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MIN CENDLNN CIV By Fran
i 11IlX OlINDILlIl i OLA Mario
By.Frances
Marion

so long, scorpio!" called
Gardenia.
Go to hell"
The door opened.
Before them the gallows
raised itself-the platform, the
crossbeam, the dangling moose,
with the great knot that breaks
a mans neck, when he drops
through the trap.
Scorpio showed no fear
except that, as the guards re-
marked afterward. the tips of
his ears were white.
" Slowly they mounted the 13
steps. A guard guided Scorpio's
feet to the trap, and quickly
strapped his legs. Another ad-
justed the moose, the knot be-
hind the left ear, and over 1t
placed the sinister black cap,
slit at the side to accommo-
date the rope.
Il wanted to get up in the
world" remarked Scorpio. well,
I guess this is as far up as
I'll ever get.".
The clang of the trap, as it
shot back into its iron guides.
The "tunk" of falling body,
as it snapped the rope taut.
The first of the days execu.
tions was over.
EPILOGUE
A young man and a girl with
golden hair looked at the
changed town.
Anne, dear" urged Carl, I'VE
both loved Hank-but, now he's
gone, how about my trying to
take his place-even q little bit
with you?"
Anne smiled up at him.
Il would have to marry a
reporter, wouldn't n" she re-
sponded.
THE END
Copyright, 1881. BY CosmopoIitan
ProduettoaSo
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she too had to raise herself on
an elbow, in order to find his
face, which slept in the posi-.
tion of staring upright through
closed eyes.
A little man. In the begin
ming, his shortness of stature
had been merely something to
regret and then adjust oneself
to, with the immemorial proc
eSses of a woman compromis-
ing between the Lothario Of
her dreams and the stocky
reality of her husband.
Subsequently, she had come
almost to hate him for that
shortness. A stunted man.
Curious, that to her he had
always given the effect of a
hunchback. Not so much be-
cause his head, on a short neck.
was so deeply set into the valley
of high shoulders, but because
even in the days when he had
wooed and fascinated her, the
little hardware clerk from Keo-
kuk, who had first been brought
to see Jenny by a poor relation
who boarded in the same house
with him, had somehow had
the face Of hunchback.
A Hurt Face
A bony. up-thruSt, hurt face.
Short sinews of rear neck,
rather than the slightest indi-
cation of an actual hunch, kept
it thrust upward. Rarick's face
was always cooked to a world
slightly taller than he. It was
already upturned to his 14-year-
old daughter, Jennifer. Fer
vently Jenny found herself
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By Fannie Hurst
DIET AND HEALTH
BY DR.. Logan Clendening.

good growth was obtained the
veal broth was filtered. Tue
laboratory workers then had
three kinds of broth and they
fed all three to different volun.
teer experimenters.
No Harmful Effect
Broths Nos. and 2 were
eaten without harmful effect,
but broth No. 3 invariably
caused the nausea, diarrhoea
and prostration suffered by
the original group. This toxic
broth was grown from a germ
known as the yellow hemoIytic
streptococcus. It probably hid
in the sponge cake as a matter
Of protective coloration.
One of the instructive fea.
lures of the experiment is the
realization that food poison
ing can be caused by eating
other things than meat. Meat,
or especially fish and oysters,
are always blamed, but the
fact is that nearly any food
can harbor toxic products, even
cake that has been heated to a
high temperature in baking.
A nearly constant finding in
food poisoning is an actual
germ rather than some chemi-
cal substance, a theoretical
"ptomaine,"
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CHAPTER FL

CHAPTER FL
Around the rear of the gas
plant he crawled. The stock
yards fence. Inside the animals
were milling, Snorting. From far
in the rear. came the shouts of
pursuing men.
A dim figure loomed ahead
Newton, muddy. disheveled, wild
eyed, staggering toward the row.
boat and safety.
I'm done for-can't go any
further!" called Scorpio. The
lawyer turned backward.
Suddenly Scorpio had his
wrist in an iron grip.
You took the money out of
tn esafe!" he gritted. Split it,"
The lawyer snarled.
With a quick jerk, he freed
his wrist.
60 to hell, you rat" he
shouted, as he ran toward the
pier.
Scorpio raised himself, and
slowly drew his gun. He fired
three times. Newton dropped.
Rifles His Pockets
Scorpio crawled toward the
fallen man and quickly rifled
his pockets. Handful by hand.
full, he crammed bills into his
shirt.
The dying Newton opened his
eyes.
Serves me right-it was the
first time ever turned my back
on you," he muttered.
Scorpio staggered to his feet
and lurched forward.
A siren screamed.
A roar of voices filled his ears.
Around the corner of the gas
house came a solid phalanx of
men.
The cops had finally caught
up with him!
The corridor was dark.
From 13 barred cells, hyster4-
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THE PENALTY
of GRAY HAIR

