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w * v, *{ s X; ' Pretender to Ve Editor. • To provide the French Royalists ;v'-:>-"iSWlOi an'organ, the Duke of Orleans, •'•*1*0 It the pretender to the throne of 4nanoe, has purchased the Parisian -JMWSpaperSoldl, and will condaet the Journal la the interests of the cause of :,r , which he is the head. It la under­ stood that the Duke will assume personal charge of the . .^idHwiia^de- partme&t of the pa­ per. The novel spectacle of royal­ ty, In the person of a claimant to a throne, who by blood and marriage « Is related to many the crowned heads of the oontinent, turning editor will be Interesting to contemplate. Orleans can well afford to ^eaaay the task of financing a newspa­ per. His private fortune is ample. Re- "faently it was reinforced by a decision Of the French court which condemned *" the French govenment to turn over to ^ the Duke and his family property and "funds worth many millions of dollars. ^ f^Tfee property consists lkrgely of canal R^Vy^sharee which were the property of the .bouae of Orleans at the tim^ of the great revolution in the latter part of '• • the eighteenth century. After the S * 'downfall of the dynasty this property P* was confiscated. In 1814 laws were •» passed providing for its restoration to the original owners. This was impos- ' "• Bible in a majority of cases, as the gov- ( :ernment had disposed of the property. ?> Subsequently the law provided that the ^ ^^restoration should be made in cases Where the new, owners died' without heirs, which would place the govern- ' iment in actual possession of it. Restl- ',T", "tution has been made und$r the deci- - «ion rendered lately by the courts. paring for her marriage to Hamilton Dent. Londofi is looking forward to the event as one of considerable social significance. The announcement of the engagement was made May SU Emancipate Farmer'* Wife. F. J. Frost, of Almond, Wis., who represents the Second District in the Wisconsin legislature, wants a steam laundry established at every cross­ roads in the state, where farmers' wives may bring their weekly -milt* ings and save themselves one Of t]M hardest duties of their work. Mr. Frost has not fully developed his idea as yet, and has no definite plan for the establishment and maintenance of the laundries, but he declares his plan is feasible. He is engaged in visiting the resi­ dents of his district, fixing his politt- Mary JFacK*>iHe to Wed. - x'-rLady Mary Sackville of England. ||^3well known to the 400 of New York and LADY SACKVILaLB. to the elite of Washington, and who Ultras at one time reported to have been V engaged to Frank Gould, will soon rid ^ Iterself of the name for fickleness , i Which society has placed upon her. »Jrhe titled English woman is now pre- *• F. J. FROS' calleoeee, and Incidentally their views on his pet scheme. Ho contrasts the comparatively little labor done by the housewife in the city, where laundries are available, with the drudgery of the country farmhouse, where each weekte washing and iron­ ing must be done on the premises and commonly by the housekeeper herself. The legislator believes a steam laun­ dry could easily be operated in connec­ tion with each creamery at his home town of Almond with a view to'trying the plan. Mr. Frost hopes to be known to posterity as the emancipator of the country housewife. The reward he hopes for in life is a return to the legislature. Mr. Frost is serving his second term in the assembly. He ia the Almond agent of several insurance companies and of an agricultural ma­ chinery manufacturer, and owns a large farm, which he'manages in ad­ dition to his other business. He is a graduate from the Oshkosh Normal school and ia 43 years old. There are said to he many heart­ burnings in Italy at the firmness of the king and queen in refusing to accept any of the gifts usually offered by the people on the occasion of the birth of royal heirs. Even some beautifully made little garments, which it was hoped might be regarded as harmless, were sent back, like rejected manu­ scripts, "with thanks." While tut fortunes are being piled have the change handy." At night he tp In oil apecalatlons in Texas not all locks the desk and goes home feeling aucoaia Is niched In this way, writes a correspondent from Beaumont, the center of