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stars Enough for All Of ua.

When Emerson advised everybody
TO hitch his wagon to star. it was
thought the advice was impracticable
that there were not stars enough to
go around. At that time there were
only three or four thousand stars Wis
ible. which number was far short OF
the demand. But when maps OF the
skies were made with the assistance
Of the telescope and camera. it was
found there we're 50 900 900 stars-not
yet quite enough for all These stars
were below the seventeenth magni-
tude. which was AZ far as the optical
instruments would reach. but since
then the twenty-fCurth magnitude
stars have been brought to view, and
now the number OF stars is estimated
at 500 100000. So there will need be
no trouble about IT, There Is a star
for every wagon. and a few left for
unborn generations. SO hitch your
wagon 90 star, and don't delay. The
times demand it.-Ohio state Journal.
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HE JUST FILLED THE BILL

Soon after President Wilson came
into office he began hunting for a
man. He kept three essentials In
mind during the progress of the
search. Tho man, he said, had to be
physically and mentally robust, and a
Democrat. of course, and he ought to
have been a Union soldier in the
war between the North and South. II
such man could be found, the presI-
dent promised to appoint him commits
sioner OF pensions. There were plenty
OF veterans, he agreed, but they were
old and infirm and not competent to
manage one OF the greatest bureaus
In Washington
When Timothy T. Ansberry, in
congress from the Fifth district OF
Ohio, heard the news, he hastened to
the White House. Make out the pa
pers," he told the president, "in tho
name OF my constituent, Gaylord Mil
Ter Saltzgaber OF Van Vert. He
served four years In the army, he fl
as good Democrat as there is In the
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An amateur photographer stopped
one morning az a Kansas farmhouse
and inquired for the farmer
II want TO trespass on your prem
ises," he said. long enough to take a
picture of that cOmfeld It's the
most magnificent one I ever saw"
That's all right" responded the
farmer. "But you'll have to take IL
instantaneoUs-it' growing so FAST
Oldport Herald.
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Notice to Subscribers.

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Swiss scientist has discovered
that the asheL which still largely cover
the buried cities Of Herculaneum and
Pompeii contain large quantities OF
potash and clay. from which an excel
lent agricultural fertilizer can be OBJ
tanned The whole region is very rich
in potash. and Il SIS said the Italian
government is seriously intending to
organize the exploitation Of "Vesu-
Wan Mines"
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HEAD OF NOVEL SOCIAL SERVICE

Bellevue, the famous old hospital
of New York city, has been led to per
ceive that to care for man or woman
physically is not the end Of it's respon-
sibility. Caring for nearly eighty
thousand persons year in hospital
and dispensary Is today but one side
OF the great work accomplished by
that institution. This change has
been brought about by n woman
Miss Mary Il. Wadley As an en-
ployee OF the hospital she saw pa
tients leaving Bellevue discharged as
cured who had not regained sufficient
strength to take up their work. She
saw families broken up because the
breadwinner lay III in the hospital and
the smaller and weaker members
were unable to shift for themselves.
Often discharged patient fortunate
enough to have home to which he
could return could not get the care
there necessary TO insure complete
recovery.
Once the great hospital under
one than Il had been doing for its pa
find ways and means OF developing n
lie
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his and
acidbiting $3.50 -
Salgaber
In their of
lived to be hundred and
Gaylord Miller Salzgaber
he
with military
1919 he appointed
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"HERE'S a lot of money
here and in this vicinity.
Possessors of thatmoney
read this paper; they swear by
1t. They want TO be shown.
IL your goods are right, they
want to buy. This paper
talks TO that money at regular
intervals. It's money that
talks back and talks back
strong. Get your share-do
your talking through our ad-
vertising columns.
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WaYne Courts.

