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ed on Corsican subjects. The first has an
English plot 1t is strange how the young
BonapaTtc's fancy plays round things
English, The hero is the Earl of Essex,
who. along with les LOrds Russel ct
Sidney animes par P&mOur cOmmun de ii
patric cOnsprcTent contTe Charles IL ct
son frere Ie Due d'NOrk." Sidney is de
scribed as 'un de ceS patriOes inHeXlbles
qu'anime le genie des BTutuS, des Thra-
seas" This is quite in the approved style
of revolutionary eloquence. The Countess
hears in her sleep cries Of "Jeane Bet
Zic, chere Jeane," and, later on, CONNIE
ellie etait an milieu du Pail Mall" hedrs
some one say. ''le Comte d'EsseX est
mort" She finds her husband assassin
dtcd and shuts herself in her house till
''le Due d'York fut detrone" All this,
though bald enough. even in the original
shows that the author had read Engnsh
history.
His last romantic effusion is remarka-
BILE rather from the reflections o. the
writer than the subject. 1t is the old
story of the masked prophet which Tom
Moore made use of in "Lalla Rookh -
and follows much the same INES Prob
ably both the poem and the sketch we're
drawn from the same source. Napoleon
seems 20 have owed his inspiration to
Mdrigny's "HistOire Ges Arabcs." of which
We have his cOpious extracts.
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NAPOLEON AS A WRITER.
bomanCes from His Pen Which III ave Been
Recently Recalled.


NaruI00u'S little efforts as "a writer Of
romano. are pleasantly recalled by the
saturday Review. His first attempt
mas. H lisN, is but a fragment, based on
IN incident m Corsican history Horace
Mf.IH.. had opened In 1903 subscription
-.' 'Hrsican patriot immu~ed in debt
'. prison In London Napoleon sketches
imaginary correspondence. II ends
".-. "M.lord Theodore: You suffer
a.- ar, unfortunate Two claims quite
"f 'o elicit the pity OF an English
..t. come out OF your dungeon and Ie-
.'... ..'" francs pension tor subsistence"
E.Ia-'Hu al his life was an Anglomauiac
90. t-' At this time Paoll was living in
u ".ri society IN London on "A pensiol
J. ..t '.r crown. Is il wonderful that 10
80 'ofsi"aE England was the land Of
". fad the love Of Corsica and adnli-
]. ."- Jog England united In Il much long
romance written IN l7S or lIS9. il Is
..-.'' .Nuuyellc C0rse.' II purports To
"Il''-H by an English traveller who
-.- himself ON the small Islduf OF Cor
-.. liiS tent is set on FIRE AT night and
...i..Ff.f narrowly escapes Destruction
author "t the mischief iS Is Corsican
...'.r.. who would aVeuge the wrongs Of
"a country on the supposed FTenchmau
'.'. Der father, "Vltlliard VeriueuN.
ttH'rf- on The scene. he conducts sHe
'r.'.'r into the cave he inhahts and ad-
..'e lim thus. "Sois bienyenu, An
t.- hous Trgnez ici, Ia vertu = le
,..' 'lI, l,u,rce IN tous NeuX-' The
f.rt frr yiTtuous, the French aTe
..HU.s trutauN" lies amls des me-
..t..r The old man has sworn "on his
s.ii never 10 pardon Frenchmau
.,I' .- uJ den0uemcnt 20 this savage
..'' Story. Th, NirtuoIs EugllShms q
.... H"f marry The CorsiOap girl. or Do
H.'.i'nE except listen 20 he old man s
'' az fEr French but iH spite Of the
-'..at -aI.' Of the language, there -
,'.'.' sincerity boz every w8E4.
VIC ina fWo other skefChe. for novels
Nr'llen before this. neither Of them found
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USE FOR OLD GLOVES.
Attractive Things Can BE Made Out of
Them.

