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he should seem so forlorn.
Then l spoke.

Father, aren't you funny? When
Owen comes in tell him want to see him
at once
"'You'd better take your husband and
go to Rochester, said my father, as left.
| sat down in my room, just puzzled. Soon
my husband came in.
"'Owen,' said I, Owen, think-per-
haps-it would be better if you and l
went to your home. think
"He interrupted me. Yes said he, so
does your mother. She's going away for
ter together
81 was utterly dumbfounded. Next day
my mother left for Reno. My father, be-
fore he left our house, said two or three
grim sentences to me.
"'Your mother is infatuated with your
husband. She has gone to Reno to get a
divorce from me. The next thing you'll
be divorced from your husband. And
then they'll get married. For all the years
of her life your mother never wanted
anything yet but what she got it.
81 couldn't believe it. Poor darling,
don't torture YOURSELF said l.
"And fought to believe. Next day word
came from my mother. In six months she
expected to get her divorce.
"And then, in a FASH I knew it was
only question Of time before my mother
would become the wife of my own hus-
band.
"'Mother didn't add a postscript for
me-in your letter, did she? asked.
"He answered shortly, No, she wrote
me ten pages, but no postscript for you
."Iife-at least my life-since ever my
mother became infatuated with my hus-
band--seems such nightmare. l am a
sick woman now; l am ill unto death of
cancer. know am going to die. We'll
come death, for it will take me from that
which is far worse than death. AS l re-
CALL events from the time of my mothers
divorce piled themselves upon each other
with dizzying tragedy. For, after we
came to Rochester, my husband, my
mother and my mothers children, it was
| who played the mother and stayed at
home. 1t was my mother and my husband
who went out to ride, or sat- with lowered
lights, in our drawing-room, talking in
soft, rapt whispers. Until left and also
little while before.
But | will never tell what woman
mentioned in the papers of my divorce
trial, which were impounded. For l am
a daughter, still, and, having a daughter
of my own, spare. But the divorce was
granted me, when / had named a core
spondent's name. took my little daugh-
ter and returned to Brooklyn, where, in
illness, my cancer coming on, and my lit
tie girl sick with one serious ailment after
another, lived in great poverty on the
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one hundred and twenty-five dollars my
wealthy mother allowed me each month.
"About this time l saw my father. He
was old-much older, and very discour-
aged. After lifetime of aff1uence and
happiness he had received a shock from
which he never rallied. He had given up
the struggle and was working as plain
cook in an army camp-Camp Mills.
"It's hard world-for some-daugh-
ter said he to me, as he stirred huge
cauldron of hash for the soldiers supper
4 often think of your mother-is she
happy-with her new husband"
"'Oh, don't talk about it, said l to
him. Then my father asked me: How
much money does your mother allow you?
81 told him. He shook his head. Look
here, Maudc. You're sick, and the baby
will die if something isn't done. Why
don't you just put your feelings away and
&c. and live with your mother-for the
sake of the baby?'
Its too terrible, said l. 4 never
could
But that was before the baby's last
operation. After that, after had waited
for bitter, wavering days, wondering if my
poor child would live, l threw up my
hands.
"'Come,' telegraphed my mother; it is
your duty to the child
$50 went, i'll myself, with my i'll baby.
These long months have been agony for
me, but the baby has thrived. She's get
ting to be a strong girl now. That's what
! tell myself as my mother and my hus-
band pass out, arm in arm, or inger,
talking low, after the lights are dim.
"'Bear up, it won't be for long now
And it has made-your mothers money
has made-a strong child of your little
girl And now-at length know that
will go soon. All the better. My, eyes
will be closed, then, and my ears numb to
love making that once used to be for me.
But, still, while l linger, l ask myself
however could it be-however-in all the
world-that my own mother-could ever
be persuaded-to marry her daughters
husband?"
This is the story, repeated, in hushed
accents, over the teacups, just now, in
polite drawing-rooms in Rochester. And
as now and then the limousine and the
liveried chauffeur of the second Mrs. De-
Witt passes up and down the spacious
streets of the rose city, going to and from
the handsome De residence, in Brown
croft, exclusive residential section, to the
Jail where Dewitt awaits his trial, and as
the peighbors glimpse the aged wife
through the car windows, they again ask
each other, in hushed tones: Il
daughter-now? ] wonder-if her young
husband-would ever have got into such
ways-if it had not been for her wealth,
lavished upon him, after he took her to
be his wife, in place of her own childf
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one day I came home, eager and yet shy.
had been to doctors and the news that
he had told me is glad news to any young
wife, loving her husband and therefore,
loving his child, even before it is born.
81 ran up the stairs, hunting for Owen
I wanted to tell him, and could imagine,
in my inexperience, how glad he would
be, too.
