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day they built barricade. 1t was deli
cate: bloodshed might stir all Paris
How shall we disperse them?" asked
the king.
BY squirtng!'' replied Casimr. Mo-
bilizing three fire engines. lie did such
work with the hose that grateful Paris
called him 'Casimir Pompier'' -pompier''
meaning ''pumper.'' French for fireman.
When he died later, after visiting the
cholera hospitals. the municipality built
him a splendid monument al Pere La
chaiSe.
Now, will you believe that jealousy
about woman could survive Napoleon
and this Casmir-and fall upon the spir-
its of Napoleons nephew and the son OF
Casimir like an impalpable mist?
CaSimir had d son CaSimir. As deputy
in 1S4S. without provocation. he rose and
said such nasty things about the new
prince-president that the prince-presdent
had him arrested. The two men hated
each other on sight.
Retire to your chateau of WHILE"
said Louis Napoleon, with nasty gilt
ter. And when you get there. stay
there"
During the eighteen years of Napoleon
III this Casimir never again peeped, liv-
ing mostly at Willie and slipping up to
Paris like cat in a cupboard. Being
a ulti-milonaire. he became more so.
and when the war broke out the Prus-
slams took and held him as a hostage.
That was SETTLING the kid in its mothers
milk, but he smiled.
Natural republican, elected straightway
to the national assembly. he sustained
Theirs and was twice his minister OF the
interior. He ended as life senator Like
his father, he was Casimir Perier, as 1
am John Smith; but in 1913 the minister
of justice gave him letters-patent TO JOIN
"Casimir and ''Perier" with a hyphen
for the family name.
His son was the late president of the
republic.
His grandson is this Claude.
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.
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correct; but this is what it came to in the
eyes of the family.
1t seems bad business to the family
Claudes mother bought the necklace back
out of fourth hands for 63,500 francs,
that it might not stray farther. Then
she paid the 10000 francs of promissory
notes-which made the necklace cost her
213G0G francs. Even now. if a mysterious
South American lady offers her f9o,UN
francs for it. the necklace still stands the
Casimr-Periers $500 francs loss. True
Claude had Goose francs cash on il. but
paying 93 for TO is not what old Claude
Perier VINO founded the Bank of France,
would call the operation Of Q father
OLA family"
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A NECDOTES of the Less
"A Known Among Them
Tennessee Sends a Youthful
Prodigy Who Will Be the
New Baby" of the Senate
Aristocratic Senator Hale to
Be Succeeded by Poor Har-
ness Makers Son-Aldrich's
Successor a Foot Ball Star
An Apollo From Connecticut
New Jersey Contributes
Orator of Eccentric Peri
patetic Habits = How He
Walked Off a Stage and Fell
Into Audience and How an
Irish Wag Rebuked Him.
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careless, and break into capital The
great Napoleon. Louis XIV, Charlemagne,
all would have called it a dark crime;
and Napoleon put remedy in the hands
of the family. AT the rate that Claude
spending he might go broke in ten
years twenty. When all was spent
he might saddle the Forbes fortune with
debts, to be sued out when he should In
herit. In vain he replied that such was
not his purpose. lie had opened the door
to the family council
Quickly the women of the family
called it--there are few men in the
cases. by their very nature. In three
movements they had trustee APP.
pointed. That is why Claude. Count of
Choiseul-Praslin, had no legal capacity
the other day to sign $1,000 francs
worth of promissory notes for necklace
on which to raise Al 800 francs. For the
should have joined him. The vendor has
no right to sue the notes out.
Family Council Napoleon found it in
the law of custom, and transformed 1T
to a formidable legal body. Guardians,
to keep their skirts clear. must con-
suit it. 1t authorizes the marriages of
orphans. 1t must be consulted before
the state dares to put away crazy
person. 1t gives it's consent Tor an
orphan heiress to marry a young man
who has no fortune 1t authorizes a
young husband to break into his wife's
dot to pay her board and treatment in
hydropathic establishment.
But there are two Claudes.
The first stands for after taking
this extraordinary family remedy.
The second typiies before taking
draw no analogy of methods. Claude
4 'aSi pir- and only male rpDrp-
sentative of the late president of the re-
prblic, leads the great Partisan life of
art. poetry and theater. Friend of Ros-
tand. he has a villa at Cambo, d chateau
at Nogent and a mansion in the Quai de
Billy. Paris. His talented young wife is
heroine of Rostand's "Chanctiler." Claude
and she appreciate all kinds of beautiful
things. tapestries, paintings. marbles,
Jewelry. rare furs, blood horses. high
grade automobiles. cookery and on.
