Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 306, 11 September 1909 — Page 8

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Trial of Chicago Police Inspector Is Begun After a Fight on Technicalities. DAMAGING EVIDENCE GIVEN LOU 18 FRANK, SALOON OWNER. PAID FREELY FOR FAVORS GIVEN HIM AND TO ILLEGAL RESORT OWNERS. Chicago, Sept 11. Payment of bribe money to Edward McCann while he was Inspector of police at the Desplaines Street station for the protection of illegal establishments was testified to under oath in Judge Barber's court by Louis Frank, a member of the saloon firm of Frank Bros., and one of the principal witnesses for the state. This testimony was given after two attempts of attorneys for the defense to free McCann on technicalities had been frustrated ' by the court, which overruled objections made by the defense to certain counts in the indictment. Frank! testified that he first met McCann in the Inspector's office at the Desplaines Street Police station in March, 1908, through Police Sergeant Charles Hawkins, and that later the inspector sent for him on a plea that he wanted to see him. -He described his visit to the inspector in response to this request and testified that in his office the police official asked him to collect money which the proprietors of . illegal establishments would bring to him in accordance with an arrangement which would be forth coming as soon as he agreed. Then Frank told of conferring with his brother Julius and finally of agreeing to do what the inspector wanted. Damaging Evidence Produced. "What was the agreement?" asked State's Attorney Way man. , "They were to pay me $20 from each house at my saloon," replied the witness. ' "Whom did they band the money' to?" ;'. "To myself, or my brother, or the bookkeeper." "When did collections commence?" "The first of each month. "Where did you deliver the money?" "At the police station to McCann." In answer to the next question, Frank said McCann told him on one occasion that he had tP be careful, as "they" were after him. "What did the defendant say?" asked Mr. Wayman. "'Don't pin any more slips on the money, as you have been doing. Give me the money separately and make out your own record.' "Did you ever pay McCann this graft money elsewhere than at the station?" "Yes, at his home." "Did you ever go there with any one?" ' , "I went with Max Plummer. Some woman was arrested, charged with pandering. I went to the inspector's room and told him that Plummer wanted to fix It up so. the woman would not be sent to prison. Compromise Is Alleged. "McCann told me it would cost $300 if he did. I went out and told Plummer what the inspector said, and Plummer said he could pay only $250. I went and told McCann. He said alright, and I got the money from Plummer and paid it to McCann." Frank was questioned further along this line and said the jury returned a verdict of not guilty against the wo man. He also said he bought three barrels of alcohol at $2.80 a gallon out of his own money and sent it to the Inspector's house at the latter's re quest. Frank then proceeded to tell how a man named Petoskey was unable to get a hotel license. Frank said he took Petoskey to see McCann. ""How much is there in it for me, said McCann, continued Frank. 'How much do you want? I asked him. Frank said McCann asked for $50 and he gave it to him. Petoskey got the, license, according to Franlc. Frank: then told how he was ordered to eject Annie Green, Max Plummer's wife, when she stopped paying protec tlon money to McCann. Frank then told of collecting money from various sources and turning it all over to McCann. SCHOOL DAYS. You may soon bid goodby to summer for It is rapidly passing and school days will soon be here. School days mean big washings. Big washings means lots of backbreaking work unless rub-alac is used. It lightens the woMi by half. Why not give it a fair trial. It is surely worth it, and your grocer always keeps it for sale. Ask him for it City Statistics Births. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Hickey, 17: Southwest Third street, a girl, third child. Mr. and Mrs. Leonidas Kennedy. 423 South Eighth street, a girl, second child. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Berey, 610 North Ninth street a girl, first child. Mr. . and Mrs. William Dineen, 522 North Eighteenth street a boy, fifth child. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rite, 1818 Main street a boy, second child. Mr. and Mrs. Frank? Plummer, 201 North 21st street, a girl, fifth child. - 'turenmen nan. um : tmh uk

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MOTORBOAT USED IN HUNTING GAME BV THE COOK EXPEDITION. .USED BY DR. COOK.

