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WAITING FOR BODIES Or THE DEAD. To DE DROUGHT
fRon CHERRY. NINE

thought Of them. When at last the neigh
bors recalled the little orphans they were
wan with hunger. but stoltdly awaiting
their father.
They were maintained for some tims
by the charity organizations. So strap
ping were they that number of insti-
tutions offered them homes. But in the
end an uncle was found in another min
ing camp. and the children were sent
to him and the pension followed.
There are families by the score that
are now being supported entirely by
their pensions. There is Annie Mac
Luckie, a brave little Scotch woman
with Ave children. one of which has
been born since the disaster. Elizabeth
James is also Scotch, and the mother
of six, the eldest twelve years old.
Lucy Wyatt, the wife Of an English
miner. has added twins to the four chill
dren she had before the tragedy. Julia
DOWN is Slavic. and the mother Of
eight orphans. There are an abundance
of families of six and seven. for there
was no race suicide in Cherry.
Practically all the Cherry sufferers
were of foreign birth. There are few
native-born Americans nowadays who 60
under ground and work in the mines. The
foreigners are producing the mineral
wealth of the nation. One American
persisted, and he left no dependents
Slavs. Poles and many others Of vary
ing nationalities gave up their lives,
and today the charities Of their adopted
land are caring for their American-born
children. For there were sixteen Ian
guages spoken in Cherry 1t was q
Babel set down in the level plains OF
Illinois.
From it's confusion OF tongues and fts
tragedy it is believed will come Q
generation of American men and women
and a lesson in rightly directed charity
that will go on to benefit many genera
tons Far down. in Alabama disaster
funds are being handled in the same
way. So are they in New York. where
factory workers were recently trapped
in burning building. The great.
charitable public which has been for
long cropping for a manner Of disposing
Of its wealth to the needy and the I'M
fortunate, without fear OF its being
frittered away and wasted, has accept
ed this great example of the right
method of lending practical assistance
When it is more generally adopted. IL
is anticipated that the public will give
more generously, because OF the con-
fidence engendered. Then Cherry viii
not have taken its toll in vain.
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itself out almost automatically until the
fund is exhausted thirteen years hence.
Today the widows of the men who died
are living in small cottages about the
town. To receive the funds being given
they must live respectfully. The children
are being fed and clothed from this
money. They are going to school and
becoming good Americans They must
go to school, or their allowances will be
cut off In this way are the lives Of the
pensioners more closely guarded than are
those of the other villagers. In this way
it may work out that the sons OF the
men who died at Cherry may be more
effectively trained and educated than
they would had their fathers lived, and
SO may the disaster prove an indirect
blessing.
The occasion of the disaster that drew
forth this modern method Of charity may
o'clock in the afternoon Of Saturday,
Cherry caught fire. A load of hay which
was on its way to the mule stables at
the bottom Of the mine stood for q time
beneath a torch suspended from the roof
of low passage. Presumably drops Of
burning oil fell on the hay. From this
disasters which has ever happened in the
United States. The fire spread from the
hay and burned fercely in both Of the
shafts which led to the surface. soon cut
ting Off all chance Of escape. Eleven
heroic volunteers who went down in an
attempt to rescue the men below were
trapped by the fire and killed.
Two hundred and fifty-six mon lost
their lives that day in the mine, about
one-half Of all the men Of the village Of
Cherry.
All the strength OF the community and
Of the state was instantly dedicated to
efforts at rescue. Brave men eagerly
risked their lives. Practical miners. mine
inspectors, scientists. flremen, gathered
at Cherry and did their best. The creep
ing flames, the smoke. the poisonous
gases baffled all the power of man. Then
came the suspense of waiting. In the
gray dawn women with babies in arms
and other babies clinging to their skirts
gathered in silent groups about the shaft.
When darkness fell they melted away to
their desolated homes. They scarcely ate,
they neglected their children and them
selves. Occasionally some overwrought
watcher at the shaft would burst the
bonds of frozen grief and shriel5 out her
fears in wild, formless cries But these
incidents served only to accentuate the
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reign in 1873. and only stuck at the tn
color.
