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Show THE miiiiniiniri,MMi:iiii;iiitii!ntiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirtii hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihi NEPHI, UTAH. TIMES-NEW- S. lltllllllllllllllnlllllllllllllHMllllllllllllllaillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHl The Thirteenth By RUPERT HUGHES Commandment "There's only one thing to do," Daphne answered, with a sphlnxle solemnity. "Buy on credit. It's a case of nothing venture, nothing gain ; nothing purchase, nothing sell! nothing borrow, nothing pay. The only way to get out of debt Is to go in deeper like getting a fish hook out of your thumb." Mrs. Chlwls suffered berself to be They visited the whole persuaded. salers and the Jobbers and were well received, having paid cash before and, thanks to Mr. Chlwls suggestion, having been astute enough to demand discount for cash. And now the motortrucks and the delivery wagons and the cyclecara and the messenger boys began to pour stock into the little shop. It was pleasant not to have to pay for things, though the tips were reaching alarming proportions, and the bundle of bills for future settlement grew und grew. Mrs. Chlwls made a list of their debts and tried to show it to Daphne, but she stopped her eyes and ears and forbade any discussion that would quench her spirit In the swirl of ber tasks Daphne slmost forgot Clay Wlmburn. She was too busy to care much. She had no time to mourn. Clay was only one among a myriad regrets, and bis affairs could wait Ber business needs could not Clay did not come near ber. He spent a lot of money trying to get her off bis mind. He got a good deal on his conscience, but not Daphne off his mind. He longed for ber especially, too, because there came a sudden disaster to his schemes. He was not so rich as be had been. Indeed, be could not be sure that be was rich at alt Any day might smother him with bankruptcy. This fear kept him from Daphne, too. The bouncing munition stocks that were known as "war babies" had abruptly fallen Into a decline. The submarine that torpedoed the Lusttanla shattered Wall street's Joy, threw the dread of war Into the United States, and set every one to questioning the problem of revenge and its cost The slump in the market came at the most unfortunate moment for Bayard and Clay. Any moment of slump, Indeed, would have come most untimely for their ventures, "Kip and Chlwls" were making a picnic ground of the shop. Behind the d windows they laughed and debated on arrangements and price tags and show cards. Mr. Chlwls. still ont of a Job, acted as maid of all work and stevedore, and grew so useful that they bad to put hlra out And at last the moment arrived when they declared the shop open, "raised the curtain," as Daphne said. She waited with a stage-frigh- t she bad not felt In Reben's theater. There was no lack of temperament in ber manner now. But there was no audience, either. At night Kip and Chlwls locked tbelr doors and went borne, discouraged beyond words and dismally weary in the legs, also In the which bad been kept at an expectant tension all day long. Occasional purchases were made, but unimportant Kip and Chlwls tried to learn what Interested people and what did not They realized that tbey bad far too much of certain things and far too little of others. They attempted to sell the dead wood by marking it down; but it would not move. "What do the women care for prices?" Dsphne railed. "They are spending some man'a money, anyway. They pretend that it's to plesse him. but they know and we know that It's because tbey bate each other." One day a great lady who could bardly squeeze through the door creaked Into the shop and spilled berself into a startled little chair like a load of coat Daphne felt that she was about to die on tbelr bands or ask for an ambulance, but she asked Instead for an embroidered breakfast gown from the window. Mrs. Chlwls fetched It and the otd ogress clutched It from ber, holding It up to ber nose as if to sniff It but really to see It "That's Itl That's what I've been looking for!" she wheezed. "Have yon got much of this sort of thing?" "Oh yes." "Ach, that's good I My daughter Is marrying In some baste a young Imbecile who's going over to France te run an ambulance. I'm Mrs. Homily." Mrs. Chlwls wslted unperturbed