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Casinos architecture that dark and
narrow secret corridor built in the waua
leads from close TO II to the police roorns
down in the basement. -
A locked door concealed In the wall
paneing of the playroom gives access
to each secret corridor-whch is Just
wide enough for wide man tor womanl.
dark. but for electric lighting. and built
with heavy slant down TO the basement.
See? See? When a desperate loser
threatens violence or a scandal the police
spies grab him.
They grab him right in the midst OF
all the players
Then a Transformation scene.
Four police spies push and pull him.
quick to the wall just beside the table.
The concealed door opens, Flop. the
disturber Is pulled into the closet-lookins
space. Flop, the concealed door shutsAA
and makes nice. ornamental paneling
again. You would not Know a door was
there. And that is all. No more dis
turber.
But in the steep slanting, narrow cor
ridor, mysterious. without windows. lead
ing God knows where. the prisoner shoots
downward to the basement. breathless.
brethren laughed the ex-spy.
Rough treatment" l asked.
Rather Yes. It Is n Monte Carlo
tradition that a little roughish handling
turbers." he confessed. Mine out OF ten
have cooled down before the police Inc
spector asks them what their kick Is.
What is the charger" l asked.
Disturbing the peace Of the principals
ity. 1t is a sovereign government. You
know Also a health resort. Once out
side, the disturber is escorted to his hotel.
allowed to pack up and pay up. and then
taken to the frontier"
Why the frontiers just across the
street, I laughed.
Eyes. but it's France. The mans ex-
PEELED from Monaco. the papers all made
out quite regular. II he comes back he's
in wrong. Should he hang himself to a
tree in daylight they will cut him down.
Should he do 1t by night. why they will
bury him. s.
This is, perhaps. why Society to Sup
press Public Gambling on the Rivieras'
composed of influential cosmopolitan resi-
dents from Nice to Genoa, Is issuing sem
sational photographs on post cards.
Though they are twenty charming
photographs of Monte Carlo gardens.
parks and fairy terraces and marble
halls. without word concerning gam
bling, the authorities of Monte Carlo have
prescribed them.
Why?
Because each photograph scene Of
garden, hall or terrace has a great white
star upon 1t somewhere.
What Is the white star?
1t marks suicide.
Without their quick doors and force oS
disguised life-savers like the obscure hero
authorities OF Monte Carlo would have the
pain to see each one of the twenty photo.
graphs all plastered up with stars.
AN AMERICAN AT MONTE CARLO.
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have been going to waste for centuries.
At the Carlisle Indian School and other
training establishments a constantly in
creasing number of redskins are being
educated into the ways of the white man,
and they have shown an amazing facility
for progress. There are many talented
musicians among them, so that the Car
Isle Indian School Band is famous all
over the country. Several Indians have
gone to Congress and have taken places
of influence in other walks
In all the new possessions of the United
States where savage haces are TO be
found, notably the Tagalos and the Mo-
ros, evidences have been furnished to in
vestigators that they are far from being
hopeless from mental standpoint. All
that Is needed is the power of education.
England In Its vast scope of colonial
interests furnishes many cases OF the
lower races showing possibilities of de-
velopment that have astounded their
teachers
Among many of these primitive peo-
pies are TO be found really excellent sys-
TENS Of government, where the power
is properly distributed and the products
of the land SO divided as TO make
livelihood easy for all The mental gifts
are not of a kind such as is shown and
valued in the new world. but the necro-
mancers OF many savage countries can
perform feats of skill which all the brains
of the occident cannot explain.
For every act of ferocity that can be
charged against the savage there is ever
an explanation. The white men against
whom ii was directed went into his coun-
try with the idea of stealing from the
original owner and the savage who
fought to defend had to use only those
horrible means of resistance which he
knew.
AS civilization carries itself farther and
farther into the remote homes of aborig.
inal man. and education gives opportuni-
ties to those who never knew them, tho
truth of the speeches made at the Lon
don congress are destined to be verified.
The savage Is a better man mentally
than he has received credit for.
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get him outside the Casino. Come I said.
well secure you a fat viaticum'-and.
really. he'd have got 1t, say $500.
