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The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26

The fake gypsy was looking eagerly about the room, apparently for a means of escape. Just then Jennings hurried in.
 Jennings" cried Aunt Josephine. seize that womanl"
 As Jennings approached her. the gypsy suddenly developed a remark able strength. She gave him shove that sent him reeling His foot caught on the edge of the fountain and he staggered minute, unable to recover his balance. then, with a great splash. fell in. The gypsy turned and fled through the palms, Elaine and Aunt Josephine following her.
 She ran as far as she could, coming up to the glass wall that formed the inner end of the conservatory. Further retreat was impossible. She seized a little rustic chair and dashed it through the glass. Cautious ly. she managed to make her way through the opening she had broken,
 Jennings had by this time. picked himself out of the fountain and, drip ping, joined Elaine and Aunt Jose phine in the chase. Out in the garden at last, the gypsy dropped down be hind a thick bush.
 At that moment a cab pulled up furiously before the house, and Ken nedy leaped out and rushed in. The gypsy had gained just time enough. If she had gone on Kennedy might have seen her.
 The others were, apparently, look ing for her in every direction except the right one. She saw her chance. Stealthily she managed to slip out of the garden by the back way.
 As Kennedy dashed down the hall and into the library he met Elaine's maid, Marie, as pale as ghost.
 For heavens sake, Marie he panted, where are they all?'
 Tn the conservatory, sir, she point ed. Didn't you hear the glass break?'
 Glass;" he repeated, running ahead of her now
 Josephine and Jennings still vainly searching about, just as they lost track of the gypsy.
 Where did she go-that way?' asked Jennings
 Hang the gypsy" interrupted Craig Let her go-you missed her anyway. But, Elaine-tell me-what happened?"
 Aunt Josephine reached down and picked up the handkerchief she had torn from Elaine's eyes She bound it over her eyes," she explained to Craig
 Kennedy examined the handkerchief closely Evidently he was looking for
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26
WITH ONE GREAT COMPOSER
Handel Belonged to No School, Yet Had Style His Own-Scolded
 Prince of Wales When Late.

German by birth, an Italian by sym pathy and training. an Englishman by residence and conformity, Handel be- longed to no school, yet had style as unmistakably his own as had Dante ln verse. Angelo in sculpture or Raphael in painting.
 Strong, egotistic, self-willed, the great composer was generally cheer full and good-tempered, but violent when irritated, and indomitably proud and independent,
 One who knew him well relates that when he was pleased with the way the music was going at one of his con- certs, his enormous wig had always a certain nod or vibration. and that at the Carlton house concerts he would swear angrily if the ladies in waiting talked during the music-upon which the princess would check them, say, ing, Hush! Hush! Handel is angry.
 He did not hesitate even to scold the prince of Wales for being late at a concert and keeping all these poor people tthe performers so long from their scholars and other concerns
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utes after Kennedy had discovered that Elaine was safe that they start from the Dodge house.
 
 Left alone with Inez, began to follow out Kennedys instructions.
 Come l menaced with the gun Get your hat on. I want you to go with me. One word on the way and I'll have you arrested at once. Other wise, you may get a chance
 did not know it at the time, but just as we were about to start and were moving toward the door, the gypsy, breathless and Jagged. reached the hallway of the apartment. She was about to go in when she heard Inez and myself going out She dropped back into the convenient shel- ter which Kennedy had used before, and when we came out we did not see anyone in the hall. As we dis appeared. she emerged and cautiously followed us.
 In spite of my fears IneZ went with out a scene to the laboratory. We entered. l, at least. not knowing that a pair of black eyes watched every movement The fake gypsy saw us go in. then hastily came out of door way into which she had slipped and hurried downtown.
 It was not long after I arrived. how ever. that Kennedy and Elaine joined me at the laboratory Kennedy had evidently carefully prepared just what he intended to do. Quickly he forced Inez into the chair which he had al ready shown Elaine, and fastened the straps about her arms.
 Walter, will you and Elaine go into the next room?" he asked as he fin- ished securing the woman
 A moment later he followed carry ing the dial of the sphygmograph. He fastened it to the concealed wires that connected with the arms of the chair, describing to us in a whisper the ac- tion of the strange little instrument which by blood pressure read not only secret emotions.
 He had purposely left the door be- tween the front and back rooms ajar, but he did not intend that Inez should hear this explanation.
 We know that Wu Fang's head quarters are on Pell street." he con cluded to us in his muffled tone. The sphygmograph will tell us the number. if We ask her the right questions. She may keep silent. but she cannot con ceal her feelings from this instru- ment..
 Already. although we did not know it, the gypsy had gone straight to Wu Fang,s apartment Wu had been get
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26
OutWitted.

