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SiiiHwiiigES yymwyii Jiummnwii'imiii wumpMiwWww 16 The Commoner. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 50 '. flarle Antoinette' Harp Tho harp that onco Queen Marie 'Antoinette played to admiring audi ences of courtiers and again to wliilo away the weary hours when she was a prisoner of state in Conclergio, is in Brooklyn. Miss Dagmar Langonborg, a young Swedish woman, tn this coun try scarce a year, is its owner. There is no doubt as to tho harp's authenticity; it has descended to Miss Langonborg through a long lino of an cestors. To thoso who might question her, Miss Langonborg exhibits tho cer tificate which proves as far as any doc ument can provo that tho harp was really once tho treasured property of "La Belle Au3trlonno." It is a beautiful instrument, the fin est work of that great maker of harps, Honri Naderman, of Vienna, who fash ioned it in 1720. All but tho sound ing board is of the finest mahogany. It has nevor been polished as modern in struments are the friction of the hand and a little sandpaper were the only tools used in those bygone days. Not a bit of varnish ever brightened its venerable surface. When. Marie Antoinette became the brido of Louis XVI she took this beau tiful harp from its resting place in tho music room of tho royal house of Aus tria and brought it with her to Paris. Tho people of Franco rebelled against CLUB LIST. Any onoof tho following will bo sent with THE COMMONER, both onoyenr, for tho club price. Periodicals may bo sent to dlflcrcnt addresses if dcBlrcd. Your friend may wish to Join with you In sending for a combination. All subscrip tions are lor ono year, and 11 new, begin with tho current number unless otherwise directed. Present subscribers need not wait until their sub scriptions expire. Renewals received now will be entered lor a full year from expiration date. Subscriptions for Literary Digest and Public Opinion must be new. 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(Herald, or Kansas City World or Farm, Stock end Home papers, aro not open to residents of the respective cities In which the papers named pure published. their king largely, history tolls, bo cause of their hatred of the beautiful flueen. Tho royal palaco was sacked; both tho harps were taken with tho other priceless loot. King and queen wore flung into prison. King Louis was guillotined on Jan. 21, 1793, in the Place do la Revolu tion. The "Widow Capet," as after ward tho mob called the former queen, was kept alivo a fow months longer. She pined for the harp, companion of her earlier and happier days when she was a girl princess in Austria. Some jailer, kinder hearted than the rest, got it b'ack for her. On Oct. 16, 1793, Mario Antoinette followed her royal hu3band to the guillotine. Then tho harp disappeared and was so recorded in tho national archives. But a description of it was kept which has since made possible its identification. A family that lived in Asnieries, near Paris, really secured tho harp and hid it in their garret for years. They were tho Flauzueta loyalists. In 1804 a Swedish count, Ulrich von Cronstedt, discovered the harp lying among tho garret rubbish. Fifteen years later, in 1819, he took it to Sweden with him. From that day to this there is no doubt that the harp has been carefully pre servedit is the same harp that Count Ulrich secured in Paris so many years ago. MiS3 Langenberg brought the harp to this country in the original oaken box in which it was found in France and from there -conveyed to Sweden by Count Ulrich. She is now staying at No. 3G0A Tompkins avenue, and there, in the drawing room, rests the harp in a position of honor at last, after its century of vicissitudes. The certificate remains in Sweden, the property of the Langenbergs, who are. descendants of the Cronstedt fam ily. But Miss Langenberg has an English translation, duly" certified by a notary, which gives the history of the harp from the day of its manufac ture -until it fell into her possession. New York World. rescue, and when tho last lump of coal had boon removed, and anxious hands raised Kolly to the platform, he was unconscious. His teeth were clenched like a vise on the end of the gas pipe. An ambulance had been summoned in the meantlmo, and Kelly was taken to the hospital, whdre an examination by the physicians proved that his in juries were fatal. When his friend, Haggerty, who in sisted on going to the hospital with him, learned that there was no hope of saving his friend's life, he broke down and cried like a child. An Heroic