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Show BELLll ELUSIVE BOSS "1 bnve aoma Instructions for you, Mild the henchman. "Fron- whnrar asked Senator Sor-ghum, j "From our political bogs' ! "I'll have to use my Judgment Con-dition thang. to fust you cant tell from one day to the uext who the real boss la gtlng to be." Washington Star. i NECK-ROMANCE- R - He 1 hear Jack Is a wizard with tbe ladles. She Veh, he's a "neck romancer." Rotaate Future Buh nttls chtsstr. Don't you cry. There'll b a picnle By and by. Ethics Doctor Ton allowed that quack to treat your husband and you see tbe result Widow But yon bad given up all bope and be wpuld bave died under your treatment . Doctor Yes, but at least be would bave died properly. Mouslique, Char-lero- Cool Calculation 'Have you never bad a romance?" "Never 1" declared Miss Cayenne. "Have no men asked you to marry them?" "Several bave made tbe suggestion. But I decided that what they wanted was not so much for me to marry them at for. father to finance them." Washington Star. . Quite Different Mr. Paster Tes, I heard that story about Mrs. Flitters, but I never pay any attention to an Idle rumor. His Wife Where do yon get that Idle rumor stuff? That story weut the rounds of nor set In half a day and It's running all over town now. Idle rumor, nothing! tt't the busiest rumor ever, ANYHOW HE WAS FIRED 'Just neurd Jerry got tired out ot the pantomime." "Zatso? Wonder wbul the trouble was." "Don't know, 'less he couldn't learn bis lines." Historic Figure We freyueMly deplore Grief can't diminish The man wbo darted mors Tban b could flnirb. Selective Sport ,"! hear you have decided to give up golf." "Yes," answered Senatot Sorghum "I have decided to concentrate on one game at a time. I find golf so Inter-esting flint It Is taking my mind off of polities. Washington Star. Physical Culture "Jerry has a lot ot culture, hasn't he?" said the girl. "Yes," replied the catty one; "but It's all physical." SofBc!ee "Now mnd.ii.H wnat are the alleged .'piu,i tor the proposed divorcer "1 wanted the car to go to the races. My husband took It to drive to busl ness." "Welir 'He says business cornea first." Ther, Now I He I've waited more than ao hour for yoo I" She Why. I thought I told yoo I'd be a few minutes late." " Must Have. Company Judge I iiottced that, tn addition to misappropriating yoo took a considerable quantity of valuables rlnjrs. watches and other trinkets. Prisoner Yes, sir; I remembered that money alone don't bring happl oe&a. Stung Site (coyly) -- If yoo hnd to mnrrj before the clock struck mblulght. what would yon do? He Stop the clock. Instroli News j I THE SEA DEVIL f H,uwSjrKy c By LOWELL THOMAS t I H"MHHHH' 3 t t 'I t' t 'I' 'I' f ft $ t 1 ft H $$ H4 up and forced the vessel back to port We returned trltb her. And now we should have taken her while she lay at anchor. Tbe people ashore would have seen what was going on, but we could have held op the Islund and tlieu put to sea, storm or no storm. That was our first Impulse. We should have followed It Always trust your first Impulse at any rate. If yog go Into the pirate business. It Is the boldest and best. Instead, we chose more cautious course. We resolved to wait until the following day and cap-ture our ship when It had got out to sea. While we waited, another vessel arrived. She was a beauty, too, and would have delighted any seaman's eye as she came sailing Into the harbor. She had Just arrived, we were told, from Suva. She ran regularly among the Islands, carrying merchandise to tbe traders. She was a handsome three-maste- d schooner with auxiliary motor power, new, clean, and trim. Just the kind of ship we wanted. "By Joe," I said to my boys, "there's our ship." We Immediately dismissed all Idea of the old windjammer we had Intend-ed to capture, and devoted ourselves to this new beauty. A council of war A steamer slid Into port I The skipper ot our clipper who wat standing next to me said he supposed she had brought over the proprietor of the Island. The new arrival low-ered a boat In it were military off-icer and font Indian soldiers. Tbe boat rowed straight toward our ship. We surmised at once that they were coming for us. Having received the message sent by the suspicious half-bree- d and the white man that there were six Germans on the Island, the authorities bad sent a force of mili-tary police to arrest us. There bad been some delay In this, as the only