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" . . I I MONSIEUR BEAUOAIRB.
THE PRESS JOURNAL
By CEO. A. PHIPPS.
HARRISON NEBRASKA
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
Cholera la taking off many hogs In
the vicinity of Howells.
Alliance expects to huve a militia
emrfspy fully organized In a short
Urn.
The Oerman Evangelical Lutheran
Trinity society at Wlnslde has dedi
cated its new church.
Denver capitalists have submitted a
proposition to complete the Mitchell
Irrigation ditch in Scotta Bluff county.
The town of St. Edward sent out
Mlcarloads of freight last year, In ad
dition to that shipped In lens than
carload lots.
Sidney wants a telephone system
and la prepared to offer good induce
ments to any capitalist who will sup
ply the want.
Some person drove Into the yard of
Charles Bang, ten miles north of Fre
mont, and stole a loud of wheat from
his granary.
Katie Donoghue, a laundry girl In
the Hotel Blaine at Chadron, lighted
a fire with kerosene. She lived about
ten hours.
James Whirlwind, a full blooded
Sioux Indian, is trader at Wounded
Knee and usi printed stationery, juM
like the white man.
John A. Forbes, an old soldier and
A business man of Beatrice, while go
ing to church slipped and fell, break
ing his left leg below the knee.
A. R. Claassen, one of the pioneer
farmer's of Gage county, marketei
4.S17 pounds of wool from 800 sheep,
realizing tZOQ from the clip.
Th voting for choice of postmaster
at Palmer resulted In the selection o
O. II. Burlingame, who will now
doubtless receive the appointment.
Isaac B. Hatfield was killed by a
train at Tutan and the coroner's Jury
holds that Union Pacific responsible,
though with no criminal Intent.
Mrs. Rosa Lyons, living four miles
north of Wood River, swallowed a
dose of carbolic acid which she mis
took for cough syrup. She will recover.
The Butin Mining company is pre
paring to continue the work of pros
pecting for coal at Dorchester. A sec
nd hole is being put down, uaing a
core drill.
The final division to creditors of the
first National bank of Nellgh is be
ing made. It mount to 5Vi per cent
and brings the tottl dividends up to
72 per cent.
Judd Graves of Gllmour got his foot
Into a hay press and It was at first
supposed he would loee the foot, but it
is now thought It can be saved, thougn
slightly disfigured.
Riley Tower of Atkinson was aasist
Ing in taking a water tank from a
wagon when the thing slipped an.l
look off one thumb anil crushed al!
the "tigers on one hand.
The police Judge at Nebraska C'liy
receives a salary of per month, but
his report for the month of December
shows that he did not have a caw
before him during that month.
Matt Thurber of Tecumseh has been
experimenting with wireless telegra
phy for some time and has construct
ed a complete system at his home
which operates with accuracy.
Dr. John Cooke of Hastings was se
verely Injured It) a runaway. The
buggy was upset and Dr. Cooke was
thrown to the ground with sufficient
force to bruise him and injure his arm
badly.
A move is on tisit to esteem ilic city
II arils of Pom a to take In a consider
able lumber of people now have prac
tically all the benefits of the city gov
ernments, but are outside the limits
and pay no city taxes.
- The Not i Piaile Ui.i office has
prepared a statement which shows
there are still Hi, H.I Oacres of land In
Lincoln county which are subj-ct to
entry under the public land laws.
There are 3S7,S In McPherson, 117.10
la Keith, M.50 In I-ogan. H.rt In
Perkiaa and LOG In Custer county.
The second trial of Charles Russell
at Chadron, charged with having kill
ed Louis Htsndemler la Sioux county,
eighteen months ago, went to the jury
with Instructions from the Judge either
ta Bad the defendant guilty of mures-
la the flrst degree or not guilty.
