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Gnnn GTDT BY ROY L.
O1lO1l FOLEY

, you. And as for me. I'm never
30 much obliged"
Ginger arose and made an elab-
orate bow before the bewiidered
Nancy.
Ginger, how can you say such
d thing" Nancy answered. II
never was so ashamed Of any,
thing in my life. How can / face
that factory full OF girls. But
then, don't suppose that Mr..
Wescott will let me work for him
now What will Mud and Dairy
think? This is too terrible. too
disgracefuly'
Try as she would, Nancy could
not keep from crying. She never
cried for herself. If she could her.
it. but Just for the thought of
Mud and Dairy reading o. her
affair Id. their morning paper, see
ing their own Nancy mixed up
ia the rowdyism OF a rosdhouse.
was too much.
stop that ,cryin said Ginger,
.'you, got TO take a.hold of YOUR
self. Say, you don't know when
you're we'll off. A girls got TO
have publicity nowadays or she
don't get nowhere. What do you
suppose all those actresses get
married and divorced and breach
OF promisin' and all that stuff IL
it amt for the publicity they get
out OF 1t.
..say, look at Mimi May. a girl
right from Milwaukee. Shed still
be dancin' in cheap cabaret
over on the south side il she
hadn't got out and done something
with herself. OF course, she could
wiggle parts of her body that
nobody ever thought of Wigglin'
before, and they called it the
shimmy. But she got the pub
Iictty too. She got herself into
the Follies, and wearin' hundred
dollar socks-Oh, that was a. COOL
publicity stunt--an' then she gets
a divorce from the guy she had,
an married a rich guy. An
she's movie actin and gettin' half
a million a year, or somethfn.
II tell you all q girl needs is
nublicity. She don't have to be
so good in her line. III wager
that I. Ginger Warden, right now
aI SIX tHiS COlu Idy
ia worth more to Ziegelbaum s,
Inc, than L was at six bells last
night. An betcha ] get raise
in salary out of Ziegelbaum be-
fore noon or I'll walk right over
to Madame Whoosit and get me
a. real. modelin' job.
"An' at the style show. Baby.
I'll be the talk OF the town. I'll
get Ziegelha am to name some OF
the new mink coats he's shown
THE Golden Pheasant Wrap
only he ought to spell it rap
cause that's what Westcott got,
amt it. A rap right on the
becker"
Ginger had toSlaugh at her own
Joke. 1t was a mirthless, hard
laugh. She walked over to the
dresser, took a cigarette from the
near-silver cigarette box, tapped il
on the back of her hand, lit it, and
began walking mp and down the
little room, and around the bed
where Nancy lay with her face
buried.
no He Continued Tomorrow
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shred OF information they
thought necessary.
And OF course their stories
played up the fact that Nancy
O'Day was only a. girl in humble
circumstances who had worked
for Howard Wescott but one
day. How the newspa pers dis
covered just what she had done
in the knitting mills that one
day, and how she had been taken
into Howard Wescott's office,
Nancy couldn't fathom. She was
yet to learn OF the machinery or
a great newspaper and the speed
with which it gathers its news.
She was dumbfounded at what
she sew on the sheet spread be-
fore her.
She felt sick. She sat on the
bed in the gray OF the cold morn
ing, looking at her name so
prominently displayed along with
the name of Howard Wescott,
society man, sportsman, gen
eral manager OF the Wear Ever
Knitting Mills. A son of one OF
the proudest families la Mil.
Wsukee.
Ginger. isn't this too awful.
Whatever will l do?"
Nancy buried her face In the
bed clothing, so overcome with
the disgrace and notoriety of the
thing that she bIushed for her.
self. She felt cold sll over. Her
yellow hair was flying every which
way. There we're dark circles
under her eyes.
Nothing terrible about It," was
Ginger's very decided reply, its
wonderful. Why. kiddo, this pub.
iiclty Is simply great. It's worth
thousands. Me, as a model. and
you, a small town kid JUST start
ing in your first job Say, we're
sittln' on top OF the word and
III bethca before night we get
half a dozen proposals of marri-
age at least, a contract TO go into
the movies. and q truck load of
beauty prepa rations, if We'll just
write a. line saying that we think
them beauty creams has made us
what we are today--beautiful and
notorious.
kiddo, you're a wonder. Who'd
q thought that when you bumped
down into 9. seat with me up there
at Appleton, and me so disguised
that day. too, that you'd turn out
to be. the little old gold brick
that you are. It's that gold hair
of yours, that's what did it. That's
what got Vic. and that's what got
Howard Wescott. and that's what
got the two OF 'em going at each
other the way they did in the bout
they put on last night.
Nancy O'Day, l congratulate
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He ripped the sheet from one
Of the high tables and stepped
back. On the slab lay the black,
nhrunken figure Of something
human. Dark brown, shredded
wrappings OF linen hung about
the shriyeied limbs. The face
was q. horrid grotesQuerie OF man.
Linda gave q little shrek and
hid her eyes The professor stood
regarding her. Tanis Gebu Is q
finer mummy than the Field
B Museum owns = he said with pro-
round solemnity With that he
flfpped the sheet back over the
1abls and turned away.
Dhan Gopal spoke TO Linda:
s.Do not be afraid. rhe profess
