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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-20
RoERs DEMOCRATS SLOGAN.
Select This for a War Cry in Next
Presidential Campaign.

Washington, March 2O.-The demo
Gratis of the house of representatives
last night formed a plan to force the
Boer issue before congress. They also
took step which is regarded as abso
lutely indicative of what may be ex
pected from the party as whole il
the Boer war continues for an indefi
mite period.
First, the democrats in congress will
try to force the house committee or
foreign affairs to send back to the
house of representatives, with a favor
able report, resolution declaring the
nations sympathy with the struggling
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The Seal and the Bear.

From ST. Nicholas.
The seal does not stop his search for food
until he has completely satisfied his excel
lent appetite; then he takes a good nap,
lying upon the very edge of the ice, or as
close as possible to his breathing hole. The
slightest sound will awaken him. and, with
out waiting to find out the source or direc-
ton. he rolls into the water. He can stay
under for only thirty-five minutes but
where he viii come up none can tell. This
no one knows better than the bear; and if
the bear realizes that ii is impossible to
steal Up on the leeward side of the seal,
having his black nose covered with his
paw and his bloodshot eyes closed, when
the seal has his open and on the watch, he
looks about for a favorable point of de-
parture, dives under the ice, and If he
rightly judges the distance and direction
he comes up at the very spot where the
seal has expected II go down. The seals
fate IS thus settled, and the bears shrewd-
ness earns its reward.
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letter, on the letter paper of ''L Dumort,
notary, 10 Rue Thouret, Rouen," addressed
to Monsieur Humbert. 1t would contain
full assurances of the existence of the
locked-up fortune. such as-.I Ghe notary)
have always answered to all questions that
l myself know personally and from seeing
them the figures of the stocks and bonds
sequestered in your hands; that they rep
resent an annual income of 3,0O00U0 francs
at per cent; l. e., capital of more than
1oO.000,eO0 francs; that your right to them
IS ndisputable, consecrated by decisions,
judgment and DEGREES of courts that can
not be reopened; that your solvabilty is
above all suspicion, as are your probity
and delicacy.
But 1 have always added that. by the
terms of your convention with the Craw
fords, you are forbidden to exhibit these
securities as pledge or guarantee in any
case" o.
Owes Vast Sums.
Then, as a last tduch, the document
would mention. say, two recent cases in
which bankers giving their names and ad-
dresses) had applied to him, desiring to
lend money to the. Hunberts on the
strength of some such proposed exhibition.
Il replied that the operation was impos-
sible,' concludes the document Take
care that you do not lose your chance,
too is the warning read between the lines
by Simon Cahen. z.t.y
Let me have $500 900 francs" says Mad
anne Humbert; your: commission, per-
sonal to you, shall be 100000 francs
taken in cash from the sum loaned by the
bank. So the bank loans the money.
Madame Humbert now owes more than
60,O00,000 francs of borrowed money. And
all holds together logically. Madame Hum
bert cannot pay because the Crawford
nephews will not let the fund be touched
by her; and the Crawford nephews will not
let the fund be touched because Marie
d d'Aurignac will not marry one of them.
She has refused them, now, for eighteen
Again, only yesterday, the question was
asked in the first chamber of the court of
appeals by the President Judge Lefebvre
de Melville. This judge threatens to go to
the bottom of the mystery, and a scandal
of immense proportions threatens to ex-
plode in the Paris bar at any. moment
STERLING HEILIG,
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ma, or. as they term II at the immigration
bureau. the Egyptian eye" 1t is caused
so rumor states, by the fine sand of the
soml-ariG lands from which they come
getting between the lids and the eyebaU
where 1t sets up Irritation which be-
comes chronic and often causes total blind
ness. 1t IS very painful. and is pronounced
exceedingly contagious
The Finlanders, who are coming much
more numerously than ever before-their
annual Immigration having grown from
2.ee to 10000 in three years-unlfka the
classes just mentioned. are industrious and
highly productive, and are likely to re-
main here permanently. since to return
would be to place themselves in the power
of the Bear of the North. Nearly all of
them so to the copper mines Of Michigan
and Montana. but many of those who have
been here some years are now leaving the
mines to become farmers.
1t goes without saying that the immf-
grants to be seen in a body at the immi-
grafton station today are by no means
equal In appearance to those who were to
be seen there daily a decade or two ago
Still there is occasionally a well-built. deep
chestod male specimen. and here and there
a womans face is shown that makes the
observer think of a blooming rose or a
graceful lily in a garden overgrown with
weeds.
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Our Prosperity Attracts.

