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of your dining hall is now, unfortunately
in the Rothschiids house at Paris, put
the experts know of another In a Spanish
chateau. Shall they buy it,
The consultations throw You into con-
tact with what remains of the local no.
bility-some old, some new ike Your
self. You are doing a great thing Tor
the countryside. and become one OF them;
1t is back and forth between Paris and
the chateau. all exciting novelty. NO
American can resist the magic of revH1ng
the old place with its associations. one
of Anna Gould-Sa gan 8 standing grlev-
anceS against Count Boni de tastellane
was that. with all her millions. he had
never even begun the restoration or the
Casteilane primitive eagles nest. Wnlch
would have given such pride TO a valley
full of loyal henchmen.
I went through Castellane IN an auto
last summer. Few have been there.
twenty miles from any railroad. And
to see it was to understand Annals con-
tempt for Count Boni The town stu
lives on CasteIlane worship. after 700
years of neglect. In the square there Is
a monument inscribed to various Counts
Boniface, from COS tn 121I-and there the
grateful people stick. High on lone
apocalyptic butte two walls at right
angles as Count Boni calls them. How
could they be restored? But an old par
ish priest. who has written history
OF Castellane, says that the angels Them
selves would have aided that job, be-
cause the Counts Boniface saved Chris
tan civilization from the Moslems by
checking them until Charles Martel got
ready. The queer thing is. that 1t really
seems true and possibly Count Boni
thinks that the family has done enough.
The first months residence in the
chateau is pure delight. Steam heating
sanitation baths and douches make a
quaint contrast with the old place The
neighboring chateau people treat you as
an acquisition. Many are hard up thank
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''Sot."

MAYOR MAGEE of Pittsburg was
4vA talking about an obstinate man.
He is 'sot in his ways said the may
or He is as bad as the old planter u
history.
IAN old planter in the palIny days BE-
fore the war was blown up In steam
boat accident on the Mississippi. They
fshed him out unconscious. At the END
of an hours manipulation he came to-
Where am II he asked. lifting his
head feebly.
".Safe on Shore the doctor told him.
Which side of the river he inquired.
1.-The Iowa side,' the doctor replied.
The planter frowned. He looked a
the turbid yellow stream. Then he said:
Just my luck to land in a prohibi-
ton state. Chuck me in again.
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from less fortunate chateaux, the bills Of
antiquary-architects and artist-artisans.
and all the details Of bringing back the
decoration and economy of other days?
Peyrieu. which was conf1scated from
the Montfalcon family in the French rev.
olution, had previously belonged to the de
Seyssels of Muzin, one of whom l know
in Paris. I was curious to know what
he thought of the Hof acquisition: Good
thing for the country" he said "Peyrieu
needs a rich family. Every one will wei
come them. 1t is compliment to US.
The mere list of these chateau buyers
would fill my column There is Mrs. Nor
ton of New York, in her Chateau de La
boual. near Brezons in the Cantal: and
Mrs. Garrett of Baltimore in her Chateau
de Faverney on the upper Sa sm r H1r7
Miss Sorohan Of the old Paris-Ameri-
can family. is in his Chateau de Mont
Cere on the Loire. Mrs. Harris Phelps.
who owns the Chateau Montpens1er. near
Pau, was the Miss Pell whose father left
her a fortune on condition never to re-
turn to the detestable climate of New
York" ]. @. H. Leishman OF P1ttsburg,
whose daughter Martha married a French
title, Is proprietor OF the Chateau Belle
fontaine near Biarrftz.
He who gives you Paris tip is in a
delicate position If 1t materializes he
has only done his duty. If 1t fizzles ne
has deceived you. Now the tip among
picture and antiquity men Is that Pier
pont Morgan is seeking to buy up royal
Chambord from the Duke Of Parma. Mr.
Morgan's object is to f1ttingly house his
vast and priceless collections. always in
creasing. and for the most part kept in
Europe because Of our heavy duties. Why.
indeed, should he bring them to his I'M
grateful country that insists on being
paid for its own culture and instruction?
It would take Pierpont Morgan to re-
viye Chambord, which no one ever occu-
pied fully since lavish Francis L. AS to
stone. it is in perfect repair; but 1t would
require millions to make the vast pile
modernly habitable. But the result would
surpass kings in magniflcence
All kinds OF Americans live In these
noble chateaux. Charles Legacy, who had
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by and n

