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ingS and poured in gleam1ng cascade down about her shoulders.
 sClutching with one hand at her cloak and holding the other, blindly before her, she rose, and with that same odd. groping movement, began to approach <the writing table. The pupils of her eyes were mere pin points new. She shuddered conyulsiyely, and her skin was dewed with precipitation. Her breath came in agOnized gasps.
 'God!-I nm dying, and I cannot tell himr' she breathed.
 Feverishly, weakly, she took up a pen and upon a quarto page already half filled with Leroux's small, neat. illegible writing, began to scrawl a message, bending down, one hand upon the table and with her whole body shaking.
 Some three or four wavering lines she had written, when intimately, for the flat of Henry Lerouxe in Palace mansions lay within sight Of the clock face. Big Ben began to chime mid night.
 The writer started back and dropped a great blot of ink upon the paper then, realizing the cause of the disturb ance, forced herself to continue her task.
 The chime being completed: One! boomed the clock; two, three, four!
 The light in the entrance hall went out.
 Five! boomed Big Ben-six, seven!
 A hand of old ivory hue, long, yel low, clawish hand, with part of a sinewy forearm, crept in from the black lobby through the study doorway ahd touched the electric switch.
 Eight!
 The study was plunged in darkness :!
 Uttering a sob-a cry of agony and norror that came from her very soul the woman stood upright and turned to face the door, clutcning the sheet of paper in one rigid hand.
 Through the leaded panes of the win dow above the writing table swept q s1lvern beam of moonlight. It poured sec lingly upon the fur clad figure sWaying by the table, cutting through the darkness of the room like some huge Scimiter, to end in pallid pool about the woman's shadow on the cen- ter of the Persian carpet.
 Coincident with her sobbing cry Nine! boomed Big Ben; ten!
 Two hands. with outstretched, crook ed, clutchins fingers, leaped from the darkness into the light of the moon beam.
 God! Oh, Godr' came a frenzied, rasping shriek-''Mr. King"'
 Straight at the bare throat leaped the yellow hands, a gurgling cry rose, fell and died away.
 Gently, noiselessly, the lady of the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-21
MARRIED

RICHMOND-RETZE Stamford
 Nov. IS, Thos. M. Richmond and Miss Catherine Marie RetZel
 REGAIN N-CLARY-In Stamford, Nov.
 15, Edward c. Began, of New Ha-
 ven and Miss Marguerite A. Clary.
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Insurance

DAMAGE IS ABOUT ALL fire can do tC your property Insurance cost ing lao . day protects you All the particulars -t D. B. Booths | Co.,. Coun. Bank Building.
 16 st1
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Doctor
Foot Specialist

DR. MANSFIELD. FOOT SPECIAL. IST, HOT Main .treet over Dillon's.
 cures bunions. callouses pared. 50 cents still practice the famous Mansfield Method which cures. Open afternoons and Sundays. DIS dss
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Female Help Wanted

WANTED-Maid for general house. work, experienced or willing to learn. Phone Barnum 4567 or 80 HazelWood Ave. off Laurel Ave.
 H 21 d.
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AiAilJskSss.EceS
Automobiles

OWNERS ATTEN- TION: We can save you money on your automobile. fire and liability insurance Give us cke-ce to Il. gure before you insure elsewhere. Zalmon Goodsell &s Co.,, No. 10sA Main street. Phone No. 31.
 s 2 s3s
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For Sale.

FOR SALE CHEAP writing desk, with looking glass. IFS French St.
 H 20 s*p
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INSTRUCTION
UphOlsterers

WIZ WILL COVER and 4ur fish all material for piece parlor suit. guarantee all workna -nship as first class ten patterns to select iron, for $12 to S16. Scai.y 3ros.. A0s state street.
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SiAue Repairing

