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Identifying himself fully with the lnd-
ans by marriage with daughter of a
chief, he at once became prominent as
a leader, lie commanded the Creeks in
the British defense of Pensacola in 1881,
and was a valuable ally to General
Campbell On the subsistence of the revo-
luton, Bowles went to New York and en-
gagged as comedian, and later sailed to
the Bahamas. In the capacity of COM
edian he was a great success, and scarce
y less so as painter of portraits. While
in the Bahamas, Lord Dunsmore, COVER
general of the Bahamas made him the
commercial agent of the British to es-
tablish trade with the Indians on the
Chattahoochee, in competition with
William Panton, the partner and coad-
jutor of Alexander MeGilliyray. Mer-
cless was the cunning practioed on the
Indians by these plausible Anglo-Saxons
In the power of plausibility, the gifts
CT all these men were OF the expert type,
and diligently were these gifts Piled
The struggles of the French and English
for the control of the Indians in the south
at that period, led the French command
err Mifort, to order Bowles from the
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est, was a youth named Bowles A
young tory, Bowles fought under the
British flag during a part of the revo-
luton. Rarely gifted by nature with dig
nifty of form, a handsome face, winsome
manners and much else. he could easily
win his way to the confidence of the un-
suspecting. His was a remarkable ply
siognonly, his features being the ready
index of his emotions and vividly dis
playing that which aetuated him within.
He was withal possessed with genius,
was daring and intrepid, and as thor
oughly corrupt as he was handsome and
prepossessing. He was of just that type
that could most easily deceive the unsus-
pecting Indian. In 1777 Bowles returned
Il the shores of America from Jamaica
as an ensign in the British navy. At
Pensacola, he deserted the navy, threw
his uniform into the gulf, joined himself
to a body of Creek Indians who had come
to Pensacola for trading purposes, and
accompanied the savages as far north
as the Talapoosa river Addressing him
self to the study of the Muskogee lam
guage he was able to master it, which
accomplishment gave him means for the
stormy and dashing life that followed.
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E DIAMOND NECKLACE-By Dr. W. E. Evans

frauded, but added, 1.-THE cardinal is rich,
he will pay you; go to him." But the
crazy jeweler went to the king, to whom
he told all the particulars of the pur-
cahse of the diamond necklace The
queen was called in, and upon hearing
that she had bought the famous neck
lace she denounced everybody connected
with the fraud She insisted that the car
dinal should be arrested. which was DONE
The Countess de Lamotte said she would
not seek safety in flight, and if arrested
she would deny everything. She was
seized and taken to the bastile, her hus-
band escaping to England.
The crafty countess being caught, ac-
cused Marie Antonette and the cardinal
of being the principals in the plot to rob
BONNER, and thousands of people believed
her story; indeed, they wanted to believe
it, for the prologue of the French revo-
luton was on, and in a little while there
after the queens head was off.
The cardinal was tried and acquitted.
Sentence was passed on Lamotte. but It
had no terrors for him, as he was in Eng
land. The countess. the genius of the
robbery, was sentenced ito be fogged,
Hdket, ndNill6 d ldllei dIOuHi ueT netks
to be branded on the shoulder and I'M
prisoned for life"
When the guard proceeded to execute
been sentenced to life Imprisonment. but
fcult task. The little countess fought,
scratched and bit like a wildcat She had
been sentenced to tlife Imprisonment, but
short time after beginning her SEN
tence she escaped and fled to England.
Here she wrote her memoirs, and to her
hearts content vilified Marie Antoinette
and Prince Rohan, the cardinal Finally
the secret agents of the Due d'Orleans
crossed the channel with the intention of
kidnapping the countess, who. after trag-
ically resisting capture, leaped from
window and to death. One of the news
papers Of that time mentioned her death
thus:
August 26 1791.-Dled at her lodgings,
near Ashley Riding school. Lambeth. the
noted Countess de Lamotte, of necklace
fame, who lately jumped out of two pair
of stairs window to avoid the bailiffs.
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Bumps of President Wilson

From the Philadelphia North American.
BY virtue of a certain bump three inches
northeast by east of the right occipital
lobe of a well-known American citizen,
the destiny of 90,C0oOOn people is assured
ly safe for a least four years.
