12 MANY"ST[>IKIN ret of the Dowager Duchess d'lTzes. hunting the red deer with dogs and horses and the melancholy horn, like Francis de la Roche, his ancestor, god father of Francis 1., and consulting with five other seignieurs to change the director of the Paris grand opera by mere force of social influence". Place for Duchesse de Chaulncs. Miss Shouts, as Duchesse de Chaulnes, has her place like this wait ing for her in the Uzes set. Much de pends on the woman. The emoluments are often worth the money. Indeed, there are American girls who have so valued the emoluments that they held to them after they divorced the man— and no hard feelings. Such is the happy case of Miss Cur tis of New York, first wife of the pres ent Due de Dino. The whole French aristocratic family mourned her when she quit. "You are still of us!" they insisted. She still calls herself the marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord. Her noble daughter married a Roman Rus j>oli, title princess of Piggio-Suasa. her four sons are bona fide (lotha no bility; and she has always been ex treniely happy. When her divorced husband found ; he could not live without an American j woman on the premises, his good old j father kind of abdicated, so that, as the Due de Dino, he could make Mrs. Frederic Livingston (nee Sampson) a real Almanach de Gotha duchess. She is very happy, too, though separated from him; and i never shall forget the frank American decision of character with which 1 once saw her jerk him from the Monte Carlo trente-et-quar ante table, saying: "You have blown enough of my money; cut it!" Two More Happy Marriages. Two Misses Singer of the sewing machine trade, brought $2,000,000 apiece into the Alttianach de Gotha — and never regretted it. Isabel married the great social high priest, the Due Decazes, who really caused the death of poor old Haritoff two years ago. Haritoff, who formerly had his own racing stable and could point out, in the Avenue of the Hois, three man sions he presented to three ladies in his prime, lived hard broke of late years; but everyone felt pitying and friendly to him. At Monto Carlo Decazes, with a live ly party 011 his yacht, invited Haritoff to dinner. After coffee, talking old times with a mature lady of the thea ter, poor Haritoff explained he had a system to beat roulette. With a 1,000- franc note he could attain to fortune. "Here's one," said the lady; but as days passed, after, and she saw 110 more of Haritoff, she sought him out and asked her money back. "The sys tem broke," said the unhappy man; "the 1,000 francs are gone; please TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT wait a few days more;" hut the indig nant lady told Decazes; and Decazoa ostentatiously kicked Haritoff in the posterior before the great public of the atrium of the Casino. Everyone called it a savage act. Friends represented to Decazos it was bis fault to have left Haritoff alone with anyone who had 1,000 francs; his weakness and necessities were known. Therefore the duke, kindly at heart, consented to meet. Haritoff in a duel, where no one was hurt; but. his old friend never recovered from the dis grace, and died a few months after. Prince Polignac, who married Wln naretta Singer—and in time left her a happy widow, with his noble family all devoted to her. Even their old mother, after Isaac Singer died, went into the nobility by way of the duke of Campo- Selice. There are dukes and dukes. In the old kingdoms of Naples and Sicily three acres and a cow constituted a principality or dukedom. American Girls in Demand. All is not one-sided. It has been ob served that when French families get a taste for our girls they go in for them quite wholesale. Thus Miss Hooper of Cincinnati was brought up in Paris, where her mother enter tained so lavishly In one of the 12 mansions around the Arc de Tri omphe. Well, Comte Horace de Choisenl saw that his elder brother, the Due de Choiseul-Prasiin, was so happy with Miss Forbes of New York for such a long time, that he espoused Miss Hooper. Both these Choiseul-Prasiin wives are absolutely happy, quite as similated to French life, while keeping hold of all that is best in their patri mony of America; and it is known that their steady influence is part of that mysterious something that is put ting new push into the French aristoc racy. The de Choiseul-Pi aslins, for example, have yet a third nice Ameri can girl among them. Miss Coudert, the heiress of the New York-Paris law - firm, also married into it; and yet more. Wait. There is. indeed, a fourth! In the da.