Effort A Strange Freak Explained Specialists in skin diseases and prominent local physicians held a clinic in the Clark street museum yes terday over the mysterious marks re sembling the crucifixion which are im printed on the back of Abbott Parker of Charlestown, Mass., said to have resulted from a stroke of lightning at Morristown, N. J., on August 5 this year. Dr. Dunne of Rockford, 111., a spe cialist in skin diseases, gave a lecture. "Cases have been known Where im ages of objects near at hand have been reproduced on the bodies of people struck by lightning," he said. "The electrolytic descriptions of the inor ganic salts in the body into ions, the unit3 of electricity, takes place .when lightning strikes. ... "These Ions place the skin, asjjit were, into a negative plate readytb take a picture when exposed, as Is, mo case in the exposure of a camera. THis is done when the lightning tears ,& clothing off the body. .?. "The electrical current turns the so dium chloride in a body to a sodYttm positive and chlorine negative. The hydrochloric acid, being disintegrated into chlorine and hydrogen, will re main so until the body is exposed to the light when the actinic rays will cause them to reunite and form hy drochloric acid again. This is what I think has happened in the Mom. town case. Morris "Parker's akin was mado nWn , ically sensitive rtTt was brought to.the hospital, an?wh his clothing was removed tho photo graph of the crucifix hanging on t wall, or perhaps that suspended from the rosary hanging by the aide of nS Sisters in attendance, was transforwJ to his skin."-Chicago ChroS! . His Idea President Harper of the Chicago unU versity says the world has a mistaken idea about Santa Claus. President Har. per's idea of Santa Claus is probably uum-uctiueu, omooui-snaven man, whose portrait has been pen painted by Miss Ida Tarbell. Washington Post A Genuine American Woman "We did not believe." Mrs. W. E, Douglas said on the day after election, "that Mr, Douglas would be elected. The people must have known tbat ho would do the best he could for them. Ho has always done right, and I know, that he will do the best he can always. I feel, in a measure, as though I had lost something. It will take a year away from me. I have always had my husband. He has not been a club man; he ha3 been a home man. Wo must not consider ourselves too much, though. We are glad he carried Brock ton. That was, really all we cared for. I never wantednt;o be the governor's wife. I just wante'd to be Mrs. Doug las." We havebecome so accustomed to silly, priggish talk from women whoso hu3bands attain high public places that the genuinely American note struck in this simple, modest ut terance is as refreshing as a noonday shower. It carries us back to Abigail Adams, Martha Washington and the. other real women who did as much a3 the men of their day to stamp out folly and frivolity and mako this tho great, wholesome, unpretentious repub lic it became. Harper's Weekly. The Des Moines Register and Lead er under date of New York, Dec. 18, says: Buried under ten tons of coal, with life sustained by means of a eras pipe forced through the heavy mass, wnue nis comrades worked heroically to rescue mm, was the experience of Hugh Kelly, 40 years old, and em ploye of the Hudson Coal company. Kelly is now in the Jersey City hos pital, bruised and injured internally. Physicians there say he cannot live. Kelly was at work on ton nf n thirty-foot trestle, up which big steel cars, each carrying fifty tons of coal, Are run from the barges, His duty was to secure tho cars before they were emptied into the chute. Kelly was on a car fastening the brakes when another employe, Thomas Hag gerty, pulled the lever which releases the coal from the bottom of the car. Kelly fell with the coal thirty feet and was in an Instant buried under tons of it. Kelly's fatal plunco was srp.ti tvu- a agger ty, but his cries for help brought' other employes, headed by Alderman Holmes, superintendent of the yard, to the scene. A long piece of gas pipe was shoved down through the coal and fortunately reached the entombed man, who was thus saved from suffocation. - Then followed a brave fight against death. Armed with shovete, the band of rescuers delved and dug with frantic haste to rescue their comrade. Occasionally one would shout en couragingly through tho pipe to the unfortunate man. Haggorty, a life long friend of Kelly, through whose mistake the accident occurred, was among the foremost In the work of r Are You Interested In Agriculture? 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