The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-18

Lighting .....-....... ....... 20
Wash ........ 20
Soap >ho~ backing and other tribes . 90
Copy books for the children who 30 to
school. .- ....- ~
Total ... SIS ~
As you see. save the handsome sum
Of s3.si every month. but alas! ! have
to spend all my savings to buy second
hand clothes and boots. and occasionally
| have to pay DOCTOR bills besides.
When a Government clerk and his
family can AFFORD To eat a pound OF bread
and two cents worth of cheese every day
and drink as much water as they want
there should be- no reason for complaint.
Besides. such a diet has it's advantages.
My children. brought up ON bread and
chee-~ are not very strong. and when they
are older and have 10 serve their tim. in
tn. army very likely they will be- exempted
from the service. and this is a privilege
which only the very rich can Afford
The French Government has already
taken a census Of all the horses and auto
mobiles in France 80 that II can reGui>i
ton their services in case ~ war. and It
is now drawing up a Law to provide for
census of aeroplanes 20 that il will be-
able 10 call upon all the monoplanes and
biplancs in the country II the need arises
Count leopold Pull" has just published
in Italy tn. text OF the will made by
Josephine de Beauharnsis. the first wife
Of Napoleon This document has hit herto
been unknown. a. the original disappeared
from Malmaison tn" day after the .y-
Empress died. IN May 1874 An aut hertic
H.. -
named Fabriyi. from whom it has passed
from IA. her 10 son until to-day il belongs
to Paul Fsbrizi. an Italian Senator. who
has given a copy 10 Count Pulls.
Tho will is a profession Of faith by
Napoleons repudiatcd wife rather than
a disposition ~ her property. of which
il speaks only vaguely She declares
that she has always believed in God and
religion de-pit. the efforts Of Bonaparte
TO destroy her faith She does not blame
her husband: .If he was an unbeliev.r
and atheist the fault lies on the vile co,ir-
tiers who by their sycophancy made him
believe there was no supreme being
above him They have made him a god
how then could he retain any Christian
humility
The ex-Empress swears before God
and the Bourbon royal family that she
was innocent Of the Duke d 'Enghien's
death She did all she could. she de-
clares. TO save the unfortunate prince.
She recommends her children. Queen
Hortensc and Prince Eugene Napoleon.
to the kindness Of the Bourbon family
and concludes by expressing the hope
that tn. Emperor will come 20 recognize
how great the difference was bet ween
herself and Marie Louise. for whom he
sacrificed her.
Don Bo~co. the founder az the Sals-isn
Order. is believed by his followers 10 have
had the gift Of predicting future events.
and several Of his prophecies are now
being examined by the Congregation of
Rites with n view to his qualification
A French nun who knew Don Bosco
in Paris declares that he told her thrt
in the year 1911 cholera would break
out in the Eternal City and that the Pope
would go 10 Jerusalem
Th, Qualification process oG Don Bosco
has Recently been examined by Plus Y.
who was impressed by this prediction.
IL il likely that tho first part Of 10 will
come true. since 1t - probable that there
will be an outbreak Of cholera in Rome
next year The second part may also
he verified in the following fashion.
In the year eSs Pope sylvester II. was
told that his pontiacste would end when
he SAID mass in Jerusalem and th.
prophecy was fulfilled four years later
when the Pope died while celebrating
mass on Quadragesima Sunday in the
Church Of Santa Croce in GsrIsal-mme.
so called because IL was built by st.
Helena To receive the relic OF the Tri.
Cross brought by her from Jerusalem
This church. which is one OF the seven
patriarchal basilicas 81 Rome. still con-
tAins the original @IbterrAnean chapel
erected by st. Helena. the floor OF which
was strswn with earth brought by her
from jerusalem
In tho memoirs Of Sisnor Bondi. who