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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
DOLLAR PRINCESS
TALKS FOR PRESS
TinpIate Queen Says She and
Tino Hate Germans.
DID NOT WED TO GET TITLE
Declares She Still Is "Yankee at
Heart" and Fact That Her Hus-
band Is Prince Is
Against Him.

Athens, Jan. 3.--Princess Anastasia,
the American wife of Prince Christie
pher Of Greece. gave out an interview
here.
Il am still an American at heart"
she said. II did not marry to get a
title. The fact that my husband is a
prince is against him. I had known
him ever since 1912, and when it was
question of marriage / wanted to see
If Greece would be against the allies,
Ia which case | would not have mar
ried Christopher.
Il regard the king and his family
as proally. He told me that he tried
three times 70 put Greece in the war
on the side Of the allies.
She and King "Hate Germans"
ut is nonsense. these reports that
my money bought back the throne. In
the first place, 1 cannot take the prin-
cipal of my fortune from the United
States. | enjoy only the income. Also
1t is nonsense that am working to re-
store the kaiser. I hate the Germans
as also does the king.
my son civilian B. Leeds Jr., son
of the late American Tinplate King
and Anastasfa), will remain in Amer
lea, where his father left a great
name, which he must carry on. He
should now be in school In England,
but he is travelling with my sister be-
cause he has asthma.
Wants Son in U. S. Navy.
''If he were not asthmatic I would
try to get him In the American navy
or army. He is bright boy. and I
am sure that he will make a name for
himself. possibly in a diplomatic ca
reer.
1.-THE Greeks are most pleasant to
me, the soldiers and peasants sending
me flowers and trinkets. 1t is my
plan to get house here for the win
tehs and keep up one in England dur
ing the summers. Also, I shall visit
my own country"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
TO PRESS SUNDAY BLUE
LAWS IN THE SENATE
Drastic Provisions Backed by Sixteen
Churches Aimed to Secure Sab
bath Regulations.

Washington, Dec. 31.-Blue law ad-
vOcates have their bill all ready for
introduction in the senate and expect
to press it for consideration soon after
New Years.
1t was sent to Senator Mcclellan Of
Tennessee by the Tennessee annual
conference of Methodist ministers and
laymen and contains provisions dras-
tic in the extreme.
1t would forbid Sunday work OF
any kind by any employee Of the
United States.
1t would stop the running of all In
terstate trains.
1t would exclude from the United
States mail all newspapers published
"or purporting to be published" on
Sunday.
1t would not only punish by fine and
Imprisonment persons doing these
things, but anyone who lads or pro-
cures another" in doing them; that is,
who pays for ride on an interstate
train on Sunday or buys a Sunday
newspaper that has been carried by
the mails.
Though not officially given out, it Is
understood that this measure will
have the backing of the Lords Day
alliance, which is supported by six
teen Of the strongest evangelical de-
nominations in America, including the
Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian u pis-
copalian and Congregational churches.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
MERCHANTS DECLINE TO BUY
Trade at StandstiII, Says St. Louis Re-
serve Bank Report-UnempIoyed
Increasing.

st. Louis, Dec. 31.-Marked apathy
continues to characterize commodity
buying in the Eighth Federal Reserve
district, according to the monthly re-
port issued here. The quietness has
been accompanied by further price
cuts, the report says. These have
failed to stimulate purchasing. Mer-
chants are doing virtually no future
buying. and consequently manufacture
ers have curtailed operations, and, in
a number Of instances, closed their
plants. This is resulting in the re-
lease of skilled and unskilled workers,
and the surplus unemployed is in
creaSing.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07

Jefferson, Jan. 5.-The trial of Mat
thew ]. Lynaugh, Madison policeman,
on charge of first degree murder for
the shooting of Carl Jandorf, univer-
sity student, started here with the ex-
animation of 81 jurymen. Lynaugh
shot JandOrf when the student re-
monstrated with the policeman over
the arrest of freshman during the
university's annual "cap night" at
which the yearlings burn the green
caps which tradition requires them to
wear during their first campus year.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
RUSS RECALL LONDON ENVOY
Moscow Charges Britain With VioIat.
ing July Trade Agree
ment

London, Dec. 31.-A Moscow wire
less message says that as Great
Britain, which recently accepted the
July agreement for resumption of
trade with Russia. "haw now COM
pletely altered it's position and is
clearly evading the obligations which
it undertook" the soviet government
has decided to recall Leonid Krassin,
Bolshevist minister of trade and COM
merce, from London to consult with
him.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
DR." RAIDERS ARE BEsIEGEn
Squad of State Troops Are Forced
to Summon Aid Near
Detroit.

