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CHAPTER vi.

The meeting of Daphne and her new
sister-in-law was not what either would
have expected or selected. Daphne
was tired in body and soul, discour-
aged, footsore and dismayed about her
love and her lover. She had reached
the door of the apartment in the mood
of a wave-buffeted, outswum castaway,
eager for nothing but to lie down in
the sand and sleep.
Daphne could imagine the feelings
of her brothers wife when she
reached her home after long ocean
voyage, a night landing, the custom
house ordeal, and the cab ride among
the luggage, and found mother-in-
law asleep In her bed and a sister-in-
law yet to arrived
Bayard and Leila, serene in the be-
lief that Daphne and her mother had
gone back to Cleveland, entered the
apartment without Formally and went
about switching on lights, recovering
their little home from the night with
magic instantaneity.
Mother Kip's awakening came from
the light that Bayard flashed in his
bedroom. Leila had a lovable dispo-
sition, but she was tired, and all the
way up in the overloaded cab she had
thought longingly of the beautiful bed
in her own new home, and had prom
Used herself a quick plunge into it for
a long stay. How could she rejoice to
find strange woman there-even
though she bore the sacred name of
mother-in-law?
Mother Kip ordered Bayard and
Leila out of their own room and when
she was ready to be seen she had so
many apologies to make and accept
that the meeting entirely lacked the
rapture it should have expressed. Even
mother could hardly be glad to see
her son in such discouraging circum-
stances. All three exchanged ques-
lions more and more perfunctorily, and
kept repeating themselves. The most
popular question was, II wonder where
Daphne isl"
They could not know that she was
| hobbling down the wilderness of Riv-
erside drive. She, too, was thinking
longingly of her bed. But long before
she reached it her mother had moved
in and established herself across
good deal more than half of it. 1t was
smallish bed Ia smallish bedroom.
Leila fell asleep in her tub and
might have drowned without noticing
the difference If her yawning husband
had not saved her life-and very clev-
erly: he was too tired to lift her from
the water, so he lifted the stopper and
let the water escape from her. She al
most resented the rescue, but event
ually got herself to bed in prettily
sullen stupor.
From, some Infinite depth of peace
she was dragged up protesting. Bayard
was telling her of Daphne's arrival.
! Doggedly she began to prepare an
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elaborate toilet, but Bayard hailed hW
out before she was ready. This was
the final test of Leila's patience and
of Daphne's.
1t was a tribute to both that they
hated the collision more than each
other. Their greetings were appropri-
ately emotional and noisy, and they
both talked at once in a manner that
showed certain congeniality.
When at length Daphne went to her
room she observed her mothers extra
territorial holdings. She stretched
herself along the narrow coastline in
despair of rest. But she was too tired
to worry or lie awake and she slept
thoroughly.
The next morning the three women,
about to meet one another by daylight,
made their preparations with the
scrupulous anxiety of candidates for
presentation at court. In consequence,
breakfast was late and the only man
there, except the evanescent waiter
from the restaurant below, was Bay
ard.
A troop of business worries like
swarm of gnats had wakened him
early. He had escaped some of them
in Europe, for the honeymoon had
been a prolonged and beatific interlude
in his Office hours; but marriage was
not his career. His career was his
work, and that was recalling him, re-
buking him, as with far-off bugle
alarms.
He was so restless that he merely
glanced at the headlines of the paper
He was preoccupied when he kissed
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melon is seventy-five cents a portion.
You've charged me three dollars for
two portions"
A look Of plying contempt twisted
the walters smile.
"The melon you ordered, sair, was
all out. l served you a French melon
instead"
"Why didn't you tell me?"
81 deed not theenk 1t mettered to the
gentlaman."
Clay shifted. He was not to be
quoted by such sop. He whipped
out his pocketbook and laid down
every bill in it. He stretched his legs
and ransacked his trousers pockets
and dropped on the plate every coin he
had He withdrew dime and waved
the heap at the waiter.
1t was evident, from the way the
waiter snatched the plate from the
table, that Clay had not tipped him. In
fact, Clay said, "This will be a lesson
to you"
They slumped down the steps. The
