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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-03-29, Page 2to A" ■w MIA” Oark-skfnsied natives—-glowing sunlight—cool mountelsi tops—great ships ploughing through tropic seas—these things all come to mind when a cup ©f is steaming before you- Such —swh tagrsrsce, Try “SALA0A”. THE CLUB OF ONE-EYED MEN It was time for me to go to work. Seated at my table just removed from the throngs on the sidewalk, sipping my vermouth, I arrived reluctantly at this conclusion. Not that poverty pressed me! On the contrary, from the proceeds of a certain bit of leger demain there remained to me, after paying my passage across the At- surface of the sea, so now upon the surface qf society drifted weird car rion. The sight of them, obese and opu lent, made me realize-that it was time for me to set about the aquisition of some of their more merchantable gauds. Not that I intended to prey directly upon these nouveaux riches! lanue my expenses in Paris for the But where the carrion lies, the vulture j ; flies. It was toward the vulture, his^ ! talons gripping choice morsels, that 1j" I would bend my energies. I would let i the vulture do all the unpleasant work, and I would reap his profit- For do not think that I had”'spent these months in Paris in mere stupid gratification of appetites that had been balked so long by poverty. It is true that I had indulged in sundry luxuries and pleasures, that I had lived once more as a gentleman should live, unharras-sed by soiling econ omies; but I had devoted myself stu-j diously to thought of the future. That that future must be outside the law I had determined. My first venture into crime had yielded me a profit so great, for such slight effort and risk, that I never for a moment considered anything but continuing upon the career that the needs of existence had made me choose. Foi’ understand that these are not the last three months, and restoring my- wardrobe to its present satisfactory J condition, some ten thousand dollars. I Certainly, benefitted by the exchange, ! I could hope to live decently for an other six months at least, N'ot so long ago, I would have been ( overjoyed at assurance of financial se curity for six weeks, or even six days. Indeed, sufficient food in my stomach to keep hunger away for sir hours was a rare condition with me. But our ideas change with our changing pros perity. Let those who think that the mind governs material things ponder this obvious reverse. I am, I think, one who makes up bis mind quickly, and acts immediate ly. Certainly when I had decided that I would rather live a thief than starve an honest man, I had acted instantly. Let me say, in parenthesis, that I had not yet arrived at regret for that de cision- I acted, in this perhaps less important matter, as suddenly as I had acted on that evening when I had kissed an airy farewell to the tradi tions of all the Ainsleys, of whom L i John, was the w 'crime. •I'raiseci"my finger and an attentive garcon leaped to my table. I paid him for my aperitif, arose-, and "with one stride was mingled with the crowd that surged from the Place de 1’Opera up the Boulevard des Capucines. It was an observation of the individuals who mads up the crowd that had brought me to the decision. For it was springtime, and the world had come to Paris. From my place at the table I had seen fortunes in furs and' jewels pass by. The profit eers of all the world were here; and their wives and daughters and mis tresses flounted the success of their males before the others of their kind. Swarthy Argentinians grown rich in beef and hides, shining-eyed Span iards who had traded while Europe bled, munition-makers from England and America—they rode and walked the streets of Paris, gross, vulgar and overfed. As, after a terrific storm, strange carcasses arise from the ■ depths and float offensively upon the and bath had been sur-A room rendered. The cool, comforting flavor of WRIGLEY’S Spearmint is a lasting pleasure. It cleanses the mouth after eating-gives a clean taste and sweet breath. ALBERTA MOUNTAIN COAL FOR ONTARIO’S HOMES ’.‘4 ‘ Write Us For Particulars Regard ing Ydur Requirements Wescana Collieries Ltd. penitent confessions of a paltry pick pocket; they are the narratives of an i artist. In the apartment which I had rent ed, on the Rue Daunou, I had deliber ately studied my problem. I had ac quired all the literature dealing with criminals that I could find. And I came to the inevitable conclusion that the so-called super-criminal had never existed. For always the histories of these persons ended with the accounts of their arrests and convictions to punishments too unpleasant to con template. A supercriminal should be one who escaped the law completely, who died, when his time came, full of riches as well as- sin. Yet some of these men had shown a talent for crime that approached genius. I asked myself why they had finally failed, why, at the end, in the dock, they had heard the judgment of society. The answer was obvious: no man can be stronger or cleverer than all the forces of all society. The man, then, who antagonizes these forces is a fool- A fool must fail in whatever he attempts. But the man who recog-1 nizes the difficulties before him, and j takes precautions that will minimize these difficulties, increases his chance of success. I had seen one sample of the spe cies termed supercrook, and I knew myself to be In every possible way, more capable of success in his profes*- sion than he. If, then, I had more ability than he, and if I so directed my energies and efforts that I would run the least risk of antagonizing the police, it seemed to me that, with a bit of luck, there was no reason why I should not prove the exception to the rule, and forever’ avoid exposure. Study, in the seclusion of my Paris apartment, informed me that while I could hardly hope