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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
BLACK MASS" ROMANCE
PLOT FORMS THE BASIS OF SAR-
" DoU'S LATEST PLAY.
Story of the Mysterious Poisoning
Epidemic During the Reign
of Louis XIV.
Special Cablerrsm to The Star

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS, December 2S-M Victorien
Sardou's seventy-sixth play is about to
be produced at the Porte st. Martin
Theater. LAffaire des Poisons" is a
story after his own heart. 1t touches
upon the strange and never-explained
mystery of the poisoning mania which
broke out in Paris during the reign of
Louis XIV.
The notorious woman La Brinvilliers
was tortured and executed in 1917 The
next year, conversations overheard and
retold to the police led to the arrest of
two more prisoners. Mesdames Vigoureux
and La Bosse. and finally. of third, La
Voison, whose lover was the Paris heads
man. The king determined to stamp out
the extraordinary epidemic. HuS bands
were poisoning their wives, wives poison
ing husbands and heirs poisoning rich
uncles by the score new judicial
deal with the affair. Its inquiries re-
vealed the dark practices of the black
mass and all Paris was thrown into
CONSERVATION. Wives and husbands sus-
pected each other, and friends fought shy
of friends. Hundreds of the most
highly-placed persons were implicated,
court ladies, Drincesses, a marshal of
France and two nieces of Cardinal Ma
zarin-
Justice grimly expeditions, and
La Voison burnt alive in 1850. But
her daughter was still at liberty. The
judicial chamber made the fatal mistake
of arresting her and an accomplish. The
later revealed that the Marquise de
Montespan was one of the poisoning
gang, and one of the chief devotees of
the black mass. Thenceforth inquiries
were stopped and everything was done
to hush up the whole business. Police
records and official documents were so
carefully expunged that to this day it
remains doubtful whether the charge
against La Montespan of attempting to
poison either her royal lover himself or
women in whom she feared possible
rivals was true or false. NJ. Sardou has
worked up into a play some of the in
Vulnerable dramatic elements which
such cause. celebre yields. ''L'Affaire
des Poisons,' says NJ Sardou, opens in
1879 when the Roi Solel was forty-one.
La Voson appears in the second act,
which takes place in her house. The
third shows the "Grotto of Thetis,' an
extraordinary building of coral. mother
of pearl. sea shells and mirrors. which
formerly stood in Versailles Park, and
was a cool arbor in summer, with water
spoutingi from "A dozen small fountains
round statues of Tritons and Nereids on
columns incrusted with tiny pink shells.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
CATTLE DRIVERS DEFIANT.
Wild Doings on the Boycotted Irisl
Farms


| Special Cablegram to The Star.
DUBLIN, December 2S.-Exciting scenes
are reported to have occurred at Mack
| loon, near Ballyar, county Galway, over
| the restocking of a farm cleared last week
of cattle. Several thousand people, ac-
companied by bands, assembled at the
farm, and when the stock had been
placed under the protection of 200 police.
rushed the bullocks off again.
In the scrimmage that ensued several
people and some policemen were assaulted.
A district inspector was pulled down by
Infatuated women, who rolled him in the
mud and walked on him. The police were
overpowered. and reinforcements were
dispatched from Roscommon. Since the
agitation commenced the farm has been
three times cleared and three times re-
stocked Accompanied by 100 police the
stock was put back Tuesday night, the
display of force being too great for the
crowd.
The police describe their experience as
the worst since the eighties. They were
covered with mud from head to foot and
the demeanor of the crowd was the most
ice have yet seen in Ireland. Sergt. Nc
Garry was struck on the mouth with
stone, and his teeth were broken. A
young girl had her hand injured by
got bad smash on the head. Tues
day night, by arrangement, upward of
five hundred persons, with two bands. as
sembled on the farm. The cattle were
driven out and paraded through the town
of Ballyfar amid great cheering. This
was considered the most defiant drive
since the commencement of the disturb
ances. Several prosecutions will follow.
In the north Galway district Wednes-
day night a further cattle drive took place
on the lands of Raquculla, near Midtown,
| in the occupation of a grazier named John
Quinn. One hundred people, all strangers
in the district, were engaged in the drive.
The three constables patrolling the lands
had the agitatorS under observation, but
deemed the crowd too large for them to
| interfere. The cattle were driven on to
| the roads with the following inscription
attached to their horns: THE Land for the
People, and the Road for Me- and
BLESSED Are the Cattle Drivers, for They
| Shall Possess the Land Michael Quinn
| had twenty-five acres of land at Kill
bannon, near Tuam, under meadow and
| failing to let it, he cut down the crop
himself with moving machines, but he
| could not get man to save it, with the
result that the hay is rotting on the lands,
| meaning loss of more than $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
GRAPHIC ART DIRECTORY.
Roman Professor, Satisfies a Long
Felt Want.
Special Cablegram to The Star.


