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It there are no loose tiles drawn during the hand, the game will end with those fourteen tiles "dead." » 61.--The Chinese do not worry at 'all about the dead wall during the playing of the hand. It is only to- ward the end of the hand that they separate it from the tiles still to be drawn. 62.--This is done in a very simple manner. Stgrting with the original seven pairs of tiles as a. basis--they look around the table, and add one pair of tiles for each "KONG" which has been exposed. The dead wall may start with a lower tile, but that odd one does not tount. It works out this way: . The original dead wall, 7 pairs. If one "KONG" has been declared, 8 pairs. It two "KONGS" have been de- clared, 9 pairs. If three "KONGS" have been de- clared, 10 pairs. a It four "KONGS' have beén de- clared, 11 pairs. 63.--The pairs must be complete, independent of any odd tile. You will find that this method--the Chinese way, at one sweep does away with the nuisance of the foreigner's ND) method of constantly maiking the end of the "dead wall" throughout the playing of. the hand. 64.--""KONG." You will remem- ber that you complete your hapa with four sets of three, and a pair. However, suppose you hold three of a kind, say three "five" circles in your hand, and draw the fourth "five" circle from the wall, This gives your four of a kind, called "Kong." In this case it is a "HiD- DEN KONG"--that is, you drew all four tiles'from the wall yourself. If your wish to have it count as a Kong you declare it by laying it open on the table, on your right. In order te show that it is a "HIDDEN KONG" --Yyou turn the two end tiles face down, and the two centre tilus face up. 60A--NOTE: You cannot claim a tile from a closed "KONG" for "MAR JONGG'--except in one solitary case. You will find that im par. 15) (c) when you come to it. : 65.--It may be that for the sake of going "game" more quickly, you do not use the four of a kind as a Kong. You might compete two tequences and have a pair left, usetil to 80 game, : 66.--Four 0? a kind does not coun* as a Kong unless you declare it. It you do not declare it, the most it can score is a closed "PUNG." 67.--You may hold a closed "KONG "1n your hand as long as yeu wish ,and declare it any time when it is. your turn to play. You draw first, however. 68.--If you have three of a kind in your hand concealed, and the fourch tile is discarded by another player, Fou -can- ~clhatmr-it,;~ und deciars "KONG." This is known as an "Open Kong." You take a loose tile and then discard. y 68.--Now you myst learn a rule which so many forget, even good players, If you declare a "KONG" and thea discard in the ordinary way, you will ficd that you have only nine tiles in our band. It is quite evident that you can match these into three - Sets of threes (either "PUNGS" or "CHOWS"") but you will mot have the odd tile to match up for the nes- essary pair to go game. Therefore, when you declare a "KONG," Jou at once take an extra tile known as a "loosé tile," from the ~eni of the wall. You then d . If you forget to take your loose tile you will be one tile short, and you cannot go game,' 70.--1It you have already a "PUNG" exposed on the table, say three "'five circles," and you draw the fourth "five circle" from the wall, you may Place the tile with the "PUNG," and declare it a "KONG" whenever it is terwards takin 72.--1f, "however, you hava a "PUNG" exposed on the !abls, anu the fourth tile is discarded you can- not claim it for a "KONG"---you can only claim it for a "CHOW™ which may even give vou "MAH that call, and go game. 73.--Draw (Wash Out): In the event of a "draw," that is, tha play- er who draws the last tile cannot call "MAH. JONGG""--the hand is a blank--nobody scores any ing. 74.--The player who draws last tile does not discard. 76..~Rounds of the Games: The 'same consists of four hands around the table--the first fou: hands are the East Round, the second four hands are the South Roun, vhen the West Round, and last of all, the North Round. The gima will be completed in sixteen hands unless the Banker wins a hand, case he retains the bank for another hand. 76.