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Presented by the Hearst Sunday Newspapers in
Collaboration with the Famous Pathe Players
Written by Arthur B. Reeve
The Well-Known Novelist and the Creator
of the “CRAIG KENNEDY” Stories
Dramatized Into a Photo Play by Charles W. Goddard
Author of ‘*The Perils of Pauline"’
- Miss Pearl White,
Mr. Arnold Daly and
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, “Craig Kennedy
The Famous Scientific Detective of Fiction
Cast of Leading Characters in the Motion Picture
Reproduction by the Popular Pathe Players
ELAINE BN ok ooa&o ebe TN VYRS
CRAIG D .5 s b e AT
PERRY BENNETT . . « « « + + « « Mr. Sheldon Lewis
5 Everything you read here to-day you can see in fasci
nating Pathe Motion Pictures at the Motion Picture
Theatres this week. Next Sunday another chapter of
“The Exploits of Elaine” and new Pathe reels.
Synopsis of Previous Chapters.
HE New York poiice are mystified by a
T series of murders and other crimes.
.The principal clue %o the criminal
s the warning letter which ls sent the victims.
signed with a “clutching hand.” The latest vic
tim of the mysterious assassin |s Tayler Dodge.
the Insurance president. His daughter, Elaine,
employs Cralg Kennedy, the famous sclentific
dotective, to try to unravel the mystery. What
Kennedy accomplishes Is told by his friend
Jameson, a newspaper man.
Enraged at the determined effort which
Elaine and Cralg-Kennedy are making to put
an end of his crimes, the Clutching Hand, as
‘ this strange criminal ls known, resorts to all
sorts of the most diabolical schemes to put
them out of the way. Each chapter of the
story tells of a new plot against thelr lives and
of the way the great detective uses all his
skill to save this pretty girl and himself from
death.
°. Chapter X.
.. THE LIFE CURRENT.
w 1918, by the Star Company.
All Foreign Rights Reserved.
SSIGNMENTS were being given out on
A the Star one afternoon, and I was
’ ‘standing talking with several other re
porters, in the -busy hum of typewriters and
clicking telegraphs.
‘ “What do you think of that?" asked one of
the fellows. “You're something of a scientifde
detective, aren't you?”
Without laying claim to such a distinction,
1 took the'paper and read:
THE POISONED KISSB AGAIN
Three More New York Women Report Be
ing Kissed by Mysterious Stranger—
Later Fell Into Deep Unconsclousness—
What s It? :
I had scarcely finished, when one of the.copy
boys, dashing .past me, called: “You're.wanted
on the wire, Mr. Ja_meoc;n.",
I hurried over to the telephone and answered
A musical voice responded to my hurried
hello, and’ i bastened to adopt my most polite
tone.
“Is this Mr. Jameson ™ asked:the volce.
, “Yes,” 1 replied, not recognizing it
“Well, Mr. Jameson, I've heard of you on the
Btar, and I've just had a very strange expe
rience. I've had the polsoned kiss.”
The woman did not pause to catch my ex
clamation of astonishment, but went on: "It
was like this. A man ran up to me on the
street and kissed me—and—ll dop’t know how 1t
was—but I became unconscious—and [ didn’t
" gome to for an hour—in a hospital-—fortunate
ly. I don’t know what would have happened if
it hadn’t been that some one came to mYy as
_ pistance, and the man fled. 1 thought the Star
~ would pe Interested’”
i "We are,” 1 hastened to reply. “Will you
_glve me your name?”
_ “Why, 1 am Mrs. Florence Leigh, of No. 20
Prospect avenue,” returned the voice. “Really,
" Mr. Jameson, something ought to be done about
_ “It surely had,” 1 assented, with much inter
. est, writing her name eagerly down on a card.
“I'll be out to interview you, directly.”
~ The woman thanked me and I hung up the
~ receiver.
~ “Say,”" 1 exclaimed, hurrying over to the
editor's desk, “here's another woman on the
wire who says she has received the poisoned
kiss"”
“Suppose you take that assignment.” the
editor answered, sensing & possible story.
I took it with alacrity, figuring out the quick:
est way by elevated and surface to reach the
address.
The conductor of the trolley indicated Pros
pect avenue, and 1 hurried up the street until
1 n:uo to the house, a neat, unpretentious place.
