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Wu ijiiiwMP' wiwiwmw ww '"r:"! Pi wwiu I8i a mmMiwp iy.imiiiijii.iinw.ipii( o . It 14 The Commoner. Some Romantic History Writing to the Pittsburg Dispatch under date of New York, July 31, Julius Chambers says: "Now that we Americans are get ting into such close touch with the Japanese it might be as well to re call the almost forgotten fact that the mikado ordered the beheading of one of the most beautiful and notor ious women ever bora in the United ing a flirtation with a pretty Amer can woman. The mikado, however, took a different view. He found that the . nrime minister neclected his du ties to the empire. He sent for the husband of the dangerous woman and ordered liinl to send her out of the country. The French husband is said to have expressed the utmost regret that he could not comply with the imperial request because he had long before lost all control over the lady's action. She did as she pleased and VOLUME 5, NUMBER 32 States. She was born at New Or-' would not brook the slightest dicta w - - uon. -an intimation was tnen 'sent leans according to the best author! ties, in 1852, daughter of Beauvoir Roosier, a wealthy cotton planter. She was christened Marie Adele and re ceived an excellent education. She appeared in New York in the early '70's and was the mo3t beautiful woman of her day. She was to be seen every fine summer afteroon at Jerome park, where she attracted great attention. She lived in mag nificent style, and her gowns excited the envy of many women. After be ing the central figure in several scan dals here she fled to Paris. She had the handsomest turnout in the Bois de Boulogne and gave sumptuous luncheons and dinners. The Count Arthur de. Portales, whose first wife (Miss Jenny Lind Halliday) had been .an American girl, was fascinated by the remarkable beauty of the Ameri can with the creole complexion and on May 2, 1S76, married her. She led him a merry dance. Before the end of the first year the count was involved In two duels. He had suffi cient influence to obtain an -appointment as an attache of the French le gation at Tokio and carried his flirta tious wife-thither. She ran away with a French naval officer, and the 2S!!firh,av,Ilfi dlscvered that this Ueautiful creature had been married Hittuumer man wnen she became his "lie iie secured an mnulment of the tie that bound him to her. She re f . Parjs and led one of the wildest lives ever known in the realm of cocotte. She is the heroine 6f half J tosen novels of the period. She af fected the literary circles, and her receptions in the splendid apartments AhelnAvn,ue Wagram just below the taininl Tmumpl1 were Shly enter ' ;???' T1IG!'e Was always Samblng, and the guests were not expected to take any money away. If they won they must give it to the hostess or n LWlne ,Tlle picturG of that tall, olive complexioned woman behind the roulette table, where she presid ed like a queen rather than an adven turess, was one never -to be effaced I have seen Lily Langtry twirling the ivory ball at her cunning little red ' ?wCJ l10lT in, thG yard-' n Twenty third street, this city, but the memory . Is a very different one. y "After about five years t)f the wild est extravagance 'the countess ls she insisted upon being called, fascin ated another French diplomat who menfto Z V &J& merit to the Japanese mission. The advent of this famous woman to Yo Icohoma and Tokio where her reputa tion was still vividly memorabl! has been described to me by an Engl sh man who was vni,ii i" ,ngl,SI1: L&yF an helV- tn i li? ver the birth an nen to the throne. Flowerq wnro attentions were showered upon W This time the lady set her eyes hich or than the foreign naval officers' and wiSaUsWdfnat the Janes" capital. Sho actually ensnared thn prime minister, much as Cleopatra captured Marc Antony. The Jan aneso aren't etnf cHfi i1G. Jap m!?- Cu.t XI direct to the woman that she must take her departure forthwith. She is said to have sneered at the imper ial mandate. Worse than that she had the audacity to tell of the inci dent and to mock the messenger who had brought the verbal command. "Meanwhile, the prime minister be came so thoroughly infatuated that he overlooked the appointment of a lord high executioner or some official of the sort, and a batch of criminals escaped the justice thai had been de creed them. The snickersnees were so dull that the novices who under took the decapitations made bad work of the job. This infuriated the mika do. He hadn't any boiling oil or mol- iuu ieaa nanuy tor the prime minister, but he wrecked his vengeance upon the beautiful American adventuress. She was seized one night while a party of geisha girls were dancing for the entertainment of her inform.! ed statesman, and she wns nnrWori in. side the walls of the prison, where her head was struck off with neatness and dispatch. Her body was buried and all traces of her obliterated. Her tragic death by direct order of the mikado did not distress her husband or her 'good angel.' ''Tho 'Countess de Portales' was not the only American adventuress who met death bv offlnfai mnminfa a sovereign. Several years later an other woman was executed in Con stantinople by order of the sultan of Turkey. She as decapitated and Iier body in a weighted sack was commit ted to the Bosporous. This woman came from Philadelphia and was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. The name is so well known in the Quaker city that it need not be men tioned here." tected by the United States govern ment will practically agree not to rob it if the government will be discreet enough to pose as a foreign consum er! Was there ever a more amazing commentary on the Dingley schedules? New York World. THE MORALBE A FOREIGNER If the Panama canal zone is a do mestic market the United States gov ernment must pay $28 a ton for Ameri can steel rails. If the zone is a for eign market the government need pay only $20 a ton for American rails. This is virtually the substance of a statement made by A. J. Hollis, edi tor of the American Manufacturer According to Mr. Hollis, the mem bers of ttte pool have agreed to sell no steel rails in the United States for less than $28 a ton. If they vio late this agreement the purchasers of rails can exact a rebate equal to the reduction in price. As there havt been 2 000,000 tons of steel rails or dered to date, the pool would be ob liged to return $16,000,000 if rails were sold to the United States govern ment at the export price Mr. Hollis makes this significant remark: If the rail pool can convince the American railroad officials that the Panama canal is outside of the. United States there will be no foreign compe tition keen enough to secure a con tract foia single ton of rails The pool is ready to underbid for eign competition if the government will protect the rebate agreement by defining the canal zone as territory outside the United States. In view of the supreme court's decision in the in sular cases, this favor seems already Tf lmvn Monti ...,4-.1 vj , . ". SIOULOU, J. asc o &'?