Detroit, Mich, Jan. IA squad of
state troopers who raided a down
river hotel and confiscated a small
quantity of whisky were besieged by
a crowd including many schoolboys.
who snowballed the officers. The
troopers, being worsted in the encoun-
ter, were forced to summon aid,
which arrived in two police fiivvers.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
Cupid Busy in 1920.

Eau Claire, Jan. 5.-During the
year just closed Dan Cupid broke all
previous records in Eau Claire county,
according to the records of County
Clerk Nygaard. During 1920 there
were issued 352 licenses to wed. as
compared with 272 during 1919, an in
crease of so.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
COAL OIL JOHNNY" DIES
Man Famed as Spendthrift Fifty Years
Ago, Dies at Fort Crook,
Neb

Omaha, Neb, Jan. 3.-Fame and
money are nothing. now to John w.
Steele, the Goal Oil Johnny" of more
than fifty years ago. He died of pneu-
monia at Fort Crook, where he was
station agent for the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy railroad He died
in one of four little rooms back of the
station.
At the top. "Coal Oil Johnny had
about S500000. which looked much
larger in the eastern cities over fifty
years ago than it would today.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
ASK WATER POWER PERMITS
Twenty Seven States Represented in
Applications to the Commission
at Washington.

Washington, Jan. 3.-Included in 1874
applications thus far received by the
federal water power commission for
permits or licenses under the water
power act passed by congress last
June are one from Illinois, one from
Wisconsin and three from Minnesota.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07

Word that the bank had been held
up spread rapidly through the town.
Men swarmed out, armed with rifles,
bandits could get their car under way
they were being subjected to storm
OF bullets and leaden slugs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
MORE REDS TO BE DEPORTED
Alien Radicals to Be Sent to Russia
January Is on Orders of the
Department of Labor

Boston, Dec. 31.-Another deporta-
ton of alien radicals to Russia is
planned by the Department of Labor
for January Is. 1t will include per-
sons detained or on parole both at this
port and New York. This announce
ment was made in the federal district
court by Assistant United States At
torney Lewis Goldberg.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
Lived Fifty Years in Same House.

La Crosse, Jan. 5.-In the house
where they have lived continuously
since their marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Eric Erickson celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary here Fifty rela-
tives and friends attended.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
J Land of the Sugar Maple.

The finest and most abundant growth
of the sugar maple is found in the New
England states. New York, northern
and western Pennsylvania and west
ward throughout the region of the
Great Lakes to Minnesota. In the
southern Appalachians it grows we'll
were cli's':f..f- ...'.ti"i,s 80 s..'ei' il
these -. Z, 70. H.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
Workhouse Closed.

Fond du Lac, Jan. 5.-The Fond du
Lac county wOrkhouse closed it's
quarter of century existence on Mon
day when it shut down because of lack
of business. Officials explained prohi-
bitiOn brought about the closing.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
Insurance Pioneer Dies.

Madison, Jan. 5.-Willett E. Main,
pioneer insurance man of Madison and
widely known by. insurance men
throughout the state, died after a
weeks Illness. He was sixty-four years
old and was born in Madison.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
Theater storeroom Robbed.

Superior, Jan. enlarged with
stealing sufficient furniture to furnish
a fiat, Fred Bigby, thirty-four, en-
plOyed as janitOr at the Rialto thea
ter, was arrested when it was discov-
cred that a storeroom of the theater
had been emptied of it's contents,
which included stage furniture used in
settings.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
IRISH CURATE is SENTENCED
Given Two Years by Court Martial
for Having Seditious Lit
erature.

Waterford, Ireland, Jan. 5.-A.
Catholic curate of Callan, P. Ell. Della
hunty, has been sentenced to two
years at hard labor by a court-martial
for possessing seditious literature and
documents.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
Builders to Meet.

