New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1923, Page 14

- R CHIN Ohea semvice me.sry’ 10E YELLOW I A-TEA!, BY EDHUND SHeLL. RAUSTRATSD BY . RMSATTIRF o rm— BEGIN HERE TODAY Captain John Hewitt is Commis- sloner of Police at Jesselton, British North Borneo. His heautiful sister, Monica Viney, is engaged to marry Peter Pennington, detective, Pen- nington is detailed by the govern- ment to apprehend Chai-Hung, leader of The Yelow Seven, a gang of Chinese bandits. Pennington goes to visit James Varney in his bungalow at the head of the Tembakut river. Varney receives a threatening mes- sage from 'The Yellow Seven, Pen- nington warns Varney to be careful. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Pennington produced a rubber pouch and began roling a cigarette, “I don’t know what to think. All I can say is that, by cvery rule of the game, the arch-bandit ought to be dead.” “I rather pgather,” said Varney slowly, “that Chai-Hung is a little out of the ordinary.” Pennington clasped both hands over his knee and looked hard at the wall. “He is,” he admitted. “There's something horribly uncanny about the merchant, and I only hope the Commissioner realizes it as much as 1 do." “How long a time would you con- sider sufficient to presume him dead?” Pennington grinned. “Not long,”” he announced more cheerfuly. “You sce, Chai-Hung—to give the devil his due—has a decided gense of humor; not the refined, harmless article that you or 1 lay elaim to, I admit, hut still a sense of humor! I flatter myself that T know enough of the gentleman to be cer- tain that he won't be able to resist for long the desire to let me know that he's eluded me.” Varney lifted the hon from the table and thoughtfully sprayed a Jarge spider that was in the act of erossing the floor. “By the bye, he said, “you didn't by any chance tell anybody you were coming here?" “Good heavens, yes! 1 told Mon- jca and the others my probable plans, for one thing; and, for another, 1 instructed my men to follow me on here if they wanted anything or gleaned anything of importance they thought I ought to know." “That accounts for it. “Accounts for what?" The trader dived a hand tunic and produced Hewitt's folded round the piece of card. “Here's your evidence right enough,” he told him. "It floated in from the darkness barely half-an- hour ago.” Chinese Pennington spread the document out on the table and sur- veyed the Yellow Seven as a fman might survey a long-lost brother, “Great snakes!” he murmured pres- ently, looking up into the other's fancy it was meant for me, into his letter Varney appeared relieved. “There happened to be u message with that bit of cardboard. It was given to my servant, verbally, to the effect that if T admitted you or helped you in any way—my number was up!" Pennington's jaw dropped. “Have you any idea where boy put my things?" Varney took his guest by both shoulders and forced him back into the chair. “Whatever damage there's likely to be is done already, and if you fancy I'm going to allow a pack of dirty thieves to dictate to me what guests I entertain—you're very much mistaken. I merely told you as a matter of interest. Chai-Hung, it ap- pears, is at large.” “Very much so! My dear old Var- ney, what an unholy mess-up! Do you realize that every blessed China- man on the islend belongs to that gang of cut-throats?" ““Actively 2" “Efther that or passively. That's exactly where Chai-Hung's strength lies. However loyal an Orienttal may be to his white master, he daren't re- fuse to comply with any request the bandit may make. He wouldn't live a week if he did.” As the trader reached over to take Ris glass, Pennington caught sight of the tattooed tiger. “I know one man, at least, who'd mourn your, loss if Chai-Hung car- ried out his threat,” he said quietly. “And that is—?" “ara-Khan. He'd Jament the loss of both a generous client and a walk- ing picture gailery of his art!" At that moment Chong-Hee ap- peared at the doorway to announce that the baths were ready. .8 ¥ | The rusted hands of the clock pointed to a little when Varney stretched arms and yawned. “Time for bed, old son.” Pennington, who was leaning on the rail, glanced back over his shoulder. “Tired ?" The other nodded. “Taken all round, it's been a rather | trying day. You won't be in too | much of a hurry to get away in the morning?"” “Can’t say. It depends on circum- Btances—and Mr. Chai-Hung. You | won't mind if 1 hang about here for | 8 spell. 1 know where to find my room." Varney smiled. “Do just as you like not going to suggest that you're ing uneasy about recent events; in any case, Chang would ra your veranda after one his tattooed | of course. TI'm but, e Cain long before any outsider could reach | the house He bent down and pat- ted the creature’s shaggy head Pennington held out his hand “Good night, Varney. It's done me R/ worid of good seing you =o fit feer- | toward a cloud-bank, threw sufficient light to enable him to see that Var- ney's dog had not stirred. The sound came again, this time from the patch of blackness that indicated the open- ing to the passage, loosened te button of his hip pocket and walked deliberately taward the pateh, His keen ear accustomed to the slightest noise, all his senses alert, he gathered that someone was retreating softly as he advanced. He stepped a couple of paces bacKward and looked at the dog. The animal blinked friendly up at him, squirmed into a more comfortable position— land resumed its slumbers. Pennington winked ominously at the night, lit the cigarette he had Just made, and strode whistling to his room. He closed the door carelessly after him and turned the key, Pres- ently he was moving