THE MOCfJ. Its Visual Size No Greater When It Is High Than When It Is Lew. The artist has to choose between sci entitle truth and "convention" when he sets out to paint the moon. A three penny piece fixed at a distance of six feet from the eye (say at the end of a horiaestal six feot pole, the ether end of which is made te press the lower edge ot the eye socket) will just cover the disk of either tfce ran or the moon banging in the sky. It is aa absolute fact that this te true whether the mooa (or the sun) be high In the sky or. low down cer the horizon. The real "visual sice" of the moon's disk is bo greater when it is low than when it is hick. No one who reads wfaat I have just written will believe me. Every one thinks that he knows that the disk of the harvest moon or of the setting sua oeeupies a larger space in the sky when - low than when high. This is due to a judgment or mental process and is an erroneous one. The eye is net at fault, but the curiously untrustworthy mind is. What then, is the painter to do? He yields te prejudice and often paints the low moon or low sun of a size which compared with scientific fact is ridiculously exaggerated. Sir E. Ray Lankester in London Telegraph. Her Choice. They were sisters-in-law and reasonably well disposed toward each other. One was the mother of George, aged six months, and the other was the mother of Marian, aged six months and four days. It was impossible that a slight parental rivalry should be altogether concealed. "Marian does not seem to grow very fast" said the mother of George, with a suggestion of commiseration in her tones. "George is much taller" (height being measured in inches). "EerhaWbe ls."replied the mother of Marian coldly, "but Marian weighs more." "Oh, well," , responded the slster-ln-law, with a smile of high bred superiority, "of course I should not wish George to be gross."- Exchange. . . A Frank Estimate. To many persons who are not actors the stage seems a delightful and fascinating place. In a book called "The Actress" Louise Closser Hale, herself an actress, tells some of her experiences with girls who envy her her profession. One day one of them from behind a couuter in a shop said, "I should have went oa the stage." "She evidently wanted to talk, and I strove to be interested," says Miss Hale. "But see how tired I am." I said to her. "I have to work very hard as it is, and I had to work much harder to gain what little recognition I have had.-.-". "'''-".''"' : "'" "Oh, yes," she ies ponded, complacently gazing at herself in a mirror. "Bpt y" see. I have talent" ' "But." protested the young housekeeper, "the milk is sour." : Yes'm," replied the honest milkman; "it's shameful how lazy them farmers is gittin'. Ye see, ma'am, they've been oversleepin theirselves lately, and before they git their cows milked the stuff turns." London Fun. For Sale Stock cattle at the Glen Miller Stock Yards. v 10-4t CWCHESraSPILLS I Tk mm MW Bar rfmrV P t, AtkftwCt 4AmN MKAX i&ftiXa;.

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ALEXANDER'S SNAKE. A 8tory of Magic and Credulity In the Olden Daye. No snake that ever lived won greater fame for the time than Alexander's. Lucian tells the story. Apollenius, a master of the magic arts, had many j disciples, among whom was a practic- j lug physician who lived in Abonoti chus, a small town on the shore of the Black sea. There Alexander was born of humble parentage and-imbibed from the old doctor all that be had learned from Apollonius of medicine and magic. He was a lad of striking appearance, tall, handsome, with a fine head of hair, lustrous brown eyes and a voice sweet and limpid. "God grant," wrote Lucian. who knew him, "that I may never meet with such another. His coming was wonderful, his dexterity matchless. His eagerness for knowledge, his capacity for learning and power of memory were equally extraordinary." Such was the well favored young peasant who sallied forth from his native town in search of fame and fortune. Soon he fell In with one Coconnas, a shrewd tipster for the races and somewhat of a juggler. The two rogues joined forces and meandered about telling fortunes. Arriving at Pella, they found a great number of huge, harmless snakes which lived in the houses,, played and slept with the children and destroyed poisonous rats. Alexander promptly purchased one of the largest, a veritable monster, so tame that it would coil about his body and remain in any desired position. Then he made a human face for it out of linen, painted it Ingeniously and shaped it so that the mouth would open and shut by an arrangement of horsehair, letting the forked tongue shoot in and out at the will of the master. Having no further use for Coconnas, he either administered poison to him or let him die from some Infection and returned with his snake to his native town. There be declared himself a prophet and announced that the god Aesculapius was about to appear. The people were credulous, excitable and eager for a new divinity. When the great day arrived Alexander pretended to discover in a puddle of water a goose egg which he bad placed there after removing the contents, . substituting a small embryo snake just born and carefully sealing the shell with wax. When the multitude had gathered be broke the shell and produced the tiny creature, which in a few moments grew to be the monster from Pella by the simple process of substitution. Thereafter the big snake, believed to be Aesculapius, led a busy life. He gave seances, told fortunes in writing and even spoke freely, with the aid of the prophet's ventriloquial powers. Alexander grew rich and powerful, kept a small army of retainers and spies, wielded no little influence over the government even at Rome and died at a ripe old age in the fullness of his renown. What became of the snake nobody knows. Probably at the last the prophet dispatched the. faithful creature to prevest the discovery of his deception after his death. George Harvey in North American Review.