GAINESVILLE, Jan. 5.-More than five
hundred builders are expected here on
January II for the annual convention
of the Wisconsin Master Builders as
ISOLATION which will open three-day
session in a theater.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
Smiths Successor Appointed.

GAINESVILLE, Jan. Paul 2. Pullen
of Evansville was elected vice presi-
dent of the Merchants and Savings
bank here to succeed S. M. Smith, who
will become the treasurer of the Wis
consin Finance corporation of MiIwau-
kee.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
TrestIe Worker Killed

Creme Bay, Jan. 5.-Andrew Boehm
of this city was electrocuted here.
Boehm came in contact with wire
carrying $4,000 volts while working on
a trestle. He fell 60 feet fracturing
his skull.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
Green Bay Is MayorIess.

Green Bay, Jan. 5.-Thfs city will
be mayorless for three months. The
council has decided not to appoint a
successor to former Mayor Hall, due
to the fact that there were no appli-
cants.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
Close Hamburg Zoo Gardens

Hamburg. Jan. 1.-The geological
society at general meeting decided
to close the Hamburg geological gar
dens because the city is not in finan
cial position to assist in their main
tenance.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
KILLS lOWA'S TWO-CENT LAW
Federal Judge Permanently Enjoins
Enforcement of State Rail-
road Fare Act.

Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 1.-Iowa's
two-cent law was given it's death blow
by a final decree of Federal Judge
NJ. J. Wade, permanently enjoining en-
forcement of the law.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
Mexico .Recoanized by germany.

Mexico City, Jan. Formal recog-
milton of the Mexican government by
Germany, signed by President Ebert
and Foreign Minister Simons, was re-
cefved here and given out by the for
eign relations department.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-01-07
Three Ripon Pioneers Die.

Ripon, Jan. 5.-Three pioneers of
this city died within the last few days.
They were John Bazeley, G. S. Cook
and Chris Yonks.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-12-22
(cHAPTER III-continued.)

lord, don't ask mew Peter said,
gruffiy. II think she's too young to
marry anyone-but the mlschief's
done nowp
~ think I'll talk to her." her father
decided. Anything is better than
having her make a mistake. l think
she'll listen to mep' And a day or
two later he called her into the study.
II was a quiet autumn morning, fOggy
yet warm, with a dewy, woody sweet
ness in the air.
Before we decide this thing final
ly," the doctor said, smiling into her
bright face, "before Martin writes his
people that It's settled, 1 want to ask
you to do something. It's something
you won't like to do, my little girl.
l want ye to wait while-wait a
yearl"
1t was said. He watched the bright
ness fade from her glowing face. She
lowered her eyes. The line Of her
mouth grew firm.
"Wait until you're twenty, dear.
That's young enough. only ask you
to take little time-to be sure, dear y
Silence. She shrugged family.
blinked the downcast eyes as If tears
stung them.
"Can't take your old fathers word
for it?" DIR. Strickland asked.
ut isn't that, Dadw she protested
eagerly and affectionately. "I'll wait
II have waited! I'll wait until
Christmas, or April, If you say so |!
But It won't make any difference (;
nothing will. l love him and he loves
me, and we always will.
"'You don't know" Cherry went on,
with suddenly watering eyes, you
don't know what this summer of sepa-
ration has meant to us both If we
must wait longer, why, we will, of
course, but IT will mean that / am
just living along somehow-oh, I won't
cryr she interrupted, smiling with
wet lashes. "I'n try to bear it de-
Gently! But sometimes l feel as If
! couldn't bear it"
A rush Of tears choked her. She
CROPPED for a handkerchief and felt,
as she had felt so many times, her
fathers handkerchief pressed into her
hand. The doctor sighed. There was
nothing more to be said.
So he gave Cherry a wedding check
that made her dance with JOY and
there was no more seriousness. There
were gowns, dinners, theater parties
and presents; every day brought its
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-12-22