Looking at the address on the card first to
make sure, | rang the bell. .
| must say that | could scarcely criticise the
poisoned kisser's taste, for the woman.who had
opened the door certainly was extraordinarily
attractive. .
““And you really were—-put out by a kiss? 1
queried, as she led me.into a neat sitting room,
“Absolutely-—as much as if it had been by one
of these polsoned.needles.you’'read about,” she
replied configently, nastening on to describe the
affalr volubly
By Sir William Osler, M.D.
In An Address to the Officers and Men in the
Campg at‘Chyqn g
SNORMERLY an army marched on its belly;
F now it .marches on its brain. Only by
utilizing existing knowledge, In all grades
from commander-in-chief to private, is the max
imum of ‘success:available. . Tolput the largest
rfu{iuber'i)f the: enemyrout of action with a mini
!I)li:l‘;l’ of loss to his own men is the alm of every
geonerul.
_Wfiflq in. one _way_moderfln war merges the
individual into a great machine, on the other
hand the intelligent action of the unit has never
been so:important-a’factor, in making ;the ma
chitie work smoothly and’efficiently: “After ‘all,
it is,the man behind the gun’who wins the vie
tory. © . S
What -l wish:to urge I 8 a true knowledge of
youro:’l’oei. )not'btfimcl,\;& of ‘the bullets, but ¢f the
much . rgoi‘e impo?g:fut enemy, the bacilll.. In
the :w'_él;snof-thmwi\'f;ld they have been as Saul
and !)avld—the one slaying thousands, the oth
er tens ‘of thousands. I can never see a group
of recruits;-marching to the depot -without
mentally asking what percentage of these fine
tellows will die legitimate and honorable deaths
from wounds, what percentage will perish “mis
erably from neglect of ordinary sanitary pre
cautions.
It is bitter encugh to lose thousands of. the
best of our young men in a hideous war, but it
adds terribly to the tragedy to think that more
than one-half of the losses may be due to pre
ventable diseases. Typhus fever, malaria, chol
era, enterie and dysentery have won more vie
tories than powder and shot. Some of the
diseases I mention need no longer be dreaded.
Typhus and malaria, which one hundred years
ago routed a great English army in the Walche
ren expedition against Antwerp, are no longer
formidable foes. But enough remain, as we
found by sad experience in South Africa. Of
the 22,000 lives lost in that war--can you be-
Heve it?-the bullets accounted for only 8,000,
the bacilli for 14,000! In the long, arduous
campaign before us more men will go into the
YOUE™ “The Exploits of Elaine” Every Tuesday at the Vaudette
MEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN ATLANTA. GA, SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 28 1915
It was beyond me
“Mey | use vour telephone™ | aaked
“Surely.” she answered.
I called the laboratery. “le that you, Craig?™
I Inquired.
“Yes, Walter,” he answered, recognizing my
voice.
“Say, Oraig.” | asked breathlessly, “what sort
of kiss would. suffoca:s a person’®”
My only answer was an uproarious laugh
from him at the idea.
“l know.,” [ persisted, “but I've got the
assignment from the Star—and I'm ont here in- «
terviewing a woman about it It's all right to
laugh—but here | am. I've, found a case—
naties, dates and places. | wish vou'd explain
the thing, then.”
“Oh, all right, Walter,” he replied indulgently.
“I'll meet you as soon as 1 can and help you
out.”
I hung up the recelver with an air of satis
faction. At least now | would get an explana
tion of the woman's queer story.
“I'll clear this thing up,” I sald confidently.
“My friend, Craig Kennedy, the sclentific de
tective, Is coming out here.”
“Good' That fellow who attacked me ought
to be shown up. All women may not be as for
tunate as 1.”
We walited patiently. Her story certainly
was remarkable. “She remembered every de
tail’ up to a certain point—and then, as she
sald, all was blankness. :
The bell rang and the woman hastened to the
door, admitting Kennedy.
Bacilli More Fatal Than Bullets and Bayonets
ficid . than _ever before “in the history of the
Empire. Before it is.too late. let us take every
possible ‘precaution to guard against a repeti
tion of such disasters.
Wg ar.e;not"lylkely to“_have to fight three of
the greatest of former scourges—typhus; mala
- ria’ and ‘cholera, " though “the ‘possibility of ‘the
last ‘has“to be_considered. 'But®there remain
dyqtensary’..pnéum‘imla ‘and enteric, against two
of which _we should be-able to bring to’ bear’
successfully resources of modern science.
