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has such reputation for hish-class arti-
cles de luxe that 1t is sufficient to have
an address it to sell anything. Of
course. we tried long ago to buy No. 10.
1t was not for sale. The owners have
always preferred to run the rents up.
Who will pay such rents as they now de-
mand? Only such very modern manu-
facturers who want to exploit the whole
world over. the name of the Rue de Ia
Paix. OF course. it's reputation will run
down in consequence. How can a Paris
retailer. jealous of his quality. pay rent
of S20.G0a and taxes? That is what they
are asking US and the Doucets to renew
our leases. SO many have gone back to
the Champs Elysees.
BY this he referred TO the time when
the Champs Elysees were suburbs. and
the Guerlains had their factory in them.
He showed me an old print of about
1880
"That is how the Champs Elysees
looked when my father was a young
man." he said. Around the Arc de
Triomphe. it was still largely open coun-
try, and long before the arch was fin
ished the first perfumery works were in
operation, in their own grounds, back
from the Champs Elysees. little south
of the arch Not to mar the aspect OF
the promenade the laboratory was of col
umned italian architecture. behind
decorati wall with urns of flowers.
Only the salesrooms were in the Rue de
Rivoli.
The whole history Of the Champs
Elysees is here.
< hundred years ago they were the
Elysian fields. built with aristocratic
villas. and space for perfumery works
at the end They imagined themselves
very modern. The old print shows a
MILFORD and his. lady driving with three
fiunkies behind four horses, in a species
of open Daumont with six wheels. Well.
now six-wheeled automobiles are. at
this moment. promising to come into
vogue-for facility in turning on the CEN
trail pair of wheels and for equal distribu
ton of the weight on the pneumatics.
Next. came the period of town man
sions. All the pageant of the Second
empire displayed itself in the Champs
Elysees From the Tuileries Palace. when
the drums rolled, the beautiful Eugene
rode out in her Daumont with Napoleon
III behind gray stations and liveried
outriders. to feed the swans in the lake
beyond the Arc de Triomphe. The per-
fume works had disappeared.
Today the mansions are transformed
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Warning.

Tn a discussion of the number of auto
mobile accidents due to careless or in
competent driving. a manufacturer said
the other day in Detroit:
These accidents do automobilinG harm.
They make people talk like Cornelius
Husk.
''Old Corn Husks little grandson said
to him one day, pointing to the horn OF
an automobile that had halted for re-
pairs:
pop:
That, sonny, old Corn Husk an
swered, that is the thing they toot afore
they run ye down.
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Elysees is a great commercial street.
To sum it all up you have typical
example at the corner of the Rue de la
Boetie. The past is represented by one
old residential mansion that remains
crowded back between the modern bust
ness buildings which stand for the pres
ent.
K
or these. the first, as you look toward
the Arc de Triomphe, is the new build
ing of a company of perfumers. with
their own flower farms. laboratories and
retail salesrooms. Beyond them. always
looking toward the Arc de Triomphe is
a new hotel which veritable palace is
not quite finished Scaffoldings, in front.
still extend to the second floor The
architects, consulting with those of the
Guerlains and the city of Paris produced
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HEY are American
izing the Champs
Eiysees.
ON m e + C j a !
houses crowd the
gala promenade of
the two empires.
Hotels invade the
elysian fields E."
The most famous
avenue of Paris
where rich Ameri-
cans of past gen
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cause its membership includes half the
foremost American men who come to
Paris. In the fabulous silver bathroom of
La Paiva, with its onyx fittings. ruby
decorations and oriental mirrors. they can
dream of the vanity of vanities. La
Paiva died in Silesia. in 1884. her last ten
years having been spent in piety and de-
votion.
She was a Russian beauty of the hum
blest origin. Her husband was a little
tailor. She came to Paris in search of
work. and was introduced to the literary
and artistic arstocrats. Napoleon III
loved her. A Spanish nobleman, the Mar
quis de Paiva. married her. They lived in
this little palace which the emperor built
for her. entertaining gloriously, until. one
day, at the end of dinner party. the
marquis blew out his brains. Later. she
had to quit Paris hastily. under sus-
picion of being Russian spy. To end her
life in peace and charity. she married
Bismarcks cousin. the Graf Won Donners-
marck. first governor of Alsace.
The Paiva house was typical of the
Champs Elysees. but another was more
so.
Forty years from now when American
tourists viii scarcely be able, otherwise,
to distinguish the Champs Elysees from
9TH avenue, the. eighteenth century two
story villa of the dukes of Massa. in its
little grove. will remind them of the gal
liant fight of a single old nobleman against
the Characterization of his beloved
avenue.
In his tomb the old duke will still be
fighting, and we shall admire him, be-
cause Americans also love trees and
greenery and air and low-built mansions
that do not obstruct the sun and old his
toric avenues that give beauty and in
terest to city. II is not our fault if the
inevitable logic of progress makes Our
name synonymous with its own.
Hands off my grove of trees says the
Duke of Massa in his grave. During his
lifetime he was offered S2Wo,t00 for the
unique frontage occupied by these wood
ed grounds and carved stone villa. with
their monumental stables. at the corner
of the Rue de la Boetie. NO.. he said
AS | inherited the place from my IA
ther, SO ! will keep it, What is money
in comparison with sitting under my
trees to see Paris ride by?''
Yet the duke was not rich. He had
simply held out of sentimental rea
sons while the property went up. up. The
day after his death, a few months ago.
insurance company offered the heirs
S2.40,0C0 for it, week later specu-
lative architect offered S2.tD0.000 Two
days after that it was ss.oO1.0Oo, from
d London syndicate.
The heirs refused. They had the melan-
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Dead Duke Fights
Against 1t From His
Tomb His W ill
Ordered That His
Grounds Be Left as
They Were for Next
Fifty Years-The High
Rents of Paris = Ster-
ling Heilig Interviews
a Commercial Nestor.
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Special Correspondence of The star.
PARIS March 80 1914
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Insurance

