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ing room" And Betty turned to
leave the room.
Just a moment! Am I to take that
as an answer? Are you promising?
Betty turned; hesitated; then. sud
denly, impuls.vely, came across the
room.
Mrs, Boatwrlght,'' she said un.
stendily-her eyes were filling
would IL do any good for me TO talk
right ont with you2 Probably / do
need advice She faltcred moment.
arily, shocked by the expression on
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that nearly square face. "oh. IT isn't
n terribly serous situation. 1t really
isn't But h a man is honest. lie
has led an unhappy solitary life. ="
Her voice died out.
But you sad he was married."
cried Mrs. B~oatwr.ght explosively.
Copyright 1922, by the Eel syndi-
cate, Inc.
Another Installmont tomorrow
Try Tribune Classified for Results
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
By FAY KING.

Nearly everybody know, as
said once before, has booked q
life preserver on Q big liner and
started across the seven seas.
Io0ay nttle pa OF mlne y
eaNIme away ana Sne was 3Il
tnrilAed up When slle read over
the SaIApg HsI ana iOund' OUT
that for once in her Life she was
the only THOMPSON named among
q c0upI1 tnOusanu peOpIe.
JUST maze my name 60
Or0lnaEy' ana y GOES me Aotta
EVO0 70 eoo .naS AOT OMco u My
nlo O ~,1 @ - -" n.s.a
OInSr InSRsOns AZ snG S4 ~
gatneEms' at1e SdVs, .a.1 JUST -
tween You ana me ana tne paRer,
W0uI0nt Wa1t ner 70 get VIZ -
70 TINS moron I've gOt, Dut ! u
ure snefs noplng 20 msS1 SOo
DOdy ON TINS Zip tnAS WIN CnaaAso
her name. $50.
They do say tnaG there - M0In-
ing moro fOInantlc tnan -
voyage ana tnat YOU ao 1.. .M;o
bound 20 meet sOtao III ~ Ea..sax -"
guy and Gne moon oOes talo As'
MISTAKES SICKNESS.
rueas some of 'em are Just
soa-sick and think they are love-
sick, but II y an enuS 1,l Map ny,
MmaS III ~ . ur. r.. ara the ones
Mn can't afford to take q chance.
THAT Re. / mean those who can't
but 4 ticket and look the eligi-
bIes over,
Well. far be it from me to take
@R,n Tow nr,tfa amvRNfay'a life. and
/ was honestly as enthusiastic
a. she was when she told me
how glad she was to be the only
Thompson that had booked q pas
sage on the boat.
There's nothing like being ex-
elusive" she says.
Well, that's all In the way you
look at it. Of course. and l was
just dying to ask her whether
she thought shed ne engaged Pc
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
They Combat the Film
Those people you see everywhere
with whittier, cleaner, safer teeth

cornbatants were embodied
in it for daily application.
That tooth paste. is called
Pepsodent. To millions OF
homes the world over It is
bringing a new dental era.
Other new effects
Pepsodent does other
things which research proves
essential. It multiplies the
alkalinity of the saliva. That
is there to neutralize mouth
acids, the cause Of tooth de-
cay.
It n1ultiplies the starch d-
gestant in the saliva, That
is there to digest starch de-
posts which may otherwise
ferrnent and form acids.
Thus Pepsodent gives
manifold power to these
great natural tooth-protect-
ing agents.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
''PUSSYFOO 7
SEES SOBER
WORLD
Drunken England" Cannot
Compete With Dry U. s.,
Declares Leader.
/ drunken" England cannot

