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Show GREAT DIAMOND TEMPTING POOR II STIRS HIS IRE RARIS, bee. 15- An elderly man,; well dressed and of distinguished ap- pearance smashed 'the wind of one oC the most fashionable Jewelry shops In Paris on the Rue Saint Honore with -his heavy gold-headed cane. He made no attempt to gather In any of the; tns .Sn angry crowd gathered In a , seconds and surrounded the man while the shop proprietor went for a gendarme. "Stand hack!" .-honied the old man swinging his cunt. 'This Is the man you should lynch." pointing to the alffn' on the door of Ihe shop, bearing the 'proprietor's name. "It Is Immoral In i these limes of Stress and misery lo ex-I I pose in a window such articles for sale. ' I "There Is the cause of all the trou-ible," trou-ible," he ended, pointed to an enormous diamond, which sliil remained In the : window. "Look at the price tag on I lit." They did. The tag bore the words "Price: one million francs." I As the proprietor and a gendarme i earn e Into view the crowd opened up ; arid the elderly gentleman vanished. |