Terms sf Circuit Court: Second Mo.day IN
February, May, August and November.
Terms of County Court: First Monday In Jan.
aary, April and July, and Third Monday in No
vember
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lob printing of all kinds neatly
= and promptly executed on rea-
sonable terms
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stood that something
ens empowered Miss Wadey of
social service And
not
OF regarding
hospital providing
as health
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
One cepy, one year, 500
One copy, six months, so
One copy, three months, 80
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The CeredO Advance

a Republican Newspaper that
has q large circulation in the Big
Sancy and Twelve Pole Valleys.
An excellent advertising medi-
um
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al Palm Of the Bombay

to marry the daughter Of the late Lieutenant General Palm Of Bombay
After that mis- promotion
the college, director military
he
he OF King knghed
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Published Ecery Wednesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-12

room returned they would doubt
less, and with reason, hand him
over to the police, and the deuce
wild, indeed!) would be to pay
Moreover, he would never hear
the last of ii. He, who had never
left himself open to ridieule,
would be the laughing-stock of
the town.
Numbness crept into his arms
and legs. He could notshift the
handkerchief solitary inch, not
fraction of an inch. Occasion
ally he heard sounds; the lift-door
closing, someone going up or
down the stairs. the rattle of a
far-off elevated train, the honk of
an auto-horn in the street below.
Beautiful situation for J. Morti-
mer Forbes, famous illustrator!
Hours and hours and hours
passed; at least so 1t seemed to
him. OF course it was just his
luck to strike place where the
people kept ungodly hours. He
would not be able to work for
days. The gold thread of the
stole cut like a razor's edge. The
beggar might have left the lights
on, SO that he could have found
some amusement in staring at the
furnishings and specializing as to
the taste of the absent ones. But
to sit in pure darkness (for the
blinds were DOWN., his nerves all
awrack from listening and wait
ing. his lungs aching for the want
of deep breath-it was all
mighty unpleasant.
Thank heaven! Some one was
turning key In the lock. They
had come at last. He suddenly
found himself blinking into the
light. Over the threshold came
an elderly man and young
woman.
Good heavens!" cried the
young woman.
Forbes said nothing, but his
eyes threatened to fall out of his
head. For the young woman was
no less a person than she of the
copper-beech hair; and her face
was as SID and beautiful as
Bellini's Madonna in that rickety
old church by the side of that
smelly old canal in Venice!
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by JACK JUNGMEYER.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 12.-"1
found that a girl can best escape
the many dangers besetting work.
ing women by simply running
away from them and getting a jot
elsewhere-not staying long In
any one place"
And that, says Miss Hattie Ret.
finger, is why she is a hobo girl,
always on the move, In San Fran
cisco today, In New York, Phila-
delphia and the Philippine islands
a few yesterdays ago, and in Ger.
many a few tomorrows hence, un-
less her plans miscarry.
tits safe, this knocking about"
she explains, "if one stick to q
rigid code, enjoys scenery more
than finery and innocent adven-
ture more than girlish con-
quests.
"In fact, it is, l have found,
much safer than to anchor in one
place, unless that place be a good
home. But If a girl must work
for living she might as well be
10000 miles away from home as
10 blocks, in a business house all
day.
Having to rely entirely on her.
self, as | have had to do, keeps a
girl much more alert to those in
sidious or open perils which beset
her everywhere"
A remarkable woman is Miss
Rittinger, an Americanized Ger
man from Heidelberg. who cross
ed the Atlantic in the steerage
unaccompanied, before she was
Is. She served as Red Cross
nurse in the Philippines during
the war; has donned mems
clothes in seeking work; tramped
over long stretches of road, sleep
ing in the open fields-the hero.
inc of a dozen thrilling adven-
lures.
81 have come through 1t all UNI
scathed = through II years OF
free knocking about. And when ]
go home to my old German IA
Their. as l plan to do next month,
/ can stand up straight and look
him square in the eve.
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was now locked in.
Presently his brain resumed its
functions; he began to think In
little sparks of thought, as if per-
hitting electric fluid to enter a
wire by degrees. jerkily. For the
last ten minutes he had been as
completely hypnotized as il he
had been staring into Swami S
crystal.
His first coherent thought was
one of those best left unspoken,
unwritten. He had entered, pic
turing in his mind familiar
scene, six familiar faces; and this
instead! II would have hypno-
tized anyone.
A blockhead, A sheep. To have
allowed himself to be trussed up
this way, without single strug-
gle, without word! A fine de-
tective! He strained at his hands,
and then at his ankles, but desist-
ed when the chair threatened to
topple over. On the floor he would
/ be absolutely helpless.
So he sat there in the dark,
mounting at his handkerchief and
trying to get his teeth into it.
The man had a freshly skinned
knuckle. He would remember
that when the police came. He
would never be able to recall the
voice, so effectually muffled be-
hind the curtain of the mask. In
evening dress, too, and wore 1t to
the manner born: here in little
old New York!
And then II came upon him with
the dazzlement of sunrise. The
mysterious burglar of the news
papers! He reeollected some Of
the drawings he had made of
heroes in durance vile, ironically
recollected them, along with the
balderdash they were supposed to
illustrate.
Why hadn't he flung himself
over backward while the fellow
was tying his hands together? He
was no infant; he was athletic,
strong as the average man of his
height and weight. He might
have got the upper hand J..
Oh, rot! 1t was all very we'll to
think of the things to do when
1t was too late. Any battle could
be won II you fought it back
ward.
He began to swear again; gut
tural sounds which started in his
throat and ended, bassoon-like, in
his nose. Dash the door-boy, to
have given him the wrong floor.
Somewhere up above or down be-
low they were waiting for him:
the cards were purring, the chips
clicking musically against one an
other.
Deuces wild. If you held a
king and queen of any suit, to-
gether with three deuces, you
could call it four queens, or four
kings, or a royal, just as you
pleased.
Open on anything; no weary
waiting for jacks or better; some
thing doing every minute. ct
never occurred to him that the
burglar had already saved him
about fifty dollarsD
And when the occupants of this
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Wholesale
Quotations
tBuying Prices. j

