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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-15

him. And this was rather for his sake
than Leila's.
Leila was Just informing Bayard
that the butcher had delivered the
mornings order no farther than the
freight elevator, and instructed his
boy to send the meat up only after
the money came down.
Bayard had no money and the cha
grin of his situation was bitter. He
snarled at Leila 'Tell the cub to take
the meat back and eat it himself.
Then I'll go over and butcher the
butcher"
Leila dismissed the boy with a
faint-hearted show of indignation.
Then she came back and said, sand
now we have no meat to eat"
Bayard was reduced to philosophy,
the last resort of the desperate:
swell, the vegetarians say we ought
never to eat meat. anyway. We're
poor, but, my Lord! we're in grand
company. Look at this cartoon Of
Cesare's in the Sun--Father Knicker-
booker turning his pockets inside out
and not a penny in them. New York
city has to borrow money on short
time notes at high interest to pay its
own current bills.
Look at Europe. All the countries
over there were stumbling along I'M
der such debt that they wondered
how they could meet the interest on
the next pay day. And now they are
mortgaging their great-grandsons'
property to pay for shooting their
sons.
TITS the old Thirteenth Command
ment that we've all been smashing
to flinders. And, my God! what a
punishment we're all getting! And
it's only beginning"
They sat down to a pitiful meal
meatleSs, maidless, enthusiastically
more than the raw turnips and cold
water of Colonel Sellers. Leila
fetched what victual there was.
After the meal Bayard shrugged
into his Overcoat and left without
kissing his wife or his sister goOdby.
Daphne and Leila went out to the
kitchen, set the dishes in the pan,
and the pan under the faucet. Leila
turned on the hot water. Daphne was
glad to be at work.
There's one good thing about a
small meal" she chirped, lit makes
less dishes to wash" Then, with as
much trepidation as if she had been
the accused instead of the accuser she
faltered: "Oh, say, Leila, do you re-
member a man named Wetherell|
Leila dropped 4 plate. She said 1t
was hot. But other plates had been
| hot.
"Wetherell2 Wetherell?" she pom
dered, aloud, with an un~convincing
uncertainty. 81 believe I do remem-
Der meeting somebody of that name.
English, wasn't he?"
"Very."
"Oh, yes. He was at Newport, /
think. Why?"
"Oh, nothing. l met him last night
and he thought l was you"
SLOW could heT" Leila gasped. "We
don't look the least alike"
sit was in the dark"
"In the dark! Good heavens
Where?"
Already Leila had gained the wealth
er gauge. Daphne had to confess her
outing with Duane, the crash of the
collision and the return to Yonkers
in WetherelI's car. Leila took advan.
tage of the situation to interpolate:
"Good heavens! How could you:
You of all people! And with Tom
Duane! What would Clay thinkY"
Daphne knew that she had no right
to reproach Leila for having known
Wetherell in Newport. She had nc
right even to suspect that Leila had
overstepped any of the bounds of pro.
priety. And still she was not con.
WINGED of Leila's innocence. She was
merely silenced.
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Wen get another

fonkers. Wen get another car
there"
WethereTl came close and said:
IBID he say Mrs. Kip? 1 can't see
you, but I hope you are the fascinat-
ing Mrs. Kip l met at Newport. Have
you forgotten me so soonT"
Il am Miss Kip" said Daphne.
"Oh, so sorryl I don't mean that,
either. But my Mrs. Kip was a siren
Leila was her first name. / called
her De-leila, you see. And she called
me Samson. She was "a"
"She is my brothers. wife," said
Daphne.
"Oh, you don't tell met" Wetherell
gulped, and his abrupt silence was full
of startling implications that alarmed
Daphne, angered Duane, and threw
Wetherell into confusion.
Duane helped Daphne to alight from
the derelict and transferred her to
the other car, where Wetherell intro
duced them to q mass of shadow
whose name, "Mrs. Bethany" meant
nothing to Daphne and everything to
duane.
Duane arranged to have a wrecking
crew sent out to his roadster, and
chartered a touring car and a chauf-
feur for the trip into New York.
He sat back with Daphne and muir
INJURED prayers for forgiveness be-
cause of the dangers he had carried
her into and for the things he had
said. Daphne's nerves had been
overworked. She had been rushed
from adventure to adventure of soul
and body. She had been invited to
enter a career of gorgeous sin, and
she had been swept along the edge OF
q fearful disaster.
Mrs. Chivvis met Daphne at the
door. Her recent affection had turned
again to scorn, and she glowered at
Daphne, who crept to her room in
hopeless acceptance of the role Of adj
ventures.
Tired as she was she could not
sleep. The clangor Of the morning
called her to the window. A gray day
broke on a weary town. The prob
lem of debt and food and new clothes
dawned again. Everything was gray
before her.
Wisdom whispered her to take
Duane at his word and try the great
adventure. How could it bring her
to worse confusion than she. found
about her now? And then the morn
ing mail arrived and brought her a
large envelope addressed in a strange
hand. She opened it and took from it
q sheaf Of photographs.
Her fathers image a dozen times
repeated lay before her. The I'M
touched proofs omitted never a line,
never a wrinkle. One of the pictures
looked straight at her. She recalled
that once she had stood back of the
photographer and her father had
caught her eye and smiled just as the
bulb was pressed.
She made him smile like that. What
would his expression be when he
learned that she had listened to rea-
son." ceased to be his daughter, and
become Tom Duane's-
She shuddered back from the word
and the thought. She forgot both in
the joy of reunion with her father.
All the philosophers and VISIONS and
luxuries were answered by the logic
of that smile.
She lifted his pictured lips to hers
with flial eagerness and her tears
battered ruinously on the proof. She
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-15
Ideal Situation.

