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noon. St-Aignant and the EN-
peror of Russia's Aide-de- camp
had arrived, so said this courier,
an hour before he set out. You
will therefore have been to Or
leans this morning; you may stop
there if you are travelling with
your pOst-hOrses, and if you wish
to come on to this place, you may
do so, but 1 am writing to you
this evening by the courier you
sent me. How sympathize with
all your troubles, and fear lest it
should impair your health. A
kiss to your son. Tout a tot.
Nap.
FontainebIeau, the 9th, 5 p. m.
april, 1914
TINE closing words-'ff you
i wish to come"-so poignant
because they leave to the empress
a decision which the emperor at
bay desires with all his heart,
give us an inkling of the motive
for the letter in code which upset
NTeneval so deeply. Would Marie
Louise seize upon the opportunity
afforded her?
MY duty is to stand beside the
emperor" she declared, "at a time
when he must be so unhappy. I
will join him and I shall be
happy anywhere, provided I am
with him." Her lady-inWaiting,
Madame de Luacy, a model OF
married love, who on two occa-
sions, during the Terror, had
risked her life to save her hus-
band, secretly prevailed upon her
to leave for Fontainebleau.
One day, Marie Louise emerged
in all haste from her dressing
room, crossed terrace and threw
herself into the arms of Madame
de Montesquiou, rigid person,
unbending in the observance of
all the virtues, which she held in
high esteem. She was about to
leave.
A coach was awaiting her at the
foot Of a secret staircase, when
person was announced whose ne
farious influence had but too great
a hold on the weak Marie Louise.
The empress, perturbed by this
unexpected development, hid Mad
anne de Lucay in an adjoining
closet, where she was able to hear
every word of the conversation
that enSued. And the treacherouS
adviser succeeded in Transforming
into a cowardly desertion the
high-minded resolution of Marie
Louise to bestow upon her hus-
band the comfort of her presence.
Gen. de Segur, who was told Of
this incident by Madame de Lu-
cay his mother-in-law, does not
put a name to this evil counsellor.
In Marie Louise's encourage the
emperor had placed one man
worthy all trust, one who owed
him his fortune, Meneval.
1t is thus easy to realize with
what an easy mind Napoleon, on
April 10, asked Meneval for a piece
of confidential information. TRY
to penetrate the real intentions of
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Second Trumpet Call

- 1CHARD 3, HARRISON walked out upon that
IL stage and into hush as deep as the morning
~ ereation dav. Before he uttered single me ne
~ sIreadv given a great performance. He did II
with the carnage Of his head, the set OF ms BACK
and shoulders and the glow OF the spirit which was
within him. ,;.
r. was not a particularly smooth first night per
forn,ance. A few cues we're muffed. Gabriel went
dry i'm the middle Of a long speech ana Nj. mar mar
rison himself made a few minor slips. But TINS
was all toleraby unmpOrtant. When Gaorlel
called there was a man in the wings VINO mao III
his own person some of the aspects OF deity.
HIS faith was profound and in the days before ne
5ied imagine that Richard f. Harrison must nave
speculated as 10 what the second trumpet can might
he Ike In him. Of all mOrtals there could ilaSh d
have seen before -,
And I hope that this fine man and actor oeo
with assurance in his heart that to another ol9
trouper there had come the call TO JON the oisNi
company. .
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First Nighters' Melted

A T any rate they could count on Richard B. Har-
n rison and he did not fail them. The record was
1857 times He missed not a single performance I'M
III he was seized with his mortal illness.
I saw the first performance and no actor ever
carried upon his shoulders greater responsibility
than did this elderly eOcuOnis 10 whom the theater
was an unfamiliar place No player TO be sure, ever
had written for him finer entrance cue than that
shout Of Gabriels. "Ciangway for the Lord God Je-
hovah~ But the actor who has 10 walk out after
that line is certainly as YOU might say, on the spot
II Mr. Harrison had bungled in any way on that
first night The Green Pastures might very wen
have closed in a week instead of running for hVe
wears His entrance had 10 mark a very sudden ana
,-iorort change Of mood. It all right to laugh
AZ the angels in the fish fry but now 1t wasn't funny
any more II the audience chose TO ldentlIy Nj.