tBuying Prices.j
Livestock-Cows. 6hc; calves.
so &c: hogs. S1s 40 &c; wethers
&c; lambs. 7c: ewes. 4hc.
Butter and Ran.h but
ter, 2h 70 csc; strictly fresh ranca
eggs, 10 zoe.
Poultry - Hens, t6OI7c:
broiIers, 25@27c; ducks, 141
l5c; squads. $3.50: rabbits, So
10c.
Jobbing Quotations.
The following prices are fir.
nished the Times daily by LEADING
Trims engaged In the varioys
lines 70 fruit, produce. meats, pro.
visions. etc. These prices are pail
by tho retailers to the commits
zion men:
Cheese = Wash. zoe: TIiia.
r.cok. lie.
Frseh rancn eggs. FL 22c.
Ddtter-Washington creamery.
20 % &c; Oregon. 26026c; Call.
fornia, zee.
Fresh Meats Steer. i2H0
1skc; cows. 12Kc: heifers,
12hc; hogs. trimmed sIdes,
1, Nc; do. combination, lie:
whole, 13he; small veal, 100
lie; heavy veal, 10@12c;
ewes, i1hc; mutton, wethers.
IL Rc; lamb. 14c: Alaska rein
deer, lie, ex. warehouse.
Fruits-Apples: Winesap. 81
a $50; yellow Newtowns, sen
$50. Oranges: Naval, $2.50so
ais. Bananas: 4hc ID. Crane
Fruit. Florida, $50; Cal.
$3.50. Pineapples: &c ID. Straw
berries. California, $t.75@2:
kennewiek, 81 20; gooseberries,
crate. $50.
Vegetables-Green onions. 200
dozen; Texas Crystal wax, boz,
Wis. Lettuce: Leaf, 81 box:
head. $2.25 Gratis. Spinach, Id. &c.
Turnips. 81. Carrots, $1.5O; ro.
tail, 3 lib. 25c. Potatoes: Melted
Gem, 1922; White River, $15;
New Garnets. /: i-2c lb. Cucum-
bers: Island. doz., 75c, $1m1.25:
retail 10000. Cabbage: Win.
nlngstadt. $3.50. Cauliflower,
California. $2.35. Parsnlps.
$1.25 per rack. Bell Pep
pers: 10 cents lab. Tomatoes
Fla. $2.50; Mex. $3.50. Rutaba-
gas, SIX. $40. Hops. 1918 crop.
prime and choice. 17018c:
Rhubard. h., 2h @3c. Tele-
phone peas, H., 8. Aspara-
gus, Walla Walla, box, $1.35;
Mint, bunch, Toe. Radishes.
doz. bu., 25c. Florida eggplant,
each 20 q 40c. Wax beans. h..
L. -1-2c. Beet, 81. Parsley, doz.
bu., 25c. Green beans, 10c.
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CHAPTER ".
A Page From Scheherezade.

