The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1913, Page 15

& QOF FREY LAUNCELOT, SomeTines Kwown AS | Ongerigtt, 1013, by The Pree Pubtishing (ke New York Kvealag World), MR. JARR 1S AGAIN ON A TROUBLE HUNT. 6s W. you'll be late at schoo! again!" cried Mrs. Jarr, petu- lantly, as sent Master Jarr the table to make some changes In attire. “You'll never be President, my son,” @ald Mr. Jarr, solemnly. Magter Jarr paused. Not that he was j pXterested in being President, but he did b wish to don the new broad white collar and flowing tie hx mother had Purchased, for him day before. However, his mother had' gotten these @rticles and was adjusting them, with eundry pokings and turnings around of Master Jerr, though he wére being Invested with these trimmings for pun- iehment. The antagonistic atthude of ‘Master Jarr would have borne out this conclusion. “No,” Mr. Jarr continued, in his best Parental manner, “you will never grow ap and be President, my son, unless you arise early in the morning and xo briskly to your task "Don't you want to be President, irl. “You in your when you are aa bad as advised Mre. Jarr, as she made Mastor Jarr wince with pain as the collar button tweaked his tender flew. ‘This was # gengie reminder toy hus- Band and father that he was in no wire @ contender for the Early Rising Stakes, @, don't Interrupt when I e@ child.” remarked Mr, Set him Jarr. careless habits Jus ‘elothes as he ts. What would I do for ‘@othes if I didn't take good care of the Yow I.get? A dress lasts me"-— Byt thie was getting on dengerous And Mr. Jarr interrupted by ying. that surely there was no harm in ing children with worthy smbi- “The boy MAY be President some day. ‘nd knows?" he concluded, feebly. " replied Mre. Jarr. “Emma, @et me the comb and tet me ove if I Can get.a part in this boy's hair. He's Bot a cowlick just like his father, and fight In front. On! dear! Guoh a bey!" “Yen,” he may be President"—— “T @ont want him to be President and Betty Vinc ; Advic a 0», ° s hard on your, sal The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday. May 5, 1913 HI-1-EIt You Youaurt FIGHTIN THAT MATT! Rv have awful pictures printed of him in the newspapers as an elephant or & donkey or things of that sort,” ‘sald Mra. Jarr. “And it you are going to say if he gets up early in the morning he'll be President, why, I way it te wrong te mislead the child. Your Uncle Henry Sets up early in the morning and bregs about it till he goes tol bed. It has never on HIM President, and % never will” s “lazy Blavinsky says you've got to co to college before you oan be Prosident,” spoke up Master Jarr. “Izsy Slavinsky says {f he wae President he would put Moving pictures in the schools, and he'é have classes in baseball. too.” "Now, Til tell you what'll do,’ said Mr. Jarr. “If you are up early ail this | Week you can go see the Wild West Gat. urday, and Izy Glevinsky ean go along. ‘Oh, goody!” oried the boy, And he hastened through his break- fast and to school to spread the news. ‘The next morning the bell rang from) delow at BA. M.. und the whistle blew | up shrilly from the speakin. tube from basement. * ‘It's me! Tzsy Slavinsky!” came a: volce up’the tube, “I help’ the paper man, and so I'm to call’ Willfe evory | morning #9 he can get ‘up olly to see the Wild West with me!” . Mr, Jarr, who had roused up think- jing the place on fire, laid strict com- mands on Master Slavinsky not to re- Peat the offense. But the next morn- i ramg and the whistle Mew | } me, Gussie Bopier!” called up a! voice. “I'm out mit the meat for breakfast for my father’s customers, | (and Iszy Btavinslxy says I'm to wake up your Wile te ge te the WH West) show!" ‘The next morning and the next the whistle blew and the bell rang till the Jarr household was all roused (ell save Gertrude), but the author of the dle turbance was not disclosed. But, catching Master Slavingky the following evening. Mr. Jarr gave him lemn warning "But," explained the boy, “cowboys Presidents all get up early, Mr. rr. And Witlte and me wante to be "em both.” Against such laudable what could Mr. Jarr say? Tt’ ambitions ent’s e to Lovers The Girl He Cannot Trust. T HE man who marries @ girl hé campot trust ia bound to regret it sooner or later. bd For a time infatuation may close hie eyes and seal his lips, But the moment will come when he will be forced to wee the deceit which he knows has existed ¢!! along, and when the bitterness in his heart will break out in bitter nother will be added tothe iiss of unhappy comment, Then marriages. I haven't much an untrustworthy adult. out realising the wi taught to be truthful and hon "WJ." writes: “A young man loves me but he ie hot-headed, and when he ie angry he says things which hurt me very much. Wil! you tell me how to make Mimi stop acting that way?" T think. 