Combination sick, injury, accident
and death benefit protection at minimum
cost. se,0D death benedt; $1,000 for
loss OF limb or eyesi9ht, from $500 To
5000 weekly sick OF accident benefit:
tlVo emergency relief benefit. Cost is
800 per year; no other due- nor assess
ments- In this Insurance all men and
women are placed upon an equal basis.
regardless Of occupation. Each person
makes the same form Of application, pays
the same amount 81 premium and re-
ceives the same amount ~ benefit Men
and women between the sges ~ 10 and
% are arcepted. No restriction a. % oc-
eupat'on, only railroad men employed on
track, train or round -house cannot BE- sc-
cepted. Clslms are paid within sixty
days anyvhere ia the u =, Canada or
Europe. Oh reliable Insurance com
psny. $1,000 on state deposit As a
prOtectlon Tor policy holders and % sanr-
sntee the payment ~ claims. For furth-
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Mr.. AND MRS.
J. N. LAMkIN
Entertain In Honor OF
Petersburg Edu-
Gators

In graceful compliments to Mesdame.
Pollard and Johnson. OF Petersburg, Va,
and Mrs A. q. Froe, OF welchy Mr.. and
Mrs. J. NJ. Lam a entertained at a
dinner Sunday Tia. guests were ten in
number: Atty. and Mrs. A. q. Froe. of
WEIGH, Mesdamss Pollard and johnson,
Petersburg, Va, DIR. and Mrs. W. v.
Bridgeford, Mrs- 3. A. Hill. Pittsburg,
Pa, Mr.. Stanley Garter. Editor and Mrs
M. t. Whittioo. After dinner more
friends and admir- ~ OF these distinguish
ed visitors arrived in the persons OF DIR.
w. ii: A Barrett, Atty. IL. ,. Cape
hart, Constable Henry Richards, of
kimbsll, Mrs G. N. Marshali. deputy
Sherin j. f. Parsons These were dsinti-
ly served to Investments, after which
the guests made several calls on friends
IN the city, then wended their way TO
the station, accompanied by . number of
friends. where they caught No. ~ and
departed for WEIGH.
The evening Was most enjoyahly spent
among the above named friends, whose
relations seemed to lie replese With the
best Of fellowship. The unstinted hos.
pitaiity OF the host and hostess- demon
strstsd in the heavily laden table with
oil the dellcacies OF the season can never
be forgotten. Special mention may be
psde to Mrs johnson, the mother of
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BLUEFEED

