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PAGE FOUR Thg OREGON STATESMAN; Salera, ; Oregon, Sunday Morning; May 121933 : mXo Favor Sway Us: No Fear SkaU Atca" From first Statesman. March 15. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. -Charles A. Spsacuc - - - - - Editor-Manager Sbsuwn F.-Sackett - - - - - llanajing-Editor Member of the Associated Press Tb Anoclated Press Is scluaively ntltltd to lb bn for pubHc tJo of all otwi disrate bea credited to it or not otherwise credited M this paper. ! I ADVERTISING Portland Representative Gordon B. UeU. Security Building. Portland. Ore. Eastern Advertising Representatives Bryant. Grifflih ft ttrunson. Inc, Chicago, New York. Detroit. , Boston. Atlanta Entered at the Poetoffice at Salem, Oregon, a Second-Close 'Hatter, Published xery . morning except Monday. Businett mffice, tlS S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ataO Subacrtption Rates. In Advance. Wiihm Oregon : Daily and Sunday. 1 Ma. 6tt cents; Mo. J 1.25; C Mo. $I.i6 ; 1 year $4 00. EUse 6 i-taits p-r Mix. or $5.0 tor t year to advance. Per Copy S cents. - News Stands 6 cents. By City Carrier 45 cents a month; $S 00 a year In advance. MOTHER Lord Illlngsworth: All women become like their mothers. . That is their tragedy." Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his. Oscar Wilde: A Woman of No Importance Trivialia V'AST is the pother being made over the number of jobs a f legislator may hold. The eruption of sentiment is quite '? as generous as though some major issue were at stake, -like chain letters or giving the ruined state house walls the push- over. The trouble is that some people want to keep their cake and to eat it too. They want to be legislators and to hold exe cutive jobs at the same time, but the constitution is clear on ; the question. There may be some dispute over who is finally to ; determine the qualifications of legislators, which right ap pears to be vested in the legislature itself ; but the current agitation calling for injunctions and newspaper statements et cetera, is unduly exaggerated in importance. The political coloring is what seems to be stirring some folk up. They think the procedure is a deep republican plot to capture control of the lower house of the legislature. That isn tthe case, although the democratic control was maudlin at the session. Even if it were, the republican senate proved it self as cooperative with the governor, on the whole, as the democratic house. Party lines cut little weight in legislative deliberations. Why not bring the debate back to the simple question of the undesirability of having members of the legislature hold ing appointive executive positions ? Isn't the principle sound ; and shouldn't legislators comply with it regardless of party ? If a legislator is lucky enough to land a swivel chair state . job, shouldn't he be quite willing to resign from the legis lature and let some one else -share the wealth at three dollars a day? Of course, the smart thing for Gov. Martin to do is not to call a special session. Kick ers Heels THE statement which was put out over Ed Jory's name has a familiar ring. Jory didn't write it, and the internal evi dence indicates that his ghost-writer is more concerned with politics than economy. The assertion that the "other heel" of the "kickers" is the recall is the "Achilles heel" of the state ment, proving that the injunction suit Is part of an effort to embarrass the governor. -The dissident elements who backed Zimmerman for gov ernor and were defeated last fall do not accept defeat. In stead they are active, hoping to effect Gov. Martin's downfall and to seize the reins of power themselves. The injunction suit is to a considerable extent an irritant to keep the public mind inflamed. Unfortunately the governor has been intemperate and in , judicious in his allusions to those who obstruct him. It does hfrtase no good to refer to these disaffected folk in con temptuous terms, as "tinhorn politicians", "whiners", and "kickers". That is just porridge in their mush-bowl. It re plenishes the springs of their discord, and waters the weeds of their discontent. Those who thought that politics was adjourned with the election and that the state would have four years of peace, progress and prosperity did not reckon well. With all the poli tical ferment around: Father Coughlin, Dr. Townsend, EPIC, , Every-man-a-king, it is not to be expected that this state would be undisturbed. The nerves of the people are frayed so they are jittery; it will take sedatives of pump-primer