Some notion of the great increase this
year, thus far. over recent years, may be
gained from the following figures. In 1897
the total for the year was 142,4 400; in 1885,
900, ,9Oo; in 1899, 27S,S46; in 1900, 367 40; in
1901, 40s, ,226.
After 1892, when times in America were
reported hard in Europe, immigration fell
off Signally, to increase from 1S9l to the
present, slowly at first, but steadily, and
more recently by leaps and bounds. The
poor and discouraged in Europe, those for
whom there is no place and no comfort at
home, have heard of Uncle Sans prosperity
and are now Fastening to these shores as
fast as they can raise the money to come
and steam can bring them hither.
The present high tide of immigration is
sure to keep up. too, as long as the coun-
try's prosperity is the wonder of the whole
earth. There is a common belief that i'm
migration figures reach the maximum in
ten-year periods, but this is not so; the
tide is governed almost wholly by the rise
and fall of our material prosperity. The
prosperity of Europe may be supposed te
have something to do with it, and perhaps
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Habits of the Robin.

From the Woman's Home Companion.
Let us hide behind that clump Of black
berry bushes and watch the parent birds
as they come to feed their young There
comes the father robin now; you can dis
tinguish him from the mother by his
darker plumage. You will notice that in
coming with the food he alights on a par
ticular twig, hops along a particular branch
and alights on a particular side of the
nest. If you watched him for a week you
would probably see him approach the nest
in precisely the same way each time. Now
here comes the mother-a lighter-colored
bird, with gray on the back of her head.
You see that she reaches the nest by quite
a different route and alights upon the other
side of It, and she Will do this over and
over again. Like men and women, birds
acquire habits which they rigidly adhere to,
unless something happens to prevent them.
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Financial Operations That
Have Amazed Paris.
A WONDERFUL LEGACY
VAST FORTUNES BORROWED ON
IMAGINARY SECURITIES.
Who Are the Crawford Brothers2-True
Tale That Reads Like
Romance.

PARIS. May II. 1902.
Does any one in the United States know
the two Crawford brothcrs-Henry Craw-
ford, Robert rawf1rd-prcsumably of New
York city and possessed Of $S1,UJoOO or
SluO0ODOOO each? They are the Eephews OF
an elder Henry Robert Crawford. who died
in the year 1873. leaving $240p0.0Oo (other
money! and two wills. dated the same day,
to dispose of it
Since 1881 the Crawford nephews, repre-
sented by a train of eminent French law
yers to whom they have given multitu-
dinous instructions and great fees have
troubled the French courts in a judicial
romance that for mystery, stubbornness
and bland resourcefulnoss stands unique in
the annals of French Jurisprudence.
And yet in all these years no one has
seen the Crawford nephews. In 1897 the
chamber of discipline of the avoues (solic
itOrsD of Paris suspicious Of the mystery,
threatened to commence an inquiry con-
Cerning their exist nee and desisted only on
the word of MaiJre Parmcntier. an honor
able Hdvre solicitor. who OF late years has
directed the procedure for thcm. Three
months ago. in full tribunal. the President
Judge Beaudoiu exclaimed: Il want to see
these Crawf0rds. Bring them to the bar!
Nobody brought them. Millions wait for
these extraordinary Americans. locked IN
a frepTOof safe: the French courts have
adJudged these millions to them, but they
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your hands, must remain sequestered; 1t
st mi he touched
A Remarkable Contract.