1--WE a mind to shoot that croupier,
he whispered. I was ready for him-at
his right hand. Well. the poor fellow was
left-handed!'
WHAT"
He whipped pistol from his left coat
pocket and shot himself through the head.
Mer screamed. Women went into hys-
terics. There was a rush from the table.
Then. while inspectors. croupiers. spies
and old habitues made a ring round 1t,
servants took the body to the quick
door Of that table and washed up and
dried the floor. In half an hour the
table had started business again. and
when timid ladies asked, Was there a
suicide? dozen Of us-dressed like gen.
tlemanly players. all-laughed at the idea
of it. But / heard a pistol said one
lady. 1T must have been one of those
champagne corks in the Atrium, I an
swered."
Thus 1 learned of the quick DOORS"
Probably not one reader out of twenty
who has been to Monte Carlo knows that
they exist-in any case, l hope, not by
experience!
Each roulette and trente-et-quarante
table is SO situated with respect to the
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first time. his name can be actually found
on the records is when it appears there
in 1888 as one Of the petty off GERS on the
United States ship Delaware. This was SO
long before the era of the battleship OF
today that it seems almost incredible to
believe that any one could be living now
who was a man full grown at that time.
Macabee came into the world at a time
when Thomas Jefferson was President OF
the United States and Napoleon sat on
the throne of France In the very zenith
of his glory. AS a youngster OF twelve
years. just when his Imagination was
forming sufficiently to let him grasp
what 1t all meant. he heard naval men
talking OF the wonderful battle that had
been fought in Europe, which had broken
forever the power Of the greatest military
conqueror the modern world had known.
Maybe he did not know then that that
battle had been named Waterloo. and
that he whose power was broken there
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ones at the soldiers of Great Britain in

stones at the soldiers of Great Britain In
1913.
He lived in Baltimore then. and his
father owned a mill at Jones Falls. When
the soldiers of George III marched
through the city he stood on the bridge
and threw rocks and oyster shells at
them. This was the first actual service
Bill did for his country, and he tells with
pride that nearly every missile he threw
hit the mark
This began a career that Is the marvel
Of officers.
When che magnificent armored cruiser
Pennsylvania was launched a few years
ago, the fact was recalled by officials Of
the Naval Home that MacabCe's career
was curiously bound up with. that of the
new monster just being indicted into
the service of the nation.
On the Old Pennsylvania.
Macabee was boatswain's mate on the
old Pennsylvania. At Norfolk navy yard
he gave the word to the crew to leave
the ship just before she was burned 10
prevent her from falling into the hands
Of the Confederacy. Later in the day he
led the crew in yelling in defiance to the
demand from the Merrimac to surrender
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end of his $40 0n0: or the Russian widow
Catherine Kasieliew. who died of poison
I'm the Atrium itself. She bet obstinately
on the number 60 until her fortune of
S1OOOGO was expended.
"How much would they give to stop
suicide?' I asked.
Gould they know in advance they'd
stop the suicide for nothing on Monte
Carlo SOIL" said the one-tme police spy.
You see. they don't much believe in
those who threaten. Ten times a day
some one goes to the inspector general
threatening suicide. Should he pay them
all they've lost there'd be nothing left to
pay the winners"
but the really desperate I said, big
losers?"
"Once I had to watch Russian noble
man three days because he had lost some
$500, 600. / became his best friend-helped
him make his application for big Watt
cum.
"Rebate?'
Not quite. Viaticum means travelling
expenses, but he hoped to get back
$4,000 Well. at last he was extremely
glad to take $500 cash at Nice, outside
Monaco territory"
Why not? Players are so foolish the
administration in its heart despises them.
An Italian officer the other day lost some
$500; threatened suicide; was given back
ST. cash for railway fare plus a draft
on Rome for S1GO Well. instead of hur-
rying bacl. to cash his check he slipped
into the payrooms again the guards
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after the Confederate ironclad had rid
died the Congress. Macabee had been
shifted to the Congress after II became
necessary to leave the Pennsylvania
Before giving UP the Pennsylvania the
crew made noble effort to save her.
But, finding that of no avail, she was
fastened to the PaWnee, toWed out into
the stream and set atire.
