CHAPTER II.

The Result of the Young Lawyer's Keen Management of the Smollett Case.

"Where did you move to then?"

"Seventy-nine-eight Locust street."

"How long did you live there?"

"Only three weeks. The plumbing was bad."

Lew kept on in this line of questioning for several minutes more, by which time Smollett had testified that he had moved thirteen times during the past three years, in each instance telling the address of the house he had lived in and the length of time he had lived there.

"This is astonishing," said Lew. "You certainly possess a remarkable memory, Mr. Smollett."

"I think I have got a good memory," complacently said the witness.

"There is no question about that," said Lew. "I very much doubt if any gentleman on the jury could have remembered so much and so positively as you have done, and yet you have apparently forgotten that you worked for the Continental Iron Works for one entire week since the date of your accident!"

A murmur of surprise went around the crowded courtroom. The witness grew pale and then flushed fiery red, and shifted uneasily in his seat, while the members of the jury glanced at each other in a significant manner.

Smollett's lawyer half arose as though to make some objection, and then seemed to realize the hopeless nature of the situation and sat down again with a scowl on his face.

The witness was trembling, and Lew went at him savagely.

"I have here a sworn copy of the time-book of the Continental Iron Works, in which your name appears as having worked from the seventh to the thirteenth of June in the year you were injured," he said, fixing the unhappy witness with his piercing eyes. "Do you deny that you did that work?"

(To be continued.)

THE NEWS IN SHORT ARTICLES.

"NO JOB; NO BRIDE."

The extent and the effect of unemployment in Detroit was shown recently when it was learned that twenty-six bridegrooms have recently returned their marriage licenses to the county clerk. All gave the same reason: "No job, no wedding," they said.

BABY OSTRICH SCRAPPY.

Jonathan, the first ostrich chick hatched in Canada, is progressing under the care of Zoo Manager F. Green in Stanley Park, Vancouver. It was at first believed that the rare and valuable bird would not live, and it was taken from its parents and placed in the Green home. Appearance of weakness proved deceptive, for Jonathan quickly whipped the house cat and won a decision over the family spaniel.

CRACKS SAFE, GETS 16 CENTS.

William Redke, forty years old, with no permanent residence, out of employment and broke, is in the Washington County jail, Pennsylvania, a confessed burglar and attempted suicide. Redke's cracking of the safe in the Pennsylvania Station at Houston the other night, he told the authorities, netted him but 16 cents. Discouraged over the small haul, he turned on all the gas in the station office. Five hours later he awoke still in the land of the living. In disgust he surrendered to the officers. He pleaded guilty and was committed to jail in default of $1,000 bail.

WHERE DO SEALS SPEND THE WINTER?

No one knows where the seals go in the winter. In Alaska they begin to appear on the Islands of St. Paul and St. George about the end of April or the first of May, and toward the latter part of August or in the first weeks of September they disappear as strangely and mysteriously as they came. This is one of nature's secrets which she has kept most successfully hid from scientists as well as the prying eyes of the merely curious and inquisitive.

Even in the days, years ago, when the seals numbered five millions or more, apparently some signal unknown to man would be given and the next day the fog-wreathed rocks would be bare, the seals having deserted the islands. With their slipping off into Bering Sea, all trace of them was lost until their return the following spring. Then some morning they would suddenly reappear, disporting themselves in the water or on the shore.

ABOUT SCENTED WOODS.

With the woods of the world to choose from one can easily arrange a whole scale of scents from the sweetest and most delicate of perfumes at one extreme to rank and overpowering odors at the other, says the American Forestry Magazine. The stores of the perfumer's shop will not yield a greater variety than one can find in woods.

The most famous of all scented woods is the incomparable sandalwood. The true sandalwood (Santalum album) is an Oriental tree, the use of which for perfumery and incense began thousands of years ago, and its popularity remains undiminished. The later Greeks considered it one of their greatest luxuries, and no festivities were complete without it. There are many false sandalwoods, at least three from India, one or two from the Philippines and Java, one from Australia and another from the West Indies and Venezuela.

In some parts of the Himalayas and in the Khasia Hills the yew tree is called deodar (God's tree), the name that is elsewhere applied to a true cedar. The wood of the yew is burnt as incense, as is also that of the cypress. One of the favorite woods for incense in the Buddhist temples of India is the juniper. In parts of South America a wood closely related to the lignum-vitae is called palo santo (sacred wood), because of its use for incense in churches.

The Northwestern Indians nearly always made their totem poles out of Western red cedar, but this choice was probably due more to the fact that the wood is easy to work and extremely durable rather than to its fragrance. It may be taken as a very good general rule that woods that are scented are resistant to decay and insect attack and have good cabinet qualities.

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THE RENEGADE'S FATE.

By Kit Clyde.

"Then you will not listen to me?"

"No. I believe you to be a wicked man, and I will never consent to sacrifice my child to such as you."

"But if she loves me?"

"She does not--she cannot! She knows your evil reputation, and her heart is another's."

"I will wait. She loves me, and will be mine. I am sure of it."

"Never! And now, as we have already prolonged this meeting beyond reason, go, and never speak to me on the subject again."

"Very well, Giles Raynor, I shall not. I shall speak to your daughter instead."

"Do so at your peril, Tom Walden! Now go!"

"Good-morning, Farmer Raynor, and a better temper to you when we meet again."

The man whose suit had been refused went away with a smile upon his dark face, and without the least threat against his rival, or the man who had given him his dismissal, nor the least suggestion that he meant otherwise than to honestly win the girl whom he professed to love.

Giles Raynor was a settler in the far Northwest, and a man of importance in the little town which he had founded.