the oil region. Business en­ terprises of all kinda are paying well. I was in a restaurant the other day-- a plain looking affair that didn't seem to be worth $$00--and the owner sat by a desk on which was spread out UMN In saiall hills and coin. I asked him what he Kept so mu£h money in his place tor, and his answer was: "Have to do it stranger. Everybody around here ia using $500 and $1,000 bills. I have a dozen or so of them thrust at me every day, and I must t ' -s. "H ^ u,-" secure in his wealth. Before the boom this man was deeply in debt Now his receipts at* frofc $1,70* and ft.000 a day, and Mia got all kinds otmoney. A barber had a two years* lease on a building that is worth probably $1,000. One of the oil speculators wanted it tor an office, and gave him . $8,000 to move out Men who came here with greAt sums of money cannot keep doubling it in leas time than it takes to tell it M0n who came here with a little amount of money to invest in any kind of busi­ ness cannot easily go broke and stand tor more than an even ahow of making fortunea. Women are coming In from all sec­ tions daily and are Investing In board­ ing houses, laundries, etc., while not a few are investing In the oiL No town ever enjoyed such a boom and what ia better promises to be permanent A curious feature about it all is that those already here are endeavoring to keep dark the possibilities so that there will be fewer to divide the vast wealth with. But this effort has not succeeded at all and every train brings In its load of prosperous looking men and women who have the dough and *re looking for chances to t 'H*- '% ' . 'V • ' v , Parisians Applaud Her• Head of Myotic Shr triers. y ; Philip C. Shaffer, ithe new imperial ^potentate of the fj j ; jNobles of the Mys- 'T'^Jtlc Shrine, is a na- ' l,|tive of Philadel- > ^ phla, and one of the •. Chest known busi- $ - „;|ness men in town. - {.He has just entered p , upon his fifty-first year and for more ,ithan one-half of his life has been a ( ;,!Mason. Upwards of f * ; a s e v e n t e e n y e a r s ^ ; ' ago he joined th« {ctll^Shrinens, and for '• twelve years he of- Related in the post % » Oriental Guide L>u Lu Temple ^Philadelphia. For fthree years he was he potentate of the temple, and he was Elected to the of­ fice of the deputy Imperial potentate t the last meeting >f the Shriners. r. Shaffer, as may e imagined, is one -f the most en- ilhusiastic of the IMPERIAL phriners In the country. He is llevoted to spirit and purpose i>f this order, and few men have more jnystic friends than he in his home Jjlty and throughout the country. It - * • ,JC>. ' POTENTATE SHAFFER, was believed from the beginning thai he would be promoted from the second highest to the highest office in the or­ der. Mr. Shaffer is prominent in the furniture trade. -4^ 7 Quits Soctety to Labor. Arthur Lee Cabanne, the young so- lety man who gave up his home to ork as a laborer in a steel factory, les to eclipse the career of ies Reade's hero in "Put Yourself ; Cabanne has re­ ceived offers of marriage from nu­ m e r o u s y o u n g W o m e n , a m o n g them a belle of Toronto, Canada, who tells him she has $600,000 In her own right which she Is willing to give him for a start in life if ha will marry her. Mr. Cabanne is 26 years #ld a college graduate and an athlete. Ipis father, X Charles Cabanne, is one "#f the most influential and wealthiest jjberchants In St Louis. Young Ca- banne's desire was to carve out a cap- :|er for himself independent of §elp from his family. He selected Steel bualnes for his future Wilting to team it from the np, secured a position as a Sit Place* a factory in East St. Louis. He gave an assumed name, but a former coach­ man of the family recognized him, Now Mr. Cabanne Is on the pay roll under his right name. At the same time he lives with his fellow workers, limits his expenses to his pay and ia learning the steel industry by contact with its details: Add, *« ^ XT-'-* Chrt-rtine Jfifason lit, lime. Christine Niisson, who has been reported seriously 111 at Gothen­ burg, Sweden, and of whom thia r»> port has been de­ nied, appears to be troubled with rheu­ m a t i s m , f r o m which fact have arisen from time to time numerous stories of disability and sickness. Mme. Niisson for many years has been liv- lfi« ia practical t e n