The evening world. Newspaper, August 27, 1919, Page 17

GE: Tita? fot’ be “arth pats te ati to ane o oir TO CURE SNUFF HABIT— GORGE H.: I know of no cure for ‘the snuff habit other than will-power. Ido not think it causes the pains you mention, ' CATARACT ON THE EYE—MRS. UAURA F.: Nothing but a surgical operation will cure this condition. It is useless for to apply eye washes and bandages for cataract. RED HANDS—LILIZAN B,: Poor carbolic soap for wash. skin covered with pimples. MILK FOR HEALTH—IN@EZ G.: Sweet milk is fattening, nourishing and makes blood. It is especialty rec- omended for and impover- ished blood, and may be made more nourishing by adding a beaten ee to each Skim milk and butter- milk are both nourishing, but not. fattening. Advice on Courtship and Marriage. By Betty Vincent. Birthday Gifts. [OULD a young girl give a young man a birthday present when he has never presented her with a gift? Mae H. writes; “WIN you please tell me tf it would be proper for a girl who ts going out steady with @ young man since May to give him a birthday Present? His birthday is {m October, and as he never gave , me a present as yet, I did not know art aoe ~ wk “ i! th. . tells her the date of his birthday, . “torgetful’ br whether it would be all right for me to give him one.” T am glad a young woman has bronght this question up. No doubt that very question has arisen in mapy girls’ minds, There is a certain type of young man who calls, takes a girl for watks and to the movies, tells her all about himself, his family and his interests in life. Yes, be even but he never, never presents her with @ box of candy, 4 bunch of flowers or 4he usual presents of a* would-be admirer, Now he doesn’t neglect these for reason. He merely lon, & good friend—not a It a girl is willing to accept him in that light, well and good, their friendship Y go on indefinite- ly., But if she gives him the first Dresent you see she immediately alters conditions. Certainly it would netther be = nor wise for a girl to spoil spirit of good fellowship by be- stowing the first present, It would be much better to merely congratu- jate him, by word. Presents are a means of expressing affection and surely no girl wighes to make the first advance, Display Pep. “Bott” writes: “I am twenty- eight years old, have always been a hard worker, and kept in good com- pany, and am now making good money with a seeming good future before me. I have kept company wits a few girls in my time, but they have never seemed to care long for me, Why this is I cannot tell, as I have treated them always like @ gentle- man should. My friends say that I treat them too well and spoil them. Deo you think that is #0? How can I make a like me and get in- terested in me?” By being “interesting” yourself! Be jolly and full of life. Tell a few ‘good jokes, be ready to make a pun jon any little incident that ocours anf ve all be: happy. . No girl likes no matter: how of a leman he may be or how. many th he treats her to a fudge sundae. ———SSSeeSSESS NDOR this heading The Evening World conducts a short daily educational feature Here are the answers to the questions printed in this column yesterday: 1—Galvanized tron is ordinary tron Gpped in molten zinc, a of which is thus applied, the effect being to withstand rust, 2—Anthony Hope Hawkins, British author, who wrote “The Prisoner of Zenda” and other popular, romantic novels. a 3—Andrew Carnegie, died Aug. 11, 1918; his chief philanthropies were the gift of publio libraries and the foundation of @ hero fund. Artzona and to be a form of electrical illamina- tion in the heavens, a form of elec- tro-magnetism, although scientists have not ite cause nor possible effect in the upper atmos- phere, T—A part of a musical composi. tion or rendition; as the fute with the pipe-organ, or the violin with the human voice. &—Tobacco is the vegetable highly taxed by our government. + 9—A fez is a cap, usually of red felt: with a Black tassel, worn in Oriental countries, Turkey chiefly; it is also’ worn a8 @ part the ritual- istic garb of members of an Ameri- can secret society, 10—~The expression, complete, “As mad as a hornet.” NEW QUESTIONS. 1—Who was Daniel Boone? 2—In legal parlance, what is an ar- raignment? 3—What is a “cow-catcher?™ 4—-What color results from an even mixture of red and white? 5—Who is Raymond Hitchcock? 6—Who is Raymond Baker? 7—What is the final word in the expression: “As quiet as a ——?" $—Of what South American coun- fy, 38 the city of Santiago the cap- al? 9—-What is signified by the initials “Ss. O. 8." in military parlance? 