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BY J.B BABCOCK | Lpading hah. Jona, gate files steel : No, 7—The § ( ASCINA'TING, intriguing dosire for skillful manipulation, and con: | ready @ slackening in the fire, But| Stantly recurring — expectancy are i it's this way, now: there's nothing | Added to tho game by the vast rango|ons, or of Player's Own Wind—2| periencod ax a at all to be gained by precipitancy,| W jof its score. The lowest possible} points. Such pairs score 2 alwo when | “hunger blockade,” and a deat to bo gained by delaying, | hand will score xero, the highest| concealed, this being the only excep! ‘They declare to thely patients as I shail show you, I hope." | hand will total more than 3,000,000,|tlon to the rule that concealed com-| the present Lord Willought ed him gts | jywhile 4 winndr’ may score no more) Linations score twice as much as jand other citles in of Inferior | piciously, “Ye thing t in tho! / than 22, quality, due partly to improper feed: | eo} meantime Bishop may come back | | 'The average winning | ing of cows and due partly to water: your | or Admiral yan der Kuylon's fleot | | score between $0 and 40 points; the| OF SAME SUL |ing or to extract of the cream. | ; appea average losing hand wil scoge much| From the above you will In many thousands of Berlin “Sur jlons, But always is the chance that| that combinations must always be of! homey mille iu, however, an un-| Fray?” demanded Willoughby. jof the kind, What I'm thinking ts/ jelther winner or loser may build a) the samo suit, of the same color (if) known quantity. It ts so priced as} “TH be after telling you. Rivarol) that in this engagement with the! hundreds, Nor js it} Dragons), or of the same direction (if) to make it a luxury in many work- | Ha fool to take this chance, con-| fort M. de Rivarol, who's a lubberly | uncommon that a skillful player who| Winds). ‘Thus there is no scoring Sidering what he's got aboard. He! fellow, ax I've reason to know, will! does not Mah Jongg may win more} value to a combination of o Carried in his hold the treasure) be taking some damago that may | | than the player who Mah Jonggs on|a 2 Bamboo, and a 2 Charac’ Plundered from Cartagena, amount-| make the odds a trifle more even | the hand. to a Red Dragon, a White ing to forty million livres." They| Sure, It’ time enough to go} When you consider that the aver-| and a G Dragon; por to a North Jemped at tho mention of that col | forward when the fort has shot its} age time of game for experts is six| Wind and Two South Winds (unless Oral sum, ‘He has gone into Port] bolt." | minutes and for beginners 20 min-|the holder happened to be South, with it, Whether ho defeats] “Aye-aye!" ‘The D approval! | Atos, you will understand why the| when he would score 2 for a pair of OF not, hoe doesn’t come out of| camo Ii cough from the little} | Chin adhered to thix game | his Own Wind), | Royal with it again, and soon-| governor. “I perceive your} for generations, and why it has be-| Also notice dhat a single tile never Or later that treasure shall find| object, and L believe entirely} come a national pastime for Occi (Single ons score when Way into King William's cof-| right. Yo have the qualities of a |dentals within two yedrs of its intro-| the gamo in played with the Seasons, after, say, one-fifth share shall| commander, Captain Blood, 1 duction. as will be explained in a later article.) o¢ baby specialists in the west end | Haye been paid to my buccaneers. your p on for having mis. As explained in former articles,| But thin js a variation and in the|o¢ Berlin, declares that this ha As that agreed, Lord Willoughby. understood you." ‘our hand during the course of play| same generally, played) the rule 1#/been the hardest season bables here His lordship stood up, and shax-| “And that's generally automatically divides tnto| true that single tiles never score). | have experienced since the “turnip | Ing back the cloud of lace from his| your lordship. ncealed” and “exposed hands. | In the article on Fours-of-aKind| winter’ of war tin Wrist, held out a delicate white} experience of thts kind of action. HOW SCORE | 1 explained the danger of holding ere | hand. and whilst I'll take any risk that ARE FIGURED fours in the hand, as if you still hold! great-/ I must, I'll take none ‘that I First I will of them when Mah Jongg is completed) needn't. +." He broke off. another they will score Correct Apparel for Women” Specialists Fear Outbreak of Rickets dD. ¢ ff Wy Rafael Sabatini | © RAFAEL. SABATIINI The Year-End SERVICE pe BY CARI P ROAD | Correspondent) | Baby special: | a new epldem the of If concealed this would be doubled, | onitea for 4 | 3 Tho last item In the table for ex-| ints in ¢ posed combination ix a palr of Drag:|ie of rickets: (Continued From Yesterday) Both stared at him, “Hut dds!" his lordship insisted, | “Td is imbossible,” said van Ee euzien, shaking his great mship ix imbordand, Buns is guns.” "If I can't defeat him, 1 can sink MY own ships in the channel, and him in until Bishop get Back from his wild-goose With his squadron, or until OWn fleet turns up. “And what good will that }!n back-and-breast of black ‘I not be trying your much ton Indeed, 1 patience Notion al-| the ny fear nation ex the war | much a result der head, But hand ywill| COMBINATION } the time wankel all sorts. oY school notice be, » now, I'm thinking nothing/ hand into the middies class me Hoesides, it ts wear Hence, many mot} fo feeding their bables thin drained from cooking meager portions of oatmeal. This | does not m: for nourish | ment of children, bgtween poor milk and under-nourishm from many causes, doctors are ful of a rickets epidemic. Dr. Orgler, one of the Jerst or homes. taken the solely be water © have fear ye're ne most noted | very of some handsome Ye I have hats that great box ux (satin, Liding, shown #0 “Captain Blood, I discover is give the table Mess in you,” said he, en on} by “Sure it's your lordship fine sight to perceive it, the captain, “Yes, iar" “Come on deck, and it's a Onstration I'll be giving you the day's much older. to wear Bud how vill y mott Bldg, For CHAPTER XXX The Last Fight of the Arabella “Vhy do you vait, my Srowled van der Kuylen, “Aye—in God's name!” Willoughby. Tt was the afternoon of that day, and the two buccaneer Tocked gently with idly fails under the lee of the lon; f land forming the great harbor of Port Royal, @ mile from the str: Ht, which the fort Was two hours and more sinc had brought up thereadout: ing crept thither unobserve city and by M. de Rivarol's Wnd all the time the air had fr Shop when Uke new) the new bought les laughed growled van der Kuylen. snapped! moving, flapping ng many a andfhionable The/It 4 interesting | does not pre the/tend to be usefufrnament fs tte the) only aim, | The drape, a affair th hip and frock thelto lsten. “Aye, I was right firv's slackening. It'll mean end of Mallard’s resistance in fort. Ho there, Jeremy!" Ho leaned on the carved rail and issued orders crisply. The bo'xun's | Pipe shrilled out, and in a moment jthe ship that had seemed ou do y, {8 a one-sided at ripplepwn from on skirtka, "This drap this sleeve Uboth new—th n that has tile doubly fash mo the! jonable. | hs the decks, es + of blocks and the hoisting oe The helm was put over)” «yon act Wey and in a moment they were! i, sti pe i suiee ai, poh: pom followings! the Dutchman's apving grunt, he from the Arabella, whilst Ogle the A ene gunne wh he had was reciving Bl fir g spit be plunging atural the main ‘deck s than quarter of an hour they ded the head, and stood tn mouth, within Rivarol’s th they now abruptly themselves dem- ~ before creaking | of account. tend?"| of sail hard, above water, fever in ais port The sight of threat red ship with 1} begead and open| bflside on must k |Rivarel’s soar- Ybefore he could| anfder, before he ivwhat orde o {fire and fn the bue <j were in ay of the broad Arabe} held to ppt four same ships summoned, 1 instruc. | ports swi giv g exulta to give well | have shot of which been from his}; forward same suit or | three-of.a for exposed combinations; Three of a kind of 2m, 3s, 49, 5s, 6s, 7s, 88, of the same sult—2 points Three of a kind of 1s or 94 of the same suit or of any Winds or Drag 4 points Four of a kind of 4s, Bs is or 88 of the same sult—8 points. Four of a kind of 1s or 9s of the f any Winds or Drag score 2n, 3a, 6s, ons—16 pointe A pair of Dragons, or of Player's Own Wind—2 points Concealed combinations (those in the concealed hand) of three-of.a-kind, of four-ofakind, cr of three or four