As rule the Episcopalians of the
soalh do not favor the ordination of
e starts) men ta the priesthood, though
there la a strong minority that desires
PrsaMeat Marlesa of the University
of lava believes that church congre-
should adopt the practice of
the sermons which they
Ah electric rack railway with a
ef forty Inches, part of the
kctaf raised sine sad s hair
' the lowing path. It b-iitar
with Mtlsfartorr results on tht
eaaal between Herlia and Hlrt-
Mats can he made heavier
drawn ay horses.
r. A. Maefler of Detroit has
enrefnt study of wireless tele
( ";-hr, assl has mastered u sufficient
tf w aaso ta saperlment successful.
fy Mmmm Ma reatseairs smt the Pst
O If Ti Cfcttaace away.
(hat
than t
iffiCKLENBERG DECLARATION 1
: ' OF INDEPENDENCE.
Charlotte, N. C, has Just been cele- j
rating the 126th anniversary of the
signing of the Mecklenburg declaration !
t Independence. This famous docu-1
iient preceded by many rnoutbs the
ne drawn up at Philadelphia, and in
onsequence Is the first formal expres
ion against England formulated by.
he colonies. The old log court-Douce
n which the band of resolute men met
o assert their rights and the rights of
their fellow aitizens thj.n. stood, in
independence Square, and the site is
narked by a heavy iron plate recording
he fact.
Ctiarlotte Is proud of Its distinction,
and its school children are told again
and again of the daring of the fore
fathers which started them on the road
to citizenship in an American republic.
It was these Mecklenburg resolutions,
framed May :!u, 1775, that Jefferson de
nied ever having heard of. John Ad
ams also pleaded ignorance of them.
The latter wrote of them to William
Bentley in August, 1819: "I was on
social friendly terms with Caswell,
Hooper and Howes, delegates from
North Carolina to the continental con
tress every moment of their existence
n congress; with Hooper, a Boslonian,
t son of Harvard. Intimate and famil
iar, yet from neither of them did the
slightest hint of these resolutions ever
scape." To Jefferson he wrote: "You
know that If I had possessed such a
paper I would have made the walls of
congress echo and re-echo with it fif
teen months before your Declaration
it Independence."
In spite of this lack of knowledge of
iheae important writings on the part of
eminent statesmen tlwe to the stirring
Jays of the revolution, the document
did exist, and it is due to the legislature
of North Carolina that it was ferreted
out. The committee appointed by ll
for the purpose eventually got trace of
an abridged ropy of the original reso
lution. Peter Force, compiling h's
American archives, was another instru
ment in making their existence known,
and In 1847 Dr. Joseph Johnson found
the set Intact In the South Carolina Ga
zette of June, 1773. and George Ban
croft afterward found them capled in
the state papers office of London.
The remarkable point in connection
with these resolutions Is that North
Carolina, remote from the Boston tea
party and one month away from new
of the battle of Islington, took it upon
Itself to openly assert its scorn of Brit
ish rule. The night preceding the sign
ing wa san anxious one for the general
committee gathered In the little log
house perched upon stilts. The croud
autside waited patiently for results. It
know Abrlham Alexander had called
the meeting to order and that Dr. Kph
ralm Bevard was clerk. Rev. H. J.
Raich, accustomed to writing, was nam
ed to draw up resolutions, and he had
for assistant William Kennon. The
crowd never deserted the Bquare. Ail
night it stood within call of the narrow
soor. Knowing neither fatigue nor hun
ter, it hailed with a mlshty shout the
nnouncement that the final word had
jeen agreed to.
The news came at S o'clock In the
morning. The resolutions were Imme
diately read to the excited throng out
llde. They were as follows:
Resolved, That whosoever directly or
ndlrectly abets, or In any way, form
3r manner, countenances the invasion
GIRL ELOPES WITH A PAINTER.
Fitchburg, Mass. (Special.) une
would have thought that William F . i
....., hu.ci,...,r.e,t for win-
nuuruian -- ' i
ining the love of a society girl. He
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overalls and they were suaiiei-d.
.t sl. were his shoes. There
were specks of paint even In his h-drihls were only I a week.
ind moustache. He wss painting net'
'ather's house.
M'sa Alice X. Snow wss the dsughlet
jf Clir! W. Snow, paying teller o( j
:he Boylston Nstlonal bank. Boston. 1
rhs family home Is at Newton. In sum-
Tier they occupy s house at Rindge, ,
V. H. It was there two summers st'
.hat this romance of the ladder and
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tcanoitj nin us (
The daughter of the house looked up
'rom her books and flowers to a ,-K-k. Then the two women went up-oalnt-bespattered
man whipping his a(ars. and It Is understood that the
ruh to and fro over the window mother locked the daughter In a room.