A man working at large colliery in Wales recently outwitted the police in a clever manner.
 The police stationed themselves at the mouth of the pit and sent down for the man to be brought up The man, when told that he was wanted" thought himself of means of escape With the help of some of his mates he was put in a tram at the pit bottom and carefully covered with old timber and rubbish until he was entirely con- cealed.
 The tram was then sent to the sur face and was taken right under the eyes of the police to the rubbish tip. where the supposed load of rubbish made good it's escape.
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something concealed in it and did not find it. Perplexed, he looked first from Elaine then to Aunt Josephine.
 Are you looking for the gypsy's handkerchief" Elaine asked finally, seeing his astonishment. Then she stopped and picked up another hand kerchief from the floor. Here it is. It didn't look very clean, so when she wasn't looking I dropped it and used my own"
 Kennedy was speeches. with re- lief He took the other handkerchief and rapidly ran his hand over it. At last he came to little hard lump in the hem. He ripped it open. There was the little tube of radium
 You're lucky" he exclaimed "1f you had had that tube over your eyes it would have done it's work in a few minutes. You might not feel it for some time. but you would have been blinded at least in a few days, if not hours"
 Both Elaine and Aunt Josephine were overcome as they thought of the peril rom Whlch Elaine had been so narrowly rescued. Even Kennedy could not restrain shudder. For the moment he forgot even about Inez. Then, suddenly. he reeollected.
 'Oh. by the way he exclaimed, I've had Walter take a woman over to the laboratory He must be there by this time. l wish that you would get your things on and go over with me. l think that you can help me get something out of her Shes as cool, calm and calculating as a sphinx. But have a scheme that may lead us at last up to this devilish Chinaman.
 Elaine motioned to Marie and. when the maid returned hurried into her coat and hat It was only few min
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26
Author of Annie Laurie n

Annie Laurie" has topical interest for many. since. according to the gen. erally accepted story. it was written by soldier in Flanders to his lady love at home. The writer was Will liam Douglas and Annie Laurie was one of the four daughters of Sir Rob- ert Laurie of Maxwelton. Sad to re- late. says the London Chronicle. Annie did not marry her ardent lover Some way Douglas was killed in Flanders, but at all events Annie was led to the altar in l709 by Alexander Ferguson of Craigdarroeh.
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26

According to Representative Albert Johnson of Washington, this claim of the Chinooks against the United States was always a plain claim. and yet it took 63 years, four sets of law yers and indefatigable labors to settle it. According to Mir Johnson, the United States agreed to give the Chi hooks some land in place of the land they had previous to 1851. The Chi hooks agreed, but later accepted an offer of money instead of land
 That was in 1851. One whole sub tribe of the Chinooks has died out
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Happy Chance,

It is curious tc note in the history of literature how many authors nave owed their fame to single thought, the chance inspiration of an hour. As these lave been painters. not gen. erally much above mediocrity, who have sealed the heights of excellence in single picture. so there have been poets. ordinarily only secend or third rate, whom solitary ode or sonnet has lifted tc the level of the masters of song.
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26

