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DEATH MASKED IN BEAUTY
A news item from Chicago says:
Robert Wahl, one of the foremost chemists in the United States, with a knowledge of drugs and subtle poisons far beyond the ken of the average alchemist, is charged with threatening to kill his wife by giving her a flower to smell.
It would have been a murder that no latter-day coroner or detective could have proved—something unheard of since the days of the Borgias.
The deadliest influence may be conveyed to the mind and soul as well as to the senses by the most delicate and apparently beautiful means.
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DEATH NOT TO BE FEARED
The following lines by Maltbie D. Babcock were read by him just before sailing abroad on the voyage from which he never returned:
Why be afraid of death as tho your life were breath?