'rame. She bade him "good morning." ;
ind noticed that he blushed as he re-
urned the salutation.
Conrersstlon strengthened thess Itn-
oreasions. Miss mow nisoovereo ii
he young painter had mental gifts. He
knew nothing about her little world of.lr.ln for Hosl.n. But the thought of
ocielr but a great de.l about the big I possibly encountering Mr. Snow caused
.A r which hers, she now saw, ws-
la Insignificant part.
The fell m love. Whea Mr .snd
Mrs. Snow learned of this thy hurrl-d
heir daughter bach to Newton. Ru.
lerhaa went there, too. He and Miss
4now had many rlaadestine meetings.
)nee or twice ne mso wn -i
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nee or twice he mad bold to call at
he house, hut wss mu rora.sny r
.eteed. On the last of these
r, proposed formally for th. h.nd
lis sweetheart.
"Never!" "aid Mr. Know, and "Nv.
tT' he repeated to his daughter, and
.w ..it.ratMi Mr,
teow with all the emphasis thst sn
ingry mother could weight the word
eltfcal.
Ruderhan continued to rommunk-at
sith Ma sweetheart as often is h
smM bssi sruca1 hard ta Improve
Its eswdltiom. Ma same to ntchburg a
of our rights as attempted by the par
liament of Great Britain, la an enemy
to h! country, to America and to the
rich!) of men.
'itcsuived. That we, the citizens fT
of Mecklenburg county, do hereby dis
solve the political bonds which have
conected us with the mother country,
and absolve ourselves from all allegi
ance to the British crown, abjuring all
political connections with a nation that
has wantonly trampled our rights and
liberties and Inhumanly shed the In
nocent blood of Americana at Lexing
ton. "Resolved, Trial we do hereby declare
ourselves a free and independent peo
ple; that we are and of right ought to
be a sovereign and self-governing peo
ple, under the power of God and the
general congress; to the maintenance
of which we solemnly pledge to each
other our mutual co-operation, our lives,
our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
"Resolved, That we do hereby ordain
and adopt as roles of conduct all and
each of our former laws, and the crown
of Great Britain cannot be considered
hereafter as holding any rights, privi
leges or immunities among us.
"Resolved, That all officers, both civil
and military. In this country, be enti
tled to exercise the same powers and
authorities as heretofoie; that every
member of the delegation shall hence
forth be a civil officer and exercise the
powers of Justice of the pesce, issue
process of law and determine contro
versies according to law. preserve peace,
union and harmony In the country, a.id
use every exertion to spread the love
of liberty and of country until a more
general and bette rorganized system
of government be established.
"Resolved, That a copy of these reso
lutions be transmitted by express to
the president of the continental con
gress, assembled In Philadelphia, to be
laid before that body."
In quaint letterings after these come
the names of the signers, Abraham Al
exander, Thomas Polk, David Reese,
John Pfifer, Adam Alexander, William
Graham. Robert Harris, James Harris,
Era Alexander. Richard Barry, John
Davidson, John K. Alexander, Henry
pultun, Nelll Morrison, Charles Alex
ander. Waightslde Avery and Benjamin
Patton.
It is to these signers that Charlotte
this year raises an Imposing monument.
It Is to the men whose signatures stood
for the demands of a people bund to
be free that a beautiful granite shaft
has been reared. A bronze plate on oris
side shows the ilst of these names.
Above the plate Is a large hornet's nest,
the county emblem, typical of Its unrest
during the period of the revolution.
The monument has been put on historic
ground, being on the snot once occupied
by Queen's college, the first In the
I'nlted States. In this ground aiso the
bodies of many of CNiniw allls' soldiers
f.iund a resting place after their en
counters with the patriots. AH the
military companies of the state Joined
in the unveiling ceremonies on May 20.
for. as all of North Carolina was In
terested In the framing of the heroic
i-solutions of mote than a century ago,
so al lof North Carolina rejoices In the
hunts paid the men who stood for lib
erty and the right to make a standard
under which all should live fr-e and
equal.
year ago. At first he continued t
work as a painter. Then, thinking that
a buslnes experience might open th
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way to wider field, he became s c.1-tk
. tnrm ifrnrwartl he en.
