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<< Mor was introduced. an 7 ——— By mast ovr of city, Se pet month; 9 monthe, $1.00; @ months, 02,76: year te the facts,” naid Juggins, co |(—- WH, 2M THREE WV Ri 06, In (he Btate of Washington, Outside of the state The per mouth leet on With bile readine \AND ANYBODY WOULD TAKE 1460 for © montha or #800 pdr year, My carrier, city. Mle per © gy Apo n URE ouneen MAN. YOU TAKE a one cloned his book and said suY—-— 1 jovuste e e in years of age, with a la mole sane 1 eapportioning the State S sem se’ pices eats noanty iVing by scrubbing, and yj Ses » ave 6 p) sO iv i . yTeSs " > 2X rer wal » |walked Dhokward when they carried "That desertbe her exactly ad Will Seattle have a representative in congress thru the next reapportionment, The Sleuths | Perc er coeiing gomrotas oot |[Mttied Males, “Seeeine roe aad eet all to itself? |hy induction the idea that this ob | on bis hat : : : : : . e176 Ane : ” ervation gave me t elo “In 16 minutes,” he will It will be entitled to it, for its 1920 moptiation is officfally 815,652, while the |copyriont, 1920, by Dowdteday, Page |worvat eee. Ween tnk paved | retain, bringing nha PEN i ; i} ‘ on ¥ & Co.; gublished by special arrange Ne missing fund ney had , bringing you her present a unit of congressional representation is only 211,877 at pre 0 doubt the |* Oe) ree the Wheeler |into the flat across the hall and | dress | Hf ; } i H ; J j olr name to Krale Bharmro Joines turned pale Dt unit will be raised, but it is not probable that it will exceed Seattle’s population. Syndicate, Ine sad dle mies Ao Resa! | | Seaeroms roMmes cerned pale; us) It will then remain for the legislature to fix the apportionment. But the) tp the Big City « man wil divaP| wone to the tenement house where| Within the apecified time Jus . : ‘ * ar wit he wud @ and COMM! wary 8 r had lived 1d the do-| returned and consulted a little slip legislature has been known to disregard such Minor’ jietonees of fame of a candle | Mary Snyder Nad } ea anh 1UC paper SON ie Ue eek M , rates iene atters as obeying the constitution. roon in which she had lived. It had ‘our ister, Mary Snyder,” he an-| he greates r matter: I g th titut ut le blown ow Al th ancl * . an : 7 ring x ‘ . id of inquisl eunee oF ne pe nied by no tenant since| nounced calmly, “will be at! of truth is time—-Col- For the past 10 years, for instance, it has failed to} trai, ‘the slouths of the elty's laby-| Pee" vecupled by not "| 3te, 108 Chilton at. She “ . : 3 esa 1 tha, the closet detectives of theory | "*!, Cisappmanaties 7 ae ae oe ton. reapportion the state into legislative district The rinths, the closet detectives of theory | ‘The room was amall, dingy, and| the back hall bedroom, five fights a nduction~—will be Invoked 10) hoy furnished ookns neated hi 1p, The house is only four bk constitution declares it should be done every 10 years. |the search. Most often the man's |Dourly furnished. | Meeks nated hiny | ip The house is only four blocks ° The legislature refused to act in 1911 and hb face will bo seen no more. Bome} wii. the great detective searched | Mocks. “Suppose you go 4 U ( 1s ever si Now the 1920 census has come and g Will pe - te yh aye ste dear |the walle and floor and the few| the statement and then re the legislature act in 19217 If it does, it will be the first “iung hifhselt one of the synonyms [Muck# Of OM, rickety furniture for a) Mr. Jones will await you, 1 I F E 0 | time in 20 years But it is very doubtful that it will, for it|or “smitn,” and without memory of. eng ofghalf an hour Jot Meeks hurried away. In 20 min-| q : */ would mean that some districts now over represented would events up a certain time, Jr “ge had collected 9 few neemingly unin: | utes he was back again, with a beam 3 There'd be neeghly Mitiven.” re_| (08€ membership in the legislature, while other districts, now '"* his Hrovel's : 2 ‘nit |telligibie articles—a cheap biack hat) ing face | part couples children v © after dragwing the] 9, secs ton a theatre pro ne in | marketh a divorce court judge under-represented, would gain. * polling the restaurants| DI. & Dlewe torn otf | Bee cel Stanes pian mate Well he ented ; cram, ye end o all ta ame yo . (but) Seattle, of course, would be the heaviest gainer, as it has noo may be waiting for a| Sir which was the word “left “Two doll ald Juggina i" ; 4 Mathia Adamezyk, father of 4 increased in population in the past 20 years at a greater done sirloin, that he hag moved) .ig the characters “C 12 | When Meeks had » | ‘ thildren, has been sued ag0| nota Ss 8 . » The “e bt door leaned againat the né Geparted, Bhamr ‘ ee toe ‘ ¢ those Pate than any other district in the state. The “cow count hie santlinn eee Ot 4 Menai be at loan enna endear peor feoaes 4 ats mrock J . ¢ - hells . scombine, however, is strong enough in the present line-up! ing tice the erasure oF heik man en minute nb ars Me hat In his hand before Jug: | child She wants | ‘ ne lik fa upon his hand, and an ab-| ging. see of the legislature to prevent a reapportionment that would ‘trom « blackboard i pne of the mont jook upon bie intelectual If it wow? not be aski ‘ The engagement of Vise vas = give Seattle its just representation. It may also be strong —- poy ren in Bra ey : At the end of that time he ex:| much,” he stammered—“if you woud | i Pz om argaret ) . zo he case of Mary yder, in pein’ " vad me ena ag enough to keep Seattle from having adequate congressional | ,, 5), 0" OE Aun nyeae oe Jaimed, with animation favor me #0 far—would you object | tty lady ber, has been sania ieeeaailh Ris ar tgoe i. . , Mr. Meeks; the problem is | to | | representation, A man of middle age, of the " anced in Eng — | "Ty nstitution ? oe phn ag Prey I can take you direc to Certainly not,” said Juggine pleas (and) } he constitution Of Mew, same frém che ne where your sister is living. | antly. "I will tell you b i © " i , “ , maton ” . a ‘o how I did i More men will marry lady barbers; Qh, yes, it’s a fine instrument to be memorized by appli- es tae t payed emer ou may have no fears concern | You remember the Prete Ma on: = ooo jeants for naturalization, but, as for the legislature, what's | (wo had been living for a year| \k her welfare, for she ts Mre. Snyder? Did you ever know a = eee the constitution among friends? in & tenement house in a crowded [Provided with funde—for the weekly inctaln ten), wasn't paying | AN EVENING WITH THE neighborhood. Mocks felt Joy and wonder in| crayon portrait of herself? ‘The eee HARPINGTONS At her address he was told that| Mocks felt 3 poo ab wesapee hab ne big quire Harpington ‘was Ustening Football Course Mary Snyder hea moved sway longer| "2A! Proportions. |” [ant factory ofthat kind in the coun in as his good wife gave the first) _ mis educators and parents reconsiderin 7 on|than a month before. No one could) 1.4 with admiration in his tones.| Went there and gre nor a 1} once over to the evening news) whot olleges und universities are educational institutions or physica cee ee addrens.| Perhaps Joines' only weakness was) from the books. ‘That's « 4d pe ] laborat Nagi = ne ee. " fa predic eye 4 professional pride in his wonderfu Men,” Mrs. Harpington read.) 4 few years ago the University of Pittsburg openly avowed its inten a pencemen ¥ r ~~ o r ak ‘lachiewerments In induction. He was “have only been wearing bt®/ tion of putt itself on the educa al map by champion | 4 Re orig ar explained asteund and charm interjected the squire, “o's we oan | on pews vag sand Tam anxious to find ber. 1 | “By. ciminstion” aald Jetues buy new hats for women every six successful, and an unbeatable team was secured, with) (60e "umn’y mes ag Ag hpntl- spreading bia clues upon a little weeks.” at least all the editors of the country became) )¢: te z my prosperity, ‘There| ‘Sb! “I got rid of certain parts of THE FORGETFUL be wan a University of Pittsburg and : wianestinty ROY lie ne use in Aaverteing her, beenund the sity ot ren aes teen = Simon Towne and Dr, Pillsan; year, ¥ r Untv c « nd adopted exactly That eliminates Brooklyn. No wo Powders get along together about 88) ine gppasite cour rhe thoilty decided that 1 wes tae Gaty of the|ucn soe cmn See man attempts to board a car at the qreil as two strange cats tied by the) wiiversity to offer all the students equal opportunities for physical de-|nichty that Mecke ; Brooklyn Bridge