"'Where's Owen? asked my father,
who sat alone and rather forlorn, in his
upstairs bedroom.
"'Your husband said my father, with
stolid statement of bare facts, your hus-
band is out ridng-with my wife,
"At first | laughed, the jubilant laugh
of a grown daughter, whose father is still
trying to talk to her as if she were a little
child. thought father was gently joking
me on my new dignity as a married
woman. And then looked at my father
again.
Suddenly a gaunt pain seized my
heart, and, for few seconds, my world
turned to a cruel, grinning, comfortless,
mocking place. In those seconds looked
at my father, saw how old and gray
and tired he appeared. I wondered why
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very wealthy Mrs. Weber, and doesn't a
mothers love stay with her child in its
protection, even beyond matrimony.
"And, besides, was I not the wife of
young, strong, handsome Owen Dewitt,
whose life was all before him? In those
days, you know, had the courage of the
future.
But, strange as it seemed to me, we
did not come up here to my husbands
home in Rochester after our marriage
Live with US while,' my mother told my
husband
Perhaps we had better go, dear, even
if mother wants US to stay. Your home is
my home, now. l will be lonesome for
my people, but does not a wife follow her
husband where he wishes? So spoke to
Owen one day when we were alone.
Gwen stay with the old folks said
my husband to me. Your mother wants
me to stay
'I was little puzzled, but was glad
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things. After my
mother and my
husband had got
together and de-
cided something,
m y h u s b a n d
W ul d tell me
what our n e X t
step would be.
" But perhaps
you don't like to
do it, | would
say to him.
of course /
do he would re-
ply. Your moth
er wants me to,
a n d W h at she
wantsI want, too
L" T h en- m v
mother b e 6 a n
giving my hus-
band an allow
ance, for he was
not working. She
didn't give him a
large allowance,
but it was ade-
quate, where he
was not keeping
up a house. So
things went till
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meek women like myself, who cannot
help; who, instead, with bowed heads,
have to take whatever the fates extend.
1t doesn't seem so many years ago that
Owen and l were married. We were liv-
ing in New York then, my father, John F.
Weber, my two brothers, my sister, nay
mother and |. We all loved each other.
Then Dewitt came, and it was to me he
paid his attentions.
81 loved him; suppose I love him still.
1t doesn't seem to be a sin to love the
husband of your youth, does it? And yet
loving the husband of my youth, am
loving the husband of my mother. And
that is wrong. And my mother would re-
sent that. My mother is an imperious
woman, and she says what is in her heart,
even to her sick daughter.
"But, as I was telling you. He came
courting me in Brooklyn. At last we
were married. ] thought was to be very
happy, for wasI not the daughter of the
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with misery the married happiness-if
happiness it could be-of her former
husband and her old mother.
Was it his mother-in-law's money
that had attracted Dewitt and caused
him to give up the daughter for the
parent, who should have bent every
effort to preserve and safeguard her
own child's happiness Or was it ir-
resistible, burning passion on the part
of the elderly woman that swept all
before her, and before the power of
which her daughters husband was help
less? Such things have happened.
Whatever the cause, certainly the
question of whether the present Mrs.
Dewitt "vamped" her own daughters
husband away from her is legitimate.
The matter of money? Mrs.
Weber's yearly income is reported to
be $4,000 at least. Dewitt, before he
met unhappy Maude, ran a motorcycle
side-car parcel delivery.
, Of the four children, three sided
with the father and deplored the
mothers marriage. The fourth, a son,
Walter, sided with his mother and went
to live with her and his step-father-
his former brother-in-law-in Roches-
ter. Furthermore, he acted as chauf-
feur for the limousine which she
bought for her sporting, maR-about-
town husband-who had been her SON.
in-law.
Maude A. Weber never breatheG to
a soul the anguish of her heart until
few days before she died. Then one
1@.
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~ " Nc DNANAS y Div VIZ
a f t DON when her
former husband and her
mother were absent on a
trip, she confided in a
friend. The story en-
phasizes t h e tragedy,
also, of John Weber,
the first husband of Mrs.
Dewitt, the elder, who,
changed in a few years,
from a genial gentleman,
down to where his in
come frittered away, be-
came a cook at Camp
Mills.
The afternoon when
Maude A. Dewitt at last
broke silence will always
linger in the memory of
the friend in whom she
confided.
81 can't keep silent
any longer" she began,
says this friend. 81
have borne the burden
of my feelings as l have
fingered on here, a sick
ly guest, in the house of
my mother and the man
who used to be my hus-
band. But l have
thought my thoughts
Just the same. 1t is
none too pleasant to
watch the love making
of your mother with the
man who used to be your
husband.
"Life is SO amazing"
the sick woman went on.
"Things that never seem
real happen now and
Al = -. ..l-- l.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03
SAYS LAUNDRY WORK
MAY Be INTERESTING