This is the opinion OF no less person
than Prof. Michael Lewis. phrenoogist,
of Washington, D. c.
President Wilson owns the bump.
Professor Lewis has made a careful
study of the knobs on Woodrows exec
utive bean. and has prepared an exceed
ingly interesting chart portraying tha
characteristics of the President. The con-
cluson which the phrenologist has reached
Is that Wilson Is the possessor of a most
remarkable series of bumps "A hard.
cold. matter-of-fact man is the Presi-
dent" declares Mr.. Lewis and the des-
tiny of the country is absolutely safe
while he sits In the White House"
Professor Lewis at the time of the
Johnson-Jeffres fight, was nearly lynehed
in Wilmington, Del, because he publicly
asserted on July 2. two days before the
fight, that Johnson would clean up the
white pusilist. He had made many other
startling statements which have lately
proved true
In his study of Woodrow's head Mr..
Lewis bad. Of course, resource to nothing
but photographs as the President never
had his bumps felt for the benht of
science But by the use of numerous pic
lures of Wilson, the phrenologist has
made some very interesting deductions.
Some OF them are:
Wilson will regenerate the currency sys-
TEN of the country.
The tariff tinkers will not be able to fool
the President
Wilson VIII not seek a fight with the
interests, but if he does fight they had
better crawl TO cover.
The chart of the Presidents head looks
like a cubist painting of a brain Profess
sor Lewis has cut Wilson's mentality up
into hunks Of observation, combative-
ness, humor, spirituality, eonjugality, cal
culation. etc
The deductions made from the chart
signify that the President is the posses
sor Of a large brain. a dry sense of hu-
NOR. much information microscopic in
ductive powers the characteristics of his
father, great dignity. a love of praise, and
red-hot temper when aroused.
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F THE PEOPLE-By George Eaves, D. D.

persons. The Chartists, with Feargus
O'Connor at their head were holding mid
night meetings. torehlfght professions.
terrifying demonstra ions of the peoples
unsatisfied hunger.
Eighteen pence for half peck loaf:
Poor men work for II shillingi
'Tis not enough to find them bread.
How can you call it nving?
So Ebeneaer Elliott Leic stocking
woavers and Lancashire cotton spnners
were an caught in the same gaunt misery,
ret of disease and desperation and
diving.
The way out was Free Trade in Food.
Golden found Bright and taught him
what to do. It was as Moses finding
Aaron. the thinker discovering the eNposi-
tor the orator
Bright entered parliament as member
for Durham in 1SlS; four years later
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he once more sought Alabama. declared
open hostility to both America and Spain,
calling down the wrath of two great
nations on his head, for which large
reward was offered.
The temptation of the reward led to
various plans for his capture and Sc
dueers studied the weakness of his char
acter in laying plans for his apprehension
Consequently a great feast was spread on
The banks of the Coosa with the osten-
sible purpose of doing him great honor,
and expressing sympathy for him. One
in the position of Bowles was suscepti-
bile to just the demonstration offered,
and flattered by pride and pampered by
vanity, he attended on the feast With
much gusto. At an unconjeetured mo-
mcnt while the feast was in progress,
he was pounced on by stalwart warriors,
strongly tied, placed under guard and
rowed down the Coosa. Tamely ana
quitely submitting, the Indians supposed
that he had finally yielded all hope
Night coming on, the party landed on
the banks of the river to encamp till
morning. Securely tieng their prisoner
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ing social wrongs which seemed
remediable. spurgeon. the Independent.
and Bright. the Quaker alike drew
their motive from their simple religious
creed, that supreme creed of democracy.
THE people belong to God. God is on
the side of the people The best lit
erary EXPRESSION of this creed is in the
work ; Ebenezer Elliott, who was 80
years older than Bright and 5S years
older than Spurgeon.
We in America have hardly reached the
point where we can sufficiently esteem
the work of men like these towards the
democracy against which we are so ab-
snTdly struggling still. Democracy in
America came to mean something the ex-
act reverse of what it mean in England
Here it was identified with the institution
of slavery; it became the symbol of an
agricultural aristocracy. came to plume
itself on its connections with Rupert and
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AS Jeanne was approaching young wom-
anhood a shocking scandal in which she
and the Marquis de Boulanvilliers We're
the principals, was noised about and
from the home of the Boulanxilliers
Jeanne was sent to convent where she
remained for some time, though the life
required was painfully dull to her.