cannot be all real in these days. But it
can be part real and part reconstructed
like the chateaux-or we hope So
However you smile, the best American
Yields to the armor idea in one of these
romantic nests. The chateau demands
armor Moonlight falls into the Hall OF
the Chevalers on a stuffed horse. on the
trappings of Count Robert and Count
Roberts armor is astride. And it lights
glittering bits of figures standing erect
around the wall, parade armor from
Milan. foot-combat armor from Spain. 1t
affects the nerves as 1t could not do at
home: because the real thing was here
once.
Such an American family invited
nephew from Princeton last summer; ana
the college boys pretty cousin. In her
Europeanized superiority. told him tales
of haunted armor In the Hall of the Chew
alters At midnight OF August 20, fatal
date in the annals of our hours. the fig
ures walk
4
The home boy nerved himself with Bur
gundy that night. He felt his way along
the wall to where the moon lit UP Count
Odet you walk, do your" he said. play
fully, linking arms with the stiff figure.
Lets walk down to the village cafe to-
gether.''
But he tore loose in terror when 1t
took three steps beside him. clanking;
and the chateau was awakened by
shrieks amid rafting old iron on oak
flooring ''Ghosts!' cried the befuddled
boy dashing through the halls. Marie.
come get me out, I'm choking" walled
the daughter Of the house, inside the
PROSTATE armor. The youth never heard
her. and to this day he is sure he had
strange experience In that old wicked
hall.
Nothing is more amusing than to da a
restoration. Archaeological architects and
consulting antiquaries can show you ex-
actly how the old place was in every
century. Choose your century!
In spite of a great destruction of docu-
ments In the revolution, vast quantities
have come to light again. You can al
most learn the ancient details Of each
room. The monumental chimney piece
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hat store In San Francisco. is the proud
lord of Franqunotts, on the Gironde. One
of the foremost American painters of
Paris is Miss Mary Cassatt of Philadel-
nhia She is also owner of the Chateau
de Beaufresne, in the Disc valley. David
Wolfe Bishop brother of CORTLAND. owns
the Chateau Bots, In the
Marine valley Ed Lee-Childe a relative
of Gen. Robert F.. Lee, lives most Of the
year in his Chateau du Perthuls, near Or
leans Edward Dallas OF the Philadelphia
family is in his Chateau de Semeac OF the
upper Pyrenees Henry s. Iselin OF New
York retfrss to his Manor de Brion In
Normandy. And so with the Bories. Havi-
lands, Hendersons Phillipses, Holdens-
the list would be a catalogue
Some Of these Americans are ideallsts
They have established family connec-
ton with old France, not to deceive the
world, but to crafty themselves. The OLD
Borie family of Philadelphia came or1gi-
nally from France by way or Santo DO
mingo- In the urheavals OF the Frencn
revolution noble families disappeared
along with their parchments Who shall
saw that connections established with
them are not real?
For years past branch Of the Bories
have been established in their once-ruin-
near Gontaud, not far from romantic
Cahors In particular. their gallery OF
ancestral portraits is admired because IL
seemed impossible to reconstruct IN a
ruined castle gallery OF pTopieitia li~e'i
forebears totally destroyed by vandais.
4
The PhiadeIphians have done the I'M
possible They have studied their French
ancestors who lived in this chateau. They
know that Count Louis portrait hung be-
side that of the first marquis; that Count
Robert, lieutenant of the Regents Blue
Musketeers. hung beside Count Jean, who
lost one leg as admiral Of the Toulon
galleys Piously buying up old portraits
as near as possible to the descriptions,
their American descendants have recon-
structed the gallery.
The fitting up Of the place with ances-
trail armor is an affair OF more expensive
SPECIALISTS It is understood that arnor
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full for good dinners, use Of autos ana
dances for the young folks.
At the head of your table in the ban
quoting hall. hung with all those tapes
tries you bought. you look down on
scene beautiful with flowers, fruits and
shimmering toilets. Wax candles throw
dancing lights on the wainscoting you
believe to be genuine-it is no moment
to turn on the electricity, and you are
receiving the local nobility.
Later the trial begins. The local no
bility lives scattered fifty miles round
Except for two annual dances and din
ners each, you're surer to see them IL
You send the automobile for them. You
are an acqutsition-but they cannot waste
money on you. Learn that. Properly
accepted, 1t means happiness.
The American girl who marries a title
has at least his family to keep the
chateau going. If they take possession
they also make hustle and interest But
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Don't Give Yourself Away.

