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1k A ~~.5 d. - : ~ a5. PRTI~ OU l I G ~ s-r : I1tLRG:TCRcL F the experience of past years is repeated the an nual celebration of the signing of the Decla ration of Independence this year will cost 200 lives. No more serious results, as far as casual ties are concerned, could be expected from a considerable bat tie. For though the number of dead will be relatively small, the list of wounded will be very large. Probably 20,000 or more will be seriously hurt in one way or another by explosives. Of these more than 100 will lose one or both legs. Nearly 100 boys will receive injuries in the right hand from toy pistols, from which they will die in a lingering and painful manner from lockjaw. ha In the palm of the human hand there is a plexus, or network of nerves. When a toy pistol explodes, or shoots Ia backward, as it is always liable to do, cl the wound inJdlcte is usually in the oc palm; there is laceration of the net work of nerves aforesaid, and lockjaw at is likely to follow. The estimate of 20,000 wounded does not include the slight-hurt, who op will make a much longer list. But of taking the figures given, and leaving w oeat of consideration all destruction of property by fre, it would seem that the nation's bill for iti Fourth of July eslebration is a pretty heavy one. The property loss by fires due to esreless use of explosives, will amount t to at least $500,000. Possibly it may I run up into the millions, but the es timate here given represents merely a an average Fourth of July. People wil throw firecrackers into places where they are likely to start confa- a Sgatis, and skyrockets, which excite aeeh eathuiaslu when they go up, a b hare a deplorable way of comintag down a , pem roots and making misaah f. S T , too, many of the modern klnd : f srewer, sec as the hembs, which i s 1,a1 feat in the air and explode, r .. reasse beutuil showers of varl ,/ rtars, euatn cooaserable Iusae. ofa latlves, nde are - eagereL Cays. Oý ast1 ,r6 t 531, t wI be remembered. -me -peopl were kfled an woanded i~ .mi est setin Re of a o awanu f . " a ah bm s whib had been b E rb ae s or a ireworks em ... n peo iY a sem.w' shsos that 4U3 M e qaisOe of Arewerks wll b , %r the maes talg sen someh eWaaie Isgety their .m .......eY so., wm e m ore - S . Mr . fe a emr lh s bhitM p It the daems bn t ts am sen f e et r n ns t S, ph, aet tha cast a es ade al < ; ', F a N Mr w e ss" ass aagnesLhwebr sew ih the hl1 f1<he me emfr s eh r ** wa s 1hah ae[t the is 40 Isq dean w (e emes f et emd -aa a Ysem tahe s themse set sm * I3tqrJo7 rý 91W as P naft "t %as a mIhe sI m ' *a gasa at M' Wa nhm, hit ~- - - -S ~ - a4sse s omm as Asse r '!w U u~i u; op d b course, most torpedoes are entirely harmless; but some of the small ones, round and very hard, about the size of a marble, which go off with a report like a pistol-shot, are in the deadly class, containing as they do fulminate of mercury. Years ago, as most people will be able to recall, there was a dreadful Fourth of July accident in Philadel phia. A large quantity of torpedoes, of a kind whose sale had been ex pressly prohibited by local ordinance, was exposed on a street stand, kept by an Italian, on one of the busiest down town thoroughfares. Exactly what caused it nobody ever knew, but appar ently a stone thrown by a boy struck the torpedoes, and all of them went off rtogether. They were loaded with dyna mite, and the explosion was tremend ous. Seven children were killed, while ra number of others were more or less 4teriously hurt. A great many of the Fourth of July accidents are caused by children's mls Schief. A boy will throw a firecracker at a girl, for example, buirning her seriously. Then there It the deadly cracker that has failed to explode. and which must be examined sad relighlted. kthe consequence beinag an unexpected , report and possibly the loss of an eye. IThe large crackers, some of which are •a foot or more in length, are really SdaUeroues bombs, and should not be d put in childish hands. No