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REVIVED ANEW BY DEATH OF
MADAME LIE cLERca.
Away Of the French Lady
Starts Discussion of Identity of
Her Father. with Louis
XVI's MISSING Son.

The missing dauphin of France, he
who was the son of Louis XVI and
Queen Marie Antoinette, has furnished
the world with one of the most
fascinating romances of history. It is
a mystery which has never been so1V-
ed and the discussion of the case has
been revived by the death in Holland
of Madam lie Clereq. It is a mystery
for which some have sought a solution
in this country and interesting essays
and even whole volumes, have been
printed and published with the object
of demonstrating the identity of the
prince with the Reverend E1eazar Will
Jams, who lived and died as mission
airy to the Oneida and st. Regis tribes
Of Indians, much remarkable evidence
being adduced in support of the con-
tention
But even still stronger is the testi-
mony in favor of the identity of the
Dauphin with the man who for time
bore the name of Naundorff, but who
lies buried at Delft under a monument
in which he is described as Charles
Louis de Bourbon, DUO de Nornandie.
Born at the Chateau of Versailles on
9th March 1885. Son of his Late
Majesty Louis XVI, King of France,
and of Her Imperial and Royal High
ness Marie Antoinette, Arehduehess Of
Austria, Queen of France; both of
them deceased at Paris Died on Au-
gust 10, 1916 at Delft" When King
Louis Philippe of France learned of
this Inscription and of the fact that it
was embodied in the Dutch offfciaI reg
lister. in recording the death of the al
'fege9. dauphin, he addrasseda protest
to William Of Holland, asking him To
cause the inscription to be obliterettsd.
It's said that the Dutch ruler replied
offering to comply with the request if
the French government would furnish
evidence that it was false. with the re-
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HOW TO DESTROY EXPLOSIVES.
Precautions to Be Taken with Gun
powder and Nitroeiyeerine.

The best way to destroy ordinary
black gunpowder is to throw it into a
stream under conditions that prevent
any harm coming to human beings or
animals through the dissolVing of the
sa1tpeter. If no suitable stream is
available the gunpoWder may be
stirred with water in tubs, or the dry
gunpowder may be poured out on the
ground in a long thin line and ignited
with fuse at one end.
To destroy dynamite cartridges the
paper wrappfngs should be carefully
removed, the bare cartridges laid in
a row with their ends in contact and
the first cartridge ignited with a fuse
without a cap. Even with these pre-
cautions simultaneous explosion of
the entire mass may occur, so that it
is wise to retire to a safe distance.
The row Of cartridges should be laid
parallel with the wind and ignited at
the leeWard end SO that the fame will
be driven away from the mass.
Frozen dynamite should be handled
Will SpCCIdi care, cS LIS 4CUiiIUuSGlDH IL
peculiarly liable to assume an explo-
siye character. A small quantity of
dynamite may be destroyed by throw
ing it in very small bits into an open
fire, or the cartridges may be ex-
ploded one by one in the open air
with fuses and caps.
Dynamite should never be thrown
into water, as the nitroglycerine
which it contains remains undissolyed
and capable of doing mischief. Other
explosives which contain nitroglyeer-
inc should be treated in the same way
as dynamite.
Ammonium nitrate explosives may
be thrown in small fragments into an
open fire, or if they do not contain
nitroglyeerine may be destroyed by
means Of water. Explosive caps
should be exploded singly with pieces
of use-scientifc American.
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F1nlSneQ.
As the Man came into the room it
was quite evident that the great crisis
through which he had been struggling
for so long with unequal success had
passed. His end had been attained
His wife, noble woman that she
was, regarded him with that joy and
pride that comes from the knowledge
of the immense difficulties that some
times rear themselves in front of the
man pursuing an almost helpless
quest.
You don't mean Go say, she asked,
that you have been successfu1?'
" Absolutely! MY task is over; the
midnight vigils past.
She smiled brightly up at him as
she took his hand, in her face the full
consciousness of his wonderful pow
ers of concentration-hoW for days
he had gone without his meals, how
his supreme seIfcontrol had ever held
the mastery Of him.
In three days?p she asked, vague
II. as Il It could not be.
IN three days,''
Then she arose and clasped him in
her arms.
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DAUPHIN MYSTERY