When his father died in 1907, no one
knows how many millions Claude in
herited-although his sale of the an
ceStral and historic chateau of ViZillo. in
comprehensive at the time. may have
indicated that the late president wished
to favor Claude's mother and his sister,
married to the son of Sommier the
sugar king. But a French father
cannot legally disinherit child by more
than a quarter of his ostensible PERSONAL
ty and none of his real estate. Claude
must have come into a half share of
millions in coal mine and bank stocks,
government obligations and railway
shares and bonds.
Paris supposed him just cheerful
spender of his revenues, and perhaps
above petty calculations: yet there
mains surprise today that he should
dream of raising 6O.OC0 francs by signing
1.0.WD francs worth of pronliSsory notes
for pearl necklace There were four
operations, of course. four different
parties, separate and distinct, each quite
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Wan. They tried him. He is married.
He is solvent. 1t matters nothing.
Mothei. maiden aunts, an uncle from the
Perler bank, his sister and her husband.
Semmier, met in secret family conclave
and tried that married. solvent millionaire
and voter for the crime of raising money
at 10 per cent premium!
They tried him without his knowledge
or that OF his wife. Doubtless they had
proofs that he had broken into his in
Interchangeable crime of crimes in this
class where they live on interest from in
vestmentS, Their sentence was a legal
act kind of family council writ de-
manding the courts to appoin. q trustee
fcc Claude Gasimir- Pcrier
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Absurdity of OverWork.

TAR c. HUTCHINSON Eely. the brain
II expert of Duluth. was discussing the
new tubercun cure for progressive IA
ralysis, a malady common to Drain work.
ers.
''Tuberculin has cured a third of the
cases it has been tried on he said.
Hence it may be called a pretty good
cure. But better cure for the diseases
due to overwork is rest.
DR. Hutchinson Eely thumped the tables
vigorously.
When a professional man tells me he 10
too busy to take a rest, he CT cd. Il
tell him he is like a workman who is too
busy to Sharnen his tools
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OF the Casimir-Periers can no more
plead, compromise, borrow. receive per-
sonalty capital or receipt for it, sell real
or personal estate, or pledge it-unless
he can persuade his trustee to join him.
1t carries disgrace. One of the
famous Paris mansions of it's day. was
an imitation of an ancient royal palace
The man who built it left millions to his
son, who married. had children, and ar
rived at the age oHfifty. When his daugh-
ter was about to marry. his aged mother
learned that, for several years back, he
had spent more than his income-bitten
off corner of his capital to help out. Ut
is often done in middle-class society,
single year or two, to launch daughter)
The aged mother went round the family,
extorted signatures. and in the end the
court agreed with her. The white-mus-
tached grand Seigneur. revered head of a
grown-up family, suddenly found his own
signature worthless unless o. KID by an
other!
The Marquis de Dion, in his hot youth,
stepped high and wide. He had fam
lily fortune. independent of his father.
DaShlng. reckless yet cool-headed for the
most part he was of the disappearing
type of young aristocrat before the auto
mobile. The old marquis easily got Il
trustee for him. His income was still his
-doled out to him by another He could
do no legal act without the other. There
could be no greater handicap to business,
you Will say.
Hum. hum. Did his trustee save the
Marquis de Dion? Or the automobile? If
it were the auto he had first to save it.
He could not make an ordinary business
partnership. but entered into a sort of
gentleman's agreement with the self
made engineer. G. r. Bouton. originally
mechanic. today millionaire clubman
and chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
Since then everybody knows what the
manned the technician, and it is not too
much to say that de Dion started the
French automobile business. did more for
it than any other one man, and had thou
sands OF Workmen dependent on him dur
ing years-while still incapacitated by
his trustee!
:. x
Until. finally. it was too absurd De
Dion never asked to have him removed.
His father died: the trustee took over the
great inheritance, and de Dion accepted
the income, smiling gravely. 1t was the
trustee who felt foolish. that, one day.
there was another family council 1t
united to remove the kabosh Was it q
negation of the remedy? No. doubtless
they think that the family council saved
de Dion.