prudent f. SCher would allow his boy to use a toy d canon, with loose gunpowder, which Sis llkely to becoe laittbed with di ýý ýýý STILL AMONG THE LIVE ONES Wemn'. fer TIn W eoel Ma De parted TMhs UN Prwoed As=er, .i beg or paedl. I dial 'b70. asir," h. ma to the hoWer ot the rsIe, "ut auh ibmhu bhms hbrn -swa two desy, oal I eos the ho a howe ba s Mhe ad the strlt uad -r hora *NIbtash isd asti *?r qamled the eaule. "We may hes him to h-t. What sort o a leetoig aa wa be" A abort, th. asent mas, ir. wt aide whiaers asd two reat teeth "Ur. Sde whisheis, oh? Two teat teeth peso? Was he a am shoyto gat is rest oe a mole "Mo was, ai. it he omsht the ear trwa tot h m ed tt aM ea sh trek ; w reas tr." "w was hoe a s le behums" "ie se-r ddgt are his FUe. He so to eryd Ma dmas,sees "Two lays mad a SN, eir, en I "Tes ,I sMg ese · abmset os I ~ Bo "Os se wish red saw he I as l ,. mL d tar rales yer "I ,m bi. t be .r |I e ."-i min to weaL _ ilf Jam bM bo a vinini ao' s- t M sowsme A -ft. sit 1( 1 *1@ Wt AýM ýiM 3sw -4 u, -O b' #0m - -I-. i I- _ _ _ _ N '"Il Ir. astrous results. Indeed, the list of killed and wounded would be enor mously diminished if parents would take the necessary pains to keep toy Spistols, raw gunpowder, and giant fire crackers out of the hands of their chil dren, reserving to themselves also the business of setting off the fireworks b in the evening. If we must have a Pourth of July 0 celebration, let us try to be more sen- a sible about it, and so dut down the 9 number of slain and injured, as well t as the serious property loss of bygone t Fourtha. Guns and pistols are not suitable a playthings for children. The little boy who picks up his toy 1 gun and playfully says, "I'll shoot you," should be taught that even in play he must not point a weapon at another. for it is in just such ways that respect I for life is lessened and involuntary manslaughter ls the result. Thoughtful parents will not give chil- 4 dren such toys. It has been the cus- I tom for many years to celebrate the i Fourth of July with noise and fire works. Children did not originate the prac tice. It is the method shown by their parents, and so each year we have a r slaughter of the innocents equal in r number to the loss in a great battle, t and, as in the days of old, when hu man sacrifices were laid on the altar. we sacrifice to the nation's glory hun g dreds of its embryo citizens. - The man who takes his life in his . hands and goes to battle for his coun e try's protection gives his life to a s worthy cause, but the children whose lives are sacrificed to celebrate the na y tion's birth have given their lives to B little purpose. r Is it not time that parents should r think of this subject, and see if they jy cannot devise other methods of cele d bratlng our national holiday that will , not entail such sacrifices of life and id property? Isit not time that in an age e. when peace and arbitration are in the e air, and when the great nations of the ly earth are steadily advancing toward e the- day when disputes and dlfferemoe ., will bepettled by arbitration, that we y shul4i begin to teach the children h hlgIr Ideals of patriotism than nois s =and qhootlnag? 1_JEW -r ths si de whiskers mad west to a detst belre he was brought Is. rn sorry to disaplat yeo, but we are jte at o iahrt tlehick-t me with ses whiskers Ome my be bro(eht It nmy hbr, however." "If not here thel, he is still salve? gestes the woema, ,as th look a asset at her t "I shl so later, ma'am-eba so hLer. In tact, m'. I am qote sura your hebaa is alive and welL" fUThaks, r--thumbe Toe have't sees him?" "I have, mam. Less than half as hmer aoe he asked a to drk with hm is thaUt saUbo over there, sad tran this waIow yes can asw see hd. stadllg up to the bar, sde whlm hoer sad Jl." "ha heaves, ad I willn over sad take Nhi y t he neck, and ad-- - "Olad to e servie to yeon Ia'am. If I had a short, tck-eat s with s id whiskers and two treat teeth out a si s laide, I weau a it y with plsure, but as I have't, yu'll have t tab up with th o iv enh over there sad ml o e the best at It, Goad dls, ua. Call sh a it ye happen this way, ad I my be is better lash."