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> • • • «-♦â- Â»Â«â™¦-»â- <-«- ;f ^i V Gems of Peril By HAZEL R?SS HAILBY. svNor.sis. nich old Mm. Ju|>lter is . obbeil iiiid murdered durltiK th« cnguK'nivnt party â- be KlvfK for her Burelary. Mary Hark- ne»« Mury'H nnnce, Olik Uuyther. ud- vlaei her tu keep ntlll about huvlriK ur- raiiKOd to admit h<'r brother Kddte until he cun locuti' the buy. Dirk telophoncK that he hu8 had a call fruni Kddle and will take her to sea hlni. Dirk ovcrHleeiiH. Itoweii. a Star reporter, driven Mary to the rendezvuu.i. Kddle Ih killed by n car an he croHHoji the street. He murnblt'H about a tly before he dies. Iloweii tclla Mary there Ik a rare-track Kainbler called "The Fly' to whom her brother owed a large num of money. CHAPTER XII.â€" (Cont'd) "Oh, Rood heavens!" Mary ga.'pcd. "He .said he would be charmed to oblige a lady, but reminded nic that he was not available for that sort of thing now. The Baumcs' laws, you know. Fourth time and out. If he gets in trouble once more, he goes to prison for life." Mary laughed from sheer nervous- ness. It was still raininfe, but they were both anxious to get out of the place. Never had fresh air smelled so sweet. "I'll get you a taxi," Bowen offer- ed, but Mary shook her head. "I" take the bus at the corner." "Sorry I haven't an umbrella for you. Take this, anyhowâ€" it'll keep you dry gftiing on and off, ar.d you can give it to one of the flunkeys when you're done with it. It's none of mine." Mary loo-.'.'d down at the coat he laid over her arm. It was an Eng- lish make, well worn. Hastily r,he opened it and examined it with shak- ing fingers. Stitches here, where a â- earn had ripped, "But â€" this is my brother Eddie's coat! Where did you ind it?" she gasped. "Why," stammered the starlled re- porter, "I found it in the upper hall of the Jupiter house that night of the murder. It was hanging over the rtair-rail. 1 thought one of the .lewspaper men had left it there, so I took it home with me." CHAPTER XIII There was no doubt that it was Eddie Harkness' coat. Mary ran in- vestigating finder:; under the collar, and found the small black tape, let- tered in red, with his initials, "E. J H " "Well," said Bowen flatly, "this shjws me up for what I am â€" beau- tiful but dumb. I thought sure that coat belonged to one of the reporters. Never entered my mir.d it could be â€" Boy, if Kano ever hears of thi.sl Well, well, well!' Obiously he was readjusting his idoas to fit this new development. "Thenâ€" he did come, after all." Mary stroked the coat with gentle fingers, as if it had been a human thing. "Ix)ok.': like it," Bowen agreed. "But that doesn't prove he did it, you know," he offered by way of comfort. "He was there," Mary repeated dully. "Perhapsâ€" Kane was right. I'erhaps they're all â€" right, and I'm wrong." "We â€" el, I'm not convinced!" Bowen â- aid stoutly. "Really?" Mary lifted grateful, hopeful eyes. "Really, don't you think so?" "Listen, what did Kane tell you?" Mary retailed their conversation with as little bitterness as she could. M arvelous cuu( AjdCUtq ^ -f + + (f (IRIPIE PIUS) VIlUt rich nirllow flavor nffino old <:hr«I(lnr t-heeoe yoii ftct in •oiMlMirhrs and rooked dislica made with Kraft Vclrcetat DiKrNtiblc on milk itnolf. With a nutritional rating of plus, /Wus, phut A drllcinim trrnt for all thn family â€" apiiriivrd by the Kood Ooininittee of the Anirriraii ]Vlr<li<-al AwMK-ialion. (><>t a packnRO fruni your grocer today. Mmia In Cmnmim KRAFT the chills had crept up and down Emily Ann Ruyther's patrician back! ! But which was more importantâ€" ju'^ tice or a stilf-neckcd old woman's I pride? I ... I Bowling along in the big, shiny bus between exquisitely landscaped : private i)arks, studded here and there with the vine-shrouded homes of the ultra rich, all that h;ul just occurred I in the village seemed unreal. Georare Bowen and his .schemj seemed fanta.s- "That's what I thought," Bowen com- tic, common. Had she really been mented. One look at the girl's de- in that horrible place, eating impos- j;cted face set his tongue to wagging 8'ble food, with a fout-smelling -vaiter â-º ♦â- â€¢â- â™¦â-  â-ºâ™¦â™¦â€¢-*-^-« â- â€¢-«-♦-• in an effort to livert her mind "I'll tell you what's the matter with Kane," he said. "He'd be a gootl man i/ he were anywhere el.se but in this di.-«trict. He's a stuffed shirt, a boot- licker. He was a kid from shanty- t<-wn when he went on the force, and when they promoted him out here where you can"t spit without hitting a millionaire, it went to his head. H-j's got the dollar sign in front of his eyes unt'l he can't see anything else. "Money talks with most people, but with Kane, it positively shouts. He's so afraid of losing the 'friendship' of M>me of ^hese rich birds that woi'ldn't use him .'