r. LIS PARKER BUTLER, tho
Z humorous writer. keeps Flushing
a-titter with his witticisms.
Mr.. Buffers most recent wtttfcism
was a Butleresqua and really important
addendum to the Socratic dictum, "Know
myself"
KNOW thyself.' said Mr. Butler. IT
a Flushing tea, but keep thy informs-
ton dark
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he married Miss Travers: and he is now
moving back to it, since Mrs. Hoff finally
moves to her own Chateau of Peyrieu,
near AK. in old Savoy.
1t is said that Mrs HOff paid $500. 600
for Peyrieu, and is spending a greater
sum on it's almost royal restoration. This
Is in spite of it's not being a real ruin.
having been partially restored with great
taste by the late Baron de Chanteau
around 1872 But Peyrieu was once a
residence of the Kings of Savoy; and
the American lady is resolved on doing
justice to it.
You can see in my photograph the res
toration work round windows and DOORS
Mrs Hoff has also put back the gided
iron-work of the roof and restored the
conical tower-tops left fiat by Baron
Chanteau But how shall I tell you of
the interior expenses of carved VAIN
scoting and chimney pieces torn bodily
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With the ardor OF a good American. he
loved gigantic Coucy. eighty miles from
Paris, one Of the most striking monu-
ments Of the feudal ages It was built
In 1910 by a local boss named Enguer-
rand whose motto was: II am rot king.
nor prince, nor duke, nor even count, |
kept the neighborang kings guessing
He was good American ahead OF
his time said Mr.. Kelly. and he fel.
TO work reading how Enguerrand's de-
bought out by the wealthy Louis of Or
leans, through whom Coucy passed to
the crown. Mazarin dismantled 1t. and
Mr.. Kelly discovered it to be
state museum. impossible Of purchase
Not being a millionaire, he rather pre-
ferred II, and as he could not give up
Coucy, he did the next best thins-nuch
cheaper. The little town. once 50 rich.
has dwindled ever since Mazarin. Two
massive towers OF It's wall remained
on Coucy side and $500 seemed good
price for the least decayed one. Mayor
and conseil general got busy and soon
Lawyer Kelly was del!ghtedly restoring
his tower. He pierced windows through
walls sixteen feet thick. He built rooms
in three stories, fitting them in heavy:
simple, antique style. The tower roof
was his shady terrace, covered with
century old trees. And from it he dom
mated Coucy: Coucy lay beneath his
view. he bounding its grounds! Today
his widow is getting ready to sell 1T, as
she can, at handsome profit
~
One of the most lavish restorers of the
present hour is Mrs. Whitney-Hofr.
daughter of the late Detroit millionaire
and wife of the Standard Oil director OF
Paris.
Originally Mrs Hoff leased the Chateau
of Breau from Walter Gay. the American
painter Of beautiful roomscapes of cha
teau interiors. He fitted up Breau when
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n the edge Of the
Atlantic, near Bar
ritz, rises a majes-
tic old chateau, re-
stored, perfect, yet
untnhabited a n q
marked "for sale.
A French real es-
tate nan. foresee-
ing business. stop
ped his auto. got
down and rang the
lodge bell in vain.
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No one came; but the sigh eoio
opposite
Opposite? It was the booming ocee4,'
The Frenchman's curiosity being aroosou'
ne asked at the village: What IL 'ii
sien at the ohateau-'apply opposite
The peasants laughed 1t was an oio
Joke for them. THE proprietor
American" they said, "and opposite ID
where he lives-across the Atlantlc-in
New York
This is one type of American who buys
an ancient French chateau He soaks
himself with its romance, studies it's oid
owners. dreams their life-and then tires
of his inability to realize it in these mod
ern days.
The late Col. Dodge who told me the
story, was another type OF chateau puS
er. AS military historian ne spent TWEEN
ty years surveying battleheids or Europe.
His chateau of Lars. near Paris, was de-
much convenience as a dream. 1t was
not ancient, being regular. roomy, eight.
zenith century all windows. He bought
1t in great dilapidation from the Franco
Prussian war for $4,000 and spent Slo.-
600 with delight N Studious repairs; ana
as the heirs can sell 1t with profit, the
dream part cost him less than 1t has cost
some others
600 600 for Chenonceaux, to Edmund kei-
w. who bought a single tower overlooking
Coucy for $500. all have proflted by an
unforeseen rise in values, similar TO that
in precious stones, antique furniture and
tapestries, and paintings by deceased
masters-a rise due to increasing luxury
and riches.
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The Bohiers built Chenonceaux 400
years ago for $4,000 without the land.
Francis 1 accepted it at $4,000 (modern
valued for a faxed claim. Henri II re-
turned 1T as overvalued, that his friend
Diane of Poitiers might get a sheriffs
title to it for 100000. This was before
the bridge wing had been built by Cath
crime de Medicis at a cost of $4,000 In
1873 Claude Dupin bought it, in great
Giiapidation, for $4,000 and spent So,
COO in repairs. In 1867 Nine Pelouze
secured it, even worse dismantled, for
$4,000 spending $4,000 in restoratiens.
This is how it came to cost Francis Terry
81 OpO0OO considered ten years ago a
great sum. Yet his willow could easily
.et that for il now.
The romantic investment of Information
al Lawyer Kelly was equally justified.
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DELIGHTFUL Pastime of
l. Restoring Ruined Castles
known and u n k n o w n
American Citizens Too Proud
to Marry Titles Indulge In
dependent Dreams Of Ro-
nance.

