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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. ICnlered at the Decatur, ln<l.. Post Office as Second Class Matter. I. 11. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holl house Sec y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates: Single copies $ -02 One week, by carrierld One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail 35 Three mouths, by mail 1.00 Hix months, by mail 1.75 One year. t»y mail SOO Cae year, nt office . 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. • Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Adver. Representative SCHEERER. Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive. Chicago 415 Lexington Avenue. New York Charter .Member of The Indiana League of Home Dailies. It seems to be a permanent heat wave. We are promised rain and cooler weather tomorrow. Don't do any thing to make the weather man nm<l for we sure want that prediction to come true. We are getting so used to this bitn the shade temperature that we will miss it when Ute cool breezes start to remind us that we ought !q fill the coal bin. ■Then l wus quite a crowd here yesterday and the trading was very good for this time of the year. If IBs p'an was carried out once a month it would soon become popular and successful. Roosevelt and Garner are fishing a®d otherwise preparing for the sfrenttous campaign which will epen about September Ist. When it gets going we have an idea no one will doubt the strength and good health of either of these outstanding candidates. If you are trying to make up your mind how the next election will result, keep track of those who will leave one partv to vote the q*iier. AA e have heard scores of Republicans say they will vote for, Roo-, velt. but the Democrats gen erally seem well satisfied with their ticket and their party plat form. We dropped in on the legislature ..gain and f und it running along smoothly and wit it an evident detre to accomplish things that will prove lie'pful to the average tax payer. Just who is running the show we don't know but evidently there is a guiding hand somewhere and whoever that Is. so long a* the results are as desired, more power to him. _James Farley, manager for the Roosevelt campaign is getting ready tn shoot his fireworks and once that starts, you will know there is a campaign on. Some of the Republican papers seem anxious to £('t things started but its our guess ft will start long too soon to please them when they hoar all the things that are to be told about the depression, why and how.

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There are some interesting signs th.it business has started to revive. Stocks have stood still some six weeks and seem to have reached bottom. Over the country there are some plants resuming and the general report on trade is better. It has a long way to go but if the prices of farm produce will start upward in the next few weeks and we can feel that the sinking spell Is over, we will all buckle in with renewed energy. The intentions of the special .session appears to be to divide the g soline tax fifty-fifty between the state and the counties. That would double the amount now received ami would make it possible to further reduce the local budget which is necessary to get taxes down where we can pay them. It is believed that some ten million dollars can be diverted to the counties and if that is accomplished we < an all shake hands with ourselves for tax troubles would be largely over. Will the price of farm products increase this fall? We din t know but this we feel sure of that if they don't good times are another year iff, In other words there can be no healthy resumption of business until the thirty million people who IP e from the farms of this country, start to earning money. Then it will come steadily. There is much tj do on the average farm that will require expenditure of cash—painting. fencing, tile, new buildings ami a hundred other things. There is the place to start and the best news we could have is not the opening of mills as much as it is that the prices of oats, wheat, corn and hay are going up. The Hoosier Tn.x Payers Union has unquestionably created an organized desire for lower taxes and aroused the people to a state where it might be well to use the greatest care. It's easy to turn popu’arity into unpopularity and that's what wi l happen if they go too far. It's line to trim down expenses. It ' should be done. But there is a limit I i f course and we should perhaps hake it in graduated declines. AA’e I are proud of old Indiana and we want to continue as one of the t eally great states. That means we must continue to maintain those •hings which are deserving, penal and benevoloent institutions, educational branches, good roads and beautiful parks. The desire should lie and we believe is to cut off useless and needless overhead but to maintain those thing which render actual and desired service. o t a Household Scrapbook —By— ROBERTA LEE * _ * Hives The pain of hives can be relieved by taking a teaspoonful of milk of magnesia two or three times daily. Or diss Iv? one teaspoonful cream of tartar in i half glass of water a:,d tike before each meal. Brass To clean hrbass, use a mixture of one gill of paraffin oil, A4 gill of naptha, and sufficient powdered tripoli to make a paste. Ruh. wipe off, and polish with i dry soft clcth. How to Make Peach Honey Take the parings of peaches, after preserving add about one-third of the st-nes, and bolle in water for abcut twenty minutes. Strain and add measure for measure cf sugar. Boil (gain until thick as syrup or honey. o twenty - years - * AGO TODAY I I From the Daily Democrat File * ♦ Shamrocks defeat Fort Wayne Badgers 10-5. Mrs. Samuel Howard celebrates | 46th birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schroeder of i St. Johns entertain at supper for Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schulte and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heuer. Mrs. Rebecca Eady md daughter entertain Rev. and Mrs. G. E. Owens and family. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gay and son, Billy, are at Rome City. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Peoples and ; Mjss Clara Bultemeier are spending I a two week vacation at Rome City. Miss Vera Hunsicker has returnI ed from a two weeks visit at Bluffton. Mr. and Mrs John A. Mntnma entertain at dinner.