-? or Afterward he en-
tered H. C. Desne s machine shop, but
Impatient of further delay the lor.
ers a fw das ago planned aa elope.
m-nt.
one day Mr. Snow went to his Bos.
ton hnk, leaving Mrs. Hnnw in chargs
of the house. Not long after Ruderr.an
drove up In a hack.
Wnirl n. essayed to enter the house
h, w m(,t b. iIra nw, who warnd
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aaugnier not 10 irne ine numw.
Kor the time being there was a dad.
She managed to escape, and In a few
minutes came rushing out of the bark
door. Jumped Into the hack, the driver
whipped up his horses snd they wers
soon being driven hurriedly away.
it wss at first planned to take a
h lovers to rhang. their plans. I ney
m.nt br trotter to Walthani. whers
they took a train for this city snd went
to No. 4 Wlnster street, th home ef
Herbert D. Wellington, where Mr. Ru
dei has had a room.
A messenger was sent fur the Re.
W. O. Conrad and In a few mtautes tas
, .
ceremony was performed
r-,,,rlied thorn-
i. ,.K1. .., ,ed .
o op. Th., wlll
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The consecration of the Rea. lr.
ii.nrr flranjou as bishop of Tucson,
Aril., wlll tab place In Baltimore noon.
Cardinal tllbaons wlll be the
ci sling prelate. Bishop-elect OranJoa
was selected by the pop to succeed
Bishop Brssrgad la lbs see of Tucson.
Bishop Bnurgad having been promoted
to list arrhMsboprtc of aata Ft.
Trifles That
It Is pretty generaly understood
that It Is an eay think to die. But
Just how easy you may never suspect
unless you know something of the va
riety of accidents that may be counted
upon to cut off life at lews than a sec
ond's notice. Odd mischances they are,
too, that you would never dream of
taking Into account in summing your
chances of taking out a life insurance.
It Is Instructive to consider among
other cases that of Miss Blanche
Young of Wabash, Ind., who .was the
victim of the needle point. She was .at
work In a millinery store and in sew.
Ing she atuck the point of a needle
deep In her finger. She went on with
her work, however, and the poisonous
dyes In the fabrics caused the finger
to swell terribly. Blood poison devel
oped rapidly, from which the young
woman died in agony.
A fresh honor Is added to the dentists-
chair by the fact that within a
week It has cost three lives In a more
or less direct way. At Sioux City, la.,
the filling of a tooth caused a stroke
of apoplexy to Dr. Adelaide K. K II
bourne, and she died as she was leav
ing the chair. At Loyal, Wis., an
aching tooth drove Kimbal J. Berry
to a dentist with the rest that it be
pulled at any cost. It was a molar,
far back in the Jaw, and was so firm
ly rooted that in the pulling of It th.'
jawbone was fracture. The accident
was discovered at once and remedies
applied, but blood poison set In, kill
ing the patient in a few days. In Chi
cago the other day Miss Mamie Ferry
of Oak Park died from fear of the
dentist's chair. Sh e was troubled with
a weak heart, and the nervous strain
to w hich she was subjected caused her
to fall dead In the street.
Among the inconsequential things to
cause death an acorn, the shell of a
peanut and a grain of Indian corn are
the least.
Barbara Bothman. a little girl liv
ing in Jackson, Miss., was the victim
of the acorn. She had been com
plaining of pains in her tight side.
I and the physicians who were called In
j decided upon an operation for appc-n-I
dlcltls. In the appendix the acorn was
found, much enlarged from the heal
and moisture. The child recalled hav
ing swallowed it in her play. The
shock of the operation was too much
: for her, and she died.
