Bema. Bellefonte, Pa., | April 9, 1909. The Tragic Career of Picaud, a | Cobbler of Paris. HIS RISE TO GREAT WEALTH. Thrown Into Jail by Secret Enemies, He Was Left a Fortune by a Fellow Vengeance Brought Him Death. That romantic creation of the brain of Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo,” had a counterpart ip real life in France in the last century. This is the tragic story: In 3807, when Napoleon was at the height of his power, Francois Picaud | was a sturdy young journeyman cob- bler of Paris, full of health and ani- | mal spirits and bappy in the love of Marguerite Vigoureux, a young girl of his own station in life. On the eve of his marriage hidden enemies de- nounced him to the imperial govern- ment as a spy. He was cast into pris- | on, where he remained, forgotten by the world, for seven years. Among his fellow prisonérs was a wealthy Milanese priest, who treated him like a son and bequeathed to him | 7,000,000 france on deposit in the Bank | of Amsterdam. Furthermore, this ec- clesiastic told Picaud the secret of a hiding place in Italy where were con- cealed jewels to the value of 1,200.000 francs and specie amounting to three millions. When the empire was overthrown in 1814 Ficaud 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, he 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- pain, who had married Marguerite Vigoureux, 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 Gervals Chaubard, who. with Loupain, had denounced Picaud in 1807. The pretended waiter was not long in bringing his vengeance to a consummation. Chaubard was the first victim otf his wrath. His body. pierced by a knife, was found on ove 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. In the darkness a terrible voice sald: “Picaud, what name are you passing under now? Are you still the priest Baldinl or the waiter Prosper? You wished for revenge. You have sold yourself to the powers of hell. Ten years you have given to the pursuit of three wretches you should have spared. Me you dragged down to perdition. The diamond by which you bribed me was my destruction. 1 killed him who cheated me. | was arrested, condemn- ed to the galleys and escaped only after years of torture. My one thought has been vengeance on the priest Bal. dinl. You are in my power. Do you know me? | am Antoine Allut. How much will you pay for bread and wa- ter?’ “1 have no money.” groaned Picaud. “You have sixteen millions. These are my conditions: 1 will give you something to eat twice a day, but for each meal you must pay me 25,000 francs.” However, the cupidity of the prison: er proved stronger than his huanger He underwent terrible suffering with- out any signs of yielding until his captor, goaded to fury at the prolong- ed obstinacy, threw himself upon Pi- | caud and stabbed him to death.—Book- man, A Thackeray Story. A correspondent of London Notes and Queries contributes this anecdote of Thackeray: Thackeray once desired to succeed Cardwell as M. P, for the city of Ox- ford and when returning from his can- vass said: “What do you think, Card- welll Not one of your constituents ever heard of me and my writings.” He prefaced “constituents” with a strongish adjective. Strange, if true. They must have been starving in the midst of plenty. A Straight Tip. Johnnie (to new visitor)—So you are my grandma, are you? Grandmother —Yes, Johnnie. I'm your grandma on your father's side. Johnnle—Well, you're on the wrong side, you'll find out!—Philadelphia Bulletin, Horrible, “That was an awful disaster. There was only one survivor. Isn't that ter- rible?” “Fearful. What a bore he'll be!"— Cleveland Leader. Disenchanted. “Do you believe in the superhuman?" “1 used to, but I don't any more.” “Why? “I married him.”--Chicago Retord Herald. No man knows the weight of another man's burden. ~Pliny, THE LUMINOUS HALO. ' Psychic Explanation of an Oft Wit. nessed Phenomenon. I was summoned one day to the Salt- petriere in Paris to see a woman who ‘lay in a bed in the dark. She was a | ! woman whose body, nerves, brain, had been teased and tortured for years in psychic and occult experiment. What | | mental perturbation was racking that | brain I did not know, and the physi- | t elans at her bedside did not know Her breathing was irregular and not deep. What we saw was this: A lumi- nous halo of a vague orange hue that circled her head, even as in the old | pletures of martyred saints you see | the heads mooned with faded gold. This i halo was fluctuani. It came and went. ‘It was a light that flickered, grew, faded, formed itself anew, A miracle, this aureoled head? | If you want to call it that. Words | are not of great importance. It was a | miracle when it glowed around the | head of a martyr tortured in the arena, | 0 tortured by pain and fear that his | dissociated psychic centers produced the phenomenon of the exteriorization i of luminous energy. | Perhaps It were better to call it at | once a miracie and a prescientific fact —a fact, that is, which is occult, but is in the way of becoming known. 1 asked Dr. Frere what he thought of this miracle. | “I have often seen it,” he said. The | field of his experiments was the mad- | Rouse at Bicetre. There many neuro- pathic patients abide, and often in | cases of severe headache or of reli | glous ecstasy he has seen these fluctu- ! ant aureoles around the head. | “The rays are often twenty centime- | ters in extent, quite regular, forming a | perfect aureole.” he explained. | There is, then, a form of energy en- | dowed with luminous properties ema- | nating from the human body under | certain ‘conditions.