^or a doormat that ho wouldn't cross them if they said black was white." "I've always played a lono game, ever since I've been on this job. All Kane ever hands out is a line of bull. He'd have chased this guy to /.ell and gone, and strung him up by the thumbs to please Jupiter â€" in fact, ho wa- all set to make a name for him- self by capturing the murderer single- h.inded. Then the word came down i.om on high, 'lay off' â€" an 1 he lay right down at his master's foot and wagged his tail. That's the kind of pup he is. "But thore's still you and me, eh? How about it? If you say the word, we'll go right ahead nnd dig ip what \ can. When we've got enough to r.. ike a case, we'll put it before the District Attorney. He'll have to act," "But â€" are you sure you want it? It might make things pretty messy -3r you at home, you know. With your boy-friend, and all. He'd rather have it shushed, I understand." ISSUE No. 34â€" yz How much did he know? Mary wondered with a sinking heart how public her affairs had become. She looked down at the coat over her arm. "Do you honestly think there's any use?" "I do. By the wi.y, something's been tickling my mind ever since you mentioned this being your brother's coat I What was it he said there in tho ambulance? 'Make him give me my coat!' Wasn't that it? Ix)ok here, I'll bet a cookie that coat was a plr.nt! No thief goc- around 'caving his overcoat, you know â€" it's not being done. "That's how I came to pick it up in the first place. I was the lust man upstairs that night, and coming down I saw this coat hanging on the stair- mil in the upper hall. I knew I'd be seeing all the police reporters next day and I took it along to turn over t/'. the owner. None of them claimed it, though. Then I thought it must belong to some detective, but I'd ^ asted enough time >n it, so I iiung it up in my locker and left it there. Nothing in the pockets to identify it by." He saw that she was not listening. Her mind was on her brother. He could see that even her faith was shaken. He stopped short. Mary held up the coat. "What ought we to do with it? Take it there?" She motioned toward the po- lice station. "Take it home. It's yours. You'd only give Kane on.e more excuse to say 'I told you so.' " "You've been awfully kind. I'll never forget it," Mary told him seri- ously. "Cood-bye, and good luck." "I'll let you know what turns up," he replied. "Keep your nerve! Re- member it's all in a lifetime." It came to him as he stood watching the shiny black bus carry her away, that ho had just stripped himself of his last dollar in her behalf. He had not so much a.s mentioned the infor- mation he had to his paper, realizing that it was far too slim a probability to impress a hard-headed city e<litor. What kind of a sap was he becoming anyhow? Mr. George Bowen heaved some- thing that was very like a sigh. Mary, hugging the damp coat and .â- staring out at tho vivid green of the ' trees and hedges as they rolled along' the road to the Point, gradually lost! the optimism that Bowen's loquacious enthusiasm had roused in her. She' was going home to the Jupiter house reluctantly, for the first time. Hr.w could she bear to face those who had been closest and dearest to her. They had shielded her, or tried to; but they had kept their real thoughts from her as if she were a child or an imbeci!;;. It frightenc-<l her, and made her feel small and young and inexpericnce<l. She was almost tempted to relax and rest against that love of theirs, that plotted for her own good with- out consulting her wishes in the mat- ter. But at the same time, something prodded her uncomfortably forward. It was not their business; it was hers, and Eddie's. Gratefulness fought with angry resentment in her heart. All this sensational publicity about the murder of Mrs. Jupiter and Eddie's death â€" no one called that murder, .she noticed bitterly â€" of j course it was unpleasant. No wonder and a hair-brained "crime reporter" for companions? lx)oking back at her- self through thrf cold blue eyes of Mrs. Ruyther, the began to think she was losing her mind. What on earth would Dirk sayV She shou'd have consulted him. She began to feel like a truant child lag- ging schoolward. Well, it was past. If Georgj Bowen rung up the house she would not even talk to him. No doubt his schemes were just an excuse to print heaven-knew-what about her! She shuddered at the thought of to-mor- rc\/'s Star and what it might con- tain. It was Thursday and she was din- ing at the Ruythers. Well, she would do all she could to make it up to Dirk. The truth, dimly felt before, now revealed itself to her bit by bit, as on an unrolling scroll Dirk's wor- ried abstraction, Mrs. Ruyther's booming heartiness. There was some- thing they were all ashamed of, that tl.ey felt had to apologize for. It had all passed unnoticed, except as background. She had been so absorb- ed that their suspicions had glanced off without pricking her. Now it all c.