Lloyd Rogers, 4-year-old son of an
'Illinois farmer, near Galesburg. got a
! grain of corn In his trachea. A violent
fit of coughing followed, in which the
corn dropped into the right bronchial '
tube .out of reach. The kernel would I
Colorado Sheep
THE old biblical idea of the sheep
being a poor, weak creature, un
able to look after its own wei
fare, may have been all right In bib
lical times, but In the present century
there Is a new order of things.
Colorado has a sheep that is not
only able to care for itself, but It j
looks after the welfare of cattle as
well. j
Stric tly speaking, the animal Is a j
product of Montana. where It was rais- j
ed on the ranch of John W. Springer, j
It Is now a pensioner of the Douglas I
county ranch of the same gentleman, j
who. Incidentally, is the president of
the National Live Slock association:
and aa such Is exp'ted to have the
best animals on earth.
This particular sheep Isn't any par
ticular breed Just plain sheep but
the best of her kind. As a wool grow
er she is a great Buccess. but she Is
particularly Jong on sheep Intelligence
and seems to know a whole lot be
sides. If sheep and dogs and horses and
rsttle have languages of their own,
this particular sheep Is a polyglot spe-
lu.rri, fcr ;be m able to com
municate with all the other snlmals
and make them obey. Whether she
does It by some mental force or some
ocult povrr strangely placed In this
sheep's power does not sem quite
plain, but the fsct remains that this
panicuist r.irr.i! has shown herself
able to take care of the entire ranch
In Montana and look sftr the slock
ranch better than mankind.
Kver since the sheep was a we lit
tle lamb she has bee a ruler. Her
peculiar accomplishments saved her
head from the bkock. for the workers
on the rsnch would no more allow her
to be sent to msrket thsn they would
allow a wolf to be her "slesdy com
pany." Two years ago she had the run of
the entire place. She looked after the
chickens, drove strange dogs awsy
and notified the housekeeper when
tramps approached. As a special
watchman the little lamb should have
worn a golden atar.
Gradually her Held of operations
spread over the thousand or more
acres. In th mrg psstur wss a
particularly vicious bull. Nobody
eouM approach his lordship without
danger of being gored and that there
were no fatalities la due entirely to
tbs fact that men and horses were
agila la jumping fences. He was nsm
ed "Dvll." and he won his title quit
naturally.only th name was not mean
enough for th beast.
On tsr there rame orders from
Mr. Hpringer, In Denver, to cut out
certain heifers from the herd In th
pasture wherein air. Devil held sway.
Ta cowpunchers and line riders were
quit willing to obey, but thy knw
thuya would be a aghl. They prepared
g strong wooden rhute.lnto which they
aaected la drlv th Devil and keep
Caused Deaths
I move for several inches freely, bu
the physicians could not recover it
and the child died from exhaustion.
Near Rockford. III., the "-months-old
son of Edward Fisher was ailowec
to play with a peanut. Juttlng It it
its mouth, the nut found its way Intt
the child's windpipe, choking It tt
death before the parent dUcoKerei
the accident.
One of the strangest deaths recorded
recently was that which came to the
13-year-old son of Thornton Daniel ol
Scotland County. Another brother ol
the boy was on his road to a neigh
bor's house, riding a horse and car
rying a sharp butchering knife in a
hip pocket. The boy asked to go
along, and was allowed to get up be
hind the brother on the horse. The
horse began plunging with iln-m. In
which the younger brother was thrown
against the sharp knife, which pierced
his heart.
Time was when the folding bed al
ways was known to be loaded. In
late years It hxs had few victims, but
Dr. J. F. Marclay of Buffalo, presi
dent of a well known furnace com
pany, was found dead in one of them
the other morning with his neck bro
ken. In South Chicago the other day the
axle of a baby carriage broke while
Mrs. Mary Morgan of S8.'.2 Buffalo av
enue, was out wheeling her H-montha-old
boy. The collapse was so sudden
that the mother could not save the
child, which was thrown to the pave
ment, fracturing Its skull.
Charles H. Orrnond. a v-terinary
surgeon of Milwaukee, was killed In a
peculiar manner near Nashula. The
touch of the doctor's hand caused the
nervous animal to strike out with its
foot, one calk of the shoe cutting a
hole in the veterinarian's forehead.
