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CHAPTER Xxx.

OF all mans inventions the
stage perhaps has the greatest
powers of illusion and OF dis
illusion. The other side OF L.ohen.
grin's beautiful white swan is
rough lumber full Of knots: the
rock against which the villain
"sprains his reason is made OF
canvas and is softer than many
lodging house pillow. A hot
bath would melt the jewels in the
kings crown. But now and then
there treads the stage some man
or woman at whose least word or
gesture the canvas drop becomes
the forest of Arden and the true
Romance spreads her grea. wings
and rises in thrilling flight.
The night before the first re.
hearsal of When My Ship Comes
In" Silver Sands did not sleep
wink. She had the worst sort
of stage fright. why" she
thought; "even the man who
walks across with the lantern in
the dark scene has had more ex.
perience than T.. They'll all hate
me for being awkward and stupid
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A Brilliant Romance Dealing With
Stage Life, Illustrated by Charles
Dana Gibson.

: Van Br'lnt sighed and turned
to the girl on his right. He knew
by experience that she would
talk about nothing but herself
/ And he preferred women who
either talked about him or al.
lowed him to do so.
And who,'' said Silver, smil-
ing and coloring, gave you this
name?"
I'm sure don't know said
the Englishman, because / have
it on the best of authority that
my sponsors in baptism content
ed themselves by answering n.
or M. think my father must
have given it to me. 1t was
just the kind of thing he would
do, he was an awful old bla'-
guard"
Silver was dreadrully shocked
and Erieved.
rs that the way Englishmen
talk about their fathers?'
Younger sons do" said the
Englishman I'm England you
either ought to be the oldest son
or you ought not to exist. But
never mind, he's quite dead now.
And one Of my rules is de NOR
tuis nil nisi bonum.'
"And what does that mean?"
TOmbStOneS.
1T means that those who speak
the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth are con-
sidered hard and wicked. But
that's natural. The average per-
son is born tombstone"
"A tombstone?"
Simply another word for a
cheerful liar. You must have
read inscriptions on tombstones,
haven't you?"
why. yes
well, all the people who used
to be alive couldn't have been
beautiful and religious and chart.
table and righteous and beloved.
We had a man over in the For
eign Legion who stole a pie from
a Turkish farmers wife and ate
it all himself. The next day ne.
was killed by a Greek bullet,
and those who ought to have
shared in the pie wrote to his
mother and said how noble and
unseIfish he had been-always.
Tombstones, / call them"
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: popped out of their heads as the
Captain told yarn after yarn.
After while, Bunny and Bob.
by ran down TO the wharf in
front of the house. As they left |
warned Bobby, calling after him:
BE careful, Bobby. Remem-
Der, you can't swim. Don't go
too near the edge of the wharf"
Bobby yelled back:
Don't worry, Foxy Grandpa.
III be CAREFUL
But he wasn't
The Captain and I were chat.
ting away at a great rate when
suddenly I heard:
Help! Help: Help
The Captain and jumped to
our feet and ran to the door,
Just then Bunny came bounding
up to US and gasped:
Bobby's fallen in: He's drown.
ing"
How ] ram The Captain grab
bed his cane and hurried after
me.
As neared the wharf /
shouted: ...
Hold on. Bobby! I'll be there
in n minute. Keep your mouth
tight shut and try to keep up"
tore across the wharf, throw
ing off my coat as ran. For
] was just going TO dive in
when something went whizzing
past my head-like a shot.
Then the Captain called TO
Bobby:
Grab it, Bobby! Hold tight
to it. tn keep you afloat till
Foxy Grandpa swims to you"
Sure enough Bobby grabbed il.
He chung TO his life.preserver
until ] swan ont to him and
brought him safely to the wharf.
What was the life. preserver?
Guess.
1t was Captain Corson's cork
leg.
What they found out about a
strange fish in Africa in Tues
days story
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i. AN EXAMPLE OF PLUCK AND AMBITION