Harrison as comic figure the whole enterprise sank
on that instant from the MISUNDERSTANDING
The house was filled with what IS called a ypl-
cal first night audience" II is not the most tenoer
or sensitive sort Of gathering. Broadway Is sent-
mental Of course but it is given to laughing at the
wrong things and in the wrong places ana II lsusIs
80 ioud And it thinks of the Negro as funny
man.
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Russian Emperor's Aides de-
camp was to join you for the
purpose of escorting you to this
place; but I sent word to you to
stay at Orleans, as / myself was
on the point of setting out pend
ing such time as COlincOurt shall
have settled affairs with the
Allies. It was RuSsia's wish that
1 should be given the sovereignty
over the Island of Elba and that
/ should remain there, and that
you should have Tuscany for your
son after you, which would have
enabled you to be with me as
long as it suited you and to live
in a pleasant country, favorable
to your health. But SchwarZen-
berg objects to this in the name
of your father. 1t appears that
your father is our deadliest en-
envy. So l do not know what has
been settled. / am sorry to have
nothing left but to have you share
in my evil fortunes. would have
put an end to my life if I had not
thought that would be but dOu-
BILE your misfortuneS and make
them heavier to bear. If Madame
MOntesquiOu wishes to finish the
Kings education, she is free to do
so, but she must not lay too great
sacrifice upon herself. / suppose
Madame Mesgrigny (?) is return
ing to Paris. do not know what
the Duchess will wish to do, I
fancy, however, that she will first
wish to accompany you. You
must have 100000 given to King
Joseph, and the same amount to
King Louis, to king Jerome,
to Madame, and to the Princesses
Pauline and Elisa, which accounts
for the 5000, 900. Issue a decree to
that effect, and let the PrincesSeS
proceed to Marseilles and Nice,
via Limours, which upsets your
arrangements (O. Your State
Councillors and Ministers may re-
turn to Paris. Take 100000 in
gold with you in your coach. Have
the same amount conveyed in the
Kings. Submit a scheme to me
for reducing your Household to
such of them are are willing and
necessary to you. Two ladies are
sufficient to have with you. It
will make travelling easier. Beau
harnaiS and Aid (Obrandini) will
follow later. Have their wages
paid to all, down to July LIST, in
Guiding those who are to follow
you. We shall travel with the
Court teams and the saddle
horses.
Adieu, ma bonnie Louise, /
pity you. Write to your father
and ask to be given Tuscany for
yourself. AS for me want moth
ing but the Island of Elba.
Ado, Amio (?), give a kiss to
your son.
(unsigned)
(undated)
Mon annie, / have just received
your letter of the 9Th, delivered
by courier who had set out on
the 8th, at 2 o'clock in the after
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he said: You young Irish and
Jewish boys are too smart for me.
I can't keep up with you. I want
you to promise me you won't pull
any fast stuff. Just routine-just
routine" Hugh Gibson, Amer
lean ambassador to Brazil, al
ways labels his baggage Gin his
own handwriting) His EXcellen-
cy."
Latest slogan whispered inside
the Administration: Nov is the
time for the President to ap-
point a few ambassadors. In
other words, several weak spots
in the Cabinet might be plugged
if the incumbentS received harm
less diplomatic berths abroad.
William R. Castle Jr., Hoo
ver's Undersecretary of State, is
nursing a grudge against his old
chief. He tells friends that Mr..
Hoover induced him to mix poll
tics with diplomacy, thereby caus-
ing Mr.. Castle the loss of his job
when the State Department be-
came Democratic.
There is no connection between
his two posts, but it is fact that
DR.. j. Gaylord Neff, assistant
House physician, is also staff doc
tor of Washington's Home for In
curables. High position, appar-
emily. is agreeing with Donald
r. Richberg. In the five months
he has been Assistant President"
the former Chicagoan has put on
considerable weight. Ohio's two
Democratic Senators, Honest Vic"
Donahey and Robert j. Buckley.
are carefully keeping hands off
the bitter fight raging between
Democratic Governor Martin Da-
vey and Democratic Harry Hop
kins over relief finances. The
KingfiSh may be Illuminating
against the President, but the
title picture in his autobiography,
Every Man a King" shows Huey
vigorously haranguing a crowd
at the Chicago convention with
the caption: Leads Off Fight for
Roosevelt"
Members of the Senate and
House banking committees-nov
considering the Administration
banking reform bill-have been
SURPRISED at the unexpected SUD-
port being giveE the measure by
Federal ReScrre bankers. This
backing is distressing to Senator
Carter Glass, who believed he
could count on a united banker
front against the bill.