Among the other ships on which the
old fellow has seen service are the Della
ware United States Ohio. Stark, Con-
necticut Vixen. Vandalia, Wabash. York
town and Waterwitch.
Macabee's home was not far from that
of Francis Scott Key. who wrote the
Star Spangled Banner" Though only
youngster at the time the national anthem
was penned Macabee remembers well
how quickly the air seized the affections
OF the people and was heard on all
sides.
1t delights him to tell how he one
of a large number of boys who were as
sembled and taught how to sing the stir
ring chorus in unison He expresses the
opinion that the boys chorus to which
he belonged was the first that ever sang
the national anthem. and that the printer
who had the words and who trained the
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Is that real suicide material does not ask
the viaticum-it goes and kills itself with
out giving warning. The direction don't
fear losers who request part Of their
money back. For one thing, 1t is warned
against them by the fact, and SO can
watch them. Only once was I fooled
by a man who threatened violence.
He was a young Brazilian wnese iden-
tity remains unknown" continued the ex-
spy. His body lies-with how many
others-under the grass tufts and flower
ing shrubs where the Mediterranean
whispers always to the cliffs. in the Field
of the Suicides outside Monaco cemetery
Il saw him first at 3 pm one day
when the room chief Of our spies signed
to me to watch him as heavy loser who
might turn out agitated. hysteric or
desperate. quot. We always keep close
touch with such. 1 made his acquaint-
ance between tables. He had lost $780,
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sand-dolar credit in it's budget to get rid
Of deadbrokes-not to stake them.
When you're broke you hunt up the
inspector general.
What tables have you played at?"
asks the functionary.
Such and SUCH" you answer.
Good. Come with me-"
Then begins an odious promena de
through the long suite of playrooms. The
inspector walks you to table where you
lost A glance between him and the
croupiers asks: Has this man lost here?"
The employees give sgn-yes or no-and
you pass to another table.
Players all around are smiling at you
Others whisper, Look. there goes a dead
broke"' Because they are not bad fell
lows. croupiers nearly always sign af-
Tentatively: Yes, he (or she) lost here"
Then to the inspectors office to fill blanks
Your name? Profession? Address?
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Here noted scholars present
ed arguments to prove that in many cases
the aborgines of the world were not SO
far behind civilized man in respect to
natural brain power as the world has
been wont to believe.
No less a savant than Principal Jevons
of the Durham University, speaking to
the lower culture section Of the history
of religions congress. In London, ad-
yanced the remarkable proposition that
TO exchange the environment OF the saw
age and the civilized man OF Europe
would demonstrate in few generations
that the former would accustom MS
ways himself to civilization Just as GER
tainly as the white man, surrounded only
by wild and savage conditions, would
lapse into the ways of the aborig1ne.
Then came series of astonishing prop
os!tiOns.
l.. 7. Hobhouse. professor OF sociology
at London University. compared the skull
of the Poiynesian with that Of an Eng
lishman. He admitted that the brain
reservoir OF the savage was just as great
as that of the Briton, and he further con-
coded that the natural life of the savage
spared him many of the weakening I'M
pulses that result from the vices OF the
man of civilization.
The only cause of the undoubted men,
tai superiority of the Englishman he con-
Guided was because the latter proflted by
the intellectual requests Of previous gem
erations, while the Polynesian remained
at the same mental level as his remote
ancestors.
This was quite an admission for an
Eaglishman to make, but Ii was cast In
sne shade by the retort of Prof. Diech-
.1lnn. a German savant, who told how
~ lad been studying the arts Of hypno-
- and suggestion. which are now TAX
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surprised him, for he expected to find the
skull of the modern man of education
would demonstrate beyond cavil that he
enjoyed advantages with which the saw
age could never hope to catch up. What
he did find was exactly the reverse.
He found that the men of the so-called
Neanderthal race and the POlynesian or
Australian type of blacks, who really rep
resent the lowest type Of man, are in
reality of the same family.
The brain size in the two Is virtually
equal.
In the earlier period of the paleolithic
age Prof. Sellas deduces that men who
then Inhabited Europe had developed an
average skull capacity of seventy-six Gu
bic inches. At the end of the paleolithic
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period men had developed their brain ac-
commodation to ninetyfour and a half
cubic inches. which is a size that is only
a shade below the average for today.