GOODYEAR SHOE REPAIRING O., 7e John St., and 945 East Main street. No connection with other so-cai:ed Goodyear Shops. We call and deEyer. Tel 1891. Win. field s. Black. Prop.
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CARPETS cleaned, and up to date cleaning. ready for business now. Fluff rugs made from old carpets af1y size you want and made right. Bridgeport Steam Carpet Cleaning Co.,, 2SO Fairfield Ave, Tel. Barnum 35S5. Call us by phone..
 IT ts
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Wedding Announce ments. 100 complete with TWO e>ts of envelopes fer s6.50. South. WOrth'a 10 Arcade.
 Llo st1
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NORTH END-Sacrifice. $500 down buys new two-family house; 13 rooms; shower baths; latest i'm provements; large lot; electricity; garage; driveway; near Main St. John McAulay, Meigs Building. Open Sunday.
 G 27 stf
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Position as cook in pri- vate family. 40 Columbus Place.
 G 23 o~
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WANTED TO BUY all kinds of sec ono hand furniture. Geo. E. To. tams. Redfield's old stand. 43 Her- rison street. Phone 10.s-2.
 D 21 stx
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HENRY LEROUX wrote busily
 TT on. The light of the table ls,Ht lamp, softened and enriched ifst1 by it's mosaic shade, gave an
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Her Husband
Turned 10 Her
Then and SAID

81 hope you will for
give me for compelling
you to marry me. You
are now at liberty to go.
You are no longer my
prisoner"
Did Delight Warren
then leave the count, for
her husband was, indeed,
the Count Stefan Balsic
of Montenegro?
Did she call upon the
man she was going to
marry, the counts broth
er, for vengeance?
Read "The Unafraid."
a delightful, romantic
story by Eleanor Ing
ram. 1t will appear in
The Times next week, be-
ginning Monday, ending
Saturday.
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Propose to
Restrict Use
of Alcohol

Tacoma druggists are plan
ming to cooperate with the po-
lice department in restricting the
use of raw alcohol as a popular
drink.
At a meeting of the Druggists
association to be held in the Com
mercial club tomorrow afternoon.
Commissioner Petit, Capt. Fackler,
City Attorney Harmon and Police
Judge Evans have been invited to
make addresses.
Police records show that nearly
all of the intoxication in Tacoma
is caused by the consumption of
alcohol, according to Commission
er Petit.
Any person may buy 1t in a
drug store, under the present law,
by signing a statement that it is
to be used for mechanical pur-
poses.
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TELL OF DISASTER

SAN LUIS OBlSPO, Cal, May
11.-Three shipwreck survivors
who. with the dead bodies o. five
of their shipmates, drifted ashore
here In a lifeboat, told today of
the laundering of the steamer
Roanoke, which left San Fran
cisco May for Valparaiso.
The vessel went down 100 miles
south of San Francisco.
Exhausted and partly delirious.
the survivors We're unable to give
details more than TO say that four
boats had been launched when the
steamer sank.
When the lone lifeboat was dis
covered last night almost within
the line of the breakers, a rescue
party was formed, which hauled
the boat safely ashore.
1t was thought at first that all
hands were dead, but three show
ed signs OF life under the treat
ment of the rescuers.
One of the men revived suffi-
GENTLY to say that the steamer
was overloaded and sank during a
heavy gale.
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30 ORDER
TOWN IS
Loo TED

MARATHON, 1eX., May
II. - American authorities
are convinced today that an
organized system of Mexican
raids against the United
States Is being put into ex-
ecut;On.
Fifty MeXicans swooped down
on the town of Blocker, near
Eagle Pass, and looted stores
and two ranches, escaping with a
number of horses, according tC
advices today. No fatalities were
reported.
Civilians along the border Or
ganized when they learned that
two armed bands had appeared
between Bouquiolas and Ojinags.
Small settlements are preparing
to fight.
Authorities believed that the
bandits are participating in al
tentative raids, maintaining cen
trail headquarters within q short
distance OF the border. Every
Mexican on the American side is
under suspicion. Even those who
heretofore have been friendly are
distrusted now.
II is believed the raiders OBJ
tain Information from their coun-
trymen on the American side, and
divide the loot.
Maj. Langhorne's eighth caval-
ry sqhadron encamped in Mexico
last might after crossing the
boundary near Bouquillas yester-
day. They hiked from Mara
ton 70 the border, distance of
90 mfles. They expect to go i'm.
msdiately to Ataquilla, where the
raiders are reported to have their
rendezvous. /.
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knows.
OF course, there are $4,000
people who work making movies.
and we hazard the guess that
there is about an equal number
working in cafeterias.
Many of the Inhabitants of this
village have gained so much skin
that they can balance a bowl of
soup, dillpickle, three sand
wishes, a barque-load of salad
tapioca cream pudding and
glass of milk on one tray with
out doing anything more au fat
than splitting just a teeny-weeny
drop of the soup maybe, down a
neighbours neck.
Los Angeles is the biggest city
on the Pacific coast, but San
Francisco, Seattle, Tacoma. Port
land and Santa Monica deny It.
The climate is oh. we'll,
what's the use?
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PLACING THE WORKERS
THE FORMER TYPE-AT
THE RATE OF ABOUT
FOUR TO ONE.
So late as Jan. 4 of this yea
the United States contracted fol
the purchase of number o.
Vickers guns-THE VERY GUNS
THAT GREAT BRITAIN is RE
PLACING WITH THE LEWISi
Intercepted Jan. 20 last
by the senate committee on
military affairs, Gen. Cro-
zier lodged the question as
to whether the Lewis weap-
on was an approved gun by
making the startlingIy new
declaration that he UNDER
stood 1t was I'm use i'm cer-
tain European armies!
And he added:
81 am not certain what
the experience has been with
it,"
This from the head of our
ordnance department, after
the prOwess of the Lewis gun
had become AS WORLD
FAMOUS AS THAT OF THE
42-CENTIMETER HOWIT-
TER!
Two Lewis machine guns, one
of British, one of American make
are now being tested again at the
Springfield arsenal by a board OF
officers.
1t took weeks of correspondence
and the official consent of the
British government before the
United States could get these two
mere TEST types of a gun invent
ed by an officer of our own army.
Secrecy beclouds the present
test.
Whether it results in the adop.
ton or second rejection of the
Lewis gun is not now important.
The important question is, will
the ordnance bureau continue to
treat American inventors as il
has treated Col. Lewis?
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No TRACE OF VICTIMS