The man died after hours without re
covering consciousness.
A dose of medicine given In a tl ark
room killed little Milton Begler of No.
."il North Clinton street, Baltimore.
Instead of the medicine being a dose
designed to relieve a cold It was laud
anum, which the mother had used a
few days before in easing neuralgic
pains. Simply placing her hand one
inch to the right of the correct spot
on the shelf cost the life of the little
one, w ho fell asleep never to wake.
A Chicago club Is debating whether
four hours of sleep Is enough? It is
a great deal to get in Chicago.
The best way to bring others to our
idea-l is to get there ourselves.
is a Wonder.
him fast while they attended to the
other work. They arranged to rope the
anirrmi arid drag him in If he didn't go
otherwise, but after an hour's excite
ment the Devil was still at large with
horns and cloven hoof and was look
ing for a cow boy soul to send across
the Styx.
Then came the little Iamb with her
mental ways and winning powers. She
trotted Jauntily In the big fleid an-1
made straitrht for the lvtl. The
latter stamped and snorted with sur
prise. The lamb didn't stop to argu"
the matter, but walked up and rubbed
her nose against the panting nostrils
of the big bull. Km in that Instant
the brute was her slave, and when
sbeh trotted off toward the open chute
tier captive followed as willingly s
though in a trance.
When one of the cow punchers rode
up to shut the gale the bull's eyes
snapped savagely and he prepared to
charge, but the lamp calmly trotledi
between the animal and the horseman
and stood still, as though by some
mysterious power she had been ap
pointed the protector of mankind. Dev
il was silent, though nodding his horn
ed head from side to side as If unable
to comprehend what the intrusion
meant.
Performances of this sort made the
sheep the talk of a doxen- Montana
counties. She was looked upon as a
most strange creation of nature and
some said she was the reincarnated
spirit of some great person whose
mortal body had been consigned io
dust. But sheepie refused to tell any
thing about this. She was too busy
looking after things other people were
raid to perform snd didn't. Aa a cor
rector of forgotten purpose this sheep
should have had a throne and place
In the gallery of Immortals, for almost
eery day she discovered a gate left
open ,an animal too sick to be out on
the range, or some other little delln
quency, and she promptly took steps
to right matters.
Quit frequently she would Journey
out to the distant herds and bring
back an animal that needed stlenlhin
of some sort. Sheep, horses and rat
tle In distress seemed lo think this
sheep wss their guardlsn ssge, and
well sb deserved It, too.
Th American Bridge company ob
tained the contract for the steel su
perstructure of th Wabash railroad a
big cantilever brldg ovr th Ohio
ftlver at Mingo Junction. Th amount
of th contract Is mur than Mot.Ono
and the stipulation Is msds thst th
work h completed before January 1,
101. The total cost of th brldg will
be 11,000 0 This Is th third largest
bridge of Its kind In th world.
American-built engines supply th
world.
Oermany Is to har a bureau of
labor statistics.
fharUj Silra Curioaltjr CwDcerulsg Thfe
Hlc urlcal Clisrsalsr,
It Is a curious fact, to wfc'rh no
apologist for the drama has ucf.Uifor
called attention, that tba aiaga stimu
lates a curiosity in an historical char
acter more quickly aud B.ora generally
than does the library. Tu;a fac; U em
phasized In tb cae of "Monsieur U u
caire," Bjoth Tarklngton'a suec'?s.ful
novelette, now that Kichard Miaslteli
has made a hit In the comedy of "Beau-
So long as BeaiK'alre remained be
tween book covers it iseenia not '.o havo
occurr.-.l to any one to k who was the
fascinating Duke of Orleans. Now
Mansfield has illustrated him with dra
matic arts and much Interest baa been
gi n erated In the celebrated prin ,e.
Beaucaire U a fictitious name, and tha
whole episode of the Duke of Orleaos
visit to Kn eland and Bath Is flotioui
He did make a visit to England, but
not under the circumstances elaborated
In the d liglitful comedy of "Beauoaire."
