Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 244, 30 August 1916 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM Ai fcUN-TELEGKAAL WEDNESDAY, AUG. 30, 1916

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WILL DECKER HITS CYCLE IN DARKNESS

Will Decker, shoemaker at 920 Main street, narrowly escaped serious inJury while riding: his motorcycle west on the National road last night about 8 o'clock, when, blinded by the lights of an approaching automobile, he ran into a motorcycle without lights which had stopped for repairs at the side of the road. The fact that Decker saw the motorcycle just, before he hit it

and waB able to swerve and strike it a glancing blow saved him from a

serious accident.

Decker's machine was so badly smashed that he had to be pulled to

town, and his ankle, knee, and liga

merits of the leg were strained. The man who was just dismounting from the motorcycle into which Decker

plunged was thrown to the road with

bis machine on top of mm. He pusn

ed his machine down the road without

disclosing his - identity. His motor

cycle bore neither lights nor license. Decker lives at 420 South Eleventh

street

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BY ARTHUR STRINGER"

YOUNG DEMOCRATS MAY OPEN BOOTH

Business of importance will come before the Young Men's Democratic club at the organization meeting at headquarters Saturday night. Every Democrat in the county who is over 18 years of age has been invited to

loin.

- At the organization meeting the question of whether the club will take

a booth at fall festival ceienrauon win be settled. From the booth it could distribute Democratic buttons and lit

erature.

PENNSY REFUSES TO CARRY POWDER

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30. The Pennsylvania this afternoon announced an embargo on all freight shipments on account of the impending strike. The embargo effects explosives and inflammables beginning tomorrow, perishable freight on Friday and all freight on Saturday. The embargo will be modified as soon as practical after Labor Day.

FILES DIVORCE COUNT; ASKS CHILD'S CUSTODY

Read this story in the Palladium and see It at the Palace. There, bent lover a suitcase, . he caught sight of Wrench himself. One glance at that startled and pallid face, one glimpse at the sleeve of the service-coat from which a .button had clearly been torn away, convinced nlm that all his vague suspicions of the past week had been only too well founded. And be wasted no words on argument. He leaped to that startled figure, thrust his automatic against the waistline of the service coat and commanded Wrench to back up against the wall. As he did so a sudden shout sounded from the doorway behind him and instinctively he glanced about to ascertain the meaning of this shout Wrench, seeing his chance, knocked

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8prang Bodily on Manley.

the menacing automatic-barrel to one

he did so an unexpected and strangely j the tide of events. found little to add

Masx," was Aianieys emuiuerea yet enigmatic retort. : , - , EIGHTH EPISODE "P'e Stroke of Twelve. Enoch Golden had never been known as a half-hearted fighter, He was, in fact, of that pertinacious breed who fight best when half defeated. And as he grew into a fuller realization of the virulence of Jules Legar's hatred for him and his house, he proceeded to take more effective steps to protect himself. . . . .' - ; One of his precautions was to place

an armed guard about the home which had been repeatadly and audaciously invaded by Legar and his agents. ." But the mere posting of a couple of paid sentinels about his doors did not; mark the limit of his activities. He strove for still more substantial protection by installing in one of the upper rooms of his house a huge burglar-proof vault of chromium steel. The installation of so ponderous a

vault, however, involved much mate-1

rial strengthening of a structure not primarily designed for the support of seven-ton safes, and for days a small body of expert workmen had been bu3y putting in pillars and girders and disguising these ponderous supports under a veneer of mahogany ceiling beams and oriental teakwood columns. In the ornamentation of the latter, in fact, the owner of the house found a valued assistant in Count Luigi Da Espares who, with his finished taste and his knowledge of the fine arts, advanced many suggestions for beautifying what might otherwise have been an ungainly and cumbersome innovation. It was Margery Oolden, even more than her father, to whom Da Espares, in these small efforts, looked for gratitude. And the more Margery Golden saw of that gallant young antiquarian the more mysteriously impressed she became. David Manley, who was not alto

gether ignorant of this new turn in

Divorce charges were brought by Esther B. Prichard against Roy Prit-

chcrd in the circuit court today. Failure to provide is the charge. In July

"JM, the husband left his wife and his

present address is not known. Mrs.

Piitchard asks for the custody of her thi:d. John Flavius, age 6. The mar

riage was on June 24, 1909. Charging her husband with threatening her life, Edith Moss filed divorce charges against her husband, Joseph Moss, in the circuit court todav. ? Mrs. Moss asks for the custody of her child, Leonard, 18 months old.