available boat on which to send tbe police was a cattle steamer, tbe Amra. and she could not raise anchor for some hours. She bad arrived now right In the nick of time, had commu-nicated with the shore, and been in-formed that we were aboard the schooner. .The storm bad cleared during tbe early morning. Tbe palm trees ashore were ahluze wttb the tropical sun-shine. The water nnder ns was of the deep blue that you see only In tbe South Seas. A brisk, refreshing wind blew from the rest The boat wi n the officer and four soldiers came row-ing with long, powerful strokes. Tbe Indians wore puttees and those funny little pants that leave the knees bare. Tbey carried no arms other than bay-onets. The officer bad a sword and a revolver. We could easily bave shot tbem down wltb our pistols, or thrown a band grenade In their boat, or held them up at pistol point when they came aboard. Tben we could bave captured the ship and sailed away. The steamer would have been power-less In the face of our machine guns. There were multerings among my men. Tbey were full of fight We should, they urged, make the capture and get away. i " t CHAPTER XV Caught by the British at Wa- - I kaya : The Island was Wakaya. Several rid sailing ships were In the harbor. We gazed at them with hungry eyes, ond eager plans of capturing one ran through our minds. Natives on shore spied us, took ns for shipwrecked sail-ors, and put a boat out to meet us. it suited our plant to let them go right Ho thinking we bad been shipwrecked. That might make It much easier for us to get some information about the vessels at anchor. Leaving a couple of my boys In the boat the other four of us srcompanled the natives to their huts, where they treated ns hospitably. Tbey were a simple, trusting people. Seversl half-breed- s and a couple of white men, however, looked at ns sus-piciously. One half breed was par tleularly offensive and Insisted on ask-ing ns many questions. We did not like his behavior at all. Klrcheiss snd I took a walk along a path In the woods to talk over what teemed another menacing situation. A white man came galloping by on horseback. He was pale wltb excite ment He slowed down for a moment s gazed at us, responded curtly to our greeting, and went on. Thoroughly alarmed, we hurried back to the vil-lage. Some curious business was afoot, and we were determined to find out what It was. "Our lat half gallon ot rum." Klichelss murmured regretfully. "Yes," I responded, "it is too bad, but it will go to a useful purpose." We got hold of the half-cast- e who had been so inquisitive. Tbe white mn we had seen on horseback was with him. Something, Indeed, was afoot. We talked casually with them and then suggested drinking. They were Interested, and became enthusi astlc whpn we produced our half-gal- - I loo of rum. In the half breed's but ; we staged a drinking bout which last Ied half through tbe night Nothing rum to make men friendly and conversational. The half-bree- d got to conversational that he blurted out: "Why. you're all right But at first we thought yon were Germans. We could got fifty pounds if you were Germans." Now, as sn American sailor would any, you've got to "band It" to the English. They know bow to spend money when It is useful We Ger-mans are usually more niggardly, or "careful" some might call It We will try to save a mark and then lose Ihou--' samls. Having received the wireless I warning from tbe resident at Altutakl of mysterious armed Germans In the South Sens, the authorities In the FIJIs had passed word among the s to be on the lookout for us, and had offered a reward to anyone who turned In definite Information about a party of Germans posing ss neutrals. It was clear enough that the half-bree-and tht white man had been plotting to hand us over to the au thorltles, but how far they had gone we did not know. We didn't find out that night It was not ULtll later that we learned the white man's horseback ride hnd been to give t-- warning obnut us to the captain of a cutter In the I harbor, and that the cutter had at once shoved off to carry the message !' to the officials of the larger Islands a , day's sail sway. 1 passed an uncomfortable moment of indecision. Our uniforms were packed In our bundles, stowed below. We would have to fight off arrest and take the ship in tbe guise, not of naval soldiers but of civilians, and as civil-ians we wonld bave to raise our weapons against soldiers. That