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priest, and by Archbishop Carroll of Bal
tinore was appointed cure of Charleston.
S. c.
But the tonsure and the garb of priest
had failed to overcome the aristocratic
instincts of the now Father Cloriviere, and
he was badly received by the people of
his parish. They could not forgive his
love of the family of Bourbon and his de-
testation Of the new regime in France.
and they hooted him on the streets. even.
so the chronicles tell. peiting him with
mud and stones.
downfall of the Corsican and the return
of the Bourbons to France. Father Clori-
Were preached such sermon from his
Charleston pulpit that the people talked
of lynching ami some OF the hotbloods
shot at him as he passed from the church
to his home.
On the point OF returning to Franco,
where he was no longer an outlaw, letters
reached Father CloriViere from Archbish-
Oh Carroll. asking him to become director
of the Convent of the VISITATION. IN
Georgetown. Apparently ne gave long
thought to the matter. because 1t was not
until the very close of the year 1917 that
he came to the convent, where, January
II 1878 he assumed the duties or spirit
ual director, taking the place made Va
cant by the death Of Archbishop Neale,
founder of the institution.
The annals of the convent ten VI MS
coming and of his years Of service. They
toll of how he found the visitation re-
duced to the direst poverty; OF how he.
with the nuns, lived on small bowi OF
brown mush apiece daily. Tney tel or
how the nuns slept in rooms INTO Wnicn
the winter winds blew snow and sleet; OF
how they shivered and half froze FOR lack
OF coverings. and of how, even during the
day. they chilled and sickened because
they had not sufficient clothing.
The annals, in words that are dramatic
because Of their very simplicity, tell or
Father Cloriviere and his work for the
visitation. And a later writer, sne VINO
was Rose Hawthorne, daughter OF Ma
thaniel Hawthorne, and later nun.
tells the tale in work of love which
she has named "A Story OF Courage =
tells of the half clothed. half-fed sisters.
and their equally stricken director, In
the battle to prevent the abandonment OF
the convent
1t was o. struggle such as not many
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Rampant Wickedness.

THE late Patrick Ford. Ire ands lest
friend in America, was talking one
day about the English.
They are 50 sanctimonious, especially
toward the Ir.sh.' he said. land their
observation-disclosures, by Joye, isn't hypoc-
risy-it's stupidity.
They're like my friend, Bishop Eighth
ly. who has Just bought two-horsepow-
er runabout.
never knew till | got a car said
Bishop Eighthly, that profanity WAS so
extremely prevalent
Do you hear much OF it on the road?'
/ asked.
Why said the bishop. nearly every
body L bump into swears dreadfuIly.
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ceased the search, the Chevalier Joseph
Picot de Limoelan made his way to the
Island OF Jersey. Here he met a French
gentleman. M. de Chappedelaine, who
was about to sail for America, and who
offered to take the fugitive with him.
Limoelan accepted the offer, going dis
sulsed as M. de Chappedelaine's servant.
In New York. under the name Of
Guitry, Limoeian earned a precartous
livelihood as a painter of portraits and
But there were other exiled
gentles of France in New York at that
time. many of whom. also, were trying
to live by means of their brushes. and
the earnings of any Of them We're small.
So. after a time, Limoelan went to
Savannah, in the effort to find land
and people who would take more kind
~ To his portraits and his miniatures
on ivory and porcelain.
Somewhere about the year 1906 Limoe-
Ian went to Charleston, S. G. BY this
time he had abandoned his own name and
hak taken that of an uncle and godfather,
who, in France had achieved churchly
fame as Father Pierre Joseph Picot de
Cloriviere. He was a member Of the So
ciety of Jesus, Jesuit monk. who. when
Limoelan went to Paris in 1900, was six
ty-five years of age. and who, with the
members of ali the religious societies, had
been expelled from France during the
revolution. SO it was under the name of
this dead uncle and godfather that the
Chevalier de Limoelan sunk his identity
forever, in the new land to which he had
fled.
1t was about the year 1SO6-the old rec
ords are vague as to dates-that the now
Joseph Pierre Picot de Cloriviere went
from Charleston to Baltimore. where he
entered the Seminary OF Sulpiciens Of st.