to quiet them f or.a time ; or else a more generous return of bet ter times. The best politician now is a social pathologist. Family Planting Experiment WITH federal aid to the extent of $75,000 some twenty four families are to be located on a 500-acre tract of land in Mohawk valley, Lane county. Modern homes will be - built on the tracts for the settlers, equipment furnished, and Irrigation provided. Farm experts will be on hand to advise the settlers how to operate their places. The families who go on the land will first be tenants, with privilege of acquiring the land on partial payments. The land is fertile, part of it rich bottom land. The .method of picking the settlers is not announced but it is said some of the families may be moved from the drouth belt., ' The project appears to be feasible. When it is realized that many men are now going out on small places without any such government subsidy and making a go of farming, earn ing a living for themselves and families, it would seem that carefully chosen farmers could succeed abundantly on the Places the government has picked out. It is homesteading de luxe, with running water, house wired for radio, etc. . Previous experiments in the "model farm" field have, not , eacouraging. Elwood Mead's land colonization schemes to California proved very costly. Oregon failed in its model enterprise. Washington tried reclamation of lands near White Bluffs for veterans after the war; and finally practi cally gave the places to the men on them. In spite of this dis couraging record we look to see the Lane county experiment . succeed if real fanners are picked and the improvements are rot made too expensive, chiefly because we believe any fam ily with a fair start can earn a living on good Willamette val ley land. 3aJphJ?amUt? h3,been mad President of the Portland cham fiv -if ?erce- T? f"00 U meet witn approval of out-state M-.biaTVw3r Mih tot HamUta- RlP bas lived ia Eu- ESI. Sfw? Bend'K8!Tri,,n legUUtnre. became speaker, was thi-e Q ?JnI a ttort He is XamUiar with Oregon needs, and when president of the state chamber of commerce was a leader In iY,?fnnt wor,k-Cap" and fair, he should accomplish much in ?f tfif .tit elaUons Portland and the remainder k..., a11" brigand who asked for hairs for a toupe should hare addressed all his letters to Yakima or Camas where the villagers fnr a-ii tS cr?e,t7 a l by withholding from sharing for a spell. In a few days he conld get from those towns the cream oi me crop. . Circulation managers of the northwest are gathering at the Ma rion tonight tor a two-day convention. At the initial dinner tonight h.Whl b contest. If there are any managers there from before the days of Audit Bureau of Circulations they can tell tales mat will make fishermen look like little George Washington. 8 7 P"111 Roosevelt Is oft to a week-end of trout-fishing. From the names t his companions the fishing will be more in political than in trout streams. Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS How modern Is modern? applied to capltols, prisons, etcetera: b w . It Is said that a man living la England sear the beginning of the year 1700 committed suicide, because he had watched the pro gress of knowledge, discoveries and inventions and there was nothing more to know S So that, as there was no longer much interest in life, he might as well call it a day and ring off; as newspaper workers say, make It 30. W S S The Oregon state legislature of 1870 authorised the construction of permanent building at the penitentiary, temporary quarters baying been provided on the pres ent site and the Inmates haying been, removed from the territor ial penitentiary at Portland, ar riving in Salem May 17, 18 or 19, 1866, after a two-day trip by boat. S S In order to make certain that a suitable building and proper equipment be provided, the legis lature resorted to what is now generally termed a brain trust. The House Journal of the 1870 legislature showed that: "George H. Atkinson was em ployed to visit some of the west ern states, and to visit the pris ons for the purpose of observing the best methods of building, and laying out the grounds, with the arrangement of industries, and all matters pertaining to the most ap proved modern penitentiaries." George H. Atkinson was a prominent Congregational mis sionary, minister and educator. He arrived in Portland June 22, 1848. the year before Oregon was proclaimed a territory, and settled at Oregon City, where he served for 15 years as pastor of the Pio neer Congregational church; or ganized the Clackamas