for further Identification. Dsphne bad never beard of Mrs. Romllly, either, but she gasped as If she bsd been eay-In- g ber prsyers at the shrine of Romllly from childhood and now bad been visited by the patron saint whom she bsd recognised at once, of course. "Oh yes, of course." Mrs. Romllly was coughing on: "Tve been to several shops, and I was almost In despair until I saw your sign. If yon could do a few things la rather a hurry I fancy I could give yon a large-laorder. And If the things were at all successful. I could throw quite a little trade your way. Tou're rather new, aren't you?" Dsphne assented thst the firm was quite new. She brought forward an order pad and stood at attention. Mrs, Romllly bad troueaoed large family of children and several poor relations. She knew what she wanted and what she ought to pay for It and when It should be done. Daphne took down ber orders as If the little room were the mere vestibule to an enormous sweatshop where hundreds of sempsters would seise the Job and complete It In a Jiffy. jalllll tllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllttlllllllllllltllltllllilllllllltlllllllllllllltllllllllllllllltillllllllllllltlllllllllllltllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllltlllltlltlltlillIHlllll When Daphne beard this she had In a lot That's one reason he has CHAPTER XXI Continued. guring us all for spite? What else 14 to alt down to keep from falling down. been kept down so. He never could Is It but cheap, nasty spite?" When Bayard opened the door Clay "It's a great deal more than spite," Bayard resuscitated her with a check get ahead. That was what we were wept in like a March gale. lie flung Bayard groaned. "Do you think I'll for a thousand dollars. It meant saving up for to get a little capital. himself at Bayard and clenched bU accept favors from a man who has nothing more to her than abraca- And then the war came along and we The whole incredible altera- bad to spend our savings. That same been courting you and got caught at dabra. elbows in his hands and roared: tion was a fairy story to her. She war has made your brother so rich "Bayard Buyardl It'a cornel It? I'd rather starve P Eureka We're rich! We're made "Well, I wouldn't!" Leila averred. made a faint attempt to refuse the that he could give yon a small fortune. Uneedal Munitions I Wow I Listen "And I'm not going to starve. And gift, but Bayard forced it back into I don't believe yon could do better The other night while I was trailing I'm not going to let you commit harl- - her palm and closed her fingers on it than to put that into a business." "Neither do IP Daphne cried. She repaid Bayard with kisses tilt a Job In darkest New Jersey I run kari on Wetherell's doorstep just to cross a Uttle clue, and a little nan spite him. I tell you again, once for she lost count and embraces till they "Let's P who told me a little secret The Ger- all, there was nothing wrong in Weth both lost breath. Then she borrowed mans have been getting ready for this erell's behavior, 'absolutely nothing. from him enough cash to pay ber CHAPTER XXIII. war for years, piling up guns and am-- , It's outrageous that you should accuse bill with the Chlvvlses. munition for Der Tag. The other me of such horrible things." Daphne was going to be IndependDaphne could not wait for the elecountries were caught only half ready. So Bayard was coerced Into having vator. She ran up several flights of ent but she was still all woman when They bare stopped the Germans on his life saved by bis enemy. It was stairs, scratched the door with ber it came to the selection of her special the Marne, but they've been using one thing, however, to consent to deal palsied latchkey and flung herself trade. She would be a business womtheir BhWlf at such a rate that the with Wetherell, and another to devise Into Mrs. Chlwls' arms and kissed an, but she would do a woman's busifamine Is near. Tbelr only hope is to a tolerable reconciliation. her even Mrs. Chlwls. Her apology ness. was the money for the bill. She flaunt There were ever so many dainties buy supplies of us. They're going to "Well." sighed, "beggars Bayard dump enough contracts on this coun- can't be choosers. If I'd saved my ed before her the check bearing the and exquisites that she wanted to try to furuihh about a million dollars money I shouldn't