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MANY"ST[>IKIN<i"CXAMPLES.II^^^^^
LEAST. OF INTERNATIONAL MAK/lEX WHICH
BROUGHT HAPPINESS T/lAT YEARS /lAVE NOT|
ALTERED. KJ
PAUIS. —Not all our girls who
marry titles are unhappy.
We hear of the shipwrecks,
wasted millions and a lone
girl drifting westward on a
gilded craft; but the mass
of the contented, doing vast good to
America and Kurope, pass unnoticed,
declares a writer in the Washington
Kvening Star.
As to France, 1 know these girls ar»»
missionaries of the great American
idea.
Some get love; some fill empty
lieai ts with worldly satisfactions, and
all merit admiration. France's share
of their $.'100,000,000 may have heeled
old families', but the breezy push, the
bright initiative, independence, energy
Tind judgment with which they invigor
ate a sleepy ;u Istocracy are equaled
only by tin' splendid prestige they
liave given the United States abroad.
There are two ducal families, for
example, the Roehefoucaulds and
TTzes, called, respectively, "the pre
mier dukes" and "premier barons'" of
the old regime. Is it a small thing
that Miss Shunts becomes the sister
in-law of one, while Miss Mattie Eliza
beth Mitchel is the duchess of the
other?
One True Love Match.
Miss Mitchell may have brought
the Due de la Rochefoucauld but
$200,000. The duke —who, in old days,
•would have been nearest royalty, like
the Xort'olks in England—could have
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married any heiress of his class. In
stead, ho chose Miss Mitchell, with
her modest, dot —a true love match. i
For trade, lie is captain fit hussars.
His private life is most passed at
Montmlrail, his seat, where his lovely
American duchess wields queenly in
fluence. She is the friend of all girls
"who want to marry their true love:
of the country nobility; rich fanners'
daughters; middle-class Kills cursel
■wl'h ambitions parents; peasant girls
discouraged by small cash.
She has opened French eyes to
American agricultural machinery;
made known hygienic plumbing, the
check sy-tem, social mixing, farmers'
trolleys, Indian corn, bath tubs, out- I
door life for girls above the peasant j
class. How can a high-hearted Oregon I
girl, become chief personage of sev- j
cral counties, not spread the idea of j
go ahead and trust to your strong '
arm ?
She taught the duke to take his 1
place. ll"was easy-going, lovable and
army-locoed; for some years they held
aloof from high Parisian society, but
now they have a son, aged three; they
lake their preponderating place in th:>
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
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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.
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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
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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 <v
thought or said is registered therein;
[ that the medium is in telepathic touch
' with your subjective mind and can
' delve into that storehouse and bring
forth those long-buried thoughts; that
* she gets them directly from your own
embodied spirit and not from the dis
-1 embodied spirit of one who previously
lived.
(Copyright. 1907. by Joseph IS. Bowles.)
i Decline in China's Tea Trade.
s Some interesting statistics have
befn collected recently by a resident
t at Fuchau concerning the great de
cline in China's tea trade. From 1678.
r when tea was first introduced into
- England, until 1837. China had the
j tea trade of the world. Then lt*lia
began to enter the tea market. The
t Chinese trade reached high tide in
- 18Sfi, with a total export of 300.000.000
112 pounds. In ISB4 China furnished about
; 72 per cent of the world's total, India
r and Ceylon 18 per cent and Japan and
Formosa ten per cent. The decline
i in China is ascribed to careless meth
. ods of cultivating and preparing the
3 tea.
» Japanese Coming to America.
j Immigration statistics just made
. public in Honolulu show the Jnilux of
- Japanese into this country by way of
- Hawaii. During the year 1906, 18.187
i Japanese arrived in Honolulu from Jt
pan, which was threefold the Itumigra
- tion of the previous year. The nutu
> ber of Japanese leaving Hawaii foi
- the Pacific coast during 1906 was 12.
i 187,