Marriage said the female lecturer
on women's rights, SHOULD be a bust
ness contract, with the husband and
wife equal members of the firm"
"Yes'm," remarked the meek little
man. "That's just the way 1t Is at
our house. | am the senior partner In
the firm and my wife Is the buyer"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-15

was satisfied to be what the jeweler
in Cleveland had called her to Clay
Wlmburn-"old Yves Kip's girl"
Suddenly she remembered Weth-
erell and his messages to Leila. She
felt so renewedly virtuous herself that
1t seemed her duty to 60 down and re-
buke Leila for her apparent philan-
dering at Newport. She was also Gu
rious to see how guilty Leila would
receive the news that Wetherell had
asked for her.
But she found Bayard at home for
luncheon and she was neither mad nor
mean enough to confuse Leila before
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Supply Exhausted.

Jennie came home from her play
mates, saying she was too mad to
play with Jane any longer. Before
night she leased to go back and play
with Jane.
II thought you were angry with
Jane" her mother said.
"Oh, I was" replied the child, "but
there wasn't mad enough in me to last
all day.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-15
ALIENS EooT=EAsE DOES IT.

When your shoes pinch or your corns and
bunions ache get Aliens Foot=Ease, the
antiseptic powder to be shaken into shoes
and ~sprfnkled in the foot-bath. 1t will
take the sting out of corns n bunions
and give instant relief to Tired. Aching,
Swollen, Tende feet. Sold everywhera.
DoM,t aeeept anu sMbstitute.-AdY.
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(TO BE CONTINUED,


A luxury is something we are apt
to think our neighbors cannot afford.
ana our neighbors are apt to think
we cannvl afford themselves.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-15
Daily Thought.

When tillage begins, other arts fol-
low. The farmers, therefore, are the
founders Of human clvllization.-Dpn-
lei Webster. ,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-05-15

q : simply low Vitality, o LACY or EnfrKy
caused by impurities in Ike blood. GROvE'S
TAsTELEss chill TONIC restores Vitality
and Energy by Purifying and Enrichlpg the
Hood. You can soon feel Its Strengthening,
fnvigoratfng Effect. Price 60c.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17

full anxious you should come to see
'em when We can't-ayes but who's
We git to the village they amt nigh
so nnxious-no they ain'tP'
In the middle Of the great cedar
swamp near Little River Aunt Deel
got out the lunch basket and / sat
down on the buggy bottom between
there legs and leaning against the
dash. SO disposed ge ate our luncheon
OF fried cakes and bread and butter
and maple sugar and cheese. What
an efficient cure for good health were
the douqhnuts and cheese and sugar,
especially II they were mixed with
the idleness of a Sunday. / had q
headache also and soon fell asleep.
The sun was low when they awoke
me In our dooryard.
/ soon discovered that the Dunkel
bergs had fallen from their high es-
tnte In our home and that Silai
Wright, Jr., had taken their place II
the conversation Of Aunt Deel.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17