ROME. December 2s.-A great want,
long felt by visitors to Roman antiquities
who have only short time to give to
their study, has been met by Prof. Mar
celiani In his studio, close to the en-
trance of the Forum, he has constructed a
really fine plaster model of the five CEN
trail regions of Rome as they existed in
the time of the emperors. No better as
sistance for the tourist in his efforts to
''orientate'' himself correctly can be
imagined A careful visit to the model is
certain to correct hasty ideas gathered
in the course of perhaps not too at
tentive persusal of guide books. In exc
cution the work is quite admirable, and
no pains have been spared to render it as
historically accurate as possible Half
an hours inspection of the model should
be an Indispensable preliminary to the
usual archaeological pilgrimage to the
ancient sites of the Eternal city. Prof.
Marcelliani has devoted twenty months
to it's construction.
Artists, archaeologists. historians, in
deed, all lovers of Rome's classic mem.
cries. strongly protest against the nego-
tiatiOnS which are going on for the sale
of the Villa Albani, now the property Of
Prince Torlonia, for building purposes.
This villa, built in the middle of the
eighteenth century by Cardinal Albani.
and planned by profound antiquary. is
one of the most magnificent left in Rome.
Cardinal Albani spent his life in collecting
ancient sculptures for the adornment of
gardens, porticoes and halls. The Villa
Albani inspired Winkelmanns History
of Art and although Napoleon carried
off to Paris 294 pieces of sculpture from
this collection. which were afterward sold
to the King of Bavaria. with the excep-
tion of the Antinous. which he returned
the villa is still the greatest private mu-
scum in Rome. That such a historic site
should disappear is certainly a great pity,
but that part of the city is now so built
upon, and land is SO valuable, that the
villa is bound to go in time. unless the
city or the government can afford to
buy it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

up the kongo above Stanley Pool. There
are some long stretches Of navigation
where the loaded automobiles win be
carried on small steamers, but the total
length. Of the freight road will be 500
miles.
The attitude of the natives along the
Welle Maku toward the advancing enter
prise is highly gratifying to the au-
thorities. They give hearty welcome
to the whites. The chiefs have COM
planned that the carrier service between
the Belgian posts takes too many men
from their usual pursuits, and the whole
region is happy over the fact that the
freight road will entirely do away with
the caravans of porters carrying loads
on their backs for hundreds of miles.
Manzali the most important chief of
this section. on his own initiative says
that If they pay his subjects the usual
price for work by the day the whites
need not bother themselves with the
question of labor supply. He will pro-
vide the men and take them from the
villages near where the road is being
built.
The entire road will be irst-class for
the heavy hauling intended and perfect
drainage is being provided at every
point: For some years the government
has been experimenting with two or
three types of automobile freight car
riers.
| A well-known English machine was
finally rejected. chiefly on account of it's
eACtSSiNe WeISHI,' ana belgian wagon,
especially built for tropical service, has
been adopted and is said to be satisfac-
tory in all respects. The only change
| in it which the report recommends is
that certain Kongo instead Of European
woods be used in the construction Of the
machines now building for the service
| AS fast as the road is completed the
wagons are hauling material and sup
plies to the roadbed, giving the ma
chimes and roadbed a thorough test. The
loaded wagons travel at the rate of ten
to twelve miles an hour. and it is ex-
pected that this will be the average
| speed between the Kongo and the Nile
when the system of highways is COM
pleted and the traffic is fully in opera
tiop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
The Genius of Hawthorne.