Gray hair-age-slipping. All these
unpleasant ideas seems to go together
Yet, 1t is not at all necessary. Gray
Hair often comes to a young head and
people who have it are neither old nor
incapable. But how often you hear
people say. "Why. she has gray hair.!'
and-she is on the shelf.
This penalty need no longer handi-
cap the woman who uses Csnute Water.
This is a clear. spring like water, Of
wonderful properties which actually
restore hair to its original girIhood
color. No complicated color plan, no
danger of getting brunette shade when
your hair is blonde. Not only the one
kind but the one bottle is enough. 1t
really is surprising what successful,
youthifying results it gives.
N Apply Canute Water yourself, in the
privacy of your own home. Many wom-
en- in town are doing the same thing;
they simply do not mention it. You
need not mention ii either Just buy
bottle from any good drugEist-and
ge' rid nf the age penalty in gray
hair. Canute Water is so safe, so scien-
tific and sure that your dealer knows it
will satisfy you; II not, he will refund
your money. Sold and recommended by
Hecht Co, Peoples Drug stores whelan
Drug stores, or your own druEgtst.-
The caoutO Co.. Milwaukee, via
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cal, terrified men watched the
window at the end of the tier.
For it faced the east.
And when it's blackness might
begin to turn gray, dawn was
coming-the dawn that would
signal the gallows to start it's
CHASTITY work in the green death
chamber beyond.
Silent guards watched over 13
men in condemned row. Some
were praying. Others scream
ing Historically to God.
Mizoski was there-Gardenia.
Hill, Paul-and. at the end
nearest the door of the gallows
room-Scorpio.
First to Go
OF all the 13 about to "go
out" he was the only one un-
concerned. And he was to go
first.
Thirteen hangings in a day
the whole bunch Of the gang
sters. That's a record" NUT
tered one of the guards.
"Oh! They can't do this to
me! They can't" screamed
Paul.
But they're dom it,"
taunted Mizoski.
Our Father. who art in
heaven" interminably droned
the voice Of Metz.
Shut up!" snapped the Gou-
ger. And if Scorpio hadn't
bumped Newton off he'd have
gotten us all out of this!"
What about that new mouth
piece-where is hep" Gardenia
called to Scorpio.
"Aw-hes up seein' the gov.
ernor, He's got so grand.
There's lots of time! He'll have
us all out all right"
More prayers resounded from
the cells
This is q place they appre-
ciate Q gentleman" called scor.
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In the dark? The result of an
imminent need to Jump this way
or that; and Rarick had hap
pened to jump right.
How we'll she could recall the
move that had precipitated the
change in the policy Of the Nick
Mack Store to the five-and ten
cent idea. It had been nothing
more or less than a clutch at q.
straw to avoid going under.
Mingling even with her sense Of
pride, as she had sat beside him
one day at a Chamber of Com
merce' luncheon and heard him
referred to by a speaker as
that far-sighted industrial peer
right in our very own midst
John Rarick (applause)," had
been her merciless appraisal of
him. Without the incalculable
boon Of her patrimony where
would he be?
It had all just happened. OF
this much she felt powerfully
certain. Rarick had not fore
seen his magnificent business
maneuvers. They were born out
of circumstances and stress. She
did not want the world to
know what she knew, but she
wanted Rarick to know that
she knew!
Copyright. 1891. by Fannie Hurst.
Distributed by King Feature
Syndicate, Incl
Jenny Rarick is building
great hopes on the power that
comes with enormous wealth.
Don't miss tOmOrrOw's engrOss-
RpA0 la "A a 11VaAAa \
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People are apt to say off.
hsndedly, Il had ptomaine
poison" or II was poisoned by
some food" They seem to think
that this is an easy matter to
prove. The great difficulties
Of determining the actual ma.
ture Of food poisoning is illus
trated by the procedures that
were necessary in an instance
where II people we're poisoned
by eating sponge cake.
The symptoms were the usual
ones ordinarily ascribed to food
poisoning-nausea. vomiting and
marked prostration. Some Of
the people were affected within
a few hours, in others the
symptoms did not come on for
about a day. There were no
deaths.
Studied the Epidemic
For some reason a laboratory
decided to study this epidemic.
The sponge cakes were handed
over to them and some of this
cake was fed to monkeys, rab-
bits and mice with no bad eff,
fects. Then some human volun-
teers came forward and when
they ate the cake they all had
the same symptoms as the orig
inal group. So the first conclu
sion was that the cake did con-
tain some factor certainly
harmful to man, but having no
effect on lower animals.
Then the cake was examined
for bacteria, and the layer por-
tion was found to have three
kinds of germs living in it.
These were all three made to
grow on media, and then
grown on veal broth. After a
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hoping, as her sons slight
frame and threat of short stat
ure began to prove worrisome,
that some day it would be nee
essary for Rarick to look up to
his son.
All this talk that men of
brief stature had ruled the
world-poppycock! What about
Alexander the Great, Charlie
magne, Bismarck, Lincoln?
Jenny was not sure about the
heroic proportions Of. most of
them. Lincoln, of course, and
Alexander, the vast-minded Ma
cedonian, and Charlemagne,
must surely have matched up
to the heroic proportions of
their names. On the other
hand, Rarick, Jenny felt GER
tain, had stepped himself in
the sugared legend of the mag
nificence Of the small.
How much of this mans sue
cess was due to an initial
stroke of luck, her patrimony,
and her distaste for his petty
role of selling wire nails over
Schwebbe'S hardware counter?
Little as it seemed to matter,
this speculation was one of tire
less interest to Jenny.
Little Credit
How much foresight had
Rarick ever manifested in his
business moves? Precious little.
Credited already in the indus
trial world with vision, acumen,
and imagination, was 1t not
rather that every move he had
made had hneI1 a 1Iickv ~aSkl1re
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YOUR RULING
STAR
William Shwader-
THE YEAR AHEAD
For Those Whose Birthday Is
Nav 2

