Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-11

k6T INSPIRED MILLIONAIRES Is
the title of book Just issued.
Il 1t is addressed to students oil
the problems of our day, and Is writ
ten i'm a pungent and brilliant style.
The author attacks the question of
the accumulation of great wealth, and
it's uses and advantages, from the
standpoint of the millionaire himself.
He approves of great wealth honestly
acquired, and argues If man dis
covers methods of manufacture, or any
process by which he saves several dol
lars for each inhabitant of the globe,
he is entitled to his share of the saw
ing even If 1t be millions. To such a
millionaire the receipt marked paid
for his mansion, his parks, his SEASIDE
home. his autos and all his luXurles'
are certificates of good character.
He argues that dishonest or tainted
wealth is dishonorable, and that 1t
does not pay" He portrays the diff
cuIties that millionaires face in get
ting out of their money the enjoyment
they should; IN contracting those close
and intimate friendships with other
men, that add so much to the enjoy
ment of life and hundred other an
noyances and disgraces attached to
tainted wealth.
He does not approve of millionaires
getting "all the money they can," so
that they have to salve their con-
sciences by giving away libraries and
endowipg scholarships. He would have
millionaires make of their help in fac
tories, not machines, making one tenth
or one hundredth part of product,
but intelligent brains with an interest
in their work, as well as their wages.
He would have millionaires acquire
~ ,oGn In
of it and not ashamed of their meth
DDS, nor criminals. He would have
them not lonely, but as happy and as
good as anybody and their wealth a
Joy and a blessing to themselves ana
to the world. He urges that million
aires should be too big to do wrong"
He shows the unwisdom of getting
great wealth by building up a monop-
oily for the present only, like the
| Standard Oil, and not an honorable
| business to descend to their children
| for generations to come. And he urges
| that such combinations as the Standard
Oil, the meat trusts and kindred trusts
founded upon monopoly, rebates and
oppression, cannot last, for they are
| against the law, and the people are
| opposed to them and will destroy them.
| And he also urges the building up of
| such business Is not only unWise, but
impolitic, as it's owners are always at
| the mercy OF woman WITH pen ike
Miss Tarbell, or a man who can write
book like Upton Sinclair's, which for
time nearly destroyed the business
| of the meat trust. For these and
many other reasons, he says, the build
ing up of such a business does not pay.
In the end. he looks forward to a
| class of INSPIRED millionalres," who
have made their money honorably and
are respected; who use their money
| wisely to build up men, and business
that shall last for their descendants,
and are loved for it; and who develop
themselves into good, honorable, happy,
| social and lovable men, helpers of their
| fellow man, and of benefit to the COM
munity
The book is we'll worth careful read
| ing. One cannot read it without
studying the subject.
Inspired Millionaires BY Gerald
Stanley Lee Northampton, Mass. !:
The Mount Tom Press.
A volume of Beatrice Herford's
amusing monologues has just come
from the press of Charles Scribner's
Sons. The half dozen sketches are
voluminously illustrated by Oliver
Herford. and his portrayal of the
ludicrous situations is an additional
cause for merriment.
"Monologues." By Beatrice Her
|
Sons.
1.-THE Mystery OF the Yellow Room,
| a new detective story of more thar
usual interest, like all its predecessors
| is filed with uncertainty until nearly
the last chapter is reached. At that
point in the tale everything is made
SO clear that the reader wonders he
did not reason 1t out for himself, yet
| the conclusion is one he had never even
suspected. The title page announces
the book contains the extraordinary
Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille, Re-
porter"
The scene is laid in France, near
Paris, and the reporter exemplifies the
superiority of brain and pure logic in
the detection and arrest of criminals
over the ordinary detective methods.
The book derives its title from the
name of the room in which the original
crime was committed. This yellow room
opens from the laboratory in which
the heroine and her father were at
work and completing a most remark
able discovery concerning the 'disso-
| citation of matter" the dissolving OF
| solid matter into nothing or into its
elements. Mademoiselle Stangerson
leaves her father in the laboratory when
she retires to her yellow room for the
night and closes and locks the door.
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and it is protected by iron bars. The
door is the only other opening into the
room, and the father is at work there
and no one could or did pass through.
! Yet shortly after the young lady re-
tired there were sounds of a great dis
| turbance in the yellow room and of
the firing of a revolver, and the vic
tim cried out for help and called "Mur-
der! Murder!" The old professor, her
| father, Sprang for the door, found 1t
locked and bolted, and with the aid
| of others attracted by the outcries
forced the door. A sad sight met their
| eyes. Mademoiselle was stretched on
| the floor, unconscious and covered
| with blood. She had severe bruise on
her head, and a mutton bone with
which the wound was inflicted was
found in the room. The furniture was
overturned and broken, the walls were
| spattered with blood, the mark of a
mans bloody hand upon them, and
there were muddy footsteps made by
mans boots upon the floor. A mans
| cloth cap and a revolver were also
| found. Yet the assassin was not there.
He could not have escaped by the
window, for the bars were intact, nor
by the door, for the father and his aids
were there and the door locked all the
time. There was no secret exit. yet the
assassin had disappeared.
| This is the mystery that was solved
naturally and clearly and satisfactorily
by the logic of the reporter, even
though his efforts were hampered by
Frederick Larsan, the chief detective
| of Paris
This attack on the young lady Is fol-
lowed by other crimes-robbery, as
sault and murder.
At one period in the tale the as