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13 TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, APRIIi 21, 1912 WOMAN TO FIGURE IN DARROW'S CASE Mysterious Voice Over Tele phone Identified, Prose cutor Declares. WARNING NOT EXPLAINED That MrXinur Lawyer BelleTed He Waa Hearing From Friend Said to I rave Been Shown by rrompt Response. IXS AXGELES. April 10. (Special.) Mystery surrounds the Identity of the woman who. It 1 aliened, on the morn Ins; that Bert H. Franklin, ex-chief of detectives for the McNunira defense, wis arrested by attaches of the Dis trict Attorneys office on a charge of bribery, telephoned to Clarence it Dar row. warning him of the plan to ar rest Franklin. This woman will play an Important part 1 1. the case when Darrow comes up for trial on Hay li for the alleged bribery of Juror Bain and Juror Lock wood. Neither Captain Fredericks nor Earl Roarers will divulge the name of this woman, though both admitted to day th-y knew who she is. Borers said she Informed narrow of the District Attorney's plan to arrest Franklin, and also urged the attorney to hurry to the scene. That Darrow believed that the In formation came from a friend was proved by the fact that he lost no time in ettln to Second and Main streets, where Franklin stood. Mr. Darrow was close to the scene when the actual ar rest was made by attaches of the Dis trict Attorney's office. It Is admitted by both sides that the woman was not connected with either the District Attorneys office or the Jlc Namara defense. For that reason the mystery deepens. Neither side will e plaln how one outside the District At torney's staff could have learned of the plan to arrest Franklin. Accrdlns; to Information In the hands of the District Attorney. Mr. Darrow was in his former offices on the ninth floor f the Hlairtns buildtns; when the mysterious warnlna- reached him. It is asserted he then hurried to the spot where the voice had Indicated that Franklin was about to be arrested. A WOMAN-BANKER RULES Miss Hester, of Teaas, Authority for Hog- and Cattlo Bayers. New Tork Evening- Post. On the letterheads of the Lee County Slate Bank of Lexington. Texas. Miss Minnie Hester Is modestly called "Asst. Cashier." But that does not tell the whole story. Actually, she Is paying teller, receiving teller, cashier, general ledger bookkeeper and customers' finan cial adviser. The president of the Lee County Bank la active. In that "he passes on all loans made." but Miss Hester assumes all office detail, with the help of a bookkeeper, also a woman, and no man Vorks behind the counters In any capacity whatever. Banking hours begin between and A- M. In Lexington and close during the dull season at 6 P. M.. but during the busy season, which Is the Fall of . the year In that agricultural region, she just locks the same at closing time each day and keeps on working until lrk. Not having a man chief. Miss Hester has the responsibility of keening-ip the bank's reserve, and her weather eye Is always out to see that 10 per cent of her deposit account Is In cash In her vault, and that 15 per cent Is with her reserve agents As general ledger bookkeeper, she handles the accounts with city correspondents, the profit and loss account, the daily cash account, the amount of notea outstanding, total of deposits, etc. As acting chief, she must keep watch, too, on the collec tions, which come In by every mall. These she enters In the collection regis ter and malls out notices to the per sons on whom drafts are made. Then she must watch her bills receivable and see that no note runs past due. -In fact." to quote Miss Hester her self. "I must be on the alert every moment to see that the inside work ins of the bank are In good order and kept well oiled; otherwise a cylin der might blow out. an explosion would occur, and great harm would be done In other words, a bank examiner would be sent out by the Banking Department to close our doors." e She has found that a woman can't be "a banker In a country town without having to meet and solve the country banker's problems. Chief among these she names overdrafts and past-due paper and collections. To the farmer she awards the palm as being the satisfactory customer from the bank's point of view. Aa she has found him. he understands banking requirements fully, expects to glva security three to one when he borrows, and pays prompt ly when his paper falls due. Her troubles-He chiefly with cattle men and small merchants. Ho far as the cattleman Is concerned, the ex planation Is that when he has corralled the animals be has bought, he unex pectedly find other bunches that he Is no more able to resist than a woman ran resist a bargain counter. And then when Miss Hester posts him up that evening, his account goea red by a hun dred or two. and she goes home some what solemn, t'ast-due paper la a point on which she has to be careful. State and National banking laws are rigid on this matter, and. besides, she has her own convictions that a surety should be protected. Her collection department, she thinks, gives her more trouble than all the. rest of the bank together, being expensive and annoying. Phe has had some close calls In the matter of demand or sight drafts, and It makes me shiver to think of them." she says. Besules her work as executive of the bank, she Is called