II has saved tnOuSdlluS OF men ana
millions of treasure for French families.
Also, they are always ready to remove
the trustee when a happy reason. like
de Dions. arises. Claude, Count of
seul-Praslin. was trying to follow in
de Dion'S footSteps-although, perhaps,
like the party in the Scriptures, afar
off-when he fell foul of the necklace.
And Claude Casimir-Perier may vet have
cause to thank an unbusiness-like deal
in pearls for a stirring of the old bank
ing pride of his blood to it's deepest
drop!
It is good blood. Count Claude, whose
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naked-chinncd fledglingS. chosen last
month as their successors in the council
chamber of our elder statesmen.
But not until the Vice President, with
4 whack OF his SaveI. opens his end of
he coming Sixty-second Congressman
until after the recess that must separate
hat Congress from the one now sitting,
will there be any oath-taking or formal
installation of the newcomers. BY next
Saturday they will have seen to the prop
n filing of their credentials, and when
Uncle Sans time ball falls upon the
r!eridian of that day it will automatically
ut from their title of senator the pom
1erous suffix elect" From the same
moment the secretary Of the Senate will
commence to reckon their wages of $6o5
7er month. their clerk hire. stationery al
lowance and perquisites of office, all of
hch they will continue to enjoy before
they shall have been required to swear
tiiat, with the aid of the Almighty, they
rill defend the Constitution and well and
faithfully discharge the duties of their
igh Office.
Fortune has performed some strange.
feats in choosing these new men for the
sacred senatorial toga. Each seems to
have mounted the southern edge of our
Capitoline Hill by his own path, and
twould be difficult indeed to reduce their
lines OF travel to a mean by which young
men ambitious for senatorial careers
might be safely guided toward the same
goal. The most of them have gained the
summit by ignoring about every rule of
the road laid down by the political crafts
men of former times and by avoiding
those stepping stones which the sign
hn1 vdc W fnH IN
safest and surest. Through unbeaten
paths they have mounted by short cuts
and long leaps.
The shortest cut of all was that just
''negotiated'-as Peary would put it-by
n youngster who set out this winter from
the old Volunteer state of Tennessee.
Back in the seventeen hundreds Andy
Jackson, then young district attorney in
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Like All "BeSt Sellers. !"

A MAGAZINE editor at a dinner at the
Authors Club in New York praised
a best seller" that had just appeared.
1t is book of 1r0.GD words cried the
editor, and yet Inck wrote il in two
months. Can you believe it?''
Yes" drawled Mr.. Bierce, an author,
"lnck is SO lazy"
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ARTS has peri
odically a neck
lace imbroglio.
The necklace of
Anne of Austria.
The necklace of
Marie -Antoinette.
The necklace of
the Duchess de
Berry.
The necklace of
Eugene.
Great court in
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He Is still a millionaire. They did not
need to wait for him to spend a third
or quarter of his millions. They did not
need to show that he had lost good
Judgment. a French rich man having
mother. grandmother. sisters. wife. chill
dren or grandchildren opens himself to
trustee when he consumes in unproduct-
i've expenses. not only his revenues, but
a portion of his capital
His or his Wife's first knowledge of all
this was the courts notice to come and
defend himself. So far he has made no
defense, nor probably WILL we'll
brought up Frenchman does not fight his
mother on a question Of mere money.
Yet when he shall have a trustee the last
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later, after he had been elected a dele
gate to the exciting state convention of
1906. You may remember that when in
that conclave the presiding officer refused
to give up his gavel a bold youth came
forward snatched 1t up and, amid a
furore, secured the nomination Of Pat
terson for governor. That was Luke Lea,
then but twenty-six years old.
The following year he 'fnsurged'
himself with the prohibitionists and, COM
ing out as an Independent. founded the
Tennessean, of which the ill-starred
Carmack became editor Last month, al
though looked upon by the regulars as
"A dangerous factor in the senatorial con-
test, they felt assured they had him
blocked. But while the members of the
legislature were home during two-day
recess this young Napoleon of politics"
busted himself enlisting an army of FLU
sionists,'' which. under his command,
struck at the exact psychological moment
and, with bare majority of two votes,
captured the toga for their youthful gen
eral.
When the next Congress conveneS great
interest will be manifested also in the
successors of Hale. the nestor of the Sen
ate. and of Aldrich, its republican leader,
both Of whom, before the last election,
voluntarily announced that they would re-
tire to private life March 4.
