Show V X1 birTheVoOLP’S v5y George Bart The French Antigne Dealerrj Episode in thelife celebrated Parisian An COPYRIGHT 1911 BY "Come down here at once The vault in my bank has been broken open and securrobbed of valuable negotiable ities” - of MPobertthe detective W O CHAPMAN Robert Jumped up with a cry of surHE Rue Madame Is one of the quaint streets of old prise He hurried to the prefect of Paris It Is on the left police "M Olbert" he cried "was murside of the river Seine The artistically fashioned bal dered” His superior looked at him wonder conies of the houses of the of ingly ancient aristocracy "How do you know this" he asked France rub elbows so to speak with new hotels and antique shops One "Because he could not read or of the best known of these shops was write’” for Olbert The prefect was puzzled Leon years by kept many whimsical fellow whose knowledge "Murdered because he could not 'a' of the value of works of art was only read or write?” he murmured with’ exceeded by his Inexhaustible "No! No!” cried the detective fund of "But the posigood humorr Impatient eagerness Many royalists reside in the Rue tive knowledge that he could not read foul is of he Madame and they haunted a victim the shop proves that of Monsieur Olbert for he possessed play” the rare things of the past — the things “How?” "He was found dead with a newspathey loved to examine and talk about even If Impaired fortunes prohibited per in his hand” them from purchasing Even the name A light broke in on the prefect’s of the street suggested the glories of mind "X see” he said: “I see” the past for Madame was the title that was given at the court of the And indeed the two men visualized Bourbons to the daughters of the the scene They could see the thieves and brother’s wife the King King’s killing the old man and then propMonsieur Olbert was a royalist at ping him up in the armchair with heart and he was In his element in the newspaper In his cold fingers to his little shop filled with all sorts of give the appearance of a natural death antiquities and visited with great condescension by his royalist neighbors A second careful medical examinaClocks of all sizes and conditions and tion proved that the old man had been moments Faint blue finger ages were ticking out the strangled to death And around that lead to eternity marks were to be seen under the chin them were mirrors that reflected the and near the back of the ears Also love and the hate and the fear and It was demonstrated that valuable bits the ambition of men Silver candle- of stock had been stolen from the sticks and mahogany bureaus all were shop Beside this certain bank notes there and Monsieur Olbert loved them remained unaccounted for Thus what would have passed as a natural death every one One morning the gendarme who had now developed into a very myswas patrolling that section of the city terious murder M Robert went at the problem noticed that the door of M Olbert’s with He entered and found all his heart and soul He spread out shop was ajar the old man seated In an armchair — a vast police net that included the dead There was a look of peace on whole of Paris but when it was hauled hts face and he clasped a morning In It did not contain the particular fish between his icy fingers he was most anxious to secure There newspaper The physician who examined the body were all sorts of petty thieves highsaid that he had probably died from way robbers and some murderers but heart disease not the particular person for whom M But there was one doubting Thomas Robert held his rod in pickle The TheDet£ctv£ Threw fftt Oztfs Back And 8 8PITT 6TPEUCTN OPTN and he was M Robert the famous M Parisian detective Robert was one of the many men who had often been attracted to the shop on the Rue Madame and be entertained a fondness for the old dealer in antiques He felt Instinctively that it was the sort of a place that a professional crook would like to rob It was “different” and the possibilities of a rich haul were alluring He called at the shop - after the death of M Olbert and tried to ascertain if any of the stock were But alas no one could give missing information the required The old dealer knew his business by heart but he kept It locked up In his own breast The only catalogue of the stock was in that quaint old head that would no longer nod In the emergency Robert disguised himself and mingled with the friends and neighbors of the dead man For some days he worked without results But one night a bit of information was dropped that illumined the situation like a flash of lightning A group of men were seated about a table in the rear room of the shop discussing the the of deceased good qualities "He could tell a piece of Chlppen dale at sight” said Robert by way of making conversation "he was “Yes” remarked another I have no doubt that very successful he left a great fortune” “And the marvelous part of it all” chimed in a third “was the fact that he made his money without knowing ihow to riiad 8T writhe” to&pAfocAMS marvelous secret detective system of the French capital — a system that knows everybody and everybody’s business — for once failed to bring reMonths sults and finally a year went by At the end of the second year the murder of the gentle old dealer In antiques was still unavenged M Robert had assumed all sorts of He had associated with all disguises He had been asmanner of criminals sisted by a corps of clever men and still the problem remained unsolved The long arm of coincidence is a thing which occasionally appears In M Robert was to see all of our lives It In Its most interesting phase After the close of the second year since the Olbert murder the detective went to the country for the purpose of taking a brief vacation On the return trip he met a delightful old gentleman M Dupret a country banker They made themselves known to one another and the long Journey back to the city was shortened by an interchange of exM Dupret had met with periences with some curious experiences in his lifetime He had frustrated some of the best bank thieves in the country and naturally felt proud of his achievements M Robert In turn related some of the adventures he wherein had rounded up famous criminals They separated at the station with of mutual esteem many expressions The next morning while M Robert was seated at his desk in the police headquarters of Paris he received a telegram which said: It was signed by his banker friend reof the day before M