have to take Weth- heavenly legend commanding the Fifth bang In her shop. She was going to to every citlzeu. Their agents are erell's money." Avenue bank to "pay to Daphne Kip round to distribute concalled up the president of or order one thousand and no hun Bayard tracts quietly. his company at the office. Ills oration dredths dollars" on penalty of incur- "The Bethlehem Steel company has made a huge success. Bayard began Ing the displeasure of "Bayard Kip." Mrs. Chlwls handled the parchment gathered In a big lot of them, and I to smile to himself, to wink at the had a tip that the stock was going and finally to share in the with reverence, and permitted her spectators, to boom ; so are a lot of other stocks. apparent rapture of his distant ear-- husband to touch, it It might have Td sell my right arm for a little cash. been one of the golden leaves of the But there's no market for detached sacred Book of Mormon, and she a when was matter that The end of the right arras, so I used mine to fiign up Bayard left the telephone be was a sealed wife of Brigbam himself. a few little contracts for placing con- new man. He had "What are you planning to do with raised tracts, and I've plucked them and his chiefs hopes to cunningly de- all this?" she said at length. the highest brought them to you." lie broke Into gree, "I don't knw," said Daphne. "Tnat yet withheld the name ot the would dance and whirled Buyard off his feet. you suggest?" he He that Kngllsh explained agent "You were planning to go into busiBayard tried to be patient "That's Intended to tcke Leila's advice and all very Interesting, Clay, but take use his not use this as capital?" knowledge as a lever for his ness. Why your delusions down to Bellevue, own advancement "Fine I What business ought I to and Clay's. where they'll put you In the right cell. Clay and Bayard eat down to make start banking? or battleship buildWhat can you or I do with ammuniand the talk grew too tech ing, or what?" figures, sT" contract tion "There's embroidery," said Mrs. nical for the women to endure. After "Accept 'em, you blamed Ultl Open Chlwls. first and music the of hearing Bayard vp your old shut-ufactory and get Clay Daphne bad to guffaw at that Mrs. chanting in hundreds of thou- Chlwls busy." did not laugh. "I mean it" unout sands of dollars stole Daphne "We have no machinery for making heeded and went up to ber own room. she urged ; "think it over." ammunition." "All right HI think It over." Mr. Chi wis was sitting by a win"Get It then, or adapt your maThe novelty of being rich lost its Chlv-vi- s dow Mrs. in mournful idleness. chinery! They need millions of each savor with Leila, and the monotony emwas ber at stitching away article, for there are millions of men of neglected began to prey upon ta the field using up what they've got broidery. She was cheerful for ber. herbeing damask sout She and Daphne so fast that it'a only a matter of She told Daphne that ehe bad found a market for her needlework; the forgot their mutual grievances for reeks before they'll be desperate." common grievance. prices were poor but they were real. their Bayard began to see the scheme the trouble with these "That's to work She to advised Daphne get aim the obstacles. "But it' takes Leila grumbled. "When they're money to make those things. Where with ber. in bad luck yon cant lose 'em. and "My Husband Says That You Cant win we get the cash for the pay rolls Daphne bad not the courage to say when they're in Make a Lot of Money Without Put good yon can't find that ber brother and ber betrothed em." and the raw materials?" ting In a Lot" were She "From the banks I The banks are about to become plutocrats. "It's the same with fiances," said have a window I With ber name on bursting open with idle money; it's said only that she was very tired. Daphne. And there is no more exhausting drain Itl That would be more fun than a sotting 00 their bands P Daphne had the worst of It for Bayard went aglow with the realiza- on the nerves than their response to Leila began to wander again, leaving limousine with crest on door. tion of the opportunity. He began to unexpected good news. It is more Daphne to the society of Mrs. Gradually ber scheme enlarged. She Chlwls, would devote ber shop to the whole tremble at the vision of the sudden fatiguing than bad. She was sur who kept