The Kind Cat A neighbor of old Mrs. Harrington killed a nee pig one day. He cut it up and hung the pieces in his woodshed. Mrs. Harrington's cat climbed into the shed that night stole a large pork chop and carried it home to her mistress. The minister happened to call on the old lady the next day. She was just frying the chop. She told the minister how miraculously it had been brought to her by the cat "And, oh. sir," she said piously, "it was almost beautiful to see the way the street animal broarbt me the pork chop.- It quite recalled to my mind what we read 'in Holy : Writ about Elijah and tberavejis." Exchaass- '-, "'--. - " '--

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(BOTTOM) ALUMINUM SUED ' The Courtship Gate. We have been shown a design for an upholstered front gate which seems destined to become very popular. The footboard is cushioned, and there is a warm soaps tone on each side, the in side step being adjustable, so that a short girl can bring her lips to the une 0f any gjVa mustache without trouble. If the gate is occupied at 10:30 p. m., an iron hand extends from one gate peat, takes the young man by the left ear, turns him around, and he is at once started toward home by a steel foot The girl can. If she likes, set this pant at a later hour than 10:30. Jones County Ga.) News. Gibraltar's Searchlight Battery. For ships to pass around Gibraltar, England's and the world's greatest fortress, without being observed even at night is a practical Impossibility owing to the great battery of search lights arranged along the bottom of the rock. A ship running either in or out runs into one of the fixed beams of light and is revealed. A moving beam of light then follows her until the lookout officers are satisfied as tc her intentions. Popular Mechanics. Clothea. "Clothes don't make the man,' quoted a sage. "They made me!" said a retired tailor. "And where should I be if it wasn't for suits?" chimed in a lawyer's clerk. Something From Nothing. "It is Impossible to take something from nothing," quoted the wise guy. "Well, you come pretty close to it when you take the conceit out of some people." added the simple mug. Phil adelphia Record. A wise man thinks before be speaks. but a fool speaks and then thinks of what he has been snying". - WILL GET RELIGION Powerful Evangelist Coming to North End Church. The Rev. T. A. Wilson, D. D., P. C, of Indianapolis, will bold a six days' meeting at the north side A. M. E. Mission, beginning Sept 14th. Rev. T. A. Wilson is a very powerful evanr gelist of the colored Methodist Episcopal church and is likely to change the north side A. M. E. mission to C. M. E. Mission as the workers of the mission feel that the mission will be more prosperous by the change. New England Mill Activity. Some idea of bow New England manufacturers regard the business prospects can be gained from the vast amount of improvements being made. It is estimated that the contracts for enlarging. old plants and erecting new ones la the states of Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Maine and Xew Hampshire will amount to considerably more than $50,000,000. This covers improvements and construction of new textile, paper manufacturing and wire goods plants. These improvements now in construction and contracted for since Jan. 1 greatly exceed those of last year and have not been equaled In many years past Despite the advance of steam there still are nearly sixty-six thousani sailing vessels in use in the world. Several German steelmakers are exlKruuenung commercially with producing the metal la the electric fur-