" Third Degree” Death Probe Starts Reform ITare ♦ ♦ * * * * Nation-Wide Agitation for Check-Up on Police and Prison Methods Follows Death of Suspect on Police Grill in New York and “Sweat Box” Expose in h loi Ria. J — —-gz, —— EEBE B ’IT 1 • "a V/lM B ' 1 IF 188 WR -I 'I 11 I r JO 1 ( / RLAsRRhi 4- ii ■ - DETECTIVE HIZCWSKi aaaMcthCß Following closely on the hull of the tortur. expose in Sunbeam prison camp, Florida, where'Arthur Madlefert, 20-year-old convict, died in the pri.on “sweat box,” th. so-called "third degree death of HymaStark, hold-up suspect, while undergoing interrogation by Nassau County, N. Y., authorities atlM.neola, I_ L, promi.ee to .tart an unprecedented wave of police and pri.on reform throughout the country. Stark, with three other men, Philip Cacala. Alex Dr.ng.l and Izz Stein, w.a held on .u.p.c.on of having Mr.. Valeria Hixen.ki, mother of Detective Jo.eph Hizen.ki, fracturing her .kull, when .he »> e, l demands for money. Stark, following a grilling by police, was taken to Mineola Hospital where officers to the medical authorities that the man had had a heart attack. Three minute, after hl. admittance to the institution, the man died of strangulation and an inve.Ugation disclosed the fact that his Adam . apple ha been fractured, either by a kick or a blow from a black jack. Doctor, at the h0.p.t.l assert that had th. officer, told the truth they could have saved Stark’s life. Furthermore, the man . body was foundl to b-a mas. of bruise, and .everal bone, are said to have been broken. These revelations resulted in the suspensioa of 14 police officers, among them Detective Hizenski and the deputy police chief, pending investigation ot Stark’s dearh. Meanwhile in Florida the probe of prison brutality i. under way and other localities that believe in prevention instead of cure are not waiting for a scandal but are busy checking up on their prisons and police methods.

New York. Following so cl sely : upon the death of a convict in the “sweat box" of Sunbeam prison camp. Florida, and the resultant revelations of brutality, the so-call-i ed "third degree” death of Hyman ! Stark, hold up suspect, while under-, going interrogation by Nassau County. N. Y„ authorities at Mineoil.. L. L. promises to start a series o' nationwide investigations of prison and police methods. Not only in the localities where these two tragedies have occurred, but in many other parts of the United States, there is a growing agitation for police and prison reform. most of the states taking the stand that prevention is better than cure when there is a danger of their, escutcheon being blotted with a parallel. Stark, with three other men. was held on suspicion of having beaten Mrs. Valeria Hizenski. mother of County Detective Joseph Hizenski. fracturing her skull, when the aged woman refused tjieir demands for money. The capture ot the men soon after the crime was a fine piece of detective work. But it is deplorable that such brilliance should be marred by what is alleged to have happened later. Following a grilling by the police. Stark was taken to Mineola Hospital in a dying condition. Illis body was a mass of bruises, said to have been inflicted by question-1 Old Drug Sign Razed Montrose. Colo. — (U.R) A landmark which has stood for nearly 40 years here was torn down recently. A huge metal sign adver- ; Using the “C. J. Getz Pharmacy." erected when the young pharmacist first went into business here, has stood although Getz has not lived in Montrose for 25 years. o Theater Displays Waterfall Montrose, Colo. — (U.R> — Mont rose's theater has a "depression waterfall.” A waterfall picture, painted by Andy Rasmussen, has been placed in front of the theatre. With appropriate lighting effects, the water in the "falls’’ pours gracefully over the edge. 2,000 Licenses Issued Daily Albany. N. Y.. —(VP)-At the rate ot approximately 2,000 daily new licenses required for operation of gasoline filling stations are being issued by the State Taxation and Finance department. T'.tere are i about 40.000 stations in the state | etch of which must be licensed in accordance with provisions of a law enacted at the last legislature. The law went into effect July 1. b Memorial Trees Planted Harrisb ’rg Pa., — (UP) — Pennsylvania state foresters set out 1,-1 629,000 trees this spring as ■ “George Washington memorial tree plrnttags. - ’ o r. Daylight Saving Time Not Recognized HARRISBURG, Pa. (U.R)— Pennsylvania labor laws do not recognize daylight saving time, the State Bureau of Labor and Industry - informed employers of women. The state law requires that women shall not be employed before 6:00 a.tn. Some instances were found bybureau inspectors in which the employers made the starting time six o'clock daylight saving time.