--The winds have direct bear- ing on the scoring, as you will ses later. Y8u must imagine in the first round, that it is the East Wind that is blowing. In the second round, (the South round) tha - wind . has the shifted and is blowing from th South, then it shifts again. and blefvs from the West, and last of all. from the North, ®) ®) ® 77~Wind Indicators: Tast Wind, has charge of-the "Wind Box" which I' he should keep with ti dice--on his left. The use of the Wind Boy, in ordinary games--is to show the start. ing point of the rounds, and by means of the {indicators to show which round is in progress. 'When the Bank passes to the next player, East Wind gives up the dice, and the East Wind Indicator. Eas: w re- tain the South, West and NorM™ in- dicators, to show the starting poiut of the rounds. 78.--When 'the East Wind in: dicator reaches North ,and the Bank Passes on again to East--North re- tains the East Wind Indicator and turns it face down on the table. This shows that the East Round is finish- ed--that is, that each player in turn has been East Wind in the o Bast Round. The player to whom the Bank passes becomes East Wind for that hand, and the Wie of the oth. er three players change accordingly. The original East Wind thea starts the South Round. 70--Passing the Bank: The Bank- er always passes to the player on the right of the previous Banker--re- gardless of who goes "MAH JONGG." The Bank does not go to the winner of the hand (unless he happens to be the player on the Banker's right.) 80.--In the event of a draw, the Bank passes to the player of the Banker's right, unless the Banker happens to be the player who draws the last tilew-in which case he holds the Bank for another hand-- TS 71 to 84--Reserved. (These will be used for any furth- er explanations which' may be found. nécessary In later issues.) SETTLING UP THE SCORE. 85.--When a layer declares "mah Jongg" the hand is finished and the players who have any count, expose their hands. If a player has no count at all, it is well to at once throw the hand in the discard. a 86.--A player who has a closed "three of a kind" places one of the CounTteERSs' tiles on top of the other two, this Cuivese Matang Tv shows that the "three of a kind" was closed. . 87.--If you go "mah Jongg' on a tile which scores points, you show that it counts, either by standing the tile up in'your hand, or by plac- ing it on top of the other tile, or tiles, with which i: is in combina- 'tion. ¢ 4 88.--In' making up your score-- you add every point there is in your hand before you add the bonus points for "mah jongg." It is the total of all thee points which you double, for any farns you may have in your Tho Sxymoles on JONGG"--in which case you make young 'man, in which | Without obli kindly anything to any other player, . 91.--The other three player then settle between themselves the dit. ference 'between the value of their hands, by subtracting the smaller score from the larger and paying the difference. - ~ 92.--Far instance, suppose South has called "mah jongg"'--East pays double the value of South's hand---- North and West each pay the value once. Now to continue: Suppose East has a hand scoring 32 West has a hand scoring 20 North has a hand scoring 48 In this instance East would re- ceive from West 24 points that is, the difference between the two scor- es Is twelve ,and East having the larger spore receives double the dif- ference. When East settles with -North Wind however, the difference is sixteen points in favor of North, therefore, East has to pay North thirty-two points. The settlement be- tween. North and West would be very simple--West would pay North 28 points, ' 93.--When the debts are all paid --all the tiles are shuffled and new walls are built dp for the next hand. CHIPS, 94.--There are some differences in the marking on the chips in the var- fous makes of "mah jongg" sets which are coming from China to- day. The Tllustration will show these various markings and the values of each. In a few instances the sets in- dot,--this has the value of one thousand (1,000) points. (To be Continued next Wednesday) SPRING IMPURITIES. DUE T0 POOR BLOOD A Tonic Medicine a Necessity at This Season Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are an all- year-round tonic for the blood /and nerves. But they are especially valu- able in the spring when the system is loaded with impurities as a result of the indoor life of the winter months. There is no_other season when the blood is s0 much in need of purifying and enriching, and every dose of these pills helps to enrich the, blood. In the spring ouu feels weak and tired-- Dr Williams' Pink Pills give strength. In the