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Gems of Peril By HAZEL KOSS HAllEY. .SVNOl'KIS. Ttieh old Mil. Jii|)il«r Is rubbed ind murdered duilni; un enKUgciiiei.t tuilv â- hp IH tfUliiK l<'i h»r HFi'irlHry, Xliiiy llarkneHN. MHi'v'tf Mt-HiifCiHic Wrotlicr. Kddlt, In fiupiioiird \u ha\e bfeii in 111'.- houne at Mir iniiKlfr hour. Iiirk Iliiv- lh«r, a >rmnK lawyrr. Mary'« Nhih'*, «iI- vliirn her (» ktep xileiii about Kddle until bo can IcxHif the boy. who Iiiih <ll«nii- p«ar«d. Alury prevents h iiialil. llf'Htile. from teUloK Honrn. pnlUe ifiiorter for th* Star, about Kddle'n HUpiioHed vifill. ni'k Irlfphi ncn that he liiiH found IaUIIc • nd will takv htr to sec liliii that uflir- noon. (HAPTER VIII. Mary masU'itd a wild tle.iirf to ihout at hiT future motln'r-in-lau. Could nothini; crBtk tli:it mr'trnificent self-asf ur::nct? But perhaps Mr?,. Ruyther hadn't known how important the niatt«i wiis. Wht'ii ;ho finally got throuKh lo Dirk, Maty could hear him growliiijr Rieepily: "What time is it? Thit'P- t»,fnty? Oh, dainn it, why wasn't 1 railed? Maty? Listen, (let n cul> tnd |c<) to the corner of Third Avenue and Streot. The northwes-t Cviner. Eddie will niret you there at four. You've half an hour, h-jt yon may ni.ike it if you hurry. Got it? All riifht, run. I'll come as fast ti.^ 1 rat ." She turned from the instrument, her thoughts twirlini^ Gloves, baftâ€" she mutit have mom-y for the cab. Had ;,he enough? Better call Toin. Hu! Tom had been i p all night and had just turned in for a little ; leep. The other chauffeur alternated in '.he i)l<.' of Kardenei's h-.-lper and was out ,n the lawn somewhere in dunjfiirces. Better get a taxi. Bowen was wait- ing for an answer to hi.s request thai he be allowed to go with her to trifeL her brother, hut Mary motioned hitn yway absently. "I can't talk t'> you now," s/.e saiil hurriedly, and went-out. The new.v- paperm.-in hesitated but there was no- thing to do hut leave so he followed. Under the portico stood a ramshackle car whi<h Mary, in desperation, was lyeing speculatively. Empty taxi- cabs don't ply the Long Island hy- roads. She'd have to call up the vil- lage, and preciou.s seconds were tick- ing away â€" Bowen, <ibserving her dilemma, ad- vanced toward the car, opened 'he d(X)r and paused with a foot on 'he jrunning'board. "I'll take you wherever you're iro- ing," he offered. "No foolinR, I won't follow you- I'll take you there and run. â-  I've got an edition to catch, anyway." There was no choice. She must hurry or run the chance of missing- Eddie. She got in swiftly and they went roaring (.ff toward town at a gratifyingly lapid pace. Bowen was mercifully silent, devoting himself to fcttting the last ounce of speed out of his decrepit car, and once they were in town, to worming it swiftly liiioiigh the heavy late-afternoon traffic. A block before they had reached the corner Dirk de.signated, she a.sked him to put her down. To make up for her obvious lack of trust she thanked him warmly. "If I do have anything to give 'he newspapers I'll tell you first," sh.e promised and gave him her hand. Bowen, fishing for a eigiiret and watching the slim figure hurry off, was the victim of mixed emotions. Well, he said he wouldn't follow, but he could have kicked himself for mak- ing the promise. He was getting to be a softie, letting a pair of heavily- fringed eyes and an artles.s look iwerve him from the line of duty. Bowen had seen girls who wore that look of dewy innocence before, in his travels about New York. Later he had discovered to his sorrtfw that they were "harder cookies" than himseif, which was saying a goo<l deal. At least they profited a great deal more from their endeavors than he did from his. From long cbserv.-.tion of the New York .scene, he had, learned that the gocHJ, the true and the beautiful are not always what they se«-m. Yet he was dead sure that Mary Harknes.s was real. How he knew it, he could not say. It was a crime to let her get awa,v. Well- â€" if he didn't find a telephone pretty quick he wouldn't tnake the final with the story he did have. He chugged along to the corner looking for a drug store. He had to stand and wait outside the telephone lKK>th. His impatience mounted rapidly as a glance into the dark interior showed him that the yt.ung man within was not talking- just holding the receiver to his ear and now and then jiggling the hook. It was maddening. Bowcn's vicious glances presently had their effect or the young man tired of waiting, for soon, choosing a time when the fuming Bowen was glaring into the depths of a eigai counter, he (.pened the door of the booth and slipped, out. Bowen caught only a frightened glance as the boy hurried out. k fat voman