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I ing officers and he liad a fractured Adam's apple, damaged either by a b'ack jack or by a kick aimed at bis head which landed on the throat ! instead. Authorities at the hospital assert .that even then the man's life could ■nave been saved had the detectives , told the truth about his injuries. But the officers had informed the medical men that Stark had had a ( heart attack. Consequently, for want of the proper treatment, the , patient strangled to death three minutes after he had b;?n admitted tn the hospital. 1 The resulting investigation into the cause ot' Starks death disclos- 1 ed. as District Attorney Edwards 1 jof Nassau County put it, that "ap- ■ Iparently an over-enthusiastic po-p lice officer had smashed Stark's 1' Ad in's apple.’’ The revelations which followed' icsu’.ted in the suspension of no I less than fourteen police officers. < among them Detective Hizenski and the deputy police chief. It is ■ not quite e'ear vgjielher or not ’ Hizenski was one of the officers : I who questioned the man suspected]: ■of beating his mother. But if he]i was. there is something wrong with 11 a system that permits such a thing, h After all. a detective is only hu- j: nun. and those in authority should? have known better than to give an - outraged sou the opportunity top jievenge himself on the man beiiev-p r^REUNION - CALENDAR I .♦ ♦ Sunday July 31 Haggard reunion, H. D. Osterman 1 I home. Winchester road, Fort Wayne < Pleasant Mills Alumni picnic, 1 Sun Set Park, cast of Decatur. I Fuhrman reunion, home of Geo. Meyers, 1 mile west of Monroeville. ; Borne reunion, Sunset Park. ( rain or shine. Annual Cowin reunion, Sunset Park, southeast of Decatur Myers reunion, rain or shine, ‘ ; Sunday, August 7 Blakey reunion. Old Ch:js Blakey homeste.d, Union township. Schafer reuni n, Legion Memo- : rial Park, Decatur. 1 Grimm reunion, Sunset Park , southeast of Decatur. , Annual Dettinaer reunion, rain , or shine, Sunset Park. Sund.y, August 14 Elzey reunion, Legion Memorial j Park, Decatur. Rellig and Reohm family reunion, ■ Sunset Pa k, southeast of Decatur. . Hower reunion, Sunset Park. The annual reunion ot the Bienz family, Sunset Park, Decatur. Sunday August 21 Butler family reunion, Sunset i j Park, rain or shine. Ainnual reunion of the Smith family, Sunset Park, Decatur. Kemmer family reunion, Sunset ■ I Park, southeast of Decatur. Annual Hakas reunion, Sunset I i Park, Decatur. Annual Kortonber and Hackman reunion, Sun Set Park. Wednesday, August 14 Weldy Beery family reunion, Legion Memorial Park, Decatur. Sunday, August 28 ■ Annua; Weldy R union, Frank [Aurand home Decatur. ■ ' Annaul Standiford and Faulkner re- • i union, Wren. 0., Memorial Park. > I Urick reunion, Sunset park, Decai tur.