without being sure | fails to the clothes line. velopment, that the co paren was in honor|tne joyful tears of ster Mary [that she carries « hatpin with which “Doc.” chirped Mr. Towne this] sound to do the best poanible for student. physically an well 28 | troy tre uen mie brunette te [to fight her way into a seat. And Morning, “I read about Nak cuethmentally, and that the spindiiest, puniest student was entitied to the) ~y Nown In the Canal Street {@™ 1 will demonstrate to you that her doctor for going away yey boa not to be’ run for the benefit of a team but for the student body And get a job drivin’ the biggest] !ehind thie door are two pone beg Operation he had performed on Quite naturally the opponents of this revolutionary movement are/dray you can find. There's old wo |the wall. Upon one: of these Mra ee canay chs thie anak thées back ating “triumphantly to the w standing of Reserve in football this) men always gettin’ knocked over by |Sexder t ‘= bene her be nat an veg year, a quite ts ponents retort tha: uch is not the te ores <0 po | er her sha ou 1 to his office without going to tbe) ‘Tar and quite naturally its & ima cary le Bia 0g Sow anh tong ih ggens este t the bottom of the han: | F himto make him| question at issue, but ra ¢r among ‘om. If you don’t wan’ Phe pct owed Age ee ee. Dac Powders ex.| Which is the more important? For a haif dozen stare to have thelt/ to do that, you better go ‘round to crameely: ans | apse of re names int sporting columns as punters, passers, tackler and) headquarters and get ‘em to put @/Slind Xl) pe he rs pron ete SNor replied Mr. Towne, “she| *Undeainers, or for the entire student body to be pt y educated |e ee ate ae eats, Meeks re-[ina that there in no fringe on the | couldn't do that because the doctor ceived ready assiatance. A generalj@eew! Now, was there ever a case had sewed the forceps up inside Straw Gas larm Was sent out, and copies of a|®her & middle-aged woman, w na | A TRULY her.” lchabiendah Ge inde ies myo her | #hawl, boarded « Harlem train with: | ae Just when everybody was viewing the gasoline situation with alarm, coatiens ror pacar He ne emong [Outthere being a fringe on the are | HELPFUL HINT TO MOTHER | due, in no small measure, to the frequent mention of the word “shortage,” | Ses to catch in the gate and delay the| Danny Duff was yelling his head eff for cookies. “TN tell you what IM! do.” said _ Mrs, Duff; “stick your fist into that -* pan of water and make a big, deep + Danny, and when you pull ) your. hand out you may have as (many cookies as it will take to fill _ the hole you made in the water” * ~ QUESTION Do you find Seattle’s telephone service good or bad? ' ANSWERS MRS. JENNIE I. PIERCE, 1222 I6th ave. N.—It's something terrible’ I shouldn't thin, you'd have to ask ‘that question! HIRAM LITTLE, 2827 15th ave. W.—I don’t find it anything extra When I want to gét Rainier valley, Tcan't. MRS. LOTTIE FRIDELL, 2017 24 Sve. N—Seems all right to me. I + Gon’t use the phone very much. B. T. ALLISON, 4302 Burke ave. Rotten! Just one word—rotter MRS. MARGARET SANDERS, 607 Union st—itt tent very bad. OF ourse, we don't use the phone very much. WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SEATTLE? QUESTIONS 1. When was the Seattle fire? 2. Who does the city’s buying? 3. What is Seattle's oldest play fleia? (Answers Saturday) PREVIOUS QUESTIONS | 1. In 1853, Maj. Gen. George B. Me-| Glelian, then captain of engineers, re Ported to Jefferson Davis, then sec retary of war, that a canal to connect | Lake Washington with Puget sound Would crea ‘the finest naval resort im the world.” | 2. The port commission acquired | the West Seattle ferry in 1914. The} Purchase entailed an expenditure of $200,000 3. Seattle's 1919 bank deposits DON'T LET’EM DOWN YOU BEETHOVEN DIDN'T Beethoven t» given rank as the greatest composer of all time. Dur- ing a greater part of his life he was deat and could nét hear his own gormporitions, the storm blows over, clouds fade away and the sun shines again. Make gas out of straw, canien The experiment station at Arlington, producing gas on a small department : barley, cote, and other vegetable matter usually burned as” waste.” reason