10--Who wrote “Paradise Lost \ od — Taking the Sting Out of the Bee AISING bees for the stings pays an Fastern woman better than keeping them for the boney which they would produce, From these stings 1s secured the purest formic acid obtainable, and the cus- tomers are the manufacturing drug- giste.of.the country. During the past twenty-four years this woman has supplied one firm with 25,000 stings annually; other concerns take from 600, to 6,000. each. year, making a Beco A trade’ of 50,000 stings. To produce this number but two colonies of bees are necessary, while it would fifty’ colonies to make an Pre of honey equal in valuc to the stings. ‘The Method of takitg a sting from ds simple, says’ Popular Me- Monthly. The bees are first gathered in a specially arranged box, by ehaking a comb on which they are working over the mouth of the box. but one drawn, the box is opened. As the bees come out of the box they jare attracted to the lighted window jand cluster there on glass or screen. Mra, Beekeeper picks, up the insects by their heads and holding them under a magnifying glass draws the stings, For this purpose a small pair of tweezers is used. The stings are placed in a dish Gilled with milk sugar, which covers them with a coat that prevents decay. Bach sting contains a small amount of formic acid, which is removed by distillation, This acid is used in the treatment of rheumatism by homoeo- pathic physicians, belng adminis- tered in much reduced, strength, while doctors of the regular school use it, reduced one-half, for restoring circulation in cases of ‘paralysis, applying it externally, Formic acid was one of the first of the solld-fat Jacids discovered. It was originally |obtained by distilling common red _ 2iaxt, ip @ room with all the shades soba pA nha ihe Sb Sah ants (Formica rufa), from which the name is derived, a Willin IN Watch With a Poisoned Needle; High Voltage Electric Wires; an East Indian; Convict Who Wants to Confess; Girl With Money Who De- fends Indicted Suspect—and—Read the Story CHAPTER IL. (Continued. ) 6“ NOTHHR wound!” ex- claimed Daley, his news- paper instincts quickly aroused by this addi- tional evidence of mystery. “This is getting interesting!” “It's a cut—a deep one, too," mur- mured Carroll, ag he drew nearer to look. “Wonder what did it?” “Shouldn't wonder but it was done with this!” and Thong held out, on the palm of his large hand, a slender dagger, on the otherwise bright blade of which were some dark stains, “Where'd you get it?” demanded Carroll, “Over on the watch repair table.” Darcy gasped. ‘ “Is that your dagger? snapped Carroll at the jewelry worker, Darcy stared at the keen knife, and then at the dead woman “Who owns it?” and the question snapped like a whip. “I don't! It was left here by”— There was a commotion at the side door, which had been opened by Mui- ligan in order that the men might carry out ‘the body of Mrs, Darcy, There was a shuffling of feet, and a rather thick and unsteady volco asked: “"Lo, Darcy!” went on @ young man, who walked unsteadily into the jewelry store, “Wheresh tha’ paper cutter I left for you t’ ve Pearl's name on? Got take it home now, Got take her home some—somesbing —square myself. Been out al'night —you know how 'tisit! Take wifely home li'l preshent—you know how ‘tish, Gotta please wifely when you = een out al’ night. Wheresh my gold-mounted paper tter, Daroy ?” ‘ “Harry King, and stewed gills again!” murmured Pet "wow! he has some, bun on to the Daley. “Wheresh my papet cutter, Darcy?” went on King, smiling in a fashion meant to be merry, fetta ld Silently the jewelry worker pointed to the stained dagger—it was really that, though deaigned for a paper cutter, ‘The detective held it out, and the red spots on it seemed to show brighter in the gleam of’ the electric lights. “Is that your knife, Harry King?” demanded Thong. “Sure thash mine! Wi ole N’ it in Didn't Bought York lash week. have no hame on it—brought it here for my ole fren’, Darcy, t' engrave. Put wifely’s name on--her namesh Pearl—P- and he spelled it out laboriously «nd thickly. Then Harry King, seemingly for the first time, became aware that all was not well in the place he had entered He turned and saw the body of the murdered woman as the men from the morgue started out with it, He started back as though @ome one had struck hun a blow. "Is she-is she dead? he gasped. “Dead—Mrs, Da “Looks that way,” sald Carroll in gool tones. “You'd better come in here and sit down a while.” CHAPTER Il, ROM a little green book, which, from the evidence of its worn covers, seemed to have been much read, the tall military- appearing ' occupant of a middle seat In the parlor car of the express to Colchester scanned again this pafsage: “And if you rove for perch with a minnow, then It is best to be alive, you sticking your hook through his back fin, or @ minnow with @ book in his Upper yp, and letting bim swim up and down about mid-water, or @ little lewer, and you still keep- ing him «bout that depth with a kK, Which ought to be a very little one; and the way you are to fish for perch with a small frog”—— “Ab-a-a-a!" It Was @ long-drawn exclamation of anticipatory delight, add ‘in the eyes of the military-looking traveler “What? ‘The military-appearing man sat up va iy while the soft light died ON York low York papers’ “Don't want any of them!” “Chicago, then. ‘The latest"—— pers. interrupt me “Look a It again when readl Gadi ne will ts myself!