was placed beside them. Then l sat
ON Uncle Peabody's lap by the fire
or, as time went on, in my small chair
beside him, while Aunt Deel adjusted
her spectaclos and began to read.
| remember wildly the evening we
took out the books and tenderly felt
their covers and read their titles.
There were "Cr~uikshanks' Comic Alma
me" and Hoods Comic Annual;
tales by Washington Irving and James
II. pauldlng and Nathaniel Hawthorne
and Miss Milford and Miss Austin;
the poems of John Milton and Felicia
Hemans. OF the treasures In TIE box
l have now In my possession; A life
OF Washington, "The Life and Writ
ings of Doctor Duckworth,' '"The
Stolen Child" by "John Gait. Esq"
"Roslne Laval" by "NIr. smith Ser
mons and Essays by William Ellery
Charming. We found In the box also,
thirty numbers OF the Omitted States
Magazine and Democratic Review
and Sundry copies of the New York
Mirror"
Aunt Deei began with "The Stolen
Child" She read slowly ana often
paused for comment or explanation oI
laughter or to touch the corner OF
an eye with Il corner OF her handker'
chief In moments when we were all
deeply moved by the mlsfortunes o.
our favorite characters, which wer'
a,.,fN aul nnpAarnnS
In those magazines we read of tn,
great west-'the poor mans para
dise"-"the stoneless land of plen
ty"; Of Its delightful climate, of tbs
ease with which the farmer prosperet
on its rich soil. Uncle Peabody spok,
playfully of going West, after that
bat Aunt Deel made no answer an,
concealed her opinion on that sub
feet for a long time. As for myself
the reading had deepened my inter
est In the east and west and nortl
and south and In the skies aboyl
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CHAPTER I-contlnued.


Soon a horse and buggy came for
US and / briefly answered Sally's good
bye before the mar drove away with
me. l remember telling him as we
went on over the rough road, between
fields of ripened grain, Of my winter
melon and my dog and my little pet
hen.
1 shall not try to describe that home
coming. We iound Aunt Deel In the
road Ave miles from home. She had
been calling and travelling from house
to house most Of the night, and l
have never forgotten her Joy at seeing
me and her tender greeting. She got
into the buggy and rode home with
US. holding me in her mp. Uncle Pea
body and one Of our n%elghbors had
been out in the woods all night with
pine torches. / recall how, although
excited by my return, he took OFF
his hat at the sight of my new friend
and said:
aMr. Wright, l never wished that
/ lived In a palace until now"
He didn't notice me until l held up
both feet and called: Look a there,
Uncle Peabody"
Then he came and took me out OF
the buggy and l saw the tears In his
eyes when he kissed me.
The man told of finding me on his
little verandn, and / told OF my ride
with Dug Draper, after which UncIt
Peabody said:
'Im goin' to put In your boss ant
feed him, Comptroller"
sand I'm goin' to cook the hos
dinner | ever cooked In my life" sale
Aunt Deel.
When the great man had gone Uncle
Peabody took me In his lap and sale
very gently and with u serious loo
"You didn't think meant IL, die
yef-thnt you would have to go wa!
from here2"
81 don't know" was my answer.
"'Course | didn't mean that. l jus
wanted ye to see that 1t want golnl
to do for you to keep on tippin' thing
over 3d."
That evening as / wns about to g.
upstairs to bed. Aunt Deel said 4
my uncle:
"Do you remember what OIL Kat
wrote down about him2 This is hi
first peril an he has met his frs
great man an l can see that Sil
Wright Is kind o. fond o. him."
I went to sleep that night thlnkin
Of the strange, old, ragged, siler
woman.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17
LED WAY OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Building of Roads Marked Breaking
Up of the Ignorance of the
Dark Ages.

When light began to gllmmer, day
to break, on the dark ages Gas we
call them, and thereby impute to them,
| think, along with their W dark
ness, no little of ours, much as the
British seaman abroad has been heard
to commiserate 'them poor ignorant
foreigners")-when daylight began to
spread over the dark ages, what was
the first thing to be seen? l will tell
you what is the first thing l see. 1t
Is the roads.
I see the roads glimmer up out of
the morning twilight with the many
men, like ants, coming and going upon
them; meeting, passing, o~vertaking;
knights, merchants, carriers justiciars
with their trains. kings messengers,
riding post afoot, friars-black, white
and gray-pardoners, poor scholars,
minstrels, beggar men; pack horses In
files; pilgrims bound for Walsingham,
Canterbury, or to Southampton, to
ship there for C~ompostella and Rome.
| see the old Roman roads-WatlIng
street, Ermine street, Icknield street,
Akelnan street, n toSSe way ana the
rest-hard metaled, built In five layers.
from the foundation or pavimentum of
fine earth hard beaten in. through lay
ers OF hard stones, small stones (both
mixed with mortar), pounded nucleus
of lime. clay or chalk. brick and tile,
up TO the paved surface,
dOrsum; one running north through
York and branching, as Hadrian had
diverted it, to point after point of the
Great Wall another coastwise toward
Cornwall; a third for Chester and on
to Anglesey a fourth embarked and
ditched through the Cambridgeshire
fens; I see the minor network of cross
roads, the waterways with their slow
freIght.-Sir Arthur CUTLER Couch In
Studies in Literature
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17
CHAPTER III.
We Go to Meeting and See Mr.. Wright
AGAIN.


