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MANY "3TOWS Least, of international makheXwhiwi 0ROUSMT HAPPINESS THAT YEARS flAV EWOTft 5T0IKINQ EXAMPLE5JN DP INTERNATIONAL MAKHEl ALTERED PARIS. Not all our girls who marry titles are unhuppy. We hoar of the shipwrecks, wasted millions and a lone girl drifting westward on a gilded craft; but the mass of the contented, doing vast good to America and Europe, pass unnoticed, declares a writer in the Washington Evening Star. As to France, I know these girls are missionaries of the great American Idea. Some get love; some fill empty hearts with worldly satisfactions, and all merit admiration. Franco's share of their $300,000,000 may have heeled old families; but the breezy push, the bright Initiative, Independence, energy and judgment with which they invigor ate a sleepy aristocracy are equaled only by the splendid prestige they have given the LTnlted States abroad. There are two ducal families, for example, the Rochefoucaulds and Uzes, called, respectively, "tho pre mier dukes" and "premier barons" of the old regime. Is it a small thing that MIsb Shonts becomes the sister-in-law of one, while Miss Mattie Eliza, beth Mitchcl is the duchess of the other? One True Love Match. Miss Mitchell may have brought the Due de la Rochefoucauld but $200,000. Tho duke who, in old days, would have been nearest royalty, like tho Norfolks in England could have Such is the happy case of Miss Cur tis of New York, ilrst wife of the pres ent Due de Dlno. The whole French aristocratic family mourned her when she emit. "You are still of us!" thoy insisted. She still calls herself the marquise do Talleyrand-Perigord. Her noble daughter married a Roman Rus poll, title princess of Plgglo-Suasa; her four sons arjj bona fide Gotha no bility; and she has always been ex tremely happy. When her divorced husband found he could not live without an American woman on tho premises, his good old father kind of abdicated, so that, as the Due de Dlno, he could make Mrs. Frederic Livingston (nee Sampson) a real Almanach de Gotha duchess. She Is very happy, too, though separated from him; and I never shall forget the frank American decision of character with which I once saw her jerk him from the Monte Carlo trente-et-quar-ante table, saying: "You have blown enough of my money; cut It!" Two More Happy Marriages. Two Misses Singer, of the sewing machine trade, brought $2,000,000 apiece into the Almanach do Gotha and never regrottod it. Isabel married the great social high priest, the Due Decazes, who really caused the death of poor old Uarltoff two years ago. Haritoff, who formerly had his own racing stable and could point out, In the Avenue of the Hols, three man sions he presented to three ladies in rfTrl. ML tnlncd so lavishly In one of tho 12 mansions around the Arc do Tri omphe. Well, Comto Horaco do Cholseul saw that his elder brother, the Due de Cholseul-PrusHn, was so happy with Miss Forbes of New York for such a long time, that ho espoused Miss Hooper. Both these Cholseul-Praslin wives are absolutely happy, quite as similated to French life, whllo keeping hold of all that Is best In tholr patri mony of America; and it is known that their steady Influence Ih part of that mystorlous something that is put ting new push into tho French aristoc racy. Tho do Cholaoui-Prasllns, for example, have yet a third nice Ameri can girl among them. Miss Coudert, tho heiress of the Now York-Paris law firm, also married Into it; and yot more. Walt. There Is, indeed, a fourth! In the days of the kings' who gave these titles, a king could have quickly decided whether tho Prince de Hearn et de Chalals Is a real de Cholseul Praslln. The courts of the French re public could not. Therefore, to this day, we do not know If Miss Wlnans of Baltimore married into this old family of the minister of Louis XIV. or not; but It does not prevent hor from being glad she did It. There is no kick coming from tho Prlncosse de Beam et de Chalals. Romance of Caroline Fraser. All but two of the American women I have mentioned are the happy mothers of young nobles of proud lineago. Could you find "a more roman tic case than that of Caroline Eraser and her issue? When the princely Mu rats history makers took refuge in Bordentown, N. J., Caroline was governess