to improve upon ! the methods of some of the more fa mous of the historical supercrooks, I could, by applying their methods in a different fashion, avoid* their errors. For the crook has no friends; neither has he any of the ordinary recourses of the law-abiding citizen. If your reputable merchant is robbed, he can complain to the neai*est authority, and immediately all of society’s complicate ed legal machinery is set to work in- i his behalf. But if the thief is robbed, where may be look for redress? | To prey upon thieves; that should he my career. To wait until the vul ture rose from the carrion and then io take from him his tidbits; that was my plan. 1 would work alone, having neither confederates nor confidants. : And now the sight of all this wealth paraded before me spurred me to action. Crooks were battening upon these parvenus. Every day the Paris papers told of robberies. The New York papers, which I received regu-j larly, told of the continuance of the; i crime-wave there- Everywhere in the' I world thieves were plying their trade.) ! 1 had mapped out my course of action; i I goo d living had restored my muscles and nerves to their former vigor; it. was time for me to go to work. ! I walked across the Place de 1’Opera and entered a steamship agency. By great fortune a room and bath had been surrendered half an hour ago, and it was possible for me to obtain it. So I left there in twenty minutes, .the possessor of a ticket which en titled me to sail three days latex* from ! Cherbourg on the Altai’ia. Foi* my course it was necessary, for ‘ me to ply my trade in my own corm- aicbition. try. It is true that I had a smatter- But having acted, to the extejft of ing of French, but I did not converse purchasing transportation to/ New easily in that language. I would be handicapped at the outset, if I dealt with French criminals. There was, it is true, a certaiji risk in returning to New York- My first venture into theft had been at the ex pense of Daragon, the Fifth Avenue jeweler. But it was not a certainty that Dax*agon knew who had robbed him. Moreover, looking at myself in the gilt-bordered mirror in my bed room on the Rue Daunou, I seriously doubted if Daragon would1 be able to recognize me. On the evening that I had abstracted from his pocket the ring which had brought me funds wherewith once, again to live like a gentleman, my hair had been long and,, unkempt, - -checks- olUlTeiT- and 'ghastly white. Now there were no hollows under my eyes; my flesh was firm, and my skin was red with health- Then I had looked like a consumptive; Now I looked like an athlete. I could discount any fears of recognition by the j ewe lei*. And there were just as many per sons of ill-gotten wealth in New York as there were in Paris. I was not narrowing my opportunities by re turning to a country with which I was familiar. Indeed, as I contemplated my return, I wished that I had never left New York. For now that I plan ned-activity, it did not seem feasible, as simple as it had1 seemed when I was merely studying the careers of mas ters of crime. I suddenly wondered, as I sat in my window, just when, where and how I would begin my op erations. For it is easy enough to speculate idly, to ascertain the wealmesses whereby others have failed to survey the future, to state that one will do this and avoi-di that; but actuality dif fers from speculation. 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Near Mohegan Island a lobsterman took from a trap a thirteen-inch lobster which was a rich indigo along the top of tlie body shell and tail, the indigo shading off on the sides of the cara pace into blues of a clear, lighter tint. At Peaks Island a specimen was captured whose back and tail were a bright indigo blue, while the under parts shaded off into ’an almost pure white. At Beal’s Island a jet-black lobster was caught a few years ago, and near -Vinalhaven this Winter a cream-colored one was found. 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There were three other end seats' vacant across the aisle woman could have chosen, of boys and girls had como to the hall more than half an hour early to get settled in the seats they wanted while tho woman came in at the last minute. It wasn’t that the change of seats made any great difference to the cliildien, but it must have increased tlielr resentment at tho unfairness of those adults who do as they please regardless of ’courtesy, and who take advantage of their years to usurp the • rights of those younger. If the child ren had been saucy or disrespectful, the woman would have been highly indignant; if they had refused to move over she would probably have gone to some one in authority and made trouble; yet it is to be doubted if she would have dared to make her last minute request for a special seat to a row of adults. Adults have an important responsi bility toward children which many hardly seem to realize. 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But it would hold only twenty-seven people and the crew of the Larringa number ed thirty-seven. “I will stay,” said the captain. Nine men announced themselves as willing to remain with tho ship, ready to die that the rest might live. These were the chief officer, third of ficer, one firemen and five ordinary seamen. Clinging to the rail of their doomed ship the captain and his nine, men cheered the twenty-seven as the lifeboat fought its way through the mountainous seas to the warship and were taken on board. For forty hours the British ship stood by, reluctant to. leave the ten men on tho sinking ves sel, then came morning when there was nothing in sight but bits of the wreckage and drifting grain. Headaches may be swiftly and safely relieved by an Aspirin tablet. A most efficient remedy, and there’s no after effect/ its use avoids much needless suffering. 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