Of course, if his cousin. King Louis XV,
had insisted on a disagreeable marriage,
be might have gone out of the country,
in the suite of the Marquis de Mirepois,
on the passport of that noblemtn'a bar
ber, for De Mirepois was ambaiMdar to
England under JvOiils.XV. Had be gone
to Bath he would have found Rich
ard Nash, king of the social sov,-re'gnty,
but his friend Jdolyneux, and the oth'T
beaux pd filled blades of the comedy
may or may not have been part'.? to
the gaieties of the watering place.
If. then, the Duke of Orl:-ajj was
never a Beaucairt, may we noi say that
Bfaucaire wa a Duke of Orh-ar.sT The
Duke of Orleans, the original f Mans
field's latpst charai;tr!zation, w.ih LotrJ
Philllppe, grand nephew of Lo;im XIV,
and cousin of Louis XV. His (a:l.er was
the celebrated regent. 'He was lo! n in
1725 In Paris. When only 12 years old
he was made comander of a reg'm-nt of
infantry. He was made a liemenan'
general wh. n only 19 years old nJ had
assisted at a score of battles before D)
attained his majority. In view i.f this
Jtcaucaire's eagerness for a content with
the foils in the play is an amu.-:ing fic
tion, f specially when be Is made to say
that, though he has had the finest mas
ter-a'.-arms to teach him and is account
ed the finest blade in Europe, be has
never bad a fight in his life. Hu' tbia
may be forgiven, as it brings oa on of
the most amuscog situations ia the
comedy.
The nature of this prince seems to
have inclined rather to the refill ments
of peace than the Cruelties of war. H
built a theater at his country place at
Bagntilet, and there he appeared o com
edies with bis mnit intimate friends.
He was a good actor, it is said. Maus
fleld emphasizes this In the third art,
when B' am aire, or, as I.ady Mar
thinks him. the Duke of Chatraunen, is
walking down the road In the moon
light with the proud beauty and recites
aome love verses by Moliere. He was,
of course, conversant with the lines of
the dramatist aud probably acted many
of his heroes at llagoolet.
Il was at the Duke's private 'heater
that Colle gave, in Ktifi. for .be flrst
time, the "Partle de C basse de Henri
IV." The original of Beaucaire aue
cecded admirably in the role of Miller
Mlcbau. He preferred to play "peas
ants or financiers." fir. mm, in Ha cor
respondence, declaring that he acted
them with much naturaluegs and truth.
Attached to him as readers were
SaurlD, f olle and Carmohtelle. The dra
matic festivities at Bagnolct became cel
ebrafd. He discovered the poi'iv gen
ius of voung jt Kevre, and bon.jrod bini
with bis protection. When Ie Fevre
produced bis tragedy of Zuma &.? Duke
of Orleans assigned blm a p n-tlon ot
1,200 pounds. When the poet asked
under what obligations this pla -d him
lb generous duas fcpllri: "X3HS, tZ
cept to work more aud mora fur your
own glory."
Though not the most conspicuous of
the many duke of his celebrated bouse,
be died more regretted than any other.
His charities sad fcreii ti'-dia.
though they were not generally suspect
ed until h bad pa-ed away.
The-te are the fact. The Mansfield
portrait Is, of course, wholly fictitious,
rxeept thai Heaucair retains lite uuke
Orleans' sens of humor, his bravery
and hi polish, hU charm of manner, anj
laaata tut able disposition. "If Midi
fleld'a Beaucaire la not what lh- ,uk
of Orleans was," aaya a chronicler, "ns
I all that great enthman might have
been and would have b ea proud to be."
Washington Rtar,
"Tbarc ' one respect at least la .which
easing is a good deal safer sport tbaa
hunting."
' How li thai?"
"W don't mak any fatal mistake
booking up sva who happen to look like
tk." Cleveland Plata D-aler.
Whea tU aaak r. turned to Persia,
after Ma visit to Pa-la, b once more
burked himself wlthla iba aa.!. of kla,
patec, like bia ancestors. Hi subjeeia.
however, have had a chance to bias
ceeal mally, oa his automobile, which
h brought along from Pari.
Rounanla li rapidly becoming mi of
tb greatest wine producing district h
Karooe. The Product of her vlatyards
li 100 ni valued at fjn.m.
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