The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-05-20

"aTu comes IN the end" said lie.
maitre.
AS Marcelle drew her thread she was
thinking that 1t was the profits from
her francs so confines hats which
kept the little household in the Rue
Monique, and gave her father the
money which he spent on his useless
inventions.
There Is a good time coming" con.
tinued Lemaitre.
you have invented something, faith
err" the girl asked, still stitching.
Eyes; something Of which all Paris
will talk"
Marcelle had often heard the phrase
but, in the end, 1t had always been
her hats which had paid the rent.
She loved her father but she under
stood him.
"You will be famous" she said,
without conviction.
I'm few days her father asserted
grandiloquently, my invention will be
the talk of the boulevards."
What is it," she asked, as she held
the hat before her to judge the effect
Of what she had done,
1--WE have agreed to call it lie Tour.
billion de la Mort" Lemaitre an
nounced magnifcently. 1T is a good
title, girl, a title which the boule-
Yards and the cafes will loye-'The
Whirlwind of Death Every night
that 1t is in use l, who invented it,
will receive a hundred francs!"
sssa #ssst
The Garden of the Palais de Paris
was full of the sound of hammering,
and the walls of Paris displayed every.
where flaming poster, The sensa-
ton Of the moment was Lemaitre's in
vention-"The Whirlwind of Death"
In aorobatic thrills it provided lie dern-
Ter cri.
Down a fierce and sudden slope, as
nearly perpendicular as possible, a
lightly built car, fashioned to resem.
BILE an automobile, was to rush along
a rail track to apparent destruction.
AS 1t reached the ground, however, the
track bent suddenly upward in a sharp
curve and abruptly ceased. Follow
ing the rails the car would rush up,
and, with the force of the upward and
onward momentum 1t had gained when
It left the rails, would turn complete
and land on a platform
provided to receive it. In the car
there would be a passenger-a girl.
The poster which was by Flaneur, a
we'll known poster artist, showed her
waving her hand joyously-to Paris!
The daring risk Of the girls life pro-
vided the thrill which, on the First OF
June, would fill the Garden Of the
Palais de Paris with a gaping crowd
Superintendenting the erection OF the
track, the Inventor of Useless lnYen-
tons was a person Of Importance, an
inventor. seeing the product OF ms
brain erected into material being, So
all through those last days of May he
stayed in the spring sunlight, amid the
hammering and the saving, dreaming
that now, when his name would be
well known, his other inventions might
win recognition. In those last days OF
May Lemaitre knew happiness.
II was not so with. Marcelle. When
the Whlrlwind of Death was explained
to her, she shuddered.
How cruell" she exclaimed.
Her father looked her with palned
surprise, 80.
'.eruel? You are talking foolishly'
What is there cruel in this illustration
Of the principles OF mechanics Whlch
all Paris will applaud?'
who is to ride in the carr" she
asked.
perhaps for a moment Lemaitre hest
tated. Perhaps even to him, though
the intoxication Of his success, some
plimmering penetrated of the cruelty
Of what he was going to ask. II any
did. he laughed away the scruple.
oIt is part of the agreement that
should find the passenger" he said
lightly. .rWhy mot you, ma mics
you the daughter of the inventor? Why
sbonid not you share the applause
There is no danger-the unalterapie
laws of mechanics protect you.
Marcelle looked up in amazed alarm
40 she .gasped. "I-your dapgh
teri" -. -..-,
: 6mazef6ent, misery and fear filled
,rarceIle's thoughts after she ha9
leaned how TIE Hundred francs q
.n ~, were going 10 be earned-amaze-
meut, that she should be expected e
NAV a part in such an exhibition az
@The Whiriwind sof Death misery
MAJ her father, whom she had alway'
tuoV Ne' .i-h 10 submit Eer Il