Tom Walden had come among the settlers within a year, and had affected a great liking for Grace Raynor, the farmer's daughter, and had asked for her hand in marriage.

Walden claimed to be a lumberman, but there were those who said that he had come into this lonely region to get ahead of an evil reputation, and although he might be what he avowed, he was no honest man seeking to make a living in these wilds.

It was said, although not too openly, that Tom Walden was a gambler and a thief; that he had fled to escape punishment for his crimes, and that even now, in his new home, he was not above suspicion, and that many had been made victims of his unscrupulous methods.

Grace Raynor had expressed an open dislike to him, and was reported to be engaged to marry Jack Woodson, an honest young fellow at work in the sawmill in town, the only support of a widowed mother, and as free-hearted, generous-handed a young man as one could meet.

No one knew definitely if the young people were engaged, for they kept their own counsel, and when slyly questioned about the matter replied that people would know all about it as soon as it became necessary for them to do so.

Tom Walden left the farmer's house, ostensibly to go to work in the woods, and Giles Raynor gave little thought to him, having other matters to occupy his mind.

He left his daughter to look after the house, as usual, when he went into the fields, saying nothing to her about Walden's proposal, not deeming it necessary to worry her.

When he came home at noon his wife said that Grace had gone to another town to make some purchases, being unable to obtain what she wanted in their own village, expecting to return by the middle of the afternoon.

When evening came she had not returned, and the farmer began to feel a vague alarm concerning her, although Walden had uttered no threats against her, or any one in whom she was interested.

At nightfall a boy brought a note to the farmer, saying that it had been given him by a woman closely veiled, an hour before, on the extreme verge of the town.

The note read as follows:

"Dear Father: I have gone away with the man I love--Tom Walden. Do not pursue us, for we will not be brought back alive. By the time you receive this we will be married.

"GRACE."

The farmer handed the note to his wife, his face expressing the astonishment he felt.

"It is not true," said Mrs. Raynor. "Grace told me only this noon that she loved Jack Woodson, and that they intended to be married in the fall, but that they did not want it generally known just yet."

"Then this scoundrel Walden has carried her off!" cried the farmer.

"Grace never wrote that letter," said the wife. "She is a truthful girl, and has told me often that she never loved any one but Jack, and to-day, as I told you, she said that she and Jack had fixed on the day for their wedding."

The farmer took the note, put on his glasses, and read it again, more carefully.

"It's her handwriting, as sure as I sit here," he said; "but that scoundrel has made her write it, and has carried her off."

"Grace would die sooner than write a lie," said the mother.

At that moment Jack Woodson entered the room.

"Where is Grace? What is this story I hear?" he asked excitedly.

The farmer handed him the note, which he read hurriedly and then tossed upon the floor.

"It's a lie! a false, cruel lie!" he cried. "My darling never wrote that--never could write it. It's the work of that villain, Walden. Do you know what I have just heard? Tom Walden was arrested on a charge of forgery in Chicago--would have gone to prison, for his conviction was certain, but jumped his bail, and fled. His name is not Walden at all. There is a man at the hotel who knows all about him, and described him this very hour. More than that, there is an old indictment against him in New York for murder. The plea was self-defence, and the case never came to trial. Now they have new evidence that he deliberately murdered the man. He was then known as Tom Walden. My Grace run away with a man like that! Never! He has carried her off, and has written this note himself to deceive us. He has stolen her, but I will pursue him and bring her back, if I have to kill him to do it!"

Then, without further words, he rushed from the house into the darkness.

The next morning he had disappeared, and no one knew where he had gone, nor for months did the settlers hear tidings of him or of Grace or of Tom Walden.

In one of the wildest parts of the Northwest woods an Indian village had been built.

There were no white settlers within many miles, and the tribe was said to be a peaceful one, never going on the warpath, and always treating with kindness the few straggling whites who made their way into this wilderness.

In one of the larger lodges of the village, one pleasant afternoon in the late autumn, were a man of about forty and a girl not much over twenty.

The girl's complexion was fair, and she had none of the characteristics of the Indian, although dressed like one.

The man was tall and swarthy, with long, black hair, which hung straight down upon his broad shoulders, his face was cruel and crafty, and his every look was evil.

He was dressed in half-savage, half-civilized style, wearing a fur cap, an embroidered hunting-shirt of buckskin, woolen trousers, heavy boots, and a red sash in which were thrust a brace of pistols and a knife.

"See here, Grace," he said to the girl who sat before him on a low couch of skins, "I haven't brought you here for nothing, and you must be my wife."

"Never, Tom Walden, or whatever your evil name is," said the girl. "Far from home and friends, among these wild and savage men, less pitiless than you are, I can still defy you. I will never be your wife!"

"These people are my allies," said Walden. "I have inflamed them against the whites, and they are ready to go on the warpath if I bid them. They will kill you as soon as any one, if I give the word, and I will if you do not consent to----"

"Never!" cried Grace, springing to her feet. "I doubt not that you have told many lies to account for my disappearance, since you dragged me from my home by your baseness. You are false enough to make war against your own people, but I do not fear you, no matter what you threaten. Kill me, if you will, and release me from my misery!"

"I've a mind to take you at your word!" cried Walden, seizing the girl by the wrist and raising his knife as if to strike.

The maiden never flinched; but at that moment an Indian youth sprang into the lodge and threw himself between the renegade and the girl.

"White man no strike the white flower!" he cried.

"Who are you?" growled the man, looking fixedly at the youth.

"Me Young Elk. Me live far off, me come to village, me have friend."

