BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER I STATISTICS OF WAR fimi fill we iieit By RUPERT HUGHES DAPHNE AGAIN TURNS TO CLAY, BUT AS THEY PLAN FOR THE FUTURE NEW BLOW FALLS. A . . 8yhopeis, Clay Wimburn, a young New Y6rker on a visit, to Cleveland, meet pretty Daphne Kip, whose brother Is In the same office with Clay In Wall street. After a whirlwind courtship they become engaged. 'Daphne gbe to New York With her mother to buy her trousseau. Daphne's brother. Bayard, has just married and left for Europe with his bride, Leila. Daphne and her mother install themselves in Bayard's flat who seems greatly atDaphne meets Tom Duane, tracted to her. Daphne accidentally discovers that Clay Is penniless, except for his salary. Baynard and his wife return to New York unexpectedly. The three women set out on a shopping excursion and the two younger women buy expensive gowns, having them charged to Bayard. Bayard Is furious over the expense, seeing hard times ahead. Daphne, indignant, declares she will earn her own living and breaks her engagement with Clay. Through an Introduction by Duane, Daphne Induces Reben, a theatrical magnate, to give her a position in one of his companies. Her first rehearsal is a fiasco, but Reben, at Duane's request, gives her another chance. Sudden illness of Miss Kemble, the' star, gives Daphne her chance,, but her acting is a dismal failure. She is consoled by Tom Duane. n, CHAPTER XII Continued. 9 ; Satan or Raphael had whispered to her an invitation to revisit the scene of her late humiliation with Clay. With Duane's magic purse there would be no danger of a snub from the waiters ; with his own ear there would be no risk of footing it home. Then an imp of mischief spoke for her and said, "AH right!" Duane told the chauffeur and the car shot like a javelin from the lighted of street into the deep forest-nigCentral park. What would Clay say? But, after all, be had failed her in a crisis. Perhaps he had turned his heart elsewhere. Men were impatient, vindictive, fickle. When Claremont was reached and Duane handed Miss Kip out he noted that her hand was hotter than his own and a little quick to escape, her face was flushed and her lips parted as if He assumed that with excitement the speed of the ride and the tang of adventure were to blame. While the waiters were serving the supper and while he was attacking it with the frank appetite of honest hun ger she recounted the evening's dis aster as calmly as if it were the story . of somebody else. In fact, she was standing off and regarding herself with the eyes of an alien. We, change so fast that the persons we were yesterday are . already strangers, and their acts the acts of distant relatives. Her calm was really the numbness of shock. The anguish would come to morrow. "I can't understand myself at all," Daphne said. "1 went through every one of ' the motions, but I couldn't reach the audience once. I was like a singer with a bad cold singing in a foreign language you don't know what the song is all about, but you know that it never quite gets on the key." "You mustn't be discouraged." "Oh, yes, I must I I couldn't be an n actress in a thousand years. Mr. told me so himself.' Duane felt the truth of this, but It nuit mm to nave ner reei it. fended his chivalry to realize how Im- polite fate could be to so pretty a girl. He hated to see her reduced to the necessity of proving how plucky she could be. He tried to find an escape for her. He said: "You're far too good for the stage." "I don't believe that for a minute," she protested. "But I've got to find something I can do." ; - "May I help you to decldeT" If you only would ! But I'm getting to be a nuisance." "You are a a to me you are a well, you're not a nuisance." . He dared not tell her what she was, especially as the waiter had set the bill at his elbow and was standing off impatn an attitude of tience for the tip, which he knew would .be large. Mr. Duane always gave the normal ten per cent and a ,. bit, extra, He tipped .wisely but not too wen, knowing that an extravagant tip wins a waiter's contempt almost more than none at all. The head waiter fairly cooed "Good night" and almost gave them a blessing. The starter had Mr. Duane's car waiting for him at the curb and lifted hit lint with one hand as he smuggled a quarter away with- the other. He stepped fa to lay the linen laprobe over tbelr knees with reverence, closed the door exquisitely and murmured, ht ness in Cleveland to a post of distinction In New York ; to solve at once all the hateful, loathsome, belittling riddles of money ; to be