A drunken England cannot
compete with q sober America.
This contention was advanced by
"Pussyfoot" johnson during a ser.
mon preached last night at the
Columbia Heights Christian Church,
in which he declared that America
has set up a flame Of hope which
will guide the world"
England and JAPAN" continued
johnson, "our largest competitors
in the industrial and financial
world, will adopt prohibition in
the wake of Americas success. For
a drunken England cannot compete
against a sober America"
Likening the Eighteenth Amend.
ment Of the United States Consti-
tuition to a flame of hope, Johnson
said the entire world was looking
towards America.
success is bound to come, for
America emphasizerd johnson,
doesn't know how to spell the
word failure. Despite the wet
propaganda, the number Of arrests
for drunkenness in the first two
years Of prohibition was less than
half the number in q like period
before the law was passed.
Ino prOnlDltlou laws OF IOoHy
are obeyed far better than the old
saloon license law ever was.
Crimes of drunken men, such as
beating wives, which originated
from violations Of the license law,
have been completely wiped cut
G.. w. Morrow, Of the World
League Against Alcoholism, said
more than four tons of dry
literatlire in nineteen different
languages were being circulated
around the world every twenty
four hours, and. that more is needed.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
NEGRO WIFE WOULD LEAVE
MAN WHO SAYS HE'S WHITE

NOBLESv1LLE, IND, Feb. H.
Mrs. Jennie Hickman, colored, has
filed suit in the Circuit Court
against her husband, Wilbur Rick
man, for q divorce. She based her
action on the ground that Hickman
10 a white man and that she was
not aware of her husbands claim
until recently, although they have
been married twelve years and have
four children.
Hickman has always passed as q
negro, but he has a petition pend
ing In court to have himself de-
clared q white man. He says he
q Of white parentage.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
SHAWL DRESS IS
BEING SHOWN
IN PARIS
Summer Styles Forecast by
Openings in Worlds
Fashion Center.
BY ALICE LANGELIER,
Cosmopolitan News Service.

PARIS, Feb. 12.-What will mi
lady wear this summer? Paris
fashion houses are beginning to let
out the precious secrets for the
grand openings are going on these
first weeks in February.
The Maison Yteb is making a
speciality Of the ahawl-dress using
bright native silk shawls to be
worn over perfectly plain dresses.
A kerchief in yellow and blue is
knotted round the shoulders Of a
yellow silk jersey dress. Another
with 'splashes of pink and red is
worn with a plain black geogrette
gown.
About the shoulders Of a charm.
ing embroidered white silk muslin
frock a soft cashmere shawl is
thrown which has q deep border
Of flowers in soft pastel shades. One
charming gown in beige kasha has
draped cape made of one Of these
shawls in the same beige kasha
with a border in brown. A white
silk crepe shawl with a large pat
tern in black all over 1t covers a
smart little sleeveless frock in
white silk damask
Sports costumes made Of kasha
shawls are a. distinct novelty OF
the season. They are called "Chale
d'Angkor" and appear in all colors
Of kasha with bands round the edge
in contrasting colors.
Yteb is also using the gypsy
scarf which was so popular last
summer. She uses big squares of
soft silk printed in bright colors in
Indo- Chinese designs az belts as
well as scarfs which are very ef-
fective. A black silk tricot has a
square OF ''hindousSaia," q new
Rodier silk, crushed around the
vast with one end pleated and
hanging to the bottom Of the skirt.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
HIGH SCHOOL PUTS BAN
ON USE OF LIP STICKS

LANCASTER, Pa, Feb. 12-Use
Of hpsticlSs, vanity cases and combs
has been carried to such excess in
the girls high school that the teach.
ers have barred them from The
schoolrooms. "Deplorable," cry the
teachers. ''Intolerable," insist the
officials. "Laughable," say the
girls.
Lipsticlxs, say the officials, are
not necessary to the art class, and
promptly this article is captured
and placed under lock and key.
Combing the bodied hair Is quite
unnecessary to the success Of the
civics class, so the combs are col
lected.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
FOURTH SEPARATION SUIT
IS STARTED BY WOMAN