Dragons or Winds cotint just double thelr exposed value. Thus, referring back to the table just given for ex posed combinations, you find that or 49 of a sult count eha outgun Of this the nee We are too heavily fullest demonstra kly. The Fren d their wits at last, wung broadside on, and ng Arabella as and and there Dus followe having recov both ships at ion the immediately dange on) player 8 three-of-a-kind. But for seor. ing purposes, a foursome completed | by drawing from the wall will score as a concealed four if declared, and exposed with one tile turned face down to indicate that it wax com. pleted by drawit a not by pung:| ing. ‘To become a good Mah Jongg play-| at the same time you familiarize value of scoring nd thus nly, Higently, “shift verly when ne nd reduce your omen to a minimum w your hand is on the defensive. nd a rapid ono it is essential that yourself with the combinations, Thus you discard in le of p demand can ‘our cennity on Next Article: Funeral Scheduled Special Bonus Scores, for Mrs. A. Barker | rt dy of Mrs, lAvis EB. Bark died Wednesday at the son hospital, will be Blutterw aftern sicker WOMAN COTTON | BROKER WINS | Makes Record Sales Which | Show Profits PHILADELPHIA, May A is, of belleved to be the only ton broker in the Unit | Mins Davis started er four months that short time has 0,000 by Misx Da In private life is 3 a stenographer n firm unti irm was tion Mins tered business for herself. force consists of a sten ax office ad of the firm Dee. Philad wor 28. ne man, | When the was abe mar ! put herself on the same Now in Progress Offers Remarkable Savings on Seasonable Apparel Every garment regardless of its LOW PRICE represents an exceedingly HIGH VALUE Without reserve, decist ductions are In vogue on all Winter Coats, Wraps, Furs, Suits, Daytime and Evening Gowns, Skirts, Blouses, Sweaters and Millinery final. No exchange, C. 0. D. or approval orders. Al prices marked plainly, showing original and reduced price, ilver with the roar of guns from and land, announcing that bat Was joined between the French And the defenders of Port Royal.| That long, inactive waiting was! Straining the nerves of both Lord Willoughby and van der Kuylen. “You said you vould show > Medusa appe fome vine dings Vhere are dese more than 4 vine dings?” ip, the B 5 Re ; Blood faced them adore: Sl Me ‘ econ, ently. He was arrayed f paah ins eae w fas 2 first. ¢ Kes fm the ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS same tho rich pr had shatter: Blood s« ad and chuckled. T not t s thru sympatheti Day two basis as a man © jointly A. Major, Presbyte Mr y to ma channel whose Sania opponents, pa tricken by an rly by he Fifth Avenue at Pine St. had my and her mother, e and|- {etl git ave taken ei ait’ s: but the! | us woman's di ice department, Hotel Man’s Wife Dita ‘on, Christiane * FOUGHT JOHN D vrs roma Invents Dredge to DIS PENNIL FSS: Graduay he wa Seek Sea Treasure | | At about the same time the war put |with the Standard turned against 28.—The | orren.| Former Oil ~ Magnate Lost | im, other business interests. went vattered to] Wealth to Oil King | Large turpentine holdings in Flor: hs may be | |ida failed to make profit, and ex- plans of John A. De —Henry | tensive claims in the gold fields bucked ;2°@? Cripple Creek, Col, were taken |from him. a for} At 60 he was broke. The last died penniless |20 years of his life he was depend- pital here ent on a daughter. quarter of a million — time the oil industry CLOSER HOME put be-| Run for Port Again fi beginning to boom, Childs saw] «where is the island of Cuba lt 0b-| "= The the “flowing gold,” | uated?" asked the teacher of a for. , ct, the Victorieuso had loaded > run ‘ Corl wun ueve: wn] ested fly in the Pennsyl- | torn-looking boy. full 0 = DR. LOGHNEY’ § . . f 5 Seattle ‘boar 4 of commis ae} er 0,000,000 Is | vania fields joey eed age ” i y Ae Sey. Wie 8-8 made y y Cx ; ve : comb pes a lye erful did Childs and his | BLOOD WASHING Pos cy in only 18 Don't you know associ become _ Several : ori ‘sean ola = ns sugar comes from?" HUMAN SAKE OVEN |Fur Collars for “Yes, mam, we borrow it from next Oil company, invited aos —Exchange. [ Munich Policemen) Rétores NICH. Munic Gpple. of winter brou ars on it JOUN G. 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