not only went against the grain, but It went against tbe unwritten lawt ef the game. There are many sporting traditions that are carefully incul-cated In every German naval officer. If we could bave fought in our uni-forms. It would bave been as honor-able naval men. In the end, tbe odds would be all against us snd tbe chances were at least a hundred to one that we would be captured before getting bark home. If we fought as naval men and were later captured, we would be entitled to the treatment due honorable prisoners of war. If we fought in citizens' clothes, we were nothing more than International ban-dits and as sucb almost sure to bang finally from a yardnrm. They say that all Is fair In love and war, but this does not alter the fact that there are things you can do that are not play-ing Hie gntne. Of course, eacb side has its spies, and a spy. If caught; ex-pects no quarter and gets none. Moa, Captured by ths Escaping Prls-- oners. was held, after which Klrchelss went to the captain of the vessel, whlcb now had docked, and told him that we were Norwegians who, while making a cruise In a lifeboat bad missed our Mp, which was taking coal from Aus-tralia to Suva. Could we not take passage with him to Suva Instead ot on the other slower old craft, so thsl we could get back to our own ship? We wonld pay regular rates for the passage. "All right," replied the captain, a Jovial, unsuspecting fellow. "Come aboard at eight o'clock this evening We 8ull In the morning." It was our plan sgaln that once aboard this lovely ship snd out at sea we would suddenly appear In our unl forms and hoist the German flag. We made ready to abandon the Hf boat. Our belongings required careful pncklns- - We put rifles, machine guns, cartridges, and grenades In our canvas hags, wrapped our naval uniforms around these, and then rolled each bundle In a couple of blankets and tied It" securely. A. casual handling would not reveal the armament In9lde. Eacb of ns took a pistol In one pocket and a hand grenade In the other. At But during the War of 1870, and dur-ing the lute war, too, we Germans were most severe with franctlreurs, civilians who sniped at soldiers. It has been one of our cardinal prin-ciples thut war must be waged by uni-formed soldiers. In the World war, both sides were charged with Intro-ducing new methods ot warfare that were not In accordance wltb the ethics of the game. But you will re-call that even Allied cargo and pas-senger ships armed with guns to fire on submarines made It a general rule to carry gun crews of onlformed ma-rines to handle the guns "No." I siild to my men, "In the uni-forms of our country we can tight As civilians we cannot At any rate, we are not going to drop a bomb down there and kill that poor defenseless po-lice, officer snd his men In those short pants! There would be neither fun nor glory In that." (TO BE CONTINUED.) eight o'clock we went aboard tne schooner. Our maneuvers had been made carefully, end we had attracted no niidye notice of the people who were suspicious ot us. Aboard, the captain received us hos-pitably, and we went around looking over what we expected to make out next prize of war. And a prize she was, just a year out of the shipyard nnd beautifully finished In every de-tail. I could hardly wait for her to ralsu anchor and set sail. But we had. counted that brood ot mental chick eus before they had hatched, by Joe. Not knowing tnts, we useo a gooa deal of persuasion to put the Ides firmly Into the bends of the two men that we could not possibly be Ger mans. It may have been our elo-quence, or, more likely, tbe genial In fluence of the ruin, but, at any rate, they seemed to lose all of their sus-picions and became convinced that we if were the truest Norwegians from Scandinavia. Klrchelss and I, some-what the worse from our session at detective work, slept at the English-man's house. I The four others were offered quar ters ashore for the night, but two of my boys remained In the boat as a precaution. It was well they did, too. During the night, native swimmers went out to her and cut the anchor rope. They were put up to It by a Malay police officer who was suspl-clous' of us. Not knowing any of my v men would remain on board her, since - tV1" tie was only an open lifeboat, he planned to search her. So he sent bis swimmers out to pull her ashore and beach her. The wind whs Inshore. The anchor rope cut the boat drifted In. Our two men were