4 CHOSEN PRINCIPAL FORJENTRAL RICH Coatluurd From First I'lir. New Jersey mun was tbe unanimous choice of the committee, which inter viewed thirty-five candidates in person iu Harrisburg, in their homo cfties or in some convenient place. The com mittee spent parts of two weeks on a tour which included Wilkinsburg, Pittsburgh, Butler Titusville, Lancas ter, West Chester, in Pennsylvania, an<l Passaic, Jersov City, Long Branch •nd Lambertville, in New Jersey, and Ifew York City. The committee re ceived between sixty and s*wnty ap plications. Mr. Dibble's election was for one year and his salary was fixed at the minimum, which is $2,500. Best Qualified of Applicants In recommending Mr. Dibble to the Bbard the committee reported that they believed him to be the best quali fied" of nil those who have been under consideration, reporting further: "He is highly respected in his com munity, is an excellent disciplinarian, a good supervisor of teachers, a stu dent, and is well spoken of by the members of his Board. He also bears personal recommendations as to his worth and efficiency from Arthur D. Hadley, president of Yale University; the entire School Committee of Adams. (Mass.; the military commandant of the Staunton Military Aacdemy, the • Board of Education of Berlin, N. H., and his county superintendent in New Jersey. "Mr. Dibble impressed the entire committee so favorably that there has been no difficulty whatever in arriving at a unanimous decision." Experience of New Principal Mr. Dibble is forty years of age, married, and a member of the Protest ant Episcopal church. He is inter ested in music and a friend of ath letics. He was educated in the Albany Academy, Wesleyan University, the Al bany Normal College, an\l the graduate school of Yale University. His experi ence includes the principalsliip of the Adams, Mass., and Berlin. N. H., high schools for seven years; the head mas tership of military academies at Staunton, Va., and Mohegan Lake, N. Y., for three years, and the supervising principalship of the schools of Lam bertville, N. J., for three years. He has also been principal of the State Summer School for Teachers, at Phil lipsburg, N. J., for the past two v e ars and is a member of the New Jersey State Council of Education. Committee That Made Selection The committee appointed to recom mend a man for the vacancy caused by the death of Professor William S. Steele included Harry A. Bover, presi dent of the School Board; D. D. Ham melbaugh, secretary; Professor F. E. Downes, city superintendent; H. B. Bretz, chairman of the Teachers' Com mittee of the board, and Director Adam D. Houtz. The sense of a resolution passed by the Board some time ago, that the prin cipal take up his duties in Harrisburg as soon as possible, will be lived up to despite the fact that Mr. Dibble's contract with the Lambertville School Board cannot be terminated for thirty days under the New Jersey code. The Lambertville board will co-operate with the Harrisburg board in allowing Mr. Dibble to come here for a time prior to the expiration of his contract. HIGHWAY CHIEF TAKES OATH Cunningham Says He Does Not Plan to Make Any Immediate Changes It was a bit of sentiment that im pelled Robert J. Cunningham, the new State Highway Commissioner, to prefer to have the oath of office administered . to him to-day by Secretary of the Com monwealth Woods. The men served in the Senate ut the same time and are elose friends. When Mr. Cunningham was here last week Secretary Woods was absent at his home in Westmoreland county, so >Mr. Cunningham did not take the oath. This morning he went to the State Department, where he was "sworn in" by Secretary Woods and tiled his bond. Commissioner Cunningham says he contemplates no radical changes in his department at present, as he prefers to await until he is better acquainted before considering any changes of im portance. He had a short conference with Governor Brumbaugh after taking the oath of office, and then took up the active dutiet of his department. The new Commissioner met a num ber of old friends who were with him in the Senate of 1907 and a number of departmental attaches and others. JUNIORS PLAN EXHIBIT Sunday School Teachers of Allison Hill Invited to Market Street