in the family. The heir married her and stuck tight to her nlways. She is dead several years since; but her children, keeping hor blue oyes and corn-yellow hair, have married everywhere. The most romantic of theso American-mothered Murat men espoused the utterly romantic Circassian Prlncosa Dalen, Zephita by name, lovely beyond words, daughter and sole heir of tho sovereign house of Mlngrella which land you can hunt in southern Russia. He is there, a king to-day, tho boy from Bordentown! T Of all the French counts, nono stand ? higher in history or society than tho J Chambruns. When Louis XV. erected ft all those marquisates, a Comto de X Ohamhrtin got one of the first, and the Chambruns always have had sense. They kept much of their land through the revolution; they had shifted a good lot of liquid cash ot England, and at the restoration they were among J the first to get a whack at the $132,- 000,000 voted as compensation to the J martyred nobility, f" Chambrun's Good Sense. i o prove mat norso sense lias not I know? Tho American girls who camo to tho Chambruns showed tho way to the men, who profltod Intolll gently and thankfully. No Chambrun has wasted a dollar of American money. Founder of Muaee Soclale. In Paris tho head of tho family who divided his time botwoen tho magnificent chateau of I'Empory Car rleres and tho Mukgc Soclale was a great personage In sovernl lights, lie died a fow years since. Socially a Paris leader, ho found time to hlmsolf to make the Musoe Soclale, whoro many Amoricau students have been welcomed to learn everything dono in France In tho lino of unlvorslty settle ments, model houses, pure milk and all that sort of thing. The funds of tho Musoe Soclale In part American girls' money havo per mitted several Fronoh sociologists to visit tho United States to study what wo do in tho same Hiiob. Its director, Leopold Mahillnau, appointed by Do Chambrun, gave one of tho French lecturo courses at Harvard. I could thus go on for pages. For each American girl who has wasted love and fortune in undignified Euro pean title-buying, 1 can namo you 15 othors who, In Franco at leaHt, havo made lover matches, reasonable bar gains, sottlomonts in life continuing happily and usefully. Why bollttlo our girls who come hero and marry, making tho name of American a thing to bo proud of, by their fortunes, by tholr adaptability? Became French Social Leader. Shall I speak of tho Marquise do Gnnay, who was a Miss Rldgoway of Philadelphia? Sho Is now a grand mother, with children and grandchil dren marriod Into groat Frenoh fam illos, a portentous, awful social load er! Or shall I mention the Baronette Louis do La Grange and tho Comp tesso .loan do Korgorlay? Thoy wore tho daughters of Gov. Carroll of Mary land, descendants of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. They were six chtldron, Inheriting $20,000,000. Shall 1 tell you of tho Marqulso do Bretouil, who was Miss Garnor of St. Louis? Suppose that she did bring tho marquis $4,000,000. We can afford It. Do you want tho money? One of her sisters married Comto Loon von Moltke, who represents Denmark In Paris, and his brother, Booing It was good and fair, espoused Miss Bona parte of Baltimore. The other slstor, Edith Garnor, married Gordon Cum tilings, made tho present king of Eng land's scapegoat in the baccarat affair of years ago. The Marquis De Moros never had a good hour when not with his wife, Miss von Hoffman of New York. Jamos Gordon Bennett's nioce, Rita Boll, no toriously made a man of Count Paul d'Aranion himself already half an American, as his mother had been a Miss Fisher. They lead a patriarchal 4 exxxxxxxx i?a IPuckesse de la Jl.ockef ouc and 7otv married any heiress of his class. In stead, he chose Miss Mitchell, with her modest dot a true lovo match. For trade, he is captain of hussars. His private life is most passed at Montmirall, his seat, where his lovely American duchess wields queenly in fluence. She is the friend of all girls who want to marry tholr true love: of the country nobility; rich farmers' daughters; middle-class girls cursed with ambitious parents; peasant girls discouraged by small cash. She has opened French eyes to American agricultural machinery; made known hygienic plumbing, tho check system, social mixing, farmers