"Well, Mr. Young Elk, this is my squaw, and you will take yourself off and mind your----"

"Paleface lie! The white flower is not his squaw!" the young Indian replied.

"Get out of here!" hissed the renegade.

"No! Young Elk stay. White flower need friend. Me be her friend."

"Blame you!" hissed Walden. "We'll see if any mere boy can defy me! Out of the way, dog!"

"No," said the Indian. "Not while white flower stay. Young Elk be friend to white woman; bad paleface shall not strike."

"Thank you, my friend, but I fear him not," said Grace.

"I will conquer you yet!" hissed the renegade, as he rushed from the lodge, the Indian boy having stepped aside.

As soon as Walden had gone, Grace left the lodge and hurried into the forest, where she ran on till she reached a pool of water which made its way swiftly into a cave amid the great ledges of rock.

The spot was at some distance from the village, the trees grew thick and high, and the path between them was narrow and winding, and easily lost; but the girl had evidently been there before, for when she reached the opening in front of the pool she looked around her with an air of security.

Walden, leaving the lodge, went to the chiefs, whom he found gathered in council.

"Who is Young Elk?" demanded Walden.

"He is my kinsman," said one of the chiefs.

"He is a meddler!" snarled the renegade. "I will kill him if he does not take care!"

"No, False Heart will not!" cried the old chief. "False Heart lies, he has told crooked tales of the paleface, he is a bad man. He would make us go on the warpath when the whites have not wronged us. It is he who will have to take care lest Young Elk kill him!"

Inflamed with rage, Walden left the council and hurried into the forest. As he hurried along the narrow path he was followed by Young Elk.

Reaching the opening, Walden found Grace upon her knees at the edge of the pool. "I cannot bear to leave this bright world," she murmured, "but I could not bear the disgrace, the shame of being that man's wife! Oh! why is there no one to help me?"

"Die, if you will have it so!" cried the renegade, raising his hand to strike.

Upon the instant, the young Indian who had been trailing him, sprang forward, seized the renegade by the throat and hurled him into the pool.

"Grace, my darling!" he cried, taking the girl in his strong grasp and drawing her away.

"Jack! You!" she cried. "Then you are Young Elk?"

"No; he is my friend. He it was who found you here in the village, and told me, and none too soon. I have sought you in many places. The Indian boy who gave your father the letter forged by Walden confessed that the villain had taken you to some tribe far away, and I began my search. I went from tribe to tribe, finding you not, and at last met Young Elk, whose life I saved. He went with me from village to village, making inquiries, and here at last he found you. But what has become of that scoundrel?"

"The strong current must have carried him into yonder cave," said Grace. "The Indians say the stream never issues forth after leaving the light."

"Then the scoundrel has met his just reward for all his crimes," said Jack. "Come, I have found you, and now we will return, never to be parted again."

It is needless to say that Grace's parents were overjoyed at her safe return, and on the appointed day Jack and Grace became man and wife.

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GETS FOUR BEARS.

Albert Forney of White Rapids, Wis., shot four bears recently. While out hunting he discovered a cub in what proved to be a winter den. He shot the cub and brought the mother charging down upon him. Another shot finished her. Forney then dispatched the two remaining cubs. Father Bruin escaped by flight.

CARRIED AN ARSENAL.

Hilary Smith of Brooklyn was sent to jail the other day for six months and fined $35 on charges of carrying concealed weapons, drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Smith, who said he was a longshoreman, carried three big revolvers, three razors, two dirk knives, 200 rounds of ammunition, a marked deck of cards, a pair of loaded dice and two half pints of whisky. He was arrested at the Union Station, Washington, D. C., by detectives, who noticed the bulges in his clothing.

"I was getting along all right in New York and Brooklyn," he said in court, "until those cops up there got too inquisitive and I had to leave. Just the same I am a harmless man."

WILD DOG ATTACKS MAN.

Running wild for two years, after being lost in the wilds of the Indian Creek Valley, Pa., by a Pittsburgh hunter, an Airedale dog attacked and injured James C. Munson, a well-known Connelsville man, who was hunting in that section of the country.

It was with difficulty that Munson beat off the dog, which tore his clothing and flesh in several places.

Only the whine of pups near by prevented Munson from killing the canine. Nine pups about six weeks old were taken by members of a posse which went into the mountains when the attack was reported by Munson. The mother dog was not seen, but hunters who have encountered the animal say she is as savage as any wolf they ever saw.

WHY CAN'T WE SEE IN THE DARK?

We cannot see in the dark because there is no light to see by. To understand this we must first understand that when we see a thing, as we generally say, we do not actually see the thing itself, but only the light coming from it. But we have become so used to saying that we see the thing itself that for all practical purposes we can accept that as true, although it is not scientifically exact. Scientifically speaking, we see that part of the sunlight or other light which is shining upon it which the object is able to reflect.

If there were no air about us, we could not hear any sounds, no matter how much disturbance people or things created, because it requires air to cause the sound waves which produce sound, and air also to carry the sound waves to our ears. In the same way, if there is no light to produce light rays from any given object to our eyes, we can see nothing. It requires light waves to produce the reflections of objects to our eyes. Without light our eyes and their delicate organs are useless. You cannot see yourself in a mirror when the quicksilver which was once on the back of the glass has been removed, because there is then nothing to reflect the light. We can only see things when there is light enough about to reflect things to our eyes. When it is dark there is no light, and that is the reason we cannot see anything in the dark.--Book of Wonders.

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"I had an awful time with Amos last night." "Amos who?" "A mosquito."

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"So you want to marry my daughter; what are your prospects?" "That is for you to say, sir; I am not a mind reader."