Female Seminary there, aided materially in firmly establishing Pacific uni versity at Forest Grove, was pas tor of the First Congregational church at Portland tor a long time, etc., etc. - Rev. Atkinson was county school superintendent of Clacka mas county one term, and of Mult nomah county two terms. He made and wrote history. Was the chief speaker at the annual meet ing of the Oregon Pioneer associ ation at the state fair grounds in 1880, the burden of his address having to do with the historic year of 1848 in Oregon and on this coast. "s He was born in Massachusetts May 10, 1819. and died in Port land Fb. 25, 1889. His widow wrote and published a thick book on his interesting life, the major portion of which was passed In Oregon. s But did Oregon get one of "the most approved modern penitenti aries," under "the best methods of building and laying out the grounds, with arrangements of in dustries, and all matters pertain ing to" such an institution? For that time, yes. For the present time, no. The part of the Oregon peni tentiary that dates back to the brain truster of 1870-72, is about as much out of date as any in a so-called civilized country. (The construction work Rev. Atkinson assumedly recommended was completed in 1872.) The fact isr there are, even yet, few all "modern" prisons in the United States, according to the ideals of modern penology or in the world. , The part of the Oregon prison that Is left from the construction of 1870-72 is mainly some of the cell blocks. They were originally proyided with no plumbing, nor adequate lighting, nor anything ejse now considered modern by competent penologists, to say nothing of decent. U As to the "arrangement of in dustries" in 1870-72, that would be considered a Joke. Especially would it be so regarded by any prison executive of a southern state, where all the prisons are de signed to be self-supporting, or much more, and where nearly all are all, in fact but those of Texas. S B This Is true of Minnesota's pen itentiary, and has been for over 30 years and It is the goal of all "modern" ideals of penology. V All this Is written mainly to In dicate that neither was the be loved capitol that was "burned on the night of April 25 modern. For one thing, the lighting was bad. It could not be other than! bad in a building designed like that one was. S V For its day, that was a fine ! building, and an honest one. It was constructed at costs far be low original estimates of archi tects. They put it at 1500.000. Providing strictly what was in cluded In the original plans, the actual money expended has been estimated to have- been as low as 1325,000. Has any other state capitol been bnilt as much proportionately be low the original estimate of cost? Most have cost sums vastly ex ceeding estimates the construc tion of some attended with shame ful graft scandals. (Continued on Tuesday.) - Tony Emmert Leader f of Dayton Students DAYTON, May 11. The Day ton Union high school student body has elected these officers: Tony Emmert, president; vice president, Llewellyn Nuttbrock; secretary. Rose Teague; treasur er, Dorothy: Frink: editor ' Mar. eellle.Macy; athletic manager. Lawrence Hllllg; sergeant at arms. Clifford Wlrfs. Hesitate Before You Exchange Tins Planet for Any Other One By D. H. Talmadgc, Sage of Salem " X reckon a human being might try living on a good many plan ets before be found oae better suited to bis natural requirements than this. This world meets all tastes, all moods. It gives ns that which we desire the worst or the best. Some worlds might not be so plentifully supplied with both the one and t'other, so easily ob tainable. GOOD OLD WORLD! We do heaps of giving credit Where credit isn't due; We say of life's book we've read it, When we've but skimmed It through; By superficial signs we judge The people whom we meet;. Oar gait Is hut a llmpy trudge. Which, strangely, we think fleet; But here and there through outer crust Shines forth sincerity, The sympathetic glow of trust. The warmth of verity. Rip Timp has been marking down his cash receipts for 20 years with the Ba me lead pencil. He tiggers he's used between a half and three-quarters of an inch of pencil since he began keeping books. All worry is not oft the same pieee. Ma Tillman, back at Turkey River, was the-only worrier In the family, and she listened to a heap of lecturing from pa and the oth er members of the family on the futility of it. But when ma died the family went haywire If you know what I mean. Venus and the moon appear to be hanging around together in the western sky