1t'# up to him to learn to con tual bis Lemper. B.", writes: “Ia it proper for » fri to entertain @ young man who has only ec da few times on the stairs in a boarding-house hallway? It, 1a hardly conventional, writes; “A young man pala rable attention but T did not care for him at that time. Now he calls seldom and I have found out that I Jove him. What shall { do?" Be nice to him when you do see him, but {t's a pity you didn't know your own mind earlier, writes: “A certain young man en have been good friends for several years and have found that we love each other, But he won't be in # position. to marry for a-few yours Penger, Do you think I am feolleh te * faith in the possibilities of reform for Children, of course, tell fibs with- rong. In m sew they may be easily thing to do with @ grown pérsen 1s to avoid him—or her. stick to him, as 1 care for him above all others?”: - ' Feeling a# you do you would probably be most unhappy if you did give him up. “8 1." writes: “Should a girl allow @ young man to kiss her and put his {arm around her when she has only known him a short time?” She should not. “A. PL writes: “There are several ' girls whom I pasa every morning, ‘There {is no way of obtaining an introduction to them, and wouldn't it be proper to | speak without one? it would not, | The First Call. “B. writes: “How shall I ente:- tana : Should refreshments be | The, usual method of “entertainment” js pleasant. conversation, pecepaary to gexve refreshments, and they should be of the simplest vartety Mt they ere eseved. > “ I Jute cor METRE IN TIME ‘To ‘THAVE You Suite -suire! SOMETHING'S BURNING NO ITS NOT RAGS , SMELLS mMoRE LIke nee firs | DOWN: STAIRS AND SMELLS -Like RAGS BURNING (Copyright, 1914, by Dodd, Mead & Co.) GYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTiHS, he traction of the pup im Din-polmt—often eo that they are un- mes Haucdn, a ‘coroner's An Abso N D doubt, also, you are acquainted with the fact that the one invariable aymp- tom of morphine poisoning is the con- of the eyas tom th ie CHAPTER V. , (Geatinued.) The Seisrnograph Adventure. HE Coroner's to sea if him. Needless medy, wae ahead of him. “Have you any facts , to that in a moment,” re- piled Dr, Haneon, ‘Let me sketoh the case first, Henry Vandam had become well, very eccentric In hin old a we will say. Aimong his cocentriclt hone Reems to have impreased the new Papers more th: medium and her mani Popper and Mr. How "Now, of course, the case does not xo Into the truth or falsity ‘of spiritualiem, you understand, You have your opin- lon, and 1 have mine: What this aspect of the case involves is merely the char: acter of the medium and her manager. You know, of course, that Henry Van: Gam ls complet under, their control, He paused in to emphasize this point. “You asked me if I was In possession of any facts which have not been given to the press. Yes, I am. -And just there Hee the trouble. They are so very conflicting ar to be almost worse than useless, as far as I can eee. We found near the unfortunate woman pill box with th i It was labelled retiring,’ and bore the name of a certain’ drug- and the initials ‘Dr. C. W. FL’ T am convinced that the Int tials are merely a blind and do not give any clue. The druggist says that ‘a maid from the Vandam house brought in the prescription, which of ‘ae he filled. It te @ harmless enough pre- sceiption—contalns, wiiong other things, four and a half grains of quinine and one-sixth of @ grain, of morphine, -Six capsules were prepared altogether, “Now,, of gourse, my Srat ight have taken It ts not |, or it might even be syicide, But tt cannot be either to-my min only tree of the siz capsules are goi ‘fe : kidney disease one pupil is dilated and the other contracted—they are unsym: metrical. But in this case doth the Pupils are normal, or only @ very Mitie dilated, and they are symmetrical, So far we have been able to find no other poison than the slight traces of mor- phine remaining in the stomach after 80 many hours. I think you are enough of a chemist to know that no doctor would dare go on the stand and ewear to death from morphine isoning in the face of auch evidence against him. ‘The veriest tyro of an expert toxicologist conld too easily confute him." Kennedy nodded. “Have you the pill box anc the pre- scription?” "T have,” replied Dr. Hanson, placing them on the table. Kennedy scrutinized them sharply. "T ohall need these,” he sald. ” course you understand I will teke very «ood care f them. Is there anything else of importance “Really, I don't know, siclan dublously. my province, but think {t important, It's m yhow. Henry Vandam, know, was much more waid the phy- er out of you would as his wife, Perhaps Mrs, Van- bit Jealous—1 don't know. too, had an Interest in spirit- ualiem, though he was much more ply influenced by Mrs. Popper than a i gps! “Here's ‘the: strange part of it. The old man belleves eo thoroughly in rap- pings and materjalizations that he con- stantly keeps a notebook in his pocket in which he records all matertallaations he thinks he sees and t 1 believe in another part of the house, where hp has @ regular seance room, According to his story, he was awak ened from a profound sleep by a of rappings, As was his custom, h noted the time at which they occurred. Something made him uneasy, and he sald to his ‘control’—at least thie is hie atory: “John, ie it about Mary? of “but you. will find maid cain, wae dying. “That was three nighta ago, On of the twe succeeding - nigh: Vandam says he has been awa precisely the eame hour by « and on each night hie ‘contro!’ Raa given him @ message from his dead wild. As & man of ecience, I attribute the whole thing to an overwrought imagination. The original sappings max have been a mere coincidence with the condition of Mra. Vandam, However, kive this to you fw what (t-te worth.” Craig sald nothing, but, es was bis habit, shaded his eyes with the tips of hin fingers, resting his elbows on the arms of his chair, ‘I suppose," “you can give me the necesea “Certalaly,” assented the it @ queer plac There are spirit paintings and spi Photographs in every room, and Van- dam's own part of the house-well, ii ‘copys that's all I oan say.’ “And also I suppose you have pei formed an autopsy on the body and will I allow me to drop into your laboratory to-morrow morning and satisfy myself on this morphine point?” “Certainly,” replied the Coroner’e phy- siclan, “at any time you say." “At ten sharp, then, to-morrow 1 shall be there,” said Craig. “It ls now elght- thirty. Do you think I can see Vandam to-night? What time do those rappings occu “Why, yes, you surely will be able to see him to-night. ‘Me haan't stirred from the house wince his wife died. He told me he momentarily expect sages from her direct when strong enough in her new wot jeve they had some kind of Pact to that effect, ‘The rappin at twelve-thirty.”’ “Ah, then [ shall have plenty of time to run over to my laboratory before seeing Mr, Vandam and get some paratus I have in mind. No, do you needn't bather to go with me, Just kive me a card of Introduction. I'll see you to-morrow at ten, Good-night—oh, by the way, don't give out any of the told me." meson,” sald Craig, when we were walking rapidly over toward the ust Craig. St) Bae fone dumb ag an oyster, wl erowned with success, ‘We had no trouble in get; ndam in his se 5 face wag familiar to me, for I had seen him in public a number of times, but it alte He was ner- 9 the coroner’a physician had . ‘The house was littered with re- minders of cult, books, papers, curious and photographs ould h called dam took great nedy quite won miration for them. ‘They talked about the rappings, and the old man explained where and when they occurred, They proceeded from a little cabines or clowet at one end of the ident that he wae & in them and in the omveyed. carefully noted. everything about the room and then fell to admir- ing the spirit photographs, 1¢ auch they might be called. “The beat of all I a they are too preciou man, “Would you I Cratg assented m left us for # m t un instant © entered th inet, and rne he deposited the mechanism brought from the ratory. The resumed his seat, shutt! the box which he had trough? the meshan- #o that it would not appear that he had left anything about the room. Artfully he led the conversation along ‘ines that, interested the old man until he seemed to forget the hour. Not 60, knew 1 was searing not display, said the ol to eee the y, and ¥ et the New Yorkers brtom -» “Got Their Start i i i g | | 4 [ é t : j i H rf | ! Hf j i Hf “ g i | i Hi i i A F i i l f g a 7 ; A Fi IE | | ¥ | ; | 3 st i | ! i i i i £ i £ t i ? f i i "i tig i i rf j I i s I | : " ? ji? ; i : 3 g i i : i i i 3 i ii rH t I H tf H j ue a2 i 2? z a o qreerty aE i ; g ii j site 2x3 EF § STig I : : R if is i Hf i “e f ! i I i | f i i : i af if | “4 Es & 23 r i i Pi | 4 HI i fi whole citizenship idea shall ulated and so organise iteett vance the ends schoo! extets ri In @ word, it just gece one step ther than the present publie sohee! which promotes the ewilising arte. [ iy {: Hid rea, jeclonces and educates toward making the citisen. ‘With the new laqw ft will be possible for you and me to go to the schoo! as past twelve. The more more uncanny 4id this of apirite seem to me. rapidly reaching the point where I could have sworn that once or twice something as ty Sreshen by igo ap! rap! rap! rap ‘ : Five times came @ curiously hollow noise from the catinet.” If 1¢ had been possible I should certainly have fied, it wae eo sudden and unexpected. The etruck the half- Handel ey talked the @nd room hall clock downstairs hour in those chimes written by for St. Paul's. Craig leaned over to me and whispered hoarsely, “Keep perfectly atill—don't move @ hand or foot.” ‘The old man seemed utterly to have forgotten us, “Ip that you, John?” he asked expectantly. Rap! rap! rap! came the reply. “Ws Mary strong enough to speak to me to-night?’ ‘ Rap! rep! rep! makes her enhappy? What » ‘ * teks Ck ti Bilin it '