—Vance Thompson in Hampton's Magazine, THE LAND OF BIG GAME. British East Africa as It Appears to the Hunter. A brown village of thatched buts squatting in a trampled clearing of | the forest and backed by thickset trees | 80 closely Inced with a living tapestry | of woven green that the aching tropic sunlight can scarcely penetrate; slim, naked blacks slipping like shadows among the broad leaved bananas and | rubber trees, staring furtively as your bearers file slowly past them; a lone- | ly station far up or down river, where a haggard white man sits to receive tribute in the name of his trading company, marks an outpost of civiliza- tion in this jungle land. And through and under it all are the fevered glare of sunlight, the ceaseless drowsy whis- per of the woods, the hot, dry scents of the parched earth, or, if the rains have come, all the land about will lie cloaked in’'steaming vapor, the sultry air as thick and humid as the air of a greenhouse at home. There you have the Kongo as the white man knows it —the Kongo or the jungle of Uganda. But all of this is only a part of what we have chosen to call and to picture as the dark continent. For there, too, is the desert, widely different in all its aspects from Kongo. land. On the slope of the rising ground that lifts from sea level at Mombasa and climbs to nearly 8,000 feet before it drops again to the lesser level of Victoria Nyanza is another vast waste as typical of Africa as this jungle country—the desert, as it is called, the plains of bush and grass. Six months of the year—from October to April— it lies half drowned under tropic rains From April to September only occa sional showers fall, and the wide pla. teau grills under the staring sunlight, all yellowing in the glare. Here upon these uplands is found the great vari ety of big game, the vast herds of wild things that have made and still | Medical Adviser. make Africa the greatest shooting country in the world. This is British ' East Africa as the hunter knows it.— | C. B. Taylor in Everybody's. An Alibi. : The milkman stood before her nerv | | ously twirling his hat in his hands i | “So,” she sald sternly, “yon have! come at last.” “Yes, madam. You sent for me, || believe,” he replied. | “1 wished to tell you that I found a ivnow in the milk yesterday morn “I am sorry, madam, but If the cows | will drink from the brook instead of from the trough 1 cannot help it."- Harper's Weekly. A Queer Dish. | A great dish at Egyptian harem | feasts is that of a lamb roasted whole After the manner of a nest of Chinese , boxes, each smaller than the other. the | lamb is stuffed with a whole turkey. the turkey with a chicken. the chicken with a pigeon. the pigeon with a quail and the quall with a becafico, the | smallest bird known, except a hum. | ming bird The lamb is roasted over! a slow fire until it is almost ready to | fall to pieces. Try This. Fasten a key to a string and suspend it by your thumb and finger, and will oscillate llke a pendulum. Let some one place his hand under the key, and it will change to a circular motion. Then let a third person place nis hand upon your shoulder, and the | Key becomes stationary.—London Ex- | press, The man who would rather be right than be president generally has his preieres gratified.—Philadelphia Rec | In the course of a life time every man | spends handreds of dollars on medicine or medical advice which he would save if be had at band Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Its name tetls ite soope. It is a common sense presentation of phys. ological facs and hygienic law. It telly the truth in plam English. It is written #0 that ‘““he who runs may read.” This encyclopedia of medical information is went free on receipt of stamps to pay the cost of mailing only. Send 21 oue-cent stamps for the paper hound hook, or 31 stamps for cloth covers. Address Dr. R. | V. 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The Boston Pupil—No, ma'am. B. T..—~And why nos, pray? B. P.—As I understand is. Greek moth. ers wore wooden sandals and Greek boys didn’t wear any trousers. Do you koow where to get your Seobler & Co. ——Seldom is a smooth tony tongue without | a sting behind, ——Do yon know where to get the finest teas, coffees and spices, Sechler & Co. Hood's Sarsaparilla. ET RID OF SPRING HUMORS J or effete matters accamulated in the blood during the winter cause in thespring such an ring and painful troubles as boils, pimples, and other eruptions, also weskness, loss of appetite, that tired feeling. The best medicine to take is Hood's Sarsa effects permanent cures by giving health, bowels and skin. y Siving re lia, which thoroughly cleanses the blood, and unctional activity to the stomach, liver, kidneys, HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA effects its wonderful cures, not simply because it contains sarsapa- po but § en greatly strei Sgiis a aro the yh very There is no real substitute for icone it combines the utmost remedial values of more than 20 different ingredi- ned and enriched by this peculiar combination. These idgred). that successful physicians prescribe for the same diseases nod la. If urged to buy any prepara 3ion said So te OAL A food, '' you may be sure it is foe Arby costs less to make, and yields Wo dou taking Hoods Sarsupariiia tod in the usual liquid form or in the chocolsted tablets known nr Dan tale 100 Doses On. o Dollar. q y . Colleges & Schools. IF YOU WISH TO BECOME. 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