these nights. Beautiful. Do I know or do I know? I have no special dislike for this ex pression, which In one form or an other we hear frequently, but I shudder pleasantly when I think of the bellow a certain oldtime newspaper editor in far-eastern America would have turned loose had someone popped such a ques tion at him. Very likely it would have been something like this: "Bing, ban?, blinketty bang! Isn't it sufficiently difficult to use Eng lish which conveys the desired sense without wanton and blank etty bang torture and distortion of the rules of syntax?'' And so on until the humorist had made his escape. There Is slang that clarifies meaning and adds a piquancy to talk, and there is slang that does not. F. L. Waters, erstwhile mana ger of Salem theatres (the Grand and the old Liberty and Wexford) drove down from Eugene Sunday, accompanied by Mrs. Waters. The sight of him revived a flock of pleasant memories in this old bo som memories of the day when the motion pictures were begin ning their first serious encroach ment on the theatre the begin ning of the end for the road shows. Of what wre the Waters amusement enterprises only the Grand remains. Where the Wex ford stood is now the far more pretentious building which hous es the Imperial Furniture com pany, and in the.building former ly occupied by the Liberty is now a mercantile establishment. And many are the changes which have come over Salem and the motion pictures since that day. Few are left of the old company which helped Mr. Waters carry on at the Grand helped him with every thing, that Is, except the budget'. The budget he managed alone and without the making of complaint, but It was a worrisome business. Few of the "stars" of the earlier pictures are seen on the present day screen, yet I wonder it the screen drama of the present im parts the same thrill to the pub lic that was Imparted by the flick- ery, jumpy films of the past. Due largely to the motion pictures and the radio, we are a much more highly sophisticated public than we were 20 years ago. We accept calmly and without emotion many things which would once have thrown ns into spasms of wonder ment. A 1906-model automobile, one of the first turned out by the Ford company, has attracted attention on the streets of Salem during the week. Does it run all right? You'd be surprised. But all the same nobody la llkelv to mistake it for a late model. Are you Us tenin. gran-pa? Twenty Years Ago LnnHftn .Tho IVaafr t t don tonight was the scene of ser- fnlifl flntLflbrman rlMa a vlafr or from indignation over the sinking of the Lusitania and the air raid on South End early yesterday af- icruuou. The advertising columns offer special excursion rates on the rail road to the San Francisco exposi tion. Dr. II. S McKenziA at Fnsll appeals to Governor Withycombe to send State Veterinarian Lytle to the vicinity of Fossil immedi ately to look into an epidemic of r a Dies wnich has been attacking stock. Ten Years Ago Slav 12 Field Marshal Paul Von Hln- denburr is Inducted Into offica as president of Germany amid great rejoicing oi me uerman people. The first flax grown In the Wil lamette valley was planted In Yamhill county by Albert Johnson in 1844. John H. McNary told the chamber of commerce in a lunch eon talk. Rev. Ward W. Long of the First Presbyterian church has accepted the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Stockton. CaUf. r V D. H. TALMADGK I passed up the circus Monday night in favor of the Junior Phil harmonic -orchestra concert at the armory, directed by thai talented lad, Vernon Wiscarson. A grand performance, I thought, with a double appeal due to the tender years of a majority of the 70 per formers. And I liked Mr. Gaiser's timely and pertinent little speech during the intermission. Cities are what the dominating influ ences of the hearts and minds of their people cause- them to be, and there are civic possibilities above and beyond the commonplace routine of living and buying and selling. Perhaps the Salt Lake man mentioned by Mr. Galser Is right; perhaps Salem is, or is to be, the cultural city of the west. It is a pleasant vision. I met up with an old acquaint ance from over yonder a day or two ago. He was limping slight ly, and I asked him about it. "I ve got me a rheumatis or some thin'," said he, "that keeps one o my hind legs from sagashlatin' the way it ought to do without hurtin'. I come to town to get me some rubbin' stuff like we been usin' In our fam'ly for years. The feller in the store where I went said the stuff I wanted wa'n't no good. He had