This rapidity in cerebral development
in that one period leads Prof. Sollas to
believe that there must have been con-
siderab BILE variation in the size of the pre-
historic brain. He estimates that at
This would give those early races skulls
with a maximum of fifty-eight cubic
inches and a maximum of ninety -four
cubic inches. The least intelligent men
of that day were about 80 per cent as
well gifted in mental possibilities as the
average man Of today. while those who
had attained the limit of development
would have compared favorably In brain
capacity with the average man of today.
Assuming that the newly discovered
pithecanthropes remains represent the
average type, that race would probably
vary between forty-three and seventy
three cubic inches In skull development.
The latter figure exceeds the minimum
of the Australian natives and closely APP
proaches their average, while the min
very close to the maximum OF the an
thropoid ape skulls. Prof Solas there
fore argues that the pithecanthropos and
the Neanderthal men must be regarded
as successive links between the animal
world and the human race.
After thus dealing with primitive man.
the scholar continues to trace his investi-
cations down to the present time, and
shows that the savage has in many cases
advanced in brain capacity.
But he has not yet had the proper con-
ditions to put this raw material to USE
He has the brain, but 1t remains unde-
veloped. fallow field which must be
reached by the powers OF education before
he can deserve a place with the white
man Of modern times.
The Indian a Good Example.
In the United States the Indian. natu-
rally one of the most primitive and fero-
cious of savages. has shown what can be
accomplished in the way of putting fertil-
ity into these fields of gray matter that
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Income? Amount lost? Sign your name
here
Now. following a subinspector. you pass
back through the long suite of playrooms
to the cashier. the sub making a sign to
all doorkeepers:
This man is barred. Remember him.
Only such as happen to arrive at and
quit the cashiers between guard changes
4 and p.m.-can hope to slip back to
the tables-for that evening only. Next
day the card of admission itself is no
good. You are outside and barred.
What makes the suicide problem hard
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600. and had only $4,000 left. 1 advised

COO and had only $4,000 left. I advised
him to cool of and try luck later. He
thanked me and quit the Casino
'Well?"
lat 5 pm. / stood beside him again at
the roulette. where he bet 1000 francs
notes on the even chances. How goes? l
whispered, seeing he had lost continually.
II am ruined he said haggard. That
was my last note. l feel that / am go
ing crazy l owe my hotel 500. and how
shall 1 pay my steamer back to Brazil?'
"All round us. players had begun to
listen to him. He was agitated. / must
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ere changed and actually won $500 wit


And every one in the past week is
laughing over the case of a so-called
barrister of Lyon. He won S2,1Oo with
a thrty-dollar viaticum between s pm.
when the guards are changed, and II pm.
when they discovered him winning big
notes at the trente-et-quarante.
OF course. he had no right to play that
railway fare against the bank-the more
as 1t is a general superstition that
viaticum money always wins. Annually
the administration puts an eightythou-
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light of thousands who stood for an
hour to hear the song half a dozen times,
the cheering compelling many encores.
With patriotic training like this for an
Inspiration Il is not surprising that
Macabee was destined to spend his long
life in patriotic devotion to the cause OF
the nation.
Threw Stones at the English.
His first taste Of warfare was when he
threw stones at the invaders. Then he
became a cabin boy on American ships
. the second war with Great Britain. and
Z. 1914 was working for the nation. I'm
fortunately the entrance of a youngster
iI.to the service of the nation was hardly
.=garded as event sufficiently signif1-
cunt to get place in the archives,
5-lt 1t is we'll authenticated that Maca-
re had a part in that war. though the
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being great enough in comparison to per-
NIT the patronizing Of the savage in all
parts Of the world.
But the most wonderful of all the
guments for the possibilities of the saw
. age were purely mathematical. They rep
resented the researches of Prof Sollas, a
noted German scholar
He adduces the law of dimensions to
show that there is no reason why the
savage should not some day be the equal
of his white brother provided that brain
capacity counts.
He even demonstrated that no immeas-
urable chasm exists between prehistoric
man and the cultivated citizen of today.