about the room, humming softly to himself, with a hurricane lamp burning merrily on a table by the bed. To a chance lis- tener, it would have appeared that “he who sees in the dark’ had at last succumber to fatigue dnd was in the act of undressing; but in reality Pen- nington was indulging in the amusing pastime of picking perfectly useless things up in one part of the room and putting them down in another. He removed his boots and, knocking out the light, stretched himself at full length in his clothes behind the mos- quito curtains, Varney's spare room contained no window, obtaining its ventilation from 1 AN INCH OF STEEL PROTRUD- ED UPWARD BETWEEN HIS SHOULDERS, the space between where the par- tition walls finished and the rafters began .and Pennington, tying the curtains at the head end of the bed in a knot behind him, focused his eyes upon a narrow batten that served to finish-off the rough edges of timber- ing of the wall immediately at his side. This was the wall dividing the room from the passage. There were two other partitions that rose higher than the rest, and the fourth was the one that backed on the room in which ihe trader himself was sleeping. He had been in that position for roughly half-an-hour when he knew rather than heard that something was moving stealthily about the building. Presently the movement ceased alto- gether, and the man on the hed caught the sound of measured breath- ing that seemed to come from some- where close at his side. Something passed softly along the woodwork, strained upon it, scratched its surface faintly-—and the breathing sounded more rapidly in the region of the roof. Most things are a question of habit. Happenings such as these— which might have held others help- less, paralvzed with fear—acted upon Chinese Pennington like a tonic, Ae- cordingly, while a black shadew—the | elightest degree blacker than the wall itself—slid slowly downward, Pen- nington did not trouble to move a muscle until its lower extremity came well within reach, And then-—one arm shot out with,surprising|sudden- ness, his fingers fastened wupon a brown ankle—and the owner of the limb collapsed in a heap on the floor. “Chont?Hee," said Pennington softly, “I have been waiting for you for many hours.” He had slipped from the bed and was groping for the electric torch he habitually carried. The form over which he knelt moved convulsively |and flattened out, nearly causing him to pitch forward on his face. Pen- nington found the torch. The bulb displayed a faint glimmer which dropped immediately into a dull red glow. He swore softly under his breath and shifting his knees until they rested upon either arm of the Oriental ,struck a match A second later he was upon feet tugging up the chimney of the hurricane lamp. Pennington | his | The flame flickered | S L and shot up and he snapped the glass back into place. Chong-Hee lay spread-eagle on. the wooden floor—an inch of steel point protruding upward between his shoul- der-blades impaled upon the knife with which he had thought to destroy the enemy of the Yellow Seven! “Hullo!" came the sleepy voice of the trader from the other side of the partition. “That you, Penn?" Pennington unlocked the door, (Continued in Our Next Issue) TEST FOR POISON "GAS IN TOBAGEO Bureau of Mines Has Men Smoke * in Closed Room Washington, D. C., Aug. 10.—The much mooted question as to whether the carbon monoxide present in to- bacco smoke constitut»s a hazard to the smoker in confined indoor spaces geems to have been settled as a resnlt of tests just completed by the depart- ment of interior at tl:e experiment sta- tion of the bureau of mines ut Pitts- burgh, which demnnsteat:1 the dan- ger to be negligibla, The tests, which wera peiformed in the course of general studies of the burau of mines relative o gas hazards in mines, were made on three men confined in a clos>i chamber whose dimensions were 1,000 cubic feot, The three subjects puffed raerriely for tho space of an hour awl a half at ci- garettes of every vartety, Turkish, Egyptian, the old Virginla brand, and the type wherein the smoker “iolls his own.” Following this, the smok- ers drew energetically at an infinite varity of cigars-—cheroots, Pittsburgh stogies, black Manilas and Havanas of choice degree! Finally . they puffed prantically at pipes, at pipes of clay and cob, at pipes of meerschaum and brier. At the conclusion of the per- formance the air 6f the closed cham- ber had become so smoky that it was impossible to see across the room. The atmosphere was so irritati¢n to the eyes that it was necessary to wear goggles. Samples of the atmosphere and blood samples of the smokers were then taken for analysis. It was found that in no instance did the carbon monoxide content of air exceed 1/100 per cent. The maximum blood satura- tion was 5 per cent. Some of the sub- jects supposedly inhaled their smoke, but the tests indicated that such in- halation, though it may have extended to the bronchial tubes, did not pene- trate throughout the lungs. The tests indicate that carbon monoxide haxard from smoking indoors or in mines is negligible in itself, though the bureau NEW BRITAIN DAILY of mings investigators consider that it may add to the smoker's hazard should he be caught by carbon mon. oxide from sources such as ocour in the mining industry. COKE 00D FOR HOUSEHOLD HEAT By-Prddnct Is Substitnte for An- thracite Says Govt, Bureau Washington, D. C. Aug. 10.