who had just come in oozed into the booth and the reporter gave her a dirty look a^"! set out to find another drug store. Outside he looked about. The boy who had been in the booth st(K)d in the shelter of the dooi- ^.ay, now and then peering furtively out. Just then Bowen's eye fell on Mary Harkness st.nnding on the oppo- site coriiei-, looking anxiojsly about. Bowen stared appreciatively. What a prize subject she would he for the photographers if it turned out that she was what he feared she wa.s â€" a smart little gold-digger too smart lo look the part. There would be pictures of her standing, silting, with legs c ossed, and â€" looking through the bars, probably. Hard luck! Why did the mere thought of Mary Hariiness tossed in with the rest of the rabbi? in police court make him feel sick? Mttle girls with itching palms and "stick-up" friends put themselves in the way of such treatment when they .set out to get-rich-quick. But the re- flection was no comfort to him. Bowen threw his cignret into the gutter in disgust. It was hell, but he was falling in love. Suddenly the girl's face lignted up and she ran forward at sight of some- one. For a glad instant Bowen be- lieved it was hiiTiself. Then the chap from the telephone booth brush:* 1 against him as he hurried to cross the street. Bowen caught a glimpse of « tanned boyish jaw, unshaven, and hunted gray eyes, as he looked hur- riedly right and left before pUinginp into the traffic. The blue suit was wrinkled and mussed, and he wore no het. Mary had rushed to thCcurb and was holding out her hands. The boy had reached the middle of the street now and stood between two rushing streams of cars. A break in the traf- fic â€" one more leap â€" and he would have reached the other side. The zeal of the news-hunter awoke in Bowen and drowned out every other voice. Ho too hurried across. He had gained the middle of the street, tw), and was just a few steps behind Harkness when a long streak .swerved out of it.s place in line and shot down the middle lane as if head- ir\g straight for the boy. A shout of warning burst from Bowen. He lunged and tried to grasp the boy, but Harkness had heard and jumped back. The car shot past al- most in the same instant, swerving Pure/ No substitute can be good enouqh rhriadie's Arrowroots Your Mother's Mother gave her childrcrx "Christie's" Arrowroots, Canada'scrigtnai Arrowroot Biscuits, baked in Canada by Christie's since 185). There is nothing better for your children. deliberately toward Harkness, who Hlunibled and fell backward, striking the pavement at Bowen's feet. The boy tried to regain his feet and was rocking drunkenly on his h;ind» and feet. Bowen looke.l down and saw him slum') to the ground and go limp. I Tiiere wai .in instant hiie-Bii<!-cry. ' A policeman came running â€" thoiv] was no traffic officer on the corner â€" and someone commandeered a pair- ing cab an-l took after th' vani.shed car. "Hit-and-run driver!" The city streets know no more savage rallying cry. But Bowen, who had seen what he had .M'en, knew better. To hinâ„¢ the meaning of the seeming ac'.-'de.it w danin.'iblv c'ear. Not cardes?, but de.ilishly careful, driving had dealt that death stroke. Someone didn't want lOddie Harkness to gel away. Traffic jammed around them. Ma'-y Harkne-i-yS, lifting the still body in her arms, lifte<l stricken eyes that lookeJ about for help. "Ambulance be here in a minute, lady," someone told her. Bowen was aware that he had been bleating: "He's all righi, he's all right," into her ear, in an effort to reessur" her. But as he watched the face of the po- liceman who had his ear against Ed- die's chest, he knew that it was not :ili right with the boy, and never would be, in ibis world, again. Mary was aware that an arm went about her and lifted her up. She did not lo<>k around. Eddie was all she could think of, lying so still there, looking oddly white through his tan. She had not kep^ him with her as .she should have done and he had come to this. He was dead, and it was her fault. She should never have let him go it alone in spite of his protesta- tions. .Self-accusation redoubled in her, reduced her to the pit of despair. Looking around dazedly, as she found n seat in the ambula ce, she saw that the man with her was Bowen, the re- porter. What did it matter? Every- thing would come out now. Nothing mattered â€" Buddie was dead. As the ambulance clanged through nagically clearing streets, the siren stunding its hideous wail, Mary won- dered if they had caught the car yet, and what woulu be done with the driver.. She slipped her hands out of Bowen's grasp as the boy on the stretcher moved restlessly and mum- bled. Dropping to her knees, she put her ear close