Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 265, 3 November 1907 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1907.

IMMORAL WORK IS TENDING TO BRING UNJUST SUSPICION

Real Products of French Intellect in America May Be Brought Into Disrepute by Present Over-crowding. DOCTORS' VISITS ON SUNDAY ARE EXPENSIVE Paris Physicians Will Double The Fee for Them Present High Price of Provisions Has Led to Action. (By Raoul de Saint Rene.) Paris, Nov. 2. Mr. Henry White, the American Ambassador, was present at the last meeting of the Alliance Fraucaise at the Sorbonne, when M. Hughes le Roux delivered a lecture on French literature and French culture in the United States. M. le Roux thinks it is of great interest and importance for the United States that the French spirit should make itself felt in the formation of the mentality of the modern American citizen. The Ambassador said he hoped the lecturer's word would be re-echoed across the Atlantic and would perve as si m-otes.t airainst the immoral lit erature that is over-crowding the real ! products of French intellect in Amer-j ica, tending to throw suspicion on the noblest efforts of French art and philosophy. Doctors visits on Sundays will be an expensive luxury after January 1, 190S. The Paris doctors, who are anxious to be free from trivial calls on the weekly holiday, have agreed to regard Sunday visits as night visIts, with double fees. Patients already under treatment will be exempt from the new rule. "Our new rules," says Dr. Leredde, who is responsible for them, "are intended to free us from needless visIts. If patients know that they will be charged double for a doctor's visit on Sunday they will ,unless they are really ill, refain from sending for us until the next day." The present high prices of provisions have induced the municipal authorities of Rome to revive the ancient calimere of Pope Leo XII., who defeated the food trusts eighty years ago. The municipality has appointed a commission of twenty-two, including the editors of the ten Roman newspapers, to fix a "maximum price for all articles of food. The commission, after ascertaining the wholesale prices of food at the centres of production, will once a fortnight at lonst decide the maximum price which the retailers may charge. This practice was universal in the Middle Ages and to this day it is in force at Cremona and Ferrara. Although the Roman milkmen have protested, the average citizen welcomes the calimere as a partial remedy for the inflation of his domestic expenses. The real remedy, however, would be the abolition of the heavy "octroi" duty levied on all food entering the city, and a cheaper and quicker system of transportation. , The Eiffel Tower is going to be converted into a gigantic timepiece, and experiments are proceeding to this end. On the barrier of the second platform on the Paris side a huge electric sign has been placed, which is to be illuminated at night and show the time by gigantic luminous figures changing every minute. If the idea is found to be practical the figures will j be placed at the top of the tower, so as to be seen on all sides for many miles. M. Maspero, the director of the service of antiquities In Egypt, has just informed the Paris Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres that the establishment of the Barrage for the Irrigation of the Nile had done immense and irreparable damage to all ancient monuments which had been submerged. This is especially the case with the famous temple Philae, which was flooded by the waters from December last till April. Ho says that the new irrigation scheme will do even greater damage, for then the temple of Philae will be wholly submerged under twenty-five feet of water. The Egyptian government has in-

trusted him with the task of consoii-jout for home, carrying in his machine dating the temple and copying all theja huge boquet of roses for his daughinscripttons. Bu,t, M. Maspero says, ! ter. and a little present in the line of

the temple must be considered lost forever, since the foundations are sat - nated like a sponge and the land is tindermined. In thirty years at latest it will have disappeared. Diabolo has not been a mere nine days' wonder and although the winter is coming on us the favorite sport of the day shows no sign of abating in popularity. The presence of little French champion Meunier. in England, where he has been received by the royal family and demonstrated his skill to the chil dren of the Prince of Wales, has fired the adepts and enthusiasts here. Diabolo. even from being simple diabolo, is becoming very complex and there is no knowing what vasaries and varieties the game will adopt before long. The latest craze is double diabolo i. e., playing it with two strings and a double grooved bobbin. Another is to play the game with the hands and f-- 1 vrv,tpH cvpe"! b'toV.