suit that the matter was dropped. And
as recently as five years ago Queen
Wilhelmina at her own expense caused
the tomb in question to be repaired,
and to be surrounded by q handsome
grating, thus indicating that she
shared the views Of her grandfather
about the matter.
The tomb has just been opened to
receive the remains of the only sur
ViVing daughter of the Naundorff
dauphin, who died the other day at
Arnheim. in Holland. at the age of
nearly eighty, and whose demise has
been recorded in the Dutch official
registers, as Madame LIE Clercq,
widow of Louis LIE Clercq, nee Prin-
cess Marie Therese de Bourbon.
daughter of Prince Charles Louis de
Bourbon, Due de Normandie, and of
Madame Ia Duchesse de Normandie.
nee Jeanne Einert
It must not be imagined, however,
that the old lady was the last of her
family Her brothers son, Prince
August Jean of Bourbon, who makes
his home at Paris, where he is in bust
ness as a wine merchant, is the head
of his house, and is the heir of all the
pretensiens of his grandfather, the
NaundorH dauphin, claiming thus to
be a great-grandson of the ill-fated
Louis XVI. and Queen Marie Antoin-
cite, who persisted by the guillotine
during the days of the Terror, at the
close of the eighteenth century, on a
seaffold erected in that great square in
Paris at the foot of the Champs Ely
sees, and which is known to every
American visitor to the French capt..
tai as the Place de la Coneorde.
While the proofs of the authenticity
of these claims are said to exist In the
family archives of the car, of Queen
Wilhe1mina, and at the Vatican, it is
known that the principal key to the
mystery is at Berlin, in the possession
of the kaiser, and it is insisted that
were menarchical restoration to take
place in nee IN favor of the Due
d'Orleans, he would be in position
to hold over the 1atter's head as a
sword of Damoeles the threat of dis
closures which would prove that the
real heir to the French throne was
Prince Auguste Jean of Bourbon.
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They pick up tunes with surprising
readiness, and repeating them with
trills and variations is an amuse-
ment that never pals on them.
It gives the missionary respite for
his letters home or to fall asleep over
a book or to go out and look at the
stars and wonder how it would seem
to talk to man of his own kind or TO
hear good music or merely to see cleo,
trio lights, to feel hard payements I'M
der his feet and hear the changing of
street cars. Or he may wonder how
in all the petty worries that sap his
strength he is to keep the freshness of
mind that will enable him to present
spiritual ideals in the guise to appeal
to savage people. But in this re-
spect he often feels that he is past
praying for.
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spooner's peer and eomrade in the
leadership of the discussion on the
Republican side.
It is unnecessary at this late date
to inform an intelligent public that
Knox is little man, since not one of
the numerous sketches of him that
have appeared since he announced his
presidential candidacy has failed to
jam that fact into the first paragraph.
President Roosevelt's designation of
him as "a sawed-off eherub'' has also
done service until it is weatherbeaten.
There certainly is something cherubIc
about Knox. who has a round face and
a dapper, Well-made little body. He
is no taller than Napoleon, but a good
deal rounder. Physically he violates
all the ideals of a great statesman. He
ought to be large, bulky, imposing,
slow of speech and portentous of chin;
whereas he is small, brisk, cheerful,
and business1ike. But that he is d
statesman nobody who has served with
him in the senate has the least doubt
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KNOX AFTER ROOT

his misunderstanding only a minor
ity recognized his great attainments.
The general popular recognition of
him came first with his conduct of the
Northern Securities case, and IN
creased vastly with the beginning of
his service in the senate
So great was the estimate set upon
him by the senate that, in spite of the
most inyariable rule requiring new
senator to keep quiet and begin at the
bottom rung, Knox was placed at once
upon the judiciary committee and APP
pointed to the first vacancy on the
rules committee. succeeding the
mighty spooner; and in the first great
debate of his service. that on the rail-.
roa rate bill of 1906. he assumed east
" and without question the place of
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HER MoTHER.lN-LAW
Proved a Wise, Good Friend.