urging her to invest ber avalanches of wealth pouring down prised and shocked, too, to find how dwindling thousand before It was mechanism of the boudoir. "Boudoir- the bleak mountains of despair. He snobbish she was all of a sudden gone. But In the environs of noisy wear" was the word that pleased ber, It was in human nature that the could hear the roar of the Niagaras about the petty earnings of a Chlwls. riches the schemes of Mrs. Chlwls def gold. manded such prolonged labor for such partners should quarrel over a name CHAPTER XXII. I Daphne and Leila came rushing minute profit that Daphne remained for the baby before the baby was born. Tbey spoke of themselves as from concealment cold. Clay's beatitude In those days the United States of was so complete that he forgot bis reShe began to resent Clay's neglect "The Finn." America suddenly woke to the fact sentment and kissed them both. Finally Daphne, claiming the tna morosely. The few attentions be paid that was they could pull themselves out ber only insulted ber ; bis mind wss so Jorlty of the power, voted en bloc for to work. at be frantic Bayard He resolved to telephone the presi- of bankruptcy by helping the benight- far away and his heart was all for bis "Boudolrwear," and claimed the vic dent of his company at once and lay ed states of Europe into it business. He was dazzled by the fierce tory. Mrs. Chlwls surrendered with There were sudden geysers of for white light of success, and be spoke the amendment that "Miss Kip" the matter before him. Leila cannlly advised Bayard to grasp the whip tune and sudden collapses of failure. to Daphne In a kind of drowsy hypno- should be at one side, "Mrs. Chlwls" band ot the situation and keep It She As in bonanza times, many were ru- sis. And he spoke Incessantly of the at the other. She bribed the assem beran to dance about the room like ined, while the few prospered. But details of bis business, or his gam- bly by promising that a cousin of hers, Miriam celebrating the passage of Clay and Bayard seemed to touch blings. He could not see how deaf a young artist living in the Washingtt Red sea. nothing that did not turn to gold. she wss to the very vulgar fractions ton Mews, should paint a pretty sign"The first thing well do," she said, Bayard bad gained immense prestige of bis speculations, or the mad arith- board on a swinging shingle. After metic of bis commissions. She yawned many designs bad been composed and "will be to get my Jewelry out of the In bis fare when be grew eloquent destroyed they agreed on this legend: pawnshop and the second will be to on the dynamics of wealth, the higher buy some more. And, oh, the dresses And be r 11 t?n philosophies of finance. and the hats I" BOCDOinWEAR never knew. He kissed her good by This asserted a sobering effect on as .if be were kissing a government Everything for the Boudoir. Bayard. "No," he announced. "We've Exquisite Things for Brides. bond, safe end quiet and all his own. gone through hades once because I MRS. CHIVVIS. MISH KIP. Mrs. one Chlv. visits After of Clay's reserves. This time gambled away my Vis brown found a in study. Daphne I'm to get a Mg reserve before Mrs. Chlwls explained her own afI pe?,d a rent 111 never risk another The cousin painted it well and Illufairs; and Daphne was so exhausted rdeml like the one we've been with the sultry problems of love that minated It with elaborate Intlals and thrrnn:h. No more fractures of the Mrs. Chlwls business gossip was com- an allegorical figure of a young lady Tbir' enth for met" In Cubist negligee: It bsd the tradipletely refreshing. LHia laughed. tional charm of a tavern board. In exWomsn's been to "I've down the Buyard went to the telephone to their shop was to be a tavern for fact some sell to she said, change," "trying tart the wheels of the factory In moof my needlework. They were very women In search of sartorial refreshtion by summoning the president to nice about It but It means a terrible ment exmncil. lie paused to ask: IIeH Troubles mustered about them as amount of labor for a pittance of want to know who the foreign agent weeds shove up In a garden faster so Ton thera have to money. pay la you are dealing with? Or are there much a year for the privilege of put- than tbey can be ptocked out several? Who shall I sayf undreamed of materialized In ting your things on