From llarpers Bazar.
What a problem II is TO know what to
DO with our old gloves. Some girls have
boxes and packages Of them stored away.
They get them out only now and again,
look at them, think over all the good
times they had when wearing them at
dances, dinners, &c; wonder if the gloves
could possibly be cleaned again. then fold
them away-stil wondering say:
Tnoy are Of 10 use TO any one, and yet
] hate 10 throw them away; they may
come in for something some day
one girl has found use for them at
last and this is not one Of the swell
Girls with dozens and dozens of long
gloves Ia match every evening gown. but
a girl who had few pairs and who had 10
rr very careful of them, too, TO make
Them last the season out.
When her eyes fell upon hopeless
looking heap of dirty glOyes-white and
pale COlOrS-an inspiration came to her.
- shall cut OF the hands and make some
tNlUg out OF the rest OF the KID. She
carefully riI ped the seams of the upper
parts, cleaned them thoroughly with
uaphIhd, gasoline, and magneSid, accord
'n- Z" how they were sGlled, and then she
SCI io work.
out Of the long parts of a pair Of pale
pink gants De suede she made beautiful
picture frame, simply by paStinS the kid
over a cardboard frame tthc paste only
being put on the back \ card case OF
pear. gray kid is another OF the pretty
things she has made. II is entirely Gov
cred with the kid, sewed neatly together
uD tho edges. which are finished with
small steel beads.
pu the outside Is a monogram, ombTOid-
6rrI lu steel beads. done of course. before
J.D cas-, was covered. Still another eN-
cs'uu-iy pretty thing is d book cover or
Photograph ease.
This she made of two or three pairs of
Ia.t yellow giants de suede. The pieces
were too narrow 10 30 the entire width,
-n she cuI them into strips of equal size,
sUl when Joined she ScWed on narrow
luI braid. The whole was bound with
ru, same and the book tied in with a
band OF cOTn-COlOrcd satin ribbon.
There seems To be no end To the list Of
attractive things she deyiSeS There are
button bags. lined with silk and feather
stitched ON the seams; tobacco pouches
and opera glass bags, done in the saTe
HrE. card cases and spool cases. Some
3D.. Ha- painted or embroidered, others
sr. has simply finished off with a hit Of
Ribbon And the hands OF the gloves out
~ which all these pretty things we're
made were thrown away Not at all
SIR cat oil the tops OF the fingers and
-tE. them 90 the housemaid to wear when
... cleaned her ireplaces or her brasses
..' silver and she kept some of them -
wear herself when polishing up her own
particular silver Irinkets.
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Old English Music,

From the Pail Nall Gazette
Genuine old English music still flour
ishes in Kentish Town. Mrs. HOatol as
suTed the Magistrate that her husband
often played the marrowbOnes and cleaver
al wedding. \ wedding WAS not the
particular festivity that was on the other
day: not to put too fine a point upon it.
ii was only that the baiiffa were in, for
the benefit OF another occupant of the
house. But the cleaver and the marrow
bones, or rather the heavy iron poker.
were there all the same. and played right
merrily. Mrs. Houtol tried TO play on one
of the bailiffs with the cleaver and Mr.
HCutol did play on him with the poker.
Al least, so the Magistrate found, though
Mrs. Houtols version was that they had
all been jolly and dancing together. ana
presumably the bailiff carelessly got i'm
the way of the orchestra, while Mr.. Hou-
tOl explained that he merely showed the
bailiffs the way out of the house" Still
even bailiffs do not like being shown out
with fun band accompaniment.
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Driven from Palermo.

The neeromancer drew a magic circle
OF phosphorus on the ground. pronounced
some cabalistic words. and bade the gold
smith TO dig. MaranO went to work with
pick and spade Suddenly terrific yells
were heard, and a troop of devils UO1
seph's boon companions in disguise)
rushed from behind the rocks and pOunc-
ed upon the hapless goldsmith. They
pummeled him with their fists and prod
ded him with pitchfOrks and left him in
sensible among the rocks. For this act
RaIsamo was forced to flee from Palermo
to escape the vengeance OF the furious
goldsmith and punishment at the hands
Of the authorities. He was not lOath TO
leave the city, for he had the heart OF d
rover.
In company with a Greek named AL
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Hat o. fine black straw lined with white
straw. and trimmed with Dia. X gauge
loops ana spray Of large blush f0ses,
with their leaves and buds Strings Of
black sauze are Tied ander iae cain.
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Relief
F3- Tuss