somethin' better, he said. It made me so mad I stomped out. But I slowed down at the door and told him 'twas my leg I was aimin to cure, not his'n. Then I went to another place, and the feller there said the stuff I wanted Is the best dad gum stuff for rubbin' onto game-legs there is. He was prob'ly wrong, but ho sho' made a stkldy customer tor himself out o' me. A letter from Providence, R. I., to hand during the week, contains a line or two of interest to many Salem folks. William Wright, not many years ago choir leaier of the local Presbyterian church, whom I remember as a friendly chap with a glorious voice, is now acting as choir leader for the Roger Williams (Baptist) church at Providence. "Their latter journey s like those of later autumn-tide, when they who in the town may chance to bide open the window for the balmy air, and, seeing the hazy golden sky so fair, sweet hopeful music thlnketh" I am quoting in a sort of way from a poem read long ago when my world was younger, and just at this moment I am thinking of the Methodist Old People's Home on Center street, .where one night during Music Week the Salem Woman's club sponsored a musical pro gram. This blessed institution, which when I first knew it in 1910 was a dark and somewhat dingy frame building on Ferry street near 12th, has become in later years -through the benefac tion of William Brown of eastern Oregon, who gave $2 5,000 with the stipulation that the sum would not be available unless the Methodist women raised an equal sum another institution which Salem folks point out with pride to their visiting friends. And they may also point with pride to the fact that the women raised their half of the required fund. Salem is reported to have near ly 100 public eating places. Too many, of course. But a not nn. usual condition in a live town. rrobabiy there is not a city In America, from New York down the line, which has not more nub ile eating places and other busi ness places than can be comfort ably supported by the population. Some win and others fail. An old Btory. Not much of satisfaction in -fishing a dry creek. . Davis School Closes After Half Century SILVERTON HILLS. May 11. hAiter running for approximately &o years without a halt. Davis school will take a vacation next fall. Six children attended this year and three of these will be graduated from the eighth grade. Only three remain and board members feel that this is an in sufficient number for which to conduct school. These three, who are Joliette Davis, Raymond Hall and Ray Elliot, will likely at tend at either Evens Valley or at Porter. School closed Friday with a pic nic. Miss Martha Goodknecht has been the teacher this year and patrons report that she has- con ducted a very successful year. The three who have completed their work are Evelyn Hall, Le Roy Davis and Vala Elliot. TAKES BANK JOB STAYTON. May 11. Mrs. J. N. Fischer is now employed in the liquidation department of the Bank of Stayton. She has also accepted another new position, that of secretary of Acacia chap ter. Eastern Star, this position having been vacated by the remo val of Mrs. Emma Brown to Red ' mond. "The Cold CHAPTER XXXIV "Let me get this straight now." The manager, nsing a small screw driver, dismantled the instrument before him as he talked, noting se rial numbers as he encountered them. "You wish to know whether this telephone has been provided lately with a new mouthpiece, and if possible how lately. And you have another instrument of the same type as this, is it 1" Monti gny told him it was the tele phone removed from Violet Elder bank's bedroom. "Let me sketch for yon a hypothetical case. Yon are my enemy and I am plotting' murder. The manager smiled at him, not very mirthfully. "I wish to incrimi nate rou, continued Montiirny. T desire that your finger-prints shall be found at the scene of the crime. I have access to your home. I know that your telephone receiver, which yon touch constantly, must have upon it numerous examples of your finger-records. The mouthpiece par ticularly, which yon have touched many tunes in adjusting; the instru ment, most have your finger-prints on it "Ugly thought, but Interesting," murmured the manager. "Very well. Within a few seconds' time I unscrew the mouthpiece of your telephone and quickly substi tute another which I have had in my pocket. At the scene of the crime there is a telephone of similar type not one of the new French phones." "It almost was," interrupted the manager. l recall now that we had a complaint from Mrs. Elderbank when she -first moved in -she