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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-13
PHYSICIAN DIES At AGE OF e5

LAFAYETTE, Feb. 13.-Dr. George
w. Burns, age ninetyfive, one of the
oldest physicians in the state died to-
day at his home in West Lafayette
Up to two years ago he was active in
his profession. He was educated at
the University of Michigan, coming
to Lafayette in 1856. Four children
survive him.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-13
Grandpa Is
Sixty-four
Today

health Hale and hearty with good red
blood good appetite
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-13
NO LAME DUCK

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 13.--This
birds no lame duck despite his half
century in this vale of tears.
Anyway he-or it's a goose. The
fowl, surprisingly spTy and full Of
pep for an ancient bird, is 81 years
old by the calendar and Is the proper
~ Of Lloyd and Son Of Greensburg,
Ind.
The goose's antics attract much at.
tention at the poultry and pet stock
show being held here.
81 ARE PAROLED
JEFFERSONVILLE, Feb. 13.-The
trustees of the Indiana reformatory
left here after holding their regular
monthly session and will meet later
in the week with Governor James p.
Goodrich to take up the question of
rebuilding. The board paroled fifty
seven inmates out of sexenty-fve ex-
amined, high proportion, but not a
larger gross number than normal
Twenty paroled men were released
yesterday, the first since the fire,
most OF these having been auth orized
for parole more than a month ago
About twenty more will be released
Thursday anG that will leave thirty or
forty still to go out, apart from those
just paroled, who will be held the Gus
tomary month probably.
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see them Just yet. But I will trouble
YOU for MIR. Smithson's address, if you
please. l have an idea his man would
be useful, if we could lay our hands on
him"
II don't think so. Mr.. Beck: I don't
think SO at all. He was quite COM
mon person"
The detective looked at him curiously
for a moment. The jeweler had grown
quite flushed and excited. Many thanks
for your advice. Mr.. Ophir." he said.
quietly. "hut I think 1 will take my
own way. if you please"
Twenty minutes afterward the inde-
fatigable Mr.. Beck was at Mr. Smith
sons workshop cross-eNamining the
proprietor But nothing came Of 1t.
The man who had carried the case to
Mr.. Ophir's establishment was the man
who had made it. He was the best
workman that Mr.. Smithson ever had,
though he had had him for only ten
days. His name was Mulligan. He
had seemed hard up. and offered him
self for very moderate wages. But be-
fore he had been half an hour in the
place he showed what he could do. So
when the order came in for a case for
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hold all the difference. His plan was,
oh. so much easier"
But, monsieur. NJ. Ophir has the
name of most decent. respectable
man"
NJ. Grabeau snapped his fingers in
contemptuous anger. This man." he
said, Il know him, 1 have had what you
call Misunderstanding with him. He
is cold. but he is cunning. He called
me Alphonse Grabeau-one cheat.
Now 1, Alphonse Grabeau, call him, NJ.
Ophir, one thief, and I will prove 1t. He
has stolen the diamonds. will help you,
my friend, to run him up"
Il am obliged, monsieur. I rather
thought from the first you could give
me lift in this case. Where can see
you tomorrow if 1 have anything to
say to you?"
II will be in my 1eetle establishment
until two hours of the afternoon. At
four l will be here at my dinner. In the
evening I will be in the saloon of the
Duke of Doubleditch At any time 1
will be glad to talk to you of this case
of this NJ. Ophir, the thief. But you
must be punctual. for am man of the
minute"
Quite sure you are going to the
dukes in the EVENING""
'It is equally certain as a musket."
"Oh, very well, if I don't see you at
the shop I will see you at dinner"
NJ. Grabeau drained the last drops of
his glass Of whisky and water cold,
picked up his cane and hat and gloves,
took cigarette from his neat little sill
yer case, and stuck it in his mouth un-
lighted.
Mr.. Beck rose at the same moment.
Good evening, monsieur" he said ad-
miringly, Il must shake hands with
you if it was to be the last time I al
ways thought you were almighty clever,
but I never rightly knew how clever
you are until tonight. 1t is a thnnder-
Ing pity that
WHAT" asked NJ Grabeau sharply,
for Mr.. Beck paused in the very mid
die of his sentence.
That, that you are not one of us;
that your talents didn't get fair play
and full scope in the right direction"
NJ Grabeau beamed at the compliment,
and went out beaming.
Mr.. Beck called for a second helping
of boiled mutton, and ate 1t slowly. His
face and manner were more yacuous
than ever.
Something of Special importance plain
~ must have detained Mr.. Beck, for it
was 2:15 o'clock next day when he
walked with quick swinging step up
TO the leetle Establishment" of NJ
tIrabeau, in Wardour street. He paused
Tor one moment before the window,
where all sorts of ingenious and pre-
c1ous knick-knacks and trif1es were
temptingly arranged, then walked into
the shop.
There was young man of about nine
teen years alone behind the counter
Master out?"
lust gone quarter of an hour ago."
oh, well. I'll see him later on. BY
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THE ORPHANS ATLANTIC OCEAN, FROM