In the meantime Forbes was in
vited by the burglar to come in
and sit down. He entered the
room. thoroughly hypnotized.
"Sit down in that chair there"
went on the man in the mask, in
dicating a fine Sheraton. Strange,
that Forbes should give any par
ticular attention to the make of a
| chair.
There's good chap" came
hoarsely. 81 should hate to give
you a crack on the head. II you
keep perfectly quiet and do as
you're told, I shan't be forced to
hurt you. Now listen carefully.
Take out your handkerchief. Top
pocket, overcoat, il you please!
Now tie IL over your mouth. That S
the way"
Forbes was by no means a cow
ard; but the unexpectedness of
the encounter stunned him. He
forgot that he had ever wanted to
be an amateur detective.
The burglar rose to his feet
with astonishing agility. HDrbes
watched him. under a malevolent
enchantment. He saw the man
whip down from the wall a rare
old priests stole.
Put your hands behind the
chair and hold them there. The
automatic's the quickest thing in
the world"
A moment later Forbes felt the
rough edges of the stole sink into
his wrists. The ends went in and
out of the spindles and the knot
came under his elbows. Next, the
handkerchief was given a precau-
| tionary twist. The Bokhara en-
broidery on the low-boy was also
forced into service. This secured
his ankles to the legs of the chair.
Don't know what you came in
for, for you opened the door with
out knocking. Never mind"
The burglar slipped the pistol
into a pocket.
Now. don't worry. Perhaps
some time before midnight the
people who live here will come to
your assistance"
Then the rogue knelt before
| the safe again and took out an ex-
quisite Florentine jewel-box. He
did not bother to try the lock. He
was evidently pressed for time.
He simply wrapped 1t up in a
newspaper, tied it securely with a
string he found in work-basket,
picked up his tools, his hat and
coat, and paused for moment on
the threshold.
Forbes could see the sparkle of
his eyes through the holes in the
mask. He also saw that there was
slight cash across the knuckles
of the mans left hand.
Sorry to leave you in this fix.
The man bowed briefly and went
out.
Forbes heard the snap of the
switch-button. Instantly he was
in total darkness. Then he
heard the click of the bolt. He
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She sat down. her arm flung
across the back of chair and
her face half hidden In the furry
sleeve. The money slipped from
her fingers and fluttered like au-
tumn leaves at her feet. Was she
crying? Forbes could not tell.
II am sorry" he said. But
would you mind untying these
treasures? On the word of a gen.
tleman, | shan't make any effort
to so away. II was all mistake
on my part. Yet | am glad |
blundered In. | may be able to
help you to recover the box. My
hands are so numb, and do not
believe | have any feet"
OH" She got up and came
over to him and deity removed
the stole and the Bokhara en-
broidery. Gratefully Forbes
stretched himself.
Women ought never to leave
their jewels In boxes. A box like
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DEUCES Wild" 3! A!ae!. .sa!!H
Copyright by Bobbs Merrill Co.

81 haven't had the pleasure of
counting it!"-curtly. II came
In here expecting to see a poker
game; instead, a pistol was held
at my head and I was politely re-
quested to be seated. Oh, he was
very polite!"--bitterly.
The girl didn't apologize. Eff
teen thousand dollars" She said
II musingly.
Fiji What. In these
days of checks, do you carry that
much loose In your safe for?"
81 drew IL from the bank this
morning. Tomorrow an agent
from an emerald firm In Delhi IL
coming with necklace | Or
dered. II was to be cash. II Is
made up of thirty stones"
Tame grew the tales of Sche-
herezade, daughter of the grand
vizier. Thirty emeralds at five
hundred each! Would she let
him sketch her head?
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This Weeks Novel a Week!
New Story of Real Mystery