ed to have ill-treated his mother. To quote a well-known civic leader: "Granted that Stark was an out-and-out bad character, wanted in connection with two murders and numerous robberies, it is not the privilege of policemen or detectives to usurp the prerognive of justice. Pub’ic officers must be taught that they are not employed as public executioners, whatever the provocation. For years al! right-thinking citizens have crusaded against Lynch law. but if the police, who are allowed to take it into their own hands, taking the part of judge, jury and executioner, then all the crusading against the murderous travesty of justice has Seen in vain.” However, there is no indication that either the Stark affair or the case of Arthur Mailiefert in the Florida "sweat box” is going to be whitewashed. Intensive investigations are under way in both places and we are promised that those responsible for the blots on the face of justice will feel the weight of the hand of the taw. If the investigations do nothing more than put an end to the obnoxious practice, so foreign to American principles —the third degree—we can say that we have taken a step upward on the ladder of civilization. September 4 Annual Brown reunion, Sunset Park, Decatur. Labor Day, September 5 Lenhart annual reunion, Sunset Park, southeast ot Decatur. Reunion of Millinger family, Sunset Park Decatur. 0 Eliminate Dead Man's Curve Sa . Tex.. —(UP) —State highway workers are spending 36.ObO eliminating the famous "Dead Man’s Curve" on the Brownsville road near here. Twenty persons have been killed and several hundred injured at the fatal "S” curve. Island Mans Yachts Deer Isle, Me., —(UP) — Yachts belonging to Julius Fieishmann and George F. Baker are manned, entirely, from captai to cabin boy, by men from this island, and one-third of the men sailing on J. P. Morgan’s three yachts signed on f.sm here. 0 _ File Suit Over Stolen Violin San Antonio, Tex. —tUP)—M. B. Taft and his wife Mildred hive filed suit for $5,000 insurance on a $15,000 violin reported stolen from their home here. The violin was made by Ruggieri, in italy. The Sun Insurance Company, of London Eng., is defendant. Convicts Make Tags Harrisburg. Pa. —(UP)—Prisoners in Pennsylvania penal istitution- are maufacturing the 2,000,000 sets cf automobile license tags needed for 1933 registrations in the state. At the peak of production, j 125 prisoners producec 250.000 sets ;er month in the Western Peniten'tiary shops. Retires from Deaf School Pjovidence, R. —(UP)—Mrs. Anna C. Hurd, of the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, mare than 70 i years old. has retired after 51 years in the profession of teaching deaf children. /

• —’ The People’s Voice This column for the n.e of our , reader, who wUh to make augge.tlons for the general good o r dl.cu.. queßtiona of Inter- , ext "lease sign your name to . .how authenticity It w‘ll no be used If you prefer that it not be. FOR CHURCHES Editor Dally Democrat: I AA’e, the young peoples class ( the First Evangelical church., would like to ask. through your, paper, why ’’Trade Day " was hel ; on Wednesday? It has always be t n understood in Decatur that AAeclnesday night ehould lie Riven ex cluahely to the churches. Durim:| the past winter the school hoard has cooperated very nicely with the ministerial association in keeping Wednesday night open, and we feel that the merchants should do the same. AA’e believe | that we should all work for the, interests of our home town. AAe

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SYNOPSIS Lola Carewe, "The Night Club Lady”, and her guest, Christine Quires, are mysteriously murdered in the former's apwtment. Scorpions were the instruments of death. The police suspect Guy Everett, the last person to see Christine alive. Lola had blackmailed Everett. He, however, claims that Christine discovered a plot to kill Lola and feared for her own life because of her knowledge. Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt learns that a young Paris bank clerk, named Basil Boucher, loved Lola. After robbing a bank to buy her a ruby, Basil disappeared. His parents sold medical laboratory specimens. Mrs. Carewe, Lola's mother, became hysterical at the mention of Basil, calling her daughter a beast and saying Lola never loved him. Edgar Quires, Christine's brother, left his Rochester home for New York following the receipt of a telegram the day of the murders. Christine was to have inherited wealth shortly. Suspicion also points to Dr. Hugh Baldwin when it is disclosed that he purchased scorpions He had stated heart failure caused the deaths. Colt, calling to question Baldwin, finds him dead—from a scorpion bite! Mrs. Baldwin reveals that she knew her husband was