The proof of all this is a formidable
document, copies of which, duly attested
have been circulating through all the bank
parlors, notaries offices, lawyers studies
and court archives of France for years
BY the terms of this contract all the stocks,
bonds and personal property making up the
$24.0DO,OOO of the late Uncle Crawford We're
contided to the care of Nine Humbert and
her husband to await the coming of age
OF Mile. Marie d'Aurignac ''wh m
all the legatees of both wills and with Jut
exception can come to a friendly under
standing of equitable compromise, or in
default of such compromise the decision of
the proper tribunals
Until one of the two solutions should be
arrived at, Madame Humbert and her hus-
band were debarred themselves from allen
ating, under any preteXt, a single share or
bond or other piece of the great fortune, or
change the Investment of a single stock or
bond other piece, and they bound them
selves to invest all income in French gov
ernment securities and add them, as pur-
chased, to the stock of securities that con-
stitute the capital. Then. at the end, was
added a formidable clause. In the case of
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A RECORD BREAK Err
This Year Will Be a Great
One for Emigrants.
BIG DAY MAY THIRD
OVER 100000 CAME OVER IN
FOUR MONTHS.
Poles, Slavs and Italians Lead
ALI Other New
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
Unless there should be an unexpected and
highly improbable slump all immigration
records are bound to be broken this year.
Both the daily and monthly records have
been broken already, a matter of fact,
50 that only the yearly record stands
The monthly record was broken in April,
when 73 667 foreigners (steerage passengers,
not citizens) passed through the nations
gate on the bit of land termed Ellis Island
in the harbor of New York. The daily
record was broken on Saturday. May 3,
when 6,213 men, women and children from
almost every country in Europe, as well
as a few from Asia and Africa, stepped
foot on American soil for the first time.
The burning of the records few years ago
with the fimsy wooden buildings In which
the United States first received immigrants
on Ellis Island precludes accurate compar-
ison with earlier figures but it is distinctly
remembered by the inspectors that never
before was there such a hustling there,
and never were many passed in one day
as on the first Saturday in May, 1902. The
heaviest month previous to April of this
year since the government has had charge
of the New York immigration station was
exactly ten years earlier, in April. 1892.
when the number coming in was 5000. On
the first nine days of this month "a .096 were
landed. or at the rate of more than $4,000
for the month.
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BILE understanding" mentioned meant her
marriage to one of the Crawford nephews
Nine. Humbert had nc trouble to prove to
her bankers.
Henceforth the circle of her bankers
widened wonderfully There is no ionge~
a single man of affairs in Paris or the
provinces unfamiliar to this lady" exclaims
an admirer Of her audaCious enterprise
from the Pyrenees to the Scheldt there is
not a nOney-lenders safe she has not
sounded; there is not a bank-the Bank OF
France ;ncluded-frOm which she has not
had money. and / remain under the real
figures in affirming that, since 1885, there
has been accommodating on the Place of Paris
6o.ooO.on0 francs of paper signed with her
name,'
Eighteen months had passed since the
signing of the Contract of sequestrati ton"
by the Crawford nephews on the one part
and the Humberts on the other. Mile.
Marie d'Aurignac had come of age, and
yet there was no sign of the great fire
proof safe being opened.
A Happy Solution.
Fear nothing" replied Madam Humbert
to the creditors of those early days. "the
Crawfords - chivalrous Americans-do not
wish TO abuse the indecision of i young
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year by European laborers to be spent in
the old world.
The average Pole, Slovak or Italian will
save from $500 to $3.50 in a year, and in
five years will have got together, say, two
thousand good American dollars. Every
thing neutrality-suspicious. power, etc
this money is worth two and one-half times
as much at home to the Pole or SloYak,
and five times much to the Italian as IL
would be here, so that there is small won-
der that both Poles, Slovaks and Italians,
besides those of many other nationalities,
prefer to spend their savings on their native
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else on earth. the sturdy German. who has
made himself an important factor in Amer
lean life, and the fair-haired Scandinavian
hard-working, frugal and a genuine acqui-
S;tion. we have now an excess of Poles and
Slovaks from Austria and Russia and
Italians.
The first two of these may be placed in
one class as against the Italians: last year
there Were 60,0o0 of the former and 5000
of the latter. The total immigration. this
year to date has been about 202oO. more
than half the grand total of last year. 1t
is hardly necessary to say that there is no
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Wholesale Borrowing.