-P badIh I se*s. Net Tbeb Wya. Fr ay a wees yags MO - I - VIUt? a aW s then i se dse"m -mass I t's mm em R -w to o - W! -so =a a vlri b~b O fth !M bu -Ia M ar M!0 r to a r iw B.M*I Wr~ ii w a ed bw m d ýRiu "a 1is - CA M3f - -WN""as iMML, CýMe rr - em~",a~~ at tb. bps~11 11I arr Imtma4.4. fi ý" , NW, 7 The Cases of Alice Clement True Stories of tie World's Greatest Woman Sleuth as Told by Herself to Courtney Riley Cooper The Invisible Clue (Copyright. by W. 0. Chapman.) Alice Clement was bound for Eu- "'? rope, mission unknown except to her- letter self and the watchers of criminals who "O wear the police stars of the city of ent, Chicago. And, judging from the queer The little smile which Miss Clement gave as y me as we walked down Fifth avenue, the I after our meeting, it seemed that the inal. mission was to remain a secret. burr' "It seems," I said, "that the occa- was sion of your coming to New York of bi ought to be enough to cause you to the tell a little of it anyway." the She directed one of those flashing. the good humored looks at me. the "Can you remember a time when I ever told anything of a case before Iswet I finished it?" she queried. inter I was forced to admit that she was right. Miss Clement continued: past "Besides," with a smile, "New York stop isn't so new to me. I made an arrest selli here once." with It was then that a crossing jam took the our attention from things criminal, cee. and it was not until an hour later, the when seated in the moonlight on the top deck of a Coney Island boat, that man the conversation drifted back. I had said something about the detective stories of fictibn and the wonderful doctors who always are finding crim inals through their scientific investl- back gations. "And yet," said Miss Clement, won "there's many a story of fiction that has its counterpart in real life. For Ing instance, that New York arrest I spoke of was an example of what can be 'Yo done by science. The up-to-date po- abo lice departments are not so blind to he new discoveries as you might think." ar As the story started. I could not just help admiring the picture before me, jou the white clad figure with its hat out shielding the face from the pearl-like flood of the moon, the flash of eyes Uni i now and then as the head turned, the arr M clasped hands-and on beyond the giv rolling sea. gleaming and swirling In the right light. In the distance the tha - shore slid past in black, ever changing shadows. It was a cool night, and the 5 usual crowd of the boat was absent. I- Here and there about the deck, how a ever, sat young men and young wom e en conversing in low tones, or sitting - si; ent and looking out to the thin line 0 of the horizon. Far ahead, a light house flashed its warning. The steam d of the ship's exhaust mixed incongru y ously with the music of the boat or ' chestra. I leaned nearer that I might l hear better. ýd "I can't say that I ever was really Sassigned to a case where murders or * something of the kind have been eon * cerned," Miss Clement had begun. "bpt rd t always seems I am Just happening ° along by accident. This New -York case (I call it that because the case was finished here) was one of those ' aftairs, though not a murder. "I was walking down State street, Chicago, one morning when a crowd around a store cased me to stop. The shattered glass and general wreckage within told of some kind of aceident. I elbowed my way to the door, and there met one of the men from the sentral office. a "'What's happned I Inquired. S"'Sate blowing,' was the answer. S'And It was a realone. The yegman t who did this job must have thought he was a Mount Vesuvius. He nt oaly tore the stere to piees, but he r tried to do the sme thing to tmself.' He polnted to a few spots t bld oa the wal, evidetly where the sate hi blower had been knocked by the a t ploson and cut his head. 