shrine dare» to waste Itself for the sake of the chance wayfarer. habitation west of Dupont circle and street upon a pleasant green plot ail its qwn. A low spray springs from the center and the surrounding jets gracefully pour to ward It. while the whole lies couched in a half moon of shrubbery, For many years the big hronase vase fn front of the treasury has faithfully performed its mission, where, on par Mcularly hot and glaring days, the fight and sound of the cool fall of vater over the dark bronxe brim is peculiarly refreshing to both sense tnd spirit of the pilgrim. Through the tail iron railings that fsnce the northern front of the White House, one glimpses, as It continually springs In a ful! white rush, the most carefully tended of the fountains, ringed round with daffodils and nar cissus shrubs and dark purple Iria. In the groat southern garden of the White House, gracing the center of sweeping lawns and in the company of broad-houghed trees and fair open spac«-r stands the beautiful fountain which, when the winds waft the water over, swathes the air la Its delicate volume of mist One can hear some distance away the rush of the waters upward, and as one draws near he ex periences at the sight something of the ever-oboonding sense of Immortal fly. At the astern entrance to the White House, opposite the treasury, is per haps the most exquisite of all the fountains Here, held together close ly at the center, the tall Jets rise on Other change« probably will be made high, railing gradually apart and droon ikia IL ... S a ... in this circle before the winter season ia in full swing. The representatives of the foreign governments stationed in Washington rr.ase up a very inter fating group and are a substantial ad 'i.tion to the social life of the national capita! Th«y play a conspicuous part in the iff airs of each season, and 'he (ftmir.tr winter will undoubtedly ii them sn important places on the social I calendar. I ing down is th« form of o fcoaquet of flower«, LUNCHEON 21 YEARS OF AGE Senate Leeker Forced Open by Work men Reveals sn Ancient Ham Sandwich. I« one of the rooms adjacent to tho senate rfcamber there are a mrmher V Iron lockers that recently were or dered removed. They have not been used in many years From one of these lockers tbe key was missing, and it had to be broken Into the other day. It bore evidence of having been locked for 21 years. In it was found the luncheon of some former employe. This luncheon consisted of a ham sandwich and a piece of Jolly roll cake. Both were in a remarkably good state of preservation, and were wrapped in a |»per bearing date of 1*93, which oddr?*§ Jab*! showing that It to had Rh hard ,0 **&» you woro net lootrr*«# tiet after allT" "No." "But 1 thought it wa» all arranged—* *|t was "And that all your parents and yow parents' parents, and your friends fttift enemies had agreed to H—** "They had." "And that the day waa set and tho tfWHsMu bought and the invitatknw Issued, the officiating otoxtrøast gaged, and nil that—" "Y^«, nil ibal." "An*! that, above all, you loved each other!" "Oh, es, we loved each other. There waa no doubt about lhat." "Well, then, why in the world dtdttH you get married?' Well, ihe reason was that it mhwNL* Watn't t* too bad?" SKtN TROUBLE ON HANDS Csssville, Mo.~~"My hands and teot ,*ero affected with a trouble similar to ringworm for a number of years. It first appeared as tim clear blisters and in places tho blisten' tv ere so close togMther that they almost formed oni largo blister, Tho skin wnt rough crarked open At times it was *o had that it dbabied me my hundo b*famo so sore that 1 could scarcely use, them. i "I us«-d «\ery remedy that I could find but nothing seemed to do any good, Finally sent for a vampl« of Cuticura Hoap and Ointment and I then Rot a cake of Cuticura Hoap ond & bos of Culicttra Ointment wtsieh Brusque Sympathy, "Yonr daughti fold :ti»s to come and ask your conn^nt to onr marriage!'