sor IS only investigating the
Egyptian system OF ennbalming.
He found this house the only safe.
secIusive laboratory available. We
have worked here every night
since SUMMER. He came alone
on his big bicycle and i rode the
spotted horse. But lately We
knew we were nearing the end
OF our search, and so we stayed,
working day and night. The
professor lives only to solve the
secret Of the Pharaohs
Linda was Wide-eyed. But
why2''
The Hindu looked st her sadly.
shrugged his delicate shoulders.
'.The professor wants to know all
truth Tor its own sake. IL ycu
ask his reasons you Insult him.
Linda rose and walked toward
the professor. He was standing
at distance, his shoulders
hlnched despafringly, lost in
thought. He started when she
laid her hand on his arm
.Dr. Prime, she said viii
respect your secret. But Ehes
whole town Is looking for YOU.
They think you have been ninr.
dered.
He chuckIed bftterly rhs
wish ii father 81 the though
What does the town care a00llr
me. alive OF dead? And what do
] care about it ~
He dismissed the matter with 4
shrug. And now you had better
go home.
Linda hesitafed. I'm afrai1 10
20. Doyle Eoskins il our there
on the stairs hunting for me.
The professor looked at her In
disgust. For Heavens sake. are
You always JUST about 20 be
seized BY the Villain? What it Is,
anyway, that makes them chase
yOll4-your fatal beauty
Linda blusEed and giggled.
DIR. Prime was throwing his
opera. cape about his shoulders.
end motioning to Dhan Gdpal 70
follow.
They went through the da-k
through the sliding
door with the grating hinge and
found themselves on the balcony.
There was no sign Of. Doyle.
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specimen and THERE hard to get
ia this little tick.in-the.mud com
munlty, where there isn't q MUIR
der IN five years. !,
wen, I'll BE damned said,
Tom.
Ne, TOO, said Linda.
She thrust her hands IN the
pockets Of her fur coat and seaned
against the wall. There was some
thing In one OF the pockets that
cracked. 1T proved to be the teie
gram that the clerk had handed
her Just before she left the Tav-
ern.
Under the light Of matches that
Tom struck they read it together.
it was from Simon Whitlocka
Yes comma my dear Linda
comma I know I'm the richest
stop But think I'd rather buy
you 4. new college stop Itll be
cheaper In the long run
We'll. said Tom, II let ore
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CONTINUED from Local page
practically all the night until they
had furnished bail. The story OF
the affair was on the front page.
The headlines were in bold, black
type. There was q four-cOlumn
strip OF pictures Vic's, Howard
Wescott's. Ginger's and picture
OF the woman Wescott had broug ht
into the roadhonae. The name
under the woman's picture was
Peggy Spoffard- Boyden, and II said
that she was recently divorced
from HaWIey G. Boyden, Chicago
clubman, and president Of the Boy
den-McGee Importing Company.
Nancy scanned the first page,
every page of the newspaper. hop
ing against hope that her own pic
ture wasn't there. She didn't see
how it could be because she had no
picture of herself in Milwaukee.
and when the reporters had come
to the Carmody, almost az soon . 3
she and Ginger and Jerry had ar
rived home. Nancy had refused TO
have a fIashlight taken.
Where the papers got pictures
OF the others she did not know.
She forgot that those others in
the party were people we'll
known about town and that in
the "morgle" OF every big news
paper there are files and files OF
pictures of just about every
body OF any importance. she
had not known that Peggy Spot
fard Boyden's picture had been
printed everywhere in connection
with her most recent, rather SEN
sational divorce in Chicago.
Last night the reporters had
come right up to Ginger's room,
asking a hundred questions.
their eyes rowing around the
room taking in every detail.
They seemed like wolves, Nancy
thought. They had started set
ting up their cameras when they
saw it was useless to secure her
photogra phi. They were insisting
that she pose for them when
Mrs. Carmondy had come up the
stairs. putting and routed them.
As tired, excited and ashamed
as Nancy was, she couldn't help
laughing at the appearance Mrs.
Carmondy must have made witiH
Z her fat form in too short BATH
robe, bare feet her skinny hair
done up In curriers'.
She had made short work of
them. ordering them out OF her
house and kicking ct the tripods
on which they had set their
cameras. They got out, but not
until they had drained the house
hold and everyone in it OF every
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man save you from the murder
charge and another rescue yon
from Doyle this afternoon, while
/ slept under the baelxstairs and
dreamed Of you. And now q
third guy wants to buy you q
college. Al bell OF a hero am.
Linda ducked her head against
his shirt front. II always heard.
she said. very low, that heroes
made poor family men,"
When the professor came back
minute later he sduinted at
Toms middle shirt button. it
was twisted in q snarl Of golden
hair.
Humph," he said and stalked
over to where Dhan Gopal was
bending over DOYLE. feeling his
pulse.
Alive?H he asked.
The Hindu nodded sadly.
He'd have made a beautiful
mummy said DR.. Prime, shak-
ing his head. THE END
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Kin Dan0orss that nobody killed