The business interests in the city ID
reasonably good
The general church work is in fairly
prosperous condition.
Some few fellows are boating the fart
that they have the best literary society
in the county or state.
There were no flghtings, quarrels nor
scratehines in the city Monday, aIthous IA
there were not less than 1000 pe"p'e
here attending the big circus and cele-
brating Labor Day.
DIR. X. @. Harrison, of kimbali. was
called To the city Tuesday To assist i'm
several operations at Edwards hospital.
They were all very successful.
DR.. 7Stinley L. Lucas, Of Portland.
Oregon, passed through our city Tuesday
en- route to Claremont, Va. where he
hopes to make his permanent home. He
was the guest of Atty. w. Parker,
both OF whom for years have been close
friends and warm chums.
DIR. = j. Bsm6eld, Of Princeton. who
has . very lucrative practice in the
above named town, was in the. city also
helping in several operations at Ed
wards hospital.
DIR. A. W. Lomsx. who is a most pro-
gressive physician. has recently purchas-
ed q first-class automobile by name Of
The Marathon" 1t n one of the most
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Order Of Publication,
wIST VIRGINIA:

wIST VIRGINIA:
At Rule held in the Clerks ofice of
the Circuit Court Of Mcdowell County.
on the first Monday IN september, lel
Kate kessler,
In cbsncery.
Julius Kessler.
defendant.
The object Of this suit i n obtain
from the defendant BY the plaintiff q
divorce
A VTNCULO MATRTMONI
And u appearing from an affidavit nov
on Die With the papers IN tins csu-e, that
the defendant - NONRESIDENT of the
state Of Vert Virginia; u - therefore or
dered that the said defendant do appear
At the Clerks office Of the Circuit Court
Of Mcdowell county within one month
fr''m the date ~ the first publication Of
tins order, and do what y nere~ssry o.
protect bis interest herein.
And u y furtber ordered that copy
OF tins ORDER lie publisbed once week
Tor four successive weeks in snme new
paper pubIi-hei in Mcdowell. county.
and that q copy 81 the same - posted II
the front door "a the court house of Nc
dwell county for twenty days before de-
cree h rendered.
a copy. Tesse:
w. 7. TABOR. DppusY
tor W BurbvidS Payne. Olek-
= y MOO. p. @
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Notice
To whom il may concern