Laundry work can be made as in
teresting as any other. branch in
cluded in the course of vocational
home economics, according to Kate
L. Bear, state supervisor, who can
connect high ideals with dirty water
"There is dignity in beautifully
done laundry" she declared in back
ing up her assertion that the study
could be made as interesting as any
other subject taught I'm the schools.
This will be one of the matters
Miss Bear win take up at the con-
ference of home economics teachers
which will be held here today and
tomorrow and which was the out
standing discussion at the conference
held in Stafford last week.
She would have the instructors
present the subject from the his
torical view point, taking up also the
types of machinery. Miss Bear is
a firm advocate of teaching with the
proper equipment holding with the
man who said 1t is cheaper to buy
a washing machine than to buy
new wife"
The question of economy is also
pointed out by Miss Bear in recon-
mending laundry work to women.
She divides instruction In three
classes-first the girl is taught nee
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03
RULING Of LOWER
COURT AFFIRMED
IN WILL ACTION

In the case of R L Henderson, adj
y1instrator of the estate OF William
Henderson. appellant, against +. f.
Towle. p. p. Greer. ]. n. Robinson
and the First National Bank OF
Globe. appellees. Gila county, the
lower court was affirmed by the SUI
preme court yesterday. When Wil-
liam Henderson died he owed the
bank $17,800 and he had transferred
to it as security certain properties
including 35,327 shares of the Gibson
Copper company.
The administrator applied to the
bank for any properties of the de-
ceased that might be left over after
discharging the obligation. The bank
replied that there was nothing left.
The defendants were cited before the
probate court and they said that at
ter they had used all of the security
deposited by Henderson excepting the
shares OF the Gibson Copper COM
pany, there remained $500 due the
bank. Hhereupon Greer and Robin
son, both officers of the bank, paid
the amount due and took over the
shares Of the copper company.
IT was testified before the probate
court that the records of the company
showed that the deceased Henderson
panys stock. but that 1t had been
transferred to the bank; that the
copper company had sold its holdings
to the Gibson Consolidated Copper
company for S250,000, receiving S143,-
600 in cash and the balance In stock
of the purchasing company.
The plaintiff Henderson then
brought suit against the bank and the
Gibson Copper company to recover
the 35,s27 shares of stock. Then the
parties entered into a stipulation by
which the suit was to be dismissed
against the bank. Robinson and
Greer, and the claim of the plaintiff
to the stock was TO be relinquished
as against all of the defendants in
consideration of s44,157 to be paid to
the Plaintiff with the right reserved
to the plaintiff to commence an ex-
animation of the books of the copper
company to ascertain whether one
half of the stock was entitled to
liquidation value OF more than 50 so
share, that being the amount paid
to the plaintiff In consideration for
his claim to all of the stock. The
money was paid and the case was
dismissed.
1t was alleged though that an ex-
animation of the books disclosed that
beside the bank having Deen more
than paid off and that the statement
that the Gibson Copper company had
received only $250,0o0 in cash and
stock for it's shares was untrue: that
it had received $250,000 In cash and
$50, 900 shares Of the stock of the new
company. Thereupon he asked that
he be given judgment for the diff
ference between the amount he re-
ceived under the stipulation and the
actual value of the stock at the time
of the compromise, A demurrer was
sustained and an appeal was taken
by Henderson.
The supreme court held. in brief,
that the appellant had not gone about
it in the right way: that he should
have instituted an action for the re-
vision or vacation of the compromise
settlement and judgment in its en-
tirety.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03
JUNIOR GUILD BUYS
RESIDENCE AND LOT