the bejeweled and feted and Idolized wife and mistress of this young American grand duke; to buy that impossible trousseau, or better; to live In a New York palace Instead of a fiat; to go about In her own limousine Instead of an occasional to be fortune's darling instead of a member of the working classes, struggling along with bent neck under a yoke beside a discouraged laboring man I When the car reached her building she was resolved to see Duane' no more. She could not tell him so. After all, he had been everything that was courtesy and charity. It would hardly tax-ica- -- . . - "Good ntghtr , - The car was dv 4rom .4ho-cu- tb an aristoeratj.it float- - with, a awanlike ( weep. Daphne thought of Clay and herself plodding homeward. She seemed to see them or their wraiths staggering disconsolately along. She felt very save one of them both of them, In In taking her financial bur--dea from Clay's shoulders she would be twice strengthening him, u una were accept Duane as her. husband then her problems would be solved and Clay would be free of her.' Mrs: Tom Duane; to step Into TO the society of society ; to lift her father fact; for t, She Stared at Her Image in the Mirror. have been polite to treat him with ab solute 'Indifference. Duane got down and helped her out and took her to the door, which was mciced at this late hour. While they waited for the doorman to answer the bell she was pay ing him his wages : "You are wonderfully kind. I had a gorgeous evening. You saved my life." She had said more than she intend ed if not more than he had earned. "Then may I call, soop?" "Of course." . I ' r : She told about her failure and her "You Mrs. Chivvis was touched. poor child ! It really is just too bad !" future and Leila praised her courage She pondered, then she brightened: and her optimism. They dined cheer'Tm sorry you're disappointed, but I'm fully and Bayard decided that the best glad you're not to be in the theater. preparation for the hard work ahead of him would be an evening of gayety. It must be very wickei." "It's mighty difficult," said Daphne. He invited his wife and his sister to Mrs. Chi wis thought a moment go with him to the Winter Garden, where the typical "Sunday concert" of more, then she said : No. I don't be- New York was given. "Pid I tell you? lieve I did you were away but Mr. Chivvis gets his vacation next week. CHAPTER XIV. He's, got to take it when his turn comes. The-m-an who was going now couldn't be spared, so we have to leave Tuesday. I'm going, of course, so I can't give you your meals. You can get your breakfasts in the kitchenette. Of course I'll allow off whatever Is right" "Oh," Daphne said. 'Til be all right, ' I guess." not had realized how much Daphne she depended on Mrs. Chivvis till now. She was to be left, alone at the very time when she was most in need of society. The whole world was forsaking her. . CHAPTER XIII. When the ChiwiSes had gone Daphne assailed the task of composing her letter of resignation from Reben's employ. It was not easy to resign with dignity find the necessary haste. She sent it off by messenger. It was none too prompt, for Reben had already dictated a very polite request for Daphne's head. When he received her letter he recalled his stenographer and dictated a substitute for his first letter. In this he expressed his regret at learning Daphne's- - decision to resign ; the former understudy had come back from the road, he said, and would resume her work. He begged Daphne to accept the Inclosed check for two weeks' salary In lieu of the usual notice, and hoped that she would believe him faithfully hers. Daphne felt a proud impulse to return the fifty dollars. She wrote a letter to go with it She looked again, and saw it was the first money she had ever earned. She hated to let it go. She decided to frame It and keep it to point to in after years as the beginning of her great fortune. Late In the afternoon, when the western sky was turning into a loom for crimson tapestries almost as rich as her own dreams, she went to her brother's apartment There the New Girt; found the Old Woman in the throes of finance. Leila had brought her check book and her bank book to her husband. Her affairs were in a knot He laughingly offered to help her. She was hurt by his laughter, but not hnf so deeply as he was by his discovery of her monetary condition. He had established her bank account in a mood of adoration, a precious sacrifice on the altar of love. She had not cherished it, but scattered it heedAnd money was peculiarly lessly. precious now in the final agonies of the hard