XIII Darnorss--that nobody killed
Damoras
Elbow did you know. gasped
Linda.
Because he died Of alcoholic
poisoning I'D bought his body
from the morgue for my expert
ments. Hadn't had any new ma
teriaI since that pauper died in
county hospital last year. The
minute I got q good look at
Damopas In the morgue knew
he would not do FOR preserving
purposes. He WAS completely
picked already. inside and cut
the clearest case OF booch poison
ing I'd ever seen. The eat on
his mead was only a surface
wound.
So went to Oscar Henderson.
swore him to secrecy. and told
him so. He was glad enough to
shut up-to save his own face
and the coroner's. But I lost q
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What DO You KMOw?
ANSWERS TO TODAY's TEST
Questions ON Editorial Page

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WIN Of Penn Interests Americans

The Shakespeare Nelson which preserved n
Somerset House London asked by visitors while
American especially interested in the will Of William
founder of Pennsylvania.
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Certainly
the humble high
gdng) Of
blouse trimmed
blouse
notable
andrb
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going to
This dress Of Dnadoes Che think it the proper sort
plaid tweed made to look like suit especially when worn
double
side in
and Only
bon imeh funci as q mas
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-17
Prominent Athletes
Are Honor Students

Wahpeton, N. D., May 17.-R)
graduation exercises are
held at the state school of science
here June 6 to 8, Louis Schmitt and
Allan Weed, prominent in athletic
events, will also receive high acadc-
mic honors.
Schmitt, a guard on the champion.
ship Wildcat basketball team this
year, will be valedictorian. He lives
here. Weed. quarterback on last
falls football eleven, trailed him
for scholastic honors by only a few
points. Weed lives at Alexandria,
MINI.
Schmitt, an electrical engineering
student, has been a letter-man on
the basketball team for two seasons.
He is president of the senior class
and secretary and treasurer of the
"S'' club, student lettermen's organ
ization. At meeting Of the stu
dent cabinet early in the school year
he was chosen business manager Of
the Agawasie, student annual.
Weed is graduating from the
Arts course in the junior college.
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North Dakota Teacher
Wins Highest Hon0rs

Miss Anna M. Keedy, . teacher
in the Minot public schools, was re-
Gently awarded first national honors
in the sixth annual contest conduct
ed by the highway education board
among the elementary school teach
ers Of the nation. This was for the
winning lesson which she submitted
in the 1926-27 national safety lesson
contest. The purpose Of these les
sons is to educate the youth Of
America and to mold public opinion
on the question of safety on our
streets and highways.
By process Of elimination, Miss
keedy's lesson was chosen as the
best from her school, the best from
the state, and eventually over some
10000 other lessons as the best from
the United States.
Through the decision Of the COM
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fund authorized by the state hail in
surance law.