To whom it may concern:
Take notice that Robert Ford. who i.
confinesi in the jail o. Mcdowell county.
on charge OF carrying weapons with
out license, and tired before a Justice
OF the peace on July -, and sentenced
tn pay a fine Of So "a and t. serve
term Of months on the road, will. on
or after the list day Of September. 1914
apply To the Governor Of West Virgins,
for q pardon.
by Counsel.
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Mr. Froe and Mrs. Pollard, who is a
member Of the faculty of the Petersburg
Normal and Industrial Institute. sue
ceesIed Ms A. q. Froe at the time OF
her marriage, both Of whom considered
among the best educators Of the institu-
ton. The gentlemen will always have
cause to remember with a degree of
kindness the attention shown them by
j. NJ. Lamkins
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We have just received information that
the First National Nurseries Of Roches-
Ter, y Y, wants lady or gentleman
representatives in this section to ell ali
kinds of Roses. Shrubs, Trees and Seeds.
They inform W. that without previous
experience it is possible To make good
wages every week. Any one out Of en-
ploynient write them COR terms and en-
Close this notice gil TO 1913
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up-to-date machines in the city, whether
white or black. He accommodated .ey
eral OF his Mcdowell county friends with
rides over the principal parts of the city
and adjoining towns.
The schools opened Monday and Prof
Jas l.. Hill, the principal, ID doing
everything in his power in cooperation
with teacher and citizen, to make the
colored schools of the city the most ef-
ficient and best in the state.
W. L. Morrison. former past master.
and Republican leader i'm Kimball, is now
In Bluefield, the leading builder and
contractor in the city. lie is as fat As a
mole He keeps busy all the time.
Henry Cobbs, proprietor OF the Cobbs
pharmacy, n doing a splendid business
and spares no expense to make il pleas
ant for his friends.
Rev. w. w. Hicks is keeping up his
record for well doing among the PEG; lie
and has their confidence and respect.
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situation is considered very serious
in Vienna. Geneva states further
that the latest German war loan has
not been subscribed and that the
kaiser has appealed both to Switzer-
land and Italy to take it up.
Would Limit Armaments.
Petrograd reports officially that the
Car will propose a federation of
countries, to be known as the United
States of Europe" at the close of the
present war, for the purpose of limit.
ing the size of armies. 1t is said the
nations are beginning to realize now
that national "gun-toting" is a con-
slant threat of war, no matter how
peaceful the intentions.
In every town which the Germans
have occupied in France a semi-civil
government under German rule has
been set up. Strict regulations are
made for non-combatants and the in
habitants are urged to pursue their
regular peaceful business.
Austrian Warships Sunk.
Paris.-The correspondent of the
Italian newspaper, Corriere. Della Ser
ra, telegraphs from Trieste that two
Austrian torpedo boats and one tor.
pedo boat destroyer have been sunk
by floating mines on the coast of Dali
malta.
Italy Seeks Excuse.
Notwithstanding to a report from
Basel, Germany has asked Switzer-
land to allow the movement of troops
through that country, The Swiss gov
eminent is said to have refused, and
has notified Italy, who is prepared to
resort to arms in defense OF its neigh
boris neutrality.
None Enemies Here.
Bordeaux. Treat the German
wounded the same as our own" said
President Poincare, while on a recent
visit to the hospitals here. That his
recommendation is being carried out
to the letter was seen at the Bor-
deaux high school, which, after weeks
OF hard work, has been converted into
a 7O0.bed hospital.
Enforces Our Neutrality.
Washington. - Secretary of the
Navy Daniels has ordered the Marconi
wireless station at Siasconset. Mass,
closed in consequence of the failure of
the company to give assurance that
it would comply with naval censor
ship regulations.
British Airmen Attack Germany.
London.-Two squadrons of British
naval airmen made a daring raid
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Fighting has been fiercest, dur
ing the whole course of the bat
tie, along the river Aisne and in
the low foothills of the Ardennes
mountains north, northeast and
northwest of the city of Rheims.
Retreating about eighty miles,
after the rout near Paris and the
disastrous battle of the Marine
river northeast Of Paris, the Ger
mans entrenched themselves
along the north bank of the Aisne
and planted their heavy artillery
in the foothills. Thus fortified,
they have withstood the almost
constant assaults of the allies.
Allies Hold Rheims.
Altogether, the battle line is about
100 miles long, extending from the
Disc river, at the city of Compiegne,
to Verdun, near the Alsatian border.
The city OF Rheims, an important
railroad center, is sort of pinion for
the right and left wings OF the oppos.
ing armies. The allies hold it after
repeated attempts of their enemy to
capture the town.
Military experts believe that the
result OF this battle will seriously af-
feet the outcome Of the war. If the
Germans lose they will be driven into
German territory and entirely out Of
France and Belgium, it is predicted.
If they win 1t probably will mean the
eventual capture Of Paris.
Three British Cruisers Sunk. q
Three British first-class cruisers,
the Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy, were
sunk by German submarines in the
North sea on September 81. Seven
hundred seamen we're saved from
among the crews numbering 1900 1t
is said two of the submarines were
destroyed in the encounter. The Brit
ish now nave about 200 war vessels
in the North sea. The German
cruiser Konigsberg sank the British
cruiser Pegasus in the harbor of Fan
zibar, South Africa, recently
Russian action against the Germans
and Austrians is proceeding vigorous
ly in the East. The Slavs now be-
siege the fortified city of Cracow. a
strategic point on the Vistula river,
near the juncture of the German
Austrian-Russian boundaries.
Berlin has reported that communi-
cation with Breslau, the southermost
fortress on the Oder river, has been
cut off. Breslau forms the outer.
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ALLIES LINES IN STRONG
POSITION NEAR W0EVRE

London.-The correspondent Of the
Times at Bordeaux has this to say Of
the big battle that is being waged in
France:
THE theory of the staff on both
sides is decisive action on the allies
left must not divert attention from
the allies right, which, in the present
battle, constitutes an all-important
bulwark.
THE operations in Woevre have
been more or less at stahdstill for
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Theirs is the task of riding into
death. The entire front of the enemy
is established by them, and many OF
them are killed-that is certainty
they face.
AT every bush, every heap of earth,
the uhlan must say to himself: Here
will meet an enemy in hiding He
knows that he cannot defend himself
against fire that may open on him
from all sides.
Nevertheless he keeps on riding,
calmly and undisturbed in keeping
with German discipline"
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UHLANS RIDE TO DEATH
WITH CAREFREE MEN

