Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 October 1897 — Page 3

SUICIDE CEMETERY.

VICTIMS OF THE MONTE CARLO GAMBLING HALL

A lxmely Burial Place—The Iron Cross That Mark* Grave Ho. 36—Bat One Sign For Recpgrnition—Storj of the

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[Special Correspondence.]

MONTE CABLO, Monaco, Sept 25. The graved igger, stumbling over a loose stone, vomited forth Italian oaths. I handed him another franc. Then we resumed the steep ascent Ultimately, when we were very high upon the desolate mountain and when Monte Carlo, at the Mediterranean's blue edge far below, was but a pink and white mass, we reached the graveyard, a weed grown patch of ground surrounded by a high stone walL This was "suicide cemetery," where Monte Carlo's gambling hall buries its victims.

Within the inclosure there was room for perhaps 40 soldiers to lie outstretched. The ground was level, not one earth mound indicating a grave, yet 39 victims lay beneath the weeds. Rough wooden sticks, numbered from 1 to 39, served as monuments. No! There was one other monument—a cross. From its corner it towered above the weeds, a black cross of iron, fancifully wrought

Employees in Monte Carlo must know nothing, particularly nothing about that graveyard or its victims. Any employee who gives knowledge of that place to visitors to Monte Carlo is forthwith exiled from the principality of Monaco.

At first the gravedigger had denied all knowledge of the graveyard. Therein he was not different from the concierge, or the head waiter, or the porter, or the bell boy, down at the hotel. Nor was he different from certain cabmen

SU1CIDK CKMKTEItY AND TUB IKON CROSS. and gendarmes and casino guards to whom I had suggested my desiro to visit the cemetery of the suicides. All these had pretonded indignation, horror or perploxity. "Suieido in Monte Carlo? Nover, monsieur! Suicide cemetery? No such place, monsieur. It is impossible."

But the gravedigger had climbed the steep ascent with a golden louis in his pockot. In Monto Carlo, $4 is a month's wages. But now came the mystery of tho iron cross. While planning away to learn its story I took tho photograph which is reproduced here.

Meanwhile the gravedigger was pushing one of tho wooden sticks deeper into tho ground. It was stick No. 80, marking a newly made oblong of pebbly earth. Then I remembered that late last night a pistol shot had cracked the stillness—a pistol shot in the casino garden. I had rushed in tho direction of the shot, but gendarme interposed, an unyielding barrier. Hurried footsteps could bo heard on tho gravel walk beyond. That is all you evor learn concerning a pistol shot in Monto Carlo. Iu the same hour self slayers are borne to that place which is high on the desolate mounfaiu and where stick No. 89 marked the grave of last night's victim.

Every player at the gaming tables is known to tho casino authorities. If, after the pistol shot, he has friends immediately at hand, they are summoned. If not, tho victim simply disappears. Relatives or friends outside of tho principality are never notified. Every possible trace of a suicide is destroyed.

Very few of the world's population know of the existence of tho graveyard on tho mountain. Fewer still have ever seen it. In two years only one visitor besides myself had climbed that steep aseeut All this is as the Monto Carlo casino wishes. It might be prejudicial to the kink's fair name if tho world knew that it had carried 89 unidentified victims xip the desolate mountain within the last seven years. The bank might also prefer the following facts to remain unpublished.

The facts concern tho iron cross. While descending the mountain I resorted to a strategem that compelled the gravedigger to tell the tale—a tale afterward verified by a certain croupier in the Monte Carlo casino.

At first the gravedigger looked at the iron cross blankly—knew nothing. I added another Ion is to the fund in his pocket Still he knew nothing. Then I pointed down the mountain to the turrets of the casino. I would go there and report that he had led a stranger without a permit to the graveyard. His ugly face indicated anger, then fright "Ah, signor, she was beautiful!" he said. "But she paid well, and, besides, who cares?" "Who cares for what?" I asked. "For the two that lie there as one, signor, in No. 88, where the cross stand*. Ah. signor. she was beautiful, and she had gold between her front teeth!"

Bnt the two that are buried as one?" I asked. Who was the ot-ber?'' "He also was beautiful to look upon. He was a youth with a velvet coat and a gold pin in his neck scarf. One night he shot himself, like the others, down