/ had a chill that night and In the
weeks that followed l was nearly
burned up with lung fever. Doctor
Clark Same from Canton to see me
every other uay for u time and one
evening Mr.. Wright came with him
and watched all night neal my bed
side.
In the morning he said that he
could come the next Tuesday morning
IL we needed im and set ont right
after breakfast, In the dim dawn light,
to walk to Canton.
"peabcdy Baynes," said my Aunt
Deel MS she stood looking out OF the
window ut MIR. Wright, that Is one
Of the grandest. splendidest men That
/ ever see or heard Of. He's an awful
smart man, am a dry o. his time Is
worth more'n a month OF our'n, but
he comes AWAY on here TO set up
with a sick young one and walks
back. Does beat all-don't itf-
nyesi"
IF any one needs help Sile Wright
Is always on hand" said Uncle Pea
body.
/ was soon out of bed aud he came
no mort 90 sit up with me.
When / was wen again. Aunt Deel
said one day: "Peabody Baynes.
Amt lard no preachin' since Mr.
Pungborn died. ! guess we better
20 down to Canton to meetn' some
Sunday. II there amt no minister
Hile Wright always reads a sermon
II he's home. and the paper says h,
don't 60 way for u month yit.
kind O feel the need Of q good sermon
-ayest"
sAu right. I'll hitch up the HOSES
and wen 90. We can stnrt Mt eigh
o'clock and take n bite with us I'm
git back here by three"
hsd told Aunt Deel what Sail,
had said Of my personal appearance.
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BARTON AGAIN SEES SALLY DUNKELBERG, BUT THE
MEETING IS NOT AN AUSPlCI0US ONE.

synopsIs--Barton Baynes, an orphan, goes to live With mis- uncle
Peabody Baynes. and his Aunt Deel on a farm on Rahleroad, In n
neighborhood called Lickitysplt about the year 1926 He meets Sally
Dunkelberg, about his own age, but socially of a class above the
Bayneses, and is fascinated by her pretty face and fine clothes. Barton
MISC meets Rowing Kate. known In the neghborhood as the silent
Woman" Amos Grimshaw, a young son Of the richest man In the town
shin, is a visitor at the Baynes home and Rowing Kate tells the boys
fortunes predicting n bright future for Barton and death IN the galows
for Amos. Reproved for an act of boysh mtchlef, Barton runs away
intending to make his home with the Dunkelbergs' He reached Canton
and falls asleep OF a porch. There is he found by Sins Wright, Jr, a
man prominent In public affairs, who, knowing Peabody Baynes, takes
Barton home after buying him new clothes.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17

brassy locket at her wrIDkled neck
there probably reposed pictures OF ner
grandchildren And was ne 10 %
made a party to fixing" his wire
little winsome Lucille. whom ne hao
wronged? Yes, he reflected. ne hsu
wronged her. No wonder she mao COM
planned of his friends coming 10 the
house, drinking heavily, talking $
~ and gambling madly. 1t had OF
Tended those finer sensibilities that
now. 10 him. In the midst or bietz-
mans revolving atmosphere, came back
with a rush. Why hadn't he kept that
promise to do so, the giving OF which
he had called ~hen-pecky3 IT ne only
had kept it-she might still be with
Two doors opened simultaneously.
Through one a burly Individual showed
a man, and stood surveying the crowu
of walters.
. "Who's next?" he vociferated, In his
best barber manner. as If getting Oh
yorced was no more than O snave.
"Ah, the little lady?" He advanced
toward the outer door and Gates fol-
tDN0u llil Win his tgCos A'N
Gates staggered, in horror, to his feet.
Lucille I" cried Gates, as a pretty,
slender young girl of obvious refine
ment hesitated at the threshold.
~ want to see-Mr.-Bletzman," she
announced In a low tone, and that indi-
vldual was about to take her out
stretched hand when he was roughly
pushed out of the way and a tall, u
cular figure stood between him and
Mrs. Gates.
Lucille" repeated John Gates, fore
ing her to meet his gaze, 'you have no
Observation-Disclosures"
what in the" Bletzman started
to spIutter, edging himself toward the
couple, but again Gates pushed him
aside.
Come, Lucille" he urged, taking
her hand, and leading her toward the
door. "Out Of this-den. This Is not
for us. / came-as / know you did
TO get-a-divorce." He brushed his
free hand across a feverish brow as
If to wipe away an awful vision.
"Come, this is not the mill for us.
Let's-go-back to Lochinva-to
peace. Let's be happy as we were
before I came to the city. We"
"Do you know you are interferin'
with my business?" demanded Bletz-
man, in q ~seething rage. "This lady
wants t. see"
"Me," John finished Bletzman's SEN
tence, restraining his clenched fists
with an effort. "She want to see
me-" he repeated. do you get that
And she Observation-Disclosures the rest
of her life-if she wants to" And
, then, as if the mighty Bletzman were
no more than a troublesome beggar
Gates swung around and faced thu
trembling little girl he had promised
, to love, honor and protect. Don't you
- Lucillei"
a AS she nodded her head and buried
{ her face in his sleeve, John led he
into the corridor. He slammed tn
door and then breathed deeply.
+ even here the air is FOUL" h
5 growled, putting his arm around her
"Come, let's hurry. Wen get the 3:2
$ train down. Dinner will be ready TO
y us when we get there"
Inside the Office Bletzman stare
%dumfounded at the closed door, ther
d Struggling his shoulders indifferentiy
n ambled toward Pete's desk.
d "Why didn' v show i'm in quick?
he reared at Pete. Couldn't y tie
he's tn kin that think twice? If L
n seen him, I'd fixed It," Then he turne
d savagely toward the waiting lint
"NextI"
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~.
In the Light Of the Candles.

