Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 193, 19 May 1910 — Page 3

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Sad Story of a Paris Professor and His Wife, Who Were Starving. T DIED FROM SUFFOCATION Mlocked themselves in their bedroom with their cat and a couple of dogs and BURNED CHARCOAL. :;;, i. (Amor lean News Service) ', Paris, May 19 Very melancholy is 'the story of a professor and his wife, who committed suicide through sheer want and distress, at their house in a neighboring township. M. Joseph Gull i hem had been secretary of the Syndicate of Teachers in the category of free education, and had been treasurer of 'the Labor Confederation at one time. ju removing irom rani 10 AiaiaKoir , he opened a boarding school, obtaining a few pupils, chiefly foreigners, by, advertisements. In this business he was assisted by his wife, who, besides being an excellent housekeeper, gave lessons In various subjects, she being as is said, a skilled musician and a very fair artist. The lady was his senior, by ten years, and they had married late In life, but they were devoted to each other, and, having little capital 01 their own, tbey led a quiet and contented existence until the list of their pupils began to dwindle. Then anxiety as to their future ' gradually haunted them, and when their last pupil had left, and they had lost some of their capital as well, they found themselves face to face with ruin. The couple struggled bravely on for a while, and then the day came when the poor professor, counting his money over perceived that he did not own more than S40 in all. M. and Madame Guilhem discussed the prospect, and determined to die. Thirty dollars out of the forty were owing to several tradesmen, and their bills were scrupulously paid. This left $10, which the professor-had borrowed from the secretary of a syndicate a little time before. He accordingly wrote to an official of the Labor Exchange, who had always been kind to him, saying that be and his "dear Louise" had decided on putting an end to their days, and enclosing a fifty-franc banknote, which he asked him to give the lender. This letter was posted on Sunday, but did not reach Its destination until a late hour yesterday afternoon. As soon aa he received It, the official of the Labor, Exchange sent one of his clerka in a motor cab In hot haste to keep an appointment at the Hotel de Hie. On arriving at Malakoff the clerk proceeded to the police . station, ana then, accompanied by the commissary, went on to the house occupied by the professor and his wife, only to find that they were both dead. They had shut themselves 'up in their bed room with their cat and a couple of dogs, and had suffocated themselves with charcoal. The three animals were also lying lifeless, two on the bed and one on the floor near it On a table in the bed chamber was a letter addressed to the police commissary, explaining that M. and Madame Guilhem had both committed suicide by mutual consent. They had destroyed all their papers, but It Is believed that the professor was born In 1857, and that his wife had been previously married. They must have been dead several hours before this sad discovery was made. Asahl's Trick. So far as is known, but two men have ever successfully performed the "thumb",- trick used by the Asahl troupe at the Murray theater this week. The originator, one Matauma, who liv ed nearly a century ago, perfomed the feat publicly In his own land, but so far as is known never left Japan. At his death he Imparted the trick to his wife, who la turn handed It down as a precious heritage to her descendants. At his death Matsuma made one condition, namely that no one should impart the secret except at death, then only to his most direct heir, who in turn should hold the information sac red nntll his death. When Madame Onrl, she being the one who had fallen heir to the secret at the death of her husband, attempted to Impart the knowledge to her boys strange things happened. Going to England her boys failed to satisfy the managers with the trick and her theatrical engagements were off. Up to this time Asahl, a great con. juror In his land, had never sought to perform this trick or discover for himself how it was accompllched. He considered it the property of Matsuma's children and was satisfied to work out his own. When Onrl prostituted her legacy she violated all code of honor in .apaii and the world at large was at liberty to take her property Asahl tried the trick and his expert knowledge aided him In solving the problem immediately. It hardly seems possible that one could tie a man's thumbs together securely, then stand by you and slip his hands around a solid brass pole without ever disturbing the cord. This Is the stunt that Asahl is doing at the Murray this week, the same one Japanese) people have marveled at for more than a hundred years. His Stunt. "Leek here,- remarked the thrifty xaaa to his extravagant wife; "you're eanytag too much sslL say lady." "lsdesar she retorted. "1 dent see arty yea cheat! aether abort that." at7aa. I tfcssk I should atace I have hs wtsd."