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there in the garden. He had lost money .—ah, signor, bags and bags of money! The croupier below there will tell you all -about it The dead youth was brought up here, signor, and I gave him a broader stick than the rest, for he was young and should not have been here, and I marked the figures 36, the number on his stick, with great care, signor, more care than I had given to 35 and to 34. The weeds had just begun to grow over the place where he was, signor, and then she came." "She? Who?" "Ah, she was so beautiful, signor! But she paid well, and who cared? On her way up she stopped at my poor house at the entrance to the big cemetery and bought that iron cross of me, for I keep a stock of crosses, signor, in iron and in stone, for those in the big cemetery, where my wife and children lie and where I, too, shall lie. The cross was heavy, signor, cruelly heavy, for a beautiful woman. But she paid me a year's wages to staud it outside my door where she could get it, as she said, when she should come for it "The next morning the cross was not outside my door. It was gone and in its place a purse full of gold. Then I climbed up to where we have just been and found the cross. And she, too, was there. The cross lay along his grave, No. 36, and there she was, lying outstretched upon it, like an angel of grief, crucified. Ah, signor, you should have seen her, so beautiful and in such fine clothes! And many heavy rings were upon her fingers. By her side lay a letter. I took the letter, signor, down to the croupier, below there, for he is my friend, and he, too, dared not tell. I gave him some of the money, and he read the letter for me. Bury me in his grave, it said. Let the cross simply mark grave No. 36. And forevermore silence! "And there they lie, signor, in 36, where the cross stands—she and he, buried as one. May death smite me if this is not the truth and may the Holy Virgin forgive me for breaking silence.

GILSON WILLETS.

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Peace, Not War.

Inter arma silent leges, and the morf ities are silent also. But the whole tendency of human civilization is to eliminate war or to render it more and more abnormal. Machiuvellism is therefore, it would seem, xeactionary politics, suited in a minor degree, it may be, to a state of things which we are outgrowing, but utterly useless and mischievous in the civilization of today. The Roman empire, which Machiavelli so greatly admired, was largely founded in bare military necessity and was sustained by conquest, but the chief modern states are founded in industry and the arts of peace, and war is with them a terrible and rare exception to a general rule of peace.

The doctrines, therefore, which were evolved by ouo of tho most subtle of the world's thinkers, at a time when his country was rent asunder by the feuds of contending states, are utterly out of place in the conditions imposed by modern life. The state which reposes in the good will of its citizens is the most secure, and if the dread occasion should ariso when it must draw tho sword to defend its very existence its citizens will bo the more strongly armed for the encounter because of the habit of social efficiency which has been cultivated by obedience to t'ne doctrine that tho one ground for the existence of tho state lies in what Emersoii has well called its "care and culture of men."—London Speotator.

English and American Wheels.

People who have had occasion to compare American bicycles with those of British make are at once impressed with tho striking differences between the twa These differences are all in the lino of greater strength in tho foreign wheels. This, of course, also implies moro weight and clumsiness, bnt it is better suited to the harder use to which English machines are subjected. Steel rims, for instance, are more common thore than those of wood, which are now almost universally seen in this country. The brakes, too, instead of beinfr small, light affairs, like ours, are inqido for hard service, and are usually rubber liaed. The saddles are large and springy, comfort never being sacrificed to weight considerations. Perhaps the most noticeable difference of all is in the mud guards, which are designed for true British weather. They are of amplo size and shape and are generally mode of celluloid or steel. Riders in England make little account of the weather, being accustomed not only to pedaling along in mud, but even in a rainstorm, from the force of wtticli they are quite well protected by circular rubber cloaks, designed especially for cyclists' use-—San Francisco Argonaut

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CHICAGO, Oct 5.—"Thanks to the devices by which figures representing the sum for which a check is originally drawn may be cut into the paper composing the check itself,s' said a veteran detective to the writer yesterday, "swindling by check raising is not nearly so common nowadays as formerly. It was once the favorite form of bank swindling. It is much .easier to alter a figure or two than it is to imitate a signature perfectly. "Still there are many ways by which a clever rami may unlawfully get money on checks, notes and other pieces of commercial paper without actual forgery. I met a man only a day or two ago who worked one of the neatest schemes of this sort on record some years ago. He was publishing a newspaper in an interior city at the time. His venture promised well, but had not yet reached the living point, and he had to raise the wind somehow or suspend. "At that time, however, he had no notion of doing anything crooked, and he succeeded with comparative ease in getting a loan of $900, in the form of three §300 promissory notes, signed by a moneyed friend. These notes were indorsed by the publisher himself, after which he had no difficulty in securing the required cash from the bank. The notes were payable in three, six and nine months respectively, and the moneyed friend was very particular that they should be taken up promptly on time, saying that future financial favors would depend entirely upon this. A day or two after the first note fell due the maker received what he supposed was the note, marked 'paid' with a rubber stamp and with the signature torn off. At the end of six months he received the second note, as he supposed, in the same condition, and of course he felt perfectly easy about the third one. But before it became due the publisher failed, and in the course of time the moneyed friend was called upon to make good not only the last note, but the other two also. They had never been taken up at all. "What about the notes received by the moneyed friend, marked 'paid?' Well, the body of the original notes had been filled out by the publisher in his own handwriting, and he had taken the precaution to fill out duplicates, which, however, were not signed at all, but carefully put away, to be used in case of emergency. When the first note fell due, the publisher was unable to meet it, but knowing the bank people very well had no trouble in getting a renewal by paying the interest. But he did not dare let his moneyed friend know the facts, and there was where the duplicate notes came in. The publisher had only to stamp these duplicates 'paid,' tear off the part of each that would have borne the signature and send it to his friend. Of course the publisher had hoped to arrange matters ultimately, but his business didn't prosper as he hoped it would and failure brought about discovery. He was arrested and kept some time in jail, but was never tried, there being some doubt as to whether he could be convicted of any crime. "One of the most successful cases of petty 'raising' I ever heard Qf was discovered not long ago by a well known business house, the swindler being the firm's own office boy, who was sent to the bank every day with the deposit. For some little Mme he habitually raised the figures of the slips on which the re ceiving teller marked the small amounts charged for collecting out of town checks and drafts. The firm's bookkeep er trusted the boy implicitly, and as long as the teller made his figures in lead pencil there was no trouble. One day he used ink, and so did the boy, but tho inks were not alike, and discovery followed at once.''