Some senator's feared Job. Might not
for the $6O.OOO,0OO to which the private
domains Of Louis XVI and Marie An
toinette now amount? Acknowledged as
the direct descendants of the lost dau-
phin, the three Paris claimants would be
in a strong position before the courts-be-
cause the legal acts to interrupt prescrip-
ton were always performed by their
grandfather and father, always claim
ants. though sometimes quiet and some
times noisy.
Is 1t not romantic that the private estates
Of the martyred king and queen should
SO persist. with an unearned increment
that makes them SEQ. ZOO, 600? Louis XVIII,
the 'usurper." laid hands on them.
passed them on to the Duchess d'Angou
leme-"unnatural sister" who would not
acknowledge Naundorff-and, by way of
the Comte de Chambord. they snugly fell
into the hands Of his sisters son. the
present Duke of Parma
The three Paris claimants-who are
hungry-aff1rm openly that they will
make Parma dfsgorge. and few French
men would have any objection. OF course
1t is a naive thing to say. and rather
proves their innocence Of heart. But IL
scared certain senators.
And why go on? So secret councils
argued. The mine is we'll laid; wait for
a need to fire it. From a republican point
of view it will be good politics to ac-
knowledge the debased Naundroff blood
a. representing the lost dauphin. At
once 1t cuts out Philippe and discredits
roySlism. Here Is your king; do you
want him-formerly a wine merchant"
When need dictates the republic can.say
it, but why hurry? To hurry in proclaim
ing the Naundorffs without need is to
play the game Of the Bonapartists. They
are ready. They have campaign fund
of 100000. AS soon as they have dis
credited royalism they will act. Why help
them?
So the senate did not reject the Naun-
dorff claim-nor accept II. The senate
merely sent the Paris claimants to the
civil courts to fight it out. The courts
can decide slowly or rapidly according
to republican need.
Meanwhile. all France talks of Naun-
dorn the Mysterious, grandfather of
fighting Jean-Auguste, and his two broth
ers who want to make Parma disgorge"
Where did Naundorff come from? OF
what family was he. 1t was never dis
covered, in spite of Louis Philippe's fran
tic efforts to assign him a civil status in
a Europe where no one could bulge with
out his papers"
Put aside Naundorff's astonishing re-
semblance to Louis XVI. such an acct
dental resemblance might have suggested
the idea of an imposture. But what of
his marks? What of the persistent re-
semblances OF his children and grand
children. half with the Hapsburg protrud-
ing ch1n-phenomenon called prognathism
an with the famous Bourbon nose. lost
by the Comte de Chambord and the pres
ent Duke of Orleans. And, mark you,
Marie Antoinette was not a prognathist-
1t skipped her as it has skipped half
Naundorff's descendants!
And yet more ineXplicable is that of a
peasant of Silesia Tor elsewhere). living
in . region and at an epoch where he
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much of her life. He picks out admis-
sions of the unknown (Naundorf) con-
cerning details between 1875 and 1900 i'm
possible for lost dauphin. born in 1855.
to know. Worse, there was Carl-Ben-
Jamin Werg, in those days, In her life.
Werg, born in 1777, could know all, and
Werg disappears completely. BY what
documented steps this &c. M" forces the
who destroyed his own papers and took
up the name OF Naundorff-is too com
plicated for U.S. Suppose Naundorn 10
have been really Werg. an elder man
than he gave himself out to be. The
discrepancy of ages would have been
stroke OF genius. All right But where
did he get that Naundorff passport? Tho
mystery is only set back a step-to SLAM
der tie unknown.
Does the Emperor Of Germany hold the
secret?
Ferret de Bourbonne is president of that
society for studying the question Louis
XVII. In 1897. he says. the aunt of ths
empress, Princess Amelia OF Sleswig-
Holstein. friend OF the Duchesse de Chew
reuse. arriving in Paris, asked him,
through the duchesse. to meet her at the
Hotel Liverpool.
81 have heard you spoken OF as a far
vent partisan of Louis XVII and his de-
scendants." she said, land want YOU
cations: because the emperor, on my re-
turn, will surely ask me-"
He replied that the Naundorff cause
was gaining partisans, but unfortunately
many documents had been suppressed
from the French archives.
The princess replied: My friend. the
duchess. wants me to ask the emperor
for q copy OF the Louis XVII dossier
Cportfolio) in the secret Berlin archives.