-me back with a rush â€" every cut- ting, two-edg\jd word that had been turned toward her, every blank and guarded look, awkward moments that she now realized would have been definite snubs if the snubbers had dared. What had stopped them? The power of the Ruyther name! Not even the Jupiter money was so won- uer-working as that. With a sudden rush of understand- ing and pity, she knew that Dirk must have been having a bad time at home. No doubt he had had to fight for even the semblance of surface ease. With only one son to marry off, Mrs. Ruyther would have liked to see him murry "to advantage." She had ."ccepted Mary without enthusiasm, because there was nothing she could say against her. But now, good hea- vens ! Suddenly she wanted to see Dirk terribly. She wished the bus would hurry. It was only three or so, but he might come eurly. The bus ground to a stop to take on two passengers, who turned out to be Cornelia Tabor and another girl, a little blonde fluff named Ethel Somebody, who was visiting Cornelia from Boston. Mary had seen her picture in the .society section. They collapsed breathlessly in a front seat, without looking back. Mary was leai;- ing her head against the cool window, and sat slumped down in the seat so that they would hardly have seen her anyhow. As the bus topped a rise and began to const down the other side their voices became distinctly audible. (To be Continued) Premature Discoveries Peace How shall a man think on that which belongs to his peace, If he yields himself wholly a servant to those things which bo without; and ho'w shall ho carry any message to others, who cannot hearken to the voice of his own soul? â€" Lady Dllke. (The Book of the Spiritual Life). Custom Custom Is tho great enemy of faith, and of Reason likewise; and one of the worst tricks which custom .plays us is, making us fancy that miracu- lous things cease to bo miraculous by becoming common. By Friedrlch Frekta In Die Woche, Berlin Similar to a great, unyielding army, hunianity forges ahead on Us march towards progress. It Is pre- ceded by the scouts, Id our case the geniuses. Over the heads of the van- guard these scouts push ahead Into time. History of human progress teaches us that Us phmeera were sometimes two or three centuries ahead of the masses. If not more. After the pioneers comes the van- guard, sclentlst.'i, explorers, poets, philosophers, the host of methodic workers and searchers, who In their turn are far ahead of the to-called educated class. Their thoughts and Ideology are handed over to the teachers. In whose following march columns of students, the latter at least one generation ahead of the educated class, whose ranks they join after completing their studies. After that they apply in practice the knowledge and experience acquired id schools and universities and make It accessible to the great masses of the people. Round these practical workers, the jurists, physicians, engineers, techni- cians, journalists, the educated classes are grouped, who are moved by the desire to make the wisdom of the former their own. Still, they remain way behind the explorers. After the educated classes comes the mass of the people, who assimilate the former's ideology, doctrines, mode of speaking. Usually the masses are more fanatical followers of t doc- trine than the class from which they took It, and they continue to profess a faith long after it is discarded by scholars and scientists. Thus materialism was Iwrn from the observation of nature Itself. The conception of matter is a the- ory which goes back to the pre- Christian era, to the vjreek philoso- pher Democritus, who believed that the universe consisted of a sub- stance, composed In its turn of In- finitesimal particles or atoms, the differentiation of the bodies being determined by the various degrees of density of these atoms. The al- chemists of the middl» ages based their research on this ancient the- ory and studied the means of con- verting plain metals into gold through condensation of the atom. In the beginning of the nine- teenth century, which saw the tri- umph of physical science, the idea of force was born, and a