Mary. In his wanderings he had heard
the call to the priesthood LIE Notre, In
deed, in his story, tells Of vow that had
been taken BY the chevalier. by which he
declared his intention to give his life to
the church should he be fortunate enough
to escape alive from France and the
agents of Napoleon.
At any rate, in the academy at Balti-
more he studied for the priesthood, and
during Lent. In 1907, he received the ton
sure. August /. 1872. ne was ordained a
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of the French Revolution" quoting the
words of witnesses at the trials of Saint
Reliant and Carbon, says that those who
were close at hand heard no sound of an
explosion: they saw merely a binding
burst of flame, and knew no more--those
Of them that lived to give evidence-untll
they awoke from their Inconsistencies.
But the French writer tells of windows
miles away that We're broken by the con-
cussion: of the scores of dead, dying
and injured that Strewed the Streets OF
the shouting and cursing of the grena-
diers-those of them left unhurt-as they
rode right and left into the crowds OF
citizens too daZed to make an effort to
escape, and of Limoelan, there at the
big gateway, hurting himself fiat on the
ground at the instant of the crash, theu
arising and walking away. to disappear
forever from the eyes of the thousands
of police agents who sought MIN IN
every Granny and hiding place in France.
but sought in vain.
For I4imoelan, discarding his working
mans blue blouse, walked out or Paris,
walked out of the records or the secret
agents OF Napoleon as completely as
il he had been blown up with the others.
For a year he remained in france play
ing game of tag with the police that
for sheer effrontery and successful dar-
ing has perhaps never been equaled. AT
one time. apparently cornered. and with
no chance of escape. hemmed in by
soldiers. Limoelan. dressed as a dandy
of the period. and carelessly twirling a
little rattan cane, stroiled nonchalantiy
along before the troops. stopping from
time to time to flick an imaginary
speck of dust from his coat or his
Vanished boots, or to take dainty
pinch of snuff.
Neither officers nor men, or any of the
dozens of police agents. recognized the
seeming swell: not one Of them all knew
that there was the man for whom all the
police machinery of France had been
searching for weeks. AND Limoelan
walked along slowly before the ranked
soldiers. turned In at gateway. and
disappeared again.
After a year of setting at naught the
best efforts of the French secret service.
the notice establishment not only of
Paris, but all of France, and the
scrutiny Of the soldiers who never
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terms of Roosevelt aud Taft"
These questions our republican court,
eherishing fond memories of the doe
uanceful winters just past is anxiously
asking itself. Us the President may decid.
lin the matter of the quality of dancing.
IT ieaSt-all official Washington must yield
for the reason that the ladies OF tho
White House will be guests at that gor-
-oous series of balls which begin now
ii November--nonth of debutantes Tn
Ill the White House is definitely sounded
upon this weighty subject 'twould be tick
iish business to ask the President
daughters to participate in the newest
modes of tripping the light fantastic toe.
Tho lords of the capitals official man
SONS now realize that an expanse Of
polished oak for guests to spin their toes
upon is as socially requisite as an ex-
panse of polished mahogany for guests to
thrust their knees beneath Since the
days when that long half century and
moro of sedate White House functions
ended with the retiring McKinlcys, the
White House has had its ballroom-no
other apartment than the east room,
largest of the state parlors. wherein the
republics courtiers and fine ladies have
enjoyed social gayetteS of one sort or
another since the days when Mistress
Abigail Adams dried the family linen
within its expansive walls.
And the ballroom is now the browning
feature of every embassy and legation
maintained in Washington by a world
power of any rank. Even the envoy of
the new President of China has such an
apartment--one luxurious in its appoint
,nents
Dancing In the Presidents house APP
pears to have presented problems since
the republic was founded.
The father of his country was pas
sionately fond of this delightful d.
version. Thus when he was a young
British officer upon the frontier he
complained: THE hours at present are
melancholy dull. Neither the rugged
tolls Of war nor the gentler conflict OF
assembly balls Is in my choice" Ac-
cording 70 his diary he was frequently
at balls and "routs." and from Mount
Vernon he would often drive ten miles
through snow and slush to Alexandria
70 attend the gay hops of those days.