involved with Lola. Detectives report Baldwin met a man who gave him a box. In Baldwin's desk the Commissioner finds a statement in which the doctor explains he accidentally poisoned Gaylord Gifford Lola's husband. Lola's knowledge of this placed Baldw in in her power She forced him to supply narcotics which she used to victimize her friends and later blackmailed them Then she ordered him to obtain a scorpion to commit a murder. Baldwin learned that Vincent Rowland. the lawyer, was behind Lola's blackmailing and realized his knowledge of their activities marked the doctor for death. Lola warned Baldwin that if she should summon him hurriedly to treat a sick person, he should look for a bite on the arm and insert his hypodermic needle into the puncture AVhen the call came, Baldwin was stunned to find Lola the victim. In self defense he obliterated all trace of the bite as Lola had sug- ■ gested. Realizing he would be exposed, Baldwin secured another scor pion and committed suicide. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX "1 WONDER' he mused aloud,, | ”ts Multooler found where I Christine received the death sting?” “He ought u, be nere any minute now By the way, chief,—shall I get Vincent Rowland for you?” Thatcher Colt flashed me a baffling glance of his great dark eyes. I could not understand why Baldwin's accusations against Rowland had failed greatly to excite the chief. Very calmly, he emptied the dottie from his pipe into an oldfashioned druggist's mortar that served as an ash-tray on Baldwin’s desk. “Fortunately," he replied, “we have had Rowland shadowed. His movements from the time he left the pent-house until this moment are unquestionably a matter of police observation. It is possible to conceive that Rowland struck at Lola. But how could he have killed Christine?” And, after a moment’s pause. Colt added: “If Vincent Rowland is guilty of these murders—and it is perfectly possible that he is—then he is using some device, or some confederate that we have not as yet discovered.” Further discussion was cut short by the arrival of Doctor Multooler. The round face of 'the Assistant Medical Examiner was pale and peaked, and the rims of his bright blue eyes were like scarlet hoops. All night he had labored in his gruesome work upon the bodies of Lola and Christine. Now, without rest, he must get to work upon the third victim. With a tart glance at the prostrate figure of his dead confrere, Doctor Multoolar knelt beside him

Mleve that *'« home and hire labor in our fa<| toiles. Why should *'• ■'»' «» e the same system of cooperation with our churches? AVhat d<’ VO" "ay merchants. lpt 's get together. Trude at homo. Hire home laluir. and give Weduesday night to the churches. Young People of Evangelical Church. * Answers To Test Questions I Below are the Answers to the Test Questions Printed on Page Twa v L—Ellis Parke; But’ I 2.—Fool's Gold. ’ 3Ry volunteer enlistment. ■ 4. —April 6. 1917. • s_-Wyomlng. 6— Eugene O'Neill. < I 7- Data. 3—William Penn. 9.—Rhode Island. 10. The murder of a son by his parent. »

land made a hasty examination. I’ “Bitten by the same bug—and I i right in the neck,” was the Medical Examiner’s terse comment. “No doubt of the symptoms by this time. I could spot them from here ; to Welfare Island. And no doubt , of my certificate — plain case of suicide. But I guess you better ship him down to Bellevue and let me do a complete job.” “Exactly!” concurred Thatcher Colt. “Meanwhile, I have done as much as possible here. Tony, no- , tify Flynn to send for the body. Meanwhile, I want to ask a few quesj tions of that young lady outside.” While the Commissioner was engaged in earnest conversation with Doctor Baldwin’s secretary, I reached Flynn, who remained in the pent-house. Flynn then informed me that for the first time there ; were stirrings of life in the apartment. Mrs. Carewe was awake, and sitting up to eat her breakfast in bed. The food had been cooked in a nearby restaurant and brought in by one of the detectives. Eunice the maid was still asleep. Chung was busy cleaning up. The butler was wearing a blue robe this morning, even more magnificent than the one he had displayed the night before. Dorothy Lox was still with Mrs. Carewe, but was about to be relieved by a successor arriving from Headquarters. All of this I dutifully reported to Thatcher Colt. His dark eyes were clouded with thought; they seemed more melancholy than ever. But when I told him about Dorothy Lox, I saw his eyes flash with new interest. “I must talk with her,” he said. “I was afraid she would be gone. Let’s go right upstairs. We have that luncheon date with Dougherty, but I must see our girl detective first.” Flynn, one eye closed, but the other twinkling with