Church The Junior Department of the Sun-1 day school of the Market Street Bap- ! tißt church. Fifteenth and Market j Streets, will give an exhibition of the j graded Sunday school work to-morrow 1 evening at the church at 8 o'clock. j There will be drills. duets and solos I and a general discussion of the work I by the Juniors. At this time the books ' of the Juniors for the last quarter will be on exhibition. They will be sent j next week to Los Angeles, Cal., to the Northern Baptist Convention. Every body is cordially invited, especially the superintendents and Sunday school teachers of other churches of Allison Mill. Refreshments will be served to : all. PROBABLY BITTEN BY SNAKE Believing that he was bitten by a snake while fishing across the river this morning, Howard Anderson, a molder for the Pennsylvania Steel Company, residing at 1721 Susque- [ hanna street, was admitted to the ! Harrisburg hospital where he had the j left thumb dressed. Anderson said he was sitting on a . rock when he felt a stinging sensa tion enter his thumb. As it did not i go away he feared a poisonous snake j bite. Trailing Arbutus Howled Down Another effort to have a state flower designated for Pennsylvania failed in tbe House this morning. Mr. Baruett, of York, attempted to submit for the approval of the House the trailing ar butus. The time for the introduction ! of bills having passed it was necessary to get unanimous consent ,to introdurq this bill. Ther«j were howls of disap proval when the title of the bill was read to the House for information and the bill was not introduced. A Million for Good Roads Up to date the Automobile Bureau of the State Highway Departmedt has issued 111,381 licenses and received and turned into the State Treasury 11,215,241, all of which will be ap plied to good roads. MANY IN HJIRRISBUIIG USE FAMOUS COMPOUND The famous mixture of buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., known as Adler i-ka, is much used here in Harrisburg. This is the most complete bowel cleanser ever sold, being even used suc cessfully in appendicitis., Just ONE SPOONFUL relieves almost ANY CASE of constipation, sour/ or gassy stomach. ONE MINUTE after Adler i-k'a is taken the gasses rumble and pass out—the INSTANT action is sur prising. G. A.'Gorgas, druggist, 16 North Third street and Pennsylvania Railroad Station.—Adv. MRS. STORY READS D. A. R. Re elected President Cteneral by 234 Majority Over Mrs. George T. Guernsey In. Vote of 1,156 By Associated Press. Washington. April 22.—With the long drawn out fight for control of the national organization of the Daughters of the American Revolution over and with the faction headed by Mrs. Wil liam Cumming Story, of New York, to direct its destinies for another two years, delegates to the annual congress again settled down to-day to cleaniug up the routine business before them. The rosults of yesterday's balloting, announced early to-day, showed that ■Mrs. Story had been re-elected presi dent general and her complete ticket were elected to office by substantial majorities. Mrs. Story "received 695 of a possible 1,156 votes, 461 going to Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey, of Kansas, the opposing candidate. When the result was announced the congress rose en masse and cheered the successful candidate, in which the sup porters of Mrs. Guernsey joined. Mrs. Guernsey was one of the first to offer congratulations to Mrs. Story. In an address following the an nouncement of the outcome of the elec tion Mrs. Story pledged herself to work for the good of the organization, urged the co-operation of the delegates and expressed the hope that past differences would be forgotten. To-day's session was devoted to the presentation of reports from commit tees and by Stato regents. FIRE DESTROYS 5 STABLES Homes Saved By Changing Wind and Blocking Ice House—Neighbor ing Town Gives Assistance (Special to the Star-Independent.) New Germantown, April 22.