times, when only the fittest of the fittest could survive the last tests. Credit was the water cask, and dollars were the hard biscuits of a boatload of survivors from a wreck. Land might be reached if they held was vital. out, but Bayard gazed at Leila with wondering love and terror. She was both divinity1 and devil in his eyes. He groaned: - "Are you trying to wreck me? You know how hard I'm working and how much I need money in my business and now much it means to your future, but you won't stop buying and charging and burning, my poor little earnings. We discharged a stenographer yesterday because we wanted to save her salary of fifteen dollars and here's a check for a pair of shoes for you that cost sixteen. "But tell me one thing more before I'm carted off to Bloomingdale In a s traitjacket Why, in heaven's name, why admitting you just had to have that pitiful little pair of shoes why, when you wrote the check, didn't you subtract it from your balance instead of adding it? I ask yen!" "Oh, did I do that?" she asked, looking over his shoulder. "So I did !" and she put her cheek close to his and - But-terso- ' self-deni- v "Tomorrow?" "I well, I'll let you know." Til "Fine! Telephone me at write It out for you. I'm not often at the club where you found me, and my number isn't in the book." He wrote on bis card his telephone address and gave it to her as the doorman ap peared. He murmured, "Don't forget" ;She Both said murmured, "I won't." "Good night." Then the doorman gathered her in and hoisted her to her lowly eyrie. It was. very different from where she would have gone as Mrs. Duane. But when she was In her room she tore his card to pieces after she had looked at it. She stared at her image giggled. In the mirror. She hated what she saw He shook his head In imbecile infatthere. uation, and drew her around into his She vowed to break her promise to arms. Tom Duane. She vowed to forget his That was what Daphne overheard telephone number. But It danced when the maid let her In. She found about in the dark long after 'she had Leila resting in Bayard's lap. r Bayard did not tell Daphne what his closed her eyes.. .v.. Th next mornln r she overslept even conference with Leila had been. He beyond the extra hour the Chlvvlses simply closed the check book and the permitted themselves and the stranger bank book and said to Leila : "I'll send the bank my check for thirty-eigh- t within their gates on Sundays. When Daphne appeared at break cents and ask 'em to close their acfast, trying not to yawn, Mrs. Chlv-vi- s count. They'll be mighty glad to greeted her with a voice as cold do it" "And so will I," said Leila. "It was and dry as the toast, and as brittle : "You were rather late getting In awfully hard work keeping track of last night or this morning, rather." every little penny. I'd much rather Daphne's answer was not an expla- have a regular allowance In cash ev ery, week." nation, but It was better: 'All right!" said Bayard. "Well try "Oh, I know It, Mrs. Chlvvin, but I lost my position last night Yes I I that next week." Daphne waa not told what all this played the principal part and killed It, and now I'm not going on the stage any talk was about, bnt ah made a fafr more.' guess, though she pretended not to. Then the Chivvises came back from their vacation unexpectedly early. They had found the hotels expensive and Mr. Chivvis was afraid that his job would be snatched from him if he were not there to hold It down. Clay called on Daphne that evening and the Chivvises retreated to their own room. But as they could be overheard It was evident that they could overhear, and the lovers found no chance to say any of the things that frightened their souls. One evening Daphne said to Clay In as low a voice as he could hear : "Mrs. Chivvis is growing uneasy, honey, about our being together every evening. I told her we were engaged, but she didn't seem convinced. Perhaps you would let me wear that beautiful engagement ring again. I was a fool to give it back to you. May I have it or " Clay blenched in misery. "I Tm You see, I hadn't paid afraid I much on it : and hist week I had an Insulting letter from the jeweler. He threatened to sue me and notify my firm, and I well, I had to send it back." He was so downcast that she answered with mock cheer: "Oh, that's all right, honey; It doesn't matter. After all, it's only a ring. And we have each other." "But we haven't each other. This way of living is driving me crazy. I'll be all right as soon as these hard times are over and I can make some commissions. But it's so dismal to wait Couldn't we