Last week the Junior Guild pur-
chased a house and lot on East Mad1-
son street between Second and Third
streets for a larger Day Nursery. The
present quarters on First avenue
have for some time been much too
small for the needs of the growing
institution.
The new place consists of a six
room house. lot 50x13715 feet having
good shade, well fenced and bound in
by sidewalks and paved street. The
aim of the Guild is to establish
milk station in connection with the
nursery where milk can readily be
distributed among the needy. This
would necessitate an additional nurse.
Mrs. Jetton, the present capable nurse
win be retained.
Remodeling will begin at once, also
more shade trees and an attractive
lawn. Move from the old quarters to
the new will probably be the last week
in February, not later than March /.
The Guild has engaged a man to
carry children of invalid parents to
and from the nursery.
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present investment in at least the
sum of $300O,O0O, leaving. accordi = !.
to the chief of engineers estimate
not to exceed $4,000, 900 TO be in-
vested by the government M +bis
I'm oiine instead of $40, ,000, 900 to $50 :
>, Relieve Unemployment
Inc question of unemnlovrnep+ &c
recognized as a factor to be CON
slusred by congress in connection
w.ln ST. ils treatment OF the Muscle
shoals question.
AT this time" he pointed ont
when there is q large amo,1,. ~
unemployed it is not without inn
portance to consider the advantages
70 the nation of the employment Of
.he large amount of labor required
IN undertaking this development.
therefore, | urge that congress
give early consideration to this mat
tef' NOT only to settle a controversial
question, but to furnish employment
on q large scale"
Iho secretary explains his action
~ sendlhg the offer to congress by
declaring he is without authority to
accept Mr. Ford's offer or dispose
ol the property as whole. either
py sale or by lease"
ne points out the necessity for
determining whether the advantage
70 the government having nitrate
plant No. 2 maintained In readiness
Tor the manufacture of explosives
ana IN actual production of fertilizer.
together with the Improvement to
navigation, is Of sufficient importance
10 justify the proposed departure
from the present policy of the law in
regard to dealing with the water
power resources and to warrant leas-
Ing to Mr.. Ford government property
Tor so long period.
believe it would be a better
policy" he wrote, ito limit the con-
tract to term OF fifty years 'in-
stead of 100" to conform with the
established policy of the federal gov
ernment as set out in the water
power act.n
Suggests Notifications
The secretary also suggested q
modification by congress of the pro-
posal so that in the event the operat-
. ing company to be created failed to
carry out the contract, some penalty
would be imposed. Referring to a
clause in the contract submitted.
the secretary adds that it might be
contended that the language used sis
susceptible of construction to the
effect that Mr. Ford lis personally
bound only to see that his company
enters into the contracts required
to carry out the terms of the pro-
posal and this point should be cleared
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03
Mysterious Murder
OF Movie Director
.Sfirs Film Colony
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ment was made after more than a
score OF Taylor's acquaintances. in
Guiding persons prominent in motion
picture circles, had been questioned
and attempts made to check up the
movements of several others with
whom Taylor was said to have had
differences of various kinds.
Most of the early efforts of the
investigators were directed in an at
tempt to locate former servant of
Taylors against whom the motion
picture man lodged complaint with
the police some time ago. Taylor
declared the man had stolen some
of his belongings and forged his
name to a check and that he believed
burglary of his apartment some
time later was committed by the
same person. Robbery. however
appeared not to have been the mo-
tive for shooting Taylor, for nothing
was missing from his apartment, al
though a considerable sum in money
and jewelry was easily available.
Man Seen Near House
A neighbor of Taylor told the po-
lice of seeing a man near the apart
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03