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Sunday School Teacher--Is your papa a Christian, Bobby? Little Bobby--No'm. Not to-day. He's got a toothache.

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Teacher--Now, Patsy, would it be proper to say, 'You can't learn me nothing?' Patsy--Yes'm. Teacher--Why? Patsy--'Cause yer can't.

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"No, I can never be your wife." "What? Am I never to be known as the husband of the beautiful Mrs. Smith?" She succumbed.

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"How do you distinguish the waiters from the guests in this cafe? Both wear full dress." "Yes, but the waiters keep sober!"

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Albert Asker--Mamma, may I go out in the street? They say there's going to be an eclipse of the sun. Mrs. Asker--Yes, but don't go too near.

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Teacher--What do we see above us when we go out on a clear day? Harry--We see the blue sky. "Correct, and what do we see above us on a rainy day?" "An umbrella."

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Mother--I gave you a nickel yesterday to be good, and to-day you are just as bad as you can be. Willie--Yes, ma I'm trying to show you that you got your money's worth yesterday.

ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST

CAT SAVED BY DOG.

Judson T. Logan, of Leverette, Mass., and members of his family overlooked the family cat, "Chum," when they made a hurried escape from their burning home the other day. But "Ted," their big St. Bernard, remembered.

The dog discovered the absence of his playmate, rushed back through the smoke and soon reappeared with "Chum" in his mouth.

Incidentally the Logans, as well as the other occupants of another apartment in the house gave the dog credit for awakening them by barking, so they reached the street before their escape was cut off by the flames.

OVERPOPULATION.

A remarkable case of overpopulation is that of the Island of Bukara, in Lake Victoria Nyanza, described by H. L. Duke in the Cornhill Magazine. This island, with an area of 36 square miles, much of which is bare granite, though isolated from the rest of the world, supports a population of 19,000. The small garden plots are carefully marked off and rights of ownership are rigidly observed. Trees are valued more than the land on which they grow. In some cases one man owns the trees and another the ground. A man must not steal his neighbor's leaves, sticks and rubbish. A father may even divide a tree among his children, allotting certain branches to each.

FINDS A REAL PARADISE.

Thomas Kelley, a farmhand in Paradise, Kan., 60 years old, has just received a present that belonged to anybody until a few days ago.

Kelley has been working in this community as a farmhand for some years. Near Paradise is the Worley ranch, consisting of several thousand acres. It has been the opinion of all that Worley owned all the land. Kelley began an investigation and discovered that eighty acres near the center of the ranch never had been homesteaded.

He immediately took up the matter with the Topeka land office and is now practically the owner of the farm, worth approximately $5,000. The land is in the heart of a rich and fertile valley, noted for raising wheat. Most of the farm is under cultivation.

Kelley will improve the land at once and will erect a house to live in.

GIRLS MUST COVER KNEES.

Girl students at the Randolph-Macon Institute, part of the Southern Methodist institution, Danville, Va., have been told in blunt terms they must wear their stockings as their mothers taught them and not in conformity with fashion's latest edict, which provides for the rolling process and knee lengths.

From sources of unquestioned authority comes word that within the last few days the faculty of teachers were called together and served what was little short of an ultimatum to the student body. Failure to comply will be met with severe reprisals.

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Some time ago I got one of your Machines and I am very much pleased with it. After working it for about a month I sold it for $10.00 to a friend of mine. He has it and entertains his family nightly. I have now decided to get another one of your machines. Michael Ehereth, Mandan, N. Dak.

Would Not Give Away for $25.00

My Moving Picture Machine is a good one and I would not give it away for $25.00. It's the best machine I ever had and I wish everybody could have one. Addie Bresky, Jeanesville, Pa. Box 34.

Better Than a $12.00 Machine

I am slow about turning in my thanks to you, but my Moving Picture Machine is all right. I have had it a long time and it has not been broken yet. I have seen a $12.00 Machine but would not swap mine for it. Robert Lineberry, care of Revolution Store, Greenboro, N. C.

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BOYS SETTLE DISPUTE; SCHOOL-MA'AM REFEREE

Schoolroom disputes among the boys at the Webster School in Chicago, where children of twenty-two nationalities attend classes, are not settled by arbitrary fiat of a teacher. Instead, the principal of the school, Miss Alice M. Hogge, believes in letting the boys decide their grievances with their fists, it was learned recently, and in the latest quarrel she acted as referee and second to both combatants.

It was a fight to the finish in school basement between Salvatore Sortino and Abe Selon, both aged 12. Time was called several times to enable the combatants to rest and rinse out their mouths, and after fifteen minutes Salvatore had an unquestioned decision.

"Letting the boys fight out their troubles is the best way in a school such as the Webster," said Miss Hogge. "Of course, the fights must be fair.

"I never permit any serious injuries. A black eye or two, such as Abe got, is usually the limit."

J. C. Mortensen, superintendent of schools, declared he was in favor of Miss Hogge's method, saying it is the most successful ever tried in that school.

MONT BLANC LOSES TOP.

The top of Mont Blanc fell off November 26 and started an enormous avalanche, which rolled down into Italy along the gorge of the Brenva Glacier, destroying in its course the whole forest of Pourtud.

The origin of the avalanche was unknown till yesterday, when the weather cleared, and a powerful telescope could be brought to bear on the mountain. Then it was found that part of the limestone pyramid which forms the summit of the greatest mountain mass in Europe had split and fallen.