AAAN u AEAAS EAAAA1fAD
For Those Whose Birthday Is
May 2
If May 2 is your birthday,
during the coming year you
should possess abundant energy
and the desire for accomplish
ment. 1t is we'll to remember,
however, that haste makes
waste, therefore, proceed slowly
and consistently. If matters
are delayed don't become COM
bat1ve or act too hastily. Loss
or disappointment may be
avoided by acting tactfully and
with care.
Important dates: Avoid ex.
ceSSeS Of all kinds, risky ven.
lures, from July 7 to 9, August
81 to September II, October 6
to 10; refrain from quarrels,
haSty actions, take no risks
from May 2 to 5, August 2 to 4,
10 to. IL, October l to 5, 81 to
%. January "a to 90. Good for
general affairs. make efforts
to advance your interests from
June q to July 2, July to 8.
December % to 26, March 5 to
Z. Contradictory dates show
two opposing influences.
A child born May 2 will be
exacting. determined, indepen-
dent and impulsive. His sensi-
tive and proud nature may
make him difficult to under
stand. He should be taught
moderation, self-control and a
sense Of responsibility. He will
benefit through real estate,
land, buildings and home mat
ters.
Copyright, 1881, Premier
Syndicate. Inc)
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BY Anne Adams

Pattern 2O75 includes sleeves
and flared cuffs. if you should
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for spring and summer include
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WHAT DO YOU
KNOW?
AnsWers To TOday's Test
Questions On Editorial Pare

questions On Editorial Page
Answers to today's test:
l. China, 3. Pisa 3. Tombs
Of early Christians. 4. Con
stanttnople. 5. Rome. 8. Rob
ert Bridges. 7. 1886. 8. Hud-
son. 9. SO. 10. Badger. II.
Poppy. II. Indiana, New Hamp-
shire, Texas. 13. Sir Walter
Raleigh. IA. 1898. IS. Five.
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RGrickB Builds Millions Out
Of So, 500 Borrowed
From His Wife
By Fannie Hurst