When I send it to her she Will show 70
to you
He!as! Some time later the Duchesse
de Chevreuse received word from Berlin
that II would be impossible to send tha<
copy, because its knowledge would throw
the chancelleries of Europe into alarm
and cause great trouble in the public
mind Of France.
On a previous occasion, away back in
1886, Won Rochow, Prussian minister OF
the interior. said TO Xavier Laprade,
lawyer:
~ will not say that Naundorff was not
the dauphin, but will tell you my entire
thought: the truth would dishonor all the
of Europe
There It rests. Will Emperor William
speak yet?
STERLING HELLO
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Free Gratis.

BISHOP MALLALIEU, apropos of ths
- queer creeds that spring UP among
the ignorant from time to time, said In
Auburndale the other day Of a corona.
ton visitor:
We'll, I hope when he comes back
he won't bring any more new religions
with him."
"Oh. no fear Of that, bishop The Gus
tom house is too strict" an Auburndale
physician remarked.
''Ah. but" said the bishop, these new
religions, you must remember, never
have any duties attached to them"
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are today receiving pensions sufficient
to keep them from want Every
child will be provided for until 1t Is OF
such age that IT may legally go to work
Every widow will be looked after until
she renarrfes. Every dependent relative
Is being financially aided. The whole
plan has just been worked out and ex-
ecuted by special commission appointed
for that purpose.
OF the survivors of that disaster not
one has been allowed to suffer want be-
cause of 1t. Not a child will be allowed to
suffer. for each is to be penstoned until
he IS fourteen years of age. A scheme OF
benefits has been arranged such as was
never before worked out A model plan
has been laid down so effective that 1t
IL expected 1t will become the basis for
handling that stream Of money that al
ways flows forth when disaster occurs.
The plan aims at the best possible spend
ing Of the funds for the greatest possible
benefit to the sufferers. There has hith-
erto been no such plan and the money OF
the charitable has often fallen short OF
the mark of allev1ating the suffering that
called 1t forth.
Enr the charitable contributed 1915 424
for the relief Of the Cherry sufferers.
There were ITO widows and 469 orphans
to be provided for out of that sum- 1t
was SO distributed as TO go all the way
around and do the greatest possible good.
AZ
The fund Is put in trust and-is to be so
distributed that 1t will all be exhausted
by the time the youngest Of the children
is fourteen years Of age. In the mean
time the widow with one child is to re-
cefve $50 a month until that child is four
teen. The widow with two children IS to
receive S25 a month until the eldest Is
fourteen. The widow with three children
e to receive $50 a month until the sec
ond child Is fourteen. The widow with
four children Is to receive $50 q month
until the second child Is fourteen. The
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Josephine, ardent royalist: he and his
confederates who had voted the kings
death and compromised themselves in the
terror, needed hostage in the probable
case of the monarchy being restored.
With such a hostage, kept hidden, Barras
calculated to have an arm against Louis
XVIII. whom he imagined would mount
the throne.
Instead. It was Napoleon, whose role
vis-a-vis. the little dauphin, remains to
be cleared up. Naundorff claims that
under Napoleon he passed long years in
pr1son-four in an obscure cell Of the
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oUmo, Dfooo1n&v terr1ole silence or IqoSd
who waited as the days draggedsby.
Saturday, November 20. exactly a week
after the disaster. and after all the min
ing experts gathered there had decided
that no living man remained in the mine
thing happened which had all the effect
of miracle. Twenty-one living men
were discovered and brought forth. A
great wave Of new hope surged through
the community Men ran about the streets
shouting the good news until they were
ready to fall from exhaustion. A long
row Of blackened and distorted bodies
which had been brought forth and laid
on the ground to be identified was de-
serted and forgotten. But no more living
men were found, and the tide of hope
passed on, leaving despair the blacker
after its passage The fire in the mine
increased In spite of heroic efforts to
quench it, and the mine began to choke
up from the caving in of it's passages.
On Thanksgiving day solid caps Of con-
crete were laid upon the mouths Of both
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Famous Mystery the Lost Revived Among Royas France

could not have posted himself on the
plots to rescue the dauphin-many of
which have come out only in the past
thirty years-should have known, for ex-
ample, that a first substitution had been
successfully made. and that a deaf-mute
child had afterward replaced that sub
stitute He knew Of the hiding place in
the garrett OF the Temple tower, and had
in his possession copies OF the Laurent
letters, now recognized as genuine and
Of vital Importance Where did he get
them?