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FOR AN AIR SHIP Mr. Bumbaugh to Come to This City for the Fall Festival Without Fail. IS NOTED AS AN AVIATOR HE IS ABSOLUTELY FEARLESS. AND IS AS MUCH AN ATTRACTION AS HIS AIR VESSEL TWO FLIGHTS DAILY. The Bumbaugh airship for the fail festival is now assured. Charles M. Morgan, chairman of the amusement committee for the Fall Festival, yester day made a contract with G. L. Bumbaugh, of Indianapolis, who made suc cessful flights each day of the state fair, to bring his big airship to Rich mond to exhibit and fly each day of the fall festival. The air ship is a lighter-than-air ma chine, being filled with gas, propelled by a propeller and steered by a rudder, and in favorable -weather conditions can be handled with perfect ease at the will of the operator. Mr. Bumbaugh will be in Richmond next Wednesday to consider a proper location for his tent. The commons on South Fifteenth street and the commons on South Eighth street on the car line have been suggested as tne best locations for the tent The airship will be on exhibition in the tent each day and night of the fall festival and a small admission will be charged to help defray the expenses of the fall festival in bringing this big attraction to Richmond. An Interesting Life. Mr. Bumbaugh has had a very inter esting life. In the early part of his career he was a high wire walker, putting on his act at the street fairs and various shows, walking a wire across the streets from five to fifteen stories above the ground. For years he made balloon ascensions, descending in parachutes. He was with Carl Fisher in the great balloon race in Indianapolis in which he made the longest distance made by any balloon, but was disqual ified on account of having to descend for water. Some time ago Mr. Bum baugh made a trip in a balloon across the city ot Indianapolis with an auto mobile attached to the balloon. He fears absolutely no danger and is almost as much of an attraction as his big airship. The Fall Festival committee is to be congratulated on obtaining this orig inal feature for the Fall Festival, as it places Richmond in the class of the larger cities in the way of attractions and will undoubtedly bring people to Richmond that have never been here before. CONCERTS COIITIIIUE Richmond City Band Will Play At 8th and N. E. Tonight And at Glen Sunday. GOOD PROGRAMS PREPARED The programs for the concerts to be given by the Richmond City band, tonight at the corner of North Eighth and E streets and for tomorrow afternoon at Glen Miller park, are as follows: Eighth and North E Streets. March, "The Tournament". ...Lincoln Overture. "Superba" Dalbey Song, "Daisies Won't Tell" Owen Selection from "Honeymoon Trail"... Howard Intermezzo, "Bluefeather Morse March, "The Colosses of Columbia".. Alexander Medley, "The Ruler" O'Hare Two-step, "My Kickapoo Queen" Reed Waltzes, "The Wedding of the Winds" Hall Final, "Baldwin Commandery" Lincoln Sunday at the Glen. March, "Wedding Feast"....... Taylor Overture, "La Flandre" Arr. by C. G. Carr. Song, "If I Only Had a Sweetheart" Johnson Selection from "Mam selle Napoleon" Luders Intermezzo, "On the Wings of the Wind" Fillmore March. "Megaphone Belles"... Blakey Potpourri, "Latest Popular Songs". . . . Lampe Idyle, "Glow-Worm". . ." Lincke Waltzes "Daughters of Love". .Bennet Finale, "Rifle Range". Lincoln TO f!E MONDAY No Indictments Yet Returned By the Grand Jury. The grand jury adjourned last evening untO Monday morning owing to a number of cases coming up in the circuit court today. It is probable that the jury will wind up . its business Monday and adjourn until called again by Judge Fox. The jury has been in session since last Tuesday and a number of cases have been investigated by it, hot no indictments hare been re-

THE TRUEOLUEQEfiRD He Was a Crusty and Malevolently Maligned Frenchman.