—A lire which destroyed five stables, several out buildings as well as much smaller property, resulted in a heavy lose here Tuesday afternoon. The fire started in j the stable owned by John Fry, but by j the time a bucket brigade was formed | the flames had already reached the ad- ! joining buildings. At the cry of fire and the ringing of the church bells a large force re sponded, but already much time -was lost, as the majority of male residents were at work on the State road some distance away. Excellent work on the part of the town residents, together with the changing of the wind and the blocking of the flames by a number of ice houses prevented the fire reach ing any of the homes. Assistance was also given to the town people by a number of men from Blain, who came to the scene in six automobiles. The staibles burned were owned by Elias Snyder, John Fry, Mrs. O'Donnell, Verne Smith arid Jo seph Johns. PLAN TO INCREASE TAX OX ANTHRACITE ABANDONED Announcement that the plan to in crease the tonrage'tax 011 coal from two and one-haif per cent, ad valorem to three and one-half per cent, had been abandoned was made last night by Chairman C. J. Ronev, of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, whep anthracite coal operators pro tested against any increase in the tax. Major Everett Warren, Scranton, led in the attack on the tax generally, and in the course of his argument declared that the anthracite coal operators had not increased the cost of coal beyond the actual amount of the tax. The average increase was six cents. He prophesied, too, that if the workmen's compensation law is enacted, as pro posed. the coal companies will add from six to ten cents a ton to cover that expense. COURTIiduSE : j Judges at Elkin Dinner | Judges Kunkel and MeCarrell have I gone to Philadelphia to attend a din i ner that is to be given by Justice John i P. Elkin of the State Supreme Court. Will Probated The will of Amanda Sidle, late of Harrisburg, was probated this morning and letters granted to Elmer D. j Weaver. Marriage Licenses j Lloyd C. Grove, Lower Swatara ! township, and Sue M. Gilbert, Middle town. George W. Pee<lin, Pine Level, and Beatrice M. Wilson, Highspire. Edward F. Gotshall, Middletown, and Amanda H. Arnold, Hershev. , Building Permit Blough Brothers got a permit this 1 morning to build an addition to their | factory building at Wyeth and Basin I streets coating S6OO. Cveta Poporiski j (jot papers to build a two-story brick 1 house on Christiana street, costing | S6OO. Love Laughs at Age Age made no difference to ttfb Rev. Solomon W. Hutchings when he made up his mind to marry Mrs. Agnes Dan gerfield. die is 70 and she is 56. and 1 they took out a license here yesterday. The prospective bridegroom is a colored pastor of Burlington, N. J., and hig fiancee resides in Harrisburg. Both ■tfere married once- before. Samuel Wolfe i Bankrupt John T. Olmsted, referee in bank ruptcy in this Federal district, has giv en notice that Samuel Wolfe, a Hum melstown merchant, had been adjudicat ed a bankrupt. Wolfe's creditors will meet in the office of the referee May 1 at 10 a. m. and elect a trustee to take charge of the eßtate. . " .. •. • • .\• •' .. : '-r / HARRTSBIiBO STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING. APRIL 22. 1915. FOREST FIRE SPREADS IN CUMBERLAND Cwtlini Frm Pint P«f*> tector and every deputy fish and game protector, together with all available employes of the forestry department be immediately called into active flre fighting service in the districts where fires are raging and that if necessary even the home companies of the Na tional Guard be called out. We also re spectfully suggest that a proclamation from Your Excellency asking all good citizens to turn out and fight fires in their home localities would bring thou sands of volunteers into this work." Forest Fires Extinguished Hagerstown, Md., April 22.—Forest fires which have been raging in Wash ington county, Maryland, and Franklin county, Pa., for the past ten days or more ar® extinguished. Yesterday the mountains looked as clear as in the late fall when early frost clear the atmosphere. Thi rain which swept this section put the finishing touches on some of the worst mountain confla grations that have visited here in years. CHARGES MINORITY SEEKS TO RUN A WATER COMPANY C*atla»4 Km* First Fua manent, as requested by the plaintiff. The court's order was made on the ap plication of Charles H. Bergner and Jesse E. B. Cunningham, as counsel for the plaintiffs. Sterling Company Officers The