"Hog's dat Brudder Jackson-you says
you mighty glad when sunday come.
round. an yit / never sees YOU inside De
chu'Ch do
De ole woman goes, sah"
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many lovely models. remarkable for the
arrangement OF feathers: beneath and
above the brim. soft msrabout feathers
miHgle with the ostrich
There Is no lack Of color In the toilets
OF to-day. and a black silk muslin coT-
cred all over With large. bold roses. in
red and yellow tones. is made up with a
skirt, into which an insertion OF black
lace quite half yard deep Is waved in
a most unaccountable manner, but singu-
larry graceful. The bodice has sleeves OF
the same black lace. with a frill of the
Cline muslin. full hack and front, and
hlled Into the throat. with white satin
worked with magnificent gold embroidery
and Jewels.
Some Evening Gowns.
Some evening gowns shown me were so
chie that ] cannot omit them from my
catalogue Of beautiful creations. A black
chiffon has three sk:r:x-the lower two
with black tulle fiounces. each one edged
with bouillonnes, the upper OF ecru lace
forming deep aecentuated points. with
black paillettes all over, fitting the figure
perfectly close. the design holly leaves
with border. the bodice trimmed with
horizontal bands Of lace. which consti-
tutes the best part Of the sleeves; the
belt pink chine. This is after a model
OF Doucet's. A yellow evening bodice had
appliques OF lace all round II, and was
trimmed with pleats; there were braces of
lace and bouillonnes of pink on the
shoulders; the bodice made full, with
cape-like trimmings. the skirt with three
hounces trimmed with black. A ball
gown made in white silk had a clinging
tunic, into which were introduced a iour
large roses of white lace worked all over
with silver paillettes. which clung closely
TO the figure and fell over a skirt of
white esprit net, covered with spangles
the bodice slightly full. but without any
Waistband, bodice and skirt apparently
cut in one, forming a Princesse: lace
butterfiies. silvered, appeared on the
front and on the sleeves. which were
merely slight scallOp on the shoulder
and slighter scallop under the arm.
This dress was trimmed with an applique
Of lace, edging the tunic. There are
plenty Of balls for which such dresses
are required
You will notice that the butterfly is in
favor as dress decoration also; in iewalry-
it is having a decided vogue. At a June
wedding the four bridesmaids wore en-
amel butterfly brooches of different col
ors, the bridegrooms gift. These brides
maids were attired in cream point d'esprft
net over cream silk. with large square
collars of Falenciennes insertion and
lace. Their skirts were made with a
shaped 1ounce inserted with string-coI-
ored lace and finished with sashes of bIue
chiffon. Green shoes and stockings wara
worn.
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She Was Exem yt.
Frou Truth

ErnE ITuff.
We've been playing school. mamma"
Indeed! / hope you behaved nicelyg"
"Oh, didn't have 10 behave; was the
teacher.
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thotas he visited Greece. Egypt. Arabia,
Persia, Rhodes. Malta. Naples, Venice,
and Rome. According to his own account,
he studied alchemy at Malta in the zap
OIatOry of Pinto. Grand Master of the
Knights of Malta and St John. During
the course of his WanderingS he became
more and more versed in natural magic,
and his talents in that line were so great
that he soon won reputation as a mas
ter of miracles. He perfected his deN-
terity and became proficient in tricks IN
Volving the use of slelght of hand. He
also learned the art of forging documents
and seals, and practiced with zeal the
profession of the idea of mine and thine
In Rome he met a beautiful girl, l>O-
rcnZa Feliciani daughter of a girdle
maker. and as she was deXterouS In the
practice of sly arts and promised to be
good assistant 10 him and helpmate they
we're married. She was. in fact. more orig
inal and inventive than himself, and
they Travelled over Europe in codCh-in-
four with a retinue of servants in gor-
geOus liveries. He played the part of a
magician, prophet, and eXOrCtSt so well
that his fame spread over Europe and
people of the better class, scholars and
writers. met him with great Difference.
The ladies wore fans, hats. and souvenirs
a la CagliostrO; his wife's picture and his
own were worn in lOekets. Marble buste
of the couple were to be seen in the parks
and palaces, and under the picture OF the
charlatan were inscribed the words THE
DIVINE tdGUOStTD.
One OF the famous arts was the prep
aratiOn of a rejuVenating tinCture. by the
use of which old and wrinkled ladies
might obtain smooth skin and the Vari-
Gus charms of youth. AT Strasburg." says
one of the biOgrapherS, "he reaped an
abundant harvest by processing the art
of making old people young" Cagliostro
himself pretended 10 be Of great age. and
declared that he had hObnObbed with AL
eXander and Julius Caesar: that he was
present a. the burning Of Rome under
Nero. and Was an eyewitness of the
crucifixiOn of Christ. As the founder of
a certain mysterious lodge CagliOstro
gained many adherents. He led his
brotherhood back 10 Enoch and Elias,
and promised the members that they
should be born again. morally and Dhysi-
caly. and in that way they could live
900 years
Triumph in Paris
Count CagliostrO was at the perihelon
of his fame when he first appeared in
Paris, in the summer Of I7sl. His record
had preceded him. and all Paris was on
the qui yiye. Cardinal de Rohan. of
France, who was a firm believer in the
pretensions Of the charIatan. entertained
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This beautiful toque Of cream Ycddah
siIa" is wound round with cream end
white tulIs and finished By 4 creat tuf-
leray formed Dy black wings soeekIed
with white and lined with pale blue.
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HOUSE OF CACLI0STR0
Famous Landmark of Paris
Being Torn Down.
LABORATORY OF JOSEPH BALSAM0

Celebrated Fakir Who Imp posed Upon Paris
In the Time Of Cardinal de ROhan Used
to Hold His Seances in This House-His
Character AnaIyzed by Carlyle and His
Life Romance Written by the Elder Du-
mas-Predicted Fall OF the Bastiie.
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His Remarkable Prediction.