t T h e great singer Is now in her nth She was the daughter of a labor- Veado in Sweden, and was In the poorest of •> 1 Miss Sybil Sanderson reappeared at the Opera Comique in Paris the other, night in "Phryne," it being her first appearance in the French capital since A Judge on "Common Ci-oility" Judges are supposed to know the law better than laymen. When a New Jersey vice chancellor says from the bench that "common civility is the law of the land" common people, un­ learned In the laws, will not venture to take Issue with him, but they will express their regret that the law of the land is not enforced. There is often a painful lack of the cheapest kind of civility in public ofiices, at bargain counters, and on street cars. The vic­ tims do-not seem to have that legal re­ dress which they expect where the law of the land has been violated. The vice chancellor went on to de­ fine "common civility,' saying that "one person has no right to speak to another person unless he first gets his Honored by Germany. James Ford Rhodes, who is to re­ ceive from the Prussian Academy of H J' :8#s v-r .4' : A'; >'•$&*•i Science the Loabet prize tor the beat American history that has appaslad within the last decade Is an Ohio wmm by birth, having been born the death of her husband, Antonio Terry. The house was filled with an appreciative audience, which gave en- enthusiastic reception to a former fa- consent" People who are bubbling over with questions or views and who wish to open conversation with stran­ gers will please bear this in mind. They should begin operations not by remarking that it is a pleasant day, but by saying, "Have I your consent to talk to you?" At this point "organized labor" and the vice chancellor part company. These remarks of his were made apropos of a strike in a Paterson silk mill. Non- unionists have taken the place of union workers and the latter have been reasoning with the former, some­ times quite violently, to induce them to quit work. In such a case the vice chancellor deems it only civil for the man who wishes to do the reasoning to get the consent of the other party. land In 1848. He received his education in the public schools of Cleveland, in the University of Chicago, and In the University of New York, but was graduated from neither college. He mads an LI* D. by Adelbert col- and the Western Reserve Univer­ sity. The history which brings him the rare honor from the Prussian academy Is on the United Statea from the Compromise of 1850 down to 1885, the work being in eight volumes. Mr. Rhodes has been a resident of Boston for a number of years. He is a mem­ ber of the exclusive Authors club of Boston, and is a brother-in-law of Senator M. A. Hanna. To Slaeim Long Distance. On Sunday, June 20, Peter S. McNal- ly of Boston, clad only In a pair of small swimming trunks, will dive off the end of Charleston bridge Into Bos­ ton harbor and start to swim to the Battery New York. Weather permit­ ting, he will make Nantasket Beach, about 17 miles, the first day. The shortest sailing distance be­ tween Boston and New York is 282 3-4 nautical or about 350 land miles. Mc- Nallv estimates that he will actually vorite. All the Paris papers pro. nounced her return a success. Miss Sanderson's admirers in the United States will be glad of her new success. The lawyer for the strikers asied the court how this consent was to be obtained and was told that his clients could write a letter to the mill-hands asking for leave to argue with them the question of stopping work. This ia a delightful suggestion. Nothing could be more dignified than for strikers to write polite notes to those who have taken their jobs, saying to them, "Come, let us reason together." "Or­ ganized labor," however, does not agree with the judge on this question of "common civility." If all walking delegates and pickets thought about this matter as he does, controversies between union and non-union labor would be conducted with a degree of politeness and decorum not always found In courts and congresses. cover some 400 miles, and he hopes to made the distance In thirty days. This swim, if successful, will be by most remarkable feat of , 4 wr' * > X \ & PETER A Its kind ever performed. There have been many swimming contests re­ quiring fine endurance, bnt nothinf like a thirty days'trip