officers of the Sterling company are: J. B. Whitworth, superintendent; G. Schoffstall, president; B. W. Fees, vice president; John Pfeiffer, treasur er; H. T. Bressler, secretary; A. W. Long, Pierce Maher and P. W. Shaw, directors. The plaintiff concern alleges that the whole purpose of the defendants, which the court now prohibits, at least tem porarily, being carried out, was to take over the plant—which the defendants formerly controlled—since it has been operated recently with more financial success than before the Sterling con cern went into control. In the statement of the attorneys for the plaintiff it is charged that prior to April 27, 1910, the Williamstown water system was operated by the Wil liams Valley Water Company, a con cern then in the control of the United Water, Gas & Electric Company, of Camden, N. J. Ninety-five shares pf the outstanding stock of the New Jer sey company, of par value SIOO each, were owned by one P. B. Shaw, of Wil liamsport and Philadelphia. On April 27. 1910, it is charged, the Sterling company bought 57 shares of the United stock from Shaw, the controlling stockholder, for 157,000 and thereupon proceeded to reorganize the Sterling for the United companies. The same officers and directors of the Sterling company, who last week were ordered to "get out" and who now are protesting .also were elected to head the United Water, Gas & Electric Com pany, of Camden. The plaintiffs' petition makes no reference to what happened during the next succeeding five years, but it recites that the stockholders of the United company, on April 8, last, reorganized •n Camden bv electing these directors: B. W. Fees, John Pfeiffer, H. T. Bress ler. P. B. Shaw, W. N. Snyder and Lew is Starr. A week later, the bill sets forth, these directors elected the fol lowing officers. President, B. F. Fees; vice president, W. N. Snyder; secretary, H. T. Bressler, and treasurer, John Pfeiffer. A day later„the bill recites, the defendants in this suit acting as stockholders, held a special meeting of the Williams Val ley Water Company, the underlying company in the city of Philadelphia, "which meeting was held without no tice to the directors and officers of the Sterling' Company, excepting Shaw, and which was held in contravention of the Williams Company's by-laws, "the de fendants elected themselves directors. Try to Oust Superintendent Immediately thereafter the new di rectors elected officers as follows: B. F. Shaw, president; George Parkman, secretary av.d treasurer. At this meet ing, it is charged, a resolution was adopted directing the dismissal of J. B. Whitworth, the superintendent of the Williams Valley Company, and fur*- ther giving the new president author ity to take over the company's books, business and money. All the time the Williams Valley wa ter system was being operated by the Sterling Consolidated Electric Company as the holding company, yet, it is allegd. the new "president" authorized the Williams Valley Company's moneys to be placed to' the account of the Wil liams Valley Water Con.pany in the Williams Valley bank, in Williamstown. Bhaw, it is charged, took this step on April 19, and at the »ame time also undertook to oust Whitworth by ap pointing one Charles 'M. Adams as the new superintendent. Then came the pro tests from the heads of the Sterling Company and they decided to resort to legal action. The injunction the Sterling obtained today prevents the new "officers" from interfering in any way with the affairs of the company. Whether this rule is to be made permanent will be determined bv the Court after the hear ing on Tuesday. START MUNICIPAL FOREST 1,000 to Participate in Tree Planting In Wildwood Parle Harrisburg municipal forest will be started to-morrow afternoon when 1,000 school children will participate in the planting of 2,000 red pine trees in Wildwood Park in celebration of Arbor Day. Holes for the trees were made by workmen to-day in readiness for the planting to-morrow. The Civic Club of Harrisburg is co-operatin'g with the park department in the success of this celebration. Many members will be present at the exercises to-morrow. Miss Mira Lloyd Dock will epeak. City Supervisor J. J. Brehm and City Forester Harry J. Mueller will be in