The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-01

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I'VE went over the hotel inch Uy
inch. until at last we reached the roof
There, over half dozen big barrels
filled with stale water, the mosquitoes
surged in clouds.
Get netting quick! I yelled.
Within five minutes We had that
scOurge under control. The hotel man
stood and gazed in profound disgust
at the baked lady mosquitoes trying
to break into the water.
well. confound it, he exclaimed,
I had those barrels brought up here
and filled in case Of fire, and forgot all
about them. I haven't had a ray Of
intelligence since then until I said to
myself the only thing to do is hire a
detective"
Because of his diploma. a more curl
Gus and more difficult task was given
DR.. Bearce in Chester. A big school
there began to have its boys go down
with typhoid by the score. Every in
vestigation as to the sources Of in
lection failed. Finally the institution
had a ray like the hotel mans. DR..
Bearce went to hunt for the invisible
germs.
He searched everywhere. and found
the sanitation superb. The very town
all private wells abolished. This time
he did resolve to give it up; but he
stuck because additional cases Of ty-
phoid developed.
One afternoon, returning from a
long, hard round, he saw at the foot Of
the billy walk to the academy a sign
in front of a store announcing ice cold
| milk by the glass. He bought a glass
1t was ice cold. He said So
"V0n hot A.
and I've got the coolest and finest
| water in town, sir"
Bearce pricked up his ears.
| I'D like to see some of that" he re-
marked.
| Come right out here. There's ths
only old-fashioned well in Chester
why. the schoolboys, when they pass
mere, always beg drink of that watcl
from me; and you bet they get it, too
Bearce admired the clearness of tn.
water so much that the storekeepc,
readily presented him with enough t.
NIL two hve-gallon glass testing jars
which went posthaste to the stat,
| chemist, and, on analysis, proved Z
hold enough typhoid germs to kill 6
couple Of regiments of veterans, mucl
less schoolboys. The well went out O
business Immediately.
The trouble with detectives" contin
ueo ". Bearce, us that We have
rooted antipathy for telling anything bu
successes. Now, when was younger-"
And he plunged into the story of tn
| 4 man came into the New York ofric
while he was employed there years ago
and said he had lost 500 in French gol,
from the pocket of his dress suit. Tina
gold should have weighed more than tw
pounds. and Bearce afterward vowed nev
er to overlook the fact that a man can
lose two pounds of metal, precious o
base, from his pocket without noticin
| the differences. Rllt he IRA IN o.
to the mans apartments and examin
his clothing. Meanwhile. he rushed
couple of detectives to the various none
brokers to nail any one seeking to ex
change that sum of French gold.
Only a few minutes elapsed before on
of the detectives phoned in:
Fellow at this brokers' trying to Sc
$3.50 in French gold. Shall hold him?''
Certainly" answered Bearce. Don
1gf s sse him ao to to the Asto
. He hurried to the Aston house. secure
when he was brought in. He was
Frenchman, and he had the $3.50 in Frenc