Robert at once and after reaching sponded the rural bank obtained a complete description of the stolen bonds He expressed confidence In his ability to recover them within a reasonably short He returned to Paris and began time the work of obtaining information concerning the securities It was not a indeed M difficult task Robert looked upon it as one of the routine features of his dally work It did not present any intricate phases it was Btolen simply a matter of tracing property a sort of property that could not be offered for sale without end of the At the third suspicion day- Robert learned that a thief named Oscar Vlalard had been in the financial quarter of the city offering to dispose of some of the stolen securities He Btarted out immediately to apprehend the fellow He knew the haunts of thieves well enough to know Just where to look for such a person The first two or three no he visited results yielded places but finally entering a cafe on the he found the St Qermaln Boulevard person in whom he was Interested seated at a table with some companions just in the act of topping off an elaborate meal with a very greenThe officer looking cream de menthe He noticed that slipped in quietly Vlalard had a letter in front of him It was a mere scrap of paper' The officer touched the thief on the shout der “Come my friend” he said ”1 would like to Interview you at my office” To his surprise the thief grabbed the small scrap of paper and crushing it up into a little ball put it in his mouth and tried to swallow it The detective determined to recover that He grapbit of paper at all hazards threw him on his pled with Vlalard back and then forced his jaws open The man struggled by brute force like a maniac but finally yielded and gave up the crumpled piece of paper was an undated and unsigned letter It written to a thief named Blum who was The epistle was then in Jail and apparently had no commonplace but Robert had been significance thief taker for too many years to permit any trifle to look like a trifle in Vlalard was taken into cushis eyes his tody and then Robert arranged First he recovered plan of campaign the stolen securities after that which was an easy task they were returned to the country banker and the detective proceeded to see how much more he could develop from the clrcum stances that confronted him One morning he sent for an officer and had the prisoner Blum brought to his office He told him to take a seat in an armchair next to the window which overlooked a courtyard leading from one side of the police headquarters to the other He had placed the fellow where the light fell squarely on M Robert pretended to be his face busily engaged at his work but all the while he was Intently watching At a given sigBlum’s countenance nal two uniformed men appeared In the courtyard with Vallard handcuffed As Blum saw his pal between them under these significant circumstances he jumped from his chair and gave a cry of distress M Robert noticed it and said to him in a tone of deep emphasis: "Well my friend you see that the game Is up” Blum looked at him with terror in his dry lips He moistened his eyes with his tongue and echoed In a stammering voice: “The game — the game is up?” "Yes” said the detective blithely would be “and further concealment folly” "Has — has he — ” “Yes” finished M Robert with a smile on his face “your pal has confessed everything” Blum turned to him eagerly "It Is not too late for me to tell the truth is it?” "No” was the calm response "It is never too late to be truthful" Then In an endeavor to set himself straight and to prove that he was more sinned against than sinning the thief poured out his amazing confession M with Robert sat there and listened placid face and cool demeanor but his heart beat a little quicker than usual and it was all that he could do to remain passive And no wonder! For the thief before him was telling In short quick words the story of the murder of Olbert the old shopkeeper on the Rue Madame Blum had Jumped to the conclusion that he had been betrayed by Vlalard and he confessed that he had accompanied Vlalard to the house and had guarded the door while his pal strangled the old man to death They did murder and not intend to commit when they found that M Olbert was ad they were very much alarmed There were no marks of violence on the old man and the notion to prop him up in the chair came as an afterthought It appealed to their sense of the romantic It would be such a HzFowdThe WMMS£tTED m icm? --Dm clever thing to make the public be- machinery can each one do the work lieve the old man had died a natural of a dozen or twenty men It is more death while sitting in - his - armchair wholesome to have the min'd free for The idea of placing a newspaper In other Interests of the home But here the dead man’s hand came as a sort Is the peril: The home sentiments of inspiration to Vlalard It was so grow through work with and for each clever he thought that he had other The industries can be surrenchuckled over it many many times dered but when mutual and altruistic during the two years that had passed-Ye- t things go when no one is called on to that was the one false move that do anything for any one else but each had given proof of foul play and led one goes off makes his little purse finally to the discovery and arrest of and spends it it is a blow at the very the assassin and his accomplice Other mutual and heart of the home unselfish work must take the place of PASSING OF THE OLD HOME "the Industrial work given up If the girls are not to' wash the dishes they must assist their mother some other Herding of People in Cities Makes The home life demands way Home Building Now Almost The transfer of Interest from the Impossible founding to the furnishing of the home ’ raises the question as to the (Copyrighted by J S Kirtley) There are those who say that the moral effect of the externals rather home Is passing away That would be a than the Internals of consuming rathAgain everybody very dishonorable thing for the home er than producing to do after its honorable history is so busy with some outside work of through all the Jewish and Christian so technical and personal a kind that none can be taken into it no mutual centuries It first found itself among the Jews Rabbi Abraham Isaacs has interest be found in It except in the The man Is at work written a good characterization of the Income from Jewish home and what it stood for all day and at night