claimed a French type receiver had been ordered, but we found no record of it. We offered to make the change at once, but she said never mind, she wouldn t bother." "Sol Had it been a French tele phone the scheme would not have worked the mouthpiece, of course, being different." "But it did work, yon think, in this instance 1" "I am hoping yon win prove that for me." "IH do my best. Now let me have the serial numbers on the El derbank phone." "Here they are," said Montigny. "And I shall take along- this mouth piece of Thurber's telephone, If yon do not mind. I must protect the -finger-prints we found epos it. Photographs have been made, but it Is better to preserve the original." "Ill try to let you hear from me this afternoon, or tomorrow at the latest," promised tb aaamrer. Outside again, M ontigny hailed a taxless. "The Art Mart a shop on Eighth 'Street between Fifth and Sixth Ave nues," he told the driver .Why he was going there he did not precisely know. He was not im pelled by an overpowering desire to see St. Gregory Valcour's water color masterpiece. Goldfish Sur rounded by Blue. Bnt-he smelled a rat, an artistic rat Montigny was do Cortissox, but he knew enough about art to recognize the impu dent gaucheries of Valcour's work. And he was obeying a sixth sense which had long been valuable to him. The Art Mart, on Eighth Street, was an artists' supply noose which dealt, as a not so rushing1 sideline, in the work of contemporary mas ters and a few contemporary me nials. Montigny - looked over the canvasses and watercolors offered for sale before togtrinop for the manager. In a display' window was one that he recognized Bleak Day on Bleecker Street. Inside there were three others which bore the bold, self -confident signature, "Val eour," in their lower corners. But there was no sign of a gold-fish, hemmed in by blue er any ether color. The proprietress, whom Montigny presently consulted, was a Rassian. esqut young lady with alicked-dows "Valcoux-T" she said. mOh, yea. We have some of his most impor tant work." She led the way rapidly to the front of the store where the pictures were exhibited. "We have had quite a few inquiries for his watercolors of late." "Indeed t" murmured Montigny. "X was interested ia one which f be lieve yoa had taycrc window recent ly, bat I de not see it now Goldfish Surrounded by EIxm." ; The Hoe with the Man Finger Curse' B? "Ah, yes. We sold that. Only this morning. But the one which we have in the window now Bleak Day on Bleecker Street, it is called I really believe is more effective." "But what I wanted was the Gold fish," said Montigny regretfully. "Why didn't I come back,-before it was to late! May I ask whom yon sold it to? perhaps I may see the party." The proprietress frowned thought fully. "Why, it was a cash sale I made it myself hut I dont believe he mentioned his name." "He took the picture with him there was no delivery ?" "He came in his ear. His Japanese chauffeur waited for the picture while we were wrapping it." "Could you describe the gentle man?" The young woman looked at him sharply. "What is this?" she de manded. "Why the inquisition?'' "I am of the police," said Mon tigny, displaying a badge. "This is an inquiry which in no sense in volves you or your business, but I wish if possible to get in touch with the man who bought that picture." "Ohl" The tone of the proprie tress was less tart than startled now. "Why, be was a man of middle age, quite gentlemanly, rather schol arly, I should say; clean-shaven, I believe. No eye-glasses. He wore a ray suit, gray soft hat, gray spats, believe and black shoes. He had called op yesterday that Is, I sup pose it was he. He said he had seen this picture in the window, and wanted to know whether we still had it. We did not have it, bat we sent to the artist's studio and got it It had been on exhibition here for quite a time, and the artist had taken it back; said he thought he had a sale for it There had been another inquiry for it yesterday, I believe, but the customer bonght something else." "And you cannot remember any thing more distinctive about the gentleman who bought the Gold- "Why. no, I cant say that I do." "The chauffeur did. not call his name?" "No. I did not hear it if he did." "He did not call the chauffeur's name?" "No. Wait a minute yes he did. What was it fas called trim? Some thing that (nmMtut i;n.tf. tr. called him Hitsn. Tint name I " s "Hitsu. A scholarly gentleman With rrav cnata mnA a li.vr. v the name of Hitsn. That may help. uimj us you. pieaae, u yon hear from him mtn win his name and address." "Surely. It Isn't a case of stolen goods, or anything ?" "Nothing like that" Montigny gave her his name and thanked her. He sought ont a telephone booth a corner cigar store and called McEniry again. "You want a Japanese chauffeur named Hitsu. or a man who employs one by that name?" ehockled Mc-Efy- "Thafi a swell lead, now, alnt it? Why dont youiSck to soap and telephones, Montigny?" "The cnmltwmmt u MOntUWV. TlwTCt IkMrcfM.. 