NEW YORK. Feb. 12.--Mrs. Reha
Gotthelf has started her fourth an
nual suit for separation before Jus
tice Faber. The charge is cruel
and inhuman treatment, as it was
the other three times. Each time
the woman relented soon after get
ting her husband to court. and
would withdraw her suit upon his
promise to reform.
This time she went through with
it, however, and the Judge reserved
decision. Ill
The Washington times., 1923-02-12

In contact with the teeth to
cause decay. That's why few
escaped tooth troubles.
Germs breed in film by
millions. They, with tartar,
are the chief cause of pyor-
rhea. Also Of other serious
troubles.
Old ways inadequate
No ordinary tooth paste
effectively combats film. So
the tooth brush left much
film intact.
Dental science has now
found two ways to fight that
film. One acts to curdle film,
one to remove it, and with
out any harmful securing.
Able authorities proved
these methods effective.
Then a new-type tooth paste
was created, based on mod
ern research. Those two film
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
GREEN b. oMERs INsTYLE1l
FOR BRIDES or SPRING.

NEW YoRK. Feb. 12.-'.Izct
dogv' No other expression WIN suit
the occasion.
For 1t has to do with the greet
ing that New York gives to the an
nosincement that brides Of 1893 Will
so to the altar in green blOOmers.
At the silk show the official an
nouncement was made. And male
New York struggled with female
Broadway to get g glimpse Of the.
models who strobe up and down
the stage showing off this latest
victory OF the Turk.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
WIFE SAYS SHE IS BEATEN
FOR LEAVING THE RADIO

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.-Ac-
cused Of beating his wife because
she refused to stay up till the early
hours Of the morning to continually
listen to radio concerts, John
Spinozza was held under $500 bail
for a further hearing by Magistrate
Roberts.
Ever since the radio became
popular have been a victim of
brutal punishment from the hands
OF my husband" said Mrs. Spinozza.
Instead of helping me to put the
two children to, sleep, he makes
me stay up and listen to radio
concerts. II refuse, he beats me
terribly"
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
WILL CALLS HIS WIFE
"REST CHUM AND PAL

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE late
Peter Peiffer, Newark, left most
Of his fortune to his wife with
this tribute:
IA more loving wife and better
chum and pal no man ever had
during a married life Of over forty
years.
Each Of six children received
81 900. The balance Of the estate
went to Mrs. Peiffer.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
DEAD MEMBERS NUMBER
SACRED 70 HOCKEY TEAM

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE alb
sence Of the numeral 8 on the back
Of any st. Nicholas hockey player
was explained recently by Jack
Bierworth, captain Of the team.
Bierworth said that the number
was formerly used by the late
HOBBY Baker, former football and
hockey star.
although he IL no longer with
US" Bferworth declared, I'VE do
not use his number out OF respect
to his memory az the greatest
player that ever wore the uniform
OF the st. Nicks."
Baker was killed in an airplane
accident in France during the war.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
DYING MAN CRASHES
THROUGH SHOWCASE

BALTIMORE. Feb. 12.-Succumb-
ing to heart disease while waiting in
a drug store for a prescription TO
be filled, William Whelan. fifty-four
years old, dropped dead. According
to N. Harry Smith, proprietor OF the
drug store, Whelan had waited
about four minutes when he collap-
sed.
While the medicine was being
prepared he sat on a chair beside
the front door. Without warning he
fell from the chair into a show case.
his head crashing through q large
glass panel.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
Hears She Is Only Thompson on Ship;
But List Discloses Lonely Smith

registered fOrIorn hope and resig-
nation.
"Yess, that Is funny tOO.' she
sighed and walked Outta the
room, and the echo Of that "tOO"
haunted me.
'Fnnny TWO" I says to n.y.
self, and I'm willing to bet she
falls for this Smith guy even II I
did notice she chOlked ulS with
romantic emotion when She read
out the name Of RederrickfOr ".
DokOVenmarF.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
"Pape's Cold Compound Breaks Cold IN FewIlcus