Naundorffs story had lapses, but no
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s a solace to wives
and orphans Of men
who have persisted
underground In the
past few weeks it
may be said that
the wives and the
orphans Of every
one of the 256 men
who died in the
mine disaster at
Cherry, ILL.,, a year
and a half ago
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HEN recently I
told you OF the
royalist conspiracy.
I may have seemed
visionary. I was
only clear-dghted.
Once again a straw
shows how the
wind Is veering4 IN
France
Under cover Of
the sincere Naun-
dorff lprixate fam-
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widow with five or more children is to
receive $40 a month until the third child
is fourteen.
This Is the pension system where the
family remains in America. There are
terms under which an immediate settle
ment may be had in cases where the
family wants to return to Europe, for the
victims were mostly of foreign birth.
secure lump sums of from $500 to $500
and from 500 to $500 for each child, de-
pending on age.
These amounts are not large from the
standpoint of the well-to-do American,
but they mean comfortable living and
small fortunes to the foreign born. AL
ready one foreign woman with $50 a
month has been married for her money.
Already many families have returned to
Italy and taken their places among the
wealthy as viewed from the standpoint
of the European peasant.
At the time Of the disaster emergency
aid was rushed to the scene, and such
organizations as the Red Cross, the As
Mine Workers Of Illinois and others pro-
vided assistance. But as the stories OF
the horrors of the disaster and the suf-
fering and helplessness Of the survivors
went abroad great sums Of money
poured in. While immediate suffering
was alleviated. it became necessary to
provide for the future Of the deprived
women and children, and to this end an
organization was necessary.
The Cherry relief commission was or
ganized from the various associations in
terested in caring for the bereaved. By
mutual consent the money contributed
from various sources was all turned over
to this commission. 1t was deposited and
the commission was authorized to work
out a scheme for it's distribution.
Ernest P. Bicknell, national director OF
the Red Cross, was the originator Of the
distribution and pension scheme. Scien-
tific charity workers spent months in
Cherry gathering material as to the par
ticular needs OF the dependents of the
victims of the disaster. When all these
were classified and all funds were in the
distribution was figured on a mathemat-
teal basis. Settlements were made in
certain cases. and the pension system
was inaugurated in the great majority.
The commission has just now completed
its work and turned the machinery OF
the further distribution of funds over
to a trust company, where it will work
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DERSONAL Estates of
1 Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette Now Amount to
$6o,ooo,ooo-Is the Rightful
Heir Kept Out of Thema-
What Does Emperor Will
liam Know?-Naundorf Case
Goes From Senate to Courts
Revival of Royalist Inter
estain France.
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fcates from "Naundorff called de Bour-
bon" to de Bourbon pure and simple.
Yet when they wanted to enter the
L Dutch army they were told; Nasg ,ra ,e
enter the French army. they were told:
.Naturalize yourselves French They
have no legal country. They are de-
scended from that incarnate mystery.
their grandfather Naundorff, of whom all
Louis Phiitppe's diplomatic service could
discover no origin.
They live In Paris under the name ''de
Bourbon" by tolerance The republic does
not trouble them; on the contrary, one
brother recently obtained his chauffeur 8
permit without examination. And If, as
they have recently been given strong
hopes. they can get themselves recognized
merely as French citizens by family right
all the rest follows. They have no French
ancestry except that of their story-the
lost dauphin.
1t may not be realized in America how
far they have been able to push their
claims Of late. This year the senate COM
mission appointed to examine into them
actually decided in their favor, and the
reporter. Senator Boissy d'Anglas grand
son of the famous Conventional, who
did not, however, vote the death of Louis
XVI and Marie Antoinette), made an elo-
quently partisan summing up in the same
sense.
Let the republic repair the welcomes
Of kings" he said; take these grateful
representatives of Louis XVI by the
hand and make them all they ask to be,
plain citiZens!'