The avalanche was one of the biggest and most destructive known for some time. The rock and ice tumbling from the summit dislodged immense snow fields, which in turn tore out rock, and the great mass went rumbling down the mountainside for nearly ten miles. It plunged along the glacier bed, leaped the valley of the Doire, throwing pine trees and boulders about like corks in a waterfall, and came to rest almost miraculously at the entrance to the little Italian village of Pourtud. Several houses, which stood almost in its path, were spared by a width of only a few yards, and so far no loss of life has been reported.

GREAT SPORT

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Learn WIRELESS At Home By Mail

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Dep 466 East Boston, Mass.

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Express or Postage Prepaid

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OLD COINS WANTED

$2 to $500 EACH paid for Hundreds of Coins dated before 1895. Keep ALL old Money. You may have Coins worth a Large Premium. Send 10c. for new Illustrated Coin Value Book, size 4×6. Get Posted at Once.

CLARKE COIN CO., Box 35, Le Rey, N. Y.

THROW YOUR VOICE

Down cellar, under the Bed, in the Darky's grip or anywhere.

With our VENTRILOPHONE, (which fits into the mouth and cannot be seen,) you can positively perform the following tricks and many more with a few minutes practice. "Dog at back door." "Chasing the Chicken." "Bird under Coat." "The Invisible Canary."

One boy writes--"I frightened my Mother by putting my cap under my coat and immitating an animal." Any Boy or Girl can use it. With a little practice you can play a tune without moving your lips.

THE VENTRILOPHONE, Booklet on Ventriloquism and full directions, only 10 CTS

3 for 25 cts. By mail postpaid with big Catalog of Novelties and Tricks

Universal Novelty Co. Dept. 406 Stamford Conn.

SHARK FISHING IN LOWER CALIFORNIA

The shark fishing industry is becoming increasingly important in the Ensenada Consular district, writes United States Consul William C. Burdett, stationed in Lower California. The Lower California shark, known locally as the dogfish shark, is from four to five feet long and weighs from 90 to 125 pounds. The fishing is usually done by individual fishermen working out from camps on land. The fish are caught on long set lines, on which are fifty to one hundred hooks baited with small fish or lumps of shark meat.

The fins are sold for consumption by Chinese in shark fin soup. The liver is boiled down and shark oil rendered out. Each liver gives an average of one gallon of oil. The oil is used in paints and as a leather preservative. The skins are not utilized, except for fertilizer. Frequently shark steaks are sold by Chinese in the district under the name of grayfish.

The large canneries operating fish fertilizer plants in San Diego, Cal., are eager to buy shark, and the newly finished plant at Sauzal, Lower California, expects to specialize on converting shark into fish meal fertilizer.

LITTLE ADS

_Write to Riker & King, Advertising Offices, 118 East 28th Street, New York City, or 8 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, for particulars about advertising in this magazine._

AIDS TO EFFICIENCY

WRITE THE WORDS FOR A SONG. We revise poems, write music and guarantee to secure publication. Submit poems on any subject. Broadway Studios, 165C. Fitzgerald Building. New York.

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SHORTHAND--Learn complete system, few evenings (home) then acquire speed, pleasant practice. Brochure free. Save money, time, increase your efficiency, earnings. King Institute. EA-370. Station F, New York.

AGENTS

YOUR NAME on 35 linen cards and case 25 cts. Agents outfit free. Card and leather specialties. John W. Burt. Coshocton, Ohio.

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MEN, get into the wonderful tailoring agency business.

Big profits taking orders and your own clothes free. We furnish fine sample outfit and everything free. No experience needed. Write today. Banner Tailoring Co., Dept. E2071. Chicago.

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WIDE-AWAKE MEN--To take charge of our local trade: $6 to $8 a day steady; no experience required; pay starts at once. Write today. American Products Co. 3151 American Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio.

ART AND DEN PICTURES

GIRL PICTURES--Real "Classy"; 16 (all different) $1.00; two samples, 25 cts. United Sales Co., Springfield. Ill.

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PHOTO'S GIRL MODELS. Daring poses, samples 25 cts. Dozen $1.50. Shimmie Dancer, she's alive, boys, sample 25 cts. Dozen $1.50. Oriental Hula Hula Dancer, sample 25 cts. Dozen $1.50. Book Exposing gambling 25 cts. Illustrated sporting goods catalogue 10 cts. Hamilton's Company. Barnes City, Iowa.

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ZEE BEAUTIFUL GIRL pictures. Twelve wonderful poses $1.00. Refunded if dissatisfied. Bairart Co., Dept. 120. St. Louis. Mo.

EXCHANGE

IF YOU WANT to sell or exchange your property write me. John J. Black. 173rd St., Chippewa Falls, Wis.

FOR SALE

SILK REMNANTS. Largest packages yet offered. Square of stamped satin free with every package. 15 cts. Silk Manufacturers Agency. Portland, Me.

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REAL ARMY EMBLEMS. Collection of various kinds sent postpaid on receipt of 25 cts. Money or stamps. Schaff. 557-15 S. E., Washington, D. C.

HELP WANTED

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MEN WANTED for Detective Work. Experience unnecessary. Write J. Ganor, Former U. S. Govt. Detective, 132, St. Louis, Mo.

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DETECTIVES EARN BIG MONEY. Great demand for men and women. Fascinating work. Particulars free. Write, American Detective System, 1968 Broadway, New York.

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LADIES WANTED, and MEN, too, to address envelopes and mail advertising matter at home for large mail order firms, spare or whole time. Can make $10 to $35 wkly. No capital or experience required. Book explains everything; send 10 cts. to cover postage, etc. Ward Pub. Co., Tilton, N. H.

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BE A DETECTIVE. Opportunity for men and women for secret investigation in your district. Write C. T. Ludwig. 521 Westover Bldg., Kansas City, Mo.