From Scribner's.
His genius was a reflective one. He
loved to muse. Revery was state OF
mind which he both INDUCED and APP
plauded, and there can hardly be a more
barren one for the production or any,
thing more significant than conceits and
fancies. Reality repealed him. What at
tracted him was mirage. Mirage is his
specific aim, the explicit goal of his art
which thus becomes inevitably rather
artistry than art. His practice Is sus-
tanned by his theory. Speaking of a scene
mirrored in river he exclaims: which
after all, was the most real-the picture
or the original?-the objects palpable to
our grosser senses or their apotheosis in
the stream beneath? Surely the disem
bodied images stand in closer relation to
the soul" If this were a figure express
sive of the mirroring of nature by art it
would be a happy one, though not con-
vincing to those who believe that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
DOOR OF sANCTITY.
Ancient Metaphor Reduced t
Prosaic Chemical Formula.
lblegram to The Star.

Special CaDlegram TO The Star.
PARIS, December 2S.-Dr. Georges Du-
mas has discovered the chemical formula
of the odor of sanctity. The latter, &C
cording to the learned in hagiograph is
not fgurative. but real.
One saint, toward the end of holy life,
gave out a perfume of wallflowers, and
Saint Rose of Viterbo,- that of roses
Saints Cajetan and Francois de Paue
emitted an odor of sanctity recalling re-
spectively the scent of orange blossoms
and that of musk.
Modern organic chemistry has revealed
the composition of many perfumes. On
the other hand, modern medicine has
observed that in certain affections the
skin gives out a scent of violets. pine
apple, musk. etc. DR.. Dumas believes that
the commonest phenomenon of the kind
is due to the presence of butyric ether
in the system. He is thus led to suggest
a general chemical formula. Odor of
sanctity equals CO H12 OF.
These conclusions" he rather naively
remarks, ARE sadly prosaic compared
with those of hagiography.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
New Club for Paris Women.
Paris Cor. London Telegraph.


Not the first women's club in Paris,
but the first with any chance Of success,
will open in month or two. 1t is to be
the French branch of the Lyceum Club in
Piccadilly. Three years have been spent
in negotiations and canvassing, and at
last the club is formed and has a house
which is still in the painters hands, but
will be ready. probably, next November
in the Rue de Ia Renaissance. not far
from the Madeleine. 1t is no easy thing
to start mems club in Paris. where the re
are even now not a dozen in reputable
existence. But to form one for ladies
would seem almost superhuman task.
One or two have been founded in the
past ten years. but soon persisted in in
triguc and dissension. Apparently French
women are unclubbable. The women of
one set GUST those of another, and the
social and political divisions Of husbands
keep wives at daggers drawn. At all
events, no women's club in Paris has pros
pered yet. The French Lyceum is the
.trst to start with. prospects of succe IS.
1t has won the support of well-known
women of such different sets as Nine.
Goyan Felix Faure. daughter of the late
President Felix Faure; Nine Albert Bes-
nard wife of the painter; the Dowager
Duchesse Dues. the Duchesse de la
Roche-Guyon. Princess de Lucinge-Fau-
cigny, Nine. Pierre de CouIevain, the lady
who writes pleasantly about England;
Mile. Breslau the artist. Nine. Alphonse
Daudet (the writer's widow, and Nine.
Juliette Adam, who are on the committee
The honorary secretary is Miss Alys Hal
lard. Qualifications for membership are
exactly the same as in the London Lyce-
UNI Club, and this Is the first club in
Paris for women Who work. The club
| house includes bedrooms lecture rooms,
| tea rooms, a library. and even smoking
| room. Tobacco still scandalizes many
| Frenchwomen. but not members of the
| Partisan Lyceum. Meetings will be held
and dinners given, and we may even see
d Frenchwoman of the world take the
chair at a banquet. an unprecedented
sight. Members will be able to ask their
| men friends. The Paris Lyceum may
revolutionize Paris society.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

artistic synthesis of nature should be
more, rather than less, definite than it's
material But it is not Cd figure. 1t is
statement of Hawthorne's preference for
the vague and the underlined in nature it
self as nearer to the soul. Nearer to the
soul of the poet 1t may be. not to that of
the artist. The most idealiZing artist can
count on enough vagueness of his own
whether it handicap his effort or illumine
his result in dealing with his material.
And ii is not near to the soul of che poet
endowed with the architecture faculty
the poet in the Greek sense, the maker.
1t is the congenial content of contempla-
ton indeterminate and undirected.
The contemplative mind. the. contempla-
tive mood. are above all hospita BILE to
fancy, and in fancy Hawthornes mind
and mood were wonderfully rich. He had
but TO follow its reckoning and intrust
himself to its guidance to make a pretty
satisfactory journey, at least so far as
his own mind was concerned. The result
was amazingly productive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
Production of Coal.