™ 7 The -military-appearing " _ mapped the Sock Sadaina tne Bow’, jot him be boddered wif book palm of one: with @ report tke. “S."\* » that of @ the: causin; sain hen book agent,” objected the ld lady, one the o 5 @ chair across aisle, to Art ¥ @ start. “Are we in? Have we arrived? Is this Colchester?" she asked, sitting up and looking about in ye aurprine, ow. her bonnet very much newsboy, with an down the aisle, “No, madam. It is som yet. rivg. “Gad! what's the world coming to t when @ man can't read what be likes t without every whipper-snapper terrupting him with—Shag! Shag!” he went on, raising his voice from ® murmured whi. louder command. “Porte: man here! Where's t Shag?” “Yes, sah, Colonel! I'm Yeah [ 19, Colo iel!” an with a plcturesuse fring kinky hair, shuffled from quarters, ing @ quiet chat with knight of the whisk broom, lesire, Colonel?” ebuckling, “what do you nincompoop had the infernal au to offer me in the way of “Lain’t got no idea, Col Jeastest in th’ world “He offered me a—detective story, "STEELERQ SO with a jerk {nto sudden stiffness, ” the New York papers— Put off the train! I have to do it I¢ you will allow me I shall be happy to let you know when we ar- where he had been enjoy- asked the Colonel, TU Yih Wy va 1B: ek) cata OC Al * yn Fapen @ bowh or tree where his hole is" —— Onde more the Colonel was happy. Shag sought out the disco od mewshoy, and, chuckling as had his master, banded the lad a dollar “When we start he say to me, the Co ow, Shag, I don’t want t’ be boddered wif nuffin’, “I don’t want t' read no pa- I don't want t' heah ‘bout no ‘battles, marder an’ sudden deaths. I Jest waots grove an’ quict an’ fish!’ He done oo! up heah t' go fishin’ laik he go t’ lots other places, though, he ain't been heah fo’ good many An’, boy, he specially tell me out of bis my Izaak years, ‘traveler “I knows you ain't,” admitted Sha; “1 knows yo’ ain't, but yo’ sells book: whut's de trouble, Whut kind of a book did yo’ offer de Colonel Jest now?” The “A detective story, And say! it's a + slid swell one, let me tell you!” “My marster, Col, Brentnall—dat ¢ little ride ain’t his real name, but it’s de one he g0eg by sometimes—hoe don't care fo’ no detective stories ‘cause he done » make his livin’ an’ mine too, at de- tectin’, He says he don’t ever want read ‘em, ‘cause dey ain’t at all like whut happens, De Célonel was one of de biggest private detectives in de United States, boy! He's sorter m- 1 say, sper to @ r, send my of crimes, murder an’ stuff laik dat, hat rascal an’ dat'e why he done sent yo’ away sorter rough-Iaik.” ou say he's a private detective” asked the boy, his eyes opening wi “Dat's whut he is, “And his name ia Colonel Brent- nall?” asked the boy. jufferin’ taa- poles!” murmured the boy. “And to think I was offering him a detective yarn! Say, no wonder he flew at my Colonel Ashley at this stage of his right yeah! da negro, © of white, the porter’s black “What the still think that itY career was almost an international a book?” figure, Having served with distine- mnel—not th’ tion in the Spanish-American war, among his exploits being the capture of @ number of sples in @ sensational Shag!” manner, he had become the head of “Oh, mab good Lord, Colonel! Not the Police Department in a large city really ia the Kast . ‘The Colonel, after a period of silent, He had continued the work begun chuckling mirth, opened his book jn the army—a branch of the Secret again and read: Service—and had built up the city’ “And, after this manner, you M&Y detective department in an almost catch ‘a trout in a hot: evening. marvelous manner, he himself being When, as you walk by a brook, and one of its keenest slouths, He was shall hear or see him leap at files aiways going to retire; im fact he then if you get a grasshopper”— ‘said he had, but, somehow or other, “Gad! that’s the life!” softly voleed jt was like a singer's farewell, always the Colonel. Then, turning to the postponed. still wajting Shag, he went on: " The fishing rods Shag carried, he “There's nobody in the wide world must have managed to transport ‘who can bring p and quiet to an