—At a time ‘when thousands of household- ers are pondering the problem of next winter's fuel supply, the department of the interfor calls atteniton to the results of tests recently made by the bureau of mines which demonstrate the high efficiency of by-product coke. Tests conducted by the bureau at its Pittsburgh and Minneapolis experi- ment stations with different types of stcam boilers suitable for heating 7 or 8-room houses recorded as high ef- ficlencies with by-product coke as with anthracite. The efficiencies ob- tained with Pittsburgh and Illinois bituminous coal were § to 20 per cent lower than those obtained with coke. The anthracite used in these tests was a mixture of egg and nut sizes and was considerably cleaner than that ordinarily obtained in the Pitts- burgh market. The by-product coke tested at Pittsburgh was of domestic size, made from a mixture of several coals from the Klondike region near that city. The by-product coke test- ed at Minneapolis was of domestic size and made trom eastern coal. More Uniform Temperature With the same attention to the fire, the bureau of mines found that coke gives much more uniform tempera- ture than bituminous coal. In addi- tion, coke is a clean fuel and makes neither smoke nor soot, an advantage difficult to express in exact figures. It 18 nearly as good a fuel as the domes- tic sizes of anthracite, and if an- thracite is unavailable at reasonable prices a by-product coke makes a god substittue, Domestic fuel should preferably be clean and smokeless, and should keep the house at an even temperature, with little attention to the fire. An- thracite suitahbly sized possesses these properties to a large degree and has been used for this purpose for a long time, particularly near the anthracite mines, Many thickly populated dis- tricts are so far from these mines, however, the anthracite can be ob- tained only at a high price, and the bituminous coal that is available is not so clean and requires more fre- quent attention to the fire to main- tain a uniform temperature. By-pro- duet coke, in small sizes, is a good £ HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1923, substitute for anthracite. As it 1s made from bituminous coal, ‘and the bituminous coal beds are very exten- slve, It seems possible eventually to provide smokeless fuel in the form of by-product coke for practically the entire country., More For By-Products By burning coke for domestic heat- ing, more soft coal will be used in by product plants, which savé many val uable by-products that are wasted. when the coal is used directly in the raw state. This by-products of popu- lar interest obtained in the coking process ‘are gas, light olls, ammonia and tar, The following condensed instruc- tions as to proper methods for the burning of coke in house heating equipment are given by the bureau of mines: Carry a deep bed of fuel one about 18 inches thick gives the best re- sults, Use very little draft after the fire is started, and keep it always under control. The success of even heating depends on careful draft regulation. Do not stir the fuel bed clean the fire in the morning, Use sized coke 1 to 2 inches for furnaces, boilers and stoves; % ‘@4 inches for open grates. Do not allow ash to acqumulate in the ash pit. The results of the foregoing tests are given in Technical Paper 315, by Henry Kreisinger, John Blizard, W. Jarrett, and J. J. McKitterick. Coples of this paper and of Techni- cal Paper 242, giving detalled in- structions as to the use of coke for domestic heating, may be obtained from the department of the interior, bureau of mins, Washington, D. C. CHICAGO LIBRARY HAS 83,000 BOOKS FOR BLIND Sightless People From All Over the Mississippi Make Use of Large Selection of Literature Chicago, Aug. 10.—In an effort to reach every sightless person in this part of the country, the collection of hooks for the blind in the public library here has become one of the largest in the United States, accord- ing to Nathan R. Levin, assistant Ii- brarian of the Chigago public library. The blind from nearly every state in the Mississippi valley patronize this gollection, because of its ready accessibility, declares Edward Peter- son, in charge of the work, Any- body can apply for a loan, and the government permits the books to be sent out in franked envelopes. The number of available volumes in raised printing is comparatively small, it is said, but the Chicago library, with 3,500 hooks, claims to have virtually everything ever pub- lished for the benefit of sightless people, Money Saving Specials for Saturday At Fancy Lamb 29c¢” wPUBLIC MARKET] 3}6Ma‘in} $t0 ppositeEMain Sf Lean Smoked Shoulders .. Fresh Ground Hamburg ......... 3 1b 25¢ SPECIALS 7TO 11 A. M. Prime Lamb Chops ............... Ib 30c | No. 1 New Potatoes ............ peck 49¢ Evaporated Milk ..........,.. 3 cans 25¢ ‘Wedgwood Print Butter ............1b 49¢ h 12¢ NATIVE VEAL AT LOW. EST PRICES OF YEAR Roasts ........... b 15¢c Chops ............ 1 25¢ Cutlets ........... 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They had met when he was with the American Red Cross and she a nurse on the Polish battle- fields against the Russians. “I'll be back in ten days save a room for us at the hotel,” the Am- erican said blithely and confidently as he left Moscow. Six weeks later he returned, with his bride, having miraculously un- tangled miles of red tape and over- ‘Then write a four-line jingle like the one above (only bet- ter), and mail it on or before August 15, 1923. First prize for the best jingle—$250. 165 prizes in all. Mapl!-Flake is a whole wheat flake—with all of the bran left in. Selected wheat is sweetened, flaked and toasted to a delicious brown. You would never know the bran is there—yet it acts as a natural, harmless, “regulator.” It's good to eat, and good for you. Read the rules—mail your jingles. 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