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Such was the millennialistic idea put forward, last week, by Dr. Carleton Simon, Special Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City. It struck Special Deputy Police Commissioner Herman A. Metz as such a good idea that he promptly offered a prize of $100,000 for discovery of the synthetic formula...
...apparently quite unrelated though interesting affairs have been brought under one news item: the opium evil and the recent tendency of Americans to offer large prizes. Former Controller Metz has gone on record as willing to give $100,000 to the man who invents synthetic opium. Strangely enough Mr. Metz thinks he can succeed where the ill-fated Opium Conference failed. Put cheap opium production into the hands of western scientists, argues the prize offer, and you eliminate the opium complex of the East...
...before he had left the College de Saint-Clement at Metz, the Franco-Prussian War broke out and, like young Joffre and Castelnau, he served France's lost cause. The next year, he went back to Metz and, in July, passed the entrance examinations for the Polytechnique at Nancy, which town was still occupied by the Germans. At the Polytechnique he was a classmate of Joffre, a few months his junior. It is not certain if they were close friends...
Recate disgusted with the celestiala, now speaks through the crackling jaws of Hell: "Hell(o) Boys! Welcome to our fireside, trust you have retained your pre-college intellect,--Sauve quipeut!!!" Aug. C. Metz...
Jean Hateau, citizen of Metz, is reputed to be Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean come to life. Having escaped from Cayenne, French penal settlement in Guiana, in 1904, returned to France under an assumed name, made a modest fortune, become well-known and respected in Metz, he was found out and sent to prison. Fifty prominent people of Metz petitioned the Minister of Justice in Paris for Jean Hateau's release, stating that they wanted him back as a free...