fund authorized by the state hail in
surance law.
Volume Of Losses Greater
"The volume Of hail losses for
the year 1927 was about a quarter
Of . million dollars greater than
the average hail losses for the
nine years the department has been
In operation. The 1927 hail losses
were paid as promptly as the routine
Of allowing and paying the claims
permitted, and still, with this pay
ment Of losses, the state treasurer
carried q million dollars of the state
hail insurance cash in time certifi-
Gates Of deposit with the Bank Of
North Dakota that was not required
to promptly pay the seasons hail
losses.
AT date Of audit the state hail
department had over 100000 of
cash on hand, with current liabilities
paid, and over 100000 Of the cur
rent tax unpaid and due to come in
to the fund. With this showing it
would appear that the department
would have ample cash on hand in
the future to operate on a cash basis
without levying more tax for sur
plus"
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TROUBLES MULTIPLY
FOR A JOHN SMITH

Indianapolis, May 17.-John
Smith, Negro, was on trial in Grim
inal Court for burglary. "Have you
ever been arrested BEFORE" doomed
the judge. "Nosuh, judge" came
the response.
The prosecutor called for the file
on John Smith" The record showed
q total OF 129 charges. including
fishing on Sunday and murder. The
19-year-old youths eyes bulged.
Then he was permitted to see the
folder. Judge, yer honor" sudden
" came from the prisoner, II wasn't
born when some Of these things was
DONE"
It was the criminal record Of all
the John Smiths since the city was
founded.
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HAIL BUREAUS
SURPLUS FUND
OYER 4 MILLION
Assets of State Department
Listed in Lund Audit at
$4,758,4O7.94

Surplus funds to the credit Of the
Itate hail department on March 81
totaled $4,431, 76s.75, according to
The audit report Of O. B. Lund, filed
today with the state board Of audi
tors,
In view Of the fact that the state
law governing the surplus fund re-
quired that the flat tax on land be
dropped when the fund reached the
four million mark, however, Lund
pointed out in the report that the
last levy was unnecessary since the
fund would have exceeded that
amount even if the levy had not
been made.
Assets of the department are
listed at $4.758, 4O7.94 of which
$2,007, 3O2.58 is in cash on hand,
$2,677, 027.94 is unsolicited taxes due
from counties and the remaining
smaller items such as accrued in
come, interest on certificates of de-
post and furniture and fixtures.
Liabilities, in addition to the sur
plus fund, are $315,734.30 reserve
for uncollectible taxes and small re-
serves for depreciation, outstand-
ing hail warrants and unsettled hail
losses.
Loss on 1927 Business
The operating statement lists the
1927 hail indemnity income at
$3,476,046.20 and the 1927 hail
losses at $3,281, 05O.45, leaving ex-
penses Of $169,935.75. From this
was deducted operating expenses Of
$169,4199O and reserves totaling
S4O,s7S.49, making the net loss on
the departments 1927 business
$15,3O2.64.
Total income direct to the sur
plus fund totaled $459,073.12 of
which $263,952.79 was obtained
from the flat tax levy; $115,804.57
was from penalty and interest on
delinquent taxes and $78, 891.05 from
interest on deposits in the Bank Of
North Dakota. After deducting the
$15,3O2.64 net operating loss, Lund
places the net income to the sur
plus for the year at $443, 770.48.
OF the total of $76,606.07 in hail
warrants outstanding, $50,
were issued in 1927 and the re-
mainder in prior years extending
back to 1919.
In his comment on the audit re-
port Lund said: "Ninety-seven per
cent of the liabilities set up in our
statements represent reserves for
estimated uncollectible outstanding
hail taxes due the department from
counties. This item represents the
amount after deducting the refunds
to holders of tax sale certificates
and foreclosed lands that have been
properly presented to the depart
ment and paid in cash at date OF
audit, as provided by Chapter 172,
S. L. 1927. The wording of this
law is not clear and the department
in acting on the theory that they
are liable for refunds to tax GER
tificate purchasers for all subse-
qucnt hail tax purchased on fore
closed lands. Analysing the prob
able loss in uncollectible hail tax
levy that might arise from the
various causes, believe that the
reserves as carried in our state
mcnts are ample to cover all the
Losses that will be sustained by the
fund on outstanding taxes, includ-
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ing refunds to tax certificate hold
crs that might have accrued to date.
Surplus Over Four Million