Dysentery, an . inflammation of the large
.bowel,"has been’ for centuries one of the most
terrible of camp diseases’ killing thousands.
and, in its prolonged damage t 0 health, one-of
the’most fatal of foes tovarmies.. So far,as we
know it is cofiv't}_vg-d by water, ax_ldpdnl_\"hy"car.
rying out strictly; under all ’clrcgmstanfi%es.,the
dir(g'éu?ns about bolling water, can it.be pre
vented: It isiai‘cldiseast_a whlch. even under the
best of “circumstances, cnn_“not-always be pre
vented,-but with care the incidence should be
rednce(ql to a minimum, and there should never
again be widespread outbreaks in the camps
themselves.
Pneumonia is a much more difficult disease
to prevent. Many of us, unfortunately, (tklrx"_\"
the germ witlf us. In bright dayvs all goes well,
but when the cold and rain come, and the long
marches, the resisting forces of the body are
lowered, the,enemy, always on the watch, over
powers the guards, rushes the defenses aud
attacks the lungs. Be careful not to neglect
coughs and colds. A man in good condition
should be able to withstand the wettings and
exposures that lower the system, but in a win
ter campaign pneumonia causes a large amount
of sickness and is one of the serious enemies
of the soldier. :
Above all others one disease has proved most
fatal in modern warfare—enteric, or typhoid
fever. Over and over again it has killed thou
sands before they ever reached the fighting
line. The United States troops had a terrible
experience in the Spanish-American war. In
six months, between June and November, in
clusive, among 107,973 officers and men in
ninety-two volunteer regiments, 20,738, practi
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“Hello, Walter,” he greeted.
“This ‘is certainly .a most remarkable case,
Craig,” 1 said, introducing him, and telling
briefly “what"l had_ learned. :
“And you actually mean to say that a kiss
bad the effect” ——
cally bnmfifth of ihé entire number, had typhoid
fever, mnd 1,580, died.© The ‘danger. is chiefly
from persons who have already, had the disease
and who carry the germs in their intestines,
harmless uoxess"‘x’fiates in them, but capable of in
fecting barracks or camps.
You can’easily inderstand how flies lighting
on the dls"cha}rgos of such typhoid carriers
could convey the°germs far and wide. It was
in' this way, fir3baply. and by dust, that the
bacilli were so fatal in South Africa. Take to
heart 'thés‘é figyrea”:“ There were 57.68{’0&585
of ;typhoid® fever, of which 19,454 were inval
ided, "and 8,022 died. More died from the bacilli
of- this°Aiséase than_from the:bullets of the
Boers. . Do letithis, terrible recordtimpress upon
_\'ou' the - importance,of carrying out® with ra
llgiqu_os .care the sanitary-regulations.
Onci‘ gr}eoat advance in connection twith typhoid
fever. has begn made of late years. An attack
of an infectious disease so alters the body that
it is no longer susceptible to another attack of
the same . disease; once a person has had scar
let fever, smallpox, or chickenpox, he is nos
likely to have a Second attack. He is immune,
or has what is called immunity.
When you expose a solution of sugar to the
air, or if vou add to it a pinch of yeast, a
process gnes on which we ca!l fermentation, ac
companied by a growth of little germs of the
veast in the fluid, and by an increase in tem
perature (in fact, the solution has a. fever),
and the composition of the fluid alters, so much
so that you can inoculate it afterward again
and again with the same germ, but no further
change takes place.
Now this is what happens to us when bacilli
make a successful ’bmry into our bodies. They
overcome the forces that naturally protect the
syvstem,.and grow just as the yeast does in the
sugar solution, but the body puts up a strong
fight, all sorts of anti-bodies are formed in the
bleod, and, if recovery takes place, the patient
afterwards has immunity. for a time, at least,
from subsequent attacks.
The body has mobilized its forces, and is
safe for a few years, at least, against that
Kennedy Gazes at Elaine, Overcome. Is This the End?
This Is from the Moving Picture Film of “The Exploits of Elaine” by the Famous Pathe Players.
Just then the telephone interrupted. -
“Yes,”. she ‘reasserted quickly. “Excuse me
a second.” .
She answered:the call. “Oh—why—yes, he's
here.’ Do .you want to speak to him? Mr.