new the- ory on the origin and composition of the world gradually evolved from the combination of the two princi- ples, atom and force. From this purely materialistic conception Marx and Engels drew the inspiration for their social teachings, and their doctrine Is still the creed of their socialist and communist followers. But tho great physicists of mod- ern times reject this theory of crude materialism and of the infinitesimal and Indivisible particle. Inspired by the glamorous dscoverles In the electrical and electrochemical fields, scientists evolvcl a new theory, whereby the simple atom became the complicated electron. In the Imagination of the twentieth cen- tury physicist this infinitesimal parti- the electron has acquired the like- clo is a whole world in itself. In which other particles revolve round the nucleus at a terriflc speed. Thus the electron has acquired the like- ness of our stellar system, In other words, it Is a little sun. with the planets revolving round it. I The day will come when even this audacious theory will seem obsolete and will have to make place for an- other conception. Newton's ideas aro slowly but irresistibly being re- placed by Einstein's relativity the- ory. Tile scientist Is aware, how. ever, that the theories with which is delicious {IVriU SalaJa, Tcronto./or excclUnl recipe) 218 Sport A-La-Mode TliKo yniiiig dnni3tI-< .*liow the way to kt-op cool and get iilciily of cxeri Ise in addition. Rainier National Park Is the place, it you wore enquiring. he works are but expressions of the philosophy of the period in which he lives, and suited to It. The scientist does not erect his hypotheses Into articles of faith. He Is satisfied with having found a work- ing theory, and he lets his thoughts wander through an Imaginary, not through the real world. This Is In opposition to the methods of the lay- man, who wants, above all, to believe, even though he proudly calls himself an atheist. All misunderstandings and spiritual troubles which afflict the so-called educated classes come from this desire to believe. The mis- use that was made of Darwin's theory In the beginning of the past cen- tury is one aspect of It. Yet the evolutionary Idea of Darwin's work goes back to 1800, to Hegel. How- ever, only one hundred years later did the words "development" and "evolution" become part of our cur- rent language. Every great idea that was put Into circulation as a rare gold coin has finished by becoming a woruout small coin. The Intellectuals glori- fied the American Constitution of July 4, 1776, as a symbol of great- est dignity and highest civilization, because it was Inspired by the philo- sophy of fifty years before the slogans of which became familiar to the peo- ples only In the second halt ot the eighteenth century. In our time of triumph ot tech. nlque, which Is still under the In- fluence of the World War, our voca- bulary Is rich with technical and martial terms. We speak ot econ- omic wars, political fronts and line- ups, and even the pacifists do not seem to be able to get along with- out this bellicose terminology. A striking example ot how an in- vention may be made ahead ot its time is television. It has now come to stay. In 1865 a German magazine published the picture ot a camera invented by a certain Ca- sein which transmitted a perfect picture ot the great physicist Am- pere. Yet It took another 67 years to make television an everyday oc- currence. All inventions and discoveries are the result of man's dreams. They mature through millenniums and are anticipated by myth and legend. Dedalus built wings for himself and soared up, but his son Icarus, having come too near the sun, paid tor his temerity with his lite. Yet it was his dream that showed mankind the road towards the realization ot fly- ing. Dreams become Ideas and, through the process of research and experience, they bear fruits after many centuries. 280 B.C. a Greek philosopher prov- ed with calculations that earth and planets revolved round the sun. His theory, developed by his disciples, remained confined to a narrow cir- cle, as It was In opposition to the current belief ot the revolving sun. At that time humanity was better prepared to listen to the Egyptian Ptolemy, who proved with elaborate and artificial calculations the taith ot the established theory. The Greek principle was therefore entirely for- gotten until Galilei and Copernicus revolutionized tho middle ages with their sensational discoveries. De- spite persecutions and anatheni:is, the new teachings leut a thrill through mankind, and they linishcd by being accepted. Whor. Columbus discovered America tho