Rotterdam the Ger
man uhlans, of whom so much has
been heard in the European war, Luigi
Barzini, a widely known Italian war
correspondent, says:
1.-THE swarms of cavalry which the
Germans send out ahead Of their ad-
vance are to be found everywhere-on
any highway, on any path. 1t is their
business to see as much as possible.
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Allies and Germans Still Strug-
gle in North France, With
Losses of 100000 in
First Ten Days.
RUSSIANS ADVANCING
They Besiege cracow on the Austro.
Russ Boundary-serhs Capture
sarajevo-Czar Has
Peace Plan.
Summary Of E0entS.)

The Germans and the French
British allies are wearing one an
other down to the bone, in the
general engagement, known as
the battle of the Aisne, which has
proceeded in northern France
since September II. More than
a million men on a side are fight
ing, and the losses in killed and
wounded during the first ten
days is officially estimated at
100000.
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some days, as the guns were stuck
fast in tn eclay and innumerable
rivulets overlooked and made large
tracts of the country impossible for
the movement of large bodies of
troops. Now the armies are again
moving, and the Germans are temper
arily trying to break the strong
natural defenses of the Meuse heights
in order to paralyze the allies plans
in the center.
1.-THE plains OF Woevre, the scene
of the present effort, were made for
a battle, and the Mouse heights with
their steep escapement and strength
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ened by forts form barrier of pro-
digious strength. The northern
Woevre lakes are sealed among the
green forests and range of steep
hills, crowned with forest
The enemy is making desperate
efforts to dislodge the French forces
from this natural fortress which com.
mands an immense sweep of country.
In the distance are the heights of
Pont-a1Moussin and Metz. and the old
battlefields Of Gravelotte and st. Pri.
vas. The enemy attacked without
success the right along the Meuse
from TresanyuX to Hericourt."
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Eye to Business.

A young suburban doctor whose
practice was not very great sat in his
study reading away lazy afternoon
In early summer. His manservant
appeared at the door.
Doctor, them boys is stealth your
green peaches again. Shall chase
them away?"
The doctor looked thoughtful for .
moment, then levefed his eyes at the
servant.
No. he said.-Lippincott's.
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DESTRUCTION OF NOTRE DAME AT
REIMS is GREATEST LOSS OF WAR

Aside from these notable monu@
ments a thorough Smelling or confla-
grafton might destroy many lesser
buildings that have made the ancient
city place of enormous historic in
terest. Some of its old houses date
from the twelfth and the thirteenth
centuries and here and there still exist
remains of the Roman occupation.
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Resting.

Patience-Did you see Peggy down
at the beach?
Patrice-Oh, yes.
What was she doing? Flirting, az
usual2"
mo, she said she went down there
for a rest"
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most southwestern defense Of .Ber-

most southwestern defense of .Ber-
lin.
Servians Capture Sarajevo.
Petrograd states that 100000 in
fantry is advancing on Prussia
through Poland. The Servians have
captured Sarajevo, the southern Aus
trian city in which the great war was
famed to a flame by the assassina-
tion of Archduke Ferdinand and his
wife. They are proceeding now with
the invasion of the province of Bos-
MIA.
1t is reported from Rome that Aus
tria Is massing a considerable force
along the Italian frontier and is pre-
pairing to attack Italy. The truth OF
this report may be doubted because
of Austria's already critical position,
but the spreading of this rumor- may
give Italy an excuse to attack Austria
after the Italian army mobilization,
ordered for September %, is com
plete.
The Japanese are reported to have
destroyed two Of the forts guarding
the German naval base and colony at
Using Tao, in the Chinese province Of
Kaio Chow. They are besieging the
Germans with a strong fleet and 30
600 infantry. British and Australian
forces have occupied practically all
German possessions in the Far East
ern Pacific.
Albert Shoots Chauffeur.
Dispatches from Antwerp say King
Albert of Belgium shot and killed a
traitorous chauffeur who tried, by a
wild dash, to drive him into the Ger
man lines On the chauffeur's body,
it is said, were papers showing he
had received an offer Of one-fourth
million dollars for the kings capture.
Rome and Geneva report the poor
are rioting in Vienna and Berlin. The
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Many woman regrets that she
didn't change her mind before she
changed her name.
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