to his lips. "No use, lady," the attendant warn- ed her. "He's out. Whatever he says won't make any sense." "He mustn't die without telling iv.e â€" " she insisted. Again the lips moved, the boy's body arched on the stretcher. "Make him give me my coat!" His voice died away weakly. Mary looked at Bowen, but there was only pity in his eyes. "He doesn't .know what he's say- ing,'' he told her gently. The boy's lips continued their tnuinble and the interne, with a half- grin at Bowen, flapped his hand back ard forth as if brushing a fly. "All right, .son," he told the boy indulgently. "There's no fly here. Funny how it takes them sometimes." "Where's he got it?" Bowen asked softly. "Head," said the other. The boy moved restlessly, and again he wavftd his hand. "He thinks there's a fly bothering around." "Queer. Nerve reaction, probably," Bowen answered thoughtfully. "Queer he should think of a fly." (To be continued.) Boy Scouts of Montreal Will Watch Eclipse Montreal.â€" Tho Boy Scouts of this •ity have been given perhaps one of the most unusual "jobs" ever given to a troup of that organization. During the total eclipse of the sun on Aug. 31, Boy Scouts will be stationed alonj the edges of the predicted path of the eclipse to establi.sh definitely the nc- t;-al limits of the darkness area. Tiie boys will attenc* a lecture at McGiU University before the eclipse to learn about their duties. The darkened area will stretch from the Arcti : by way ol Hudson Bay and James Bay, across the- St. Lawrence River east of Mo;i- treal, over the northeastern part of Vermont, all of northen and central New Hainpshii-e and the southwest corner of Maine, darken Cape Ann and the eastern p.-.rt of Cape Cod and then pass out to sea. The duration of the total phase of the eclipse along the central line of the path will be alwut 100 scconis. The eclipse will occur about 3.S0 o'clock in the afternoon, eastern standard time, when the sun is more than halfway lU-wn the sky. « Hue to competition by buses and a falling off of freight busine.ss in 1031, the report of he privately owned railroads in Sweden, recently made public in Stockholm, shows a net lo.is of 5,1()0,0()0 kronor (about .>l,0OO,OO0) last year, compnre<l with a net profit <if 1,101,000 kronor in 10.10. -♦- The people of Great Britain are living much longer. In one big frlonilly society there are 21,61G members over seventy years of aRo: 3,772 over eighty, and 100 over ninety, There la ono man who know.", more about beer than any other in England; ho hag been R beer-taster for thirty years. Outsldo business hours he |s a tv'>etotaUcr. More Speed By Sir Malcoli.1 Campbell in i^opular | Mechanics. World's record speeds are decided by (ructionH of a second. Tuning a car for a wori-; mark is therefore a battle against t.me. To win, you must have a combination of •• perfect car, the right course and favorable weath- er And I am noing to adil another re- quisite â€" luck, which always plays a large part In tich underti.kingH. By luck I meau what Ainerlcuns call liav- )dk the "breaks." Daytona Be.ich, FUi., is the only place I know where It is pos.-^ible to make world's land-speed records. The sand packs a'niost as hard as cem t, and there Is si Slcient length to get up speed. The measured mile Is set as near the centre of the 12mile cotirso as potiible. Tn^re is a wire stretched at each end of th« measured mile â€" or any ither distance that may he wishedâ€" and th: impact of the car's front wheels on the wire Is tran.s- mitted to the electrical timing ma- chine. One trip is made in each direc- tion, and the average for the two is the official speed made. This is done so that no advantage may oe had from the wind. I have been making records with tie "Bluebird" for six years. My first trip tc America was in 1928, when I made a world mark of 206.95 miles an hour over the measured mile. The fol- lowing year I went to South Africa to try a dry lake bed for speed, because my record bad been beaten by an American driver, Ray Keech. I used the same engine, as the year before and made i new record of 211.491 miles an hour. In 1931 I came to America again after the record, which in the meantime had been raised by my fellow-countryman, Major Se- grave, to 231.626 miles an hour. I knew that my old car as she was could not hope to equal that record, so I installed a new engine of 1450 horse- power with a supercharger. The frontal area was cut from 1 to 15 square feet by changing the body design. The driveshaft vas placed to the left of the centre of tne car and a larger sta- bilizing fin was built at the rear. This car did 245.7.'i,'{ miles an hour at Day- tona. Afterward I felt the "Bluebird" was good for a few miles more