asleep, and only awakened when keel Jarred agulnst bottom. Dark figures were around In the water, trying to pull the boot on the beach. Our men, pistol In hand, drove them sway and tben pushed out Into open woter. tin the following day, we made our tlmil costly error. The ships In the harbor weighed anchor and raised sail We picked the one that seemed the newest and arranged with the skipper to take us along wltb blm to Suva, on the imiln Islund Vitl Leva Of course, oni plan wus simply to sail a few miles out to sea with blm and then lake the ship ourselves after donning tir uniforms and getting out all ot uiir weapons. A sudden squall blew It's the Wake-V- p FoodQlS ' , Ilerc's a delicious breakfast that's as light m toasted f" , A ,' ' ' flakes can make it, and full of energy Ut fight off that II 'f lacy, hot weather feeling. Energy that is quickly re- - . f ffTHfj fljfjj leased to the body, it's so easy to digest . " KiJI f And how those ernnchy flakes tempt tba appetite I f Delicate flakes from die tender hearts of selected ' fc.. 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IfTt j; pny will wree to refund to holders, upon proper application, any State income tax not exceeding 5 per annum, and in Massachusetts not exceeding 6 per annum, and personal property and security taxes in certain States as pro- - vkied in the Trust Indenture. Redeemable at any time as a whole or in part on 60 days' published notice at )S 105 and accrued interest. Coupon Debentures in interchangeable denominations of $1,000 and $500 a registerable aa to principal only. Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company, Trustee. ' Debentures will be convertible, at the cptlosi of the holder at any time prior So nufortrf, apsis five cteva ' prior to earlier redemption, into Common Stock at too rasa ol 40 shares ior each 1 1,000 principal ansoons. 5 H. H. Fish, Esq., President 0 tht Company, tummdritf J from hit letter to W 41 follows: " BUSINESS v, ' Western Newspaper Union, successor to a company of tne same name and a business founded - ; j in 1865, serves more than 10,000 daily and weekly country newspapers, maintaining fully ' ; , ' , equipped plants in 36 key cities of the United States from California to Maswchuaetta.. ::.,'!f."A The Company supplies these newspapers with ready printed inside pages or with columns of prepared plate, containing various feature stories, serials and special articles selected by the 3 newspaper publishers; places national advertising in their papers and prepares cuts and copy 'f V for local advertising campaigns. . ' The Company also does a large volume of commercial printing, prints in their entirety f various magazines and trade journals and is responsible for the mechanical production of i s many of the feature services of The Associated Press. , ,. k FINANCIAL - During the past 20 years net profits of Western Newspaper Union, after all charges includ- - j ing depreciation, but before Federal taxes, averaged more than $680,000 annually, and in no . single year were such net profits less than $450,000. . '? Net profits after depreciation, but before Federal, taxes, for the past 4 years, as certified by Messrs. Arthur Andersen Co., after eliminating operations of the paper mill, which is being sold coincident with this financing and after other adjustments arising from the reorganization as slated in their certificate, were as follows: . ' 'l 1925.....:............ 741,J3cJ ' '' 1926 , 955,383 ', 1927 371,249 1928......... v 763,825: Such net profits as above have averaged about $758,448 annually, and for the year ended December 31, 192S, amounted to $765,825, equivalent to more than 3 times the annual Debenture interest requirement. . After deducting from such net profits in 1928 Debenture interest requirements, Federal , v Taxes (parent company) at 12 and Preferred Stock dividends, the balance amounted to . ; . over $352,000, or about $2.35 per share on the 150,000 shares of Common Stock to be presently outstanding. The net assets of the Company, available for these Debentures, based on the balance sheet, as at April 30, 1929, adjusted to give effect to the present financing, including the sale of the paper mill, were in excess of $8,500,000. . , . MANAGEMENT Since the death in 1916 of the former-owner- , George A. Joslyn, his widow and other heirs have owned the majority of the Common Stock of Western Newspaper Union, control of which is