. ER, CENTRE HALL, PA. GREAT MAN'S WIFE 8B By FANNIE HURST (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) {WNU Service) HE story of the Simeses was in many respects the usual one of a man having gone on in world- liness and social achievement quite beyond the wife, who had stood still after marriage, as the saying goes. Again, the story of the Simeses was quite unusual in this respect. Frank Simes had gone on in a manner as un- usual as it was startling. At thirty- one, the young clerk in a second-rate publishing house, while off on a two weeks’ holiday at an obscure seaside resort with his wife, had filled in his spare time writing a deseription of the life about him. At forty-one that same nearsighted, not highly personable young man had into one of the most suc- cessful literary of his time. At fifty-one, he was a world-figure, the center of a school of disciples who were t to bask on the rim of his reflected and his fine country place was the mecca for pilgrims who were not return to their native heaths being able to say that they had at least glimpsed the retreat of the great god Simes, dey eloped men conten glory, content to without Charabancs and various sight-seeing excursions along the state highway which bordered one end of the Simes estate, pointed out with prikie the country home of the renowned author. While still a comparatively young man, Simes had become a sort of shrine. The achievement of this, gcouted in the small world of sophis ticates the of a literary charlatan, was no heless one to'im press a vast public. It said that it pr impressed Mary Simes even more than it did the lay man. as antics could also be More and more, as they grew older together, Mary was to ask herself this question concerning Simes. How? How had he accomplished the almost incredible? She, Mary, better than anyone else in the world, sycophants who erowded around him, enemies who jeered, knew the caliber of the man Simes. Knew the relentless ego of him which flung out in all directions like the tentacles of some sea serpent, strangling where it could. Knew the strangely feeble equipment of this man whose pen somehow, some way, had loaded into its point persuasion and personality. Everything about this man, her husband, she knew, and nowing, marveled. How had he achieved his almost unique position in the world of letters? There were, of course, people who said his somewhat plain wife was the power behind the throne, but then that is sald practically of every public man with a plain wife There were also those who marveled at the constancy of Simes, so strange- ly attractive to women in what might be called a repellent way. seemed to read in the eyes of Simes, strange eyes set one slightly higher than the forbidden things that wrapped his personality with the half-evil lure of the genil They other, decadent Simes, in a curious Inverted manner, had a way with women just as In a curious inverted manner, he must have had a way with his vast public. It was not this rather oblique lure which surprised Mary, she must have capitulated to it herself, In the days wha he was a humble clerk. It was the =ability of his success which nev. er ceased to amaze and secretly to ap- pall her, How did Simes, superficially edun- cated, superficially informed, super- ficially the thinker, the student, the man of letters, hold with a strangle grip the interest, fascination and ad- miration of his public? Sometimes, in her loneliness and heart-hurt, passionately she admitted to herself, that she, Mary, the wife whom to all intents and purposes he had outgrown, was the answer. She, Mary, who was the buffer between him and his public; the creator of the il lusions about him; the weaver of leg- ends and the hand at the helm of his phantom ship of literary illusion. Then again Mary told herself, try- ing to ferret the secret of his undi- minishing luster, no one person alone could account for it. Not even the years of her secret sacrifices, her hu- miliations, her pretenses and her dis play of admiration where he was con- cerned were sufficient to solve the riddle, , Somewhere in the makeup of Simes must reside real greatness, The fact that she, Mary Simes, had alone built up the illusion of the great man seemed almost too fantastic te be true. There was one man knew it to be true. Johann Brody. Ten years after her marriage to Simes, Mary and Brody had met, drifting together al most Immediately on an Innate sym- pathy which had ripened their friend. ship into something too profound and potentially dangerous to be discussed between them, Johann Brody, Simes’ lawyer, was in love with Mary; with her plalnness, her unstylish exterior, her drab look of blending against background, she had flashed bright as a flamingo into hig life. Twenty years of the unspok- en word between them, Twenty years had marched past to her flush at his hand shake, her eye brightening at his entrance, her glance yearning when his glance was averted, Two middle-aged, hungry spirits, fluttering as near together as they dared. Brody knew to what extent Mary had manufactured the success of Simes. It was the only intimate sub. Jeet they ever permitted themselves to discuss together, and then only un- der pretense of legal affairs, Time and time again, instigated by one thing or another, Brody had openly credited Mary with being the im- p&se that had pushed Simes from’ the position of a humble clerk in a publishing house to the unique stand- ing he had achieved in the world of letters. It was only when a crisis came how- ever, that he permitted himself what approximated full statement of the bolling sentiments that had been press ing against his restraint for years, So it had come at last! After years of her husband's infelicity, his blatant threat of infidelity, his parade of mock susceptibility, complication had stalked into the lives of Mary and Shmes. [He had finally fallen in love with an ac tress playing popular roles in a reper tory company in Philadelphia. The surprise lay in the fact that it had not come before. Years of harden- ing herself to the public display Simes’ philandering had not quite pre- pared Mary for the clap of thunder which came with his calm avowal to relationship had come. Simes was going to dvorce long adamantly closed was about to swing open. JAttle wonder that as Mary Brody that evening following avowal of Simes of his love other woman and his intention to di- vorce her, the bonds of thelr mutual restraint broke simultaneously. “I'm free now, Brody,” she sald sim- ply. “It's been so long waiting.” He took her in his arms kissing the smooth, graying, patient-looking hair flowed black from her fore against her, the where It head. “It's heen a long walt, Mary. it will be at our age, to really for the first time™ Brodsy™ strange begin to live “It's “My too good to be true, dear.” “You-—my dear.” “He know it, Mary. Fool But the day he gives you up is the end of Simes.” “You mean ag “Why darling—without you, he falls to pieces like bolt in his Good-by Simes! Poor Brody, hammering the nails In to the coffin of his own dearest dearest doesn’t ” a one-hoss shay—every makeup has been you. ww she would stand by to hold together the one -hoss shay, her for refusing divorce. watching the years stalk by, People called idiot, parasite, Simes his Grimly, to grant all things But, grimls the public those humiliation of her refusal his alleged greatness Swiss Wise in Passing If there are 1 trout and mountain st we can preserve trout of this it is to probably to cast or gig into any for long periods of time. It is the only way. Beyond a doubt, continent. The way to do it: and one of the means line stream totaly all the fish, newts, water spiders and water striders that on so-called destroy skate scientists, living by kills every tures and And it Is surprising that the mosses, does not perish. In Switzerland timt kind of pursuit of fish is unknown. jut Switzerland has had hundreds of year to grow wise—and efficient In Globe- Democrat, Confirm Bible Story Further verification of the Bible story of the entrance of the Children of Israel into Cannan and the de struction of Jericho by the soldiers of Joshua has been obtained from the gearabs found In the royal tombs of Jericho. The bulk of the specimens range from about 2400 B. C. to about 1400 B. C.the time of Amenophls III. The period from AKhenaton to Ramesses II is a blank, Sir Charles Marston said: 1413 B. C exodus from Egypt, therefore, took place immediately after the death of Thotmes ITI, 1477 B. C., In the reign of Amenophis IL" Color Important in Siam An interesting sidelight in connec tion with Bangkok newspapers, exclu- sive of the English press, is their nse of colored paper. To the Siamese each day of the week stands for a dif- ferent color, and many of them match their “panung” (the native costume) with the color of the day ; for Instance, a pink panuag is worn on Sundays, a yellow on Mondays, ete. The newspa- pers endeavor to follow this custom to a certain extent; on Monday their edi. tions are printed on yellow paper; on Thursday on green paper; Sundays on pink paper, and the rest of the days of the week on white paper. TALES CH IEFS or SPOTTED TAIL ‘By Editha A cow been the cause and a reason cago fire, was the The was ment, Cow probably an old aban doned one by Spotted Tail Sioux, Grattan was sent to arrest the In- dian for his salvage of the cow. The Brule thought this proceeding rather and the battle began, result that Grattan’s detach. was destroyed, The had Indian sustenance the fight, this engagement was who Iater attained with the ment probably Before Prominent cow become in Indian He, too, was self-made, and bésldes leader among warriors, he had fought a duel with a subchief for the hand of his wife, and had won, the head chief dled, Spotted was chosen over the heads of men to succeed him. After the battle over the cow, which led to Tall discarded depredations on ishment of the tribe by other troops, Tail and were commanded to give themselves up as murderers. Much to the of soldiers at Fort Laramie, this promptly and the three sed In their mnrched in. chant ng two others surprise done, nyt war their had an array, death- bravery effect freed. Sioux under Red building of a rail Spotted Tall fa- did not sign the 1888, in which the was and In 1845, when the Cloud wed the Montana, treaty. although he He did, Opp into however, sign It. reservation the road to the mines necepted abandoned, Later, gold was discovered in the Black Hills, Not knowing exactly how the white men valued this metal, in thelr to find before their fires, he mines given a greatly exag value by the imagination of which has His untutored that Black 1hie, with the camps As he sat to talk of wonderful rich ore, prospectors ts habit not ceased to this das iden the re extre valu price should be commensurate paid to The of treats 1868 had taken away the to make On sont power for sale of lands, accon ommissioners were to the Sioux to find out what price they demanded. Spotted Tall had spread gathered : the lands were valued by the Indians at $60.000.000, Naturaily, no be Further entered into, but for the 1} such price could must be time af- The troops, the territory began without negotiations later opened, pass In that be on miners to limit. The younger Sioux, who hoped with thelr elders that a large price would be paid, saw this loflux with alarm anger, To a man, hostiles, of which Sitting Tal Crazy Horse (a nephew of Spotted Tail) were leaders, Spotted Tail, who had been to Wash- ington, where he was made much of, had white people than some of his broth- er chiefs liked, Big Mouth, in partica- lar, had considerable to say about this, and was managing to turn the Brule against Spotted Tall There was one sure way Mouth to be still; Spotted Tall to his. lodge, and called him he could shot him dead. The Sioux uprising has been dis. cussed elsewhere in these articles, and its outcome told. After the Custer Red Cloud was suspected of disloyalty, and Spotted Tall made chief of all the Indians at both his own agency and Red Cloud's. Crazy Horse had separated from Sitting Bull, and engaged in a des perate battle with General Miles and his troops. Spotted Tall negotiated with his nephew, and in the following spring (1877) Crazy Horse surren- dered. The great Sioux uprising was at an end. The Brule chief, now a man of mid die age, still preferred an active life. Intgptribal feuds remained to be set- tled® and Crow Dog, another Sioux, was one of the marked men, Spotted Tail gathered a war-party and started out to spill some Indian blood. They met near the Rosebud agency in Sonth Dakota, August 5, 1881, Crow Dog felt that he was in a dangerous position, and prepared to defend him- self, A shot rang out--more than one, no doubt, but this shot reached its mark in the heart of Spotted Tail, The Brule chief lay dead, (©. 1922, Western Newspaper Union.) resist, Spotted Tall University of Oxford Old Seat of Learning The university, In the modern gense, dates to the Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries as an out growth of earlier schools In connec- tion with cathedrals and monas- teries. This despite the fact that a number of European universities have legends carrying thelr origin considerably farther back-—as for instance Oxford, whose tradition is that it was founded by King Alfred about 872. Oxford dates, however, to early In the Twelfth century. The universi- ties of "aris and Bologna, which ex- ercised the greatest Influence upon the later institutions, were founded about 1200. 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