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celia of the monument, and seemed
to tilt its face to one side and smile.
A motOrcar went by with the silence
of a Looping panther. Another car pass
ing it threw a calcium light on Tom
Duane and his guests and his chauf-
feur. How gorgeOusly they sped! If
Daphne had had a bit of luck she
would be with them, soaring on the
pinionS Of money, instead of hobbling
on without it.
Daphne took off her slippers and
fondled her poor abused feet as if they
were her children. But when she tried
to thrust them back into her slippers
for final desperate effort she almost
shrieked with the hurt.
"I'll have to go the rest of the way
in my stocking feet" she moaned.
"Not if have to carry you," Clay
growled.
Before he had chance to carry out
his resolution a taxicab that had de-
posted its fares at an apartment house
above went bowling by with it's flag
up.
Clay ran out and howled at it till it
stopped, circled round, and drew up by
| the bridle-path. Then he ran to Daphne
and bundled her into it, and gave her
address to the driver.
"But how are you going to pay him?"
she sighed, blissfully, as they shot
along. "Not that care at ALL"
II haven't figured that out" said
Clay. "I'll drop you at home and then
take him to my club and see if can't
| borrow from somebody there. If
can't, I'll give him my watch or the
fight of his life"
THAT'S terriblew Daphne sighed.
ITO think how much have cost you !"
"Well, l wanted to give you a good
time on your little VISIT" said Clay,
land it's only two days till my next
salary day."
Her heart sank. Her guess was
right. His bank account was dry. 1t
had gurgled out in amusing her. She
felt that there was something here
that would take a bit of thinking about
when she had rested enough to
think.
The taxicab swung into Fifty-ninth
street and drew up to the curb. Clay
helped Daphne out and said to the
chauffeur, "Wait!"
He said it with just the tone he had
used when he said to the waiter,
| Check !"
When Clay had kissed her his seven
teenth farewell and was wondering
how he could tear himself away from
her without bleeding to death, Daphne
pressed the bell.
Instead of her drowsy mother open
ing the door half an inch and fleeing
in her curl-papers, Bayard himself APP
peared in his bathrobe and pajamas.
"Bayardw Daphne gasped as she
sprang for him. "What on earth
brought you home so soonW
Money gave out" he laughed.
Hello, Clay" he said as he put
forth his hand. Mother tells me
you've been secretly engaged to my
sister all this time, you old scoundrel
How are you? What's the good wordT'
Lend me five dollars" said Clay.
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1--WE were there tonight" said Daph-
ne. "She's gloriousw
Come on over and play in our yard,
then"
Daphne had never met a famous
actress. She was wild to Join the
group and to know Tom Duane better.
But Clay spoke with an icy finality.
Thanks, old man. We've already
ordered" He still stood, and he had
not invited Duane to sit down.
Tom Duane looked at Daphne and
smiled like boy rebuked. "All right,
I'll go quietly. I know when I'm
kicked out. But next time won't go
so easily. Good night"
He put his warm, friendly hand out
again to Daphne and to Clay, who
nodded him away with an appalling in
formality, considering how great he
was.
Other people came in, some Of them
plainly sightseers, some of them per-
sonages of quality. Everybody seemed
happy, clandestine, romantic. This
was life as Daphne wanted to live it.
But at length she yawned. Her little
hand could not conceal the contortion
Of her features.
"Tm gloriously tired, honey" she
confessed, with a lovable intimacy.
'It's the most beautiful supper l ever
had, but I'm sleepy"
He smiled with indulgent tenderness
and said to the waiter, Check"
Daphne turned her eyes away de-
Gently as the slip of paper on plate
was set at Clay's elbow. But she
noted that he started violently as he
turned the bill over and met it face to
face. He studied it with the grim
heroism of one reading a death-war-
rant. The amount staggered him. He
turned pale. He recovered enough to
say to the waiter, you've given me
the wrong check"
The waiter shook his head. "Oh,
nossairr -
Clay studied it again. He called for
the bill of fare, and studied that.
Daphne felt so ashamed that she want
ed to leap into the river. Abroad, it is
believed that the man who does not
audit his restaurant bill is either an
American tourist or some other kind
of fool. But in Daphne's set it was
considered the act of q miser. Clay
worked over his check as if it were a
trial balance.
"Ah, thought So" he growled. "The
bill Of fare says that this Montreal
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Important to all Women
Readers Of this Paper