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DETECTIVES earn big money. Travel and good opportunities. We show you how. Write American School of Criminology, Dept. M. Detroit, Mich.

MISCELLANEOUS

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ELECTRICAL Tattooing Machine, $3, $5 and $7. Catalogue for stamp. J. H. Temks, 1019 Vine, K, Cincinnati, O.

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BOOKS--PHOTOS--NOVELTIES--Just what you want. Big illustrated catalog, 10 cents. United Sales Co., Springfield, Ill.

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MOUSTACHE. Best invigorant, is Kotalko, contains genuine bear oil and other potent ingredients. Send 10 cents for proof box of this true hair grower. Kotalko Offices. BA-370, Station X, New York.

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TWENTY movie stars' pictures 10 cents. Chas. Durse, Dept. 39, 25 Mulberry St., N. Y. City.

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WORLD'S SMALLEST BIBLE! Illustrated, 10 cts, (silver) Mannco, 320 W. Gothe St., Chicago.

MOTION PICTURE PLAYS

AMBITIOUS WRITERS of Photoplays, Short Stories, Poems, Songs, send today for Free, valuable, instructive book, "KEY TO SUCCESSFUL WRITING" including 65 helpful suggestions on writing and selling. Atlas Publishing Co., 522 Butler Bldg., Cincinnati, O.

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EARN $50 weekly spare time at home writing photoplays. Experience unnecessary. Particulars free. Playwriters Co., Dept. 1418, St. Louis, Mo.

PERSONAL

MARRIAGE PAPER. Big issue with descriptions, photos, names and addresses, 25 cents. No other fee. Sent sealed. Box 3317A, Boston, Mass.

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MARRY IF LONESOME--Ladies' Membership Free. Gentlemen's Membership two months 25 cents. One year, $1.00. Copy members names, addresses, 10 cents. Sweetheart's Magazine, Barnes City, Iowa.

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MARRY RICH, hundreds anxious, descriptive list free, satisfaction guaranteed. Select Club, Dept. A, Rapid City. So. Dak.

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SIXTH AND SEVENTH BOOKS OF MOSES. Egyptian secrets. Black art, other rare books. Catalog free. Star Book Co., R-122. Camden, N. J.

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GET MARRIED--Best Matrimonial paper published. Mailed FREE. American Distributor, Suite 217, Blairsville, Penna.

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MARRY--FREE PHOTOS beautiful ladies; descriptions and directory; pay when married. New Plan Co., Dept. 245, Kansas City, Mo.

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MARRY--MARRIAGE DIRECTORY with photos and descriptions free. Pay when married. The Exchange, Dept. 545, Kansas City, Mo.

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303 NAMES, Addresses descriptions, also pictures, lonesome marriageable people, 25 cts. Box 3317B, Boston, Mass.

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INTERESTED IN MATRIMONY? Write Chicago Friendship Club, Box 749, Chicago, Ill. Enclose stamped envelope.

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YOUNG WIDOW with $60,000 wishes to marry some kind gentleman. Box 55, Oxford, Fla.

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BERTHA, will return with old time love if you become slender again. Get Korein tabules, any druggist. Joe.

SCIENTIFIC

CRYSTAL GAZING--How to develop efficiency. Send stamp for free instructions. Birthday readings. Strong and weak points. Health, Business, Marriage and other valuable hints. Twenty-five cents. "Zancig," Asbury Park, N. J.

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YOUR LIFE STORY in the stars. Send birth date and dime for trial reading. Sherman. Rapid City, S. Dak.

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ASTROLOGY--STARS TELL LIFE'S STORY. Send birthdate and dime for trial reading. Eddy, 4307 Jefferson, Kansas City, Mo. Apartment 73.

SONGWRITERS

HAVE YOU SONG POEMS? I have best proposition. RAY HIBBELER, D104, 4040 Dickens Ave., Chicago.

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WRITE THE WORDS FOR A SONG! We will write the music and guarantee publication on a royalty basis. Submit poems on any subject. Seton Music Company, 920 S. Michigan Ave., Room 122, Chicago.

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WRITE A SONG POEM--I compose music and guarantee publication. Send poem today. E. Hanson, 3810 Broadway, Room 107, Chicago.

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WRITE THE WORDS FOR A SONG. We revise poems, write music and guarantee to secure publication. Submit poems on any subject. Broadway Studios, 165C, Fitzgerald Building, New York.

STAMMERING

ST-STU-T-T-TERING and stammering cured at home. Instructive booklet free. Walter McDonnell, 15 Potomac Bank Bldg., Washington, D. C.

THEATRICAL

GET ON THE STAGE. I tell you how! Send 6 cts. postage for Illustrated Stage Book and full particulars. H. LaDelle, Box 557, Los Angeles, Cal.

TOBACCO HABIT

TOBACCO or Snuff Habit cured or no pay. $1 if cured. Remedy sent on trial. Superbs Co., PC, Baltimore, Md.

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TOBACCO KILLS MANLY VIGOR. Quit habit easily. Any form, chewing, smoking or snuff, cured or no charge. If cured, $1. Stops craving, harmless. Full remedy on trial. Perkins Co., B-51 Hastings, Nebr.

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TOBACCO HABIT

Crushes Helpless Victims

Not only is tobacco filthy and disgusting to your loved ones, but it contains a Deadly Poison which weakens heart, stomach, lowers vitality and invites disease that may shorten your life. STOP! Regain vigor; but don't shock your system by trying to quit unaided.

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_Write today for full remedy on trial_

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_PILES_ DON'T BE CUT

Until You Try This Wonderful Treatment.