safely, to the hotel the Colonel was to ry mind like my friend Izaak occupy for a two weeks’ vacation and ton, is there, Shag?” rest, for the military detective was Yo, sah, Colonel, they isn't! No- smiling and good-natured when he took them from their cases and gent- Ashley settled back in his ly placed them on the bed. chair, and, with unfurrowed brow, " “Anything else, Colonel?” asked ad on: Shag, when he had laid out his arr, you shell see or hear him master’s cl and was preparing leap at flies, then if you get a grass- to go to his own apartment in an hopper, put iton your book, with your annex to the hotel line about two yards long, standing “No, I guess that’s all, Shag. Bgt retired now, but still he's chock full Me By Mildre ama A Smart signed here is effee- tively elaborated with hand embroid- adopt the embroidery at the top, while a line of buttons ex- t th without ever inquiring or orem tuinking about the reason for such an afbitrary proceeding. ‘The best man is & relic, of un- mitigated barbarism. ‘The best man who solemnly “stands up" for you ‘will blush when he learns the of his office. He will ee blood ian, origin his bands, and in his ears fesound the #hricks of some maiden who in » former victim of his orutality. Phar ares conte hion, as it still is with cer fashion, aibes t in parts of the Au leader of the gang. a operations of the -other the expedite’. and assisted the hap) man in finding ext gagging The pective bride, ‘An outcome of this primitive pro- cedure was the comparatively recent custom in Sweden that marriage take place only after dark. ‘The eatty what's your hurry?’ “Oh, indeedy I does know yo’ Col- onol!.’ Dat's jest why I don’t wan t N It—it's ‘bout one ob dem hat things? Shag, you rascal, look here! Have you been buying « paper?” or—Colonel—yo' eee—yo' done tole “Oh, out with it, Shag! I'l forgive 1 suppose. What is it?” yell, Colonel, sah, de paper done got in it an ‘count ob @ strange an’ mysterious murder case, an’ "—— “I knew it! I knew it! I could al- most have takem my oath on it!” cried the excitable Colonel, “Here I come to pis place to have some quiet fis! ing in the suburbs, to get @ comp rest, and yet not be too far from ilization, and no sooner do I get off the train than there's @ murder mys- tery thrust right under my _noset Right under my nose! By Gad! I knew it! Shag stood, resting bis weight frat on one foot and then on the other, his head bowed. He was trying to keep from slipping from under his vest, where he had bidden it, @ newspaper, with glaring Diack headlines. Shag looked tinidly at his master, ‘Col, Ashley paced up and dowp the room, pausing now and then to to the dash of rain against the wi dows, for the storm, bearing out its promise of the morning, had lasted ail day. “Shag!” he exploded, “Yes, sah, Colonel.” “You've often heard me talk of Gsh- ing and hunting, haven't you?" ‘Deed an’ I Colonel; many @ time! Yes, sah “Humph! — ¥, Well, detective work {3 @ sort of hunt, isn’t it, Sh ah, Colonel, "Dat's jest what it is! | Many an’ many a time I'se done heab you’ say you's goin’ out t’ hunt dis man or dat woman!” “I see you remember, Shag. Well, now, you black rascal, did you say you've got & newspaper with an ac- count Ip it of @ strange and mysteri- ~ AN UNUSUAL EFFECT GAINE! THROUGH EMBROINERY. Fair |iot d Lodewick: Sh em Petiing Ons Rew Toe Reming Woe Fall Frock. k took to vent his prize from being #1 away from him at the eleven‘ 3 i 255s ils “Humph! A murder myster: here in town. I thought I heard newsboys shouting somet Haten. it at the station, But I didn’ 's killed, Shag?” i Colonel, sah, it's @ poor ele ag! Not another word! How dare you try to get me intorest~ ed in a case when I told you if you~ so much as breathed anything about 7 one I'd borsewhip you! I told you that, didn’t I?” “Deed an’ yo’ did, Colonel!” @reen book. Then, as if in despera- tion, he turned to the shrinking negro and went on: “Yes, sah, Colonel. Yes, sah!” and he made a motion toward the pees that was slipping from under vest. “Why, Colonel,” began the Diack man eagerly, “it's de beatentst mys tery dat ever was-—all bout a mure dered jewelry lady, what’ t her hald busted in with a big roid stating an’ a gold knife stab in her mide, a watch shut up tight in her hand, tickin’ an’ tlekin’ an® tickin”——~ The old colored man turned to the door. His manner wag deject- ed. Evidently he had giver serious offense. 3 Silently he turned the knob, but before he had stepped over threshold he heard 4 volce noftly:* “Shag!” “Yes, sab, Colonel.” “Eh—Shag—before you go, —you might leave me that paper see under your Vest, I may have casion to—glance at it, to seo to-morro' weather is going te be for fishing. (To Be Continued.)