now being acquired by the executives who have been responsible for its successful operation during the past 13 years. . . ; AU trrat eVtait will ft fvui upon bf Vritn. Ttnney, Bat&nt, Shtr- - ' . uw & Resets ) Ciutato tnd bj UaBU WUtt & Cut tj Hew ttk. 1 ' s. F.A.Willard&Co. Ames,Emerich&Co.,Inc. New York '. rbiladclphia - ,', Cbieg New York , , ... . We nave accepted as accurate the Information and statements contained In the atwv mentioned fettCT snd summary, L 5,, but no errors, omissions or misstatements in said letter or summary shall give rise to any right or claim against tu.p,: J 1....... July, 1929. Student Earnings The bureau of education bat re-cently made a survey with regard to the amount of money earned by stu-dents. In 703 colleges 84 per cent of the students were earning part or all of their expenses. In 815 schools, 134,716 men earned 133,000,000 or $irf) each. The women earned only one-fift- h of thlt amount, but then there were only one-fift- at many employed, to tbe average was about the same. Taste .lt not necessarily following the fashion. ' ' Wben Satan employs idle bands tbe work It alwayt well done. Artistry The Man With an Artistic Soul-W- ere all the people you met there artistic? Sweet Toung Thing Some of them were, but some were quite nice. Mon-treal Family Heruld. A bad imitation of wickedness U better than the real thing. ; I Most malice lies In the inferiority ' complex ; anyway, malice lies. J Profit System Ensures Consumer Fair Chance some as those who pny for them a very liiiportnnt point. Based apon ths Interests of Hie consumer. It Is the only system antler which the con-sumer enn ever stand a chance. We cun mtike no money, we cun do no good, unless we tun persuade others to accept our services at the value that e nnd the; Jointly .dure upon them. Ernest J. P. Benn, "The Con fesslons of a Capitalist. " If your goods are acceptable, or your services useful, you will receive a profit. If. on the other hiind. your fellow creatures decide (wisely or un wisely. It makes no matter) that they do not wnnt yoiir goods, or thut they will get on better without your serv-ices, then you will miike a loss. The proflt-mnkln- system Is the only one under whlcL the consumer enn be per-fectly sure of obtaining the article he wants nnj other scheme can only menn that he will have forced upon him the article which somebody else things he ought to want Working for a profit on an Individ uallstlc system also ensures that the people who receive the goods are the Forbidden Fud A Chinese boy ot fourteen, accord-ing to the Norib Chins Herald, was Involved in Sn automobile accldeut, witnessed the death of a pedestrian during a police buttle with kidnap-ers, and was'htmttelf kidnaped and held for two hours Me wus on his way to school when all this happened and, arriving finally, he apologized to the teacher for being tardy. Like nuy normal boy. he realized that under no circumstances should mere adventures and pleasure Inter-fere with bis education Childish Writing When children boglu to write they often do so from right to lefu It Is called mirror writing. When beld up to a mirror It .looks correct. Mirror writing has no special significant and It passes ns the child grows older. torlans and treasure seekers for cen-turies. When the emperor died, Nan-king, his capital, hnd 13 gates. Through all these coffins were borne simultaneously and 13 tombs were erected at as many different places, according to records, In order to baffle enemies and ghouls. Hunt Big Treasure I.ocatlon of a great treasure, buried 600 years ago with the coffin of the first Ming emperor, may be traced fol-lowing the recent discovery of a mys-terious tunnel In a bill near Nanking, China. The tunnel Is seven feet high and three feet wide, and Is lined with - blocks of stone. The secret of the "'',rde of gold Jewels and Jade en- - Houses for the Soul Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None cf us yet know, for none of us have been tuugbt tn early youth, what fairy pulnces we may build of beautiful thought proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure bouse ol precious and restful thoughts whlcb core cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us houses built without hnnds. for odr souls to live la John Hoskln. Mouse Brought Death Frightened at a mouse, Mrs. John Shlllan stepped back Into a threshing mill at Garlleston, Scotland, recently, and waa kilted. |