'But just the L" same;' the detective continued, 'that t didn't keep him from cleaning the safe et about $10,000 In mqey and paper an and getting away. Aid that's what h gets me. I can't for the life of me ad see how he managed to escape.' Ie "A cursory glance on the out uS- side, however, showed that the matter of escape had been falre U ly easy. An alley was at theft I side of the building, and from there, I by dark routes through a aesavtion 1 . and sa unnalshd bulldng, it was easy I * to reakch Wabashl avene ad the rail t road yards beyolad. I have never made i it msh od a point to spend much time SI erlng out by what method a man I 3lk he eaper. It does't do mch t~ ke ward sading hip. I wenat kat Into 1 i the store. Ii "What o ya think o tt? asked le the cantrl eb o e . man "'It las't what you' a t ihe best chace na the wrmI,' wa as awer.( Tlhees sat a tates ii mas am se ea I la el ea y a up e lwehall a te a I -I Skt that ineg p e eUi P-: Sp o ae m. tLnhat-eMe' "*d had been ding areumI the I ptr W - web.s e snd - sth la a t papers. Tht snm was - The set r had takmn enly the n t is. d eead th4 e eam.* , s ; 'At st,' I -n 'we ens aei ut hstther b is au a l S a whae md "I aW d ·,et a e mo W aT t s asE a ao-d n rba r lset Iauuun -wIei • Wn lsveneuethr e aUd. "Mad nasIh..Qon we br nam e - nhit -e m·e" Ie th ** " enr a" •a "e -aer.i -'4' l I ages "'May I see the pictures and any t letters that have been intercepted?' "Of course," explained Miss ('lem- s ent, "my credentials had been shown. i The object of my visit was, of course, a as yet a secret, with the exception of t the fact that I was looking for a crim Inal. The letters were shown me. II hurried away, and by the next day I t was in Oklahoma City. A sample case 1 of books was under my arm. I found c the house I desired, and knocked at E the door. t "'Is Miss Sexton in?' I inquired of the girl at the door. "'I am Miss Sexton,' came the an swer. "'Your name was given me as being interested in books.' I said as I edged past her and into the hall. I did not stop talking then, but manufactured the name of a publisher, a scheme of selling and everything else connected with book agency. My aim was to get the girl in a room and alone. I suc ceeed in my purpose. Then I locked the door and whirled. "'I want that night letter!' I de manded. "The girl blanched. "'Night letter?' she stammered. "'From Tom Barton,' I snapped back. I had played a 'hunch' and I saw that I had hit the mark. The woman half rose. "'I don't know whom you are talk ing about,' she answered. "'You don't?' I questioned. back. 'You know very well who I am talking about!' I answered. 'You know that he has deserted the United States army, that he now is a fugitive from justice, and that he has wired you to join him. Don't scream or try to get out of this room,' I warned her. "'I have a revolver, and I will shoot. i Until I see otherwise, you are under arrest.' I showed my badge. 'Now give me that night letter!' "The girl, she was hardly more than that, reeled half way across the par ' ý -· s, . ·" " . : ý y i -. ý. r. 1 .* r. I. ·I* I 'C: TMEY~~ ~ ~ RU HT A. H NWEETE? lor sad was iseanig against the pisa" for support. Her face was ghst. Her hands were clasped until the S blood distended the wrist veins like I blue cards. Her breath camoe 1a . Dserted' she asked vaguely, 'd sauted? He told me he was m fuar lough e a meath. We were gong to get married, sad he got the frlough for our trip.' " It will be a mach leager furlough than that,' I gaswered Idly, 'Yn are a id girt. Mis esteam. I can s that. My esmie hers will emale y to eue a grest dl. I doe t dlreo to cam a , es so eioilety tisa is eessarr. But I Msi tEist on your ssalins der ar a few days at a bael. No oe wil maw thei terea .