wants to settle Into among them Is exactly what It stands restful ease or go to an entertainment in — his order to get jaded and jangled for among us religion education and He has no We may not spirits back to normal the unity of the family have to ask the Hebrews to take over time to get acquainted with his famour homes but we shall have to go ily The women are busy with clubs and and circles and mothreceptions back to the very things that made the Jewish home the only thing of the kind ers’ meetings and sororities and they In the ancient world and won a great are too tired for anything but relaxaGentiles to their tion at that very hour which is the many most critical of all the 24 in the famfaith hour after the The home will not pass away though ily life the It now seems that the old style of centrifugal travels of the day Even the children have their social' duties Those home may have gone forever The readyelemental things that must be in it that keep them occupied or it is not a home at all are now en- made plays have lessened the originaand Initiative powers The gaged In adjusting themselves to con- tive frolic and fun they used to ditions that were never encountered before and It is because of those new have when the mutual interests were conditions and the present unsettled more numerous and attractive than habits of people that so many are ut- the outside and individual helped the Little energy unity of the family tering lamentations The family will or Inclination for originating not pass away till the race does The and carrying out enterprises for the family must have a place to live It will make some sort of a home in that making of the home But the tale Is not finished Standplace whether good or bad Let us hope that when we emerge from this ards of living are high and compelling and people of small means have transitloh period the industry will be an easier and more large Ideas of keeping up with these standards That throws the thoughts popular one But we are being told of the perils out from the arts of home making to Let us face them with- the arts of money making and spendof the home Instead of accepting this rare out flinching They may vitiate but ing cannot exterminate It They may de- opportunity for culture In the virtues in the ingrade It to a lower or regrade it to a of restraint and ar& some of the dis- terest of the home they often rebel level Here higher integrating forces now at Work: Spe In dissatisfaction and fault finding cialized industry is robbing it of some That marks the end of the home as of its former functions and that loss such though the house and the family Jhe may keep together for years Unity has changed the family life question is whether those functions Is one of the elements of home and are essential In a home or were taken nagging is the end of unity In that on only as a temporary duty and can stage of low finances and high living be dropped without loss There was a the flat is the favorite resort for those was who would evade the responsibilities time when almost everything The flat Is not The women spun of home building made in the home and wove the cloth and made the an unmlxed evil and many happy clothes for the family the men did homes are made in them in spite of their work and made many of the them but too many lives are made tools with which they worked but “flat stale and unprofitable” by them trades have developed industries and They unite with other adverse condiarts have become specialized One can tions In making the essential virtues and muof unselfishness hospitality buy better things and for less money made by those who give their whole tual constructive work for the home time to one thing and by the aid of much harder it it ' Nor is that all The herding of people in the cltltes unrooted in any holdings of their own with no sense of ownership in anything and so few home Interests In common makes home building almost impossible The of the rich example whose wealth can purchase release from all kinds of obligations who can dishonor the home with divorce and dissolute lives without loss of social standing has destructive weight with the less wealthy Now the home Is a set of principles vitalized by a set' of' persons Bentl- ments throbbing in sensitized hearts an atmosphere exhaled from those persons and partaking of their nature as the atmosphere around us has In it some of the very elements found in In these adverse condithe earth tions the home Instincts may become atrophied by disuse or perverted by misuse especially the building the inproprietary and the stincts But look long enough and we get an optimistic outlook of the home As it As a necessary ol expression the family It is to become better and If its essential instincts greater found culture in the old Industrial life we must tax our ingenuity to find work of the intellectual The home will and artistic and religious kinds The flat has its limited mission but It may be still further limited by a larger exodus to the suburbs and to the hosClubs may be transpitable country formed to include attention to the home interests that are mutual and may be made a true synthesis of the The two sexes will family ideals continue to attract each other The family will remain still grow up out of the family New interests not before suspected may be found Old responsibilities will reassert themselves Out of the chang- ing conditions the eternal home In- stincts will emerge with new triumphs and new opportunities The olu ideals are to realize themselves in new ways Hospital Its Own Cannery Hereafter the Southern California State hospital at Patton will not sell its green fruits for a song and pay a high price for canned godSs Arrangements have been made to put up from eight to ten thousand gallons of peaches apricots and tomatoes tmd a consignment of 6000 gallon cans has recently been received for that purpose On the state grounds—ere several acreq of deciduous fruits Superintendent Blair could see no Reason why this should not be conserved for use in the institution which feeds more than 1500 persons rather than buying canned goods in Los Angeles or Pomona So it has come about that a room has been prepared in which tq carry on the work and the apricot crop Is being successfully handled at this time Next in order of ripening will be the peaches and later thousands of gallons of tomatoes almost India pensable in an institution of this kind will be stored away In the bospita! larder |