PORT SAN LUIS, Cal, May II.
While patrols watched the
breakers for bodies of AZ believed
to have persisted in the Roanoke
disaster, wireless today from
the steamer Lansing said she had
gone over the scene of the horror
and had found no trace of sur
yivors.
Rumors that another lifeboat
containing a single corpse had
been found, were not substantial
ed. As far as is known, the only
ones who escaped death were Jo-
seph Erbe, quartermaster, and
two Mexicans who drifted ashore
last night.
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w HITE
RIBBON
in BAD

w hIIV Oo'Spft
was testifying In his own de-
Tense today in his trial on u
charge of keeping liquor In
his Wilke<on drug store for
illegal sale, his chief wit
hess, A. A. Baptiste, was
quietly removed to the jail
Or's office where he was ar
rested on a perjury charge.
His bond was placed at 3d.
900.
Baptiste was employed as Nc
Caskey's prescription clerk. He
denied emphatically on the stand
yesterday that he had made sales
Of which the state had evideace.
Deputy Prosecutor Sciacn said
today that the state had the
goods on him" and that the in
formation was written last night.
This man deliberately lied
when he said he did not sell the
liquor. ] cannot say whether any
more arrests OH perjury charges
will be made. We haven't quite
enough proof yet"
Baptiste's arrest was withheld
until nearly noon SO that the jury
and the court would not know of
1t. He was walking near the
court when arrested, and was sur
prised. Even the attorneys for
the defense were not aware of
the states action until the noon
recess.
In the midst of the session,
Judge yesterday declared re-
cess and after dismissing the jury
called Mrs. A. b. Holm into the
judges chambers and requested
that she remove the white ribbon
emblem of the prohibition So
ciety.
Judge yesterday said the attor-
news for the defense objected to
her wearing the emblem, claim
ing that it would influence the
jury.
Attorney Burmeister said that
the w. c. T. U. members had
been frequenting the court room
and had been openly showing
their approval or disapproval of
the testimony. He insisted that
they be compelled to stop it.
Enters Strong Protest.
Mrs. Holm protested she was
merely an interested attendant
In the company of Mr.. e. Osburn,
husband of DR.. f. st. Clair Os-
burn, prominent w. G. T. U.
member in the city.
McCaskey occupied the stand
most of the morning. He claimed
that Detective H. Il. Norwood ap-
preached him recently and said
that he was off the state because
he had not been paid SIS coming
to him for work on the Wilkeson
case"
HE further intimated to
me that the evidence against
me could be destroyed for
$780," continued McCaskey.
81 told him that the case was
costing me enough money
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What's Doing
Thursday

Afifi Patrol and band give open
air drill; saith and Union, South
Tacoma; 7:45 p. IN.
Benefit concert for Women s
Clubhouse association, at club
house, this evening; Hiram Tut
tie, Miss Maude Handle, Miss
Mary Kilpatrick, Miss Helen
Bergh and orchestra of % pieces
( program.
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FLASHES