Why should the orphan girl,
with nothing to mention of her
own material possessions, prove
to be as happy and cheerful in
view of life's promises as the
finery and the wealth of the
leisure class? Nature has taken
care of that affair in a beautiful
way.
And SO, it was most cheering to
: meet incidentally the happy prai-
RE girl, going It alone on her
way to college. Her frankness,
her courageous statement as to
duties and plans, her air of Ger.
tainty as to the final success of
the Venture-all these ] marveIed
at and very greatly admired.
But the saddenirg reflection
was next in order. What about
the many thousands of girls the
age of this one who are under
the belief that every item of ex-
pense must be met by the family
purse? How about the thousand
who depart for college with
liberal supply of money and with
trunk full of finery? How about
the thousands whom a popular
writer has recently designated as
dear, dainty do-nothings?"
Think about it, mothers, and
decide for yourselves. Has not
the Western prairie girl here de.
scribed a certain enviable advan-
tage over your unseasoned girl of
material abundance?
This young woman who can
milk COW or ride a bronco: who
can bake and sew and teach
school, TOBIAS she not mas.
tered something which no amount
of wealth may suffice to obtain
for your pampered and protect
ed college daughter?
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. And do you always speak the

And do you always speak the
truth?"
Always"
rs it ever COMPLIMENTARY
''Only when it is about dogs
and horses and little children,
and young girls with enormous
blue eyes,"
Have you ever been to
Mexico?"
Il am going-for Van Brunt.
l. am going to take letter to
the manager Of some mines he
has down there"
Somehow she longed to ask the
managers name but was prevent
ed by sudden trepidation of
shyness.
ANY messages for any one
down there?''
To his horror her eyes filled:
with tears, and forthwith he drop.
ped his brutal ways, and began
to talk so prettily and tenderly
and Understandings of all sorts
Of things in their world that she
found herself liking him immense.
ly, and hoping that she wasn't
seeing him for the last time.
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HOW A STRANGE LIFE-PRESERVER SAVED BOZ

W Es, children. it is a very
important thing to learn
how to swim. And even if
you are an expert swimmer, when
you get on a boat it is always
wise TO see just where the life.
preservers are, so that if an ac-
cident should happen you would
know where to run for a life.pre.
server without wasting one min
ute.
l tell you, our little Friend Bob.
By learned to swim in a hurry
after an experience he had.
Would you like to hear about it
and about the strange life-pre-
server which kept him from 60
ing down?
Well. it happened in this way:
had an old friend-a retired
sea captain-by the name OF Cap
tain Corson. He was great old
fellow and had been all over the
world We used 10 love to visit
him and hear his tales Of adVen-
ture
The Captain had a dear little
house right by the water. He
loved the sea so much that he
said he wouldn't be content if he
couldn't smell salt water all the
time. So there he was right on
the shore of bay, where he
could watch the big ships come in
and go out and think of the days
when he was young sailor
climbing in the rigging OF a sail
ing ship.
The old fellow was lame. He
had lost one OF his legs as the
result of a bad fall he had in an
awful storm at sea.
But the Captain didn't mind.
He was AS cheerful as if he had
two perfectly good legs. lie
iimpcd a little. but that was all.
One day Bunny, Bobby and
were visiting him. And what q
pleasant time we had.
Bunny and Bobby had great
fun with a poll-parrot the Cap
tain had brought from South
America. And their eyes nearly
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A Delightful Serial Replete With Excit-
ing Incidents and Featuring
Picturesque Heroine.