The statistics comprised in the board of
trades annual statement as to the pro-
duction and consumption of coal in the
principal countries of the world show what
a record year of industry 1906 was, and
give promise of even more remarkable
figures for 1907. From the home office
several weeks ago came the information
that in 1905 the British output reached
PSI 900, 600 tons-15. O000O over the best on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29
MOTOR ROADS In AFRICA.
Auto Freight Service to Run Be-
tween the Kongo and the Nile.

From the Motor World.
In the Kongo Free State, under the di-
rection of a central automobile depart
ment, more than years work has been
done in the construction of special high
ways and the establishment of the fore
runners of a network of automobile
freight lines.
The road on which work is being most
rapidly pushed, and on the completed
portion of which freight is now being
transported, will be the longest and
most important of these enterprises 1t
will connect the kongo with. the Nile at
Rejaf. only a short distance south of
Gondokoro, which is now reached regu-
larry by passenger and freight steamers
from Khartum.
When the freight road is completed, in
about two years, the upper kongo will
have automobile, steamboat and rail
connections with the Mediterranean, as
well as steam transportation to the
mouth of the Kongo and Europe.
The starting point is about 600 miles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

Mr. Paul Fishbaugh has been in New
York for several days and played on the
telharmonium Friday before the National
Music Teachers Association at the invi-
tation of Thaddeus Cahfll, the inventor of
that remarkable instrument.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-29

Fire. believed to have been of incendiary
origin, Friday destroyed the plant of
the Queen City Furniture Manufacturing
Company at Shreveport, La. The loss is
$125, 600, with $50, 600 insurance.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-10-25
EAST CHARLESTON

Wilson Hinton has moved to the
house he recently bought of John Piper,
aud II. j. Hudson has moved to the
tenement vacated by him.
The Seymour Lake District Sunda,
School Onion will hold "a convention al
Plymouth Church, November /. There
will he morning, afternoon and evening
sessions. \ good programme is being
prepared.
Several men are cutting Christmas
trees in this vicinity and shipping them
South.
Maud Hill has returned home, &C.
companied by Karl aud Ralph Raiter,
who will board at Mrs. Hills.
b. F. Tripp left here Saturday 10
WilIimautic. Conn, where he intends IT,
spend the winter.
{. y. Moultou has moved from the
parsonage into the tenement over hi-
store
The topic for the c. f. prayer meet
lug Thursday evening, October 81, i,
Foreign missions, the Kingdom of Christ
in Europe, Rev. : +. Achenbach leader
/ Others who went to Boston on the ex
curson were Bion Stevens, r. f. Pave
aud Nh and Mrs Herman Canning.
/ A. c. Fellows returned from Boston
with a car OF horses Saturday night.
Chas. Shedrick of Montreal is spend
ing the week here at Clyde Cottage.
Miss Grace Hinton, who teaches in
Morgan, on her way home Friday was
taken suddenly i'll with appendicitis at
II. j. IIudson's and is still very i'll al
that place.
John c. Hall, while going to the Gel.
lar Saturday night, stepped of the
stairs, striking against the wall anc
sustaining bad fracture of his right
arm near the shoulder. DR., Potter wa.
called and at present writing he seem:
doing nicely considering his age and the
bad jar he got
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-10-25
NORTON