charge of the trje planting. Only the Camp Curtin school chil dren will praticipate because of the inability to carry the children of the other schools to the park. Mrs. Florence B. Guyer Mrs. Florence Boyer Guyer, aged 27 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Boyer, died at her home, Seventh and Woodbine streets, this morning at 12.15 o'clock. She is survived by two sons, Ralph and Walter H. Guyer. Fu-* neral services will be held to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock. LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY Cwtlaunl From First P>(« formation from Petrograd they vers put to rout, with large losses. In France and Belgium yesterday there was a continuance of the minor operations such as have been under way of late. Small successes are claimed by the Germans but the French communication gives no new details. A Geneva dispatch says Austrian and German subjects in Switzerland have been recalled to their respective | countries. It Is also reported that the ! Italian government has requisitioned all Italian vessels engaged in trade with the United States. The deadlock in the negotiations be tween Austria and Italy has been broken, and hopes of a settlement of the questions at issue without resort to arms have been revived in Rome. It is not known by persons other than those closely concerned what change has taken place to relieve the apparent ly hopeless situation, but Rome assumes that either Austria or Italy has made some concession. Italy has been repre sented previous as demanding in their entirety the Trent and Istria districts as well as the Dalmatian islands in the Agean sea where Austria was believed to be willing to yield only a compara tively small part of this territory. A strong Turkish army is preparing to offer resistance to the land forces with which the allies expect to attack the Dardanelles fortifications from the air. An Athens dispatch says the Turks have entrenched themselves strongly along the coast of the gulf of Saros. It is in this vicinity, according to unofficial advices yesterday, that 20,000 British and French troops have landed. Turkish encampments along the coast are being bombarded by war ships of the allies. The determination of the German of fensive and the high cost to the allies of an advance are shown again in the fighting near Ypres, as when the Brit ish took Ueuve Chapelle last month. Since the capture of Hill No. BO by the British the Germans have made one attack after another in the attempt to regain this important strategic posi tion. The losses on both sides are be lieved to run into the thousands. So far as has been disclosed, the British have succeeded in retaining the hill. Petrograd reports that during the last fortnight there has been artillery fighting in Northern Russian Poland, near the East Prussian frontier. The Russians are said, to have won the ad vantage. The check to the Russian ad vance in the Carpathians, ascribed in Berlin to Russian defeats, is said in Petrograd to b« due to spring floods, which make maneuvers difficult. WETS JOB FROM KING GEORGE Harrisburg Lawyer Will Act as Com missioner at His Majesty's Request King George V, ruler of all Great Britian, again has called on Harris burgers to take part in a legal action that is pending in the Vancouver, B. C., courts. He to-day commissioned Frank J. R-oth, of this city, to conduct a hearing here in a civil suit between the United Iron Works and the Mainland Ice & Cold Storage Company. Charles C. Stroh is to appear for the defense and William if. Hargest for the plaintiff. John T. Brady, of this city, was ap pointed alternate commissioner. A Vancouver engineer will arrive here on Monday and the hearing will be begun, probably in the Court House, immediately thereafter. Samuel Wilson Samuel Wilson, aged about 65 years, died this morning at 8.15 o'clock at the 'Harrisburg hospital, where he was admitted yesterday. He was an inmate of the Dauphin county almshouse for a a num'ber of years. Organ Recital at Bethel A. M ,E. Prof. William G. Braxton, organist of Metropolitan A. M. E. church, Wash ington, D. C., will give an organ re cital at Bethel A. M. E. church, Briggs and Ash streets, this evening at S o 'clock. NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS New fork, April 22. Open. Close. Alaska Gold Mines ... 