Jamesonoit's the. Star.”
disease. |lt ;wa’s‘ an °Englishman, Jenner, in
1798¢ who found that it was’ possible to confer
this immunity by’ giving a person’ a mild-at
ta..ck‘jpt a .disease, or of one very like it. Against
asomall'pfioxj, all’ soldiers have been vaccinated—a
harmless, safe’ and ‘effective measure. Let me
give you a‘war illustration. General Wood, of
the Unlotédosntates army, told me-that, when he
was at Santiago, reports came that.in villages
not far distant smallpox was raging and the
people without help of fi’ny kind. He called for
volunteers, all men who showed scars of satis
factory vaccin‘atinn;o Groups of these soldiers
went‘into the village, tock care of the smallpox
pz})tieuts, cleangd up the houses, stayed there
until the epidemic was over, and not one of
them took the digease.
Had not those men been vaccinated, at least
99 per cent of them would have taken small
pox. Similarly the human body can be pro
tected by vaccination against typhoid fever.
Discovered throngh the researches of Sir Alm
roth Wright, this measure has been introduced
successfully into our own regular army, into
the armies of France, the United States, Japan
and Germany. [ mentioned the appalling inci
dents of typhoid fever in the volunteer troops
in America during the Spanish-American war
That resulted largely from the wide, preva
lence of the disease In country districts, so
that the camps became infected. and we did
not then know the importance of the fly as a
carrier, and other points of great moment.
But in the regular army in the United States,
in which inoculation has been practiced now
for several years, the number of cases has
fallen frem 2.53 per thousand men to practically
nil. In a strength of 90,646 there were in 1913
only three cases c_)f typhoid fever.
If the lessons of past experience count, any
expeditionary force on the Continent has much
more to fear from the bacillus of typhoid fever
than from bullets and bayonets. Think again
of South Africa with its 57,000 cases of typhoid
fever. With a million men in the field, their
efficiency will be increased one-third if we can
prevent enteric. .
“Confound it!” I exclaimed, “isn’t that .like
the old man—dragging me off this story-before
it’s half finished“in order to get another. I'll
have to go. I'll-get this story from you, Craig.”
The. day before, in the suburban house, the
Ciutehing Hand hati°been talking to.two ‘of his
emissaries, an ‘attractive young woman and a
man. »
They were Flirty Florrie and Dan the Dude.
“Now, I’want you to get Kennedy,” ‘he said.
“The way.to do it is to separate Kennedy and
Elaine -see?” !
“All right, Chief, we'll do it,” they replied.
“I've° rigged it so_that you'll reach, him
through Jameson, understand?”
‘They nodded eagerly:as he told them the
gubtle plan. :
Clutching Hand had scarcely left when Flirty
Florria began by getting published f.. the papers
the story which I had seen.
The next day ‘she called me up from the
suburban house. Having got me to promise to
see her, she had scarcely turned from the tele
phone when Dan the Dude walked in from the
next room.
“He's coming,” she said.
Dan was carrying a huge stag head with a
beautifully branched pair of antlers. Under his
arm was a coll of wire which he had connected
to the inside of the head.
“Fine!” he exclaimed. Then, pointing to the
head, he added, “It's all ready. See how I fixed
it? That ought to please the Chief.”
Dan moved quickly to the mantel and
mounted a stepladder there by which he had
taken down the head, and started to replace
the head above the mantel.
He hooked the head on a nail.
“There,” he said, unscrewing one of the beau
tiful brown glass eyes of the stag.
Back of it could be seen a camera shutter,
Dan worked the shutter several times to see
whether it was all right.
“One of those new quick shutter cameras,” he
explained.
Then he ran a couple of wires along the
moulding, around the room and into a ocloset,
where he made the connection with a sort of
switchboard on which a button was marked,
“SHUTTER"” and the switch, “WIND FILM.”
“Now, Flirty,” he said, coming out of the
closet and pulling up the shade which let a
flood of sunlight into the room, ®“you see, I wang
you to stand here—then, do your little trigZ,
Get me?”
“1 get Jou, Steve,” she laughed.
Just then the bell rang. .
“That must be Jameson,” she cried. ‘“NoWws
get to your corner.”
With a last look Dan went into the closet
and shut the door.
Perbaps half an hour later, Clutching Hand
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