for planning a back-yard garden optimistic frame wherein the strawatack and corncob collection on “heat and light The wh Being the faymer nes. Now straw a « a corneoba, and old tomato vines out ot the ‘That pleasing solution for the gas shortage probiem ts partially promised by the department of agricuiture. oats, in with nd, possibly it nd corn seate. hopes to prove that gas may rye, and rice straws, and from for 1921! of mind, the department for his house, for his tractor.” talk of gas shortage! All oyer this fair land just now two milion turkeys are fattening, | unconscious their doom. h just as well the date of his end. at best is the turkey. downcast and It is in the branctx ot daytime, drawn out Turkey’s Trotting that his majesty, like If he he'd worry a lot. A sad There's no need of adding welght As it be obtalned cornstaika, corn: | is, he gobbles his lay and the gram Va., is distilling straw and thus “from Another sees a future the farm will supply power for stationary en Johnnie Rockefeller doesn't hustie out and buy up all the) be, agricultural gas producers will put a stop to that] humans, knows so little of looking bint to that face hoppers that are so fattening at one gobble, hides away in the meadows and goes to roose in the moonshine on the of the good old friendly trees at dusk, perfectly happy and with his lot. peaceful contented If anything, the increase in divorces scems to stimulate marriages. When daughter learns to cook one wonders why she starts with desserts “UN monkey business has been banished by the new Greek government. It aed to be rude to tell a man to go to Hélifax, but Halifar voted wet, , THE BIG DE PACKAGES FOR BLACK\fAN. OX-BLOOD EATTLE HUMOR PATHOS STAR |the stations, chief assigned the case, “This is not a very difficult case to unravel. Shave off your whiskers, fin your pockMs with good cigars. and meet me in the cafe of the Wal dort at three o'clock this afternoon.” Meeks obeyed. He found Mullins |there. They had a bottle of wine, | while the detective asked questions concerning the missing woman. Now,” said Mulling, “New York fs a big city, but we've got the detective | dusiness systermatized. There are| two ways we can go about finding | your sister. We will try one of ‘em first. You my she’s fifty-two?” “A little past.” nald Meeks. The detective conducted the Wert erner to a branch adverticing office of one of the largest dailies, There wrote the following “ad” and sub In Mulberry Street the Detective Majiins to mitted It to Meeks “Wanted, at once—one hundred attractive chorus girls for a new mu sien) comedy. Apply all day at No. | Broadway.” | Meeks was indignant My sister,” said “Ia a poor, |hard-working elderly woman. I do not see what aid an advertisement of this kind would be toward finding porting “AN right.” maid the detective, “1 guess you don't know New York, But if you've cot a grouch against thie scheme we'll try the other one, & sure thing. But ft'll cost you more.” ‘\ “Never mind the expense,” said Meeks; “we'll try it The sleuth led him back to the Waldorf. “Engage e of bed. rooms and a p advised, “and let's Ko up.” pansengers bebind her? So we elim inate Harlem. Therefore { conclude that Mm Snyder has not moved very far away. On this torn piece of card you me the word ‘Left,’ the beter C/ and the number Now, 1 happen to know that No. 12 Avenue! C is a first-class boarding house, far beyond your sister’) means—as we suppose. Bot then I find this plece of a theatte program, crumpled into an odd shape, What meaning does Kt convey? None to you, very likelyp Mr. Meeks; but it ts eloquent to one whose habits and training take cognizance of the smallest things. You have told me that your els & serub woman. She scrub offices and hal ter bed the floors of Let Us assume that she pro in waye cured such theatre. lost the the that Iry In Look at work to Where ia yaluable oftenest, Mr. Mee of course { program, Mr. Meeks ve the round impression in it has been wrapped around a ring perhaps ® ring of* great value perform s theatres, o work in the theatre, She hastil tore off a piece of a program, w 4 the ring carefully, and thrust it Mino har becom. ‘The pect Gap she | disposed of