While IN the BastIle Cagli1strJ rnada
the remarkable prediction that one day
the Bastiie would De razed 10 tile ground
How well that prophecy WAS realized his
tory relates. After ten months imprls0n-
menJ the neCTOmancer was Ieleassd and
he received a triumphant welcome home.
But his triumph I'D not last long An
order was issued by the King command
ing the Count CagllOstrO 10 leave Paris ln
twenty-fOur hours asa France before The
END of Two weeks. lie DJsed 10 the man
date of the sovereign and with his wife
visited Swiize FlaHI and afterwsrd Eng
land, but he had little success.
Ia l79 he went 10 Rome where be en-
deayOFed 20 found one % his Egyptian
lodges. bui the Holy IHqulsiliou pro-
nOunc~d him guilty Of FreemasonFy--a
particularly heinous OfTeEEe lu paDdi ter
ritOry-and condemned him 10 death The
sentence. however. Was cOmmuted by the
Pope 10 perpetual imprisonment in the
gloomy fortress Of San Leon. trbinO.
The manner q his death and the day o,
II are uncertain. but most authorities
agree that he died on August =. i7s5. from
aDoplexy.
His wife. the ;iful I.oseuza Fell
clani, ended her ---- in a convent.
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world of the old regime which went out
forever in the French Revolution. He
captured Paris as easily as he had the
other capitals on the continent, and he
literally coined money.
When CagliOstrO came TO France he
found the ground prepared for his magi-
cal operations. a society eager for dis
fractions and emotions, INDUCED to every
iorm or extravaganza, necessarily wei
coined such "A man and hailed him as its
guide. Whence did he come? What was
MS country, his age. his origin? Where
dld he get those extraordinary diamonds
which adorned his dress. the gold which
ne squandeHed so freelyT 1t was all a
mystery. So far as was known, CagliostrO
had no resources. no letter of credit, and
yet he lived in luxury. He treated and
cured the poor without pay, and not sat
lsfed with restoring them to health, he
made them large presents of money. The
Germans. who lived on legends imagined
mat he was the Wandering Jew. Speak
ing strange gibberish. which was
neither French nor Italian. with which
he mingled jargon which he did not
translate but called Arabic ne used to ra-
cite with solemn emphasis the most alb
suFd fables. and he found the people
ready 10 listen and believe him.
His Mystic Makeup.
The Count dressed In a manner that be-
fitted his calling. According to the most
authentic records, he was a rather badly
built man, clad in poorly cut blue taffeta,
laced on the borders. He wore his hair in
startling and most ridiculous style, -gith
powdered plaits punched in cadenettes
1t was the Cardinal de Rohan himself
who installed Cagliostro and his wife in
the home of Nine. dOrvilliers, which
is row 10 be torn down. lie used "a visit
the sorcerer almost every day, arriving. at
dinner time and remaining until late in
the night II was said that the great
Cardinal assisted Cagli0stro i'm his
iabOrs, and the people of that time spoke
or the mysterious laboratory where gold
bubbled and diamonds sparkled in cruci-
bles brought 10 a white heat
The Queen of France had A strange an
tlpathy toward the cnarlatan. dnG il was
forbidden to mention his name In her
presence or al court The wife Of the
Comte de Ia Motto, an adventures Of the
first rank. bOasted Of her ability 10 cor
quer the Queens dislike She first made
the acquaintance or LOrenZ1. and after
ward that OF CdgliO5tro. Wh1 introduced
her 10 the Cardinal. Then followed the
weli-known intrigue Of the diamond neck
lace. The Cardinal the woman La
Note" and Cagiiostro were imprisoned In
the Bastlle Here Is the Counts own
statement Of the affair.
on the I'D OF August a comm. .sgafra
and eight policemen entered N; house
The pillage began In my presence. They
compelled me 70 open my secretary.
E!ixiTs, balms, and precious liquors AL be-
came the prey Of the officers wha came
10 arrest me. / begged the cDnrissdire
20 permit me 20 use my carriage. Re re-
fused The agent took me by the collar.
He had pistols, the stocks % when ap-
peared from the pockets Of his coa.. They
hustled me into the street ana scandal
Ously dragged me along the boulevard 10
the Rue NOtre- -Dame-de-Na Nazareth There
a carriage approached, which l was per-
mitted 10 enter 20 take ne ~ thc Bds-
tile"
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Life of "Cagliostro."