capital is limbo. Pita is the principal
town. The French have residences in
both, with handsome government build
ings. sanatoriums. parks. botanical gar
dens, schools and what not2
The natives are not negroes, but de-
scendants of a Semitic race which wan
dered here from somewhere near Syria
in the time of the Pharoahs. A certain
British admiral is convinced that they
are the lost tribes of Israel. They are
called Foulahs. and resemble Arabs.
1t is true remedy for French de-
population.
OF course. the first idea (Which comes
to alD is to repopulate France by fos-
tering war orphans on the spot at
home.
Even before the war there were en-
tire French regions crying for agricul-
tural laborers. The Assistance Publique
Gas they handsomely term the poor tax
administration. tried q hundred times
to replenish such districts by putting
its boys on farms. On an average, It
had an annual total Of 200, zoo children
of all ages on its hands. from birth to
twenty-one years. At around the age
of eighteen. the compulsory farm hands
and farm wenches drifted regularly to
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score. NJ Grabeau was there in his
usual place at corner table, at his
accustomed dinner-a plate of rare
roast beef.
A stout, good-humored man was M.
Grabeau. with quick eye. a close
cropped shiny black head. blue eyes and
a smooth. cream -colored face.
He noticed Mr.. Beck the moment he
entered the room, and laid down the
pale green evening paper on which a
moment before he was intent.
"Hul1o." he cried out. pleasantly. that
is you? Bon soir, Monsieur Beck. l hope
that you carry yourself well?"
1t was noticeable about M. Grabeau
that, though he could mimic any voice
perfectly, when he spoke as M. Gra-
beau he spoke with a strong French ac-
cent and interlarded his sentences with
scraps of French.
Mr. Beck nodded. hung up his hat. and
seated himself at the opposite side of
the table.
"The fact is, monsieur" he went on
when the waiter whisked away to exc
cute his order. Il wanted to have a
word with you"
"Ah-hah! know" said the other, vi
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personal physician to Queen Ranavalo
A former French governor of the
Fouta-Djalon, former French ambas-
sador and resident at Tunis. retired
French admiral and other personages
who have interested themselves with
DR.. Suzor and certain Americans to
give the boys this splendid chance. now
want to apply it to this other and
nearer rich French colony on the west
coast of Africa-to the Fouta-Djalon,
less 4an a week by boat from Bor-
deaux Or Marseille.
1t is not the Dark Continent
To talk Of building up" the Fouta-
Djalon would make Americans smile.
Only white population is lacking to
pounce down on beautiful conveniences
already made. Before the war the
French simply would not emigrate, no
matter what was done to attract them.
All is there-the government has done
wonderful things. spending vast sums
to improve the colonies. There is rail-
road, run by the state at a loss, al
though the natives, who are highly in-
telligent. make great use Of It. Con.
akry. the port. is q fine city, with resi-.
dents palace, government buildings.
mansions of functionaries and mer-
Evening star., 1918-01-20