upon to be the book keeper of every business roan In the county to a certain extent. To Illus trate, the hog and cattle buyers who ship carloads to market keep no record of their transactions except the ac count she has of their deposits and checks, and their profits and losses are figured out by taking the difference between the two. Concerning the personal relations that are established, she says: "It Is right pathetic how perfectly dependent some people become, who learn to de pend upon roe to attend to all their business, figure up the Interest due them, and -e that their lesral docu ments are properly drawn. There are almost as m-ny men In the number as women. They have never made busi ness a study, but are honest, hard working tillers of the soli and depend upon their banker to look after their business." see Women, h thicks, hart been -un justly treated all these years by not being taught even the first principles of business." She considers that every woman, rich or poor, should know something about business. Experience and observation have shown her the unlimited disaster that can overtake the widow who has been left a nice competency for herself and children by the man who was "a good provider, but didn't believe In "pestering women with buslnefcs matters." -So often." says Miss Hester, "such a woman will not have the remotest Idea how to Invest her surplus money to the best advantage, nor how to take care of the property left her and make It Increase Instead of decrease." It Is In these cases that the woman banker may be an effective counsellor and business agent. - When women get fairly into busi ness they apparently show the same disposition to let themselves be 'con sumed by It that men do. and the banker of Lexington Is no exception. -The bank work engages my whole attention." she admits. "It has utterly become a part of myself. After work hours or on Sunday, when I meet cer tain people, I can scarcely refrain from speaking to them about some business transaction that we are to have to gether next day." As to social features, she has little, "compared with other women who go out every evening.- I learned long ago that business ami pleasure do not go hand In hand. This being a quiet lit tle town, there Is only occasional op- fA. mamnt I attend T VI I .... " - - . I Sunday school and church services, and when a gooa lecture r .-- comes to town. 1 attend these with pleasure." but most of her evenings are spent with books and magaslnes. Before ahe became a banker, Mlsa Hester -pas a school-teacher and later a stenographer. That her trend toward business may be Inherited la suggested by some further testimony from her concerning a woman'a lack of business training and consequent helplessness when the management of resourcea de volves upon her. -Our family hks been more fortunate In that line than some others of whom I know. In that we have had a sensible economical mother, who. upon the death of my father, many yeara ago. did not give up and grieve her heart out for him. but kept her sorrows to herself and assumed the responsibility of keeping the business going which he started, and succeeded so well that today the etate Is worth more than It was at his death." . t From the viewpoint of the sociolo gist, she offers In evidence an Inter esting conclusion. "I have no desire whatever to get married." she con fesses. "I cannot assign any reason for It, unless it Is that Just coming In dally contact with men and studying their wsys has made me feel Jhat I do not want one for a husband." THE PARENT OF RADIUM BrltUh Scientist Points to the. Pos sibility of Ionium. London Cor. Christian Science Monitor. A lecture was given at the Royal Institution. London, by K. Soddy, F. . S lecturer In physical chemistry and radioactivity at the University otGUiB. .. nririn of Radium. The gOW. on aim ' - , lecturer said that when Madame Curie succeeded In separating irom p."-" .h. tun. radioactive substances. radium, polonium and activlum. It wa first thought that pitchblende simply contained a mixture of radioactive sub stance: but Sir William iro. . years later separated from uranium a radioactive substance known aa uran ium X. which gradually lost its radio activity. - oontlnucd. he In 19V-. Hie '-. u . and Rutherford at Montreal, separated , - jin.ntiv. substance from xnoriura .-v... - , which they called thrtumx-1,Th' , stance, they founa. grauu.,,, M..iriv while, the thorium slowly became redloactlve again. It Is on this regeneration oi inn"'" ".,7" " radioactive, substances that the t0 of atomlo disintegration la based. There are many stages In this disintegra tion, and for every stage the rate of change obey, a simple "P""""' law. for this rate of change Is always proportional to the quantity which re mains unchanged. During the lecture an Ingenloua in strument traced out exponential curves to illustrate, the law obeyed in each successive stage. The period of radium, the lecturer explained, has been ascertained by Mr. Rutherford to be tSOO yeara. Thus In a few thousand years none of the ra dium prepared by Madame Curie will be left. The question then arises how is there any radium left now? There roust have been a parent of rad urn which continually regenerated radium as fast as it decayed. Radioactivity tests are extremely delicate, far more so even than