\s of the kings who gave these titles, a king could have quickly decided whether the Prince de Beam et de Chalais is a real de Choiseul i Praslin. The courts of the French re ; public could not. Therefore, to this I day, we do not know if Miss Winans lof Baltimore married into this old family of the minister of Louis XIV. CAM2ROM COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1908 or not; but, it does not. prevent her from being glad she did it. There is no kick coming from tlie Prineesse de Beam et do Chalais. Romance of Caroline Fraser. All but two of the American women I have mentioned are the happy mothers of young nobles of proud lineage. Could you find a more roman tic case than that of Caroline Fraser and her issue? When the princely Murats —history makers —took refuge in Bordentown, N. J., Caroline was governess in tin.' family. The heir married her —and stuck tight, to he. - always. She is dead several years since: but. her children, keeping her blue eyes and corn-yellow hair, have married everywhere. The most romantic of these Ameri can-mothered Mura 112 men espoused the utterly romantic Circassian Princess Daien, Zephita by name, lovely beyond words, daughter and sole heir of the sovereign house of Mingrelia—which land you can hunt in southern Russia. He is there, a king to-day, the boy from Bordentown! Of all the French counts, none stand higher in history or society than the Chambruns. When Ixniis XV. erected ail those marquisates, a Cointe de Chambrun got one of the first, and the Chambruns always have had sense. They kept much of their land through the revolution; they had shifted a good lot of liquid cash ot. England, and at the restoration they were among the first to get a whack at the $132.- 000,000 votod as compensation to the martyred nobility. Chambrun's GOOJ Sense. To prove that horse sense has not left the family, the Marquis de Cham brun snapped up an American girl, of the Rives-Nichols family of Virginia, when he was attache at Washington. Good. It worked. The family liked the innovation. "Go ahead," they said to the Comte de Chambrun, when he was old enough to marry; "find an other like her!" What he found was Miss Long worth, Alice Roosevelt's sis ter-in-law. The Chambruns are playing a most prominent part in the great effort to improve the social situation of the French working classes. At home, in .their three chatteaux, they are patri ■ archal masters of land as far as the "eye can see. There are no wretched • poor in their villages. Their farmers "are the proud and prosperous masters •of blood stock, newest agricultural "machinery, silos, distilleries, grain • mills, canning factories —and what do I I know? The American girls who •came to the Chambruns showed the I way to the men, who profited intelli |* gently and thankfully. No Chambrun I has wasted a dollar of American • money. I Founder of Musee Sociale. In Paris the head of tlie family— I who divided his time between the i if& t Comteose de ohamhrun_ ' W ? magnificent chateau of l'Empery Car rieres and the Musee Sociale —was a great personage in several lights. He died a few years since. Socially a Paris leader, he found time to himself to make the Musee Sociale, where many American students have been welcomed to learn everything done in France in Ihe line of university settle ments, model houses, pure milk and all that sort of thing. The funds of the Musee Sociale —in part Aniei' in girls' money—have per mitted several French sociologists to visit the Tnited States to study what we do in the same lines. Its director. Mabilleau, appointed by De Chambrun, gave one of the French lecture courses at. Harvard. I could thus goon for pages. For each American girl who has wasted love and fortune in undignified Euro pean title-buying, I can name you 15 others who, in France at least, have made love matches, reasonable bar gains, settlements in life continuing happily and usefully. Why belittle our girls who come here and marry, making the name of American a thing to be proud of, by their fortunes, by their adaptability? Became French Social Leader. Shall I speak of the Marquise de Ganay, who was a Miss Ridge way of Philadelphia? She is now a grand mother, with children and grandchil dren married into great French fam ilies, a portentous, awful social lead er! Or shall I mention the Baronette Louis d« I.a Grange and the Comp tesse Jean de Kergorlay? They were the daughters of Gov. Carroll of Mary land, descendants of C'harle* Carroll of Carrollton. They were six children, inheriting $20,000,000. Shall 1 tell you of the Marquise de Breteuil, who was Miss Garner of St. Louis? Suppose that she did bring the marquis $1,000,000. We can afford it. Do you want the money? One of her sisters married Comte ljeon voa Moltke, who represents Denmark in Paris, and his brother, seeing it was good and fair, espoused Miss Bona parte of Baltimore. The other sister, Edith Garner, married Gordon Cum tilings, made the present king of Eng land's scapegoat in the baccarat affair of years ago. The Marquis Do Mores never had a good hour when not with his wife, Miss von Hoffman of New York. .lames Gordon Bennett's niece, Rita Bell, no toriously made a man of Count Paul d'Aramon —himself already half an American, as his mother had been a Miss Fisher. They lead a patriarchal life. The lady never lost a dollar of her money. And so on. America is rich enough to let her daughters marry where they will. England spends billions to build up her prestige with a lot of iron-clads, men-of-war, cruisers and line-of-battle ships. If we Americans prefer to make a smarter, lovelier kind of repu tation for our land and folk, why, let our girls come and show Etyrope how to live! They do it. Whoop! JUSf CLEARING THE WAV. After All, What Was One I'ooth, Mora or Less? "The late Edmund Clarence Sted maii," said a Chicago publisher, "used to entertain his friends with amusing memories of country journalism. He once edited, you know, a little paper in Connecticut. "At a dentists' banquet, in New York, where lie read an original poem, he told a story about an amateur Con necticut dentist, one of his oldest sub