which is quite difficult indeed, as you cannot rely upon your eye. One quite j

remarkable champion or the gamo also now plays it standing on his head, and he is obtaining a great reputation, though he is not making many disciples. How must a woman walk? This is the question which has been troubling a ladies' paper. After much careful examination of the subject, and not without due meditation, these are the rules which it claims must be observed by all women who wish to appear to advantage when taking their daily walks abroad: 1. Don't drag the feet along the pavement and don't throw them forward like soldiers on parade, but allow them to glide lightly over the ground. 2. Walk straight and don't keep stopping to look around; keep the feet but very little showing before the front of the dress. ?,. Walk slowly in a word, have the walk of a princess and not of a workgirl in a hurry. 4. Don't move the shoulders at every step and don't balance the arms as if you were practicing to walk the tight rope. 5. Hold the chin well up, (this is very essential.) 6. Never forget your dignity, and remember always that a bad gait will spoil the prettiest costume and make you look a dowdy old frump. The paper goes on to console its readers by stating that the French women lire the best and most graceful walkers in the world. J TRILLION AIRE (Continued From Page Seven.) affair in his mind and decide upon some plan of action. John Harrington was a 8tern man, little used to quail) in danger and while he felt the death ! of his partners and friends, he had no intention of allowing himself to be bled thereby. James Elder would have to prove himself the stronger of the two before he would yield an inch. Thus pondering means of successful battle against these forces of darkness, he fell into a troubled slumber, which left him in the morning still much shaken, and not at all like himself. That afternoon he stood by the open grave of Henry Caswell and saw all that was mortal of him laid to rest, and that evening and the day following passed without anything to disturb him. When the next day came he had almost persuaded himself that dual accideuts.'s coincident with the threats of his old-time partner, had seemed to fulfill his sinister promises, and his mind was beginning to work easily as he reacted from the weight he had carried for so many days. But in the evening as he sat at his desk in his study with the problem of universal Elastic either fixed in his mind a knock came at the door and a servant handed him a note. It was unmistakably from the hand of James Elder, and he sat for a moment nerveless, afraid to open it. When finally he tore the envelope and read the contents he found the message threatening to carry the war into his own household. Rapidly he scanned it, and then, with a nameless something clutching at his heart he turned to his man. "William," said he "send Miss Florence here." The man of action was at last aroused. In a few moments he had explained deftly to his daughter that dangerous enemies threatened, and that for the next few days it would be necessary to observe great caution, even to remaining in the house, which he proposed to have closely guarded. He did not tell her of the connection of Henry Caswell and Joseph Phelps with the case. The newspapers had commented on the remarkable sequence of accidents, but not a suspicion had been shown that they were anything but what they seemed. He simply told her that she must rceive no one but intimate friends, and gave orders to have his house guarded in every possible way. Florence remembered that three years before anarchists had threatened her father's life, and for several weeks they had been all the time watched by private detectives, so she asked no questions, but prepared to obey her father's wishes. When John Harrington left for his office the next day he had the satisfaction of knowing that the most trusted of his scores of person guards were ensconed in and about his house, and no one could obtain access to the place or get within speaking distance of his daughter except friends of long standing and intimate acquaintance. He spent the day as usual at the office, and nothing occurred to hint of danger. Four o'clock finally came and he set j jewelry. He remembered during the 1 day that he had heard Florence the night before speak of a beautiful bracelet which had attracted her attention at Tiffany's, and he had sent his secretary to get it. The homeward journey was quick, and within five minutes he stood in the doorway of the Fifth avenue mansion. "Where is Florence?" was his first question after removing his overcoat and hat. He found her in the sitting room.

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quietly reading and filled her arms 1 acutely, but not a sound from the litv.it the fragrant bloom--.. tie clock could he hear. "Thank you. father!" she said. "You Washing his hands he unlocked the are a very good, thoughtful father, door and resumed his seat at the desk, Not many girls have . daddy like littering the pad before him with sevyou.' And she kissed him. j eral sheets covered with figures which Then he produced the bracelet he had found in a drawer.

i which started her on aiother outpour-

ing of thanks, in the midst of which she broke off "Bui whatever in the world did yon t ' - ,V - ! IH