The Marquis de Boulanvilliers visited
her here. Then new scandals arose. and
Jeanne was forced to leave the convent
and find a home elsewhere. She went to
Bar-sun-Aube, in a pitifully painful finan-
cial condition. She would borrow clothes
which were to be returned next morning.
but in the night would cut them to fit her
own figure and never return them Here
new scandals arose. She met, among her
many friends, young army officer named
Nicholas de Lamotte. He had a pleasing
presence. but he was mentally weak and
morally worthless. His chief vocation
was gambling. Jeanne married him. He
had no money, nor had She so they went
to live at the garrison of Luneville. In a
little while she was flirting with every Of
ficer in the garrison and had set the whole
regiment crazy, and gossip ran riot.
One day she heard that her old friends,
the Boulanvilliers, were visiting Stras-
burg, and, hoping to get financial aid from
them she and her husband started for that
place. Arriving there the Countess for
so Jeanne now called HERSELF heard that
her friends were at the palace of the
cardinal-archbishop, and she dispatched a
note to the Marquise advising her of their
arrival. The Marquise in turn introduced
the Countess and her husband to the car
dinal Prince Louis de Rohan. AS the al
legged countess was a friend of the car
dinals friends, that dignitary invited her
and her husband to become his guests at
the archiepiscopal palace OF course, they
went. This was just what the countess
wanted. She needed money, and the car
dinal was one of the richest men in the
realm. She played her cards well, and
always held a hand full of trumps She
flattered the old gentleman and cajoled
him until he was overcome by her ex-
quisite .winsomeness and caressing person.
ality. When she left the garrison for this
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By James A. Edgeron

good in its proper place and time, but too
much resting is not really resting. 1t is
rusting.
Upon town and country rests the bur-
den of heat. The sun, father of all life,
is now to many the bringer of pain and
death. We are no longer sun worshipers
as in the genial days of spring. We pray
for the passing of cloud to shield us
from the rays-for the passing of many
clouds.
Can you mitigate the suns heat for
yourself and your family? Can you
shield yourself from the arrows of the
sun that pierce and burn? Happy man
or woman!
How about those to whom life in tho
daytime is torture and night brings not
the rest needed for the further dragging
of the load of life? Do you give them
a thought, or do you wave a fan listless-
ly to and fro and complain querulously
as you order your servant to bring ice
and cooling drinks and arrange more
carefully the pillows whereon you lie?
Dou you know that in the city-aye and
in the poorer districts of the town and
the village and the open country-human
beings, men, women and little children,
your own kinfolk in virtue OF human
brotherhood, faint and die for want of a
breath of fresh air?
81 am hot, too,' you say. "I do not
bring the heat. There is a Providence
which orders such things. Why should
l be blamed for the heat that kills as we'll
as brings life?"
You are not blamed, sister and brother
1t is not your fault. But is it not your
fault If you, mitigating your own suffer-
ings from the heat; fail to take thought
of the little children whose naked feet
burn on hot asphalt, whose food is scan
ty and untitled for the season, whose bed
is the filthy sidewalk, whose sufferings
are too fearful to contemplate when the
dog star shines down on misery that
spreads in ever widening circles?
Are you doing your share toward rails
ing the fresh air funds which are alle-
waiting the lot of summer sufferers? Are
work? There is field which the Master
would like to see titled that it may bring
forth the sound fruits of human brother
hood and sympathy and love. 1t is a wide
field, and the workers therein are few
compared to the need.
| Bring to it whatever energy you can
| spare in the days of midsummer heat. and
! If one baby looks up to you with gratitude
In its eyes you will truly feel that
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the stuarts rather than with Cromwell
and the Roundheads.
&c back to industrial England when
cities began to multiply large tools fon
manufacture. Find there the small man
pfacturer in sympathy with his work
people and intensely suspicious towards
the landed aristocracy. Then recognize
John Bright, son of a cotton mill, squar-
ing his brain and training his tongue that
he might both understand and help to
abolish the evils brouglA on the Industrial
poor by the land monopoly which also
had monopoized the whole system of leg
islature.
When he was little over % years Of
age the first reform bill became law =
spirit Of equity thus began to appear
among the political leaders of England.
