ll come in about seven o'clock, but he may not come
until eleven or twelve. It is important that we have his testimony.
Don't wound him seriously or kill him. You will find a hole bored
through the door between your room and his. That hole is filled with
putty, but underneath the putty is wax. Warm the wire in the drawer in
the gas jet and melt the wax.'

"I waited until eleven o'clock for the man to come in. For a while he
sat on the bed, with his back towards me. He was reading. Finally he
lifted his pillow to shake it up, and I caught sight of a big revolver
under the pillow. For several reasons I decided to do nothing until he
had fallen asleep. I kept my ear glued to that little hole for one hour
after he turned out his light. When he was sleeping soundly I went into
the hall, with my skeleton key turned the lock in the door, and then
with my lantern in the left hand and my revolver in the right made one
bound into the room, struck my light and my revolver into his face under
the light and shouted: 'Hands up!' Within three minutes I had him
handcuffed and within ten had him bound. In that room, when the police
came at my call, we found enough chemicals and powerful explosives to
have blown up the entire block. In his satchel were found incriminating
letters, secret documents, and, with their help, we soon landed the
entire crowd. All have now been taken care of. Their flames were stamped
out before they were kindled." That one incident was only one of a
series of closely-related dramatic events. Outwardly, life in that city
is very safe, simple and straightforward, but as to the forces of evil,
the anarchists, the I. W. W.'s and German plotters the patriot can only
say that but for the Secret Service and the police and the Department of
Justice, society could not go on for one single month.

4. The Cancer in the Body-Politic of Germany

To-day, physicians and surgeons count the cancer man's deadliest enemy.
Every year this baffling disease takes large and larger toll of human
life. From time to time experts come together to plan its limitation,
but meanwhile the terrible disease increases. Addressing a company of
experts recently, a great physician exclaimed: "Even if we can stop its
growth by radium, it still remains for us to get rid of the growth
itself. There seems to be no way to lift the evil cells out save through
the knife, after which nature must heal the wound. Science knows no
other way." Plainly, no