together for you the most ex.
perienced and versatile bunch Of
actors on Broadway And they
know one thing that you will
learn, namely, that hardly a
speech as now written will be
spoken when the curtain goes up
for the opening performance.
Macs been telling everybody that
he's written a wonderful drama.
Well, he hasn't. He may have a
wonderful idea for a drama; and
he may have arranged it rough.
" into more or less logical scenes
But he hasn't written it, he won't
begin to write it till it's IN re
hearsal. You'll see. He'll say.
Stop little-stop a little and
everybody will stop. Then Mac
will sit centre with his head in
his hands, and suddenly he'll
jump to his feet, almost foaming
at the mouth, and he'll say. 4
have it. have it, And then
he'll tell you not to say what
you've just said or to do what
you've just done, but exactly the
opposite, maybe That's how he
writes plays. He just keeps NOV
ing people and words here and
there until they look and sound
good to him."
But Silver's stage fright per-
sisted, and when she reached the
theater controlled by Hedden she
thought that her legs were going
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Mckay Hedden, Broadway manager, re-
hearses Nellie Michelin in new part He scolds
and cajoles, trying to make real actress out
of her.
Finally he tells her she is the "stupidest
woman" he ever saw, as well as the most beallti-
full. Having gotten his play in shape he takes a
vacation, and in small boat sails about Buzzard
Bay A storm threatens and the skipper advises
him to head for shore.
Landing at Hanleytown, Hedden Wanders
through the tiny streets. A Sudden gust Of wind
announces the advent of the prophesied storm.
Taking refuge in the home Of Captain Sands,
Hedden meets the shippers beautiful daughter,
Silver. Hedden believes the girl would make an
admirable heroine for the play, When My Ship
Comes In,' he has stolen from Paul Henley, a
young playwright. With subtle cunning he in.
CONTINUE WITH TO
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CONTINUE TODAY'S INSTALLMENT HI
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TO give way under her. II was
a pale, diffident, wabbly star to
whom Mckay Hedden was pres
emily introducing her satellites.
A Timid Star.
Silver has recolIectlons of
very high brick wall, of odds
and ends of ropes and canva
Hopping and swinging high ove--
head, of rows and rows and rows
of orchestra chairs covered with
white cotton sheets, of a number
of very ordinary looking men and
women in street dress. of one
man who was quite deaf and
kept talking a steady stream in
order to conceal the fact, of other
men in more or less dirty shirt
sleeves who came and went and
did nothing when they got there.
of a nice, friendly looking old
lady who sat in a papiermache
throne and knitted on a green
silk necktie- They had all been
introduced to her, and they had
all said pleasant, complimentafy
things. She was having quite
nice talk with the friendly old
lady, when suddenly Mckay He'd
den clapped his hands and cried
in loud voice:
No. No! No! Now, then. once
more-from the beginning.
He seemed TO have been ex.
asperated for hours.
ITO De Continued Tomorrow
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5 BY GOuverneur Morris,
Famous Novelist and Information.
ally Known as One Of Our Pre-.
mier Writers Of short Stories.

E<nUT that's where you are
TX wrong. I know he's
- alive.
How"
IT just know e. Sounds like. a
woman, doesn's it? But some
men have intuition, too
But If he's been away so
long" said Silver, maybe he's
forgotten the girl"
Van Brunt looked her reproach.
fully in the eyes.
'This from you.' he said.
Just what do you mean by
that?''
II mean that at your age a
girl who is cynical about love
affair ought TO be severely pun.
ished." -.
"Oh, but I'm not cynical bit, =
said Silver, and her eyes filled
suddenly with tears.
Van Brunt, perceiviig them,
turned hastily away and said to
himself: You fool, you've been
and trod on a love-match gone
wrong. Some brute has been I'M
kind to this child
Aloud he said:
Have you ever seen the Stock
Exchange?', Silver Sands shook
her head.
Good exclaimed the broker,
sits one of the most amusing
sights in New York. I'll give
q lunch party at downtown Del
monico's; will you come? And
who else shall we ask?'
His Real Name.
But Silver could not sgive an
answer then because the man at
her left suddenly began to
clamor for attention. He was a
nut-brown Englishman, with
white sabre cut wiped across one
cheek and the bridge of his nose.
He was a celebrated correspon-
dent and soldier of fortune. He
laid his calling-card on Silver's
plate and cried in a bitterly
aggrieved tone:
That's my real name and I'm
being terribly neglected"
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THE STORY THUS FAR

terests Silver in the tinseled life of the stage.
Early one morning Silver rose and donned her
bathing suit. Boarding her catboat she sailed out
into the bay. A cry for help sounded out on the
still air. Silver veered the catboat about and
picked up young man who had hurt his arm and
was unable to swim The youth introduced him
self as Paul Henley.
A warm friendship springs up between Silver
and Henley. After several days of close associa-
ton, Henley departs in his yacht. Hedden smart
ing with jealousy, warns Silver if she is to become
a successful actress she must not fall in love- He
little knows that Silver and Henley have plighted
their troth.
Silver finally leaves for New York to take the
stellar role in Hedden's plagiarized play. She
meets with many interesting experiences
JAYS INSTALLMENT
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; mean anything you will be so
used to them you won't care
There's only one way in which
you will seem green. You will
know all your lines by heart and
the others won't Mac is giving
you splendid support He's got
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. and they'll all hate me for being
taken up and showed over their
heads
Mrs. Michelin, with whom Silver
was still staying, tried to com
fort her. My dear she
said, by the time the rehearsals
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w ERE is slip of girl,
high school graduate, who
AA is bravely making her own
way in the world. She has just
finished term of teaching a one
room school on the Western
prairies and is now travelling one
thousand miles to enter a teach
OIss' college in order to continue
her studies.
This prairie girl must help in
homes, wait on tables in cafes, or
take care of children for busy
mothers in order to pay her
school expenses. But she goes to
the place as merry of heart as
the young woman with the high
priced sedan and the easy money
at her command.
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A Sound and an Echo.