trolleys, Indian corn, bath tubs, out door life for girls above the peasant class. How can a high-hearted Oregon girl, become cliief personage of sev eral counties, not spread the idea of go ahead and trust to your strong arm? She taught the duke to take his place. He was easy-going, lovable and army-locoed; for some years they held aloof from high Parisian society, but now they have a son, aged three; they take-tholr preponderating place In tho set of the Dowager Duchess d'Uzos, hunting the red deer with dogs and horses and the melancholy horn, like Francis de la Roche, his ancestor, god father of Francis I., and consulting with five other selgnieurs to change tho director of the Paris grand opera by mere force of social influence. Place for Duchesse de Chaulnes. Miss Shonts, as Duchesso do Chaulnes, has her place like this wait ing for her In the Uzes sot. Much de ponds on tho woman. The omolumonts ure often worth the money. Indeed, there are American girls who have so valued the emoluments that thoy held to them after they divorced tho man und no hard feelings, 4. f his prime, lived hard broke of late years; but everyone felt pitying and? friendly to him. At Monte Carlo Decazes, with a live ly party on his yacht, invited Haritoff to dinner. After coffee, talking old times with a mature lady of the thea-J ter, poor Haritoff explained ho had a system to beat roulette. With a 1,000-j franc note he could attain to fortune. "Hero's one," said tho lady; but as i1iv nnsiuttfl nll uhu enur more of Haritoff, she sought him out and asked her money back. "The sys tern broke," said the unhappy man; "the 1,000 francs are gone; please? wait a few days more;" but the lndig- nant lady told Decazes; and Decazes J ostentatiously kicked Haritoff In the posterior before tho great public of 5 the atrium of the Casino. Everyone called It a savage act. 4 Friends represented to Decazes It was? his fntllt rr linvp loft Hni-llnff olnnoT ' " ---v -"'"' ' "lunt .... ....... r.r ................. - I with anyone who had 1,000 francs; his TTTTT-rTTTTTTTT-rTTTi-i-t-Tt-ii--t-i-i-i-i'l-i-it weakness and necessities wero known, Therefore the duke, kindly nt hoart. consented to meet Haritoff In a duel, whore no one was hurt; but his old friend never recovered from the dis grace, and died a few months after. Prince Pollgnac, who married Win naretta Singer and in time loft her a happy widow, with his noble family all devoted to her. Even thoir old mother, after Isaac Siugor died, went into the nobility by way of the duke of Campo Sellce. There are dukes and dukes; In tho old kingdoms of Naples and Sicily three acres and a cow constituted a principality or dukedom. American Girls In Demand. All is not one-sided. It has boon ob served that when French families get a taste for our girls they go In for them quite wholesale. Thus Miss Hooper of Cincinnati was brought up j iu Paris, where hor mother euter- left the family, the Marquis do Chani' brun snapped up an American girl, of tho Rives-Nichols family or Virginin, when ho was attache at Washington. Good. It worked. Tho family liked the innovation. "Go ahead," they said to the Comto de Chambrun, when he was old enough to marry; "find an other like her!" What ho found was Miss Longworth, Alice Roosevelt's sis-tor-ln-law. Tho Chambruns are playing a most 1 prominent part in the great effort to Improve the social situation of tho French working classes. At home, In their three chatteaux, they aro patri archal masters of land as far as the eye can soo. There are no wretched poor In their villnges. Their farmers aro the proud and prosperous masters of blood stock, newest agricultural machinery, silos, distilleries, grain mills, canning factories nnd what do lifo. Tho lady never lost a dollar of her money. And so on. America Is rich enough to lot her daughters marry whoro thoy will. England spends billions to build up hor prestige with a lot of Iron-clads, men-of-war, cruisers and line-of-battlo ships. If wo Americans profer to make a smarter, lovelier kind of repu tation for our land and folk, why, lot our girls como and show Europe how to live! They do it. Whbop! The Rattlesnake Emblem. Dr. Thornton convinced President Jefferson that tho rattlesnake (Crota lus Horridus), being peculiar k thin country, was the finest