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, OCTOBER 9, 1897.

SOME ODD SWINDLES.

There Are Still Ways to Get Honey Wronffully on Checks and Notes. (Special Correspondence.]

FRED WILLIS.

Why a Swelling Follows a Blow.

The swelling which follows from blow is nature's effort to protect the part from further injury and to keep it at rest while repair is going on. What actually takes place at the seat of injury is not even now quite understood. The injury to the l^r blood vessels interferes with the flow of blood through them and the white corpuscles, with part of the serum, the watering part of the blood, escape into the surrounding tissues. At the same time the blood vessels in the neighborhood dilate and the increased flow of blood with the thoroughfare obstructed increases the swelling.

It is probable that the white corpuscles of the blood pass into the tissues to assist in the repair, as bees or anta assemble at an injury to their storehouse, bnt with this difference, that the substance of the corpuscles is probably convrted into the tissue of repair. From t||e point of view the human body is f- ily one gigantic colony of individuals id the swelling that follows injury but the rush of these to repair the breach.—Philadelphia Times.

Tipping the Curat*.

The ever recurrent question of tipping has taken on a new phase, and a curate has been writing to the papers to complain that he is the only person who gets nothing out of a wedding. Clerk, verger, pew opener, policeman and all the rest are "remembered,"*and the wedding fee goes to the incumbent, who sits at home at ease. It is a little difficult to decide what is the smallest sum that would not offend a curate. At any rate, those about to many might make a note of it, aad if it is a £6 note all the better for the curate.—London World.

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Hobson—He treated me very coldly, —Philadelphia Record. 1

The theory of a noted physician that talking is conducive to longevity is verified by the circumstance that women live longer than men.

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And bid dull care avaunfc," sounds very well in verse, but If you have a case of the "blues" caused by Indigestion, with biliousness added on as an extra horror, you cannot say hey! presto! and thus insure tho departure of those abominable twins. The "proper caper" when thus troubled Is to seek the aia of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Thereafter you will speedily digest with ease and eat with appetite, and your liver will reassert its right to regularity. Not only this, you can retire without a horrible dread that the Washington monument willin dreams—impose itself upon the pit of your stomach. If you feel premonitory symptoms of chills and fever, kidney trouble, or rheumatism, summon the Bitters to the rescue without delay, "lest a worse thing befall you." A feeble condition of the system is more speedily chavged to a vigorous one by this fine tonic than by any other nediclnal agent in existence. A.wineglassful three times a day.

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Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per packagc. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.

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Clara Barton, President of the Red Gross Society Indorses Dr. Greene Nervura.

The Indorsement by the Red Gross Society of Dr. Greene's Nervura Means Everything to those Who Need Medicine, for the Whole Aim and Object of the Society Is to Relieve Suffering.

Clara Barton Head of the Most Benevolent Order on Earth, and Best --Known Woman in the Whole World, Thus Gives the Encourage%nent of Her Own Word to Every Sufferer that Dr. Greene's Nervura will Give Back Lost Health and Strength. One Has Only to

suffering, whose crowning act of benevolent charity in carrying to stricken Armenia ships laden with the tender mercies of charity is a matter of history known to all the world-

Such is the world famous Clara Barton, President of the Ited Cross Society, and her words in praise and recommendation of the wonderful curer of disease, Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, will be the kindling of new hope to thousands upon thousands of those who are sick, out of health, weak, nervous, or who suffer from headaches, rheumatism, neuralgia or other painful and distressing disease, nervous affections or poor and devitalized blood.

No suffering person certainly can hesitate for an instant to immediately secure and use this grandest of medicines, Dr. Greene's Nervura, when the President of the greatest benevolent order on earth give9 personal assurance of the great value and wonderful health-giv-ing powers possessed by Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. 'H

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CLARA BARTON,

President of the American National Red Cross, Washington, D. C."

Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve "remedy is indorsed and recommended by more people whom it lias cured, more physicians, more hospitals and moro charitable societies than auy other remedy in the world, and if yon wish to le made well and strong again, if you wish health to take the place of disease, if you wish to know what it is to bo without pain, weakness, nervousness, humors or indeed any kind of nervous and physical suffering, take Dr. Greene's Nervura blood aud nerve remedy.

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