During the revolution he banished
many 4 melancholy evening by trip
ping through the minuet and other
square dances of those times. While in
alliance with "a splendid ball opened
BY his excellency. Gen. Washington.
having for his partner the lady Of Gen.
Knox. Ana Gen. Greene has, left Il
description o. how. during a dance at
his quarters, his wife ana Gen. Wash
inston danced upward Of three hours
ithout sitting down.
:: x
beau was opened by Washington. who
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escaped to America, there, later, to be-
come priest and TO hand his name down
as the second founder Of the Visitation
in Georgetown.
The inscription on the time-worn slab
OF marble reads:
Joseph Pierre Pleot de Cler,viere.
Born OF Noble Family
OF Brittany.
He earned an i,lustrons name in the
military career. The difficulties of the
times and the will OF Divine Providence
forced him 10 leave his native land and
TO embark for this country. where he en-
iFaeed the ecclesiastiea! vocation. Or
dained priest, he exercised with ,ndefat-
igable zeal the functions OF the holy
ministry firstly, in Charleston; after
satcn a2p p a,5s,0' he 1 Governed
the community confded 10 his care
With eonsuulma,e prudence. eminent piety
aud charity that endured all proofs
church. an academy and ogher eiifces
waica he butt caused him 10 DC called the
Second Founder. With never-failin- ar
dor he. 70 his last breath. exhorted the
nGns 10 advance In the perfection OF their
calling; and he gave 10 his instructions
iaden with good works. he peaceabiy fell
asieep In the Lord.
The oath September 1926,
Aged 81 years.
4 noble epitaph. that. for any man.
But strange one for the man who sleeps
beneath the slab. Born of q noble fam
lily of Brittany the Latin inscription
says. But in he records which preserve
his name in the annals of the prefecture
of police OF Paris-musty old records in
which occur name after name that after
ward was enblazoned in the history of
the stirring times of that first Napoleon
the priest honored almos; as saint.
bears the name and title of Cheyalier
Joseph Picot de Limoe an.
And in the days when that name was
his, ne was the brains. the chief actor,
In a drama which came near setting the
word hnis TO the story of the little
Corslcan who still was big enough to
change the map of Europe. Readers OF
French history Will recall the story of
Christmas eve. 1900. when the most dar-
ing of all the attempts on Napoleon s
life was made-when a huge Internal
machine, loaded with gunpowder, scraps
OF iron, fints and stones and bullets.
was exploded in a Paris street, Just two
minutes too late TO end the career oil
the first consul. but in time to kill OF
MAIN scores of soldiers and citizens.
The Chevalier Joseph Picot de Limoe-
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Official Ballroom
Must Be Governed by
His Decision -Ques-
ton Whether Dancing
Will Be Allowed IN
Any Form at White
House-How Previous
Presidents Have Re
garded ashington
Passionately Fond OF
Terpsichorean Pleasures
and Danced Till an
Old Man-Dolly Madl-
son First Allowed
d anc1n g III White
House, But Mrs. Polk
Applied the Ban Which
Roosevelt Removed
Dancing and Diple-
macy Diplomatic
Bathrooms.
BY JOHN ELFRE1H WATKINS
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Ian, who was later to become the good
priest Joseph Pierre Picot de Cloriyiere,
and to rest his bones in a tomb beneath
the chapel of the Convent of the Vista
ton in Georgetown, was the man whose
brain conceived the plot. OF the three
caring spirits who carried it to it's SO
nearly successful conclusion Limoelan
Chevalier OF Brittany, alone escaped.
his two companions, run to earth by
Napoleon's secret agents. were arrested
tried, convicted and sent to the guillo-
tine. But Limoelan-he who was to be
rather Cloriviere in land across the
sea and far from his sunny France
Llmoelan snapped his fingers, literally.
IN the faces of police, spies and soldiery
Tor year. and then took ship for the
young republic across the Atlantic.
1t was the autumn of the year 1900
when Limoelan. then about thirty-two
years old. went to Paris from Brit
tany. He had fought for the Bourbons
and against the people" because he
was born of a noble family" and he
had never sworn allegiance to any
authority save that of the king who
had been deposed. In common with
those of his class he looked upon the
young Napoleon Bonaparte as an up
start. a usurper and d tyrant whose
death meant the delivery Of his be-
loved country.