A SPACE of time more than onetwelfth of second
"A must eapse between the making of sound and its
form echo There many galleries famous
for their echoes among them st. Paul S. London
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This Day IN History.

Henry " of France by the fanatical Jesuit Ravail
lac. The murder robbed France of progressive mon
arch who had done much to increase her prosperity
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Germany. while the United States
was a little ahead Of Italy for fifth
place.
Compared with 1921. the reduction
in total output ID over q million and
one-half tons and is spread over
every country, with the exception Of
Germany.
In Great Britain the tonnage
launched in 1922 was about half q
million tons lower than the previous
year: in the United States the de-
crease amounted to the high sum OF
S87 900 tons and In Japan to $4,000.
The world launches for the year
include 153 vessels OF over 5000 tons
each, OF which "a are over 10000
tons each.
Germany launched the largest YES.
sels--the Columbus. of $4,000 tons
at Danzig, and one Of about 10000
On the whole. ls2s was . baA ship
building year.
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ADAM AND EVE STORY
DEFENDED az EDITOR

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2S.-The
Rev. DR.. Percy Stickney Grant IL
characterized as "a thorough-going
destructionist who takes great
delight in the excitement he is
causing without realizing that he
is setting fire to the house over his
head" by the Rev. DIR. David Scott
Kennedy. editor of the Presbyterian.
CDR. Grant and his associates
take direct issue with Jesus Christ
and they would destroy the found.
atoms upon which Christianity
rests" he said. "If they should
succeed the world would have no
Christ, no Immortality, no Chisti-
anity and no resurrection of the
dead"
DR.. Kennedy's reply was actuated
by the startling assertion Sunday
by DIR. Grant that Adam and the
apple and poor Eve" is a fable.
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RACIAL ROWS ON LINER
KEEP PURSER ON JUMP

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Purser
w. j. O'Hagen was ''all in" when
he came down the gangplank Of
the White Star liner Pittsburgh
here. He had acted as peacemaker
in racial outbreaks and national
istic clashes all the way across the
Atlantic.
First the German immigrants
would get at the piano and play
and sing die Yacht am Rhine"
Then the allies would object, and
O'Hagen and others Of the crew
would have to hold them apart.
Later the Russians raided the
deck chairs of the cabin passen.
gers, carrying their communist
ideas into effect. They were sepa-
rated from the chairs with diff
Guilty.
O'Hagen and the whole crew
hardly had one full nights sleep
on the way over, suppressing in
cipient uprisings among the 1,O16
passengers.
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OLD KING TUT
WAS.FAMOUS
ASDOCTOR
Could Saw Women's Hair and
Restore Youth, Hearst
Papyrus Declares.
BY FRED J. WALKER.
COsmouOlitan News Service.