Rev. G. n. A. Murray of Hatley, Que,
formerly rector of st. PauIs Church,
spent Wednesday in town calling on old
parishioners.
Mrs John Cunniugton returned Satur-
day from Montreal, where she went to
consult a specialist aud received much
encouragement. Her many friends
wish her speedy aud ultimate recovery.
Miss Nellie Marsh OF Colebrook, \. H.,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank Jordan.
Mrs. Cora A. Nelson attended the
Orchestra Concert at Island Pond aud
reports a most excellent entertainment
Mr.. aud Mrs. Henry Marsh attended
Masonic gathering at Coatic ook last
week Wednesday evening.
Mr.. Erickson is building a new barn
About H. men assisted in the raising
and were served an excellent dinner.
Willie Gaudette is seriously i'll. lie
is attended by DIR. her.
Mrs. Victor Eallee has returned to
her home at St. Bruno, Que.
Gordon and Rodney Marsh spen
Sa turday with Turner Webster in Coat
cook, Que.
Mrs. W. Daniels of Lake is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George kehoe
Mrs, Lizzie Kelley has returned II
her home at Colebrook, n. II.
Ms. VIM. Haley and Miss Myrtl
Hawley spent Saturday in Coaticook.
Sunday morning fire caused by
defective chimney, broke out in tn,
tenement house owned by Mrs. Rabi
shaw and occupied hy five families. |
was extinguished with difficulty, and be
fore much damage was done.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-10-25

will receive much support ia Vermont or
New England generally, for the reason
that he /. r-gardrd as the Presidents
Ii hs stood alone h- ~ould
he much stronger. The idea uf the
President OF the Quilted STATES irving Ia
select his successor is ridiculous. knew
Mr.. Taft's grandiath.r, Who wAs judge
thirteen miles from where | live, aud II
It were not for the fact that Secretary
Taft is so little known aud is known -
the Presidents mar. ! think he Noald
gain the support of the people Of Yer
mont. OF course, as everywhere, the
President is popular throughout the
State. lie is taken at his word when he
announces that he will not be a candi-
date. Popular though he may I've, he
would no: receive the support of the
conservative people of Vermont for a
third term. The excuse that he has
really served only one full term would
he considered technicality. believe
that no man should be chosen president
unless he is lawyer, aud a good one at
that. No doubt the President lies awake
at night trying Ia tn devise schemes Ia
aid the people of the country, aud when
he makes up his mind TO do Thing ht
considers right he does it, no matter
whether it conforms with the constitu.
ton of the United States or not. This
is instanced by his attempts to extenC
power of a national insurance law ant
similar laws.
"'My candidate for the presidency is
none other than Mr.. Cannon. Though
he is the same age of myself. Il years
he is young man. lie is absolutely hon
est. He has thirty years Legislative ex
perience and wonld not as president Ell
croach on the Legislative branch of thu
government. lie understands the nee,
of every section. If he were ten year
younger nothing could stop his gettin!
the nomination.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-10-25
GRAN BY

Dea. and Mrs. G. A. Appleton have
been visiting friends in Lancaster and
Dalton, n. Fl. Mrs. Appleton has been
shut in for many years, but was feeling
better this fall so her husband took her
Tor an outing. She says she hasn't been
so vel in years as since her return.
O. F. Wilson and Will Rocheleau of
st. Johnshury are in town to spend the
open season.
l.. IL. Wilson and Maybelle Ward
spent Saturday and Sunday in st. Johns
bury, visiting relatives and friends.
J. l.. v ellis was in Barton the past
week on business.
James e. Mooney of Concord has
been in town the past week in the in
terest OF the st. Johnsbury Republican.
The community was shocked and sad
dened Saturday by the news of the at
tempted suicide of Robert Waterman at
Guildhall.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-10-25
Home Investments for Savings
Banks.

The Waterbury Record thinks ths'
the plan of having their Savings bank
deposits invested at home appeals 10
Vermont-rs, and that this fact accounts
largely for the success Of the Hyde Park
Savings bank. whose funds are all in-
vested in Vermont. Il says:
Last Thursday, July IL, Was proud
day for Ex-Goy. {. 5. Page. The La
noble County Savings Bank, Of which
Mr.. Page is president, showed that the
banks assets had passed the million dol
lar mark. IL has been the motto OF the
bank since il was started that all its loans
would I've in Ven.o out, and today not a
single dollar is loaned out of the State
v-rmoui-rs like the plan OF having th-lr
savings invested at home and depositors
like the idea of having man oil MT
Pages business ability at the head oil
the bank, thus the principal reason Why
the bank is 80 successful.
This bank pays ~ compounded
semi-aunualIy on deposits OF 500 o.
more, remaining in the bank one ful
/ year.