scribers. "This man's name was Jake. Jake was at work in a corn field one day when a neighboring farmer came to him, holding his jaw. "The farmer had the toothache, and to save a trip to Winsted and a den tist's fee he wanted Jake to pull tht aching tooth. "Jake led him to the barn, seated him on a saw-horse and took from the harness room a pair of very large, rusty pincers. "'Here goes,' he said, and bracing himself extracted a huge tooth. "The farmer clapped his hand to his jaw. He pointed reproachfully to the large white tooth in the pincers. "'Why, Jake,' he said, 'that's the wrong one.' " I know,' said .lake, bracing him self again; 'but now 1 can get at the other handier.' " "The Morning Tub." A few years ago a sister of mine called into see an old lady who lived in a little cottage in Lincolnshire, and in the course of conversation happened to mention that she had a cold sponge down every morning. "Law, miss!" said the old lady, "and does your mother know?" "Yes, certainly; and she quite ap proves." "Well," said the old lady, "a washes me faace ivvery daay, an' a washes mi neck once a week, but a've nivver bin washed al ower since a was a babby." This good old lady lived to the ripe old age of 93. —Letter to the London Daily News. Proper Discrimination. A party of New Yorkers who go down to Virginia each year for an ex tended fishing trip were one day dis cussing the merits of the various fish in tiie streams of the Old Dominion, when one of them finally turned to the old darky who served the party us guide and boatman, and said: "Zeke, don't you think yellow perch is altogether the best fish in this vicin ity?" "Yessah." promptly responded Zeke, "yaller perch am de bes' fish heah, always excusin' de white shad." —lllustrated Sunday Magazine. cr u I FACTS j FADS FALLACIES Dealing with Personal Magnet ism, Telepathy, Psychology, Suggestion, Hypnotism, and Spiritualism. By EDWARD B. WARMAN, A. M. Eminent Psychologist and I Hygieniat. j cu o 111 mi— !■ ■■■lßTflff SPIRITISM. We are here, face to face, with the greatest truth of ihe universe, or | with the most lamentable delusion. Which? One's mere opinion amounts to naught unless that opinion is based upon a most, careful, painstaking and unbiased investigation. Even then, the result of that opinion is wholly, as it necessarily must be, from the investi gator's point of view. It is the weigh ing of the evidence that constitutes the proof. After a thorough r.nrt unbiased in vestigation extending over more than a quarter of a century; nn investiga tion including every phase of spiritism extant, I have been led, step by step, to the following conclusions, viz.: 1. I beliove in the alleged phe nomena of spiritism, but not in the al leged cause. 2. That every true manifestation of spiritism may be accounted for upon purely scientific grounds. 3. That the phenomena are not due to or ever dependent upon outside in telligences. 4. That there is no valid evidence whatever that, spirits of the dead have ever communicated in any manna' - with the living. 5. That not all spirit mediums are frauds, but all spirit mediums that, are not frauds are self-deceived when at tributing either their power or their information to spirits of the dead. 6. That clairvoyance and clairaudi ence are legitimately within the sphere of psychic phenomena, but are wholly independent of disembodied spirits. 7. That premonitions and impres sions are God-given gifts to all His children. * * » * * In 1874, during my investigation of what was then designated as spirit ualism (spiritism), I had the pleasure of meeting the man (a spiritualist) who had the distinction of having given the first public lecture ever heard on this subject. These seances, being of a private character, were the more interesting and with less likelihood of fraud and furnished a more satisfactory oppor tunity for careful investigation. As 1 now look back over these inter vening years I can see clearly whereas at that time "i saw, as through a glass, darkly." it may not be out of place to state that at that time and for many years thereafter 1 was, in consequence of many wonderful and unaccountable personal experiences, a believer in spiritism: but (and 1 want that word "but" fully emphasized) a believer with a mental reservation as to the cause of the phenomena. I have al ways been thankful for that shadow of a doubt; for, in later years, it proved to be "the pillar of cloud by day"and "the pillar of fire by night" which led mo safely out of the wildness of ignor ance and superstition. Ever since childhood 1 have been an "impressionist," and those impres sions, having been verified, were the cause of my early and continuous in vestigations. It was years before I learned to distinguish the one (spirit ualist) from the other (impressionist); but having distinguished I have learned, also, to discriminate. In the winter of 180!), in Cleveland, 0., I had the pleasure and the honor of meeting the late Dr. Thomson Jay Hudson. 111 the many interviews that followed the first meeting we ex changed "notes" on our observations and experiences along the lines of psychic phenomena. We found, to our surprise, that we had been traveling on parallel roads for nearly 30 years. Our conclusions, in the main, were identical: especially regarding "spiritualism" and hypnot ism. We differed in a few minor points, each looking from his own viewpoint; therefore, we agreed to dis agree. I shall now take up, one by one, the defense of each plank in the platform forming Ihe basis of my argument as hereinbefore stated. 