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If you have piles in any form write for a FREE sample of _Page's Pile Tablets_ and you will bless the day that you read this. Write today.

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Goitre

Cured at home; worst cases. No pain. No cost if it fails. Successfully used for 18 years. Write for Free Book and testimonials. GOITRENE COMPANY, 438 West 63rd Street, Chicago.

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SORENESS HEALED

Sore or open legs, ulcers, enlarged veins, eczema healed while you work. Write for free book and describe your own case. A. C. Liepe, 1457 Green Bay Av., Milwaukee, Wis.

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BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!

THROW YOUR VOICE

Into a trunk, under the bed or anywhere. Lots of Fun fooling the Teacher, Policeman or Friends.

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RHEUMATISM LEFT HIM AS IF BY MAGIC!

Had Suffered Over 50 Years!

Now 83 Years, Yet a Big Surprise To Friends

Regains Strength Goes Out Fishing Back to Business Laughs at "URIC ACID"

How the "Inner Mysteries" Reveals Startling Facts Overlooked By Doctors and Scientists For Centuries

"I am eighty-three years old and I doctored for rheumatism ever since I came out of the army over fifty years ago" writes J. B. Ashelman. "Like many others, I spent money freely for so-called 'cures', and I have read about 'Uric Acid' until I could almost taste it. I could not sleep nights or walk without pain; my hands were so sore and stiff I could not hold a pen. But now, as if by magic, I am again in active business and can walk with ease or write all day with comfort. Friends are surprised at the change."

HOW IT HAPPENED.

Mr. Ashelman is only one of thousands who suffered for years, owing to the general belief in the old, false theory that "Uric Acid" causes rheumatism. This erroneous belief induced him and legions of unfortunate men and women to take wrong treatments. You might just as well attempt to put out a fire with oil as to try and get rid of your rheumatism, neuritis and like complaints, by taking treatments supposed to drive Uric Acid out of your blood and body. Many physicians and scientists now know that Uric Acid never did, never can and never will cause rheumatism; that it is a natural and necessary constituent of the blood; that it is found in every new-born babe; and that without it we could not live!

These statements may seem strange to some folks, who have all along been led to believe in the old "Uric Acid" humbug. It took Mr. Ashelman fifty years to find out this truth. He learned how to get rid of the true cause of his rheumatism, other disorders, and recover his strength from "The Inner Mysteries," a remarkable book now being distributed free by an authority who devoted over twenty years to the scientific study of this particular trouble.

NOTE: If any reader of this magazine wishes the book that reveals these facts regarding the true cause and cure of rheumatism, facts that were overlooked by doctors and scientists for centuries past, simply send a post card or letter to H. P. Clearwater, No. 534 G Street. Hallowell, Maine, and it will be sent by return mail without any charge whatever. Cut out this notice lest you forget! If not a sufferer yourself hand this good news to some afflicted friend.

SIGNS OF GOLD VEIN FRENCH VILLAGE

The peaceful village life in Coudray-Montceaux, in the Seine et Oise, only half an hour's ride by train from Paris, has been greatly excited by the discovery of metal bearing sand, the color of which indicates a gold vein, less than twenty-five feet below the surface of the ground. Samples of the sand have been sent to State chemists, who refuse to make any comment until the analyses are completed. The discovery was made on the farm of a retired Government clerk while drilling for water.

Speculation in adjoining properties, however, has already begun, owners of the land refusing offers four times the former value of their property, although as yet they have nothing definite to justify the belief that a new Klondike has been discovered. In fact, a reporter succeeded in getting a handful of the sand, which he brought back to Paris. He was assured by a chemist after a moment's examination of it that it was nothing more than ferruginous flakes (fool's gold), similar to the iron pyrites which early explorers in America brought to Europe by shipload.--New York Herald.

GET ON THE STAGE

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4 RINGS FREE

4 solid Gold filled Rings, guaranteed 8 years, your Birthstone, your Initial Signet, handsome Engagement and Real Wedding Ring, all 4 Rings FREE for selling 12 pckgs. Bluine at 15c. a pckg. Write for them, Bluine Mfg. Co., 580 Mill St., Concord Junct., Mass

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FREE

BOYS AIR RIFLE

This fine Rifle free for selling only 25 pieces of our Jewelry at 10c each. Jewelry and Rifle sent prepaid.

EAGLE WATCH CO., Dept. 365 EAST BOSTON, MASS.

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Stop Using a Truss

Yes, stop it, you know by your own experience it is only a make-shift, a false prop against a collapsing wall, and that it is undermining your health. Why, then, continue to wear it? Here is a better way, which means that tiresome, torturous trusses can be thrown away forever, and it's all because Stuart's PLAPAO-PADS are different, being medicine applicators made self-adhesive purposely to prevent slipping and to afford an arrangement to hold the parts securely in place.

NO STRAPS, BUCKLES OR SPRINGS ATTACHED, cannot slip, so cannot chafe or press against the pubic bone.

=Thousands have treated themselves= in the privacy of the home, and report most obstinate cases cured--no delay from work. =Soft as velvet--easy to apply--inexpensive.= Process of recovery is natural, so afterwards no use for trusses. Awarded Gold Medal International Exposition, Rome; Grand Prix, Paris. Write us today to prove it by sending TRIAL PLAPAO, FREE. Address,

Plapao Co. 2185 Stuart Bldg. St. Louis, Mo.

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FAT PEOPLE GET THIN

Why be overstout when you might easily reduce 10 to 60 pounds, (whatever you need to) by the wonderfully efficacious, safe, reliable Korein system? _You look and feel younger._ Get a small box of KOREIN tabules (pronounced _koreen_) at the druggist's. Follow directions under money-refund guarantee. Brochure will be mailed you FREE by KOREIN CO., NF-375, Station X. New York, N. Y.