get married and live on my salary?" "I could if you could." He caught her In his arms so violently that she squealed. The next day Clay telephoned to her his firm had just offered him the cholte-o- f accepting half his salary or It was turning in his resignation. really Impossible for two to live on half of what was hardly enough for one. Pnphne cried a long while in her She got out her list of ways to earn fifty thousand dollars again and cried over that. There Is much foolish and futile pro test against the nowadays woman who goes into business outside her home. But the fact is that it is her business that began it Her business left the home first and she is merely following it to the places where new conditions and inventions have centralized and mechanized it. New conditions have taken her distaff and her washtub and her cookery and gossip into the woolen mills and steam laundries and restaurants and telephone exchanges. She has had to go thither to do her necessary work. Even the .entertainers, the singers, dancers, tellers of stories, who used to stir the seraglios and the castle halls have been gathered into opera houses and theaters and into vaudeville and moving picture palaces. Daphne, having no gifts for spinning, cooking, or laundry, tried the lover pro- theater. Her room. 8h Aked, Looking Over His 8houlder. tested, and she went, anyway. But she was not suited to the theater, and she retccaied with nothing to show for her expedition except her shattered check for pride and the two weeks' saierj. Daphne began anew to hunt fcr work; work, the thrice blessing that kills time and makes money and tame "Oh, Old I Do That?" fifty-doll- Copyright by Harper ISSUED TROOPS ACTUALLY PARTICIPATING IN FIGHTING NUMBERED Brothers 1,390,000 ... i passion. But the world seemed to be full of every other trouble except work. Even had she been skilled, as she was not it would have availed her little, since skilled laborers were being turned off by the thousands. And unskilled laborers were being turned off by the tens of thousands. Clay had saved nothing against the rainy season. . He had found bis salary too small for his courtship requisites; now that his salary was halved his courtship bad to be reduced to the minimum of expense. Bayard and Leila had more money to spend, and they made ambitious voyages. But Daphne and Clay must e swelter with the other millions. Clay denied himself even the two weeks' vacation' allotted to him. Bayard took bis, however, and carried 6tay-at-hom- MEN. Officers and Men Discharged to Date Ars 1,361,528. Battle Casualties of American Army in France Totaled 240,197. Washington. American troops actually participating in engagements against the enemy numbered 1,390,000 men. General March announced the figures on March 8, showing that comprised divisional troops and divisional replacements; 240,000 corps and army troops, and 00,000 service of supply troops. Demobilization reports made public showed 1,361,-02- S by General March officers and men discharged to date, while the number ordered released hud reached 1,613,500. Battle casualties of the American revised army in France, as shown divisional records announced by General March, totaled 240,197. These include killed in action, wounded, missThere ing in action and prisoners. probably will be some .slight further revision as final reports are received. Statistics compiled by the war department show that from the date of the entry of the United States into the war to February 21, 1919, there were 339 suicides in the army. Of these, 193 occurred in the United States and 140 overseas. In making this total public, General March pointed out that it was far below the average per thousand in civil life during ' .. the years of Hospital records from the expeditionary forces. General March said, showed 81,231 patients on February 20, a reduction from 112,217 since tlie armistice was signed. 