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Womens complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer pain in the back, head.
ache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous, irrita-
BILE and may be respondent; it makes any
one So.
But hundreds of women claim that DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy needed to overcome such
conditions
Many send for sample bottle to see
what Swamp-Root, the great kidney,
liver and bladder medicine, will do for
them. BY enclosing ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, you
may receive sample size bottle by Parcel
Post. You can purchase medium and
large size bottles at all drug stores.-Adv.
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1t Was a Tribute to Both That They
Hated the Collision More Than Each
Other.

Hated the Collision More Than Each
Other.
his mother and Daphne good morning,
and he paced up and down the dining
room like a Gagged leopard till Leila
arrived.
Her trousseau had included boudOir
gowns of the most ravishing descrip-
ton and she wore her best one to
breakfast. Daphne and Mrs. Kip made
all the desirable EXPLANATIONS at the
cost and the cut of it. Even Bayard
paid her a tribute.
isn't she dream mother? Aren't
you proud of her, Daph?"
They agreed that she was and they
were, and Bayard drew his chair up to
the table with pride.
1t was the brides last breakfast and
the housewives first. That is, Leila,
was not really a housewife; only an
apartment wife, with nearly every
thing done for her except the spending
Of her time. She had to spend her own
time.
This breakfast was the funeral Of
the honeymoon, and Leila hung with
graceful detection over the coffee cup.
1t might have been cup of heInlock,
judging from the posture of her woe.
But the he-brute, attracted by a por-
ton of headline, had his newspaper
and was gulping it down with his cof-
fee.
He was so absorbed in the mere
clash of two Mexican generals and the
danger of American Intervention that
he forgot the all-important demands
Of love, and ignored the appalling fact
that he had only few minutes left
before he must take his departure.
1t was a pitiful awakening to the
new Mrs. Kip. She was being taught
that she was not important enough to
keep her husbands mind or his body
close at home. He had said that she
was all the world to him, and, behold
she was only part of it. He had said
that he could think of nothing else and
desired nothing else but her. Now he
had her and he was thinking of every
thing else. He had to have a news
paper to tell him all about everything
in the world.
The sight of Leila's anguish over the
breakfast obsequies of the honeymoon
chilled Daphne's hope Of marriage
bliss like frost ravening among peach
blossoms.
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so ! can do my house work without any
difficulty. ! advise any woman who is
afflicted with female troubles to give
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound trial and it will do as much for
them. Mrs. MARIE BOYD, 1421 9Th
St., N. E., Canton, Ohio.
Sometimes there are serious condi-
tons where a hospital operation is the
only alternative, but on the other hand
SO many women have been cured by this
famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, after
doctors have said that an operation was
necessary - every woman who wants
to avoid an operation should give it a
fair trial before submitting to such
trying ordeal.
The letters constantly being pub
lished from women in every section Of
this country prove beyond question the
merit of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.
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Could Be Remedied.

One day little Jack did not wish to
pick up his blocks. His mother said:
''Why, Jack. if you don't pick them
up it will break your mammals heart"
But with a quick reply, Jack said:
-"Oh, mamma, then I'll get string
and tie it up"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1919-06-18
America Leads.

The method of pressing American
cottonseed oil is typical of the way
hot-presSed oils are made, and the ma
chinery and process used in the pro-
are superior to those of any other
country. Plants of American design
and construction are in operation in
Europe, Asia Minor, India and China.
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(TO BE CONTINUED.l
As He Understood Orders.

SNOW" said the medical officer to
the raw recruit, "having taken your
height and chest measurement, we will
try the Scales" And the unsophisti.
Gated one Immediately commenced,
"Do, re, mi, fa," etc.
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An Offset.

Mrs. O'Brien-Are yez laundry bills
very high, Mrs. Casey?
Mrs. Casey-Not so very. It's thrue
they charge be the piece, but they lose
so many pieces it keeps down tn eX-
pinsc.-BOSton Transcript
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Safety in Silence.

can intelligent looking dog you have
there"
"Indeed he is" said the proud owner.
"Now, if that dog could only talk,
the things he might say"
Perish the thought, That dog has
followed me into all kinds of places"
Birmingham Age-Herald.
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Every feminine reader of this
paper can appreciate the situa-
ton in which Daphne found her.
self when she set out to buy all
the pretty things that she felt
she should have before becom-
ing Clay's bride. Her limited
purse did not fit in at all with
the prices that confronted her
at every turn. What did she do2
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No Complaint.