Don't stay stuffed.up! Quit blow
ing ana snuffIing! Take 'Pape's
Cold Compound" every two hours
until three doses are taken. The
first dose opens clogged-up nostrils
and air passages of head; stops nose
running: relieves headache, dIlllness,
feverishness, sneezing. The second
The Washington times., 1923-02-12

See what new beauty comes
from whittier teeth. Learn the new
daintiness that comes from
cleaner teeth. You win be amazed
and delighted.
Go get this free tube. Note
how clean the teeth feel after
using: Mark the absence Of the
viseous Aim. See how teeth
whiten 40 the iiln-coats disap-
pear.
You viii want those results
continued for everyone In your
home. Cut out the coupon now.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12

and third doses usually break up
the cold completely and end alI
grippe misery. &
''Pape's Cold Compound" 10 the
quickest, surest relief knOwm ana
costs only q few cents &c drug
stores. Tastes nice. Contains no,
quinine. Insist upon Pape's.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
Mrs. Gait Feted in Chile.

SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 12.-Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait has been re-
ceived in audience by Presidnt
Alessandri. She also is receiving
courtesies from the Chilean feminist
organizations.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12
To-Day Tube Free.
This week only at your store

Insert yourname and address,
then present this coupon this
week to any store named below.
You will be presented with 10
Day Tube of Pepsodent.
If you live out Of town, mail
coupon to The Pepsodent Conn
pany, llO4 So. Wabash Avenue,
Chicago, and tube will be sent
by mail.
Present
PEOPLES DRUG STORES
18th and X SITS. n. w.
9TH and e SITS. N. w.
14th and u SITS. n. w.
18th and nj SITS. N. w.
8th and HI SITS. N. e.
7O3 18th st. N. w. CThOmpsOn
Branch)
18th and G SITS. n. w.
14th and Park Road n. w.
3Ist and nj SITS. N. w. George
18th St. and Columbia Road
N. w.
653 Pa. Ave. s. e.
North Capitol and HI SITS.
1142 Connecticut Ave. N. w.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12

Pepsodent eurdles the film and
removes IL without harmful
occurring. lee polishing agent 10
far softer than enamel. Never
use q film combatanE which CON.
tains harsh grit.
The Washington times., 1923-02-12

Go now and ask for this
delightful test. Learn how
easy it is to fight film on
teeth.
You see glistening teeth
wherever you look today.
Learn how people get them.
There ianow a new method
of teeth cleaning which mir
lions have adopted. Dentists
the world over now advise
it. Careful people of some SO
nations now employ it daily.
Find out what they know.
That dingy film
That viseous film you feel
on teeth is their great enemy.
It clings to teeth, enters
crevices and stays.
Food stains, ETC., discolor
it, then it forms dingy coats.
Tartar is based on film.
That's why teeth lose luster.
Film also holds food sub
stance which ferrnents and
forms acid. It holds the acid
The Washington times., 1923-02-12

to
LIGGETTS DRUG STORES
1905 r st. n. w.
1S45 f st. N. w.
9O4 r ST. N. w.
1901 f st. N. w.
418 7th St. N. w.
7O1 18th st. N. w.
1897 Pa. Ave. N. w.
1717 Pa. Ave. N. w.
O'DONNELL'S DRUG STORES
6O4 eth st. n. w.
1118 r St. N. w.
723 14th st. n. W.
laos III St. n. w.
Times. Wash. u. q
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16

this by showing that they cannot get
cars. But-nobody ever thought OF
it before--there are other industries.
notably the meat industry, that
build and own their own cars, yet
there is no law against the coal com
panies doing the same, or if build
ing them there is one limiting the
number.
How would it have looked in this
case to have merely added S32,500,-
600 of the cost of coal to consumers.
letting the money go, you know
where?
But that would not have been like
pinchot. AS previously told in this
newspaper he settled the timber
question by adding 500 per cent to
The cost of lumber, enriching the
lumber trust in the billions.
Mr.. Pinchot is welcome to all the
thunder he can get out of the coal
settlement in his canvass for the
presidency. Nobody is trying to
steal Il.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16
COAL STRIKE SETTLEMENT