srecial Correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS, April Is, 1910
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RALLY FOR PRESBYTER1ANS,
Clergy Preparing to Promote Srn1
nal Awakening. i

Believing there is need LOT spHl'eal
awakening among the Presbyterian or
Washington, twenty-five proWnent
clergymen of that denomination pet IN
the Church of the Covenant last eFhmg
for a short service of prayer. Req DR..
A. w. Spooner Of the Sixth Churcp pre-
sided.
This evening there will be serfce in
the First Presbyterian Church for min
;sters and elders. rally will " held
tomorrow evening in the Metr4olitan
Church for COMMITMENTS Of the Fesby
terrain churches. Rev. DIR. Jaees A.
Worden of Philadelphia VIII Pc the
After the week of prayer, dung the
first part of January, 1t is expecfd that
several Presbyterian churches Yll con-
duct revival meetings to awaken greater
interest In the work.
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In Perfect Control of Machine.

tombstone had come down from his
record breaking flight in a manner that
had all who watched him shuddering. 1t
did not seem possible that the sheer
falls of a thousand and more feet that
the biplane twice took in its descent
could possibly have been made intention
ally. The cry went up that he had lost
control of his aeroplane and was DASH
ing heIplessly to earth. But happily he
made joke of these fears by swooping
down in perfect control of the Baby
Wright to the field.
He was not, however, in control of
himself. He was trembling all over. He
accepted almost perfunctorily the hand
shake that both the Wright brothers.
tremendously relieved themselves. gave
him. He met the newspaper men in a
manner wholly unlike his usual self
possessed fashion. He was, in fact. still
breathless He walked uncertainty. He
did not resent hands that were thrust
under his arms to hold him up.
The reporters clustered about him un-
der one of the Wright tents. and he tried
to talk. But his excursion SO dizzily high
had been a greater strain than he him.
helf had thought He tried twice to
speak before he uttered word. When
he did 1t was to say:
81 guess I've done 1t. l guess I've won
the worlds record. I've been UP a good
deal higher than 5000 feet. But I'm sore
sore.
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Women S Aprons
At 12Hc Each.