NOT A MURDEROUS MONSTER. He Had Matrimonial Misfortunes, It Is True, but He Seems to Have Been th Only One Who Came to Grief en Account of Them Hi Tragi End. The supposedly detestable Bluebeard, the monster of murderous polys sty. the very name of the ogre into whose mouth one used, if one could, in childhood's happy hour, to throw India rubber balls, was In truth a man who has been as cruelly and malevolently maligned by history as Nero. Richard III., Macbeth, tutti euantL So says M. Anatole France and pray who can speak with higher authority on the real facts of faery? In "Les Sept Femmes de la Barbe-BIeue et Autres Contes Mervellleux." One knew already that Charles Perrault first wrote, in about 1600. the historical biography of Bluebeard, but one did not know until now, bow deeply Perrault. probably through false information, wronged the memory of an excellent and ill treated personage. From M. France we learn that M. Bernard de Montragoux. of old and noble descent, lived in 1650 or thereabouts at the ancestral Chateau Les Guillettes. on his estates between Complegne and Pierrefonds. The castle, of frowning outward as pect, was laslde a treasure house of taste and wealth. Its owner, contrary to long existing tradition, wore no beard, only a erastaohe and a little tuft below the lower Up. He was known through the countryside as Bluebeard becaose his bair was very black, and therefore his close shaven cheeks and chin were markedly blue. He was a fine figure of a man who, in spite or bis manifest advantages as a good match, did not get oa well with women of his ewn rank in life. This was due to aa incurable shyness on bis part. Pleasant and pretty girls who had been well brought up attracted him immensely, but also filled him with sn Indescribable terror. The fJrtit notable result of this affliction was that the unfortunate orpbaa, for such he bad been since bis early youth, incapable of making proposals for the hand of any of the attractive and high born ladles in the neighborhood, married a certain Colette Passsge, a fascinating girl in her way, against whose character nothing seems known, who was going round the country . with a dancing bear. Things went well enough for a few months, and then Colette, who had at first reveled in being a lady ef quality, began to long for her old freedom. The longing became Irresistible, and at last she took her departure secretly with her justly beloved bear. It Is noteworthy that they made their escape by way ef a room that had a door leading to what had been water meadows, and so to open country. Perrault called this room "le petit cabinet," bet it was also knowa as "the wretched princesses' room." because a Florentine painter bad covered its wans with the most lifelike figures of Circe, Mebe and Procris. The tragic effect of these paintings was enhanced by the porphyry flooring- of the room, which suggested bloodstains. Montsageax appeared inconsolable at the disappearance, which was complete, of Colette, his first wife, and doubtless his let would have been fsr less unhappy if he had never tried to console himself. This, most unfortunately, he did by marrying one Jeanne de la C3oche, who turned out to be a . violent dipsomaniac Bluebeard was of a nature so kindly and noble that, although in a fit of mad passion she nearly killed him with a kitchen knife, he continually hoped to reclaim her by kindness. But one day she strayed into the generally shut np princesses' room, took the painted figures for real people and was so territd that she rushed wildly into the open fields, tumbled late, a deep pool. , and so was drowned. So things west on, a new affliction 1 with each new wife, and to each esse the final catastrophe was associated with the princesses room. The climax to tbe unhappy career of the more than worthy and lovable Bernard de Montragoox case with his seventh wife, Jeanne de Lespolsse, cleverest and most fascinating of a family of utterly unscrupulous adventurers. No one knew anythlag about the supposed bite husband of tbe mother. Of the two bsothers, a dragoon and a musketeer, one was a low rascal and a mere sponge; the other lived on gaming and on the good nature of women to whom he made love. Anne, the sister, was the Incarnation of malicious cunning. Associated with this precious family was a certain Chevalier de Sierras, who had a great deal to do with the final tragedy of M. de Montragoux's career. The nature ef this tragedy may be Inferred, but it is curious that, while Perrault represented Bluebeard as taking a journey in order to lay a trap for his wife, the fact was exactly crDocite. Both, before, and jfiar his Thin? Pale? Camalt imdor frtAi ten. H I mat ham. Do mm mm My. Follom hit mdoit mt mil t. O. Amr C-.