world had already forgotten that In the year 800 A.U. Eric the Red and his Norsemen had come as far as Labrr.dor and settled tiiore, but wero subsequently wiped out by cold, starvation and the hostile natives. The nineteenth century is Justly hailed as the era of the steam en- gine. Yet how many people know that at the time of the Emperor Adrian, about 100 A.D., Roman en- gineers built pump works in Egypt operated by steam. At that time, howovcir, human labor was so cheap that the value ot mechanical force was no made the object of further investigation, and the project was dropped. Tho above are but a few examples of how idc.",.s and inventions may come too early, and. humanity not bclntr ready to absorb them, lay idle (or cii.turies. Man's thoufht, his inventions and discoveries, are juled by the Immut- able laws of m.-\turity. All that Is born outside of this state of maturity Invariably i>asseE unheeded. Tlii.s explains the tragic fate of so many great geniuses, to whom success was denied, sometimes almost at the threshold ot It. Robert Mayer, the thinker to whom science owes the law on conservation of forces, was declared Insane by his contomp.ir- aries. We humans live together and each ot us Is convinced that his world If the same as the world ot bis neigh, bor. Therefore, the creative genius who strives to give humanity some* thing new, .jometbing It had never seen before, meets with a harsh re- ception. Storm All other storms were playthings to , this storm. It was as if God broke the moulds of . Form And the huge fragments, hurtling, whizzed like wires. Contusion stalked across the blotted shires. Now they Joined hands. They doubl- ed the wild diu. They fought once more. Earth's crust seemed fallen in. What could withstand such turmoil? Rocks only could By twining their stone roots. No- thing else stood. Trees groaned like mandrakes. Sap in sweaty beads Stared from their barks. Boughs broke. But the crude weeds. Hemlock and ragwort, plantain, par- sley and dock. Held out more grimly against the furious shock Than those gnarled trees that like a leather tether Knit the broad acres of this land to- gether. â€"Louis Golding, In Time and Tide. Population 8,203,942, London Census Reveals London. â€" The population of greater London now totals 8,203,942 .as reveal- ed by the first analytical report com- piled from the census figures of last year. The Increase In population, as compared with 1921, has been 9.7 per cent., or nearly three times the In- crease of the preceding decade, and nearly twice the current Increase for. the nation at large. Greater London's population num- bers 4,371,026 females and 3,832,916 males. The report advances no rea- son tor this predominance ot women. The largest contributor to the in- crease Is Dagenham, for during the ten years in question it went from a' meager 9,127 to 89,362. It is one ot^ the tew districts in which men out- number women. Figures for the City of London and' the twenty-eight metropolitan bor-| roughs which comprise the "adminis- trative County of London" (as dis- tinct from "Greater London") show a decline ot 87,520 for the ten-year period. This population is now 4,- 397,003. Important deductions to be drawa from the report aro that families are growing much smaller than formerly (families of eight persons are 50 per cent, less numerous, while the two- person family has increased enormous- ly) ; that there is much more living ac- commodation a person, with a heavy drift to aiwrtment houses; and that living conditions are much improved. Dogs and Sheep Numerous cases of sheep being In- fested with the cysts ot the dog tapq worm were reported this past winter. Another reason why dogs should ba kept away from sheep. Of course the sheep infested with these bladder worms, which locate m the brain, died. If a sheep is so unfortunate aa to pick up the eggs of u single seg- ment of a dog tape worm, her chances of continued life are poor. Dogs la- tested with tape worm drop the seg- ments containing the tape worm eggs about the fields and yards, these are picked up by the sheep while feeding or drinking, and then the trouble be- gins. The remedy is to kill the tape- worn\s that the dogs carry by dosing every dog at least three times a year with a suitable worm remedy. Eight sheep died iu one community, where some wormy hounds were allowed to run at large. It you aro a sheep own- er, keep your eye on the dogs as they are dangerous to the well being ot the sheep in more ways than one. , Vac.itionirttâ€" "1 want to ask you a question." Ticket Agentâ€" "Yes. madam." Vacationistâ€" "Can I send a suit- case by a Uunk line?"