ting anxious about his scheme when his servant announced that Inezs maid was outside.
 Bring her in immediately" Wu thundered
 The maid came in, frightened, burt ing out what had happened to her and what e had seen at the apartment Of her mistress. Wu listened, his face repressing the rag ing fury he felt.
 "Quick-my street clothes," he or dered of his servant, then, as he threw them on, added to the gypsy. Wait here until I return"
 It was only a few minutes after he had been warned by the gypsy that Wu himself glided into the hall lead ing to the main room of the labora tory He listened a moment, then, hearing nothing, was about to open the door with his skeleton key As he started to do so, his eyes fell on the fire escape outside.
 He reconsidered Perhaps it would be best to reconnoiter. Snakelike he wormed his way up the fire escape which led to the back room. There. as we grouped ourself about the sphygmograph while Kennedy ex- plained his plans, Wu's sinister face gazed in at us for moment, then withdrew. Silently he made his way down again to the ground.
 In the back room Kennedy took his place near the doorway, while Elaine and bent over the dial.
 Now, Walter,' he began in an as- sumed rhetorical tone, you remem- Der We traced that fellow, Wu Fang. to Pell street. Let me see. What was that number? One?"
 He paused. I saw the needle jump slightly at the mention of Pell street.
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26
SYNOPSIS.

The New York police are mystifed by a series of murders and other crimes The principal clue to the criminal Is the warn Ing letter which is sent the victims. signed with a "elutching hand, The latest vic tim of the mysterious assassin is Taylor Dodge the insurance president His daughter. Elaine, employs Craig Ken nedy, the famous scientific detective. to try to unravel the mystery What Ken nedy accomplishes is told by his friend. Jameson, a newspaper man. After many fruitless attempts to put Elaine and Craig Kennedy out of the way the Clutch ing Hand is at last found to be none other than Perry Bennett Elaines lawyer and the man she is engaged to marry. Ben nett fees to the den of one of his Chi nese criminals The Ghinaman forces from Bennett the secret Of the whereabouts of g. eo0,0co Then ne gives the lawyer po- tion which will suspend animation Tor months. Kennedy reaches Bennetts side just after he has lost consciousness.
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since that time and none of them ever got any of the money, although the United States got the lands
 Says Representative Johnson: The old chiefs are gone. their children are nearly all dead. and in most cases the money goes in small amounts to their grandchildren.
 "The official correspondence in re gard to these claims makes a stack of manuscript four feet high. If the time of all the Indian office employees who have devoted time to these cases could be computed as the time of one
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26

teenth of grain shot from its poison pistil has proved fatal to man.
 Give this plant the semimuscular system possessed by the carnivor- ous plants. and it would be more dangerous than the cholera" said Prof. Henry c. Walters, head of the plant research bureau at Langhorne.
 The professor, who maintains that plants have memories and are capable of love, believes also that there are plants which exercise all the emotions of enmity.-Philadelphia Dispatch to New York Sun
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26
GET MONEY AFTER s3 YEARS
Grandchildren of Indian Claimants Soon to Have IL From the
 Government

After piling up stack of letters four feet high, occupying 63 years. after whole families of the original claimants have died, the United States is about to pay claim of s64. .500 to the Lower Chinook Indians living in the state of Washington. near the mouth of the Columbia river.
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26
Plant in Hate Killed Man.

Blue rockets show fear, and the deadly nightshade is full of hatred. Both of these are plants, but that does not prevent them from declar- ing merciless war on all animal life. The blue rocket perfume carries one of the deadliest of poisons. One-six-
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Bargain Instinct.

Mrs FIatbush sorry our chil- dren are all grown up.
 MT. Flatbush-What funny idea.
 Well, you know, l saw baby car riages today marked down from $5 to s191."
The Monticellonian., 1915-08-26
Lookino Ahead.

MT. Bacon-The population of the earth at the present rate of gain will be about 4,00o O0O,000 in the year 2o14.
 Mrs. Bacon-Too bad, for do hate crowds so.
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clerk at s1,000 year, have not a doubt that the clerk could have been employed every day since 1851. which would make total of s63, 900 clerk hire to settle debt of s64 ,500.'
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-12-24
Special Dispatch 10 The Tribune.