CwhOse have her place the foremost Of
modern writer's.
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ADVERTISEMENT
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first saw Miss Thomas car it was about
ia feet from the westbound track,
that both gates had started down, and
that he thought she was preparing 70
stop, but that she passed under the
descending south gate and then stalled
against the north gate. He said she
was making 20 or IS miles an hour
He said he was unable to move the
gate because the car was against IL. and
that he and others who went to his
assistance attempted unsuccessfully TO
move the machine, and then. IS q last
resort, told the driver to alight. lorentz
said that the crossing bells. disk sig
nal and gates we're working properly,
and that the bells were ringing when
he first saw Miss Thomas car.
Miss Thomas. on the contrary. said
that she was not going more than 20
miles an hour, and. as q matter of fact,
started over the first track ct less than
20. No whistle was blowing, she said
nor was the gong ringing, and both
crossing gates were up. She Was on the
first track, she said, when the crossing
bell started to ring and the north gate
dropped In front Of her. She did not
think 1t was possible that the crossing
bells could have been ringing without
her hearing them, she said. She denied
that her car lodged against the gate.
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SOCIETY
Cabinet Members and Their Families Away
on Vacations at Home and IN
Foreign Lands.
Foreign Lands.

and Representative Fred A. Britten will
be among the guests of Mr.. julius
Keller, who will entertain a party of
20 at the Fleet night celebration at
the Canoe Place Inn at Southampton.
The other guests will be officers of the
Atlantic Scouting Fleet visiting at Long
Island.
Mrs Horton, wife of Comdr william
c. Horton, had guests lunching with
her yesterday at Wardman Park Hotel,
where she and Comdr. Horton have
an apartment.
Mr.. Oliver E. Pagan, Special Assistant
Attorney General, and Mrs. Pagan are
on the steamship Fairfax on their way
from Baltimore to Boston.
Gen. H. @. Whitehead, U. S. A., has
staying with him In his apartment at
WardTnan Park Hotel, Mr.. G. L. Strkyer
Of Ttmoniun, Md.
Mrs. Sparks, wife of Maj. Leonard Q.
Sparks, returned this morning to New
York after a few days visit with her
uncle and aunt, the District postmaster
and Mrs. William M. Mooney Mai. and
Mrs. Sparks will sail next week for San
Francisco by way of Panama, and will
motor from the former port to Fort
Bliss, where Maj. Sparks has been trans
ferTed for duty.
Maj. sidney O. Brady, U. s. A, and
Mrs. Brady, brother-in-law and sister
Of Mrs. Sparks. have been with Mr.. and
Mrs. Mooney for several weeks, and are
accompanied by their schoolgirl daugh-
ter. Leila. They viii start Monday by
motor for Maj. Brady's new post at Fort
Bragg, where he has been transferred
from Fort Leavenworth.
Lieut.. Comdr. Lucien b. Green, ID.
Is recovering from an operation at the
Naval Hospital, having gone there the
day after his return from a motor trip
through New England. He was accom-
panied on the trip by his son, Lucien
B. Green, 3d. who is now at camp in
the Blue Ridge Mountains. Comdr.
Green Is expected to return to his duties
at the Navy Yard in few weeks.
Capt and Mrs. Lamar r. Leahy and
the latter's mother, Mrs. Charles w.
Clinton Of New York, win close their
cottage at Newport Monday and sail
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Continued From F1rSt Page1
tagging equipment with him and have
endeavored to flag the train instead Of
trying to get the automobile on the
crossing" It having been testified that
this was the action taken by Lorentz.
ut is not believed, however" it adds,
that his failure In this respect had
any direct bearing on the occurrence OF
the accident, for 1t Is doubtful IL he
could have been seen in time for the
engineman to have applied the brakes
any earlier than he did.
The report also says that the casual
ties were due entirely to gasoline from
the fuel tank of the automobile, which
caught fire and was thrown into the
locomotive cab"
The report summarizes the testimony
of the several witnesses. which in ef-
feet was the same as that given at the
time Of the inquest
Agent F. H. Lorentg said that when he
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As did Andrew Mothershead. q witt
ness
T. G. Yost told the investigators that he
did not know whether the crossing bells
were ringing, but that he could hear
the engine whistling Trainmen had
testified that the whistle OF the engine
was sounding and that the brakes had
been applied. Yost said the south gate
was dropping as Miss Thomas went
under t.
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SURPLUS CARS FEWER