This agreement. dated at Paris on March
IA, 1888 and signed on the one side Robert
Crawford, Henry Crawford" and on the
other Frederic Humbert, Therese Hum
bert, although it contained the promise of
an ultimate solution of great richness,
caused much embarrassment to Madame
Humbert at the moment. The properties
that she had purchased We're not paid for
and where was the money to come from to
pay the interest on their purchase price?
On the strength of this great legacy She
had long lived richly. Money in great sums
had been already borrowed. Interest on
these sums would soon be due More sums
Were needed for their daily living. In her
mansion on the Avenue of the Grand Armee
Madame Humbert had a great fireproof
safe, in which were locked up the 120,ooO,U,E
francs of securities. But they must not b.
touched,
There was nothing to do but to borrow
more to go on until Mile. Marie d dAurignac.
her sister. should come of age in eighteen
months now. True. the contract did not
speak Of her marriage the great solu-
tion of the deadlock, but that the 'amica-
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comparison between the German and Irish
immigrant of other years and the Polish,
Slovak and Italian immigrants of the pres
ent. In physical appearance and vigor the
men and women from northern Europe out
match the others almost two to one. AS
material from which American citizens are
made the disparity is still greater. Nearly
all the German and Irish came here to
stay; nearly all the Poles, Sovaks and
Italians come here to remain only till they
can get enough money together to go back
and live on the proceeds of their savings
or the produce of the little farms these
savings will buy. OF late years, indeed
immigrants of these classes-the Italians
more particularly-go back home winters
and spend the earnings of the summers,
thus draining the country annually of dol
lars by the millions. instead of adding to
the national wealth, did the earlier new
comers from Germany and the emerald
isle.
The Small Fortunes.
1t is not too much to say that thousands
of what those who amass them term for
tunes are got together in this country every
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Sounded Every Money Lender.

France or in America. the immensely
v-Ilthy Henry Robert Crawford. leaving
T. her in her maiden name of Therese
Il AuriEnac the whole of his immense.
I fIrJuur, today valued al 12O.0tD. 900 francs
OF S2louo.pr. The will was dated Nice
: 'Tt, uher q. 1877: and the fortune it seems
Was in stocks. bonds and other personal
Property. On the strength If this wonder
tIl legacy Made mGiSellt ThertSc q Aurig-
nae became Nine. Frederic Humbert had
already purchased the mansion in the Ave
Eue Of the Grand Armee, the chateau of
NIves-EasX. near MolUn. and the property
called De C.lsrIn.' outside the gates of
NarbUure. when two mysterious young
men from America made their theatrical
appearance. threatening to dry up all this
aHiHyuCe at its source.
A Second Will.
They were two cousins. Robert Craw-
r.' and Henry Crawford. and they brought
with them another will and testament of
tasir rich uncle. Henry Robert Crawford
dated the same time and place as the first
VII in which the old gentleman bequeathed
lis fortune to Therese d'Aurignac. The
new VIII read:
This is my last will and testament:
Il wish that after my death all that 1
possess be divided into three equal parts
oI--third TO be given TO Marie d'Aurienac.
ou--third 10 my nephew. Henry Crawford
and one-third to my nephew. Robert Craw-
fJrl. with a charge on the latter To take
rom their parts and invest in France
Cipit&l sufficient to produce for Mademoi-
ssUe Therese d'AuTignac Z life pension of
'"FH francs per month.
Nice. September t.. 1871.
tSignedJ III. II. CRAWFORD"
Nine Frederic Humbert formerly Therese
d AUrisnac) by this will therefore lost her
SItvD.uDb in exchange for a monthly pen
son of 5000. while her younger sister
Marie d AuriEnaC. only fifteen years Old in
1NtN would take $S.OO0nJU unincumbered
w hIch was the true Will?
All Nine Frederic Humbert'S fears, how
ever. were soon soOthed by the Chiyalrous
proposals OF the Crawford nephews.
Madame. they said. each of us has al
Te@dy. in his own right, four or five hun
Ired million francs OF fOrtune-we do not
know exactly which. What we want is not
10 take this money. but TO piousiy accom-
plish the supreme last wish of dear
uncle. which was to unite the Crawfords
and the dAurgnacs in marriage. One of
Inc two OF us will marry you
But. said Mime Humbert, II am al
ready married.
Then of us will marry your dear
sister. Marie"
But she is not of age"
Then We will wait" said the Crawford
nephews. But as Is but just. while wait
Ing. this great fortune, which is now in
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Their First Appearance.