"Your friend, the politician, is not
Of the type that will ever get in Il
hall of fame"
"That doesn't worry him. He will
be content If he gets into a haul of
graft"
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suffering, and two
doctors de cided
that | would have
to go through an
operation before /
could get well.
" My mother, who
had been helped by
Lydia E. Pinkham 8
V eg table Com
pound, advised me
to try it before SUBJ
hitting to an opera
ton. Itrelieved me
frNya ~o- Aa1-LlAo
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No Luxury.

81 assure you, my patience was
taxed to the utmost
"And yet patience is n necessity"
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His avorite.

Landady-What part of the chicken
do Won prefer?
Ronrdcr-A little of the meat please.
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HOW MRS. BOYD
AVOIDED AN
OPERATION

Canton, Ohio.-"I suffered from a
female trouble which caused me much
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-28
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKETS
Continued From Page ~

sold at seventeen and seventeen and a
half cents. A very few choice crops
brought twenty cents. Whether there
will be much twenty cent tobacco even
the buyers now in the field cannot tell.
Most of them think there will not be,
but they give their opinion with a
string, it depends what the big out
side concerns do" Judging from pres
ent appearances these concerns are not
laundering after the crop. Most of
them have buyers in the field, but they
are only buying a little, and only TAX
ing good crops, at prevailing prices.
Apparently the crop will just melt
away gradually, though it is probable
that the last will not leave the grow
ers' hands until late this spring. A
good deal is being heard now about re-
ducing this county's acreage, but it is
all moonshine, because few growers
could be found who would be willing to
cut down so profitable crop. 1t is
quite safe to predict as large an acre
age this year as in 1913.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-28
CORRESPONDENCE
ALBION

Mr.. VIM. Mills is very i'll at the L..
0. Painter home.
Mahlon Bolser Of Madison spent Sat-
urday visiting old friends here.
Wanted-More Red Cross knitters.
Plenty of yarn at the post office.
Miss Olive Thompson and Miss Doris
Bliven spent Saturday in GAINESVILLE.
Mrs. C. A. Emerson and children of
Milton visited at 0. l.. Coon's Sunday.
Mr.. A. l.. Benedict of Beloit spent
the week end at the E. A. Drake home.
Miss Myrtle Mccarthy entertained
her domestic science class Wednesday
evening.
Mrs. Dora Burdick is spending a
couple of weeks with her son Claude at
Bdgerton.
Mrs. /. d. Atwood was called to An
iva Monday On account of the sudden
Hines of her sister.
Mr.. Warren Ayers spent few days
OF last week visiting friends and rela-
tives at Walworth.
Mrs. H. M. Stout returned last week
after spending the winter with her son
Claude and family in Milwaukee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayland Green enter
tanned at dinner Saturday Mr.. and Mrs.
H. H. Babcock, Mr.. and Mrs. |. ID.
Humphrey and Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd
Simpson.
Mrs. Willis Stillman of Madison came
Thursday to visit her father and other
relatives and friends, Mr.. Stillman
coming Saturday and returning with
her Sunday.
Those who attended the play, ooh
Boy" at GAINESVILLE Saturday evening
were Mr.. and Mrs. |. D. Humphrey,
Mr.. and Mrs. III. E. Whitford, Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Drake and daughter and E.
w. Whitford.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Thomas, Mr..
and Mrs. I'll. E. Whitford, Mr.. and Mrs.
r.. D. Whitford, Mr. and Mrs. Wardle
Whitford and Mr.. and Mrs. E. w.
Whitford attended birthday party for
their father, A. L. Whitford, at Milton
Junction Tuesday.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-28
FULTON