Glass one railroads had 564.06s surplus
freight cars available for service July
81, according to q report today frofS
the car service division Of the Amer
can Railway Association
This was a reduction of 1895, COM
pared with the previous week.
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TINE Secretary Of State and Mrs
/ Henry L. Etimson will have as
their guest at their lodge in the
/ highlands of Scotland for 9
/ week the United States Ambas-
/ ssdor to Germany, Mr.. Frederic M
! Sackett, who will leave Berlin tonor
row for Scotland. The Secretary, ana
Mrs. StiInson are expected 70 san 1oi
! this country shortly after Labor day
The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.
| Andrew w. Mellon, is sailing today from
Italy on the Villefranche for this
country.
The Attorney General, Mr.. William
| De witt Mitchell, will leave this after
noon for several weeks visit in the
North, where he will join Mrs. Mitchell
| and they will spend much Of the time
| in Massachusetts. Mrs. mitchell mas
heen in their home in st. Paul since
the early Summer and left there earlier
in the week to met the Attorney Cen
eral tomorrow.
The Secretary of the Navy, Mr.
Charles Francis Adams, left Washington
last evening TO spend the week enc
with Mrs. Adams in their home, the
Glades, at Minot, Mass.
japanese Envoy Host to
Visiting Countrymen To-day.
The japanese Ambassador, Mr.. Kat
sui Debuchi, entertained at luncheon
today six members Of the japanese
Parliament who are touring IN the
United States. The Ambassador mo-
tored to the Capital from Buena VISTA
Springs. where he has been since early
Summer with Nine. Debuchi and tnelr
little family, and will join them In Ihe
mountains this afternoon.
The Ambassador of Argentina. Senior
Felipe Espi, will be the guest over the
week end at Newport of Mr.. and MRS
BENJAMIN Royal Holcombe. The An
bassador will be best man for Senior
Conrado Traverse, first secretary OF the
Argentine embassy, at his marriage TO-
morrow to Miss Phoebe Qutnby, dRugh-
ter of Mrs. Duncan Cameron.
Lady Lindsay, wife of the Ambassador
of Great Britain, who is spending the
season st Bar Harbor, Me-, was the
honor guest at luncheon yesterday OF
Mrs. Shepard Fabbri of New York. who
entertained at her shore villa, Buon Ri
posa.
Senior Don Miguel Cruchaga Tocor-
nal has been appointed Ambassador OF
CIl1lG 10 bklE OAANCA EgtAsIc VI S1~NN~~
Senior Don Carlos G.. Davila. who re-
Gently resigned from this post.
Senior Cruchaga once before was his
country's envoy to the United States,
serving from March, 1926, to August.
1927, Tesigning when the group headed
by Gen. Carlos IbaneZ gained power in
Santiago When a revolt few weeks
ago drove Gen. Ibanez into exile, Senior
Cruchaga's successor in 1927, Senior
Dayila, resigned.
The new Ambassador Is career Dip
lomat, having been envoy TO Argentina,
Great Britain, Brazil and Germany,
occupying the pest at Berlin for eight
years. He entered the diplomatic serv-
ice Of his country in 1908, after serving
in the Chilean Congress for several
years.
Mime. Simopoulos, wife Of the Minis
4 ter of Greece. was a luncheon hostess
yesterday in their cottage, Clid Lawn
at Newport.
| Senator and Mrs. George H. Moses
| have concluded their visit with Mr.. and
| Mrs. William Ondros Barron at Craw-
1 ford Notch, In the White Mountains
and have returned to their Summer
home at Concord, N. H.
Representative Robert Low Bacon
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Carnival Closed Tonight.

The carnival being held by the B'nai
Israel Congregation at Georgia avenue
and Gallatin street win be closed to-,
night in observance Of the Hebrew Sab
hath. Activities win be resumed to-
morrow night.
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Ays in the Capital and is at the Dodge

days In the Capital and Is at the Dodge
Hotel while here.
Mrs. Charles F. Cramer of New York
City is in town for few days and has
taken an apartment at Wardman Park
Hotel.
Mrs B. Krogh has motored to WASH
ington from her home, in York. Pa, ac-
eompanied by Miss Nettie Shelter and
Miss Florence Shelter, also Of York, and
is stopping at the Carlton.
Miss Hazel Lee arrived wednesday
from her home, in Fitzgerald, Ga, and
is at the Dodge for an indefinite stay.
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DIR. and Mrs. Swormstedt
Leave for Visit in North.
DIR. and Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt
have gone to Massachusetts,, where they
will be guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Mansfield in their cottage Fort Point
at North Weymouth. They will return
early in September.