it, and, with her creased means, looked about her for more comfortable place in which to live, W I reach thus far in the chain I see nothing impossible about No. 12 Avenue ©. It is there we will find your sister, Mr, Meeks” Meeks’ admiration was too great for words. Together successful artist ‘This was done, and the two were shown to @ superb suite on the jfourth floor, Meeks looked puzzled. | The detective sank Into a velvet arm | chair, and pulled out his cigar cane, |“! I forgot to suggest, old tan.” he| They rang the bell, and on ip said, “that you should have taken | tiring were told that no Mra Sny jthe rooms by the month. They |r was known t and that not wouldn't have stuck you so much for| Within six months had a new occu wh pant come to the house. "By the month™ exclaimed Meeks,| When they reached the sidewalk | Weak Gn dan rane again, Meeks examined the clu “Oh, it'll take time to work the} Which he had brought away from his sister's old room fame thin way. I told you it would! ont you mo We'll have to walt till spring. There'll be a new clty out then, Very likely your] ‘# name and address will be in| Meeks rid bimself of the city de tective at once. On the next day vome one advised him to consult Shamrock Joines, New York's fa- mous priv ed fabulous f ac detective, who demand but performed mir: in the way of solving mysteries and crimes After waiting for two hours in the| anteroom of the great detective's apartment, Meeks was shown into his Jolnes sat in a purple ening gowh at an inlaid tvor; chess table, with a magazine before him, trying to solve the mystery of “They.” The famous sleuth's thin, |intellectual face, piercing eyes, and are too well rate per word to need description. Meeks set forth his errand. “My | fee, if successful, will be five hun dred dollars,” sa Shamrock J ; Meeks bowed his agreem to the price, kn “I will undertake your case, Mr. Meeks,” maid Jolnes, finally. “The disappearance of people in this elty has always been an interesting prob- ra case that I awful outcome a A family bearing the ed suddenly flat in which they! I watched the flat building for two months for a cl One day it struck me that a cetrain milkman and @ grocers boy alwave t ago of Clark disapp brought year nam from a small were living. | look they went to No, 12 Avenue C. It was an old-fashioned brownstone house in @ prosperous and respect able neighborhood “I am no detective,” he remarked | to Joinex, as he raised the piece of theatre program to bis nose, “but it seems to moe that instad of having been wrapped in this paper it was one of those round pepperte mint drops. And this piece with the address on it looks to me like the 4 of @ seat coupon—No, 12, row C left aisle Shamrock a ring Joines had @ faraway | in his eyes. | “I think you would do well to con sult Jugeins,” said he. Who ts Juggins’ He is the leade &@ new modern school of detecti Their methods different from ours, but it is said that Juggins has solved some extremely puzzling cases, I will take you to him," They found the greater Juggins in| his office, He was a small man with ght hair, deeply absorbed in reading asked Meeks, | said Jolnes, are for the It is interest Pinkham’ ing to Vegetabl waful remed, have, fas now spread from shore Fand thousands of American now well and strong claim ‘owe their health and happiness Lydian KE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.—Advertisement. Mra. Snyder found the ring while at) Shamrock Jones concluded his con | Vincing speech with the amile of a) | WRIDAY reeete works EVERETT TRUE— The two «reat detectives of differ ‘SENSATIONAL WHILE THEY LAST ; AND. RECOR WS Together with tiv er-backed record br needles, a heavily pickeled steel needle cutter, 400 carefully sele This makes an outfit that is complete in the smallest detail delive: on an initial payMent of only Ten Dollars. payments. Theutfit complete only $125.00. The balance to be pai NOVEMBER 12, 1928, By CONDg, a RS OLDER THAN You mre LiFe Too SER- NGVER LET ANYTHING BOTHER ME VERY LOnG —— Tro OS THE sh, two neatly bound record albums, one pagkage of 100 fiber to your home in convenient Phone Main 3139

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