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this vehemence, made for the en-
peror's private study: Sire" he
declared bluntly, 1T is time to
make an end of IL Your situa-
ton is that of sick man whom
there is nc hope Of saving. You
must draw up your will and abdi-
cate in favor Of the King Of
Rome"
The thrust went home. The
father must sacrifice himself for
his son. 1t was for the grand
father, for the Emperor of Austria,
to intervene in favor of the grand
son. Long live the emperor"
shouted the Old Guard, at theidea
of marching on Paris. But how
about these others-the excellen-
cies, the dukes, the marshals?
The emperor had learned his les
son. On the 4th he signed the
act of abdication:
The Allied Powers having pro-
claimed that the Emperor Ma
poleon was the sole obstacle to the
restoration of order in Europe, the
Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his
oath, declares himself prepared to
descend from the throne, to leave
France, nay to give up his very
life for the country's good, which
is bound up with the rights of
his son, with those of the EN-
press's Regency, and the uphold
ing Of the laws of the Empire.
Drafted in our Palace at Fon-
tainebleau, April 4, 1914"
And the next day, the Emperor
declared his decision in the army
orders: "A soldier shares the good
and the evil fortunes of his
general, his honor and his religion.
The Emperor's honor will never be
in contradiction with the
happiness of France"
He himself was no longer any,
thing. His last hope lay in the
appeal to the Emperor of Austria,
which was made by Champagny,
Due de Galore, the bearer of
petition from the Empress: "Once
more, my beloved Father, 1 beg to
have pity on me. I entrust to you
the welfare of what is dearest to
me-my son. I should be so
glad to be able to say, later on,
that it is to you he owes his
happiness, his peace, as well as
those of his father and of her
who kisses your hands very
lovingly"
NEXT cay, April 9Th, Napoleon
~ sent to his faithful Meneval,
whom he had appointed as secre-
tary to Marie Louise, a letter in
code, instinct with the deepest
detection. Segur, his aide-de-
camp, was acquainted with its
terms: the Emperor observed that
anything was to be expected, even
his death. And he ordered the
recipient of the letter to burn it
after reading it and to make use
of its contents with due discre-
ton.
The act of one about to die,
thought Meneval; and he awaited
with the utmost anxiety further
news from Fontainebleau. 1t ar
rived on the next day and the
next day but one.
Mon annie, l have received your
letter of the 18th. 1 was glad to
see your health was better than
was to be expected. A truce has
been agreed upon and one of the
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In inner Administrator circles
it is suggested that if the Vinson
bill becomes law, the President
will ask Congress to raise the re-
quired $4,000. 000, 900 through tax
alton. Missouri's Senator Ben
nett Clark is now averaging more
than 5000 letters a day against
the holding corporation bill. He
and other Senators say the deluge
is so patiently an organized prop
uganda campaign that they are
not even bothering to send out
form letter reply. Senate
cloak rooms are buzzing with a
report that the Administration is
secretly planning to use S7,000.-
600 Of the $4,000, 100000 work-re-
lief fund for seadrome expert
menting. Director of Air Com
merce Eugene Vidal and Amelia
Earhart. close friend of Mrs.
Roosevelt. are Jealous advocates
OF seadromes.
ILLUSTRATIVE of the intensity
IL of inter Administration bicker-
ing is the fact that A. c. Shoe
maker Of Seattle recently was
ousted from the AAA for helping
elect a Democratic Senator in the
State Of Washington. Mr.. Shoe
maker wrote pamphlet for
Democratic Senator Lewis Schwel-
lenbach on End Poverty in Wash
ington." Discovering this, Alfred
Stedman. AAA Assistant Admin
istrator. called him in, made him
sign an undated letter of resigna-
ton. Recently Mr.. Stedman filled
n the date and accepted the res
igration. A similar incident in
the Coolidge Administration
caused a congressional investiga-
ton of the Tariff Commission.