FILES PARTITION SUIT

Eugene Duvall filed a partition suit In circuit court today asking that roperty belonging to the estate of Margaret Tate, deceased, be sold, because they can not divide the property. The property is valued at $6,000. Eugene, Duvall and William Rollins are the heirs.

MUHLHOLLAND IS DEAD

Word of the suicide of John Muhlliolland, a former resident of Rich'mond, at Ottawa, Kansas, Saturday night has been received here. The cause of the deed is not known. MuhlHolland moved from Richmond to Kansas a year ago.

ONE GRAIN PR0DUCE8 150 STALKS OF CORN

One hundred and fifty stalks of corn grown from one grain of seed, describes a plant which A. C. Brown is displaying at the court house. He has issued a challenge to anybody in Wayne county to equal his record.

MAY SUSPEND MAILS

Poatofflce employes may be given a full holiday Monday, September 4 Labor day. Frank Wilson, superintendent of mails, said today that although he has the right to give a full holiday, he has not yet fully determined to do so.

COUNTY BOARD MEETS

Friday is the date set for the first meeting of the County Board of Education. It will meet in the county superintendent's office. Nothing of importance is scheduled.

OLDAKER LEAVES POST

Announcement was made today of the resignation of Principle E. E. Oldaker as a district school teacher in Jackson township. He has accepted a position as principal of the high school at Hilton, Virginia. Anna Ridenour '.ill be the successor.

PRAISE RECORDER'S BOOKS

Field examiners for the State Board of Accounts finished their work in the Uecorder's office today. They found lothlng wrong with the books and lnormed the employes of the office that he work was neat as well as accurate.

f OUR CHAUTAUQUA

)ur Chautauqua! we would greet thee, day our skies be clearer, bluer. Vith a pulse of joy we meet thee, '"or to thee we look for highest good always. ind our friendships, dearer, truer, lecause, thee Our Chautauqua, las brot us gifts today. io we're lifted up in being o the One who is seeing )nly good, and joy, and love along our way. fay the heart of man be lighter .nd the soul of man made brighter iecause, with thee Our Chautauqua,

Ve may help a world today,

mantled figure glided into the narrow room. It was a figure wrapped and hooded In heavy velour and only a second glance at its strange coveries

would have revealed the fact that it was a portiere quickly torn from ita fastenings and Improvised into a mask to conceal its wearer's identity But Manley, as he fought with Wrench, had small time to register this fact, or the further fact that a rent had been made in the portiere to serve as an eye-hole for the head which U so completely covered. It was not until that hooded figure had joined in the contest that Manley became aware of the second portiere which his newer opponent carried. For this portiere was deftly thrown over the young secretary's head and suddenly drawn tight about his arms. The white-faced and struggling footman, realizing that his final chance had come, promptly took advantage of Manley's momentary helplessness to fail back, leap for the open door and make good his escape. Manley himself, maddened by the thought of that culprit's escape, swung about on his hooded assailant with a fury that sent tbe latter also retreating towards the hall. That unknown enemy even sought to escape as his colleague had done, but at the stairhead Manley overtook him. Together they went down the stairs, a tangle of limbs and striking fists and portiere ends. They fought and rolled along the lower floorway, fought until Manley had freed himself from the other's clutch and was struggling to tear the drapery from about his mysterious enemy's head. But that enemy,, frantically bent on remaining unknown, fought back with an added fury which brought the two swaying and clinging bodies full force against the stair railing. That railing, under the strain, suddenly gave way. Manley, clinging desperately to the portiere folds, felt that voluminous drapery follow after him as he fell gasping over the well of the stairs. He fell sprawling, tangled up in many yards of velour, and landed on the cowering head and shoulders of the astounded Wilson, who, at that sudden assault, promptly and vociferously shouted for help. When Manley, stunned for a minute or two by the fall, once more opened his eyes and blinked inquiringly about

him, he saw both Golden and his wife and Margery herself clustered at his aide.