spring the appetite is often poor--Dr. Williams' Pink Pills de- velop the appetite, tone the stomach and ald weak digestion. It is in the spring that polsons in the blood find an outlet in disfiguring pimples, eruptions and bolls--Dr, Williams' Pink Pills clear the skin because they £0 to the root of the trouble in the blood. In the spring anaemia, rheu- matism, , indigestion, neuralgia and many other troubles are most persist- ent because of poor, weak blood and it is at this time when al nature takes on new life that the blood most seriously needs attention. Some peo- ple dose themselves with purgatives, but these only further weaken them- selves. A purgative merely gallops through the system, emptlying the age, and' would like to accumulate $. clude chips marked. with. one gold |. Only 4 Men out of every 100 are Independent at age 65. The Double Maturity. 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MANUFACTURERS LIFE Orriox. - Tororo, CANADA. oklet "Some Day You'May be Old" | ammy---yoars of en da tnd, A Aa LEADS ALL 5 he United States. has the ig! percentage of illi among enlightened nations oe 4 ae this i state- ment in a report issued by the National Education Association after research of il- literacy conditions throughout the civi- lized orld. ae percentage 0! - in the Unit- ed States is given as 6.0; other mations it is France 4.9; England and Wales 1.8; Scot- land 1.6; Sweden and Norway 10; Netherlands 9; Denmark 2 The pumber of absolute illiterates is officially given as 5,000,000, but it has been ' estimated that there are from 5,000,000 to 15,000,000 ad- as citizens in the democracy. No less than 24.9 per cent of our men are so limited in their command of the English lan- guage that they are unable to read newspapers or write letters. PN r SCARCITY OF MEN FELT IN ENGLAND ) -- It is not encouraging to English Women who would be wives to learn that to-day the "surplus" females in Great Britaln are numerous enough to re-people the entire counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. ; This preponderance is greatest in England, where there are 110 fe. males to every 100 males. Scotland ranks next with 108 to 100; and Wales is third with only 101 to 100. In Wales in fact, there are still al- most as many men as women, so that the Welsh girl can crow over her English and Scottish sisters if she has an eye to the altar. In England there are today 1,- 700,000 "surplus" womén----half » million more than 10 years ago, or a number as large as the populd~ tion. of Sheffield. Scottish women outnumber the men by 157,000; while in Wales the women's ma Jority is little over 10,000. It is interesting to mote that there arp still several cqunties and towns in which men predominate. Thus in Rotherham there are nearly 1,600 more males thap females; in St. Helens, 2,600 and in Barrow-in- Furness 1.672. And, among other towns Grimsby and Newport, have a-female minority, which is shared by the counties of Durban, Breck- Dock, Monmouth and Glamorgan. On the other hand, Bath has 10. 000 more women than men. Birm. inghem 'nearly 50,000 and Man. chester 40,000, while in Sussex thy Women outnumber the men by ne fewer than 1,273 to 1,000, and in Surrey by 1,187 to 1,000. It is thus clear that potenial Ni nd U. S., RICHEST OF NATIONS, IN ILLITERACY By S. W. Straus, Presiden t American Society for Thrift The late Franklin K. Lane) while Secretary of the Interior, estimated that our country is los ing $825,000,000 a year illiteracy. He stated that 10 cent of our country folk cannot , read or write, thus cuttin g themy off from the bene papers, etc. According t educational! author ities illiteracy at its present rate of d crease will tinue to be a nad tional problem inf the United States for the next 100( years. | Such widespread] illiteracy in a nation which ~ counts wealth at a figure in ex - cess of $300,000,000,000 is manifestation of public thrift lessness. TL loss cannot, be "Oy any material standard, and, to its moral and mental i a words: " i , th saint, ok, poo? Scuopliet wise, the good, eat man, 'often ™ Lies concealed ina picbiaa whors oper education mi, ve di Ptreed and ws oh life" | | Old Folks Need ~~ Mild Bowel Topic And Should Avoid the Use of Harsh Pills and Drag« tic Purgatives. Old people, no matter how sound and healthy, should avoid cathartic pills, purgative water, salts and all such temporary re. lief. measures. They ~~ o SS a £ . :