Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-09
DETECTIVES WARD OFF
B0THERs0ME CALLERS
American Peace Delegates Protected
From Many Freak Visitors
III French Capital.
SECRET SERVICE MEN BUSY
One "Nut" Sought to Save Commits
sioners From Horrible" Death
With His Newly Invented Antidote
for All Poisons.
NJ JAY JEROME yvu.LIAn,.

PARIS. Feb. S.-PRactica-lly every
American in Paris has dropped around
to the Hotel de Criuon, where reside
the American peace commissioners,
and many and varied arc tho excuses
and suggestions given BY each in an
attempt TO pass by tho guard OF Secret
Service men at The door In order TO
discover what kind Of an establish
ment the United States governme mt
has fitted out in this hero town."
BY and large, the Crillon's visitors
could compare with the flood of hu-
mainly that passes along Broadway
and Forty second Street And this
means that the gentleman with the
ifayed trousers. the ordinary business
man. the woman in relvets and silks.
and every other type Of humanity that
on the door OF the hotel and expresses
,hat distinct brand of hauteur that
axe Amerlcan,-in a strange country
VINO thinks the government is lack
be bestowed OIL him.
BUMPS INTO DETECTIVE
AND LEARNS SAD NEWS
practised. What seems to be the one
Mr.. American Citizen breezes through
revolving doors and finds himself i'm
The lobby OF the hotel. Treasured by
and into the arms OF u waiting secret
Service man.
lave you pass" asks the latter
No! Don't need i pass to go TO the
= . The bar is closed" I1hs. Incl
Closed. What the hi? Say. is
Bryan member of this commission ."
AZ is at this point. however. tina.
an end. and Sir. a. e.. depa eGme wo to
derinf. perhaps: whatever caused the
wn neFi ,a c, cemmiSbsioners or whoever !,
Criilon was in days gone by
MANY CLAIM FRIENDSHIP
WITH COLONEL HOUSE
A snItheF type OF person who puts up
is the quiet, easy-soimg man VINO
knows Colonel Eouse IT seems az
though there is some delightful mys-
terry about his acqua;ntanceship with
H., so delightfuliy reticenl. =
is. he says. as though the secret ser
vice man. cowed by this information.
VII sa!aam and oeckon a horde of
suite The only unfortunate part OF
the proceedings. however, is that the
colonel possesses too many friends,
have dropped in TO renew old Tines"
in the past few. days. and il he saw
Mem az. or only a par or them he
would have TO reiinQuish his official
duties with the commission.
"TLAIN NUT" APPEARS
IN MYSTERIOUS FASHION
Then. too. there is the visitor who
comes under the plain nut" cateeorv.
one Of them showed uD last week
ne carried TO. m!dablc looking bottle
containing LIQUID of greenish hue.
Mad as the wind whipped around the
corner Of the building it caught his
long MINISTER'S in;o stray curls, and
man was ultra mysterious"
nave come" he whispered to a
guard, TO save the lives of tho
American commissioners. ! have rea-
son TO believe there is plot on foot
to poison them. Now 49,
was interesting.
What do you know about this
IS otSTED AFTER EFFORT
TO SAVE THEIR LIVES
Well rcjoined the ancient one. II
know this" pointing to HIS bottle
that my formula is an antidote for
any poison in the world have
worked out this formula after many
years of effort. Now. If tho commits
SioneTs would care to use only few
drops daily in their liquid food they
need have no fear OF poison"
To make long story short, the an
cient one found himself out on the
street few seconds later. and lie
sialked away, Grumhling at the in
efficiency OF the peace commission
and collectively, 20 he poisoned when
the only one true tried antidote in
all the world" Ind been offered but q
few minutes before.
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