"Did you get him?" he demanded. "Get whom?" asked Enoch Golden. "That murderous blackleg, Da Espares!" was Manley's reply. "But Count da Espares has nothing to do with this," protested the girl, with a frown of bewilderment. "He's only been helping us, as he always helped us!" "As he always helped you?" scoffed the Incredulous Manley. "Yes, as he will tell you himself!" For at that moment, suave and smiling, the count joined the wondering circle. "Ah, monsieur, I keep watch above, as you ask." he explained with a shrug. "But nozzing happen. I see nobody. Then, mon dleu. I hear the tumult,

and come down to you. But I cannot comprehend. So tell me, monsieur, 1 beg, what has happen?" Manley rose stiffly and slowly to his feet "You don't understand?" he asked as his fixed stare met the mildly questioning eyes of the count "No, monsieur," was the other'a softly spoken answer, as he still gazed with solemn wonder into the scoffing face of the American. "But what do you mean by thiB, anyway, Manley V demanded Enoch Golden. t

Oh, I guess he's merely the guy

worm louay. i . . . . . . , - - Josephine Bennett. I put Lauen in the Laughing

to his happiness in this evergrowing

intimacy between Margery and her guest. For Manley, by this time, did more than merely distrust Da Espares; he hated him. These vague misgivings of Manlev's extended even to the onstumo

dinner-dance which this esthetic for- ! eigner undertook to ensincor for Mar- j gery's amusement. And in talking over his plana with Golden himself. j as the latter was making rendy fcr j o. j of his hurried tri;:s to Washing- j ton, the young, nobleman even von- I turrd thr hnne flint fhii irtnr nrtehK I

be made the occasion of an even more auspicious announcement. .But the morose-eyed old millionaire did net quite follow the other's line of thought. So Da Espares was driven to the expedient of openly yet courteously requesting the privilege of pressing his suit for the hand of this fairest daughter of America. "What d'you mean by that?" demanded the astounded financier. "Are you trying to tell me that you want to marry my daughter?" "That is the honor of which I have dreamed," was Da Esparea' quietly intoned reply. "Well, the point fa, kM Wf Margery been dreaming along the same line?" "That I cannot venture to say," replied that unctuously , gallant suitor. "Well, in America that's about the first thing that counts! And I guess we'd better call off thla courtship talk until we find out how the girl feels about it!" The disappointed, but not disheart

ened, count, accordingly, proceeded j quietly yet earnestly to sound Margery !

Golden herself as to her feelings in ,

the matter. But here, too, he was ; met with a reply which, if graciously , worded, was at least noncommittal, j "But you at least know that I wish 1 to bring you happiness, that I was your friend in the past, that always in the future I want to be your friend!" "But when friendship remains ' masked, it remains harder to understand!" . ; "Then the mask may be withdrawn, ' and withdrawn sooner than you expect." "Just what does that mean?" asked the clear-eyed girl, studying his face. "It means that I am about to make j a move which will deliver you and your father from his enemy. And this time I think the plan will succeed." Mysterious as that plan was, it developed through an incident which soon brought things down to the plane of the practical. For when the masons and ironworkers who were com- j pletlng the installation of the new j Golden vault returned from their mid-1 day meal a far-from-attractlve stranger ; stole into the house at their heels. And when David Manley happened to catch sight of this stranger deep in talk with Count Da Espares, he promptly jumped to the conclusion ; that he had at last discovered some- j thing on which to concentrate all his earlier Scotch-mists of suspicion. For Da Espares visitor unmistak-; ably bore the earmarks of the un- j kempt denizen of the hop-joint and i tha Bowery saloon. ; j "What is this man doing here?" he i as ted as he confronted the intruder. I

"This man is here at my. request. And the happiness of this h,ouse jleyends much on' Lis visit," was Da Esjiarea' retort.

"What has a crook like Red Egan got to do with the happiness of this house?" scoffed the irate Manley. "And what right have you to bring a tool of Legar's into this room?" -. But still Da Espares remained outwardly calm. '. "Pardon," he replied. "But this man you call Red Egan is no longer a crook and no longer a tool of Legar's!" '. " "Then what Is he doing here?" ,, "That,-monsieur, concerns mostly the young lady for whom I have sent!" The soft-spoken foreigner swung about as Margery Golden stepped a little wonderingly " into the room. "This, Miss Golden," said Da Espares, "is the man of whom I spoke to you. As your friend here protests, this man has been a tool of Legar's. But he has tired of being the servant of so evil a man. He now seeks to have the state extend its pardon to him. And as a price for this pardon he is willing to deliver into our hands Jules Legar!" "But what is the plan?" asked the girl, with a' touch of impatience. Da Espares, with uptlirust shoulders, looked from the one to the other. "It is a plan which we had thought it wisa to keep a, secret," he suavely explained. "Mr. Manley has earned the right to be included in any secrets which may involve the capture of Legar," Margery Golden quietly assured the faintly smiling count, who bowed in acquiescence. And realizing the note of authority in that reply, he outlined the plan in as few words as possible. That plan, with Red Egan a3 their emissary, was not a complicated one. This renegade from Legar's gang was to go to his old-time chief and report that Margery Golden might be found at such and such a spot, at such and such a time. She would be alone. And to Legar and his men, waiting there, it would seem a simple enough matter to recapture the girl. But that capture would never be effected. For a squad of police would be held there, in hiding, and when the moment arrived, they would promptly surround Legar and his men and put them -vjjere they belonged. 4 To Be Continued.