sale there. Then "Wetherell." said Clay. swarms. Everything was delayed exin return don't it to they guarantee The great Skoda gun that suddenly good condition, and fhey don't guaran- cept the demands for tbelr money. one day dropped a monster shell In box, like a sort of pertee to sell It or If they do they charge The Iunklrk twenty miles off could bardly verted fairy purse, emptied Itself a you 20 per cent for their end of It. have caused more stupefaction than "I couldn't see any profit In that, so fsst as It was filled. the name of Wetherell detonating In The petty cash was the least of I went to one of the Jobbers. He said that room. my style of work brought good prices thetr dismay. The grand cash was the rsphne snatched her hand from In the big stores. But they won't pay main problem. They bad stitched Clay's. Bayard sprang up so sharply their fingers full of holes and piled Up him much and bell pay me less. that be almost threw Leila forward "I was thinking There's money reams of fabrics, but the total was a her. face. Instinctively be caught In these thiors sad In all aorta of pathetically tiny. her by the arm and saved her from One thing was Instsntly demonneedle things If yon have a little capiInto Coerced Se Was Having Bayard Bat falling. Instantly he flung her strated. They most give up their plsn tal." Hts Life Saved by His Enemy, arm from him In a guh of disgust "Thst's different" said Daphne. or go Into debt Indeed, tbey already Clay gaped at the tableau In with bis firm because of the huge "And I've got some rapltal now. Do were in debt He had not dresmed thst orders be brought In. He took all yon remember "We've got to take the plunge," said suggesting to me once any of the three had ever heard of the power that was accorded and that we might go Into business to- tHiphne. Td rather die than go on Wetherell. He could not Imagine the Erscped for more. His moot reckless getheryon to furnish the brains and paying a year's rent for an empty bitterness the name Involved. audscltlea were rewarded with so I the money V shop." "Will some kind friend please tell He rode a tidal wsve and swsre "I know," Mrs. Chlwls fretted, "Oh, I dlda t put It that wsyT all what Is the excitement about?" ate with It n well thst all his progress "Anyway, it's true. Well, would rnswing her thin lips, "but It's a risk. This was not easy. Who wanted to seemed to be due to his own power. yonT" Tnn'd better ask your brother." tell (lay that lad Just been acBayard astounded Iuf1lh with the "land's sake I if fon're a mind to 'NoT iNipbne stormed. "I'm going cused of neglecting aer husband and solution of thst old account and with furnish the money and the Ideas and to win out on my own. Toot Bayard ber own duties for the society of this a rash payment for new gowns In let me count the pennies, I'd like noth- Is too boy to be bothered with my very Wetherell t Leila herself was celebration of bis Dew glory. He did ing better." trouble. He doesn't know I bare any. the one that told htm. not foreet bis own people. He tele- "Oreat! What could we go Into?" And Leila tft so busy with bee sods "Iook here, Bydle," Leila cooed graphed bis mother a thousand dol business that she berer asks n. wbst "What' would yon prefer?" and billed, "don't yon think you've lars and almost slew ber with abate "Oh. any old business that will I'm up to. fTQ BB one enouch? You've showa me that ment. He telegraphed bis father sim- keep me busy and make a lot of "But what are we to dot" Mrs. Chlwls walled. "We can't go on with t a don't trust me and you've ordered ply the price of a railroad ticket te money." Optimistic Tbevght All brave men loe ; for be Ut. Wetherell never to r.me near me New Tor and a peremptory "My husband says that yon cant enr stork, and yon have no money only Is ! owns to take the Brst traJa east that eofcli wltbout beg brave who bis a eciuos to Debt for. aeke a lot at taaae without puttlag left eed 1 baaa't any to start with." gnln 1 I I I moss-grow- n pussy-footin- g r. p bus-bands- ," mm soap-veile- smile-muscl- ' v rzr I pip petty-cas- b bewll-demwn- t, re. I .) Her Engagement Ring la the sweetest thing a girl can own. It may be either large or small, but should be pure white set right Those we are showing will suit you, and our modest prices ease the way. BOYD PARK ttO WHY MAKERS OF JEWELRY AU lAkl CITV