A young woman out In Ia, found q
wise, good friend in her mother-in-law,
jtakes notwithstanding. She writes:
tt is frs years since we began us
ing Postum lii 3ur house. I was great
" troubled with my stomach, complex
ion was blotehy and yellow. After
meals I often suffered sharp pains and
would have to lie down. My mother
often told ME it was the coffee drank
at meals. But when I'd quit coffee I'd
have a severe headache
While visiting my mother-in-Iaw I
remarked that she always made such
good coffee, and asked her to tell me
how She laughed and told me 1t was
easy to make good coffee when you
use Postum.
4 began to use Postum as soon as I
got home, and now we have the same
good coffee POSTUM every day. and
I have no more trouble. Indigestion is
a thing Of the past, and my complex
lon has cleared up beautifully.
My grandmother suffered a great
deal with her stomach. Her doctor
told her to leave off coffee. She then
took tea but that was just as bad.
She finally was induced to try
Postum which she has used for over a
year. She Travelled during the winter
over the greater part Of Iowa, visiting.
something she had not been able to do
for years. She says she owes her
present good health to Postum.
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tain English firm the workmen a year
or two ago originated what they called
the Lazy club. It was entirely their
own idea. which for obvious reasons
has received neither recognition nor
financial support from the manage
ment. but has been a most excellent
means of reducing the number Of late
corners.
Whenever workman is more than
i've minutes late after time he finds
the gate locked and he is not allowed
g enter until the half hour is up.
ms hall hour is deducted from his
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-01-30
Must Build He Own House.

Shelter must be provided for teach
ers and pupils, and also for horses,
calves, pigs and chickens. Brick is a
fayorite material, for the African
woods usually are too hard to be
worked easily. The minister fresh
from a theological seminary may find
that building a brick kiln with moth
ing but African labor is quite as diff
cult as to construct Greek sentences.
And that is the beginning. He prefers
not to think Of the masonry, the put
ting In of doors and windows and the
matching of the roof. At least he does
not need to worry about the floors.
The native girls take sf1sess part Of the
building into their own hands. they
simply fill it up with an even layer of
red soil taken from an ant heap. They
rub it and pound it and sprinkle it,
and rub it again till it shines like
black polished marble, and there is
the floor. Healthy? Well. no; but it
is cheap. When night comes the ma
tives gather around the fire in the
kitchen or the schoolhouse to sing.
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wages. but IN addition he has also to
pay to the treasurer of the Lazy club
about five cents for coming late.
If he is late more than once or so
during a week everybody is aware of
the fact, and the second or thirc time
he makes his appearance after start
ing time he is greeted with terrific.
combination Of noises produced on
any available material BY his fellow
Workmen
At certain periods the accumulated
funds OF the Lazy club are divided.
not among those who have produced
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in the Street car.

Conductor Ito tired passenger did
I get your fare?
Passenger You must have got il.
for the register did not ring when
I handed yau the nickel. Judge.
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And to think, dear she cried, rap
turously, that not a single person in
this hotel has ever before been able to
do that picture puzzle in less than
week. Life.
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A SPEEDY ONE.

Miss Tapps-0f course, some type.
writer's are extremely expert.
Clerk-Oh, yes. know of one who
married a rich employer in less than
three months.
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Bible Images Familiar.

Glasses and reeitations and more
particularly lessons to be prepared Of.
fer more violenee to the native preju-
diees, He likes to hear the Bible
stories or stories of other countries and
to read them for himself when he has
mastered the combination of letters IN.
to familiar sounds. The oriental images
OF the Bible are perfectly familiar to
him The idea of the patriarehs of the
Old Testament living in tents as cattle
men and yet being really kings, which
is such a puzzle to city bred white
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Great Aid to Missionaries.