BERKELEY, Calf. Feb. 2S.--
Introducing CDR. Tut" the most
learned medico Of them all, the
young-oId monarch Of old Egypt
from whose font of knowledge
flowed even a cure for badness.
For "Tut" generally known az
King Tut-Ankh-Amen. it was re-
vealed today. in keeping with GUS
tom, was a physician Of sorts and,
some $500 years ago, distanced the
learned allopaths of this twentieth
Would you, fading Sir and
Madam. know how to secure in
definite youth? Then journey to
the Valley OF the Kings. for possi-
bly,, papyrus as yet unrevealed In
King Tut's tomb may tell the
names of the fourteen missing
vegetable ingredients Of the elixir
The Hearst medical pApyrus,
which, with two other similar
papyri contains the only knowledge
the world has today Of the medi.
cine of the Egypt that was, today
disclosed interesting revelations OF
ancient familiarity with that sub
ject.
Financed by Mrs. Hearst.
The papers were secured during
the expedition Of DIR. George a.
Reisner. to Egypt, 18S9-1sO6; which
was financed by the late Mrs,
phoebe Apperson Hearst, noted
California social service worker and
philanthropist.
The kings of Egypt, Prof. n. F.
Lut2, Psychologist of the Universe
ty Of California, declared today,
were trained in all the sciences,
particularly medicine. And Tut. for
all his youth, undoubtedly was in
the lead in discovering new sources
of knowledge.
This is what CDR" Tut might
have done had he suddenly realized
his youth was departing. He would
unroll one Of his paprf marked
''panacea to drive out the fever of
the gods. all death and pain from
the limbs of men, restoring youth
so that he immediately becomes
well"
Saves Women's Hair.
The formula for this panacea
would read: mix equal parts Of
honey and wax with the following
fourteen vegetable substances -
knead into a poultice and apply to
the body"
OuLOTLuIldLSlyS do IEUA- A%utN GA.
planned, the names Of these four
teen vegetable substances are OBJ
liberated on the ancient manuscript.
The cure for falling hair and
badness, however, has been pre-
served.
f"For the growth Of a woman's
hair" the papyPus reads:
Let the fruit of the Diam tree
be pounded and kneaded into
lump: the woman must then put 1t
in oil OF castor and anoint her head
with 1t"
Invented for Sun God.
Prof Lutz said the Diam tree
was a species of castor shrub and
that it was possible today to Sc
cure samples of it should any one
desire to try the ancient remedy.
The elexir of youth was invented
by the gods for the sun god, Re,
who had to suffer all kinds Of dis.
ease and pain before he withdrew
to his heavenly repose.
To facilitate the cure the Egyp-
tians had formula Of incantations
designed to insure the aid Of the
good gods in driving out the gods
of evil who were thought to be
the cause Of most disorders Of the
body.
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BOGUS MONEY BLOCKS
SEWER IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Thou-
sands Of counterfeit ten and twenty
dollar bills were discovered in 8
clogged sewer trap in a West One
Hundred and Twentieth street apart
ment house, here. They were similar
to bills seized by Secret Service
agents in a wholesale roundup of
cOuhterfeiters last week.
A plumber found the mass Of bo-
gus currency. Several bucketfuls
were taken from the trap.
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DRYCooDS COMPANY BUYS
WORLDS RECORD CANDLE

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-The largest
wax candle in the world has been
prepared for shipment to a dry
goods firm at Dayton, Ohio. 1t will
be lighted for the first time in cele-
bration Of the seventy-fifth ami
versary OF the company, and, ac-
cording to the manufacturers, will
last for 99S future annual light
ings.
The candle is 1853 inches high,
81 inches in diameter. The same
firm is making an eighteen-foot cam
die to be sent to Italy and burned
at intervals during the next 1900
years in memory of Enrico Caruso.
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HUSBAND GOES TO SEA,
WOMAN DIES BY GAS

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.--Mrs. Fred
Poncia, forty, was found dead in
her apartment with q gas tube in
her mouth. DR.. Pickney, Of New
York Hospital. said she had been
dead at least four days, perhaps
five.
The woman and her husband, who
is q chef, moved into the top floor
apartment about three months ago.
They had no children. About a
week ago. the janitress OF the
premises said. the husband came to
her and said goodby, telling her
that he was going to be chef on q
steamship.
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BRITISH LEAD IN
BUILDING
SHIPS
Germany Second Last Year
with the Unitd States
a Poor Fifth.
BY CHARLES A. SMITH.

LONDON, Feb. 2S.--While the an.
nual returns Of the worlds shipping
output In 1922 show that there was
general decrease In tonnage
launched in most countries, they
prove that Germany was steadily
forging ahead.
OF the 2,467,0S gross tonnage
launched in the world, her share was
575,264, coming second to Great Bri-
tain, whose output represents nearly
AZ per cent Of the worlds total.
France and Holland came next to
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CHILD KILLED RUNNING BY
GATES INTO TRAINS PATTI

BETHLEHEM, Pa. Feb. 28.x
Running Under q safety gate at -
crossing OF the Philadelphia and
Reading railway into the path Of
passenger train entering the
Union Station here, Helen Mulicla.
six years old, was killed.
She could not see the 0ncomdng
train because OF q passing freight
train and darted In front Of the
fatal engine just as the cab0ose
Of the freight had passed.
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BILL WOULD BAR FAIR
VOTERS FROM ALIMONY

HARRISBURG. Feb. 28.--Now
that women have the ballot, Con.
gresham Jacob Mathay of West
Philadelphia, does not believe men
who divorce their wives should be
required to pay aliinony.
He has introduced a bill, In the
House to amend the divorce act Of
1895 to abolish the right of the
courts to grant alimony to wives
who have been divorced on suit of
their husbands on grounds Of
cruelty.