--- EAL MONTE CRISTO TRAGIC CAREER OF PICAUD COBBLER OF PARIS. His Rise to Great Wealth--Thrown Into Jail By Secret Enemies-- He Was Left a Fortune By a Fellow Prisoner. The romantic creation .of the brain of Alexandre Dumas, "The Count of Mohte Cristo," had a counterpart in real life in France in the last century. This is the tragic story. In 1807, when, Napoleon was at the height of his power, Francois Picaud was a sturdy young journeyman cob- bler of Paris, full of health and animal spirits and happy in the love of Mar- guerite Vigoureux, a young girl of his own station in life. On the eve of his marriage hidden enemies denounced him to the imperial government as a spy. He was cast into prison, where he remained, forgotten by the world, for seven years, THE ! S131 Li PITTS TIRES Ice Cream Pir S, STILL DIB) INN] "Absolutely Pure" Any flavor. Any hour. 101 Phone 845. COAL! The kind you are looking for is the kind "we sell. 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Builders and Contractors Use Sashweights made in King- Foundry. ston at Angrove"s forty-five Why Andrew Maclean, Among his fellow prisoners was a wealthy .utlanese pries;, who treated him like a son and bequeathed to himy 7,000,000 francs on deposit in the Bank of Amsterdam, Furthermore, this ec clesiastic told Picaud the secret of a hiding place in Italy where there was concealed jewels to the value of 1,200,- 000 francs and specie amounting to three millions. When the empire was overthrown in 1814 Pecaud was one of a vast num- ber of political prisoners throughout France who were given their freedom He proceeded to gather the priest's treasure and to plan vengeance upon his enemies. Who they were he did not know. Disguised as an Italian priest, lie suc ceeded by bribing the least guilty of the conspirators and discovering the entire story of his undoing. The lead- er in the plot he learned was one Lou- vi who had married Marguerite Jigourcaux, prospered and become the proprietor of one of the handsomest cafes in Paris, Picaud went to the capital and under a suitable disguise obtained work as a waiter in Loupain's establishment. Fellow servants there were Guilhem Solari and Gervais Chaubard, who, with Loupain, had denounced Picaud in 1807. The pfetended waiter was not long in bringing his vengeance to a consummation. Chaubard was the first first victim of his wrath. His body, pierced by a knife, was found on one of the bridges over the Seine. Lou- pain was disgraced, reduced to pen- ury and finally stabbed to death in the Tuileries gardens Solari was poison- ed and died in frightful convulsions. But speedy retribution overtook the implacable avenger. One night Picaud was seized, bound and borne to an abandoned quarry Igghe darkness a terrible voice said: "Picaud, what name are you passing under now? Are you still the priest Baldini or the waiter Prosper? You wished for revenge. You have sold yourself to the mowers of hell. Then years you have given to the pursuit of three wretches you should have spared. Me you Jragged down to perdition, The diamond by which you bribed me was my destruction. I killed him who cheated me. | 1 was arrested, condemn- ed the galleys and escaped only after years of torture. My one thor has been vengeance on the priest Bal- | dini. You are in my power, Do you, know me? I am Antone Allut. How much will you pay for bread and wa- ter?" "I have no money," groaned Picaud. "You have sixteen millions. ' These are my conditions: I will give you something to eat twice a day, but for each meal you must pay me 25000 francs." However, the cupidity of the prison- er proved stronger than his hunger. He underwent terrible suffering with- out any signs of yielding until his cap- toy, goaded to fury at the prolonged obstinacy, threw himself upon Picaud and stabbed him to death. 1 to Love without esteem is almost as capricious as esteem without love. Silenee is indeed golden to those who aro paid to keep quict. Among other high rollers we have the elevated trains. FOR WOMEN WHO ARE DISCOURAGED Because of Lingering Weakness and Nervous Derangements There is New Hope and Cure. The Letter Quoted Voices the BEx- perience of Thousands of Wo- men Who Have Found Health and Joy in the Use of 'Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. The Christian Scientists are undoub- tedly right. To some extent, The mind does influence the body, both in health and disease, and if you give up hope, leave off treatment and fall into Heoouragement and despondency there is little reason to expect that good health will force itself upon you. - * Won must do your part if you going to get strong and well. must make up your mind and select rational treatment. if your system is weak and run down, your blood thin and watery and your nervous system exhausted choose a . treatment such as Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, which has never been equalled as a means of building up health, strength and vigor. That Dr. Chase's Nerve Food is particularly successful in the cure of adments 'and derangements from «| which women suffer most is attested by such letters as the following from Mrs. D. D. Burger, Heather Brae, Alta., which refers 4o her niece. She writes : are You then OTHE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1909. z LOUIS CODERRE, K.C., Syndic of the Montreal Bar, was born in St. Ours, Richelieu County, in 1866. Re-elected. PIANO POINTERS. How the Instrument Should Be Cleaned and Cared For. Never forget to give the piano its due attention at a]l times under any circumstances, and it will last ten, twenty, thirty years and be rich in tone and power of expression to the very