Even ii the president should not
take an active part in the work he I'M
doubtedIy will visit the mission sta
lions, and the mere fact that a chief
of such bigness that the full scope of
the African imagination hardly can
take in his orbit visits Familiarity with.
the missionaries will give a very help
full prestige to them in the eyes of the.
natives. Respect for his own chief is
the bone and sineW of the Africans
code of morals and is, in fact. one with
his religion. Combined with this is a
surprising penetration into the who's
who of other nations It takes an
African native something less than
five minutes to know who is the real
thing and who merely masquerades
in the borrowed feathers of authority.
The hostile attitude toward missions
sometimes taken by individual white
magistrates often has done inealcu1-
able harm to the work of the mission
airy, because these magistrates in the
native eye are invested with dignity
as the representatives Of the great
white chiefs 'spesheya" Ton the other
meaning of the ocean,. The
coming in person of one OF the great
est of these chief to the house of their
own ,suInfundisi' fteaeher) will neu-
tralize the unfriendliness of any resi-
dent magistrate.
On the other hand, President Roose-
yelt in his writings certainly viii
touch on the practical side of work
of such significance as that of the
Christian missions. The question of
the capacity of the African native for
civilization must be answered at the
mission stations If it is answered at
all
Missionaries have opened the coun-
try to white men, and the chief high
ways penetrating the African eonti-
nent still are called missionary
roads. When Livingstone's house
was sacked, his books torn and scat
tered to the winds and his medicine
bottles broken in revenge for his
championship of the natives against
the aggressions of the border rut1ans,
this disaster was the impetus that
drove him to his real work as an ex
plorer, No one ever has accomplished
more with fewer resources. 70 the
last he remained always the mission
airy. travelling among the natives as
one who sought only their good and
had nothing to fear from them. All
the world knows how Ilivfngstones
5psark haaama fhp insnf ra fiaraz nf Gfans
ley,s career and resulted ultimately in
the real opening of the dark continent.
Even before Liyingstoness time his
fatherInslaw, Robert Moffat, travelled
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HAVE FORMED LAZY CLUB.
plan OF english Workmen to Discour-
age the Habit Of Being Tardy.

one Of the best assets of manu-
featuring plant is the interest Of en-
pIoyes. and when this develops into
friendly rivalry its value IS many
times Increased Frequently work
men viii adopt methods spontaneous
II that are Of great assistance to the
firm
Ii the engineering shops of 9 Ger.
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"a VA continent are not all
~ w mighty hunters and ex-
pIorers The hardest
fight that is wagea for
the opening of the continent is not a
fight in the open with wild beasts or
bowling savages while the world looks
on and applauds. Rather it is a Crap
ping in the dark with shadows. the
shadows Of spiritual gloom that. loom
so black and yet are SO elusive to the
grasp. It is a fight for the spread of
light in dark places waged by men and
women unused to physical hardships
and with a breeding that renders them
peculiarly sensitive to the spiritual
wear and tear of their work 1t is a
fight without fanfare, without an audi
ence, and too often without immediate
results.
If President Roosevelt accepts the
invitation Of the Methodist Missionary
society to take part in missionary work
while travelling through Africa he viii
have thrown the weight of his infIu-
enee in the scales for a cause particu-
larry in need of such help In the same
way as the presidents declamations
against race suicide unquestionably
have helped domestic life, SO perhaps
he can throw some light on a phase
of ciyilizing work peculiarly misunder-
stood blythe majority of white people
at home and abroad It requires no
great stretch of the imagination to get
a vision of the president preaching a
'common-sense religion to a black au-
diences just as he has preached do
mesticity, fearlessness, srenuousness
and a great many kindred virtues to
the people In America. But it requires
an intimate knowledge of the African
character. it's keen sense of authority
and position, its generation for big
CHIEFS of whatever country, to gauge
the tremendous influence his words
would carry
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DUST EXPERT IN A WAY.
One Man Who is Constantly Conscious
of the Presence of Dust in the Air.

