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Show ataady. And no wondor, if thay drink thai? ova atafft" Bhn would not taJk about bar oarJancoa aa lone ah waa on o tiva duty. ' . "But now.thst I am eat of tha aarrtca tamporarlly," aha dald. atraaalna tha adrorb, -I may -tall bow w Oparalsd. "It waa my job to ooout around from la I at to Inlet, kaap track or "raapaet boat a volnff la and out, find out which aaamaa could atear In tha dark, which koaw our ahora Una. I had to watch trucks and oootlota-orm, halp In tha aalauraa, and ruard tha oonfiaoatod liquor r prlaonara, LCD OWL'S LIFE. . - "Whllo X waa working. I tod an owl'a Ufa awaka at night fcnd Pramm did not tall kira until aba had all bar nnpara cortlflod. That day.1 aha aaya. wa teap-turad teap-turad tha Vfrflnia In broad day-Hrht, day-Hrht, wltb 460 raaaa or tha flnaat whisky aboard. Than I told mf dad and ho waa proud inataad of being knery. "Onca In whlla tha rum run-nara run-nara had from fairly rood Ideaa. But thay navar fooled ua a aacond tlcno. Bomatlmaa thay would try to run Uralr liquor In amaJI boata, with tha watar llnoa palntad hich. Or thay would try to dlaajutaa thalr boata a flshlna am oka or oyatar boa. La. Than aomatlmaa thay would drop flak la tha waiar back of thalr boata ao tha rulia would oUow It aa thay do flahlna; vaaaala 3ut wo would oaa tbrouirh all this and nftar tham atronc Says. Women Make Best Dry Agents :MB 'S : W ) ' ' MiM laaballa frmm, nam Mia af tha rum runnara. aaicp ounnf taa nay. tiaa Pramm'a bis, darlt (rinrad haaal avaa twinkled with azclta-mant. azclta-mant. Erary frock la on bar aun browned faea aaamad to crow bi-(ar bi-(ar aa aha want on: "Tha bootleg cere took a tremeri-dona tremeri-dona Intereat In ma, but It waa ao greater thaa I took in them. "Ona gallant rum runner threatened threat-ened to throw ma orertooard If I came aboard to aaoreh hla ahlp. ' "-Oo ahead,' 1 told him, for Tm coming.' ' 1 did. And ha didn't , ' "Once I waa loitering around tha dock. Borne of tha bootlegger aaw another woman nearby. They thought It waa I. go thay puehed her Into tha water. But thay made a mistake; aha .waa tha wtfa of ona of tha ohief rum runnara, and there waa aoma row afterwarda," . Fearing that her father might object ob-ject to her Joining tha aenrtce If aha aeked for perm felon. Mlea BATSHORJt N. T. July tl (By NKA. Serrloe) Women make tha beat prohibition aganta. Ho aaya Mlaa Isabella Pramm, lt-yaar-old girl, - who became tha nemeala of many rum runnara operating op-erating along tha Long Island ahora. During tha past three m on tha of her work aa prohibition agent aha haa had enough thrllla to aatlafy moat peraona for lifetime. But aha waata mora. "And I'll gat 'am, too," aha aaya determinedly; "tar tha authorltiee Will hare to realise soon that they made a mle take when thay dropped tha woman from tha force. Thay are much better aganta than man. Thay ara leaa easily hrlhrd; leu easily fooled; lesa easily shaken from trail. And, baaldea, they here an uncanny aanaa which makea 'am follow up a clua which moat man would paaa up. HAD KNOWLID0I AND NERVB - Mlea Premm'a knowledge of tha coast made her a moat valuable member of tha forces trying to atop -tha growing rum running off Long leland. And her nerve made bar one of tha moat daring. Fired at by bootleggera, aha began carrying a revolver while on duty. But aha aaya aha was not afraid. "Bootleggera ara auch poor shotel" ehb aaya. "Their nervea ara not |