Famine and misery among the people
were causing thinkers like Carlyle to
urge the conditions of England ques-
tion" upon the attention of parliamentary
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links between them and such as Kings
ley, Tennyson. Maurice, themselves reb-
els against the surviving mediaevalism
of the British tories. Brights life story
is interesting chiefly because, being
himself a manufacturers he began in
boyhood to study and fight against the
extreme poverty associated with the in
dustrial world then first assuming its
modern shape His education was mere
outside the schools than within them.
He is the political counterpart of c. IL.
Spurgeon, whose magnificent oratory
famed around the rights of the soul,
even while his theology seemed to be
pushing him far from interests like
these. spurgeon was a representative
of the people in the pulpit, wooing them
from moral corruption, pitiful and stern
because his God was so utterly pitiiul,
so absolutely stern. Bright was the
representative of the people confront
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A GROUP of friends were sitting on
~ the gallery after tea. The soft
south breeze rustled through the
grove around the house, and the moon
light. sitting through the foliage traced
fantastic shadows on the lawn. l sat
smoking my pipe and listening to the mer-
ry chatter of the happy voices when Lu-
cile addressed me. Padre, she said, for
since her six months in Italy she has
always call me Padre, Il saw In French
glory today an allusion TO a person whom
do not remember. The author saying of
one of his characters. AS an adventures
she was equal to the famous Countess La
motto, Who was the Countess Lamotte
and what did she do?" l answered, Don't
you remember the famous scandal of the
diamond necklace of the time OF Marie An
toinette?" II remember that said Clara,
Madame Maintenon was mixed up with
it." NO, no. Clara, you sinner; Madame
Maintenon hourished over a hundred
years before the necklace scandal, and
died about 1719 or l72o." l replied. We'll.
tell us all about it, said Lucille. The
others joined in the request that | relate
the old story. well, | shall tell it. WILL
bring my big pipe out of the hall, the one
the Elks gave me. and my slippers from
my study, for the story is long, and
must be comfortable while telling it,
In a few minutes we We're ready and
began the story that always seems to
possess interest. although it has been re-
lated by thousands ever since the reign
of Louis XVI.
Henri II was king of France, and the
husband of Catherine de Medici, about
200 years before the story begins. There
was born to Henri a son, whose mother
was not Catherine, but a court lady whose
name was Countess de Savigny. To this
son Henri gave the name OF Henri de
Saint-Remy. In the course of time the
king granted splendid estates to Saint
Remy, and elevated him to prominence
among the nobility and at court. Saint
Remy married and for a long time his
descendants were among the most illus
trious people In France. But there was
bad blood in them and for 200 years they
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With thongs of rawhide, The guard slept
and apparently so did Bowles. While the
Indians snored in slumber Bowles quitely
gnnwed at the knot of his thongs, which
once started. the whole fell apart and
he quitely crept away into the dark.
lie had not long been gone when his
presence was missed and the Indians
with the scent of the bloodhound wers
soon on his trail Familiar with the
regions as the Indians were, and Bowles
was not. he was again caught and taken
to Mobile. Here he was kept awhile when
he was sent in irons to Moro castle,
Havana. Ills shrewdness and resource
fulness put the Spanish government on
its guard, and he was doubly watched.
but while his courage never forsoolk him,
and the hope of escape never fed there
was limit to the power of endurance. and
while in irons he quitely died in the old
castle. Thus closed the career of one OF
the most daring, dashing criminals that
ever trod the soil of Alabama. The high
crimes and misdemeanors of this won-
derful man, if told in detail, would make
q large volume of Bloody adventure.
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her working people. Roehdale is clear
ly a peoples city.
Roehdale WAS not famous for its edu-
eational advantages IN the traditional
sense; nevertheless 1t was a good home
for young thinker and man of the
people Bright's father. Jacob Bright.
was a manufacturer of cotton gods,
absolutely a middle class person. and
the son spent hardly more time at
school than was necessary to fit him
to get into the business. At Is he be-
gan to divide his time between the
factory and such study of speech and
life as belongs to u mutual improve
ment society There was something
wholesome in those Quaker families
which hourished in England in the
nineteenth century, something nobly
sincere, humane, charitable. Charles
Kinsgley hated them because he was
a soldier; but there We're not wanting
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. YTYIE Panama Pacific exposition, to be
held in 1915. offers a trophy valued
L at s1ooo for the finest unnamed rose
shown that year.-News Item.