39% 39% Amal Copper 78% 78% Amer Beet Sugar .... 4 7 47% American Can 37 35% <lo pfd 98 %98 Am Can and Found Co 53% 5414 Am Cotton Oil 50% 51% Am Ice Securities .... 32 32 Amer Loco 53% 52% I Amer Smelting ~. . > 73% 74% American Sugar 110% 111 14 j Amer Tel and Tel .... 122% 122 I Anaconda .. . 37% 37% ; Atchison 103% 103% j Baltimore and Ohio ... 78 77% j Bethlehem Steel 141 142% Brooklyn R T ....... 92 91% California Petroleum . . 18% 18'/, Canadian Pacific .... 170 169% Central Leather 41% 41 ~ Chesapeake and Ohio . . 48% 47% Chi, Mil and St Paul . . 96% 95% Chino Con Copper .... 46% 46% Col Fuel and Iron .... 32% 32 Consol Gas 122% 128% Corn Products 14% 14% Distilling Securities ... 29% 28% Erie, Ist pfd 44% 44% 1 General Electric Co. .. . 153 153 Goodrich B F 48% 47% Great Nor pfd 121 " 121 ~ Great Nor Ore, subs ... 37% 37% Interboro Met 21% 20% Interboro Met pfd ... 74% 73% Lehigh Valley 144 143% Mex Petroleum 91 91 Mo Pacific '... . 14 14%' National Lead 65 64% ' New York Cen 90% 90 I NY, N H and H 68% 67% j Norfolk and Western . 105 105 Northern Pacific 110% 110 Pacific Mail 19% 19% Pennsylvania R R .... 110% 110% Pittslnirgh Coal 23 23 do pfd 93 92 Press Steel Car 43% 45% Ray Con. Copper 23% 24% Reading 154% 15? Repub. Iron and Steel . 29% 29 Southern Pacific 94% 93 Southern Rv • 18% 18 do pfd 59% 58 Tennessee Copper 33% 33% Union Pacific 132 132 U. S. Rubber 69% 68% U. S. Steel 58 57 do pfd 108% 108% Utah Copper 68% 69% Western Maryland .... 25 24% W U Telegraph 68% 68% Westinghouse Mfg .... 84 82% Chicago Board of Trade Closing Chicago, April 22.—Close: Wheat—"May, 160%; July, 135%. Corn—May, 77V4; July, 80%. Oats—May, 57%; July, 55%. Pork—July, 18.10; Sept., 18.50. I<ar<i—July, 10.40; Sept., *10.65, Ribs —July, 10.42; Sept- 10.80, \ * The Exploits of Elaine A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture. Drama ~71 By ARTHUR B. REEVE II " !J TK* Well-Known Nootlhl and the || || Creator if the "Craig Kennedy" Sloriet II Praacated in Collaboration With the Pathe PUytrs and the Eclectic Film Company Copyright, 1814. by the Star Company. All Foreign Righto Bewared CONTINUED "Come on," cried Kennedy, beckon ing us on. Quickly he rushed through the house. There was n«t a thing in It to change the deserted appearance of the first floor. At last it occurred to Craig to grope his way down cellar. There was nothing there. Kennedy bad been carefully going over the place, and was at the other Bide of the cellar from ourselves when I saw him stop and gaze at the floor. 'Hide," he whispered suddenly to We waited a moment. Nothing hap pened. Had he been seeing things or hearing things, I wondered? From our hidden vantage we could now see a square piece in the floor, perhaps five feet In diameter, slowly open up as though on a pivot. The weird and sinister figure of a man appeared. Over his head he wore a peculiar helmet with hideous glass pieces over the eyes and tubes that connected with a tank which he car ried buckled to his back. Quickly he closed down the cover of the tube, but not before a vile effluvi um seemed to escape, and penetrate even to us in our hiding places. As he moved forward, Kennedy gave a flying leap at him, and we followed with a regular football Interference. It was the work of only a moment for us to subdue and hold him, while Craig ripped off the helmet. IL was Dan the Dude. "What's that thing?" I puffed, as 1 helped Craig with the headgear. "An oxygen helmet," he replied. "There must be air down the tube that cannot be breathed." He w4nt over to the tube. Carefully he opened the top and gazed down, starting back a second later, with his face puckered lip at the noxious odor "Sewer gas," he ejaculated, as he slammed the cover down. Then he added to the policeman: "Where do you suppose it comes from?" "Why," replied the officer, "the St. James viaduct—an old sewer —Is some where about these parts." Kennedy puckered his face as he gazed at our prisoner. He reached down quickly and lifted something off the man's coat. "Golden hair," he muttered. "Elaine's!" A moment later he seized the man and shook him roughly. "Where is she—tell me?" he de manded. The man