the police he discovered his employ
er's body about 1880 o'clock this NOR
ming when he arrived for work as
he did not remain in the Taylor
household over night.
He opened the front door, he said,
and saw the body lying on the floor
OF the living room. The feet were
toward the door and a chair had
been overturned over the legs, he
stated.
Peavey said he called to Taylor and
then decided he was dead.
II ran from the house" Peavey
said, "and the folks around there said
/ made o. commotion. The neighbors
came running, and later they took the
body away"
The overturned chair was the only
evidence OF a struggle or of the haste
of the assailant to escape, the police
said.
The door, which has a night latch,
was locked from the outside, but the
latch was so set that no key was
necessary to adjust it in that way,
they stated.
Had Pictures of Mabel
on a writing desk near the door
were papers which indicated that he
had been preparing his income tax
return. On the top of the desk was
a picture OF Miss Normand and two
others of the same actress were
found in a conspicuous place in the
apartment.
Photographs of Mary Piclxford and
Mary Miles Minter were also in the
apartment Taylor had directed both
of them.
Soon after the death Of Taylor be-
came generally known, Miss Minter
and her mother hurried to the apart
ment to learn if they could be OF any
assistance. Miss Minter was crying
when she arrived, 1t was reported.
The theory of the police that a man
lurked around the apartment until an
opportunity presented itself for him
to kill Taylor was said tonight to be
reinforced by the discovery of SIX
cigarette stubs in the alley adjoining
the apartment.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03
EARLY REGISTRATION
RECORDS ARE BROKEN

All previous records for early regis
tpation in anticipation of a city pri-
mary election were eclipsed yester-
day when the books showed the
names of more than 100 qualified
voters in addition to the So who reg
istered wednesday, the opening day.
Only those who register before
February 81 will be qualified to vote
at the primary election March 4. Any
citizen of the United States who has
lived in the state one year and in
the city 80 days is qualified to regis
ter and vote. Following the pri-
maries registration for the general
election will open March and con-
tinue until March "a.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03

essary knowledge to do the work;
then auxiliary knowledge making
tests of bluing soaps etc, and learn
ing how TO remove stains and how
to keep the work from becoming
drudgery. The third point made is
the ideals of self respect which she
insists can be portrayed through
laundry
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03
lnckY MORALES NIMRops

NOGALES, Arlz.. Feb. 2.-Mayor
James Harrison and party of Mo-
gales business men returned yester-
day from hunt in the Sierra Vieja
mountains, 25 miles north OF Port
Libertad Sonora. bringing back re-
ports of splendid hunting in that Sec
ton.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03
McAdoo Says Crisis
Forced Rail Control
Irou.f,vod froY, po1a ~
CONTINUED from Page u

to statement by Walker D. Hines,
former director general, that an esti-
mated deficit of $714,000,000 would
not represent the entire cost, and
quoted Director General Davis to the
effect that liquidation of all claims
would cost the government $780,
100000.
when everything is settled" Mr.
Cummins interjected. I'VE will be, l
think about $1,300,000 900 behind. "
If that is true" said Mr.. McAdoo
'it will represent an extremely small
cost to the government for the war
transportation.
Il have had no sympathy the
chairman declared. with the charge
that there was inefficiency during the
period of the war. "
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03
MARRIAGE LICENSES
DECREASE IN MONTH

Only 73 licenses to marry were is
sued during the month of JANUARY,
according to the monthly report of
Claude S. Bergman, clerk of the SUI
perior court, filed yesterday with the
board of supervisors. The report
shows q total of $4510.15 in fees coll
Iected in the office during the month,
as compared to a total Of $4274.S5 in
fes for December. The report COM
pares very favorably with the report
for the same month in 1921, when a
total Of $4S3755 We're collected. In
December, 1921, a total OF 104 mar
riage licenses were issued and in
January 1921, the licenses numbered
lie. Only % divorce actions were
filed during January, 1922. as COM
pared TO 36 for January, 1921.
A recapitulation of the report is as
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03

Officers and soldiers of the United
States army will have to pay, for the
first time, an income tax on the same
basis as civilians.
Arizona republican., 1922-02-03

The regular United States army,
the National Guard, and officers of
the organized reserves win be trained
with the famous French 70. The
American modelled 75-mllimeter guns
win he discontinued.