The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1921, Page 9

@ Cynthia ) Grey Our Insanitary Paper} Money — Woman Con-| demns It as Dangerous Germ Carrier. Dear Miss Grey: 1 hare been a feader of your columns for years and have appreciated the worthy subjects that have been discuaed and ar? being discussed today, But I would like to present one which | I think has never been discussed, at Jeast I have not read anything of it. | That is the dirty, filthy paper money we are handling when we present a check at the bank or any place of Dusiness. This subject has interest. | de me for so long that 1 have made secret investigations, ascertaining hy we have to use such germ) taden money, We have abolished the public | @rinking fountain because it carried * disease germs from one person to an- | other, spread tuberculosis and other diseases. But we harbor a germ car. | rier just as dangerous as the public | @rinking cup and more dangerous. | Because there are many people who) ever take a drink of water while) @way from home, that carry paper money with them. It goes into the homes of the rich, the poor, the sick and other places too numerous to mention. Now for one of the reasons why | we don't get the gold back in cfreu- lation—the bankers’ side of the sub- Ject and the money side: Just the other day the banker explained it to me. He said we could get all the gold we want but it costs to trans port it from one place to another, while they could get all the paper money right at the federal reserve Bank free of charge I could go en and explain other feasons, but that is the latest one and it would take up too much space. 1 belleve this subject is one that should be strongty agitated and hope see others interested. A KENT READER. ;: eee Cleaning Black Suede Dear Mise Grey: How can black Guede slippers be cleaned? T. Y. With densine or gasoline, As doth these ere explosives, great care must Be exercised in their use. Dear Miss Grey: Would you Please publish the name of the best ‘ breed of chickens’ | different things. Fite~' EF thes bie s and often {t seems as tho is slipping away. help me with your kind AMY. wise people have affirmed it ne house is ever large enough we families, however congenial may be. Why not write your that this fact has been to you? Surely he provides you? There are a number of home-like boarding places in 'y, also the Young Women's Association is clean, com- and cheerful. Or, obtain a room among strangers if you because loneliness is much to Preferred to than the Wife you now ? 8: INGROWN TOE NAIL How to Toughen Skin so Nail » Turns Out Itself ‘ A few drops of “Outgro” upon the dm surrounding the ingrowing nail inflammation and pain and toughens the tender, sensitive skin th the toe nail, that it can penetrate the flesh, and the nail SGaturally outward almost over | _ @¥er, anyone can buy from the drug uae @ tiny bottle containing direc “The Goldem Scorpion” By SAX RONMER Copyright by Hobert M. Moltride & Ca demoisel! tn my: she said—"and Mr. Keppel,” ow her out.” She closed the door very quietly. eee CHAPTER IT, Seating himself at tne writing table, Stuart begun mechanically to arrange his papers, Yet he was thinking of Mile, Dorain Until he had met this bew!dering ly pretty woman he had thought that his heart was forevermore proof agninet the glances of bright eyes. He had ne who Mile. Dorain as; he did not even know her pnality, but he stro ed that there was a strain of East ern blood in her veins, Altho she was quite young, apparently little more than 20 years of age, she dreased like a woman of unlimited means, and altho all her visits had been at night he had had glimpses | of the big car which had aroused rs, MoGregor's displeasure, There came a knock at the door. “Come int snapped Stuart irri tably, but the next moment he had turned, eagereyed, to the servant who had entered “Inspector Dunbar has called, sir.” “Oh, all right," mid Stuart, re Dressing another sigh. “Show him in here.” There entered, shortly, a man of unusual height, a man gaunt and square both of figure and “Tice. “Good evening, doctor,” he said and his voice was pleasant and un expectedly light in tone. don't intrude.” | “Not at all, inspector,” Stuart as- sured him. “Make yourself comfort able tn the armchair and fill your pipe.” “Thanks,” mid Dunbar, “T will.” He took out his pipe and reached out a long arm for the totucco jar “I came to see if you could give me a tip on a matter that has cropped up.” “Something tn my lne™ asked Stuart, a keen professional look com. ing momentarily into his eyes. “It's supposed to be a polson cass, altho I can’t see it myself,” answered the detective—to whom Keppel Stuart's unusual knowledge of pols ons had been of service in the past, | “but if what I suspect is true, it's a very big case all sare. “Tell me what that is, doctor,” he said, “and I shall be obliged.” Stuart peered closely at an object which Dunbar placed before bim. It was a piece of curiously shaped unusual way. Rather less than an inch in length, it formed a crescent made up of six oval segments jotn. ed one to another, the sixth termin ating in @ curled point. Stuart look- ed up, frowning in a puzzled way. “It is « most curious fragment of jewelry—possibly of Indian origin,” he said. ef “But what does ft represent?” Dunbar asked. “Oh, as to that—I sald a curious fragment advisedly, because I can- not imagine any woman wearing such a beastly thing. It ts the tail ‘of @ scorpion.” “ah?” cried Dunter, the tawny eyes glittering with excitement. “May I ask where you obtained ithe fragment?” “I'm here to tell you, doctor, for now that I know It's a scorpion's tall I know that I'm out of my depth as well. You've traveled in the East and lived tn the East—two very Now, while you were out there, in India, China, Burma and so on, did you ever come across a religion or a cult that wor. shiped scorpions?” “The answer is no. I am not ac- quainted with any sect of scorpion: worshipers, inspector. But I once met with a curious experience at Su Chow in China, which I have never been able to explain, but which may interest you. It wanted but a few minutes to sunset, and I was anxious to get back to my quarters before dusk fell. Therefore I hur ried up my boy, who was drawing the rickshaw, telling