emblem of tho United States that could bo found. It never acts but defensively, It novor strikes without giving fair warning, nnd when It doos strike it is fatal! Now Yprk Press. WHAT IS SIN ? By REV. A. C. DIXON, D. D., Pailor of tha Chicago Ave. (Mood) Church, Chicago. Si ti separates us from God, tho source of lifo, nnd thus kills tho soul. Sin sepa rates us fro m each other and thus destroys so ciety. It is a moral discord. It makes malice and hatred; it turns brother against brother, f r 1 0 nd ngnlnst friend. Sin pollutes, It doilies the Imag ination, tho tastes, the desires. Sin deceives. It promises but never ful fills. The fruit with which it tempts us Is always an apple of Sodom, lus cious In appearance but ashes in tho mouth. It is a phantasm that attracts us by the appearance of refreshing Hillings and leaves us disappointed in tho desert. "Bo sure your sin will Sin Is a detective you Hi "The sting of death Is 15:5(5.) Tho death or Is the result of sin's Sin finds us find you out." cannot elude. Sin stings, sin." (1 Cor. soul and body poison. Six Definitions of Sin. Tho Biblu gives six clear-cut defini tions of sin: 1. "Sin Is tho transgression of tho law." (1 John 3: 1.) The word "trans gression" menus to go across. Road tho Ten Commandments and tho higher commandment: "Thou ahnlt lovo tho Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyseir." Have you crossed these command ments? If bo, you havo sinned. 2. "All unrighteousness Is sin." (1 John 5:17.) Tho purpose of Paul's letter to the Romans is to prove that primarily righteousness Is right rela tion. We must first get right beforo wo can do right. Alexander the Groat said to tho courtiers who brought rich gifts from Darius: "Tell your mas ter his sword first and then his gifts." Acts that aro perfectly legitlnmto In certain relations aro hideous sins In other relations. Righteousness, there fore, is primarily right relation with God and with our fellows, and if wo aro In wrong relation with God or men we aro sinning. Tho purpose of tho Incarnation and death or Christ is to bring us into right relaljoh with God and thus ninko us righteous. 3. Knowing what wo ought to do and falling to do It is sin. "To him that knowoth to do good and doeth it not to him It Is sin." (Jamos 4:17.) When wo know tho right and refuse to do it wo commit sin against light. Neglected opportunity Is sin. Shirk ing responsibility Is sin. 4. Acted doubt is sin. "Whatso ever Is not of faith is sin." (Romans 12:23.) If you have doubts as to cer tain amusements, Indulgences or transactions, refuse to have anythlns to do with thorn until that doubt Is cleared away. More light may re move tho doubt, and you may proceed, but while doubt remains it Is sin for you to indulge. 5. "Tho thought of foollshnoss Is Bin." (Proverbs 21:9.) Thoro are moro than 30 different kinds of fools described in the Bible, but. It Is evi dent that the species roforred to In this text Is tho fool who says In his heart there Is no God. For a man to say that, is intellectual sin. 0. Unbelief Is sin. Jesus says in John 10:8, when the Holy Spirit Is given, "Ho will convict tho world of Bin because thoy believe not on me." A refusal to trust tho trustworthy Is a mean sin. To Intimate unbelief as to the honesty of an honest man, tho truthfulness of a truthful man or the purity of a puro woman is tho climax of meanness. But an Intimation of unbelief as to the faithfulness of a faithful God Is a degree lowor in moan ness. What Shall We Do with Slnr Honestly confess it. Do not de ceive yourself by saying that It has no reality. You know bettor. Take God's side against, it. Tho impenitent man takes sin's sidy against God. He justifies or excuses himself. We must fight God on tho side of sin or sin on tho side of God. Which shall it bo? When during tho French revolution tho Bastllo was taken by tho mob a pris oner in an inner coll, who had boon there for 30 years, refused to bo lib orated. Ho stood in tho door or tho dark, damp dungeon and fought away ills friends. Ho had been thoro so long that ho began to regard it as his homo and his liberators as intruders. And such is tho attitudo of men who havo lived for years in sin; they re sent honest attempts to free 'thorn from the power of tholr sins, Thoy fight against their friends,