After the recent purge Of the AAA
the files of three lawyers-Alger
Hiss. Lee FRESHMAN and Francis
Shea-were carefully searched and
sealed. AAA lawyers are now
barred from getting carbon copies
of rountine letters. Apparently
Chester Davis, AAA Administrator,
is sitting up nights worrying lest
a congressional committee learn
something he doesn't want them
10 know.
CETH THOMS, solicitor of the
~ Agriculture Department, is
now in charge of AAA legal work.
He expects to get Federal judge
snip in Iowa soon. Calling in
one Of the young AAA lawyers,
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advance guard.
Halt" he commanded.
How comes it you are
here. Where is the enemy?
Where is the Army? Who
is guarding Paris? Where
is the Empress? Joseph?
Clarke? How about Mont
martre? What about my
soldiers p"
The army?" replied Gen. Bel
lard. 1T is made up Of workmen,
Polytechnicians. the National
Guard. $4,000 foot, who held out
for some little time against 120,-
600 men Montmartre? Devoid of
artillery. Joseph? In fight. The
troops? They have left the cap
ital"
They have all lost their heads,
then!" roared Napoleon. Very
well. we must go to Paris"
Too latel" declared Caulain-
court dejectedly.
And the Emperor, overwhelmed,
sat down, at in the morning, at
a table in the Cour de France
post house TO write:
Mon annie, came here to de-
fend Paris; but it was too late.
The city had been surrendered in
the evening. 1 am assembling my
army in the direction of Fontaine-
bIeaU. Ny health is good I suf-
fer at tine thought of what you
must suffer. Nap.
The Court of France, March 31st,
3 a. m. 1914
Then he proceeded to Fontaine-
bleu.
Mon annie, the auditor Paravi-
cini has just arrived and given me
news of you. You may: l remain
at Elois; 2 send me whom you
please and take thinks upon your
self; 3 issue prOclamationS and
call meetings, as the provisional
Government of Paris does; write
a very strong letter to your father,
commencing yourself and your son
to his care; send the Duke de Ca
dore to Vienna. Make it clear to
your father that the time has
come for him to help us. Adieu,
mon annie, keep in good health.
Tout a tot. Nap.
Font CainebIeau). April Bird, p. m.
(1S14
THE emperor was dismayed.
u To an offer of abdication, the
reply of the Car Alexander,
which Caulaincourt bore, was as
follows: But what is to be done
with the emperor? The father is
an insuperable obstacle to the
recognition of the son."
While Callaincourt was wrapped
in silent CONSERVATION, the military
chiefs, assembled in an adjoining
room, lost their tempers and de-
clared that an end must be made
of the matter; further submits
sion would be carrying obedience
to the point of servility; the en-
peror had no right to involve
everybody in his downfall; hav-
ing nodded his destiny himself, it
was for him alone to bear the
evil consequences.
And Marshal Ney, spurred on by
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with the customers at Mr. Joe Wideners horse park
and gambling concession.
1t seems strange that so many undesirable char
acters should be permitted to camp in Miami, con-
sdering that the local police force is augmented for
the winter season by leave-of-absence men from the
detective department Of New York, Chicago, Boston
and other cities in a group known as the Foreign
Legion 1t seems almost as though the local officials
do not wish to drive them away.
While they remain and well-knovn underworld
characters continue their efforts to spin their wheels
to recoup their investments, there is alarm
among the more prominent residents, especially
those who live on Miami Beach Feeling that the
local authorities not diligent they ought
to be- many of these citizens have hired special
policemen to patrol at night the little arches Of
grass and shrubbery which surround their candy
colored homes lest kidnapers take their children
or even themselves.
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auEnouh'
BY
.ESTBR0OK PEGLER

NEIANII. Fla, March 16-This community. which
WI has become in recent years the hoodum's
Palm Beach Offering special attractions to the
arstocrats of the underworld is suffering from,
mild attack Of reform at this writing. The gamblers
from New York Chicago and Detroit who came
down to operate share-thewealth project of their
own in several ornate casinos have been seriously
hampered in their business.
A local judge has been driven of the bench,
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there IS talk Of investigating the
incomes of public officials and de-
structive criticism is rife. Partic-
ularly loud, not to say inhospitable,
is demand that the police depart
ments of Miami and Miami Beach
round up and deport, if they can
not convict, large winter colony
of racketeers from the North who
have been taking the sun and any
thing else which they did not find
too we'll nailed down ever since the
snow began to fall back home.