1. It may be thought strange that anyone could or would accept the phe nomena of "spiritism" after so many years of faithful study; or, having ac cepted the phenomena, they would also accept the cause. Many persons have said to me that they could find out all there is in "spir itism" in about 25 minutes instead of as many or more years. Possibly so; 1. e., all that their prejudice would allow them to investigate. Because every phase of spiritism can be faked is no assurance that it is. There are honest and conscientious mediums (in the minority, I will ad mit), but they are not conscious of the origin of their power. They attribute i*, in all sincerity, to departed spirits. Why? Because (hey have been so in formed and having accepted the in formation it has become a verity in consequvnce of the auto-suggestion. As has been stated in a previous ar ticle, the subjective mind is amenable to suggestion. It will reason deduct t\el> from any premise giveu and tjien give back to the objective mind the result of that reasoning. If the premise i is wrong the conclusion will be wrong. | You can repeat an untruth so often | that eventually you, yourself, will be | lieve it is true. If you want proof as to the amena j bility of the subjective mind of the I medium to a suggestion from the sit ! ter, and further proof of the power of ! auto-suggestions of the medium on her I own subjective mind, you have but to ask for a communication from one who has never existed; suggesting, thereby, that such a person (say, a brother) has passed into spirit life. It is an indisputable fact that you can obtain a communication from an imaginary dead person as readily as ! from one who actually lived providing, |of course, that the medium is not aware of the facts. I believe, as I shall hereinafter endeavor to prove, that the powo>* is not from aa ex traneous source, but is inherent. 2. Science is a knowledge of facts and forces. A scientilie investigation reveals the fact that man possesses in herently the power to produce or re produce every phenomenon of spirit ism; therefore it is unnecessary and unscientific to seek elsewhere for the source of power. 3. Back of the manifestation there is, unquestionably, an intelligence— presumably that of the medium. This statement should be accepted until the contrary can be proved. 1 do not mean the objective intelligence or the me dium, but that knowledge which has passed, telepathically or otherwise, into the subjective mind. 4. Communications, all communica tions given hy mediums are purported to be from the spirits of the dead. Proof, howevr r, is wanting. No me dium can communicate matter which is at once capable of verification if that matter is unknown to any living mind. Therefore, as telepathy cannot be eliminated, and as it is the factor in every so-called message, it is not necessary to ascribe to spirits of the dead (disembodied) the knowledge which is in the subjective mind of the living,—the embodied spirit. 5. While many spirit mediums are honest it must be admitted that, as a class, they are not noted for their bril liant, intellectual attainments; there fore, the easier self-deceived. Now and then an educated man or woman accepts spiritism, in toto—the more's the pity, but few of them ever become mediums. Tl\e majority of mediums are not only ignorant but neurotic; and the 1 more so, the better condition for me diumshtp,—the more abnormal. To be come a professional medium it is necessary to become objectively pas sive at command; in other words, to "let go"of the objective mind. This is not a difficult thing for mediums to do ■ as the average medium has so little to ! "let go"of. Verbal Messages. When you goto a medium and you are told why you came, you may think it strange, especially if it is your first experience. If you have written some questions and they are answered correctly with ' out having been seen by the medium or having been written on a padded block, you may think it still mor* strange unless, perhaps, you are wis ' enough to attribute it to thought transference. Hut when the medium tells you of ' something which you "have never told a living soul," then you are astonished. But when she 11 say "she," because "she" is in the majority) tells you ' something you were not thinking of at ' the time or something you had forgot ten, you are amazed at her wonderful power. But when she tells you of something you never knew (the facts of which you afterward prove true) you are 1 J then dumfounded and quite ready to " | espouse the cause-of spiritism. ' I But wait. Has she told you of that which you never knew? Impossible. ' You may have no conscious recollec tion of it, but rest assured that no me dium (the most expert in the world) ' can give you any information that is not already in your subjective mind. Many things find their way into tho subjective mind without objective con sciousness. Add to this the fact that the subjective mind is the storehouse " of memory and that its memory is ab- J solutely perfect; that everything you have ever heard or read or seen ber of Japanese leaving Hawaii foi - the Pacific coast during 1906 was 12. i 187,