ing refunds to tax certificate hold
ers that might have accrued to date.
Surplus Over Four Million
"ln our previous audit report Of
March 81, 1927, we set up surplus
fund Of $685., 9SS.27 which was
within $l2,00l.73 Of meeting the
100000 statutory surplus au-
thorized by law, and at which time
the flat tax levy on al tillable lands
Of the state was to be discontinued.
According to our computations the
penalty and interest on delinquent
taxes and interest on cash deposited
with the Bank Of North Dakota
brought the surplus to the four
million dollar mark long before
October. 1927, the time Of making
the hail tax levies. That flat tax
was levied, however, for the year
1927, and in now in the process of
collection which, with the other in
comes to the fund during the year
has brought the surplus account ia
81, 431, 768.75 in our statements, aft
or setting up ample reserves for oil
apparent future losses that are apt
to be sustained in the liquidation Of
their assets. The income to the sur.
plus fund for the year closing March
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81, 1928, as set up in our profit and
loss statement 10 % follows:
"rrom 1927 flat taxa
levy, less estimated un.
coliectible for one per
From closing 1925 and
prior year hail tax &C.
counts ............... e24.7l
From penalty and inter.
ct on delinquent
taxes ............. 1l5,so4.57
From interest on de-
Dakota ...... :. 45e.o7s.ia
"lees-
Amount used for 1927
hail business .........$ 16,302.6l
for year ...... -. 44s.77o.4s
isS7 ............... s.ss7. sss.27
s ,s;s fund March 81 4,4s,. 7ss IS
"This leaves )43l, 7es.75 in excess
Of the statutory surplus. It will Be
noticed that without imposing the
flat tax for the year 1927, there
would still have been an excess sur.
plus Of 9l07,Sl6.e6 over the four
million dollar statutory surplus
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mittee, Miss kecdy won a trip to
Washington with all expenses paid
from her home in North Dakota and
return, and a check for $500.
Miss Kcedy spent the week of
May 6 in the national capital. On
May 9 she was presented to the
president by Senator Frazier and
Congressman Sinclair.
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found them Of great help. So when
we find we are in need Of relief, we
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K. F. Wahl.
Go to your neighborhood dealer
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desire a trial pkg. Of Favorite
Prescription or Anuric e stimu-
liant diuretic to the kidneys), send
1Oc to DR.. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel,
Buffalo, N. Y.-Adv.
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He is editor of the 1923 Agawasic
and was member Of the staff last
year. He won letters l. football and
track events and was manager of
the school play.
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An Everyday Story
Holloway, MIMI can highly
recommend DR.. Pierce's Favorite

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-13
DAMAGE TO ROADS
IN VIRGINIA HEAVY
State officials Inspect Areas Where
Five-Tnch Rains Fen Friday
and Saturday.
ep.c3al Dispatch 70 The star.

SPECIAL Dispatch 20 The Star.
DANvuIE, Va. August Estate
highway engineers today began the
tesk Of computing the damage done by
the ) inches Of rain which fell in this
section Friday and Saturday, forcing
creeks and streams to the highest Levels
within the memory OF many OF the
Oldest inhabitants.
Throughout the fifth district, more
particularly in the mountain section,
tn road damage is severe, and many
ceecurs have been opened up on ac-
count Of bridges being washed away
and gaps tern il the approaches. Pigg
River. in Franklin County. reached the
highest point since 1877, and tore loose
an underground water tank maintained
hg the Appalachian Power Co. This
threatened TO curtan the drinking water
sllrpiy Of Rocky Mount.
II Carroll County streams became
torrents within SIX hours, spreading
over fields and fruit orchards. A
large truck garden near the banks Of
Peg River in Franklin. was virtually
deauded OF vegetation and left deep
with sand and silt.
Bus and trai schedules were dis
rup.ed by wasfoutS near Jaffa and
Sycamore, south and north of Danville,
bug are again normal. Dan River here
registered Is feet 5 inches above nor
nal. flooded some houses. menaced the
power plant and gave abundant EVIL
oence Of agricultural damage. Masses
O. up-ooted corn Sv-irled downstream
ike small islands. and watermelons
bo55ed freely il. the currents.