snarled some kind of a re ply, refusing to say a word about her. "Tell me," repeated Kennedy. "Humph!" snorted the prisoner, more close-mouthed than ever. Kennedy was furious. As he sent the man reeling away from him he seized the oxygen helmet and began putting It on. There was only one thing to do—to follow the clue of the golden strands of hair. Down into the pest hole he went, his head protected by the oxygen helmet. As he cautiously took one step after another down a series of Iron rungs Inside the hole, he found that the wa ter was up to his chest. At the bot tom of the perpendicular pit was a narrow, low passageway leading off. It was Just about big enough to get through, but he managed to grope along It The minutes passed as the police and 1 watched our prisoner in the by the tube. I looked anxiously at my watch. "Craig!" I shouted at last, unable to control my fears for him. No answer. By this time Craig had come to a open chamber, Into which the viaduct widened On the wall he found another series of Iron rungs, up which he climbed. The gas was terrible. As he neared the top of the ladder he came to a shelf-like aperture In the sewer chamber, and gazed about It iP1.... SI 1 / m '---' iJWiiiHM Ae Craig Kennedy Turn* on the Current Elaine's Chest Slowly Begins to Rise and Fall. See "Exploits of Elaine," Tenth Episode, In Motion Pictures, Victoria Theatre, Saturday, April 24 READ THE STORY IN THE STAR-INDEPENDENT EVERY WEEK was norribly dark. He reached out and felt a piece of cloth. Anxiously he pulled on it. Then' he reached further Into the darkness. There was Elaine, unconscious, ap parently dead. In desperation Craig carried her down the ladder. With our prisoner we could only look helplessly around. "By George, I'm going down after him," I cried in desperation. "Don't do it," advised the police man. "You'll never out " One whiff of the horrible gas told me that he was right .- "Listen," said the policeman. There was, indeed, a faint noise from the black depths below us. A rope alongside the rough ladder began to move, as though some one was pulling It taut. He gazed down. "Craig! Craig!" I called. "Is that you?" No answer. But the rope still moved. Perhaps the helmet made It Impossible for him to hear. He had strugtled back in the swirl ing current almost exhausted by his helpless burden. Holding Elaine's head above the surface of the water and pulling on the rope to attract my attention, he could neither hear nor shout. He had taken a turn of the rope about Elaine. I tried pulling on it. There was something heavy on the other end, and I kept on pulling. At last I could make out Kennedy dimly mounting the ladder. The weight was the unconscious body of Elaine which he steadied as he mount ed the ladder. I tugged harder and he slowly came up. Together, at last, the policeman and I reached down and pulled them out. We placed Elaine on the cellar floor, as comfortably as was possible, and the policeman began his first aid mo tions for resuscitation. "No—no!" cried Kennedy. "Not here —take her up where the air is fresher." With his revolver still drawn to overawe the prisoner, the policeman forced him to aid us In carrying her up the rickety flight of cellar steps. Kennedy followed quickly, unscrewing the oxygen helmet as he went. In the deserted living room we de posited our scnseiesß burden, while Kennedy, the helmet off now, bent over her. "Quick —quick T" he cried to the offi cer. "An ambulance!" "But the prisoner," the policeman Indicated. "Hurry—hurry; I'll take care of him," urged Craig, seizing the police man's pistol and thrusting It into his pocket. "Walter, help me." He was trying the ordinary methods of resuscitation. Meanwhile the offi cer had hurried out, seeking the near est telephone, while we worked madly to bring Elaine back. Again and again Kennedy bent and outstretched her arms, trying to in duce respiration again. So busy was I that for the moment I forgot our prisoner. But Dan had seen his chance. Noiselessly he picked up the old chair in the room and with It raised was ap proaching Kennedy to knock him out. Before I knew it myself« Kennedy had heard him. With a half Instinc tive motion he drew the revolver from his pocket and, almost before I could see