A Department of Justice man
reports that he saw 35 distinguished
criminals of one kind and another
in one afternoon recently mingling
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By DreU Pearson and Robert s. Allen

WASHINGTON March 6Democatc the
w President that the bonus bill probably approved
rather than the Vnson although the Vnon bill backed
the Legion and recommended by the Ways and
mttee
Both bills call immediate payment but the Paman
would certificates while the
Ynon proposal would leave the financing to the Treasury
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Questions and Answers

ON which year was the largest production of
automobiles IN the United StateS2
A-The peak year 1929. when 4Te4 Ses pas
senger cars, and s2ssl7 trucks were produced
o-where did Noahs Ark rest after the hood7
Ant Ararat = Armenia is the traditional rest
hg place
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Harrison picked up the receiver.
Yes Mr.. Connolly" he said. III take the role
Yes I'll be on hand for rehearsals at 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning. I want you 70 know that you
can count on me. ! won't fail YOU"
The old gentleman replaced the receiver on
ity hook and turned TO his wife with an amazed
look upon his face. That wasn't what meant to
saw he explained. 1t vas all decided I was going
IN refuse That couldn't have been me speaking. II
must have been the Lord
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The LOVE LETTERS OF
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
AbdicatiOn

ON the very day March 81 that the Allies marched into
Paris Napoleon informed at Fontainebleau OF the
Empress departure and at Essonnes of the battle that had
started. The Emperor, who impatient to reach Paris
caught sight Aths of troop of cavary-Mortiers
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IIllNNAa Vt v VII LnhE UIIEIlfW dL WI ;
HarrisOn's stepping on a stage and
get themselves some other circuit
elocutiOnist.
Mr.. Harrison weighed all the
factors carefully and decided 70 re-
fuse the role. At 9 o'clock that night
Marc Connolly was 70 call up for
final answer Mrs. Harrison was in
the room with her husband. She
had agreed with him that this ven-
ture into the theater was too risky.
And so It was all set that Richard
B. Harrison should round out his
days in doing Shakespeare recita-
lions and readings from the Bible.
The fefennone hell rang and Mr.
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Nobody Bothered CdpOne

THE local political situation is decidedly smelly
Il because for years past the leaders of the under
world were made welcome in a growing and ferment-
ing community in which most people were strangers
and the majority had pleasure-mo to spend or
gamble away This made it very hard to check up on
graft among the public officials and before the city
res lied what had happened, the Miamis were under
the thumb of Al Capone
Mr. Capone enjoyed even the respect and support
of local business men because he would walk into
tailor shop and order II suits clothes and tip the
clerk $50 for his trouble or pay his laundry bill
promptly and tip the driver $50. The business men
wished they could have more customers like him
and there was sincere among his tradeSmen
when he withdrawn from circulation and sent
first to Atlanta and then to Alcatraz.
incidentally, it was only when Capone seemed to
have gained entire command in Miami that the
bright idea of checking his income tax occurred to
one Of the local citizens VINO passed the idea along
to Herbert Hoover in Washington. There is no tell
ing what Capone would have done to Miami if the
government had not stepped in to eliminate him.
Nobody here dared bother him.
The removal of Capone, however did not abolish
the hoodlums Palm Beach. The racketeers had
learned to like the sun and the unrestricted night
life and the public officials had learned to count
among their income their graft from the gamblers.
Thus the racketeers have continued to patroniZe the
Miamis in winter and they would be prospecting well
this year again. but for the obstructive tactics Of
official called the states attorney Mr.. Vernon Haw-
thorne
This Mr.. Hawthorne is a LIBERAL but he is OPP
posed to thieving in public office and does not be-
ieve the criminal colony from the North contributes
anything desirable to the life of the community It
this winter that the gambling houses have been I'M
able to show nrOft
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II Seems bM
Haywood BROUN

ATHEN The roe OF me Lord vas first offered 70
w Richard B. Harrison he loath to accept
IT, The stage was a field unfamiliar 70 him and he
had built up for himself through the course Of many
years small circuit Of churches and colleges where
he appeared elOcutionist.
No one could foretell whether The Green Pas
lures would survive perish and it distinctly
possible that there might be public resentment
against the theme itself Some OF the Negro churches
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