That such an unbending aristocrat as
Senator Hale, in whose Washington pal
ace the fashionableS of the capitals mil
lionaire colony have mingled for the past
generation, should have to drape his toga
about the shoulders of the son of poor
Yankee harness maker looks, indeed, like
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ATCEDAY next
will be toga-shift-
ing day in the Sen
ate of the United
States. A dozen and
more of graybeards
will then doff their
hallowed garments
of office and drape
them about the
5 n o u ! d e r s Of a
waiting line of
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autumn carried to victory his political
friends, who have since carried him to
the crest of Capitol Hill. Since he is a
poor man, who must depend upon his sal
airy, his Washington residence will not be
the rendezvous of millionaires.
x
The wheel Of fortune did not go so far
in the turning when the powerful Sena-
10 Aldrich's toga was lately disposed of
by the Rhode Island legislature. Henry
Frederick Lippitt. who now awaits this
mantle, is of the same political faith as
his predecessor and is not far behind
that leader in the enjoyment of the good
that family of Iippitts which has con-
tributed two governors to little Rhody,"
and he had no struggle in entering
Brown University in the class of rs.
But he was no pink-blooded aristocrat.
Having been reared an athlete. he was
made captain of the varsity foot bill eleV-
en- while freshman, and throughout his
whole four years was Browns star grid
iron hero. Having received his sheeqskin,
then settled down to work in first one
cotton factory and then another, where
he learned dyeing, bleaching and the va
rious processes of manufacture. Next he
was superintendent o. a mill, and later
he became agent for four mills. Now he
is one of the leading cotton manufac-
turers of New England
His fad is yachting. and he has owned
some fast racing craft. He is the member
of five exclusive clubs in Providence, four
in New York. He has four children,
whose mother died only a few weeks be-
fore his election. last month.
Working on the farm in summer, teach
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FAMILY Council of Claude
/ Casimir-Perier and New
American Duchess Brother
in-law-Strange Powers of
Female Relatives-How the
Periers Made Their Money
The Chateau of His An
ceStorS.
Special Correspondence of The Star
PARIS, February Is. 1911
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He started the Bank of France. Alone
he drew up its statutes.
He had a son. Antoine Scipion, who
became creator of the ChailIot iron foun-
dries, introduced the Catalan FORCES, and
applied steam engines to coal mining.
But Claude had another son named
Casimir, who at eighteen ran off to fight
with young Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy.
He became Napoleons friend. and by
rights should have been a famous mar
shall. But a lady interviewed. She pre-
ferred Casimir, who knew that his mil
itary usefulness was over when he heard
Napoleon grit his teeth. So he returned
to Paris. where, while holding on to
their inherited Bank of France stock, he
and Antoine Scipion started a new bank.
This Casimir became a high and intiu
entail Paris banker, judge of the tribunal
of commerce, regent of the Bank of
France and deputy for Paris-after
Waterloo. In politics he followed
events" for the sake of order-i.e.. not to
risk harm to investments: but in the
revolution of 1890 he let himself be elect
ed president of the chamber of deputies
and as such he read to the Due dor
leans the declaration calling him to the
throne as Louis-Philippe, King of the
French not King of France, to show
that he was put there by the peoples
will.
All the same. this Casimir was no re-
publican. As Louis hilippe's minister
he dispersed republican societies. One
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1iSaI touit
trigues Unanswered. round them: proud
crime, treason. or war, even, to bestow
them on the beloved object.
Now Paris is excited by two neck
laces-but not to adorn the neck of
beauty. They were to hook, pawn, or
make a raise on. All my facts 1 quote
from reputable Paris papers. 1 make
no revelations. but would merely show
that, IL times change, brave hearts re-
main to save willful men against them
selves. From the Collier de la Refine"
To the necklace of the loan Office may
seem jump as long in sentiment as
time; yet round those strings of pearls
may be seen the high acts of gentle
and retiring ladies who would not, per-
sonally, touch them with a ten-foot
pole.