It. had shot the man. Without a word he returned the gun to his pock et and again bent over Elaine, without so much as a look at the crook, who sank to the floor, dropping the chair from his nerveless hands. < Already the policeman had got an ambulance, which was now tearing along to us. Frantically Kennedy was working. A moment he paused and looked at me—hopeless. Just then, outside, we could hear the ambulance, and a doctor and two attendants hurried up to the door. Without a word the doctor seemed to appreciate the gravity of the case. He finished his examination and shook his head. "There is no hope—no hope," he said slowly. Kennedy merely stared at him. But the rest of us Instinctively removed our hats. Kennedy gazed at Blaine, overcome Was this the end? It was not many minutes later that Kennedy had Elaine In the little tit ting room off the laboratory, having taken her there in the ambulance, with the doctor and two attendants. Elaine's body had been placed on a couch, covered by a blanket, and the shadeß were drawn. The light fell on her pale face There was something Incongruous about death and the vast collection of scientific apparatus, a ghastly mock ing of humanity How futile was it all in the presence of the great de stroyer! Aunt Josephine had arrived, stunned, and a moment later Perry Bennett. As I looked at the sorrowful party Aunt Josephine rose slowly from her position on her knees, where she had been weeping silently beside Elaine, and pressed her hands over her eyes, with every Indication of faintness. Before any of us could do anything, •she had staggered into the laboratory itself. Bennett and I followed quick ly. There I was busy for some time getting restoratives Meanwhile Kennedy, beside the couch, with an air of desperate deter* miuation turned away and opened a cabinet. From It he took a large coil and attached it to a storage battery, dragging the peculiar apparatus near . Elaine's couch. To an electric light socket Craig attached wires. The doctor watched him in silent wonder. "Doctor," he asked slowly as he worked, "do you know ot Professor Leduc of the Nantes School of Medi cine?" "Why—yes," answered the doctor, "but what of him?" "Then you know of his method of electrical resuscitation." "'Yes—but"—he paused, looking ap prehensively at Kennedy. Craig paid no attention to his fears, but, approaching the couch on which BJlaine lay, applied the electrodes. ' "You see," he explained, with forced calmness, "I apply the anode here — the cathode there." The ambulance surgeon looked on excitedly, as Craig turned on the cur rent, applying it to the back of the neck and to the spine. For some minutes the machine worked. Then the young doctor's eyes began to bulge. "My heavens!" he cried under his breath. "Look!" Elaine's chest had slowly risen and fallen. Kennedy, his attention riveted on hia work, applied himself with re doubled efforts. The young doctor looked on with increased wonder. "Look! The color in her face! Bee het lips!" he cried. At last her eyes slowly fluttered open—then closed. Would the machine succeed? Or was it just the galvanic effect of the current? The doctor noticed it and M|| H Elaine Confronts Kennedy With th« "Poisoned Kiss" Photographs. placed his ear quickly to her heart. His face was a study in astonishment. The Qiinutes sped fast. To us outside, who had no'ldea what was transpiring in the other room, the minutes were leaden-footed. Aunt Josephine, weak but now herself again, was sitting nervously. Just then the door opened. I shall never forget the look on the young ambulance surgeon's face as he murmured under his breath, "Come here —the age of miracles is not passed—look!" Raising his finger to indicate that we were to make no nqlse, he led us into the other room. Kennedy was bending over the couch. , Elaine, her eyes open now, was gaz ing up at him, and a wan smile flitted over her beautiful face. Kennedy had taken her hand, and ' as he heard us enter, turned half way to us, while we stared in blank won der from Elaine to the weird and complicated electrical apparatus. "It's the life current," he said sim ply, patting the Leduc apparatus with his other hand. (TO BE CONTINUED.)
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