Special lot of Women's Cling
ham Aprons, made of standard
quality material. in blue and
brown checks. Full cut and well
made.
One day at 121sc each.
Third Floor.
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80 soin9 10 heat that 0,1se worlds rec@d
W. hist the m. chine and myself. too.
that's just the sort of an idea that got
10 aise Won know when YOU get up
high YOU get a little off-you have lot
of funny notions. On your first trips up
You get the notion that you can't breane
or maybe your heart is bad and IS gong
tn sto, You get all sorts of fool ideas.
+ CHESS had my share on that last climb
Of the last few hundred feet"
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NEW YORK, November with a big
sensation Ralph tombstone closed yester-
day the aviation meet at Belmont Park
the first international aerial tournament
ever held in America. He broke the
worlds altitude record Seated in the
Baby Wright. four-cylindered biplane,
height Of OLA feet
The little American flag whipping from
stanchion Of his machine overtopped
by this performance the aerial zone at
tanned in the former worlds record air
climb of 9,1s6 feet, made by Hollander,
Wynmalin, in France, October I Of this
year.
No great cheering greeted Johnstone's
daredevil achievement. 1t was dark when
he landed. Red fire was planted and ig-
nited on the green field to guide him and
]. Armstrong Drexel back to earth.
Drexel landed several minutes after john
stone, having made no mean upward
flight himself. He went up $3.50 feet. A
week ago 1t would have been classed as
the American record.
The cry of the announcer that john
stone had won the worlds record was
heard by only about one-third of the
1900 persons who had been present the
last day of the great tournament. Most
of these had turned toward home. but
they stopped long enough to shout en-
Enthusiastically at the announcement and
went away talking loudly and joyously
of nothing else.
1t meant that Americans had won the
two great spectacular contests of the
meet-the flight around Liberty statue
and the worlds record for aeroplane as
cension.
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Have Declined 70 Cents il Cleve-
land Market.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, NovemhF Hog
prices have dropped approximately 70
cents in the last eight days. according
to quotations on the local mafet today.
Dealers say that further defines will
come before the end of the Peek, and
that the end is not in sight.
The biggest corn crop in his Dry is as
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Post Card Albums
For 1Oc Each.

Souvenir Post Card Albums, hold
156 cards: well made, with imitation
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ing on front of cover.
Special value at Toe each.
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Wanted to Make 10000 Feet.

Thinking Of the fact that he had just
won a worlds championship, a reporter
asked:
What in the world are you sore about?'
81 wanted to make 10000 feet tombstone
replied. las long as my engine held out
stuck to the job. But 1t started to sput-
ter and skip and get unruly. and / had
to come down. You see. this Baby Wright
is very much smaller than our ordinary
biplane-the kind 1 have used. 1t was
the first time was ever up in this ma
chine l was experimenting most of the
way. 1t behaved fine But 1 could not
tell what l could expect if I started to
volplane to earth without my motor work.
ing So / came down."
In the little shed restaurant, after he
had swallowed a cup of coffee and lighted
a cigar, he said:
i've got to confess that. while / went
higher up in an aeroplane than any man
i'm the world has ever DONE the ascen-
day when l got up S,4O0 feet in a big
gale. 1t was beautiful evening. clear
all the way. l was in the sunlight all
the time.
But / was in a brand-new machine
didn't feel the same sense of safety as
always feel in the larger biplanes that
I have been used to climbing in. Wilbur
Wright had told me only to go up for
half an hours flight, but when I saw
how well the little hiplane was working
1 made up my mind that I'd try for all !
was worth for the worlds record and
the 10000 feet
Wins $500 for Flight.
BY yesterdays flight tombstone Won
$500 for beating the worlds altitude,
but if he had gone up 10000 feet he would
have won an additional $500.
II went UP steadily until got about
$500 feet up. Then the air got 50 rarefied
that began to notice changes In the en-
CINE due to the effect of the air on the
gasoline.
1.-THE propellers got slower and did not
have the same floating power all around
I had to work up mighty slowly. I
pointed the biplane straight up. / was
sitting like a man In a lowered Morris
chair--just about in that position. And
that sort of position viii get your nerve
little when you are that far up above
the whole world.
"But / was after the world record. !
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Insane Woman Stays Another.

NEVADA, Mo-, November Mrs.
Laura Liskert. a patient in the state
asylum, yesterday cut the throat OF Mrs.
r. M. Guiou.. another patient, with
NIFTY knife Death was almost instan-
taneous. The patients were In the re-
ceivinR ward Mrs. Iiskert obtained the
knife several days ago. when painters
were working about the building, There
were no attendants in the ward when the
attack was n:ece.
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A woman's figure begins in the
looking glass and ends in her i'm
agination.