In l-.s.ur.'us mansion of The Avenue Of
t, Grand ARM, live Mn.,. Frederic Hum
b.rt. h.- husband. VI. Frederic Hum
bert and her sister. Madsu-isoue Marie
d'AU.izuac. q N. Frederic Hlm1ert one time
pcartic,d as an avocat, rr b1rrister, was
once deputy flr the Ssiue-et-Aarne dis
tr!c-. and i tHa SON af g prt-timc president
Of tn. senate and tiaIde G-s Sceaux. Nine.
Huuh-rt. before Ii, ma rricd her. was a
Unjry girl # Toulouse. without the no
b. pITti-1ll,.' tle de that figures in her
SISTERS name of d'AUriEnac. 1t had. never
th-icSs. come I'd her some where between
1N1N ana l~N;i n even previously, because
about this time there died, somewhere in
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IN measure 1t has, but less than you
would imagine, for, though Germany IS
anything but prosperous now industrially.
the immigration of Germans to the United
States at this time is small, whereas it
used to be enormous.
immigration Changes.
In fact there has been great change In
the character of the foreigners who come
here in search Of fortune. In place of the
hearty Irishman who develops better un-
der the stars and stripes than anywhere
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Quieted Him.

From the Chicago News.
Il think there's hack in your razor"
faItered the stranger in the chair.
"Well did yer expect to find an automo-
bie?" reared the tough barber, as he
spIashed the laeher on the ceiling.
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girl. They have just offered US a contract
which will put an end to all conflicts of
heart and interest. Read it," CHere she
PARIS, Dec. 8, 1884.
ITO Monsieur and Madam Humbert:
we Jointly and severally engage our
selves to recognize as null the will of our
uncle. in which we are named, and to make
no claim on his estate, if you engage
yourselves, on your part to remit to each
one of us 100000 francs as a compromise.
Receive our salutations,
(SigneO "R. CRAWFORD,
III CRAWFORD
In a similar legal letter. addressed 20
MN II. and r. Crawford, Hotel West
minister. Rue de la Paix, Paris" Nine.
Humbert and her husband formally ac-
ccpted this generous offer Of compromise"
and copies of both papers have thenceforth
been ever at the disposition of their credit
ors-and their prospective creditors. Those
who had begun to doubt were reassured: ::
those who hesitated came to look on loan
ing money to the lady as a good thing.
New loans were contracted on the strength
of the coming liberation of the immense
fund Of 100, 900 900 francs, so that by this
time Nine. Humbert had already borrowed
some 12000,O00 francs "to go on"
The money lenders were already counting
their usurious profits, when a bombshell
fell into the camp. The Crawford nephews
although they had solemnly contracted to
give up their perfectly clear rights to all
or at least half of the 120, 600 900 francs in
return for the modest compromise sum of
60O0 900 francs, now came into court claim
ing that the marriage with Marie d'Aurig-
nae remained. as 1t had always been, the
principal consideration.
MY clients" declared Maitre Pouillet
one of the great lights of the Paris bar
Thought that all was settled on December
9, 1884 (date of the compromise), for at that
moment there had been veritable be-
trothal, jewels had been sent and accepted
and the marriage was not only promised,
but almost accomplished. Then, at the last
'Eh benr continued Maitre Pouillet,
"the marriage broken off, the compromise
no longer exists and all is to begin again"
'DO they want the whole of the 20,0O0, 900
francs now?' was asked.