By MCDONNELL BODKTN

don't close it. Now. will you kindly put
your thumb here and your other thumb
here on the opposite side?'
Mr.. Beck guided the slender little
thumbs to their places while Harcourt
looked on jim amazement.
Now, kindly squeeze both together"
Lillian gave quick. sharp gasp OF de-
light and surprise. For suddenly. as II
by magic, there blazed on the slope OF
faded velvet a great circle of flashing
diamonds with a star of surprising
sp1endor in the center.
oh. Oh. OH" she cried. breathlessly.
They are too beautiful for any one.
How clever you were to find them, Mr..
Beck. Wasn't he, sgd? Do tell US how
and where and when you managed it,
She SO bubbled over with delight anl
admiration and gratitude that even the
detective was captivated-
viii you open the case again. miss"
he said. She raised the lid and was
struck dumb with blank amazement.
The case was empty.
"A trick case" said Harcourt, after
pause.
"Just so. sir. that's the whole story in
three words. About as neat bit OF
work as ever came out of hands. The
closing of the case works the spring. as
you see. sir. That's the notion of it.
and not bad notion either
And the diamonds safe inside"
cried Lillian: they were there all the
time, and l have only to squeeze with
my thumbs and they will come ou1
again. It's wonderful! wonderful But
however did you find it out? YoI must
be most wonderfully clever. / suppose
you have worked up some marvellous
system that nobody can understand but
yourself"
MIR. Beck actually blushed under this
&hower of compliments.
"A little common sense. miss, that's
all. l have no more system than the
hound that gets on the foX's scent and
keeps on it. l just go by the rule of
thumb, and muddle and puzzle out my
cases as best | can
When did you guess the diamonds
were in the cAse?' said IIarcourt
Il guessed it. sir. when ! saw Mr..
Ophir. and l was sure of it when / saw
you. You see how it is, sir: if Mr. Ophfr
put the diamonds into the case and no
one took them out. it stood to reason
they were still there whatever might
be the appearance to the contrary. OF
course. when 1 found my double had
been for the case it made certainty
doubly certain
Your double. Then you were right,
Lillian: there were two Mr.. Becks
Might l ask, sir, which you area'
Hes the second Mr.. Beck. of course,
Sgd. But / want to know where Is the
first Mr.. Beck2'
The first Mr.. Beck. miss, otherwise
Mulligan, otherwise NJ. Grabeau, is in
prison at present, awaiting his trial He
was arrested this afternoon by appoint
ment at simpsons restaurant by tho
second Mr.. Beck
Copyright, 1918. by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicatc.l
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1 he Vanishing Diamonds

Harcourt: T am exceedingly anxious
about the matter. Did MIR. ophir sug-
gest-
Nothing" broke in Mr.. Beck again
II didn't want his suggestions. Time
is of Importance. not talk. is that the
jewel-case?"
'Yes," said Harcourt. taking 1t up
and opening it: Just as it came,
empty"
Mr. Beck abruptly closed 1t again and
put it in his pocket.
That's the paper and twine that was
around it, l SUPPOSE"
Harcourt nodded. Mr. Beck picked
it up carefully and put it in. the other
pocket.
II must wish you good-day. Mr.. Har-
court" said the unceremonious detec-
tive Good day. Miss. l have found
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II the ear war preternaturally acute,
the listener might have heard him lock
something in his own pet patent safe.
which stood in a neat overcoat of ma
hogany in a corner of the room.
oh! how can people be SO mean -
cried Lillian Ray, in a voice that quiv-
cred with indignation.
She was standing in the middle of her
own drawfng-room. and the tattered
fragments of the extra special" edition
OF the Evening Talebearer fluttered
round her like a pink snowstorm.
Easy. Lii. easy" cried Harcort from
the sofa where he sat. Take 1T quietly,
my pet. It's the nature of the beasts.
Besides. It's true enough-most of it. 1
have been, as they say. a wild young
scamp No one knows the amount of
my debts'-because there aren't any.
Mr.. Ophir is gentleman of unimpeach-
able respectability.' This is a most I'M
pleasant mystery for the Hon. Sydney
Harcourt' There's no denying that's
true, anyway"
Il wonder at you. Syd-you, a great
strong man. to sit there quietly and
hear such things said! Why don't you
go straight to their low den, wherever
It is, and-and-oh, how 1 wish 1 were
a man. for their sake"
Glad you're not. LII, for my sake"
he answered. in a tone that brought
the quick blood to her cheek. IT'S be-
cause you are a woman. and the dearest
llttle woman IN the W0rlQ, tnaL you
fare up like this. But you must not
think I'm not riled by the talf-lies of
those cads. though I try to grin and
bear it. There are lots of people who
will take the lies for gospel truth. I'm
SO thankful that you"
A sharp knock came to the door
"Mr Beck, sir said the footman.
SHOW him up. What does the fellow
want now. 1 wonder?"
L won't detain you a moment, Mr..
Harcourt," said the imperturbable Mr..
Beck, walking quietly into the room.
You have clue. them"
'Welh yes. 1 think 1 may say 1 have a
clue"
He took from his pocket the old jewel
case which he had purchased for SOW
ereign, and set it on the table
you see this, Miss Ray. Is it at all
like the case that came with the dia-
monds?"
''The case that came without the dia-
monds you mean, Mr. Beck" said Lillian,
smiling. ''It is just like it in shape. but
the other was quite new and shining
THAT Is a detail, miss. A clever hand
could make that little change OF new to
old in half an hour. Now will you kindly
open it?"
As Lillian opened it she thrilled with
the sudden unreasonable notion that the
diamonds might be inside. But it was
quite empty-faded and empty.
1.-THE inside is just the same, too" she
said. "only this is so faded. Anything
else, Mr.. Beck?''
would you oblige me by taking the
case in your hands for one moment No,
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A TYPICAL GROUP OF FRENCH WAR ORPHANS