WASHINGTON, d. c. = \
large hydro-aeroplane which has
been in operation between New
port News ard this city fell into
the Potomac today, injuring two
passengers.
CHICAGO-The strike sit
uation involving thousands
Of workers appeared more
serious today. A general
walkout of garment work.
ers seemed imminent.
CHICAGO-Two sheet metal
workers who have been fighting
to remove high officers of the To-
cal were shot last night at the
close of a meeting.
SAN RANCISCO-The U. s.
schooner captured by the British
will be sent to Victoria to be
passed upon by a prize court.
BOISE--The crops and
many farm houses have been
wiped out In the Teuton
county valley by the flood
from the bursted Pack Sad
die dam.
SAN BERNARDINO-Cracks-
men escaped with $4,000 in
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PROBE
COAST
WRECK

SAN FRANCISCO, May II.
The government Inspector
of hulls said today an inves-
tigation of the Roanoke hor-
ror would be begun as soon
as the three survivors are
able 10 testify. II is thought
faulty loading may have been
the cause.
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as 1t was and l did not wish
to Suend any mora

~Ay
AT another time he spoke to
me about getting the La Vail
woman to go to Aberdeen and
lose herself for $40. There was
some mention also during the
conversation of keeping one of
the states witnesses in Mon
tana."
Denies He Sold Booze.
McCaskey said that the greater
part of the bottled goods used
as evidence against him were
presents from friends and prizes
won by him at dances.
He said that he had seen the
three women employed by the
county come into his store and
that he heard them say that they
had brought chicken" (refer-
ring to the 17-year-old girl in
their company and they wanted
to doll her up with some powder.
so she could make some money. !"
McCaskey said that there had
been no liquor In his store for IL
years previous to the dry law and
that he had had no liquor pre-
scriptions.
The state suggested that the
dry law had popped" up the
description business considera bly,.
DIR. Osburn Protests.
DR.. Osburn was greatly
wrought up over the courts ac-
tion concerning the removal of
white ribbons.
II wish to utter a vehement
protest I'm behalf of the members
of the federation of w. c. T. u.
What sort OF country is this?"
she said.
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WASHINGTON, d. Especial
agents OF the postal department
are attempting to trace the origin
OF a letter received here by the
authorities, reading; THE main
building OF the department of ag-
riculture will be blown up Fri
day morning, May ~"
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PLACING THE NICKERS-
THE FORMER TYPE-AT
THE RATE OF ABOUT
EOITR tn ONE

The ship Kumi Maru, in Com
mencement bay, was libe,ed today
by George Freyman, who alleged
he was injured while unloading
oil from the vessel in Seattle.
Freyman asks $4,000 damages.
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WASHINGTON, ID. c., May IL.
Col. Lewis learned his lesson
when Gen. Crozier and his asso-
ciates took the attitude his great
invention had failed.
He had learned that an army
officers invention would not re-
ceive far-sighted, constructive at
tention from the board of ord
nance, unless perchance he stood
in with the members of the board.
LEWIS DID NOT STAND IN.
He had repeatedly criticised
the disappearing gun carriage
which Gen. Crozier has foisted
upon our coast defenses.
He had written a report to
Secretary of War Root scathingly
condemning the ordnance equip
ment with which our boys were
sent to the Philippines-and the
rebound from this report HIT
THE BOARD HARD.
Lewis moreover had made the
board eat crow in the matter of
his depression range finder.
In 1889 Lewis got the basic pat
ents on range finders, and Of
fered his remarkable invention
free to the United States.
Our ordnance authorities look
ed the other way.
THEY weren't interested in
new-fangled inventions by THIS
ENTHUSIAST LEWIS. When the
Spanish-American war broke out
We had no satisfactory range
finders, and we had to purchase at
great cost from the private con-
Germ to which Col. Lewis had
turned over his rights in the in
|vention THE VERY RANGE
FINDER which we had refused
when it was offered to us FOR
NOTHING!
Again, In 1000, Col.
Lewis succeeded in bringing
back from Europe the secret
plans of the new French 75,
now SO famous, of which the
distinctive feature was that
the gun recOiled separately
from the carriage.
Ii was vastly significant
advance In ordnance con-
structiOn. Lewis was SNUB-
BED for his pains, though
again authorities had to
COME ROUND ULTIMATE
LIZ to this type of gun!
With this experience of unfair
treatment behind him, Lewis
finally gave up pressing his ma
chine gun on the United States
which preferred the kind that
jam.
THE LEWIS GUN CANNOT
JAM.
Belgian financiers realized its
merits and raised 100000 to be-
gin making it. Then the Birming-
ham-Arms Co. of England took II
over, and just before the present
war broke out sold the first con-
Segment to Russia.
Those guns were on the last
train that raced through Germany
before the war closed the from
tiers!
Great Britain at once con-
tracted for the ENTIRE output of
the Birmingham Arms Co.
Canada bought the entire out
put of the Savage Arms Co.,
which had acquired the American
rights.
Twenty-Five hundred Lewis
guns were bought by popular sub
scription in Canada.
At least $4,000 Lewis
guns are in use in Europe
today.
Their exploits have proved
them the master machine
guns of the war. =
They are the only type
even considered by Great
Britain for her aerial fight
ers.
France has watched their
success, and Is now equip
ping two factories, one at
Paris and one at st. Etienne,
TO manufacture them.
IN THE BRITISH ARMY
THE LEWIS GUN Is RE-
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OUR OWN TRAvELoGUES