R. S. Pease is at Chippewa Falls,
Wis, on business this week.
A Red Cross meeting was held at the
Raymond home Tuesday afternoon.
Robt. Berg was home from Great
Lakes on furlough the first of the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. S. Pease have
moved into the house with Mrs. Mary
MurwiR.
Chas. Raymond has sold his farm to
the Alex White estate the past week.
Curtis Jessup will move onto the farm
this spring.
The Clio Concert Quartet of Beloit
urday night, April 5th, at the church
Admission 35 and 15c.
Maurice Thomson has been iii at the
home of Curtis Jessup the past week.
His mother was called from GAINESVILLE
TO take care of him.
The marriage of Miss Florence Zach
arias and William Hubbell took place
last week Wednesday at the home of
the bride. They will move onto the
Miss Fisher. a trained nurse of Be-
lott, left for her home last Sunday
after being at the home of w. N. Lee
taking care of the infant son who has
been seriously i'll with pneumonia.
A drive by the Red Cross for cloth
ing, blankets, shoes, etc., is on from
March "a to 31st. All good articles
oh nd of
will be a great help to relieve suffering
and should be turned in at the Edger-
ton Red Cross rooms by Saturday
night.
The mems supper last Friday night
was decided success and brought out
the largest crowd ever witnessed at a
meeting in the village Supper was
served to about $50 people. There
were about forty members of the
Chamber of Commerce from Edgerton
present, bringing flowers and music.
Following program was given after the
supper: Community singing led by
Harvey Raymond. Piano solo, Mrs.
Van Ness Green. Solo, Miss Luch-
singer. Tenor solo, Mr.. Hugh Stew
art. Address of welcome, Mr.. Rhoad.
Reply by Prof. Holt. The main ad-
dress was given by Dean Collie OF Be-
lott college.
The farm residence of d. F. Sayre
Jr. was burned to the ground last Sat-
urday morning. The first the family
knew of the fire was at 2:30 a. m. and
the house was consumed and nearly
burned out an hour later. Several
neighbors and people from the village
were called out to help and all other
buildings were saved but were in no
great danger at any time. A small
amount of furniture was saved from
the lower floor but no clothing or val
tables from the upper part of the
house. Dean Collie of Beloit college
was guest for the night and escaped
with all his clothing. The fire started
in the attic Of the house, cause I'M
known. Insurance to the amount of
$500 partially covered the loss.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-28

Congregational Notes for March 30th
Church School at 1000 a, m.
Departments for all ages in the
Standard Graded Courses. Young
men are especially invited to join
the Pilgrim Class, which will soon
take up the. study of Harry Emer-
son Fosdick's Manhood of the Mas
t1r."
Morning Worship at 11:00. Ser
mon b. the pastor.
Christian En6cavcr at Gas. Lead
er, Ma, garet Nelson.
Community. Evening at 1880.
The Church will extend welcome
to such of the soldiers and sailors
as have returned to their homes. At
ter short program in the auditor
ium, a social hour will be spent in
the Sunday school rooms. The La
dies Society and the Christian En-
deavor will serve chocolate and waf-
ers. This reception will be strictly
undenominational and non-sectarian
and everyone is invited to join with
AS.
Charles r.. Atkins. Pastor
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-28
Charles l.. Atkins, Pa
AT THE LYRIC

Baby Marie Osborne in "Dolly's
Vacation" will be the attraction at
the Lyric tonight (Thursday). This
comedy drama is one of the best that
Baby Marie has ever played in. The
little star and her dusky companion.
Sambo, are up to pranks from the
first flash to the last and the situa-
ton are so funny that one is forced
to laughter, "Peace Acres" were
Dolly and Sambo are taking vaca-
ton is peaceful no longer. No adj
vance in price.
The great emotional actress of the
speaking stage, Jane Cowl, will be
featured in "The Spreading Dawn"
to be shown on Saturday. The story
deals with wealthy woman who re-
fuses her consent to her niece's mar
rage and tells her life story as
proof that her niece would be I'M
happy. A picture that has a great
deal of charm and is decidedly on a
higher plan than the average pro-
duction.
Clara Kimball Young in Cheating
Cheaters," film adoption of the
famous Broadway stage success of
the same name, will be shown on
Monday. "Cheating Cheaters" is one
of the most unusual plays ever pR-
duced on either stage or screen.
"The Price of a Good Timex fea-
turing Mildred Harris, or rather
Mrs. Charlie Chaplin, will be shown
on Tuesday. "Did you ever have a
good time?" is the question that
Preston Winfield, a wealthy young
man puts to Linnie Randall, a sad
faced little clerk and as Winfield's
people are gone and time hangs
heavy on his hands, he decides to
give the girl the time CT her life. A
picture that has been shown to adj
vanced prices, but can be seen at
the Lyric on Tuesday for the regular
admission.