"You know I newer wear these awful high heels, and yet the shoes you sent

me this morning are th Frenchieet of the French." John Harrington protested smilingly that the shoemaker must have made some mistake. ' I certainly told thera to send he same shoes that you always wear," he said. 'What did they send you?" In a moment the offending ohoes had been brought in by Florence's maid, and Harrington had them in his hand. "These are not the shoes I seat you," he said. "There must be some mistake about them." He turned them sole up in his hand to look at the size, ami as he did so a thin piece of brown paper came loose from one of the heels and fluttered to the floor, revealing a row of queer little brass nails. "That must be some new fad," aid Florence. "What are they for,( father?" But her father was already hastening to the window to scrutinize them more closely. One glance was sufficient. "Good God!" cried the old man. "They're no nails; they're percussion caps. Is there nothing that can save us? Child, if you had set foot to the floor with that devil's contrivance on, your life would have been snuffed out like a candle. The man who did this : is a fiend incarnate, a devil in human i form. Who else ever would have ! thought of such a santanic expedient i to destroy a human life?" John Harrington trembled like a leaf as he gathered his daughter to his bosom. For the first time in all his long life of storm and stress he knew himself beaten, utterly and completely. He sent his daughter to her room and placed an arm guard at her door. Then he retired to his study to face the crisis that confronted him. He had sacrificed Henry Caswell and Joseph Phillips and -would willingly have faced torture himself, but when his daughter was attacked he could see no way out of it but surrender Late into the night he thought and thought. It was almost midnight when . . . . . A i i A I i r ne rose at last ana siretcneu uiuisen. Next day was Friday. There was still one more day left. He had at last decided on his line of action. For the first time in ten days John Harrington slept soundly the sleep of a tired child that fears no awakening till morning. He was early awake and left early for his office. But half way downtown he spoke to the chauffeuer. "Albert," he said, "let me out here. The day is fine and I need exercise." 'On the sidewalk he had recognized James Elder, and he walked straight to him. Elder bowed slightly, without taking his cigar from between the strong, white, even teeth. "Good morning," he said, swinging his cane nonchalantly. Harrington was too experienced in dangerous games to lose his temper, much as he would have liked to have spoiled the clearcut features of the younger man. "Good morning, Elder,' he said, "I am glad I met you. If you will come to my office this afternoon at 2 o'clock I will settle with you. I surrender." "Good!" said Elder. "I thought you would prove reasonable when you found the police couldn't touch me. There isn't a thing I can be charged with with any hope of conviction." "I know it,' said Harrington,, and then added, reflectively, "damn you." "Thanks," drawled Elder. "At 2 this afternoon." "Yes. Damn you," growled Harrington. "Thanks," sneered Elder. "I'll be there." Harrington hurried on down the avenue to Twenty-third street and then swung abruptly into Broadway. At the first drug store he purchased a few cents' worth of chemicals, placed the packet in his pocket, paid for it, and then hastened by way of Twentieth street toward Third avenue. There he purchased more chemicals at another drug store, and still more at a third. Then he returned to Broadway and took a surface car down to Duane street, where he alighted. In a nearby sporting goods store he bought a box of cartridges. Then, calling a hansom, he was driven to his office in lower Broad way. As soon as his letters were answered he dismissed his secretary for the day and gave orders that no one on any pretext was to be admitted to his private office until further orders Locking the door he set to work, With a skill born of his early days when explosives were, his hobby, he compounded a cake of pale brown hue that looked like nothing so much as a bar of soap. This he placed in a neat pasteboard box. Then he found a traveling clock which he wound and set. It ran smoothly. This, too, he placed in the pasteboard box. One of the glass sides he removed, and to the tiny hammer of the alarm he tied two or three par lor matches firmly bound together. From a drawer of his desk he took a nail file and fastened it firmly in the box iust where the matches must strike it when the alarm went off. Then he carefully extracted the bullets from the cartridges and placed them all around the little brick of chemicals. The powder he sprinkled j all about the nail file where the match es must strike. By this time it was nearly noon. John Harrington set the alarm of the little traveling clock to go off at exactly half past two. Then he- put the cover on the neat pasteboard box, and drew back the chair from his desk. A wolfskin rug lay where his feet usually rested on the floor. Carefully he wrapped the box and us contents in the rug and thrust It under the desk. Then he listened j He touched a button on his desk. A

! messenger appeared. "If a man calls at two o'clock on private business with me, send him In at once. I expect ' VI - f J , TV,.. v HVU

big black cigar and smoked furiously. It was now almost one.