end, which may be postponed indefin- itely if the piano is of good manufac- ture, says the St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat, Ihe principal enemies of the piano are dampness and extreme and sudden changes of temperature. On a wet or even cloudy day the windows of a room in which a piano is standing should never be opened under any cir- cumstances or injury to the instrument will be apt to result; and it should bel borne in mind that the higher the qual ity of an instrument of this character the more delicate is its mechanism A piano left exposed te a draft from an open window on a damp day for even a brief period will sustain at least temporary injury in the swelling of the wooden portions, which will cause the activity to lose responsiveness and the keys to become "sticky." When dus: settles on the strings or filters down in the crevice between thc- keys, the tone will be impaired in the first case, and, in the second, the actior will be rendered hard, the keys will stick and two or more apt to respond to the touch at the same time. Tr avoid this, therefore, when the room is swept or dusted it will be well 1 throw a cloth over the piano, if it does not stand very close to the wall, anc the fall board should be closed. At night the piano should be kept tightly closed, but during the daytime it is highly advisable to have the key. board exposed to the light, even though the instrument may not be in use, In ordsr to prevent the keys from turns ing yellow. es of bric-a'brac, sheet music or articles of any: kind should be kept from the #p of the piano, for they produce a jarring sound and have a tendency to injure/the tone of the in- strument. If a piano is not used frequently a little camphor wrapped in soft tissue paper should be placed in a corner of the instrument inside the case to keep out moths, which will otherwise attack and eat away the cloth and felt used in the mechanism, thus seriously injur- ing the touch. In placing the camp- hor inside the case be careful that it is not too close to the strings.-- In cleaning the piano a feather dust- er shoul mever under any circum- stances be used. A chamois or soft cloth will do the work more efficiently and not raise that enemy of the instru- ment, dust. Motor Funeral Corteges. A Chicago undertaker has installed for service a black motor hearse for { adults, and also a white motor hearse for children and three special cars for carrying mourners, says Popular Me- chanics for June. The three mourners' cars will carry twenty-four persons. Chicago's cemeteries are nearly all located more than ten miles from the central sections of the city, and to drive to them in_ carriages, especially when the weather is cold, is a long wearisome journey. The motor funeral cortege has travelled over city pave- ments and muddy roads to a cemetery eleven miles distant in one hour, the return jourttey being made in forty- five minutes. -------- Indigestion The Answer. New York Press. The show window was full of pies. A man came by. stopped, looked" the pies over, mumbled something to him- self, 'then went on mumbling as he went. "1 don't know what makes them do that," said the cashier girl who was near the window. "I don't know whe- ther they are counting the pies and don't like the number of them, or mad. because they haven't enough mon- all day long. Come by the window, mumbling." -------------------- S---------- ANECDOTE OF SWINBURNE. Pompous Headmaster Caused Him to Lose Holiday. Once when Algernon Charles Swin- burne was travelling back . with his father from school at.the end of one of the terms, they entered a carriage in which the then headmaster of Eton, who was buried in the Times, was seated. "Isn't that Dr. ----?" the ad- miral whispered to his son. "I believe it is," stammered young Swinburne re- luctantly. After a rebuke at. the ap- parently careless answer, the admiral "accosted the awful presence" with, "Dr; ., I believe, sir?" The doctor was plainl-- annoyed at being disturbed by a stranger. "Well, sir," pursued the admiral, "my boy here has just finish- ed his first term at Eton, and 1 should very much like to know what account you can give of him." As a matter of fact, the doctor had not set eyes on young Swinburne before. "Enraged however, 1 suppose," Swinburne after- ward related, "at my father's rather unconventional interruption, which he had, no doub', considered a slight on his dignity, he glanced down at me with a scarlet face, and said deliberately: 'Your boy. sir--your boy is one of the very worst in the school,' and then en- trenched himself once more behind the Times." At Paddington there was a storm. In vain young Swinburne pro- tested that the doctor had said what he had out of pure vexation, but the father declared that he wouldstake the word of the headmaster, and Swinburne was' deprived of all pleasures and priv- ileges for the duration of the holiday. and | don't like the looks of them, or are| ey to buy them: but they do that way take a look at our pies, then go along | P g g | The Unhonored Prophet. ' A correspondent was talking about Wilbur and Orville Wright. "It is the usual case," he said, "of the prophet without honor in his own country. The Wrights had to go abroad to be appreciated. "Don't think they didn't feel their country's indifference to them. They felt it deeply. On the head of it Wil- bur Wright told me something about Carlyle, ~~ "A visitor to Carlyle's _bifthplace, back in the '7os, said to a mative: "'Smart man, that Thomas Carlyle! { "The native grunted | "'Him smart? Why, I went to skule wi' him." A Particular Customer. 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