The life of Count Cagliostro makes faS-
moTselessly dissected his character in that
remarkable essay. Count CagIiostro,"
which is so Carlylesque and consequently
not entirely accurate. Joseph Balsanio
was the Counts real name, but it did not
sound mysterious enough when he became
more than an amateur sorcerer, so he
chose a high-sounding title, just as the
fortune-tellers, cIairvoyants, and mediums
of our own day change the name Of
Thomas Smith or Maria Jones to Signor
Patzulosi and Nine. Zella. Human rature
has not changed so materially in l50 years
and people still believe in witchcraft and
sorcery, and young girls give 10 bard
earned savings for amulets and owe po-
tiOns. People laugh at the pretensiOns Of
eighteenth century sOothSayers, forget
ting that never in the history of the
world did empiricsm thrive as it docs at
the present time.
Balsamo was born Of a merchant faTHily
in Palermo, Sicily, in l743. He received
the rudiments of an education, and being
naturally bright he made good use Of all
his learning. He was such an apt student
of chemistry that he was sent TO a monas-
terry near Palermo to pursue the study
under the direction of learned priests. 1t
was an age OF ignorance and superstition,
and the agile mind of BalSamo detected
great possibilities in performing tricks
based on this science. He was naturally
a trickster, and so. after completing his
course of study. he started out on ca
reer of deception. He began by forging
theater tickets. and then a will. He rob
bed a goldsmith named MaranO of a sum
of money. BalsamO pretended that a
secret treasure lay buried in a certain
rocky chasm just outside the city Of Pal
ermO and that he. for a cOnSidara tiOn-Of
course-was able TO unearth the gold by
means of certain magical inCantatiOns.
The goldbeater was simple man, and like
a gudgeOn swallowed the bait hook ard
all He paid the required fee, and accom-
visit on a certain dark night to the lonely
spot where the treasure was supposed
to be.
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From TIE san Francisco Cau.
Word comes from Paris that the anti
quated house I'm the Rue Saint Claude
that was once occupied by the areh-neero-
mancer of the eighteenth century. Count
Cagiiostro. is TO be torn down, and that
the site Will be covered by a more spa
ciOus and modern structure. If this report
be true Paris will lose one Of her land
marks. for the weird. ramshack!e old
place has long been an object of interest
to visitors at the French capital. Since
the Counts time few changes have been
made inside or out. Traces of a secret
stairway. now walled up, may be found by
the inquisitive visitor, which assists the
imagination in conjuring up all sorts of
fantastic fancies of what once took place
in that charmed corridor. There is anoth-
er stairway on the side Of the house fac
ing the Boulevard Beaumarchais. 1t is
narrow and tortUous and leads to the old
salons now cut into apartments, the win
dows of which look out upon a terrace
which still retains its old iron balconies.
Below, with their moldering doors, are
the carriage house and the stable, where.
frightened ghosts were materialiZed, the
stories of which kept the superstitiOus
people of Paris indoors on dark nights.
The cellars of the old house are dank
and noisOme. and there are several large
holes in the floor that remind one of CUB
liettes. The courtyard has a morOse and
solemn aspect. At one end, under 6
tagged porch, there is a stone staircase.
worn by time. 1t does not require vivid
imagination to fancy the hosts of beau
tiful women who walked up those steps
with trembling limbs. attracted by the
promises of the old wonder-wOrker.
And up these steps walked the pompous
Cardinal de Rohan to discourse with
Count Cagliostro on such subjects as nee
romancy, metalurgy, cabala. and Oneiro-
critic. which constituted the four ele-
mentary divisions of the great Cophta's
art. Cagliostros career n France was a
f1ambOuyant one, and for a time all Paris
focked to his soirees and seances. He
was as prodigal as he was mysterious
giving to the poor with generous hard.
snubbing the rich and noble. and posing
as the peer of Dukes and Princes. His
dazzling career came to a sudden end. He
became involved in the affair of the dia-
mond necklace and was banished to the
bastile, and, though afterward released
he never regaired his prestige, and with
his death thauma turgy became thing of
the past, science laughed away sorceTy.
witchcraft, and necromancy, and the art
of sleight of hand became popular He
was the last of the exponents of natural
magic.