In Paris he soon made the acquaint-
ance of two fellow-Bretons, Saint
Reliant and Carbon-tndeed. the latter
had for a time been a servant in the
household of Lfmoelan in Brittany.
From the promptness with which the
plot was perfected it is evident that
Limoelan's sole object in going to Paris
was to devise a means of putting an
end to the ambitious projects of Bona
parte, because although he did not
reach Paris until in November. by the
middle of December the plot had been
perfected, as far as human ingenuity
could perfect it.
Late in the afternoon of December
"a. 1900. a cart bearing big. iron
bound chest was driven through the
streets OF Paris, attended by three
blue bloused carriers. Napoleon. that
evening. was to attend the opera Their
in the Rue de la Loi. to hear Haydn's
oratorio OF Saul"
as the three carriers drove the ploddins
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n the crypt that lies beneath the
chapel at the Convent OF the
Visitation In Georgetown is
II low. fat tomb. The slab that
seals the burial place bears an
inscription that covers almost the entire
surface Of the stone. The carven words
are In Latin. and on the slab. at the re-
uest OF him whose bones have moldered
Seneath for nearly hundred years, the
collins OF dead nuns. Sisters OF the Vista
ION. are rested during the burial services
tsat mark the end of clustered lives.
The name that II carved on the dscol-
cred marble slab that forms the top Of
10 tomb is Joseph Pierre Picot de Clori-
r.re; and the long inscription tells OF
lie churchls virtues and the noble works
IL the mat who is buried beneath the
6u. Bat In far-off France. IN the an
ais OF th. first Napcleons regime. the
dead priest bore another name. Because
sat simple TOMB is Il link that binds
:Ite Corvef,t of the Visitation, in his
;vac Georgetown, TO the stirring days OF
;te period following the great rcvolu-
ION In France-the tirne when Napoleon
I: ona parte. then a YOUNG man. was the
rst consul. Before he had become the
ted, and for long eattled III vain
Down IN that crypt among the graves
% long-dead nuns. close 10 the spot
there Hes al that remains of Archbishop
Neaie. founder of the Convent Of the
|isit.ton-revered almost as saint 10y
Ire good sisters even to this day-repose
the bones OF one who was a part OF one
OF the most thrilling dramas Of the early
Napoleonic era.
He was not priest then. he who sleeps
beneath the marble slab, but a man
whose daring and ingenuity for whole
wear bafied the entire secret service OF
France. set at naught the keenest police
agents OF Bonaparte's government, and
finally. laughing III his sleeve at the
clumsy efforts OF those who pursued him.
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been held during the regime of Monroe
seal of approval upon dancing by attend
ing the famous ball given by his Secre-
tary of State, John Quincy Adams, in
honor of Cen Jackson in January, 1924
An idea of how balls were conducted at
our capital in those days can be CLEANED
from the elaborate descriptions Of that
function left by diarists and letter
writer's.
The dance floor, we are told was chalk
ed with spread eagles, flags and the
motto Welcome to the hero of New
Orleans" The pillars of the ballroom
were festooned with laurel and winter
green, while here and there We're wreaths
of evergreen and roses interspersed with
variegated lamps clustered about a cen
trail luster.
;. X
Before semi-circle of distinguished
personages Gen. Jackson stood with Mrs.
ADAMS to receive the guests, who entered
two by two to make their bows" there
being no handshaking at the social func-
tons of those days.
The dancers tripped to the cadences of
eight pieces of music.
The plain dress of President Monroe.
Gen. Jackson and Secretary Adams was
said to be in strong contrast to the
elaborate attire of some of the guests
including the diplomats, in their gorgeous
court dress, blazing with orders, and the
military officers In their resplendent uni
forms. Civilian beaux disported them
selves In short breeches, silk stockings.
pumps, ruined crdVatS. brass buttoned
coats of green or claret hue and 1.-TWO or
even three waistcoats of different colors
The tight skirt was then in vogue as
now, and chronicler of that admins
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- - &AA% - -
turkey trot be ban
ished from official
society b. the Vii
sou regimen
Will the Il . j
Pre- ident permit 81
the hite f{oIISr
.rpsicnoresll plea
ures In any form.
pleasures " hiel'.
after s . II q Il !
dailceless admins
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while in winter quarters with his army
subscribed S400 for a series of dances.