AS predicted in these columns the
settlement of the anthracite Goa:
strike by Clifford Pinchot is one on
the public. BY it's terms the former
high cost of coal is to be further en-
HANGED by the fabulous sum of $780,
100000 annually.
OF this enormous amount the min
crs are supposed to get s32,5CO, 900
and the operators S17,500,0G0. The
public gets it in the neck.
A child can see from this outcome
how ~nervously both sides will dread
their annual clash and how they
will resist the idea of retaining Pin
chot as their regular arbiter, giving
him a life Job.
h same child can see how Just
it is to pass this cost along to the
public. it having been proved only
last year in the senate that
coal that was costing $3.50 a ton at
the mines in Pennsylvania was be-
ing ratailed at SO in Washington
city. There is the same broad gulf
between production and consump-
ton all ver the country.
That there is merit on the side of
h miner in alrnost any coal mining
wage dispute is better understood
when it is known that miners are
not given employment for more than
two days a week on an average. The
companies e%xonermte themselves of
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16
WILL COME FROM soMEwHERE

To the late President Harding is
attributed an unpublished statement
that from the steerage of somewhere
aboard the ship of state there al
ways comes the man to take the
helm and run. it when it comes to
a pinch. No matter how near whole
sale may he the form of death to
take away the occupant of the high
est of Offices and those legally in
succession. the late president be-
lieved that If there is a single mean
ing to the presidency it is that there
is a spiritual majesty that will
clothe the occupant and grace him
with the attributes that inhere not
IN the man but in the office, making
him conscious of the temporary ma
ture of his tenancy and therefore
he will be doubly jealous TO guard
and preserve the august power SYM
bolizing the collective will of the
people.
In other words, as you have heard
it often before, there is no man so
indispensable in any position that of
he is taken away Unexpectedly o.
otherwise another man equally u
competent cannot be found and is
not found to take his place.
This could be pondered with pIen-
~ Of profit in the speoulations that
are going on W. 1924.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16
One-Armcd Mans Feat.

There used TO he Il saying illustra-
tive Of the practically impossible,
about trying TO thread a needle while
wearing boxing gloves. Almost IN the
same class. remarks - New Turk Sun
writer, n might think would be the
effort Of Il n armed man to eat Il
grapefruit. Yet II one-arlned man IN
tered a downtown restaurant Il few
days ago, ordered grapefruit. and ate
1t. 1t would not be easy for Il two
armed person To expla,r lust how 1t
vas managed, much less to do it,. But
the general principle WAS to apply
the pressure downward instead OF
s;dewise. The grapefruit did not slide
Off the plate and the diner got all the
juice. or at least Tie usua! amount
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16
First Body Of Pledged Abstainers.

The first body of pledged abstainers
from intoxicating liquors were the
members of the Bible Christian church,
Stafford, Eng, founded in 1909. From
the foundation of the church all its
members have been pledged abstainers
from fish, flesh and fowl as food, and
from intoxicating liquors. From this
church was issued the first tract advo-
eating total abstinence from intoxicat-
ing liquors. The tract Is one OF a series
of Letters on Religious Subjects" by
Joseph BrOtherton. minister Of the
church from 1916 to 1857. 1t is enti-
tied ION Abstinence From intoxicating
Liquors." and bears the date May,
1921" Mr.. Brotherton was Salford's
first member of parliament, a position
he retained for % wears.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16
Greqorian and Julian Calendars.