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HEALTH OF INDIANA Improvement Shown for the Past Month Over April Of Last Year. HAVOC BY TUBERCULOSIS (Palladium Special) Indianapolis, May 19. The Monthly Bulletin of the State Board of Health Just issued , for April says: There is an improvement of the public health for April as compared with the same month last year. The deaths numbered 2,836, rate 12.5. In the same month last year, deaths 3,212, rate 14.3. ' Measles was the most prevalent disease and was reported from every county. The deaths numbered 80, the southern part of the state showing the highest death rate from this disease. The order of disease prevalence was measles, tonsilitis, bronchitis, rheumatism, influenza, pneumonia, whooping cough, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diarrhoea, diphtheria. Tuberculosis wrought its usual havoc, causing 431 deaths. It killed 30 young fathers in the age period of 18 to 40, and 79 young mothers in the same age period. These parents left 220 orphans, some of them to be cared for at public expense. Pneumonia caused 236 deaths. In the same month last year, 452. Diphtheria caused 13 deaths. Same month last year, 9. The cancer deaths numbered 153. Same month last year 134. The 175 deaths by vio lence were caused by murders 9, sui cides 33, accidental 133. Births Total births 4,902, the high est number reported since reporting oegan. Of this number, 2414 were miles, 2,334 females, and 154 stillbirths. The birth rate was 20.9. The highest rate . occurred as usual in Warren county, 39.7. The lowest rate was in Jasper, 8.1. TEX RICKARD REFEREE OF BIG PRIZE FIGHT r f.f: Tex Rickard. one of the - oromoters of the Jeffries-Johnson battle, who has just been chosen as a compromise ref eree ror the big fight on July 4. Rickard has sienlfled his willlnenesa to serve, hut says that he hopes another seiecuon will yet be made. Rickard came into the prominence before the fight fans four years ago when he engineered the Gang-Nelson fight in Goldfield. ...

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FOR SOUTH POLE SHIP SAILS SOON The Terra Nova Will Leave England Early in June With Big Outfit. CAPT. SCOTT IN COMMAND EVERY DAY NOW MEMBERS OF CREW AND EXPEDITION ARE REPORTING ALL OF THEM ARE STALWART MEN. (American News Servlcrt) London, May 19. No vessel afloat will have a finer crew than the Terra Nova, Captain Scott's ship for the South Pole expedition, when she leaves the West India docks early in June, a month earlier than was anticipated. "It will be the best crew it is possible to obtain anywhere," said a member of the expedition recently. " Each day now, by twos and threes, the men are reporting themselves for service at the office of the expedition and being sent down to the docks to the vessel. All are picked men, selected by Captain Scott himself, from the naval depots at Portsmouth and Chatham and granted special leave by the admiralty for the expedition. Most nt them are first class petty officers who nave seen service in his majesty's Bhips In all Quarters of the e-lnhn a few of them accompanied Captin Scott in ms aasn to the discovery. Every one of the crew has been specially examined as to nhvsiral otna All are stalwart, deep-chested men, witn arms and muscles capable of any human feat of strength. Their teeth have been particularly looked to, for good sets are essential. The Terra Nova is at present having her boilers improved and is being prepared to take on board the vast quantities of foodstuffs and stores nt ail kinds to be delivered in May. C. R. Mears, the Tibetan traveler, has completed the purchase In Eastern Siberia of thirty sleigh dogs and twenty-seven Siberian ponies for the shore expeditions. These animals will be shinned to New Zealand and picked up by the Terra Nova there. ENTERS A COIITEST Indiana will be represented In the interstate oratorical contest to be held at Omaha Friday evening, by Levi T. Pennington, of Earlham college. Mr! Pennington has just received word that his manuscript has been accepted. Officers have been elected by the Earlham College Press club and the results are as follows: President, Carl Ackerman. Richmond; vice president. J. Phillln Bruner. ftnanfiaM. . Homer J- Furnace, Indianapolis; se& icuujr, amu-k uaiawin, iairmount.

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Laborers, Cutting Down Maple, Discovered in It a Flask of Whiskey. BURIED THERE 30 YEARS Council Bluffs, Iowa, May 19. A pint bottle filled with rare old whis key, the age of which is uncertain, has been found here embedded solidly In the heart of a maple tree almost four feet in diameter. President Graham of the Park Board, concluded that there were too many trees in Bayliss Park, a breath ing spot in the center of the city, so he decided to cut out a number of the maples that were planted more than fifty years ago, when Council Bluffs was first given a place upon the Iowa map. One particular tree that was in the course of a new path that was pro posed was marked for the sacrifice, The choppers felled this tree, finding it solid from circumference to center. Sawing the trunk into four foot lengths, eight feet from the butt the saw just missed a long necked black bottle. Observing it, the choppers carefully hewed away the wood, when to their surprise they brought forth, tightly corked, a bottle of one pint capacity, filled with liquor. The cork was removed and the odor of liquor became apparent. It was sampled by experts who pronounced it whiskey of a most superior quality. How the bottle of whiskey got into, the center of the huge maple tree Is a mystery that even the oldest settler is unable to solve. At no place about it was there any cavity, and counting rne rings of wood from the place where the bottle was lodged, each one of which represents a year's growth of the tree, it must have been there thirty years. Besides this, old settlers state that the bottle is of the type in use from fifty to sixty years ago. The bottle and contents have been placed in me public library as a curio. SETTLES OLD GRUDGE BY TOSSING A COIN John W. Gates, the retired Wall street operator, who recently put an end to an old litigation between himself and John Madden, the millionaire turfman, by tossing a coin before the referee appointed.by the court to hear evidence. Two details of the suit were settled by the toss-up, the first involving the payment of costs and the second the settlement of the claim. of several thousand dollars. Gates won both tosses.