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all these witch . When he was obliged te ge away to the uisttof of her out of pose love against the maaapey aeseesaoens or tne pnnceesesr roosa. As soon as be was out of the way a trap was laid for him, and It was In that verr room tbst he was most treacherously assassinated. The worst and the best of it was that M. de Merlua, after marrying the wealthy widow, became an exemplary ausoana ana subject or tne King. ' NAMING A VESSEL. Meat Arthar WeeM Vet Call It tea Cai VThlle General Arthur was president and during one ef the summers of his administration he was on board the Dispatch at Newport, and Secretary of the Nsvy Chandler was pestering him to consent te naming the new dispatch boat, afterward the Dolphin, tbe Concord, after tbe first battle ef tbe Revolution. General Arthur was disposed to quix Chandler about his proposed name. Ue preferred the name Dolphin ss being more suggestive of speed st sea. When Chandler argued the importance of keeping in mud the heroic resistance of tbe colonial militia and tbe brilliant opposition offered to Pitcairn's men General Arthur asked him: "What is it that you propose to caU this shipT" -The Concord. answered Chandler, giving the approved New Hampshire pronuncistlon. -There, retorted Arthur, inviting tbe attention of Captain Reeder. De you bear that? Conquered. Do yon think that a good name to give a sbln-of-war? Then, suppose you rbsnge tbe pronunciation and can it Concord, Just as spelled. loe it not strike you. Chandler, that there is a degree of Concord In the presence of a vessel of wsrT The new ship was called tbe Dolphin, but tbe Concord appeared after General Arthur had ceased to have Influence in naming the ships of the navy. , flex In Aats. The different species of ana are pretty generally distributed over the globe, and oa this account tbe naturalists infer that there is work for them to do in the great economy of the universe. In each colony males, females, enters and sometimes soldiers are to be recognised. The males are lnvarlsbly smaller than the females and. like those of the feminine gender, have wines in their original state. The neuters, which are the workers, are without wings in any ef their formations, and the soldiers are nixed by the armor plates on their beads. TLeee of ' The love of work, which was one ef the characteristics of tbe historian Fronde, is well illustrated to a story told of bis last Illness. The cancerous affection of which he afterward died eras slowly destroying his healthy and rigorous frame. At oneHlme he seemed to be much better, and when the physician came to see him he noted the improvement end told his patient of It. Fronde asked whether it was likely that he would be sble to go back to his work again. On hearing that this wal Impossible he said. "If that Is the case. I do not wish to live." ma Calara. The theory has lieen advanced that the conspicuous colors developed In various species of snakes. Insects and anlmsls are. estate's method of edver tistng the fact that such are poisonous, either in the bite or sting which they inflict, or that the flesh Is unpalatable If used for food. Tbe i belle vers in this theory cite the wonderful display of colors in tbe ecmaa wasp, the coral snake, the horridJom'tsh snd tbe Gila monster ' - "Hsvent Benpeck and his wife settled their durerences sbout their visiting cards? . "Oh. yes; they've compromised en Mr. and Mrs. Marie Henpeck. PfcUTeacher (of class of soetogy) What Is the proof that a esnnge le n ttvtog animal? Xeung Man With the Bad Bye-A man Is a living animal. Many mem are sponges. Therefore n svonge is living animaL Chicago Tribune. 'Age does not make ue te aay; It Goethe. In tbe temporary absence of the beauty editor this question was handed by mistake to the sporting editor: "How should one get rid ot superfluous hairs oa the upper lip?" Thsfs easy. he wrote In reply. "Just posh the young man away." Liverpool Mercury. " The Bible chapters number 148ft. of which 929 are the Old Testament and 200 of tbe New. All ran down, easily tired, tain, pale, aervous? And do sot know what to take? Tbea go direct to your doctor. Ask his opinion of Ayers non-alcoholic Sarsaparilla. No alcohol, no stimulation. A blood purifier, s nerve tonic, s strong sltersrive, an aid to diyestioa. mum Portland Cement POirrLAXO CEMBrT

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