and we reduced the size of the radiator somewhat and dropped the lines of the nose. The restilt this year was my mark of 253.968 miles an hour. iifc motor of the "Bluebird" is a 12- cylinder supercharged Napier with three banks of four cylinders each the centre bank vertical, the two outside banks :t 60 degrees. The engine has a safe speed ot appro,\iraately 3,7C0 revoltitions a minute. At this speed each piston channes direction 7,400 times a mintile. Gas consumption is] approximately 45 gallons an hour. I Eight or tcii mintttes is required to j warm up the motor properly. | A car is only as fust as its tires will permit and only as good as its i component parts. The "Bluebird'Hres are of 12 ply construction with a two- 1 ply construction with a two-ply break- 1 er strip. Each cord is the size of the lead in a normal pencil the pressure is 120 pounds. The tire-sizes are 35 by 6 inches front, and 37 by 6 inches In the rear. These tires served me for one complete roiuid trip of the course, roughly about 24 miles. They are built to withstand u spaed ot 300 niies an hour and, to do this, they are all car- cassâ€"they have only enough rubber over the cords to make a smooth sur- face and keep dampness out. They re- volve at a speed of 2.600 times a min- ute during a world's record trial, and that Is one reason their air pressure is \ 80 hiKh--to prevent flexi.ig due to the | terrific centrifugal pressure occurring' while they tur:i. A record-speed car is the result of evoltition. I do not say that one could ' not be built without previous experi- ! ence, but I (\i, say that e.xperieiu-e is a' great help. It is my hope lo be the, first to drive an atiiotnobile 300 miles; an hour. There is no qtiestion at all that someone if going to tlo it within' the next five years. 1 ' elieve that ' there is no limit to the ullimate ^\wv{\ of a land vehicle. If one can drive ' 200 miles an hottr. why nut 25(i? And, thence onward to 275 atid 300? 1 have' actually reached a top speed of 275 ' miles an hour in my present car. l] can't see any problem of stability, of tires, nor of mechanical perfection ; that can't keep abreast of the iticrease in speed. | Body design is most imporliint. As the speed Increases one must Increase ', tlio horsepower or decrease the head ' leslstance, or both, and at the same time design the body so that the cur will maititain close contact with the ground. It Is not enough merely to ' mako a sloping nose and tail. It Is not enntigh to figure that Iho down-; ward pressure of th i atmosi)here will hold the nose of the car down, and! that the swee.) ot the boily to the rear will hold the rear end down so that traction may bo maintained. There is a delicacy of design required to accomplish this; the car must not be heavy from pressure at either end â€" it must be balanced exactly, weight distrihiition must bo correct. This year I made flvo records, the longest ot which was 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). 1 did this on a U'milo course. This brings in a very fine point of acceleration and deceleration. One cannot guess at the distance re- quired for these twn he must know. It my car Is travelling say, 2S0 miles an hour. It Is going to requiie approxi- mately two nillea tor It lo decelerate Lowest Price in 15 Years "SALAD/C _ m TEA Fresh from the Gardens to 200 miles an hour. To decelerate from 20U to 100 miles an hour, and on down to zero, requires another three miles. Take the ten-kilometer dis- tance on a 12-mlle course. Running southward at Daytona Beach, the ten- kilometer distance starts at approxi- mately the third mile and ends at the ninth. Since it takes the "Bluebird" between four and five miles to get up speed, I am not travelling at near top speed when I enter the ten-kilometer. Instead of going 260 miles an hour, I am travelling a't approximately 230 miles an hour. My speed increases as I go. Now in order that I may be able to decelerate safely and come to a stop, I must back off the throttle while 1 am still in the ten-kilometer distance. In fact, I begin backing off a mile or so before I reach the end. This must be done gradually â€" to lift the foot entirely and instantly would mean disaster. 1 begin gradually, and have not entirely released my pres- sure on the throttle pedal until I have gone a full mile. Even then I am travelling ibout 200 miles an hour. I .aving my engine in get' r to get its braking effect, I do not use my brakes until my speed has been reduced to 100 or 125 miles an horu. They would not be much use above that and would only be burnt up by applying them. By slowing up before the end ot i;he ten-kilometer, I cheat myself ot yuite a bit of speed, but I make stopping safe. In the case of the kilometer and the mile, I enter them going prac- tically at full speed and come out the same way. To make a perfect record, one must have a periect beach. In addition, viBibility mus* be good and there should be no wind. This is a difficult combination to realize â€" almost impos- sible. I neve, have had it. On the first day of my trials this year, the beach was in good condition, visibil- ity was poor and the wind was decid- edly bad. 