chants. hospitals. schools. churches.
parks, statues. etc.
An earthly paradise, which needs
only French planters.
THE boys are not to cultivate the
soil. Oh, MOI" says DR.. Suzor. Natives
do that. Labor is plenty, excellent and
cheap. The boys will be instructed to
oversee and direct it. IN the raising OF
cattle. sheep and pigs on a large scale,
and in agricultural industrial special
ties. We will feed the pigs on manioc,
sweet potatoes and bananas. We shall
raise poultry on large scale. It is al
ways salable at Conakry. and will be
refrigerated, as hams will be made
from the pigs"
Fouta-Dja1on is a wonderful table,
land, rising from the Atlantic coast to
form the hinterland of French Guinea.
The Niger, the Senegal, the Gambia and
a dozen other large rivers all take their
rise in this fertile high region. The
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tho way, Jacob. that's a new thing you
have-the coral necklet and brooch
there in the window. VIII you let me
have q peep at it,"
and set it on the counter. The set was a
fine specimen of carved coral linked
with fine gold in case Of faded brown
morocco and dingy white velvet
that looked as old as themselves.
Mr.. Beck with intent admiration in
spected the trinkets for fully five min
utes, turning the case round several
times to get a bettor view. He seemed
much interested in q smear of what
looked like damp gum on the edge of
the leather.
Whats the damage, Jaoob7" he ASK
mot for sale, sir. Master cautioned
me four different times-not for sale.
no matter what price I might be Of
fered."
"Ah!" said Mr. Beck meditatively.
well, it is not so much the red affairs
I want as the box they are in. My aunt
desired me to get her one for a brooch
and necklace she picked up cheap at a
not forbidden to sell the box, were
you. Jacob?"
II don't say I won't sell 1t to oblige
friend of the master. If get fair
price for 1t. What would say to a SOW
ereign now?"
MI. DECK SalU nOCnlHS TO SOVeTclShs
but he produced the coin in question
from his waistcoat pocket, placed 1t on
the counter, turned the contents OF
the case out in jingling heap, put the
case itself in his pocket, and walked out
of the shop.
The smart-1ooking assistant gazed
blankly at the stout figure moving
rapidly down the street. Mr.. Beck 8
placid face wore a look of innocent
contentment. He whistled softly to him
outward and visible signs of re-
ings had been well above the average.
key, and walked nois1essly upstairs to
his own PRETTY little sitting room on
the drawing room floor. He took the
old case from his pocket and set 1t be-
side another old case-the one he got
from Mr.. Smithson-on the round table
in the center of the room.
The two cases were alike, though not
identical in form; he opened them. In
side the shape was almost precisely
the same. Then he walked to the door.
closed it softly, and turned the key
in the lock. Any one with an eye to the
keyhole might have seen Mr.. Beck drop
into an easy chair with one of the two
cases in his hand, turning it slowly
round and round with that look, puZ-
zled yet confident, which SO many peo-
pie wore when that delightful prob
lem pigs in Clover was the rage.
A little later any one with an ear
to the keyhole might have heard Mr..
Beck draw a deep breath of relief, and
then chuckle quietly to himself; then,
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Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, January 9, 1918.
q UCKY, the French war orphans
IL who will grow UP in white duck
IL suits and panama hats, oversee
@ ing native labor in the Fouta-
Djalon-on their own plantations.
Happy, the few hundreds who can go
out with DR.. Suzor, ex-Gov. Pobeguin
and the Americans.
Terrific lotterv-the fate of the war
orphans.
At the apex of luck Zone would think)
stand those situated like the four
adopted by Mr.. D. of Albany. N. T..
in the names of his own four children.
'They must be four French boys of good
family, but not necessarily brothers,
orphans of father killed in the war. He
will send them to school and college
and give them a start in business"
There are few thousand such.
Midway down the scale of fortune are
the numerous thousands hanging by the
eyelids ESQ to speak, for whom warm
hearted Americans, by a first payment
of s73, secure that they remain two
years with their mothers. And similar
temporary works. What then?
At the bottom, languish the lamentable
residue l,0OO.0tO Frenchmen nave been
killed defending the soil; imagine the
number of orphans) left on the hands
of the French Assistance Publiaue, which
will try to make farmhands of them in
the depopulated regions
So, I say, thrice lucky the orphans
who get a chance to go to Fouta-
Djalon
In very many cases their mammas will
go with them, when willing, of adequate
physique and useful capacities. This is
one of the details which make the story
the most beautiful of the war.
There is even chance for couples
without orphans.
I'VE want to take a number of fami-
lies to make the plantations Immediate
ly a complete society,"" says DR.. Suzor.
"A certain French senator is particular
ly interested in this part They must
consist of man and wife knowing a
trade, tailor, shoemaker, carpenter,
baker. ETC.. to make self-sufficient lit
tie world"
It is an old idea with this remarkable
man, who had it originally for Mada-
gascar. where he was long resident as
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the cities. The girls went into service.
The lads, especially after their military
training, seldom returned to the farms.
They preferred to be taxi chauffeurs in
cities and to go to movies.
Evidently. Wouldn't you? Who wants
to be farm hand in the Somme? How
could they marry? What chance had
they to found families or enjoy domes-
tic well being? After the war. with all
these masses of new orphans (over-
whelmingly in comparison with former
tfmes), there will be grand undertak-
ings to repeat the experiment. with i'm
provements.. There will need to be very
serious improvements, because right
here you put your finger on one of the
great causes Of French depopulation-
orphans or no orphans-before the war.
On the other hand, behold the picture
at Fouta-Djalon.
The lad grows up in the colony plan
tations receiving an education to fit
him for the dignified and lucrative po-
sition of planter and stock raiser on
his own land
AS his little savings accumulate. the
state Gas it is hoped will be the case)
aiding proportionally, he can point to
a certain area and say to himself!
There I will have my own house, barns
and factory when l am of age. l know
the game. There's money in It, l can
forty; and, with my wife and children.
we will make the trip to Paris.
Because, while have said boys" or
phan girls are in it also. How, indeed,
could the little colonial world do with
out them? They will have their equal
chance at prosperity.
Naturally" says DR.. Suzor. when
young French people feel financial Sc
curity. they marry as matter of
course, and have children. 1t is the
natural thing with them, and it has
been so in French Canada. Martinique,
Guadaloupe, Reunion and all the
French colonies which were colonies OF
population and not merely of exploita-
ton"
1t will be industrial farming.
Large plantations of the sisal-plant
will be exploited. 1t is a great fiber
plant which is raised enormously in
Central America and for which there Is
ansunlimited market.
Bananas. fcr which there is an un-
limited market.
Lemons, ditto. France alone buys an
nually several millions of francs worth
Of citric acid from Sicily and Italy for
the French wine trade.
Coffee, cocoa, vanilla, flowers for per-
fumery and the mulberry silk cocoon will
be cultivated on large scale.
The boys can work among these
crops" says DR.. Suzor. TN a tropical
country you never want white people
to actually dig the land. but rather
learn to oversee and manage. In order
to make them capable and familiar with
all details of their future properties.
they can begin by cutting the leaves of
the sisal-plant and learning its various
factory processes, and they can squeeze
lemons and learn to pour lime on the
juice to form citrate of lime, which is
exported to Marseille for the manu-
facture Of citric acid"
Can you not see the orphans growing
up in opportunities which they could
never hope for at home?
As he tells 1t. the eyes Of this good
and strong man light with holy en-
thusfasm. piercing the habitual self
possession which makes him power
among natives. During the years which
Evening star., 1918-01-20