In the Light Of the Candles.
One day the stage, on Its way to
Ballybeen, came to our house and
left a box and q letter from Mr..
Wright, addressed to my uncle, which
read:
"Dear Slr--I send herewith a box
Of books and magazines In the hope
that you or Miss Baynes will read
them aloud to my little partner and In
doing so get some enjoyment and
profit for yourselves.
"Yours respectfully,
rs. WRIGHT, JR.
"P. S.-When the contents of the
box have duly risen into your minds
Will you kindly see that 1t does a
like service to your ~neighbors In
School District No. n s. w. Jr."
II guess Bart has made a friend o.
this great man-sartin ayesl" said
Aunt Deel. II wonder who'll be the
next one2"
The work of the day ended, the
candles were grouped near the edge
of the table and my aunt's armchair
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Getting Oil From Peat.

In his method of converting peat
into synthetic coal. s. @. Davidson, an
engineer Of Belfast, ireland, returns
to the peat vegetable oils that have
w~eathered out, mixes with 10 per cent
OF pitch dust and forms Into square
blocks by hydraulic pressure. This
fuel is reported efficient and compare
lively cheap. :
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-01-17

Barton becomes aware of the
existence of a wonderful and
mysterious power known as
Money" and learns some of
the ,hings that Its possession
may accomplish. Don't miss the
next installment.
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CTo BE C~oNTINUED)

If you would flatter a woman keep
quiet aud listen.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1919-01-14

Dec. 17-2m.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1919-01-14
oBJEcT % SD.

The object of the above suit is to obtain a
Ieeree against Jos II Yesterday, Jr- n favor
Of Lee Somehow fss- S55l5V and 1920 and
interest. and in favor OF Harry Pack
.ans for S55.7A and to subject the interest
II Jos. H. yesterday, Jr., in the real estate
wing in Charles Town and Ransom. West
Va and the personal property of the es-
ate of Jos. FL. yesterday, Sr., to the pay
ment of said debts, and to set aside and
declare null so far may be necessary to
hat end, the Judgment for s32l9.6A rem
dered by confession by Jos II. yesterday,
Jr., in favor OF G f. Wall in said Circuit
Court at May Term. 1915. and TO set aside
he deed made by is II yesterday and wife
% Susan G. Wall, dated 4th of December,
1915, recorded in said County Clerks Office
n Deed Book III, page LAT. granting said
property in order that the said debts of l..
'onnebo-n and Harry Packham may be paid
1ut of said real estate.
70 appearing on affidavit filed in this suit
hat the Defendants jos. II. yesterday. Jr.
md Lillian yesterday are non-residents Of
! c State of West Virginia they are hereby
e1uired to appear within One Month after
&c date of the first publication of this or
Ter, and do what is necessary to protect
heir interest in this matter.
1t is ordered that copy of this order be
sorthwith pubis he'd once a week for four
Consecutive weeks in the Spirit of jefferson
newspaper printed in the town of Charles
oEn in the County of Jefferson, and be
5osted at the front door of theCourt House
II jefferson County, at least twentw days
before judgment or decree is rendered.
G. W. CONRAD,
Clerk of the Circuit Court
James NJ. Mason, Jr., P. @.