lightning, received us in the living-room, the doors of which were all guarded with patrolmen in uniform. In low tones, Colt told Flynn of Baldwin’s letter The old policeman crossed himself I “Now,” concluded Colt, “I would I like to have a talk with Miss Lox.” Presently the stout and motherly spinster detective who has figured in so many of our sensational cases came out of the bedroom of old Mrs. Carewe. After her long vigil she looked peaked and drawn. But she greeted Colt crisply and cheerI fully “Very little to report, Mr. Colt, except that old Mrs. Carewe spent a very restless night. She talked in her sleep.” “Say something important?” “I made a stenographic record of all that she said. Would you like to have me read it to you?” “By all means.” I From the pocket of her jacket the girl drew out a memorandum book, about half the size of a stenographer’s ordinary notebook. From this she began to read one of the i strangest records to which I have ever listened, repeating over and over: “That beast! That dirty beast! Ah, yes! I know who it is. Basil! Basil! Basil! Be careful, Basil!” Here Dorothy paused to explain that these same words were re- ' peated, for hours at a time. Then came a lull when the old woman sank into a slumber so profound that she said nothing at all. , “But about six o’clock this mornmg, Dorothy hastened on, “she began to talk again. She seemed half awake and half asleep. This is what she said: ‘“I am going to tell on Mr. Rowland. AAhat do I care if he tries to harm me. No one can harm me. Rowland thinks I don’t know. I’ll ■ tell Mr. Colt—l’ll tell him about Kowland—l am not afraid ’ ” I Here Dorothy Lox paused. “Anything else?” prodded Colt. a11 ’” answere( i Dorothy. ' r.iJ 8^ d Colt ’ “* had , talk to Mrs. Carewe/’ :! But why would he not send di1 re^i yf9r Vincent Rowland? ;-v ha . unt€d look Bt iU glimmered in -he old woman’s eyes. We stood ■ by her bed, and she looked up at ■ I us through the wisps of her gray

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1 hair, as she el.- ; pjcfullyM a crusty remnant i Her breakfast trav wa. a blanketed old shanks. B “Good mornim.. Mr. /-lt.'B greeted. “Have . . ... did it?” ■ The Commi - ■ - shookß head, as he at. a chair byß side of her bed. B “I’m afraid I'll need your I to do that,” he < > .:•.tered. B The old woman darted at IM gleam of undi r “I? How can I help you. IM feel as if I will ever be ibM get out of this ! < I aga:r.—bjM have to do that, for the I don’t believe 1 .. 1..e that.” ■ She began to cry. “Mrs. Carewe," . 1—even after yea’ :' pohee B he has never be. 1; :d le - t) eM passively the tea :a w .miaß shall have to put t > 1 aeainß I asked you so ;• ':■■■.:;• !y iastM —do you know < . any ptrsoaß would have a g ■ :k:M ing your daughter m ad?” H The old woman dried herß with a lace han<:. ■ h.ef, ar.iß shook her head v.y - usiy. E “No one, Mr. Colt. hveqß liked Lola.” | She shot a glance at TUB Colt as if to gauge the ef«B her reply. E “You did not know of ar.ygfl with whom she ha,. ..aarnieiß lently?” I Again that vig :<shakeM head and an equal' - .mdE “We went over all tha'.l night,” she added . m uslyß not up to much tl. s morningE Colt.” I But the Commissioner wufl to be put off. I “Do you remember two ■ boxes that your ... ighter ufl her possession dure g the lutfl weeks?” I “Boxes? What kind of boaE “A little larger, I should E than a pack of ca r ■- Much tkfl than that. Probably of wood. Ever sec a: . "gliketkO “No.ldon’tremen ranythM that. What would s' .. epinthß “Something aliv> ' I “Alive!” squeaked the cM ] man. “What do \ u mean-iE thing alive ” I “A creature whose sting it I stant death." I The Commissi ner and ■ mother stared at each otM| painful silence. I “Why would Lola want any® like that?” asked the old at last. “I was hoping you could t® that.” The mother's withered shaped themselves into » dow-nward arc. “She had a dog and a p.i rt but what kind of creature * she have in the box “A scorpion,” replied Colt quietly. Mrs. Carewe sat up vrri Jlf ’ in her bed. “The scorpion was the nan the dance that Lola made she declared, a note of v** her voice. “I know tint, too,’ r* 3 : Thatcher Colt. .. “Was it the scorpion th»‘ Mr. Colt?” “Yes.” The 'old eylidu aged breath cam* m s? ■ gasps, and then the boc< !1 ( spilling a half-'..!!, in a brown on 1 Once more the stra.n of tJ questions was too much « mother. “She’s really in a ’’ao »• Colt,” murmured Doro thy , she hastened to the \ told me that she has ha trouble for years. I rcal ‘ y she should have a doctor- < , “But her doctor is tered Thatcher Colt. ■ " is watched over by a ae. physician for the time ei * you come back tonight. M - “Yes, sir.” (To Be Cor' C '7’. M Copyriaht 19'1, by f ov.c Distributed by King Fetin '* -•