INTRODUCING one Paul Beck.
u detective who cOnfesses to
having "no more system than the
hound that gets on the fox's scent
and keeps on IT," This story Is
the arxt of n series, each COM
pletc In itself, dealing with the
adventures of the "Rule - of
Thumb Detective"
Evening star., 1918-01-20

- ILIAN RAY was to marry sgd
III ney Harcourt in a week, and
IL there was not more popular
s.@ couple in London. Her sweet face
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-15
DOPE FIEND SRAID
OFFICES OF DOCTORS

Dope fiend burglars operated in
East Moline last evening and Sunday
night, raiding the Offices Of Drs. J. H.
Ellingsworth, J. H. Love and E. A.
Soule. The residence Of E. H. Han
son, 262 Sixteenth avenue, was also
burglarized last night.
Thorough search of the office Of Dr.
Ellingsworth was made by a burglar
last evening, but no narcotics were
found Other articles were not taken,
and DR.. Ellingsworth reports that he
missed nothing from the office. En-
trance was gained by way of tran
som. This is the third time the Office
has been burglarized recently.
Sunday the offices Of Drs. Love and
Soule, in adjoining suites in the Realty
building, were entered. and the dope
thieves were more successful there
They secured small quantity of NOR
,phine and some stamps from the Of
flee of DR.. Love and quantity of "
grain morphine tablets, some cocaine,
small amount in stamps and about
S. In cash in the Office of DR.. Soule.
In the Hanson residence the thief
secured gold watch and S. in cash.