was ever at tempted by anyone. .. ClurfclCMl IndMivor Cwjgltop, 00|tw» day of ttnal mTOtton ot the urtetiu iBadeavor Soclety of pin eottaiif was held in the ttonal church at Bunker H11L The daQr opened with devotional exerebM% fol­ lowed by an address by Rev. •. F. Hertel, of Blackburn university, Car- linville. o. S. Stowell, of Alton, de­ livered the address of the afternoon. In the evening the closing addreas of the session was delivered by A. B. McDonald, of Chicago, state president of Christian Endeavor work. There are sixteen societies represented Jn the Macoupin county convention." From moat of these reports were sent trMch were very gratify teg, and which showed that the work was progreaa- ing. The place of meeting for the coming y 3ar has not been determined, bnt will most probably be held in Gil­ lespie. Officers were elected for the coming terms as follows: H. F. Hen- richs, president, Bunker Hill; Mra. J. F. Parsona, Woodburn, vice president; secretary ̂ and treasurer, Miss Beaaie Parka, Carlinville. . > '" Oily Work ^ Although the city of Joliet haa ad­ vertised extensively during the past aix weeks for bida for a $260,000 en­ largement of its waterworks not one bid was filed. The time tor submitting proposals expired Monday night. It is understood that contrac­ tors have held back because of a doubt as to the legality of the law un der which waterworks are enlarged or improved by mortgaging the receipts. It IB held this mortgage paper Is vir­ tually the same as bonds and should be reckoned within the 5 per cent le­ gal limit to which cities may be bond­ ed. The law was framed by Chartes B. Wood of Chicago and be Is anxious to have the Supreme Court pass upon the paper. It is planned to have such a case begun In Joliet at once. Cities throughout the state will be Interested In the recislon. A Jmm y- .. Klehard L " Mmr ' Richard JL Lukens, a retired inven­ tor and business man, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S. M. Cha- pin. in Chicago. He was born near Philadelphia just seventy-five years ago. He located at Indianapolis and in that city he established what was the first business devoted exclusively to agricultural Implements in the United States, and from 1865 to 1875 was the largest retail dealer. He was the in­ ventor of a ditching machine and oth­ er devices. While at Indianapolis he was a friend and client of Benjamin Harrison and served in the revenue office in Peoria during the Harrison administration. For the last nine years Mr. Lukens has been a resident of Chi­ cago. The remains were tafcs.a to Peo­ ria for Interment * . / ̂ ̂ -, Kan tarn III til oIn Nor seal. Commencement week of the eastern Illinois State Normal began with the baccalaureate address to the graduat­ ing class by W. W. Parsons, president of the Indiana State Normal. His sub­ ject was "The Bible in Education." Dr. Parsona said the Bible was the greatest of all classics and should have preference before the teachings ot either Greek or Roman authors. Two cantatas from the German were given by the pupils of the model school. Tuesday was reception day. Wednes­ day the meeting of the alumni and Thursday commencement exercises. Rev. J. Hamilton Spence of Galesburg, 111., delivered the oration to the claaa. Stat* 14M IS Chartered. The secretary of state has licensed the incorporation of the Marquette^ Spring Valley and Northwestern Rail­ way company, with the principal office at Chicago, and a capital stock of $B0,- 000. The line is to be constructed from Marquette, Bureau county, to La Salle, La Salle county. The incorporators and directors are J. S. Wylie, H. C. Wylie and J. F. Clark of Davenport, Iowa; Edward Anderson of Marquette, 111., and H. J. Miller and C. J. Devlin of Spring Valley. New Illinois Corpomtftoaa. % \ , The sec/etary of state has licensed the following corporations: Gillespie Coal and Mining company, Gillespie; capital stock, $10,000; incorporators, A. T. Clark, L. T. Woods and O. E. Owen. Leitzow & Simmon Manufacturing company, Chicago; capital stock, $15,- 000; incorporators, John L. Rogers, Adolph S. Froehligh and Julius Gold- zler. Chicago Time Register com­ pany, Chicago; capital stock increased from $10,000 to $35,000. " " T Tr*e Trimming John Strauss, 45 West Fifteenth street Chicago, was killed in a fall be­ cause he sawed