At once all the historians of France
were aflame-the more SO because the
senator accused Jules Claretie, Anatole
&. France. Ernest Daudet, the Grande En-
cyciopedia and the Larousse of willfully
repeating long-disproved ISLANDERS of
Louis XVIII and Louis Philippe on the
Grandfather Naundorff. To one such
the Polish origin slander'-the King Of
Prussia gave an official denial in 1889.
The royalists were worse afiame. Rec
ignition Of the Naundorffs would upset
the claims OF Philippe. Duke of Orleans.
Comte de Chambord-venerated as Henri
V-to have been only the chief Of a
younger branch.
Old stories of him surge up. The Marquis
de Maleissye, still living, has just reaf-
frTned that the Comte de Chambord con-
1essed to him: II cannot reign, / am OF
the younger branch"-complete confession
that he knew descendants of the lost
dauphin to be in existence. This August
Jean (Naundortf-de Bourbon). eldest of
the three Paris claimants who puts forth
his own little son as the true Henri W
repeats that Maximin, one of the child
prophets Of Notre Dame de la Salette,
went to the Comte de Chambord in his
chateau, saying: God forbids You to
reign. because you are not the real king
And, instead OF casting the boy out as
an tmpostor or crazy, Chambord hung his
head"
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ORGANIZED Charity Has

ORGANIZED Charity Has
~ Worked Out Scheme
of Providing for Disaster Vic
tins That Is a New Thing
Under the Sun-Every Or
phan Gets Money Enough to
Provide the Necessities of
Life and the Means for
S choo1in Widows Are
Given the Funds to Keep the
Home Together-The Chari-
table Public Is Assured That
It's Money Is to Be Spent So
That Great Good May Come
of It.
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as to conditions along the way. But It
had not gone far until it's calling brought
a response. The men Of the bureau OF
mines. equipped with oxygen helmets,
were in the mine and came to their res
cue. They were led out.
Waite was offered $500 week to go on
the vaudeville stage. He refused it. He
Is today working as mine foreman and
respected by all his fellows. He values
this respect more than money or noto-
riety.
Old Mrs. Howard lost two stafwart sons
In the mine. They were aged fifteen and
twenty respectively. They were cut off
by the poisonous gases and slowly
smothered. The younger boy went first
and the elder wrote on wrapping paper
OF his passing. He kept an hour by hour
diary until his pencil trailed of into I'M
Ineligible scrawings. The old mother
is receiving her monthly pittances as a
solace to her loss.
John kenik was a sturdy Sav. To him
and his wife. Maria. had been born five
sturdy children. Then. two months after
the disaster. there arrived two more lit
tie Keniks. twins. So Maria now has
seven children dependent upon her. the
eldest of which is nine This is no mean
burden for a foreign woman in a strange
land, the language of which is still some
thing of mystery to her But Maria
is frugal in the way Of her kind. She
has a pension of $50 a month. Out Of
that allowance she maintains her little
home. provides plentifully for her brood.
and allows the children to grow up as
Americans in this new land. In five
years more little Frank will be fourteen
and may become a mule boy in the mine.
In few mere years all the children but
the twins will be earning money. and
the pension will be no longer needed.
There will be no suffering In the Kenik
family.
There was the case Of Olaf Sandeen, a
great, hulking Swede, who could lift a
loaded car on the track If 1t CHANGED to
run of. Olaf was a widower. There
were three towheaded children depend
ant upon him. He had built a high fence
around his shack and he locked the gate
when he went to work. The young ones
prowled or slept about the place like so
many bear cubs while Olaf worked his
Shift. They waxed fat and strong on his
miners fare. They promised to make
the sort of citizens of which Uncle Sam
is proud.
But when Olaf died underground the
little Sandeens remained locked up In
the shack for two days before anybody
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contradictions. At present all French
historians agree that the little dauphin
was rescued-the child who died under
his name being substitute. Accept It;
there Is no space for the demonstration
He was secretly removed, that is how he
became the lost dauphin.
High people planned his removal. For
Barras, 1t was not only to ostensibly please
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And Boissy d'Anglas quotes the Comte
de Chambord's reply to Senator Chesne-
long, tearfully pleading that he return
and reign: Dear friend. I have another
reason for refusing, which 1 dare not
tell. Nevertheless. many persist in be-
ieving that ChambOrd was quite ready to