again; and twenty minutes later,
at nine-fifteen, the two arrived at
the apartment on the third floor
of the Dryden.
The girl opened the door i'm
petuously, fearing she knew not
what. In the plain ordinary safe
In the living-room reposed the
Nana-Sahib's ruby and fifteen
thousand dollars.
A few blocks over the way, In
dark and cavernous studio, q
lonesome dachel was baying at
the intermittent ting-a-linging of
the telephone.
Across the city there stood a
series of apartments which had
never been fashionable, though
many of the Inhabitants put up
brave pretense for such recogni-
ton; wherein the real estate
agents reaped sundry profits. By
some, the Indifferent principally,
they were called flats.
In one of these, comfortably
appointed, with a few really good
rugs on the floors and furniture
which was neither acrobatic nor
offensive, there lived a woman
she was young and pretty in a
faded way. She was preparing
for bed; and as she let down her
hair, the many gray threads
caused pueker to come between
her eyes. Her expression was
placid; but II was the placidity of
the crushed and the beaten, not
of the resigned.
From brick house in another
quarter of the town, a quarter
which had fallen under the edict
of mobile fashion along about
wartime, man stepped forth
noiselessly and disappeared into
the night. became shadow
among shadows.
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yours Is an invitation to any bur-
glar who sees H..
II contained nothing but let
ters. ! keep all my jeweia save
one at the hank"
Lettersg" Forbes laughed
softly. Well. the rogue viii be-
nicely sold. That's something. -
The girl returned to her chair,
and there she sat. staring stoniiy
into the black cavity OF the safe.
Forbes tried to stand up. hut
swayed rockily and pumped hack
into the Sheraton. which. being
genuinely antique, protested
ominously. Presently he tried Il
again. walking doubtfully round
the chair. Sure of his balance at
last. he picked up the bills, made
compact roll OF them. and laid
them In the girls lap.
Thank you" she said. Just an
IL he had offered her cup of tea.
Continued In Our Next Issue.)
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Novelist Colony Has
a Poisoning Mystery

SAN FRANCISCO, May H.
Detectives are trying to clear tho
mystery of several anonymous let
tiers received by prominent per
sons here at the time of the pois.
oning Of Alice McGowan, novel
list of Carmel Wy the Sea. Califov
MAS colony Tor writers.
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CHAPTER V.
The FlOrentine BOX.

When young man meets face
to face the girl of his dreams.
artistic or amatory, the nature of
things requires that he shall be
dressed to the queens taste.
He shall wear in his butotnhole
a gardenia by preference, the
popular vote having been given
to that delicate flower.
There shall be no flaw in the
outward makeup which appoints
"men gay deceivers
ever" A DOTTED hat, all but
brushing the vanished boots, a
gloved hand covering the heart
After all, have no right to
make light of Forbes predica-
ment. 1t is not very agreeable
to have Her burst in upon you
when you look ready for the oven,
like a Thanksgiving turkey. And
Forbes, for all his amatory
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"'You were wrong, father I
will say, when you warned me
that d girl could not go out and
make her way in the world and
come back as good as when she
left.
but to do IL you must before
you start set strict standard of
conduct, and stick to 1t blindly,
for the pitfalls are many, and the
worst are those which look least
like traps"
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BEGIN HERE TODAY.

Young Forbes, New York ar
tist, has run out of material and
must find a new type of girlish
beauty for his next magazine
cover. He glimpses a beautiful
red-haired woman on the street
and PUSHES after her, but loses
her in the crowd. Returning to
his studio, he is called by his
friend Jillson on the telephone,
asking him to a poker party that
night at which "deuces wild
will be played.
Forbes accepts, goes to the
apartment where Jillson lives,
and is directed to his friend q
rooms by new elevator boy. He
enters the wrong suite, and is
confronted by a man in evening
dress, fully masked, who covers
him with revolver. Back of the
man is an open safe which he
has evidently looted.
Meantime, a Mr.. Mearson and
his daughter are fastening across
town to their lawyers office, to
which they have been myster-
iously summoned.
Miss Mearson is her uncle's
heiress. He was a curio collector
and, together with his wealth, left
her valuable curios which his
will stipulated she use every day.