spectro scope tests: In fact, the presence of two or three million mllllonths of a gramme of radium can be detected. To Illustrate the delicacy of the tests, the Image of gold leaf electroscope which had ben charged several hours before was thrown on the screen. A tube con taining three milligrammes of radium emanation was then broken In the ven tilator through which air passed Into the room. The air of the room was then slowlv drawn through the electro scope and the leaf gradually fell Continuing the account of his re searches to determine the origin or radium, the lecturer described tome ex periments made with uranium. It was found that uranium generated radium, but the amount generated waa only a thousandth part of what It should have been If uranium- was the direct parent of radium. This showed that there must be aome Intermediate product, uranium X with Its life of only 354 days being neK.llg.ill- r.viaence pginieu m this Intermediate product, and the curves obtained of the regeneration of radium from Ionium support this view. Several curves, obtained from ex periments extending over several yeara. were ehown: and It Is believed that In the course of a few more yeara still more definite proofs will be obtained to show that Ionium la the direct parent of radium. The perloda of these radioactive ele ments vary enormously, aa can be seen from the following list: Cranium. dOO.ooo.OOO years. Cranium X. 35 H days. Ionium, according to the latest esti mates approximately 100,000 y-ara. Radium. 1600 years. Radium emanation. 5H days. There are numerous subsequent stages which also vary greatly In length, and It Is believed that the ulti mate product la lead, but this, the lecturer said, has not been proved. . Art as lie freshmen!. . John Galsworthy, in the Atlantic. Art la the great and universal re freshment. For art Is never dogmatic: holds no brief for itself; you may take It. or you may leave It. It does not force Itself rudely where It la not wanted. It is reverent to all tempers, to all points of view. But It U 'willful th- very wind In the romlnga and go ings of Its Influence, an uncapturable fugitive, visiting our hearts at va grant, sweet moments: since even be fore the greatest worka of art we often stand without being able quite to lose ourselves! That restful oblivion comes, we never quite know when and It Is gone! But when It comes. It la a spirit hovering with cool wing, blessing us. from least to great est, according to our powers; a spirit deathless and varied as human life It- seit. . . New Upholstered Furniture See the new upholstered furniture in our windows this week and you will admire it. Try it and you will be delighted with its luxurious comfort. Ask the price and you will want to buy it. We have never before shown so much upholstered fur niture as is now in 'stock. -We have never shown so wide a range of styles and sizes, nor at such attractive prices. We show literally scores of pieces, most of them new. In davenports alone we offer twenty-five or thirty patterns: There are beautiful framed davenports in ma hogany and oak; comfortable overstuffed and tufted pieces; luxurious English models with' loose cushions ohittVh with down. There are lounges, couches and chaises, lounges, and there are chairs of every size and pattern. Easy, chairs range from $25 uoward We have davenports at $50, $70, $85, $100 and upward to$225. Many of these pfeles are wholly exceptional values and all are marked at prices that invite comparison. Much of the new furniture is covered in inexpensive cretonne -no more expensive than denim, and charming for the Summer season. See our windows. FIFTH and STARK J. G. MACK & CO. FIFTH and STARK , . , . 1 1 I absences." I HUNTED MAN F OUND Alleged Embezzler Faces Ac cusers at Bcise, Idaho. CHARGE FLATLY DENIED Funds of Auto Company, Amount ing to flo'.OOO, Held by R. rroudfit to Have Been I-ost Through Mismanagement. BOISE. Idaho. April 20. (Special.) Supposed to be a fugitive from Justice and missing aln.ee last January, when he waa charged with the embezzlement of approximately 110,000 of the funds of the Intermountaln Auto Company, of which he waa bookkeeper at the time and who haa been hunted high and low throughout the Northwest, Robert Proudflt. a son of S. V. Proudflt. As sistant Commissioner of the General Land Office, suddenly appeared in Boise yesterday to face his accusers. He was Immediately given a hearing In Justice Court and bound over to await trial In the District Courtinder 1 1000 bonds, which he furnished. The charge of falsifying the accounts of the company's books waa waived, leav. tng only the embezzlement charge standing against him. This he will fight In the District Court, and the trial promises to be one of the most sensational seen In this city. ('later Charge .Made. Proudflt and lils attorney, K. K. Bar ker, aa well aa his brother-in-law. O. U Ingram, of Walla Walla, make a counter charge against the manage ment of the Intermountaln Auto Com pany, declaring that the reason that concern was short $10,000 In its ac counts was due to mismanagement, and not to Juggling of the books by Proud flt. The latter has Influential con nections In Walla Walla, where he met and married his wife. He haa been making his home in that city since the preferment of the charges against him. During January