Special Dispatch 10 The Tribune.
Washington. Dee. 1S-prcsident
Woodrow Wilson ana Mrs. Edith Boil
ing Gait were married tonight at $50
o'clock at the brides home. No. 1908
Twentieth street, y. W.
The ceremony was performed by DIR.
Herbert Scott Smith, Rector of st.
Margaret Episcopal Church, assisted
by the Rev James H. Taylor, pastor
Of the Central Presbyterian Church,
where the members Of the presidents
family have worshippcd since they
moved TO Washington.
After a day of fluctuating lights and
shades and wedding morning that
broke in a wild storm. the sun shonc
out and made possible the prediction
that happy will be the bride that the
sun shOne on.
The guests Who Witnessed the cerc-
mony numbered less than thirty. Aft
cr the newlyweds had received con
gratuiations a light Wedding supper
was served
Immediately after the wedding
feast, the president and his bride,
slipped from the Gait home. where tn"
ceremony was performed. and entered
a waiting automobile and were whnsk-
ed away.
1t had been previously announced
that they would go to Union Station.
where they would enter a train for
Hot Springs, Va, where they will
honeymoon. A staff Of newspaper
men and photographers with a large
crowd of spectators wcr" at the sta
ton to see the rewlywcds depart on
their cooling journey, but they were
Mr.. Wilson and MS bride slipped
away from the crowd, the newspaper
men and even their own relatives, and
sped into the country in the direction
Of Hot Springs. They mOtored for
possibly fifteen miles where d train,
bound for Hot Springs. and carrying
4 special coach was due to arrive. They
entered their train at II: 80 o'clock.
They will remain at Hot Springs un-
til January 2, when they will return
% Washington, and the new first lady
Of the land will enter the White House
as its mistress, January 3.
Mrs. Wilson's first public function
will be the Pan-American ceremony,
which will be held January :.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-12-24
ADVANCE WHIPS
NORMAL SCRUBS"
COurleux Second-String Goal
TOSsers Take Count
1908

The basket ball team of the Advance
High School last night simply over
Vhelmed the second team from the
Normal School by a score of 10 to 3.
Beckman, one of the local teams
guards had the unique distinction of
making the Normal's one field goal and
Klaus, center for the scrub" team,
boosted the final score one point high
or with free throw when one of the
Advance boys made a foul.
The Advance High School boys were
on their own court and they took ev-
cry advantage Of that feature. The
baskets at the ends of the court we're
attached to the wall directly and the
Advance boys made many of their
scores by resorting to the simple de
vice of banking the ball against the
wall in taking the ball close to the
goal, following their play up and roll
ing the ball into the basket on their
second trial when in close.
Courleux's second string pupils
were not accustomed to that manner of
play and for time were at a loss to
know how to break the walI-play up.
In addition to that feature of the
game, the lighting was done by means
Of gas and was not as brilliant as the
local goal tossers were used to, SC
that they worked under a handicap ir
the semi-darkness that their opponents
were fairly familiar with.
The Advance boys played a fast
snappy game and rounded out a good
victory before large crowd.
Prof. Godlove accompanied the Nor
NAL team to Advance from the Cape
and II bows returned to the Cape on
the Hoxic 1t 10.aA o'clock last night.
The lineup sd scorr is as follows:
Free
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-12-24
CITY CLERK FRISSELL ILL.

City Clerk R. w. Frissell yesterday
afternoon went home seriously i'll with
grip and severe cold. Mayor Kage
instructed him not to show up at the
courthouse until he was completely re-
covered and last night Mr.. Frissell was
absent for the first time since his inau-
guration into Office. from the meeting
of the City Council.
Before leaving he told the Mayor
what documents were to be placed be-
fore the Council and Mayor Rage last
night appointed Chris E. Silver, City
Engineer, to act as City Clerk pro
tenn in Mr.. Frissell's place.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-12-24
WZSONAW R2DE
TO HONOR LORIMIER
With HIS. MONUMENT
School Board Wishes To Put Tn
Statue By May-SeniOrs
To Aid.