* caid the nervous young man. "She did!" responded Mr. Cumfox, "And y«»ti came hustling right sl^ng, although you knew vou'd probabn Hotf me i»! i bad humor. And votj knev* also that so long as (ilaos at.d heif ma bad made up their minds, mv eon* B*-nt or refusal wouldn't mitke &' particle of difference. Young mant you're being put through your family ttts£i|*&ne too earl!" IBANNINO TMINftt Wo Are All in the Apprentice Claao* When a simple change of diet br.'»g# back health and happiness the story Ut briefly told. A lady of Hpringfield, llLfr! says: After being afflicted for years wltlt nervousness and heart, trouble, 1 rw eet ved a f.hoeh years ago that loft me in Mii'-h a eondltipn that my lit* was df'Kpairvd of. "I got no r«*!i»f from doctors uo# from the nunib riesn heart and ncrv# remedies I tried, because 1 didn't kuo«C that coffee «a« daily putting me b&clfc more than the doctors could put m# ahead. 'Finally at the suggestion of a frient I left off coffee and began the use of I'ostum, and against my expeditions gradually improved iu health until for thf nasi oi months 1 hav« e* entirely free from nervousness ané those terrible sinking, weakening spells of heart trouble. My troubles ail came from the anHH of coffee which I had drunk froth childhood and yet they disappeared v. hen I quit, coffee and took up Pf Postum." Name given by Co.. liauit b«.»-ti mailed t.'oUe, TtSElNk then a. ffjtm iiiK, .- 'Jv ',,. w S ^r,- ,.:f, !Av .afotjfex* %&t _jf. AMD THEN IT HAD TO RAM Vltnplo but Aoparentty fratisfytNf COMtS for th« Postpeitemoot of Arranged Marriage, 1 completely rid me of tho trouble,"* (Signed i Hay riryant, Msr. 11,1914. t'utt'nuv ivt.-ip nrd ointment aold thrnngle.Mf th» «V"«rld 'f each free,.with 33-p Skin Ttook Address post? card "Cullcura, Dept. u Boston."--Ad*, Cow Foliaw«d Compass. A poor tiller or the soil had own«# for miuihtu of e»m a valuable cow. Of a sudden he V'natj to find lhat ihe b'*«»l »lwa« stood in her stal! with her tali toward the euth whn«« the manger was, her IhhuI toward the north. II« tried various of making the cow stand tho other wg», her head to the south and her tail io the north, hut no matter how many times be set her prop«-)ly in hwjt *ta.U abe always turned around. F"«*Hy there w*« nothing to do l»»t rrbulld the »tali to »mit th* row. Som* hat •i i latet wur c*m" and the poor Hlscr of the noH had to Join his r« glin"ut .md. go ind fight for the fatherland, His wife and children, reduced to dire pov erty, were forced to Hell the cow to the butcher, who slaughtered her and sold her meat at fau:ine pre to bis fellow townsmen. At the same ilrn*'. howevft, th«- mystery of the animal's unaceonntttbln lt»m.«ior wmk cleared' i up. In ih« body of ihe cow was f-nuid a small compass which the poor iw.io. her owner, had lost some months be-t., for« from his watch chain, Kvldentty it had totte« among iL* »toti eaten. •$MF: "i 4 i 1 I -fJ J'oatuug Cre"k( Mich. Many people rn »r vl at the effects of if-avitig of! coffee and drinking Postum* but there is nothing marvelous about •t -only common sense. Coffee is a destrojer—Postnai Is it r»»buIlder. That's the reason. Look in pkgs for tbe famous tittSA book, The lioad to Wall ville Postum cofflfs in two forms: Regular Postum must be well batt ed. l&c Snu '.c »ac kag**. Inotant Postum- is a soluble PO der. A teaapooutul dissolves quickly In a cup of hot vater and, 1th creadl and *ugar, mak«.'s a delicious beverai* instantly, .loc and tins. Th* cost per cup of both kinds ft§* about the same. "Tfeorfg Bomob" for Postum. —sold I Grccorf fJ,1"• ."IhW "S »i a