Deputy Sheriffs made a search through the Northwest " for Proudflt. but could not locate him. It was given out at that time he had The owners of the Intermountaln Auto Company assert that Proudflt as secretary of the company waa given every confidence and considered abso lutely honest. However, when the shortage was discovered and Proudflt left this city, they preferred the em bezzlement charge. reaeera Leal as Preposltlom.. The concern was a losing proposi tion." stated Attorney Barker, speak ing of the charge against his client aa made by the owners of the Intermoun taln Auto Company. "It lost money right along, and the owners did not have the moral courage to admit their losses. They tried to convince themselves that some one had stolen the money they had lost. "Proudflt has never been a fugitive from Justice. The county authorities have known where he was nearly all the time. Since leaving Boise he has been In both Walla Walla and Coeur d'Alene. He has never been away from Washington or Idaho, and any atorlea as to his fleeing towards the Canadian line Is the worst kind of drivel. Freud 8t Ready for Trial. "Some time ago hla brother-in-law, O. L. Ingram, and Arthur Cromwell put $1000 up with the Ada County authori ties that they would produce Proudflt any time te waa wanted. We are now here to face any charges that the auto company will bring and to prove they are false. "The authorities have held this case up while they were trying to get evi dence against John Moore. Moore left Boise about the same time that Proud flt did. . He waa Interested in the com pany and knowa more about the case than he haa told. I think he can tell where the company's money went. I know there Is nothing criminal. o f al as Proudflt or Moore ara concerned. There la a lot more to tbls story and It will be told when the proper time comes." ZOO BEARS' DEATH FIGHT Jealous Male Kills Mate for Flirting With Polar Neighbors. New York Sun. Jennie Ursus. who waa disposed to be flirtatious with the two bachelor polar bears in the next apartment In the Central Park menagerie, brought upon herself the fate of Desdemona, after repeatedly arousing the Jealousy of Joe Ursus. her mate. Joe and Jen nie were the finest specimens of the black bear family the menagerie ever had. Joe was older and larger than Jennie, and seemed to the keepers to k., fnnd of her. At feeding time f she seized upon the fish or loaf of bread or chunk of meat he waa eating, I he permitted her to take It away with- nut rhantlaement When It came to flirting with her neighbors he was not so amiable. An Iron grill work separated Joe and Jennie from the Arctio bachelors, who developed a liking for their handsome female neighbor and passed vmuch of their time at the grill swapping nose rubs with her. Such evidences of mu tual admiration always stirred Joe to anger. He would hasten to the meet ing place, push his mate to one side and strike at the polar's nose with his paw. Jennie was exchanging bear gossip with one of her neighbors when Joe butted In. He gave her a cuff on the side of the head and sent her sprawl ing on the cement floor. Jennie got up 'and went back to where the white bachelor waa standing at the. bars and looking Into her home. The two got to rubbing noses again. There was fire In Joe's eye as he approached In a slow and deliberate stride. He gave Jennie a blow with his right paw that knocked her sev eral feet. Before she had fully re covered he had pounced upon -her with savage growls. Then began a life and death struggle. He bit her on the body and pulled out a mouthful of skin and glossy hair. Jennie seemed to realize that the matter was serious and fought for her life. But Joe waa too strong for her. He got her down and fixed his Jaws In her throat. She used her feet vigorously and the claws tore out patchea of fur and skin from Joe. A crowd of visitors stood In front of the Inclosure and watched the fight. With a sudden effort of all her muscles, Jennie broke from her mate's grasp and got upon her feet. She sought to escape further attack, but the Jealous mate was after her, and Jumping upon her with his fore feet, trot her down once more and took a I throat grip with hla Jaws, and Jennie's I efforts to shake him off were futile. I Joe held her fast long after she ceased to struggle. When he let go ana she lay there limp and motionless be went for a distance and kept watching her. He was still watching her when keepers came to remove the . body. He started in to give them a fight, but changed his mind. Reflections or Vnclo Kzra. Roy K. Moulton in Judge. Ell Hanks drinks whisky In the Sum mer to cool him off and in the Winter to warm him up. In the Spring and Kail he drinks it for medicinal pur poses. . Outside of the skyattlo rheumatli. about the hardest thing in this world to get rid of Is a life-insurance agent. No matter what kind of a pie a feller orders In a restaurant, he Is always aorry he didn't' order some other kind. Ren Frlsby says he rarely goea by a saloon, and. In fact, he never does, un less his wife ia watchln' him. Some fellers are dum" fools naturally, while others go around lookln' at them selves In plate-glass winders. If Job had ever tried to color a meer schaum pipe or to get a seat in a sub way train, he would never have gained a reputation for patience. . I never see a feller