bewildered with fatigue. At two
o'clock there were good-bys. Cherry
had changed the wedding satin for the
cream olored rajah silk then and wore
the extravagant hat. 1t would be
many years before she would spend
twenty-five dollars Tor hat again, and
never again would she see bronzed
cocks feathers against bronzed straw
without remembering the clean little
woOd-smelling bedroom and the hour in
which she had pinned her wedding hat
ever her fair hair, and had gone, de-
mure and radiant and confident, to
meet her husband in the old hallway.
She was confusedly kissed, passed
from hand to hand, was conscious with
a sort Of strange aching at her heart
that she was not only far from saying
the usual heart-broken things in fare
well, but was actually far from feel
ing them. She laughed at Alix's last
nonsense, promised to write-wouldn't
say good-by-would see them all soon
was coming, Martin-and so a last
kiss for darling Dad and good-by and
so many thanks and thanks to them
all!
She was gone. With her the uncer-
tain autumn sunshine vanished and a
shadow fell on the forest. The noun
tain above the valley was blOtted out
with fog. The brown house seemed
dark and empty when the last guests
had loitered away and the last caterer
had gathered up his possessions and
had gone.
The doctor had changed his I'M
wonted wedding finery for his shabby
old smoking jacket, but Peter still
looked unnaturally well dressed. Alix
stepped down to sit between them and
her fathers arm went about her. She
snuggled against him In an unusual
mood Of tenderness and quiet.
BE nice to mel" she said, wbim-
sically. I'm lonelyl"
"H'ml" her father said, significant
~, tightening his arm. Peter moved
up on the other side and locked his
own arm i'm her free one. And so
.ACy sat, silent, depressed, their shout
ders touching, their somber eyes fixed
"pon the shadowy depths Of the forest
into which an October fog was softly
and noiselessly creeping.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-12-22
CHAPTER v.

So winter passed at the mine and
at the brown house under the shout.
der of Tamalpais. Alix still kept her
bedroom windows open, but the rain
tore in, and Anne protested at the en-
suing stains on the pantry ceiling
Cherry's wedding, once satisfactori
ly over, was a cause Of great satlsfac
tion to her sister and cousin. They
had stepped back duly, to give her
the center Of the stage; they had ad
mired and congratulated; had helped
her In all hearty generosity. And now
that she was gone they enjoyed their
own lives again and cast over hers the
glamor that novelty and distance new,
er fail to give. Cherry, married and
keeping house and managing affairs
was an object of romantic interest
The girls surmised that Cherry must
be making friends; that everyone must
admire her; that Martin would be
rich some day, without doubt.
Cherry wrote regularly, now and then
assuring them that she was the same
old Cherry. She described her tiny hous4
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-12-22
May Repair Liberty Bell

Announcement was made In Tivoli,
Duchess county, that George Waelde
has just repaired a bell that has not
rung for 40 years, and that, In
spired by this success, he is planning
to go to Philadelphia and try to repair
the cracked Liberty bell that an
nounced the Declaration of Indepen-
dence.
The old church bell Just repaired
was sounded for the first time in 40
years on Armlstlce day. The bell Is
to be replaced in the steeple Of the
Old Red Church in Tivoli. 1t was in
stalled there when the church was
erected 1872 years ago. 1t was cracked
by a sexton, who used a hammer to
sound 1t when the bell rope broke.
Waelde, who is a welder, tinkered with
the bell until he finally closed the
crack and restored its sOund.-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-12-22
Thousands Have Kidney
Trouble and Never
Suspect 1t
Applicants for Insurance Often
Rejected.

Judging from reports from druggists
who are constantly in direct touch with
the public, there is one preparation that
has been very successful in overcoming
these conditions. The mild and healing
influence of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root 10
soon realized. 1t stands the highest for
its remarkable record of success.
An examining physician for one of the
prominent Life Insurance Companies, in
an interview on the subject, made the as
tonishing statement that one reason why
20 many applicants for insurance are re
jected is because kidney trouble is 90
common to the American people, and the
large majority of those whose applica.
tions are declined do not even suspect
that they have the disease.
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp Root is on sale
at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes
medium and large. However, if you wish
first to test this great preparation send
ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bingham.
ton, N. Y, for sample bottle. When
writing be sure and mention this paper.
Advertisement.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-12-22
CHAPTER w.

