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Show uo " DEATH AT A RICH MAN'S DOOR. When Death knocks at the palace, gold will not bribe the intruder. When Philip D. Armour III was told thai his little girl. 6 years of age, was? afflicted with septicaemia, he engaged the most talented physicians and he employed a dozen, nurses. He called on the police to stop traffic on his' block and he ordered that no expense be spared in sending for experts But all the skill that money could command failed to stay the hand of Death laid upon the child, and Owen dohn. seemingly in perfect healih r week ago and filled with the Joy or ehildhood, became a lifeltys little form that failed to answer when the mother beseechingly calb-d. There have been countless millions ot Gwendolyns who huve remained for jupt a tew baby years, have spiead the radiance of puies soul and have gone, leaving behind imperishable ini prints of tiny feet and chubby hands and sweetest memories of words that were lisped and smiles thai were cast by eyes and lips and cheeks angel lr. The Armours would have given all they possessed to have retaihed their Gwendolyn. How rich then are even the very poor who are spared the sor row which fell upon this family of millionaires ! Septicaemia spells death when the germs are diffused by the blood stream. Science so far Is as helples as it was twenty years ago In fighting back the destructive Invasion. Once localized, the affliction may be controlled, con-trolled, but when It spread?, dollars cannot command skill enough to right it down. |