him to cross the canal by the Wu-Men bridge. He run fleetly in that direction, when suddenty the boy dropped the shafts and fell down on his knees, hiding his face In his hands. “‘Shut your eyes tichtly, master? he whispered, ‘The Scorpion is com- ing® “| stared down at him tn amaze. ment, as was natural, and not a lit. tle angrily; for his sudden action had _|almost pitched me out on my head. But there he crouched, immovable, and staring up the slope I saw that it was entirely deserted except for one strange figure at that moment crossing the crown of the bridge and approaching. It was the figure of a tall and dignified Chinaman, or of one who wore the dress of a Chinaman. For the extraordinary thing about the stranger's appear ance was this; he also wore a thick green veil! “Him,” said Dunbar, “It’s a queer yarn, certainly. How long ago would that be, doctor?” “Roughly—five years. “It sounds as tho it might belong to the case. Some months back, early in the winter, we recetved in- structions at the Yard to look out everywhere for any reference to a scorpion. Then, six weeks ago, Sir Frank Narcombe, the surgeon, fell dead in the foyer of a West End the- atre—you rémember.” “Perfectly—an extraordinary case. There should have been an autopsy.” “It's curious you should say so, doctor, because we had the tip to press for one, but Sir Frank’s people had big influence, and we lost. 1 was working day and night for a week or more cross questioning Tom, Dick and Harry and examining shoais of papers to try and find some connec. tion between Sir Frank Narcombe and a scorpion! I had begun to think that the scorpion-hunt had gone the way of a good many other giant gooseberries, when last night the river police got the grapnel on @ man off Hanover Hole—a rich spot for ‘finds.’ He was frightfully bat- tered about; he seemed to have got mixed up with @ steamer’s propeller blades, The only two things by which he may ultimately be identified are a metal disc which he wore on a chain around his wrist and which bore the initials G. M. and the num- ber 49685, and—that.” “What?’ said Stuart. “The scorpion’s tail It waa stuck in the torn lining of his jacket pocket.” (Continued Tomorrow) “Hope 1| gold, cunningly engraved in a most | MOTHER! || Aut } WANT SOME MORE TOAST! 7 DON’T FRECK | | | } ‘ar * OF * and tense, and Perey was holkiing tight to the arms of her chair when the story reached the point where little Gyearcld Libby wns alone out tn the middle of the siough in a little boat on the out going ude. “No,” Libby's mother aamired him, “it that she for got; you see it was springtime and the Skagit river was so full of water that it was way up over its banks and had spread out back and back over the farms and lowlanas and was running tn the salt sloughs, so that the sea water was all mixed with the muddy river water and there was #0 much more of it than asual that instead of just running out cantly as she was used to having it run, it Was rushing out Uke a Mood. “Well, there was my little girl out on the water, and it looked to me as If she must be thrown from the boat. “Oh, Libby? 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Mrs Bruin sighed. “I'll have to do with out my honey,” she said, “and bunt up the place where the grasshoppers live beyond the thorny-bush.” All this time Nancy and Nick and Fiippety-Flap waiting patiently for the bear family to get its brenk fast and come home Flippety-Flap was looking worried. “Do you know, kiddies,” said he, “I'm very much upset,” “Why? asked Nick. “Did you for get something,” don't know whether I did or not,” answered the fairyman. “You see, it's this way, I coaxed the | monkeys back to the circus with rice and a looking-lass, the camel with dried beans and dried peas, and all the other animals with something they liked, even to boxing gloves for the kangaroos, But what to offer the Brown Bear family, I'm sure I don't know. They can get all,the honey they like right here in the woods, also fish, frogs, grasshoppers and earwigs. I'm pretty sure that whether we have a circus or not, we'll have to get along without the brown bears.” Nancy thought that It would be dreadful and #0 did Nick, but no one think of @ thing, DOINGS OF THE DUFFS IN JUST A MINUTE! HOLLER LIKE THAT! SD or KLES AND HIS * _By Mabel Cleland Page 358 OUT ON THE FLOOD David was sitting up atratght| lo passed beyond, Reenne AeN en uats OF INE TM THE SEATTLE STAR RIGHT, SON, Noise Irri NEXT STOP- NINTH STREET- CHANGE FoR [ FRIENDS Goattle _ + * od | “And a big pile of brush would threaten— “Quick, Libby,” I would ery again. ‘Oh, be quick, child, there on your left, that brush pile? “I ran down the shore as I call ed, but fast ae To ran I was no match for the Mood tides. 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From it he could awaken her, hypnotism, he told Daddy Lorin but he warned us that her by hypnotism would her dependent upon him, “Get her out of itl Get her out of Daddy itt i run the risk!” ‘ cave day came ‘ news about Certeia That any defim ite information could reach wa tt x darkest Russia seemed im but that morning, Bob phoned father that he would bring to dinner a famous newspaper correspondent, & fraternity friend, who had returned: from Petrograd. * Jack Mason had a graphic sentences, a story of adver Peter and St. Paul in Petro; had been arrested by the peel lime ary commission which protects ¥ Trotsky-Lenine minority. The be § of his release—his friends had bribed his jailere—were romantic, but what concerned us was his meet Dr. Hamilton Certeia. adh: Mason felt sure that Certels was the leader of the Russian branch-of @ great movement to restore the aristocracy of Europe to its 1918 status. But Certeis never had had any hope of being released after the communists had caught him, He never had mentioned a treasure. hidden in America, He expected te be shot. He had requested Mason to see the Lorimers. Mason. had packed the details in a corner of his mind; he remembered the names an@ — addresses of the persons who transfer to Chrys the bulk of vast wealth. Mason told how Certéls had per. ished. He had talked with Certeis five minutes before he faced the tish riflemen. He had been to see the execution. It was part of the third degree which he was UD