&? XS HELPING COLLEGES The Springfield (Massachusetts) Re publican reproduces The Commoner's editorial relating to college donations, and the joke Rockefeller played on President Hadley of Yale. In that editorial it was suggested that farm ers, business men, professional men, and laborers make contributions to colleges. The Republican savs: "The suggestion is a good one, and there exists loyal college alumni bodies which frequently act on it in relation to their own particular col leges. The Harvard alumni have just made a noteworthy contribution to the institution's endowment through united effort. ' "It will have to be recognized, how ever, that tliese large sifts from a few rich men are far better calcu lated to stop than to stimulate the smau contributions of the many, whether among the alumni or the people at large. Here is one of the evils of these "excessive individual accumulations of wealth that no mat ter how generous may be their dis position in relation to the public wel fare, they are sure to have demoraliz ing effeot. The comparatively poor man, interested as he may be in the needs of an institution of lp.irninp- when he observes a Rockefeller or a Carnegie handing out millions of dol lars offhand, will be moved to stand back and let the procession move on without him. 'What's the use,' he will say to. himself : 'I cannot do much; let the rich fellows look after these matters; they have got a large share of the country's surplus wealth and the job properly belongs to them.' "It is an unfortunate situation, but it exists to a greater or less extent. It tends to impair the wholesome naoit of giving and destroy that de mocraoy in the support of various public institutions which is so desir able, and, indeed, so essential to the preservation of the spirit of our in stitutions. As long as the constitu tion of industry makes possible and actual a diversion of a large fraction of surplus wealth into the hands of a few men who tower so far above the rest as do the Rockefellers and Carnegies, it will be an uphill, not to say an impossible, work to prevent the colleges and so on from looking to these men for their chief support and the more these institutions stand as beggars at the doors of the multi millionaires, the mopft sr nA general becomes the disposition of the average man to stand aside and let the over-wealthy carry the burden, or join m the effort to load it upon f ThSTB .are large Possibilities for the cultivation of a popular spirit of mendicancy in the existence and i? 1iai?de of these immense indi vidual fortunes.' . OUT. fhnr in fn . conducting" the BuH ? V10,8; altogether supererogatory. TliP Jl 3 week after week presents a u J scurrility and petty attacks is nai and puerile in execution as irvfuln n! in object. The nSa,lt quack who is the principalom ur S of these indefinable slanders is mS ily offended that, being known,1 hf t not allowed to pursue his labors professional privacy. 2 na a literary outlaw, and t.. such will bJ eternally treated by us as often Z we deem any slander of his decoction to be unfair and venomous'-London Chronicle. u BLIND LEADING BLIND A Scotch minister and his friend who were coming home from a wed' ding, began to consider the state into which their" potations at the wed ding feast had left them. "Sandy," said the minister, "just stop a minute here till I go ahead. Maybe I don't walk very steady, and the good wife might remark some thing not just right." He walked ahead of his friend for a short distance, and then asked: "How is it? Am I walking . straight?" "O, ay," returned Sandy thickly' "ye're a' recht but who's that who's with, you?" Harper's Weekly. APPROPRIATE Motor Cyclist I see that Muggins has named his automobile after his wife. Isn't that a atieer nrocGfirlinir Bicyclist Not at all. He didn't name his machine until he discovered he couldn't control it. I think the name very appropriate. Albany Journal. 'BEST EVER" "It's a beautiful world!" exclaimed the caddie, enthusiastically. "Yes," said Mr. Rockefeller, look ing appreciatively about. "I don't know that I ' ever owned a better one." Life. Wanted In each State salesmen to soil InrRo lino to bacco. Permanent position. Central Tobacco Work? Co., Penluks, V(gg LIVM Salesmen make J50 week ami bettor selling Tinted Load. Write quick; outllt froo. Merck Wlilto Load Co., St. Louis, Mo. . PWM-tW " OLD-TIME AMENITIES There were giants in the days of eighty years ago, and the blows re- Thff i2n? give!were worthy of them. This is how the Examiner struck SSW0 vS (?nd' cidentially, how ?rWm1 9 Struck the Examiner) in 1825 No one needs to be told at of Sr ny that the conductor foliSo0dSare knaves; but what follows seems to prove that they are fools as well-which is more than the world has given them credit for." The same newspaper, quoting the Leeds Mw3LSn the sul?Ject of the ; Bull (always a red rag to the Ex- Pslon:1186" tJlG fll0Winff choIce ''The reasoning of our provincal con temporary is at once perspicuous and unanswerable; but It is equally obvl- CTARK bestbyTcst-80 YEARS. WeJ A V CASH rftil&Hf Want MORE Salksmkn TAB Weekl; VjrmtO Stark Nursery, Louisiana. Mo.: Dansvlllc, N. t. Ct I N Q SP ftl d $25,000.00 nmdo from half aero. VailllldE?! ijasiiy grown In Rardou or farm. Roots and soeds for salo. Soud 1c for pos tage and got booklet CL telling all about 't. muuuwun umsong uuruun, jopiin, mi. 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