S1UET MAIM HE QUIT "THE ROAD" Volcea Regret for the Disappearance of Oldtlme BonU face and Clerk. , "Oh for the hotel clerk, smiling, accommodating, always friendly, who never forgot a face, obliging and always making a fellow feel like he was at home," said Frank Whltsell of Portland, Ore according to the El Paao Heruld. "What a difference between the old professional hotel clerks of 23 years ago, even up to 1.1 years ago, and the automatic, mechanical clerks who never try to oblige I might call them autof the present day matic grouches behind the hotel registers. If you ask one of them a question he or she, nowadays. Intimates that you get your room and meals, Just exactly what you pay for, and not a thing more, please understand that I was a commercial traveler for a quarter century up to sir years ago, and I know. Why, we old drummers, ss they used to call us, felt at home In those old hostelrles of the western ststes. Just on account of the clerks. Say. they were flod's noblemen, those They seemed to anticipate a fellow's wunts and would go to all sorts of trouble to accommodate one. The milk of human kindness flowed In the'? hearts. And It mude business, too. I have stopped at an Inferior house, many a time, because I had been treated so well by the clerk. And I can say, too, the proprietors were much the same way In those days. Hotels were made homelike, not a big box with coinpartmonta, where you are to be tucked away at so much per. That was one of the reasons I quit the road, the ehllly. purely mechanical hotel of the present day." old-time- r. BE CANNOT TAKEN ALIVE Gorillas Will Fight te the Death, and Are to Be Feared, Even When Mortally Wounded. The most perilous Job thst any one can undertake In the Jungle Is the capture of a gorilla. It Is said that no gorilla has ever beeo raptured He alive after be was full grown. would be a bold man who would attempt such a feat Gorillas fear nothing. Even when mortally wounded they show sn sglllty, strength and ferocity which Is astonishing. A famous traveler once stated that It would take 150 men to hold down a gorilla with any degree of safety. On the other hand, all other ape are said to be pathetically eaay to rapture. Tim usual method Is for a trapper to sest himself where he Is certain to be observed by thene creatures and pretend to drink from a bottle of crude spirits. When he Is sure that be has been observed, be leavea the bottle snd goes awsy. The moment bis bark Is turned the monkeys ruh to sppesse tbelr curiosity concerning the contents of the bottle. They like the taste of the spirits, and quarrel among themselves for It till the bottle hns been emptied. The are soon overcome by tbe Intoxicant, and the trapper returns and gathers them In. full-grow- Length According ot Arms and Lege. to many measurements made at the Anthropological laboratory In Indon. the right arm In human beings Is In a majority of cases longer than the left arm. while, on the contrary, the left leg Is longer than the right leg. Sometimes, however, the relative proportions are exactly revered but seldom does perfect equsllfy ex lot beta eca the two sides. The tendency of the right srm to exceed the left arm In 'strength Is sometimes greater Id men than In women, while equsllty of stiength In the two srms occurs almost twice ss frequently with women at with men. .Time to Reform. The sailor, returning a trifle fuddled from a pcce celebration, found Ms hitherto rewpected sod rern-ctab- l Ship newly camouflaged In the niot tnodern cubist style. Running bis eye over the whole mess of conflicting square, frianele lines, circles and sundry th-- r nnrn blobs of paint which rrsewi tl sides of his "home," and blinking stu pldly at the hldoous sereamlng c!o be slowly raised Ms band while the tears coursed down hl cheeks snd murmured, wearily "Never sgnln f" Sea Level. Sea level In the Mentis. ftns means theoretical mean oe average from which elevations or "eti eslons on the earth are calculated. The coast snd geodetic survey, which Is sovern-meauthority on such subject, says; "Mean sea level may be defined as the surfsee whtrh wotild be ssiittim1 by the WSter of the oceans St ret If there were no action by the wind or by the fides dne to the attraction of tU moon and ana. The sea level snrface la at an points at right angles to a free twinging plummet." nt |