Meanwhile the hot train sped on,
and the drab autumn country flew by
the windows, and still the bride sat
wrapped in her dream, smiling, mus
ing, rouslng herself to notice the
scenery.
When Martin asked her II she liked
to be married woman, travelling with
her husband, she smiled and said that
it seemed funny" For the most part
she was silent, pleased and interested,
but not quite her usual unconcerned
self After dinner they had a long,
murmured talk; she began to droop
sleepily now, although even this long
day had not paled her cheeks or visi-
bly, tired her.
At ten they stumbled out, cramped
and overheated, and smitten on tired
foreheads with rush of icy mountain
air.
as this the placer" yawned Cher.
ry, clinging to his arm.
This is the place, Baby Girl; Ell
Nido, and not much OF a placed" her
husband told her. That's the Hotel
Mckinley, over there where the lights
are We stay there tonight and drive
out to the mine tomorrow. I'll man
age the bags, but don't you stumble ~
She was wide-awake now, looking
alertly about her at the dark streets
of the little town. Mud squelched be-
meath their feet, planks tilted. Beside
Martin, Cherry entered the bright,
cheerful lobby OF cheap hotel where
men were smoking and splitting. She
was beside him at the desk and saw
him write on the register, ~. M. Lloyd
and wife," The clerk pushed a key
across the counter; Martin guided her
70 a rafting elevator.
She had feeting thought of home ;
of Dad reading before the fire, of the
little brown room upstairs, with Alix.
slender in her thin nightgown, yawning
over her prayers. A rush of reluc-
tanceA-of strangeness-of something
like terror smote her. She fought the
inconsistencies down resolutely; every
thing would seem brighter tomorrow.
when the morning and the sunshine
came again.
There was a brown and red car
pet In the oblong of the room. and a
brown bureau, and a wide iron bed
with limp spread, and a peeling
brown washstand with a pitcher and
basin. The boy lighted a flare Of cleo
trio lights which made the chocolate
and gold wallpaper look like one pat
tern in the light and another In the
shadow. A man laughed I'm the ad-
joining room the voice seemed very
near.
Cherry had never been In a hotel
of this sort before. II seemed to her
cheap and horrible; she did not want
10 stay In this room, and Martin, tip
ping the boy and asking for ice-water.
seemed somehow a part Of this new
strangeness and crudeness. She began
to be afraid that he would think she
was silly, presently. II she said her
prayers as usual.
.
In the morning Martin hired a phae.
ton and they drove out to the mine.
Cherry had had a good breakfast and
was wearing q new gown; they stopped
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-12-22

right at the mine, and the long sheds
of the plant, and the bare big build.
ing that was the mems boarding house
Martins associates brought her trout
and ducks, she wrote; she and Martin
had driven three hundred miles in the
superintendent's car; she was pre-
pairing for a card party.
Think Of little old Cherry goins
off on weekend trips with three
men I" Alix would say proudly. "ThinB
Of Cherry giving a party" Anne per
haps would make no comment, but she
often felt q pang of envy. Cherry
seemed to have everything.
Suddenly, without warning, there
was newcomer In the circle, a sleek.
headed brown haired little man known
as Justin Little.
He had been introduced at some par.
ty to Anne and Alix; he called; he
was presently taking Anne to a lee.
ture. Anne now began to laugh at
him and say that he was too ride.
ulous." but she did not allow any one
else to say so. On the contrary, she
told Alix at various times that his
mother had been one of the old Mary
land Percles, and his great grandfather
was mentioned in a book by Sir Wal.
ter Scott, and that one had TO respect
the man, even If one didn't choose to
marry him.
MARRY him !" Alix had echoed In
simple amazement. Marry him-what
was all this sudden change In the
household when a man could no sooner
appear than some girl began to talk
of marriage7 Stupefed, Alix watched
the affair progress.
II don't imagine it's seriousl" her
father said on an April walk. Peter,
tramping beside them, was interested
but silent.
my dear father" the girl protested
Have you listened to them2 They've
been contendng for weeks that they
were just remarkably good friends
that's why she calls him Frenny!'
"Ah-I see !" the doctor said mildly,
as Peters wild laugh burst forth.
"But now" Alix pursued. "shes told
him that as she cannot be what he
wishes, they had better not meetr'
"Poor Anne" the old doctor com
mented.
"Poor nothingi She's having thu
time Of her life," her cousin said I'M
feelIngly. "She told me today that
she was afraid that she had checked
one Of the most brilliant careers At
the bar"