-p iu y give meIy that might iater. O ourwls, will I he plate sflr-e'p paus. bA ,Isi waf t d e the irl, alt steawSg, eam sewar me a few I sn -l enis a I ay e enulee. i pie fa tsio m ay as t* sadl I Smid s* us era Her - anm - were de ie -u i l e O se miles use, the imat alse nit. the eyes wWe A ain bst a almaR at the weate. tat -ee ar ete. A -M iwa ito the a, whes na se tiese " Is seers her ,aL ameor ei, ~ W ist tes Ml. Sean e peat Whe. ed met ia emla t a, m oadtbe-a atedted. R, w n't asi t hear. at he se uiteeyit et a, the desims wiy t oi tt was i. eat lsl mnr heart ' i was less, was her i arlsbli S.ab anwer 'he ati e hats or t Ih I ernd Ltthte.' "As astr lst I Asset the tsei ear AISW INa " a a t3 - f see ~6·Or Itor -'-'p. hi secret until afterward. Wfll tell rea- bi son when I see you. Tom.' " th There came a pause in the narra- w tive. Miss Clement spent a moment in watching the lovelorn actions of a ty shop girl and a floorwalker near the di railing of the boat. She smiled in ft amused appreciation at the effort of at handholding and then turned her eyes to watch the blinking of the light- w house. The story began again. hi "I went to a telegraph station. 1; My wires were not to Tom. however. I but to the office in Chicago. And v when. a few days later, I stepped from the train at Newark, I saw near the y baggage room the familiar faces of it two central offce men. I looked in vain for my deserter. lie was not inl i sight. I walked into the station and ib began to pace the room. Iiscou"r agement had flashed upon me. I had taken every precaution. yet there had been chances for failure. I had trust id I ed the girl in her story that she was the only one wiho knew that Toni had left the fort, in fact. that she was the only girl in the city who knew him at all. And in my haste. I had accepted s that story without further investiga- I tion. I taw now the mistake that was possible. Had this girl played to dis arm me by her expression of deep sor- i row? Iad tlhere Iben someone else who had warned him'? Had- "A sudden fear entered my heart. There was only one chance to find out and that was to learn the possibility of a telegram having been delivered to him at the station. I hurried to the bulletin board to see, if possible. if the name of Tom-1 knew the last name would be changed-had been put there that day. I crossed the room and then stopped with a shock. Before me stood out the chalk-marked words: "'Agnes Sexton.' "I rushed to the telegraph desk and I called for the message. Then with trembling hands I tore open the enve e lope. " 'Have porter show you way to Gramercy Park, New York.' the mes sage ran. 'Will be waiting for you . there at northwest corner at mid 9 night. Can't tell reason. Get direc t tions explicitly.' f "It was signed 'Tom' as the other a message had been. I reached for a o pencil, scribbled my orders on the t piece of paper, then dropped it at the feet of one of the central office men L. as I hurried past. Then 1 started for 'r New York. W "The great, mournful chimes 6f the two-story clock in the Metropolitan a tower were clanging twelve as I turn r- et from Broadway, down Twentieth street and into Gramercy Square. The I streets were deserted, except for a igure huddled against the Iro grst nla of the eighty -ye old park The song of time, played In Its weird, long sounding tones. rang out over the sleepy old park with its doleful mes sage of Days and years Come and go, -Passing on, Passing on. "Prom tenement-lined Third avemue san its opulnng eaanys of slum streeu came the drowsy murmur of late night. An L trata elattered alng Its wheels singng sad beating. I looked far down the street, under the street it as d papere e the watting figures of my detetives. It lesseed the bumpag of my heart to know they were ready. I approached the 4sere by the gratng. is this Gramerey Pirkt I asked. and with a qI glnece aw that, sa eeardl to ordes, my mea were be gilmnal to move oerwNd. The man had started srward a Mt at the right o mo the hadu retarned to his kpe tUm by the ines I emue not ee ek--tbe tm ,rta t- l. Ws t . still brefore = I -pes my wee "1. this oamerev Prit? lesa, eyma th east snier at Low do the aumbers ru r "'Aremd the Meek.' The man bu his i ee tarmed feem me. I luhed rather quely at bs aaswer. 