that carried his loose change in a purse that ever died In the poorhouse. About the only way an Indian can make an honest llvln' nowadays la by playln' football or posln in front of a cigar atore with a bunch of wooden cheroots in his hand. Mercury Vapor and Diamonds. Scientific American " Von Bolton thinks that diamonds were formed In nature by action of metal vapors, such as Iron or mag nesium on carbon dioxide. He haa succeeded in making microscopic dia monds by the action of mercury vapor on carbon, - PRINCE IS ATTACKED CROWX HEIR OF GERMAN Y SUB JECTED TO CRITICISM. Newspapers of Emperor's Iand As sail Poor Military Showing as Head of Hussars. BERLIN. April 20. (Special.) An article attacking the Crown Prince for neglect of his military duties Is at tracting great attention, and Is repro duced in many leading newspapers. It appeared originally in Der Tuermer, a monthly review, and was written by Herr Guenther von Vlelrogge, a retired officer. The article observes that up to the time when. the Kaiser appointed his heir to the Colonelcy of the famous "Death's Head" Hussars, at Danzig last September, the Crown Prince had never done any military service worth men tioning. It was hoped that the Danzig command would at last fill the Prince, In whose veins the blood of so many warriors flowed, with genuine enthu siasm for his profession. "Up to the present, however, the hopes aroused by the transfer to Danzig remained un fulfilled. The Crown Prince Is absent far too much on leave. Indeed, one might ask when he la at the head of his regiment at all. "Immediately after his appointment the august young gentleman went trav. ellng for four weeks, principally to hunt. "Soon after hla return we saw him In Berlin, sometimes in the Reich stag, where he attended the Morocco debates, and sometimes at the flying grounds. At the beginning of Decem ber he spent a week in Silesia hunt ing, and at the end of December and commencement of January he waa in Berlin again. "Between the last-named leaves he was prostrated by illness, which not only confined him to his room, but to his bed over the Christmas holidays. This illness could not have been too grave, otherwise the Berlin newspa pers would not have been able to re port that he was dedicating himself to Winter sports In the Tlergarten. "At the end of January the Crown Prince again came to Berlin to partici pate In court festivities, and those con nected with the Kaiser's birthday and the christening of his own son. When these were over he betook himself to Switzerland, where, in the company of his gracious consort, he threw himself into the Joys of sleigh and ski with his accustomed zeal. That he remained In Switzerland longer than waa Intend ed, waa due to an injury received at ice hockey. "On March the Danzig Hussars saw their commander again, and were at last able to give the "Winter ball.' which they had to postpone on account Lying and Fooling. National Monthly. Jim Mann was on his way back from Chicago, and couldn't help hearing the conversation of the couple In the sec tion right behind his. They looked like newly married folks but were not on their honeymoon, as Mann learned by deduction. The woman laid down a newspaper she had been reading and said to her husband: 'Do you know, I wish I had one of those affinities. Oh, I think it would be Just gr-a-n-d to sit on a rock with somebody and have him rave about the Incomparable golden color of my hair, and tell me that my eyes were the most beautiful in the whole world, and " "Uh, huh." said the husband, yawn "And that the delicate pink of my cheeks had been painted there by the angels, and that he couldn't live with out me. O-oh, I think an affinity like that would be " "'Tisn't an affinity you want." inter rupted her husband. "What you seem to want is a plain, old-faShioned liar." Are You Fat? You know you cannot stay fat. don't youT That Is, you cannot be fat and be In style. The day when a fat woman was tolerated Is passed. Xowadayaall women must be In proportion . or be ridiculous. This does not mean you should become skinny, however. Tou should not get below the hard .flesh line. All you ought to lose Is the bulky fat. That done you will find youself to be a well-formed and therefore handsome woman. Now, how can this be done? By exercis ing and dieting? Yes, and no. These two means will bring some results, but not eas ily nor soon. One Is very bard work;: the other is torture. Besides, neither can be de pended on to cause a uniform reduction. They may take off a fleshy shoulder, for example, and leave the double chin un touched. ' What you need, you see. Is some thing pleasant to take that without Injury to your health will take the fat off uni formly and quickly, say at the rate of a pound a day or so, until It Is all gone where you want It to go. For this purpone nothing Is less expensive, safer or simpler than Marmola Prescription Tablets. Inexpensive became one large case, costing 73 cents only, will produoe results; safe because tbey cause no wrinkles or stom ach trouble, but rathee Improve the health and complexion. If anything: and simple, be cause tbey do all the work without asking thought or effort on the part of the taker. In short, they are the ANSWER if you are fat and wish to be thinner. 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