AS a final mark of completion for
the new Central High School on Pa
| cific street at the head of Merriwether
street, a movement is under way to
erect a monument to Don Louis Lori
mier, the man who more than 100
years ago decided the land upon which
the new building was erected to the
public for a school.
The monument will cost several hum
bred dollars, the members of the
Board of Education plan, and will be
either in the shape of a statute of
Lorimier or tablet.
The project has been discussed fire.
quently by members OF the Board
among themselves and they have con-
sidered various ways and means of
raising the funds with which to pay
for such a monument.
The plan that meets with most IA
vor is to have the senior class present
a play or entertainment of some char
acter this winter or spring, the pro-
ceeds from which would be devoted to
the fund for the monument.
Members of the class have ex-
pressed willingness to cooperate
with the plan, and it is probable that
definite work will be started some
time after the Christmas holidays.
Secretary of the Board, Lee l.. Bow
man yesterday said that he expects to
spend several days in St. Louis during
the Christmas holidays when he ex-
poets to make an investigation among
artists there to ascertain what will be
the cost of a monument such as the
Board here contemplates.
The Board members have not reach
ed definite conclusion as to whether
the monument contemplated will be
placed out of doors directly in front
of the main entrance to the building
with the granitoid sidewalk built
iIg VI "IClIlcI II Dt
erected in the center of the hallway on
the first floor, directly in front of the
main entrance.
The members of the Board are, how
ever, unanimous on the proposition
that the monument should be erected if
possible before the close of the school
year in May. They feel the shaft
will make the new high school COM
plete in every detail
Lorimier owned the large plot of
ground that has been used by the
Board for the school building site.
He likewise decided piece of prop
erty in Happy Hollow on Lorimier
street for market place. This now is
one OF the city's parks.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-12-24

pearance in that way, would have
served as his resignation.
After the receipt of the time-book
sheets, Mr.. Tinsley was called by long
distance telephone from the st. Louis
office. He was asked concerning the
whereabouts of Sullivan and the St.
Louis man told him that Sullivan's
wife was there at the office seeking
him.
At once. a search was instituted in
all small towns near the Cape in which
Sullivan might have occasion to have
any business and every effort was
made to trace him and learn if he had
returned from st. Louis.
At that juncture, Mr.. Tinsley re-
ment in St. Louis and asked that a
search be made for Sullivan at once.
Sullivan came to the Cape in 1910
and began working for the utilities
company. He began reading meters
and doing odd jobs for the company
about the Cape and towns in which
the company performed service.
He came here from Glenn Falls,
New York, where it is said his mother
and sister now live. His father died
recently, and Sullivan had told friends
that he would have a share in the es
tate coming to him when it was set
tied up. His father owned property
there, it was said.
In his position as handy-man for
the utilities company, Sullivan became
acquainted with a great number of
people in the Cape and Cape County.
More than year ago, he met Miss
Louise TOulinskie, whom he married
about a year ago. She was a stenog-
rapher in Illmo at that time and her
parents resided in Collinsville.
Sullivan told his friends a few days
ago that he had purchased a house
valued at about $500 in Chaffee in
anticipation of going there to live. He
had made the first payment on the
house, it was said.
Mr. Tinsley and Mr.. Meyers last
night both said they were at loss to
understand any suicide action by Sui
livan. In his work for the utilities
company, he had no financial accounts
and there was absolutely nothing
wrong in that direction, they stated
He was in charge of maintenance
work upon the eelctric light and power
lines and in his service with the COM
pany had come to be recognized as an
expert along that line.
In the last few days, Mr.. Tinsley
said last night, Sullivan had acted
queerly. He said that he had avoided
any conversation with himself or Mr.
Meyers, but never had spoken any,
thing to anyone at the utilities office
that would indicate that he was plan
ming to take his own life.
Sunday afternoon, Mr.. Tinsley
learned, Sullivan had a conversation
with Weldon Foley in which he had
discussed suicides and he made the
remark to Foley that he did not be-
lieve suicide was such a bad way to
die.
Sullivan was an intimate friend of
the Foleys, having rooned at the Fo-
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-12-24

ley home for a long time before his
marriage.
Many of Sullivan's friends last
night declared they believed he had
gone insane. To many Of his closest
friends, he had intimated that he be-
lieved that despite the arrangements
made to send him to Chaffee to become
local manager, he was going to be dis
missed from the company soon.