The length of the mean Gregorian
year may be set down at 1865 days. 5
hours. 40 minutes, IL seconds. The
Gregorlan calendar was introduced into
England and her colonies in 1852. at
which time the equinox had refrigerated
eleven days since the council of Nice
in A. d. 325, when the festival of
Easter was established aud the equinox
occurred OF March 81 hence Septem-
Der 3, 1852, was called September II,
and at the same time the commence
ment of the legal year was changed
from March % to January l, so that
the year 1851 lost the months Of Janu-
AIRY and February and the first "a days
of March. The difference between the
Julian and Gre.orian calendar Is now
IL days. Russia and the Greek church
still employ the julian calendar for
civil and ecclesiastical purposes,
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16
O EXPRESS RACE

If there was one place more than
another on the old pony express
trail that stood out in clear promi-
nence as it's most important way
station that place was Virginia City.
The so-called pony express race re-
Gently run was put on professedIy
to honor the memory Of Mark Twain.
and the names of the Comstock and
Mark Twain are all but synonymous,
for 1t was there that the Nevada
humorist lived and worked during
most Of his years in Nevada, and it
was through its great record as n
mining camp that he gained a lot
of his fame and vice versa. Yet this
so-called race has been routed and
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16
Admission that the livestock of tn

Admission that the livestock of the
state is not fully represented on the
tax rolls has been made by Vernon
Metcalf, secretary of the state live
stock association, and the man whose
lobbying at Carson last winter de-
feated the Zurich tax ~ferreting bill.
IN addition to his recent admissions
CT activities in behalf of the fake
system of government trapping to
which the stockmen of the state are
unanimously opposed, Mr.. Metcalf
seem to have developed a capacity
for keeping his employers continu-
ously in a bad light.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16
lake. Time to Matur. o.nIu..

Thomas Jefferson Is quoted az DE-
tending the charge that America had
not yet produced a single man Of lit
erary genius: when We have existed
so long as the Greeks did before they
produced Homer. the Romans Virgil.
the FreAsh a Racine and a voltaire.
the English a Shakespeare and a Nil.
ton. we shall inquire from what un.
friendly causes 1t has proceeded that
the other countries of Europe. and
quarters Of the earth, shall not ha We
inscribed any poet of ours on the roll
OF fame"
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16
Avoid ~Impatience.

lmpatience turns an ague into a
fever. a fever to the plague. fear into
despair. anger into rage, loss into
madness and sorrow to amaZement.-
Jeremy Taylnr
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16
Extremes That Are Wrono.

Some are so very studious of learn
Ing what was done by the ancients
that they know not how to live with
the mo6erns. William Penn.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16

views. I have no doubt that the
door of his private Office in the new
building is richly placarded, Col
one1 Blethen."
One day some former a%equaint-
ance addressed him as Clarence, he
then being a majcr in the militia.
and he stormed in reply:
"Sir. you are impertinent."
Before l served in the gun-wad
capacity one night Clarence came
into the office, l then being cashier,
ad counter man and the only man
in the business Office at night, and
going to his fathers room brought
him out. the latter telling me he
wanted 81 for the boy. I opened
the cash drawer and handed them a
dollar, w%hereupon they forcibly
crowded me away with the drawer
still open, and proceeded to tumble
the cash. / did not know for a fact
who was proprietor of the business,
so all I did was to watch them close
ly, and I noticed Clarence slyly cop
another dollar. J hotfooted it to the
office early next morning to beat
them to it, telling my story to Mr..
Hughes, the business manager. first
I was not much ahead at that, for
that evening the colonel went right
to Mr.. Hughes and unfolded him
self as follows:
Zine night man you've got ir
the Office here. Last night I got a
dollar of him for my boy and I
swiped another dollar to see if he
would call me down, hut he didn't
have the nerve"
The first story nearly always
wins. Mr.. Hughes listened but
knew before it had started that |
didn't know that the colonel was not
proprietor and that it was not the
colonel but Clarence who tried the
experiment to see if I would call him
down.
White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-16

Frank La Vuiso saws: I'm tho
guy that broke the crap game at
Monte Carlo. B. BROOKS