'I don't quite "ude l atd' I .m. Tm a stranger here I New Tek. I don't Iknw anythin about the ity. Cou.mlt you tell me- whk way the mulber rui eret Do they run fro eat to west or rom orth to southr ;"t was thei that the ma turned iem the hses sad with an angry sm e ohis arm, amd a ealdo fthe *.j "lsey i tha wa' hbe a ared I,+. Ue llid at ae... I saw his I - -. - . T,. . . . ..+ 0 4 ¶~i~ biting, kicking man sought to evade the handcuffs and then Tom Barton was started to the station. Utnt Tomti larton ~ as a different type of pers'in from his fiancee. He disregarded ,tetn question. lie re fused ee'ti under threats, to answer anythulnc that was asedl of hint. "At last, hoiw ,vr.r he loti.ked up and with a nti.tr ad l1:tte-l w%' it we had beenll Il til nI.t! u ,hfllin' to obtain-the tia t that i ,he ' L d. i.,r,,• from the I lit iid Stat r arat I l ' tle the real yuir i.!d" nr of he Iletlectives " "\\ !, "r ,. , , i . ,, "' , . the in. h . ,,,,: .. i - , I . of it \\(jft, ' '. liiit ,,, t t iay!, " Thb idet eni ( , I, :,r \ td .am t , the- >>,'t 'ri.r L t, I',o .-,. 'W\ hy taun t } I! let : t,.',,.' l,," ', I,'ve got iouil " tli t dolllla r, ";ud 1..1 t ettitlg 'next ti a '-p:wa han it n,' alone. I "'.A it toi i'.i - it`1.-1.', "' \ Ii . i t: 1iilttr tit m ore than d,. it I tid \e i an!' yOU for 'ra; ki ,it t it i ('ht- ;go, and wxi ethr. ,''u - ,ie ..S illt ( l. . we've got t 0i.. 10.f 1 ''. TI i " I o:n, I .-l s. lt'i ai , tit. "'All right. h." ,,iil t'rove it. I a'in't kl v n tl;r 4'l.t algo. "i .smied hutrg ly S'laven'tt yo I asked. ' Ve'ry well. 'we'll show tihat you lhate. O(Veary, scratch his wrist thi re and take a sample of his mtood' "The man looked iup 'What are you going to do with that?' he asked. "'Prove our case against you, was my answer, and he stared at mle. I "'What have you got up your sleeve?' he questioned queerly. I "None of your business. hold out your wrist. c'aptain. will you send a , man to the liertillon roout for a glass t- microscope slide' I want to put a u drop of this man's blood ion it.' 1- "Barton seemed to squirm in his chair. My mysterious actions were af fecting him queerly. For a moment r he remained silent, watching the oper a ation of placing a small drop of blood e on the microscope slide. He seemed e worried. He knew we had some sort n of information regarding which he ot knew nothing. He began to ask ques tions. His caution seemed to leave ce him. One little admission came un .n guarded from his lips. Another was a- added to it. We began to twist his ac :h count of his actions. And in an hour he bad cofessed everythuing and w willing to go back to Chicago without requisition papers." Miss Clement turned and looked ahead to where a yellowish glar dif fused the sky. "We're getting near Coney, are't we?" she asked. "Yes," I answered, "but that doesn't lnterest me at all right now. What I want to know is how on earth yOU found out that the robber of the sate was a deserter from the army." Miss Clement seed. "I told you of Pltmodlum' PIalcipa un, didn' It" "Yes, but what the same of am Hill is-well, whatever you aid." Again a Iaugh. "I'I have to explain it, I guess," the pretty f , dteetlve said. "When that spot of blood found In the store was plaeed under a microecope It bowed plasmodtum falciparum, or, Is oether words, the Indleatlios of a trop Seal malarial fever, commoe to the Phtltpples. Then, it was a two to oee bet that the perai was a soldier who recently had retused to the ooua try. I lobod up the matter and found that the last regimt to come rm the Phlllg wag omalneed at ert IeavMe aihure wald bo a deserter, to used of moey. After I read the letters that had bees' lter espied. I was mere of this episas ti ever, for I saw he had bees I teadlu to rs married. You se. his plan was to desert get a bunch of mosey, thea leave the country. But it didn't work out." The lltS of Coey fared brighter than ever. Miss Clement turned to again watch the tesder-hearted shop girl and the lovelor floorwalker. "itay things, aren't they?" she asked. peret Jewel. MIstrUes-You have excellent let tsee of sreom data.Nt tt po s Coek-Yis mN. Net a fut whit K *te oat a a body's has 0 01 agt wo .- ' pa mmrn O( dL ·--humm