In a few minutes a personal attend ant came and asked him what his luncheon order would be. Calmly he ordered and as calmly he ate. He felt that he must do something to keep his nerves quiet. During the past few days he had spent some nerve-racking hours, but j this hour was quite the longest he had j ever experienced in his life. j The crumbs of the luncheon were just being brushed away when a cle.-k : threw open the door. j "Gentleman to see you sir," he said. Vrivate business." James Elder entered the room. "Sit down," commanded Harrington. Elder accepted. j "Now, ' said Harrington, trilllonalre. "let's get down to business. I told you ! this morning I would give you a million dollars this afternoon. I am a man of my word, and I will do exactly what I have said. But first I want you to tell me the truth about Caswell and Phelps and the truth about my ; daughter." j "It's very simple," said Elder. "When ! Caswell's automobile stood waiting for him down stairs, I passed close to the front of it. While the chauffeur's attention was distracted I slipped into the engine a little package of grantine. J You know what that is, for we invent- j ed it together when we were experi- j mening with explosives." I Harrington grunted assent. J "I counted on it catching in the ma- ! chinery and getting in its work before j ne got nome, saia luaer. Ana, as you noticed, It did," he added, just the suspicion of a smile at the corner of his mouth. "And Phelps?" queried Harrington, "I suppose you know he died this morning." "That was easy, too," said Elder. "I knew he was In the habit of going every afternoon to ride In the park after he reached home and that he always stopped at a roadhouse above the park on One Hundred and Tenth street and took Just one drink. "I was inside the roadhouse when he rode up. The waiter had his drink on a tray and was on his way to the door when I hailed him and insisted that I was in a very great hurry and he must wait on me. He left the tray with the brimming glass on the table where I sat, and when he returned the glass contained just one drop of Naphra, a drug of the Indies that takes effect suddenly about half an hour after it is administered. "Phelps drank his drink, paid the waiter and went on his way. So did I. Half an hour later the park police found Phelps where he had fallen from his horse. "The fool doctors thought he had a fracture of the skull." "And the shoe?" queried Harrington. "A mere matter of substitution," said Elder. "The messenger was offered a dollar to carry a note to a nearby hotel, and I held the parcel while he was gone." "How did you know I was going to order shoes?" asked Harrington. "I didn't," said Elder. "I simply haa them in a package ready, hoping to get them into your house by some means. The boy came while I was hanging about the neighborhood. It didn't matter to me who got them. I simply wanted to cause an explosion in your house." Harrington looked at his watch. It marked twenty-five minutes after two o'clock. "Just a minute," said he, "and I'll get the money in packages of thousand dollar bills. Sit down at my desk here and write me out a formal acknowledgement of payment for all demands whatever, making the sum what you like. No need to mention millions. Be back in a minute." Harrington slipped into the outer office, closed the door and walked across to where his cashier sat. "Simpson," he said, "there's a rather queer person inside who demands money. He obtained this appointment with me under false pretenses, and I am afraid With a muffled roar something exploded In the office of John Harrington, trilllonalre. Clerks Jumped to their feet, and in rushed several of the trusted guards who always are to be found about the building. Harrington's private office was filled with smoke, his desk was overturned, and among the debris was the shattered wreck of what. had once been a human being. "Heavens!" cried Simpson, the cashier, "He must have had a bomb and it exploded prematurely. Thank God t didn't hurt you, Mr. Harrington," he added Impulsively. He was a decent little chap, Simpson. The police and the coroner came, and the shattered remnants of what had once been James Elder were gathered up and taken to the morgue. John Harrington called his automobile and started for home after ordering his attendant to telephone at once to his house and tell his daughter he was unhurt. Just as he passed the club he heard a newsboy running over from Broadway to Madison avenue shout "Wuxtry! Wuxtry! All about attempted assassination of John Harrington:" A grim smile lurked under the heavy grizzled muBtache of the trilllonaire and heleaned over to his chauffeur. "Speed her up a bit," he said "I'm in a hurry to get home." 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