1914-15-16- HOOVER TO QUIT IN JULY. Declares He Will Return to Private Life. Paris. That Herbert Clark Hoover, the American food administrator and lately appointed director general of the interallied relief organization, is to cease his relief work in the summer was indicated in a statement issued Sunday by Mr. Hoover concerning the wheat situation. He intimated also that a majority of his ould return to private life. Speaking of various problems connected with the wheat situation, Mr. Hoover said that they would need to be solved by someone else "because neither myself nor most of the men in the food administration will be able continue in the service of the government after next July." "We, also, must earn a living," Mr. Hoover said. Food Administrator Leila Had Decided That It Was Better for Her Health to Stay at Newport Till the Cooler Weather Came and Her Summer Wardrobe Had Been Worn Out. Leila off to. Newport, where they boarded humbly, if expensively. While they were gone, at their suggestion, Daphne moved down into their apartment It was large and beautiful, and, as Clay .said, it was "not infested with Chivvises." Now and then Clay quarreled with Daphne because of her obstinate determination to have a trade of her own. Then they made up. And quarreled anew lovers', quarrels, summer storms that break the sultry tension of the air and make peace .endurable. Bayard came back alone. Leila had decided that it was better foi her health to stay at Newport till the cooler weather came and her summer wardrobe had been worn out So Bayard joined the army of town-tie- d husbands, the summer widowers. He went back once a week on furlough to spend a Newport Sabbath with his wife. He became one of the excursionists. There was leisure enough in his office. He insisted on Daphne's keeping her room in his fcrtment, and of evenings he affixed himself to hei and Clay and made their company a crowd. But they welcomed him as a chaperon of a sort Also, he paid his way with liberality, except for occa sional spasms of retrenchment, when he economized atrociously. He predicted that good times would never come again. The whole world had one to pot and would never come out. Suddenly he changed his tune; sud denly the whisper went about that hard times were ending. In his bachelor days, when Bayard was growing in commercial stature like a young 'giant he bad regarded his business with all the warmth of a poet. His office building was his Acropolis and his office the peculiar temple of his muse; and her name was Profit. He thrilled like a poet to the epic inspiration of a big sale, and he knew a joy akin to the poet's revision of his scansion if be devised a scheme for reducing overhead charge or wastage. . Bayard, led on by the visions of riche to be won in Wall street, draws all his savings from the bank and begins speculating in stocks. Then at far-of- f 8arajevo rang out the shot that plunged the world into the frightful nightmare of war. Bayard was among the first casualties. Read about It In the next installment (TO BE CONTINUED.) I Raining "Cats and Dogs In England the male blossoms of the willows are called "cats and dogs" and a rainstorm would shake them off and strew them on the ground. Hence niu&e the expression "raining cats and dogs." Shopmen Seek Higher Wages. Several hundred Washington. thousand - railroad shop employees have asked the railroad administration to increase their wages about 25 per cent. The board of railroad wages and working conditions has agreed to hear their case. American School Near Paris. The American Army unthe university in the largest iversity, English-speakinworld, has been opened in Beaume, southeast of Paris, it was announced here Sunday. Fifteen thousand, soldiers have enrolled course. for a New York. g three-month- s' Colby's Resignation Accepted. The resignation of Washington. Bainbridge Colby as a member of the shipping board, submitted to President Wilson several weeks ago, has been accepted. In accepting the resignation the president, in a personal letter, expressed to Mr. Colby regret and praised his services. Americans Wed French Women. Paris. Within the last year 6000 Americans in France have married French women, according to the Petit Journal. The brides for the most part, says the newspaper, were eonnlry girls or employees of town establishments. Plotted to Kill President. Two years ago In South Bethlehem, Pa., a conspiracy to assassinate President Wilson and other high officials of the United States government was hutched, according to a confession made .Saturday by Mrs. Celia Fischer. New York. Council to Resume Negotiations. Paris. The supreme war council reached a decision Saturday night whereby the .negotiations... Interrupted at Spa will be immediately resumed at another point, probably somewhere in Belgium. Kills Family as Religious Sacrifice. CasL llle, Mich. Paul Maggie, aged was arrested here after the finding of the bodies of ills aged mother and three children. Maggie told police officers, they said, he killed the four as a "religious sacrlffcp." 30, Raid Upon Anarchists. Waterbury, Conn. Nearly 200 sympathizers of the Industrial Workers of the World, Including Alexander Cheer-nofof Chicago, national organizer of the I. W, W. movement, were arrested f. SmiHuv