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Richmond Youth Studies Aer ial Navigation with Large Harvard Class. GREAT PROGRESS IS MADE MANY OF THE EASTERN UNIVER SITIES AND COLLEGES HAVE NOW TAKEN UP THIS WORKHARVARD LEADER. V'V (Palladium Special) Boston, May 19. The most remark able innovation in student life in the American colleges , is , taking practical form this spring in the big eastern in stitutions. Flying through the air in big aeroplanes constructed by themselves, the college men are solving the problem of aerial navigation. In Cambridge, in New Haven, at Am herst and other college centers of New England colonies of young men who foresee the conquest of the air are testing for themselves the theories of airships and their manipulation. Skill ed professors are directing the work and take . their turn in managing the bird-like craft that flit through the air. Harvard, Tale, Amherst, Columbia, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come to the fore in the practical study of airship problems. Monoplanes, ' biplanes, gliders and balloons are in constant use at these colleges and the young aero nauts do their own sailing, their own repairs, and work out their experi ments along their own original lines Reed Making Flights. The Harvard Aeronautical society, organized last fall, is the largest of the student organizations already formed. Among the 350 charter mem bers who are booming air navigation and taking part in the aeroplane flights and tests Is: Howard C. Reed, 1913, of Richmond, Ind. The Harvard aeronauts own work ing aeroplane models of the Wright and Bleriot types, a full sized glider mounted on skids and provided with controls for both fore and aft and transverse stability has been complet ed, and an aeroplane is now under construction which should compare favorably in workmanship with any thing so far attempted. The Harvard society is affiliated with the Aero club of America, and the college men are planning to take part in the contests which are soon to be held by that or ganization. A group of students are now working to meet the conditions which will bring them pilot licenses for airship and balloon navigation. The "Harvard FlntT The Aeroplane "Harvard I" is soon to be tried out in Cambridge. The patented ideas used in this machine may be used by the young aeronauts in constructing their own machines. In order to put the young' aeronauts in touch with the doings of other scientists in aerial navigation, a library has been established consisting of books and periodicals on the subject. A place in one of the Harvard engineering buildings has been set apart for the aeroplane and gliders, and there each day a group of the young enthusiasts gather. The glider is taken out into a neighboring field and the students take turns In operating it. It is a weird sight to see a young man kicking his legs and swinging his body back and forth between two huge wings. The operator runs with the machine, others aiding him until sufficient' speed is attained. Then he swings clear of the ground, the big wings rise and dip and away goes the wriggling student over the bushes and rocks. No great height is acquired in the flights, twenty feet being considered none too safe. The problem is to stay in the air as long as possible and how to get the best results in wind currents. In the study of the latter problem, Prof. A. Lawrence Rotch, president of the society, is the leading authority in America, having made observations of. wind currents at all altitudes from the Blue Hill observatory near Boston. Prof. Rotch is seconded in his work with the stu dents by Prof. W. H. Pickering, who comes over from the Harvard observatory each day and superintends the flying. The students themselves are led by James V. Martin, off Seattle, the manager of the club. When the plans for the big contest soon to be held under Harvard auspices are completed, the students will be ready to attempt flights for new records. The "Harvard I" will be the principal, craft of the student aero nauts in the contests this summer, and it is possible that the - students may compete in international meets in various parts of Europe and Ameri ca An Inspiration. "What the name of her snccessful Story V ."ByHoxiperhoofr' v "Grscioos: What does it meaar Sbe doesnt know." "Where did she get itr "Why, she was on a train wondering in a discouraged way where she would get a name for the story. And Just then the brakemsn opened the ear door and called the next staion." Cleveland Plain Dealer. if SAPOLIH f f ' This is a brand of household paints that give satisfactory results and long wear. The line consists of Floor and Furniture Stains, Gold Paint. Enamels, Furniture Varnish, Bath Tub Enamel and Wire Screen EnameL In all sizes from 15 CENTS to 75 CENTS.

PHYSICAL EXERCISE. Da You Take Enough to. Keep Your Arteries In Condition? Dr. Woods Hutchinson, in criticising the different fads of exercise in Outing, says: "The worst error of exercise, the most dangerous fad of physical culture. Is not to take enough of it and to sneer at every form of it that does not bear the dollar mark. By one of those cynical poetic justices of nature the very men who denounce all physical culture and recreation as fads are those who pay the heaviest personal penalty for this delusion. Tbey use the vigor tbey bare gained In early youth in nature's open air school to chain themselves to the desk, to bury themselves in dungeon-like offices or airless workrooms twelve or fourteen hours a day. They 'feel fine and are sure they are going to live to be a hundred, but one day. to their'astonishment, a little artery whose coat has been hardened for. twenty years unnoticed becons so brittle that It snaps suddenly, and down they go with a stroke of paraly

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