What power the code Napoleon gives
10 female relatives, We have heard so
much Ct titled Frenchmen wasting Amer
lean girls money that / am glad to
show you an American mother protecting
her millions. She who was Miss. Mary
Eliza beth Forbes of New York in the
seventies is today the Dowager Duchess
of Choiseul- Praslin. 1t is an illustrious
family. rich apart from the Forbes mil
lions. The widow of Hamilton Paine of
Boston recently espouseG the elder son.
now duke The father being dead
Claude, second son of the dowager, nee
Forbes, inherited equal fortune with
his brother and the title of count
Count Claude. free. full-grCwn man.
lived in his own establishment, ON ms
large income. His great error was 10
live beyond that income, negligent and
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mother was Miss Forbes. descends di-
rectly from Choiseul, Louis XV's min
lister. as great as Richelieu or Ma
zarin. Yet when Rostand and his
this other Claude and the hen pheasant
in the rosy twilight of their Cambo gar
den. all three look on him with a kind
of reyerence-as the direct heir of that
old Claude who started the French rev.
olution, and the modern system.
1t is good blood. In 17SS Claude Per
Ter was the richest and most inf1uen-
tial man about Grenoble, not "A noble
but manufactures with quantities
of workmen on his pay roll-restless. far
seeing overman. He was forty-six years
old, and had for years lived richly in
his chateau of While, bought from d
petering-out noble family. descended
from the illustrous Constable de Les
diguieres, who had built it some .tD
said legend.
All know that the modern system start
ed at Bunker Hill, but its European birth
was in this chateau. The land was full
of rumors-liberty. equality. fraternity.
Put down king and mobiles. like America.
The mountaineers of Dauphiny asked of
Claude Perier: What shall We do?' He
answered. Meet at Willie This con-
ference of July y, 17SS. in which the
deputies of Dauphiny were first to
vote the meeting of the Etats-Generaux.
is known to all school children as the
prelude to the revolution"
After the terror. Claude Perier was
sent to Paris a member of the leg
islative body. He saw the republic
emerge from the bloody anarchy which
he. unwittingly, perhaps. had let loose;
and before he died. in 1891, he did an
other thing which would suffice to make
him illustrous.
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H.E LIRPITT, .<2
\ ALpRIcHS SUCCESSOR.

ing school the remainder of the year and
studying law while teaching. BY this
familiar road, this beaten path, comes
William E. Chiffon. the successor of
Senator Nathan B. Scott Of West Vir-
ginia.
became the law partner of the late Sena-
tor kenna. He is fifty-three years old
and boasts of neither beard nor mustache.
That he won 2s5 out of the 2s7 cases
which he tried while prosecuting attorney
at Kansas City, from 1898 to 1900, is the
boast of James A. Reed, the democrat
who will succeed Senator Warner of Mis-
souri,. Next he became reform mayor"
of Kansas City. and as such held two
terms. or from 1900 to 1904 He is forty
nine years old and a Buckeye by birth.
When an infant of three his parents took
him from Ohio to Cedar Repids. Iowa.
where he studied law. After practicing
there for two years, he put off for Kansas
city, taking a young bride along with
him. That was twenty-fOur years ago.
In the last November primary he took
the senatorial nomination away from his
felow-democrat, David r. Francis, who
had been Governor of Missouri, Secretary
of the Interior and president of the great
ST Louis exposition.
The handsomest of the next senators Is
George Payne Mclean, the progressive
tempts Of that old war. horse. Senator
Morgan G. Buckley, to obtain renomi-
nation from the Connecticut republicans.
Mr.. Mclean has mounted by gradual
steps. Thirty years ago he opened his
law office at Hartford and after practic-
ing two years he went to the lower house
of the legislature. Three years more and
he reached the state senate and six years
after that he was appointed United States
attorney for Connecticut. Then he be-
came governor.
X *
Although f1fty-three he has been mar
ried less than four years. He is a bril-
liant orator.
The progressive" label is worn also by
John D. Works, CALIFORNIA; new senator.
who filched the republican nomination
away from A. G. Spalding, the former
base ball star. He is the oldest of the
new senators and will celebrate his sixty
fourth birthday next month. He is a
Hoosier by birth and when only lad of
fourteen enlisted in the Union cavalry,
with which he fought till the end Of the
war. Then he studied law and practiced
at home until thirty-six, when he went
to San Diego, Cal. After serving there as
judge of the superior court he moved to
Los Angeles. He is a priestly looking man
and is the author of several law text
books.
From obscurity to the Senate in three
years is the leap made by AtIee
Pomerene, the democrat who will repre-
sent Ohio in the upper house. Like Sena-