1. .L. only chance.- " " Vf."y think it's impor tant 111 have 'em canvassed do it DV telenhan (n rrv m I call you if we have any luck?" - MontJffTtV mm mamtaA tm. If cn dertank'a drawuir-room. read! tte ertaenews f the latest edi tion, fnrw nWu l- i , wwr, woes poppies brought him a detachable uou ana piuggea tt la to a con venient eOBTtMHmt How nice of you, Cupples. Too need not stand eutside the door and ...MMuj nwnea wnai miat or mlrht not ba feet . . - "We found five registered by the am cf Hitsu,- ba gajdV Tt!o ehamiears. so we have the home ad! s"f'..uw' gv as well as the chauffeur, or all five?" thanHou? uffeun to Edwin Dial To rgerson ployers of chauffeurs by the name of Hitsn. At th first nf th tvn sririrM he had luck of a sort At a hotel apartment house on Central Park West ther u inrarwytAH t litra Jacob Schurman who had employed through an agency, two weeks ago, a chauffeur called Hitsu. But Mr. Schurman had departed. He had been there nnder a transient ar rangement The superintendent and the telephone operator understood hfi had aailpd for Kirrnn. thi Hiv at noon.- Evidently the Japanese ov&wmuv uau gum wiw nun. Montigny's badge obtained him nermiasion to look iwpr th email suite recently vacated by Mr. Schur man. The rooms had been cleaned, and there was small likelihood he would find anything. There was nothing. tniWrf. b r. ward Montigny for his search of the rooms, wixn ue exception oz one item. In the dark earner of a clothe closet his flashlight picked out a giuea ug ratner neavuy xramea watercolor painting. Ifr dpnirtM a Itsfitl knnn. backed goldfish disconsolately poised "Goldfish." exclaimed Mrnitin, "Surrounded by Blue!" Montigny examined the curious picture with a thoroughness that an academician might have lavished On a lUSnected Rembrandt. H n more interested, however, ia the oacK or tban the face. He took it to a window and examined the back ins of Stiff brown Btnrr. hannd at the edges with broad strips of gummea aanesrve paper. It was a large .picture and its frame was deep and rather heavy for so fragile a subject aa the goldfish. Montigny shook the picture and nothing rattled. Yet the unaided eye could teQ that between the face of the BictUT. BSTt thtt mrtA th brown paper backing, there was a space oz at least two inches' depth. Tha detiwtrra IninM a V-nif. blade beneath the adhesive paper on the back, and hesitated. He went to the bathroom of the departed Jacob Sehurman's suite and turned en tha hot rtjr Tt m 4amin within a minute ha conld loosen gummea paper toy this method but still Montigny hesitated. There mirht ba fmevvwnrlnta wMoh would ba obliterated by the steam. n course xnere would be a maze pf them a great many people had handled the picture. But still Montigny telephoned headquar ters. McEniryhad gone for the day. but Sergeant Darden was there. "I am coining down at once," said Montigny, "with something; to be examined by Captain Nobley or one of his men. But my chief concern Is l,irn-M 66 " Jail?" oath. "He's on the lam he's a gone goose! Those dubs I had tailing him let him ret awav thv thnn4t v. w - av " t "aa was safe, in fail." -wno got him out?" asked Mon tigny quickly. Cash bond. Hemmtuutm around the money by a messenger boy we dont know who. It was onxy twenty-five dollars. If s our own fault we're a bunch of hicks. Why? Have you got something new on htm?" "It lonVa tkat m ..4 - - b VilCl W ehow you." There-was no time to lose, but Montimr aviftlv fatwrtVi t.. speratendent and telephone oper- or again, as well as the elevator men. - They all agreed that Jacob Schur maa wore a gray suit and hat, gray spats, and. in diitfm t0Te?;Hr,l nlct gentleman of middle age, quiet and amiable. ILiftKS kf registered "7 ibumwpdm. unsa bad gone op tp hii suite once or twice ia the aerviee evmtor. but the elevator m bad found him uncommunica Hf did not speak very good EngUsh. Usually he had waJtedut side ia the ear after asking the tele Phone operator to advise Mr. Schur man that he was oa hand. The car jaa an. expensive American eight. No one knew what garage Mr. Scharmaa patronized. (To Be Continued) miipaMt --- huh nre taf