How much is rose worth to you?
Nothing. you say You have a whole
: gardenful of roses, and you don't bother
much about them. Oh, yes; of course
mother and the girls like to fuss around
the bushes and decorate the house with
. the flowers, but you are too busy to think
about them.
II is a mistake, friend Think bit
about the rose and what it means. You
will learn not only to love the fragrant
flower, but will acquire a new outlook
on life The rose is worth a good deal,
you see.
The man who does not love roses has
missed great thing. Into his life has
never come in all likelihood the thought
that perhaps, after all, life was made to
be filled with sweetness and beauty and
+ fragrance and not with gloom and bitter
ness and disappointment. Such is the
lesson of the rose, and 1t is lesson that
is worth learning.
Every man on earth may have his
roses II he is walled up in city and his
lot is cast In rigid, unyielding lines OF
: stone and brick he may still see the rose
of life blooming on the cheek of little
child he may find its fragrance in the
holy odor of a good deed he may read
4 its lesson in the beauty of unselfish lives
lived uncomplainingly amid hardship and
prive4ion.
All such are akin to the rose All open
their petals to the sun that men may
see them and rejoice. The spirit OF the
rose is found everywhere.
Yes, but the rose has thorns? True, we
cannot deny the thorns. They prick, and
they make difficult the culling of the
and their purpose, since in the great plan
which rules the world nothing is made
, without reason. They protect the rose
from foes.
And In the lives which seem to be all
thorns-and. oh, such few blossoms
II not be that the thorns will be found
to have their uses when the final reck-
oning is cast?
The world can well afford to pay $1,000
Tor a new rose. The price is low for an
addition to the stock of beauty repre-
sented by the queen of flowers. Other
flowers may come and go in popular
favor, but the rose remains the favorite
!. 1t has been since the first man took note
II the beautiful bloom.
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flow without ceasing where men do con-
gregate most thickly. You will emerge
from the flood a wiser. better man, with
broader outlook on life.
Besides, there is great mental joy in
rubbing elbows" with man. 1t sharpens
the intellect and lends aid in the fighting
Of the battle which is the portion of every
live man and woman.
"Ooze all over with the fat, affection
ate smile that makes the widow Lean
Can't you picture that smile for your
self? Can't you hear the oily voice, fit
companion for the fat affectionate
SMILE urging on the widow the advisA-
biilty-nay, the very necessity-of trusting
her small fortune into the hands of the
owner of the smile and the voice?
Tennyson knew the breed Of promoters
Of fake schemes when he wrote the
words. He knew the desire of the widow
for competence when the wage-earner is
taken away. lie knew the anxi-
ETY. of the bereaved wife and mother for
the future of herself and her children,
and he wanted to warn her against the
smiles of the man whose words must be
paid for, and paid for dearly
Most of us have met the smile and
heard the words If we have not actually
been face to face with the man who
wants to exchange his counterfeit gold
Of false promise for our real gold of
commercial value he has sought us out
by means of his circulars.
Many of us, according to the postal au-
thorities and investigators of the subject,
are on the Sucker lists which are
bought and sold Just as are groceries
and books and clothing.
Who has not received the printed or
typewriter pages which told of fortunes
to be made in faroff lands or cultivating
products of which we know nothing at
first hand? Who has not been besought
to buy building lots that are a score of
miles away from the nearest railroad or
are situated in mosquito infested swamps :?
Who has not heard of the Mulberry Sell
lers schemes in which there are millions
but not for unwary investors?
Ihere is too much OF this falsely affec-
tlcnate smiling in this America of ours.
Sometimes to a reader of the daily news
papers, IT seems as though half the pop-
ulation We're trying to fleece tine other
half by means of illegitimate get-rich-
quick schemes. OF course, this Is not so.
but 1t sometimes seems so.
States are awakening to their respon-
sibility in this matter and are trying to
safeguard the careless investor But he
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must learn to guard himself When men
and laws are perfect there will be no
more of the schemes. Until then
Beware of 'the fat. affeetlonate SMILE
that makes the widow lean?a