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Ouija Board

FREE

good size, 13 × 9 in. with 3-legged pointer, for selling 12 pckgs. Bluine at 15c. a pckg.

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Fame and Fortune Weekly

----LATEST ISSUES----

759 A Pair of Jacks; or, The Smartest Messengers in Wall St.

760 Brave Billy Bland; or, Hustling Up a Business.

761 Taking a Big Risk; or, The Dime That Led to Riches.

762 Clear Grit; or, The Office Boy Who Made Good.

763 Dealing in Stocks; or, Saved by a Wall St. Ticker.

764 The Sailor's Secret; or, The Treasure of Dead Man's Rock.

765 Capturing the Coin; or, The Deals of a Boy Broker.

766 On His Own Hook; or, Making a Losing Business Pay.

767 Lucky Jim; or, $100,000 From Stocks.

768 "Millions In It"; or, A Boy With Ideas.

769 The Mystery of a Mining Chart; and, The Wall St. Boy Who Solved It.

770 Grasping His Chance; or, The Boy Merchant of Melrose.

771 Winning by Pluck; or, The Deals that Made the Dollars.

772 The Crimson Mask; or, The Treasure of San Pedro.

773 Frank Fisk, the Boy Broker; or, Working the Wall St. Stock Market.

774 Playing a Lone Hand; or, The Boy Who Got the Gold.

775 Will Fox of Wall St.; or, The Success of a Boy Broker.

776 A Lad of Iron Nerve; or, Little Joe's Big Bonanza.

777 Too Lucky to Lose; or, A Boy With a Winning Streak.

778 The Stolen Chart; or, The Treasure of the Cataract.

779 A Game Young Speculator; or, Taking a Chance on the Market.

780 Charlie Crawford's Claim; or, From High School to Mining Camp.

781 An Office Boy's Luck; or, The Lad Who Lost the Tips.

782 Out for His Rights; or, Starting a Business on His Nerve.

783 After the Last Dollar; or, The Wall St. Boy Who Saved His Boss.

784 Fresh From the West; or, The Lad Who Made Good in New York.

785 Boss of Wall St.; or, Taking Chances on the Curb.

786 Dick, the Runaway; or, The Treasure of the Isle of Fog.

787 In the Game to Win; or, Beating the Wall St. "Bulls."

788 A Born Salesman; or, A Young Money-Maker on the Road.

789 Dick Dalton, the Young Banker; or, Cornering the Wall St. Sharks.

790 A $50,000 Deal; or, Hal Hardy, the Wall St. Wizard.

791 Billy the Blacksmith; or, From Anvil to Fortune.

792 Sharp and Smart, the Young Brokers; and, How They Made a Million.

793 Driven From School; or, The Pirate's Buried Gold.

794 A Bright Boy Broker; or, Shearing the Wall Street "Lambs."

795 Telegraph Tom; or, The Message That Made Him Famous.

796 Dick and the Mad Broker; or, The Secret Band of Wall Street.

797 A Sharp Boy; or, Making His Mark in Business.

798 Tom Swift of Wall Street; or, The Boy Who Was on the Job.

790 Andy the Auctioneer; or, Bidding in a Fortune.

800 Doubling Their Dollars; or, Schoolmates In Wall Street.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Added table of contents.

The title story of this issue originally appeared in _Fame and Fortune_ #341. The later reprint represented in this e-text contains some condensations (for example, the first two chapters of the original version are combined into a single chapter here), several chapter title variations, and the removal of many paragraph breaks.

Retained some inconsistent hyphenation (e.g. suit-case vs. suitcases, to-day vs. today).

Retained some inconsistent spelling (e.g. Pittsburg vs. Pittsburgh).

Bold is represented by =equal signs=, italics by _underscores_.

Page 5, renumbered "The Missing Diamond" from Chapter V to Chapter IV.

Page 6, changed "Piont" to "Point" in Chapter V title.

Page 7, changed "attack it to" to "attach it to."

Page 8, changed "containing silverwire" to "containing silverware" and "porprietor" to "proprietor."

Page 9, changed "wasd not very" to "was not very." Replaced misprinted text "inventory of the loss showed that it was not very" (a duplication of text lower on the page) with "their statement, for he knew exactly what was in" (the correct text recovered from the earlier appearance in _Fame and Fortune_ #341).

Page 10, added missing quote after "him to wear."

Page 13, the last line of the column ("him, so Dick laid himself out to please her. He") was accidentally duplicated between "Monday morning" and "eleven o'clock." This duplicate text has been removed.

Page 16, changed "Fnish" to "Finish" in Chapter XI title.

Page 19, added missing "you" to "I'd like you to know."

Page 20, added missing quote after "BIG DEAL."

Page 21, changed "becomoing" to "becoming" in "becoming cinema stars."

Page 22, changed "consel" to "counsel," "plantiff" to "plaintiff" and "objecions" to "objections."

Page 23, changed "rank any overpowering" to "rank and overpowering" and "Foresrty" to "Forestry."

Page 24, the line "ing her, although Walden had uttered no threats" is missing from this printing between "vague alarm concern-" and "against her." The text has been filled in from a later reprint of the story, in _Fame and Fortune_ #828.

Changed "thatt villain, Walden" to "that villain, Walden."

Unnumbered pages, added missing quote after "usually the limit." Added semi-colon after "Courtship." Changed "In fact, a reporer" to "In fact, a reporter." The address "438 West 63rd Street" is a best guess based on very blurry printing.