And at the farewell BALI given at
Annapolis. when he resigned his COM
mission. 1.-The general danced in every
set"
While President he was constantly at
the regular dancing assemblies" in our
former capitals. New York and Phila-
delphia. Indeed. he was still dancing
in 1896. when sixty-four years old. but
when he and Mrs washington We're
invited to the Alexandria assembly in
1893 the year of his death, he said In
his declination, Alas: our dancing days
are no more.
In spite of this long record Of the
immortal Georges dancing, even while
he was President, there is no evidence
that he ever gave Il dance, ofhcial or
unofficial at the executive ns!ons In
New York or Philadelphia, where Mrs
Washingtons levees were anairS al
most as solemn and stately as the
drawing rooms of European monarchs
Dancing seems To have been first per-
United at the White House by Dolly
Madison. despite her Quaker rearing. In
one of her letters she speaks OF IA small
dancing frolic at the White House which
would have delighted your heart, at which
Mrs. Eustis, Mrs Richard Rush and the
HamiltonS assisted
In those days the waltz just introduced
into France was making the same to do
in th. social world are the trot and
tango today and just 1oi years ago this
month we find the sprightly Dolly in
structing two young ladies in its figures
while a guest played the music upon Mrs.
MadiSon's elegant grand Diano
No White House dances seem to have
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escaped to America, there, later, to be-
come priest and TO hand his name down
as the second founder Of the Visitation
in Georgetown
The inscription on the time-worn slab
of marble reads:
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BY JOHN ELFRElH WATKINS
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2&A Ill the tango a.
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\ ball given at Newport by Rocham-
leau was opened by Washington, who
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Nul ldlllS
Just received a beautiful line of
Curtains. Prices are from
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-09-11
CONVENIENT Hog COTS
Animal Must Have Ample Protec-
ton From Rain and Colo. /
Corn and Other Feeds Make Them
Grow, But Dampness Takes Off
Weight Almost as Fast as Put
On-Eiouse Simple Affair.

1t is a great mistake and poor bust
ness management to raise hogs, feed
them high-priced corn and then al
low them to be in the rain and cold
Some farmers think that because a
hog is a hog it can get along with
any kind of shelter or with no shell
ter at all. The corn and other feeds
you give may make them grow, but
dampness will take off weight almost
as fast as it is put on. With only q
small amount of money spent for
lumber and roofing for building COM
Portable houses, sows, pigs and ma
ture hogs will bring in larger profits
in the hog business. Hogs of all
kinds like cool shade, and cool places
for wallowing and sleeping during the
warmer months.
The efficient hog house is a simple
affair, and can be built by anyone
with only small cash outlay. It
need not be more than four feet high
in the rear and slightly more In the
front to allow slope for the roof The
sides should be short. The lumber
for them will not cost much, but it
should be of good material to keep out
rains and winds. Probably the best
roof for hog houses is that of heavy
felt. This is to be laid on tight fitting
or matched boards. Galvanized iron
also makes good roof, and Is to be
commended for the movable houses.
When iron of any kind is used for the
roof it should be laid en- solid boards,
as iron is very hot in summer when
the sun shines, and is cold in winter.
Since hog house need not be too
large the farmer who keeps several
sows and is growing large number
Of pigs each year should have half
dozen or more of these houses on the
farm and in convenient places. Some
farmers have all their hog houses
near the barn and other buildings,
but I do not think this is a good prac-
tice. Hogs of different ages and sizes
will not do we'll in one herd, says a
writer in an exchange. They should
be separated into small herds, accord
ing to their ages and conditions. Sows
and growing pigs should not be al
lowed to be on the same lot with fat
tening hogs. The excessive corn diet
is not good for their growth and pro-
duction, and with large fattening hogs
the smaller ones will be crowded and
injured. Too many hogs in one pen
are more apt to contract disease than
when they are put into several lots
and smaller punches.
When the farm is divided into small
fields and each field is fenced hog
tight it will pay to have at least one
hog house in each field, SO that it can
be pastured with hogs at some time
each year, thus saving and turning to
good account all the waste forage.