LOS ANGELES-The natives
call Il Loose 0n-gahl-eeze-and It
is some loose, believe us, Amaryl-
lie.
There are 100000 people In
l.. A., and how they live lordonly-
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At $500 this morning the Their.
mometer registered 33.9 degrees
The lowest previous record fol-
May was 35.5 degrees on Mas
81, 1900.
A heavy frost which covered
the entire city in the early morn.
ing houh, with apparent killing
frost in many sections, led Off
cials here to fear that heavy dam
age had ben done to plant life
How great this damage may he
has not yet been definitely de-
termined.
Pauliamus Optimistic.
From various outlying points
came reports of frozen milk in
bottles and of frozen water.
w. II. Paulhamus, president of
the Puyallup and Sumner Fruit
Growers association, declared his
belief that no great Gage had
been done in the valley by last
nights frost, but warned all
growers to cover their plants
carefully before otnight.
The weather bureau predicts
another heavy frost for might
and early tomorrow.
Fog Helped Some.
There is no definite evidence
of any heavy damage to the fruit
crop yet, although we might find
serious damage developing later
on" was the statement of w. A.
Linkrater, superintendent of the
Western Washington experiment
station in Puyallup.
The Thermometer at the ex-
pertinent station registered 80
degrees at one time during the
night and in several places in
Puyallup ice was discovered.
However, heavy fog this
morning relieved the condition
and we do not look for any great
damage he said.
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FROST DAMAGE
If NOT THAT
IT'S WORSE

Editors Note: Yesterday The Times printed exclu-
sive Washington telling how the L. army
board time rejected Lewis machine
when to the government by inventor.
This is the which European proved
the greatest smalarm I'm the world The following
article further amazing
gigantic blunder suggests possible why
committed
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Talk O. the Times

Greetings, have You ever
been i'm RentOn? It's the
kind OF n town where u
young fellow bra2s about
kissing his girl.
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$1,OOO,OOO DAMAGE

BOISE, Ida, May IL. - The
freeze last night caused more
than 100000 loss to southern
Idaho fruit growers. The prune
crop was entirely destroyed and
apples were badly damaged.
Small fruits were wiped out.
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Coolest
May On
Record

That fruits, flowers and
vegetables i'm Tacoma, the
bay-island district, the Puy-
allup valley and other sec
tiOns of the state may have
suffered heavily from killing
frost was indicated today by
the report of the L. S. wealth.
er bureau.
The coolest May morning
on record i'm Tacoma was re-
ported by the weather man.
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!.
Our
Directors

This Bank is gov
erned by State Bank
Law and supervised by
eleven representative
business men all sue
cessful in their own
business.
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gold and several thousand in eur.
rency today from the Illingsworth
store.
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Speaking of towns: Didja ever
hear of Myrtle Creek, Or? 1t
has a paper, the Mail. The Mail
tells OF a Mr.. Weeks who was in
jured by being clawed by a COW.
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Every care is given to
preserve the right rela-
tionship between Bank
and customer, and we
hope that every individ-
ual in Tacoma will real
lie that this Bank is
your friend.