'eculiar thing about the wind; it ..ppears to help very little, hut to reta i' a great deal when driv- ing into it. Two days later the wind was just as strong and the beach was rough. I got i'. terrific bumping; my wheels left the ground at points and spun free, yet my southward run wns made in 14 oeconds over the mile, ati average of 257.112 miles an hour. Tests Assist Youths To Shape Careers London. â€" As the result ot an cx- rerimeiit, recently conducted in Ulriuingham, it has been establish, ed that children leaving school cati be fitted Into suitable occupations more readily by the help ot tests of "bents" and "aptitudes" than by the usual methods of school reports and 'impressions" at interviews. The experiment has beeu con- ducted jointly by the Birminghatn education authority and the Nation- al Institute of Industrial i'sycHol- ogy. The 300 boys and girls leav- ing three elementary schools in 1928 were divided Into tw-o gtotips. one forming the "tested" and one the "control" group. The children in the "tested'" group were examin- ed for Intelligence and other special aptitudes, and a "rating" was made of outstanding temperamental traits. The vocational recoiiimendntinns was based on these fitidings. The "control" group were rot tested, hut were advised In the ordinary way at the school-leaving conference. The careers were followed up over a period of two years and compari- sons were made, which showed in nil classes the superiority of the advice based upon tests. Co-operative Cattle Shows Popular In Hungary A. noticeable chanpp la agrlpiiltur- al shows held lately has been that co-operative societies of cattle far- iiiera and breeders are gradually su- perscditig big estate owners in both number and quality of cattle exhib- ited, and they are carrying off the principal prizes. It Is a slight but sure sign of the gradual change coining over the 11 tMgariiin oountry- sido, due tv. post-war economic con- ditions. At the same lime, where horses are concerned, such flue teams as those ot the five white "IJpizzaner" ot Count Kranz Kszter- liazy or the four dtiiplP-greys of Count Johann Iladik h.ive not y**' been equalled by any teams from Uiese organized socletle-s. Horse- ttianship is deeply ingralr.ed In the llungaran nature, and all classes in the nation unite In enlhusiastio ap- procintion of good J.implng and rid- ing. The keen ambition ot the young peasant farmer, anxious to carry liack to his village the chief prize ot the day, leads often to excellen' equestrian displays, accompanied by much good-humored comment from romretitors and onlookers. Declares Tree Housed One Thousand Birds The Sunday Oregonian of Portla:id recently held a contest for strange and true wild '.;fe storie.s. The fol- lowing, by J. R. Molyneau, won first prize: "With .several friends I was on a fishing trip to Lost I./ake in the ea>t- ern part of Clark County Washing- ton recently. We were all busy cast- ing when all of a sudden from a hole .ibout two-thirds ot the way up un old dead fir tree probably 150 feet high birds started to come. They literally poured out for five or si» minutes, until the air was positively alive with them. X conservative esti- mate of their numbers, as they soared over the little three-acre lake would have been from 1,000 to 1,200. "They would fly down to the watei !.nd skip along the top, evident'y drinking or bathing. "The birds continued to fly arourd in this manner until each one had had its turn at drinking and bathing, and then, at a signal from the flight com- mander (if there was one), they start- ed pouring back into the hole in the tree. In five minutes or more there' was not a bird in sight. "After a few minutes members ot our party, desiring to see the same performance again, went to the foot of the tree, endeavoring to frighten the birds out, but there were no ri sv'lts. "If anyone doubt this unusual story, there are three other eyewitnesses will corroborate my statement. "I would like very much to know what kind of birds these are and their habits also. How could so many birds possibly live in one hollow tree?" Originated for the finest tables KRAFT CHEESE Made in Canada J^ lb. packages or slicetl firom the famous 5 lb. liKif. 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