No matter where you live and how
ever high in the air you always find
dust settling on everything every
where, but said the near-sighted
man, IF you want to realize this fact
as you never did before you want to
wear spectacles and work at some
employment that requires constant
bending over.
Fourteen times a day, or as much
oftener as you look, you will find
your glasses covered with fine par
tic1es of dust. Maybe yea don't look,
and then maybe some bigger particle,
some speek that is by comparison a
Veritable boWlder of dust, settles
there square in your line of vision,
where 1t may not obstruct your sight
but where it cannot fail to arrest your
attention. Then when you take them
of to remove that bowlder you find
your glasses covered with dust in
finer particles, as you would find
them, indeed, however often you
might look.
Over such an area as tkszat Of rev
York, for instance, there are tons of
dust floating in the air, as though,
perhaps without figuring out its
weight, many people, such as house
wives and storekeepers, are aware;
but perhaps nobody is reminded Of
this SO constantly as the man who
wears spectacles and who bends oyex
at his work, and on whose glasses,
where It is ever before him, dust is
constantly settling. z
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Missionary's Garden Necessary.

Meantime the boys are engaged in
the work of the farm or in building or
carpentry. The pastor of the station
is fortunate if he has white man to
assist him in experimenting these
branches of the work More likely he,
in addition to his cares as pastor, is
physician and magistrate, his own
farmer. gardener, builder, architect
and furniture maker. The farm must
provide food for. the boys and girls of
the school The garden must supply
fruit and vegetables for the mission
ary's table, for he soon learns that he
cannot keep his strength long If he at
tempts to live as a native He must
have a variety of food and, incidental
ly, tablec1oths and napkins. A noted
African traveller has said that white
men die in the tropics not for want
Of the necessities of life but for want
Of the Injuries. Besides, his house and
garden must be an object lesson in
civilized living quite as important as
his preaching.
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them, it should be noted, but among
the entire staff equally. Thus the late
workman is made to pay the early
corners for his laziness The last dis
tribution was just prior to bean
feast, and funds accumulated during
Y months were distributed, amount
ing to over seven shillIags a head
system
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was thus their own kings lived when
they We're in their glory. In the same
way the agricultural figures of speech
in the parallels of Christ fit right into
their own speech. Their favorite books
in the Bible are those that abound in
a picturesque imagery such as the
Apocalypse, the Book of Job and
best of all-The Song of Solomon.
It is very different thing when it
comes to learning foreign language
and mastering the intrfcaeies of gram
mar, arithmetic and geography. Gram
mar might as well be relegated to the
outer darkness at once. When you
have taught an African native the diff
ference between a verb and a noun
you have taught him about as much as
his mind can grasp. On the other
hand, the children learn easily foreign
words and expressions in a parrot-like
way. A young native who has worked
for a white man for month or two
has no difficulty in calling his breth-
rem black devil and damn Niger"
Harsh Language an Obstacle.
AS for arithmetic, it is not easy to
learn the multiplication table when to
say nine times eight have to
let out the following mouthful of
sound: "Tata isishiyangaIo pinda
nge sishangalombili. But the natives
have an adjunct to difficult enuneia.
ton, a sort of first aid, in the language
of the fingers. Beginning from right to
left. the little finger means one, the
left thumb means six, the left forefn-
ger seven, and SO on. If time or energy
fail you, you simply Wag a finger, or If
the number goes into the tens, you
Wag two fingers, and the deed is done.
Your breath is saved.
The white woman teacher in a
school of eighty or a hundred natives
is likely to find. even if she has one or
two native assistants, that her position
as the motor nerve of this too. too
solid mass of African flesh is wearing,
to say the least. The industrial part
of the work is not so difficult as the
purely intellectual It is not so hope
less a task to make the African native
fashion something with his hands as
to make him grasp anything with his
BRAIN The women have learned in
their native handicrafts such as straw
plating deftness of touch that make
them fairly apt in the acquisition of
the domestic arts of sewing, cooking,
baking, washing, ironing and cleaning
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~ = = Z ~ = z = I III
I heroes of the dark
continent are not all
mighty hunters and ex-
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S Many q girl who is looking for a
husband may discover that even after
she gets him she may spend most Of
her time looking 70. him.