TRACTION MAY USE SOUTH SIDE SPAN

" In case the county council cannot see Its way clear to authorize the large expenditure which the recommendations of the commissioners for two bridges over the Whitewater river at Main and G" streets will involve, the old Main street. bridge will probably be repaired. It has been suggested to the commissioners that the South Side bridge could be built and since it is planned to carry interurban cars, the T. H. I. & E. company could send its cars over this structure until a new Main street bridge is erected. The present Main street bridge could be repaired so that it could safely carry the other traffic. There already exists in the South Side

l Bridge fund, $108,000. I Siinh a mpasnrp will hp relipd nnon

only in case council refuses to provide funds for two new bridges. The exact stand of all the county councilmen on the Main 6treet proposition is not known.

lilNDENBUHG SHAKES UP GERMAN ARMY

THE HAGUE, Aug. 30. Field Marshall Von Hindenberg who has just succeeded General Von Falkenhayn as chief of the German general staff, has

j begun the complete reorganization of

the gigantic German army. He has already dismiseed thirty generals, says a dispatch from Berlin. '

CHAMEERS ENDEAVORS TO FORCE DELAYS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. While Congress mulled over preventive strike legislation today. Judge W. L. Chambers, as representative of President Wilson, took active charge of the efforts to force the Brotherhood chiefs to defer action.- He said he was hopeful that he would secure a postponement of the threatened tie-up.

Boston now has 348,292 names in its city directory.

FENCE PROPERTY III

Posts bearing one strand of barbed wire . are : being erected about the property of the Pennsylvania railroad at the east yard3. It was learned that other strands of wire may be added if the local situation grows acute.

OLD SOLDIERS HEAR POLITICAL SPEECHES

Yesterday and today. Democratic and Republican days,- respectively, at the Chautauqua, members of the G. A. R. were admitted free as guests of honor. .The little bronze button was the badge of admission. The following old soldiers attended the Democratic program yesterday afternoon: John Deets, John L. Owens, James A. Taylor, Addison Parker, Henry Shlssler, James Howells, George Irwin, W. I. Caskey, John Elliott, James Bryant, Thaddeus C. Personette, John F. Davenport, B. B. Duke, W. H. Baughman, Ralph Weller, George K. Bymaster, A. C. Ogborn, Stephen F. Thomas, Nathan Ballinger, N. W. Hutton, Timothy Hart, J. H. Potts and S. F. Watson.

HOW IIS. BEAN : MET THE CRISIS

Carried Safely Through Change of Life by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Naahville,Tenn. "When I was going through the Change of Life I had a tu-

mor aa large as a

child s head. The

doctor said it was -three years coming and gave me medicine for it until I' was called away

from the city for some time. Of course I could not go to him then, so my sister-in-law told

Jme that she thought

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SPECIAL DETECTIVES ASSIGNED TO YARDS

Twenty-six officials, detectives and special deputies, were assigned to duty in the Richmond yards of the Pennsylvania this morning. Although no violence is expected in the local yards, the company is adopting a safety-first policy and is preparing itself against eventualities.

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-, pound would cure it It helped both the Change of Life and the tumor and ' when I got home I did not need the doctor. I took the Pinkham remedies until the . tumor was gone, the doctor said, and I .. have not felt it since. I tell every one how I was cured. If this letter will help others you are welcome to use it." -Mrs. E. H. Bean, 625 Joseph Avenue, Nashville, Tenn. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a pure remedy containing the extractive properties of good old fashioned roots and herbs, meets the needs of woman's system at this critical period of her life. TryiV If there Is any symptom in your -case which puzzles you, write to the Iydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co, Lynn, Mass.

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