Prof. Sollas made an exhaustive series
OF measurements. The results he attained
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@LD Bill Macabee Has
~ lust Celebrated His One

(LD Bill Macabee Has
~ Just Celebrated His One
Hundred and Fifth Anniver-
sary-He Now Lives in the
Naval Home at Philadelphia
The Occasion Called for a
Celebration, With Admiral
Miller Entertaining the Old
Salt-Bill Is a Great Favorite
With the Department at
Washington, and Secretary
of the Navy Paul Morton
Attended the Birthday Party
in Honor of His Hundredth
Birthday a Few Years Ago
Was Cabin Boy in the
American Ships That Fought
the British to a Standstill in
the War of 1872.
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M London tournament that
w mathematics cannot beat
Monte Carlo roulette the
great mill of the Casino here was teach
ing the hard fact to others with real
money. ten of whom lost even coura &c
to go on with life.
six midnight burals. two heart fail
ures in hotels. two accidental drownings
makes ten suicides In two weeks-a strong
average on Monte Carlo sou,'' said the
discharged police spy to me. The force
must have got 1t hard from the admins
tration."
His revelations cannot hurt casino bust
ness-published at a distance. And what
has he to reveal except that the direction
hires a we'll dressed secret army to stop
ruined pla yers suiciding? And that when
a suicide is found It is quickly hidden?
The rich and the great-whose sole opin-
ion counts-want peace and elegance at
Monte Carlo.
'Silence hovers over this place." said
the discharged one. THE whole popula-
ton, from officials. doctors. editors and
bankers down to chambermaids and cafe
walters. have one mastering fear-tO hurt
the season There's not lamplighter in
the park or soubrette in the toilet rooms
who is not capable OF cutting down
hanging man or covering up q poisoned
lady under piles Of dirty towels"
1.-The burials are by midnight" l said.
when there are no relatives who want
to take away the body" was his answer.
The proceedings are sensational. but nat
ural-given the power OF the prinoeiy gov
eminent that has SO large stake in
good season."
When body is found In the park. or
on the railway tracks, or shore below the
cliffs, or toilet rooms, or any other pub
lie place the order is to hide 1t on the
spot until night. If possible. II not. then
get 1t away quick In the death automo-
bile" that looks like a pleasure vehicle.
TO lie fiat
When body is found in a hotel-well,
each Monte Carlo hotel has its death
room,' situated for quick back-stairs ac-
cess. In it a Monaco doctor makes out
the certificate-heart failure. Then wait
until night. Between and 3 am. an
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years than any veteran in the
service of Uncle Sam, binding
with his own life the earliest
stage of national existence with the pres
ent. William Macabee has just celebrated
his 105th birthday.
He is now living at the Naval Home in
Philadelphia. and has been there for
thirty-four years. The celebration of his
natal day was the occasion for birth
day party at which he was the guest of
Admiral Miller, and many noted officers
called 10 pay their respects.
Bits career in the navy began in 1914.
so that he has been connected with Uncle
Sam for ninetyfour years.
The marvellous record Of this old fellow
Will perhaps never be surpassed in United
States naval records. At the present
time he has gone ahead Of all his pred
ecessors, and as he is still healthy there
is every possibility that he will be on
hand for some time yet to tell his ex-
periences.
Bills favorite way of beginning the re-
cital of his life story is to tell how, when
he was boy of ten years old, he SHE'D
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\" AY That the Monaco
w Authorities Treat Des-
perate Losers Who Have
Risked Their All Against the
Zero The Beauty Spot of
the Mediterranean a Whited
Sepulcher of Mystery and
Ruin-Incidents That Make
Up the Life and Excitement
of the Greatest Gambling
He'll in the World.
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4DER in service than any man
in the United States. older in
years than any veteran in the
service of Uncle Sam, binding
with his own life the earliest
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savages OF the world found
defenders recently among the
foremost scientific men of Eu-
rope.
Here noted scholars present
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)NTE CARLO. October IL. 1908
1HILE Sir Hiram Maxim kindly
u showed Lord Rosslyn in their
London tournament that
mathematics cannot beat
Monte Carlo roulette the