off a limb on which he was sitting between himself and the tree. - wmun Go*lby, Sr« b William Goalby, Sr., one of the tfM- cst residents of Percy, and president of the Goalby Coal company, died at his home. ifPPH Mama FImI t« IJtehflaM* The Illinois Bridge and Company, which has been located in Jacksonville several years, during which time it has engaged in the man­ ufacture of steel and iron bridges, has decided to remove the plant to Litch­ field, where it has been offered a build­ ing and site and some additional ma­ chinery. ̂ It will be moved In July and will be the second manufacturing in­ dustry taken from Jacksonville in the last two months, the other being the Matthews Woven Wire Fence factory, ent to Pittsburg, Pa. , fEn. Sht HudM* XNaa, MH. Mary Hudson died at St Joan's hospital, Springfield, aged S5 years. Her children were Thomas J. Hudson, Chicago, traffic manager Illinois Cen­ tral railroad; Charles R. Hudson, Mex­ ico City, general freight and passenger agent Mexican Central railroad; Jo­ seph B. Hudson, freight agent at Springfield for the Illinois Central; Mrs. Elizabeth A. Rowen, San Fran­ cisco, Cal.; Mrs. Thomas Cahill, Chi­ cago, and Mrs. Patrick Connor, da* clnnati, O., wife of the traveling agent of the Illinois Central. lisMna im as the' too - achieved a d ̂ •iwwHyft ha* bMltceraed'l garet novel, Potter _ __ the Chicago ; in Chicago l» 1KL ' Gertrude Potter Beat lished two aacceasfsl 1 ter has acqslreft most. ,. throngh travel sad reading. HSm ) ter's last trip sfereiA ~ " ~ siderable stay la il . -wi-w Sidly; there she fseued ana* ef ttttf material woven Into her Ust s«n* scenes of which are latd te tte of Louis XV. Miss Potter's 1 was called "A Social Lion- second "Uncanonlxed.** book "Business in Jtouth Africa, | Consul General Stowe of Cape Towmf predicts a business revival in Africa after the cloae of the and advises American exporters to on the lookout for their share eff new trade. He argues that the of the War must be replaced and' these losses cover almost eve men buy and sell, from farm ments and household necessities to 1 ing machinery and ralln&y. To corroborate his argnmeaft the fact that American of mining machinery ^ave ^ ceived orders aggregating tft/i Mr. Stowe's roseate should be accepted with sum vations. As regards one dees-*r ports his view is correct, whttel gards another class he in error. It Is true that tbe goods and commodities of nil will be widespread and ur cash with which to buy them lacking in many cases. The fighting desperately and have impoverished. They will be need of clothes, food, implt all the necessaries of life, am now too poor to do any of buying for some years to < is unless they wipe out British ity. Then they can raise all the they will need. Mateaim to Tour VnAwf &tedto*% Pietro Mascagni. the ian composer, who ia coming to erica for a concert aeasan Of weeks, has written several only One of these ha beside the great composition* nineteenth century. This ria Rusticana." Mascagni, like was born in the humblest at stances. His tether was A ; Leghorn, and In that city Hm! ' PIETRO MASCAGNL composer first looked upon day on cember 7, 1863. He played so the piano that the muaidana ( town sent him as a child to tl servatory at Milan. There he with his masters and turned his upon them. Then he traveled a cheap opera^ company and merest nothings in music, In a Milanese manager offered a pri an opera. Mascagni wrote and sent it in. The jury atopw^af ed him the prize and his fevtiSG îi reputation were made at < 1896 he became the dlreetor coaeervatory * -- ^ Support J^artuinhm Vfheoryt'^' Dr. Winfield S. Hall ot Gbicsgo. caused a stir in "the Y. M. C. A. con- vention at Boston with the that the Darwinian tion is not in belief, is a graduate of Nc University, Chicago, and member of the faculty of school of that insti­ tution. In America and abroad he has made a special study of chemistry, physiology, and bi­ ology. He is the author of several text-books treating of phases of these subjects scientists value especially his articles setting forth the fallacy of the claim th&t alco- • hoi Is a food. The professor's of the Darwinian principle ia ered the more important on of his deep research into the and development, of life. Once teeolred. the trouble It i dA " % ' • 'S ( . ' " A * i rr Ja 2 ^ Mr •